Archive for July, 2008

Musical Awesomeness

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I stumbled onto some musical awesomeness. I’m not even really sure how I got there, but that “related videos” section is something evil.

This is Tina Guo. She auditioned for some Grammy thingy…and plays the cello with such buttery ease that I’m totally engrossed. Well..I mean..it’s not just her…lots of great musicians exude that quality, but she’s so young and also asian so it relates to me a little more. The point of the competition is to play the Foo Fighter’s song “The Pretender”.

And then I saw a link on your “more info”…and she’s in some kind of rock band. I’m honestly not sure if an electric cello fits in to all this. I think it has something to do with the vibrato that makes it just sound like it’s not supposed to be there. Also, she plays so hard that she loses a lot of bow hair. I wonder how often she needs to get it rehaired?

And then…this is the grand finale of my post about her. So she won the Grammy thingy, or was in the top three, and other finalists were in the same hotel together to preform at the Grammys. The amazing part in all this is that they were bored and just decided to improv something. Like “hey, I’m bored…I’m going to start playing a note, I’ve mentioned the theme we’ll be playing and..uh….let’s just see what comes up”.

Uh…that’s pretty sexy. I wish I could ever become a part of something like this. But if I were…it would probably end up sounding a lot like Mary had a Little Lamb.

Here is also another great version of the same Foo Fighter’s song that they had to perform. I think I might like this better because it’s not so crazy and I like the use of double stops.

Beach again. It’s a record.

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The Day Events
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Wow. I really feel like I’m a normal person living where I live now. Now that I’ve been there three times in the past..oh….month, the beach feels even closer than ever. But…I’m not sure I can still get over the sand bit.

I went last Sunday and we had all wanted to do a bonfire for some time. You have to get there really early so my friend got there around 8:30. I visited him for a little bit.

The boys played some ball.

Woooooo

Some kids were using these small boards…and gliding through the tunnels of waves…pretty cool. Sorry my beach vocab is not really extensive.

Crash!! I like this sound.

Um…just how big will this wave be??

I tried to be a naga. Caught in…stranglekelp. I used to have to farm these for nature resistance pots for Naxx…..aw…I miss those days. Nothing beats 40 man raids!

Is this called dusk?

I’m a little bit of a pyro sometimes. “Mmmmfffmmfffmfmf! MmmMmffmmf!” Actually, my friend told me that people suspect that the pyro is a female! Something about….the locker designated for the pyro has a dress in it. I just checked on youtube…he has a pink…makeup bag of sorts with a flower print on it @_@.

Oh yes…lighter fluid! ^_____^.

Pokemon is a real word folks

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I was typing up an essay-like statement of purpose and I typed the word “pokemon” (don’t ask why) and then I backspaced to change the e to an e with an accent over it, finished the word, pressed space…and……poof. Word automatically changed the word to start with a capital.


Yes, it’s true. A capital. Wow. We don’t capitalize the word “animals” but we do capitalize Pokemon. And this word is also misspelled without the accent, I’ll have you know.

Important discovery tonight.

Yes, indeed.

My cover on Coldplay’s Viva la Vida

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I thought about this during the week when I had this on repeat over and over…

Would it be cool if I played the piano and the cello together? And listening to it, you can pretty easily pick out the notes. Then I set off to youtube to see if there were any parts…but I decided that I could probably do it myself. I arranged the piano part first, and the cello part is almost the same stuff over and over again, with some differences in some parts. The piano part is actually a lot of the violin parts. Sorry violins! (not).

So this is what I had to do:

1. Record parts of piano using digital camera. (Part because it’s hard to do the whole thing without mistakes)

2. Record parts in cello digital camera. (Parts because the notes will be more uniform looped)

3. Take the audio off the movie clips and paste the piano parts all together. Paste the cello parts together.

4. Make sure the beats all align.

5. Sing the song with the arranged version and record.

6. Rip the audio off the video and paste it in. Makes sure all beats align.

7. Record video of me playing the piano while listening to the arranged version so the movements are the same. Same with cello. Same with voice.

8. Take all the clips, align the sounds with my arranged version, delete the audio.

So in total, this project allowed me to learn more about Adobe Audition, Adobe Soundbooth, and Sony Vegas.

Originally I had a lot more ideas for the video. I was going to have my stuffed Stitch beat out the drum…and other randomness…but near the end of this, I was already sick of working on it that I was ready to just spit it out.

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