MUSIC: Three Tune Tuesday - 3 Anti-War Songs (2 Covers and an Original!)
Hello everybody on HIVE, and especially the Music Community. My name is Jasper and I'm writing (and singing) to you from Cape Town, South Africa.
This is my first week contributing to "Three Tunes Tuesday", started by @ablaze.
I thought it would be good to build my mini-set around a theme, and I've chosen to start with Anti-War Protest Songs.
The songs I've chosen are:
"Zombie" by the Cranberries. This is a very famous anti-war song. Probably one of the most famous?
"Masters of War" by Bob Dylan. The version I am doing is inspired by Eddie Vedder's cover at the 1992 concert that commemorated the 30th Anniversary of Bob Dylan's Recording Career with Columbia Records.
"God Cries in Thunder" by Jasper Dick (an original by me!) I usually perform the song with @clairemobey recently in our duo called "Mobey-Dick".
During the original song, I use a loop pedal, a bass pedal and a distortion pedal to play some bluesy solo riffs over the chords.
I hope you enjoy!
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▶️ 3Speak
The Cranberries song is one of my favorites! Wonderful and beautiful songs you brought today, you sang them great. 🙌🎶🎵🙏👊💥💥🍻😃
Thank you so much!
Do you play any instruments? Zombie has a nice easy structure based on the "4 chord miracle"... So that could be Em C G D or Am F C G depending on how you like to sing. Give it a try if you do play an instrument and love the song!
Lol I’m looking at this comment in total confusion what you’re saying. You guys DO NOT speak English do you?😅
Hello! I was joking that the first song (Zombie) follows a very common (and ear-pleasing) musical structure!
Perhaps this funny band will explain it nicely!
@jasperdick Brother, I am a guitarist and singer like you!
"The four chord miracle" that's a classic and an infallible source of music hahaha, it would be interesting to play it too! 😃🍻💥👊🙏🎵🎶🙌💯
Absolutely - here's proof of how often songs turn out to be using that structure!
Hadn't heard any of these songs until today. I liked the last one so well. It's still a little difficult for me to play guitar while singing😅. You're good🙌
Thank you very much! Yes, it helps for the guitar playing part to become easy so you can focus on singing. I think it helps a lot to keep time by tapping your foot... and for your guitar-playing hands to follow that rhythm as naturally as possible - then you can "feel the music" and focus on singing and the emotions you're trying to show in your singing!
Thank you for saying you liked the last song. It's the one I wrote myself so I really appreciate it! I probably tried a little bit harder on that one because of it! I used a loop pedal to be able to play those other parts on top of the chords in the middle bit!
Nice. Thanks for the tip. Time to get practicing. I didn't even know that the last song was an original by you😯. Woah. That's super neat.
Well then I REALLY appreciate you picking it out! The other two songs are absolute classics by very famous people!
Very beautiful your entry this week, you have shared three wonderful songs with a great message. Guitar and voice a great duo :)
Thank you for stopping by.
That means a great deal because it is coming from you, and your performances on Hive are always beautiful!
Thank you also for the lovely comments on my friend Claire's original song a few days ago... I think that song is very special! She's much newer to singing in public and still gets very nervous... But it has been so rewarding to watch her improve and start to love doing it!
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Incredibly done Zak.
I am no musician but I can't imagine the covers you did are easy to repeat but you did them brilliantly and they are a couple of favourites of mine.
"God cries in thunder"......hmmmmmm.......it totally hit home & sent me "places" with daily memories from 37 years ago and in my humble view, if a song or music does that to someone then it is incredible.
Great going.
Hahaha I am Zak's star pupil Jasper! But I think you have the ability to overtake me the way you are progressing now on HIVE?
Thank you for the wonderful comments! It means you watched all the way which I thought would be the challenge with the 3 tune in a row concept! I think I am going to try and do it like this for the next few times as well... Pick a theme, 2 covers and then end with an original song... For as long as the original songs last!
I think I saw a recent post where you implied that you did conscription when it was still a thing in South Africa? Not many men talk too much about that anymore. I think my dad went to Angola but doesn't talk about it much... He'd much rather talk about mountaineering adventures, etc
Hahaha.....nah, I will just watch you from the shadows flying up like beep beep the road and bite your ankles now and again to hopefully boost you further....hehe.
I think it is a brilliant concept and I hope it takes off.
I am pretty much on the same page as your Dad then and normally rather talk about surfing & got free travelling to the same places as him.
However it is also sad that the buried stories are starting to go to graves with the holders and not being left for future generations to truthfully know about in comparison to some of the invented crap that gets placed in social media & other places by people with no clue these days.
