Welcome to ADRakaB(FFF): Bernard's singing-songwriting
webpage.
No more dumb jokes. Sorry!
Hi! My name is Bernard Ng Jin Choon, (or Jin-Choon
Ng a.k.a. Bernard Ng in the USA). I am a Malaysian student studying
Electrical Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.
This webpage was created as a musical offshoot of my old website, which was
getting a little over-extended (which had family pictures, personal bio,
etc, in addition to the music stuff). So here are lyrics to all the songs
I've written, some mp3s of my goof-off... err... recording sessions, and
some other random music-related stuff.
Copyright issues: This stuff is mine! mine! mine! (Except where otherwise
noted)
Monday, December the 29th, 2003
I guess I've moved up to bi-annual
updates now :p. I went to see CCL in Evanston, IL, where he's
studying for his masters in music tech, and we did some recording
together. CCL is the best musician I know and he can play just
about anything you throw at him provided you don't break his fingers
doing so. He also had access tp and the knowledge to use a lot of
'pro' recording tricks to make me sound better than I actually am.
That's right, I'm one step away from joining a boy-band.
What A Little Moonlight Can Do
This is a song I'd just written
before I went to see CCL, and there's already another song by the same
title, but I'd never heard it before and I think it's okay to have more
than one song with the same title. There's more than one 'Hero'
right? And more than one 'One', too, oddly enough.
The Young Man's Song
From a poem by W. B. Yeats. I
made up the melody. This was actually the first song we did, and I
was still thinking we were just goofing off, but then CCL went nuts with
the accompaniments. By the time we were done with this mix, I knew
this was a situation I just had to take advantage of. Muhahaha!
Hallelujah
This is the song by Leonard Cohen,
which also been covered by Jeff Buckley, Rufus Wainwright, and, um,
Bono. Now I add my version to the whole mess, which will have the
dubious honor of being 'Least-Heard Version Of Hallelujah. Ever.'
Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
I'd say something about this song if
I knew where to start. But I won't. Enjoy!
Saturday, August the 2nd, 2003
I started writing again... wow.
The first (hopefully of many) to roll out the gate:
Your Song Is On My
Tongue.
Friday, July the 25th, 2003
Added my latest masterpiece:
An Epic Poem About Matt.
(If you're reading this, Matt: I
never forgot that time at TGIF when you mentioned the fact that my old
website had nothing Matt-related.)
Tuesday, July the 21th, 2003
New website!
(lyrics,
because I'm boring.)
The
last three mp3... that makes nine! All nine are also conveniently listed
under the Files section.
(Right-click on the song links and then
"Save Target As...")
Shelter From The Storm
The YAMs version!
Get It Right
Got it wrong again. Someday I'll have
a perfect recording of this song. Promise!
North
I still haven't gotten any prize
chocolate bunnies.
Friday, July the 18th, 2003
New website!
(lyrics, because
its tradition.
Traditiiiiioooon! Tradition!
Taaadadadaaadadada! Tradition!)
Some more of the recordings from the
July 14th and 15th 2k3 recording sessions:
(Right-click on the song links and then
"Save Target As...")
I
Hung My Head
A cover of my second favorite song from
Sting's Mercury Falling Album. My first favorite song was already covered
by Toby Keith, so why bother.
The
Perfect Love Song
This was the second song I ever
wrote, back when I didn't know how to think up song titles. Oh wait... I
still have that problem. :p
Conversations
Funny I should say this about this
song but... I've run out of things to say. I'll just shut up now.
Wednesday, July the 16th, 2003
Annual update :p.
(lyrics, so
nobody emails me saying "I don't think you should be cussing in
your songs." Because I don't cuss in my songs... it just sounds
like I do.)
These are some 'proof-of-concept' tracks I
made to help me decide what works for the next recital and what doesn't.
Hence be warned: sometimes they will suck. I got nine of these new
recordings right now... I'll start with three this week and figure the
rest out later.
Special thanks goes to Kevin Zinn, for
letting me goof off on his four-track for two nights straight.
Thanks also to
audiograbber, which gave me an amazing twenty-to-one compression
rate! Yay! Clear mp3s that fit on geocities!
(Right-click on the song links and then
"Save Target As...")
Girl
From The North Country
I spent 20 bucks on a book called 'Basic
Fingerpicking', and all I got was this lousy cover of a Bob Dylan song
:p.
This is the Free-wheelin' version, for those few of you who know - or
care - what I'm talking about.
What
We Talk About When We Talk About Love
The title is from a Raymond Carver short story which I've never read,
and probably have no business writing a song about. That
didn't stop the YAMsters from liking it, though. So! here's the bootleg
version.
FortyTwo
I
don't really have a title for this song yet, so 'fortytwo' is just a
fill-in. Maybe it'll stick, who knows. Beware the high
notes... I completely fail to hit them the way I wanted to a couple of
times. I apologize in advance if my screeching ruins your day. If
you forsee a problem, please don't listen. If you listen anyway,
and suffer any bad side-effects, just pop in an Air Supply cd right
after, and then you will feel... errr... worse... but you might stop
blaming me for your suffering. :p
Friday, November the 14th, 2002
I finally got round to putting on my
concert! That was on Wednesday (the 13th of November 2k2). Set list and
comments here.
Saturday, August the 31st, 2002
Oh No! Not again!
(lyrics, so
nobody emails me saying "You said WHAT?!")
Right-click on the
song links and then "Save Target As...".
Get It
Right(deleted)
Ironically, despite the title, I get this
one *wrong* almost from the get-go. An early vocal mishap (see if you
can spot it!) ruins the intro verse, and the same jankiness plagues the
rest of the song in spots here and there. Still, the rest of it comes
out somewhat nicely, and since nobody else knows what it is supposed to
sound like, it doesn't matter :p.
Center Of My
World(deleted)
An acoustic guitar, four verses, and the
truth??? I wrote this in an hour, and it shows. I like the simplicity
though... sometimes it's nice to not have to remember 5,156,820,943
chord changes.
Saturday, August the 17th, 2002
Lookit!!! MP3s!!!!!!
(lyrics, so
you don't have to suffer my awful enunciations *koff* brent *koff* *koff*)
It is probably best to right-click on the
song links and then "Save Target As...", but if you think you
know better, go ahead and left-click. It prolly works too... *shrug*.
Sorry for the low quality... what do you
expect I only got 15 MB on geocities!!! If you want more decent quality,
get a Yahoo! ID and email me. With a Yahoo! ID you can grab it from my Yahoo!
Briefcase :p. Lame!
Notes:
Hurt You No More(deleted)
One in a long series of songs I've written
that I call 'Songs With Dumb Titles'. That's going to be the title of my
first compilation CD btw. This song holds the strange honor of being the
only song I've written where I'm never doing the same thing in the
verses twice. The choruses are all the same... just the verses in
between are really really messed up. I think my attention span was
really short at the time I wrote this one.
OH
WELL!!
North(deleted)
This one is going to be in my mini-concert
in... September? October? Never-mber? My friends in Knoxville have heard
this one so many times... Somebody better be liking it. Otherwise, I'm
gonna get to-ma-toed when I play this again.
Yes, that second verse is full of run-on
sentences. I wrote it that way, because I was tired of trying to be
grammatically correct while writing things that rhyme. So I decided to
make it not grammatically correct AND not rhyme. HA! I won!!!! Give me
my prize chocolate bunny!!!!!!!!
The
Stanford 3D Bunny
