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Jingle Video Blog #99: Fiddle Jam 2010

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

Yesterday was a HUGE day at Jingle Punks. First off we got new shirts. Yes. They are rad and everyone is bugging us for one. If you need or want one, just blog something nice about us and send proof… we’ll make sure a shirt finds you.

After the shirts arrived we had a real actual girl in our offices. This was so exciting that it was like the equivalent of putting a female ape in the cage at the zoo with the all male primates. As you can see by the devilish grins on our faces this was exciting indeed. It worked out great because Sarah, the girl who came by to drop off music, just so happened to be a world class violin player and was cool enough to jump in on a project for us that needed fiddle skills. Watch below to see the madness unfold.

Tags: Dan Demole, Fiddle, Girls in the Office, Hertog, Jeff Peters, Jingle Jared, matt chambless
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Jingle Punks speaks at the Apple Store

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

This past Friday Jingle Punks did our first ever in store for Apple. Our Apple Store presentation, “Making and Selling Your Music”, was all about how to take your dream and turn it into a reality.

Armed with the Apogee ONE and highlighting Apple’s Logic Pro, we took the attendees through the steps of how to spot the types of music that shows use and then showed step by step how to create these with tools you may already own (like Logic and Garageband); We also explained how Jingle Punks produces music for top networks like the A&E, NBC, History Channel and MTV with a speedy turnaround.

During the event Jingle Jared and Jeff even recorded short songs using a mandolin, guitar, midi controller and ONE’s internal condenser microphone demonstrating how easy it is to get great broadcast ready recordings on a budget and tight space.

We want to give Apogee a major shout out for demo products they have been sending our way. We suggest you check out their website to learn more about their awesome roster of products . In the recent months, we have been traveling with the ONE, taking advantage of its microphone while composing on location for many of our high profile clients.

Check out the History Channel’s “American Pickers” featuring music from Jingle Punks, completely recorded on Apogee’s ONE, using multiple locations and talent.

Tags: Apogee, Apple Store, Composing, History Channel, Jingle Jared
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Beat for Peace

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

Jingle Punks likes to get involved in a good cause every now and then. If this cause involves forming a rad drum circle and jamming like we are at a Dead show in 1975…even better.

To learn about why we did this…go here.

Get your crunchy groove on the video below. We assure you, this was for a good reason.

Tags: Bill Markt, Bongos, Conga, Dan Demole, Electronic drums, Ethan Goldman, Jam, Jeff Peters, Jingle charity, Jingle Jared, Jingle Punks, matt chambless, Save Darfur, Sudan
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Its a Mad Mad Mad House

Monday, January 11th, 2010

Over the holidays, Jingle Punks did music for a new History Channel show called Madhouse. We were asked to make a new master of “One Piece at a Time” by Johnny Cash and because we were all on vacation when the request came in we used several studios, locations and artists to make this happen.

Here is a breakdown of how the process for this worked.

Step 1: I produced the basic track for the network to approve. For this I used my portable logic studio using Logic and the Apogee One. During this round I played all the instruments and put in temp vocals.

Step 2: Revisions to the instrumentation and vocals were requested and the track tempo was adjusted to fit the picture.

Step 3: Reach out to one of our Jingle Punks Artists to step in as vocals on this track.

When all was said and done the final track production was as follows. I played acoustic and bass guitar and drums, Matt Chambless played electric guitar, Jeff Peters played the washboard and James Mason was the star of this on vocals.

Check it out!

Tags: Composing, History, James Mason, Jared Gutstadt, Jeff Peters, Johnny Cash, Madhouse, matt chambless, Promo
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People’s Choice Awards on CBS

Monday, January 11th, 2010

Below is a few selections from our library that were used in the CBS People’s Choice Awards. The show was hosted by Queen Latifah and featured a whos who of Hollywoods top talent. We were honored to be part of this program and look forward to continue being utilized for awards shows and live events.

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Tim Brantley “I can’t make you want me” & Chuck on NBC

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

Jingle Punks helps NBC’s hit Chuck prepare for his upcoming season.

This promo contains a sneak preview at the new season of the hit show. This promo features Blackledge Records artist Tim Brantley and his song “I can’t make you want me.”

Watch the promo and also check out Tim’s website where you can hear all his music and find out where to see him live in the next couple months. We expect some big things from him and his Chuck promo is just one of his many really cool accomplishments.