A medley consisting of 21 romantic songs, created with Valentine’s Day in mind!
I had not planned to do this one at first, but it’s simple enough to make in-between projects (no clones and stuff), and I figured that people might want some ideas on what to play for their valentines on February 14. ;)
Also, I’ve made tabs this time, so click here to find lyrics, song order and how to play it on guitar or any other instrument!
A little Christmas medley performed on guitar, tambourine and accordion.
This is the first video I made with my new video camera! Other than that, I guess it’s fairly standard medley. But happy holidays everyone!
Some info about the song choices:
0:01 – White Christmas
Probably the most classic Christmas song, so I just had to include it.
0:33 – The Christmas Song
I like the transition into this one! And it has some nice chords.
0:58 – What’s This?
Really cool song, and quite unexpected I assume.
1:12 – Freezeezy Peak (Banjo-Kazooie)
I wasn’t sure if this would fit, but a friend said I really had to include something video game related, for the gamers out there! Banjo-Kazooie is one of my favorite games though, and this melody is quite catchy!
1:23 – Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
Also a classic.
1:56 – Fairy Tale of New York
I don’t know how popular this one is outside of Sweden, but this was my favorite even as a kid. :)
2:20 – O Holy Night
I honestly think that this one is quite boring and over-used, but I tried to make something new with it.
2:44 – Sleigh Ride
Fun song.
3:00 – Last Christmas
I hate this song, hehe, but someone in the chat room convinced me that it was needed! Something about a love-hate relationship.
3:18 – Julen är här
One of the best Swedish Christmas songs. Hmm.. The second best, but I forgot the best one when I was making the medley!
3:40 – We Wish You A Merry Christmas
Also a classic.
3:50 – Jingle Bells
I wanted some kind of ending, and I like this chord progression for the melody.
Me and my seven clones, performing the Queen classic “Killer Queen” on vocals and several instruments.
Update: This recording is now available on iTunes. Buy it right now! :D
(Written by Freddie Mercury, published by EMI Glenwood Music Corporation)
This one took a lot longer to make than I had planned, but now it’s finally finished! The problem was that although I used a yellow/green-ish sheet behind the couch, it obviously didn’t help at all when I wanted to make the red couch transparent, so that the red accordion and guitar could be in front of the main Fredrik. I did the best I could, and it’s certainly not perfect, but it will have to do. It’s the music that counts anyway, right?
I learned a lot about chroma keying anyway, and if I’d ever want to do a video similar to this (and the other multi-Fredrik videos, like The Cartoon Medley, and The TV Theme Medley), I would do a much better job!
Oh, and maybe I should tell you about my choice for a cover: I have always said that I don’t want to do any full covers, because they’ve already been made by so many other people, so it’s not that fun to just imitate. But I had been thinking about doing an a cappella version of Killer Queen for a while, because it has such great and interesting harmonies! And then I added instruments one by one to make it more interesting.
I’m satisfied with the results, and I hope you enjoyed it too!
A medley of original songs from the first seasons of The Simpsons.
So I was watching those old seasons of The Simpsons, and there are some great songs in them! So I made a medley of some of them. Nothing all too fancy, just a simple video because the songs are fun to play.
Chords can be found here.
I got a visit from Orvar and Börje, two buns trying to become internet celebrities. Of course I had to help them out!
Okay, this video wasn’t really planned at all. I got a call from a PR agency, and they wanted me to record something with two mascots, a hamburger bun and a hot dog bun. Being a starving student, I agreed to their offer, especially since I had already planned to record this Swedish version of “You’ve got a friend in me” anyway. I wasn’t gonna put it on my YouTube channel though, because it’s not exactly a masterpiece or anything. But, it doesn’t hurt anyone, now does it?
Also, people had been asking for a song completely in Swedish, so at least I made some people happy. :)
All those classic cartoon themes in one single medley! The nostalgia will overcome you as FreddeGredde takes you on a journey back to being a child.
