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6:10 It's mostly afterwards, when I get good and warmed up I don't
6:13 you know, at night when you go to sleep and it's kind of this itchy, burning feeling inside your wrist, and of course the other thing I think is probably contributing to it is me doing so much work upstairs on the laptop...
7:57 Oooooooh
8:01 Oh.
8:20 Ne ne ne ne ne
8:32 one
8:54 KNEE KNEE KNAY KNAAAY NO, NOOOOO
9:01 Hello? Yeah, I'm gonna... Aside from needing to turn my...
9:06 Sliders down a little.
9:09 Yeah alright. And I definitely am feeling that like my head vibrating thing.
9:31 I'm getting I think a little better at dialing in the tongue position.
9:35 that gets that resonant behavior going.
9:38 Nooooooo
9:42 like
9:45 Although whether I could do that while I was playing and singing words, I don't know.
9:49 oh but OK there's not as much of that in this book as I had expected but I will I think they have the nega-nega-nega- thing.
10:26 At least so far that's all I have run into that is specifically OpenVal.
10:31 um but i'll i will do the the one you just showed um and that seems like a reasonable one to do the classic ah Right. Okay.
11:36 Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah Like Music
11:59 So.
12:02 Ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma! Ma... Yeah that's easier to ... ah it should be easy, but it isn't. It feels strange. Ah ah ah ah!
12:19 Huh? We good.
12:23 I need to do the ariel sound.
12:27 oh
12:33 A, A, A, A, A, A, A... Yeah, that's definitely easier. A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A... Though I do feel a little like The Little Mermaid. A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A...
12:49 ... I guess it's the cutting off and ah that's tricky. Ah? It's... they don't really feel like they're meant to end that way. All right.
13:12 ah and I guess I can just sort of cut off the air without actually stopping it
13:34 Yeah. Okay, sorry. Right, um... and to demonstrate that
14:24 I've noticed actually that my range
14:27 differs by a note from day to day. Which I don't yet have a good connection with what it is that changes that. But especially at the top, there are definitely days that I can go at least half a step higher than other day...
15:40 I don't know how I feel about marching right after I wake up either.
15:42 Uh, okay. Yeah. Yeah, that makes sense. It makes sense. All of our... Yeah, all of my band experiences were all sitting down, so. House of Cards And I never was one of the cool band kids who did the marching band. I just...
16:48 I don't think I ever had more air than when I was playing.
16:51 trombone and tuba. So speaking of air, I guess I was also curious about what your thoughts were about some sort of exercise that would involve holding a pitch over a long period of time. Whether you have a recommended on...
17:34 ...is if I hold a note for, like, a measure or two, I start to waver a little and, I think that's air...
17:42 because I know I'm doing it, I'm not that great at not doing it.
18:13 🎵Ohhhhhhh🎵
18:16 Uh oh... Oh.
18:26 Oh-ooh
18:32 Hmm
18:35 Ohhhhh ooh hoooo hoooooooo
18:56 E-e-e-e e-e-e-e E-e-e-e ae-e-e-e ae
19:07 Me Me
19:23 knee knee knee, knee knee knee knee knee knee knee knee knee knee knee knee knee knee me
19:33 So... um...
19:50 MMMMMMMMMMMM
19:59 Mwaaahh... M-m-m-mawaha... Mm-m-mawaha...
20:06 Hm... Hm...
20:14 Mmmmmmmmmmmm Mmmmmmmmmmmmm
20:27 (unidentified song) unidentified
21:12 I'm sorry.
21:19 But yeah, that's definitely a good exercise, I will definitely be
21:23 adding that one to my list of things I try to do a couple of times a week, because I can feel where that's teaching new things as far as... Right. Yeah. Yeah, uh, if you could. Might take me a while to be that fluid with...
24:37 Two things. One, recording and playing back so I can hear how I sound different. And two, always the fun thing, I can show you my favorite way of arranging harmony and you can tell me why I have to spend so much time...
