What the F--- i didn't post anything since like mid-march or something, silly me. Well I haven't been doing much lately aside a few videogame composition demos which you can check here:
http://soundcloud.com/ferdk
and besides that I've been working today on a new video (finally!) which is from a NES game I loved so much when I was a kid! the songs are really awesome and I'm doing a medley of the first portion of the game, a few tunes of that section.
I'm still thinking what to do next but we'll see.
Short blog that is... not inspired -.-
Random thoughts of music, art, things, and life itself.
sábado, 9 de abril de 2011
miércoles, 16 de marzo de 2011
My YouTube Channel's story
I created my YouTube account on 08/08/2007, which is a loong time ago, but I created it just to comment on videos I liked. I think I uploaded my first vid on 2008, it was a really lame Pegasus Fantasy cover (Saint Seiya anime opening), the quality was terrible, the sound was from the camera, no mixing/mastering or anything, just the computer cheap speakers and my guitar clashing on top of it, and all that captured by a shitty camera mic.
I did a few more videos on the same format, shitty quality, no editing, etc. Some of them were covers from anime and some from this finnish metal band Nightwish. All of that got deleted from my account. Why, you ask? because those videos suck and I was an idiot to upload them in the first place =)
Then I started my Anime covers, the first one was Scramble!, the opening for School Rumble season 1. I was very proud of that one. This time I recorded line-in the computer so it wasn't as bad quality, although it was still bad.
From there I started making more and more Anime covers, doing my own backing tracks, one of my most popular arrangements was Lilium, the opening for Elfen Lied, and I personally love that one because is so different from the original, but I think I managed to retain the feeling of the piece to some extent. I redid it later on, when I got my Toneport GX and PODFarm. Better quality and did some more Anime covers, finishing the "season" with Death Note's opening The WORLD, by band Nightmare, from Japan. That one is my most viewed video with 33k+ views or something.
But I wasn't satisfied with the sound so I quit doing videos again.
By the end of last year I managed to reach an acceptable level of quality, to my standards. So I recorded Final Fantasy X's Battle Theme, and i'm proud of that one =) later i paid back to my loyal subscribers with another Anime cover, from DBZ, We Gotta Power, and then i ventured in this project called VGR.
VGR stands for Video Games Rock!, as you can see in the intro. This is basically my own versions of videogame songs, which I upload once a week (usually on wednesday). My plan with this was to give it a name, just for reminding me I have this kind of "responsability" to continue the series. Obviously i can't keep up with uploading a vid per week forever, so I planned to make these VGR in seasons. I haven't decided when to call it a full Season, but it will be somewhere 10-15 videos.
VGR was, i think, what i tried to do from the beginning but never really realized how. I found these cool YouTubers called FamilyJules7X and CSGuitar89, and they do videogame covers like I do now. So I decided I should try to do the same, with the games I like. Turns out I'm more motivated to do videos than ever, and that shows by having uploaded 8 consecutive 1-per-week videos, which is a personal record, and there's more to come.
It all boils down to combining my passion for music, with my passion for videogames. I don't want to get tired of this, so when I end the VGR Season 1, I'm gonna upload some other kind of videos a bit less frequently, while planning ahead VGR Season 2. I don't really know where's this going but, in all honesty, I don't really care, i'm really enjoying it so I'll go as far as I can =)
Join us in this adventure!
-Ferdk
I did a few more videos on the same format, shitty quality, no editing, etc. Some of them were covers from anime and some from this finnish metal band Nightwish. All of that got deleted from my account. Why, you ask? because those videos suck and I was an idiot to upload them in the first place =)
Then I started my Anime covers, the first one was Scramble!, the opening for School Rumble season 1. I was very proud of that one. This time I recorded line-in the computer so it wasn't as bad quality, although it was still bad.
From there I started making more and more Anime covers, doing my own backing tracks, one of my most popular arrangements was Lilium, the opening for Elfen Lied, and I personally love that one because is so different from the original, but I think I managed to retain the feeling of the piece to some extent. I redid it later on, when I got my Toneport GX and PODFarm. Better quality and did some more Anime covers, finishing the "season" with Death Note's opening The WORLD, by band Nightmare, from Japan. That one is my most viewed video with 33k+ views or something.
But I wasn't satisfied with the sound so I quit doing videos again.
By the end of last year I managed to reach an acceptable level of quality, to my standards. So I recorded Final Fantasy X's Battle Theme, and i'm proud of that one =) later i paid back to my loyal subscribers with another Anime cover, from DBZ, We Gotta Power, and then i ventured in this project called VGR.
VGR stands for Video Games Rock!, as you can see in the intro. This is basically my own versions of videogame songs, which I upload once a week (usually on wednesday). My plan with this was to give it a name, just for reminding me I have this kind of "responsability" to continue the series. Obviously i can't keep up with uploading a vid per week forever, so I planned to make these VGR in seasons. I haven't decided when to call it a full Season, but it will be somewhere 10-15 videos.
