{"id":3461,"date":"2026-09-13T13:27:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T17:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/syner-g.no-ip.biz\/mymusic\/?p=3461"},"modified":"2026-09-19T17:17:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T21:17:22","slug":"spanish-harlem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/syner-g.no-ip.biz\/mymusic\/spanish-harlem\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish Harlem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 13, 2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;ve been in the middle of some personal challenges again and really needed to record a piece of music for my own sanity.\u00a0 I chose a very easy piece and worked to make it into something special.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The song I chose was Spanish Harlem (A Rose inSpanish Harlem).\u00a0 Initially made famous by many people like Ben E. King and Aretha Fraklin, it&#8217;s a song a bit outside my usual ring (European Music), but very easy to play.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I started off by making the rhythm backing track using the the Roland BK-7m and then added some tracks that contained a vocal chior, xylophone and a few bars of dual trumpets.\u00a0 I finished off with the Hohner Gola taking center stage with the main melody and recorded video of myself playing to the backing track.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The final step was to create the video story.\u00a0 I created a background and blended the video of me playing the Gola into it (my first full video recording using the Gola!), added a little imagery and motion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I enjoy the post process editing and I hope it showed in the quality of the final file as well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I think the video of this 1960&#8217;s\u00a0 piececame out nicely.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spanish Harlem\" width=\"880\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2WVs9Of_Dyg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story of Spanish Harlem, the video&#8230; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/syner-g.no-ip.biz\/mymusic\/spanish-harlem\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spanish Harlem<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-videos","category-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/syner-g.no-ip.biz\/mymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/syner-g.no-ip.biz\/mymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/syner-g.no-ip.biz\/mymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/syner-g.no-ip.biz\/mymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/syner-g.no-ip.biz\/mymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3461"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/syner-g.no-ip.biz\/mymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3467,"href":"http:\/\/syner-g.no-ip.biz\/mymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461\/revisions\/3467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/syner-g.no-ip.biz\/mymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/syner-g.no-ip.biz\/mymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/syner-g.no-ip.biz\/mymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}