What I'm doing 3.0 - Second Special Comeback
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Well, I finally have my PC back, no PC since... June!. In the meantime I've done little things on the Internet here and there (not on my website, I needed my PC for there) So, surely I'll forget some website, but: www.myspace.com/oliversanzmusic www.reverbnation.com/oliversanz https://www.facebook.com/pages/Oliver-Sanz/268231993189368 Also I'm thinking of becoming my own manager. I was a guy who simply wrote songs. Then I decided to be my own singer, then my band, my recording studio, my webmaster... why not? however absurd it may seem.
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21st Century Paul:
Well, I finally have my PC back, no PC since... June!. In the meantime I've done little things on the Internet here and there (not on my website, I needed my PC for there) So, surely I'll forget some website, but: www.myspace.com/oliversanzmusic www.reverbnation.com/oliversanz https://www.facebook.com/pages/Oliver-Sanz/268231993189368 Also I'm thinking of becoming my own manager. I was a guy who simply wrote songs. Then I decided to be my own singer, then my band, my recording studio, my webmaster... why not? however absurd it may seem.
Great to hear you are back in the musical saddle! and whats this about being your own manager? of coure you are who's been managing you all this time? have you got any songs I should check out? I'm looking to hear good music at all times. anything good on Youtube? whats your fav on reverbnation?
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kapoo:
21st Century Paul:
Well, I finally have my PC back, no PC since... June!. In the meantime I've done little things on the Internet here and there (not on my website, I needed my PC for there) So, surely I'll forget some website, but: www.myspace.com/oliversanzmusic www.reverbnation.com/oliversanz https://www.facebook.com/pages/Oliver-Sanz/268231993189368 Also I'm thinking of becoming my own manager. I was a guy who simply wrote songs. Then I decided to be my own singer, then my band, my recording studio, my webmaster... why not? however absurd it may seem.
Great to hear you are back in the musical saddle! and whats this about being your own manager? of coure you are who's been managing you all this time? have you got any songs I should check out? I'm looking to hear good music at all times. anything good on Youtube? whats your fav on reverbnation?
No, I haven't been my own manager. If I were I would have do what managers do... Getting to know all the places for playing, calling them, hanging around.... if that's what they really do. I just have behaved like a musician not like a manager... (maybe I should wear an expensive dress and all that, like managers do... :lol I don't have any new stuff online, Pc problems...
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Actually, I've been trying to go further and creating my own venue. A friend of mine had a big home that was empty, so we planned to created a performing place there, but something got in the way. But I can still do it renting places and then performing there. The musicians I know here perform once every 3, 6 months if ever. And that seems very very boring to me, I'd rather go back to karaoke!.
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One of the hard disk of my PC is damaged. So I've lost a lot of things, especially 3 songs I was recording. So I'll have to start with them again. The cost of fixing the hard disk is something like a month of salary here. So I'm not gonna fix it. Maybe in the future if I want to recover my old stuff. Actually I'm gonna recover most of my stuff cause I have it everywhere, so I can download it back.
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21st Century Paul:
One of the hard disk of my PC is damaged. So I've lost a lot of things, especially 3 songs I was recording. So I'll have to start with them again. The cost of fixing the hard disk is something like a month of salary here. So I'm not gonna fix it. Maybe in the future if I want to recover my old stuff. Actually I'm gonna recover most of my stuff cause I have it everywhere, so I can download it back.
hell yeah you should recover your old stuff! I just completed a project like that. anyway though, if funds are low, you can do it down the road. I know I would have been sad to loose those old recordings of mine. so I'm sitting here doing nothing, point me at one of your favorite songs of yours. which one means the most to you? or just one you like to sing? I think I've listened to all of them already, but give me some insights! btw I see what you are saying about needing a manager. that sort of thing is more for a live performer, which you are more than me. for me, my manager is my wife actually and she's doing her job really poorly! I haven't worked in years
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kapoo:
21st Century Paul:
One of the hard disk of my PC is damaged. So I've lost a lot of things, especially 3 songs I was recording. So I'll have to start with them again. The cost of fixing the hard disk is something like a month of salary here. So I'm not gonna fix it. Maybe in the future if I want to recover my old stuff. Actually I'm gonna recover most of my stuff cause I have it everywhere, so I can download it back.
