Statistics Project

As nothing more than filler, I’m showing you my statistics project. I’d never tried to do a multi-track recording of myself like this, so I kept the song simple (3 chords total).

Let me know what you think.

More posts will come starting June 4th

The very end of my formal education is in a few weeks, and I’ve been trying to pass my classes so I can keep it that way. For this reason, I haven’t posted recently.

Coming shortly will be a video about how I sleep in my Accord, as well as more music. Keep checking in. Thanks.

So this post has some content, here’s a video I did for my government class. I had to make a video about William Taft. Apparently President Taft was too large for the White House bathtub and had to get a new one installed. This is always mentioned in history books, for some reason.

“Welcome to heaven, here’s your harp. Welcome to hell, here’s your accordion.”

I love the sound of the accordion. Though most-often heard in traditional German/Italian folk, it still sounds great in modern music. The notion that the accordion’s unique timbre is unpleasant both confuses and entertains me. Here’s an excerpt from Wiki’s article on the accordion:

While the accordion is a versatile instrument and is widely played throughout the world, it is not universally respected. The 1954 Edition of Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians describes the accordion as producing “quite the most unpleasant musical sound ever devised by the inventor’s and the instrument maker’s ingenuity”. The instrument has been the butt of jokes at least since 1866, when the French painter and cartoonist, Honoré Daumier (1808-1879), created by zincography a picture published in Le Journal Amusant of an accordionist and a man playing snooker who stated in the caption: “One does not yet have the right to kill the people who play this instrument, but there is hope that we will soon get it.” A more recent 1986 jibe is one from Gary Larson, author of The Far Side, who drew a cartoon with the dialogues: “Welcome to heaven, here’s your harp. Welcome to hell, here’s your accordion.”

So what’s my deal with accordions? Well, I’d been wanting to get one for a while, and I just did. I bought it off Craigslist four days ago and am still figuring out how everything works. The best thing about the accordion for me is portability. After playing only the piano for most of my life, I really appreciate being able to create music somewhere other than my house’s dining room.

So, that is what Chris and I did today. We usually write our band’s music outside, but this was the first time writing something that included accordion. Laurel Mountain’s (the elementary school where Chris and I went to) playground is nice because there are usually some people there, but it’s empty enough so that we aren’t disturbing them, although there was once a little kid who let us know we were disturbing him by throwing sand at us.

This is what we came up with today. It was written rather quickly. I hope you enjoy the song, although it is unfinished and is lacking trumpet and bass parts, which are typically provided by Jayhee and Kevin, respectively.