VGR was, i think, what i tried to do from the beginning but never really realized how. I found these cool YouTubers called FamilyJules7X and CSGuitar89, and they do videogame covers like I do now. So I decided I should try to do the same, with the games I like. Turns out I'm more motivated to do videos than ever, and that shows by having uploaded 8 consecutive 1-per-week videos, which is a personal record, and there's more to come.
It all boils down to combining my passion for music, with my passion for videogames. I don't want to get tired of this, so when I end the VGR Season 1, I'm gonna upload some other kind of videos a bit less frequently, while planning ahead VGR Season 2. I don't really know where's this going but, in all honesty, I don't really care, i'm really enjoying it so I'll go as far as I can =)
Join us in this adventure!
-Ferdk
Nightly update 10
D'aaawwwww today I released VGR#8 which is Pain The Universe, one of the boss battle themes from the game Legend of Mana, I friggin love that game!!!! I hope my take on the theme was good enough for all the fans, so far people are receiving it pretty well and even recommending more songs from the game ^^
Unfortunately if I get stuck covering just one game's OST there's no point of "VideoGames Rock" so I won't really repeat the same game in consecutive videos, but I might cover some other songs from the game in the future =)
VGR#9 is going so fluently it scares me, it almost covered itself, maybe because the song is so damn kickass i've got inspired by it ^^
I think i'm going to play FF7 a bit more since i haven't played in a few days, i'm about to go to the Temple of the Ancients =)
Also planning cool things for the future, hope you like all the stuff that's coming our way =D
Oh btw my channel is raising quite fast on the Argentinian YouTube ranks for the Musicians category, currently on #77, i entered the top 100 about 2 weeks ago and its going amazingly fast!! That is thanks to all of you for supporting me and subscribing!! Let's keep on doing this and I promise I'll try to pay you back doing better videos everytime =)
I'll make a post about how i started doing YouTube vids and how it progressed so, this is it for our nightly report =)
Unfortunately if I get stuck covering just one game's OST there's no point of "VideoGames Rock" so I won't really repeat the same game in consecutive videos, but I might cover some other songs from the game in the future =)
VGR#9 is going so fluently it scares me, it almost covered itself, maybe because the song is so damn kickass i've got inspired by it ^^
I think i'm going to play FF7 a bit more since i haven't played in a few days, i'm about to go to the Temple of the Ancients =)
Also planning cool things for the future, hope you like all the stuff that's coming our way =D
Oh btw my channel is raising quite fast on the Argentinian YouTube ranks for the Musicians category, currently on #77, i entered the top 100 about 2 weeks ago and its going amazingly fast!! That is thanks to all of you for supporting me and subscribing!! Let's keep on doing this and I promise I'll try to pay you back doing better videos everytime =)
I'll make a post about how i started doing YouTube vids and how it progressed so, this is it for our nightly report =)
martes, 15 de marzo de 2011
Nightly update 9
Yay today i worked on VGR#9!! And i'm so excited about it!! its looking pretty good so far, just started with some of the arrangements and a few minor test recordings to see how it sounds with everything in place. VGR#8 is finished and it'll be uploaed tomorrow =) I'm really excited about it too because that game is one of my favorite games and it isn't as popular as, for example, Final Fantasy games. Its from the same developers though, Legend of Mana for the PS1 by Squaresoft.
I'm planning on making a special release when i finish VGR Season 1, probably will plan a special cover for the Season Finale, and release the full album with old tracks remastered on bandcamp, plus some bonus tracks =)
Oh before i forgot, about the 1000 subs special video, i'm sorry to say but i cancelled it =P I couldn't find the time to do it and couldn't really work on what i had planned, so until i can get what's necessary to do a special video (read = live in a place with less noise so my voice is heard when talking to a camera) you'll have to wait. I'll sync it with a good subs number. Maybe for 2000 subs, or 5000 =P
Going to bed right now, I'll try to make a special post tomorrow on this blog. Will think about the subject while sleeping ;)
I'm planning on making a special release when i finish VGR Season 1, probably will plan a special cover for the Season Finale, and release the full album with old tracks remastered on bandcamp, plus some bonus tracks =)
Oh before i forgot, about the 1000 subs special video, i'm sorry to say but i cancelled it =P I couldn't find the time to do it and couldn't really work on what i had planned, so until i can get what's necessary to do a special video (read = live in a place with less noise so my voice is heard when talking to a camera) you'll have to wait. I'll sync it with a good subs number. Maybe for 2000 subs, or 5000 =P
Going to bed right now, I'll try to make a special post tomorrow on this blog. Will think about the subject while sleeping ;)
lunes, 14 de marzo de 2011
Nightly update 8
Wow its been a long time since one of these (or since a new post at all). I finished the VGR#8 song, and almost got the video done, it will be up on wednesday as i've been doing lately, exciting news are on the way so i gotta give my best for some new projects =) I'm also a bit impatient of some side projects i have that I couldn't release yet, but i guess it will be when it has to be, no need to rush it.
