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This is the 88th week of our weekly contest on Hive. I encourage you to subscribe, join in, and present, and always check out for lovely African tunes in the community.

I had difficulty selecting the song I'd play this week. More so, when I felt I needed to play something during the weekend, my head was a "tabula rasa" (empty slate), and I could not remember any song. But, on my way home today, while on the train, I remembered the song by Teni titled Uyo Meyo. When I got to my room by 10:30 p.m., I brought out my guitar. I only practiced it once with my guitar before I began recording because I've played the song before, so it wasn't so difficult. However, I tried to play softly to avoid disturbing my neighbors, but I'm sure I did bother them. Well, I guess they didn't complain because it's not every time I do this, and probably they felt it was just recorded music.

Uyo Meyo is a traditional song sung in the native Ondo language that speaks about joy, rejoicing, and happiness.

I'm not in the best mood to reflect the spirit of the song because I am 100% tired and stressed out at the moment, but I hope my small smile will make your smile smile.

Till next time, stay safe, and God bless.

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Finally, I've successfully played a little cover of Darling Jesus by Son Music and Neeja!It's just been a few months since this song was released, yet it has become a viral social media sound on TikTok, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, among others. This is probably due to the fantastic re-fix of the song by the duo Son Music and Neeja.

Darling Jesus is a popular gospel praise song in Nigerian homes and churches. Although it has a danceable tune, Son Music's re-fix integrated contemporary afrobeat vibes and other current dance vibes, giving it a rebranded outlook.

Honestly, every time I listen to it, I always appreciate the ingenuity and creativity they put into the re-fix. Likewise, I've always wanted to play it on Afri-Tunes, but I didn't have the time. I successfully played it today because I had to rush-practice a song I'll play in church tomorrow. So, I used the opportunity to record it sharply with my phone.

I hope you enjoy this piece and please bear with my mistakes.

Till next time... stay safe, and God bless.

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Welcome to the Afri-Tunes Community, where we share, listen to, and enjoy African music and tunes on Hive.

This is the 85th week of our weekly contest on Hive. I encourage you to do well to subscribe, join in, and present, as well as always check out for lovely African tunes in the community.

It's been an extremely busy period for me, such that every day I always wonder when I'll have little time to post on Hive. Thankfully, I just squeezed out two hours of my evening to record this video and write the accompanying post as well.

By the way, I got a fairly used Yamaha keyboard just recently, but I barely have time to practice it in my room. I also hope to get an electric guitar and a guitar multi-effect processor soon. I may not have time to play with these gadgets in my room, but I'd play with them, at least, every Sunday when I take them to church. Hence, purchasing them will eventually make a huge difference in my sound production since I am only using an electro-acoustic guitar in the church at the present moment.

Moving away from the Super Story, I decided to present this song to express the abundance of love and mercy God has shown me. Indeed, He has been extremely faithful and has showered me with His love amidst my unfaithfulness, and I cannot stop being thankful. One song I wanted to present was Tobechukwu, maybe it will be my next song.

I hope you enjoy this piece by me.

Till next time... stay safe and God bless.

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I remember listening to this song when I was still an amateur at playing the guitar. I tried learning those sweet guitar rhythms, and I consistently practiced the lead guitar solo lines so that I mastered them and could play them along with the song anytime I heard the song or anytime I played it on my phone. It didn't just make me better at my mastery of the guitar; it also made me love the song more.

Well, when I began to play the saxophone, I noticed one silly mistake that was made in the video of the song. The video began with a lady playing a saxophone, but if you look closely, you'll discover that the mouthpiece of the saxophone wasn't attached to the saxophone (lol). I wonder who told them to make such an obvious error. Well, only saxophonists would easily spot it out. But it could have been avoided if she had placed the saxophone and still blow the rubbish she was blowing (lol).

Well, I always longed to hear this song during worship sessions because of the closer attachment and love I grew for it. It's wonderful lyrics speak about God as the Lion that protects his own people and blesses their land. While, in one way, we may say that the artist just focused on God blessing and guarding the Igbo tribe and their land, from a different perspective, we can see it as God blessing and guarding His children no matter their tribe or ethnicity. It also speaks about God as the mighty One and that the God we serve is truly a warrior and a winner.

I hope you enjoy this piece.

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Prior to the emergence of the recent trending Nigerian gospel song on social media space - Joy in Chaos, I've always lived my life following the words of the lyrics. That's why when I first listened to the song I could easily relate with the lyrics, because it was not only theoretical, but also experiential. In fact, it has become my national anthem.

Amidst all the struggles, hardship and difficulties I've experienced, I've always sought for peace and happiness within or externally. Sometimes it becomes so great as if it'll last forever, but then I've always had great confidence that my God won't put me to shame. Deep down, I've always believed that the phase was just momentary and won't last long, and I still believe so.

God remains ever faithful amidst my unfaithfulness and sinfulness, and in him I put my trust at all times.

He hasn't failed me and He will not fail me!

I hope you enjoy this piece.

LYRICS

I've still got joy in chaos
I've got peace that makes no sense
And I won't be goin' under
I'm not held by my own strength

'Cause I've built my life on Jesus
He's never let me down
He's faithful through every season
So why would He fail now?
He won't

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This is the 77th week of our weekly contest on Hive. I encourage you to do well to subscribe, join in and present, as well as always check out for lovely African tunes in the Community.

There are times when we ponder on all the favours and blessings of God in our lives, that we ask ourselves if we are really worthy of them. We keep asking and wondering about how God took us to the great height that we are experiencing. Yet, we have no explanation that would justify why God overlooked our unfaithfulness and inconsistencies, and still decided to shower His blessings on us.

In times like this, we become confused if it is reality or a dream; because it appears "Too Good to be True." But the Truth is that, "It is true." This is how God pampers us, amidst our failings, sins, uncleanness and unfaithfulness.

God has indeed been gracious to me, and I believe He has also been the same to you, such that singing this piece made me reflect on the words of the lyrics, and I felt it as it was more experiential than an ordinary lyrics.

I hope you enjoy this piece.

LYRICS

Even when I fall your hand

You still dey hold my hand

Lover of my soul, You nor dey break my heart

I'll sing about your mercy

I'll sing about your grace

Na u dey burst my brain

Every night and day

Daddy wey dey pamper

Daddy wey Dey bless

Forever you're my father

Na u dey give me rest

When I look around

I see your faithfulness

I'll bow down on my knees

Cos na u wey be the best

Complete lyrics from Azlyrics

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There's something about accompanying Igbo praise and worship songs with the electric lead guitar that makes me appreciate it more. Maybe it's the coolness and calmness of the rhythm/beat that does the magic or maybe its because I'm a fan of Highlife music. But, I believe the calmness makes it easier for the lead guitarist to give some sweet guitar lead lines without having to stress himself. You really don't need extra speed to give some sweet solo lines, just flow with the groove and you'll realize that each note you play will be worth it.

@magicfingerz can surely relate with this feeling, and I'm sure the great baba is also missing it. Its something you can play for hours without getting tired or out of notes because of the heavy reliance on creating sweet rhythm as compared to jumping up and down with solo.

One other reason I think it's this way is because of the organization of the instruments, such that all instruments play vital role in the song. Hence, when each instrument/Instrumentalist is called to give an interlude, then they'll perform their best in just the short time alloted.

I went home to my parent's place and after my cousins and I sang and played for hours, I remembered that we could do one song and I'll use for Afri-tunes. Well, we decided to pick this beautiful song, "There's a Beautiful Home."

The song is an eulogy about the Heavenly Home, where God dwells with His angels. It speaks about how beautiful this heavenly abode is, and how the angels and saints sing and praise God.

Chinedu does the singing, Ksam plays the guitar and Victor hits two drum sticks. Yea, they are both drummers (including my immediate elder brother who is their tutor).

I hope you enjoy this piece.

LYRICS

IGBO

Ala di mara mma

Na ebe di anya

Ebe ndinso bi

Ona enwu ka ighe

Nuru abu nso

ana buru onye nweanyi

ana enye ya ekele

rue ebiye ebi

Iyokoko, iyokoko

iyo ko ko ko ko ko ko, Iyokoko

iyo ko ko ko ko ko ko, Iyokoko

ENGLISH

There is a beautiful home

in a far away land

where the saints of God

are gathering

Hear the sweet melody

they are singing unto the Lord

they are giving Him

forever more

Lyrics of the song written by me

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ENG Hello my Hive Open Mic Family and Community. You are welcome to Hive Open Mic week One hundred and seventy four, and the Theme of this week is "Beacon of Light", and this beautiful theme was chosen by the gorgeous big madam with an exceptional voice @gloriaolar.

ESP Hola mi Familia y Comunidad Hive Open Mic. Son bienvenidos a la semana ciento setenta y cuatro de Hive Open Mic, y el tema de esta semana es "Faro de Luz", y este hermoso tema fue elegido por la hermosa gran señora con una voz excepcional @gloriaolar.

When I saw the theme of the week, I remembered the passage in the Gospel of Matthew 5:14-16;

You are light for the world. ...your light must shine in people's sight, so that, seeing your good works, they may give praise to your Father in heaven. - New Jerusalem Bible

Put differently, as Christians we are called to radiate the light of Christ to the world. We are called to bring the light of morality in this immoral world; the light of peace in this warring world; and the light of mercy in this unforgiven world. Our lives must be living examples that radiate the love, peace, charity and mercy of God. Yes, by this, we not only become beacons of light, but we become the light itself.

Cuando vi el tema de la semana, me acordé del pasaje del Evangelio de Mateo 5:14-16;

Vosotros sois luz para el mundo. ...vuestra luz debe brillar a los ojos de la gente, para que, viendo vuestras buenas obras, alaben a vuestro Padre que está en los cielos. - Nueva Biblia de Jerusalén

Dicho de otro modo, como cristianos estamos llamados a irradiar la luz de Cristo al mundo. Estamos llamados a llevar la luz de la moralidad a este mundo inmoral; la luz de la paz a este mundo en guerra; y la luz de la misericordia a este mundo sin perdón. Nuestras vidas deben ser ejemplos vivos que irradien el amor, la paz, la caridad y la misericordia de Dios. Sí, con ello no sólo nos convertimos en faros de luz, sino que nos convertimos en la luz misma.

For this week, by brother @onos-f and I will be sharing a wonderful song that calls for the Light of Christ; the blessed Gospel light, to shine and dispel the darkness and evil in this world. A light that not only dispels darkness, but also purifies and illumine that which is hidden.

I hope you enjoy our rendition.

Para esta semana, por el hermano @onos-f y yo estaremos compartiendo una canción maravillosa que llama a la Luz de Cristo; la bendita luz del Evangelio, para brillar y disipar la oscuridad y el mal en este mundo. Una luz que no sólo disipa la oscuridad, sino que también purifica e ilumina lo que está oculto.

Espero que disfruten de nuestra interpretación.

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Still in the mood and spirit of Thanksgiving to God, I'm here with my good friend and brother @onos-f to present a beautiful song that extols the greatness and goodness of God. It is an Igbo gospel song titled, "Madu nile nasi idi Ebube", which means "Everybody testify you are good."

Just like the title, it's a song that speaks about the communal acknowledgement of God's goodness, mercy and blessings on Humanity. Truly, His steadfastness, faithfulness and goodness to us is beyond human comprehension, and He deserves all praise, adoration and worship.

Indeed, we've got great reasons to be thankful and grateful to God; both for personal reasons known to us alone, and for His daily provision, protection and providence towards us.

So, together let's testify that He is truly good, and in fact, He is Goodness per excellons; "the culmen et fons of Goodness" (summit and source of goodness).

I hope you enjoy this piece.

LYRICS OF MADU NILE NASI EBUBE

Madu nilee Nasi Ebube

Ebube Messiah Mara nma

Madu nilee Nasi Ebube

Ebube Messiah Mara nma

An English Version (there are numerous versions)

Everybody testify you are good

You are good Messiah, you are good

Everybody testify you are good

You are good Messiah, you are good

Lyrics written by me, as sung

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Happy Sunday lovely family!

God is indeed worthy of all praise, adoration and worship. His providence and guidance upon his children is bountiful, and sometimes we wonder what we've done to deserve them amidst our unfaithfulness to Him.

I am sure many of us have been overwhelmed by the Love and kindness of God. I can testify to this, and I believe I am not the only one.

Yes, sometimes when we experience these miraculous actions it'll seem like a movie in our eyes, because we cannot fathom how we got to the point. We know that if it's by our power we won't be able to achieve such feat, but since the hand of God is on us, success and victory will be our portion.

Today I'm here to share a lovely Igbo worship song which I love so much, but sadly I can't sing it so much in a way that'll express how much I really love it.

The words of the lyrics are indeed so deep that it pushes us to reflect on God's love and kindness to us, and at the same time it spurs us to offer worship and adoration to Him.

Honestly, playing the guitar and singing isn't an easy feat, most especially arpeggiating the chords. It's as though you are doing 5 different things at the same time. (Lol) I recorded this video multiple times because I missed the lyrics and arpeggios at some point.

I hope you enjoy this piece.

LYRICS OF ANYI N'AJA GI MMA

Anyi g'aja gi mma

(We will exalt you)

N'ihi na imara mma

(Because you are beautiful)

Ihunanya gi na obioma gi juru m anya

(Your love and kindness overwhelm me)

Inweghi mgbanwe

(You never change)

Odighi onye dika gi

(There is no one like you)

Ibu alpha na omega

(You are the alpha and omega)

Anyi nille g'aja gi mma

(We will all give you praise)

Lyrics from lyrics.com

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Lovely Sunday to you all my dear friends.

It is the first Sunday of the month of August; the month of Thanksgiving (which I call it), and I'll love to wish you all more of God's blessings in this month and beyond.

It's been a really busy week for me, and this busyness won't end anytime soon. In fact, I made this video on Wednesday, but I just had the little free time to edit and share it to this wonderful music community today (pardon my little mistakes).

Thankfully, it falls on a day where we go to the house of God for the sake of worship and devotion; its not as though we only gather on Sundays, but Sundays (first day of the week) have that special status since key salvific actions happened on that day, for instance: The Resurrection of the Lord (Easter), the Pentecost, and the resurrected Christ's appearance to His disciples. Even the Apostles had to gather on the first day of the week, following these great events.

Hermoso domingo para todos ustedes mis queridos amigos.

Es el primer domingo del mes de agosto; el mes de Acción de Gracias (que yo lo llamo), y me encantaría desearles a todos más de las bendiciones de Dios en este mes y más allá.

Ha sido una semana muy ocupada para mí, y este ajetreo no terminará pronto. De hecho, hice este video el miércoles, pero acabo de tener el poco tiempo libre para editarlo y compartirlo a esta maravillosa comunidad musical hoy (perdonen mis pequeños errores).

Afortunadamente, cae en un día en el que vamos a la casa de Dios para rendir culto y devoción; no es que sólo nos reunamos los domingos, pero los domingos (primer día de la semana) tienen ese estatus especial ya que en ese día ocurrieron acciones salvíficas clave, por ejemplo: La Resurrección del Señor (Pascua), el Pentecostés y la aparición de Cristo resucitado a sus discípulos. Incluso los Apóstoles tuvieron que reunirse el primer día de la semana, tras estos grandes acontecimientos.

For my interpretation of "This is Your House" by Don Moen, I am not only limiting the "house" to the building itself, rather it also extends to all of us since we are temple of God. Hence, we are called to invite and welcome God to dwell in our hearts and minds, and to direct our lives.

I hope you enjoy this piece.

En mi interpretación de "Esta es tu casa", de Don Moen, no sólo limito la "casa" al edificio en sí, sino que también se extiende a todos nosotros, puesto que somos templo de Dios. De ahí que estemos llamados a invitar y acoger a Dios para que habite en nuestros corazones y mentes, y dirija nuestras vidas.

Espero que disfruten de este artículo.

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A very lovely morning to you all.... Special greetings from this part of the world (Nigeria).

I would love to wish all my friends, viewers, members of Hive Music community and all Hivers.... a lovely new month.

Welcome to the month of August; may success and progress be ours in this month and beyond, and may this month be a month of Thanksgiving to God for His continuous blessings and favours.

It's already August here, and I wish to welcome us to this great month with a song of Thanksgiving to God by Don Moen. The Song is titled, Thank You Lord, and, yes, it extols the greatness of God and appreciates Him for all He has done for us.

Buenos días a todos.... Saludos especiales desde esta parte del mundo (Nigeria).

Me gustaría desear a todos mis amigos, telespectadores, miembros de la comunidad Hive Music y a todos los de Hivers.... un hermoso mes nuevo.

Bienvenidos al mes de agosto; que el éxito y el progreso sean nuestros en este mes y más allá, y que este mes sea un mes de acción de gracias a Dios por sus continuas bendiciones y favores.

Ya estamos en agosto, y quiero dar la bienvenida a este gran mes con una canción de Acción de Gracias a Dios de Don Moen. La canción se titula Thank You Lord (Gracias, Señor) y, sí, ensalza la grandeza de Dios y le agradece todo lo que ha hecho por nosotros.

Amidst our unfaithfulness and inconsistencies, God remains always Faithful, and His promises are ever true.

This is a new month, and I'll encourage everyone of us to continue to trust in the Lord for our time of rejoicing and Thanksgiving in close at hand.

I hope you enjoy this piece.

En medio de nuestra infidelidad e inconsistencias, Dios permanece siempre Fiel, y Sus promesas son siempre verdaderas.

Este es un nuevo mes, y animo a cada uno de nosotros a seguir confiando en el Señor porque nuestro tiempo de regocijo y Acción de Gracias está muy cerca.

Espero que disfruten de este artículo.

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Happy Sunday friends!

It's 2am here and I decided to present a song for Afri-tunes Community, but at the same time trying not to disturb my neighbours with my musical presentation. Thankfully, the Sound hole cover of my semi acoustic guitar aided in reducing the sound from the guitar, and then I tried singing softly amidst my weak voice.

I was pondering on the song I'll present, my first choice was Ije Awele by Flavour ft Umu Ogbiligbo. But trying to sing the lyrics, I discovered that the Igbo language there was way beyond what I'll learn and sing in few hours. Although I'm from the South Eastern part of Nigeria (Abia state), my knowledge of Igbo isn't so deep like those who were born and brought up in the state. This is because I grew up in Lagos and had my Tertiary education in Ibadan, Oyo State. I only travelled to my Home Town for visitation.

Well, enough of the True life story (lol). So I had to skip the song, and I searched for another song by Flavour. Then I found the perfect song, Most High. I felt it was perfect because I've practiced the lyrics before, so I'm familiar with it. Hence, I decided to give it a shot.

Shey I dey enter your eyes? I'm single and searching ooo (lol)

Most High by Flavour is a song that speaks about praising God amidst our choked up or mundane activities. Flavour uses his "daily schedule" to emphasise how praising God is more important than other days in his life.

I hope you enjoy this lovely romantic piece from Me.

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If you've ever had a crush on someone or been in love with someone, there are songs you listen to that give you that calm and beautiful romantic vibes. These songs make you dream and give you "Vivid Imagination" about things you'll love to do, or time you'll love to spend with your loved one or "crushed one."

Interestingly, after some years, whenever you hear those romantic songs again, they put you back in that same mood that you were. In fact, they may remind you of your long lost crush or your ex, and may prompt you to begin reminiscing on those moments.

I'm sure many of us have had such beautiful experience, and many still wish to have more of it.

You know, love is a beautiful thing. It's something we all yearn to bask in its euphoria, and we look forward to that special someone.

Well, if you find your special someone finish, don't forget single people like me. Let the single breeef, dont choke us, please (lol)

Comforter Song is a really beautiful song, and it's one I really love. I'm also happy to know that I can play and sing it (lol). But I don't think it's capable of making anyone fall, or maybe not (lol).

I hope you enjoy this lovely romantic piece from Me.

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Hello everyone, it is another week on Music Zone community with our unique Hive Music Festival event, week 40 round 01.

For a long time, I've been so used to playing guitar covers, and this requires that I learn/practice only the chord progressions and melody of the song, without being bothered about the lyrics of the song. However, I still find this kind of cover more difficult. This is because it always requires that I make two or more videos; one for the chords, and another for Melody of the song, and sometimes an extra solo or harmony part. After making the videos, I'll have to edit the audio via an Audio Editing Software to mix and balance the sounds. Then, the final part will be the video editing of all videos. It is definitely a long process that usually takes me at least 6 full hours to complete.

Looking back at this, I don’t feel that I fully appreciated or enjoyed these songs as I ought to.

I believe that in as much as the chords and melody of a song can take us deeper in the mood of the song, there is something really special and great in meaningful lyrics.

Let's take this as an example: after buying a wonderful land and building a beautiful mansion in it, there's need to put furniture in the house. This furniture will add to the beauty of the house, especially the internal part. Likewise, I believe lyrics are like the furniture that are needed to make the house more habitable and comfortable.

Presently, as I've begun to explore Playing instruments while Singing, I've come to appreciate these songs more and the depth of meaning in their lyrics.

Here is a beautiful song about Love by Ed Sheeran, and I hope you enjoy it.

Hola a todos, es otra semana en la comunidad de Music Zone con nuestro evento único Hive Music Festival, semana 40 ronda 01.

Durante mucho tiempo, he estado muy acostumbrado a tocar covers de guitarra, y esto requiere que aprenda / practique sólo las progresiones de acordes y la melodía de la canción, sin preocuparme por la letra de la canción. Sin embargo, este tipo de versión me sigue pareciendo más difícil. Esto se debe a que siempre requiere que haga dos o más vídeos; uno para los acordes, y otro para la melodía de la canción, y a veces un solo extra o una parte de armonía. Después de hacer los vídeos, tendré que editar el audio con un programa de edición de audio para mezclar y equilibrar los sonidos. Luego, la parte final será la edición de vídeo de todos los vídeos. Sin duda, es un proceso largo que me suele llevar al menos 6 horas completas.

Mirando atrás, no creo haber apreciado o disfrutado estas canciones como debería.

Creo que, por mucho que los acordes y la melodía de una canción nos lleven a lo más profundo del estado de ánimo de la canción, hay algo realmente especial y grandioso en una letra significativa.

Tomemos esto como ejemplo: después de comprar un terreno maravilloso y construir en él una hermosa mansión, hay que poner muebles en la casa. Estos muebles añadirán belleza a la casa, especialmente a la parte interior. Del mismo modo, creo que las letras son como los muebles que se necesitan para hacer la casa más habitable y confortable.

Actualmente, cuando he empezado a explorar la posibilidad de tocar instrumentos mientras canto, he llegado a apreciar más estas canciones y la profundidad del significado de sus letras.

Aquí tienes una preciosa canción sobre el amor de Ed Sheeran, espero que la disfrutes.

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About Two to three years ago, the social media space was buzzing with posts and reposts of a viral gospel song that was rendered by an Acapella crew. The crew had more than twenty singers who joyfully sang the beautiful gospel song titled "Control" by Tenth Avenue North. Although it was an Acapella, many music producers jumped on the song and added beautiful instrumentals to the Acapella as a remix, to embellish it and make it "vibe-able."

No doubt, this song is a beautiful song that it's lyrics will make you appreciate God's work and grace in our lives. It speaks about the bountiful love of God and how His love overshadows us amidst our weaknesses. It also encourages us to submit our will to the will of God. It asks us to seek for God's direction in all we do.

In truth, this song speaks about how I feel at the moment, and this has been my feeling for 6 years now. I've realized that God's hands is always involved in everything I do, and this has made me stop regretting, rather I've begun to look at the big picture. This is becauseI come to realize that what I thought was bad luck or disappointment for me, was actually a necessary experience for me in the next phase God was/is leading me to. Hence, the feeling in me to God, is summarised in the words, "do with me whatever you will."

I had to choose between presenting this song in a solemn/calm way, or adding an original composed instrumental while I sing over it. In making my choice, I had to consider what will be the best mode of presentation, such that I won't have to look down to check the extra lyrics, plus a style that won't make you sleep while watching this video.

Hence, I tryed to create a beat with my Semi-acoustic guitar, and I recorded it over the loop; strumming the guitar alongside. Then I sang the first verse and chorus, and improvised with the guitar.

I think I need to deepen my knowledge of doing the Guitar Beat Box so that I'll be able to strum chords, give beat with the guitar and sing alongside.

I hope you enjoy this beat.

That reminds me, at a point I felt this beat will also be good for rappers. You can jump in with your rap lines you know?

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EGUSI SOUP AND GARRI

Those who know me so well know that egusi is my best soup, and those who don't know before now, now you do...

Egusi, ground white-seed Melon, is a popular traditional soup in Nigeria. It is so popular that different tribes/cultures and communities have their unique styles of preparing this meal. While the Igbos of the South Eastern part of Nigeria have a different way of preparing it, the Yorubas of the South Western part have their unique way. Among the Igbos, some sub-tribes also have their indigenous preparation style.

My preparation today will be based on the Igbo recipe, and I prefer its richness.

The Egusi soup isn't taken alone, rather it goes along with one or more "Swallows"; Eba, Fufu, Pounded Yam, Semo Vita, Wheat and many others. These "Swallows" are moulded like balls and taken with the Egusi as its "sauce" or soup.

One of the things that make this soup rich is the presence of distractions in the soup; and by distractions, I mean different types of meat and fish. Today, I'll prepare the Egusi soup with a bit of distractions as well (hehehehe).

THE INGREDIENTS/PROCESS

To prepare my Eba and Egusi meal, I used the following:

• Ground Egusi
• Ground Achi (Thickner)
• Palm Oil (red oil)
• Bitter leaf
• Crayfish
• Chicken
• Stock Fish
• Smoked catfish
• Kpomo (Cow skin)
• Maggi
• Curry and Thyme
• Salt
• Onoins
• Garri

| | | | | --- | --- | --- | | Ground Egusi | Stock Fish | Chopped onoins | | | | | | Ground Achi | Bitter Leaf | Kpomo | | | | | | Chicken | Spicies | Garri | | | | Catfish |

PREPARING THE MEAL

One of the reasons why I hate preparing food is the time it takes. The truth is that most food items can be prepared within 1 hour or 30 minutes, but the bulk of the work rests on making minor preparations before the actual cooking process.

For this meal, my preparation will be divided into three parts:

1. Making the Chicken-fish Stock,
2. Preparing the Egusi Soup,
3. Preparing the Garri.

While I advice you to watch the video, I'll give a summary of the process.

Making the Chicken-fish Stock You need to first of all wash or clean you Chicken and Fish. Put the Chicken first in a small pot, add Curry, Thyme, Salt, Maggi and Chicken Spice (if there is). Then allow it to steam for about 10-12 minutes. Then add the Fish (after cleaning) in it and allow them steam together for 5 - 10 more minutes.

Preparing the Egusi Soup For this, I'll encourage you to watch the video closely. However, you'll have to be ready to stir continously.

Preparing the Garri This is really easy. Boil a water and ensure it is at boiling point. Power it immediately in a bowl, add your garri and turn till it gets okay.

Viola! Food is ready!!!

This preparation and food vlog is my entry for the Hive Learners Creative Sunday event.

The instrumental/audio in the video is my Guitar Cover of Eye Adaba by ASA.

@balikis95 let your doubt be cleared!!!

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Welcome to Afri-tunes Community; a community where we share, listen to and enjoy African music and tunes on Hive.

This is the 71st week of our weekly contest on Hive. I encourage you to do well to subscribe, join in and present, as well as always check out for lovely African tunes in the Community.

In 2013, when I first began learning how to play the guitar (self-learning process), there were two songs that I would easily play their chord progressions from beginning till the end, because they used static chord progressions. In other words, it wasn't dynamic; the chorus and verses followed same progression. So it was easy to play it because these chords were the basic and easiest chords to play on the guitar. The two songs are Ijoba Orun by Lara George and African Queen by Tuface. Although they have the same progression, the rhythm for both songs were different and that made each of them unique.

Well, today I'm here to present one of these songs. But, this time around I not only played the chord progressions but I also sang the melody of the song over the progression.

Ijoba Orun is a beautiful song by Lara George that speaks about Heaven and the Christian struggle or journey towards attaining Heaven as our final goal and as the reward for believers. It dismisses material possessions as they do not take us to Heaven, and encourages us to rely on God's help and his grace.

I hope you enjoy this piece, and by the way, this is my new Electro-Acoustic Guitar, you can read more about my new Smiger Guitar here.

LYRICS OF IJOBA ORUN

Ijoba orun, l’ere onigbagbo o

(Heaven is the believer’s reward) X2

Ma je’n ku’na Baba, mu mi de’le o

(Father, don’t let me miss it, Take me there)

Owo ti mo ni

(The money I have)

Ko le mu mi de’le o

(Can’t take me there)

Moto ti mo ri ra

(The cars I’ve bought)

Ko le wa mi re’le o

(Can’t take me there)

Ma je n ku’na Baba

(Father, Dont let me miss it)

Mu mi de’le o

(Take me there)

Full Lyrics from Jesusful.com

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ENG Hello my Hive Open Mic Family and Community. You are welcome to Hive Open Mic week One hundred and seventy, and the Theme of this week is "Cacao", and this theme was chosen by the wonderful admin of this beautiful community @cabelindsay.

ESP Hola mi Familia y Comunidad Hive Open Mic. Son bienvenidos a la semana ciento setenta de Hive Open Mic, y el tema de esta semana es "Cacao", y este tema fue elegido por el maravilloso administrador de esta hermosa comunidad @cabelindsay.

Researching on the Theme of Cacao, I discovered how important this plant is both as a product for healthy living, and as a raw form of cocoa, which is an ingredient for chocolate products. This reminded me of how important natural plants and food items are, and how it is essential that we care for these items.

Sadly, many of us really abuse these natural gifts and many fail to realise how we can't do without them. Yet, we only care about our short-term/momentary need. We cut down huge trees to produce books, tissue papers and papers, yet deforestation without planting back is harmful to the environment. We put sand to fill up many islands to create more land without proper drainage system, yet those lands are at risk because when flooding happens or when the sea rises it will certainly cover these areas.

We need to realize how important it is to care for our environment for both our present day and for future generations.

Investigando sobre el tema del cacao, descubrí lo importante que es esta planta tanto como producto para una vida sana, como forma cruda de cacao, que es un ingrediente para los productos de chocolate. Esto me recordó lo importantes que son las plantas y los alimentos naturales, y lo esencial que es que los cuidemos.

Lamentablemente, muchos de nosotros abusamos de estos dones naturales y muchos no se dan cuenta de que no podemos prescindir de ellos. Sin embargo, sólo nos preocupamos de nuestras necesidades momentáneas a corto plazo. Talamos árboles enormes para producir libros, pañuelos de papel y papeles, y sin embargo, deforestar sin volver a plantar es perjudicial para el medio ambiente. Echamos arena para rellenar muchas islas y crear más tierra sin un sistema de drenaje adecuado, y sin embargo esas tierras están en peligro porque cuando se produzcan inundaciones o cuando suba el mar sin duda cubrirá esas zonas.

Tenemos que darnos cuenta de lo importante que es cuidar nuestro medio ambiente tanto para el presente como para las generaciones futuras.

For this week, I'll present a Gospel song by the Hillsong Choir titled Oceans. Although the song does not speak about nature or its beauty, it praises the King and creator of all things. It uses the analogy of the Ocean to speak about how God cares for His people, protect them and provide for them. It also speaks about our response to the call of God and deepening of our faith.

