Jevan
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Music - Jevan Original Songs

The following flash component allows for easy listening of the the songs. Choose a song from the list and click on it to play.

The instruments for the songs are as follows:

  • Jevan - Piano (Piano-1, Piano-2, Piano-3-allKeys, Piano-4, If I was a bird, Dancing)
  • Jevan - Electronic Music in FL Studio (Trance Impressions, Finally Some Trance, Mystery)
  • Jevan - Electronic music in Ableton Live Lite (Greetings)
  • Jevan - Electronic music in Kinetic (Girlfriend, Lonely, Revelation, Chicken)
  • Jevan - Electronic Music in Burn Studios Audiotool (Contemplation)
  • Jevan - Yamaha PSR-E423 Keyboard (Jazz it Up)
  • Jevan - Male voice - Singing (all except Greetings, Piano-1, Revelation)
  • Olivia (Jevan's sister) - Female voice - Singing (Dancing, Chicken)

If a song above is skipping to the next song early, this is because your internet is not fast enough for the song player, and because it's not the best player. The way around this to save the song to your hard disk and then play it from there, see below.

Here are the mp3 music files for the songs above, to enable you to save any of the songs to your hard disk. They can be saved by right clicking and select 'Save Target As' in internet explorer, or 'Save Link As' in firefox.

The latest songs to have been made are Piano-2, Piano-3-allKeys, and Piano-4 (I recommend Piano-4). The latest electronic music songs to have been made are "Mystery", "Finally Some Trance", "Trance Impressions", and before that "Greetings" (I recommend Greetings). The latest vocal song to be made is babadooba. The latest (and first) keyboard song to be made is JazzItUp.

greetings--jevan.mp3
jazzItUp--jevan.mp3
trance-impressions--jevan.mp3
finally-some-trance--jevan.mp3
girlfriend--jevan.mp3
contemplation--jevan-using-audiotool.mp3
piano-1--jevan.mp3
piano-2--jevan.mp3
piano-3-allKeys--jevan.mp3
piano-4--jevan.mp3
lonely--jevan.mp3
if-i-was-a-bird--jevan.mp3
dancing--jevan-and-olivia.mp3
revelation--jevan.mp3
babadooba--jevan-four-voices.mp3
meow-by-jevan.mp3
id-like-to-see-some-tweets--jevan.mp3
mystery--jevan.mp3
chicken--jevan-and-olivia.mp3

Some of the songs above can also be listened to at myspace or reverbnation, click the respective image to view. Myspace contains all of the above songs. Reverbnation contains all the songs except "dancing", "Piano-2", "Piano-3-allKeys", "JazzItUp" (since it has an 8MB limit).

MySpace

Here are the words to some of the songs (and some chord charts). Lyrics by Jevan

The Ableton Live Lite source files are available for the following songs: Greetings.

The FL Studio source files are available for the following songs: Trance Impressions, Finally Some Trance, Mystery.

After you have seen the above have a look at Jevan singing karaoke and Jevan singing covers

Composition Notes - Ableton Live - "Greetings" song

The "greetings" song has a nice lyrical bass line. I brought in the instruments a bit at a time. Built up. It's nice having a melodic bass line. Innovative.

I keep changing things throughout the song to try and maintain people's interest. At one point in time I bring out all the instruments except for 2, for contrast. It actually has 8 instruments in it, but they're not usually all at once.

The way I composed this tune is, I played around with the sounds until I found one I liked, then I recorded 4 clips between 2 bars and 16 bars long each (usually 4 or 8 bars long). Each instrument has 4 clips recorded of that instrument. After recording all of the 4 clips for each of all 8 instruments, then I arrange the clips into a song, trying playing various clips of different instruments at the same time and seeing if it sounds OK, repeating (duplicate a clip), and varying, in the arranger. I press TAB to get between the clip recording screen and the arranging screen. To record an arrangement I put the region up the top, on the section to record, then press the global record button, then switch to the clip screen (tab) and press play on one of the clips, wait about a bar, then stop, then go to the arranger (tab) and drag out the clip so it completely plays once through.

To record a clip, I set it on loop, then record it when it gets to bar 1, then turn off loop and drag out the region so it covers the entire previous loop length, so that when I press play on the clip, it will play the entire clip once. I quantize it to 8th notes (start note only). I can press play in the last bar, on the next clip, for what will play for the next bar, and it remembers, but usually I just record one clip at a time into the arranger. Before recording into the arranger, I press off the record button on the instrument (in the clip screen), so that it doesn't record the instrument, just which clips I play.

When recording a clip, while it loops, if the OVR (overwrite) button is off, it won't record, so I can just try out the playing to see what sounds good, then turn OVR on and record it.

I didn't have any other sounds on while recording each instrument, just that instrument only. So I've stayed within the one key (C Major), so as to keep it simple for arranging and recording.