I had doubts about making this one. Up to this point, I felt that all my videos were unique, that I had not been repeating myself. But with this, it was just yet another medley, and I didn’t want to become “the guitar medley guy”. But, I really wanted to sing some of these songs (Darkwing Duck, Winnie the Pooh and Donald Duck especially), and I couldn’t include them in a future “32 other songs in 8 minutes” like I had planned, because the original “32 songs” had been removed due to a copyright claim.
So, I just made a normal video. It did get quite fresh in the end though, because of my added background singers, and the tiny animated FreddeGredde parachute guy, which I’m quite satisfied with! I finally got to use my interest in animation for a video.
Oh, and the video got quite popular, and for the first time, I found a noticeable Swedish audience. (Probably because I added two Swedish songs.)
Song list:
0:01 DuckTales
0:26 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
0:36 Animaniacs
0:48 Inspector Gadget
0:56 Ghostbusters
1:10 Digimon
1:19 Darkwing Duck
1:41 ThunderCats
1:47 Raggy Dolls (Swedish: Trasdockorna)
2:06 TaleSpin
2:16 The Addams Family
2:23 Bamse (Swedish)
2:37 Scooby Doo
2:49 The Smurfs (French: Les Schtroumpfs)
2:58 Winnie the Pooh
3:26 Denver the Last Dinosaur
3:48 Dexter’s Laboratory
3:55 BraveStarr
4:03 Chip&Dale: Rescue Rangers
4:35 Tiny Toon Adventures
4:47 Adventures of the Gummi Bears
5:12 The Moomins (Finnish)
5:24 Sonic SatAm
5:44 My Little Pony
5:57 Flintstones
6:08 Transformers
6:19 Dr Snuggles
6:35 Donald Duck
A medley featuring video game songs with lyrics.
At the time of this video’s release, I was busy composing and recording demos for my album, but people had started complaining about not getting new videos, so I decided to do something short and simple to make them satisfied.
I really didn’t think it would get as popular as it did! I showed it to my friends before uploading it, and they said things like “well, it’s okay, I don’t think anyone will kill you if you upload it”. They were not all that enthusiastic. But people loved it, and it reached a million views before the end of the year. It made me a bit confused though, because I had spent many weeks on my other successful videos, but this one was made in less than a week. The power of video game references…
Song list:
1. Zelda WITH LYRICS
2. Forest Maze Song Rawest
3. The Theme from the Dark World
4. Tetris WITH LYRICS
5. Nigga stole My Bike!
6. Mega Man 3 Title WITH LYRICS
7. Chocobo Robo Voice
8. Kirby: Falcon Punch Remix
MP3: http://www.speedyshare.com/files/23653347/video_game_songs_with_lyrics2.mp3
Two Fredriks (but I’m really just one person) performing all your favorite TV themes in a single medley.
Lots of people had started to question my ability to make good videos, after the failure of “Vampire Bride”. So, I decided to make another medley of popular songs, like my success “32 songs in 8 minutes”. But I didn’t want to just rehash that idea, because I’ve always had the intention of only doing new things. I don’t want to repeat myself.
So, I went with the theme “TV themes”, and tried merging two recordings into the same screen. Which apparently worked quite convincingly, because I’ve had hundreds of people asking why they haven’t heard of my twin before.
The video was a success, reaching one million views in 10 days.
Song list:
0:01 Two and a Half Men
0:22 The Simpsons
0:36 O.C
1:00 Naruto
1:11 Family Guy
1:41 Married with Children
1:57 Cheers
2:16 That 70’s Show
2:41? Big Love
2:58 Freaks and Geeks
3:18 Malcolm in the Middle
3:35 X-Files
3:55 Firefly
4:09 The Office
4:24 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
4:44 Scrubs
4:54 True Blood
5:27 Charles in Charge
5:38 The Big Bang Theory
5:55 How I Met Your Mother
6:05 Mission? Impossible
6:14 Friends
A medley of 32 popular songs played on classical guitar and vocals.
