After I complete the final touches of the “Ritchie Valens” tribute video today, I’m also planning on making a small teaser video to show you a small preview of each song on it. I think a teaser video is a good idea so it’ll help get people excited about it and to help create a buzz about the tribute video. I’m gonna work on that today. I would like this tribute video to be BIG and I’m gonna try to promote it pretty heavily.
Kev
I love oldies music in the 50’s. I grew up listening to that stuff as a kid and still do to this day sometimes. After this Ritchie Valens tribute, I would like to do more 50’s rock n’ roll. I would like to do some Chuck Berry, Bill Haley and The Comets, Chubby Checker “The Twist”, early Beatles, I’d like to sing “Earth Angel” and maybe even “Unchained Melody”. I think this style of music fits me best.
I would like to try and write original songs in that style. Bring the 50’s style into my songwriting. As a matter of fact, I’ve already written two originals in that style a little bit. Remember, “Leave This Place” and “Speak A Little Loudly”?? Those two songs were kind of 50’s/60’s like a little bit. I’d like to write more songs like that and am working on it. That’s kind of the direction I wanna head to in my songwriting.
I’m tired of musicians writing music as if they’re trying to show off how great they are and one important thing they’re forgetting is the music. That gets neglected more than anything. That’s what I’m focused on, the music and the art part of it. The songs needs passion and more heart into it and that’s what a lot of songwriters don’t put into. That has always been my only goal. Feeling the music. If you don’t feel it, then other people won’t take you seriously. End of story.
Kev
Welp, the big news all day is that Justin Bieber have been arrested this morning for drag racing while drunk on alcohol and resisting arrest from the cops. Sure enough, mixed feelings and reactions toward this on the internet. The haters get all excited and begging him to get deported back to Canada — the Beliebers whine about it and sure enough, they want him freed. He is freed of bail for now.
It’s obvious Bieber started drinking at a very young age. He’s 19 and I’m sure he started even younger. Most adults start the drinking, and hard partying at a young age. I started drinking and partying at a young age too but NOT too young. I started partying hard at 18 so I got into it pretty late. I don’t party hard anymore ’cause it’s boring, stupid, and I needed to get out of it.
With all this trouble Bieber has been getting into (the egg throwing, pissing in public places, being carried on the shoulders of his bodyguard on the Great Wall of China, etc.), I think this is just Bieber trying to act like a teenager. Most teenagers these days can be like this and Justin just wants to try and live that life and have fun. I understand he’s the world’s most famous pop star and he’s trying to enjoy it as much as he can but he better be careful with his fame.
When Bieber rose to fame over youtube as a young child, everyone thought he was this lovable child who thought that he would be something but now that he’s older and more famous, he’s being looked at in a negative way. It’s just that Justin’s ego is getting way out of hand. I think Justin’s ego is worse than Kanye’s. The smile in the mugshot really shows it too.
I understand Biebs wants to enjoy the fame and fortune but he must be careful or he’ll end up like Paul Walker. I bet Justin’s father, Jeremy is scared to death and worried about him right now. I wouldn’t exactly blame all this on Jeremy and bad parenting, though. Justin’s getting in trouble ’cause fame and fortune will do that to you. Fame will kill you and ruin your life easily. That’s what happened to Michael Jackson and actors like Heath Ledger.
If you think fame is cool then you need to think twice. There’s nothing cool about fame. I don’t think I’d want it.
I used to have no problem with Bieber until now and I agree, deport him back to Canada.
Kev
I spent the afternoon editing my “Ritchie Valens” tribute video. I am really proud and happy with this one. Chances are, I think a lot of other people may like it too. I just kept videotaping myself performing the songs over and over again until I was happy with the take. The video is about 9:46 long. It’ll have 4 of Ritchie’s most famous songs. I figured out a way to add guitar solos and back-up vocals for my movie edit software. I’ll just use my USB microphone and overdub that stuff with audio. You can do that in that software and works nicely! Just added guitar solos to “La Bamba”. Still need to add a guitar solo to “Come On Lets Go” and back up vocals to “Donna” which I will do all that stuff tomorrow. I want to take a break from this now.