I hope you enjoy this piece.

Para esta semana, presentaré una canción evangélica del coro Hillsong titulada Oceans. Aunque la canción no habla de la naturaleza ni de su belleza, alaba al Rey y creador de todas las cosas. Utiliza la analogía del Océano para hablar de cómo Dios cuida de su pueblo, lo protege y provee para él. También habla de nuestra respuesta a la llamada de Dios y de la profundización de nuestra fe.

Espero que disfruten de esta obra.

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Hello everyone, it is another week on Music Zone community with our unique Hive Music Festival event, week 39 round 03.

Love is truly a beautiful thing, one that lovers should appreciate, cherish and learn to strengthen. While this piece focuses on love between couples, I also advocate that we strengthen all other types of love: between family and friends.

Although it's just a four letter word, the word "Love" is really complex and all encompassing. It entails a whole lot: it involves mutual understanding, sacrifice, trust, communication, commitment and care. When one or all of these are lacking, if its not strengthened, then there's a great tendency for things to go soar. Although, it's also possible that everything be managed. Also, when they are excessive, then there's high tendency for toxicity in the relationship.

However, one thing about human beings is that you cannot entirely predict 100% how things will turn out to be. Especially, since love can make people blind to the dangers or "red flags" in a relationship.

A healthy relationship should have these components, not excessive nor in deficit. This substantiates what Aristotle says in His Nicomachean Ethics which I read back then in school: "Virtue Lies in the middle of Excess and deficit."

Today, I'll present a beautiful love song by Elivis Presley, titled Can't Help Falling in Love. Although I've presented this song cover before on Hive, I only made a guitar cover back then. But, this time around, I'm presenting a vocal cover as well.

I hope you enjoy this cover.

Hola a todos, es otra semana en la comunidad de Music Zone con nuestro evento único Hive Music Festival, semana 39 ronda 03.

El amor es algo realmente hermoso, que los amantes deben apreciar, valorar y aprender a fortalecer. Aunque esta pieza se centra en el amor entre parejas, también abogo por que fortalezcamos todos los demás tipos de amor: entre familiares y amigos.

Aunque sólo sea una palabra de cuatro letras, la palabra "amor" es realmente compleja y lo abarca todo. Implica muchas cosas: comprensión mutua, sacrificio, confianza, comunicación, compromiso y cuidado. Cuando falta uno de ellos o todos, si no se refuerza, entonces hay una gran tendencia a que las cosas se disparen. Aunque también es posible que todo se controle. Además, cuando son excesivos, entonces hay una gran tendencia a la toxicidad en la relación.

Sin embargo, una cosa que tienen los seres humanos es que no se puede predecir al 100% cómo van a ser las cosas. Sobre todo, porque el amor puede hacer que la gente sea ciega a los peligros o "banderas rojas" de una relación.

Una relación sana debe tener estos componentes, ni en exceso ni en déficit. Esto corrobora lo que dice Aristóteles en su Ética a Nicómaco, que leí entonces en la escuela: "La virtud está entre el exceso y el déficit".

Hoy presentaré una hermosa canción de amor de Elivis Presley, titulada Can't Help Falling in Love. Aunque ya he presentado esta versión de la canción antes en Hive, entonces sólo hice una versión con guitarra. Pero, esta vez, estoy presentando un cover vocal también.

Espero que os guste.

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THE SECOND

19 days ago, I shared my very first food blog on Hive with the title of Dinner is Ready. For dinner, according to the piece, I prepared Sweet Potatoes and Egg Sauce, and I specifically denied @meyateingi from coming to eat (She deserves it for doing me longer throat when she cooked hers).

After that post, I decided that my next food content will be a vlog, not just a blog post with pictures. Yes, you heard that right - a video!

By this, I hope to dispel the doubts in the minds of people like @onos-f that think I can't cook. Obviously, people in this category won't have a taste of my sumptuous meal, they'll only lick their phone screens.

Lick it!

TASTEE SPAGGEE RECIPEE

Yes, they'll deny that they aren't interested in the meal. But don't mind them, they don't have a choice, and can't do anything to remedy the situation.

So, yes, I present to you a meal I call, Tastee Spaggee: you know what that means, right?

The Spaghetti meal is more than Tasty!

Initially, I had it in mind to prepare Jollof Spaghetti, but I decided to change to this.

So, I'll list the items used in preparing this meal, and I encourage you to watch the video and follow Ksam in the Kitchen.

THE INGREDIENTS/PROCESS

To prepare my Spaghetti meal, I used the following:

• Spaghetti
• Vegetable Oil
• Fresh Tomatoes
• Fresh Pepper
• Onions
• Shawa Fish (Herring)
• Titus Fish (Mackerel)
• Maggi Knorr
• Curry
• Salt
• Crayfish
• Other spices

| | | --- | | Vegetable oil, salt, Maggi, Crayfish, Curry and other spices |

| | | | | --- | --- | --- | | Fresh Tomatoes | Fresh Pepper | sliced Fresh Tomatoes + Pepper |

| | | | --- | --- | | Titus and Shawa fish | Fish after removing bones and cleaning with warm water | | | | | Onions | Sliced Onoins |

PREPARING THE MEAL

Cooking the meal isn't really difficult, but what normally takes much time is the preparation process; this includes, cutting your onoins, cutting your Fresh pepper and tomatoes, cleaning the Fish by removing its bones and using running water to make it clean. Aside this, other processes are quite straight forward.

First pour the Spaghetti in pot filled with boiling water. After few minutes, sieve out the water from the Spaghetti.

Then, ensure you've made the necessary preparations and your Tomatoes, pepper, Onoins and Fish are ready.

Issssh, am I giving out all the tips here already?

I invite you to watch the video to check out the full preparation, to cheer me up and give some alternative cooking styles.

And if you know how to prepare Italian Spaghetti, I'll appreciate if you to help share the process.

Viola! Food is ready!!!

This preparation and food vlog is my entry for the Hive Learners Creative Sunday event.

The instrumental/audio in the video, is my Guitar Cover of Joromi by Simi, you can watch the full presentation here

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Welcome to Afri-tunes Community; a community where we share, listen to and enjoy African music and tunes on Hive.

This is the 70th week of our weekly contest on Hive. I encourage you to do well to subscribe, join in and present, as well as always check out for lovely African tunes in the Community.

In moments of trials and tribulations or in times when we await in great expectations for the miracle of God in our lives, we tend to cherish songs of adoration and worship so well. Listening to them keenly, we realize the true meaning of the words of the lyrics and it motivates us to reflect more on the magnificence of God.

The first time I listened to Nara Ekele by Dr. Paul Eneche ft the Dunamis Choir and late Osinachi Nwachukwu, I was marvelled by the rhythm, melody, heavy instrumentation in the song (especially the lead guitar), and above all, the lyrics itself. I wondered why it took me so long to listen to the song. Although, I'm not surprised because I hardly listen to music. However, I am glad I heard the song at the right time, and I cherish it so much.

Nara Ekele is an Igbo song of adoration, praise and worship to God. The song reflects the spiritual yearnings of man to render all thanks and adoration to the Lord of the Universe; the Creator and Sustenance of all there is. It praises Him as the fountain of our Life and our true solace; one that we should rely on at every time in our lives.

The progression and cool vibe of the song is one I love so much as it gives one much inspiration to give in some heavy but sweet solo or improvisation.

This is obviously one of the longest music videos I've done one Hive. I didn't want to stop because I actually wanted to play more because of how spirit lifting the song is. But, I had to stop at some point.

I hope you enjoy this piece. I recorded the instrumental with my guitar, to give it a perfect background track.

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ENG Hello my Hive Open Mic Family and Community. You are welcome to Hive Open Mic week One hundred and sixty-nine, and the Theme of this week is "war", and this theme was chosen by @jasperdick.

ESP Hola mi Familia y Comunidad de Hive Open Mic. Son bienvenidos a Hive Open Mic semana ciento sesenta y nueve, y el tema de esta semana es "guerra", y este tema fue elegido por @jasperdick.

The quest for dominance, territorialism and conquest has ruled the hearts of men for a long time such that it often leads to an extreme case of war and bloodshed. When this happens, countless lives and property are destroyed, and human lives tend to have little or no worth to those who incite these actions.

In our world today, we see little or no difference in terms of these actions as humans have developed complex instruments of destruction, as well as biological weapons to wreck extreme havoc to those who they perceive to be opponents/threats.

In such a world where violence, wars, hatred and conquest dwells, peace seems to be alien. But this shouldn't be the case.

So where do you stand?

Do you wish to be agents of war and destruction? Or Agents of peace?

La búsqueda de la dominación, el territorialismo y la conquista ha gobernado los corazones de los hombres durante mucho tiempo, de tal manera que a menudo conduce a un caso extremo de guerra y derramamiento de sangre. Cuando esto ocurre, se destruyen innumerables vidas y bienes, y las vidas humanas suelen tener poco o ningún valor para quienes incitan a estas acciones.

En nuestro mundo actual, vemos poca o ninguna diferencia en cuanto a estas acciones, ya que los humanos han desarrollado complejos instrumentos de destrucción, así como armas biológicas para causar estragos extremos a quienes perciben como oponentes/amenazas.

En un mundo así, en el que habitan la violencia, las guerras, el odio y la conquista, la paz parece algo ajeno. Pero no debería ser así.

Entonces, ¿cuál es tu postura?

¿Queréis ser agentes de guerra y destrucción? ¿O agentes de paz?

Today, I bring to you a prayer originally composed by St. Francis of Assisi, who founded the Franciscan Order. He is a man of prayer who devoted himself to a life of selfless service to the poor and built a community of brothers who spread the Gospel of Christ in a unique way.

This prayer is a beautiful one asking God to make us instruments or Agents of peace in this warring world; agents of love, pardon, faith, hope, joy and light to the world.

I hope you enjoy this piece from.

Hoy les traigo una oración compuesta originalmente por San Francisco de Asís, fundador de la Orden Franciscana. Es un hombre de oración que se entregó a una vida de servicio desinteresado a los pobres y construyó una comunidad de hermanos que difundieron el Evangelio de Cristo de una manera única.

Esta oración es hermosa y pide a Dios que nos haga instrumentos o agentes de paz en este mundo en guerra; agentes de amor, perdón, fe, esperanza, alegría y luz para el mundo.

Espero que disfruten de esta pieza de.

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🎵 Hello Music Lovers 🎙

Hello everyone, it is another week on Music Zone community with our unique Hive Music Festival event, week 38 round 02.

Today I'm here to present a sweet melody that rocked the world around the years 2017 and 2018, DESPACITO.

Despacito is a Spanish song by the celebrated artist Luis Fonsi. It was released in 2017 and became a worldwide hit such that people from various countries and languages hummed and danced to the sweet tunes of the melody, whether they understood the lyrics or not (lol, I'm not an exception).

The song became so popular that it won multiple Awards in multiple categories. Also, the song became so popular worldwide but only a few people outside the Spanish world knew the Artist. Yea, you know sometimes songs get popular without carrying the artist along, I think it was the case with this song (in respect to the non-Spanish world). However, I believe that he is a well known artist who has contributed so much to the Spanish pop and rock musical community. In fact, bringing Despacito to the world was part of his greatest achievement to his career and to the Spanish pop musical community.

Yes, it is a really lovely song, one that I enjoyed and still enjoy. I cannot help but dance to the groove or vibe to it whenever I hear this song, and I'd also joyfully sing a fake lyrics, since I don't know the Spanish lyrics by heart (lol), don't blame me (lol).

Well, since I can't sing, I believe my guitar will help me to sing it.

In this piece, I played a creative guitar cover of Despacito. Here, I created a loop instantly in between the presentation (after the intro) which served as my instrumental.

Honestly, it isn't an easy thing to do as it requires precision and mastery of the loop function, as well as the timing and flow of the song.

I hope you enjoy this cover.

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TWITTER: THE MODEL

To begin with, Twitter is the biggest microblogging platform in the world with millions of daily active users, such that many other platforms see Twitter as a model and standard which they try to outperform. However, since Jack handed over the leadership of Twitter to Elon Musk, many people have raised certain objections and remarks with regard to the leadership and control of Twitter today. Many people feel that Twitter is no longer the Twitter they know and, as such, they are in search of a better alternative to Twitter.

This is why over the years and months, so many alternatives like Mastadon, Truth and Hive Social keep on advertising their product as the best alternative. Obviously, many of these platforms usually increase their advertisement whenever Twitter/Elon Musk make slight mistakes, remarks or bring out a new rule that many people object.

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Just recently, Elon Musk informed users that Tweets will be rate limited, such that verified users can only view 6,000 Tweets per day, and unverified users only 600 Tweets per day. So many users have objected to this, and it has also become a perfect spot for other alternative microblogging platforms to advertise their product.

ADVERTISING HIVE

Just like other social media platform, Hive and its community have been consistent in advertising Hive products during this time. However, whereas many other social media platforms get huge traffic and more users, Hive has not enjoyed such privilege yet.

This is not to say that Hive marketing has been unsuccessful, No! But it is a call for us to identify the weaknesses in our advertising strategy, change them if necessary and strive to do better.

Advertising Threads, the Microblogging alternative for Twitter on Hive, hasn’t been an easy task amidst the enormous benefits of jumping into it instead of Twitter and others. Yet, it seems like people are paying blind eyes to our adverts.

For me, I think one of the things I’ve observed which I believe can help us as we seek to advertise Threads more is the problem of Terminology.

THE PROBLEM OF TERMINOLOGY AND ADVERTISING HIVE/THREADS

Most times, whenever we go out to advertise Hive or Threads as an alternative to Twitter, we fill our bags with loads of sweet words about Threads by Leofinance. We advertise it as a perfect Microblogging platform, a Web 3 social media that is better than Web 2 media like Twitter, Facebook or Tiktok. We say it is Censorship resistant, built on a blockchain world that is fast, scalable, decentralized and so much more. Oh yes, we give it the best names, although we aren’t lying because that is what it truly is.

But...

Do you know how or where we make mistake?

Let me tell you this:

Before I joined Hive, I was a regular user of Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter, among others, but I didn’t know what “Web 2” was all about. In fact, it was the same when I joined Hive, I only saw Hive as a platform where I share my content and earn, that’s all. But, when I listened to various episodes of the Community Token Talk (ctt) podcast by Theycallmedan and Starkez, as well as their call-to-action initiative in early 2022, I became enlightened and knowledgeable about the difference between Web 2 and Web 3; Centralization and Decentralization; Censorship Resistance; Scalability, and many other concepts.

So, whenever I hear those words as adverts, I can easily understand them, because I have already been educated.

BUT...

Most times, we go ahead to use these terminologies for the average social media user out there who knows nothing about these terminologies.

How will they understand the terms?

We tell them not to use web 2, and that web 3 is better than web 2. We tell them to jump into web 3... But they don’t even know what web 3 or web 2 is.

This is why most times, when we make such advertisements, we are already limiting our audience to only those who are educated or have knowledge of such terminologies.

In other words, we are already shooting ourselves before advertising.

UNDERSTANDING YOUR AUDIENCE

It is okay to use such terms when we speak or debate with people knowledgeable about them. At this time, we can use all the sweet vocabularies and terminologies that characterize our adorable platform. But, when we plan to advertise Hive or Threads as an alternative to Twitter, then I think we need to tone down our language.

USING WEB2 AND WEB3 TERMS For instance, rather than using the “web3” or “web2” slangs for ~~an average~~ or ~~a dumb~~ user of social media, just tell them: “this is a social media with so and so features.” Bringing in the terminologies of web2 and web3 may confuse them the more.

CENSORSHIP RESISTANCE Many of these users seek for a platform where their account can neither be suspended or terminated. Yes, we have that in Hive and we advertise it as “censorship resistance.” I believe that using this term alone, the average social media user does not understand what it implies in social media world. It is important that we tone down and explain to them in the language they really understand, to effectively communicate and pass across our message.

CENTRALIZATION AND DECENTRALIZATION In all honestly, the average social media user does not bother if he or she is on a platform being run by the ghosts. He or she just needs a social media that can give them what they want. Hence, whether it is owned by Khal, Taskmaster or Ksam, in so far as it can serve its purpose, then they will jump into it. In other words, in the advertisement scale of preference, advertising a good and workable social media product is more effective than preaching decentralization and centralization. The average social media user is less bothered.

In all, I believe that there is need for us to tone down our language, or use certain terms that certain audience will understand. This will increase the chance of passing across our message or advertising effectively.

However, the obvious truth is that such simpler words may not fully explain all there is to the technical terms. But, for the sake of communication, understanding and advertising to understand, I think it is apt.

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🎵 Hello Music Lovers of Hive Music community! 🎙

For us, who are Christians, we believe that our existence in this world isn't without a purpose. Put differently, we are on earth for a reason, and this earthly journey is a means towards our goal of eternal happiness found in God.

We believe that God has a plan for us and for our lives, and it is essential that we align ourselves with the will of God in our lives. However, it isn't the case that we are in chains, no. In fact, as humans, we enjoy the gift of rationality and freedom; where in we can decipher the good from the bad, and we can decide to do the good over evil, or vice versa. Hence, in as much as God has a plan for us, we can decide to go along with His plans for us, or we can decide to do whatever we will. It's our decision, but every decision comes with responsibilities attached.

Well, we also believe that God didn't leave us without a guide. He gave us the book of life, the Bible, to be a guide for us; and His only Son also came down and showed us the way to the Father. In His words, we found and still find hope, light, solace, peace and life.

The Word of God is indeed alive and active; it can soften the strongest heart and turn a heart of stone to a heart of love.

In this piece, I present Ancient Words by Michael Smith. Its a song that praises the Divine Word of God, which gives hope, joy and peace.

I hope you enjoy this little cover of mine.

I played the guitar first as the instrumental part, and played the recorder as melody over the instrumental loop.

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Welcome to Afri-tunes Community; a community where we share, listen to and enjoy African music and tunes on Hive.

This is the 69th week of our weekly contest on Hive. I encourage you to do well to subscribe, join in and present, as well as always check out for lovely African tunes in the Community.

I remember learning and giving the complete breakdown of the lead guitar lines of Joromi by Simi 5 years ago. This lines do not include the Melody of the song, but it was just the sweet guitar rhythm and solos. You can check the main video on YouTube here, as well as the lead guitar breakdown and the bass guitar breakdown.

This time around, I decided to use my guitar to play the Melody of the song itself as though I were singing it. However, I didn't practice the full song before hand, I just wanted to test my memory, plus I wanted to see how I'll integrate the solo lines of the song without rehearsing. Well, it turned out weak, lol.

I still look forward to doing a full cover someday, where I'll play the instrumentals, then sing the melody over it. After that, I'll add the full lead guitar lines over them as though it were the original song. This will take time, but its not impossible if I eventually decide to do it.

So, for this piece, I decided to record the bass and light rhythm with my guitar effect loop, then I played the Melody and patch solo over it. I hope you enjoy it.

You can watch the guitar solo and rhythm part I made 5 years ago via YouTube.

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ENG Hello my Hive Open Mic Family and Community. You are welcome to Hive Open Mic week One hundred and sixty-eight, and the Theme of this week is "Música para Niños," which is a Spanish theme that means "Music for Children" in English, and this theme was chosen by @aly.squid.

ESP Hola mi Familia y Comunidad de Hive Open Mic. Sean bienvenidos a la semana ciento sesenta y ocho de Hive Open Mic, y el Tema de esta semana es "Música para Niños", que es un tema en español que significa "Música para Niños" en inglés, y este tema fue elegido por @aly.squid.

This week's theme is a really beautiful one, although I would have missed it greatly owing to my prolonged illness. But it seems God actually wanted me to participate.

My brother and friend @onos-f came visiting, and when he asked if I've dropped an entry for Hive Open Mic, I told him I haven't played music for more than a week since I've been really weak. But, since I'm a bit better now I'll try. With his push and motivation we had to MAKE MUSIC.

The hardest part of our musical rendition process is when we have to choose a song (lol). I remember one day, when we stayed for 2 hours without knowing what to play. It was really disappointing, but songs magically fly away from our heads when it's time to remember them.

Although we faced something similar this time around, it didn't take much time before we figured out the best song to use for this rendition.

El tema de esta semana es realmente hermoso, aunque me lo habría perdido en gran medida debido a mi prolongada enfermedad. Pero parece que Dios quería que participara.

Mi hermano y amigo @onos-f vino de visita, y cuando me preguntó si había dejado una entrada para Hive Open Mic, le dije que hacía más de una semana que no ponía música porque he estado muy débil. Pero, como ahora estoy un poco mejor, lo intentaré. Con su empuje y motivación tuvimos que HACER MÚSICA.

La parte más difícil de nuestro proceso de interpretación musical es cuando tenemos que elegir una canción (lol). Recuerdo un día que estuvimos 2 horas sin saber qué tocar. Fue realmente decepcionante, pero las canciones vuelan mágicamente de nuestras cabezas cuando llega el momento de recordarlas.

Aunque esta vez nos enfrentamos a algo parecido, no tardamos mucho en averiguar cuál era la mejor canción para esta interpretación.

We chose a song that was really popular in 2008, and was performed by Destined Kids; a Musical Group of children. They performed multiple songs in a sequence, and the songs became popular at kid shows and occasions. These songs became popular not just because of their child-like tunes, but because of the messages they pass across urging children to be obedient, respectful and truthful.

Today, we will share one of the songs that encourage children to always say the truth to their parents. Truth is a great virtue, and it can earn our trust. Learning how to be truthful at our tender age can help us grow into a person of truth, who can always be trust worthy.

I created the instrumental with my guitar and guitar effect.

I hope you enjoy this piece from us.

Elegimos una canción muy popular en 2008, interpretada por Destined Kids, un grupo musical infantil. Interpretaron varias canciones seguidas, que se hicieron populares en espectáculos infantiles. Estas canciones se hicieron populares no sólo por sus melodías infantiles, sino también por los mensajes que transmiten, instando a sus compañeros a ser obedientes, respetuosos y sinceros.

Hoy compartiremos una de las canciones que animan a los niños a decir siempre la verdad a sus padres. La verdad es una gran virtud, y puede ganarse nuestra confianza. Aprender a ser sinceros a nuestra tierna edad puede ayudarnos a convertirnos en hombres de verdad, dignos de confianza.

He creado el instrumental con mi guitarra y un efecto de guitarra.

Espero que disfruten de esta pieza nuestra.

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Hello everyone, it is another week on Music Zone community with our unique Hive Music Festival event, week 36 round 03.

Multiple songs are being released daily across the globe by various artists, however, only a few stand the test of time. In other words, many songs lose their vibes few years following their release, others lose their lyrical meanings as the culture and society changes, and the dancestep associated with some others also begin to fade.

Among the few songs that stand the test of time, I strongly believe that romantic or love themed songs seem to be prevalent, probably because of its strong connection with the human feelings.

Do you think so too?

Or which genre or themed music type do you think is prevalent in terms of being relevant over the years?

All of Me, by John Legend, is one of such romantic themed songs that will remain relevant and loved for years and decades due to the depth of its message of love, together with the sweet rhythm and lovely composed melody.

The song expresses the necessity for openness, transparency, communication and understanding in relationships. When all these exist substantially, one would understand the other better and be willing to go to any length for the other's happiness.

It also advocates acceptance of the other's flaws and imperfections, and looking beyond them towards that which unites and strengthens the bond.

Although it was released in 2013, I still enjoy the song till date, and it's one of my favourite love songs. Is it one of yours also?

I hope you enjoy this piece.

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ENG Hello my Hive Open Mic Family and Community. You are welcome to Hive Open Mic week One hundred and sixty-seven, and the Theme of this week is "Otaku", which was chosen by @eudarcabello. As explained in the introductory post for the week, the theme is a unique Japanese word describing the fans of anime.

ESP Hola mi Familia y Comunidad Hive Open Mic. Bienvenidos a la semana ciento sesenta y siete de Hive Open Mic, y el tema de esta semana es "Otaku", elegido por @eudarcabello. Como se explica en el post introductorio de la semana, el tema es una palabra japonesa única que describe a los fans del anime.

With respect to the theme, I am actually a fan of anime, although not a staunch fan. My journey with Anime began in 2020 during the Covid Lockdown. I watched the entire 720 episodes of Naruto (220 Naruto + 500 Naruto Shippuden) in 1 months and few days. Then I've also watched others like The Seven Deadly Sins, Bleach, One Piece, Record of Ragnarok, Demon Slayer, Black Clover, Attack on Titan and Fullmetal Alchemist, among others. Some of them I've watched the complete seasons, and others just in part.

Although, prior to beginning my journey with it, I felt it was just a bunch of weird cartoon-like characters fighting and shouting for no reason. Well, at the long run after getting to watch it, I discovered that there's much more to it. Many of which I enjoyed have nice storyline with great philosophies and thoughts on themes that pertain to life; like Peace, unity, and expulsion of pain.

Con respecto al tema, en realidad soy un fan del anime, aunque no un fan incondicional. Mi andadura con el anime comenzó en 2020 durante el Encierro Covid. Vi los 720 episodios completos de Naruto (220 de Naruto + 500 de Naruto Shippuden) en 1 mes y pocos días. Luego también he visto otros como Los Siete Pecados Capitales, Bleach, One Piece, Record of Ragnarok, Demon Slayer, Black Clover, Attack on Titan y Fullmetal Alchemist, entre otros. De algunas de ellas he visto las temporadas completas, y de otras sólo una parte.

Aunque, antes de empezar mi andadura con ella, me parecía que no era más que un montón de extraños personajes de dibujos animados peleándose y gritando sin motivo. Bueno, a la larga, después de verla, descubrí que es mucho más que eso. Muchas de las películas que he disfrutado tienen una bonita historia con grandes filosofías y reflexiones sobre temas relacionados con la vida, como la paz, la unidad y la eliminación del dolor.

Well, for my presentation this week, I chose to do something different from the theme. I decided to present one of my most cherished love songs, A Thousand Years by Christina Perri.

I've presented a cover of this song before on Hive, but this will be my first time singing. Other times I only gave a guitar cover, but this time around, I'll play the rhythm with my guitar and sing along.

I hope you enjoy this piece.

Bueno, para mi presentación de esta semana, elegí hacer algo diferente del tema. Decidí presentar una de mis canciones de amor más queridas, A Thousand Years de Christina Perri.

He presentado una versión de esta canción antes en Hive, pero esta será mi primera vez cantando. Otras veces sólo hice una versión con la guitarra, pero esta vez tocaré el ritmo con la guitarra y cantaré con ella.

Espero que disfrutéis de esta pieza.

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Welcome to Afri-tunes Community; a community where we share, listen to and enjoy African music and tunes on Hive.

This is the 67th week of our weekly contest on Hive. I encourage you to do well to subscribe, join in and present, as well as always check out for lovely African tunes in the Community.

Two years ago, a close friend of mine sent me a voice recording of a song she made with her twin brother. She sang with her beautiful voice while her brother accompanied her with the keyboard. It was my first time of listening to the song, but I loved it instantly and thenceforth I've been stuck listening to this song, and I don't mind presenting it 20 times in 20 days (lol).

Today (Sunday), the song kept on ringing in my mind all day, and I couldn't help but practice it in order to present it to the wonderful community for this week.

Surprisingly, I received a call from her this evening (the last time we spoke was close to a year). It was surprising and awesome, because I also reminded her of this song. Luckily for us, there was electricity, so I switched on my guitar and I played while she sang (lol).

As we ended the call, it gave me extra boost to play and sing mine (maybe that was why I was over happy - lol).

This is one beautiful love song that I cannot get over. It's rhythm is simple and lovely; its melody is fantastic; and its lyrics is deeply romantic. I hope you enjoy this lovely piece, and kindly don't mind my voice (lol).

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Today is June 15 2023, and today is a great day for two reasons: first, it is a great day in the Leoverse because we celebrate the One year Anniversary of our amazing Community event; the Leo Power Up Day. Secondly, I celebrate a great day today because I have moved a step higher in the Pride rank; I have moved from a Newborn Cub to a Cub.

LEO POWER UP DAY - 1ST ANNIVERSARY

Today is a great day in the Leo Ecosystem where we celebrate the first anniversary of our amazing Leo Power Up Day, and this occasion is a great time to remind ourselves of what the Leo Power Up Day is, what it means for us as individuals and what it means to the Community.

The Leo Power Up Day is a day set aside by the community, where we come together to celebrate the community. We come together, collectively, in unity and harmony to Power Up or stake our Leo tokens. By doing this, we are showing the Leo Community that we are in full support of the projects and plans of the community. And since the community is all of us, it means that it's a way of telling ourselves that the leoverse has a bright future.

This action benefits both the community and the individuals who participate:

For the Community:

• It shows our oneness and unity,
• It shows that we are in full support of the dApps, plans and progress of the community,

For the Individuals:

• The more you Power Up your Leo tokens, the more your vote value for Leo Power increases,
• The more it increases, the more you have curation reward and you get micro-earnings,
• The more your Leo Power increases, you grow higher in the Pride rank
• The more Leo Power you have, you can delegate to other projects to earn liquid curation reward,
• By powering Up during the Community day, you will be eligible for the massive LPUD delegation rewards,
• You also get Hivebuzz Badge also.

NOW A CUB

Moving to the Cub Status isn't an easy feat. It is as a result of consistency, dedication and confidence in the Leo project.

At the end of 2022, we were asked to write about our Leo Goals for 2023, and I remember saying that I'd become a Cub before 2023 ends. This is just the 6th Month of the year and I'm already a Cub. It's a really wonderful feat for me.

Thanks to the Zealy campaign where I received 1,852 Leo, I was able to stake 1,590 to add to the 3,410 Leo Power I had earlier.

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So, at this moment I have 4,800 Leo Power, and 200 Leo Power Delegated to both India-leo and hodlcommunity. Adding all will make it 5,000 Leo Power.

A big Congratulations to me!

The Pride rank indeed shows our growth, dedication and vision for the Leofinance Community.

Let's keep growing in the Pride rank, and let's keep believing in Leo.

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🎵 Hello Music Lovers of Hive Music community! 🎙

It's a cool weather over here in Lagos, Nigeria. Its been raining for days, a type of weather people call "weather for two", or "weather for couples." Well, what do they expect single people like us to do during this weather? To go hug transformers?

Naaa, that's injustice!

But, in any case, we'll keep wearing our sweaters and keep sleeping under the duvet to get rid of the cold. In addition, hot tea and warm bathing water will also be our companions.

Okay, that's all. Away from cold, relationship and weather, let's go straight to the goal of today.

As part of my continuous effort and drive to get better at playing the guitar and singing at the same time, I'm here to present a Gospel song by Don Moen, titled "This is Your House."

This is Your House is a beautiful Christian worship song that invites God to make His presence known and abide in the hearts and home of His people. The song inspires confidence in God, and belief in His Omnipotence and ability to do all things. It also speaks about our willingness to offer our lives, our hearts and sacrifice our desires in order to align ourselves to God's will and plan in our lives. Thus, with this, we not only invite God to dwell in our midst and in our hearts, we also invite Him to guide and direct us as we live our lives. So that we will live our lives in a praiseworthy way.

I hope you enjoy this piece.