This was a scary one, because so far, I had only made video game related videos, without singing. And this had its focus completely on my vocals. I had set my expectations really low, so that I wouldn’t get disappointed if people would hate it. I mean, I was proud of my arrangements and transitions, but who knew what people would think about my singing?
It didn’t really start off that great. Commenters seemed to really like it, but it didn’t get many views at all, compared to my previous video; Wind Waker Unplugged. I kind of lost interest, but after two or three weeks, it suddenly showed up on some blogs and sites, and then it just snow balled, getting more and more views each day, for years! It was crazy.
People uploaded it everywhere, and got really popular on CollegeHumor.com. My own upload had more than 7 million views when it was removed by YouTube due to a copyright claim from a fake publisher, but it was too risky to try to counter the claim, so I didn’t do anything.
So yeah, I guess you could say that this video changed my life a bit. I had no idea what to do with my life, but now I knew that I might actually be able to make a living on music, if I work hard enough.
Song list:
Billie Jean (Michael Jackson)
Jizz in my pants (Lonely Island) – 0:19
Wannabe (Spice Girls) – 0:23
Mario Kart Love Song (Sam Hart) – 0:39
Over the Rainbow (Judy Garland) – 0:50
Girlfriend (Avril Lavigne) – 1:00
No woman no cry (Bob Marley) – 1:12
Never gonna give you up (Rick Astley) – 1:16
Harder, better, faster, stronger (Daft Punk) – 1:34
White&Nerdy (Weird Al Yankovic) – 2:03
Tribute (Tenacious D) – 2:18
Numa Numa/Dragostea din tei (O-Zone) – 2:28
Angry video game nerd (Rolfe & Justin) – 2:42
Mamma Mia (ABBA) – 3:03
Smoke on the water (Deep Purple) – 3:37
A whole new world (Disney) – 3:59
Let it Be (The Beatles) – 4:14
Eye of the tiger (Survivor) – 4:26
Leave Britney Alone (Me / Chris Crocker) – 4:45
Thunderstruck (AC/DC) – 5:02
Feel good inc. (Gorillaz) – 5:15
Metropolis (Dream Theater) – 5:30
Pokemon Theme – 5:48
Through the fire and flames (Dragonforce) – 6:00
Chocolate Rain (Tay Zonday) – 6:09
Listen to your heart (Roxette) – 6:22
Hips Don’t Lie (Shakira) – 6:31
Killer Queen (Queen) – 6:38
Time is running out (Muse) – 6:55
When you say nothing at all (Ronan Keating) – 7:14
Road Trippin’ (Red Hot Chili Peppers) – 7:24
Power Rangers Theme – 7:33
Music from the video game “The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker”, performed on several acoustic instruments in a split-screen video.
This video has a kind of funny story. I inherited the accordion a few months before making this video, and got the tin whistle around the same time, but I had not been using either for anything. I was completely into rock music at that time. But, I felt that I didn’t want them just lying there, so I tried to figure out a song that could use both instruments. And I came to think about those two instruments in Wind Waker, and decided to do something with it.
I was gonna add keyboards as the arrangement at first, but felt that it would be nicer to only use acoustic/real instruments, so that’s why I had to improvise with glasses, pots and pans, to get all the sounds needed.
The video became my greatest success at the time, and was the highest rated video on YouTube for a month or two, which was amazing. (And most people approved of my vocals, which I was a bit scary, because I had not been singing “in public” before!)
Song order:
0:04 Medli’s Prayer (part of the opening theme)
0:21 Makar’s Prayer (also part of the opening theme)
0:40 Medli’s Prayer again
0:52 Aryll’s Theme + Makar’s Prayer
1:04 Overworld (Ocean Theme)
1:28 Zelda’s Lullaby
1:34 Dark World (A Link to the Past)
1:44 Aryll’s Theme + Medli’s Prayer
1:56 Aryll’s Theme + Makar’s Prayer + Zelda’s Lullaby
2:08 An arrangement of the original Zelda Overworld theme
Most of these songs were already included in a medley at the end of the game though. (The Staff Credits music.)
