Anyway, ang kanta ngayon ay isang kanta ni DECO*27, at…hmm…naaalala ko kung paano ko tinatrato ang sarili ko noong kamakailan lang…tulad nga ng sabi ko sa description ng mga video uploads ng cover na ito: Parang masyadong dedicated ako dito, ah?
Well, hanggang dito na muna ang usapan tungkol diyan. Parang may kulang sa akin kung pag-uusapan ko ng mas detalyado ang mga efforts ko sa paggawa ng cover na ito at iba pa habang sinasakripisyo ng matindi ang kalusugan ko at iba pang mga mas mahalagang bagay kasi. Kailangan ko na muna mag-isip ng mabuti at makipag-usap sa mga mabuti…
One of the recurrent challenges posed by non-believers to Christians , or even by believers struggling with their faith is how can one believe in a good creator God when there is so much evil in the world. I can appreciate the depth of this challenge to faith when it is reported that each year there are 45 million abortions worldwide. It is also understandable that even Christians may well question why God does not somehow intervene and put an end to this carnage. Even the Apostles asked Jesus in the boat when a storm came up and he was asleep, “Do you not care that we are perishing!” So anyone can honestly question why God tolerates such massive evils in His creation.
Now the response of the believing Christian when confronted with such massive evil has to begin from two firm beliefs based upon the…
Yeah, I had a considerable amount of impulse in me when I decided to produce this. Perhaps there’s some good in making music uploads more regular, but there are some other stuff that I want to work on, like some stories of mine. Of course, school, chores, and other responsibilities are there as well. Better keep it balanced, yo.
Anyway, working on this song cover involved me trying to sate my curiosity about how to sing the above song better than my previous uploaded attempt. As most of those recent curiosity moments have resulted, I ended up singing the song better with the instrumental in a different key (one semitone higher than the original key, in this case). As for mixing, I’d like to mention my observation regarding how my voice sounds clearer to my ears when I cut down on the 500-600 Hz frequencies. That’s just one step and not all the steps, though. I had struggles with maintaining a balance between the volume of the instrumental track and the volume of the vocal tracks, and I wonder about whether or not I put a little too much bass boosting into the main vocal track. My attempts at mastering the cover mixdown, with said mastering attempts often involving the use of a hard limiter, probably dealt with that issue somewhat, though.
Also, considering how my nose was feeling somewhat runny during the production days of this cover, I think I’ll be lessening my singing time and increasing my sleep time in the near future. Being lazy is bad, yeah, but being too busy is also bad, yo.
And now, here’s this cover’s mp3. And of course, honest constructive feedback is highly encouraged and will be highly appreciated, yo~
As my next uni semester starts with them classes, here’s me with my first song cover for the year 2017!
Also, yeah, I know that it’s a pretty sad song. I guess I needed to vent some immature thoughts out with style, yo. Like, they’re not as frequent as they were when I was younger, but I do have thoughts about running away from my problems from time to time. That, and I wanted to try singing something with this sort of emotional feel. Really, the orchestral arrangement adds to the emotional impact, if you ask me!
By the way, I know that the above song is not as popular as most of the songs that I’ve covered before, but I like it enough to cover it, yo! If you’d like to check out Mcki’s other works, then here’s a link to her YouTube Channel, yo! \(^o^)
Oh, and yes, my voice broke at one point there. One part of me thinks it sucks, considering how bad breaking voices can be, while another part of me thinks it fits with the song and its sadness. Well, with that, I’m looking forward to your honest constructive feedback some more now, dear listeners!
AS SOMEONE who wrote about 25 full-length screenplays for various film projects and directors in another life between the late 1970s and early 2000s, I really should be more interested in the remarkable developments that have taken place since in local cinema, especially on the indie scene.
But I have to confess, with some guilt and shame, that I haven’t kept up with what our younger, post-Brocka and post-Bernal directors have produced, except for the occasional viewing of a Brillante Mendoza or a Lav Diaz film, or outstanding documentaries such as last year’s Curiosity, Adventure and Love and An Open Door: Jewish Rescue in the Philippines. There are some personal reasons for this estrangement (not worth getting into at this time), but I do realize that I’ve missed out on a lot of good material while bingeing unpatriotically on Hollywood and Netflix.
Forward past the border between 2016 and 2017, The Overlord Bear comes with a new song cover! It is that of Mafumafu’s “Yume no Mata Yume,” which is about a…certain summer’s end…but wait, it’s not summer right now, right? My response to that?
I LIVE IN A TROPICAL ZONE. IT FEELS LIKE SUMMER EVERYDAY HERE, YO.
Also, I’m amused by how the Niconico upload of this cover was posted hours ago in the last hours 2016, while the YouTube upload of this cover was posted in the early minutes of 2017 (though YouTube says that it was posted on 2016, so yeah, I guess I’m being nitpicky about that, but still, processing finished during 2017, so…okay, I guess I should shut up about this soon…) Thinking about that makes me think about the possibility of mystical nuttiness being involved in such a setup, hahaha…
Now, as for my thoughts on working on this cover…well, I honestly feel somewhat weirded out by my audio engineering here. Maybe I added too much reverb? Maybe I cut and boosted the wrong frequencies? Maybe there’s something I’m missing in the way I work with my mic during recording? Well, you can say that I’ve been experimenting there, and I really really want to get some honest constructive feedback on it, indeed, particularly from peeps who have a better grasp on audio engineering. That, and the doubt had been coming along with listening to audio engineering work by Mafumafu and other musicians who are at his level or higher when it comes to that aspect. Still, no point in rushing stuff, so yeah, better not go overboard with waiting for the feedback I need and all.
Penman for Monday, January 9, 2017
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