| These were written -- extemporaneously* -- and performed
by my 4-year-old, who accompanied himself on drums. Recorded on a TASCAM
488 MkII, then dumped to Cakewalk Pro Audio where I added a bit of reverb
and stereo enhancement and converted them to self-streaming RealAudio
format. Per my latest discoveries about RealAudio,
I've laboriously re-encoded all this in three ways for each song:
- 16 kbps mono format, guaranteed to stream no matter how slow your
modem or old your RealPlayer
- 32 kbps stereo, which should just about stream with a 33.6 modem (or
download the .ra files)
- 80 kbps stereo, which will stream on dual ISDN or T-1 or cable, everyone
else gotta download it to hear how good it sounds
(Please let
me know if you're still having trouble hearing any of this and tell
me your platform, connection speed, and RealPlayer version.)
P.S. This work speaks for itself, other than the fact that some of the
words are completely made up and he can't satisfactorily explain what
they mean, although he seems to use them in the same context each time...check
out the liner notes to the Robert
Johnson complete collection, there's a lot of the same kind of thing
there. When he hits 9, look out world!
P.P.S. Microsoft's
Media Player can be kicked into working with RealAudio (try View/Options/Formats
and find RealAudio at the end; upgrade online if necessary from the Help
menu)
-- Dragon
When I first got my sharks
Then I had to set up my tank
And my Dad setted up the tank
And he said when I'm taller
I could feed my own sharks
And I did know what to do.
When there was a sea that was in America
Then there was a boat that had pirates in it
And it had a pirate flag
And they were fighting other people
But when I samed they couldn't do it
Well they were fighting
And then one morning they said to their captain,
"Captain, where are you?"
And (they) he said "Well, I'm outside".
And they didn't know when they was aiming
I couldn't understand what the captain was saying
To them
But when I camed
I couldn't know what to do
By saving that baby dragon
And he was a baby jellybean dragon!
When I walked into my Dad's office
Then I said "That screen looks different!"
And my Dad said "Yes, it does"
Until I samed on
When I saw the double Mu Shus
And they were two Mu Shus (this
refers to a "Mulan" screen background I made -- Dragon)
And when I tanked
I couldn't know what to do
After I went in my Dad's office
And I never knowed what to do
But I just wanted to watch how he did it
And he showed me how to do it
And I said..."Huh?"
(pretty good description of most of the stuff I do
-- Dragon)
And when I was aiming
He couldn't aim on that!
When I was aiming
And I heard a sound
And I wondered what it was
But my mind told me
That it was lightning
When I said "What's going to be after my birthday
and what is after a few days?"
And my Dad said, "We're going to go to Disneyland!"
And I said, "That's great!"
Because I wanted to go there.
When I was saming
When I heard a sound
Like this:
Then I just wondered what it was
And I was aiming
When I couldn't aim
On the day made
When I couldn't same
Then I was same
When I was thinking on the angel
I didn't know what to do
And I samed what I was doing
And I was singing the song about
Anchors and other stuff
And when I was aiming on an angel
When I was aiming
On this day
When it was very special
And
I was going
When I camed
I didn't know what to do
On that beautiful day
And when I pointed at
That back yard
I said to myself
I'd have to play outside
And
I didn't know
What to do
And I did not...
Know what to do
On that beautiful day
I wanted to play
Out
Side
To...
Day!
And I never wanted
On that day!
When I was aiming
I couldn't on that pirate shirt.
* Steven said it took a long time to write these songs..."about
60 or 80 years" :-) If you don't know what "extemporaneously"
means, though, it's not half as funny.
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