Technical Difficulties plus a cover

--EDIT-- Because of the below mentioned file difficulties, the two newest songs are not up, I'm aware they are not up and I'm working on a solution. If you have an awesome solution please tell me. I hate web media, maybe I will fix it one day, but I feel that it is the way it is for legal issues, and not people just trying to mess with me. Seriously, nothing out there is usable for my purposes.

So, Del.ico.ous was recently bought out. I learned the hard way because my blue square play buttons disappeared. I had been using code from them, and they are gone now, so... I had to search out a new player. I'm currently using Yahoo!'s Media Player. It appears to be working quite well, just let me know if you have any troubles with it. Also, Google decided to finally completely remove all contact with Google pages, forcing everyone to Google Sites. Well, the upload for files works much differently now, so I can't host my files there anymore. I'm working on getting everything onto dropbox for when they decide to delete everything related to Google pages. (As of now, my links still work, and it will be a pain to move them all).


As some of you may know, I've been watching My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic recently. Yes, season two just started two weeks ago, but here's a cover of a song from the first season called "Winter Wrap Up". Hopefully Brianna will come and redo some singing parts (most of them), because it will just be better, dare I use a cliche term, but they would in fact be 20% Cooler. Some girls from my floor might try to sing some parts too, which would be awesome. I have another cover under way, it just needs some editing done to it, it should actually be better than this one, just because the vocals are a little more in my range. I will post more about college later, because this post is already too long. So, keep checking back. I am blogging more now.

Winter Wrap Up (from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

I'm back

Hello everyone from Michigan State University! That's right, I'm in college now! Here's a song I recorded over the summer with melodica, guitar, some sweet, sweet bass and my brand new mandolin, which my little sister now dominates at. Hopefully some new guitar covers will go up after exams. I have two in line and maybe a song of my own. Keep checking back, this time I will post more!

New song!

Song that got in my head over the weekend

This song just moved in and made itself at home. Thank you very much Stephen Merrit.
So now I present to you Deep Sea Diving Boots (originally by The Magnetic Fields)

Moon

Threw this one together so quick it made my head spin. I'm glad exams are over. Here is a cover of the Spongmonkey's "We Like the Moon".

--EDIT--
It has come to my attention that this song was clipped! I fixed it and it should be better now. Thinking about doing another version of this song where I have lots of people singing it.

We Like the Moon (Originally by Joel Veitch of rathergood.com)

An Instrumental

This is an instrument with the guitar and melodica. The melodica is playing the vocal melody. This is something I wrote, but I can't get the lyrics to come together and I love the melody too much to just let it be. I hope you enjoy.
Guitar and Melodica

--EDIT--
In case you didn't know what a melodica was, here is a vid of me playing one, impromptu may I add. Camera work done by my good friend.

Christmas break=not as productive as predicted

Well unfortunately I was not able to record as much as I wanted this Christmas break, but it's not over quite yet so that could change. I got laden with homework in every subject except one. On a brighter note I got a melodica (keyboard harmonica) and a Beatles fingerpicking book for Christmas. These are both immensely cool and I'll have to do something with them.

I do have one cover for you, so here is a song to welcome in 2010.
Teenager In Love(originally by Dion)

Swimming in the Breeze

I have a new song, it was one of the requested titles, so without further ado
Swimming in the Breeze

Thank you very much, sender of that title, I hope you enjoy your song!!
I may be posting some pictures up later, we'll see what happens. I'm not sure if I'm entirely satisfied with them yet.

On a different note, if anyone wants to make videos for my songs, drumbeats for my songs, titles for my songs or wants to participate in a song, please contact me at musicalperegrinations@gmail.com. This is also good for getting tab or chord progressions for my songs, so you could play them if you would like.

A few more covers...

I recently found some good Beulah guitar tabs, so I did some of their songs as cover tunes. I also did a cover of "Seven Nation Army" because I figured out the bass line, and because it was fun. I've got three song requests and a song on the side that I am trying to write. To those that requested songs: Yes, they will be done, hopefully sooner rather than later. To all others: Please continue to provide song titles they are enormously awesome. Just know they may have a lower priority for a bit.

One more thing. I am looking for love songs, I may do covers of them, but mostly I just like listening to them.

