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How to draw a check shirt
Right after posting the cover of The Verge single “Back In Town” somebody asked me on Instagram, how to draw a check shirt. Since it will take a while until my speed painting is ready, I’d like to sketch how to draw plaids, tartan and stuff. While reading this post, you may also learn, why check shirts are so important in rock music and why these patterns are quite hard to draw.
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Seven Days to Live – A journey into Gothic Pop
Have you ever asked, what are the lyrics of Seven Days To Live about? Are they about a person who is waiting for ever? Is Seven Days To Live just a Gothic Pop song about a broken-hearted person? What is the real story behind that song?
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The Verge is Back In Town
Right after finishing Someone Else’s Song, my alternative rock internet band The Verge thought about our comeback. The title of our new song couldn’t have been more programmatic: Back In Town. It’s a self-deprecating punk rock / melodic hardcore song full of power and excitement.
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Jaime Lannister on the Iron Throne
[Advertising] Who has watched Game of Thrones? Have you already seen my speedpainting fan art of Jaime Lannister sitting on the Iron Throne? Well, the original video was 8 hours long, but after editing it sized down to 6 minutes. This short amount of time is not sufficient for explaining how this drawing was created. So let me discuss it here.
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Songwriting in modal scales
I have a natural aversion against music theory. I always thought, I could make it without understanding scales and cadences. But then I wrote my epic trance song The Awakening, which could not be fully explained in major or minor scales. Here comes a blog post about songwriting in modal scales, which is not too deep into music theory.
