Author: Ty

Easter 2011 / New Song

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It has always been tradition for me
to make a worship song every Easter.

This is another one we used to sing back in High School.
And it was taken from the Scriptures.

Beatitudes
by Mike Balhoff

I had to remix it to make it slower.
For some reason, I always play it fast.

I hope you’ll like my version of it.
I can’t really do justice on how the other members of
our High School Combo Club play the other parts.

So here’s
Beatitudes.

Covered by Yours truly.

HAPPY EASTER!
The one true Christmas.

A Poem for Dad – by Kiel

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Today is my Dad’s Birthday.
And to greet him,
I want to post this Poem,
that my youngest brother, John Michael wrote.

Happy Birthday, Dad!
We miss you a lot.

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My dad taught me every thing
That I needed to know
But I never really listened
Until he had to go

He gave me love
And touched my life
Its all over now
He no longer has to fight

He tried to teach me
Right for wrong
The day he left
I wasn’t that strong

He is gone now
It is hard to believe
This man is my dad
Who I will never see

But I will see him again
This I know
The day will come
When its time for me to go

So, I’ll hold him dear
And close to my heart
Cause the day we meet
I know we’ll never be torn apart.
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JMAM
-April 21, 2011

Flashback Sunday

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Another Flashback.

This one is a cover of a Michael W. Smith song,
and one of my favourites as well.
I did this in 2006.

I had one of those moments like I feel I wasn’t being heard,
and my prayers were all going to waste.

I remember writing my original post,
and deleting them all.
I guess by the time I finished writing,
I have given myself an attitude adjustment.

I also remember feeling every single guitar note that came out of this.
It’s my personal weeping instrument.

Here’s
Place In This World

Music by Michael W. Smith
Voice and Guitars by – Yours Truly

Lyrics begin here:
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Pinoy Memories

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Tomorrow marks the 17th year
since I left the Philippines.

And as I think about all those years,
I started having an avalanche of memories
from when I used to live there.

Allow me to write them down
in no particular order,
as they flow through my own personal memory lane.

It’s quite a long read, so maybe you should think twice about it.

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Wishes On A Fountain

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After church, my son and I walked by a fountain on their grounds,
and he wanted to throw a coin in and make a wish.

So we got some coins in the car,
and had this conversation.

He said, “Okay Dad, we got two coins. One for me and one for you.”

“You can have my coin.” I answered.

He said.
“Why? Don’t you want to make a wish?”

Jokingly, I said. “It’s okay. You can have my wish.
Mine doesn’t always come true. Maybe it’ll come true with you.”

He insisted I throw my own coin and make my own wish.
I gave in.

So, we got to the fountain and he went first.
Closed his eyes.
Concentrated.
And threw the coin.
Then looks at me for my turn.

As I throw my coin, I said to him.
“I wish for your wish to come true.”

He screamed, “NO!”
“Why did you wish that, Dad?”

“Why not?” I asked.

He answered,
“Because that was my wish for you.”

That’s great.
Now we just cancelled each others wish out.
And we’re out of coins.

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Sweet kid though, huh?

Flashback Sunday

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I forget some of the songs I have covered sometimes,
and I only get reminded of it when my iPod hits them on shuffle mode.

Also, I am in the process of changing some of my gears and recording gadgets.
So, I’ll probably start making more as soon as that gets settled.

Anyway.
Here’s a Flashback of a song I covered a long time ago.
In 2007, as a matter of fact.
And I was reading my original post, and I saw that it was still when my dad used to
listen to my stuff and read my site, before he passed away.

This one is called
“Every Time I Look At You”
by KISS

Voice and Guitars by Ty Martell

A Classic KISS song.
I put a 12 string effect on my guitar
and improvised a Skid Row-esque lead on the solo.

Lyrics start here

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New Song Added – I Am But A Small Voice

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You have no idea how excited I am
to finally finish this song project.

I would like to introduce to you, Chanel.
She is the lovely daughter of my good friend, Anne.

I asked, Anne a long time ago that I would like to cover a song, and have a young girl sing it.
She recommended Chanel, who is kind enough to agree with my little plan.

I am very proud of this collaboration and
this is definitely one of my favourites as well.

It’s an old song from the Philippines, popularized by Ms. Lea Salonga.

Here is
I Am But A Small Voice

Voice provided by – Chanel Alcaraz.
All instruments and backing voice by – Ty Martell.

Thank you so much to Chanel, Anne and their families for being nice and supportive of me.
I truly appreciate it.

Check out Chanel’s Youtube page.

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Lyrics Start Here —
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New Feedback Form

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Well, apparently the Feedback section hasn’t been working properly
so I had to change a couple of stuff and am trying a new plugin.
I seem to like this one with a little anti spamming feature.

Not that I get a lot of feedbacks from that page.
I do once in a while, that’s why I never found out that something was wrong with it.

So, let’s give this one a try.

Song Video Post – I’ll Always Love You

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I wasn’t really planning on this one.
The one song I wanted to play didn’t really want to cooperate with me.
I played this one because it was on the next page of my songbook.

I know I promised not to do anymore videos for a while.
But what can I say?
Making these videos are not as time consuming.

Hopefully when I use Garageband for my song editing
it’ll be more easy and quick.
But I guess I have to get the iPad first huh?

Oh well.
This’ll do for now.

Here’s
I’ll Always Love You.
Music by Michael Johnson
Covered by – Yours Truly.