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Good Voices Are Made Of These

December 20th, 2004 1 Comment

Well, actually I don’t know what good voices are made of. According to the book, there are different stages in singing technique breakthrough. Basically, one will encounter of cycles of improvement, setback, and breakthrough. Yesterday was actually a setback. I hated my voice throughout the jamming session and I hated my vocal recording prior to [...]

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It is Christmas! And here are two songs for you …

December 19th, 2004 5 Comments

It is Christmas time (and see how happy my wife Cynthia was to receive a gift from a party)! Here is something for you all – two songs that I have recorded just for this festival. I hope that these songs can touch your hearts and to be reminded what Christmas is all about besides [...]

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Different Challenges In Recording

December 14th, 2004 No Comments

First, it is the recording of the 12-string guitar. It is tough because playing a 12-string guitar by itself is very tough. It requires a lot of stamina from my fingers, mainly because instead of pressing 6 strings in a normal guitar, I have to press 12 instead. So painful to play and so frustrated [...]

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Recording 101

December 12th, 2004 4 Comments

Have you ever wondered what recording is like? Have you ever wonder what are the basic ingredients of a home studio? Now, here is the chance to see how I record the songs. As you can see, recording the 12-string guitars itself is not a trivial tasks. Welcome to my world of recording. Tweet

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My Fingers are so Numb

December 12th, 2004 No Comments

Recording the 12-string guitar is never easy. And I think that getting a bit drunk kind of take the pain out of the concious mind. Today, I have recorded 7 songs in one go. If I didn’t make a irrevisible mistake on the 8th song, I would have ended up with 8 songs. Well, I [...]

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A Potential Release – My Version of OH HOLY NIGHT

December 11th, 2004 1 Comment

Back in October during one of the warm-up session prior to the jamming session, I had an idea to write a song based on the chords from the Christmas song Oh Holy Night and I did. It is like this … the songs started with lyrics and melody that I have created and then transit [...]

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A Cover for My New Demo Album – Target Launch Date is Valentine 2005

December 6th, 2004 4 Comments

Hey folks, I have just designed the cover for my new album. Please email me and let me know what you think. I think it looks pretty professional. For this new demo album that will be released in the Internet, it will be nothing like the ones I played for my one and only band [...]

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Singing for Dummies

December 3rd, 2004 No Comments

People kind of giggled a little bit when they heard that I bought the book Singing For Dummeis. I just so glad that I have bought that book (together with another more profession one that I hope will arrive at my doorstep before Christmas). I did not realised that I have committed so many vocal [...]

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One Cool Discovery and One Sad Discovery

November 10th, 2004 No Comments

Sad discovery goes first. Today, I dug up one of the song that I have lyrics completed back in Nov 12 with the first verse recorded. I wanted to finish the song especially the title of the song Emptiness does suit today’s mood. Once I have written the melody of the 2nd verse, I realised [...]

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