Strumming triplets in three easy steps Yopparai Kyabetsu 2023-05-08 | With the stunning success of my clawhammer in 10 minutes video, I decided it was time to do another tutorial. this time it's strumming triplets in three easy steps.
March 1, 2023 Yopparai Kyabetsu 2023-03-01 | This one is always for Aly. sorry I didn't post this on Sunday, but it's been stomping around in my head for days.
February 26, 2023 Yopparai Kyabetsu 2023-02-26 | Another song on the bus. this is getting to be a habit."Sugar in my Coffin"Curtis Eller
yopp vs salad. Yopparai Kyabetsu 2023-01-10 | you probably don't want to watch this. I've been watching a lot of eating challenge videos, and they look like a lot of fun to me. but you have to get started and stretch your stomach some so that you can eat five six seven pounds of food. I know my tummy is not very stretchy at the moment. I have seen some videos where they suggest eating low calorie bulky food as a way to train your stomach in your brain and stretch things out. The last time I was at the store I bought a pound of salad with a thought that I would sit down and eat it all. to be food challenge ready I would probably need to eat five or six salads like that. so this is just a trial run to see where my tummy is and how much I can force myself to shove in my face. spoiler alert: it ain't much.if hearing someone eating food sets you off, this video is not for you. if watching someone shove food in their face like some kind of animal and belching are not your thing, you should probably move along. I only recorded this because if my some chance I get better it, it'd be nice to have a record of when I started. having completed this, well, having attempted this I'm not certain I have a future as a gurgitator.
11 The Deck, Part 2 Yopparai Kyabetsu 2022-05-16 | Another course correction in the deck saga. I planned and drew all this out before hand, honest. Just no substitute for experience, I guess. At least I am using the hockey pucks.
10 Boxes and Fans, but not box fans Yopparai Kyabetsu 2022-05-14 | For a brief moment, I had actually formulated a plan with definite things to get done. I should do that more.
09 The Deck, Chapter 1 Yopparai Kyabetsu 2022-05-07 | Layer one of three of my roof deck goes in, with a design change on the fly. Bye bye, hockey pucks.
07 The sound of Silence, Sort of Yopparai Kyabetsu 2022-04-11 | Knocking down the rattle and hum with some noise dampening tiles. Then preparing for putting in the subfloor turned into putting in the subfloor, and a costly bad first choice for insulation.
06 Holes Yopparai Kyabetsu 2022-04-04 | I have attempted to keep these videos down to 10 minutes. This week I failed. I applied tape to all the holes in the bus, making way for putting in the subfloor and filling and sanding the exterior of the bus, rambled on and on about my electrical plan, rambled more about my roof plan, burped the coolant system, measured for replacement windows.... and probably rambled some more.
05 Wire Be Gone Yopparai Kyabetsu 2022-03-28 | I finally tackle the pre-existing bus wiring. I searched for videos and information on how to do this in an orderly, well informed manner, but found very little. In the end, I think that is because, unless you are a bus wiring expert of some sort, the process is pretty much find a wire that does something you don't need, follow it back, and remove it. If the bus still starts, you do it again. Bluebird does an amazing job with their wiring. Every wire is stamped along its length with a number, like 1208B, and the wiring diagrams that I found on their site references those numbers, so that you can pick a wire, confirm what it does on the diagrams, and remove it without any fear. If that were not the case, this would have been much harder to do.
04 Field trip: Maiden voyage of the Yopplander Yopparai Kyabetsu 2022-03-26 | Friday afternoon, I got my bus registered, insured and legal. To celebrate, I drove it to band practice.
03 So many things Yopparai Kyabetsu 2022-03-23 | Where in we see Yopp bounce around doing eight things at once, to help demonstrate why attention deficit and converting a bus make uneasy bedfellows.
02 Roof and rails and body fluids Yopparai Kyabetsu 2022-03-06 | Lesson for today: Use the right tools for the job.Bigger compressor, sharper tools. The roof panels just melted away. Even had time to remove the rub rails from the driver's side of the bus. This was a much better day.Right tools.
01 Title and stickers and rivets, Oh My! Yopparai Kyabetsu 2022-03-05 | This is definitely not a good how to series. You wanna know about titling and registering your new bus? I clearly don't have a clue. Removing stickers? Well, I did ok at that. Removing rivets from the ceiling panels? Nope. You get used to watching people on the Youtubes doing these projects and they just look so easy, even when they "run into problems." Well, it isn't easy for everyone. I for one have felt challenged already.
00 Homecoming: The YoppLander has landed! Yopparai Kyabetsu 2022-02-23 | Today marks the official beginning of my new bus life adventure. The bus is paid for and in my driveway. Step 1: Buy a bus. Check.
