http://www.jongmusic.com               Jared Ong's Music Blog Mon, 12 Jul 2010 06:20:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm still hard at work on my arrangement of Be Still My Soul. Vocals are in place (thanks Jolie!) and preliminary versions of the piano/vocal mp3 have been sent out to friends for feedback. Sheet music is finished in Sibelius and looks gorgeous. Although you won't hear ... http://www.jongmusic.com/?p=172 I've been thinking about doing this type of recurring post for quite a while. But Saturday or Sunday always passes and by then it's too late. So, today's the day when I'm actually going to start the recurring blog post, "Sunday Sounds." I have a lot of random hymn ... http://www.jongmusic.com/?p=167 The title of this entry actually refers to the fact that I'm posting this a few hours after Valentine's Day has past.  Ideally, if I had done a little bit of planning, I would have created this entry a few days before Valentine's day.  Oh well. Anyway, I'm currently stuck on ... http://www.jongmusic.com/?p=157 So the hymn, The Time Is Far Spent was sung in church the other day.  It’s kind of a quirky hymn and not one that is sung very often.  For one, the lyrics have this old English vibe feel.  Examples: “Ere long with the righteous in glory will end?” or ... http://www.jongmusic.com/?p=156 So this is a song that I've been working for the last few months.  I'm finally satisfied enough with it.  And as usual, my initial  lyrics bear only slight resemblance to the final product.  The first lyrical sketch was extremely introspective, a sort of existentialist piece about the importance of ... http://www.jongmusic.com/?p=142 As promised in my earlier post, here's the video that we took during our vocal recording session.  This take is actually the last take of the night.  And now that I think about it, I like this take quite a bit, so I might actually just use the audio from ... http://www.jongmusic.com/?p=69 I know this little blog hasn't been updated in quite a while.  I have been writing music in the interim.  Unfortunately, my stubborn Chinese self keeps insisting that I have projects completed before I do a new post, and so that's to the blog's detriment. So today, I  finished one of ... http://www.jongmusic.com/?p=63 My siblings and I used to play this cute little game on the NES.  My parents highly disapproved of the violent Double Dragon that we received for Christmas, and so my brother and I ended up trading that game with our neighborhood friend for the more innocuous Bubble Bobble.  What ... http://www.jongmusic.com/?p=58 A lot has happened in the past month, and I've just been too busy to post anything.  I've procrastinated writing this blog entry because I wanted to post my new piece at the same time,  but now that's it been almost two weeks of tweaking, I figure I better just ... http://www.jongmusic.com/?p=56 Here's a little something for Sunday.  This is a quick two minute demo piece that I put together to practice my mockup abilities.  The arrangement is based on some ideas that I had while playing prelude music about a month ago.  I'm looking at getting some killer string and orchestra ... http://www.jongmusic.com/?p=54