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🎵 Hello Music Lovers 🎙

Hello everyone, it is another week on Music Zone community with our unique Hive Music Festival event, week 35 round 02.

At 1am (1 hour 30 minutes ago), sleep was far away from me. But, I felt the need to do something before sleep starts knocking at the door. Since it was late, I was limited in options however, since there was electricity, I felt it'll be the best time to let out the song that has been ringing in my head for weeks. Yes, I've been wanting to present this song for weeks now, but I've not found the perfect time to do so.

Now isn't the perfect time also since it is midnight, but I had no option because electricity isn't trustworthy over here, hence I had to struggle to bring out my best while singing and playing soft so that I don't disturb my neighbours.

For those who know me so well, you'll know that Bruno Mars is one of my favourite musicians. Hence, having this beautiful song ringing in my head is both a re-affirmation of his place as one of my favourite musicians, and an affirmation of how special the song is to me.

Yes, it is special to me, but I really don't know why it is special (lol). So, yea! I'm dedicating this to all the beautiful ladies out there. You are beautiful just the way you are!

"Just the way you are" is a beautiful romantic song that praises the natural beauty and personality of a lady/woman. The lyrics emphasises how perfect she is as created, and encourages her to embrace herself as she is.

I hope you enjoy this piece.

You can check the lyrics here

It's 2:35am now, and I'm feeling sleepy already.

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ENG Hello my Hive Open Mic Family and Community. You are welcome to Hive Open Mic week One hundred and sixty-six, and the Theme of this week is "Never Give Up."

It's a great privilege for me to select the theme of this week; a privilege that I'll always cherish.

The Hive Open Mic community is not just a community for me, but it's a family where I learnt genuine engagement and making real friends on Hive. It is also a family that contributed greatly to my growth on this wonderful blockchain, and my success story on Hive will be incomplete without mentioning the great role this family with its wonderful admins and moderators played towards it.

I say a big thank you to everyone!

ESP Hola mi Familia y Comunidad de Hive Open Mic. Sean bienvenidos a la semana ciento sesenta y seis de Hive Open Mic, y el Tema de esta semana es "Nunca te rindas".

Es un gran privilegio para mí seleccionar el tema de esta semana; un privilegio que siempre apreciaré.

La comunidad Hive Open Mic no es sólo una comunidad para mí, sino que es una familia en la que he aprendido a comprometerme de verdad y a hacer amigos de verdad en Hive. También es una familia que ha contribuido enormemente a mi crecimiento en esta maravillosa blockchain, y mi historia de éxito en Hive estaría incompleta sin mencionar el gran papel que esta familia, con sus maravillosos administradores y moderadores, ha desempeñado en ella.

¡Muchas gracias a todos!

In our world today, it is so sad to realize that hopelessness has become the watchword of many people. They swim in the pool of failure and think there's no point standing up or moving forward to achieve their goals. In fact, they've become goal-less and without dreams. They live their lives without purpose; they live each day just as each day comes, without short-term or long-term goals.

Many others are at the crossroad of giving up, at the brink of losing hope and just a door away from hopelessness due to the harsh conditions and difficulties they find themselves in. They think their condition is unredeemable and there's no point pushing hard.

The truth is that these two situations aren't something strange or alien to us. In fact, at some points, we might have felt something similar, and some of us are experiencing this at this moment.

I believe this theme will send a message of hope to everyone and all those experiencing tough times at the moment. Don't give up, keep pushing! If the way or method you've been following isn't making headway, use another method and way. But, keep pushing and never give up! Never lose hope till you accomplish that wonderful dream of yours.

En nuestro mundo actual, es muy triste darse cuenta de que la desesperanza se ha convertido en la consigna de muchas personas. Nadan en la piscina del fracaso y piensan que no tiene sentido levantarse o avanzar para lograr sus objetivos. De hecho, se han quedado sin metas y sin sueños. Viven sus vidas sin propósito; viven cada día tal y como viene, sin objetivos a corto ni a largo plazo.

Muchos otros se encuentran en la encrucijada de darse por vencidos, al borde de perder la esperanza y a una puerta de la desesperanza debido a las duras condiciones y dificultades en las que se encuentran. Piensan que su condición es irredimible y que no tiene sentido esforzarse.

Lo cierto es que estas dos situaciones no son algo extraño o ajeno a nosotros. De hecho, es posible que en algún momento hayamos sentido algo parecido, y algunos de nosotros lo estamos experimentando en este momento.

Creo que este tema enviará un mensaje de esperanza a todo el mundo y a todos aquellos que estén pasando por momentos difíciles en estos momentos. No te rindas, ¡sigue empujando! Si el camino o el método que has estado siguiendo no está haciendo progresos, utiliza otro método y otro camino. Pero, ¡sigue empujando y nunca te rindas! Nunca pierdas la esperanza hasta que logres ese maravilloso sueño tuyo.

To celebrate this wonderful theme, I decided to compose a song. Although it was difficult for me, because I had to consider a song or musical genre that'll suit the theme and pass across the message effectively.

Hence, I decided to create a melody around the famous Chord progression: Canon in D Major by Johann Pachelbel.

I just composed the Melody and formed the lyrics today, and I decided to present it on the same day of composition.

I hope you enjoy this piece.

Para celebrar este maravilloso tema, decidí componer una canción. Aunque me resultó difícil, porque tuve que pensar en una canción o género musical que encajara con el tema y transmitiera el mensaje con eficacia.

De ahí que decidiera crear una melodía en torno a la famosa progresión de acordes Canon en Re Mayor de Johann Pachelbel.

Acabo de componer la melodía y de darle forma a la letra hoy mismo, y he decidido presentarla el mismo día de la composición.

Espero que disfruten de esta pieza.

LYRICS

Verse 1

In doubt and fears,

when we stumble,

The road gets tough,

And we lose hope.

Keep moving on,

Don't surrender,

Believe in yourself,

Never give up

Chorus

Never give up, never lose hope,

Do not be discouraged when you fall,

Rise up on your feet,

And achieve your goal

Verse 2

In cries and tears,

when we fall down,

All road seems blocked

And we lose hope

Keep moving on,

Don't surrender,

Believe in yourself,

Never give up

Composed and written by me

Versículo 1

En dudas y temores

cuando tropezamos,

El camino se pone difícil,

Y perdemos la esperanza.

Sigue adelante,

No te rindas,

Cree en ti mismo,

Nunca te rindas

Coro

Nunca te rindas, nunca pierdas la esperanza

No te desanimes cuando caigas,

Levántate sobre tus pies

Y alcanza tu meta

Verso 2

En llantos y lágrimas

cuando caemos

Todo camino parece bloqueado

Y perdemos la esperanza

Sigue adelante

No te rindas

Cree en ti mismo,

Nunca te rindas

Compuesta y escrita por mí

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Welcome to Afri-tunes Community; a community where we share, listen to and enjoy African music and tunes on Hive.

This is the 66th week of our weekly contest on Hive. I encourage you to do well to subscribe, join in and present, as well as always check out for lovely African tunes in the Community.

We often associate some songs with certain moods or experiences in our lives, probably because these songs played a key role by calming us down or motivating us at a critical phase of our lives. Likewise, when it comes to gospel songs, the gospel songs will make more meaning to us because, probably, they helped us cross that phase, and they make us believe that God was truly with us on the journey.

I believe singing songs of adoration, worship and thanksgiving to God has a way of drawing us closer to God. Especially when such songs take you across a really difficult phase in life where you are victorious. Thus, reiterating what I said earlier, whenever we remember that experience or phase in life, we'll remember the songs that pulled us through, and we'll also remember how God came through for us.

Well, I just decided to share this for those going through difficult times or at a crossroad of a difficult phase. Journey with God, and work hard, you'll surely achieve success.

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THE LEOVERSE

By Leoverse we refer to the Leo Ecosystem which contains all the different dApps, projects and the Leofinance Community as well.

Some of these dApps and projects include:

1. Leothreads: The microblogging platform on the Leoverse where you can post your short blogs or posts within 240 characters. On threads, you are not limited to certain niche as all niches are welcome.
2. The Long form Content: The long form content on Leofinance deals with quality articles om the topic of economy, finance, Blockchain, cryptocurrency and Politics, among others. These content are educational, inspirational, motivational and informative.
3. Leodex: Leodex is a decentralized exchange platform of the Leoverse on the Hive blockchain where you can convert $HIVE to Swap.Hive, and from Swap.hive you can Swap to other second layer tokens on Hive like Leo, Bro, Legion, ProofofBrain and Neoxian, among others. You can also Swap from these tokens back to Swap.Hive, and convert to Hive.
4. Leoglossary: It is reference platform or a dictionary of words, where you can get the technical meaning of important words related to the topic of finance and related niches. Using this can actually make your work stand out, as well as to help with Search Engine Optimisation (SEO).
5. LEO Multi-Token Bridges: A bridge connecting the the Leoverse to other Ecosystems. For instance, we have the Binance Smart Chain Bridge, and with the Bridge we can convert $LEO to $bLeo (Leo existing in the Binance Smart Chain Blockchain), or to $pLEO (Leo existing on the Polygon Matic Blockchain).
6. LeoFi: It is a borrowing/lending platform on the Leoverse, where you can borrow Leo Powerhttps://leofinance.io/@leoglossary/leoglossary-leo-power in order to curate quality Leo content, or lend out in order to earn passive income.
7. Leovoter: Is the curating account of the Leoverse. It helps to curate quality content in the Leoverse, thereby motivating Lions to give their best. Also, by delegating to Leovoter it gives you Leo rewards, this means it always buys back Leo from the Marketplace to distribute to all those who delegate to it.

There are so many other amazing features like the Leo token, ads and so much more.

WHAT NEXT?

There are new amazing updates on the Leoverse which is worth exploring or knowing more about.

• Long Form Content: With the recent update, there is a proposed support for other communities in the Long Form section of Leo. By this, I mean that one will soon be able to post from the Leofinance UI to other frontends. With this, we can make people stay glued in the Leo UI because of its amazing frontend.
• I also read an update that mentions support for Community threads. I wonder how this will be, but I'd love to see how it'll work.
• I would love to see 3speak videos playing directly on the frontend, not the case that we'll be redirected to the 3speak frontend.
• I would also love to see the possibility to publish videos directly on threads.
• I can't wait to see how the retread feature will work out.

Let me hear what you think about the Leoverse in the comment section.

What future do you see with $LEO?

What are Leo's strongest points?

And what are its weakest points?

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BLOCKCHAIN

We can define blockchain in its loose sense as a “block of chains” or “chains of blocks”; either ways, we refer to something that speaks of interconnectedness between a set of "blocks." We can also go further to loosely understand the "blocks" in terms of a "ledger," and in this way the chain connects the ledgers, albeit in a more close and stronger way.

As a technical term, @leoglossary defines Blockchain as that which "joins groups of financial transactions together in what are called blocks." This definition also re-echoes the idea of interconnectedness, however it categorically identifies this set of "(blocks](https://leofinance.io/@leoglossary/leoglossary-block)" as a "group of financial transactions."

A definition which I love to use, which I deduced from various insights on other great minds is:

Blockchain is a set of automated and encrypted system that serves as a digital ledger such that it records every transaction from both parties, and such transactions are time stamped without the possibility of amending or changing the records.

From this definition we can deduce that Blockchain is:

• An automated system: It is automatic, and done by machines.
• An encrypted system: It runs via codes.
• A digital, immutable and transparent ledger.

Thus, from the foregoing, the following can be said of blockchain:

• The records of transactions on blockchain cannot be changed, modified, edited or tampered with once the transaction has been verified.
• The records and data on the blockchain are safe and secured.
• Transactions using blockchain are fast and quick unlike the traditional style.
• With blockchain, there is no need of inviting a third party to take record of the transactions.
• The transaction can be made at any time and at anywhere.

BLOCKCHAIN GAMES

The world of blockchain is quite vast, as it contains so many components and amazing features. Blockchain games is part of such component, and it refers to games that are built on or incorporated into the world of blockchain.

Aside playing games for fun and relaxation, blockchain games takes it a step further and gives you the possibility to earn cryptocurrency (in-game currency) while playing the game (Play2earn) which can be converted to fiat. It also gives you the opportunity to own your in-game assets (NFTs) like Game characters, guns, cars, game skin or land. These items can be used in the game, they can be rented out to other players for a fee (your passive income) and they can be auctioned in the game marketplace at a higher price (massive income).

HIVE AND BLOCKCHAIN GAMES

Hive is an amazing spot for building games and great dApps because it is a fast, transaction-free, secure, scalable and decentralized blockchain. Thus, many game projects are taking great shape on Hive.

Some of these blockchain games on Hive include:

• Splinterlands
• Rising Star
• Dcrops
• PsyberX
  • Psyberdecks
  • Serf and Serdom
• Ragnarok (upcoming card game)

Let me hear what you think about Blockchain games in the comment section.

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STATE OF THE NATION

On the 29th of May 2023, the "INEC's selected" President of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, made a proclamation on the day of his inauguration, and this proclamation threw the country of Nigeria into turmoil, much more than it has been in past times.

He made a pronouncement on the removal of fuel subsidy. But this pronouncement has been met with both resistance and increased hardships in the country.

The truth is that the removal of Subsidy on Petroleum in Nigeria is a beautiful policy. In fact, in 2012, the past President, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, attempted to remove subsidy on Petroleum but the political party of this current administration challenged this act and termed it as evil. They did this because a good number of Nigerians are gullible and can easily be swayed.

At this present moment, Nigeria has a current debt profile of over 77 Trillion Naira (± $150 billion), and the money paid for subsidy is also a borrowed one. In other words, we borrow to consume. If the money borrowed was invested in education, ICT, health or transportation this would have been better and would have reflected more to better the living conditions of the masses.

But, this is where we are!

FUEL SUBSIDY?

By way of definition, fuel subsidy is a policy by the government that aims to support or reduce the financial cost of fuel for consumers. By subsidising fuel, the Government, to a large extent, covers part of the cost of production or importation of fuel, and makes it cheap and affordable for users. This, greatly benefits individuals and businesses as they rely on fuel for daily living, power (electricity) and transportation.

THE EFFECTS OF SUBSIDY

As a Government policy, subsidy can be both beneficial to a nation and it also has a negative impact on the nation.

On the one hand, subsidy can have positive impact on the nation by providing relief to consumers and users of the product (fuel). By this, fuel will be easily affordable and accessible to users with low income. Similarly, it will also reduce the cost of transportation of people and foodstuffs. And finally, since Power (electricity) isn't constant in Nigeria, generator has become a great alternative for the failed Power in the country. Thus, fuel (which is cheap) is used to power generators at home, offices, churches, markets, commercial centers and industries, thereby having great economic benefit to individuals and businesses.

On the other hand, it places great burden on the Government as funds which should have been used to develop other important sectors in the country (like Education, ICT, health and transportation) will be used for subsidising fuel. Also, it doesn't promote private competition in market, as the prices will be somewhat dictated by the government.

FUEL SUBSIDY IN NIGERIA: "AN ORGANIZED CRIME"

In as much as fuel subsidy has aided to reduce the cost of fuel for consumers, the truth is that there is no accountability and transparency in the process.

In the words of Peter Obi, "Fuel Subsidy in Nigeria is an organized crime." This statement is absolutely true and it is owing to the fact that the process lacks transparency, and thus, is very prone to gross mismanagement of funds. The system has been largely manipulated without clear and detailed disclosure of the actual beneficiaries, expenditure reports and subsidy amounts. Thus, huge amounts of funds and oil/fuel have been siphoned/cornered from this program turning it into a full-blown fraud.

So what should be done?

FUEL SUBSIDY REMOVAL IN NIGERIA 2023

For Tinubu, the best way was to proclaim the removal of fuel subsidy on the day of his inauguration!

Prior to Tinubu's proclamation of the removal of fuel subsidy on May 19, fuel was sold at N180 - N195 per litter, just few hours before the pronouncement. But, when he made the pronouncement, immediately fuel stations began to hoard fuel. Then after few days, the price rocketed from N180 to N500+, that's a huge 250%+ increase!

If I had known I would have bought $FUEL and held it for few hours: Buy low and sell highAs at now, it is sold at this rate and it has affected almost all the sectors of the country, making life much more difficult for the masses.

No policy was put in place to cushion the effect of the removal, instead it was done haphazardly, as though it were an unimportant policy that has no effect on the citizens.

While I wholeheartedly agree on the need to remove fuel subsidy, the better way would be to put some policies in place that will better the living conditions of the people so that when subsidy is removed it will not lead ti massive hardship.

This is actually rampant in the way Nigerian policies are actually pronounced. They make pronouncement on certain policies without putting policies that will cushion the effect of that policies if enacted. This is why many of these policies are taken for granted because they do not seem to be beneficial to the citizens prima facie.

THE BETTER WAY!

Instead of removing fuel Subsidy 100%, the very first step should have been to tender a transparent account of the subsidy program. By this, we'll have a detailed breakdown and account of the actual beneficiaries, expenditure reports and subsidy amounts. When this is done the unnecessary siphoning of funds will be reduced and all leakages will be blocked.

The next step would be to work on the critical sectors that will be affected by the subsidy removal so that these sectors will be greatly improved. For instance, if the Power sector is worked on, it will reduce individual consumption of fuel at homes. By this, we'll have less people looking out to buy fuel.

When this is done, gradual removal of Subsidy will be the key so that there won't be massive difference in prices as it is gradually removed.

Before it is fully removed, everything will already be in place to cushion and reduce the effect on the citizens. By doing it this way, the hardship will not be much unlike what we are experiencing at this present moment.

What do you think about fuel subsidy removal in Nigeria?

Do you think it is a good policy?

Do you think it was delivered in the best way?

What should have been done?

Let me hear what you think in the comment section.

Politics word needed in the Poliglossar

• Subsidy
• Policy (Government)
• Political....
• Borrow
• Hoard

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🎵 Music Lovers of Hive Open Mic community! 🎙ENGHello my Hive Open Mic Family and Community. You are welcome to Hive Open Mic week One hundred and sixty-four. The Theme of this week is "Hopeful", and this theme was selected by the amazing lady @jmis101.

ESPHola mi familia y comunidad de Hive Open Mic. Bienvenidos a la semana ciento sesenta y cuatro de Hive Open Mic. El tema de esta semana es "Hopeful", y este tema fue seleccionado por la señora increíble @jmis101.

The theme of "hopeful" or "hope" invites us to journey into a world of expectations; a world where we eagerly await or expect certain things to occur. While we hope, many of us who are Christians, already believe that our prayers have been answered by God, and our expecting will soon become a reality. In fact, this coincides with the Gospel reading of today at Mass (Mark 11:11-26), especially verse 24 which reads:

I tell you, therefore, everything you ask and pray for, believe that you have it already, and it will be yours.

Thus, we see a close connection between hope in things in the future, and faith (believe that God will grant our desires and expectations). I also believe this 100%, and God has always remained faithful.

El tema "esperanzado" o "esperanza" nos invita a adentrarnos en un mundo de expectativas; un mundo en el que aguardamos con impaciencia o esperamos que ocurran ciertas cosas. Mientras esperamos, muchos de nosotros que somos cristianos, ya creemos que nuestras oraciones han sido escuchadas por Dios, y nuestras esperanzas pronto se harán realidad. De hecho, esto coincide con la lectura del Evangelio de hoy en la Misa (Mc 11,11-26), especialmente con el versículo 24 que dice:

Os digo, pues, que todo lo que pidáis y recéis, creed que ya lo tenéis, y será vuestro.

Así, vemos una estrecha conexión entre la esperanza en las cosas del futuro, y la fe (creer que Dios concederá nuestros deseos y expectativas). Yo también lo creo al 100%, y Dios siempre me ha sido fiel.

In the light of this theme of hopeful, I made this video of thanksgiving to God, already thanking Him for doing something that wasn't done already. Yes, hope and faith in God was at play, and I'm grateful to God for actually coming through for me, as always.

I chose the gospel song titled Nara, by the Gospel artists, Tim Godfrey and Travis Greene.

"Nara" is an Igbo word that simply means "Take", but in the context which it was made, the complete sentence is "Nara ekele mo", which means "take/receive my praise/thanksgiving." Thus, like I earlier said, it is a thanksgiving song to God appreciating Him for doing so much for me, and, in fact, I don't know what I can render to God for all He has done in my life. However, my praise and thanksgiving to Him, I won't waiver!

I hope you enjoy this song

A la luz de este tema de la esperanza, hice este vídeo de acción de gracias a Dios, ya dándole las gracias por hacer algo que no estaba hecho ya. Sí, la esperanza y la fe en Dios estaban en juego, y estoy agradecido a Dios por haberme ayudado, como siempre.

Elegí la canción gospel titulada Nara, de los artistas gospel Tim Godfrey y Travis Greene.

"Nara" es una palabra igbo que significa simplemente "Toma", pero en el contexto en que se hizo, la frase completa es "Nara ekele mo", que significa "toma/recibe mi alabanza/agradecimiento". Así pues, como he dicho antes, es una canción de acción de gracias a Dios apreciándole por haber hecho tanto por mí, y, de hecho, no sé lo que puedo rendirle a Dios por todo lo que ha hecho en mi vida. Sin embargo, ¡no renunciaré a mi alabanza y agradecimiento a Él!

Espero que disfruten de esta canción

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When inflation hits the economy, it changes the lifestyle of people, how they manage themselves and and how they budget their expenses. This has a great way of influencing the way people save and spend. Noticeably, there's a great connection between the theme of economy (inflation) and the theme of finance (savings), this is because you can't speak of inflation without drawing a connection with the theme of finance.

Before we continue, it is important to establish a definition of Inflation.

Inflation refers to the increase in prices of goods and services over a period of time. In this case, the prices of goods and services will be greater than the purchasing power of the currency. For instance, in 2012, 1 crate of egg was sold at the rate of N350 (naira), but today same crate of egg is sold at the rate of N800 or N900. However, the minimum wage and salaries within the period hasn't changed so much. Thus, in this case, with same rate of income (salary/wage) an individual has to manage with the increased rate of goods and services.

In inflation, as we've seen, while the prices of goods skyrocket, the salary or wages of individuals remain the same or a little bit higher. In a case like this, it is very much difficult to save, because most of our income will go in for expenses.

Thus, in the video, I spoke about 4 ways to increase our savings during the period of Inflation. The ways include:

• Diversify your investment
• Multiply your sources of income
• Budget and manage your expenses
• Invest in Land/Real Estate

1. DIVERSIFY YOUR INVESTMENTS

In the heat of inflation, it is advisable to diversify one's investment as this can help cushion the effect when one or some of the investments don't yield much income. In this case, investing in stocks, bonds and other physical businesses backed with security assets. However, in investing, it is important to ensure that you weigh the risks before you invest.

2. MULTIPLY YOUR SOURCES OF INCOME

One of the ways to increase savings is by increasing the income we make, as the more income we make the more we have to save. Thus, this implies that we need to multiply our sources of income by having various streams of income.

3. BUDGET AND MANAGE YOUR EXPENSES

In the heat of inflation, it is important that we try to budget our expenses to suit our lifestyle. In this case, managing our budget and cutting expenses will be advisable.

4. INVEST IN LAND/REAL ESTATE

If possible, it is important to purchase or invest in land/real estate because of the value attached to land as it always appreciate.

What other ways can you save during the heat of inflation?

Let me hear what you think in the comment section.

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The topic of Traditional Banking, Digital Banking and Blockchain-Baded Banking (Cryptocurrency) falls under the purview of FinTech, which is concerned with the impact and influence of technology in enhancing financial operations. Accordingly, its goal "is to automate, speed up, or offer new alternatives to existing practices."

With the advent of digital banking in Nigeria, they've been lots of improvements in the way and manner banking activities have been conducted. By banking activities, I mean activities involving Savings, Withdrawal, Transferring and receiving currencies. It also cuts across creating an account, taking loans, shares, and buying other currencies among others.

Thus, in this piece, I'll be speaking about three different models which I've experienced in Nigeria, as well as their advantages and disadvantages over previous models.

1. TRADITIONAL BANKING

By Traditional Banking, I mean the process of carrying out banking related matters which involves an individual's physical presence in a banking hall or room to either open an account, deposit, withdraw money, transfer or take loans. This model requires the physical presence and signature of the owner of the account or signatory to the account.

This method was obviously slow, and requires that people come into the banking hall, no matter how long the queue is.

2. DIGITAL BANKING

With the advent of the digitalisation of the Banking system, there was a significant improvement in the operations of the banks. Our physical presence in the banking hall was no longer necessary or required to effect any transaction from our account. Thus, from the comfort of our homes, we can use our mobile phones to send money, receive money, and take loans, among others.

The Automated Teller Machine (ATM) also came onboard and completely eased the stress of going to the banks to line up in a long queue just to withdraw money. With the ATM, people can easily go to where ever these ATM stands are located to withdraw or deposit cash.

However, only few of these ATM stands were located in Rural communities, and many Urban communities also had long queue in the ATM stands. Thus, the Point Of Sale (POS) operators came in to relieve the burden, such that in almost every 2 streets in Nigeria, there is, at least, a POS operator who does local withdrawal, deposit and transfer of cash. Thus, this makes banking operations a lot more easier and faster in Nigeria.

Amidst the obvious positive aspects of the digital banking, it is important to note that this method isn't 100% effective as sometimes Internet connectivity and network tend to delay or hold the transactions we make.

3. HOPE FOR BLOCKCHAIN-BASED BANKING

By Blockchain-Based Banking, I mean Cryptocurrency transactions. Cryptocurrency is also under the category of digital banking, however, it is a decentralized and peer-to-peer form of banking done using encrypted algorithms. Put differently, there is no central body in charge of regulating it, and it extends beyond countries.

It is based on Blockchain technology, and by this I refer to an automated ledger, which its transactions cannot be modified once recorded.

With cryptocurrency, transactions between different countries and continents become fast, and feeless. It also cuts the wait time of 3-7 business days as it is with traditional method of transactions. Similarly, as it is Blockchain-Based, the transactions are public, transparent and cannot be modified. It also reduces the cost of middle men in the transactions.

In as much as it has its positive sides, it also has its negative sides one of which is that Cryptocurrency is not a legal tender in most countries, it is not a debt security and it is volatile. Its volatility can also be a positive side when you buy low, and sell high.

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To begin with, I wish to ask you all, "what does Hive mean to you?"

If each of us start sharing what Hive means to us, we will realise that we all have our different or unique understanding and perspectives about Hive.

We joined Hive for different reasons; we are motivated to be active on Hive for various reasons; and we love Hive for various reasons.

So what are your reasons for being active on Hive? What do you love about Hive? What does Hive mean to you?

For the purpose of this piece, I'll love to speak about what Hive means to me. I'll focus on five key points, however, I know that there are more than five.

1. HIVE IS A PLATFORM I SHARE MY CONTENT, IDEAS AND THOUGHTSAt first, I was introduced to Hive as a platform where I can share my guitar videos, my music, and I'll also have the possibility to earn from them.

Prior to joining Hive, I shared my music and thoughts on other Social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter. So when I was introduced to Hive, I felt it was just another Social Media, although I had to write an introductory post, which wasn't required in other platforms.

My onboarder didn't really focus much on the earning potentials of Hive, but on the aspect of sharing content. This I really appreciate because I cared less about post rewards at that beginning stage, and this still inspires me till today.

Till today, I still value the sharing aspect of Hive, and it means a lot to me.

2. HIVE MOTIVATES ME TO BE MORE CREATIVEI love being creative and I love challenging myself to be more creative. Hive and the lovely Hivians have greatly motivated me to double my creativity, and this is evidenced in the level of growth I've achieved in the content I make.

One important creative motivation is my recent trend of Singing while playing my musical instruments. Prior to joining Hive, I only play multiple musical instruments, but I don't sing along. But through the motivation from so many Hivians and their words of encouragement, I've begun singing, and I'm improving little by little.

3. HIVE IS A PLATFORM FOR LEARNINGHive is a great platform to learn. There are so many great articles and materials written by knowledgeable individuals, and digesting these content will expand ones overview on Life, Hive and the blockchain world.

On Hive, I learnt a lot about Cryptocurrency, about Blockchain, the differences between Web 2.0, Web 2.5 and Web 3.0 (thanks to Theycallmedan and his team for the CTT program way back in January 2022).

I also learnt about Centralization, Decentralization, CEXs and DEXs, Liquidity Pool and so much more. I also appreciate Taskmaster for the knowledge he shared during our conversation on Threads about those topics.

4. HIVE IS A PLACE I EARNUndeniably, Hive has been a great source of income for me, and it has also been a blessing for me and my friends, those who've benefited financially through me.

Hive has so many streams of income, and tapping into these would be a great way to earn on Hive for the present moment, and to save for the future.

5. HIVE IS A PLACE I MEET AND MAKE FRIENDS, AS WELL AS BUILD RELATIONSHIPSHive has given the platform to meet with people, and many of these great people are those who I may not get the opportunity to meet in Life without Hive. But with Hive, I have established great relationships with them, and Hive become so close to many that our friendship has extended off-hive as well.

Truly, engagement has so many great benefits on Hive, and in life.

So, what does Hive mean to you?

Let me hear what you think in the comment section.

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Welcome to Afri-tunes Community; a community where we share, listen to and enjoy African music and tunes on Hive.

This is the 64th week of our weekly contest on Hive. I encourage you to do well to subscribe, join in and present, as well as always check out for lovely African tunes in the Community.

Worship songs have their unique aura and ambience and you readily notice them when you sing or hear them, especially if it's a song you love so much. It has a strong way of connecting us to the divine, making us feel His presence and leading us to adore the Most High.

The first time I heard Osuba re by Peterson Okopi, was during a worship session. Since then, I've always longed to sing it with my crooked voice, but I was limited back then because I couldn't sing and play. But, this time around, I know it won't be the best presentation, neither will it be a very great vocal rendition. Yet, I believe it is my own way of worshipping God, the Most High and giving Him all due adoration.

I hope you'll love this piece, and I've written out the Yoruba words as well as its translation for you (my audience) to relate better with the song.

LYRICS OF OSUBA RE

Olorun to l’emi mi (To God who owns my life)
Osuba Re ma re o eh (This is Your Worship Lord – It’s For You)
Osuba Re ma re o eh
Osuba Re ma re o eh eh eh eh
Osuba Re ma re o eh

Verse 1

Oba adaked’ajo (The King who judges silently)
Oba oludaabo mi (The King, My protector)
Mo gbe iba fun O oo (I give you worship)
Mo F’ori Bale O! (I bow before you)

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In the topic of Finance, I chose to speak about the theme of investment, and not just about that, but about scam Investments.

Many of us have awful experiences with scam Investments, and a good number of us have lost reasonable sum of money. Yet, Greed won't allow us look away from these investments because of the mouth-watery promises they advertise.

Ponzi Schemes are part of these scam Investments that have undergone series of upgrades such that they claim affiliation with top projects in the financial space, and you may easily fall victim if you don't do your due research.

In the video, I spoke about my experience with Ponzi Schemes in 2016 - 2017 during the wave of Mavrodi Mundial Moneybox (MMM), Clarrita, Twinkas, Giver's Forum, Ultimate Cycler, I-Charity and so much more, in Nigeria. It was really hot that period, and I'm sure I joined nothing less than 20 different Ponzi Schemes before I realised what was really going on.

