👋 Oi, mga repapips, Brian Dys here! I love music, photography, and creative stuff like UX design and art. This is a place where I collect my thoughts and works. Apart all these, I’m Jaycelle’s better half and Bryce’s dad. 🥰
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Right before I was about to finish New Song 4, my muse already gifted me a new melody to mull over. And here I find myself almost every morning continuing the tune, branching out, going back and forth, shining a light into a path that I am paving at the same time. I’ll be updating this post as I go along — just like “working with the garage door up“.
Version 18
Tingin Ngiti on YouTube
Brian and Bryce performing live
Tingin Ngiti on Spotify Podcast
Previous Versions
Version 15
Version 6
Version 4
Tingin Ngiti Chords & Lyrics
Tingin Ngiti
Chords & Lyrics by Brian Dys Sahagun
3 April 2022
Intro 1
A
D - A - E - A
Hi D - A - B - A
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Verse 1a
E
Isang tingin ang namagitan sa atin
A
Isang sulyap na puno ng lihim
E
Nagkakwentuhan, nagkakiligan
F#m A
Ako ba 'yang nasa YM status mo?
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Verse 1b
E
Isang ngiti mula sa'yo
A
Isa rin mula sa akin
B
Nagpapakipot, paikot-ikot
G A
Uuu-urong-sulong
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Chorus 1
D A
Tinginan, ngitian
E A
Mapupunta ba sa halika nga
Hi D A B
Dito tayo magsosolo sa loob
A
Ng sarili nating mundo
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Intro 2
E - F#m - E - C#m-B
Ooohhh
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Verse 2a
E
Tingin lang ba'ng isusukli sa akin?
A
Ano ba'ng gusto mong sabihin?
E C#m
Tumalikod, sumimangot
B A
Naiwan akong nag-iisip
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Verse 2b
E
Ngiti lang ba ang hiling sa akin?
F#m
Paano ang nasaktang damdamin?
A C#m
Nagpapasuyo, nagpapahabol
C#m B A
Timpla 'di maipinta
G - F#m - E
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Pre-chorus 1
F#m G#m
Kanina ay nagkukulitan
A B
Ngayo'y nagtatampuhan
F#m G#m
Sunod niyan ay maglalambingan
A B G A
Tapos halika ng mag
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Chorus 2
Hi D A
Tinginan, ngitian
E A
Mauuwi na ba sa halika na
Hi D A B
Dito tayo magkukulong sa lilim
G A C#m
Ng lihim ng ating mundo
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Bridge 1
D C#m
Kay tayog ng tanaw
B C#m
Kay lapit ng ngiti
D C#m B A(hold)
Noo sa noo, pisngi sa pisngi,
G A C D
Naduduling, nahuhumaling
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Solo 1
D
Tsa-Tsa-Tsa-ra - Tsi-Tsi-Tsi
Tsa-Tsa-Ta-ra - Tsi-Tsi-Kiss
Tsa-Tsa-Tsa-ra - Tsi-Tsi-Tsi
Tsa-Tsa-Tsa-ra - Tsi-Tsi-Tsi
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Chorus 3
Strum D A
Tinginan, ngitian
E A A7(hold)
Dalhin natin sa holding hands
Pluck-strum Hi D A
Ang 'yong tinging nakakatunaw
B A Am(hold)
Ang 'yong ngiti pumupukaw
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Outro 1
Strum Lo C#m - B - A
Sa aking mundo
Strum Lo G - A - E
Strum Lo C#m - B - A
Strum G-A
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Chorus 4
D - A - C#m - A
Hi D - A(hold)
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Outro 2
Hi C#m B A
Ako at ikaw ang tanaw
Hi G A E
I-higpit ang 'yong kapit
Hi2 C#m B A
Nasa atin lang lagi
Hi2 G A D(hold)
Ang pagtingin at mga ngiti
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Coda
A - A - C#m - B
A - A - C#m - B
A - G
D - D - D - C#m-B-A
G-F#m
E - E - E - E
G - A
E - E - E - E(hold)
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I found myself a victim of the hot glue. It was a scene taken out of a comedy show wherein a fool was impatiently pumping a piping hot glue gun. He was doing that not over anything other than his other hand. And then, boom! The nozzle spewed a glob of loogie right on my left pointing finger. There was instant pain as soon as it contacted with my skin and a second after that, it was multiplied by 10.
