Irish Traditional
- rearranged, played song by Jakob Dam

Foggydew2011

Scarborough Fair (traditional)

- I've tried combining a jazz walz and irish traditional here. The singing isn't quite ideal to say the truth, but I'm somewhat satisfied nevertheless (or I wouldn't have posted it here) :)

I think it sounds cozy, and that's pretty much the meaning of it... a cozy sound and feel...

Scarboroughfair02

Everything is made on my iPhone 5, using the Music Studio app.

8-bit on iphone4

Most of all made as a test of some new sound equipment I've bought.

The most significant change is probably the AKG C214 condenser microphone, which is amazing at its low price point.

FoggyDew - 2023

[LYRICS]

Let me just solve this cube
with a white cross
 
first but I'm still not really fast enough
To be stable sub-10 I gotta speed up
Just turn and turn doubleturn and flip
Use next level algs for a PLL skip

Gotta step my game up with a new maglev
Be color neutral and improve look-ahead
Have the latest, greatest magnetic cube
and feed it with some awesome lube

[chorus]
But I'm still too slow
and my cube still gets stuck
Learn'd Winter variations 
but I'm out of luck

Spend all my...
paychecks...
- Trying to be as awesome 
as Feliks Zemdegs

But I'm still too slow 
at cross and F2L
Have long recognition
for my PLL

Botched my solve...
-- That's a DNF!
with COLL...
-- That's another DNF!
While the others solve in overdrive
Gotta take back my Ao5... 


The guidance of the legend
- Zemdegs
Says I have to practice slow solve
- Zemdegs
And the legend
- Daddy Zemdegs
IS RIGHT - yo...


I don't wanna build blocks
petrus or zz
Gotta be fast like Max 
with the eyes of Kolasinski

Using Valk Last Slot to boost my stamina
I give thanks to the CFOP inventor Jessica 


[chorus]
But I'm still too slow
it's like a boomerang
Gotta shave off seconds
to beat Yiheng Wang

Employ new 
finger tricks...
- Trying to be amazing
as Feliks Zemdegs

And I'm still too slow 
at cross and F2L
Failed summer variations
and one-look LL

Botched my solve
-- That's a DNF!
with COLL
-- That's another DNF!
No more failures, no more deja vu
now I'm switching to solve with Roux...

SpeedCuber - final edition

A song I've made from bottom up. Several VSTi's used, all of them free :)

The singing is just me - with some very unfinished processing effects on the vocal. I'm pretty happy with the "little child"-like voice for the chorus though, but please feel free to write whatever you think :)

Fade Away

Me playing some Final Fantasy X music, to test the Alicia's Keys VST plugin by Native Instruments.

Special settings for reverb, sympatetic resonance, pedal noises, key noises and microphone noise, to make it sound more real.

Final Fantasy X - Piano - Alicia's Keys VST test

A test of Native Instruments; Studio Drummer VSTi. I do the singing, playing and messing around - and yeah, I'm as lousy at mastering and mixing as one can get, but I'm having fun :)

Battle of Jericho (test)

Tribute to the Gears of War 4 trailer with the cover version of "The Sound of Silence" by Disturbed.

My voice is absolutely no match for Disturbe's lead singer, but it was fun to try anyway. And I got to use my Alicia's Keys VST-plugin and my trusty Ibanez guitar. :)

The Sound of Silence

Test - piano RnB

Cover of DragonForce: Fire And Flames

Just some messing around with piano, and lots of balancing and tuning stuff, to achieve something that's not quite live-like, and not quite studio-like either... in short, to just learn the damn eq, compressors etc. to know better :)

Fire and Flames - piano

(Lyrics)

    Control myself: From a dream within
    Steal a kiss: From a love that’s been
    In the loneliness of the night
    I sigh...


    “Give me comfort let me feel safe
    in someone’s arms
    Kill the hunger, fill the open space
    let me embrace; my life can’t rust...”


    Control myself: From going mad
    Isolate: The life I had
    In my loneliness caused by pride
    I sigh...


    Control myself: As the stardust fades
    Leave a life: lock the doors and gates
    In this loneliness of love denied
    I sigh...


    “Give me comfort let me feel safe
    in someone’s arms
    Kill the hunger, fill the open space
    let me embrace; my life can’t rust...”


- by Jakob Dam Knudsen, March 2012

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Hardware:
- Mic: MXL 440
- Guitar: Samick hollow-body

Software: 
- Cubase 5
- NI Studio Drummer VSTi
- Pianoteq VSTi


My Life Can't Rust (2012)

Hiphop beat, and piano improvisation between riffs from a reggaeton song and some other beat I heard a few years ago.

Piano beat

Piano cover version of Snow Patrol's "Run".

I heard the song recently, and decided to make a quick piano arrangement for it...

Cover - Snow Patrol: Run

Just me playing a kind-of self-spun version of the Chihiro (by Studio Ghibli) theme song (the one heard at the end of the movie).

Mostly, this is about testing a new dark piano sound I've made in Pianoteq v3.6.7.

Chihiro

age 10: Began receiving piano lessons 
age 18: Began teaching piano to others 
age 19: Started on Music Science at Aalborg University 
age 25: Forgot all about doing music for a living - and instead, make computer graphics a living 
age 30: Oh my god, I'm 30! DAMN! 
age 31: Making studio music again, it was 10+ years ago since I did that last time. Oh my, a lot has changed!!! ^_^
age 40: AAAAAAAH I'm 40! Where did the time go?!?!?

jakobdam

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