"Hot For Teacher"

Happy New Year!!!!

How did you spend the first day of the new year? I was playing the guitar then, and completed a new cover song, so I look forward to you visiting this blog site and watching my cover songs!!!

 

Today I'm going to write about the famous guitarist, Edward Van  Halen!! Do you know him?

 

 

 

Although more than half of the young people in the world probably don't know him and his band, they must know the song, "JUMP" because it is a very famous song that has reached the number 1 position on the Billboard Chart and the first chords of the song are so famous!!

 

Edward Van Halen is a super famous guitarist in the world from California, U.S.A., and he is 59 years old (born 1955) now. He was called the new super guitarist in the world of music when he was only 21. His older brother, Alex Van Halen plays drums in the same band.

 

Last June of 2014, Van Halen came to Japan to play a concert at Tokyo Dome so I got a ticket before the day. Everyone in the dome could take pictures and videos on their cellphones or digital cameras because the Official Van Halen Site allows taking videos or pictures, so I took a video then and I uploaded it onto YouTube for this post.

 

This time, I uploaded the cover song, "Hot For Teacher," which was on the Billboard Hot 100 in the 1980's. (This is the original video, not a cover video.)

The song is the most technical instrument song of all I've ever covered, so it was so difficult and I took the video many times. The intro is starting with the tapping technique that was developed by Eddie Van Halen.

 

This cover song is covered by me and the bassist, Kenji, who collabed with me on the last post.
Please watch our cover video!!

 

 

"Last Christmas"

Hi! December has come at last and Christmas is close, too. What will you do on that day? Although I'm going to go to an amusement park with my girlfriend on Christmas day, I have to play at three gigs and I have many part-time jobs in the same month, so it's so busy. But I don't dislike doing those live performances.

Today, I covered the Taylor Swift version of the famous song "Last Christmas."
Though my first post was also about her song, I didn't tell you much about her, so I'm going to do that now! You know Taylor Swift is a female country and pop singer-songwriter, actress and model, from Pennsylvania, U.S.A. She was born on December 13, 1989, so she is now 24 and will be 25 soon! By the way the queen of the country singers, Shania Twain, follows her, so Taylor may be the next queen of country singers!!

Recently, on the Billboard Hot 100, Taylor's new song "Blank Space" is in 1st position, and the song "Shake It Off" was at the same rank as last week. Her newest Album '1989' includes these songs.
The song she covers is not on the Hot 100  Billborad Chart, but you know it's December now and the day is coming soon, so I chose it. Originally "Last Christmas" is from the artist Wham!, and Taylor covers the song, so it's that I covered the song that she covered! Taylor Swift's version is 1/2 step down from standard tuning, so be careful if you try to add a guitar instrument part.

Please watch our cover video!

The next cover song is the song "Hot For Teacher" from Van Halen!! This song will be the most technical song I have ever covered and I'm going to colab with Kenji, like this time!! 

"FANTASTIC BABY"

Hi! Next week I'd like to colab a song on YouTube with bassist Kenji Tanaka who is one year older than me. His followers on YouTube are about 400. It's great for me whose followers are only 11, bacause I believe that I'll get more followers with him. I pasted his YouTube address below.↓↓

http://www.youtube.com/user/Kenji00LittleWorlds

By the way, I've never pasted my YouTube address so I did mine below too!!!

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC5uOSIUuAeI_lrKc0fRx6mA

Today I covered the song "Fantastic Baby" from BIGBANG.

BIGBANG is a Korean electro pop idol group that consists of G-DRAGON, SOL, T.O.P., D-LITE and V.I. In Korean "BIGBANG is written as "빅뱅." The total number of views of the song is about 123 million on YouTube!! There are 50 million people in Korea, so if this video is watched by only Korean people, it is that each one of them viewed it twice!!

I covered the song using the Karaoke of it, so it was easy to cover because usually I had to make my own Karaoke. The cover song is not only electro pop music, but also rock too, so my guitar sound is so noisy!!

By the way I'm going to introduce my guitar effecter! This is one of the divises from ZOOM Corporation and called "G5." You can select the effecters of G5 up to 9, at the same time freely, from the famous stomp boxes. There are 22 kinds of box amp filters and 145 effecters in all!! For this song, I selected ENGL amp, Chorus, Phaser and Delay. You can access the G5 on the ZOOM site at

 http://www.zoom.co.jp/products/g5/?lang=en

OK then, please watch my cover video which is filled with my power!!

