SONG: Lament of the Dining Room Chair

[RockingJamboree]

Very cool Klezmer take on this Song Fu challenge! Bless YouTube and their matching up of "similar videos" or I never would have found you. I was watching a Lex Vader video of one of his Song Fu entries and this popped up. I was in this Song Fu with Godz Poodlz. We did a song called "Bad Penny."

Anyway, there is a NEW song contest (a Bastards of Song Fu, if you will) called "Spintunes." Look for it. Sign ups have closed, but you can still put in shadow entries for the challenges!

[garyfromwv40]

Love it. LOL "I touch your bottom every day..." Oh, my! :P

[mickeleh]

@garyfromwv40 Hey, I'm not the perve here. It's my chair.

[garyfromwv40]

@mickeleh Um...yeah, I believe you. ;)

[TheNintendOtaku]

I had forgotten how much I loved this Mickeleh, I think this is my favorite video of yours!

WHat do you say in this situation? Congratulations? Or perhaps thank you? Well either way, you are quite amazing, and I can't wait for your next video.

[mickeleh]

@TheNintendOtaku Thanks. I also forgot how much I loved this. You inspired me to promote some of my older songs in my channel banner. Thanks.

[erfelgamazig]

Ha Ha This is hilarious!

[leokimvideo]

quite a surprise..

I am seeing you all over the tube, especially via the new channel blog..

Its a very big and small tube..

[carycoutre]

some people say, Awesome! but I say, spectacular.

[mickeleh]

Why thank you. I'll accept spectacular with pleasure.

[mickeleh]

And extra thanks for the sly reference to "Some Like it Hot"

[erfelgamazig]

Thanks for enlightening me about the depressing and unfulfilled life of a chair, Mickelah. This is brilliant!!!

[vulcanbirdbrain]

got to love a klezmer-ish song ^_^

this was excellent!

<3

[doctornoise]

that was pretty frickin' awesome Mickeleh

[seaottersoup]

Effective use of wind instruments...

[kiladipena]

Brilliant A+

Thanks for bringing awarenes to such a difficult and much stigmatized issue that is rarely talked about.

[dorkboi267]

This song is wonderful.

Also: The Format reminds me of a certain music players commericals from a few years back.... and thats ok.

[mickeleh]

Indeed. Arrived at by independent means. But I'm sure the seed was in there. (See the video response from Bobbyjonesinc's Channel (aka themefund). He also noticed the similarity.

Thanks for the comment

[RejandLauren]

Awesome! I love your songs, their always so quirky and funny =]

[americas1stborn]

Another masterful stroke, mickeleh!

[ianswertobob]

This is awesome, Mickeleh! I love how it's all in silhouette. I especially enjoyed the imaginary instruments. :)

[mickeleh]

Not imaginary. Just invisible. And very hard to play ;-)

[iam3v1lj3nn1]

This chair must be of European construction because of the old world sound of it's song. I love it~!

[nenalyzed]

:D I don't know how you do it, but you manage to put a smile on my face everytime I watch one of your videos :D

I never thought of a chair in that way... man I should be nicer to it! perhaps buy it a present once in a while... or just eat less

as you suggested :p

love the black and white shadow effect :D

[sguttag]

Very nice indeed...and in widescreen too! 

Keep up the great work!

[mickeleh]

inevitable. Eventually we are all seduced by the wide side.

[ravenclawconfused14]

This sounds like it could be in 'Fiddle on the Roof'

"If this chair was comfy, dadada dadada daa" (if i were a rich man)

keep writing songs! they are wonderful!

[mickeleh]

Well, it does come out of my... TRADITION! Thank you so much

[ravenclawconfused14]

lol. no prob ;D

[bandgeekmike]

Not my favorite song of yours, but definitely worth kudos. I liked the minor key, and the words were quite witty. Nice video effects too. It's kinda like Beethoven's 6th symphony. Not his best, but definitely worth mentioning.

[mickeleh]

I love the sixth. It has the flying horses and the centaurs and a thunderstorm and all. If you want to compare this song to Beethoven's sixth I'll take it before you sober up.

[bandgeekmike]

Ah, but I'm a teetotaler!

[shortini]

This is too funny. Michael I had no idea that you were a singer song writer. I loved the transition to the Yiddish styled polka for the rest of the song.

[mickeleh]

Neither did I. it's all new. I've been at it for about half a year.

[zapwai]

Excellent work!

[IdiotFest101]

Very creative!

[JohnsHouseofFun]

Your silhouette reminds me of what people outside my house see when I'm in my bathroom.

[mickeleh]

Believe me, I know. That's where i got the idea.

[lightforms]

This is an awesome song. I was angry about my movie chair the other day, almost to cheat on it with a pillow because it was so sore to me. I never did consider its feelings. Thank you for enlightening me!

[mickeleh]

Movie chairs are especially resentful. They have most all of the complaints of dining room chairs... AND you block their view of the movie.

[crimsong19]

Awesome klezmer feel!

