singing – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com author | illustrator | digital designer Wed, 10 Apr 2013 10:42:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://shepline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/cropped-shepline-white-on-green-square_512-32x32.jpg singing – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com 32 32 Kittentastic! https://shepline.com/2005/11/30/kittentastic/ https://shepline.com/2005/11/30/kittentastic/#respond Wed, 30 Nov 2005 22:42:00 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/?p=1218 That is all. Enjoy it… 🙂

http://web.syr.edu/~bwlee/fun_stuff/shii_song.swf

]]> https://shepline.com/2005/11/30/kittentastic/feed/ 0 Of Saturdays and Songwriting https://shepline.com/2005/09/10/of-saturdays-and-songwriting/ https://shepline.com/2005/09/10/of-saturdays-and-songwriting/#respond Sat, 10 Sep 2005 18:02:00 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/?p=1144 On 2 March 2004 I wrote a song. Well, I say I, but it was more Hanna Katla’s song from my novel Blood & Fire. I later recorded the vocals, on veeb‘s insistance, and the results can still be found here.

Since then Hanna Katla/T Shepherd has a few songs, or bits of songs, and I’ve been wondering whether I could play the guitar and further this songwriting pursuit. Shamelessly egged on by veeb, and after encountering the elephant and spiderweb song this summer in Romania, today I went down to the my local Bicester Music Centre and bought a beginners classical accoustic guitar for a little over £40.

The guitar came with a 52 week online guitar lessons. Between lesson one, and a beginners book, I have learnt the chords of A, D, and E major, and played a simple treble string tune on open strings.

Possibly getting a little ahead of myself, I tried to add some music to Earth In Me. I really, really, don’t know what made me do this, and I have even less idea why it is that I’m sharing this with you…??!!!

Earth In Me (after first guitar lesson – key of Eb)

]]> https://shepline.com/2005/09/10/of-saturdays-and-songwriting/feed/ 0 Just too damn embarrassing for words… https://shepline.com/2004/03/03/just-too-damn-embarrassing-for-words/ https://shepline.com/2004/03/03/just-too-damn-embarrassing-for-words/#respond Wed, 03 Mar 2004 18:06:00 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/?p=438 …and Pepper didn’t seem to like it either.

Just tried recording myself singing Earth In Me – I had thought of posting the results here – but I figure it’s just too damn embarrassing. It’s hilarious! You’d all laugh at me! So I think I’m going to have to disappoint you all, sorry! ^__^

]]> https://shepline.com/2004/03/03/just-too-damn-embarrassing-for-words/feed/ 0 And by way of comparison… https://shepline.com/2004/03/02/and-by-way-of-comparison/ https://shepline.com/2004/03/02/and-by-way-of-comparison/#respond Tue, 02 Mar 2004 23:07:00 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/?p=437 …this is the one of the songs that has inspired the character of Hanna Katla.

Edit: Listen to Open Your Heart (Ogg File Format)
[ Download and unzip the file, you will also need to have a music player that can play Ogg files – you can get one one free here: XmPlay ]

Song: Open Your Heart
Performer: Birgitta Haukdal
Music: Hallgrímur Óskarsson
Lyric: Sveinbjörn I. Baldvinsson & Birgitta Haukdal

Every time you close your eyes
I can see the light that you’re hiding.
Like a shadow in the sky
Of an eagle’s wing when it’s gliding.

Don’t be afraid, I’m not gonna run away
Don’t let it wait, until it’s too late
For what you have to say.

Open your heart
Show me the pain
It’s all part of who you are.
Tell me your dreams
Your hopes and your fears
Just open your beating heart to me

Everything you share with me
Turns a little darkness into light
and that is how we’re meant to be
Truth will keep the light shining brighter

Open your heart…

Reach out, I’m right by your side
Exactly where I want to be.
The sum, of you and me, is we

Open your heart…

Let go and just show me who you are…
Yeahee yeah yeea
Heyeyah… your heart

Let go and just show me who you are.

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