hell yeah you should recover your old stuff! I just completed a project like that. anyway though, if funds are low, you can do it down the road. I know I would have been sad to loose those old recordings of mine. so I'm sitting here doing nothing, point me at one of your favorite songs of yours. which one means the most to you? or just one you like to sing? I think I've listened to all of them already, but give me some insights! btw I see what you are saying about needing a manager. that sort of thing is more for a live performer, which you are more than me. for me, my manager is my wife actually and she's doing her job really poorly! I haven't worked in years
hmm... from the ones that I've recorded, You've got yourself, I like that one a lot. I was just walking through a corridor with the lights off at home. And that came to me "in/on the darkness realize..." all the melody, I sat at the piano and the song was already done. Even most of the lyrics too. I think I added some line recently... sometimes I think those lyrics are stupid, sometimes I think they're one of the best ever. Sure it's what I thought... not even thinking about it. At first, I was going to record it with piano, strings, etc but I thought that it should be anything but complex. Simple, lonely with my own, "just me" or so. That fits the lyrics. So it's only 2 unplugged electric guitar strings all the song.
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I've changed my old website. Now it's based on blogspot. Quite better to me, I think. If you write "www.oliversanz.com" or click in the banner below (I know it's upside down :lol, you'll be taken to the blogspot site. The new site puts together all my other sites (My Space, Youtube videos, Reverbnation, etc.) I think it's better this way.
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http://www.reverbnation.com/main/bes_chart?artist_id=1692787&genre=Pop&genre_geo=National Spain's pop charts in reverbnation now. #68, going up 15. Thank you very much. Everytime someone listens to my music there, the rank goes up or so. (I don't know how it is really...) I'll be satisfied when I'm above Enrique Iglesias!. I I I I like it.
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Hey whats up Ollie! Man you have some really good songs, good melodies in all of them. Just wanted to let you know I really like that song I?m Gonna Fall In Love Today. The verses are amazing, I love the melody with those chords, really big sounding and comforting. I need to look at the lyrics but the melodies are sweet. that one sounds really familiar to me in the verses somehow. Wait, so did you say you are in the Spain pop charts? You?re #68?! Do you have a record out? Btw where?s Enrique ranked? Btw I like the song you mentioned too, You Have Yourself. That?s totally a melody I just wouldn?t think of. And you can do little things vocally that make that song. Good stuff there!! do you have more originals than what it posted on Reverbnation? do you still write stuff?
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kapoo:
Hey whats up Ollie! Man you have some really good songs, good melodies in all of them. Just wanted to let you know I really like that song I?m Gonna Fall In Love Today. The verses are amazing, I love the melody with those chords, really big sounding and comforting. I need to look at the lyrics but the melodies are sweet. that one sounds really familiar to me in the verses somehow. Wait, so did you say you are in the Spain pop charts? You?re #68?! Do you have a record out? Btw where?s Enrique ranked? Btw I like the song you mentioned too, You Have Yourself. That?s totally a melody I just wouldn?t think of. And you can do little things vocally that make that song. Good stuff there!! do you have more originals than what it posted on Reverbnation? do you still write stuff?
thank you. I mean the Reverbnation charts. That site with 1638000 artists... and growing. Enrique Iglesias is #3 I think. There's a different version of You've Got Yourself where the vocals are different. No flourish, it's more simple than the recording and faster, but I changed what I writed. Well, I didn't think of that melody either It just came to me, as most of what I write. More originals?, I don't know how many really, something like 300-400 songs. I keep writing, this morning I've wrote 2 song parts, for instance. I wasn't "writing" really, I just started singing something and I liked it. That's how I use to do it. I play something or I sing something (or sing it in my mind) and it's created.