Here are the songs:
Calm Go the Wild Seas (originally by Beulah)
Emma Blowgun's Last Stand (originally by Beulah)
Me and Jesus Don't Talk Anymore (originally by Beulah)
Seven Nation Army (originally by The White Stripes)

Hello all

I have another song. I also should have another one coming because I have a title to write for, but I haven't gotten to it yet. Well, here's the song!

-EDIT-
This song could use some sort of drums or beats. I was messing around with the preprogrammed beats on the BR, found one that was sorta neat, but didn't take it off the BR. The song was done at 120 with a metronome in 4/4. If you want more information on the tracks or the tracks themselves, email me and I'll send some stuff along.

Kisses

Song Title #2

The second request is here, sorry it took so long to process. Was a bit of a challenge. It's titled "Cord Law (& Music)" I'm also throwing another short, very simple one up called "Driftwood"

Cord Law (& Music)

Driftwood

First requested song, and some other songs

The first song title has come in. I have written the song for it. The title was "Get on the Flans Bus". I hope you all enjoy the song.

I also have two other songs that I have finally recorded, one is called "A Traveling Song" and the other is more of an experiment and is all vocals. It is titled "Hello..."

If you want to know the lyrics for any of my songs, just email me. Also keep the song titles rolling in, they are very helpful and I think they will progressively help my song writing skills. Well, here's the songs!


A Traveling Song
Hello...
Get on the Flans Bus

Comments Now Working

The comments now work, I'm sorry it took so long to get them working. There are several pages of options for this blog and I finally found the way to turn them on. So if you feel so inclined leave a comment. If you don't feel like leaving a comment, you can always email me at musicalperegrinations@gmail.com

Have a good day!

New Approach

I'm now offering a new approach to my musical endeavors. You supply the title and I write the song. Sort of like how explodingdog.com does illustrations for suggested titles. We might end up with some stuff like this http://tinysong.com/3E6x

Well it should be fun, I'll put up a gadget on the top of the blog stating some of the information and repeating the email address.

So, if you want a song written on a title that you provide, email me at musicalperegrinations@gmail.com

Cover Songs

I've had most of these songs for awhile, some of them are more recent. These are a few cover songs that I think turned out all right.
The Book of Love originally by the Magnetic Fields
Boa Constrictor originally by the Magnetic Fields
Busby Berkeley Dreams originally by the Magnetic Fields
I Don't Want to Get Over You originally by the Magnetic Fields
It's A Crime originally by the Magnetic Fields
Sweet Lovin' Man originally by the Magnetic Fields
The Girl from Ipanema, well-known Bossa Nova song
The Things We Did & Didn't Do originally by the Magnetic Fields
This Dance originally by Mirah
Billie originally by the Magnetic Fields
Come Back From San Francisco originally by the Magnetic Fields
Holland, 1945 originally by Neutral Milk Hotel


A lot of the covers are from the band "The Magnetic Fields". This is mostly due to the fact that there is a lovely site dedicated to guitar tab for this band. It can be found here

Now, on Jango airplay!

I have recently entered a drawing to win some equip and some major airplay on Jango. If you do not know what Jango is, let me explain. It is an internet radio, sort of like Pandora in the fact that you can choose several artists and it will try to play those artists or ones like it. It is a little more complicated than Pandora, and offers you more options and has a little bit of sociability to it. No idea if I'll win or not, but just for entering I got a hundred free plays on Jango.
So that's basically the exciting new info, if you want to try and help me get into general rotation, then you should make a Jango account, find me, play one of my songs and rate it! Thanks!!
Here's my link: http://www.jango.com/music/Annalin+Davis
Signing up is pretty easy, had an account there awhile myself, only an initiation email, and that's all.

+++EDIT+++
also, cool to note, if anyone wants to contact me about my music they can do so at musicalperegrinations@gmail.com

+++2nd EDIT+++
I have run out of free plays :( You might still be able to hear me though because I got into the general rotation!!! Thanks for all the help! power to ya!

New Gadgets

I have a few gadgets as some of you may have noticed. One is for some sites that I like, another is for my friend's etsy shop, she makes really cute earrings!!!! The last gadget is for some music, it's still pretty new, I'm not sure exactly what I'll be doing with it in the future, but right now it has a lot of songs from TMBG (They Might Be Giants)

Well, I hope you all are enjoying your summer, sorry for not posting any music in so long!!! I've got some things scheduled to go up, but for some odd reason they are not quite there yet. Thanks for staying with me!

just a quick link, for pet lovers.