350 Degrees for an Hour (Egg Pie) - Yoppy Kyabetsu Yopparai Kyabetsu 2020-07-20 | This is a song inspired by Pete McCarty's video on making egg pie: youtu.be/_j8s2sa0VT8 . Here you will find all the instructions needed to make your own egg pie. Don't be fooled by people with their high falootin talk about quiche. It is egg pie, pure and simple. What do you need? Five eggs, and a cup and a half of half and half. And a pie shell.Now get in the kitchen and clean out some of those odds and ends you have in there and start cooking.
Weird Covers Challenge: Perdon mi Beard. Yopparai Kyabetsu 2019-12-08 | As a non Spanish speaker, this one was a challenge. Obviously, the song had to be about beards, but it also had to be in Spanish. Google Translate can only take you so far. So I used my "call a friend" to ask Brandon Acorn to look at what I had and give it a once over for words that would fit the meter of the song and make sense. Thanks, Brandon!Ya sé que te has idoTodo lo que fue El tiempo lo dejo atrás Sé que de nuevo crecerás Y lo que hice yo No repetirá jamás Mil años no me alcanzaran Para borrarte y olvidar Y ahora estoy aquí Queriendo convertir La barbilla en selva mezclando el bigote con patillas Se que te deje escapar Se que te perdí Nada podrá ser igual Mil años pueden alcanzar Para que pueda perdonar Estoy aquí queriéndote Criándote Entre fotos y cuadernos Entre cosas y recuerdos Que no puedo comprender Estoy enloqueciéndome Cambiándome un pie por la Cara mía Esta noche por el día hay que Y nada le puedo yo hacer La navaja que blandí Te amenazé No querrás saber de mi No puedo entender Lo tonto que fui Es cuestión de tiempo y fe Mil años con otros mil mas Son suficientes para amar Estoy aquí queriéndote Criándote Entre fotos y cuadernos Entre cosas y recuerdos Que no puedo comprender Estoy enloqueciéndome Cambiándome un pie por la Cara mía Esta noche por el día Estoy aquí queriéndote Criándote Entre fotos y cuadernos Entre cosas y recuerdos que Estoy enloqueciéndome Cambiándome un pie por la Cara mía Esta noche por el día Si aun piensas algo en mi Sabes que sigo esperándote Estoy aquí queriéndote Criándote Entre fotos y cuadernos Entre cosas y recuerdos que Estoy enloqueciéndome Cambiándome un pie por la Cara mía Esta noche por el día y que Estoy aquí queriéndote Criándote Entre fotos y cuadernos Entre cosas y recuerdos que Estoy enloqueciéndome Cambiándome un pie por pie por la Cara mía Esta noche por el día y que Estoy aquí queriéndote
My Favorite Buildings Yopparai Kyabetsu 2019-11-20 | It's that time again. Apologies to Robyn Hitchcock, but this one brought out the inner lounge singer in me.
Weird Challenge: Egyptian Reggae Yopparai Kyabetsu 2019-11-16 | Return of the Yopps. This time they travel to the Middle East to play this little tune by Johnathan Richman. The boys are looking pretty sharp.All Gizah Pyramid photo: By Ricardo Liberato - All Gizah Pyramids, CC BY-SA 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2258048
Wierd Challenge: Rehab Yopparai Kyabetsu 2019-10-26 | For this round, Iain gave me "Rehab" by Amy Winehouse. I am not a drummer, so it took a long time for me to get something that vaguely hit the beat. On occasion. The horn section is play by the melodica. I also spent some time with HitFilm to work out how to do split screen properly.
Wierd Challenge: I Cant Stand the Blades Yopparai Kyabetsu 2019-09-29 | Simon asked... assigned.. inflicted... "I Can't Stand the Rain" for this round of Wierd Challenge. As it turns out, I actually like the rain, so I had to modify it to give me proper motivation.
Weird Challenge X: Northern Sky Yopparai Kyabetsu 2018-12-30 | Wasn't sure what to do with this one, until if sort of fell out of my banjo. Then the rest of the Yopp Bluegrass Band show up and we did this
Number 9, Number 9: The Boars Head Carol Yopparai Kyabetsu 2018-12-12 | A quick knock off of one of my favorite carols. We sang this in Junior High choir, and it has stuck with me ever since. I was a little rusty on the Latin phrases.
Weird Challenge Ocho: Somebody really needs therapy Yopparai Kyabetsu 2018-12-11 | Connie gave me a really whiny ditty by All Time Low. We decided to go somewhere else with it.
Weird Challenge VII: A long long long way Yopparai Kyabetsu 2018-10-28 | to the bottom of the River, that is.
Weird Challenges: Part 6 Yopparai Kyabetsu 2018-10-11 | Where do they go? I don't know. Really. They just do.
Weird challenge 5: Be my Friend Yopparai Kyabetsu 2018-09-29 | Weird challenge 5: Be my Friend, by FreeI was planning to do a piano part for this, but lacking a keyboard, I went with ukulele, bass (Guitar, dropped an octave in edit), and some guy beating on a plywood box.
