I’ve been browsing the web for singing tips and I found out that these food and drinks help lubricate the throat:
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Kuya Stephen asked me if I wanna form a band.. a tentative but serious band…
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I’m currently working on a new website that will house my song recordings. I’ve used Wordpress for the past few years in maintaining websites. But this time, I want to develop a manually-coded website. Wordpress does everything for us. All we do is use plugins, use themes, and edit some code. Wordpress is very powerful and helpful, especially if you’re a busy person because you only need to do very little work.

I want to sharpen my rusty coding skills and improve them. So here I am, writing pages from scratch.

The only problem is what blogging tool am I to use? I don’t think Wordpress will be the one to solve this problem. This website I’m about to make is a portfolio that has a blog in one of the pages, unlike Poochycat.com that is a blog itself. Shall I use CuteNews, Blogger, BBlog…? Ack… I hope I can find the right blogging tool to use.

Okay now this one’s off-topic. I’ve been scolded for accidentally breaking the dog kennel of Amber (our Chow dog)… I used it for something (it’s a secret, whatever it is, hehe) but I wasn’t careful enough…. oh gosh.

Kuya Stephen and I finished this recording on November 11. It’s the song Everything You Do by the old duo, M2M. Former members Marit Larsen and Marion Raven are now solo artists.

Feel free to listen to our recording, as long as you comment about it.

Yesterday I was in the mood for some online karaoke, so I searched in Google for some nice online karaoke and this The Sims On Stage dominated my search results. I went to the old SingShot.com, a site where you can upload your recordings and submit them as entries to contests. When I entered SingShot.com, to my surprise, READ MORE »

My friend Stephen told me to check out this video of the song Typical, performed by the band Mute Math. He says it’s amazing. Well yeah, I was impressed by those sleek movements and effects. But I knew they were using some smart camera tricks. Read further if you want to watch the video too. READ MORE »

So you have a guitar that’s out of tune but don’t feel like buying a tuner? You have a tuner but it’s not working? It’s not with you? Or simply bored? You can put it to the right tune manually, even without the piano! All you need is a sharp hearing and this simple tutorial. Of course tuning it with a tuner is more accurate. But learning to tune manually will come in handy, isn’t it?

Let me share to you this tutorial on how to tune a guitar manually.

Refer to the image above. Let’s call the thinnest string #1 and the thickest string #6. The letters over the right are the corresponding notes of each string, but just ignore them for now. We’ll use the numbers instead to make it easier. Read the following directions carefully.

directions

1. Press #6 on the 5th fret and pluck it. Listen to its pitch. Pluck the open #5 string. Adjust it until it gains the same pitch as that of #6.
2. Press #5 on the 5th fret and pluck it. Listen to its pitch. Pluck the open #4 string. Adjust it until it gains the same pitch as that of #5
3. Press #4 on the 5th fret and pluck it. Listen to its pitch. Pluck the open #3 string. Adjust it until it gains the same pitch as that of #4.
4. Press #3 on the 4th fret (yes, 4th fret!) and pluck it. Listen to its pitch. Pluck the open #2 string. Adjust it until it gains the same pitch as that of #3.
5. Press #2 on the 5th fret (yes, 5th fret again!) and pluck it. Listen to its pitch. Pluck the open #1 string. Adjust it until it gains the same pitch as that of #2.

tips and notes

• You need to listen very well when you pluck each string. Try plucking it as hard as you can to produce a louder sound. You must know how to distinguish the difference of the pitches/notes that you hear.
• After adjusting all the strings, strum them. If you’re not satisfied with the outcome, you might want to do the tuning all over again. Be patient. It will be easy when you get used to it anyway. If the outcome pitch is too high, adjust string #6 to a lower pitch and do the tuning over again; If the outcome pitch is too low, adjust string #6 to a higher pitch and do the tuning all over again.

Comments on this tutorial will be appreciated. Please note I’m just an amateur guitarist that I might not be able to answer questions that might be asked about guitars. hahaha…

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