I calculate multiple years have passed since I recorded an EdTech Cover Song where I lamely rewrote lyrics, munged some chords, to be dumb enough to post online my bad talent. But I love the act of rewriting lyrics, all on my own, no LLMs in the mix.
Just to get the cringing out of the way, I did this out of pure joy and fun of my long lasting professional and personal friendship with Terry Green. I recorded a podcast with Terry about his Way More Famous podcast, Gettin’ Air for an upcoming episode of the one I edit as OE Global Voices.
Since I don’t have his backing, I cannot use his regular music, the toe thumping spounds of Gettin Air by Chixdiggit. So I thought, why not blow some dust from the acoustic guitar and play my own version of the riff using the chords from Ultimate Guitar Tabs. This was maybe two takes to do.
Thanks Terry for being my podcast hero and good sport pal. I’m editing! I will publish your episode sometime before the sun burns out.
And now maybe I will not let the guitar get as dusty again.
Maybe.
Featured Image: Remix of the Gettin’ Air home on VoicEd radio, with a wee bit of remixing of Bryan Mathers logo. I changed the text of the page using the old Browser Inspector Rewrite trick.
Thanks for this Alan! I love it very much! I just got myself a new toy of an AKAI mini play keyboard and I think I should try to re-create the theme too, with keys! Stay tuned. It will not be well done, but it will be fun
Awesome! We should find a way to collaborate on music.
And I find it’s more fun to be bad than trying to be good at music. Why set yourself up for disappointment by some silly bar of achievement?