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Hide and Seek a cappella

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!

Counting Down

(New video posted Jan 12, don't think anybody will be missing the last video of a long car ride and my yellow shoes.)

Decided to take a break from the recent spate of composite video cover songs I've been making to record an original.  

It's calling Counting Down, and I hope it helps someone out there. It helped me. :)

You can download the mp3 if you like.
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Late night
I'm counting down the days till you'll be gone
Till I cannot see your face in all those times
All the places you've marked I hear your laughter

1 2 3 4
Taking down the signs
I placed to guide myself to you
Got to find a new path to light at this fork

Bridge:
A month for every year we've been together
That's the rule
You like rules
Then the encore comes to end.

Chorus:
Counting down the days to being okay
Yes I'm fine don't ask
How I'll get there 
I'm not sure
See you on the other side of town
Got to go right now
Sitting on a bucket of patience
Hoping

Distance
Closing off the memories at my gate
Gonna move away from the life we had
Wait out the fire
The chapter closes

Some day
Soon I'll wake up and turn around
And forget to look for you beside
Then I'll know that I can start anew

Love Lost cover

Here's a cover of Love Lost, by The Temper Trap.

I made this song a couple of weeks ago, but I just managed to stitch the video together. I was dragging my feet to do the editing because it wasn't as easy as I had thought, but I accidentally discovered a few very-obvious features of Final Cut yesterday that made me kick myself. Now that I'm slightly less incapacitated for the editing process, hopefully the next video won't take me as long to do.

Ageless Beauty (Stars) cover

Here's my first attempt at messing about with Garage Band and a humbling try at stitching the composite video in Final Cut Express.

I picked this song on a whim because it was stuck in my head all day that day. Guitar was piped through a Lexicon Alpha USB interface, while my voice was recorded with the less-than-optimal laptop mic on my MacBook Pro. I promise I will get off my ass and get a proper XLR cable for my handheld mic so I can put it through the USB interface for subsequent recordings (instead of singing into my laptop, which also explains why I look a little fish-eye-lensed in the video).

I took some shortcuts in the song. Be kind! I'll take song requests. :)