Some interesting sites...

It has been long long time since my last update to this blog, it's almost 10 months! Anyway... My video post to Facebook failed recently due to the video was using a copyrighted audio background, we used someone's song as the background music. So, to enable the upload, I tried to Google for free background music. My last choice would be using GarageBand's free loops. The return results was cool! There was a website that I can generate an mp3 with the length of music that I want, but... yeah, there's always a but. I was excited by the claim on the homepage. ...provides royalty free background music for any type of multimedia project... But as I tried it, it's not really as what stated in the homepage. So, I used GarageBand's free loops instead. Anyway, come across this website just now. The music provided here are FREE! The terms of usage is cool! If you are making $$ from your work that uses his music, you are request to donate a small part of the $$ ...

I was in the mood of “Drops of Jupiter” again. The actual meaning of the song, compare to what I used to comprehend quite different. You can go YouTube and check it out. This is not the web page that I would like to introduce in this post. :P From the YouTube clip of this song, I travelled to Billboard website. I was amazed that this song was in some of the charts for more than a year! I continue browsed the pages, and go to the chart page on that particular week, and I found another song that I loved so much, was on the chart for about 1 ½ year, and more than 2 years in some other chart! “If you’re gone”, by Matchbox Tweenty. OK, I was browsing this at work, so I can’t dig much further. For music lovers out there, I guess this is a great place for you to visit, to get to know latest songs, and also old songs. It’s coming with the video clip as well. You can listen to the song while checking out the album. You can also leave comments, and view review/comments on the same page. I think ...

I have been a student member to Lee Guitars right after my birthday this year. I heard his show over the radio, a daily 5 minutes sharing on Music topics. I added a link to its facebook, thus I am thinking of sharing this website with you today. :) Jonathan Lee (李宗盛) is a famous musician. He writes songs, he sings, and he makes guitars! This website basically introduces the guitar by Lee and also the radio shows on music classes that he conducted. He came to Penang last month, and too bad, it was too crowded, though I reached there around 5:30pm, but I left there just in time when he came. I blamed myself for reaching there too early. Else, I would have been in that restaurant watching him sharing in real person! I did blame for the restaurant personnel to bar me from entering the restaurant too. Should have told me there will be a queue numbering to go in for the session and dinner mah . :( I need to comment something about this web site structure. Firstly, it is using flash, thus it’...

My friend, Milky, sent me a link. We are so crazy of Cheer’s songs, and we kinda form a group to play and sing her song together. This website contains the guitar scores for Cheer’s songs! I have downloaded the zip files, and guess what?! This website owner even has the guitar strumming and guitar plucking quick reference in the zip file! This zip file is also having updates and patches just like a software tool! Currently, there are 61 guitar scores in the zip file. I have gone through the web page. Currently, there are 91 scores available for download, these excluding Cheer’s songs. They are well documented, and definitely a very good reference for music lovers likes me to learn and practice guitar. :) I just downloaded Richard Marx’s Now and Forever score. It’s a tab, without the lyrics and chords. Well, I might be “over-rated” the score and tab available here. But... but... aren’t these scores and tabs are fabulous? :D http://www.sau-leung.com/

Recently, I am into guitar again. Bought a capo today. Get motivated by this song: When I see you smile by Bic Runga, introduced by a friend of mine. Found the guitar chords for this song in C Key. However, the original key of the song is not in C key or G key, so I can’t learn and play along with the song. Finally I got my capo, but… The chords sound not so right. So I search for another guitar chords for this song, or better still if I can find a tabulate! Finally, I found something in Dsus2/C#, Bm7 and bla bla bla… :-s I just know a few general and common chords. I can’t do a transpose on these chords… :-s Then, I found this site! Great job to the site owner! I can easily find any chords with the variations on this site. Anyway, it would be even greater if it includes common A on G, or Dm7 on G or F on C… :D Hehehe… good for people like me don’t really care to (or know how to) count for the number of semitones to get the right “spot”. :P http://www.all-guitar-chords.com/index.php