Hive Open Mic #159 - Count On Me (Bruno Mars)
A Good Friend
This week's wonderful theme A Good Friend was chosen by @jesus-son and what a good friend he is for giving us a theme that leaves a lot of room for exploring matching songs, thank you! 🙏😉
My choice fell on a song that has been covered here many times before; I wanted to learn it on the piano, so when the theme came up I just thought.. YAY!
My guitar was an afterthought, but it occurred to me that should throw it in as well..
Count On Me
Bruno Mars has had a string of great songs that I have only started to discover; most of them have a light hearted touch to them and "Count On Me" is no exception!
I love the innocent lyrics of this song; I see them as mainly aimed at a very good friend, but if a partner is also a very good friend than that is the most wonderful thing in the world!
I shoulder to cry on whenever you need it, someone singing you to sleep (maybe playing guitar?), wow, what a thought!
We all need kind people who support and encourage us, so let's try and do just that!
My Video
I am getting more adventurous with my videos and for this week I have added soft edges to my guitar part. For anybody interested: I use Kdenlive for the video and Audacity for the audio part.
Pretty happy how it's coming along and I hope, you like it too! 😀
Finally
You most likely know them, but, hey, I do it every week, so here we go:
Find the lyrics here
Thanks for looking!
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Indeed Anke, Indeed!
Brilliant cover and it's my first time seeing you beautifully play the piano. What a talented musician you are @anna-newkey!
Thank you!! 😀
I have posted a few piano ones in the past and I'm still a beginner, but it's coming along! Quite pleased with this one.. lol
This is so so beautiful.
You kept it so soft and mesmerizing.
I love this song so well and your presentation really got me too.
Counting on you for more beautiful performance in subsequent weeks
Thank you very much, glad you like this one!
What a beautiful presentation, my friend, it is always a pleasure to see your presentation. I loved it very much, many congratulations.
Thank you so much, Yulimar!!
Makes me really happy, that you like it!! 😃
The video was so nice and the funniest part of it is that i watched it more than once...The playing and top notch..Those application you mentioned in your post, audacity and kdenlive, are they for mobile also
Thank you, that's great!
I don't think so; I don't think that would work very well, it's better having more space to move things around, but I don't know really.
There might be versions for mobiles.. check out those links I put there, you might be lucky.. 😀
I will surely check it out now 😊😊😊
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It is just so beautiful listening to you. I thought you were only the guitar God but here i see you celebrating this nice sing with the piano and guess what, I loved it to the end.
You ate very talented Anke. God bless you for gracing this theme with such good work.
Thank you for choosing this theme, Victor! It's amazing!
And thank you for liking this, still fairly new to those black and white things.. But I shall persevere.. hehe
Black and white things, hehe
Keep it going dear
😁
The guy is one of the most amazing artists that I know.
I appreciate the effort in your video presentation and the audio output.
Awesome work. Well done
Thank you very much.
You are welcome
Your version is very beautiful, a very pleasant voice, also the editing of the video was great on you. Congratulations!
Thank you!! 🙏
A true learning curve, but good fun!
Glad you like it! 😀
You have no idea how you have touched our hearts this cold night. You continue to prove why you are an exemplary and talented Hiver, we love the way you flow and your natural way of expressing yourself, you are authentic and unique.
Thank you for sharing this gift with all of us, we were waiting for your presentation this week. A big hug!
Oooh, cold nights? Winter is coming?
I have a feeling, that "cold" means something vaguely different to my perception.. 😄
Thank you so much for always supporting me! You are amazing!
Can't say I have spotted your own entry yet, but it's still early..
Wrap up warmly, my friend(s) 😁 ..and have a big hug back! 🤗
Awwwn 🥰... This is very beautiful ma'am 😊. You have a wonderful voice and I really admire the Way you play. Well-done ma'am 😊
Thank you so very much for that compliment! 🙏
Lovely that you gave it a listen and like it! That's great! 😃
Anytime 👍😊
You're welcome Sir ☺️
Wow you're so multi-talented...how many instruments do you play?. Amazing performance and so creative., I kinda loved the tempo when you entered the second verse. This was lovely to hear 🙉😌
Thanks, Sammy!
I believe you have seen me play three types so far.. lol
Makes me really happy that you like this! 😍
Yes three instruments...oh wow is there more 😲...And Yes I really liked it, keep being 😍
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I like the combination of piano and guitar. Sounds very beautiful and also cool. I really like the results of your presentation Mam. That's so cool.
Thank you so much! 🙏
I think it's the first time I've added both together..
Glad you like it, that's awesome! 😃
Cool video. I will have to get some tips on editing from you. It could be a good topic for a post.
!PIZZA
Yes, it would make for a good post... hmm..
Which community though? I haven't got the luxury to not having to care about that.. yet.. Any thoughts? 🤔
Maybe the Music Production one. You can set it to appear on your feed too.
I may have found a fix for my audio sync issue. I can try doing some video stuff over the long weekend.
Good idea. I've got the week off, so even more time...
$PIZZA slices delivered:
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what a talented woman, your voice is very beautiful and your ability with the instruments complements it.
Wow, thank you so much! 🙏
Bravo 👏👏
That was awesome, from the guitar down to the amazing sounds from the keyboard and your editing. That was beautiful and mind-blowing.
This is creativity in a professional level @anna-newkey
It was nice listening to you
Hey there and thank you so much!
I've surprised myself a little with it.. 😂
Still learning, but I'm pleased how it came out and it looks like you think so too, which is wonderful! 🙏
Such a cute song. Love the melody in the chorus of this one. :D
Thanks for the music and good vibes 💗
Hi!
Thank you so very much!
I'm really glad you like it!! 🙏😀
You play the instruments so well and I love your vocals very much. It's interesting listening to you sing.
He portrays a beautiful kind if friendship in this song and I feel it's simply timeless.
Awesome presentation ma'am ❤
Wow, thank you so much!
Your kind comment is really appreciated! 🙏
You're welcome 🤗
Wow, I came to say that you picked a beautiful beautiful song, and you played and sang it beautifully!
Keep up the great work! 😍👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Thank you very much indeed! Glad that you like it!