Rule 32: Enjoy the little things in life.

Over the past few weeks, I’ve had a few requests, as I do my best to fulfill ‘em. First up is Kris, with a request for Death Cab for Cutie’s song “Different Names for the Same Thing”. I had some fun working out a solo arrangement of this one.

Different Names for the Same Thing

The next two were responses to my Raw Improv Post. Josh wanted a cleaner version of the E minor blues improv. As I found out, it’s hard to repeat what you do on accident, but I did my better and made a new, cleaner version from the same creative stream.

E minor blues

Lastly, Nichole wanted an improv as follow: “B Flat Minor…Make it eerie! Strings!”. I do my best to accommodate.

B Flat Minor Raw Improv

So, if you’ve got a song you want to hear, or a improv you want me to try, let me know! email me at twitter.

Lastly, this is for you, dear and faithful reader/listener:

Goodnight, F#m.

–theindiegeek out.

My favorite song off of Death Cab’s newest CD Narrow Stairs, I present you with Grapevine Fires. Enjoy!

Grapevine Fires

–theindiegeek

Recently, a friend lent me the DVD Directions by Death Cab for Cutie.  Directions is a visual companion to their album, Plans.  Each video has a different director who was given essentially total creative freedom with their video.  This results in a very creative myriad, each one being quite different from the rest.  The band themselves do not appear it apart from an introduction at the beginning of the DVD, and in the music.  The real goal of the DVD is to present a different way of experiencing the music.  Instead of merely an audio coming from your CD player, the video hopefully enriches the experience that much more.  Do I feel they accomplished that?

I do.  I have been a fan of Death Cab (and Plans) for some time.  But still watching the videos for the songs felt like a new, but familiar, experience.  Well worth watching, a few of my favorites are “Crooked Teeth”, “Jealousy Rides with Me”, and “Summer Skin”.  It is an entertaining experience, the culimination being more that merely a sum of its parts.

–theindiegeek