2012 - A Year of Song - Blog

[samstokes80]

Hey everyone,
I wanted to let you all know that I have a new blog that I've started this year. My goal is to compose and record a song each week and post it to my blog via YouTube. The blog is located at http://yearofsong.blogspot.com/

Please visit and subscribe so you can get updates on the latest activity. And please post comments and feel free to be totally honest. I can take it!

[Admin]

Great stuff! I really liked The More You Think You Know (especially the piano).

[samstokes80]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it. I'll be experimenting with different stuff all year. The song for the third week was my first attempt at writing a "synth" song, so that was kind of exciting. I'll probably play around with some loop programs too, just to have the experience. And I'm also going to write songs to feature my harmonica and my new ocarina, so that should be fun.

[samstokes80]

I won't top post this every single week, but I posted a very special song this week for which my friend Gracie played all of the string parts and recorded the vocal line. It came out really nice, so I thought I would share it with you! The song is called "Damascus."

http://youtu.be/p4Ti--xFWck

[samstokes80]

Another song I'd like to highlight: these two friends of mine (who are brothers) do this really cool synth music, and I asked them to record a song for me. Here is what they did with it:

http://youtu.be/_ad9pijfIpU

[samstokes80]

Quick update about the blog:

My song "Hoopy Frood" is going to be played on the "Dr. Demento Show" tonight!

Also, I'm experimenting with seeing if I can get a song to go viral, so if you could share this song "Kittens Wearing Funny Hats" with all of your friends, that would be awesome! http://youtu.be/PUdBGriLmNQ

[Bring Back ALF]

Thats great, nice work Sam. I have posted it to my ALF FB page

[samstokes80]

Thanks