A Must Hear Original Song by an Unsigned Artist

In one of my previous posts a song was featured from a classical music student turned alternative artist, Terra Naomi, who has a great talent. Things weren't ticking before her virtual tour on youtube. After her appearance in this phenomenal community driven mass media so called youtube, her fame skyrocketed in an unprecedented rate. Well she didn't exactly end up getting triple platinum hits or anything like that on the basis of records sold, but she sure became the queen in virtual world as her fan base from all over the world grew amazingly leding her to become #1 most subscribed artist in musician category last year. This definitely moved her ahead in her musical career.

Last night I came across a video from another unsigned artist from UK, zzzzzzzzap, who has about 21 videos on his inventory right now - mostly original (only 6 were cover version performed in his own style). I enjoyed listening to his music which primarily has a laid-back ballad sensation and acoustical in nature. I'm sure he has a very bright future ahead of him.

For now enjoy one of his songs that got hit on the front page (featured section) of youtube.



Here's the comment along with lyrics for this song (unedited) which the artist himself posted on youtube.

"I know I'd told myself I was having a YT break but this song has been slowly writing itself and willing me to post it up.
It's a tad throwaway but I sometimes like that in music - it's not good to take yourself too seriously. I may add to it at a later date..
This goes out to all those lovely people who subscribed to my channel and, in their comments, remarked that my vocals should be pushed up (*cough*, bobsaguitarist..) Hope I didn't disappoint

:|

_________________________
The Ballad of The Existentialist

There's a world outside that window
Would you step into the sun?
Chasing shadows can't be in you
When the battle has been won

Try so hard to verbalise it
Understand it for yourself
Just find your feet and stand beside me
Don't put yourself back on the shelf

Just know that I'll be by my side, you..
The world is sinking deep inside..

Paint a picture, tell a story
Leave a trace behind to see
In years to come you'll call me boring
In your reflection you'll see me

Just know that I'll be by your side, you..
The world is sinking deep inside..

__________________
Peace"

Jamstudio : Create Your "Garage Band" Without The Band

Jamstudio is your destination on the Internet to create your own music, even if you don't have any knowledge on how to play musical instrument. The free version of this flash based application hosted on the site lets you experiment around with the various loops produced by basic instruments such as Drums, Acoustical Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass Guitar, Piano and Electronic Synthesizer in order to create your composition. But the more interesting loops are available through the sound add-on, that is free for a time being, and is planned to be charged on a subscription basis in near future.


When you visit the site you'll be provided with the Help which will walk you through the entire application in 7 simple steps. Then you'll be set to create your masterpiece. The App lets you save your songs after you've registered (for Free) and gives you the option to share with your friends through e-mail.

...So Rock On!!!

You can download the songs I created with Jamstudio by clicking on the following links. Just to clear the confusion - The site doesn't give you the option of exporting your creation in MP3. I used the application that came with my soundcard to capture the music that was being played back from the Jamstudio and saved it as MP3 manually.

Zombie Clone
Sweetest Melody

Music Videos Dedicated to Beautiful City, Kathmandu

The following video features photographs of different parts of the city. The background music is performed by one of the legendary Rock musicians - Bob Seger. The song is called "Kathmandu" which appeared in his album titled Beautiful Loser released in 1975.


"What To Do in Kathmandu?" is yet another music video telling a typical Kaliwood/Bollywood style story where the bad guys (guys in black) are after good guys (those in regular clothing running away from the bad guys).


To learn more about my hometown please visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathmandu

Guns N Roses's Sweet Child O Mine Guitar Tracks

Here's another guitar mix that I created. But this time its intro of G'n'R 's Sweet Child O' Mine . The program is still bugging me with latency problem when I try to record guitar sound with heavy effects. But with lite effects it tends to work fine.

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Original Music Composition (Track Name: Perfect Jingle)

I've just finished composing multi-channel guitar track using only computer and my Epiphone Les Paul Special II connected via line-in of one of the the sound cards. The purpose if this experiment is to show how you can hook up your guitar to your computer and be able to turn it into a music recording station. This is useful if you are a hobbyist who doesn't want to spend a lot buying expensive hardware that does the purpose - or if you simply want to play your guitar using your favorite guitar effects without needing costly gear. It is possible to eliminate the guitar amplifier if you have decent computer sound system or headphone. I am going to update this post and put more detail about this project later with all the information you might need to set up one of your own.

For now enjoy listening to these short tracks that I composed:
Perfect Jingle.mp3 : Created using RHCP Type clean guitar solo performed in blues scale (my best effort to sound good playing solo). Note that the delay was caused by about .15 - .30 ms latency due to the loopback guitar input through line-in (which is basically slow) and delay due to processing the effects by CPU (making it even more slower) which basically screwed up timing of the lead.
Perfect Jingle - (Without Solo).mp3 : You can add your own guitar or any other instrument solo to this file.

Distribution of theses files as well as modifying the content as long as original composition credit is unaltered is permitted.

The rhythm chords are Am, Dm, G, Cadd9 and (Cadd9/E7 each strummed once towards the end) played in order.