I'm trying to get the suggestions list working, so I'm probably tackling one of those for the next video, its a bit hard to pick and time flies, if i want to keep up with a schedule i'd better decide quickly. I have one in mind but i'll probably look into it tomorrow, i'm tired since i couldn't sleep at all last night due to some weird pain in my arm. I'm ok now so time to get some sleep =)
See ya!
I'm trying to get the suggestions list working, so I'm probably tackling one of those for the next video, its a bit hard to pick and time flies, if i want to keep up with a schedule i'd better decide quickly. I have one in mind but i'll probably look into it tomorrow, i'm tired since i couldn't sleep at all last night due to some weird pain in my arm. I'm ok now so time to get some sleep =)
See ya!
domingo, 6 de marzo de 2011
Nightly update 7
Nighttime again. So i've been mixing the VGR#7 cover, you know the longest video i ever made? and anticipated? well now i hate it. I'm hating the sound, the mix, the master, etc. I'm working around it but didn't get any good results yet.
The video is done, with all the intro and outro stuff its 10:00 exactly. I'm cool with the arrangement, somewhat cool with the playing (could've been better) but the mix is killing me. I was fine 'til today, and now relistening to it makes me wanna puke. I hate when this happens, specially when it happens close to the day i'm planning on releasing it (wednesday). Tomorrow my vacations are officially over so that's a turn off as well.
Overall a pretty crappy day but nothing really that bad aside realizing how much this mix sucks. Boring day, yesterday i saw Inception which was pretty awesome movie, with a killer soundtrack. Zimmer never ceases to amaze me.
So that's about it, short update this time. See ya around!
-Ferdk
The video is done, with all the intro and outro stuff its 10:00 exactly. I'm cool with the arrangement, somewhat cool with the playing (could've been better) but the mix is killing me. I was fine 'til today, and now relistening to it makes me wanna puke. I hate when this happens, specially when it happens close to the day i'm planning on releasing it (wednesday). Tomorrow my vacations are officially over so that's a turn off as well.
Overall a pretty crappy day but nothing really that bad aside realizing how much this mix sucks. Boring day, yesterday i saw Inception which was pretty awesome movie, with a killer soundtrack. Zimmer never ceases to amaze me.
So that's about it, short update this time. See ya around!
-Ferdk
jueves, 3 de marzo de 2011
Natural Talent... "Gifted" People...
What do you think of that? You know when someone says "you have a gift", or "he's talented". My opinion is such thing doesn't exist. There's people who work hard for what they like, and people who don't. That's basically it. Those talented people outthere had to work their asses off to be there, i think its even unfair to say they were born with the talent, its like saying they didn't work for it, they just got it from mother nature. Its true there's some people who find certain aspects in life easier than others, but still, you won't get anywhere with just that. You have to work on it as much as everyone else.
I'm not really good at particularly anything, specially at guitar. Its something i had to work on for a long time, and you can find people who played for 5 years who are a thousand times better players than me. But its something that doesn't really bother me. I play guitar because that's the instrument i chose to play music. My real passion is music itself, i don't plan to become a successful or famous guitar player, i'd like to be a good musician someday.
What do you like? are you working on it? If not, then you should reconsider it. There's nothing stopping you, you just gotta go for it. Put a lot of work on it and it will eventually pay off. Trust me, if you work hard on something, you can be as good as anybody. We're all human beings. I can asure you that you can be as good guitar player as a pro, like Steve Vai, if you work on it hard enough.
You can be as good as you want.You just gotta find what do you want to be good at, what is your passion, and work on it no matter what. That is the key to success.
Hope you find your path, and if you already did, keep going forward!
-Ferdk
I'm not really good at particularly anything, specially at guitar. Its something i had to work on for a long time, and you can find people who played for 5 years who are a thousand times better players than me. But its something that doesn't really bother me. I play guitar because that's the instrument i chose to play music. My real passion is music itself, i don't plan to become a successful or famous guitar player, i'd like to be a good musician someday.
What do you like? are you working on it? If not, then you should reconsider it. There's nothing stopping you, you just gotta go for it. Put a lot of work on it and it will eventually pay off. Trust me, if you work hard on something, you can be as good as anybody. We're all human beings. I can asure you that you can be as good guitar player as a pro, like Steve Vai, if you work on it hard enough.
You can be as good as you want.You just gotta find what do you want to be good at, what is your passion, and work on it no matter what. That is the key to success.
Hope you find your path, and if you already did, keep going forward!
-Ferdk
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