19 posts tagged with ukulele and mefimusicchallenge.
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A Simple Song (in Troubled Times)
An original song, just written and performed on the ukulele, recorded on my cell phone.
When John Drinks
Knock Upon The Door
My submission for April 2012's music challenge: a small, short song based on a small, short portion of T. S. Eliot's poem The Wasteland, without modification. [more inside]
Christmas Island
I made my children to sing on another Christmas song. In three-part harmony.
Merry Christmas, everybody.
Without My Pants On
Submission for this month's "record a track before you put on your pants in the morning" challenge. I sat down in my underwear at 7:35am to put together a song about what might have happened if I had sat down without my underwear. [more inside]
Bring Me Sunshine
Quick lo-fi recording of the Morecambe and Wise classic closing song, introduced in about as near to a music-hall style as I can manage. Featuring me, my uke, and a whistling verse. (Twice.) Video is here. [more inside]
Intellectual Property
So what exactly is the difference between trademarks, copyrights, patents, and trade secrets?
Woman Driving, Man Sleeping
This is a cover of a song by one of my favourite bands, Eels. It's pretty typical of the band - slightly sad and thoughtful, with a lot that we aren't told. I'd been planning to record this anyway, but then along came the Transpo challenge, and this seemed to fit very well. [more inside]
So We'll Go No More A-Roving
As it's Valentine's Day, here's a song about love. Well, kind of about love. Actually it's about the end of love, as it fades due to age and fatigue, and the death of romance.
Errr...happy Valentine's Day! [more inside]
Hillbillujah
This is the soundtrack to a movie about Leonard Cohen going on a rafting trip in rural Appalachia. [more inside]
Halle Hula
When Elvis Met Leonard. Nothing but uke, vox, and questionable taste. [more inside]
David's Chords
Includes the rejects.
cavacavaco
I started with a cavaquinho (uke), but then it spiraled out of control. [more inside]
Portland, City of Roses, City of Dreams
Ok, so I was playing around with the two-chord song idea, struck on something that sounded nice, and this is the end result.
Brought to you by the letters G and D7. [more inside]
The Day of the Christmas Parade
Hollywood is famous for its annual Christmas Parade, which inspired the song "Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane)", which Gene Autrey wrote after playing Santa in the parade and hearing children call out to him. I decided to write my own song about the event, as experienced by slightly older children -- the homeless teens who used to (and probably still do) squat in abandoned buildings and under bridges in Hollywood. Ah, memories. [more inside]
Africa
MuFi music challenge Wildcar, inspired by DaveJay's most recent post. Clocked random, found a comment, made a song. The comment is this one:
It's saying that African tragedy gets measured by a different yardstick.
Way over here in the land of Paris and Lindsey, it does.
You Need More MeFi In Your Life
I Burned This Song
For this month's LYRIC Challenge. It has a very simple backing track, consisting of three elements: a drone (from my trusty Juno 60 analog synth), little wooden bells (from the 100 yen shop!), and my daughter's plastic ukulele, which has a picture of Maisy Mouse on it.
Colonel Roger (is a Soldier from the Future (is a Cover))
I know this song has been uploaded right at the very end (if not shortly beyond) of the MeFi Music Challenge, but I went through a number of songs in the long debate to find a MeFite's song to cover, eventually landing on the one that most frequently gets stuck in my head. That song is Colonel Roger (is a Soldier from the Future) by chiefbluefeather. [more inside]
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