I think my singing has improved greatly and I’m proud. I used to never take vocals seriously and think the voice in music was unimportant but now I disagree. I take singing very seriously now and I’m sure you can tell! I wanna become a great singer as well as a great guitar player.
Can’t wait for you to hear this tribute video on Feb. 3rd. I’ll get the video uploaded first thing early in that morning.
Kev
I figured out the problem of my “Movie Edit Pro Software”. There was nothing wrong with the software but there was something wrong with the USB port on the front of the system unit. So I plugged the video camera in one of the USB ports in the back of the system unit. My computer has a lot of USB ports and one of the USB ports in the front was bad. So I had to use one of the back ones. Since I used one of the USB ports in the back of the system unit, the CPU went straight up to %100 and the video plays perfectly fine! The way it should be. I knew it had to be an easy fixed.
Don’t you hate that shit? After all that googling and trying to figure things out, it ends up being an easy fix.
Glad I got the youtube choppy issue fixed as well. Now that I got all of these taken care of… now I can get back to editing and recording!
Kev
So this morning, I decided to uninstall Chrome and go back to Firefox. Seems that the playback in youtube works like a charm so I guess I’ll have to stick with FF browser instead of Chrome. FlashPlayer works better with FF. Chrome was a horrible browser anyway.
However, I’m still having choppy/lagging issues in Magix Movie Edit Pro 16 in the playback which I’m still trying to figure it out as well. I’m doing all kinds of googling trying to find a solution and trying everything I can. I’ll figure it out, though. It’s probably an easy fix, anyway, I just gotta figure out what it is.
Kev
I’m having playback issues with youtube and my Magix Movie edit software. Can’t figure out what it is. I tried everything. Going through instructions with forums online. Tried disabling the pepper flash in the plug-ins menu on Chrome, tried disabling the Hardware acceleration, etc. Nothing. My computer has plenty of memory. CPU should be okay. Not sure what to do at all.
I’m still doing all I can to fix the problem. Adobe flash player is garbage. Sick of the updates and the technical issues that goes with it.
I would like to get this fixed so I can work on that Valens tribute video.
Kev
To raise money for an after-school program, Arnold disguises himself as Howard Klein, manager of Gold’s Gym for a day in Venice, California. He would walk around meeting members of Gold’s Gym by training them, giving them advice, teaching them workouts, etc. Although, Arnold does a good job at not getting recognized… he still fails at it though ’cause of his speaking voice. Even if Arnold tries to go anonymous, you can tell everyone in the video knows it’s him. Especially the first lady on the treadmill who appeared in the video. Her reaction to him was funny… guess she got a bit too star-struck.
If Arnold walked up to me telling me I was doing a workout wrong, I would have been star-strucked too! I would have stopped my work-out, gave him a big hug and thank him for the inspiration.
Check out the video here.
Kev
Love Ted Cruz or hate him. You can’t deny that he’s exactly right. Admit it now!
During the Obama administration that’s all they have been doing is protecting themselves instead of America. Why do you think nobody wants to believe that they were behind Benghazi, Operation: F&F, birth certificate, etc.???
They’ll never admit their wrongdoings no matter the situation. The Obama administration is the most corrupt president administration in history. This administration is never apologetic. They always play the innocent victim.
When will we ever get a good president who loves this country and wants to make us better? I’m tired of these power hungry animals who think it’s okay to bring us down.
Obama should have been impeached and arrested a long time ago.
Kev
I don’t think I’ll bother doing, “Ooh my head”, the Ritchie Valens tune. I think I will make the tribute a medley just like I did with the Buddy Holly one. For the Ritchie Valens tribute, I’ll just leave it as 4 songs ’cause I don’t want to make the video too long. I’m going to work on video taping myself performing: “Come On Lets Go” and “We Belong Together” today. After that, I’ll start editing the video together. This is gonna be a special tribute and I think everyone is gonna like this one. Hopefully, this will be the video that WILL get a lot of views. I’m trying to do my best to make the singing really good.
Kev
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