My son witnessed all this careless stupidity. While the heat was bearing on my skin, I was frozen, not knowing what to do but to wait for the hot glue to dry. I even thought of swatting it out of my finger like a bug. And I did, so I smudged it, causing a bit of collateral damage to one of my fingers. The unbearable pain made me drool. And my son snickered at the sight of that.
As soon as the hot glue petrified, I ran to the kitchen to wash and cool off my finger. My son, beside me, was coaching me to not scratch off the glue as he had experienced a similar accident himself while working on one of his school activities. At that moment while the water was running, I realized that I knew the feeling my son endured when he had his fine time with the hot glue. Definitely excruciating moments.
My Guitar Finger
Not an affliction on my finger could stop me from playing the guitar — especially that I was trying to scratch an itch to figure out the chords that I used for a decades-old song that I wanted to bring back to life. Try as I might, I was confined to playing out that song by forming simple chords not requiring bars.
New Song 4 in 2003
Learning Era
Simple chords just near the head of the guitar reminds me of two distinct periods in my life when I was starting to learn to play the guitar. It was my cousin, Coco, who taught me the earliest chords I knew, which were D - A - G - A of the song “Line to Heaven” by Introvoys. The second period, was when I became part of a religious organization’s musical band. I was mainly the drummer but subbed on the rhythm guitar. The chords that overplayed in the gospel songs that we played were C - Am - Dm - G - C - C7 - F - Em - Am - Dm - G - C.
This electronic music that I composed in MTV Music Generator around that time is an embodiment of those latter chords. And frankly, I find it cheesy.
New Song 4 in 2022
The hot glue accident happened in February and it’s been a full month already. My finger grew a new skin, even though still tender, I am training it to grow a thicker one by playing different chords, especially with bars. The song has come a long way since then. After 22 versions, I finally settled.
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New Song 4 on Spotify Podcast
New Song 4 Chords
New Song 4
by Brian Dys
Intro
C - C7 - G - F - Fm(hold)
Verse 1
[C - Cmaj9/B - Am] - [F - C/E - Dm]
[C - Cmaj9/B - Am] - [G - Gsus2/F# - Em]
Hi [C - Cmaj9/B - Am] - [F - C/E - Dm]
Hi [C - Cmaj9/B - Am] - [3/4 G - Gsus2/F# - Em]
Chorus 1
Dm-Am - G-F
Fm - G(hold)
Verse 2
Hi [C - Cmaj9/B - Am] - [F - C/E - Dm]
Hi [C - Cmaj9/B - Am] - [G - F - C]
3/4 G - Gsus2/F# - Em(hi)
Chorus 2
Hi Am-Dm - Em-F
Hi Fm - G(hold)
Verse 3
Hi [C - Cmaj9/B - Am] - [F - C/E(hi) - Dm]
Hi [C - Cmaj9/B - Am] - [G - F - C]
G - F - C - C(add9)
Chorus 3
[Am - Cmaj9/B - C] - [Dm - C/E - F]
G - F
[Am - Cmaj9/B - C] - [Dm - C/E - F]
G - F - C
G - F
Verse 4
Hi [C - Cmaj9/B - Am]-hold - [F - C/E(hi) - Dm]-hold
Hi [C - Cmaj9/B - Am]-hold - [3/4 G - Gsus2/F# - Em(hi)]-hold
Chorus 4
[Am - Cmaj9/B - C]-hold - [Dm - C/E - F]-hold
G - F - C
3/4 G - Gsus2/F# - Em(hi)-hold
Coda 1
G - Gsus2/F# - Em
3/4 Hi G - Gsus2/F# - Em(hi)
G - Gsus2/F# - Em
3/4 Hi G - Gsus2/F# - Em(hi) - Em(reverse hold, hammer)
Coda 2
C - C7 - F - Fm
3/4 G - Gsus2/F# - Em
C - C7 - F - Fm
G - F - C
G - F - C-Cmaj7(reverse hold, hammer)
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