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Old Footage: Corner Coffee Acoustic Show
In the Airport Weather days (which we usually try to forget), I did a handful of acoustic shows, which featured all kinds of ’90s Alternative Pop/Rock covers. For Midnight Notion’s first live appearance, I decided to do the same exact thing.
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Never Say Never – James Horner Cover
Have you ever had a song stuck in your head for almost your entire life? One from a cartoon that teaches you a valuable life lesson that you think about so often that you decided to cover it? Me too!
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Same Old Blues – Phantogram Cover
I had a very specific need for the latest cover: a song with the word “blues” in the title…but that wasn’t a song in the blues genre. Since I didn’t have anything in my personal music library, I asked for help from my friends. And that’s when I discovered Phantogram.
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Heart Attack – Sum 41 Cover
I struggled for a long time with what song I wanted to do for the latest Theme Music challenge: Medical Emergency. There were a lot of songs I enjoy that seemed to fit, and there was even an unreleased original song that I almost recorded. But at the end of the day, I had to go with one of my most favorite bands in the world: Sum 41.
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Uprising – Muse Cover
The latest theme for the Theme Music Facebook Group is “Protest,” and unlike most of the themes thus far, this one did not require a specific element in the title of the song. Regardless, from the moment I read the description, I knew exactly which song I was going to do.
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Pyramid – Jan Hammer Cover
After several months of contemplating whether or not I should participate in the Theme Music Facebook Group’s bi-weekly cover song challenge, I’ve finally decided to do it! But my first attempt is a rather un-conventional cover song…
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2 Hours of Blink-182 Covers
A couple of weeks ago, to prepare myself for the big Metallica concert at US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, I decided to play every Metallica riff I could remember, live on Facebook. This week, Blink-182 is coming to town, and it turns out that I know how to play a lot of their songs!
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“Beat It” Cover Duet
There is an online collective of musicians called Theme Music where the members are challenged to upload a video cover song based on a bi-weekly theme. The most recent theme was songs where the title references something about (non-military) fighting—things like kick, punch, etc. Guess who was asked to participate!
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New Original Song!
April fools! I haven’t recorded any original material in a while. Here’s a cover song instead…
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New Bass-Only Multi-Screen Video Cover!
Over the years, I’ve gotten into the habit of layering guitars in the recording process—sometimes one just isn’t enough, you know? The same goes with keys, pads, vocals, and even drums! But you know what the only thing is that I’ve never layered? Bass. So, if that’s going to be a thing now, why not start with a song from a classic video game about a fast blue hedgehog?
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The Mario 64 Medley: STILL Fun to Play!
Almost 2 years ago, my drums were set up for the recording of what would eventually be the March to Midnight EP, but I was having a lot of troubles staying motivated. Life kept interfering with my creativity, so I needed to take a break from the project and find other ways to occupy my time. One of those ways just happened to be figuring out how to play the Main Theme from Super Mario 64.