I totally respect & understand your Dad's silent actions and am pretty much the same......isn't particularly macho bar talk to be used.
His actions say a lot about him in a respected way and my humble suggestion would be to not to push him for memories as they are probably buried in a place that he doesn't want to relive.
Awesome going on the songs again.
Well Dad has talked about it a few times but yeah definitely prefers other topics.
I also do something called the Mankind Project and have heard other men talk about their time in the army trying to squash protests in the townships during Apartheid, and it sounds awful.
That is awesome and I am glad he does.....probably a good release for him.
I would be interested to hear about the mankind project.
Yip, "urban coin" (riot control) was no fun on many levels and a uniform, gear and a rifle definately doesn't make one Rambo...especially as an eighteen year old.
A large group chanting and bearing down towards one with pangas etc or patrolling around on foot in pitch darkness in those sad places does unexplainable things to one on many levels including shitting your pants.
Any wannabe big talker about it these days that says they weren't nervous in the situations is a bullshitter in my humble opinion.
Fantastic post Jasper! I have a bit of fomo actually 🤣 I'm practicing "Zombie" though. Can't wait to give that a bash with you!
Hahaha - yes, let's restring that guitar and unleash you! Have you picked a key for Zombie? The original?
Yes. The original is perfect. I can't do the eh eh eh vocal switches in a lower key. I need to be warmed up first though so this can't be an opening song.
I'm just finding this now , what a wonderful set.
I threw my capo on the 5th fret and played along with your version of Zombie there. I've played this song before but you've reminded me I should keep it fresh , I don't think I have sang it on the 5th fret before ,it suits my voice to play it there. I will likely take this capo 5 version busking it is fun to play and sing and very memorable to most people.
That version of Masters of War using the Em ,G D progression is awesome. I stopped the video after hearing it and went and learned it myself. That's another fantastic one for a busking set.
I love the progression and melody you have for "God cries in thunder" some fantastic song writing there to.
Well done on a fantastic first post for the Three Tune Tuesday community , I'm very eager to read @ablaze s feedback on this. I would say its pretty likely you'll win this week :).
Ah my friend thank you so much for watching all of it! I really appreciate it!
Today is another Tuesday, have you gathered three songs together? I've decided to pick a theme for two covers and an original for as long as I have originals! Just shared this week's version a few hours ago.
Did you ever see my DADGAD post? Have you tried it out as an alternative tuning?
I'm currently pretty broke , I need new strings and a decent tuner before I can explore the DADGAD tuning. I use a tuner on my phone which doesn't really do alternate tunings, it only shows standard tuning. As soon as I have cash for strings and a tuner I will start learning DADGAD and Open G tuning, its on my to do list.
Ah cool you've posted a new Three tune set , I will go check it now.
I might do another TTT set next week, my last one earned me around $2 and change after the curation tax so I'm not super hyped to try again right now. I've been getting kind of frustrated with hive in general and struggling to find the motivation to do anything other than the weekly open mic but that might change.
Yes, I've noticed that apps like Guitartuna only offer standard tuning for free and you have to pay for 'Chromatic Tuning' - BUT, you can tune a guitar with a capo on it. So if I've lost my tuner, then a free phone app with a capo on the 2nd fret for tuning strings 6, 2 and 1 (while tuning strings 5, 4, and 3 without the capo) will do the trick.
I'm sorry to hear that, was it your first try at TTT? Yeah, I'm quite new to HIVE, but in the 4 or so months I've been on it, it always seems that the price slowly drops. I think it is a limited resource and more and more people will keep joining. If I think about it, in the future we might get less for our authored posts, but if we're already strong in staked HP we might still do well with curation... unless everything crashes of course!
What is frustrating you? I'm still so new that I treat it like a bit of a game... I haven't invested anything but some free time into it.
I've done quite a few three Tune Tuesday sets , my first one only made 26 cents so I guess the last one I did got 10x that amount... :)
The first one was Irish folk song inspired as many of them have been really...You can find it here, you will likely need to click the link to watch it on 3speak as older link embeds don't seem to work, this one is from way back in January.
https://hive.blog/hive-141487/@celticheartbeat/jellgddm
My second set did better earning around $23...The songs are "Blue Eyes Dancing" ,"Rats Get Fat" and "The Birmingham mill". All inspired by musicians I found on the GemsonVHS youtube channel.
https://hive.blog/hive-193816/@celticheartbeat/qxgfqckn
After that I tried a 3 song Bob Dylan inspired set that got around $43... The songs are "Ramblin Gamblin Willie" ,"Love Minus Zero/No Limits" and "Baby Blue".