"Happy"

Hi! I made a small comic related to the lyrics of a song a few days ago! In the comic, a guy says 'Can I have your daughter?', but the daughter's father says 'No'. Can you figure out from this situation what is the song? 

The answer is … (Click left)

Did you know what is the song name and where the lyrics come from?

Today, I covered the song "Happy" from a singer, Pharrell Williams.

 Pharrell Williams is an American singer-songwriter, producer, and fashion designer, who is just called "Pharrell". He was born in Virginia, America on April 5, 1973. In 2006 he debuted as a solo artist and he has appeared with many artists since the 1990's to now. His songs were nominated 24 times for Grammy Awards, and won 7 times till 2014. His song "Happy" was in the number 1 position for 10 weeks in the U.S.A. and it is included in his newest solo album "GIRL" that was released in March of this year.  

 

Have you watched the above music video that Pharrell dances and other people dance together with the song? He dances at first, and then others dance one by one. Watch the music video above!! This video lasts one hour!!

From today's post, I'll post my cover songs with a karaoke version that somebody made. In fact, I've made my own karaoke of songs I cover since the first post, but I have no time to cover with high quality so when I cover the next song, I'll find a karaoke of the song instead. It doesn't take me so long, but the other way takes a few days to make my original karaoke.


Please watch my "Happy" cover!!

"Rude"

Hi! Recently I joined the American computer network, Bandhub, because a person who had seen my second cover video had commented "Let's collab a song on Bandhub." I haven't followed him yet, but I joined Bandhub and then many people started to follow me within only a few days! So you may be able to collab with them!! Someday I'll collab on some kind of song with somebody! If you join it, please follow me!

http://bandhub.us/masanoriK

Today I covered the new song "Rude" from the band, Magic.

Magic is a reggae fashion pop band from Toronto, Canada, and consists of Nasri, Mark Pellizzer, Alex Tanas and Ben Spivak. They started this band in 2012, and in 2013, they released their debut single, "Rude." The song, "Rude" is so fantastic and it was in the number 1 position for 2 weeks on the Billboad Hot Chart!! 

In the video, one of the members, Nasri, wears a black leather jacket so I wear  a similar jacket on my cover video too. I have also come to like reggae music because of this song. 

This is my cover video of "Rude." I like reggae music and I like Magic!!

"Thinking Out Loud"

Hi! This is my fifth post and one month has passed since I started this blog! In a month, I uploaded 4 videos to this day so I want to continue keeping this pace because many people in the world visit my blog. And I have to master my own music and guitar style, so someday I can be active as a famous guitarist!!

Today I uploaded a new cover song I played. It's a quiet one compared to my other covers.

The artist's name is Ed Sheeran (Edward Christpher). Ed Sheeian has played the guitar since he was child, and in 2011, he debuted with his first album "+" (plus). He became famous by this album especially in America. The song, "The A Team" which is included in the album was nominated as one of the songs of the Grammy Awards in 2013.

This is my new cover video. Thank you for reading!

"This Is How We Do"

Hi!!
Last week, in my third video on YouTube, I got a comment from a guy called Gara Dizaey. The picture below shows his comment!! Thank you for commenting, and I'll do my best to get more comments and subscribes!! 

For today's post, I uploaded my fourth cover song "This Is How We Do" from Katy Perry. 

Katy Perry, whose real name is Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson is a female singer in the U.S.A. She was born on October 25, 1984. Today is October 22nd so you know it will be her birthday soon! On YouTube, this song is covered by many artists, including singers, acoustic guitarists, and bands. There are only a few electric guitar players, so I have a chance to be noticed among the electric guitar players!!

This time, the guitar I played is different than usual. It's my favorite guitar of all the ones I own. The body was red originally, but a few years ago I repainted it white. The body of this guitar has some nicks, because my father damaged it intentionally. This guitar used to be my father's (now it's mine) and he wanted it to have a vintage atmosphere!

Please watch my new cover video of the song "This Is How We Do". Here it is!!