
👋 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. 🥰
Essemy (Jaycelle's Birthday Song) Music and lyrics by Brian and Bryce Composed on 25 - 27 November 2021 Esmi + Mommy + SMI = Essemy (read as SMI) "Esmi" is slang for "misis" or "Mrs" --- Intro E (bell pluck) A - D - A - E-E --- Chorus Type 1 (plucking) A D You're the most beautiful mom A E You're the most beautiful wife D A You're the most beautiful SMI F#m E D A E-E And I, I, I love you - oh oh --- Stanza 1 D A I love you so much E A-A I wanna kiss you D It's your birthday A E (hold) I wish you a happy cake --- Chorus Type 1 (strumming) A D You're the most beautiful mom A E You're the most beautiful wife D A You're the most beautiful SMI F#m E D A E And I, I, I love you - oh oh --- Chorus Type 2 A D E (bell pluck) You're the most beautiful friend (I wish you kiss me) A E E (bell pluck) You're the most beautiful daughter (I love you daughter) D A You're the most beautiful SMI F#m E D A E And I, I, I love you - oh oh --- Bridge F#m C#m D A And I, I wish all your dreams come true oh-oh F#m C#m D And you, you're having a happy day A E E (mid) E (high) A happy happy happy birthday oh-oh oh --- Instrumental (strumming) E (bell pluck) A - D - A - E (mid) D (lo) - A - F#m-E-D (hold) --- Chorus Type 1 (pluck + strum) A D You're the most beautiful mom A E (mid) And the most beautiful wife --- Outro (pluck) A (hi) D E (bell pluck) And the most beautiful friend (I want to kiss you friend) A E E (bell pluck) And the most beautiful daughter (I miss you daughter) (strum) D A You're the most beautiful SMI F#m E-D A And I, I love you D A You're our most beautiful, J-A-Y-celle F#m E D A I, I love you F#m E D (hold) And I, I, I F#m (lo) E D (hold) And I, I, I (pluck) E (mid) A (mid) E (hi) - E (hi+) end with a high note love you - hmm hmm
Recently, I hopped on to Spotify as an artist. I released several electronica singles under the label Weet Weew. The experience was liberating in the sense that I’ve been putting it off for quite some time and finally got to grapple with it. I got to revisit some old compositions and reacquainted with a DAW (digital audio workstation) of choice: FruityLoops.
Preparing for a (rather bleak) future when crazed fans would ask me for autographs, I thought I needed to have one. So I practiced using a big round-tip marker and settled with a 0.6 mm-tip pen.
With a trusty scanner, I scanned it with a resolution of 600 to be able to “blow it up” and properly enhance it. From Photoshop to Illustrator to Figma to its destination, Spotify — it took me around an hour to do all this.
We’re using Adobe Photoshop to prepare the material for vectorization in Illustrator.
We’re using Adobe Illustrator to convert the prepared material into vector. Sure, from the scanned material we can go straight here — I personally see the result is better when we prepare the material prior vectorization.
Figma is awesome because you can use it for free and it is web-based (use it alongside Facebook on the other tab of your favorite web browser). Really, this part is optional — it just so happened that my Spotify header image template is conveniently in Figma (you can use Photoshop or Illustor, too).
Right after I uploaded my updated header image to Spotify, I turned to see that my notebook has grown itself some robot doodles, courtesy of Bryce. Consequently, I asked him if we would like to color it in Photoshop and that lit up his face!
Sometime in 1995 I chanced upon a song playing in NU107. It captivated me with “Champagne Supernova” lyrics – me being in hipster phase, being attracted to things that was ironic and overall it just called onto me.
Right after that a voice roped me to go to a local music store. I was there at their glass display counter browsing a wall lined up with all sorts of music in cassette tape.
I hummed the lyrics of “Champagne Supernova” to the sales lady and she pulled out an Oasis.
The first time ever have I known this band. And the rest as they say is that I made them my idols.
Beady Eye, Noel Gallagher – it’s all Oasis to me.
I pay tribute to Oasis for my poetry and photography. Pretentious as it started but hey, we all fake it till we make it.
Originally published in Instagram
Music plays a substantial part of my everyday life. From activity to inactivity, it’s like second to the air that I breathe.
Apparently, there’s a thing called “second album syndrome” or the sophomore slump. But this isn’t anything about the literal first-released album of a musician but the first album of that musician you’ve heard of and all the songs in the collection kicked ass.
I noticed this after numerous times I have liked an artist/musician mostly for that one album – the first album that let me discover them. It may have stemmed out from the repetitive playback of that record until it came to mind to try to discover other albums of the same artist but seldom have I liked two in a row.