Cover Challenge D: Cloudbusting Yopparai Kyabetsu 2018-09-08 | This song was new to me. The phrasing was hard for me to grasp at first. In the end, I think I like the song a lot.
Challenge III: Angie Baby Yopparai Kyabetsu 2018-09-05 | It has been a really, really, really long time since I heard this little ditty, given to me by Kim to cover. Played through a Moog AX3G pedal into the honeytone amp, because in Yoppland we spare no expense.
Another challenge cover Yopparai Kyabetsu 2018-09-03 | A former friend slapped me with this little gem. "Acapella" by Karmin. My Audacity skills have gotten rusty, but I think they will come back to me. Thanks, Chris for the challenge and for the rhythm track!
A cover challenge: Barry Waits Yopparai Kyabetsu 2018-08-28 | I was challenged to cover a Barry Manilow song about a certain hot spot North of Havana. I decided to give the verses to Tom Waits. This is what they get for their trouble.
Banjo Friday 43: Possoms tail is bare Yopparai Kyabetsu 2018-05-05 | Its Banjo Friday once again, again. A big thanks to the FiddleHangout once more for their assistance in getting Fiddle Yopp up to speed. This weeks tune is Melvin Wine's "Possum's Tail is Bare." I learned this one from Youtube's davidbragger. He has some swell tutorials for wannabee fiddlers. Ukulele and Bones Yopps join in to round out my table top string band. I thought maybe one of those Yopps would sing the verses, but they didn't. They go something like this: Squirrel has a bushy tail. Rabbit's tail is hair. The old coon's tail is ringed all around But the possum's tail is bare Oh the possum's tail is bare. The possum's tail is bare. The old coon's tail is ringed all around But the possum's tail is bare Catch that possum by the tail Then we'll skin him on a rail Never ever more will he be seen Grinning at the moon. Grinning at the moon. Grinning at the moon. Never ever more will he be seen Grinning at the moon. In addition to getting a new camera (someone cracked the lens on my Flip), I am also trying out some new editor software. I was watching one of ukulollo's (krenfilm) videos (Ravel's Bolero) and in the comments he mentions that he used Edius. I had never heard of it. I am currently running the full function, 30 day demo of Edius Neo 2.5 Booster, which is the "home" version. It runs for about $200 and so far beats the pants off of the cheaper/free packages I have been using. AND, if you have multiple processors, it is crazy fast. Certain compared to Vegas. Ukulollo's Ravel's Bolero: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuWgx0EnZnY
Banjo Friday 44: Bile (Boil) dem (that) Cabbage (cabbage) down Yopparai Kyabetsu 2018-05-05 | I found myself woefully unprepared and then I thought, why not just do a little bile dem cabbage. You might notice a few cuts, I was feeling lazy, so I only played each note once. *grin*
UWC Song Swap #3: parties/celebrations Yopparai Kyabetsu 2016-07-18 | I Tossed a Nat King Cole song in my list of tunes for my swap partner, Bob Colladay, and he had included one on my list, too. Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer.
UWC Song Swap #2: Home Yopparai Kyabetsu 2016-06-30 | "Papa was a rodeo," The Magnetic Fields Christopher Damiano, my song swap partner for this round, introduced me to this songwriter and that made this round more than worth the price of admission.
UWC song swap, round one. Leaving. Yopparai Kyabetsu 2016-06-14 | " do not forsake me oh my darling"One of the choices given to me by Dirk - my partner for this round.
PSA for Christmas: Knowing is half the battle. Yopparai Kyabetsu 2015-11-27 | We present this public service announcement as a reminder that I will be out shopping soon. Please make my shopping experience a happy one.
TIMH: My Friend George Yopparai Kyabetsu 2012-07-25 | This was the tune in my head (TIMH) from a couple of days ago. I like me some Lou
Raindrops keep falling on my head Yopparai Kyabetsu 2012-07-24 | I would like to have some great story that makes this song really super cool to be recording. The fact is, it was in my head and this is the most direct way to get rid of it. Nice chords, though.G/// GMaj7/// G7/// C/// Bm/ E7/ Bm/ E7/ Am7?/////// D7...
Guess what I have been watching Yopparai Kyabetsu 2012-07-05 | Not sure why this closing theme grabbed my brain, but this should get it out of my system. Thats my new cedar top Mainland concert uke. I am loving it.The song is "I'm Alive" by Becca. Its the closing song for Black Butler.
ResoCardboardGuitar thingy, V1.0 Yopparai Kyabetsu 2012-06-19 | This is the boy's first garage build. One aluminum pan from an old camp cook kit, a drain strainer, a basket from a coffee pot, a purple heart biscuit, and a maple bridge. The neck is oak, tuners are zither pins.I think it came out really well.
