HIVE MUSIC FESTIVAL Week 31 First Round (ENG-ESP): "Desperation Lullaby!" (Original), feat "Toys"!
(Traducción al español al final del post)
Hello everybody on HIVE, and especially the Music Zone Community. My name is Jasper and I'm writing (and singing) to you from Cape Town in South Africa! Welcome to Week 31 / Round 1 of the Hive Music Festival!
After doing only original songs for the first 22 weeks, four weeks ago I started wearing the “Cover Hat of Shame”. (When I started playing music in public, one of the first places I went to was called the Barleycorn Music Club, which heavily encouraged that we try out our original songs on the audience. I even joined the organising committee to put on the little gigs for a while. So, my “cover hat of shame” joke originates from those days! Hahaha!)
But… I don’t want to just play any old cover for the Hive Music Festival! You guys are my friends and deserve something special… a special effort from me! So, I thought I would challenge myself like this: My main instruments are guitar and harmonicas: What if I had to ensure that for every cover I do for the Hive Music Festival over the next few weeks, that I must use a different instrument as well, to test my creativity and ability to learn and play with different new sounds?
And so – this week is the eighth instalment of a new series of HMF Entries called “Wacky Instrument of the Week”. Hahaha! Now I am going to look like a beginner! Which is fine! We are all friends here!
So far, we have had:
1.The Kazoo
2.The Pennywhistle
3.The Autoharp
4.The xylophone / glockenspiel
5.The Valiha (bamboo zither)
6.The ukelele
7.The piano sample sounds from the “Bongo Cat” Website
8.Random stuff I found in my kitchen
Now it is time for the ninth “Instrument of the Week” – My toddler daughter’s toys!
The first toy to show is the “rainstick” - it is like a long, complicated rattle where nails inside slow down the falling of the beads through the tube to make a sound like rain falling!
The other toy is a baby piano with 5 keys that cause a hammer to hit a metal bar to make a similar sound to a glockenspiel! This was very limiting for me, as the 5 notes (G, A#, C, D and D#) aren’t even the pentatonic scale!
I decided to (OFF WITH THE COVER HAT OF SHAME!) write my own song based on the limited kind of melody I could get out of the thing! Sometimes having limitations can force us to be creative – in fact that’s what I seem to be learning out of playing new instruments I don’t know very well every week!
The first stab at this new song is called “Desperation Lullaby”! A Lullaby is the kind of song you try to sing to your child to make them go to sleep! My poor toddler daughter has been sick this week, and my poor wife @juliabaker is incredibly tired, so it seems natural that this kind of song would come out of me this week… perhaps all you other parents can remember feeling like this?
Thank you so much for tuning in! What weird and wacky instrument will I tackle next week? I hope you join me and find out!
Lyrics for "Desperation Lullaby" by @jasperdick (Original)
Go to sleep my darling, no need to weep my darling, daddy is here, there’s nothing to fear
Go to sleep my darling, not a peep my darling, mommy is here, we’ll always be near
Stop with the stalling darling, your bed is calling darling, go back to sleep
No need for sorrow darling, we’ll play tomorrow darling, but first we sleep
(ESP)
Hola a todos en HIVE, y especialmente a la comunidad de Music Zone. ¡Mi nombre es Jasper y les escribo (y canto) desde Ciudad del Cabo en Sudáfrica! ¡Bienvenidos a la Semana 31 / Ronda 1 del Hive Music Festival!
Después de hacer solo canciones originales durante las primeras 22 semanas, hace cuatro semanas comencé a usar el “Cover Hat of Shame”. (Cuando comencé a tocar música en público, uno de los primeros lugares a los que fui fue el Barleycorn Music Club, que animaba mucho a probar nuestras canciones originales con la audiencia. Incluso me uní al comité organizador para poner el pequeño conciertos por un tiempo. Entonces, ¡mi broma sobre el "sombrero de la vergüenza" se originó en esos días! ¡Jajaja!)
Pero… ¡No quiero simplemente tocar cualquier versión antigua para el Hive Music Festival! Ustedes son mis amigos y merecen algo especial... ¡un esfuerzo especial de mi parte! Entonces, pensé en desafiarme a mí mismo así: Mis instrumentos principales son la guitarra y las armónicas: ¿Qué pasaría si tuviera que asegurarme de que por cada versión que haga para el Hive Music Festival durante las próximas semanas, debo usar un instrumento diferente como bueno, para poner a prueba mi creatividad y habilidad para aprender y jugar con diferentes sonidos nuevos?
Y así, esta semana es la octava entrega de una nueva serie de entradas de HMF llamada "Instrumento loco de la semana". ¡Jajaja! ¡Ahora me veré como un principiante! ¡Lo cual está bien! ¡Aquí todos somos amigos!
Hasta ahora, hemos tenido:
- El kazoo
- El silbato
- El autoarpa
- El xilófono / glockenspiel
- La Valiha (cítara de bambú)
- El ukelele
- Los sonidos de muestra de piano del sitio web “Bongo Cat”
- Cosas aleatorias que encontré en mi cocina
Ahora es el momento del noveno "Instrumento de la semana": ¡los juguetes de mi hija pequeña!
