How To Play ‘Karma Police’ by Radiohead
LYRICS & CHORDS * MP3 * Album: OK Computer
(Chords: Am Am/F# Em G + Am F Em G + Am D G Em Am + Bm D + C D G F# + C D G Bm C + Bm D + Bm D G D G D E)
GUITAR DEMO/COVER ON YOUTUBE (by Me)
A BETTER GUITAR DEMO (by thielenm)
A PIANO DEMO (by shawncheekeasy)
MP3 (of my youtube cover)
Wonky Links and Missing Mp3’s
I can explain.
I just did two things: switched to a new webhost and upgraded to Wordpress 2.1. Needless to say, things are a bit wonky, though surprisingly less so than I was expecting. You won’t be able to play or download any of MP3s on the site for probably a few days.
UPDATE: Permalinks are fixed and most of the MP3s are back up. The rest will be shortly.
I’m also going to be messing around with layouts, new features and what not, so don’t be surprised if things are just generally weird and not working quite right around here for the next week or two.
H.P. Lovecraft’s ‘The Other Gods’ Restored
I’ve just encountered an INTRIGUING FILM TRAILER via YouTube. Has anyone seen this film? It’s apparently been in some film festivals. From what I gather, it’s a restoration of an old sillouhette animation, care of Subterranea Entertainment. According to this post on their site, the full film will be viewable soon, but that post is from October, 2006. So I’ve asked them what they mean by ’soon’ and will update you when I know.
Of course, I haven’t exactly done much digging-around work, since I just found it five minutes ago and this is a completely spontaneous, just-as-I-was-heading-for-bed post, so for all I know it’s already available and I’m just missing it. Anyhoo, here are parts of the film’s description:
“A prophet who longed to look upon his deities. A daunting journey to a mountain peak. A confrontation with gods too powerful to name.
This is the story that inspired Peter Rhodes, who worked as a filmmaker and artist during the 1920s…”The Other Gods” has undergone an extensive restoration and is currently being screened at select film festivals throughout the world.
Rhodes’ films were created using silhouette animation, a technique perfectly suited to depict Lovecraft’s mythic Dreamland stories…Rhodes was especially influenced through his relationships with occultist Aleister Crowley and writer H.P. Lovecraft, but it was personal tragedy that moved him to produce “The Other Gods,” his most powerful film.”
And I’m going to bed now. Just thought I’d share. The soundtrack of the film, by the way, is by a fellow named Keith Handy. If that’s his work I’m hearing on the trailer, then so far, I like.
Night night.
(This topic has SO been updated, here.)
I Heart Chordie.com
As you’ll notice if you frequent my guitar demo posts, most of the tabs I use are from Chordie.com. Why? Because it’s my favorite.
It’s not just that it’s the best-looking guitar site I know (which it is), the most user-friendly (which it is), or even the best for accurate tabs (which no guitar site is, because tabs are user-submitted, and most users vastly overestimate their tabbing skills)… these are all reasons Chordie has been my favorite guitar site since forever. But my latest reason is that Per, creator of Chordie, is also a super cool nice guy, and it’s clear to me that he really cares about making the best quality site possible. He just keeps improving it, and it’s already the best.
I can’t even recall what I initially emailed him about last December, but he checked out my site as a result, and upon seeing my guitar videos, immediately set to work creating the new feature which is now active on Chordie, that allows guitarists to attach their own Youtube videos (so long as they actually are guitar tutorials) to Chordie’s tab pages. Here’s an example. As far as I know, no other guitar sites are doing this (besides mine, which isn’t exactly a guitar site, and only I can post on it).
I helped him test this out before he opened it to the public, so it’s mostly just my videos up there right now, but there are a few others already. You need to email him to get access before you start posting your videos. This is slightly annoying, but it’s only a one-time thing, so no big deal. You can thank the dumbasses who were posting music videos instead of guitar demos (which creates copyright issues he’d rather do without). So don’t post music videos or you’ll be banned, plus I’ll hurt you (with my mind)………….. and you’ll deserve it.
But if you’re one of the many talented Youtubers I’ve seen doing guitar videos to help others learn songs, you should post them on Chordie too. It’s as easy as pasting in the Youtube URL and clicking a button or two. If you have a website, it’s good exposure. There’s a description area where you can include a link. But besides that, it’s just a nice way to contribute to the community.
And speaking of that… Another great feature Per has added is the ability to make corrections to existing tabs on the site. This, my friends, is awesome. There is so much inaccurate tab out there, it’s ridiculous. It makes me want to skin myself alive and roll around in salt. (Who’s with me?)……..
It’s sure a useful feature for me, because here, when I post a demo, I want to link to the tab, but I don’t want to link to crappy tab, and more often than not, that’s all there is out there. And I don’t have the damn patience to tab it all out myself from scratch. I play by ear. I don’t like tab. The tab I post is for other people, who need it, mostly to supplement my less-than-sufficient demos. So please people, make use of this feature. Help us clean up the internets and make it a tab-tastic place!
And these are just the latest features. A few others worth mentioning… There’s a personalized songbook section, which allows you to save, share and print your own personalized collections of tabs. You can browse other people’s songbooks. There’s a handy chord chart section which gives you all the variations for each chord. There’s a forum. The search and browse features are user-friendly as hell. More so.. actually.. than Hell… But you get the gist. Go check it out.
How To Play ‘Allergic To Love’ by Eric’s Trip
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LYRICS & CHORDS * MP3 * Album: Love Tara
(Chords: D G Asus / G / D Asus G / Asus / D Asus G Asus)
GUITAR DEMO/COVER on YOUTUBE (by Me)
PS: Why do I get Neil Young coming up as the artist in half the results when I search for these lyrics? Odd.