24:52 and itching the consonants around. Inevitably the problem I have with doing harmony with myself and a multi-track recorder. Is it seems like the lead in the arguments
25:07 ocking vocals, end up perfectly aligned with each other, but they never are aligned with the lead. And I don't know why that is. What I do is, I just take the the razor blade to them and move the consonants until they're...
25:32 So I don't know. So you do in fact have to get out the razor blade. Yeah. So you do have to do what I'm doing. But when you're in the same room… So, I have a theory based on what you just said.
26:31 You finally made a light bulb go on in my head as to what's happening What's happening is my initial vocal becomes a guide track, but there's a delay line my reflex speed this is why the other three line up but they don'...
26:50 I whack the piece that I need to
26:53 ...match the time exactly, instead what happens is I hear it and then I start thinking....
26:57 uh... yeah
27:03 I need to- I just need to rerecord the lead vocal afterwards. Yeah, that- It's okay. Yeah that'll work.
27:10 . In.
27:14 You know all of this stuff, I'm sure you've heard the saying about albums, the it's like sausages, you don't really wanna see how we make them. Anyways, so as far as um some of my songs that I'm working on, I thought we ...
27:28 pink Floyd today if if you're amenable to that and wish you were here and I'll I'll actually skip the interest is kinda long
27:48 So, so. If I can remember where it starts. So... So you think you can tell? Heaven from hell, Blue skies from hell. Can you tell a green field? From a cold steel rail, A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell?
28:11 Yeah, but, I can try it in another key. but I can try it in another key...
28:44 a
28:48 Metamorphosis
28:51 so you think you can tell heaven from hell blue skies remain can you tell a grieve in from a cold steel rather a smile from the vat do you think you can tell did they get you to try
29:16 that? I do believe those are the words. Yes, Now the words don't make a whole lot of sense...
29:27 We're just two lost souls swimming in a gold fish bowl year after year Running over the same old ground and how we found the same old fear. I wish you were here It's not it's not one of those songs where the lyrics make ...
29:43 words kind of fit. Although at the same time the interesting thing about them is they're close enough to making sense that you almost project your own meaning into the song. Kind of like a deaf leopard spores some sugar ...
30:03 So because the song doesn't have a real meaning, you start throwing your own meaning into it and anyway, all songs are about sex or drugs anyway, i'm assured.
30:12 ha ha but but
30:16 (unidentified song) unidentified
31:06 transpose thing? Let's see, huh. Oh, that's octave shift. How do I transpose? Uh, there we go.
31:15 Ahhh. Now that breaks my head. I never used the transpose feature and so, like,
31:40 Ah-ha, that was, it is...
31:45 That's painfully weird. The notes are not what they should be when you press down the key.
31:49 East... It ain't all that proof, but...
31:59 I don't have perfect pitch, I just have perfect relative pitch and my- I had gotten the lock and then I broke my brain by transposing wit
32:08 the, um, I could Yeah so...
32:23 Well, and part of it also is I usually on that song I save the high range for the How a wish, how I wish you were here we're just two Now, now I lost apparently the ability to play at all
32:41 Ehhh... give... give me a minute here
32:45 Wish You Were Here — Pink Floyd
34:27 Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Wow. Um, yeah. There are still some bit right here. yeah
34:57 Well I wish, how I wish you were here. Virgins to last so swimmin' in a fish bottle year after year... find out facility how I wish
35:14 How I wish, how I wish you were here
35:30 We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl year after year Running over the same old ground How we found the same old fear I wish you were here
35:45 Hm. Right? Okay.
36:07 oh i wish, how i wish you were here we're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl year after year running over the same old ground how we found, the same old fear
36:25 found found found I'll see you in the next video
36:52 Fou� Fouoww wouww Fou–
36:56 found found found Fooound ... Fooooound. Um, well…
37:45 Wish You Were Here — Pink Floyd
38:34 Alright. All right.