Ponzi Schemes also introduced me to Cryptocurrency the very first time in 2020. It was the first time I downloaded Trust Wallet, I learnt little about it and how to operate the smart contract associated with the Ponzi. As at then, Million Money, Authoetherbot and Forsage were on the rise. We had to buy Ethereum to transact, and i learnt about Gas or Transaction fees. This was different as it wasn't in our normal currency, so I felt it was legit. But, we learn our lessons. And it was from here I first calculated the required way to complete all stages. And I discovered it was almost impossible.

Many of my friends who had purchased up to 2 - 6 Ethereum that period, as ETH was around $100, regretted their decisions to transfer the ETH for upgrading to the next stage. Some don't even want to hear about cryptocurrency anymore.

But, I'm really glad I had such experience as it helped in building me.

THE PONZI MATHS

The truth is that the people advertising Ponzi Schemes do not tell us what is really involved. They say, just bring two people, and the two people will bring two people. Then your line keeps growing... blah blah blah... and you keep re-inesting your profits till you get to level 10, and we give you a Car, or Trip to Singapore.

Damn!!!

That's a real scam, you know?

When I was in Autoetherbot, a lowbudget version of Millions Money, someone was willing to create more than 100 accounts to ensure that we finish the whole levels and get about 14 ETH for each account.

As a tactical person, I did the placement and it was easier for me to onboard people because I was assured that yea, everyone will win.

Yea, that's me! Everyone can win!

But when it was taking so long to complete the 1st level, I then took my time to calculate this. Then I realized that it was really a shit hole.

This is the calculation they won't tell you, because it is so complicated, and not everyone will understand it. But, in all, you'll need about 2046 people under you to receive your complete payment in Level Four. Just Level Four oooo....

LEVEL ONEKsam pays his upliner and upgrades to Level 1, to receive Level 1 payment.

1 and 2 pay Ksam... Ksam receives payment for Level 1

Ksam needs only 2 people in the first level to pay him

LEVEL TWOKsam upgrades to Level 2

To get payment for Level 2, Ksam needs to receive payment from 3, 4, 5 and 6.

But before they pay Ksam to upgrade to Level 2, they (3, 4, 5 and 6) need to have paid 1 and 2 to enter level 1.

Then, they will receive their level 1 payments from 7, 8...14.

Ksam needs only 14 people to completely receive his returns in Level 2.

LEVEL THREEKsam upgrades to level 3

• To get payment for level 3, Ksam needs to receive LEVEL 3 upgrade payment from 7, 8…14.
  • But before they (7, 8…14) pay Ksam to upgrade to Level 3, they need to first enter level one, then upgrade from level one to level two and finally level three.
    • Hence, they (7, 8… 14) need to pay 3, 4, 5 and 6 to enter level one.
    • Then, to upgrade from level one to level two they (7, 8…14) need to have received payment from 15, 16, 17…30, then pay 1 and 2 to enter level two.
    • To upgrade from level two to three, they (7, 8…14) need to have received level 2 payment from 31, 32… 62.
      • And you know, 31, 32…62 need to pay 15, 16…30 to enter level one.
      • They (31, 32…64) need to receive 1st level payment from 63, 64… 126 before they can upgrade to level 2.
      • When 31, 32…64 receive the first level payment, they now pay 7,8…14 to upgrade to level 2
    • When 7, 8…14 receive level two upgrade payment, they will pay Ksam to upgrade to level 3.
  • When Ksam receives the upgrade payment, he then goes ahead to pay his 4th upliner to upgrade to level 4.

Thus, Ksam needs a total of 126 Complete downliners to receive his Level 3 payment.

LEVEL FOURIt starts getting really difficult as Ksam may wait till eternity to receive his complete level 4 payment. This is because, Ksam needs to receive level 4 upgrade payment from members in 15, 16…30. And to upgrade to level four; they must have upgraded from level one to level two, then to level three, and finally level 4.

• 15, 16…30 will make payment to 7, 8..14 to enter level one.
• They (15 - 30) will receive level one payment from, 31, 32…62, and from this they will pay 3, 4, 5 and 6 to enter level two.
• To get level two payment in order to upgrade, 15, 16…30 will need to receive level 2 upgrade payment from 63, 64…126
  • 63, 64….126 need to receive level one payment from 127, 128…254 before they can pay 15, 16…30 to upgrade to level 2
  • When 63, 64…126 pay the level 2 upgrade fee to 15, 16…30, then they can pay 1 and 2, to upgrade to level 3.
• The next stage will be for 15, 16…30 to receive level 3 payment from 127, 128…254 in order to upgrade to level 4, to pay Ksam.
  • Before 127, 128..254 can send level 3 upgrade payment, they need to receive level 1 and two payments.
    • 127, 128…254 will receive level one payment from 255, 256…510, and upgrade to level 2.
    • 127, 128…254 will receive level two payment from 511, 512…1022 to upgrade to level 3, before they can receive level 3 payments.
      • For 511, 512…1022 to receive level two payments, they must have received level one payment from 1023, 1024…2046
      • Having received level one payment from 1023-2046, they (511-1022) can now upgrade to level two by paying 127 – 254.
    • With the level two payment received, 127 – 254 can now pay 15 – 30 to upgrade to level three.
  • When 15 – 30 receive the level three upgrade payment from 127 – 254, they can not pay Ksam to upgrade to level 4.

This implies that Ksam needs a total of 2046 people under him to successfully receive his payment for Level 4.

This is only level 4!

How far are you going to build this community?

And this is for you to successfully earn at that level. What about your downliners? The calculations begin with them at the top.

In everything you do, I strongly advice that you run away from Ponzi Schemes, no matter how they present themselves. Some may tell you that you are working for the organisation and it is your responsibility to bring more people so that more money can come in. However, in so far as it is Ponzi, run away or if you're ready to fight the fight, then fight on!

However, always identify the risks involved in any investment before investing.

Have you experienced Ponzi Schemes before? What do you think about it?

Let me hear what you think in the comment section.

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The discussion or argument about the preferable style to engage with Cryptocurrency is one that has no single answer; nobody can give a one-way answer to because it all boils down on individual preferences and their habit towards investing, saving and trading.

We all have our different experiences and ideas in this regard, however, I'd love to share my own experience of involving in Short-term crypto Trading and Holding cryptocurrency for long-term.

☆ MY SHORT-TERM TRADING EXPERIENCESPOT AND FUTURES TRADINGOne of the things that opened my eyes more to the world of crypto was when Binance approved my Binance Exchange account after I used my National Identity Number, the slip, for KYC. It was one of my happiest days because it prompted me to take my time to understand how Binance app works. From understanding this, I started reading and watching videos about Trading via spot and Futures, and arbitrage trading. I also worked on the psychological aspect to learn about having Trading psychology. I began learning about how to read the market, the different candle sticks and their patterns, the support and resistance, Trend line and so many things. I also joined some groups where I picked one or two things and added to my little knowledge. It was fun; I lost and gained some times.

THE BSC WAYTogether with being active with Spot and Futures Trading, I joined some WhatsApp and Telegram groups where I learnt some skills in Trading the Binance Smart Chain tokens via Poocoin and Pancake Swap.

I had various Telegram tools/bots that showed the coins that were launched on daily basis. It showed coins that were in the categories of Whitelist, Pre-Sale, Fair Launch and Listing of tokens on Centralized Exchanges, as well. Some of these bots would give red, yellow or green indicators showing how safe this projects were, however, they'll also advise you to Do Your Own Research, as the indicators may not be accurate at all times.

I also joined some call groups on Telegram like Caesarscalls and Travladd among others. It was such a wholesome knowledge, that me writing this now, I've come to appreciate the knowledge I gained, and that which I explored. Maybe I'd jump on it soon again.

Yet, one important thing was that we were only focused on making profit in our trade, whether little or more. The aim is to make profit. We do not care about the project, or what it has to offer, just make profit.

☆ HODLING CRYPTOCURRENCY FOR LONG-TERM GOALSBut on Hive, the atmosphere was different. Only a few people are involved in quick trade with Hive (on-chain), or Leo or other tokens for quick cash. A good number of people are more concerned about growing their stakes, Powering Up and building more dApps. They are more focused on building a strong blockchain that is sustainable for both the present and the future. And this is what I love about Hive.

But, the truth is that both methods or styles have their disadvantages and advantages. I'd love you to share your experiences and what you think about the discussion.

Let me hear what you think in the comment section.

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🎵 Music Lovers of Hive Open Mic community! 🎙ENGHello my Hive Open Mic Family and Community. You are welcome to Hive Open Mic week One hundred and sixty-three. The Theme of this week is "Pasión por el Arte", which means "Passion for Art" in English, and this theme was selected by @albertocoachbl.

ESPHola mi familia y comunidad de Hive Open Mic. Sean bienvenidos a la semana ciento sesenta y tres de Hive Open Mic. El Tema de esta semana es "Pasión por el Arte", que significa "Passion for Art" en inglés, y este tema fue seleccionado por @albertocoachbl.

Surprisingly, I had to change my design styles, patterns and original created markdowns (using the theme of the week images). This was not as a result of laziness or the desire not to keep up with the hard job (because it actually is). No! My Canva Mobile application has been misbehaving since today, and I can't export any design I make. It keeps loading for 10 minutes or more, and nothing will eventually happen. Yea, it's really painful, and I wonder why this had to happen when we are reflecting on the theme of Art: Passion for Art.

Obviously, due to the absence of those artwork, you can see that there is a change in my post arrangement. This implies that Art can be a catalyst or instrument for Change, and this is what I'd be reflecting on with the theme on Passion for Art.

Sorprendentemente, tuve que cambiar mis estilos de diseño, patrones y rebajas creados originalmente (utilizando las imágenes del tema de la semana). Esto no fue fruto de la pereza o del deseo de no seguir el ritmo del duro trabajo (porque en realidad lo es). ¡No! Mi aplicación Canva Mobile se ha estado portando mal desde hoy, y no puedo exportar ningún diseño que hago. Sigue cargando durante 10 minutos o más, y al final no pasa nada. Sí, es realmente doloroso, y me pregunto por qué ha tenido que pasar esto cuando estamos reflexionando sobre el tema del Arte: Pasión por el Arte.

Obviamente, debido a la ausencia de esas obras de arte, podéis ver que hay un cambio en la disposición de mis post. Esto implica que el Arte puede ser un catalizador o instrumento para el Cambio, y esto es sobre lo que estaría reflexionando con el tema sobre la Pasión por el Arte.

ART AS PASSION FOR CHANGEArt can be anything, music, drawing, skills or any form of craftsmanship where the artist expresses his/her emotions or feelings through the craft and conveys meaning through them. In conveying meaning, some artists choose to make their craft become an agent or catalyst of change and transformation in the religious, social or political world. Some artists use their music or their art to speak against the ills of the government, the ills of certain political figures or the ills of a particular social arm, hoping that the message would be gotten by those concerned and would aid to be a substantial change.

But, the truth is that sometimes these music only end up being a cool party jam to many people, while only a few regard the true meaning of the song as authentic and inspiring change.

EL ARTE COMO PASIÓN POR EL CAMBIOEl arte puede ser cualquier cosa, música, dibujo, habilidad o cualquier forma de artesanía en la que el artista expresa sus emociones o sentimientos a través de la artesanía y transmite un significado a través de ellos. Al transmitir significado, algunos artistas optan por hacer que su artesanía se convierta en un agente o catalizador de cambio y transformación en el mundo religioso, social o político. Algunos artistas utilizan su música o su arte para hablar contra los males del gobierno, los males de ciertas figuras políticas o los males de un determinado brazo social, con la esperanza de que el mensaje sea captado por los afectados y contribuya a un cambio sustancial.

Pero lo cierto es que a veces estas músicas sólo acaban siendo para mucha gente una juerga guay, mientras que sólo unos pocos consideran que el verdadero significado de la canción es auténtico e inspira el cambio.

In many of her songs, ASA continuously speaks about the ills of the political and social environment of Nigeria and the world. She is always motivated by the desire to play her own part towards the transformation of the society.

In the same way, the song Jailer, clearly has the same "consciousness awakening" sort of vibes. In this song, she speaks more about social and person freedom conveying her message via the scene of a Jailer and a Prisoner. For her, the Jailer is also a Prisoner, because he is locked up in the same corrupt system, policies and Government.

I could have sang all the lyrics of the song, but I actually forgot the 3rd and fourth verses, and I didn't want to carry a paper to look at the lyrics. I hope you enjoy this piece.

En muchas de sus canciones, ASA habla continuamente de los males del entorno político y social de Nigeria y del mundo. Siempre está motivada por el deseo de contribuir a la transformación de la sociedad.

Del mismo modo, la canción Jailer tiene el mismo aire de "despertar de la conciencia". En esta canción habla más de la libertad social y personal, transmitiendo su mensaje a través de la escena de un carcelero y un preso. Para ella, el Carcelero es también un Prisionero, porque está encerrado en el mismo sistema corrupto, las mismas políticas y el mismo Gobierno.

Podría haber cantado toda la letra de la canción, pero en realidad olvidé la tercera y cuarta estrofas, y no quería llevar un papel para mirar la letra. Espero que disfruten de esta pieza.

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Welcome to Afri-tunes Community; a community where we share, listen to and enjoy African music and tunes on Hive.

This is the 63rd week of our weekly contest on Hive. I encourage you to do well to subscribe, join in and present, as well as always check out for lovely African tunes in the Community.

In life, we go through varied stumbling blocks and difficult situations, some of which affirm how powerless we are to deal with such situations. It affirms how much limited or little control we have over things, and informs us to either give up on them while calling it fate or rely on a supernatural being to bring us out of that situation.

In such case, I guess I'm not among those who'll call it fate and then lose hope. Rather, I'm among those who'd prefer to rely on a Magnificent Being, who is God, while I try to do what is within my capacity. As a corporal being, I know how limited my abilities are and how powerless I am, albeit I know I can achieve some things humanly possible. But, there are other things that I prefer to pray and rely on God, who is infinite and unlimited in His capacity to do all things. But, you also know, while I pray, I'll play my own part by working towards it.

"Only You Can do" is a beautiful gospel song by the Nigerian artist Ada Ehi. The song speaks about the unlimited abilities of God to do all things and to change impossible situations around. It uses examples from the Scriptures that point to the magnificent works of God to heal the sick and raise the dead, things that are humanly impossible, especially the latter.

In this piece I'd play and sing, as usual, and I hope you enjoy this piece.

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Welcome to Afri-tunes Community; a community where we share, listen to and enjoy African music and tunes on Hive.

This is the 62nd week of our weekly contest on Hive. I encourage you to do well to subscribe, join in and present, as well as always check out for lovely African tunes in the Community.

One of the major reasons why I am enjoying this my new singing and playing vibes (lol) is that it makes it somewhat easier for me to create a musical content. Unlike previous times where I'd spend hours to create multiple videos of guitar accompaniment and guitar melody/solo, this time around I can just plug in my guitar and sing along... tadaaa video don set! (lol).

However, the major challenge I have is to CRAM the lyrics, so that I'll avoid looking elsewhere while singing. Yes, CRAM it as if I am reading for an exam. And you know the disadvantage of cramming; when you forget one line.... every other line will be blank.

When I was younger, I can remember myself singing full lyrics of songs without stress. Well, obviously, not as if I had the voice, at least I had the memory to keep all the lyrics. But this time around, "everything is just turning on its own" and it actually takes me longer time to learn lyrics. Sometimes I end up singing my own lyrics while presenting my rendition, but don't blame me, blame Yakubu.

But, one thing I discovered is that it is easier for me to play the Melody of a song on the guitar because I do not have to start cramming lyrics. I can decipher the chord progression of a song and attempt playing the melody within one hour of getting to know the song. But this is somewhat impossible with singing, because I'd have to settle my village people before they can allow me learn the lyrics.

For this week, I'd be presenting Running to You by Chike, the Lover boy.

This is an intense love song that is only for those who are fit. Yes, if you aren't fit you'll fall on the floor while running. Also, there are some special skills that Chike mentions in the song; like being a Soldier for his lady to fight all those who fight her; learning Konfu to defend her and doing many other things for love.

My dear Kings, please if you don't have the strength just rest! Just tell her not to cause trouble, because you cannot kill yourself.

NRA (Not a Romantic Advice): This is not a Romantic Advice; please DYOR (Do Your Own Research).

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🎵 Music Lovers of Hive Open Mic community! 🎙ENGHello my Hive Open Mic Family and Community. You are welcome to Hive Open Mic week One hundred and sixty-one. The Theme of this week is "My Original Song", and this theme was selected by @fernanblog, one of the awesome Moderators of this wonderful Community who's a model for Engagement, with the depth and quality comments he makes. With this theme, he encourages us to share our original composition to the Hive Open Mic Family.

ESPHola mi familia y comunidad de Hive Open Mic. Bienvenidos a la semana ciento sesenta y uno de Hive Open Mic. El Tema de esta semana es "Mi Canción Original", y este tema fue seleccionado por @fernanblog, uno de los impresionantes Moderadores de esta maravillosa Comunidad que es un modelo de Compromiso, con la profundidad y calidad de comentarios que hace. Con este tema, nos anima a compartir nuestra composición original a la Familia Hive Open Mic.

The theme of this week encourages us to share our own original or composed song. This was really difficult for me because I don't think my brain was ready to compose music at this time (lol).

I was at the verge of giving up because all attempts I made towards composing a song proved futile. However, I knew that under normal circumstances it shouldn't be really difficult for me. Yes, because if you play musical instruments where you can strike some chords, and create chord progressions it will be easy for you to create a melody out of the chord progression.

And this was how I got the inspiration to compose this piece. After composing a tentative melody, I began looking for how I'd compose some words that will fit into the Melody, then the words of Psalm 23 from the Bible hit me. And I felt it was perfect to use.

El tema de esta semana nos anima a compartir nuestra propia canción original o compuesta. A mí me resultó muy difícil porque no creo que mi cerebro estuviera preparado para componer música en ese momento (lol).

Estaba a punto de rendirme porque todos los intentos que hice para componer una canción resultaron inútiles. Sin embargo, sabía que en circunstancias normales no debería resultarme realmente difícil. Sí, porque si tocas instrumentos musicales con los que puedes tocar algunos acordes y crear progresiones de acordes, te resultará fácil crear una melodía a partir de la progresión de acordes.

Y así fue como me inspiré para componer esta pieza. Después de componer una melodía tentativa, empecé a buscar la manera de componer algunas palabras que encajaran en la melodía, entonces las palabras del Salmo 23 de la Biblia me golpearon. Y me pareció perfecta para usarla.

The choice of The Lord is my shepherd us not just because I needed a filler or some words just to fit into my melody and then I'd present. No, it is an assurance to me as I walk down the difficult path I'm walking towards at this moment. It assures me that God is with me. He is my shepherd and my guide, and He will safeguard me.

This, I wholeheartedly believe and I'm ever more strengthened to keep on moving because Oluwa (God) got my back!

I hope you enjoy this partly composed song (hehehehe)

La elección de El Señor es mi pastor nosotros no sólo porque necesitaba un relleno o algunas palabras sólo para encajar en mi melodía y luego me presentaría. No, es una seguridad para mí mientras camino por la difícil senda hacia la que me dirijo en este momento. Me asegura que Dios está conmigo. Él es mi pastor y mi guía, y Él me salvaguardará.

Creo en esto de todo corazón y me siento más fuerte para seguir adelante porque Oluwa (Dios) me cubre las espaldas.

Espero que disfrutéis de esta canción compuesta en parte (jejejeje).

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Few hours ago, I made a post on Developing a Business Mindset. In that post, I said that having a business mindset refers to the recommended ways to think (thinking that leads to action) that help us build, develop, grow or maintain businesses. I also mentioned that having a business mindset is very vital for our businesses to grow. I spoke about 5 characteristics or features involved in Developing a Business Mindset. These features are:

• Strategic Thinking: It involves knowing the right time to act, the right actions to take, and the right place to take these actions under the right circumstances.
• Taking Risks: Having a business mindset involves being strategic in the risk(s) you plan to take. These risks should be calculated, and you shouldn't impulsively jump into investing in a business without doing due research and calculations.
• Being Original, Unique and Creative: Many businesses offer similar services, hence, you need to make yours different and stand out from others.
• Setting goals: It is important to set realistic short-term and long-term goals, as they'll motivate us to achieve our aim.
• Learning from Past Failure: When we make mistakes we shouldn't relent or give up, instead we should learn from our mistakes or failure and give out our best.

Still focusing on the theme of Developing a Business Mindset, I took a different approach in this video.

In the video, I went further to discuss the barriers or challenges that can prevent us from developing a Business Mindset. And I also gave some insights and suggestions on how to overcome these challenges.

Here are the challenges I spoke about and how to overcome them.

1. Limited Resources: Having adequate resources is vital in building, growing and sustaining businesses. When we are lacking in resources (financial, technical and professional resources), it hinders us from our goal.
   • To overcome this challenge we can try to build professional relationships/network and leverage on them while we grow; we can also seek for fund as well.
2. Fear of Failure: Being afraid of failure isn't so bad, but if it prevents us from moving towards our goal, then it becomes a big barrier.
   • To overcome this challenge, we can begin by accomplishing little goals, to make us more confident; then we can also work on our mistakes, and avoid future occurrences.
3. Lack of Clarity: When we lose touch of our goals, or they aren't clear to us.
   • It is important to make more research so that we understand our goals and purpose and it becomes clearer to us.

Let me hear what you think in the comment section.

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🎵 Music Lovers of Hive Open Mic community! 🎙ENGHello my Hive Open Mic Family and Community. You are welcome to Hive Open Mic week One hundred and sixty. The Theme of this week is "Fraternity", and this theme was selected by @guitarmcy.

ESPHola mi familia y comunidad de Hive Open Mic. Bienvenidos a la semana ciento sesenta de Hive Open Mic. El Tema de esta semana es "Fraternidad", y este tema fue seleccionado por @guitarmcy.

The Theme of Fraternity is best suited for this week because it comes after we reflected on the theme of friendship: A Good Friend.

However, when I think about Fraternity, I think of something much deeper than friendship. Yes! To me, Fraternity or brotherhood goes beyond just being friends. It also involves sharing a unique or common bond, a common goal or common vision. However, first and foremost you need to be friends before this bond will be genuine if not it'll just be a facade.

For clarification, by Brotherhood I don't mean joining a brotherhood organization, and just fulfilling your duties as a member, and calling each other brothers. With this, brotherhood is only a facade. But if friendship is established, then it'll be a wonderful sharing.

However, in most cases, the common goal they share transcends the relationship between individuals. When this happens their relationship will be hinged on whether or not they share the same goal.

In some cases also, "Brotherhood in arms," also go to the extent to give up their lives in other to protect their brother, or the common goal of the brotherhood.

Oh, well, it's all about Fraternity, that's why I've been shouting Brotherhood. Lol

El tema de la fraternidad es el más adecuado para esta semana porque viene después de que reflexionáramos sobre el tema de la amistad: Un buen amigo.

Sin embargo, cuando pienso en la Fraternidad, pienso en algo mucho más profundo que la amistad. Sí. Para mí, la Fraternidad o hermandad va más allá de ser amigos. También implica compartir un vínculo único o común, un objetivo común o una visión común. Sin embargo, antes que nada hay que ser amigos para que este vínculo sea auténtico, si no será sólo una fachada.

Para que quede claro, por hermandad no me refiero a unirse a una organización de hermandad y limitarse a cumplir con los deberes como miembro y llamarse hermanos los unos a los otros. Con esto, la hermandad es solo una fachada. Pero si se establece la amistad, entonces será un maravilloso compartir.

Sin embargo, en la mayoría de los casos, el objetivo común que comparten trasciende la relación entre individuos. Cuando esto ocurre, su relación dependerá de si comparten o no el mismo objetivo.

En algunos casos, además, los "hermanos de armas" llegan al extremo de dar la vida por proteger a su hermano o el objetivo común de la hermandad.

Oh, bueno, se trata de Fraternidad, por eso he gritado Hermandad. Lol

I believe Memories by Maroon 5 is a song best suited for this theme of Fraternity. It speaks a lot about the memories of the good and the bad; happiness and sadness; fun and sorrow; that we experienced with friends, brothers and all who've journeyed with us on our unique quest, or towards a common goal.

I hope you enjoy this piece.

Creo que Memories de Maroon 5 es la canción más adecuada para este tema de Fraternidad. Habla mucho de los recuerdos de lo bueno y lo malo; de la felicidad y la tristeza; de la diversión y la pena; que experimentamos con amigos, hermanos y todos los que han viajado con nosotros en nuestra búsqueda única, o hacia un objetivo común.

Espero que disfruten de esta pieza.

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Welcome to Afri-tunes Community; a community where we share, listen to and enjoy African music and tunes on Hive.

This is the 61st week of our weekly contest on Hive. I encourage you to do well to subscribe, join in and present, as well as always check out for lovely African tunes in the Community.

Attention!!!

When you get to 03:41 - 03:51mins, thou shall not laugh at my crooked voice (lol).

After watching the cryptoholics show around 2-3am, I tried to get some rest because I had a very busy day yesterday.

By the way, I was motivated by the Threads Adoption Campaign to watch the cryptoholics show since it was part of the fun quest. I enjoyed it, but, I think I slept off before the show ended.

I slept for few hours and I woke up around 6am. I discovered that there was electricity, and most importantly the environment was so quiet. This is actually rare, and whenever I see such opportunities, I grab my guitar and make some music. That's why sometimes you see me recording around 3am. Yea, Lagos is a busy place, and my environment is blessed with abundant noise!

Yea, so I woke up around that time, I just washed and wiped off my face, and I tried to sing.

I'm sure Vocalists are aware that in the morning our voices tend to be flat. We won't be able to easily sing those high notes that we'd normally do during the day or in the evening time.

So, if you are laughing, consider the tiredness and consider all I've said above.

Coughs, this is not an explanation on why you shouldn't laugh oooo (lol).

I am here to present a lovely gospel song by the amazing Mercy Chinwo, titled Excess Love. The song speaks about the abundance of God's love on us, and, particularly, on me (I don't know about you).

I hope you enjoy this piece, amidst mu flaws.

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Its another day of staying awake in the midnight to make a musical video for Hive. This is owing to the constant generator sound from my neighbours, even as late as 4am. Its so sad, and this has disfigured my sleeping pattern badly and has made reflection and tranquility a priceless pearl for me.

Yea, while we can easily blame the inadequacy of the Government to provide constant electricity, we individuals should also be blamed for noise pollution, most especially in the midnight.

This video, specifically, was recorded by 4am because there was electricity and a bit of silence, so I had to seize the opportunity immediately without looking back.

I wish I had more opportunities like this during the day, so that I'd be able to sing loudly and help train my newly-work-in-progress voice. However, I need to make an effort and not allow things like this to discourage me or sway me from accomplishing my goals.

As part of my continuous effort and drive to get better at playing the guitar and singing at the same time, I'm here to present a Gospel song by Don Moen, titled BE MAGNIFIED. It's a song of adoration and worship to God acclaimed Him as all Powerful and all Loving.

I hope you enjoy this piece, and I'd appreciate criticisms to help me improve.

NB: I tried singing soft so that I don't disturb my neighbours, however I increased the volume from the editing app.

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Welcome to Afri-tunes Community; a community where we share, listen to and enjoy African music and tunes on Hive.

This is the 60th week of our weekly contest on Hive. I encourage you to do well to subscribe, join in and present, as well as always check out for lovely African tunes in the Community.

It seems I took the song too personal when presenting it, possibly because while singing the lyrics I could picture or reflect on each word I sang. With this, the song became more than an ordinary song; instead, I was immersed in the euphoria of the realistic interpretation of the song.

My life has been a journey of ups and downs, and I know it is probably the same with each and every one of us, albeit we all have our unique experiences of the "ups and downs." The uniqueness of our experiences and how we struggle, cope with or overcome it, has a way of defining who we are and what we believe in.

Whereas some believe in luck, others in Kharma, some others in both, and some others in nature. Well, I think mine is in Jesus, and it's been working great for me. Its more than just a belief, but a way of life, even though I falter in some cases, since I'm not a super human (you know). In all, he is my strength, my solace and he's more than I can ever imagine to me.

So, it was more than a song; it was reality.

It was more than just a melody; it was my life!

So here I am presenting a cover of a gospel song by Judikay, titled More than Gold.

I hope you enjoy this piece, because I also enjoyed it.

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🎵 Music Lovers of Hive Open Mic community! 🎙ENGHello my Hive Open Mic Family and Community. You are welcome to Hive Open Mic week One hundred and fifty-nine. The Theme of this week is "A Good Friend", and this theme was selected by someone who is true to his choice of the theme. Put differently, his relationship and interactions with people reflect the theme he chose. He is no other person than @jesus-son.

Indeed, we all can testify to the happiness, joy and enthusiasm he gives off together with his charm in the authentic engagement he makes with a view to deepening his relationship with others. We can truly say that he practices what he preaches or teaches in terms of being a Good friend.

We've been friends for years, prior to his joining Hive, however Hive brought us together in a unique way.... and I'm glad he is doing amazingly well on this great blockchain.

That's all for @jesus-son, let's go back to his beautiful theme. (@jesus-son, I don hype you small ooo... lol)

ESPHola mi familia y comunidad de Hive Open Mic. Bienvenidos a la semana ciento cincuenta y nueve de Hive Open Mic. El tema de esta semana es "Un buen amigo", y este tema fue seleccionado por alguien que es fiel a su elección del tema. Dicho de otro modo, su relación e interacciones con la gente reflejan el tema que eligió. No es otra persona que @jesus-son.

De hecho, todos podemos dar fe de la felicidad, la alegría y el entusiasmo que desprende, junto con su encanto, en el auténtico compromiso que asume con vistas a profundizar en su relación con los demás. Realmente podemos decir que practica lo que predica o enseña en términos de ser un Buen amigo.

Hemos sido amigos durante años, antes de que se uniera a Hive, sin embargo Hive nos unió de una manera única.... y me alegro de que le esté yendo increíblemente bien en esta gran blockchain.

Eso es todo para @jesus-son, volvamos a su hermoso tema.

Friendship is one of the most abused words, aside Love and "Fanta" (according to @jhymi)

It's so easy to call someone "my friend" without truly understanding the depth of your relationship with the person.

You know, Facebook has made it very easy for us to make friends:

I send you a friend request; you accept.... ta daaaaa! we are now friends. Let's celebrate and pop champagne!

Yet, we wonder why we have "friends" who aren't really FRIENDS.

Well, I'm not surprised because on the 31st of December, as a tradition, we'll bring out big imaginary scissors on our WhatsApp status to cut off "fake friends."

But is that what Friendship is all about?

Amistad es una de las palabras de las que más se abusa, aparte de Amor y "Fanta" (según @jhymi).

Es muy fácil llamar a alguien "mi amigo" sin entender realmente la profundidad de tu relación con esa persona.

Facebook nos lo ha puesto muy fácil para hacer amigos:

Te envío una solicitud de amistad; aceptas.... ¡ta daaaaa! ya somos amigos. ¡Vamos a celebrarlo y a descorchar champán!

Sin embargo, nos preguntamos por qué tenemos "amigos" que en realidad no son AMIGOS.

