Music
Videos: Improving Your Vocal Technique
Mar 11th
The voice is the one instrument we take with us everywhere we go – even into the shower. Yet many of us spend less time working on vocal techniques than we do learning other instruments. Whether you are a lead vocalist, background vocalist, or just record your voice for “special effects”, these videos will teach you to warm up your voice, help you achieve a better vocal sound, and also protect your voice by teaching you to sing with a proper technique. Here is a compiled list of videos from the Tuts Network for your learning pleasure. You could even just watch to see how some people do it if you dont want to learn, there is alot there so enjoy what you like!
1. Singing Lessons: Part 1- Vocal Warm Up Exercises
“This 4 part Singing Lesson video series is a gift from me to all the other singers out there who have shown me such great luv and support. It contains a full vocal warmup with voice exercises that will improve tone, expand your range, and increasing diaphragm control.”
2. Singing Lessons: Part 2 – Freeing Your Voice Range
“This second singing lesson video, we talk about expanding the voice range. These voice exercises will help you sing high notes & have more power and clarity in your singing.”
Zelda ReOrchestrated
Dec 29th
Russ Frushtick at MTV Multiplayer was following the progress of a musical group that wanted to remake the music in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time with a real orchestra. Today, he reports, they’ve finally finished their work.
The Zelda Reorchestrated project (a.k.a. ZREO) first got started six years ago when a 14-year-old had the brilliant idea to redo all the music in the game with an orchestra. Now, 82 tracks later, the idea is real and you can listen to it yourself.
As of a month ago, we were only short a handful of songs to complete the album, however, many of the songs from Ocarina of Time were not nearly up to par with others, so we decided to go through the album, song by song, and figure out which songs needed to be remade. It started out as five, then ten, twelve. The list grew and grew till we reached a whopping 22 tracks. Today, we release those additional 22 remakes.
Frushtick rightly points out that this work is in no way protected from a take-down notice from Nintendo (though I’m sure the more clever legal minds out there could make a case for fair use). So get it while it’s hot in download form or pop over to Zelda Reorchestrated just to sample their work. Really, it’s pretty neat.
Zelda Reorchestrated [Zreomusic.com via MTV Multiplayer]
VOD: The Muppets Bohemian Rhapsody
Nov 24th
This morning, The Muppets released a high definition viral parody of Queen’s classic song “Bohemian Rhapsody“. The video, which features over 40 Muppet characters, coincides with the release of Queen’s new album. If you haven’t seen the video yet (its been spreading rapidly around the interwebs all morning, click after the jump.
Interview with Andrew WK
Sep 28th
This interview of Andrew WK is with Graeme Fouste, a very talented photographer in the local area of Columbia, South Carolina. During a photoshoot, he got a chance to sit with him and do a little interview. If you are into Andrew W. K. then you should love this interview! All photo work in the slideshow are from Graeme Fouste!
Check out more work for Graeme Fouste @ www.gfoustephotos.com
‘09 iPhone Ringtone Collection
Sep 25th
Since a long time ago making alot of calm sounding ringtones for people I decided I should just go ahead and give you guys my complete list of this months ringtone collection. People seem to like to come to the site for my ringtones so what the hell right? If you are interested in getting your own ringtones made even songs completely made like with your own saying being chanted or what not, do not be affraid to ask for something in the comments or however you guys want to contact me.
This is just a zip file that’s about 26 MB full of m4r files that you just place anywhere and drag into your iTunes and then drag or sync to your iPhone. Others that are smarter and need mp3’s for whatever phone, just open these files and convert to mp3 using your favorite audio editor tool like Audition or Sound Forge or maybe Audacity if that opens that format. Pretty simple right? Good!
Here is a quick list of just some of the songs you’ll get
- Kanye West – Heartbreak Collection
- 311 – Random
- Basket Case
- Beatles Songs
- Big Booty Hoes (Hump wit it!!!)
- Brad Sucks
- C’mon ride that Train!
- System of a Down – Chop Suet
- Do the Stinky Leg
- Eazy E
- Some Gangsta shit!
- House of Pain – Jump Around
- I CAN BREAK THESE CUFFS (anyone remember this?)
- Kris Kros – Jump
- Ice Ice Baby
- Mary Jane
- Me So Horny
- My Dick
- STP – Plush
- Flobots
- & MORE!!!
Got some surprise ones in there too, so if you appreciate this list, please digg it and rate it and comment on it. Let me know when you guys want more. Bringin it to ya!
Weekend Projects; Dont Procrastinate
Sep 17th
In one day, Beck Hansen and friends recorded an album-length cover of a beloved pop music album. They did it by setting aside time, lowering their guard, and letting creative work happen. Anyone with a side-project could learn a lot from them.
Hansen, better known as the singular Beck, is known in popular culture for a cut-and-paste, information-overloaded sound that takes a lot of time to produce, and far more time to release, promote, and tour on. For the Record Club project, he took a step back from the standard conception of “Let’s make an ‘album.’”
He rang up like-minded friends and cohorts, got them to agree on an album—the Velvet Underground’s debut, The Velvet Underground & Nico—and limited the project to 24 hours. There were no practice sessions or pre-arranged song structures, and no intention to, as Beck put it, “‘Add to’ the original work or … recreate the power of the original recording. Only to play music and document what happens.” The result? Some pretty striking, and strikingly pretty, music. A total of eleven tracks and one alternate take, and, at the end of one really long day, there’s this new thing that anyone can listen to, watch videos of, and obsess over.
Any musician with a few musically gifted friends could try the same project, but there’s a wider lesson for programmers, writers, and hobbyists of any stripe. When you’re contemplating a new project, or stuck on a big one, consider how Record Club demonstrates the payoffs of creative constraints, definite time frames, and a ban against external expectations to your Big Serious Project.
The joys of creative constraints
Why does Flickr’s video service allow for only 90 seconds of footage? Cynically, you could assume it’s to save on bandwidth and storage costs, but Flickr says otherwise: It’s actually about emphasizing original, condensed, in-the-moment content rather than super-awesome World of Warcraft screengrabs. Spending time randomly clicking around Flickr’s video pools is scads more tolerable than randomly browsing YouTube’s user clips, which, aside from the occasional bit of brilliance, mostly serve as primers on the pitfalls of poor lighting and sound and having a huge amount of time to talk about popular music feuds.
Garageband tools in your web browser
Sep 17th
I’ve always been opposed to using online audio editing tools, because I haven’t found them to be robust or fast enough to be compelling to use. Myna just might change that, because think about how convenient it could be to start a project on one computer and pick it up some place else.
Aviary is already well-established as an online image editing suite, but today the company is expanding its creative reach and bringing multi-track audio editing to the cloud.
The service, called Myna, is sort of like Garage Band in your web browser. You can import audio directly into it, record a track into the application, or use clips from one of Aviary’s provided clip libraries.
All audio effects are non-destructive and you can automate fades and pans, modify gain over time, loop, stretch and reverse audio clips and more. Once you’ve got your track just the way you want it, you can mixdown to your desktop or publish directly to your Aviary account.
The entire process takes place inside your web browser (Adobe Flash is required) and the interface is both robust and easy to use. Anyone familiar with multi-track audio apps will be familiar with Myna’s layout, and I was impressed with the speed of the app. You can playback clips before dragging them to the time line, which is really nice.
Check out this video demonstration:
How do you edit your audio? What do you think about using online editing tools?
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