If you've created anything special by using above file(s) then you can upload the content to the web and can share its link with me and other readers of this site. I used http://www.hotlinkfiles.com, which of course lets you hot link the freely hosted multimedia contents (Nice!). If you want to use it just for one time and don't care if the contents will be made available to public, in that case you'll be better off using public uploading feature in the site that lets you skip the entire registration process.

You can contact me regarding any of the issues/suggestions in this or any other article.

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Listen to Your Favourite Music Online Without Subscription Charge

For those who are looking for free online streaming music, the site capable of searching music like Seeqpod.com might be the ultimate destination. The site is an online music search engine having an integrated player. The cool thing about this site is that you can create a playlist of songs you wish to listen to and be able to access it later by logging on to the site through any other computer having an internet connection. It lets you search the MP3 files hosted by other sites and stream to your desktop. You also have the option to share the playlist either through e-mail or by embedding it on your blog, if you have one However it doesn't let you save the music from its interface. But there a simple trick that will do the task.


Hint:
To save the the track that have been buffered by Seeqpod go through the following steps:
1) As soon as Seeqpod finishes buffering the file go to your browser's cache (Firefox users could type in about:cache into the address bar to reveal the location of browser cache)
2) Look for the file recently added by sorting out according to Date Modified (firefox in this case gives a meaningless filename) Usually a mp3 song will be 2-4MB in size (or could be more depending on the encoded bitrate and length of the song).
3) Or find the suspicious file if under IE temp folders since its unpredictable to tell where would it be among different temp folders by sorting out according to the date modified.
4) Copy the file to another folder... rename it... and enjoy playing it as many times as you like.

Note: Windows users must turn on the option to view hidden files and folders to be able to access the file in the stated location. You can easily do it by dbl. clicking My Computer, click menu item Tools > Folder Options... , on the popup window click View tab, and search for Hidden Files and Folders option. Finally select Show Hidden Files and Folders > OK to enable viewing hidden files on the system you're working on.

Using Firefox to retrieve this is easiest since there is only once browser cache location unlike multiple folders utilized by IE. Hence, making the recently added file easier to find .

The site also has the video feature which I personally didn't find as attractive as its audio player. The search result is also not as extensive as what you'll get while searching audio.

Other notable features are share feature which will let you share your playlist with your friends via e-mail. The "Discovery" button which will let you listen to recently discovered music that SeeqPod has found on the Web. It is helpful if you aren't sure what you want to listen to.

By looking at how the songs are added in the discovery window we can guess that the site uses some sort of webcrawler that indexes the media files (particularly MP3 and AVI) inside the site which will be retrieved later when someone searches using the particular parameter reflecting the file.

Here's a sample playlist that I created earlier. Sample Playlist.

Another site that lets you do the similar stuff is B3ta.cr3ation . Whichever you choose to visit enjoy the free music that these sites provide as long as they last because I'm pretty sure that RIAA is going to get on their tail pretty soon.

I Stumbled Upon a Beautiful Music Video on Youtube

This following song is sang by an artist, Terra Naomi, who became popular in the virtual world in very short period (She joined Youtube just on Feb 23,2006 - although she attained a music school and was musically involved before her youtube career). I believe that she'll soon be famous both online as well as offline. For more of her videos follow this link.

For now enjoy listening to Say it's Possible by Terra.



Lyrics taken from the comment section of her video.

I SEE THE LIGHTS ARE TURNING
AND I LOOK OUTSIDE THE STARS ARE BURNING
THROUGH THIS CHANGING TIME
IT COULD HAVE BEEN ANYTHING WE WANT
IT'S FINE SALVATION WAS JUST A PASSING THOUGHT.

DON'T WAIT ACT NOW
THIS AMAZING OFFER WON'T LAST LONG
IT'S ONLY A CHANCE TO PAVE THE PATH WE'RE ON
I KNOW THERE ARE MORE EXCITING THINGS TO TALK ABOUT
AND IN TIME WE'LL SORT IT OUT

AND THOUGH THEY SAY IT'S POSSIBLE TO ME
I DON'T SEE HOW IT'S PROBABLE
I SEE THE COURSE WE'RE ON
SPINNING FARTHER FROM WHAT I KNOW
I'LL HOLD ON
TELL ME THAT YOU WON'T LET GO
TELL ME THAT YOU WON'T LET GO

AND TRUTH IS SUCH A FUNNY THING
WITH ALL THESE PEOPLE
KEEP ON TELLING ME
THEY KNOW WHAT'S BEST
AND WHAT TO BE FRIGHTENED OF
AND ALL THE REST ARE WRONG
THEY KNOW NOTHING ABOUT US

AND THOUGH THEY SAY IT'S POSSIBLE TO ME
I DON'T SEE HOW IT'S PROBABLE
I SEE THE COURSE WE'RE ON
SPINNING FARTHER FROM WHAT I KNOW
I'LL HOLD ON
TELL ME THAT YOU WON'T LET GO
TELL ME THAT YOU WON'T LET GO

I'M NOT ALRIGHT...

THIS COULD BE SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL
COMBINE OUR LOVE INTO SOMETHING WONDERFUL
BUT TIMES ARE TOUGH I KNOW
AND THE PULL OF WHAT WE CAN'T GIVE UP TAKES HOLD

(c) Terra Naomi 2006

Update:
She became the most subscribed musical artist on youtube by the end of 2006.