Bueno, no me extraña porque el 31 de diciembre, como es tradición, sacaremos unas grandes tijeras imaginarias en nuestro estado de WhatsApp para cortar a los "falsos amigos".

Pero, ¿en eso consiste la Amistad?

I just love how Bruno Mars subtly defines Friendship in this beautiful piece titled Count on Me.

Inspired by this piece, I believe that true friendship is enjoyed when both parties can truly depend on each other, count on each other for support and strength, and help each other achieve set goals. They help each other be the best version of themselves without necessarily asking for anything in return.

The truth is that if we start cutting off those "friends" who don't fall into this category we may realize that we'll be left with 1, 2 or 3 persons.

So, a question for you!

Who is/are your one, two or three friends that you can depend on, and you're sure that they can depend on you as well?

You mustn't answer it here, but think hard about it.

I dedicate this piece to all the amazing friends I've gotten through Hive. The truth is that I can mention more than 10 friends who I can depend on anytime, and I'm sure they can depend on me. I can also mention/tag more than 30 friends here.

But sorry, I won't mention them because somebody like @onos-f will start complaining that his name is not on the list.... lol. For his sake, I hope you do understand.

I love you all

I recorded this video by 2am (4 hours ago) because my environment is a very noisy one both during the day, night and midnight. I had the opportunity of having electricity at that time, plus everywhere was quiet so I had to grab the opportunity immediately.

I hope you enjoy this piece.

Me encanta cómo Bruno Mars define sutilmente la amistad en esta hermosa pieza titulada Count on Me.

Inspirándome en esta pieza, creo que la verdadera amistad se disfruta cuando ambas partes pueden realmente depender la una de la otra, contar la una con la otra para apoyarse y fortalecerse, y ayudarse mutuamente a alcanzar los objetivos fijados. Se ayudan mutuamente a ser la mejor versión de sí mismos sin pedir necesariamente nada a cambio.

La verdad es que si empezamos a cortar a esos "amigos" que no entran en esta categoría podemos darnos cuenta de que nos quedaremos con 1, 2 o 3 personas.

Así que, ¡una pregunta para ti!

¿Quién o quiénes son tus uno, dos o tres amigos en los que puedes confiar, y estás seguro de que ellos también pueden confiar en ti?

No debes contestar aquí, pero piénsalo bien.

Dedico este artículo a todos los amigos increíbles que he conseguido a través de Hive. La verdad es que puedo mencionar a más de 10 amigos con los que puedo contar en cualquier momento, y estoy seguro de que ellos pueden contar conmigo. También puedo mencionar/etiquetar a más de 30 amigos aquí.

Pero lo siento, no los mencionaré porque alguien como @onos-f empezará a quejarse de que su nombre no está en la lista.... lol. Por su bien, espero que lo entiendas.

Os quiero a todos

Grabé este vídeo a las 2 de la madrugada (hace 4 horas) porque mi entorno es muy ruidoso tanto de día como de noche y a medianoche. Tuve la oportunidad de tener electricidad a esa hora, además todo estaba tranquilo así que tuve que aprovechar la oportunidad inmediatamente.

Espero que disfruten de esta pieza.

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Welcome to Afri-tunes Community; a community where we share, listen to and enjoy African music and tunes on Hive.

This is the 59th week of our weekly contest on Hive. I encourage you to do well to subscribe, join in and present, as well as always check out for lovely African tunes in the Community.

A lot has been going through my mind over the past days, weeks and months. Variety of thoughts regarding the Omnipotence of God; in other words, that God is all Powerful.

In fact, as humans, there are times we question "how Powerful God is" because certain calamities befell us, or because of the huge challenges we experience. We ask, "if God is really Powerful, why can't He stop certain events from happening?" "If God is Powerful, why can't he destroy evil?" "If God is powerful, why does He allow His children to suffer?" And the list goes on!

Is He really Powerful?

Is He really capable?

But we fail to consider whether it is the case that He didn't do it because He cannot do it (meaning He is not Capable) or because He chose not to interfere.

I strongly believe that there is always a reason for everything; and there is always a bigger picture of things which may be unclear to us at the initial stage, but overtime we come to realize the necessity for such occurrences.

Indeed, God is Capable to do all things; His Omnipotence is unquestionable. We may find it hard to comprehend His actions because of our finite and limited view of life (we don't see the clearer picture always). Yet, His Omnipotence shouldn't be judged based on human standards because due to the limitations of man's knowledge and intellect, we do not have the locus standi to judge that which is infinite and which supercedes it.

In this piece, I'll share a cover of a Gospel song by Judikay titled Capable God. The song speaks about the Omnipotence of God, that God is Capable of doing all things and its left for us to align to His will for us.

The background noise was beyond removal and this is a glimpse of what I suffer in this place. Generator sound is almost heard 24/7. I hope I'll be better someday.

I hope you enjoy this piece.

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🎵 Music Lovers of Hive Open Mic community! 🎙ENGHello my Hive Open Mic Family and Community. You are welcome to Hive Open Mic week One hundred and fifty-eight. The Theme of this week is "Let's Defeat The Distance" (Derrotemos A La Distancia), and this theme was selected by @karlex77.

ESPHola mi familia y comunidad de Hive Open Mic. Sean bienvenidos a la semana ciento cincuenta y ocho de Hive Open Mic. El Tema de esta semana es "Derrotemos A La Distancia", y este tema fue seleccionado por @karlex77.

Love can be intoxicating, you know right?

It sweeps you off your feet and makes you feel safe, relaxed and overly excited around your beloved. You don't mind if World War III just began at your doorstep or if Elon Musk has made Twitter Blue free, instead you are more concerned about spending more time with your beloved (especially when the relationship is 2 days old).

When things go terribly wrong, the lovebirds who were once inseparable may turn out to be worst enemies. Now, we begin to wonder what those early promises of: "I can't do without you", "I can't live without you", "you are the air that I breathe", or "you are the sugar in my garri", have become.

The newly found ~~lovers~~ enemies may go to the extent of erasing every memory about the other; deleting all contact details and blocking each other on all social media so that they become nonexistent to each other.

They create Distance!

El amor puede ser embriagador, ¿sabes?

Te barre de tus pies y te hace sentir seguro, relajado y sobreexcitado cerca de tu amada. No te importa si la Tercera Guerra Mundial acaba de empezar en la puerta de tu casa o si Elon Musk ha conseguido que Twitter sea gratis, en lugar de eso te preocupa más pasar más tiempo con tu amada (especialmente cuando la relación tiene 2 días).

Cuando las cosas van terriblemente mal, los tortolitos que antes eran inseparables pueden convertirse en los peores enemigos. Ahora, empezamos a preguntarnos qué serán aquellas primeras promesas de: "no puedo estar sin ti", "no puedo vivir sin ti", "eres el aire que respiro" o "eres el azúcar de mi garri", se han convertido.

Los recién encontrados ~~amantes~~ enemigos pueden llegar al extremo de borrar todo recuerdo sobre el otro; borrar todos los datos de contacto y bloquearse mutuamente en todas las redes sociales para que se vuelvan inexistentes el uno para el otro.

Crean distancia.

When the Distance is created, it becomes very difficult for the situation to be remedied, albeit it is not an impossible mission (Mission Impossible part 7).

Yet, it takes one willing party to walk down the road seeking reconciliation or attempting to break that distance. In some cases the other may be willing, and in other cases s/he may be headstrong never to give in.

This is life!

In "Someone like You," Adele (representing the main character of the song), experienced similar situation. In her case, the distance was created, and her ex-beloved moved on, got married and is progressing in life (unlike African Magic that he will suffer from Village people).

Obviously, she hasn't moved on, and her hope of defeating the distance was to creep back into the mind of the man. Well, this can be a challenge in defeating the distance, as it can lead to defeating the union.

What do you think?

I hope you enjoy this piece.

Cuando se crea la Distancia, se hace muy difícil que la situación se remedie, aunque no es una misión imposible (Misión Imposible parte 7).

Sin embargo, se necesita una parte dispuesta a recorrer el camino buscando la reconciliación o intentando romper esa distancia. En algunos casos el otro puede estar dispuesto, y en otros puede ser testarudo y no ceder nunca.

Así es la vida.

En Alguien como tú, Adele (representando al personaje principal de la canción), vive una situación similar. En su caso, se creó la distancia, y su ex amado siguió adelante, se casó y está progresando en la vida (a diferencia de African Magic que sufrirá de Village people).

Obviamente, ella no ha seguido adelante, y su esperanza de derrotar a la distancia era arrastrarse de nuevo en la mente del hombre. Bueno, esto puede ser un reto para vencer la distancia, ya que puede llevar a vencer la unión.

¿Qué les parece?

Espero que disfrutéis de este artículo.

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Welcome to Afri-tunes Community; a community where we share, listen to and enjoy African music and tunes on Hive.

This is the 58th week of our weekly contest on Hive. I encourage you to do well to subscribe, join in and present, as well as always check out for lovely African tunes in the Community.

Miracles are ordinary events that happen in an extraordinary or unexplainable way. Put differently, these are events that raise no eye brow if they were to happen in a different circumstance. For instance, Mr A was diagnosed of Cancer, but was asked to follow his routine checkup to get better. After months of routine checkups, if Mr. A recovers fully, it'll be scientifically explained that he had his follow-up checkup and that's what led to his full recovery.

On the other hand, Mrs. B was diagnosed with a terminal cancer and the doctors had given her 2 months to live. They also suggested that she follows the routine checkup so that she lives up to the 2 months window. However, in one of the routine scan the doctors could no longer find any trace of cancer in her body system. This is indeed unexplainable and extraordinary, even science marvels at such events.

In the ordinary sense, the follow-up scans and checkup could have helped Mrs. B become completely healthy like Mr. A, but the situation of Mrs. B is such that she was already living on borrowed time, waiting for everything to end. So, yes, hers was an extraordinary experience, a miracle.

Also, as undervalued as waking up from the bed is, I consider it as one of the greatest miracles because there's no assurance that when you sleep during the night, you must wake up the next day. So many die in their sleep, yet, we wake up everyday, and we need to be grateful for it. And yes, it is a miracle.

Do you believe in miracles?

Onise Iyanu is a gospel song by Nathaniel Bassey that speaks about God as the Miracle worker; the One who does awesome wonders.

I see the miraculous hand of God in my life everyday and in all things I do. I feel His presence, his Divine grace, his gentle touch and inspiration.

The truth is that you don't need to be a Christian and you don't need to believe in God to experience miraculous events. In fact, it is necessary that they motivate you to reflect and wonder on such occurrences. Truthfully, there are some that are staged just for "Advertisements" or "PR" for the minister. But, that doesn't rule out the fact that there are real miracles. Miracles that'll make you seek possible answers to explain such events, but.... where Logic and science fails, faith supplements. Logic and science can only determine that which are empirical, which exists in the physical world; and they are useless in the metaphysical world. Yet, ruling the metaphysical because science and logic cannot explain it is argument based on ignorance (argumentum ad ignoratiam).

Ooo, I'm talking too much.

I hope you enjoy my cover. And please don't mind the old man @onos-f clapping at the background (lol).

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🎵 Hello Music Lovers of Hive Music community! 🎙

I've experienced so much disappointments, difficulties and challenges in life. Some of which led to a prolonged state of depression (at some point); some led to a state of subtle privacy, and yet some others led me to question God's plan and purpose in my life.

I question, neither because I doubt nor because I deny it, but I'd love to be clarified. Walking down the road in the midst of uncertainty is quite worrisome. We'd always wish things were a bit clearer, so that we understand the path clearly. But, if it isn't, we just have to keep the hope alive, and keep moving. But this certainly won't be an easy experience.

I believe everyone is unique and different; everyone has their unique experience and unique path. If, lets say, 15 people were to get to a destination following the same path, same road, same experience and same feeling. It will be a boring story; nothing will make each one's journey be unique. However, this isn't the case with the journey of life, as no two humans will have the same experience and same path, even if the destination is the same.

This has been my source of consolation, and I strive to make the little steps I can, yet still focused on my goal. Infact, I am not at the state I thought I'd be presently, yet I'm not in the worst state. However, my trust in God is unwavering and I believe I'd be better soon.

Also, in all things I'd continue to give praise, thanks and adoration to God because I can always feel His presence in every step I make towards the same destination.

Today, I wish to share with you all a lovely musical piece I made with my good friend and brother, @onos-f.

It may seem as though we've been presenting many music together as though we were neighbours or are living together, but the truth is that the opportunity comes rarely. In fact, it may take a while for us to have this kind of opportunity. That's why whenever we have the opportunity to be in the same state, we try to meet up and create music together.

For this music, we decided to present a cover of Casting Crown by the Gospel artist Nathaniel Bassey. The music still re-echoes the necessity of giving praise and adoration to God who reigns on high.

I've begun to challenge myself by doing more of vocal presentations to get better at singing. I know this will be pertinent for me, if I seek improvement and mastery of the skill. Hence, for this piece I sang. But, onos-f played 3 different musical instruments at the same time... hehe

• guitar
• leg stomping as natural metronome
• and natural mouth flute

He's a really multi-talented instrumentalist, or for those who've watch the Avatar series (Last Air bender), onos-f can be classified as a Music-bender... he uses everything to make music (lol).

I hope you enjoy the fun, the liveliness and the happiness from this presentation.

LyricsCasting Crowns
Lifting hands
Bowing hearts
Is all we've come to do

Adonai, Adonai, Adonai
You reign on high
We will rise, in Your name
Adonai, You reign on high

Complete lyrics from azlyrics.com.

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🎵 Music Lovers of Hive Open Mic community! 🎙ENGHello my Hive Open Mic Family and Community. You are welcome to Hive Open Mic week One hundred and fifty-seven. The Theme of this week is "Al Dios Que Adoramos" which means "The God We Worship" in English. And this theme was selected by @williansmarquez.

ESPHola mi familia y comunidad de Hive Open Mic. Sean bienvenidos a la semana ciento cincuenta y siete de Hive Open Mic. El Tema de esta semana es "Al Dios Que Adoramos" que significa "The God We Worship" en inglés. Y este tema fue seleccionado por @williansmarquez.

I woke up this morning (Friday) and, surprisingly, I was humming a tune. Strange, right? Yea, for Ksam, it is somehow strange.

After few minutes of trying to figure out where I heard this beautiful tune from, viola! I got my answers!

"Lord you are the Most High," a song by the Nigerian artist Flavour and Semah G. Weifur, who is a Liberian born blind singer.

The funny thing is that while the song is obviously a Gospel song, the main musician in question, Flavour, isn't a Gospel artist. In fact, he sang a song that was nearly censored due to the "corruptness" of the song (lol).

So, this got me thinking....

Why should a Secular artist venture into singing Gospel music? Can this "gospel" music be sung in the Church? In fact, does this music qualify as Gospel music simply because it extols the greatness of God?

Esta mañana (viernes) me he despertado y, sorprendentemente, estaba tarareando una melodía. Extraño, ¿verdad? Sí, para Ksam es algo extraño.

Después de unos minutos intentando averiguar de dónde había oído esta bonita melodía, ¡viola! Tengo la respuesta.

"Lord you are the Most High", una canción del artista nigeriano Flavour y Semah G. Weifur, una cantante ciega nacida en Liberia.

Lo curioso es que, aunque la canción es obviamente gospel, el músico principal en cuestión, Flavour, no es un artista gospel. De hecho, cantó una canción que estuvo a punto de ser censurada por "corrupta".

Esto me hizo pensar: ....

¿Por qué debería un artista laico aventurarse a cantar música gospel? ¿Puede esta música "gospel" cantarse en la Iglesia? De hecho, ¿se puede considerar que esta música es evangélica simplemente porque ensalza la grandeza de Dios?

So many questions were left unanswered. However, in as much as we cannot be 100% certain about his intentions, if its for praising God or something else, one thing is certain: The song expresses the yearning of one who seeks to extol God's greatness, and who finds time to always worship God amidst his unique schedule and lifestyle.

Why do I say this?

In the second verse, Flavour gives a list of activities during the week comprising his workout schedule, Studio session, chilling/fun activities, performing shows and praising God. Yet, he singles out the latter as that which is his best.

In as much as many may argue that it isn't a genuine way to worship God, that you should worship God everyday of your life (which is absolutely correct), I still believe that everyone is different, and God isn't a "mechanical God". He understands each and everyone of us; he knows our personal struggles and how we constantly yearn for him in the midst of our sinful state.

God will never push away anyone who worships Him with a humble and sincere heart. He understands our weaknesses and he'd give us the strength and grace to fight them off; individually and together as we help each other in this race of Salvation.

Tantas preguntas quedaron sin respuesta. Sin embargo, aunque no podemos estar seguros al 100% de sus intenciones, si es para alabar a Dios o para otra cosa, una cosa es cierta: La canción expresa el anhelo de alguien que busca ensalzar la grandeza de Dios, y que siempre encuentra tiempo para adorar a Dios en medio de su horario y estilo de vida únicos.

¿Por qué digo esto?

En la segunda estrofa, Flavour enumera sus actividades semanales: entrenamientos, sesiones de estudio, actividades relajantes y divertidas, actuaciones y alabanzas a Dios. Sin embargo, destaca esta última como la mejor.

Aunque muchos puedan argumentar que no es una forma auténtica de adorar a Dios, que hay que adorar a Dios todos los días de la vida (lo cual es absolutamente correcto), yo sigo creyendo que cada persona es diferente, y que Dios no es un "Dios mecánico". Él nos entiende a todos y cada uno de nosotros; conoce nuestras luchas personales y cómo le anhelamos constantemente en medio de nuestro estado pecaminoso.

Dios nunca apartará a nadie que le adore con un corazón humilde y sincero. Él entiende nuestras debilidades y nos dará la fuerza y la gracia para luchar contra ellas; individualmente y juntos mientras nos ayudamos unos a otros en esta carrera de Salvación.

So I tried to shock some people like @hopestylist, @jessicaossom, @nathcy, @wizj... and @onos-f including his twin brother in crime @jesus-son (lol).

Yea, I can't sing but I still want to shock them, since I don't want them to predict me.

I decided to sing this piece to the God I worship, to extol His greatness and give him thanks as it should be.

Don't laugh too much oooo

Also, that Igbo sentence was too long and I forgot the line, please don't laugh... (lol).

I hope you enjoy this piece and are blessed by this piece.

Así que traté de sorprender a algunas personas como @hopestylist, @jessicaossom, @nathcy, @wizj ... y @onos-f incluyendo a su hermano gemelo en el crimen @jesus-son (lol).

Si, no se cantar pero aun asi quiero impactarlos, ya que no quiero que me predigan.

Decidí cantarle esta pieza al Dios que adoro, para ensalzar su grandeza y darle las gracias como debe ser.

No te rías demasiado oooo

Además, esa frase en igbo era demasiado larga y se me olvidó la línea, por favor no se rían... (lol).

Espero que disfruten de esta pieza y sean bendecidos por ella.

Here is the lyrics for those interested

Chorus x3Lord, you are the most high
Halloweth be thy name

Semah (verse 1)You tell me say make I no worry
That everything’s gonna be okay
You are the father to the fatherless The miracle working God
You make the blind man to see
You make the cripple man to walk
You are the lily of Galilee
You make the impossible possible

Flavour (Verse 2)I woke up strong on a Monday
I go to gym on a Tuesday
Then to the studio on Wednesday
I work it out till Thursday morning
I be chilling on Friday
I play some shows on Saturday
If you ask me what my best day is
Its when I praise you on Sunday morning

Bridge – FlavourAga ma turu gi mma mma (I will give you praise)
Mu na ezi n’ulom u ga na e to gi oh (My family and I will continue to worship you)
Makana chi anyi di mma (because our God is good)
Halloweth be thy name

Lyrics from Jesusful.com

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🎵 Music Lovers of Hive Open Mic community! 🎙ENGHello my Hive Open Mic Family and Community. You are welcome to Hive Open Mic week One hundred and fifty-six. The Theme of this week is "Hasta El Extremo," which means "to the end" or "to the extreme" in English, and this theme is chosen by @wbrandt.

ESPHola mi familia y comunidad de Hive Open Mic. Bienvenidos a la semana ciento cincuenta y seis de Hive Open Mic. El Tema de esta semana es "Hasta El Extremo", que significa "hasta el final" o "hasta el extremo" en Inglés, y este tema es elegido por @wbrandt.

I've always been a fan of moderation, because, as you know, virtue lies in the middle of excess and deficit. However, this isn't advisable in all situations. For instance, if you are preparing for an exam you've got to give it all you've got; if you are creating content on Hive, try to give in your best. In these instances, giving your best helps you improve and get better in life.

However, what about if you've given your best, if you've gone to the extreme and the end result isn't favourable or desirable by you, how would you feel?

Devastated, right?

Confused, right?

Indeed, going to the extreme has its challenges, which can put us in a delicate situation. Worst still, when we go extreme in love and we end up being heartbroken, our hearts get shattered in one million pieces, and sometimes really difficult to repair. Experiences like this affects our perception and understanding of love, and can also deter people from expressing love once again.

Siempre he sido partidario de la moderación, porque, como sabes, la virtud está entre el exceso y el déficit. Sin embargo, esto no es aconsejable en todas las situaciones. Por ejemplo, si estás preparando un examen tienes que darlo todo; si estás creando contenidos en Hive, intenta dar lo mejor de ti. En estos casos, dar lo mejor de ti te ayuda a mejorar y a superarte en la vida.

Sin embargo, ¿qué pasa si has dado lo mejor de ti, si has llegado al extremo y el resultado final no es favorable o deseable por ti, cómo te sentirías?

Devastado, ¿verdad?

Confundido, ¿verdad?

Efectivamente, ir al extremo tiene sus retos, que pueden ponernos en una situación delicada. Peor aún, cuando nos vamos al extremo en el amor y acabamos con el corazón roto, nuestro corazón se rompe en mil pedazos, y a veces es realmente difícil de reparar. Experiencias como ésta afectan a nuestra percepción y comprensión del amor, y también pueden disuadir a la gente de volver a expresar amor.

Similarly, as we commemorate the wondrous resurrection of Christ (Easter), I also wonder how much suffering and pain Christ went through for us. His love and sacrifice is beyond human comprehension; yes, his Love was Extreme; his sacrifice was extreme; and even though we went to the end; he defeated the end.

But imagine after going through the extreme for someone and the person do not appreciate all you've gone through for him or her. How would you feel? In the same way, I wonder how He feels about the excesses and evil deeds in the world today. If you were him, how would you feel?

Well, Christ didn't tell us that it'll be am easy task in the world; he knows we aren't perfect, however he asks us to strive for perfection, to work towards being perfect. We may not get to that perfect state here on earth, but we can go on to the extreme until we win perfection, and perfect happiness which can only be found in Christ.

Del mismo modo, mientras conmemoramos la maravillosa resurrección de Cristo (Pascua), también me pregunto cuánto sufrimiento y dolor pasó Cristo por nosotros. Su amor y sacrificio esta mas alla de la comprension humana; si, su Amor fue Extremo; su sacrificio fue Extremo; y aunque fuimos hasta el final; el derroto el final.

Pero imagínate después de pasar por el extremo por alguien y la persona no aprecia todo lo que has pasado por él o ella. ¿Cómo te sentirías? Del mismo modo, me pregunto cómo se siente Él ante los excesos y las malas acciones del mundo actual. Si tú fueras él, ¿cómo te sentirías?

Bueno, Cristo no nos dijo que sería una tarea fácil en el mundo; sabe que no somos perfectos, sin embargo nos pide que nos esforcemos por alcanzar la perfección, que trabajemos para ser perfectos. Puede que no lleguemos a ese estado perfecto aquí en la tierra, pero podemos seguir hasta el extremo hasta que alcancemos la perfección, y la felicidad perfecta que sólo se puede encontrar en Cristo.

For this week, my brother and friend @onsog, sorry I mean @onos-f, returned my visit (I visited him 2 weeks ago, and he paid back the visit). So we decided to present a beautiful song by Celine Dion that expresses the theme in a most profound way, speaking about "Heart Will go on." Remember, like I said earlier, when we go extreme in love, we become so delicate and so safe in the hands of our beloved. Little wonder we feel devastated when things go south.

I hope you enjoy this beautiful piece.

Para esta semana, mi hermano y amigo @onsog, perdón quiero decir @onos-f, me devolvió la visita (lo visité hace 2 semanas, y me devolvió la visita). Así que decidimos presentar una hermosa canción de Celine Dion que expresa el tema de una manera muy profunda, hablando de "Heart Will go on". Recordemos que, como he dicho antes, cuando llegamos al extremo en el amor, nos volvemos tan delicados y tan seguros en manos de nuestro amado. No es de extrañar que nos sintamos devastados cuando las cosas se tuercen.

Espero que disfruten de esta hermosa pieza.

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Welcome to Afri-tunes Community; a community where we share, listen to and enjoy African music and tunes on Hive.

This is the 57th week of our weekly contest on Hive. I encourage you to do well to subscribe, join in and present, as well as always check out for lovely African tunes in the Community.

The Greatest Love Story is recorded in John 3:16:

For this is how God loved the world: he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. - (NJB version)

Truly, God does not want His children to be lost and that's why after the Fall of man, he took the initiative to bring back man into communion with him. He established his covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and established Israel as His chosen people, a holy nation.

In the days of Old, he sent his prophets and messengers to speak to his people and put them along the right path, but in our days he has spoken to us through Jesus Christ, who is the word of God, and who dwelt amongst us.

In Christ Jesus, we see the full manifestation of God’s love for humanity. He came down from heaven and became one like us, for the purpose of redemption. He offered himself for the salvation of humanity; to lead humanity back to God. And believing in Him is the free flight ticket to the board the plane.

FRIDAYAccording to the Scriptures Jesus was crucified on the day of Preparation, before the Passover and feast of Unleavened Bread, and this Passover fell on the Sabbath Day (cf. Mk 14:1, 15:42). Saturday is Sabbath Day, and the day before Saturday is Friday.

The Scriptures also records that he died around the ninth hour (which in our modern time is 15:00 or 3:00pm), (cf. Mk 15:34).

On a day like this, we are called to reflect on Jesus's Passion and Death; as it is through this terrible yet beautiful experience, humanity won salvation.

You know, Jesus died a Shameful death. He was beaten mercilessly, he was disgraced, stripped off his garment and off his dignity, and finally crucified on a cross. The cross was a sign of humiliation, and Death on the cross was indeed a shameful one that was only accorded to hardened criminals.

In our today's world, this kind of day will be termed as Bad Friday or Black Friday because of the terrible loss. However, it has become a Good Friday because the Cross which was once a sign of humiliation, has now become a sign of Victory. Christ's death which was a shameful one, has wrought the salvation of humanity. Hence, for us Christians, it is a Good Friday, infact a Great Friday!

So yes, I'd be playing one hymn that greatly expresses this wonderful mystery; one that speaks about Salvation being won through Christ's death on the Cross.

I remember hearing this song in my home Parish at time like this, and it was actually sung in a somewhat solemn and reflective mood. To inspire people to reflect on Christ's sacrifice for humanity.

Well, for me, I'd be using my guitar to play it. If there were enough time, I'd have created some background instrumental giving me some sweet African percussion. However, I hope you enjoy this piece.

LYRICS OF AS I LOOK UP TO THE CROSS

Verse 1

As I look up to the Cross on which he died,
I can hear him say it is ended.

Chorus:

I know I know Christ is my Lord,
I've come to know he died for me,
I say goodbye to the evil world,
I know my Lord will care for me.

Verse 2

By the blood of Jesus I know I'm saved,
I know He doth love me He always says.

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Welcome to Afri-tunes Community; a community where we share, listen to and enjoy African music and tunes on Hive.

This is the 55th week of our weekly contest on Hive. I encourage you to do well to subscribe, join in and present, as well as always check out for lovely African tunes in the Community.

Last weekend I travelled to the States.... sorry, not United States... I mean one state in Nigeria. I travelled for a program. The planning, arrangement and the event itself happened too sudden. Although I had the opportunity of meeting my brothers @onos-f and the great @wizj on different occasions, I didn't really have the opportunity to take a picture or make a video with the latter; it happened too sudden like I said.

But @onos-f and I had to make out time to do something for Hive. Yea, it was already 10:30pm but we had to do something. In fact, I had that in mind that's why I brought my Afri-tunes T-Shirt along with me.

Everywhere was dark and there was no electricity at that time (welcome to Nigeria). Hence, we had to use his ring light with an additional torch light in order to increase the lightning of the video.

By the way, @onos-f mentioned something during the introductory part of this video, and the first person to spell it correctly will get a little 2 Hive reward. That reminds me: @wizj @jesus-son and @hpestylist are not welcomed to participate in the quiz....lol.

If after 48 hours I don't get the correct response, I'll power up the 2 Hive. Deal!!! (Grin)

Mungode Allah is a Choral piece by Jude Nnam. It was composed in Hausa language and it is a song of thanksgiving to God.

The song is apt as I dedicate it to @onos-f on the occasion of his birthday (last week Saturday) which was when we actually made the video, as well as on the success of the program I attended.

I hope you enjoy this piece.

LYRICS OF MUNGODE ALLAH

Domin ka kawo (Because you brought us)
Mu a wannan ranan yau [to this very day]

Mun gode Allah
(We give you thanks Oh Lord)

Allah Sarki
[Christ the King]

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Cloud of Uncertainty

I began writing this post yesterday, but I was unlucky because at that time my mind was a complete “Tabula rasa” (clean slate) as John Locke calls it. I was left dumbfounded and awestruck as I never expected such, and this was accompanied by a migraine-like headache. Nah! I had to sleep off!

It was a reminder to me that (most times) Life can be brutal and unfair; wicked and partial. She takes you along a path which you are ill-prepared for, and sometimes throws you under a moving train; she picks you up from that low-level spot and puts you in the midst of garbage of all sorts. Yea! What a despicable, arrogant and unpredictable lady she is!

Likewise, when you begin a project or a career, she makes you wander in the realm of uncertainty, not knowing your left from your right, the right path to follow, and the right way to overcome challenges. Yes, she necessarily makes you ill-prepared for such journey. (Why are you doing this, O life?)

A Glimmer of Hope

I remember with great nostalgia how it all began!

You know, back in the day, I had a good photographic memory such that I could remember the exact day and describe events that happened 5 or more years ago. Well, this “superpower” is sometimes a blessing, and other times a curse, especially when you cannot forget bad memories or experiences.

But now, it seems I’m losing this superpower thanks to the ill-fated treatment by the same lady called LIFE!

Yea, I digressed!

The most crucial and important part of a building is its foundation; if its foundation is unstable, shaky, broken and unprofessionally built then no matter how many storeys you add to it, it will collapse someday.

The same can be said about Hive and its second layers: If the first layer (Hive) isn’t scalable, efficient and secured, then the other layers built upon that layer will someday “crumble”, except if they fork out of the system.

Well, I cannot say with certainty that Afri-tunes Community was built on a solid foundation, doing this will be quite boastful of me. However, I am happy that we’ve built a community where many people feel at home; a community that has impacted greatly on people; a community where many people get to experience the true social side of Hive which transcends “writing and dumping” content; a community where everyone is welcomed; a community that is interested in your growth not only on Afri-tunes, but on Hive (in general) and in life.

