PlainTone Videos
20250612 - Drums, Saxophone (14:08) Since December, I have been playing much with this Digital Saxophone. One night, because I realized that I stay awake by the required breathing, the thumb of the right hand got slightly injured, but, weeks after that, it is still injured, so that I cannot play for long if I would hold it with the thumb. However, I stumbled over a trick that lets me now play for ages. A soft case for a small guitar amplifier is taken in between the saxophone and the lower stomach, and the instrument lays on this soft case that there is no need to press the saxophone away with the thumb. One needs to try out the things to see if one can work with them, and I am grateful that I have many items that belong to music equipment in my possession, which give me often very smart possibilities.
20250607 - Digital Saxophone (13:21) With this digital saxophone, I practise. It is much lighter than the other one in my possession. When I am practising, voices are chosen that don’t give a vibrato. Then the volume needs to be low, because if these voices are heard too loud, unwanted noises come to the foreground. In the video, but, a vibrato voice was chosen, so that I can play the instrument alone. The vibrato of the voice doesn’t allow these unwanted noises.
20250604 - Piano, Piano (12:32) That’s the way it sounds when I am practising or playing the piano. There is a second piano in the background, and it is the same technique with which I am playing in the video. Maybe, it’s a bit confusing for the listener, but for me the background has a function. It keeps me above water. If you watch it, you can easily differentiate between the two pianos, which wouldn’t be the case if you would only listen to the this special piano music.
20250516 - Drums, Piano (16:36) As a consumer, I do not really have a big computer know-how. Rather, I am a musician who tries to make music as much as he can. But I stumbled over a trick that lets me take away most of the colours in the camera app by Microsoft. These app records good videos also in low quality, which I prefer now, because I make so many small videos for Facebook at the moment. Most of the colours are taken away by me since my webcam isn’t so professional.
20250514 - Piano, Dance (12:34) In my psychosis, I thought that I would one day conduct my own band, like Frank Zappa did, and I started to make hand movements to train the coordination. It developed into a kind of dancing with the hands over the years. Relatively new is that I make videos with this freestyle sometimes with music in the background, in this case the piano that was recorded shortly beforehand.
20250514 - Stage Piano (13:06) What a valuable instrument this stage piano is! Not only do I have several pianos as voices, these pianos are also acoustically recorded, which really makes sense therapeutically. At the beginning with this piano, only a single voice helped, but, now already, I can play with nearly all available piano voices. The video demonstrates the sound differences of these partly very famous pianos.
20250427 - Mini Keyboard (19:56) With this Mini Keyboard, because of the voices, a very pleasant environment can be created. These voices produce sounds for reverb, unlike piano sounds, and the standard voice of mine, here, in the video, with much reverb, goes really deep into the soul. This time, I played the voice without chorus, and, therefore, the recording could be further used for other instruments. Chorus would not stay on the frequencies of the original tones of the voice anymore, and would sound slightly wrong in combination with the guitar, for example. It would be enough to feel uncomfortable while overdub-playing the guitar on the keyboard. For this voice, I just added much reverb, and improvised melodies on both hands.
By softly wiping with a handkerchief regularly over the hair of the bow, it is nearly free of rosin already, and I can play the violin or the viola with this bow, without the need to press on the strings, like I wanted to do. As I worried at the beginning, the tones have become very silent, almost too silent for recording. But singing at the same time creates a nice entertainment landscape, even though one does only slightly hear the instrument. The violin in the video, with its smaller body, is lower in volume than the viola would be. However, I can play much longer with this instrument than I could play with my big viola, which is heavier in weight. And the mood effect is amazing, as if these fine tones are a medication.
Spontaneously, I decided to buy a big viola, since I wanted to know also how it is completely without rosin on the bow. Soon, I realized that the bow was but touched a bit by rosin, and I have been playing much with this bow, in the last two weeks, to get it free of it. Regularly, the left rosin is softly wiped down the hair of the bow with a handkerchief by me. Fact is that I couldn’t play a violin or viola ‘with’ rosin. It’s the pressure on the strings that I cannot exert to sound fine and pleasant. So, without rosin on the bow, one does not exert pressure to have fine tones, at least at the beginning now, with maybe still a bit of rosin on the bow. The only thing that is negative later, probably, once the bow is totally free of rosin, is that the instrument would be too silent for a recording, but, therapeutically viewed, the tones are absolutely effective.
20250409 - Guitar, Voice (17:20) For maybe three weeks, I had been recording videos with a small, special video recorder that gives a fish-eye perspective. But as it was in the past already, the perspectives are not good enough to me anymore. Regularly, I was publishing these videos on Facebook, taking the original recording without post-production and rendering. There is now a thought that changes the structure of my music days. The concentration will be on the website, and not on social media anymore. It’s time to take the things in my own hands, I guess. This makes me again be recording with a semi-professional camera, where I have to record the audio separately, which therefore involves rendering the videos.
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