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I made a decision to seek out some local musicians to help me out with my album project. The biggest problem with my composing is on the music side of things. I think that I pen good songs, and that has been confirmed by many musicians and industry pro's. I am satisfied with my lyrics, and the...
I decided to change my choice of song, but remain with the same band. Coldplay. After I'd uploaded "Violet hill", I got quite a few requests to sing "Viva la vida". Too many requests to ignore really. So I set about recording that one. It's the second song of theirs that I've done from their latest...
Now for some cover versions. This one is a relatively new song, and it's called "Violet hill". It's covered from the new coldplay album "Viva la vida". I had several Coldplay songs lined up to cover, and I chose this as the first of the batch. It was extremely hard to get the falsetto on this song,...
This is the 3rd of my old original songs choices. The title of this one is "Winner". The lyrics can be interpreted in many different ways, but I wrote it for mistaken friends who need support. This is another number that was written with Mick Paul. I've put some information about what Mick is up to...
It's the 2nd of 3 songs written by Mick Paul and I a while back, that I have chosen to put on youtube. Ths one gives you a taste of Mick's bass skills. I wanted acoustic guitar and Bass only in this, and I think it turned out very well. The vocals drift off key in a couple of places. This song, and...
I'm going to step back in time a bit with 3 selected songs I wrote when I first started to record music seriously. A few years ago I wrote and recorded 9 songs in about two weeks with a very talented guy called "Mick Paul". Mick is an excellent bass player and has done a lot in his career to date....
There's been another cover version of one of my original songs. This time it's "Broadcast fantasy". It was performed by "PetesBehr" on Youtube. It sounds like an unplugged version. He has done a cover version of one of my songs before. I think that this differs quite a bit from the original song,...
I decided to take a few days out from making my album, and I recorded a requested song, from a while ago. It's one I've always wanted to do because on the surface it seems such a simple song, but it has so much room for expression. The song I'm talking about is "No surprises" by "Radiohead". The...
Right. This is the first of my updates on the progress of my album, and also a nice little tip for musicians on Youtube :) I've decided to select 4 tracks from my Youtube uploads. I've chosen 3 already, and those songs are as follows: Broadcast Fantasy - Jeffstunes Don't wish it away - Jeffstunes...
I was trying to find ways to bump up my daily Youtube viewing figures, when I happened upon a tool that they have in Beta at the moment. They call it "Annotations". It allows you to add linking text or hotspots to your videos. I know from experience that when I go to view videos on Youtube, I pay...
This is a bit of an update on the last post I put up. The last song I uploaded to Youtube did much better than I expected. The name of the song was "Broadcast fantasy". It was a bit of an amusing poke at addiction to television. The honours I got for this video were more than I could hope for, and...
Barack Hussein Obama is not fit to be the next President of the United States of America.
I was busy writing another song when this one popped into my head. So I halted progress on the initial song to develop it. It's title is "Broadcast fantasy". I've finally racked up a year on Youtube, and I thought this would be a really fitting song to upload in celebration of my first year. It's a...
Well, it's almost a year on Youtube now, and I've been thinking about what I've achieved so far. In my opinion, not very much. In relation to lots of others, the Youtube progress is probably quite good, but not as far as my aspirations are concerned. I'm only about 250 subscribers outside the top...
I am currently working on writing a new song, so the next few posts will not contain any new videos. I thought it would be a good idea to mention some of my comments and messages, because I get so many of them now. First of all, my "Fun with faces" video. I've now got 8 response videos to it, and...
The fun with faces video I uploaded has had a really good reaction. As I described in the previous post, I saw a Website used on television and wanted to have a go at it myself, and make a video out of it. In that video I urged other Youtubers to try it with their own pictures and post their video...
I was watching a T.V. program hosted by Graham Norton last night. and he visited a website that altered faces into different ages and races. Such as a baby and an Apeman. All you have to do is upload a front facing jpg of yourself, and you are ready to go. I didn't hesitate to do it myself, and put...
The demise of the Clinton campaign has come to an end in the most unlikely of places. Today former presidential John Edwards at long last thrown his support to Barack Obama in the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan (home of Nerdfighter gathering with the Green brothers and author Maureen Johnson). This...
Senator Edwards is going to give his endorsement to Senator Obama. I'm sure with this endorsement his name will be on that short list of potential VPs. Some other names I wouldn't mind seeing on this ticket are Senator Joe Biden (he's been right about the Iraq war being a mistake), Govenor Kathleen...
Well the response to my last cover, "Yellow" by "Coldplay" was very positive. It got a good burst of viewings in the first few days. Over 800. That was the most requested song on my list. Now to the song that was second on my most requested list. A fairly new number from one of my favourite bands,...
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