We Need Each Other (A Community Project)

We’ve been through thick and thin together: we’ve experienced scarcity of content and we’ve also experienced abundance of content from amazing authors; we’ve experienced Hive at $1.1 and we’ve also experienced Hive at $0.25; we’ve experienced little or no curation and we’ve also experienced good curation from the lovely curation projects acting as “guardian angels” to us.

In all, we didn’t hold back no matter how low life threw us under the bus; we didn’t call it quits when we had no sponsors and few supporters; we stood strong together amidst all challenges and difficulties, and we persevered amidst the raging storm.

Are we victorious yet?

I can’t say. All I can say is that we need each other to achieve victory! Victory is in the common bond we share; it is in the unity we enjoy; a unity and common bond which transcends country, language, continent and tribe. A unity that is brought about by our shared love and appreciation of the niche: AFRICAN MUSIC.

Let’s Take the Step!

One thing they say about being a leader is that you should be an individual with great vision and foresight. Oh well, since all of us are leaders in our own capacity, I encourage us to take the great step towards shaping Afri-tunes Community to become the community of our dreams! Let’s dream together (sorry I didn’t say this.. lol).

One of the lowkey reasons for making the Afri-tunes Branded T-Shirt and sharing it to people in at least nine states in Nigeria, three countries, and two continents, was to bring about a physical presence of Afri-tunes in these different locations, and to once again establish that unity that exists no matter our location.

Yes, I am happy this dream was achieved.

Aside the “dream” of becoming one of the 10 or 20 biggest communities on Hive and contributing massively to the Hive Ecosystem, I also dream of an Afri-tunes that will transcend from being an online phenomenon on Hive, to being one that has a solid basis in the physical world, and in the home of African Music (an evangelist of web3 music).

Maybe, someday we would host or co-host a music concert physically on the African soil sponsored by the Hive Community; maybe we would be the champion of web3 music in Africa and beyond; maybe we would bring in great artists and musicians on board.

These “maybes” can become a “we just did” someday.

I’d love to hear your thoughts and ideas or opinions about what you think we can do, or achieve as a community on Hive, and beyond Hive.

UYO MEYO BY TENI

It won’t be proper for me not to drop a music cover, even though I planned to make this a writing entry. Hence, let me try to brighten our mood with this little cover of Uyo Meyo by Teni. This is a song that speaks about joy, rejoicing and happiness, and I believe it is apt on this occasion.

If you wish to go to the musical rendition proper please skip to 2:42, because I spoke for a long time appreciating everyone including my village people (lol).

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I specially appreciate @starstrings01 and @obaro who began this project with me; @ovey10 who dropped the very first entry for Afri-tunes Project and is today a great Moderator in the community, @magicfingerz who also made his entry during the first week. I sincerely appreciate @hopestylist and @sholex94 for their wonderful assistance, alongside the team, to make this occasion and every week's contest a success.

I sincerely appreciate every member, subscriber, lovers of African music and the Afri-tunes Project, our sponsors for our weekly event and for this event, and everyone on Hive. I truly appreciate you all.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO US ALL!

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The tiredness on my face can be easily noticed, and the sweat is so obvious. Surely, I know I need rest, but when I try to sleep, sleep seems far away. It takes a while for it to be back, and when it does, it doesn't last. Hmmmm... I had a really busy and engaging day yesterday culminating till this morning. But, in order not to miss submitting an entry for week 50 since it had always been at the back of my mind, I had to begin recording by 1am - 2am. That's why I was trying so hard not to play out too loud so that I don't disturb my village people and neighbours.

Well, it's 5:31am and I did a little editing on the audio, then exported it to a video editor. Now, I'm trying to write, but at this moment, I don't think my brain can actually think of something profound to share.

Many adults today are either going through depression, coming out of depression, entering depression or are perpetual candidates for depression. Sometimes, the depression can be momentarily, and other times one may feel that there is no hope for the future as well. In this case, depression can lead people to make the greatest mistake of their lives (committing suicide).

Sometimes, it can be caused by financial issues, debt issues, "emotional damageeeee," mental issues, health issues or physical challenges, amongst others.

Yes, people are going through a whole lot and we must acknowledge that fact. Also, I believe we should try to ease the suffering people rather than being the cause of the suffering; we should spread love and smiles, rather than hatred and anger.

I hope you enjoy this piece.

LYRICS OF PEOPLE

I've been drinking more alcohol for the past five days
Did you check on me?
Now, did you look for me?
I walked in the room, eyes are red and I don't smoke banga
Did you check on me? (Did you check on me?)
Now, did you notice me?

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🎵 Hello Music Lovers 🎙Hello everyone, it is another week on Music Zone community with our unique Hive Music Festival event, week 18 round 03.

Less than 18 hours ago, I was blank in terms of the choice of song to play for the week. This happens to me each time I have to pick a song to present for the week, especially when you have to choose 2 to 4 songs to present in the different musical Communities on Hive. Most times I ask some of my friends for song suggestions, sometimes I end up playing the songs suggested, and other times their suggestions inspire me to play another song. This week wasn't an exception, I was also stuck, but inspired by a friend's suggestion.

For this week, I chose to play Bruno Mars' Talking to the Moon. For those who don't know, I'm a Bruno Mars fan. I went to his song catalogue to check out the song that I haven't played for the festival, and that was how I selected this song for the week.

I see "Talking to the Moon" as a song that speaks about one who cannot get over a failed relationship. The protagonist of the story (in the music) does not believe the reality he is facing at the moment; a reality without his loved one, the one whom he considered as all he had, his Everything. He is also hopeful that she feels the same way he feels, and would one day come back to him. Although, there is no guarantee that this will happen, except in his dreams.

Sometimes when we get deeper in love with someone, it becomes very difficult to move on when heartbreak happens or when the relationship fails. Building a strong relationship takes a long time, but when the relationship is broken it is very difficult to fix, although not impossible. That's why it is important that we be bear this in mind while building a relationship because heartbreak might occur, and when it does how will you react to it?

Will you move on? Will you keep sulking all the rest of your life? Or will you go to the extreme end of committing suicide? (Well, the last option happens when people have toxic understanding of love)

I hope you enjoy this piece.

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Last week in my entry on Nara by Tim Godfrey and Travis Greene, I made a call for suggestions and ideas towards our forthcoming 1st Anniversary celebration. Thankfully, we got pockets of ideas and suggestions from people, and with this... @ovey10, @hopestylist @sholex94 and I were able to brainstorm on some ideas. So far, we've been trying to put these ideas into practice, at the same time thinking of newer ways and greater updates to help boost the celebration.

I wished we were actually together, at least, @maryjacy and @jessicaossom will bring all the rice and chicken that they promised me since Christmas (lol). Unfortunately, 95% of the active viewers and members of this community are scattered across different states in Nigeria, different countries in Africa and different continents as well. Thus, it will be quite impossible to have a physical celebration. Well, thank God for technology, and thank God for virtual celebration. However, distance cannot destroy the friendship, love and joy we've built together while sharing and enjoying African music on this lovely space on Hive. In the same way, distance will not stop @maryjacy from sending the rice and chicken to me.

I hope you're all getting ready to get your Afri-tunes T-Shirt? Are you? Are you getting ready to present your music or write a music related article?

Don't miss out in the celebration plans, read up here. Also, get ready for a sweet update... I won't give you any clue. You can guess if you can....

For this week, I'm dedicating this beautiful piece to all the beautiful ladies on Hive, especially the ones I'm protecting from @jesus-son (lol).... naa, just a joke.

African Queen is indeed a classic music from the Legendary 2baba (2faceidibia). This song was released in 2004 and I'll term it as an eulogy to a beauty Queen. I believe 2face also tries to emphasise the glories of natural looks over artificial.

I hope you enjoy this little piece.
I recorded the rhythm before hand...

LYRICS OF AFRICAN QUEEN

Just like the sun, lights up the earth, you light up my life
The only one, I've ever seen with a smile so bright
And just yesterday, you came around my way
And changed my whole scenery with your astonishing beauty

Ah, you coulda make a brother sing,
You ordinary thing, a supernatural being
I know you are just brighter than the moon
Brighter than the star, I love you just the way you are

you are my African Queen, the girl of my dreams
You take me where I've never been
You make my heart go ting-a-ling-a-ling, oh ahh
You are my African Queen, the girl of my dreams
And you remind me of a thing
And that is the African beauty

See complete lyrics from azlyrics.com

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🎵 Hello Music Lovers 🎙Hello everyone, it's another week of Hive Music Festival in Music Zone community on Hive. For this week, I'll be presenting a song inspired by @ovey10's entry for last week.

He played an amazing Trumpet Cover of Can't Help Falling in Love by Elvis Presley and I promised to present my own cover, or my own version. So here I am.

Like the name implies, "Can't Help Falling in Love" is a beautiful romantic song that can ignite the love shared between lovers, and can make single people like myself fall in love almost immediately. I believe Elvis Presley was highly inspired when he released this song in 1961.

1961? Wow! Did you notice that?

62 years have gone by and this song is still rocking and causing tension to rise between lovers, would-be lovers and almost lovers. In this case, we'll say that although the musician is dead, his song still lives on. Yes, it is a classic piece, one that will definitely be enjoyed by people in different centuries and locations.

This beautiful song speaks a lot about true love, the beauty of true love and the beauty of commitment in true love. This is evidently seen in the part:

Take my hand, Take my whole life, too. For I can't help falling in love with you

Have you watched Crazy Rich Asians? Do you remember when the song was played at the wedding scene? Damn! It was so lovely and it also re-echoes that same feeling of love and igniting love, which I spoke about at the beginning.

I hope you enjoy this piece.

You can check the lyrics here

Here is the Excerpt from Crazy Rich Asians

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It seems like yesterday when we began the Afri-tunes Project, and today we have reached the 48th week. I remember when it was known as Afri-tunes Weekend Event under the lovely Music Community, where we got support and love from the wonderful admins, moderators and the musical family, and most importantly, a HOME.

However, after 5 weeks of our existence, we took a leap of faith and moved into our own community. We were unsure of how it'll be and how we'd support our members who create quality content. It was really a tough ride with lots of difficulties, but with the help of God we remained consistent whether during "rainy" or "dry" seasons.

In four weeks time, we'd be celebrating Week 52. What does that mean???

1 YEAR on the chain!!!

One year of consistency; one year of celebrating the African Tunes and music on Hive; one year of rewarding awesome African musical content on the chain; one year of spreading love and fun through our little way; one year of building our little family and friends, as well as establishing awesome relationships on the chain; one year of God's favour, guidance and direction on us.

Indeed, this is a great reason to thank God, and give him all the praise. Also, it is a great reason to thank all those who supported us from the onset till this moment, as well as those who have been with the community and have persevered with us as we struggled. I also thank all those who joined Afri-tunes Curation trail to support us in curating quality African musical content across Hive. Our lovely sponsors of our weekly event, and the wonderful Curators who support our content also.

I'm sure we all would love to celebrate the week in a great way. I also wish to.... and we love to hear your opinion or suggestions on what we can do to make the week remarkable for the community and for Hive.

Let's hear them in the comment section below... we will take note of every suggestion.

With a heart of appreciation and thanksgiving to God, I decided to present the Gospel song Nara by Tim Godfrey and Travis Greene.

I hope you enjoy this piece and vibe along with me.

LYRICS OF NARA

[Pre-chorus]

What shall I render to Jehovah?
For he has done so very much for me, eh
What shall I render to Jehovah?
For he has done so very much for me
Eh

[Chorus]
Nara nara e, Nara ekele
Nara ekele mo (Take, take, take thanksgiving) - (X3)

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🎵 Music Lovers of Hive Open Mic community! 🎙Hello my Hive Open Mic Family and Community. You are welcome to Hive Open Mic week One hundred and forty-seven. The Theme of this week is "A Grateful Heart", and this theme was chosen by Madam @hopestylist. She radiates gratefulness, so I'm not surprised that she chose that theme. Weldone ooo haunty Hope.

"A Grateful Heart", this sounds so simplistic and ordinary prima facie, but when you have a closer look at it you will discover the depth of its meaning.

You can choose to analyse and explain each components, and then synthesise to get a fuller understanding. Going by this, we'll have:

• Grateful or Gratitude:
• Heart; and
• Grateful Heart.

To be grateful or to show gratitude is one of the numerous synonyms for being thankful, albeit it is deeper. I see it as an act of appreciation that isn't baseless or shallow; one that is prompted by a prior act of unmerited love or sacrifice by the other person. In other words, you show gratitude when you have practically felt the love someone has showered upon you or the sacrifice he or she has made for your happiness. Sometimes, you ask yourself if you actually merited this; the answer isn't always in the affirmative... you know, right?

The heart! The heart! The heart! The crazily important human organ that pumps blood to almost every part of the body. It is so delicate yet important, and with this I can comprehend why it has been forcefully made the "love-king" (Yes, forcefully... did it ask for it?) Love itself, is so delicate yet important. At this point, it is as though I have missed my route (lol). But, you know what? Imagine if this organ pumps blood to all part of the body... don't you think if it has hatred, wickedness or anger in it, it will pump them to all parts of the body?

Hence, if the heart is filled with gratitude, won't it pump it to every part of your body? O yeah! Little wonder, whenever we have that genuine feeling of happiness, it radiates all over us, and others can feel this happiness from afar. In fact, we can br smiling like "mumu" (someone who is crazy) just because of such experience.

Okay, my smile actually makes me guilty (lol).

God has indeed shown me mercy, unmerited favour and blessings. Sometimes I ask myself, "Why always me?" "Why me?"

At the point of my utter hopelessness, he gives me hope; He gives me strength when I am weak; He makes way for me where there seem to be no way; He consoles me and lead me in a path of light; He has always been my guide and will always be; He raises me high when I am down and depressed; and he prepares *better jollof rice and chicken with coooooold Pepsi, when "SAPA" (poverty) wants to embrace me so tight.

He was, He is and will always be my God.

Don Moen's Thank You Lord, sits perfectly for this theme. I hope you enjoy this little piece.

See complete lyrics from Azlyrics.com

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🎵 Hello Music Lovers 🎙

Greetings everyone!

It's been a while I participated in this lovely event, and its my first time of sharing my music in the lovely community. The growth of this project is magnificent and I cannot but appreciate the wonderful Pilots of the community. They are truly professionals and they'll take us to our destinations in peace (hehehe).

I've not so much been present because I've been involved with multiple activities offline that gave me limited time for myself. However, I still try to keep up with various engagements and projects on the chain, in the different communities I'm in as well as the different Hive responsibilities.

Enough of the talkssss

As a weak musician as I am, I hardly listen to music. I should be stoned, right? Maybe you can forgive me once (and we'll renew the forgiveness everytime... lol). For this reason, I always find it difficult in making a choice when it comes to selecting music.

I don't know if this happens to you. As a musician, you will always have unlimited songs ringing in your head, but whenever you carry your instrument to rehearse or practice, you'll become dry like the Sahara Desert. Infact you won't even recall the easiest song on this planet earth. Does this happen to you, or is my case different?

Well, my case is different... I acknowledge!!!

However, this week was different, because I simply had to go down memory lane to figure out some songs I have always loved.

Bruno Mars has always been one of my favourite artists for a long time. I remember listening to his songs in my Nokia Xpressmusic (the Chinco made - fake model - low budget) around the year 2010.

I loved listening to Mirror on the Wall, the Lazy Song, and Just the way you are. But among the three, the one I loved the most was and is “Just the Way you are.”

Just the way you are is a sweet love song. For me, I believe there is a close similarity between this song and Perfect by Ed Sheeran: Although while Ed Sheeran’s Perfect speaks about how a man finds a perfect lady or perfect lover, Bruno Mars, in this song speaks about perfection in beauty. He praises his lover as one who is beautiful in every way and he loves her just the way she is; no need for artificial addition.

Honestly, in our world today, this has become an issue, such that we see people who aren’t pleased with whatever they have, instead they prefer to go for plastic surgery or to use artificial means for beautification. In as much as I wouldn’t want to judge or condemn anyone for any action they take, I think it is better that people learn to appreciate more of natural beauty than artificial.

I hope you enjoy this piece.

You can check the lyrics here

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🎵 Music Lovers of Hive Open Mic community! 🎙Hello my Hive Open Mic Family and Community. You are welcome to Hive Open Mic week One hundred and forty-six. The Theme of this week is "La Unión" which means "The Union" in English, and this theme was chosen by @elioe.

Hola mi familia y comunidad de Hive Open Mic. Sean bienvenidos a la semana ciento cuarenta y seis de Hive Open Mic. El Tema de esta semana es "La Unión" que significa "La Unión" en Inglés, y este tema fue elegido por @elioe.

The theme of "Union" or Unity brings to our mind the disunity that is apparent in our world today. It reminds us of that which should be, but is lacking in our world today.

Yes, we should be united, we should learn to value our unity and common values, as well as to appreciate our diversity and differences. But, this isn't the case, because many of us focus more on our differences and perform acts that set to divide us more. By doing this, we continue to widen the lacuna that set us apart and we don't give room for any reason to make us united.

El tema de la "Unión" o Unidad nos trae a la mente la desunión patente en nuestro mundo actual. Nos recuerda lo que debería ser, pero que falta en nuestro mundo actual.

Sí, deberíamos estar unidos, deberíamos aprender a valorar nuestra unidad y nuestros valores comunes, así como a apreciar nuestra diversidad y nuestras diferencias. Pero no es así, porque muchos de nosotros nos centramos más en nuestras diferencias y realizamos actos que pretenden dividirnos más. De este modo, seguimos ampliando la laguna que nos separa y no damos cabida a ninguna razón que nos una.

Michael Jackson's HEAL THE WORLD, is indeed a masterpiece that calls us to settle our differences and strive for unity. It calls us to our love, peace and harmony to reign. It encourages us to play our own part to make the world a better place, and if each and every one of us play our individual part, definitely, the world will be a better place For you and me.

I hope you enjoy this guitar presentation.

HEAL THE WORLD, de Michael Jackson, es sin duda una obra maestra que nos llama a zanjar nuestras diferencias y luchar por la unidad. Nos llama a que reine el amor, la paz y la armonía. Nos anima a poner de nuestra parte para hacer del mundo un lugar mejor, y si todos y cada uno de nosotros ponemos de nuestra parte individual, definitivamente, el mundo será un lugar mejor para ti y para mí.

Espero que disfruten de esta presentación de guitarra.

LYRICS OF HEAL THE WORLD

There's a place in your heart
And I know that it is love
And this place could be much brighter than tomorrow

And if you really try
You'll find there's no need to cry
In this place you'll feel there's no hurt or sorrow

There are ways to get there
If you care enough for the living
Make a little space
Make a better place

Heal the world
Make it a better place
For you and for me
And the entire human race
There are people dying
If you care enough for the living
Make a better place
For you and for me

See complete lyrics from Azlyrics.com

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Welcome to Afri-tunes Community weekly event; a community where we share, listen to and enjoy African music and tunes on Hive.

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In all honesty, it's been quite a long time since I shared a musical entry on Hive, and on Afri-tunes Community. This is owing to the fact that I haven't been close to any musical instrument for quite a while, and since I can't sing (hehe) it'll be difficult to make any musical entry.

Well, I'm here and I'm here to present a guitar cover of a Gospel song by the renowned musician Nathaniel Bassey titled Onise Iyanu for Afri-tunes week 46.

"Onise Iyanu" is a Yoruba word (obviously a compound word) that means "Miracle Worker." This song refers to God as a miracle worker, a wonder worker, one who works marvellous deeds and whose Power is beyond human imagination.

Truly, if I dare to recount His wonderful deeds in my life, I am always left in awe. There is so much to say, so much to thank him for and so much to be grateful for. As infinitesimal as the breath we breathe or the gift of a "brand new day", these are rare privilege.

Imagine if we had to pay for the air we breathe, just like those who struggle in the hospital, how many of us will still be alive? Look at your bank account and tell yourself the truth (lol). In fact, I'm sure if God were a man (especially an Igbo man like me, lol), He would have used it as a business strategy. If He were a Nigerian Politician, damn!!! Our eyes would have seen premium shege (suffering), 1000 × what we are experiencing now.

But, He is God; He isn't man. His deeds are wonderful and marvellous; miraculous and stupendous; excellent and powerful; terrific and amazing; fantabulous and fantastic; magnificent and delightful; glorious and wonderful (ooh, I've said wonderful before).

Let's cultivate the habit of being thankful and grateful to God for His faithfulness at all times.

LYRICS OF ONISE IYANU

Onise Iyanu (Miracle Worker)
You are God of Awesome Wonders
I’ve tasted of Your Power
Onise Iyanu (Miracle Worker)
You have shown me so much mercy
Much more than I deserve

My eyes have seen, my ears have heard
The wonders of your Grace
Creation bows in awe of You
And we join to give You praise

The Words You speak turns things around
Your outstretched arm has lifted me
You took away the chains and cords
The held me bound

Chorus

Iyanu (Iyanu)
Onise (Onise) x?

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Welcome to Afri-tunes Community weekly event; a community where we share, listen to and enjoy African music and tunes on Hive.

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For this week, week 43, I'll be presenting one of the suggested songs in the Community for the week. I will present the Gospel song by Nathaniel Bassey titled Imela.

"Imela" (or Daalu) is an Igbo word which means "Thank You" in English. We can also transcribe it literally as "You have done well".

"Imela" by Nathaniel Bassey is a song of thanksgiving or gratitude to God, appreciating Him for His goodness, mercy, grace and faithfulness.

Indeed, we've got so many reasons to thank God or to be grateful to God. The journey from January 1st 2022 to December 31st 2022 wasn't an easy one. It was one filled with ups and downs, success and failures, happiness and sorrow, satisfaction and disappointments, peace of mind and depression. Certainly, in all of these conflicting instances, God was there with us, seeing us through and guiding us along the right path.

This is a "brand" new year and although we aren't expecting a perfect year without these disappointments, we continue to pray for God's guidance and grace to forge ahead. We also pray that He guide our path.

For this piece, I used an instrumental of Imela downloaded from instrumentals.com.ng and I played the guitar over it. I played it through my Guitar effect since my laptop issue hasn't been resolved at the moment. I hope you enjoy this piece.

LYRICS OF IMELA

When I think upon Your goodness
And Your faithfulness each day
I'm convinced it's not because I am worthy
To receive the kind of love that You give
But I'm grateful for Your mercy
And I'm grateful for Your grace
And because of how You've poured out your Yourself
I have come to sing this song out in praise

Imela, Imela
Okaka, Onyekeruwa (Great and Might creator of the world)
Imela, Imela (Thank You! Thank You!)
Eze mo (My King)

See complete lyrics from azlyrics.com

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2022 is about to come to an end in less than 55 hours and all of us have our unique stories about this year. We have our peculiar experience of joy, happiness, success and happiest moments. On the other hand, we also experienced sadness, sorrow, anger, a certain level of depression and uncertainties based on different unforseen and forseen circumstances.

While some of these experiences have left an indelible mark on us, others have left us with certain experiences to help us make better decisions in the future. However, in all, it has given us a large room for improvement and progress.

A new chapter is about to begin in 2023. How well are we going to increase our effort in making better decisions for our future? Are we going to remain stagnant in such decisions that don't allow growth and progress?

Alright, before i forget, welcome to Afri-tunes Community weekly event; a community where we share, listen and enjoy African music and tunes on Hive.

Do well to subscribe and always check out for lovely African tunes in the Community.

For this week, I'll be presenting one of the suggested songs in the Community for the Week, Wonderful Wonder.

Wonderful Wonder is a Gospel song by Nathaniel Bassey, a Nigerian artist, which speaks about the marvelous and wonderful work of God in the wonders of creation.

Truly, when we begin to reflect on the phenomenal occurrences in the world and the beauty of creation we see the unity amidst the diversity and oneness amidst the multiplicity. Little wonder our world is called UNIVERSE.

To an extent, this points to the existence of an intelligent being beyond the finitenes and limitations of ordinary human beings.

My laptop is having some issues at the moment and I cannot make use of my recording software. Hence, I tried to be creative in this piece.

I used my guitar effect pedal and I created live loop record. Firstly, I played the main chords of the song. Then I added a bass line, after that I added a rhythm before I played the melody over it.

I did this in one video but because I had to change the voice/tone of the effect pedal for the different loops, the video took longer time. However, so that I don't bore you with the unnecessary wasting of time I just trimmed it to the moment I recorded the different loops and the final piece

I hope you enjoy this little piece.

LYRICS OF WONDERFUL WONDER

Summer
Winter
Autumn, spring
Mountains
Blue skies
And the seas
Rainbows
Sunshine
And the trees
Jesus, maker of them all

Everywhere I go
I see You right there
In the beauty of nature
You shine all around
For You are everything
And everything is You
Precious Jesus
A wonderful wonder You are

See complete lyrics from azlyrics.com

Special thanks to starstrings, obaro, ovey and every member of this great community.

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🎵 Hello Music Lovers of Hive Music community! 🎙

Seasons greetings to everyone in this lovely community. I wish you all a lovely Christmas celebration and a prosperous New Year (in advance).

I believe many of you enjoyed your Christmas celebrations. Well, if you didn't, I hope you attended Mass or service yesterday. If you did, then that celebration alone of this great feast is worthwhile. The external celebrations are just additions.

Still in the mood of the Christmas celebration, I am here to present a lovely Christmas piece titled, "Mary Did you Know?"

As always, the focus is not about Mary but about Jesus. The song brings out series of questions asking Mary if she knew that Jesus Christ, her son, will be a great King, a healer, a miracle worker, the Saviour of humankind, the one who calms the storms and wind, and many more. Thus, it speaks so much about Christ, his magnificent work on earth and his salvific mission.

In the first part of the song's lyrics as gotten from azlyrics we hear:

Mary did you know that your baby boy will some day walk on water?
Mary did you know that your baby boy will save our sons and daughters?
Did you know that your baby boy has come to make you new?
This child that you've delivered, will soon deliver you.

Thus, Christ's mission on earth was for the purpose of the salvation and deliverance of humanity. And that is what we celebrate on Christmas day, the coming of the great King for this mission.

I recorded this piece on 25th December and I wanted to post in on the same day but my Laptop has been acting up really bad. This delayed me for one day... that's why I said "it is Christmas day" in the video (hehehe).

I played the song with my guitar. I recorded two videos/layers: the first, I played the rhythm of the song and the second I played the melody of the song.

I love the cool and calm vibes the song brings out. It makes it so reflective and so loving. The Pentatonix group also made a cover which is in the YouTube link below, and as usual it was mind-blowing. Although they didn't do something really extraordinary from the original song, they only expounded the unique qualities the song had and built on it. Making it so beautiful and nice to listen to.

I hope you enjoy this piece
Lovely Greetings to you all
Merry X(Χριστός)mas once more!!!

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• Human being, created by God
• Birthday boy, Jesus.

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🎵 Music Lovers of Hive Open Mic community! 🎙Hello my Hive Open Mic Family and Community. You are welcome to Hive Open Mic week One hundred and forty-one. The Theme of this week is "Winter", and this theme was chosen by @purplesinger.

Hola mi familia y comunidad de Hive Open Mic. Bienvenidos a la semana ciento cuarenta y uno de Hive Open Mic. El tema de esta semana es "Invierno", y este tema fue elegido por @purplesinger.

Winter! Winter!! Winter!!!

Unfortunately, in Nigeria we don't experience Winter Season, we only see it on Television and in the movies. We see how the environment changes and everywhere becomes "snow-full." We see the snow flakes, snow ball, the compounds and roads covered with snow, the heavy winter jackets worn by people and how plants responds to this unique season.

Indeed, it only exists in movies and story tales for those in this part of the world who are not privileged to travel out of Nigeria yet.

However, we have our "low-budget" winter; we call it Harmattan Season (Dry season). For us, the wind from the Northern Hemisphere (Desert area) flows towards the southern region carrying lots of wind.

This period usually starts around November, but due to Climate change we now see it coming out late. Infact, I only felt it yesterday, (23rd December) so late. However, whenever we smell the harmattan we remember that Christmas is close-by.... hehe.

¡Invierno! ¡¡Invierno!! ¡¡¡Invierno!!!

Desafortunadamente, en Nigeria no experimentamos la Temporada de Invierno, sólo la vemos en la Televisión y en las películas. Vemos cómo cambia el entorno y todas partes se "llenan de nieve". Vemos los copos de nieve, la bola de nieve, los recintos y carreteras cubiertos de nieve, las pesadas chaquetas de invierno que lleva la gente y cómo las plantas responden a esta estación única.

De hecho, sólo existe en las películas y en los cuentos para los que en esta parte del mundo no han tenido el privilegio de viajar fuera.

Sin embargo, nosotros tenemos nuestro invierno "de bajo presupuesto"; lo llamamos Estación del Harmattan (estación seca). Para nosotros, el viento del hemisferio norte (zona desértica) fluye hacia la región meridional arrastrando mucho viento.

Este periodo suele comenzar hacia noviembre, pero debido al cambio climático ahora lo vemos aparecer más tarde. De hecho, yo lo sentí ayer (23 de diciembre), tan tarde. Sin embargo, siempre que olemos el harmattan recordamos que la Navidad está cerca-by.... jeje.

Talking about Christmas, in few minutes I'll be going to the Church for Christmas Vigil.

Ooooh!

Events like this prompts us to reflect on that great night when the mighty King was born in a lowly manger. The One who owns everything chose a manger to become his place of birth. A place where the horses and animals made their home. How mighty, yet humble in His choice. He is Divine, yet he assumed the human flesh in humility and obedience, and His Divinity was neither subsumed nor diminished.

The birth of He who came to bring lightness to this darkened world. His light dispels the darkness and the darkness cannot overpower it.

He was welcomed by animals in the stable, Shepherds, Magis - Wise men (who were also known as "Kings") and the Host of Angels sang at his birth. What birth in the history of humanity is more glorious, mysterious, yet humble like that of He who was born for the salvation of humanity and sanctification of God's people.

He brings hope to the hopeless;
Light to dispel the darkness;
And Salvation to the damned.

Hablando de Navidad, en pocos minutos iré a la Iglesia para la Vigilia de Navidad.

¡Ooooh!

Acontecimientos como éste nos incitan a reflexionar sobre esa gran noche en la que el poderoso Rey nació en un humilde pesebre. Aquel que es dueño de todo eligió un pesebre para convertirlo en su lugar de nacimiento. Un lugar donde los caballos y los animales tenían su hogar. Cuán poderoso, pero humilde en su elección. Él es Divino, y sin embargo asumió la carne humana en humildad y obediencia, aunque Su Divinidad no fue subsumida ni disminuida.

El nacimiento de Aquel que vino a traer luz a este mundo oscurecido. Su luz disipa las tinieblas y las tinieblas no pueden dominarla.

Fue recibido por animales en el establo, pastores alrededor, Magos (que también eran conocidos como "Reyes") y la hueste de ángeles cantó en su nacimiento. Qué nacimiento en la historia de la humanidad es más glorioso, misterioso y humilde como el de Aquel que nació para la salvación de la humanidad y la santificación del pueblo de Dios.

Él trae esperanza a los desesperados;
Luz para disipar las tinieblas;
y la salvación a los condenados.

Thus, I'd love to share this beautiful song OH HOLY NIGHT by Mariah Carey.

I played it with my electric guitar and Recorder.

I wish you all a Merry Christmas.

