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24 - gray days

Finally the sun has come back into our world - the last few weeks have been way to gray for my taste. As you, gentle regular reader of this blog know, I am enrolled in the “Introduction to Songwriting” course. This is one of the songs I have written as part of this course (and no, there is no recording yet that I am happy with) <code><strong> Gray Days</strong> <strong>Am Em</strong> Around me seas of gray <strong>Am Dm7</strong> am I loosing my will to live? <strong>Am Em</strong> am I hunter, am I prey? <strong>Am F</strong> is there anything that I can give? Surrounded by gray masses am I loosing my touch in reality? Seeing lights and flashes Does this feel like normality? PreChorus <strong> C F</strong> No reflections, no lights, <strong> C Bdim</strong> no affections, no sights. Chorus <strong>Am Am</strong> insecurity creeping up on me <strong>F E7</strong> as if I haven't had enough <strong>Am F G</strong> all those people are obliv-ious <strong>Dm Am</strong> to what I suffer through. <strong>Am G F E7</strong> Gray days - even rain would make me feel better <strong>Am E</strong> Sun rays blasting through the gray <strong>Am D</strong> Is this helping my temperament? <strong>Am E</strong> Children outside starting to play <strong>Am F</strong> There goes my bad sentiments reflections, lights, affections, sights insecurity dropping away from me I have had enough of it People around me are joyous And I feel totally fit Blues skies, blues skies - happiness and smiles </code>

Jens-Christian Fischer
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25 - melodyne

Back in 2008 I read “the most amazing piece of software I have seen so far” by vowe where he described software that was able to do Direct Note Access (DNA) on recorded sound, effectively giving you the tools to change the notes (pitch or timing) of complex pieces of music. Yesterday I stumbled upon it again and downloaded the demo version of Melodyne and used it to correct some of my horrible singing on a recording (as well as correcting a few wrong notes in the guitar part) ...

Jens-Christian Fischer
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27 - pirate coin

What a ride the BTC vs any other currency has made in the last 48 hours. I don’t envy the people that have invested in Bitcoin (and especially those that have gotten on the bandwagon in the last few weeks) Tonight I was a virtual guest at one of the german Pirate Parties and spent around 2 hours talking and discussing about Bitcoin: “Was ist Bitcoin”. There should be a recording of the event and I will post a link as soon as I have it. The PiratePad contains some more questions and answers that were discussed after my talk. ...

Jens-Christian Fischer