{"id":967,"date":"2009-06-12T14:59:38","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T14:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/06\/13\/name-that-tune-and-where-it-came-from\/"},"modified":"2017-02-08T05:48:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T05:48:42","slug":"name-that-tune-and-where-it-came-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/06\/12\/name-that-tune-and-where-it-came-from","title":{"rendered":"Name that tune (and where it came from)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This &#8220;quickie&#8221; is dedicated to the children of the 80s. If you were truly part of that era, and are anywhere near &#8220;cool&#8221; you <em>should<\/em> know this song.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<!-- iframe plugin v.5.1 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/113330945&#038;color=ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/\/ --><!--more--><!-- \/\/ -->\n<p>If you know where that song came from, you&#8217;ll understand why it was that short. I believe it was written by Jesse Frederocl amd Bennett Salvay and performed by David Pomeranz<\/p>\n<p>It was one of my favorite &#8220;feel-good songs&#8221; though; so much so, that we used it for soundchecks in our college band.<\/p>\n<p>The arrangement I did is very straightforward. Three guitar tracks; one main rhythm, another solely for plucking lines, then the last for whatever fills and extra &#8220;character&#8221; needed. Then I just put a simple backing vocal track to make it sound a bit &#8220;bigger&#8221; (for lack of a better term)<\/p>\n<p>Still can&#8217;t remember? Maybe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8vbnLYROCj8\">this<\/a> will jog your memory.<\/p>\n<p>And btw, the key I did wasn&#8217;t intentional. I have the song in my iTunes and for some reason it was half a key lower&#8230; I got to watch it on YouTube <em>after<\/em> I recorded it hahahaha.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This &#8220;quickie&#8221; is dedicated to the children of the 80s. If you were truly part of that era, and are anywhere near &#8220;cool&#8221; you should know this song.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,7,8],"tags":[595,754,803],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-media","category-music","tag-internet","tag-media","tag-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1616,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions\/1616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}