Don't forget!

Christ is the Reason for the Season!

So always remember CHRIST in your Christmas celebrations.

Por lo tanto, me encantaría compartir esta hermosa canción OH HOLY NIGHT de Mariah Carey.

La toqué con mi guitarra eléctrica y mi flauta dulce.

Les deseo a todos una Feliz Navidad.

¡No lo olviden!

¡Cristo es la Razón de la Temporada!

Así que recuerden siempre a CRISTO en sus celebraciones navideñas.

LYRICS OF OH HOLY NIGHT

VERSE 1

O holy night the stars are brightly shining
It is the night of our dear Saviour’s birth
Long lay the world in sin and error pining
Till He appeared and the soul felt its worth
A thrill of hope the weary world rejoices
For yonder breaks
A new and glorious morn

CHORUS

Fall on your knees
O hear the angel voices
O night divine
O night when Christ was born

See complete lyrics from hillsong.com

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Welcome to Afri-tunes Community.

This week is our Special Christmas Event on Hive and in the Community. By this event, we commemorate the Nativity of Christ whose birth was necessary for our redemption and salvation.

This week also doubles as Afri-tunes week 41. In other words, the Afri-tunes Project has been on Hive for 41 weeks (9 - 10 months) and we are not ready to retreat nor surrender. With the grace of God, participations from our loving Community members and support from the larger Hive Community we'll keep going higher and higher.

I had plans to present an Igbo Christmas song with a friend of mine. I wanted to play the Keyboard while he sings. But the plan didn't work out again and we weren't able to meet also. So I had to look into something else to present to our beautiful community. The time was too short for a learner like me to sing, so I decided to play my jinta (guitar).

I decided to choose a popular English Christmas song and I Africanized it... hehe, let me borrow the word from the great @magicfingerz. In other words, I recreated an African beat as an instrumental to vibe with the song.

The song, We Three Kings of Orient Are, speaks about the Wise Men from the East who brought gifts of Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh to present to Jesus when He was born, as recorded in Matthew 2:11.

It speaks about how they followed the bright shining star to behold the presence of the new born King; a King greater than all.

Remember that during this period there were no cars, no aeroplanes and no modern means of transportation. Aside the use of Legedise Benz (trekking with the Leg) the only available means of transportation was the use of Donkeys (which was obviously slow). Hence, you can imagine how long they spent for their journey.

The lyrics also speaks of the three wonderful gifts given to Jesus and how they relate to his life and ministry on Earth: Gold relates to his kingship - yes, he was born a King in the lowliest place (manger) yet his kingdom is eternal; Frankincense relates to his Priesthood - He is the High Priest in whom we share in His priesthood as a chosen race; and Myrrh signifies his death.

A very beautiful song with an amazing lyrics.

Well, for this event I'd add this African beat I recreated and I hope you vibe well to this...

LYRICS OF WE THREE KINGS

1 We three kings of Orient are;
bearing gifts we traverse afar,
field and fountain, moor and mountain,
following yonder star.

Refrain: O star of wonder, star of light,
star with royal beauty bright,
westward leading, still proceeding,
guide us to thy perfect light.

2 Born a King on Bethlehem's plain,
gold I bring to crown him again,
King forever, ceasing never,
over us all to reign. [Refrain]

3 Frankincense to offer have I;
incense owns a Deity nigh;
prayer and praising, voices raising,
worshiping God on high. [Refrain]

4 Myrrh is mine; its bitter perfume
breathes a life of gathering gloom;
sorrowing, sighing, bleeding, dying,
sealed in the stone-cold tomb. [Refrain]

5 Glorious now behold him arise;
King and God and sacrifice:
Alleluia, Alleluia,
sounds through the earth and skies. [Refrain]

Lyrics from hymnary.org

Special thanks to starstrings, obaro, ovey and every member of this great community.

I ❤ LOVE YOU ALL

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This is another week in our lovely Afri-tunes Community, a community that fosters and spreads love on Hive blockchain through our African Tunes and music. And this is week 39 of our musical event/contest in the Community.

Each time I reflect on the love, goodness, kindness and mercy of God in my life, I'm always filled with awe. Sometimes I ask myself, "Why always me?" "What have I done to deserve this?"

In my sinfulness and unfaithfulness, He remains always faithful and firm to His words and promises. Amidst the obvious trials and challenges I undergo, he never let's me waiver. Amidst the hurdles and barriers weighing me down, he gives me the strength to forge ahead and helps me to cross and surmount them. In the midst of hopelessness, uncertainties and confusion, he makes way where there seems to be no way. In my nothingness, He creates something out of my nothingness.

He gives me strength when I am weak. And He feeds me with Fried rice and turkey when I have only ijebu garri inside the kitchen. Yea, He also adds chilled Fruit Juice to step down the sumptuous meal.

For this week, I'll be playing the song TOO FAITHFUL by Moses Bliss. A lovely song that speaks about God's abundant faithfulness, just as I have already shared above. Indeed, disappointment is not in God's nature; it is alien to His nature.

I'll be playing this song with my electric guitar, and I hope you enjoy it.

LYRICS OF TOO FAITHFUL

(Excerpt of the Chrous)

You′re too faithful to fail me
You're too faithful to disappoint me
You′ve proven Yourself in my life
And I've come to realize
You're too faithful to fail me

See complete lyrics from azlyrics.com

Special thanks to starstrings, obaro, ovey and every member of this great community.

I ❤ LOVE YOU ALL

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Lovers of Good Music on Hive!
Lovers of African Music on Hive!
My Afri-tunes Community people!This is another week in our lovely Afri-tunes Community, a community that fosters and spreads love on Hive blockchain through our African Tunes and music. And this is week 38 of our musical event/contest in the Community.

For this week I'll be playing one of the suggested (optional) songs by the Community titled More than Gold by Judikay. Obviously, it is a Gospel song and not a love song as @ovey10 would think.

I should have recorded this piece on Tuesday, but while playing it, I went too emotional and almost shed tears. Well, it's not because I am soft or a cry baby like @merit.ahama would think.

Naaaa!

While playing the song, the words and message of the lyrics hit me so hard that it left me in awe, or what @balikis95 would call "Cloud 9 experience" (its only her that understand that kind of experience oooo, please ask her for more clarifications.)

Thus, I decided to post it today at the beginning of the new month, December 1st 2022. The last month of the year, as a special Thanksgiving song to God.

To thank God in a special way for GOD (thank God, God isn't a man). To thank God for my family members and my friends.

I also thank God for learning and knowing about Hive Community through @starstrings01. It has been a wonderful journey, meeting wonderful people, learning from great authors and getting to know more about different cultures. Hence, in a special way I thank my Grand Mentor @josediccus and the amazing @mipiano, for their loving and outstanding contributions towards my growth.

I thank God for this beautiful Afri-tunes community and all our Lovely viewers and supporters. This Community is where it is today because of all of your sacrifices and contributions. You all have been supportive from the time of our nothingness till this moment. We cannot stop thanking you all. We hope and pray for more progress in all ramifications.

I have also met wonderful friends on Hive and village people that keep on disturbing me. Well, you are free to think that I am talking about you @onos-f @omosefe @merit.ahama @hopestylist, although I didn't call your names.

Honestly, if I begin to list the names of all those I'd thank, I may have to write two posts on that, and that will change the focus of this piece. Hence, you all have my special thanks.

NB: Even if I list all the names, I wont thank @onos-f for anything. Please tell him to go and receive his thank you from his village people and dream magic school.

Finally, I've began countdown to when I'll cut all my forests... this face won't be bad again, right? @starstrings01, how is the family? This is December oooo!

LYRICS OF MORE THAN GOLD

(Excerpt of the part I love most)

For as the dear pants for water so
My soul longs for You
Forever and ever, yes
My heart beats for You
As the deer pants for water so
My soul longs for You
Forever and ever, yes
My heart beats for You

Something more than gold
I've got something more than gold
Something more than gold
I've got something more than gold
If all I've got is Jesus
I've got something more than gold
I'll tell it to the world
Jesus is more than gold

See complete lyrics from azlyrics.com

Special thanks to starstrings, obaro, ovey and every member of this great community.

I ❤ LOVE YOU ALL

HAPPY NEW MONTH

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🎵 Music Lovers of Hive Open Mic community! 🎙

Hello my Hive Open Mic Family and Community. You are welcome to Hive Open Mic week One hundred and thirty eight. The Theme of this week is "Magic", and this theme was chosen by @zullyscott.

Hola mi familia y comunidad de Hive Open Mic. Son bienvenidos a la semana ciento treinta y ocho de Hive Open Mic. El Tema de esta semana es "Magia", y este tema fue elegido por @zullyscott.

Reflecting on this beautiful theme of magic, so many thoughts wandered through my mind. One of such thoughts was centered on the idea of Magic and Magical Feelings.

As humans who have experienced one or many forms of love, you can agree with me that love truly conveys magical feelings: real and magical feelings indeed!

In some common cases, love can make you lose your sanity and behave like you're addicted. (hehehe, but that's not the focus here)

However, looking at the positive cases, love can plunge you into the "ocean" and make you swim in the "aqua" of happiness and joy. (You get that feeling, right?)

Love can act as a sedative that makes you feel joyful and happy in the midst of pain and agony, providing you solace and comfort.

Indeed, love is Magical and conveys magical feelings.

Reflexionando sobre este hermoso tema de la magia, muchos pensamientos pasaron por mi mente. Uno de esos pensamientos se centró en la idea de la magia y los sentimientos mágicos.

Como seres humanos que han experimentado una o muchas formas de amor, pueden estar de acuerdo conmigo en que el amor transmite verdaderamente sentimientos mágicos: ¡sentimientos reales y mágicos, en efecto!

En algunos casos comunes, el amor puede hacerte perder la cordura y comportarte como un adicto. (jejeje, pero ese no es el enfoque aquí)

Sin embargo, mirando los casos positivos, el amor puede sumergirte en el "océano" y hacerte nadar en el "agua" de la felicidad y la alegría. (Tienes esa sensación, ¿verdad?)

El amor puede actuar como un sedante que te hace sentir alegre y feliz en medio del dolor y la agonía, proporcionándote consuelo y confort.

En efecto, el amor es mágico y transmite sentimientos mágicos.

But, what magical feeling is greater than that which is found in the Love of Christ?

I think you know the answer!

None!

This question and thought inspired me to choose this beautiful song by Don Moen titled Take Me Deeper in Love.

This beautiful music speaks to me directly and tells me that only Christ can fill the emptiness and thirst that I feel.

I hope you enjoy this lovely piece with me, and derive this magical feeling from my presentation also.

Pero, ¿qué sentimiento mágico es más grato que el que se encuentra en el Amor de Cristo?

¡Creo que sabes la respuesta!

¡Ninguna!

Esta pregunta y pensamiento me inspiró a elegir esta hermosa canción de Don Moen titulada Take Me Deeper in Love.

Esta hermosa música me habla directamente y me dice que sólo Cristo puede llenar el vacío y la sed que siento.

Espero que disfruten conmigo de esta hermosa pieza, y que también obtengan este mágico sentimiento de mi presentación.

LYRICS OF TAKE ME DEEPER IN LOVE

There is a longing

Only You can fill

A raging tempest

Only You can still

My soul is thirsty Lord

To know You as I'm known

Drink from the river

That flows before Your throne

[Chorus]

Take me deeper

Deeper in love with You

Jesus hold me close in Your embrace

Take me deeper

Deeper than I've ever been before

I just want to love You more and more

How I long to be deeper in love

See complete lyrics from Azlyrics.com

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🎵 Hello Music Lovers of Hive Music community! 🎙

Greetings to everyone; my dear online audience and beloved online Judges.

Welcome to Hive Music Festival, Week 6 round 3.

This week has been a stressful one for me, as always, both online and offline. The environment has also made things worst based on the economic and ridiculous electricity issues. Worst still, over here in Lagos, the price of petrol (fuel) has increased over 25% and it is really scarce. You need to be on a queue for at least 4 hours before you can successfully purchase fuel for your car or Generator (for power). It is really difficult and sad.

I wonder why things get worst like this when we are closer to Christmas season. It seems like it has always been a conscious attempt so that the prices of transportation during Christmas season Doubles or Triples.

But, people will always travel to spend some time in their home towns/villages. So, no matter how high the prices go, people will manage.

Sometimes, these people (Govt and all concerned bodies) don't want us to celebrate Christmas in peace.

Well, I believe the Birthday boy (Jesus) will make it possible for us to give him a befitting celebration, inwardly and outwardly.

Hence, for this week, I'll be pushing us into the season of Christmas... hahaha

Today is November 26... 29 days from today is Christmaaaaaaas

I was shocked when I heard the sound of Christmas knock out last week. At first, I thought it was gunshot. But when I checked through my window, I saw that it was Christmas Fireworks. Wow!

People are ready ooo!

Are you ready?

I will be presenting the wonderful Christmas song, Silent Night.

Silent night is a beautiful piece that speaks about that beautiful night, that calm night and that wondrous night when Christ, the mighty King, was born in a lowly manger; in the arms of his beloved Mother.

While there are many beautiful Christmas songs that tell the tale of the infancy narrative of Jesus in a beautiful manner, this particular piece focuses on the calmness and brightness of that memorable night.

Christ is the light that dispels darkness; the light that shines forth and enlightens the heart and minds of those who believe in Him. In Christ we find hope, redemption, solace, calmness and joy.

As we look forward to the celebration of Christmas, we need to focus more on internal preparation of our hearts and mind, so that Christ will be born in the little mangers of our heart, and He will rule!

I hope you enjoy this piece.

I played the rhythm with my guitar and the melody with my Recorder.

Special thanks to @edwardstobia for birthing forth this initiative.

Finally, my views on 3speak has gotten to 2023......

I wish you all a wonderful 2023 in advance.... hahaha

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Lovers of Good Music on Hive!

Lovers of African Music on Hive!

My Afri-tunes Community people!

This is another week in our lovely Afri-tunes Community, a community that fosters and spreads love on Hive blockchain through our African Tunes and music. And this is week 37 of our musical event in the Community.

For this week I'll be playing one of the suggested (optional) songs by the Community titled Emiliana, by Ckay.

My first encounter with this song was in this Community, few months ago, when @chosenfingers played it as his entry for Afritunes week 5. Since then, I've been looking forward to the day I'll present this beautiful piece on Hive.

This beautiful love song speaks about a young man that love has confuse his head too much...lol.

He has the perfect characteristics of a lover boy; although his case is critical because it seems as though he is under Emiliana's spell.

No, you can't tell me he isn't under a spell!

Take a look at the lyrics in the lyrics section and you'd understand this analysis better:

• he has lost concentration in life because of Emilybaby,
• sleep isn't in his agenda again because of Emimi,
• he wants to kiss her through the phoneeeeeeee! Ahhhhhhh! What kind of play is this? Is this playing? Lol

You're messin' with my medulla, highkey, I don kolo, oh no, no

Yes, from the excerpt of the lyrics above you'll definitely agree that she is messing with your medulla, and obviously you have kolo (run mad)... lol.

Well, the truth is that love can make people act in a stupid way or behave in an illogical and crazy manner.

When you are performing such actions, you'd think that is the "best most reasonablest" course of action. You perform such actions because you are intoxicated by love, and love has carry "you go where you no know" (taken you to a realm you don't understand).

However, when you look back at certain actions you performed because of love, you'd ask yourself, "did I actually do these things." Was this me or was this my twin??

Like, I am sure ALL OF YOU READING THIS PIECE HAVE KISSED THROUGH THE PHONEEEEEEEE.... don't deny it... lol.

It's not bad though, but we should always draw the line between toxicity and love. So that it won't get to the level that you'd commit suicide due to Heartbreak. Yes, this happens, and such extreme love-opium can trigger it.

I wanted to dedicate this piece to my Emiliana, but since I am Emilianaless, I dedicate this piece to everyone looking for their own Emiliana....lol..

LYRICS OF EMILIANA

All because of you, I be on the phone, all night long, oh

No be small thing wey you do to me, oh no, no, no

I be on my business, shawty

But you be on my mind, shawty

Ebelebe oloma, my honey, ahh-ahh

Kiss me through the cellular, kiss me through the phone

Can't you see I'm into ya? Can't you see I'm in love?

Kiss me through the cellular, kiss me through the phone

You're messin' with my medulla, highkey, I don kolo, oh no, no

Emiliana, oh Emiliana, oh Emiliana, oh no

Emiliana, oh Emiliana, oh Emiliana, oh no

You're one in a million, oh, in a million, oh, in a million, oh no

My Emiliana, oh Emiliana, oh Emiliana, oh no

See complete lyrics from azlyrics.com

Special thanks to starstrings, obaro, ovey and every member of this great community.

I ❤ LOVE YOU ALL

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🎵 Hello Music Lovers of Hive Music community! 🎙

Greetings to everyone; my dear online audience and beloved online Judges.

Welcome to Hive Music Festival, Week 5 round 2.

Hive Music Festival is a musical event on Hive, in our noble Music Community. It is an event focused on celebrating great music and great musicians; to show our musical skills, share our musical expressions and pass across our wonderful messages with our music.

For this week, I'll be presenting a cover of one of my most cherished love songs by Christiana Perri titled Thousand Years.

The song, A Thousand Years, is a beautiful love song that speaks about timeless love.

Christiana Perri, in the voice of the protagonist, speaks about how long she waited to be with the one whom she truly loves. For her, time cannot be a hindrance to what they share. No matter the challenges, hindrance or difficulties they experience, they would surely fight it together.

Loving someone for a thousand years implies timeless or endless love. This love is neither ignorant of mistakes and challenges, but is open to them. It is a love that is open to growth, that appreciates correction and that is willing to love more.

Today, I'll be sharing this awesome piece with everyone here. Although I have presented it in one of the Musical Communities on Hive, I chose to do an exclusive cover for this musical event.

In the little piece I created, I played the rhythm of the song with my guitar, at the background. I played arpeggios and I strummed the guitar as well. Then I played the melody over the little rhythm I created.

I hope you enjoy this piece.

Happy weekend to you all. Keep smiling!

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🎵 Hola mi comunidad Pukumundo🎙

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Hello my Pukumundo Family this is Pukumundo La Voz Cantate week fourty-one.

Hola mi Familia Pukumundo esto es Pukumundo La Voz Cantate semana cuarenta y uno.

It's been a long time I came on the stage to present a song in the Pukumundo La Voz Cantate event. I've been much of a spectator or commenter on posts from amazing artist rather than an active presenter because of the multiple niches I've been involved with and activities (offline and online). But, today I decided to break the long break...hehehe

Today I'll be presenting a Gospel song by Adrienne Camp titled in Christ alone.

This song speaks so much about the role of Christ in our lives as Christians. Indeed, Christ is our hope, our light, our life, our Salvation and our Solid Rock. In him, we do not be afraid, neither do we lose hope.

In the midst of trials, tribulations, persecutions and agony, He is always there to comfort us and lead us through those trying moments.

He is always ready and willing to help us and to lead us through the stormy sea. However, we need to open ourselves and accept him willingly, so that he will pilot our lives as the great pilot that he is.

Hace mucho tiempo que subí al escenario para presentar una canción en el evento Pukumundo La Voz Cantate. He sido mucho más un espectador o comentarista de los posts de increíbles artistas que un presentador activo debido a los múltiples nichos en los que he estado involucrado y actividades (offline y online). Pero, hoy he decidido romper el largo descanso...jejeje

Hoy voy a presentar una canción gospel de Adrienne Camp titulada in Christ alone.

Esta canción habla mucho del papel de Cristo en nuestras vidas como cristianos. En efecto, Cristo es nuestra esperanza, nuestra luz, nuestra vida, nuestra salvación y nuestra roca sólida. En él, no tenemos miedo, ni perdemos la esperanza.

En medio de las pruebas, las tribulaciones, las persecuciones y la agonía, Él siempre está ahí para consolarnos y guiarnos en esos momentos de prueba.

Él siempre está listo y dispuesto a ayudarnos y a guiarnos a través del mar tormentoso. Sin embargo, tenemos que abrirnos y aceptarlo de buen grado, para que pilote nuestra vida como el gran piloto que es.

So, I will be playing the rock version of this song.

I used a rock beat preset from my Guitar effect. Although I didn't like this particular rock beat, it was the closest to what I had in mind, so I had to increase the tempo and used it that way.

Then I added some Modern Distortion in the sound of the guitar to create a rock feel.

I hope you enjoy my presentation

Por lo tanto, voy a tocar la versión de rock de esta canción.

Utilicé un preset de ritmo de rock de mi efecto de guitarra. Aunque no me gustaba este ritmo de rock en particular, era el que más se acercaba a lo que tenía en mente, así que tuve que aumentar el tempo y lo utilicé así.

Luego añadí algo de Distorsión Moderna en el sonido de la guitarra para crear una sensación de rock.

Espero que disfruten de mi presentación

LYRICS OF IN CHRIST ALONE

In Christ alone my hope is found,

He is my light, my strength, my song;

This Cornerstone, this solid Ground,

Firm through the fiercest drought and storm.

What heights of love, what depths of peace,

When fears are stilled, when strivings cease!

My Comforter, my All in All,

Here in the love of Christ I stand.

View complete lyrics of In Christ Alone from stuarttownend.co.uk

This is the original version of the song.

• Other images not referenced are mine, created via Canva

• Translation via Deepl Traductor

Let's Rock on 🤘

I AM KSAM

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🎵 Hello Music Lovers of Hive Music community! 🎙

Greetings to everyone; my dear online audience and beloved online Judges.

I apologise for missing a week of this wonderful event in our lovely Music Community.

The reason for my absence was as a result of the "Heartbreak" 💔 I got from my USB mini Sound Card.

I shared my experience (a mixture of pain and humour) in my Farewell Piece to this wonderful small-but-mighty device.

Saludos a todos; mi querido público en línea y mis queridos jueces en línea.

Me disculpo por haberme perdido una semana de este maravilloso evento en nuestra encantadora Comunidad Musical.

El motivo de mi ausencia fue a consecuencia del "Heartbreak" 💔 que me produjo mi mini tarjeta de sonido USB.

Compartí mi experiencia (una mezcla de dolor y humor) en mi Pieza de despedida a este maravilloso y pequeño pero poderoso aparato.

It got spoilt when I was preparing to record the video for Round 3... hehe, that's why I called it a Heartbreak.

However, I ordered a new one from an online store for $8 and I just received it yesterday.

So for this week, I'll be sharing the same song that caused the Heartbreak: Yea! Despacito was the culprit, just as @mipiano and @obaro rightly mentioned.

However, I was ready for it this time around, and I ensured that it didn't happen again.

Yea! I was successful.

Se estropeó cuando me preparaba para grabar el vídeo de la tercera ronda... jeje, por eso lo llamé "Heartbreak".

Sin embargo, pedí uno nuevo en una tienda online por 8 dólares y lo recibí ayer.

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Así que para esta semana, compartiré la misma canción que causó el Heartbreak: ¡Si! Despacito fue la culpable, como bien mencionaron @mipiano y @obaro.

Sin embargo, esta vez estaba preparado para ello y me aseguré de que no volviera a ocurrir.

¡Sí! Tuve éxito.

I can't remember why I first chose this piece for week 3, but for week 4, I chose it to prove that the Despacito song won't spoil my new USB mini Sound Card. Hahahaha

Aside that obvious authentic reason, I had it in mind for a while to play this song.

The intro line is UNIQUE, SWEET AND DISTINCT. Whenever you hear it from afar, you'll immediately recognize it. I guess the Guitarist who created that amazing line didn't know that the guitar line of the song will end up being more famous than the originator (a clear exampme of what guitarists go through).

I tried to replicate that guitar line with my amateurish fingers and techniques. It may not be perfect, but, at least, I gave it a shot.

I always try as much as possible to create my backing track with my guitar, no matter how awkward it sounds, at least it'll make my presentation an ORIGINAL COVER, not a Cover Cover.

In as much as this Original Cover may sound Amateurish in your ears, at least, let the smiles make you smile (winks)

And finally, how was my Spanish? (Winks)

No recuerdo por qué elegí primero esta pieza para la semana 3, pero para la semana 4, la elegí para demostrar que la canción Despacito no estropeará mi nueva mini tarjeta de sonido USB. Jajajaja

Aparte de esa obvia razón auténtica, hace tiempo que tenía en mente tocar esta canción.

La línea de introducción es ÚNICA, DULCE Y DISTINTA. Siempre que lo escuches de lejos, lo reconocerás inmediatamente. Supongo que el Guitarrista que creó esa increíble línea no sabía que la línea de guitarra de la canción acabaría siendo más famosa que el creador (un claro ejemplo de lo que pasan los guitarristas).

Intenté replicar esa línea de guitarra con mis dedos y técnicas de aficionado. Puede que no sea perfecta, pero, al menos, lo intenté.

Siempre intento, en la medida de lo posible, crear mi pista de acompañamiento con mi guitarra, no importa lo torpe que suene, al menos hará que mi presentación sea un COVER ORIGINAL, no un Cover Cover.

Por mucho que esta Portada Original pueda sonar mal en tus oídos, al menos, deja que las sonrisas te hagan sonreír (guiños).

Y por último, ¿qué tal mi español? (Guiños)

• My friend Deepl translated it for me
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• Image designed using Canva Mobile Application and Powerdirector
• Image shot using my Samsung Galaxy A12, not yours.
• Video recorded using my Samsung Galaxy A12... why didn't you help me?
• Video edited using Adobe Premiere Pro 2020 and Powerdirector Mobile App
• Location: On top my bed, Lagos, Nigeria, Africa, Earth, Milky Way Galaxy.... add yours!
• Human being, created by God

I AM KSAM

Ksam is a "uniquely creative" Hive lover who combines his musical, writing, linguistic, video and audio editing skills to promote creativity and ideas in the Hive Community.(should I include humour?)

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Hello 🕹 Gamers 🎮 and 'UnGamers'!

Welcome to my Gaming blog on Hive. Don't go away, walk with me and enjoy my fun Crypto-Shots Game Review

INTRODUCING CRYPTO-SHOTS

Games are for fun, enjoyment, interaction, and relaxation. You know, right?

And now that blockchain technology has been incorporated into the gaming industry, players have a wider range of opportunities to earn real money (in-game crypto) as well as to profit from and own their in-game assets.

In the realm of blockchain gaming, the First-Person Shooter (FPS) Action game genre is uncommon. However, only a few projects have recently embarked on the monumental challenge of developing first-person shooter games and giving fps game enthusiasts the same privilege as other blockchain players, namely, the ability to "play to earn" (P2E).

One of the rare 3D first-person shooter games, Crypto-shots, is built on the Hive (and WAX) blockchains. Players in the gameverse of Crypto-Shots do missions on several planets, eliminate drones to earn Dot Omega (DOOM), and their gaming equipment, such as weapons, ammo, and characters, are NFTs ("owned" assets which could be rented out or sold).

Crypto-Shots also aims at expanding the gameverse to include more exciting features.

CRYPTO-SHOTS' GAMEPLAY

To explore the gameverse and gameplay of Crypto-Shots and contribute their experiences with the community in order to improve the project, Crypto-Shots has invited the league of Hive Gamers.

In accordance with the contest's rules as they are laid out, I would like to give my review of the Crypto-Shots Game, starting with my gameplay experience and moving on to an analysis of the game.

MY GAMING EXPERIENCE

We were invited to play a free version of the Crypto-Shots game which has the following limitations:

• No potential to earn DOOM (or BOOM on WAX) from the game,
• No potential to own game assets,
• Only 3 minutes of game test,
• Cannot refill weapons with armoury.

Here are some key moments in my gameplay

Out of the three levels, I chose the Medium level to make my video. I had earlier played the Easy level, but it was too easy for me, and the Hard level was quite difficult for me since I didn't have a game pad close-by (as I would have preferred it).

This was my first kill in the game, and to make this kill, I aimed the target and "brought it closer in sight" with the right click in-built mouse button, and I shot with the left click.

Here, I laid ambush for the drones to make it easier to kill them without getting a single shot from them.

Oops! I ran out of bullets. My riffle was empty!!!!

Guess what I did next?

I ran for my dear life... hahaha

I remembered that a saw a weapon at one point in the game, so I ran to find the weapon. When I found it, I took hold of it.....

FEAR ME!!!! Ha ha ha ha Villian laughter

Again, I did the ambush thingy!

This weapon is a beast!

With one shot, the drones get blasted. It isn't surprising, because while the first riffle has 50 bullets, this new riffle has only 10 bullets.

This was my best shot in the game.

Bear in mind that those blue objects increases your health.

Some Important Info in the Game

The game control helps you understand the buttons you need to perform certain actions. Pardon me, the green section refused to give way for clear shot.

These are also important information to know. They will help you understand the gameplay better, and increase your playing experience.

CRYPTO-SHOTS' GAME ANALYSIS (MY VIEW)

Having shared my game experience, I believe you'd agree with me that it was quite fun. Yes, you must agree with me... hahaha

Well, for this analysis, I'd love to explore some key gaming themes in respect to Crypto-Shots game.

☆ STORY LINE According to what I have seen and read so far, the characters in the Crypto-shots game are in space, on many planets. They carry out missions on other planets and will have the chance to engage in combat with one another in different arenas.

Aside from the information provided above, I haven't read any character or background stories for Crypto-Shots. However, this contest offers a chance for people with a creative bent to develop fantastic lore.

☆ GRAPHICS/VISUALS The graphics and visual information in the game is a good one. The arena is, most probably, a space ship, and the information there depict such.

Although it may not count as the best in the fps gaming world, but it gives it a shot. Although, one notably weak point is the effect from riffle shots and shots from the drones.

☆ SOUND One of the great features that motivates Gamers in game is sound. The differnt sounds of the various riffles, bombs and how it hits the target create an "I GOT YOU" impression for Gamers. Likewise, the background music relating to the theme of the game, also adds an amazing effect.

While Crypto-Shots has a good sound effect, I feel a lot more can be done to make the Gamer's experience better.

☆ DIFFICULTY LEVELS There are 3 difficulty levels in the game:

• Easy: this category is the best for people like @hopestylist who know nothing or little about games and want to try it out... hahaha, Hope... you must learn it ooo
• Medium: Suitable category for people like me who play games but get killed faster in Hard levels... hahaha.
• Hard: For Veterans and OGs in the shooting gaming world. I salute you all

☆ PLAYABILITY Presently, the game is playable in browsers via https://play.crypto-shots.com/. You can use your phones or laptop to access the site.

However, I would recommend that you use your Laptop (PC) to play it since the control is suitable for it. You will find it difficult to play with your phones. But the good news is that it will soon be available for mobile use.

But, Wen soon?

After the 3rd level launch, the team will continue working on it.

☆ IN-GAME ASSETS This is an important feature for contemporary games. Prior to the integration of Blockchain, games like Call Of Duty offers in game services where you purchase in game assets (like weapons, skins and characters) with your credit card. However, these assets are useless outside the game and you do not own them (as your property) neither can you trade them.

However, for Crypto-Shots, the game assets are NFTs such that they are your property, they can be used in the game, "rented out for PASSIVE income" ~~I am not really sure about this~~ or sold out for MASSIVE income.

Image is a screenshot from Crypto-Shots Collection on Wax Market These are assets in the game, and they are Undoubtedly NFTs.