https://hive.blog/hive-193816/@celticheartbeat/gmfcdpbe
After the Dylan set I went back to folk songs. This one only earned a couple of dollars again.. The songs in this set are- "Drill Ye Tarriers" / "The Islands" / "Kilkelly"
https://hive.blog/hive-193816/@celticheartbeat/udbnrdut
After that I was stuck for song set idea's and I didn't do a TTT set for around 4 months. I came back to it sometime in June with this set..."To Sing For You" by Donovon, "Majestic Shannon" by Shane McGowan , "If I had A Boat" by Lyel Lovett. I felt I had made quite a bit of progress between this set and the previous one. I guess its good to have a record of that here. This set made $37 and had me inspired enough to keep doing more.
https://hive.blog/hive-193816/@celticheartbeat/cljjcbuo
The set after it had the theme of songs of the sea ...It made around $6...
https://hive.blog/hive-193816/@celticheartbeat/iijkjkxv
After that I did "Dreams" by the Cranberries' . "Ghost Riders In The Sky" and a song called "If I go I'm goin"
https://hive.blog/hive-193816/@celticheartbeat/mhryjdxf
Next one was back to pure Irish folk songs with "Dublin In The Rare Old Times" "The Creggan White Hare" and "The Black Velvet Band". This set did pretty well earning $28
https://hive.blog/hive-193816/@celticheartbeat/danuwmky
My last TTT set was that Clancy Bros and Tommy Makem set that earned $5 and change before the curation Tax. So it looks like I have done 9 TTT sets in total so far.
Its actually been kind of helpful to look back over all the three song sets I've done this year. I will have a re-listen to all of them and try and throw another pure Irish folk song set together for next week. Having this list here helps me remember what I have already done.
Maybe you can draw some inspiration from these sets for your own future sets .I would love to hear your version of any of the songs I have played.
Yeah I think treating HIVE like a game is the best way to approach it .I'm just going to make the content I feel like making and if it makes some cash I will see it as a bonus. The falling value and inconsistent payouts is what has caused me to lack motivation lately.
That is interesting. Your rewards seemed to go up and down almost weekly - I wonder if it's not one or two very strong accounts acting on the advice of a single curator that makes all the difference?
Yeah its votes from big accounts like OCD, appreciator and Threespeak that make the most difference I think.
I'm pretty sure HIVEs value will go up again , it does currently seem undervalued. Around Christmas time last year HIVEs value was around the $2.50 - $3 mark .I had a payout of around $149 for a cover of Ed Sheerans Perfect at that time....I went mad with the money and drank a whole bottle of Jack Daniels on a Monday and bought another one on the Wednesday....It taught me that to much money from one song is probably not a good thing for me :).
Wow that does sound like a Scottish reaction to a nice payout! I'm new to HIVE but am trying to build up at least some HP so that my votes are worth a little something to other bloggers and myself, but I suppose not having to cash out is a luxury that could easily change in the South African economy.
I'm finding this week to be quite slow for my two most recent posts but I think I should just keep plugging away - it's hard to predict what will do well and what won't.
Yeah fully powering up your account is probably the best way to go about this especially in the first year and with hives value being around $0.50. In a year you can probably accumulate a few thousand units of hive just doing what your doing now.
I should probably switch to 100% power up for a year or so to .It would be interesting to see how much can be made in a average year here.
I see your TTT set this week has only a couple of dollars so far. I guess that will happen even with really high quality content .Maybe there is a certain quota of posts per community that get the big votes each day.
I will most likely take a shot at a new TTT set next week ,I've got at least 2 songs I want to share just trying to find a solid third one now.
Wowsers!!! What a cracker of a first Three Tune Tuesday set man, absolutely class, not only did you do great covers by two artists I admire, but you came here with a great theme as well and to top it all off, you gave us that original song, which I might add does not sound one bit out of place with the others. Loved the guitar solo that kicked in 12:14, pure class man, pure class.
Ah man thank you so much for the compliments and for providing the platform to share! It's a wonderful challenge to find and learn two songs that match a rough theme that I have written about, so I'm going to present my entries as two covers and an original for as long as I have originals! You will see I did so this week as well!
Thanks so much for the special mention of the original song... I'm still getting used to some of the toys that allowed me to do the solo over it! Looper and distortion, etc... But it's definitely worth practicing and opens up a whole new world of what I can achieve on my own. There's no need to stick to just guitar even... The looper has a microphone option too!