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Tobasi - The Vole and the Stork tobasi 124 views Written, performed, recorded and edited by Tobasi The story (I suggest that you watch the video before reading the following explications) The restless vole (on the lef...
Dowland - Awake, Sweet Love, Thou Art Return'd tobasi 403 views From the First Booke of Songes or Ayres Special thanks to my cello quartet and teacher. With them I discoverd this wonderful piece of music this summer, then I couldn't ...
Tobasis Extended Swinging Rondo tobasi 560 views This is a new, better recording of an instrumental piece of mine. I replaced the third theme with another one I had lying around (part C, 1:07-1:21). I didn't know what to ...
The Beatles - Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) tobasi 872 views New Year, new strings on my guitar, new recording of an old song. It seems that this is the first John Lennon song I put on youtube even though I really adore his music. Th...
Fernando Sor - Estudio No 5 in B minor tobasi 721 views When I started to learn this piece by Sor (one of his most popular ones) we planned to play the version for guitar and string quartet. One difficulty was the low volume of ...
Tobasi - Gedanken zur Weltfinanzmarktsituation tobasi 498 views In diesem Lied setze ich mich intensiv mit der aktuellen Weltpolitik, speziell der europäischen Frage, auseinander. Ein Lied das wachrüttelt und die Probleme beim Namen nen...
The Bangles - Manic Monday tobasi 7,695 views I do not consider the 80s as a golden decade of pop music but I treasure a few songs of my childhood. One of them is Manic Monday written by Prince performed by the Bangles...
Hands tobasi 448 views I have the habit to play around with my hands. I try to find comfortable or geometrically interesting positions. This is absolutely useless but perhaps some of you have a f...
Arvo Pärt - Fratres tobasi 4,805 views Arvo Pärt, a contemporary classical composer, wrote Fratres in various versions. My version for classical guitar is closest to the one for 4 cellos which I like best. I had...
The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby tobasi 14,897 views This is my attempt to cover this beautiful but sad Beatles song. I play the most important parts of the string arrangement on the cello. It is pretty difficult to play an...

About tobasi's channel

► Welcome to my green channel!

My videos are basically cover versions of some of my favorite songs and a couple of original songs. Most of them consist of vocals and guitar. As you may notice the guitar part is a bit more than just the strummed chords, I use arpeggio and solos.

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tobasi

Latest Activity

Jul 15, 2006

Date Joined

Jul 15, 2006

About this user

I was born in the 70s in Germany, I now live in France but most of the songs I sing are in English.

► Musical background
I started to play the classical guitar when I was a boy. Later I learned more or less autodidactically to sing, to play the piano and the harmonica. Some years ago I started to take cello lessons. This instrument is giving me access to another field of music.

► Comments
As everyone on YouTube I like to get comments. Unfortunately, some of them are not at all about the music but just disrespectful. No problem if you don't like my videos but there is no need in sending your torrents of hatred. Luckily, most of the comments I get are positive, constructive and interesting. Please keep on posting them they are a nice recompense for my efforts recording songs.

► Funny Faces
Many comments I get concern the faces I make while singing. Some of you find them funny, ridiculous, scary or ugly. When I perform music I "put everything into it" so I don't pay special attention to the way my face looks.
So please don't judge a book by its cover too much. These videos are no job interviews they are just amateur music performances.

► How to learn...
Some of you asked me how to learn the songs I posted on YouTube. Most of the songs are not too difficult for the left hand, the right hand or the voice separately; but the combination of the three is rather tricky. So for those of you who just started to play the guitar I would rather suggest to have a look at the guitar lessons on YouTube first (some of them are really good).
My videos are no guitar lessons as such they should rather give you inspiration. Please have a look at the description of each song you may find tabs and explanations.
I put some effort into learning the songs but also into recording them properly (showing in particular my hands). If you want to learn one of these songs please watch and listen to the video carefully this is one of the most convenient ways to learn a song. In fact you shouldn't need a detailed score or further explications: all is in the video. People keep asking me for scores but I usually don't write down my arrangements for me and I don't always have the time to do so for you. Anyway, if you have any (polite) questions about a particular detail of an arrangement I will try to help.
Good luck to all the musicians out there and keep on posting good videos!

► Bands, Orchestras and Concerts
Of course I do not only play music for the internet I also play in orchestras and ensembles. In these I play mainly classical music with the cello. I have also been looking for something like an acoustic pop group but it is difficult to find people with the same taste. So if you are a motivated brilliant musician with a similar taste living near Toulouse please contact me.
In June 2008 I played in the way I am doing on this channel at an open mike session in Toulouse for the first time. I was quite nervous, alone on stage with my guitar but it went all right. I played Femme Fatale, Green and Léa.

► Instruments
In the videos I play a 25 years old classical guitar (my first guitar). It is a medium-class hand made model by Hanika Germany. My ukulele is not excellent, nearly as cheap as my Hohner harmonica. In contrast I am totally happy with my cello, a French one of the 19th century. And yes, there is a smiley on my cello case.

Sorry for being longish but YouTube users tend to pose always the same questions I hope that I answered some of them.

Regards - Tobasi

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