(Traducción al español al final del post)
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!
Welcome to Week 8 / Round 2 of the Hive Music Festival! A massive thank you to @edwardstobia for giving us another 3 weeks! I am stoked!
Today I am singing to you from the backseat of my car, in my office parking lot! I work full time for a renewable energy development company. I usually cannot record my videos for HIVE during the night because I have a beautiful baby daughter who needs her sleep! My usual solution is to record during lunch on the days I work from home. However, this week we are being visited by our German managing director and so I am coming into the office every day this week! I didn’t want to miss out on posting a song, so I brought my guitar along in the car to work and nipped out to sing for you in the car park during lunch! Hahaha!
Unfortunately, the acoustics are not quite as good as when I have sung in my bathroom, and definitely not as good as my normal plan of singing and playing into my little amp!
Last week I talked a bit about how I sometimes write songs in an alternative tuning called DADGAD (as opposed to the standard guitar tuning of EADGBE). I then played one of my up-tempo blues-rock songs. Today I would like to show you how DADGAD sounds when I play in a more conventional major key… If you play guitar and have never tried DADGAD… I explain the basics in this post so please give it a try! @jasperdick/music-live-original-and-cover
Today’s original song is called “Every Friday Night?” I call it my High-School Musical song because it describes that teenage angst of trying to gather the courage to ask that girl to dance at something like the School Dance! (I was a very shy teenager and young man! Luckily on the day I met my beautiful wife, she made it clear that I was welcome to talk to her or I might never have got up the courage! Haha!)
I hope you enjoy it the song and notice how the tuning allows me to sound fuller (with open strings ringing in the root notes) and also allows me to do some riffs, even while strumming the root chord! It is a song I often sing with the help of my friend @clairemobey in our collaborative duo called MobeyDick – here’s a video of how it sounds then:
Before I go: Please look out for my weekly cover request post on Thursday! If you make a song request in the comments, and then I attempt the song, you get rewarded with 50% of that post's rewards in HP! Please have a think about what song you would like me to tackle for you?
Lyrics for "Every Friday Night?" by @jasperdick (original)
Here I stand against the wall again
Here I stand, I’m terrified again
It’s the same thing, every Friday night
I’m wondering if the words will come out right… Oh girl…
Do you want to dance with me, do you want to dance with me tonight?
Do you want to dance with me, do you want to dance with me tonight?
I hope you do…
It’s the same girl since we started high school
She’s gorgeous, she’s funny and she’s cool
Yes I know, I know that’s she’s my friend
But feelings grow and now I can’t pretend… Oh no… girl…
Do you want to dance with me, do you want to dance with me tonight?
Do you want to dance with me, do you want to dance with me tonight?
I hope you do…
Do you see me standing here?
Do you even know I care for you?
Do you want to dance with me, do you want to dance with me tonight?
Do you want to dance with me, do you want to dance with me tonight?
I hope you do…
(ESP)
Hola a todos en HIVE, y especialmente a la Comunidad Musical. Me llamo Jasper y os escribo (y canto) desde Ciudad del Cabo, Sudáfrica.
¡Bienvenidos a la Semana 8 / Ronda 2 del Festival de Música Hive! ¡Un enorme agradecimiento a @edwardstobia por darnos otras 3 semanas! ¡I am stoked!
Hoy os canto desde el asiento trasero de mi coche, en el aparcamiento de mi oficina. Trabajo a tiempo completo para una empresa de desarrollo de energías renovables. Normalmente no puedo grabar mis vídeos para HIVE durante la noche porque tengo una hija preciosa que necesita dormir. Mi solución habitual es grabar durante la comida los días que trabajo desde casa. Sin embargo, esta semana recibimos la visita de nuestro director general alemán, ¡así que voy a venir a la oficina todos los días de esta semana! No quería perderme la oportunidad de publicar una canción, así que me he traído la guitarra en el coche al trabajo y he salido a cantar para vosotros en el aparcamiento durante la comida. Jajaja.
Por desgracia, la acústica no es tan buena como cuando he cantado en mi cuarto de baño, y definitivamente no tan buena como mi plan normal de cantar y tocar en mi pequeño amplificador.
La semana pasada hablé un poco de cómo a veces escribo canciones en una afinación alternativa llamada DADGAD (en contraposición a la afinación de guitarra estándar de EADGBE). Luego toqué una de mis canciones de blues-rock. Hoy me gustaría mostrarte cómo suena DADGAD cuando toco en una tonalidad mayor más convencional... Si tocas la guitarra y nunca has probado DADGAD... ¡En este post explico lo básico, así que no dudes en probarlo! @jasperdick/music-live-original-and-cover
La canción original de hoy se llama "Every Friday Night?". La llamo mi canción de High-School Musical porque describe esa angustia adolescente de intentar reunir el valor para sacar a bailar a esa chica en algo como ¡el Baile de la Escuela! (¡Era un adolescente y un joven muy tímido! Por suerte, el día que conocí a mi bella esposa, me dejó claro que era bienvenido a hablar con ella, de lo contrario, ¡nunca me habría atrevido! Jaja).