For those of us who like to poke a little fun at our canine and feline friends, there is a pretty cool site out there at www.obeythepurebreed.com. So go check it out if that's your thing.

Just an update

Finals are here. They will soon be over! Hopefully music production can kick it up a notch when the finals are gone. Video production should also start up. If anyone has any ideas for a video, wants to be in a video, or just wants to lend a helping hand, it would all be very much appreciated. Send me an email saying how you want to help out, and I will be grateful unto you forever.

I may post some covers of songs up on this blog soon. Mostly Magnetic Fields, but a few other artists too.

I've been thinking of interning at a recording studio over the summer. I've looked over a lot of them and emailed a few of them, should be exciting.

Well, summer is almost here. Thanks for reading and have a good summer!

A Poem

I have to memorize a poem that is at least three minutes in length for my slam poetry class. I also had to write said poem. Here it is, it is titled "My Little Zombie" and I'm sorry it is not formatted.

You're a gazer, that freaks some people. Heck, it used to freak me, but my suspicions run deeper, all the way back to elementary school, where you were an object of weird, to be NOT associated with. It seemed to that it was your personal goal to be as annoying as possible at all times. You later confided this was true, well, to some extent. You always stuck out to me from all the other little kids running around. Yes, there were the video games, but then your extensive knowledge on war and military tactics, they made you an object of weird. In middle school you disappeared, out of my life, I never even noticed, I fell for someone's blue hazed eyes and forgot everything from any past I had. That transitional phase, those years almost wasted, only to be thrown into the sharp whirling wheels of high school. Lo and behold, there you are, and you stand out even more in the crowd. Tall, lanky, light, light blond hair, pale skin and eyes. You help make other gentler creatures a sight for sore eyes. You seem less than human, maybe not even human. You brush up against me and your fingers are icy, make me shudder and turn away. And when I feel that coldness, I realize what you are. You cheeky zombie of the dark. I shy away, I can't stand to look at you, never could. But you work away at me, at my hard exterior, you need to crack me open some way, some how, for whatever reason why, I don't know how the dead mind works. I can't be rude to you, but every attack and question is politely pushed aside, quietly stored away in the cellar of my brain. Puzzle pieces to be used to crack you open before you get me. But when I put the pieces together, they do not become the weapon I had hoped for, to beat your head in, spread you brains like jelly on the pavement. No, they open the door to a new world, where I am not myself but someone else, someone who has different views. And I am intrigued and disgusted at the same time. I quietly close the door, letting no one know what I've uncovered. I'm disgusted by that world but you keep softly nudging me to that door, you think I don't know what you're doing, so you still go slowly, so very slowly. There is no polite way to ask you to stop without revealing what I've learned. Tricksy zombie. Still I am intrigued. I watch you closely, more than before, but I don't change my behavior, at least I try not to. I begin to notice things that agree with the puzzle picture, little details and flourishes that perfectly fit into the image. And I cannot stand this any longer. I want to come to you and just throw the words out there, just to see if they're true, just to see how you'll react. Throw them out there so everyone can see this evil plot. I just want to stride up and challenge you, zombie. Cuz, I mean, you really do love me don't you?!? I want to spit that at you with disbelief laced in the sound waves. But that's not how we've played the game, and it's unfair to change the rules. Anyway, you don't mean me any harm, so why should I cause you discomfort? I start to lose my ground, til I have none left to stand on, and I am disconnected from my views, floating above them. Looking down on them, they don't make sense, so I turn around and open a door in the sky, walk through it into your arms. Of course it's not that simple, it took awhile, but I entered the other world. Where you are not an object of weird, but you are my little zombie. Well, not so little, you loom over me, but that gives me a sense of protection, because even if you are a zombie, you're my little zombie. I know little is not the correct word, but it sounds good, my little zombie. Because you are, in this world, my little zombie and I love you.

Fixing the Microphone

In Easter of 2008, I got a microphone, it had a very little output level. Now in the spring of '09, we have fixed this problem with a better cable and some new equipment. Hopefully this will give the songs a softer tone and increase the quality of the recordings. Very exciting stuff.