Posts Tagged ‘coldplay’

Coldplay in the sea

Saturday, March 20th, 2010

The 95th video was yet another of my requests. I was recently asked by one of my subscribers if I could sing this and dedicate it to her boyfriend, who also happens to be one of my subscribers, and so I’m told, a big fan of my work. The song is called “Swallowed in the sea” by none other than Coldplay. This is one of many requests for different Coldplay songs. I have already recorded quite a few.

Now to the song. Here is my rendition of this wonderful tune from the album X&Y.

Jeff Edwards singing Swallowed in the sea by Coldplay.

So it’s back to the stats for my Youtube channel, and my subscriber tally has increased to 1,414.

The viewings of my channel have gone past the 33k barrier to 33,008. My total video viewings is creeping ever nearer to 700k at 687,830. I’m hoping that figure will be passed before the end of the month.

Now, just a little info on the next post. I have already done a recording of the song, and I have to say that I believe it is one of the most beautiful songs ever written. My lips are sealed at the moment, and I’m hoping that will have created an air of anticipation. Here’s to the next one :)

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David Van Day and Coldplay.

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

I’ve reached video eighty eight. This is my cover version of a recent Coldplay song called “Lost”. More than 10 subscribers have rquested this song of me so I thought it would be a good time to do it.

Have a listen:

Jeff Edwards singing Lost by Coldplay

My dad’s story will resume in my next post, because there was something I wanted to cover that was quite current. If you are in the UK then you may know about a TV programme called “I’m a celebrity, get me out of here”. One of the celebrities in the show was a man called “David Van Day”. I first noticed he was in it when I was visiting a friend. My friend enquired who he was. I told him that he used to be in a group called Dollar, who had some success in the eighties, and that I didn’t think too highly of him.

I came to that conclusion because of an event when I was younger. When I was about 17 I worked in a shop called CRS (Co-operative Retail Services) in Uxbridge. During my lunch I popped into WH Smith to buy a few records. The title of one of the purchases was “Videotheque” by “Dollar”. Quite by chance, as I was about to pay, who should walk in but David Van Day and Therese Bazaar. Collectively Dollar. They happened to be there to sign copies of their new release, Videotheque. David was vertically challenged, and Therese was even shorter than him. She moved up the counter to me and picked up the records I was buying, complimenting me on my musical taste. Then we had a little chat. David grew more and more impatient, and asked her to get on with the signing. So she asked me for my name and signed it with love, and then shoved the record in front of David, saying “Sign it”.

I paid for my discs, said my goodbye’s and went back to work. Therese smiled and bid me goodbye, and David said nothing. My impression of him was that he was quite selfish.

I’ve seen him on “I’m a celebrity, get me out of here” and it looks like he hasn’t changed much at all. Therese made time for people. I think she enjoyed the conversation, and that made me feel happy.

Back to the Youtube stuff.

At last I’ve passed 1,000 subscribers. The figure now stands at 1020.

There are 24,010 channel views and my total video viewings are 414,193.

I haven’t yet planned my next vid, but it’s probably going to be another cover. There’s also another duet with Kareneng coming up soon :)

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My star is fading.

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

It has been some time since I last posted anything, and uploaded a video to Youtube. I’ve had a lot to do over the past month, and hardly any of that has had anything to do with music. I attended the wedding of a friend, and I have to say that that it was one of the best I’ve been to. We were very well looked after. Coaches were provided between all destinations, so that we could concentrate on the important things, like raising our alcohol levels :)

It all happened on the Isle of Man. A highlight of the day was a tram that was hired out exclusively to transport us all to the peak of snaefell mountain. A bagpiper joined us. Together with plenty to eat and a sufficient supply of champagne.

I very much enjoyed the whole thing, and was extremely pleased for them both, that the event went so well, and the weather took a break from raining.

I eventually got around to recording a few cover versions. This particular one is another Coldplay song called “Amsterdam”. It was from their album “A rush of blood to the head”. This one is in my top 5 Coldplay songs. The vid just shows a collection of pictures. I didn’t spend that much time making the video. The song is quite important to me, and perhaps it only needed some images :)

See what you think :)

Jeffstunes covering Amsterdam by Coldplay

There are a number other things I’ve been getting up to in the past month, though I’m not going to bother writing about it. It would fill several pages. I’m just update the Youtube stats.

I may have been neglecting my Youtube channel, but the numbers have still been increasing very well on their own.

I now have 806 subs. I was hoping to get to the 1,000 by the end of the year, but at this rate, it looks like it’s going to pass that sooner.

Channel viewings are now up to 18,423. They are rolling along well.

Last, but by no means least. The total video views have inreased to 291,498. The 300k landmark is less than 2 weeks away now.

I have prepared another cover version, and I am hoping that i can spend some time making the video amusing. It’s another “Crash test dummies” song. I’m hoping I can put that up quite soon. Rather than wait another month :)

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This is Viva la vida

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

I chose to do a different song, but stay with the same group. Coldplay. After I had put up “Violet hill”, I got a large number of requests to try “Viva la vida”. Too many requests to ignore really. So I set about recording that one. It’s another one from their latest album with the same title.

I know that some people think that it’s a bit of a cop out to do cover songs to backing tracks, but I always find a use in everything I attempt in music. I really want to improve my production skills. It’s ok to record all the right bits for your song, but if the mix doesn’t sound right, then all your efforts are for very little.

One of the aspects I’ve been concentrating on is vocal production, and I’ve been trying to match that of the original song. It’s made a big difference to my ears, and it’s teaching me how to produce my own voice in relation to the different types of music.

I’ve implemented vocal boosting on this song. Plus low to moderate plate reverb in the verses. I’ve used the Chorus effect and a heavier plate reverb in the choruses.