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I'm back to music after a rest... and so I have lot of ideas, too many really. Some will be stupid and some will be great, as usual. Only time will tell. -Form a band. Instead of JOINING a band. I mean searching for the musicians myself. -Record my 3 lost songs on the hard disk crash -Doing a video for You've Got Yourself. Or maybe 2, one with only pics and one that will be a little movie really, now I can't do it cause my video doesn't suck. -Karaoking something. We are the world solo. My only problem is the part where Stevie Wonder and Springsteen answer each other. -Doing a "classical work".... I think that's for Paul, If I want to do something labeled as classical music I'm not gonna resist the temptation of adding something out the box inside of it. I don't get much the need of separating pieces in "classical" and "rock and roll" except for playing live I guess, Paul doesn't play much of his new stuff anyway.
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21st Century Paul:
-Doing a "classical work".... I think that's for Paul, If I want to do something labeled as classical music I'm not gonna resist the temptation of adding something out the box inside of it. I don't get much the need of separating pieces in "classical" and "rock and roll" except for playing live I guess, Paul doesn't play much of his new stuff anyway.
from what I've heard of your music I bet you could do some sweet classical peices. you have an ear for the melodic lines and backings I think it would take. you know what would be cool, to try to make an orchestral peice using a synthesizer. all the strings, horns, whatever you wanted to include. One day I would like to try to do that myself. along this line of thinking, it makes sense to me what Paul has gotten into classic (so has Billy Joel for that matter). its just something different to do, where you can create something very different. you should do that Ollie! I;m curious how you would approach it. would you just use a synth for the instruments, recording with an app on your computer? sorry if I asked you this before, but what recording program do you use?
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kapoo:
21st Century Paul:
-Doing a "classical work".... I think that's for Paul, If I want to do something labeled as classical music I'm not gonna resist the temptation of adding something out the box inside of it. I don't get much the need of separating pieces in "classical" and "rock and roll" except for playing live I guess, Paul doesn't play much of his new stuff anyway.
from what I've heard of your music I bet you could do some sweet classical peices. you have an ear for the melodic lines and backings I think it would take. you know what would be cool, to try to make an orchestral peice using a synthesizer. all the strings, horns, whatever you wanted to include. One day I would like to try to do that myself. along this line of thinking, it makes sense to me what Paul has gotten into classic (so has Billy Joel for that matter). its just something different to do, where you can create something very different. you should do that Ollie! I;m curious how you would approach it. would you just use a synth for the instruments, recording with an app on your computer? sorry if I asked you this before, but what recording program do you use?
that's kind of what I mean, a full orchestra piece. Cause I have already written pieces that are only for piano or only strings. Actually I'm not much with the label "classical" or not. So, if I write something with a full orchestra and, let's say also an electric guitar... is that not classical? because the electric guitar is an instrument created on the 20th century and the piano was created on the 19th century??? That's what it's "not like me", as Paul would say. I wrote a symphony long time ago, I was 14, I think. In the end I sort of put the highlights of it into part of a 9 minute song, think John Miles' "Music". I use Cubasis VST, 20th century stuff, simple but it works for me, I don't need many options. Knowing me, I couldn't resist to include some instrument from the 20th century and beyond. It would be a challenge. Full orchestra it would be too much for me.... I refrain to record my most complicated stuff, the one with more instruments and more parts. Cause it takes me ten times longer to record that a "simple song". So, what I show the most is my simplest stuff. I wrote recently a string quartet, that would do, for instance.
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on my way to the Toppermost of the Poppermost part 453 I'm finally in the top 10 of the Barcelona pop charts (reverbnation, the internet chart) http://www.reverbnation.com/main/bes_chart?artist_id=1692787&genre=Pop&genre_geo=Local the others are not bad at all, if you stop and listen
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21st Century Paul:
I wrote a symphony long time ago, I was 14...
