Saturday, October 18, 2008

Simplest and Shortest Song to be played with Chords

(G)You're my hunny bun, sugar plum, pumpy upmy upmy upmkin. You're my sweetie (D)pie.
You're my cuppy cake,gumdrop,shyummkums pure,The apple of my (G)eye! And I love you so,
and
I want you to know that i'll always be right (D)here.And I love to sing this song to you Because you
are so (G)dear!





Give it a try people, you'll never know how things would come up. =p

Friday, October 17, 2008

Inspiration of Music

To me, rappers are liars until I see that their actions coincide with what they said through the music. Me, I put my situations down and I make fun of them.
50 Cent


Eminem is the rapper's rapper. He listens to everything. Every word, every slang, if you change something he's going to hear it all.
50 Cent

Eminem is so talented it becomes annoying. Every time we go to the studio, he's got something new to play and it's like "Oh man, I gotta have something new to play, too."
50 Cent

My goal in my music and my acting is always to make people happy.
Miley Cyrus

Right now we're just all really focused on making Hannah Montana the show as good as it can be, but hopefully in the future there may be a Hannah Montana soundtrack. Or a Miley Cyrus album.
Miley Cyrus

All the songs that are in the show, even the theme song, will all be me singing. I recorded eight or nine songs already. Nine episodes, nine songs.
Miley Cyrus

I'm just doing what I do best and that's what makes good music, and that's how you can relate to people.
Snoop Dogg

My greatest talent is knowing exactly what I want to hear.
Dr. Dre

I didn't even know he was white when I heard the demo. Jimmy Iovine told me a little later. Then my wheels started turning. I thought he would be able to get away with saying a lot more than I would get away with saying. If a black guy said that stuff, people would turn the radio off. That's reality. (talking about Eminem being white)
Dr. Dre

It's important to get a reaction and jerk some kind of emotion out of people when they listen to what you're doing.
Dr. Dre

I don't care if he's (white rapper Eminem) purple, as long as he can rap!.
Dr. Dre

Don't think that I was ever in the studio not paying attention to the legend. I soaked up so much motherf***in' game from Dre that I don't have to ever work with Dr. Dre again and I'm going to survive off of what I learned the last four years.
The Game

There was always an impulse to perform in one way or another. Most of my experiences performing growing up were doing musicals, singing, being in choirs.. I sang in choirs when I was in college as well. I was a choir geek the first couple of years. Then I became a theater geek. I took an acting class my sophomore year and realized that in terms of my enthusiasm and aptitude, it was definitely the thing.
Michael C. Hall

The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you're able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too.
Elton John


Record companies, believe me, no matter what record company you're with, they're going to try to hype you, because, really, all record companies are interested in is making money.
Elton John

When I hear a great new record, especially when it's by someone that I respect and admire, then a part of me is like, "Why didn't I think of that? Why didn't I write that record?" It makes you sick, but in a way it can be a great thing. It makes you want to go back to the lab and start writing again. Maybe it will inspire you to try a little harder.
Beyonce Knowles

I'm not interested in the moment. I'm interested in how this is going to sound in 30 years time.
Beyonce Knowles

People like to label you. I've never like being labelled. I can't take it because I'm never going to do the same thing over and over and over. I hate being limited. I hate being put in a box. The music that I've made, the way that I've carried myself, I've always had this weird broad audience.
Queen Latifah

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Bob Marley

My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.
Bob Marley

I am aware that most people only see me as Shaq.. the guy on the court. But there is another side to who I am, Shaquille O'Neal. And Shaquille O'Neal wants to explore every part of life. He wants the opportunity to pursue all of his desires.. that includes being a part of the music industry as an MC. Music is and will always be a part of who I am.
Shaquille O'Neal

I still have a lot to learn - about the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.
Britney Spears

There are a lot of misquotes in music journalism, more so than even in the American news media, which is hard to imagine.
Michael Stipe

There's a great distinction between actors and musicians, in that musicians for the most part have pride of ownership. We're not handed someone else's work to interpret; we're interpreting our own work.
Michael Stipe

The degree to which I apply myself as an artist, as a song writer, is at the very least absolutely sincere and giving everything that I can. And that counts for something.
Michael Stipe

With every album, I try to better myself. I'm a perfectionist.
Usher

I hate music where white people are trying to sound black. The white music I like is white.
Kanye West


I was expressing what I was going through. All the better artists.. I don't want to use the word 'great' because it'll come off as arrogant or whatever.. all the better artists in history have expressed what they were going through.
Kanye West

I'm a musician. I'm not someone who's trying to be diplomatic, you know, trying to get my 15 minutes. I'm just a musician who is honest.
Amy Winehouse

I don't ever want to do anything mediocre. I hear the music in the charts and I don't mean to be rude, but those people have no soul. Learning from music is like eating a meal.. you have to pace yourself. You can't take everything from it all at once. I want to be different, definitely. I'm not a one trick pony. I'm at least a five-trick pony.
Amy Winehouse

I know I'm talented, but I wasn't put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mum and look after my family. I love what I do, but it's not where it begins and ends.
Amy Winehouse

As an artist the key things you have to do is prove yourself in a live scene, prove yourself in a writing scene, and prove yourself doing covers. They're as important as each other.
Amy Winehouse

I don't suffer fools gladly. I'm not here to make friends. I've learnt that the hard way - I used to not say things like "I really want to hold a guitar in my video", because I was trying to make everyone like me. But I don't give a shit now. At the end of the day I'm there to do my job, I'm not there to have picnics.
Amy Winehouse






Write music when you are inspired, not when you are running out of ideas.
Fathy :)

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Show 'Harmonicas' Some Sympathies, Baby.

