Golden Week is one of the long Japanese Holidays, that means I stay home to avoid the crowds. Make music + comics and consider doing something in one of our other hobbies.
Did this COVERS MY WAY MUSIC+COMIC, reusing a music cover I used previously, this morning. I don't do many covers, and consider the time better spent making something original, that I own and can do whatever I want with.
But when I do "do" a cover, I don't try and copy the original very closely. A sound alike in my style is what I am after. Metal guitar tones, power chords and monophonic lines is what I will do.
Not all think the way I do though.
I was reading something about customers playing popular riffs in a music shop and shop staff demanding it be played exactly like the original or not at all. I guess with a lack of imagination like that, working in a music store is all they maybe able to manage and may not move on to doing something striking themselves.
I don't consider myself much of a musician though, and all I do is rather simple. Musical Cartoonist is apt. I do want to do original stuff though, and consider this STORY SHAPED BEATS to be one I like most recently.
It has an unusual word salad approach to lyrics as well as the song structure itself and the arrangement of synths and heavy guitars. I like it!
I was watching a video The Problem with Music | The Aspiration Expectation.
That video is a love letter to doing what you like to do and not worrying about what anyone else thinks, or even being good at it!
I agree with everything he goes on about. What is it about making music that many think, unlike for example building a spaceship model, you need to try and be making a living from it and your doing something wrong if you haven't joined all the composers organizations, created a record label, pay all the fees to register all the music you make and release it professionally?
Making this ALIENS: SULACO spaceship model here is also one of my other hobbies.
It has been made with the proper tools, and painted with an Airbrush, and so looks pretty good. Still just a hobby though, even if done to an almost "professional level".
I even did this more pro original design for my own multi media productions.
So, my own original music is probably some of the least professional stuff I do!
Expect the Bluray of Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! to arrive at the end of the week. It is an award winning "kids" anime, and was interested to see Elis Costello write this in THE GUARDIAN about it after watching it with his son:
A Japanese series about three girls negotiating petty school bureaucracy to protect their anime club. Each girl balances a skill with a social burden:
the first, painfully shy but brilliantly imaginative;
the second, easy in her fame as teenage lifestyle-model;
the third, a cynical and almost sinister presence, is the business brain and necessary politician.
Each episode uses different layers of animation as the girls’ creations leap from the page into their life. The series in total is a tutorial about every component of film production, from storyboard to sound design. It also has a very cool theme song.
Elis Costello went on to collaborate with the duo in the Theme Song:
As used in Anime:
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