Jeffstunes progress on Youtube

Video number 25 was my third original song that I uploaded to Youtube. It's a slow number that has no percussion. I tried to be general with the lyrics so that they could appeal to more people's lives.

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This is a number that was played in a fantastic film by the name of "Pulp fiction". The act that did a version of the song was called Urge Overkill. It was the first time I had heard the song, and I was very surprised to discover that it was written and performed originally by Neil Diamond.

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So we arrive at another Neil Diamond song. My request list was getting out of control. There were a quite a few more to do, and there were a few Neil Diamond song in there.

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I'm giving video 21 a miss because I pointed it out in an earlier post.

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I kept on getting more requests, so it was time for Neil Diamond again. A good chunk of those songs on the request list were for Neil Diamond songs, and from all of those I chose to do Beautiful noise. Up until this post, this song had had over 750 viewings.

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So on to my ninetheenth video, which was a fantastic song called Sonnet by the Verve. This was the second track I had sung from the "Urban hymns" album.

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Everything I had done so far on Youtube was cover versions. Except for the how to sing videos, so I thought it was time to start slipping in a few of my own original compositions. It's a slow number going by the name of Changes. I wrote and produced this song from start to finish, on my own.

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Very soon after I started posting videos. I got a request for help on singing from one of my initial subscribers. I replied with some tips and exercises that I came across over the years. She got back to me, and asked me if I could make a video about it, because she thought the information might be useful for other people.

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The 16th video of mine was a cover of a song by a fantastic band. The one and only Depeche Mode. In the early days, their music was quite bouncy, but as time went on. They moved into experimental and dark music.

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A good few people were telling me that my vocal tone was quite similar to Neil Diamonds, and were eager to hear more, so I decided to do another one of his. This was the third on of his I recorded on Youtube. I was more pleased with this one myself, because of the improvement in my sound setup. This is again, one of the most liked songs by Neil Diamond fans. It's got some pretty low notes, but I didn't seem to have any problems with that.

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