It is a free reed wind instrument which is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes (reed chambers) or multiple holes. The pressure caused by blowing or drawing air into the reed chambers causes a reed or multiple reeds to vibrate up and down creating sound. Each chamber has multiple, variable-tuned brass or bronze reeds which are secured at one end and loose on the other end, with the loose end vibrating and creating sound.

Reeds are pre-tuned to individual tones, and each tone is determined according to the size of reed. Longer reeds make deep, low sounds and short reeds make higher-pitched sounds. On certain types of harmonica the pre-tuned reed can be changed (bending a note) to another note by redirecting air flow into the chamber. There are many types of harmonicas, including diatonic, chromatic, tremolo, orchestral, and bass versions.

The harmonica is used in blues and American folk music, jazz, classical music, country music, rock and roll, and pop music. The harmonica has other nicknames, especially in blues music, including: "harp", "blues harp", and "mouth organ".


This is it!

Some Tips On How To Sing..BETTER

First and foremost..

A good practice technique to find resonance is to sing while bent over the back of a chair. Feel the mask of the face (the area around the nose, under the eyes and the top of the teeth) vibrating. This is the body's microphone. Always try to place the tone in the mask of the face.

Secondly..

The best kind of nutrition for the voice is water. Water will do many wonderful things for the voice and is also very essential to your body. If you are sick, pineapple juice may clear the throat of phlegm but don't make a habit of anything besides water. Don't drink milk or orange juice before singing. Your voice will sound "blocked" by something. Sugar coats your throat. Imagine trying to stuff maple syrup in a flute to make it sound better!

Thirdly..

There are two different registers of the voice, the head voice and the chest voice. In popular music, singers rarely produce sound for the head voice since it is harder to sound like you are speaking in your head voice. Popular singers do not like to venture much from the speaking voice. The chest voice actually feels like it is coming from the chest. You can feel the registers change if you sing up a scale from your lowest note to your highest note. Your head voice is what you will be using primarily in classical singing. Even though there may be breaks between your registers, you can train and practice to eliminate those breaks. An advanced singer can continually move from chest to head voice and back again without any vocal disturbance.

Next on the list..

A big area of concern will be the break in your voice. Women and men both have that. It is called the passagio ("passage" in Italian). This place is different for each singer and can be trained to not break when sung through.
Get in shape. You'll be able to breathe better if you are in good physical health.
Avoid a nasal sound-sing from your diaphragm. If you think you have a nasal sound, try breathing through your nose and your mouth at the same time.

And last but not least..

Avoid screaming when you are singing. To do this, raise the soft pallet (as in drinking through a straw or yawning) and place the tone in the mask of the face.
Visualize a column of air rising from your diaphragm, through your chest, and up through your facial mask. This technique will help your vocals be strong and present, and will greatly enhance the ease of singing.

Oh. There's more?

It is helpful to imagine a gumball in your mouth. Think of a large round gumball or any object that is round, like a bouncy ball. Thinking of this creates a space in the back of your mouth, allowing a deeper, more mature-sounding voice.

Sunday, August 10, 2008

This Kind, this Music.

Most of people might say, only certain kinds of people listen to only certain kinds of music. OR even, one particular kind of people only listens to their particular kind of music. For example, this one ‘click’ wears black clothes, wear dark make ups, let themselves be averted, and listens to kind of scary songs. They probably don’t label themselves as Goths, or say “we love Heavy Metals”, bar they don’t just listen to other genres! =D

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Song Chords

Can you relate any other word with Chord? I guess not. It’s not in my thesaurus either. Pergh. I’m really amazed by people who can figure out how to include many unexpected chords in the songs they produced. I want to be one of them, may I? How could my cousin say this?

“Oh. It’s too easy. Just C, G, A and F.”

And then I tried to play it, it all went wrong because one of the chords he mentioned was a total alien! Supposedly, it’s A minor. Thank you. Hey, it’s a big difference.

Some people would just use the same chord as the note they are using. Wow? Naaah. It’s just vague, too vague.

Uurh, I got nothing.

Libretto !

Okay, instead of eavesdropping for this dribbling, just observe it. What’s up with lame and vague and ‘I have seriously have no idea for this one’ libretto? Let’s analyse one.

This is Innocence by Avril.

Waking up I see that everything is OK
The first time in my life and now it's so great
Slowing down I look around and I am so amazed
I think about the little things that make life great
I wouldn't change a thing about it
This is the best feeling
[Chorus]
This innocence is brilliant
I hope that it will stay
This moment is perfect
Please don't go away
I need you now
And I'll hold on to it
Don't you let it pass you by
I found a place so safe, not a single tear
The first time in my life and now it's so clear
Feel calm, I belong, I'm so happy here
It's so strong and now
I let myself be sincere
I wouldn't change a thing about it
This is the best feeling
[Chorus]
It's a state of bliss, you think you're dreaming
It's the happiness inside that you're feeling
It's so beautiful it makes you wanna cry
It's a state of bliss, you think you're dreaming
It's the happiness inside that you're feeling
It's so beautiful it makes you wanna cry
It's so beautiful it makes you wanna cry
This innocence is brilliant
Makes you wanna cry
This innocence is brilliance
Please don't go away
Cause I need you now
And I'll hold on to it
Don't you let it pass you by
[Chorus]



No no, wait. Don’t analyse it, THINK about it. Can you see any forced rhymes?

Don’t you think she only got inspired while she’s squeezing her brains out for the Bridge? *wink*

Hey Avril, nothing personal, okay? It’s just business. :)