splintercell37

i think the chords for "so you can hurt, hurt me bad" aren't quite right, LOVE THE WHEELY CHAIR SPIN, and the rest of the chords seem pretty good! Not quite there yet, but keep working on your ear and you'll get it! Great work on the strumming and chord changes as well. Also, please check billy's thread about performing for my explanation about the QFT misunderstanding :D

OH WOW! I AM SOO SORRY! QFT = Quoted For Truth! I quoted your comment because I agreed with it! I had no idea there was another meaning! Please accept my humble apologies for this most unfortunate misunderstanding!!! O_O

edit: never mind!

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Try Eric Arceneaux on Youtube! I'm not sure how to spell his surname...i think his website is the Arceneaux Approach or such...he's the best online instructor I found, if a little verbose :P

WOW, that second link doesn't look like it's about singing LOL Honestly, getting singing lessons was the single best thing I could have done, I spent months trying to learn it online but until you have a person there telling you what you're doing wrong, you'll never know...I only went for ten lessons (all i could afford) and I improved exponentially :) edit: oh whee, 100 posts!

all professionals were beginners once. :) posted my feedback on the videos! oh, and welcome to the forums! :)

Folks here can be quick to the guns but don't let them discourage you, it takes great courage to put yourself out there like this and I think you guys have achieved a lot. There's definitely still a long way to go - refer to above comments! - but A for effort :)

I love The Writer, Starry Eyed and Guns and Roses...I mean, Horses... :P and her acoustic version of Wish I Stayed. Lights is pretty cool too (look up the Shook remix!) But I don't like how she dresses for some of her shows. She doesn't need to... :/

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-bNl82qqJs]‪Hurts like heaven by Coldplay (Cover)‬‏ - YouTube[/ame] will this help? (not my video!)

......are those the right chords...?

Well, here's a little something I wrote about a girl, I wouldn't mind hearing what you guys think? :) http://soundcloud.com/williamerasmus/the-sands-of-time

Whoops! I saw it before it was mainstream :P LOL Ignore my comments on the videos please...i didn't realise you'd just uploaded them! :D

OH LOL. :shocked2:

That brought a smile to my face and had my foot tapping. Loved it :)

I play piano, guitar, vocals, and the mixing board. (maybe not an instrument, but let's see you make an album without one! :P)

Haha, simple answer is that there is no simple answer. You do what works for you. What works for me is writing down snippets of ideas, or recording little tunes. I'll come up with a great line, like "Your eyes are a reflection of the sky" (just as a fairly stereotypical example) and write that down in a list of "things I came up with and wrote down". I once built an entire song out of these, and it is a darn good song if I do say so myself. (That said, this process is generally just a starting point, or a bouncing board for ideas, it's extremely rare to pull all the elements together!) Then I muck around on a guitar until I find something that sounds cool. Then, if they fit, I work on it. These two entirely separate processes come together and form a song. Conversely, some people - like Bon Iver or Jonsi, for example - like to write the music, and then just sing whatever seems to make sense or feels right, even if it doesn't actually make sense (For example, Perth: "I’m tearing up, across your face, move dust through the light, to find your name; it's something faint, this is not a place, not yet awake, I'm raised to make")! More recently I start with a chord, or a chord progression, or just a little musical idea - and then find which emotion is evoking that, and turn it into words (this little riff reminds me of...being alone at night time. walking on a road. being unhappy and lonely. being confused. being angry. How can I express that in just a few lines of lyrics? The answer: "In the middle of the night, in the middle of the road, running forwards from the fight, or the chance to be alone" [don't steal that, i wrote it! :P ]) Songwriting is an organic process - consider it like nurturing any art. There is no formula, no set standard, no preset way to express your emotions. Because they're yours. Find what works for you. (of course, this is just my perspective on songwriting.) Hope that helps, friend :)

I tried reasoning with them at first (it's like wrestling a stormcloud using chopsticks) and eventually discovered - to my utter joy - a sneaky little close chat button hidden in the corner. :D But, I still squished the player so I couldn't see their comments! And yes, a very exciting show :D

All the new songs sounded better than they usually do live, the video was really jumpy and disorienting but the energy of the band was like this was their first gig, the crowd was really into it, Will had a birthday, Chris threw his balloons in the air and then cursed staining their environmentally friendly image, the opening chords of Fix You turned into an Amy Winehouse - Rehab tribute, and altogether the show couldn't have gone better :)

Since no one seems to have mentioned it yet - the presenters at the end mentioned that the highlights would be uploaded onto their channel the next day, so look out for that!

times i have cried during this coldplay show: three also, BUTTERFLIES

EVERY TEARDROP IS THE BEST PROJECTIONS EVER

this is a long encore! - NOT a complaint! :D

nice avatar/signature, coldplayingfromkansas! :)

HAHAHAH THE BALLOONS :P