maxiewawa

Originally by David Choi. Cover version by maxiewawa.

Hope you like it!

The original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyQwj-tHNts
maxiewawa’s on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwfHl8bZEg0
maxiewawa on TuDou: http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/N_6K_YwvBmo/

In case you didn’t already know!

Find me here: http://www.facebook.com/maxiewawa

One of the things I love doing is poking around art galleries. There’s something very peaceful about wandering around a quiet room, looking at stuff and evaluating it.

As I mention in the video, I recently went to see “Intensely Dutch” at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (New South Wales is the state in which I live; Sydney is the capital. No one knows why it has such a dumb name.)

A lot of the small art galleries I’ve been to feature only one artist; he/she sets up a shop to try and sell her stuff. I’ve seen lots of art that I like, and have always wondered about buying a painting or drawing or something. But one question, the big question, has always had me stumped.

How much?

Obviously there are no price tags on any art anywhere. You’re expected to look at it, and come up with a price yourself. But what’s reasonable? I mean, if I offer an artist twenty bucks for his painting is he going to be insulted? Or is he going to take it as a compliment that I’m looking to purchase his stuff.

Seriously, I’m not trying to be funny. If someone has done a sketch that has taken him all of half an hour to do, is it at all within the realms of possibility that he’d say “yeah, you can have it for twenty, do u need a bag for it?”

I’m not looking at starting an art collection (but depending on how cheap everyone thinks I can buy art for, I might!); I’ve just wondered the answer to this question for a while.

And it’s not as if artists have a brochure with price tags on it. (Or is it? As far as I know that is the case.)

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5_G1C0jFrs

Wow! Jad16, the drummer from the last video, put this together.

I think that pretty soon the Black Eyed Peas will be knocking on our door!

Here’s another track that features sampled music.

It actually seems that it’s been “triple” sampled… someone has sampled a Black Eyed Peas song, and put drums over it, someone has sampled that, and put bass over it, and now I’ve put guitar over THAT… it’s great how the internet allows you to do that, isn’t it?

Here’s the original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F444CELomo
Here’s the first overdub: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj-BCVR1EcI
The second: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdei5I0eFgk
And the third, which is mine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqOPj9LOeRY
And here it is on TuDou, for those viewers in China: http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/c9OjLtvn2oI/

Wininboy, of YouTube (actually of Flanders!) is a ukelele player who was kind enough to let me sample his music. (For those not in the know, when one ’samples’ something in the musical sense, one takes a ’sample’ of a recording and then incorporates it into one’s own music.)

I’ve taken his performance of “Singin’ In The Bathtub” and put a bassline and some percussion over it. Hope you like it!

Here’s the original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi4jP-b8OtA
Wininboy’s YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/wininboy
Max’s version on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAmiAUM_YPc
On Tudou: http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/1UMw700oHlQ/

Please see the original! It’s here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_M8xt…

Seen it yet? Good isn’t it?

It was so cool that I had to do something with it.

I hope the original singer doesn’t mind. If you do, let me know and I’ll take it down.

I hope I’ve added something to the original… let me know what you think everyone! Too much? Too little? Sounds better without bass? Wasn’t 100% sure I knew what I was doing was adding anything good, but just had to have a go.

Salamat po for watching!

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWKarsXFcM0

TuDou: Uploading!

Cover version by maxiewawa. Originally by Monty Python. The song from the end of the Life of Brian.

This song was requested by Mitch. I always welcome requests. I can’t promise to get around to each one of them, but hope you keep making them!

This probably took the longest, and made me the tiredest of any video I’ve made! Hope you like it.

I hope everyone realises who the “it’s” man is… and the bit at the end.

It occurs to me that if you’re not a Monty Python fan you might not find it funny, just weird. Oh well.

Acoustic guitar, piano, jazz fender bass by Max Roberts.

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJyyauU72Yc
TuDou: http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/hvwSzWBTfmg/

YouTubing isn’t paying the bills (yet) but luckily for the people of Sydney, I have other talents:

http://www.musicteacher.com.au/max-roberts/

Let me know if you’re in Sydney and interested in learning the piano!

Originally by In Flames.

This cover is a little different from the original… I hope i haven’t done it an injustice. Here’s the original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2tNTIDSkio

I didn’t do the whole thing either; it’s just too metal for me.

I just love that guitar line and wanted to do a recording of it.

Tudou: http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/quBunvvpz40/
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6DUTwXNOMc