Espero que os guste la canción y que os deis cuenta de que la afinación me permite sonar más lleno (con las cuerdas al aire sonando en las notas fundamentales) y también me permite hacer algunos riffs, ¡incluso mientras rasgueo el acorde fundamental! Es una canción que canto a menudo con la ayuda de mi amigo @clairemobey en nuestro dúo colaborativo llamado MobeyDick - aquí hay un vídeo de cómo suena entonces:
Antes de irme Por favor, ¡estén atentos a mi post semanal de peticiones de covers el jueves! Si haces una petición de canción en los comentarios, y luego yo intento la canción, ¡te recompensaré con el 50% de las recompensas de ese post en HP! Por favor, piensa qué canción te gustaría que versionara para ti.
Letra de "Every Friday Night?" de @jasperdick (original)
Aquí estoy contra la pared otra vez
Aquí estoy de pie, estoy aterrorizado de nuevo
Es lo mismo, cada viernes por la noche
Me pregunto si las palabras saldrán bien... Oh chica...
¿Quieres bailar conmigo, quieres bailar conmigo esta noche?
¿Quieres bailar conmigo, quieres bailar conmigo esta noche?
Espero que sí...
Es la misma chica desde que empezamos el instituto
Es guapa, divertida y guay.
Sí, lo sé, sé que es mi amiga.
Pero los sentimientos crecen y ahora no puedo fingir... Oh no... chica...
¿Quieres bailar conmigo, quieres bailar conmigo esta noche?
¿Quieres bailar conmigo, quieres bailar conmigo esta noche?
Espero que sí...
¿Me ves aquí de pie?
¿Sabes siquiera que me importas?
¿Quieres bailar conmigo, quieres bailar conmigo esta noche?
¿Quieres bailar conmigo, quieres bailar conmigo esta noche?
Espero que sí...
Traducción realizada con la versión gratuita del traductor www.DeepL.com/Translator
▶️ 3Speak
Well done for overcoming the challenges of parenthood! 😆 Kids (and especially babies) really do force you to get creative.
Thanks for the daily dose of music, discovering new songs is always fun!
Don't forget you are still allowed to ask for more cover requests on Thursdays! Another one of those posts coming out tomorrow!
Waooo!!! You have surprised me because this time you are in the car performing the piece and that's great, congratulations for that!
Just the fact that you brought your performance despite your busy schedule shows the commitment you have to the Festival and the community.
Beautiful piece of music, that guitar sounded better than ever, congratulations! I look forward to listening to you in the car, you sound great xD!
Blessings!
Hahaha - thank you! Yes I think the guitar is a very nice one that probably sounds better unplugged!
So natural! Nice one bro
Thank you very much!
Wooo bro!! Amazing!!
Hermosa canción, espectacular tu presentación para esta semana 8 del #HMF
<3
¡Muchos gracias! ¡Realmente lo aprecio! ¡Espero que la letra traducida tenga sentido!
I find it very funny but at the same time I think you are very brave and passionate about making music in your car, I admire you for what you do, because you write beautiful songs, how great to have such excellent musicians like you.
... and excellent musicians like you as well!! You've definitely been a star of the HMF!
What a joy that music accompanies you wherever you go. For us, the public of this great Hive Music Festival, it is a great privilege to have you every week and to know that it doesn't even stop you from going to the office, it is to admire and above all, to applaud. This shows us that you are a true lover of music and sharing it with the rest of the world. Thank you, my friend. Your song, again, is great. I love the beat. I'd love to try if I can take it to Spanish and cover it. I'll let you know if I manage to do it... Of course, if I manage to do it, all the credit for that post will go to you.
That would be amazing for you to try it in Spanish! I guess there might have to be some adjustment to the translated lyrics to make them fit the music!
The music structure is quite easy:
Verse and Chorus: Dmaj / Gmaj
The "Oh Girl" part: Emin / Gmaj / Amaj
The "Do you see me standing here?" part: Bmin / Amaj / Gmaj /Amaj
And then a capo on 1st fret to make it actually D#maj / G#maj (etc) - but pick a key that suits you.
I've never tried it in standard tuning but I think the DADGAD tuning helps a lot in making it sound full. It's not hard! Here's my post explaining the DADGAD chord shapes I use again:
@jasperdick/music-live-original-and-cover
Among the challenges of a musician is adapting to any stage, which you do incredibly. This song is very beautiful in its melody, and the lyrics seem incredible to me, they have a connection with reality and everyday life. Congratulations and a round of applause!
!LUV
@jasperdick, @yisusth(3/10) sent you LUV.
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