HIVE OPEN MIC Week 130 (Theme - Creativity & Freestyle): Creating a Song out of my Baby's Toys!
Hello everybody on Hive and especially the Hive Open Mic Community! My name is Jasper and I'm writing (and singing) to you from Cape Town South Africa!
This is Week 130 of the Hive Open Mic Challenge, and the theme for the week is "Creativity & Freestyle"! Usually I do the Hive Open Mic on my beautiful steel string acoustic guitar, but I got to thinking - how would you know if I was being creative and freestyling on the guitar, and not just playing something I know well?
So I decided not to play my guitar. What else could I make a song on? Luckily I have a baby daughter who loves noisy toys and so there are several of those lying around including a ukelele (a simple 4 string guitar), some shakers, a xylophone and some tin whistles! Plenty of instruments to make up a song about how my baby daughter will soon be a better musician than me!
On a serious note, she does seem to love music. When we are lucky enough to visit a friend with a piano she immediately worked out that different keys make different notes and she loved it! Her favourite toy at home is a harmonica, and she has worked out that breathing in makes different notes than breathing out and does both! Very clever! (Her mother loves it - hahaha!)
Lyrics
These are my baby daughter's toys
She is smarter than all the boys
'coz she plays them loud and she plays them bold
Even though she's only fourteen months old!
It won't be long before I see
That she'll be a better musician than me
So I'd better play the noisy toys too
And that's just what I'm going to do!
I'll see you next week! Probably back on guitar? Hahaha!
The End
▶️ 3Speak
Thanks for this creation.
It's really awesome!
I appreciate your creativity!!
Hello friend! Thank you!
Hahaha - you're playing original songs all the time! So far I'm trying to make sure that at least one of my "Three Tunes Tuesday" songs is an original, so I'd better get used to writing more before I run out!
Haha...
The path you said I sing most of original songs made me laugh.😂😂
I already composed the three songs I'll be dropping for tomorrow...
It took me the whole day to write the three songs.
See you there brother ❤️
Hope you are doing well too?
This is just pure creativity and love. I need to get a looper to do some of this nice recordings. It was an amazing self-jamming session. I think you made her a lullaby. Really cool job!
Ah thank you so much! Yes it does sound like a lullaby - perhaps I should specialize in making songs for children! All us new parents need all the help we can get when it comes to getting these little ones to sleep!
It was a fantastic job! Well, it cool me a nice way to keep the little ones engaged with music.
This is perfect. So creative and so fitting with this week's theme. Love it!😊
Ah yes, I'm always trying hard to fit into the theme of the week even if it means learning a new song or pulling an imperfect stunt like this! My personality is a bit of a perfectionist, but I find it is good to challenge that, and weekly deadlines like this helps a lot - I don't have the time to be perfect!
Wow, baby noisy toys, and making a song for hive open mic out of them! That is called creativity, well done, your entry is stunning! oh, so cute the metallophone sound. Love all of this!
Greetings to your daughters and good luck with jamming together with her :D
Ah! So you're saying the baby toys should come out again, even if the normal guitar is also in the mix? Haha!
By the way, there are some really talented multi-instrumentalists using loops on HIVE, like @elliptique or @cooperwhite. Be sure to check them out if you enjoy it!
Creativity should never stop - so toys, instruments and all can be still mixed hahaha
Yeah, I know both of them 🎶🎶
Listened to them and curated their posts not just once :) 💙
Amazing work man ,I listened to this as soon as I woke up while drinking my morning coffee. What a lovely start to the day.
Oh dear, both a tin whistle and a harmonica first thing before coffee? I do apologize!
Wow
This is so creative.
You are amazing friend 🥰🥰🥰🥰🎶
Thank you so much! Creativity and Freestyle was a pretty challenging theme! I try my best to stick to the theme no matter what!
You really tried.
That's so awesome of you.
This has been a true expression of creativity. Bro I take my hat off
Thank you so much! Yes I definitely had to be more creative this week! I am trying to stick to the weekly theme as best I can rather than just playing whatever I feel like! Haha... It's quite a challenge and I'm learning a lot!
for me you did excellent brother
what an absolute masterpiece.
Ah but you're the talented multi-instrumentalist! I have been watching you!
hahaha thank you!
Here is nice tice title. Also lovely profile, I am all about that. Good wholesome family stuff.
Did the title catch your attention? At least I'm being honest and actually did what I said!
Omg @JasperDick! This is crazy cool! Well done!
Saludos @jasperdick aplausos de pie👏👏👏🤗 me encantó este trabajo, aquí se respira es pura creatividad amigo. Excelente trabajo hiciste eres un gran músico y viendo los juguetes de tu hija será una gran artista. Felicidades 🎧🎧😊🎤😃🌷🥰🎹🌹🌿💫💯💢💖🎙️🌻🤗🌸✨❣️🌟💜🧡💚❤️💞
Greetings @jasperdick standing applause👏👏👏🤗 I loved this work, here you breathe is pure creativity friend. You did an excellent job, you are a great musician and seeing your daughter's toys she will be a great artist. congratulations
Wow how wonderful. The way, your creativity, your attitude, everything makes a perfect symmetry. I congratulate you bro. I love this kind of creations. It was very nice
Creative mix, Can't wait to see you playing together with your daughter :D