Archive for December, 2006

Farewell Christmas, Welcome New Year! I hope you had a good time during the holidays. Celebrating Christmas kept me away from blogging, but now I’m back! And there’s lot to tell. I made some promises for Christmas, so I’ll be going back to those in the following posts. I also met a very good singer […]

I Got To Get Me One Of These!

Do you know that feeling when you meet an old friend? I was fortunate to meet some old friends during the holidays. It may sound akward, but one of my friends came through a Playstation box.
I used to play a lot with my guitar in the past. Somewhere on the way I kinda lost the […]

I like to make promises. To be honest, I LOVE making promises. It’s like creating a better future, since you usually promise to do good things. Needless to say, that reality strikes my face with a shovel every now and then. A promise that I haven’t kept is like a thorn in my spine (well, […]

Pit Stop: Get Your Gear Tuned!

I admire people, who can play the guitar and sing at the same time. I cannot do it, although I can walk and chew a gum simultaneously. Anyway, this is again a skill that can be learned by practicing. So what I’m going to do here is to practice Happy Birthday and I’m going sing […]

Idea That Marilyn Monroe Gave me

There’s no doubt, that the most famous version of Happy Birthday is sung by Marilyn Monroe. She performed this famous song at JFK’s 45th birthday with over 15,000 people celebrating the occasion. This sexy M.Monroe version gave me an idea. I’m not going to perform the song as she did it (she would turn around […]

New pages added

Last couple of days I’ve been busy writing 2 additional pages to this blog.
I added my personal information (author), so that you can get a better view of me and this blog. Check it out.
The other page is called “101 Songs”. Let me explain a bit. I once heard that a decent guitar player knows […]

Exercise #1: Singing On Pitch

OK, I made some research work and came up with a practical exercise. This is the most basic exercise there is, but I’ll start with it since it instantly works on my worst problem. So this exercise is called “singing on pitch”. When I was singing along with my favorite tunes, I sounded terrible. That’s […]

You are driving your car and listening to the radio. Suddenly you realise that the DJ is playing one of your your favorite songs! You start to nod your head with the catchy melody. You’re feeling excited, because this is just the song that you like to hear while driving. Just to get the kicks, […]