I Feel You Move - Studio version!

I threw this recording together real quick this afternoon. Kinda rough, but it should still get you moving.  :)  Enjoy!


Bel isi,
-kyle

Come Rescue Me - Studio version!

Just something I've been working on a bit the last week.  Hopefully I'll be able to get some quality recordings of more of my original songs.  Enjoy!


Bel isi,
-kyle

Titanium - SOTM # 12

Last cover song of 2012.  It's been a busy last few weeks.  So busy I haven't had a chance to write anything, and I've barely had time to learn these covers.  I think next year I won't put myself on any particular schedule for putting out new videos or anything.  I've started a new job, in addition to my other job, so my weekdays are all but occupied.  I'll always be making music though.

For my final cover song of 2012 I chose a song that I've been enjoying lately.  It's a bit of an unorthodox choice for an "enlightened" acoustic guitar player, perhaps, but since I'm not enlightened I figured I'd just go for it.  So I present the techno-pop hit "Titanium" from the DJ David Guetta, who had aussie singer Sia collaborate on the vocals for the original, released last year.  It's a current hit on pop radio stations.  Hope you like it.


Bel isi,
-kyle

Weekend thoughts

I had so many thoughts flying through my head on Friday as I drove home from the elementary school I work at listening to the news reports. Reading and hearing the varied reactions from people over the weekend only added to the confusion.

In the wake of a tragedy like this it's easy to jump up and point at any number of things that could be the cause of the issue, whether it be guns, mental illness, parents, society, etc. It then becomes even easier to then try and force a political solution. The fact of the matter is that none of these things cause such tragedies. They are merely scapegoats for the fact that sin is present in the world and we (Christians) have the responsibility to share the truth of the redemption we've already come to know.

Now, a skeptic may ask, "Why, then, does God allow bad things to happen to good people?" But I have a feeling that if we were to ask that to God directly He'd respond to us with the same question (although He'd probably leave out the "good" part, you know, that love your enemies stuff). That may seem like a pretty daunting response, but we are NOT insignificant to the course of human events.


Bel isi,
-kyle

Just the Way You Are - SOTM #11

A bit of an upbeat cover of a great Billy Joel song.  Not much to say about this one except I really enjoy it.  Sometimes that's all that matters.


Bel isi,
-kyle

Still Crazy After All These Years - STOM #10

Some of you know I'm a huge Paul Simon fan.  Some of the first songs I learned to play on guitar were from a Simon and Garfunkel greatest hits collection.  I consider Simon among the top songwriters.  There was always one of his songs that I really REALLY enjoyed but never found an arrangement that I could play... until now.  I present my cover of "Still Crazy After All These Years."

This is not an easy song.  It's was a major pain in the butt to get the bridge to sound right, particularly.  That said, I'm pretty happy with where I'm at with it.  It needs a bit more polish and/or confidence, but it's getting there.  Cheers!


Bel isi,
-kyle

Incomplete (original) - STOM #10

Another month is coming to a close, so another original song must have been written.  Yup! My resolution to write a song every month in 2012 continues!  This month I put some polish on a song I wrote a number of years ago for an assignment in a songwriting class I was taking in college.  For the assignment, each member of the class submitted a line or two of lyrics and we each had to write a love song that included all of the lines the class had come up with.  We put it to our own music and could put the lines in any order and add things to flesh things out, but each line from my classmates and me had to be included.

The song I put together for that class came out well enough, but there were a few lines that I never really liked.  So now that the class is long completed I tweaked some of the lyrics and worked the music a bit to churn out this new recycled song. :)  Lyrics can be found on YouTube or under the "Lyrics" tab above.  Cheers!


Bel isi,
-kyle