This is the result. Viva la vida.

Viva la vida - Coldplay cover by Jeffstunes

Now for some up to date figures from my Youtube account.

Subs have come and gone, but yesterday I awoke to the pleasant sight of 6 new subscribers. That puts the figure at 727.

The channel views are now up at 16,529.

My total video views have done it! They’ve broken the quarter of a million views. All of this within a year of posting my first video. The current figure now stands at 254,512.

I’m hoping I can now do that old album track cover that I said I was going to do in the first place :)

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Me singing Violet hill

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Now for some cover versions. This one is quite a recent tune, and is called “Violet hill”. It’s taken from the excellent Coldplay album entitled “Viva la vida”.

I’ve got a number of Coldplay songs lined up to do, and this is the first out of that selection. I really struggled with the falsetto in this one, so I had to take the music down a key. Even then I still struggled, but I just about managed it.

It was quite noisy in the skies above my village over the weekend I recorded this. I live a few miles away from a place called Goodwood. They hold a number of annual events and one of them is called “The festival of speed”. So while it was on, I snapped a few of the aircraft from my back garden. I have added those to the vid. All I’m going to say is that one in particular got very close, and it wasn’t a small aircraft!!!

Check out my cover of this brilliant song, and see my snaps:

Jeffstunes singing Violet hill by Coldplay

The Youtube stats are still moving well.

I now have 721 subscribers in total.

My channel viewings are now up to 16,254.

The total viewings of all my videos are a shave away from that milestone. 249,532. If nothing drastic happens, it should pass the quarter of a million tomorrow morning :)

It’s quite likely that my next song will be another Coldplay tune. I’ve got my eyes on an album track from a few years ago :)

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Me doing Yellow

Monday, September 14th, 2009

This is the 67th video, which I uploaded last year. This is a Coldplay song of their first album “Parachutes”. Quite a few people have requested that I cover this tune, so it is high time I did it.

I used to sing this song quite a lot, and a number of my close friends really like it. I find Coldplay songs enjoyable to sing because of the scope for versatility in the vocals, and the chance to do falsetto, and this song is not short on that.

This is my attempt at Yellow:

The Jeffstunes version of Yellow by Coldplay

Well the numbers are still steadily rising on Youtube. Here’s the latest.

My subs are now up to 589. Not far away from 600 now.

12,360 Channel views, and an overall video view count of 178,166. I should pass the 200,000 within a month, the way things are going.

A few friends suggested that I try out for the Youtube partnership program. Well, i did, and got politely turned down. It seems that I don’t have enough original material, or enough regular traffic to my channel yet, to justify inclusion. I shall keep on trying :)

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I passed you by

Monday, July 20th, 2009

Out of all the Coldplay songs, this one has to rate among the very best. One of many great tunes on the album “A rush of blood to the head”, and it’s called “Warning sign”. I didn’t have any backing music for this song, so I had to once again pick up my guitar and try to get by with some basic chords :)

I thought I’d also throw in an extra fact about Europe, and some of it’s crazy regulations.

Check out my version of Warning sign (Don’t hold out too much hope for the guitar playing)

Me singing Warning Sign by Coldplay

The next post is another one of my all time favourite songs to sing. It’s from the wonderful Billy Joel.

Finally, a numbers update from Youtube.

Subs are up again to 451.

The channel viewings are up too at 10,762.

I’m still impressed with the overall video views and the rate at which they are increasing. They now stand at 129,349.

Things are going well.

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Ignite your bones

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

This next song is probably one of my most successful on Youtube. I have to say that I think it is one of the best Coldplay songs ever. “Fix you”.

This in my attempt at it:

Me singing Fix You by Coldplay

Up until this post, this video has had the following stats:

55 Ratings.

2,281 Viewings.

Favourited 25 times.

136 comments.

There’s been another increase in my subscribers. Up 4 to 376. It’s getting ever closer to 400.

There have been 103,970 viewings of all of my videos to date.

There have also been 9,500 channel views, which is also steadily on the increase. So the 10k tarket is not too far away now :)

And for my next post. It was specially requested by a very supportive friend on Youtube. It’s a cover version, but I completely overhauled the music to make it more relevant.

More on that later :)

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Video number 7. The Scientist.

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

Video number 7 of mine on Youtube was my second Coldplay song. A song called ‘The scientist’. One of several Coldplay songs I really liked. Off the CD ‘A rush of blood to the head’.

It was probably in my top 5 songs on that particular album. Though I regard the best song on that album as being a song called ‘Warning sign’. I want to do an acoustic version of that song soon. I couldn’t find the backing music for it :)

Actually, that’s not strictly true. I found a company that had the backing for it in it’s catalogue, and I ordered it, but I didn’t hear from them again, and ended up empty handed.

Back to the subject of the post. The second of my Coldplay songs on Youtube. The Scientist. See what you think.

Me singing The Scientist

I can think of several other Coldplay songs I’d like to have a go at. Too much choice can be a problem in itself. I do like to take my time learning the Coldplay songs. I pay special attention to the expression, because there’s a lot going on vocally, in most Coldplay songs, and the expression needs to be right for it to sound right.

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My fourth vid. A coldplay song.

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

The fourth song I put up on Youtube was from one of my favourite bands. Coldplay. The song is Don’t panic and it’s from their first album, Parachutes.

This was the first Coldpay CD I bought. The best tracks on the album, in my opinion are Don’t panic, Trouble and Yellow.

So to the song. It’s not very long, but as with most coldplay songs. They created such a rounded sound with quite a simple setup, and Chris’s vocals are very expressive.

You may need to turn up the volume on your sound card again for this one because I think the volume is quite low.Down to business. This is my rendition of Don’t panic.

Me singing Dont Panic

And here ends the post for my fourth video :)

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