I?m going to start calling you Mozart man, you should for sure record that piece you wrote at age 14, thats the first thing you ever wrote? I?m all about that early stuff. Cause your ear was pure imagination, not refined or taught at all, you know? I?d love to hear that! You should do it. wait, did you say symphony? how many instrumental parts?? My first song was a song called Hear Me Now, its the basic chords I use in my instrumental track Bird Dog 99. lyrics were okay? but it was the first effort, you know http://www.youtube.com/user/KPU1977#p/u/37/CB0P4Vas090
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kapoo:
21st Century Paul:
I wrote a symphony long time ago, I was 14...
I?m going to start calling you Mozart man, you should for sure record that piece you wrote at age 14, thats the first thing you ever wrote? I?m all about that early stuff. Cause your ear was pure imagination, not refined or taught at all, you know? I?d love to hear that! You should do it. wait, did you say symphony? how many instrumental parts?? My first song was a song called Hear Me Now, its the basic chords I use in my instrumental track Bird Dog 99. lyrics were okay? but it was the first effort, you know http://www.youtube.com/user/KPU1977#p/u/37/CB0P4Vas090
Mozart? it's ok with me. Some called me McCartney in that age... (it was ok with me too ) that's pretty the origin of my nick here. It was not the first thing I wrote at all. Actually that was my 100th song!. I called it "Opus 100", go figure. The previous 99 were all songs but I wanted to do something special for #100. It's one of my favs, I guess I'll record it someday, the song with the symphony inside, I like it more than the symphony without the rest. I don't think I wasn't unlearnt then... not unlearnt at composing. I think it had 4 instrumental parts. Well, the final version had 4 parts, I wrote more. The first I can remember to have written was being 8, I think. I'm not sure, I know my sister wasn't born yet and I'm 8 years and a half years older than her. And I still like the song, it's special to me. It was already written in English!. The stuff I wrote first sounds more like copying other people. At first copying the radio hits of the 80s, then the Beatles, then Queen, etc. I wrote this one on 1991 or so, I was 13 or 14. The older song I've recorded. http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_9165717
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21st Century Paul:
The stuff I wrote first sounds more like copying other people. At first copying the radio hits of the 80s, then the Beatles, then Queen, etc.
Thats interesting Ollie, seems like you're saying when you first started you were more copying people when you wrote. I honestly can say I don't think that's how I began. I think I was influenced by the feelings I got from other artists songs, but my earliest songs were very original, no copying consciously at all, straight from the heart. I think the older I've gotten the more I'm copying, or drawing inspiration directly from 0ther songs and bands. strange. I almost write songs with bands in mind now. Paralyze and Oh I I was trying to write for Angels & Airwaves Weaving and Be Just Fine, I had Sublime in mind. Hum was McCartney. Lights of Lime wasn't really anyone but I wrote it just after discovering Jason Mraz. Thinking about that sort of thing provides inspiration for me, or a challenge or some kind of game to play writing a song. I think its because my various passions and really strong feelings are sort of dwindling.. so I have to manufacture the songs more. sad really I like the song you posted, pretty melody. I like how you end phrases vocally. very subtle qualities. damn, you've written a lot of songs then 21st!! now are you counting instrumental songs too? or all with words? do most of yours have words?
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kapoo:
21st Century Paul:
The stuff I wrote first sounds more like copying other people. At first copying the radio hits of the 80s, then the Beatles, then Queen, etc.
