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Autopolka - 13th Album Polka, Fan Creation

Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 4:29 am
by QuantumError
I just stumbled upon this on Facebook Videos through a friend of mine, this is pretty awesome!

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=575408844569

Re: Autopolka - 13th Album Polka, Fan Creation

Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 7:41 am
by Killingsworth
"This video either has been removed from Facebook or is not visible due to privacy settings."

Is this available elsewhere?

Re: Autopolka - 13th Album Polka, Fan Creation

Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 3:24 pm
by jimlapbap
That was my video. I posted it to Facebook earlier but realized it still needed tweaking. So, post-tweaked, I re-uploaded it to YouTube:

Auto-Polka (a new "Weird-Al" Yankovic tribute/style medley of recent pop hits in polka format)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGdgmtsh-eU

Weird Al is probably my earliest inspiration as a musician, and it's about dern tootin' time I did some tribute.

Have fun, folks!

Re: Autopolka - 13th Album Polka, Fan Creation

Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 5:56 pm
by WeirdAbbott
That was AMAZING!! Great job!
I'm a huge OK Go fan and I wasn't expecting "This Too Shall Pass" in there! Looks like Al will have some competition for the next album! :Y

Re: Autopolka - 13th Album Polka, Fan Creation

Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 12:37 am
by Way_Moby
Wow! That's really awesome! jimlapbap, did you play all the instruments? :)

Re: Autopolka - 13th Album Polka, Fan Creation

Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 12:57 am
by jimlapbap
Way_Moby wrote:Wow! That's really awesome! jimlapbap, did you play all the instruments? :)
No. Just the banjo. Everything else was MIDI. I did pretty much arrange it from scratch by taking down the melodies and chord by ear and arranging the instrumentation and vocals, etc. (I'm much more of a composer/arranger than a performer. It's just that no one else is usually crazy enough to want to take the time to learn and perform my stuff :Y .)

Thanks!

Re: Autopolka - 13th Album Polka, Fan Creation

Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 1:52 am
by weirdojace
That was awesome!!!

Re: Autopolka - 13th Album Polka, Fan Creation

Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 4:45 am
by anthontherun
Holy crap, that was excellent! I wouldn't be surprised if at least one or two of those songs were in the actual polka and arranged identically.

Re: Autopolka - 13th Album Polka, Fan Creation

Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 5:18 am
by weirdojace
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Seriously, excellent work.

Re: Autopolka - 13th Album Polka, Fan Creation

Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 9:28 am
by Killingsworth
This was incredibly well done! Great job! For MIDI instrumentation, that was some great production value!