Sungha Jung

I love Youtube and I don't think I can ever get enough of it. An IT project got me to sign up as a user and since then, I've been subscribing to channels after channels after channels (you should get what I mean by now).


And one of the most recent channel that I've subscribed to, is by a 13 year old Korean teenagers, who uploads videos of himself while performing songs using 'Fingerstyle'.


Sungha Jung never seems to utter a single word in his videos yet with his acoustic guitar, he is able to make the songs come to life with the quick yet smooth rhythm of his fingers that simple shows how effortless he does it.


I bet you have no idea as to what I just said, so just take a look at these videos and you'll see why I'm amazed at his talents.


Two of my favourites:

Hotel California - Eagles

More Than Words - Extreme

What's so special about 'Fingerstyle' (to me) is that it allows the person to play the entire song, including the part that is usually sung. It also makes it seem as though 2 or 3 persons are strumming the guitar when in fact, it is only him alone. It is no easy task in learning the 'Fingerstyle' technique but you can Click Here to enter Ulli Boegershausen's channel as he had a tab of uploaded videos that teach the basics of 'Fingerstyle'. I've seen some of his videos as well, and he's just as awesome as Sungha Jung.

Two of my favourites:

Besame Mucho

One of Us

Or you can Click Here to get to Sungha Jung's channel to watch more of his videos!

Now I wanna' learn to play the guitar too!



Till then

School's in, Life's out

It's actually a long time since I last blogged about my daily life. I'm sure many wouldn't want to bother about it, and so, here's a quick one.

School started, and term 3 is going to be a task to prove to ourselves and others that we are capable of overcoming the challenge, which is of course, the big O's.

Everyone around me seems more engaged in their work, and I am too, driven to compete with them. Hopefully, my class can work together in supporting each other to strive hard.

English class has been the greatest class to attend, as always. My teacher actually told us that brushing our teeth with salt and rough coffee powder, could actually clean and whiten your teeth. I'm curious if it'll work, and I'll definitely try it out during the weekends. But the funny thing was, she said that after telling us this, she want us to NOT try it at home, and not tell our parents that it's taught by her. hahah.


Anyway, I've been having Dreams and deja vu lately, and some seems pretty unpleasant. But one of the dream left me drooling on bed. It's none other than GUITAR HERO 3!!! Watch the video below.




Nice right? It looks so fun! I want one!!

Anyway, I youtube-ed further and found some incredible songs to play on Guitar Hero 3. It's really unbelievable that there's actually a song like that to play!

Watch:







The last one was total madness!

Speaking of guitars, I found a video of a guy playing superbly well. I'm not sure what song it was, and if you do, tag me!





And lastly before I leave, I'd like to show you guys a video. Hopefully I can try it out too!

enjoy!

Music Talent

I have been blog hopping and realised that every ones' talking about exams. From how it started off,to how it ended, or countdowns or something like that. Well, to make it different, i won't talk about exams here. Although A maths is the last paper on Monday, like whatever yeah?

What I am excited about is actually after the exams. No, I'm not going overseas or go on a shopping spree. I'm actually going to enrolled in a music class!
My mom has surprisingly approved of me taking up a music instrument again. Yes, again.

See, when i was young and was in primary school, i used to play the er hu.



And yes, i was in Chinese orchestra. I never sat in the front row before because in the string section, only the captains got the first row. I got the second row. Hoho. What i loved about the er hu was that it could play all kinds of songs. I loved the oldies Chinese songs where the rhythm were fast-paced and soothing to the ears. The er hu could also play English songs, especially Christmas songs.

I never really got to complete learning the er hu because i was plain lazy, not wanting to go for the lessons and all, but i still did manage to catch up with what the rest were learning.

But somehow after primary 4, i totally backed out of it. Because i was enrolled at causeway point's music school, learning the organ.




I was enrolled in both the Chinese orchestra and organ class at the same age. But my heart took me away from Chinese orchestra and closer to organ. I managed to jump a grade or two when i was taking the grading exams. But I had to quit at 10 years old, because my parents couldn't afford the constant upgrading of the organ. I was sad and pissed off. But i realised that family comes first and self-recreation. And so i quit.

The urge to grab an instrument and start learning about it, came so often to my mind. And at the ripe age of 10, i was exposed to heavy metal music, where i grew fondly in love with the drums.



Drums are great instruments and are also important in a band because they provide the main rhythm and beat. Without the rhythm, no song can be sung, and no tune can be created, unless you're doing acapella.
And the thought of playing the drums by a female was hot. Hahaha, it was cool.

But my parents strongly disapproved and said that i could only take up drums when we shifted to a bungalow in a few years time. And so, i wait patiently.

BUT, aside from the drums, i always fell in love with the electric guitar.





They were cool but yet again, my parents disapproved of it and thus only allowed me to enrol myself for normal guitar lessons.



I am a little disappointed but at least i get to play a music instrument, like finally.

I'm sue this post is getting rather boring. And so, I'll end off with an interesting video.


HOW TO ESCAPE FART. Enjoy!