El primer juguete que se muestra es el "palo de lluvia": es como un sonajero largo y complicado donde los clavos en el interior ralentizan la caída de las cuentas a través del tubo para hacer un sonido como si estuviera cayendo la lluvia.
El otro juguete es un piano para bebés con 5 teclas que hacen que un martillo golpee una barra de metal para producir un sonido similar al de un glockenspiel. Esto fue muy limitante para mí, ya que las 5 notas (G, A#, C, D y D#) ¡ni siquiera son la escala pentatónica!
Decidí (¡FUERA EL SOMBRERO DE LA VERGÜENZA DE LA CUBIERTA!) escribir mi propia canción basada en el tipo limitado de melodía que podía obtener de la cosa. A veces, tener limitaciones puede obligarnos a ser creativos; de hecho, ¡eso es lo que parece que estoy aprendiendo al tocar nuevos instrumentos que no conozco muy bien cada semana!
¡La primera puñalada en esta nueva canción se llama “Desperation Lullaby”! ¡Una canción de cuna es el tipo de canción que intentas cantarle a tu hijo para que se duerma! Mi pobre hija pequeña ha estado enferma esta semana, y mi pobre esposa @juliabaker está increíblemente cansada, por lo que parece natural que este tipo de canción salga de mí esta semana... ¿Quizás todos los demás padres pueden recordar sentirse así?
¡Muchas gracias por sintonizarnos! ¿Qué instrumento extraño y loco tocaré la próxima semana? ¡Espero que te unas a mí y lo descubras!
Letra de "Desperation Lullaby" de @jasperdick (Original)
Ve a dormir mi amor, no hay necesidad de llorar mi amor, papi está aquí, no hay nada que temer
Ve a dormir mi amor, ni pío mi amor, mami está aquí, siempre estaremos cerca
Detente con el cariño, tu cama está llamando cariño, vuelve a dormir
No hay necesidad de tristeza cariño, jugaremos mañana cariño, pero primero dormimos
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Still going strong, no need for hat 🙂 a miracle to get internet to upload and prepare added to frustration of time to write and think!
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Ah but I take my hat rule very seriously - if I didn't write the song, the hat stays on!!!
Music cover is well done having ones own is not always a must 🙂
Some times I find words to qualify your talents...it seemed like am just looking for that which does not show in common.
But the truth is you're all encompassinwhas far as music is concern and this are lovely time. Of course, watching you is a lesson as well.
Weldon again @jasperdick for this great rendition.
#Bravo🤝🤝🤝
Thank you so much!
Again delighted and excited by your creativity and originality. We congratulate you for the great work presented. The Rain Stick creates an incredibly relaxing sensation. It's amazing how a toy piano can add a touch of tenderness to a performance. Standing applause.
interesante propuesta, eres el crackdel loop,en esta tarima musical. realmente me gusta muchos tus presentaciones bro. Bless
Como siempre una presentación genial!!!
Bendiciones para ti; por cierto felicidades por el triunfo de la semana pasada! bien hecho!
Dear friend this is a total marvel.
On a creative level it is genius and on the emotional side an immense wonderful gift for your baby, who I hope will get better soon 🙌🙏🥰.
God bless you immensely as a family and keep creating those wonders that only you create 🙌🙏🥰.
She was already on the mend! Now she is much better, but I can see the "terrible-twos" are coming! (Very cross if she can't get exactly what she wants - HAHA!)
Wow, Jasper!!
You ARE the best!! This was bl.. amazing..
You are such a great entertainer.. and you wrote this song just like that.. cooool!
I hope, you're baby gets better soon!
You are the Best! Thanks for always checking in! JA!!
Sehr gern geschehen, jawohl! 🤣😂🤣
It’s great being a dad! You remind me of me man. Haha I’m always making wacky sounds from my kids toys etc,
Loving the rain shaker on pan/phaser setting too, real nice 👌🏼
I’ve had a good few of these types of jam sessions at home, you managed to document a good one here dude
Love it.
I hope your little one is okay, my 3 are as mad as always
Peace brother
Sleep well @babyjasperdick hehehe
Thanks so much man! Haven't seen you post this week? We miss you!
Hey dude! Yeah the schools were off from Friday til Monday so we were off camping for all of it then took an extra day off to go to the beach and relax a bit more, cleaning and unpacking a lot today and yesterday, hadn’t had a chance to post,
Also I had a problem on hive I accidentally spammed a few extra comments and I almost lost 3 post payouts because of it, luckily I was able to redeem it all back today! :) 🙏 thank god. Haha.
Thanks for asking, how’s things your way? :)
Little Madison is much better! Becoming a bit of a sassy-pants but still absolutely adorable!
Other than that, the year seems to be flying by!!
Aw bro just wait til she’s 12-13 onwards, it’s just full-on sass and cheek “like/actually/literally/whatever” n all that! Hahaa, still adorable though 🤭
Vivian is going to be 13 this year, Julia is 8 and Ivan was 1 a couple for weeks ago :)
I hope to post again soon, so much material to work with and little time to produce.
Speak soon :) 👍