You may have noticed, if you’ve been following this blog, that I recently created seven music videos under the guise of “The Matic Music Videos.” YouTube’s got the whole mess of them. Ranging in subjects from Alaska to cooking turkey stroganoff to springing TiVos out of jail, they were a blast to make.
The final music video in my series “The Matic” is up on YouTube. For this final one, we take a tour of the coast. After living inland for several years, I often forget how nice the beach is. Seeing it just puts me in a better mood.
This is the seventh and final video in what has been a really enjoyable project. Look! I made a playlist for all seven videos.
I’m no movie-making expert, much like I’m not a music-making expert, but at least I’m more comfortable with iMovie now :-P If nothing else, I have some stats of who is listening to my music since it’s in the background of each video. Nebyoolae.com doesn’t quite have the same simple quality of reporting that YouTube.com does, so it’s given me some insight I didn’t have before. For those of you who watched, I thank you. Subsequent videos will be made, I’m sure, but I’m taking a break for now.
Another entry in the now-illustrious “The Matic” music video line is now up. This time it features a family cruise to Alaska. Starting in Vancouver, Canada, we shipped out to Ketchikan, Juneau, Skagway, and finally ended in Whittier, wherein my wife and I took a bus ride through a mountain to Anchorage.
The rest of the family went on to Fairbanks by way of a train through Denali National Park, but that story will have to be told another day by someone else!
“Alaska Yo Ho” features an upbeat, RPG-ish march called “King for a Weeknight” to accompany the scenic water, tree, and mountain viewscapes. Enjoy!
Everything is a little different at night, bathed in the pale moonlight or the stark streetlight.
In my latest video from the upcoming “The Matic” album we all take a little trip outside during the later hours. A tense soundtrack, self-titled, tries to draw you in while still putting you on edge at least a little.
Oh, no! The TiVos have been falsely accused of watching U-Verse and have been locked in the county jail. Fear not, though, for they have a plan.
Featuring more music from the upcoming “The Matic” release, “Mellifluous” is a cute, little suspense spy theme to accompany our favorite DVR mascots’ escape from imprisonment. Check it out!
Number three in an on-going series from my upcoming release “The Matic” is now on YouTube. It’s called “Stroganoff Delight” and it features a piece called “Seasoned Bedside Manner.”
The best part of making the video was eating the finished product.
My first “music video” — I wrote a piece of music and then shot some video to accompany it — is now up on YouTube. The piece behind it is called “In No Certain Words,” and will be available soon on this very website. Enjoy the vid!
2010 has been a productive musical year so far. And I couldn’t be happier. Getting around to finishing all of these musical ideas really makes me happy, and hopefully you enjoy listening.
A smattering of old ideas finally coming to fruition is what you’ll find in Frequent Dabbling. Check it out in the music section.
My entry for the RPM 2010 Challenge is complete! I invented a new “personality” for this project called Adversapolis. The album is self-titled because I couldn’t come up with anything else once I spent my creative juices on that.
The album of original music is about 42 minutes long, consists of 9 songs, and features me on the guitar, bass guitar, and vocals. The drums were sequenced, as usual. The genre is “Rock” or “Alternative Rock,” depending on your druthers. You can grab it from its very own domain, Adversapolis, for the next Time of Some Duration, which will then be succeeded by the Time Wherein It Gets Integrated Into Nebyoolae.com, As Well.
To make this sensible to non-people-who-have-been-working-on-a-piece-of-RB-DLC-for-several-weeks, I’ll say that the program that compiles all the audio and MIDI together finally got through its compilation with no errors.
Much progress, however ancillary, has been made tonight.
With help from Robyn, the vocal chart has been improved and should be pretty done. Also, I successfully added lyrics to each “note tube” (as Harmonix calls them), so when you try to sing, words will help guide you :P
It’s been a while, everybody, but I finally got back on track with everything.
Tonight has been quite productive! I got all the Bass charts done, as well as the animation for the drums, and some decent overdrive/fill spots for all the instruments. The animation for guitar/bass, as well as lighting/camera cues, are not done, but I’m thinking I might try running this thing without them, just to see if the thing works.
Tonight I tackled the guitar charts. I had already written a decent Expert chart, but it needed quite a bit of tweaking, mainly to make it flow better and to make sustained notes make more sense. Despite playing a LOT of Rock Band and Guitar Hero, there’s still some difficulty in making your own note charts to spec, no matter how many you’ve played.
Tonight, with the discovery of the custom keymaps and Rock Band preview plugin, I’ve gotten all the Drum charts done. The aforementioned preview plugin lets you see the notes you’ve charted, or “gems”, scroll down a “gem” highway much like in the game. It’s amazingly sweet to see this as it makes all my work seem like it’s been fo’ realz, ya’ll.
I didn’t think I’d get there, but Expert Guitar and Vocals are pretty done.
Vocals were quite the beast, mainly because I had NO guide as to what the notes are. Kathy just sang her melody atop her known chords and my known leads, but I never knew what notes she was actually singing. Well, when you need to make a MIDI chart of that, it’s all trial and error. Thanks to Robyn for helping me out with the first two verses and choruses.
I have completed a serviceable note chart for Expert Bass. Whew. I had less source material to go on, so I had to do more manual editing of notes than with drums (but not too much more).
Tomorrow, I aim to make a decent Expert Guitar chart, which will be both fun and challenging since I get to transcribe part of a rhythm guitar, lead guitar, AND solo guitar (wheeee!).
