Author: Ty

New Song Added – Maging Sino Ka Man

July 8, 2012April 29, 2018 ·

Alright. I came up with this one.

It’s an old Filipino Classic and definitely one of my favourites.

Maging Sino Ka Man, by Mr. Rey Valera.
The literal translation would me “Whomever you may be.”

The song’s message is
“I would love you whomever you may be.
I don’t care what your past was,
and whatever anyone says is not important.”

I just used some backing drums from a Midi file I found
and I replaced the acoustic guitar with piano,
and the solo Saxophone as solo electric guitar.
I like how that one turned out.
Gave it a bit of a “Rock feel.”

I can’t do anything with the vocals though.
That’s what I came up with after a good 39 takes.
That’s just gonna be as good as it gets.

So here’s Maging Sino Ka Man
Music by – Rey Valera
Cover by – Ty Martell

Hope you like this one.

Lyrics Start Here
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I can’t decide

July 7, 2012July 7, 2012 ·

I want to play a song and record it.
This weekend.

I just can’t decide.

I can’t decide on what song to cover.
I can’t decide if it’s just music or with video.
I can’t decide on what genre to try.
I can’t decide if it’s all instrumental
or if I would sing too.

I can’t decide on which of my guitars I should use.
Or if I would add keyboards.

Should I try to do a song just with voices?
I have never done an A Capella.
I wanted to do one before,
but I couldn’t decide which one.

Should I do a fast song,
or a mellow one?

What do you think?

I don’t know.
I can’t decide.
All these decisions are making me hungry.

I would go take a break and get me something to eat.
But, I can’t decide on that one too.

Big Bro.

July 6, 2012 ·

Happy Birthday, Big Brother.

Much Love from all of us.

Sound Advice

July 5, 2012July 5, 2012 · 2 Comments ·

An addition from the last post.

Here’s a tweet reply from Music Artist Kina Grannis.

Yeah, I like being on the Tweetie.
Because of stuff like this.
People whom you’ve never met, take some time from their life
to respond to random strangers,
and without them fully knowing how it helps the other person.

I should follow her advice, eh?
She’s very good at this song writing thing.
She knows what she’s talking about.

Check out her album and you would see how amazing she is.

Oh and thanks to my friend Jojo Ellis
for introducing Kina‘s music to me.

Song Writing

July 5, 2012July 5, 2012 ·

One thing I’ve never really spent much time on
is song writing.

I have always been fascinated with musical instruments.
How they blend together.
How they can be used to carefully modify songs that we know.
I like arranging them into one big musical chorus.

I have never dabbled much on song writing.
I tried. Once or twice.
But I have always been spoiled with other people
who can easily write songs and give them to me.
Then I can arrange the music or at least suggest how it should come about.

I may have an idea on how the plot of the song might be,
but I just always end up going in tangents and lose my focus to actually complete it.
Most of the time, I just get angry. Or sad.
That I just leave the whole idea and just play.

It must be so nice for these artists who can just sit down and write songs
like it’s just a normal thing to do.

I would like to be one of those someday.
I want to work at it.
And not just depend on other people’s work and ideas.

I was going through my song archives under the Originals Category,
and I came across again with one original song that me and my friends did,
and I am mighty proud of it.

It was really an idea I always had, and I pitched it to my friends, Raymund and Melvin,
and one day, I came home and they told me they worked on it.
Had the words done and a starting melody.

We worked on it, and before the day ended,
we had this song done and we started jamming.

This one is called,
If I Don’t Have You.

Play

Stop

Pop Out

Maybe someday, I will get the inspiration I need,
or the heartache I may experience,
to sit down and start writing words
and could eventually turn into music.

Song Lyrics start here.
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Video Recording

July 5, 2012July 5, 2012 ·

One of the things that annoy me when I make Video Song Covers
is that I cannot, for the life of me, get a good angle or set up.

I have already accepted the fact
that I cannot make my appearance any better,
but at the very least, I could try to make the scene interesting.
I am also not good at that.

That last cover I did for Father’s Day was actually a Video one,
but I decided on not to go with it
and it all ended up in my trash bin.
I just ripped the music out and played with it.

My point to all of this is,
I need to learn some of this Video editing stuff on this Mac.
I am slowly learning the Music Editing bit, so that’s good.
But this video editing has to make me look at least, half way decent.
I may need more help than I thought.

Yeah that’s me trying to record that Father and Son song.
Don’t be scared.
That’s just how it is.

I am sorry.
I should have warned you with some Health and Safety Precautions first.

Check out my Youtube Channel for videos.

Happy 4th!

July 4, 2012 ·

I read somewhere, (Of course I can’t remember),
that the reason why Americans raise and wave their flags so high
is because they worked so hard for their freedom
and they always take it to heart.

Do not take it for granted, folks.
This may be our last.

Happy Independence Day to all.