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Penny Lane – Beatles Ukulele Cover

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Here’s my latest ukulele cover. It’s “Penny Lane” by the Beatles.

Wikipedia says:

“Penny Lane” is a song by The Beatles, written by Paul McCartney[2] and credited to Lennon/McCartney.[2] Recorded during the Sgt. Pepper sessions, “Penny Lane” was released in February 1967 as one side of a double A-sided single, along with “Strawberry Fields Forever“. The song was later included on the Magical Mystery Tour LP (1967). The single was the result of the record company wanting a new release after several months of no new Beatles releases. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked the song at #449 on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

This is the first video I made since installing Windows with Sun Microsystems’ VirtualBox. I recorded the audio on my Sony MZ-NHF800 and used SonicStage to transfer the file to my computer and converted it to .WAV format. Then I used Audacity to add a tiny bit of reverb and a little bit of compression. After that, it was a simple matter of syncing the video and audio tracks in Kdenlive, cutting out the extra bits before and after the song, and adding the fade in/fade out. The URL graphic that pops up at the beginning was created with Inkscape.

I hope you enjoy. What is your favorite Beatles song?

How to make your own ringtone

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Ringtones are expensive. You pay 2, 3, 4 bucks for a 30-second clip of a song. I don’t know about you, but I don’t have 2, 3, or 4 bucks to waste on a ringtone. So I do the smart thing and make my own. It’s really easy with Audacity, and Audacity is another one of those free and open source programs. Gotta love those. Here’s a video about how to do it. As a side note, you can see in this video the quality issues I was talking about in using Kdenlive. If anyone out there has advice for improving the video quality with Kdenlive, I sure would appreciate hearing from you.

The song is “Shock Doctrine” by Sound Tribe Sector 9, recorded 10/22/09 by Jesse Hurlburt at House of Blues in Boston. You can download the entire show here.

Finally, if you are using Ubuntu Linux, you might need to set it up to use MP3 files, since it is not enabled by default (MP3′s are proprietary). You can learn how to set it up by following these simple instructions.