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Life is like riding a roller coaster. Sometimes it drags you down and sometimes you reach unexpected heights at breathtaking speed. But in the end it's exciting and beautiful! Enjoy the ride!

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Vocals: Rudiger (LA), Mixing & Mastering and Producing: Dibs (LA).

Roller Coaster

My humble cover of one of my favorite childhood games. this game had awesome tunes and kept my 5 year old self entertained for many weekends🎶🤘. Check out some of the original composer's music as well, Ryuji Sasai and Yasuhiro Kawakami.

Lava Dome Final Fantasy Mystic Quest Cover

TOO MANY NOTES
A Neoclassical Piece for Violin and Electric Guitar
By Overdrive

Check out the promo video:
https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/18241683715215580/

The title "too many notes" is a reference to these 2 scenes from the fantastic movie Amadeus:
https://youtu.be/hMWy3EpEo_o

The neoclassical movement in music is a 20th-century trend that sought to return to aesthetic precepts associated with the broadly defined concept of “classicism”. It had a huge impact on my musical development, especially the album "Rising Force" by Swedish guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen -- one of my favorite albums of all time.

Ironically, when guitarists from the neoclassical movement began to emerge, the main criticism boiled down to the phrase "too many notes" -- the same criticism against Mozart in the movie Amadeus. 😄

The cover art features a fun digital montage of Mozart's famous portrait painted by Barbara Krafft.

The IG promo video was created with clips from the great band "Son of Bach" (which I highly recommend) and scenes from the movie "Chevalier".

Hope you enjoy the song.

Too Many Notes - A Neoclassical Piece for Violin and Electric Guitar

In this composition I experimented a reduced number of tracks, thanks to some sound patches which sound very big, like the brass-synths of the Hype Synthesizer.

I used two guitars, the Strat and the half hollow body, Italian made Jacaranda, which has a Telecaster shape and features a warm big single coil pick-up on the neck with sound creamy and lively.

The drums come from the stock instrument samples provided by the MPC bundle.

Visual Art

Bittersweet

We hope you can feel the enthusiasm, the fire and the dedication and that it will enjoy and inspire you!

Credits:
@mikehillravenscall: vocals, lyrics and acoustic guitar
@nobsmeyer: electric guitar, bass, drum production, mix and mastering.

Can You Feel Me

this is a melodic track, written and recorded in 2003.

velentine

Suns of Deflection - Velentine

I used polyrhythm with strings in triple meter and drums in simple meter for the verses. Just like that song  in 1975. More creative uses of this to follow. Also used a quartile chord found in ‘So What’. There’s a walking bass line and it is also the first to feature piano voicings that make for easier bass lines. 

Co production (cool sound effect in intro),drum editing, drum fills and instrumental mix from Blaz @a7-recording-studio

Lyrically, it is stream of consciousness with a few lines edited to rhyme. It was supposed to be about finding inner peace but I only ended up with one line about that. I am not tortured but someone else might be. Hope is a good thing. Not based on the novel with the same name as I have never read it.



I would like to thank my family (especially my parents and sister), Jinn (weren’t for her listening to the songs not sure I would have returned after a 1 year hiatus), my friends, the parents and students that I have taught (“I have been touched by your kids. And I'm pretty sure that I've touched them”), all of my teachers and the teachers for that compliment at Hulu (it’s an honor), and my listeners.

2 Quotes.
Past year has been busy with no days off. I’ve started jogging for 30 minutes and last year I finished Macroeconomics on Khan’s Academy. This year I’m onto Unit 8 of his Finance & Capital Course. I’ve gone on 2 week long business trips to Thailand and Malaysia. Since I am in this field I decided to see if I could pick up my mental maths. 

It reminds me of a quote that an Indian boy replied when asked, “what are your weaknesses?” at a job interview.

He replied, “I don’t have any weaknesses. My greatest asset is turning my weaknesses into my strengths.” 

For the longest time I thought it was a good reply but didn’t think it was possible. 
So I did some research online and all of the quant traders were using either rankyourbrain or zetamac. 
2 minute long sessions. Since rankyourbrain shut down I will only list my scores for zetamac. I began around the 40’s which was actually a ‘decent’ score by international standards.  I’d memorize the ones that I took a bit longer on and go over them daily.Then after about 20 minutes each day on both websites (2 sets of default zetamac questions) I started seeing improvement after 3 weeks. And now, I have a high score of 79 which puts me 12 points off from a rubiks cube whiz who posted his score on Youtube. If you had told me that I would be only 12 points off at the start I would have called it a miracle. Going from below average at something to above average. But, ‘miracles’ do happen like those Mexican teachers who rescue a whole class of failing students. And, there are guys who started off scoring 20’s on zetamac going on to score 90’s. And, a woman who is now a quant trader who bought elementary math books to work on. 

2 schools of thought.
“Take it easy man.”
“Sometimes the hardest thing to do and the right thing to do are often the same thing.” - Alfred

I think people don’t really pick one and live by it and its more of a mixture. So, I would encourage you to find something you think you’re bad at and work on it.
I know.
“Numbers isn’t my thing.”
I used to feel the same way. In the beginning you’ll experience frustration and disappointment. But confidence isn’t the lack of those thoughts but having those thoughts and still working through it. Keep at it and you will experience this feeling of joy that is usually not associated with maths. For only 4 mins a day. Free. A chance to see what your mind has tricked you into thinking you suck at. 

And when you do improve just remember that it is only mental maths, a very small portion of what maths actually is.



The other quote I really liked was:
“ I don't even care if they respect me. I know who I am. I've got enough respect for myself.”

An early Merry Christmas and happy new year to you all!

The Crazed

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Guitar, Bass and Keys by Robert Grigg
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Vanishing Dreams

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Myself  (prod. doge)

Been to the bottom, lower than dirt is, been in the water flow to the surface. Tryna spread peace.

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Givin' Flowers

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