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0:35 music music music music music music music
1:18 (unidentified song) unidentified
5:57 So I have the windows open because I seem to have purchased a hazardous waste item and some dryer sheets that...
6:18 the aroma of or, more likely, some of the volatile organic chemicals.
6:22 were making me sick, so I moved them to the garage and hopefully, assuming Gail doesn't mind, we'll be throwing them out because this is not normal. Your dryer sheets should not actually make your stomach turn when you'r...
6:46 This isn't just the smell, I don't think.
6:53 accidentally got soaked in something like
6:56 maybe whatever they normally use to make dryer sheets.
6:59 It's retained smell, some sort of, I don't know.
7:05 no emulsifier has gotten applied to these in the level that
7:09 Ought to require a hazmat sticker.
7:12 (unidentified song) unidentified
20:58 All right.
21:01 Brief delay, I'm gonna close the windows because now I think it's getting smoked.
21:04 ...in here from.... I'm guessing people burning stuff... Alright. And... On the to-do list, you're a good dog.
21:53 (unidentified song) unidentified
43:21 And we'll just play it
43:27 ... etcetera...
43:38 A few wrong notes, but... And that's even before we start getting into songs I play all the time.
43:58 Also, if you're still here, why not subscribe?
44:03 All right. So I'm going to stop for now in order to save some capacity for voice lessons later.
5:23 we're down to one more song needing written until I go into orbit
5:27 record the vocals for all of this. At which point hopefully all the work we've done will pay off. I have no doubt.
5:37 And then I've been working on several of the harder songs that I would formerly have thought of as being out of my range. So I thought maybe I'd run through some of those, and you can tell me how.
5:53 the printer, though, so I'll be right back. Alright, so this first one is difficult both because the person who normally thinks it is better than I will ever be.
6:52 also because the accompaniment for it is, to me, challenging. It might be easy to someone who reads.
6:58 music though.
7:01 is the journey Okay, other problem, is the music...
7:20 We're running away.
7:24 Alright, well, I have a solution for this too, and it is magnets. So that- there, let me find-
7:30 And the other one, there we go.
7:34 Don't Stop Believin' — Journey
11:27 so all right
11:43 Yeah, I realized. I somehow sang small, and I don't know what I was thinking, but it's the singer in the Smokey Room the smell of wine and tea perfume For a smile they can chill the night it comes on and on and on and on...
12:05 Sorry is this on? Yeah. It's... It's... Cp. It's cp. Yeah, it's cpu
12:32 Don't Stop Believin' — Journey
13:51 I can't hear you.
13:58 OK, will you believe me that it is somewhat technically challenging to balance everything going on?
14:02 Can it? yeah
14:36 Yeah, and I totally agree with you that that knight needs our knights, like that! What happens is, when I run out of CPU some task gets starved and it tends to be the voice more than the keyboard — I think probably bec...
15:19 to a certain extent, be the front man. So I do.
15:24 And but yeah, so I am glad that we're doing all this work by the way I'm really pleased with the extent to which I'm starting to be able to use my voice as an instrument rather than just as a way
15:38 Convey words which speaking of the next song is
15:43 one that is not technically challenging, but is challenging because of how important the aspect of the voice is, not so much the words you're saying as – to recreate the experience requires more kind of catching the to...
16:05 This is The Gambler.
16:12 The Gambler — Kenny Rogers
18:47 All right. De-
19:39 And be it's time And be it's time I'm- brothers- You've got to know when to hold on Know when to fall in And know when to walk away Know when to run You never count your money When there's someone at the table There'll b...
20:08 and Wha...
20:56 There'll be time enough for counting. Time enough for counting. What's interesting is, enough is not the—
21:05 It's around there.
21:23 Time enough for counting, time enough for counting, time enough for counting, when the deal is done. Time enough for counting, when the deal is done. Okay you wanna talk about weird skills? That was me playing the left h...
21:47 Yes it's tearing, okay. Yeah.
22:21 was there was probably supposed to be and normally if I were playing this live I would have put an instrumental transition from the G to the A But because I was you know we're working on vocal stuff I I Sometimes cut out...
22:46 Yeah, no.
22:53 totally agree there should've been a little bit of, at least the slightest feeling of the clutch going in before the gear change there. instead of just, slam, ok we're now in agl
23:02 yes Yes, bye.
23:19 places. My latest song, by the way, is the ERR example of a storytelling song for me. It is seven and a half minutes long, and there is almost no instrumental. My friend Lee Hart had written this poem about a spacer name...
23:52 Oh Yeah Yeah, I think I think I
24:08 That's why I'm at the Orange County Fair, too. There's a lot of good stuff. Like, tears for fears.
24:12 I also saw the Orange Caddy Fibber. I used to...
24:15 Obviously, before COVID, used to fly down every year for whatever the best show was that year, you know, got Melissa Etheridge, because there's so much great stuff comes from it.
24:26 Of course.
24:31 So cheap! I mean, I used to pay like $40 for Front Section tickets, and you'd get the fare thrown in!
24:39 So, yeah, it's a great one.
24:43 Um... The other thing that, by the way, that's really good, that you can see at the Orange County Fair, if you're into such things, there is an amazing U2 cover band that comes there every year. And they're so good that ...
24:57 Hehehehe Peek-A-Boo HeHehehe Hehehe alright
25:11 Yeah, I'm just laughing- have you ever seen music and lyrics?
25:15 ok and then
25:18 the battle of the bands, no, we're literally going to battle the bands. I love music and lyrics partially because it's the most accurate movie depiction I have ever seen of writing a song using modern equipment. Like eve...
25:54 Hugh Grant, you're right. Sorry. Hugh, Gloria's h- Yeah, that's house. Okay.