38:52 So I, there was one other Pink Floyd that I also wanted to look at although, this one there's probably gonna... some of this is gonna be stylistic.
39:01 But uh...
39:04 Comfortably Numb — Pink Floyd
40:34 Hello just a little pen prick. There'll be no more... Relax, I need some information first just the basic facts can you show me where it hurts there's no pain you are receiving a distant ship smoke on horizon
41:04 You're only coming through in waves. Was it earlier than that? Was it...?
41:07 Waves, yeah Right, right
41:36 🎵That's Only Coming Through In Waves and It's Smooth, but I can't Hear What You're Sayin'🎵
41:46 the young in new york i could do like a better that way Poken. Right.
42:17 Comfortably Numb — Pink Floyd
43:36 and I'll stop there because I could go on for several
44:02 Now I was a child, I had a fleeting glimpse Of the corner of my eye I turned on, it was gone I can not put my finger on it now My child is gone, my dream is gone But I, I, I had become completely numb?" Yeah I like that ...
44:42 and to maybe bend them a little or use different notes on them yeah Pink Floyd is the first concert I ever went to. And I've listened to everything they've ever done. movies. We're seeing it
45:35 Right being you can actually tell if you listen to the music I write if it pink flow
45:39 Floyd influence really goes through but yeah Pink Floyd and Dire Straits and Indigo Girls it kind of, you know, you too, I'm listing bands that I have listened to every album times. Yeah they're pretty great. Yeah and, a...
46:33 ... audience learns the harmonies, it's really cool going to an Indigo Girls concert because everyone sings along, and they know both parts...
46:41 you know you have the Emile crew and the Amy crew and one of the things that I find Yes, for sure.
47:17 That one's definitely in my top 10 and it's one that I do a lot
47:21 for shows, because it's a crowd pleaser. I actually ... I think Watershed is probably my favorite song of theirs, although I can't actually play it, I haven't tried to learn, I should, I just realized.
47:40 I'm still wrapping my head around how much more I can do after a year of playing in
47:45 every key, where where it used to be that a lot of guitar songs would be in keys that I wasn't really that comfortable with, and I could either transpose them or I could, whatever, but now you know I'm obviously still wo...
48:35 Closer To Fine — Indigo Girls
50:25 I'm trying to figure out what word you're talking about, cause I don't remember best being in the lyrics.
50:31 I seek my source for some definitive." Which is definitely one of those lyrics that getting across intelligible intelligibly is a challenge. But it's...
50:51 You know, it is also such a cool line of it.
50:54 Uh, uh, uh. Yeah, um, let me, let me go ahead and do the second verse cause it's also got a few tongue twisters in it.
51:09 Closer To Fine — Indigo Girls
52:55 ok
53:02 Yeah, I'm trying to capture the spirit of both of them in one voice.
53:07 and of course that's also one that's really fun if you can pick up a second vocalist to sing the other part and we're almost the end of COVID we can actually use the room behind me again you probably see the plastic COVI...
53:29 Masks and everybody standing six feet apart do some music stuff, but it's definitely not the same. Especially, you know, if you've ever been in like a quartet of singers like when you're singing...
53:41 together, and then all of a sudden you're 6 feet away from each other. Yeah, exactly. Alright, well thank you as always. I will keep chipping away at it, and I will talk to you next week, hopefully, if everything goes as...
54:41 The thing I was doing before this was talking to one of my co-workers and friends at cabbie who- this is her last day and is getting on a plane to the midwest, and she's not coming back.
54:51 ah ha, so uh... okay understandable. alright yeah, the other thing I need to pick your brain on sometime soon
55:17 You seem like you're in touch with kind of the most desperate parts of society at times if you know anybody who wants a beat-up but still works including the air conditioning minivan.
55:25 You know, free-to-good-home kind of deal. So if you run into anybody who needs a car, let me know. Alright. Talk to you later. Bye.