My musical compositions
Original YT playout date: 20 March 2010
Duration: 15:14
We have a walk at night and look at some posters in the morning.
A bit of my own music in the sound track, Shades of “in the Shade of the White Plum Tree”
Continue reading “Prague Vlog #21 – Walk and Posters”
Original YT playout date: 11 February 2010
Duration: 3:59
I was helped along in the lyrics by Wufwufwufwuf and MikeCut777, so thanks to those guys, on comments to an earlier video. Here’s the working release of the song in time for Valentines Day. Those who can perform it better, are welcome to go ahead. The mp3 of this is available on this blog. It is the same song as the one in the footer of this blog and is probably my favorite of my own compositions to date.
I am inviting collaboration or covers, and in order to ease the process, I’d like to say that there are only 5 chords necessary to play this song.
The ones I used were C, e, a, F, G7. The e a e a transition gets repeated a few times in the refrain and the chorus part also. Obviously you can doll it up all you like, but basically those 5 are all I used.”
Continue reading “Original Song for Valentines Day – in the Shade of the White Plum Tree”
Original YT playout date: 29 July 2009
Duration: 2:360
Those of you familiar with the Russian keyboard will be able to work out what the heading says to this video. Let’s see who can decode it first in the comments.
I thought I had switched it back to English letters, and it wasn’t intentional, but then I thought it might be a bit of fun to leave it like that.
Anyway, here’s a bit more of the good old temporaneous music, mixed with footage for which I had no decent sound anyway. All very random…
Continue reading “Кфтвщь Ыщтп Цшерщге Цщквыю”
Original YT playout date: 20 December 2009
Duration: 15:14
Taxi ride and some own-brand music in the second part.
Continue reading “Prague Vlog #15 Don’t give up on your taxis”
Original YT playout date: 10 November 2009
Duration: 11:37
I have been forced to record more of my own awful compositions and to compose more too, since youtube is coming down on a ton of bricks when people put existing music on their films. Don’t blame me, blame them. Anyway, in this film the precise moment I came up with the tune “Don’t Give Up” recently shown here, and also a bit more adlibbing to some flight footage. The arabic sounding bit was composed earlier by me in Moscow. I close off with a few bars of Dvorak’s “Rusalka”, or at least my variation on it.
Continue reading “The Composer in his Garret”