Jeffstunes progress on Youtube

Having posted videos to Youtube for nearly a year. One thing I noticed was that you were limited on the quality of video and audio that you can have on there. If I put up a tune with high quality audio, It would get converted by Youtube, to lower quality mono. I managed to get around it with a free video converter, Which allowed me to encode flash videos, and adjust the video and audio quality.

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Here's a really recent video. It was uploaded a little while ago!!

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So now I've reached the sixty third vid. At last I have caught up.

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This next number was a collaborative effort with a Canadian musician. Before I started posting videos on Youtube, I was writing songs with various people, and he was one of them. He writes a lot of music, and was eager to co-write songs with other people. So he did the music, and I put the words and vocal melody to the ones that inspired me. I suppose you could say it was similar to the Elton John and Bernie Taupin scenario. The difference was that we made absolutely nothing from it :)

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Well, that's a week I was glad to get out of the way. My grandmother passed away two weeks ago, and the funeral was a couple of days ago. She was a wonderful woman, who I loved. She had a long life. She reached the ripe old age of 93.

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Now for something a little different. A good friend of mine asked me if I could do an alternative version of a Beatles song several months ago. The only provision was that I could not select any of their songs that had been hit singles. The song I was to choose, had to come from one of their albums. So I went through all their albums and made a short list of 10 songs. Then I narrowed it down to a single song.

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Only one more to the 60th vid. This is number fifty nine. This is a song that is not easy to forget. The reason for that is that it's quite a different song. It is "Mmm mmm mmm mmm" by the "Crash test dummies". If you are familiar with this song, then you will know that the lead vocal is quite low. A perfect opportunity for me to test out the depths of my vocal ability.

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Back to another cover. This tune reached 19 in the UK charts in 2001. In my opinion, it should have got higher, because I think it is an awesome song. It's quite surprising to me that not many people actually know the song.

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