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Sumo’s Song

If there’s Leo’s Song, of course, there’ll be one for my Sumo.

The two are really night and day. As I often say (apparently, I like to repeat myself) one is like an Express Stream dog, the other is in Normal Stream with a future in beauty school.

But although Sumo is faster, he gets too excited, too eager, too fast and that makes him rash and behave aggressively.

I did want to record this last week, but over enthusiastically cut nails and equally over enthusiastic strumming gave me a blister on the edge of my finger.

So here I go again, embarrassing myself with an off-key rendition of Sumo’s Song.

The chords are G, D (with a high D), C, D

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Leo’s Song

Guess who I found in my ukulele case after I recorded Leo's Song?
Guess who I found in my ukulele case after I recorded Leo’s Song?

This is a song that I thought up after looking into the blank eyes of Leo, who, after 6 months of training, still isn’t paper trained.

It took me 6 weeks to teach Leo how to shake hands. Now that Leo knows how to shake hands, when I command “down”, he offers his paw.

I did this song in GarageBand, starting by laying down the drum track, then played out the bass track on the computer keyboard.

Then I played the ukulele, sang the song and added the barks.

The chords are F, C5? (CGCG), Am, G

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Believe It or Not

Remember The Greatest American Hero?

Ah yes, ordinary man dons a red suit from aliens and suddenly has unmanageable super powers. Can’t remember much from that show, except I looked forward to it every week.

Life was easier then. No one asked about USPs, for Interactive elements, yadda yadda. Just liked it.

I remember visiting my friends in Ipoh and singing the theme song together.

And now that I’ve done it again, I think the range of the song is surprisingly wide and difficult to sing.

I recorded this on different tracks as I found it hard to balance my ukulele with voice. And when I did that, I found it hard to keep the accompaniment in time…

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Across the Universe

It’s been a while since I’ve recorded myself singing and I’ve to say, it isn’t pleasant.

To sing, keep time, read lyrics and recall chords is doubly, triply, quaduply hard.

And exhausting.

And actually quite terrible sounding when you hear you can’t sustain notes like you thought you could.

This is my 7th attempt and increasingly I made mistakes as I got tired.

You have been warned.

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