26:02 ABC — Jackson 5
28:31 Yeah! It's... it's fun! Um, and... Yeah. Yeah. Yes, there's actually....
28:56 So there's there's the part that I didn't do, which is Na na na na na. Now because the background singers do it and then there's Spell Me & You at the two. Listen to me, baby That's all you got to do, so it's Spell Me & ...
29:09 sorry go ahead spell as in like you know spell me and you add the two yes yes Fortunately the keyboard part is relatively easy
29:39 at that spot. spell me in yew! Spell me in yew add the two! Listen to me, baby, that's all you gotta do!
29:48 Yeah. Yeah. So, the... Yeah, the...
30:29 So you're talking about the Am I going to teach you, teach you, teach you All about love, yeah Sit yourself down, take a seat All you gotta do is repeat after me That part
30:40 okay yeah so that that's gotta be in the first verse but I'm wondering
30:51 like like I'm a 4e except F to C watching Flush 2 makes 4 I'm a girly teacher oh, I love ya sit yourself down, take a seat all you gotta do is repeat after me
31:09 Let me do it one more time and then see… Let me do it one more time and see.
31:34 how it comes I'mma gonna teach you all about worldview sit yourself down, take a seat all you gotta do is repeat after me
31:45 No, I don't see anything on the video. All right, good.
31:52 Love Walks In — Van Halen
32:56 All right. And I'm going to skip the intro. And start from the...
33:03 Love Walks In — Van Halen
35:20 So yeah, it's it's it's quite at work. Yeah. Alright.
35:44 It's one of the songs that lends itself to being punched for lack of a better, better way of explaining it where you're not, you're not really, you're not really thinking about singing it so much as singing it is happeni...
36:03 and
36:06 I don't know I I've always loved the song and I Really think that I could bring some interesting things to it in the instrumental. Um, it's in between once I master it It's it's most of it is in either C major or G major...
36:32 D sharp minor with a bunch of sevens
36:36 And then it comes back. But it's the...
36:40 Yeah, I
36:45
37:24 right an
38:13 I will definitely check it out. That sounds like a...
38:16 That sounds like a good recommendation.
38:23 Tangled Up In Blue — Bob Dylan
43:17 with which octave to do it in.
43:32 On every one of those words around rang true and here's the problem The integral song has ENGLOWED like burning chrome in the lyric sheet. It's road like burning coal Um, and I like the burning chrome better
43:47 Yeah. I think that some of that is the stutter of changing pages. The break in was one line long before that for that change.
44:11 should research, it's on my list of things to do, those iPads that can just show you and then you can step on a pedal and they can change pages and see how that works out for me.
44:23 The stuff is PDF, and so I gather that there are in fact PDF readers that can be controlled with a foot pedal.
44:33 It's because a lot of violinists and cello players and you know orchestra people in general, but I know of violinist Yeah You
44:41 I know violinist and cello players
44:54 Yeah, and that would be super slick, but even just being able to step on a pedal down here with my collection of fifty others, and change pages would be better than trying to change pages which always uses up one of my h...
45:25 That. Here's another... Sure, sure.
45:41 Thought you'd never say hello, she said You looked like The Silent Iron And she opened up a book of poems And handed it to me Written by an Italian poet From the 15th century And every one of those words ran true And glo...
46:14 yeah yeah
46:22 Definitely, it's kind of reasonable it's the right place in the song for the kind of the energy level
46:28 come down. Have you heard the Undergrowth Girls version of it? Tangled Up in Blue, they did it on the 12 o'clock curfew album, which was a live concert album from, I think, Atlanta.
46:51 Check it out and speaking of that, yeah, speaking of that album, here's another one. Let me.
46:58 Let me change a few settings here.
47:02 River — Joni Mitchell
49:26 Let's go, I love that um... yeah I-
49:34 I do love my cello pedal voice.
49:38 And, give me your hand. Oh, there we go. I can see that, yeah. Yeah. Okay. Back to you. Let's, well let's, try that, since it's at the top of the course it's pretty easy. All right, let's, well, let's try that, since it'...
50:17 🎵 Wish I had a river so wide 🎵 🎵 I would teach my feet to fly 🎵 🎵 I wish I had a river... 🎵 🎵... like it's.... 🎵
50:40 River — Joni Mitchell
51:35 I think I've got more of a feel of what it's supposed to do. What was the other problem you had mentioned? Um, well, it was the same... Yeah, which is, it's the same in both choruses. So, yeah, it's... It's a good song. ...
52:18 Um, I don't um, I've on my list of things to learn is Coward or the county and perhaps I will learn that.
52:24 Goodway. Goodway. Yes, I... Yes, I-
53:14 (unidentified song) unidentified
53:59 that shouldn't shouldn't be hard I'm flipping through yes uh nascar racing circle track, yeah. Yeah, it sounds good. I'm flipping through to see whether there is anything I wanted to... ...get your... thoughts on...um, o...
55:32 I can tell which ones we have done because I have added vocal marking.
55:36 like Breathe Here or access this.
55:41 Oh, man. This would be interesting. Um, yeah, let's— let's do this! Um, this may come out very badly, because I haven't done it in a long time…
55:54 Uh. Whoa. Nope!
55:57 (unidentified song) unidentified
1:00:59 Yeah, I think you're right, it's definitely... Yeah, it's a, I'm actually, I'm gonna notate it as such because I think that worked. If I can find the pin. All right, there we go. Okay, so going vox plus eight right there...
1:01:57 of practice because I haven't been playing out like since COVID.
1:02:00 But looking forward to doing that.
1:02:04 again. It's going to be interesting because I have grown so much in the last two years I'm sure my audience will be surprised. I hope they like it. We'll see anyway
1:02:19 But thanks a lot. And I'm hopefully next week we will see, I will be in touch and, and, uh, you have a good one. All right.