Merry Xmas everyone – here is my present to you.
The vocals could be better 🙂 – I can’t sing in the morning – have a good holiday!
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MySpace Music
Well, since I want to uphold the “Man of the Year” status, I created a MySpace music page. I also signed up for YouTube – maybe I’ll make a video of me playing – wouldn’t that just be exciting 🙂 – Add me on your MySpace! You can even play my songs on your profile if you have nothing better to do!!! 🙂
http://www.myspace.com/stevenovoselac
Well, Friday was the anniversary of John Lennon’s death. He is still missed. It makes you wonder what he would be doing right now if he was still around. Fighting for peace. I have the mp3 of Imagine up from last year, but it’s on guitar. I have played the song on piano, but the music I have incorporates the lyrics and stuff in the upper clef (I hate that!!) – Anyways, this weekend I took some time and actually figured it out the right way. I recorded it, but my voice is really bad (sick), so I’m not posting it. Maybe I’ll re-record it once I can actually sing. I think I have played the song on piano about 100 times this weekend – and going through it, really learning the lyrics correctly. I think you just listen to the lyrics, they make sense.
1) Live for today – don’t worry about where you are going to go when you die – take a hold of today.
2) No borders – just think if we didn’t have countries, or we just actually lived together as “the earth” – you take away something to fight about.
3) Greed, hunger, religion – lumped together – corporations that could be making food, instead worry about their pockets, too many hungry people in the world. And religion, supposedly the savior of all, doesn’t really help, but give a false sense of happiness – in my opinion it causes far too much violence and hate to be worth much. And with fighting, if you take away religion, its one less thing for people to fight about.
4) Possessions – materialistic society – we are judged by how big our house is, or how nice our car is, or how many things we own- not by our achievements or other things we have (love, compassion, giving, caring, etc) – also, back to the fighting, if you take away allot of the materialistic things, one less thing to fight about. No one should own the rivers, lakes, woods, air, etc
5) And now, you might say I’m a dreamer – yeah, there will be the people that say, well if you take away all those things, then people will just find other things to argue about. Right, but I’d rather see people arguing/debating about healthcare, well being, human rights – not things that we fight about now. Let’s see a war on injustice instead of a war on terror. Take away the things to fight about, and there should be less fighting. We should be able to see eye to eye on things, debate and talk about them in a civilized manner, without violence.
6) I hope someday you will join us – yeah you – there are too many people who don’t even think about these kinds of things. They are too involved in reality TV, instead of plain old reality. Governments should worry more about how their citizens are doing than building bombs.
Well, that’s my take on it anyways. The lyrics have a pretty good meaning. Just a great song. I think even in 25 years, John will still be missed, because unless there is some radical changes, I don’t see society getting any better.
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Piano Update – One Week Later
So, its been about a week since I’ve had the piano. First song I tried to play, Colour My World by Chicago, I can get through it, but I screw it up to much. So on to the next – Free as a Bird by The Beatles. I recorded it, but I don’t think its 100% as good as it could be. Ive been playing around with some other songs, I figured out Blueberry Hill by Fats Domino on my own, been playing Hey Jude by the Beatles too. Im starting to relearn the chords again, which is cool. One thing I totally hate is that you can get music for songs, but it really isnt what they bands play. It has like vocals built into the piano tracks. I was watching A&E and there was a Paul McCartney special on – The Space Between Us – and it has him playing in concert. He plays For No One on the piano by himself. I look at the music, and it doesn’t match, because the sheet music tries to incorporate the vocals/melody in the higher octave. So I am playing that song too, but trying to do it from the music but play it like he did. Overall though its pretty fun. I can still play the Entertainer by Scott Joplin, and don’t forget Lady Madonna by the Beatles, and the one song I really need to perfect – Imagine by John Lennon. I can play the verses, but the chorus and bridge I’m screwing up on, its the same thing – the music doesn’t match what you would really play! So, I’ll just have to figure it out 🙂
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My New Toy
Decided to finally put the 10 years of piano lessons to some use.
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Friday I'm In Love
Well, another song 🙂
Always loved this song. Dont mind the laughing –
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More Guitar Playing
Well, I have been playing some more guitar, nothing 100% great that I feel like posting, but some cool stuff anyways. Been playing some Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, and others…Jammed on Friday night, which was cool, I need a new electric guitar though, since mine really is starting to not sound to good. I think Nickelback’s Rockstar was played about 300 times – good song on acoustic.
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Have You Ever Seen The Rain?
Well, after a long time coming, I sat down and got all my recording stuff set up on my computer, and recorded a song. Its been a while – 10 months to be exact.
Its a cover of Credence Clearwater Revival. I heard it on the radio a couple weeks back and it just sounded great. Just for kicks I looked up what the meaning of the song really is. Most people say it is about Tom Fogarty leaving CCR right when they were hitting their peak. Some say Vietnam, some say drugs. I guess I really don’t know what it is about, but you can just take away your own meaning.
On the recording side, I decided to try out Audacity, the open source recording tool – pretty sweet. And I used my M-Audio Fast Track USB recording device, which works slick once I got it working.
I did record about 5+ other songs, but I didnt think they were good enough to “release” 🙂 yet…I will have to go back and re-record or do them better anyways. My fingers are hurting right now from actually playing guitar for like 3 hours, the first real time I have sat down in months and played.
Anyways, here is the link.
Have You Ever Seen The Rain (Take 1) [mp3]
it probably could be better, this was just the second take I did (I always start at take 0 – goofy computer scientists and their zero based arrays). Well let me know if it sucks or not, maybe Ill release my other recordings I don’t like, but Ill password protect them so only
wow, busy lately. Went and saw Nickelback at the Xcel Center on the 14th, that was pretty sweet. Had a house warming on the 16th, that was even sweeter. Now I just need to put my grill together 🙂 I put up some pictures I took right before the party here so check it out. Hopefully things will semi-calm down and I will have more time to post/geek around with projects.
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The Beachles
Another good Beatles mashup – Beatles and The Beach Boys – two of my favorite bands.
here is the link
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