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16 Christmas songs performed on guitar, keys, bass and a drum machine.

So, 9 days before christmas, LAVA MUSIC asks if I could make a video that includes some of their new Christmas based drum tracks that are built into their touchguitar. Normally I take at least a month to plan and practice and produce my videos (because I can’t handle stress well), but for some reason, I was in the mood for a challenge!

I honestly didn’t know if I would be able to make a good enough product in such a short time, because it requires a lot more work than one might think! But after 8 straight days of working full time, neglecting exercise and proper food, I did it, and I’m very proud of that.

In the past, I would have felt really bad about releasing a video that ends up getting low views, like I was a has-been, a failure. Maybe I will feel that this time too, haha, if the views don’t pick up, but for now I’m just proud of my work, and actually getting paid in advance for a project feels really good, can’t deny. So, thanks LAVA MUSIC for the support, and I hope YOU who are reading this enjoyed the video, I really appreciate the fans I’ve got! ❤

Happy holidays~

A cover of the classic end credits theme from the video game Portal.

I’ll be honest, I didn’t plan on making any more videos this year, or maybe ever. (Though who am I kidding, I say this after every video I post, but a year or two later, I get a craving again!) But this Chinese guitar company, LAVA MUSIC, offered to send me their latest “touchguitar” and sponsor me for any video I make with it. And I had just finished replaying the Portal games on Nintendo Switch, so I figured why not!

It was a fun little project! As always, I enjoy the video editing aspects more than the music aspects, and ever since my first “multi-Fredrik” videos +10 years ago, I’ve entertained the idea of having the Fredriks come in through portals on the walls and floors. They certainly aren’t the most professional looking special effects, but I had a lot of fun figuring out how to do it, and I’m happy with the results. (Especially the guitar solo section, where I modeled those fake 3D rooms myself by skewing wall textures!)

Hope you’ll enjoy it too~

A medley of some of my favorite songs by The Beatles, accompanied by animation!

It’s been a few years since my last video, but I really liked the idea of spending proper time creating an animation (something I’ve dabbled with a lot throughout the years but never gave my complete attention to), and a Beatles medley has always been on my to-do list. It seemed like the perfect opportunity to combine the two elements!

I might make a behind-the-scenes video later if there’s enough interest, so I won’t go too far into detail today, but making the medley was fun as always, selecting songs, learning them, finding as smooth transitions as possible between the songs. And then coming up with a coherent story to animate! And then spending 3 months actually drawing frame after frame after frame to make it all come alive.

Lots of work, but I’m very proud of the results, I think it’s my best video yet!

So yeah, hope you’ll enjoy, and I really appreciate you all for sticking around, and for watching my stuff! ❤
Take care~

(You can find the chords and tabs here.)

A mashup of music from all the mainline Zelda games!

It was the only logical next step after Mario and Pokémon, and people kept asking for it, so here’s my Zelda medley! I planned to do it in just the same style as the previous two, but adding real drums by Louis Abramson from progressive/alternative rock band JOLLY was just too cool to pass on. It gave the whole medley more of a rock feel, but I’m really happy with the results! Hopefully you guys like it too.

You can buy the song along with my Video Game Experiments album if you want to support me, or get it for free along with bonus content like tabs and different mixes/stems of the medley, by joining JOLLY’s Patreon page.

Update: Oh, and a lot of people are asking what the purple Link is playing in the video: It’s called taishogoto, also known as Nagoya harp! It’s a Japanese string instrument that I actually bought just for this video, because I wanted something that made the video and music stand out a little. Hope you enjoyed it!

A summary of Pokémon music.

Since the Mario Medley did so well, I thought I’d continue on the same path, this time with Pokémon music. Even more ambitious than last time! Maybe too ambitious, because I don’t see how I could top this one..