[fallofautumndistro]

Nice job. Midi id fun, next step up would be to buy a software sampler and then get sample libraries of real instruments, where producers record every note at various velocities and program them to be playable form any midi device, triggering the actual sampled notes as you play.

[mickeleh]

Only the drum track was MIDI. The Korg is a mighty beast that includes samples, synths, and wickedly clever programming. The real next step up is to hire an orchestra.

[mickeleh]

actually the real next step is practice, practice, practice.

[mmmStaley]

again. That was brilliant! I must have watched this about 5 times =)

[mickeleh]

I'm not saying how many times I've read your generous comment. (this one and the one you put up early yesterday when this video made a brief, premature appearance, to wit: "That my friend, was extraordinaire :D") Thanks for both.

[hathi444]

I feel compelled to dance the Horah. I wonder why...

[mickeleh]

Must be all that chicken soup you're eating.

[melyanow]

wow.  very impressive.

[RosieEmma]

Loved it :D

[Graszood]

It's quite a shame you didn't actually participate; very nice use of the style and good editing too :D

[mickeleh]

Maybe in a future round. Thanks.

[pixonu]

"The people round your table are so boring

They never have a clever thing to say

Its blah-blah school and work; and soon Im snoring

Then blah-blah-blah how the Dodgers did today"

-My fav bit!

Loved this... just using Garageband?! I need to try harder then methinks! haha :D

[mickeleh]

GarageBand has huge depth. Much deeper than I've gone with it.

But remember, in this case, it was GarageBand plus the Korg. I can't overpraise the contributions of the Korg. All of the instruments were directly from the Korg Triton. (except for the percussion, which I did in GarageBand, editing a MIDI track).

Oh, and plus some invaluable tips from Michael Aranda about how to EQ and mix the instruments for max clarity.

[pixonu]

I think 'musical typing' is limiting my creativity haha

Having Mr. Aranda on your side must help too! ;)

[CaptainWilhelm]

aaaawesome!

[mickeleh]

I appreciate that. But what's really awesome is the music that you can coax from an 8-bit device.

[jbdazen]

And my, I gotta get me one of those Tritons :-)

[jbdazen]

Wow Michael, didn't know you were capable of such complicated arrangements! What a surprise! Great! :-D

[mickeleh]

Thanks. I didn't know either. I've never done anything like that before. The second best thing about YouTube is the inspiration I've taken from musicians such as yourself to push myself in this direction.

[vlogbrothers]

Thank the Lord of Mickeleh! Keeping youtube awesome.

[mickeleh]

I'm just Mickeleh. It's Alex that's the Lord.

[EarthSage14]

This is a great use of klezmer music. The world needs a little more of it, I think. Mazel tov!

[bukonla]

very funny!

[zunathanzu]

You should join the Russian Red Army chorus. (thats a complement, have you heard those guys?)

[mickeleh]

Yes, I have. And thank you for the comparison. But, I'm dubious. I was thrown out of my sixth grade glee club. (You think they might have said, "just sing a little softer." But nooooo. The glee club teacher was like Simon Cowell.)

[mynameischrisyeah]

Just ridiculously perfect! Professional in every way, FANTASTIC!

[mickeleh]

Thank you very much, Chris.

[paisleypower30]

I liked that, reminded me of gypsy music for some reason. Loved the imaginary instruments :)

[mickeleh]

It's actually meant to be klezmer--eastern European Jewish music. But a lot of stuff in minor keys, Spanish, Russian, Gypsey, Klezmer haver certain common elements. And those instruments were NOT imaginary. They were simply invisible.

[paisleypower30]

I stand corrected, invisible obviously :)

[Cohenism]

Insanely cool Mickeleh.

God spent too much time on you. You were a selfish fetus.

Talent oozes from your every pore.

[mickeleh]

Thanks, Jake. My mom says i was in there for almost ten months. But how could you know that?

[WhirledSol]

Such a roller coaster of emotions. I love the crescendo at 0:49.

Perfection!

[mickeleh]

Glad you stuck around to get there. I was a little worried about starting out with a slow section. Thought I'd lose everyone for sure. Thanks.

[FableofLife]

Your never a let down mickeleh thank you for such a good song and a spectacular video.

[soccersquirt82]

nice! hilarious! this is amazing :)

[SciFiGirl1023]

haha! this was very different style! very nice. Love the editing style too.

Nice song. hilarity ensues!

omg! good luck on Song Fu!

<3smk

[mickeleh]

Thanks for the good wishes. But I'm not actually in Song Fu. Just playing along from the sidelines. I wanted to see if I could keep up the pace. Which it doesn't seem that I can.

[SciFiGirl1023]

Well I hope you keep attempting. After I had commented I went to the Song Fu Page and was saddend. :)

mk

[mickeleh]

check in on Monday when the voting starts for round two. I've heard one of the entries and it is spectacular. (hint; it's by that Tom Milsom fella.)

[rockpaperstuuph]

Your dancing skills impress me.

Bravo!

[mickeleh]

I'm heading to SYTYCD next season. Thanks.