An impromptu recording. Been a while since I last heard this song.

I was mucking around with Logic late at night and listening to some YouTube covers prior to this and it suddenly felt very appealing doing an emo piano cover of an emo piano song.

I'm starting a new personal project. I plan to write and post a new ringtone a day every week day, downloadable for free.

The first one is up! Here goes. :)

Tinkle Tones - Get a free ringtone every day

Four months ago, I got together with a few friends and started jamming with the objective of getting a few originals recorded. Keyboardist Karen and I had already been in a band effort previously, but we were looking for musicians to fill the void musically—and on hindsight, energy-wise—to bring the originals to the studio.

Midway through that effort, I chanced upon a flyer for a band competition; before we knew it, it was the same song over and over (and over and over) again at practice for three weeks.

Come competition night, we were the poppiest, most psychedelically-dressed, least heavy-rock band out there. We stuck out, but I’m happy to report we bagged the third prize, with Dawn as Best Bassist and Karen winning Most Potential.

Now, it’s back to the studio for that EP, but I daresay we're riding on significantly more exuberance. :)

We have a band page and all the requisite social media peripherals. How very legit! ;)

A cover of Imogen Heap's Hide and Seek, done a cappella. Yes, my voice does go that low for the bass notes.

Much thanks to Tara Tan as well for shooting the video. It was done in a couple of takes on Saturday afternoon.

Also, this finally concludes my 30 Days of Creativity project that was started in June (hence taking me nearly 60 days to complete). Hurray!

Tonight was pretty funny, due mostly to my messing up my calendar and Dave just taking my word for the scheduled changes. I had booked a jamming studio for tonight, but only two of us showed up, because the agreed session with the rest of the band was next week.

Still, we ended up having a pretty good time jamming to our iPads: first whatever music I put on shuffle, then a beat machine app, then a tenori-on.

Eventually though, we decided to set an iPhone in the room to record whatever impromptu jam I threw out. This is a song I wrote fairly recently, and Dave hadn't heard it before. That fact isn't evident in the recording. :)

I also decided, rather conveniently, to use this as Day 28. Why not.

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I haven't given up on the last leg of my 30 Days of Creativity, even though I took a break of over a week. Still, let's try to finish this, so here's Day 27.

It's one round of the verse and a very truncated chorus of At the Beginning by Donna Lewis and Richard Marx. It came to mind because the chorus goes, "Life is a road..." Oh yeah,  you didn't think I'd take a crack at a creative project without a pun in there, did you.

It was fun to make, but the syncopated lyrics really threw me off.

Day 26: Jamming along to "Movement" by oldfish with the excellent (and free!) Mugician app on the iPad.

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Day 12: Fooling around with Zoozbeat, an iPhone app I've had for a while but haven't played with till now. Makes creating beats pretty easy.

This one was fun because it's really just an excuse to indulge in my not-so-secret love for broadway music. So for Day 9 of my 30 Days of Creativity, here's a karaoke cover of I'm Not That Girl. :)