Thats interesting Ollie, seems like you're saying when you first started you were more copying people when you wrote. I honestly can say I don't think that's how I began. I think I was influenced by the feelings I got from other artists songs, but my earliest songs were very original, no copying consciously at all, straight from the heart. I think the older I've gotten the more I'm copying, or drawing inspiration directly from 0ther songs and bands. strange. I almost write songs with bands in mind now. Paralyze and Oh I I was trying to write for Angels & Airwaves Weaving and Be Just Fine, I had Sublime in mind. Hum was McCartney. Lights of Lime wasn't really anyone but I wrote it just after discovering Jason Mraz. Thinking about that sort of thing provides inspiration for me, or a challenge or some kind of game to play writing a song. I think its because my various passions and really strong feelings are sort of dwindling.. so I have to manufacture the songs more. sad really I like the song you posted, pretty melody. I like how you end phrases vocally. very subtle qualities. damn, you've written a lot of songs then 21st!! now are you counting instrumental songs too? or all with words? do most of yours have words?
All with words, only I don't finish the lyrics until I'm about to record them (like most of the people do, I think, even Dylan). I write the music and some lyrics and that remains... that's it... written. If I ever record it, I need to end all the details, you know, all the lyrics, etc. Actually some parts are created while recording!. The original melody, the one I write being a teen, didn't have all those phrases ending, it was faster but doing it slower leaves blanks and it makes me want to that. The song would be the same without it though. hmm... that's an interesting topic, written inspired/copying or not. Let me check a little... Well, the last thing I've written may seem similar to something but I didn't create them inspired in someone. Do you know what i mean? Recent things: I wrote a riff I liked, and it's similar to the Stones riffs but I realized afterwards. Etc. I actually checking the last thing I've written and I see I now think of a style but not of a particular musician. So I'm a weird mix of styles. Sometimes a mix of styles in the same song. If I go back it wasn't exactly copying some artist but some songs, like "I want to write my Hey Jude", kind of what you're doing now. Lots do that, Paul himself wanted to write his Bridge Over Troubled Water and he wrote Let It Be. You've Got Yourself was straight from the heart. One can see a McCartney influence in the kind of melody. Virtually all what I wrote then was very Macca influenced... "something like Lady Madonna", "something like Penny Lane", so maybe not much straight from the heart. Now in me, is more like, I'm gonna do just what will pop on my mind. So I write songs with sudden changes of style, "Little Bohemian Rhapsodies", stream of consciousness they say. Pretty uncomercial I don't know if one way is sadder or worse than the other. Recently I wanted to wrote a 60's Dylan kind of song and I sort of did but that wasn't me. It was me playing Dylan, impersonating his songwriting. I prefer my own weirdness. I'm writing a lot... to sum it up. In my early days I wrote thinking of a style too but I never went too far (until that Opus 100 perhaps). Like "now a ballad, McCartney like", now a rocker. And now it's more "let's see what happens" this could start like Black Sabbath and end like Barry Manilow. THAT'S ME. I feel that the other way it's sort of an exercise for me, just like If I think "now I'm gonna sing like Roy Orbison" but that's not me really. I think that Paul himself faces today the songs he writes the way you do, "now I'm gonna do Roy Orbison/You Tell Me", now it's kind of a Wings number, this one will be more like The Beatles, etc. But I follow that peculiar other way. "A day in the life"ish, Hey Jude ish or You look at the number ish... But I could go back any time. I had some age where all the songs I wrote were kind of 7 minute long, I got bored and I decided to write 2 minute songs... IF ALL THIS MAKE SENSE, not a usual discussion for me.
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Makes sense to me! I always enjoy hearing about artists artistic process, so thanks for divulging your secrets I shall use them wisely just kidding man, you and I have a lot in common in terms of how we look at songs. . You should do what I did; just start breaking out the webcam and mic and hook us up with some of your songs on YouTube. Fresh takes as they say. That?s totally what you should do! just so I could hear them easily Its fun trying to write songs in various styles, its all about the rhythm for me. Great call on You Tell Me being done by Roy Orbison! Is that known that he did that? I never heard that, but I?d believe it. I remember I said I think he mis-produced You Tell Me, I hear uptempo and rocky style. The vocal on it isn?t one of Paul?s best, still good but surprised they didn?t have a better take. speeding up the tempo would help the vocal too, as all notes wouldn't have to be like delicately held..