PROS AND CONS OF CRYPTO-SHOTS' GAME

POSITIVE SIDES OF CRYPTO-SHOTS

• Crypto-Shots is a fun game for lovers of FPS games.
• It is among the very few projects that has dared to integrate blockchain into First Person Shooter game genre.
• As a game that is built on the blockchain, it offers gamers the possibility to earn cryptocurrency and trade game assets as NFTs.
• The blockchain offers a service that would rid off third party in terms of keeping indelible records or taking transactions.
• As a game built on Hive, the Scalability and speed of Hive will enable quick transactions for Hive game players.

NEGATIVE SIDES OF CRYPTO-SHOTS & SUGGESTIONS

• The graphics and music could be improved on to a better standard
• Shock effect could be implemented so that gamers can have a first hand experience as though they were inside the game. I dont know if game pad users already experience this.
• The pvp (Player vs player) mode will be a better mode to dive into quickly.

CRYPTO-SHOTS IN COMPARISON WITH OTHER GAMES

• In the world of games, Crypto-shots belongs to the genre of First Person Shooter action games.
• In comparison with all games in the Fps genre, Crypto-shots stands high above games that aren't integrated into blockchain.
  • This is due to the fact that Blockchain grants endless possibilities to earn and own game assets, as I have already expressed.
  • However, in comparison with AAA games like COD and fortnight, Crypto-shots falls short in terms of its graphic and engagement qualities.
• In comparison with FPS P2E games on the blockchain, Crypto-shots stands tall, at par with some games and lower in graphics quality in comparison with some other games.
• On Hive Blockchain, Crypto-shots' closest Competitor or ally would be the PsyberX game by @psyberx. It is also an FPS P2E game, but with AAA quality. It has a good Storyline, Graphics and has the possibility to switch between first person and 3rd person dimensional view, amongst other qualities. The game play is already released and I believe both games will continue to grow, and grow the Hive blockchain also.

So far, so good. I hope my gameplay experience and analysis of Crypto-Shots enabled you to enjoy the game with me and discover all of its wonderful potential.

I would recommend this game to gamers, and I also suggest using your PC to improve your gaming experience.

On a scale of 1 to 10, I'll give it a 7.5 as well.

Yes, the game is highly intriguing and has room for improvement; a game that I'd enjoy playing repeatedly.

You can watch my gameplay in the above

This is my entry for the OCD & Crypto-Shots Contest organized by @ocd and @crypto-shots @cryptoshots.nft

• I played the game via my PC's Google Chrome Browser
• Screen video record via Bandicam Software
• Screenshot via the PC's snipping tool.
• .gifs were created from the video.

• Screenshot of Wax Marketplace from my mobile.

• Other designs created by me using Canva Mobile App

• Video edited Via Powerdirector Mobile App.

• Songs used in the video are not from the game, but from the video editor. However, the title and author names are shown.

I AM KSAM

ksam is a "uniquely creative" Hive lover who combines his musical, writing, linguistic, video and audio editing skills to promote creativity and ideas in the Hive Community. He is a "crytopreneur" and a game lover. You can follow him to view more tutorials and critical analysis of Splinterlands and PsyberX games.

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🎵 Music Lovers of Hive Open Mic community! 🎙

Hello my Hive Open Mic Family and Community. You are welcome to Hive Open Mic week One hundred and thirty four. The Theme of this week is "Perdón" which means "Forgiveness" in English, and this theme was chosen by @yetxuni

Hola mi familia y comunidad de Hive Open Mic. Son bienvenidos a la semana ciento treinta y cuatro de Hive Open Mic. El Tema de esta semana es "Perdón" que significa "Forgiveness" en inglés, y este tema fue elegido por @yetxuni

As imperfect creatures, humans are prone to shortcomings, failures and committing errors. We try our best and make consistent effort to be organized, disciplined and faithful to certain rules, yet sometimes we break these rules ~~because we aren't robot.~~

Likewise, as Christians, we have been given certain Commandments to follow to ensure we strengthen our relationships between ourselves and God, and our neighbours. In the Gospel according to Matthew 22:37-40, Christ summarises these Commandment into two:

• Love God; and
• Love Your Neighbour (Family, Friends and everyone)

Two simple but DIFFICULT commandments!

Como seres imperfectos que somos, los humanos somos propensos a tener carencias, a fallar y a cometer errores. Nos esforzamos al máximo y nos esforzamos constantemente por ser organizados, disciplinados y fieles a ciertas reglas, pero a veces rompemos estas reglas ~~porque no somos robots.~~

Del mismo modo, como cristianos, se nos han dado ciertos Mandamientos que debemos seguir para asegurarnos de fortalecer nuestras relaciones con Dios y con el prójimo. En el Evangelio según Mateo 22:37-40, Cristo resume estos Mandamientos en dos:

• Ama a Dios; y
• Ama a tu prójimo (Familia, amigos y todos)

¡Dos mandamientos simples pero DIFÍCILES!

It is much easier for us to wallow in Sin and wrongdoings, than for us to be consistent in loving God and praying (not just praying because we want something from God, but to draw ourselves closer to Him). True, right?

In the same way, it is easier for us to care less of others or plan the downfall of others than to wish them well and make positive impact on others (including people we know and don't know).

We enjoy doing things that offend God and our neighbours, and these actions tend to cut away our relationship with them. It is paramount that we ask for pardon and forgiveness at all times, and make consistent effort not to fall back to same errors.

Es mucho más fácil para nosotros revolcarnos en el Pecado y en las malas acciones, que ser consecuentes en amar a Dios y orar (no sólo orar porque queremos algo de Dios, sino para acercarnos a Él). Es cierto, ¿verdad?

De la misma manera, es más fácil que nos preocupemos menos por los demás o que planifiquemos la perdición de los otros que desearles lo mejor y hacer un impacto positivo en los demás (incluyendo a las personas que conocemos y a las que no conocemos).

Nos gusta hacer cosas que ofenden a Dios y al prójimo, y estas acciones tienden a cortar nuestra relación con ellos. Es primordial que pidamos perdón en todo momento, y que nos esforcemos constantemente por no volver a caer en los mismos errores.

I thought I'd miss this week because of a small and important part of my guitar recording device that got spoilt. I shared this experience in this farewell piece I wrote few days ago. However, I remembered that I could play other instruments also.. hahaha... sometimes I forget.

So, I ceased the opportunity to record this piece with my Recorder. Don't mind my weak playing, I am only a learner.

Esta semana pensé en faltar por una pequeña e importante parte de mi dispositivo de grabación de guitarra que se estropeó. Esta experiencia la compartí en esta pieza de despedida que escribí hace unos días. Sin embargo, recordé que también podía tocar otros instrumentos... jajaja... a veces se me olvida.

Así que dejé la oportunidad de grabar esta pieza con mi flauta dulce. No te preocupes por mi débil juego, sólo soy un aprendiz.

LYRICS OF PASS ME NOT, O GENTLE SAVIOUR

VERSE 1

Pass me not, O gentle Saviour;

Hear my humble cry.

While on others Thou art calling,

Do not pass me by.

CHORUS

Saviour, Saviour, hear my humble cry;

And while on others Thou art calling,

Do not pass me by.

VERSE 2

Let me at thy throne of mercy

find a sweet relief;

Kneeling there in deep contrition,

help my unbelief.

Lyrics gotten from CATHOLIC HYMN BOOK APP

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• Other images created by me using Canva and from my Samsung Galaxy A12 Camera
• Translation via Deepl Traductor

I AM KSAM

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🎵 Music Lovers of Hive Open Mic community! 🎙

Hello my Hive Open Mic Family and Community. You are welcome to Hive Open Mic week One hundred and thirty three. The Theme of this week is "Opportunity", and this theme was chosen by the big madam herself @sekani. She doesn't have a duplicate; she is the original one, second to none.

Please somebody should help me and ask @sekani when she will teach me how to sing, because I've been asking her and she dinno wantu tell me. Haunty Sekani is not fair ooooo!!!

Hola mi familia y comunidad de Hive Open Mic. Son bienvenidos a la semana ciento treinta y tres de Hive Open Mic. El tema de esta semana es "Oportunidad", y este tema fue elegido por la gran señora en persona @sekani. Ella no tiene un duplicado; ella es la original, la segunda de todas.

Por favor, que alguien me ayude y le pregunte a @sekani cuándo me va a enseñar a cantar, porque le he estado preguntando y ella no me lo quiere decir. ¡Haunty Sekani no es justa ooooo!

I had a hard time choosing a song that fits into the theme of Opportunity. In fact, it almost caused me severe headache because it took me back to the classroom atmosphere, one which I'm not yet ready to go back into for now. @sekani na you do this one ooo!

However, one of my superpowers is the ability to think "outside the box, inside the box, within the box, above the box, without the box and like the box" exactly what I am talking about.

So, in the course of utilising this awesome superpower you wish you had, I just thought about something NOT IMPOSSIBLE, and I asked myself:

like play like play now, if you just win 1 billion dollars, wetin you go do with the money?

In English:

If I had the opportunity to win 1 billion dollars, what will I do with the money?

Me costó mucho elegir una canción relacionada con el tema de la Oportunidad. De hecho, casi me causó un fuerte dolor de cabeza porque me devolvió al ambiente de las aulas, al que todavía no estoy dispuesto a volver por ahora.

Sin embargo, uno de mis superpoderes es la capacidad de pensar "fuera de la caja, dentro de la caja, por encima de la caja, sin la caja y como la caja " exactamente de lo que estoy hablando.

Así que, en el transcurso de la utilización de este impresionante superpoder que desearías tener, acabo de pensar en algo NO IMPOSIBLE, y me he preguntado:

Si tuviera la oportunidad de ganar mil millones de dólares, ¿qué haría con el dinero?

Immediately, I remembered how Merit.Ahama was already acting like a Whale when she was spending her one million dollars in her mind. You can check it out for yourself here, you know, I don't lie on Sundays 😁

(please nobody should report me to her ooo...lol) Well, I won't give a breakdown of how I will utilise the money, before somebody will quote me in the future just like I did to Merit.

However, I'll be sure to utilize it well, invest in awesome projects on Hive and off-Hive, HELP MORE PEOPLE and become a Whale on Hive.

And I'll also ask my surest DJ to play me Rich and Famous by the Nigerian Artist Praiz, as well as the awesome song Billionaire by Travie McCoy ft. Bruno Mars.

Inmediatamente, recordé cómo Merit.Ahama se comportaba ya como una ballena al gastar su millón de dólares en su mente. Puedes comprobarlo por ti mismo aquí, ya sabes, no miento los domingos 😁

(por favor que nadie me denuncie a ella ooo...lol) Bueno, no voy a dar un desglose de cómo voy a utilizar el dinero, antes de que alguien me cite en el futuro igual que hice con Merit.

Sin embargo, me aseguraré de utilizarlo bien, invertir en proyectos impresionantes en Hive y fuera de Hive, AYUDAR A MÁS PERSONAS y convertirme en una Ballena en Hive.

Y también pediré a mi DJ más seguro que me ponga Rich and Famous del artista nigeriano Praiz, así como la impresionante canción Billionaire de Travie McCoy ft. Bruno Mars.

LYRICS OF BILLIONAIRE

I wanna be a billionaire so fucking bad

Buy all of the things I never had

Uh, I wanna be on the cover of Forbes magazine

Smiling next to Oprah and the Queen

Oh every time I close my eyes

I see my name in shining lights, yeah

A different city every night, oh I

I swear the world better prepare

For when I'm a billionaire

See complete lyrics at Azlyrics.com

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• Other images created by me using Canva and from my Samsung Galaxy A12 Camera
• Translation via Deepl Traductor

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🎵 Hello Music Lovers of Hive Music community! 🎙

Greetings to everyone; my dear online audience and beloved online Judges.

My name is still Kalu Samuel (ksam), it hasn't changed for now. When it changes I'll duly inform everyone about the update.

Welcome to Music Community on Hive and to our amazing event, Hive Music Festival (HMF). I hope you are aware that this is Hive Music Festival round 2, Week 2? If you aren't, now you are.

Last week, I presented a guitar cover of Perfect by Ed Sheeran. I had it in mind that in my next presentation I would sing instead of just playing guitar, and shame those people who think I am not a great singer. Yes!

And guess what?

For this week, I didn't sing again what did you expect? That I should sing so that @obaro will keep reminding me how terrible my voice sounds

For this week, I still focused on the theme of love, and I stayed with my number 1 Love/Romantic artist, Ed Sheeran.

THINKING OUT LOUD I consider Thinking Out Loud as a Masterpiece from Ed Sheeran to Lovers. Eeeem, by Lovers I mean those in serious relationship (couples), not the secondary school boyfren-and-girlfren relationship.

This lovely piece reminds lovers to renew that love they share; to always remember the begining or birth of this love, how it grew and was nurtured till this moment. It also projects a futuristic scenario and ask that they remain true to themselves and renew that love they've once shared.

Thus, I dedicate this piece to all the married couples in this community and all around Hive. Relationship isn't all rosy; at some point you'd think of calling it a quit, and at a point you'd wonder why you began the process. Surely, you'll experience misunderstanding and a little bit of argument or quarreling please don't make it abusive!. However, these bad experiences should not define or overshadow the good romantic experiences, except if it becomes toxic and life threatening.

Keep on renewing that beautiful love you share; at 70, you can still "fool" around with your love as though you were Teenagers, still ignorant about "love."

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• Images shot using my Samsung Galaxy A12
• Video recorded using my Samsung Galaxy A12
• Video edited using Adobe Premiere Pro 2020 and Powerdirector Mobile App
• Audio mixed using FL studio
• Human being, created by God

I AM KSAM

Ksam is a "uniquely creative" Hive lover who combines his musical, writing, linguistic, video and audio editing skills to promote creativity and ideas in the Hive Community.

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Lovers of Good Music on Hive!

Lovers of African Music on Hive!

My Afri-tunes Community people!

This is another week in our lovely Afri-tunes Community, a community that fosters and spreads love on Hive blockchain through our African Tunes and music. And this is week 33 of our musical event in the Community,

Taking a cue from the Masterpiece himself @vheekthorjay, I decided to go to the secular way to bring something special. And following the song suggestion, Ayra Starr's Rush was my sure bet.

Ayra Starr is a fast rising Nigerian female musician from Mavin record label. The CEO of Marvin's record label, Don Jazzy, has nurtured and trained a lot of superstars in Nigeria muisic industry: I remember D'banj, Wande Coal, Tiwa Savage and Koredo Bello, among others.

Don Jazzy still continues to do this by picking young talents and giving them an avenue to showcase their talents and grow.

Ayra Starr is one of the lucky talented musicians under his record label, and she has released hit tracks like Bloody Samaritan, which is in her album titled 19 & Dangerous.

19? Wait a second, don't tell me she is around 19 - 20 years? Or is that her "football age?"

Wow!

Honestly, yesterday was the first day I listened to this song from the beginning to the end, since I intended to make a cover. Other times, my musical laziness always become active and pushes me to listen half-way.

However, doing this, I got to understand the song better; it's musical structure and lyrics.

On the one hand, it's musical structure is quite simple, just three chords in a progression from the beginning of the song till the end. Its melody is also a good one, and the instrumentation sits well: what do you expect from a Pro Producer like Don Jazzy.

In the lyrics, Ayra Starr, in a way, speaks of her experience amidst the jealousy and hatred she experiences from people because of her fame. She acknowledges that God is the source and reason for her progress.

I hope you enjoy my guitar cover of this song.

LYRICS OF RUSH

Sabi girls no dey too like talk

Animals dey in human form

Padi man, nobody like work

But you must hustle of you wan chop

E no finish dem wan fight us

If them dey run dem no fit catch up

I no dey form say I too righteous

No come dey form say you too like us

Me no get time for the hate and the bad energy

Got my mind on my money

Make you dance like Poco Lee

Steady green like broccoli

Steady on my grind no wan hear what they wan telly me

Kudi na my fantasy

Dem wan dey check if my tap e no rush

But e dey rush

E dey rush well well

E be much

Na God dey make my tap, e dey rush

The kind money we touch

But e dey rush

E dey rush well well

E be much

No be hype, everybody dey crush

There's no dulling with us (There's no dulling with us)

See complete lyrics from azlyrics.com

Special thanks to starstrings01 obaro and every supporters of this great community. KSAM loves you all.

I ❤ LOVE YOU ALL

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I AM KSAM

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PROCRASTINATION AND I, 5 & 6

If I should apply for a position in the department of Procrastination, I believe I will be an eligible and qualified candidate; in fact, I may be made the Head of Procrastination Department.

Or do I have a worthy opponent?

Speak now! Or forever hold your peace!

Naaaa! I don’t think I do.

On Thursday, 26th May 2022 (5 months ago), I attended a Cultural Event organized by the Youth of my past school’s Chaplaincy. It was an event specially set up to celebrate the different cultural groups that make up our small group.

I know what's in your mind, just say it! Dont be shy!

I dont care about his face, since my face is fine, that suffices.

We had the following cultural groups fully or “halfly” (partially) represented:

• The Yorubas of the South Western part of Nigeria
• The Igbos of the South Eastern part of Nigeria
• The Hausa/Fulani of the Northern part of Nigeria
• The South-South Group of Nigeria (Edo, Delta)
• The Middle-Belt region of Nigeria
• A smaller cultural group from East Africa.

Alright, let’s slow down a bit.

On the day we had this event, I was fired up and I couldn’t wait for the event to end in order to share my experience with this lovely family.

My plan was to edit the different videos I made, and publish a beautiful post with lovely pictures about my experience. I planned on doing this the next day...

...the Next day should be 27th May, but today is 18th October.

Well, it seems I just woke up to reality today.

Oh sorry, another procrastination spotted.

I began writing this post on the 18th of October, and now today is 24th October.

Honestly, I remain the undisputed procrastination champion.

🏆

I sincerely appreciate @mipiano for sharing her wonderful experience of the Workshop which turned to mini-carnival. Her experience truly woke me up from my DEEP slumber, and it reminded me to keep my promise.

Making this post at this time is somehow difficult for me because some images and videos I collected are no where to be found on my mobile phone, so I will try to recreate a lite version of what I intended to do.

☆ CULTURE = ~~WAY OF LIFE~~ FOOD

Truly, Culture is a way of Life. It involves the beliefs, world view, ideals, thought pattern, music, dance, food, clothing, trade and language of a given society.

Naaaaa! That definition is faulty!

Culture involves the Food, Food, Food, Food and Food, with a teaspoon of Music and a pinch of Dance.

Prove me wrong!

You thought you'd see a picture of me and Food, right? Hehehehe, DJ @obaro play me "You never See me Coming" by Asake

In the technical definition of Culture, as I CORRECTLY expressed, Culture is 90% Food, 6% Music, 2% Dance and other things share the 1%.

In as much as I'd love to speak about the major component of Culture (Food), this post will be dedicated to the minor components Music and Dance, also not devoid of food.

☆ THE CULTURAL FIESTA

As I said earlier, the event was a small one, organized for our small group to celebrate the different cultural groups.

We began the celebration with the Holy Mass, spicing the liturgy with music from the different cultural groups. At the end, all groups had their special thanksgiving.

After the Mass, everyone went out, as usual, to gist (amebo) and prepare for the Reception (especially the part for eating)

While we were outside misbehaving and looking for trouble, the first set of noise makers came on board.

The Ogené Group.

Have you heard of Ogené before?

The Ogené music is a traditional musical genre of the Igbos (South Eastern part of Nigeria).

This Musical style is performed with the use of certain traditional instruments like Ogené, Oja (local flute), Udu, Ekwe, Ichaka and Igba, among others.

If you want to see their pictures you can check this out.

However, some of these instruments can be seen in the .gif below.

So, the Ogené singers sing nonsense most times... coughs that's not what I mean.

The major concern of the Ogené music is the beat and dance, and most times it is performed without songs. And other times, the songs are just for gyration.

That's why @cammy-cardo was just jumping up and down in the .gif, and for your information, my head isn't big.

Just like I said earlier, I lost so many pictures, so I don't have the pictures I took with Rihanna, Jay-Z, Snoop Dog and many other International celebrities who attended the event. You need to believe me when I say I took pictures with them.

If not because I don't have the pictures on my phone again, I won't need to beg you all to believe me.

When we got into the reception hall, we had lots of programs. But, the first cultural group to present was the South South Group. @onos-f @merit.ahama and @hopestylist, your village people oooooo.

One important thing you need to know about this music is that if you don't eat well, you won't be able to dance it well.

It requires 💯 ENERGY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is the part that I will advice my mentors @starstrings01 and @josediccus to really pay close attention to.

It is important

Okay, I have nothing more to say!

Well, some people said the noise of this Yoruba group was too much. But me, what do I know? My own is to eat all the food provided by all the cultural groups.

This was the highlight of their presentation.

Disclaimer: This group was called or rented to perform at the event.

If you care to watch the small video mix I did, I tried to cut the remaining videos I had small small so that I don't have to publish a 1 hour video.

Also, we ran some background commentaries at some point, so bear with us... hahaha.

If you are still wondering what my title mean:

Culture (Music + Dance) = Fun!!!

It is simple

Cultural Music and Dance is FUN!

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• All Designs created and edited with Canva Mobile App and Powerdirector
• All images and videos are not yours! They are mine, including the one I begged someone with IPhone 12 to snap me with... coughs.. still mine.

I AM KSAM

I may not be your favourite author, but you can journey with me to help me develop my writing skills. I am always open to criticism, correction and learning 🥰.

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🎵 Hello Music Lovers of Hive Music community! 🎙

Greetings to everyone; my dear audience and beloved Judges.

Permit me to sit down on stage as it would be easier for me to play my strapless electric guitar.

My name is Kalu Samuel (ksam) and I am from the South Eastern part of Nigeria, precisely, Abia State.

I heard about the Hive Musical Festival on Twitter, from a Tweet by the awesome moderator @eugelys. Later, on the same day, my good friend @obaro also mentioned it to me. So, I decided to participate in this Musical show that aims at uniting all Musicians on Hive and providing us with a great platform to express ourselves and our thoughts through Music.

This is the first week and first round of the Musical Festival and for this occasion, I will be presenting one of my most cherished songs from Ed Sheeran. This is not just my most cherished song, but it is the PERFECT song, little wonder Ed Sheeran names it Perfect.

Perfect, by Ed Sheeran, is obviously a perfect song, well, perfect for lovers and not single people like me.

It is a song that eulogizes the perfect lover, according to the artist. He calls her his girl and praises her beauty and sweetness. He calls her his woman and praises her strength and aspiration. He calls her his lover who shares his secret, his home and will share his potential children.

He also speaks of how this love was birthed from childhood and has grown to become something extraordinary.

This is a song that carries along romantic waves, emotions and vibes when you listen to it. Indeed, the Musical structure is neither complex nor too simple, but it is PERFECT!

In presenting this wonderful piece, I will try to replicate all these.

But wait....

if you don't get the romantic vibes from a single person like me, at least manage the smiles...**

NB: I recorded the background music earlier, but since this is a "stage" presentation, there was no need to include other videos in the main video in order to replicate a live shoot.

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• Images shot using my Samsung Galaxy A12
• Video recorded using my Samsung Galaxy A12
• Video edited using Adobe Premiere Pro 2020 and Powerdirector Mobile App
• Audio mixed using FL studio

I AM KSAM

Ksam is a "uniquely creative" Hive lover who combines his musical, writing, linguistic, video and audio editing skills to promote creativity and ideas in the Hive Community.

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🎵 Music Lovers of Hive Open Mic community! 🎙

Hello my Hive Open Mic Family and Community. You are welcome to Hive Open Mic week One hundred and thirty two. The Theme of this week is "Woman Life Freedom", and this theme was chosen by @discouragedones.

Hola mi familia y comunidad de Hive Open Mic. Son bienvenidos a la semana ciento treinta y dos de Hive Open Mic. El tema de esta semana es "Libertad de la vida de la mujer", y este tema fue elegido por @discouragedones.

For a long time in the history of human civilization, women were treated a little above slaves, and they were regarded as objects for sexual gratification as well as "human production machine."

This was witnessed in the ancient Greco-Roman world alongside many other Patriarchal societies where women neither had any say nor were regarded as citizens of the society.

Fast forward to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, there was a rapid increase in the quest for balance and the push to dismantle all partraichal privileges. Here, the rise in Feminism gave way for this balance, although some feminist push for an extreme agenda. But that one na their business!

Okay, this is me trying to reflect a little on what I studied during my first degree days, PHILOSOPHY. But sorry oooo! I don't like school, so let's not go back to the class setting please... (hahahaha)

Durante mucho tiempo en la historia de la civilización humana, las mujeres fueron tratadas un poco por encima de los esclavos, y fueron consideradas como objetos para la gratificación sexual, así como "máquina de producción humana".

Esto se vio en el antiguo mundo grecorromano junto con muchas otras sociedades patriarcales en las que las mujeres no tenían voz ni eran consideradas ciudadanas de la sociedad.

Si avanzamos hasta los siglos XX y XXI, la búsqueda del equilibrio y el impulso para desmantelar todos los privilegios del partraichal aumentaron rápidamente. Aquí, el auge del feminismo dio paso a este equilibrio, aunque algunas feministas presionan por una agenda extrema.

Ok, este soy yo tratando de reflexionar un poco sobre lo que estudié durante mis días de primer grado, FILOSOFÍA. ¡Pero lo siento oooo! No me gusta la escuela, así que no volvamos a las clases por favor... (jajajaja)

The theme of this week is one that has great meaning and impact in our world today.

It requires that we reflect on the concepts of Woman, Life and Freedom. Obviously, we need to be "womancentric" in our approach of the theme (PS: I just formed the English word, womancentric - woman centered).

Taking a cue from my earlier reflection, it is evident that "women don see shege for this life" (women have gone through a lot), yet many societies still downplay their importance.

In many societies today, a girl child (upcoming WOMAN) has no say about her LIFE. At birth, she has already been betrothed to a man of 35. When she completes her 10 years, the man may come to collect his "PROPERTY."

Yes, I used the word "property" because he regards her as his property. Property in the sense that he can do with "it" whatever he wills. ~~It~~ sorry, she has no FREEDOM of her own.

Hence, we see that even in our present day, some societies still deny women right to OWNERSHIP of their LIFE and FREEDOM.

We know that this shouldn't be the case, but we know that it will be difficult to achieve the desired result of having a perfect society where such menace do not occur. However, since a perfect society can only exist as utopia, let's always try our best the little way we can to help those around us. Little by little it will reduce.

Thus, I decided to present the song "No Woman no Cry" by Bob Marley, which is a call for strength and confidence to our girls, ladies, women, mothers, grandmothers and all. I hope you enjoy this cover.

El tema de esta semana tiene un gran significado e impacto en nuestro mundo actual.

Requiere que reflexionemos sobre los conceptos de Mujer, Vida y Libertad. Obviamente, tenemos que ser "mujer-céntricos" en nuestro enfoque del tema

Tomando como referencia mi reflexión anterior, es evidente que "las mujeres no ven shege por esta vida " (las mujeres han pasado por mucho), y sin embargo muchas sociedades siguen restando importancia.

En muchas sociedades actuales, una niña (próxima a ser mujer) no tiene nada que decir sobre su VIDA. Al nacer, ya ha sido prometida a un hombre de 35 años. Cuando cumple sus 10 años, el hombre puede venir a recoger su "PROPIEDAD".

Sí, he utilizado la palabra "propiedad" porque él la considera su propiedad. Propiedad en el sentido de que puede hacer con "ella" lo que quiera. ~~Lo siento, ella no tiene libertad propia.

De ahí que veamos que, incluso en nuestros días, algunas sociedades siguen negando a las mujeres el derecho a la PROPIEDAD de su VIDA y a la LIBERTAD.

Sabemos que esto no debería ser así, pero sabemos que será difícil conseguir el resultado deseado de tener una sociedad perfecta en la que no se produzcan estas amenazas. Sin embargo, dado que una sociedad perfecta sólo puede existir como utopía, intentemos siempre dar lo mejor de nosotros mismos en la medida en que podamos ayudar a los que nos rodean. Poco a poco se irá reduciendo.

Por ello, he decidido presentar la canción "No Woman no Cry" de Bob Marley, que es una llamada a la fuerza y a la confianza de nuestras niñas, señoras, mujeres, madres, abuelas y demás. Espero que disfruten de esta versión.

LYRICS OF NO WOMAN NO CRY

No, woman, no cry.

No, woman, no cry.

No, woman, no cry.

No, woman, no cry.

Cause—'cause—'cause I remember when a we used to sit

In a government yard in Trenchtown,

Ob—observing the hypocrites.

Yeah!

Mingle with the good people we meet.

Yeah!

See complete lyrics at Azlyrics.com

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• Other images created by me using Canva and from my Samsung Galaxy A12 Camera
• Translation via Deepl Traductor

I AM KSAM

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Lovers of Good Music on Hive!

Lovers of African Music on Hive!

My Afri-tunes Community people!

This is another week in our lovely Afri-tunes Community, a community that fosters and spreads love on Hive blockchain through our African Tunes and music.

This is week 32 of our musical event in the Community, and this week marks the beginning of our Afri-tunes Musical Contest where the best musical entry, the second best entry and the best Engager wins Hive, Leo and Ecency points. This will be a weekly contest and we have prizes to be won every week, so don't miss out!!!

You can see the details here

As a weak musician who barely listens to songs, I always have issues with regard to choosing songs to present in the Community. So I am really grateful to all those who suggested this new input of song suggestions in Afri-tunes Community because I will be one the major beneficiaries. However, you know this is optional, it is only for people like me who are going through same challenge.

Moral lesson: DON'T BE LIKE ME!!!

Between the gospel song (Imela by Nathaniel Bassey) and secular song (Common Person by Burna Boy), I decided to present the Gospel song IMELA!

"Imela" is an Igbo word that means "thank you."

This song is a song of thanksgiving to God for His greatness, mercy, love, kindness and provision. Indeed, He is our heavenly Father who is transcendent, yet is immanent; He is with us.

The past few days has been somehow for me, I don't know the right adjective to describe it. It has been a mixture of different feelings which I don't know how best to place them or the reason for their emergence. But I believe I'll overcome them, and in every situation it is wonderful to give thanks and priase to God. That's why I feel this song is apt and personal to me at this moment.

It is an expression of my profound gratitude to God amidst mu current situation.

So I dediced to present a guitar cover of this song, and as usual I played the chords, played the melody over the chords and added some lines to represent the choir part, especially for the chorus.

I hope you enjoy this piece and smile along with me.

LYRICS OF IMELA BY NATHANIEL BASSEY (WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION)

Chorus

Imela, Imela (Thank You! Thank You!)

Okaka, Onyekeruwa (Great and Might creator of the world)

Imela, Imela, (Thank You! Thank You!)

Eze m Oh (My King)

See complete lyrics from africangospellyrics.com

You can also see complete lyrics in the video below with Spanish and French Translation.

Special thanks to starstrings01 obaro and every supporters of this great community. KSAM loves you all.

I ❤ LOVE YOU ALL

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🎵 Music Lovers of Hive Open Mic community! 🎙

Hello my Hive Open Mic Family and Community. You are welcome to Hive Open Mic week One hundred and thirty one. The Theme of this week is "Orgullo Patrio", and it means "National Pride," or "Homeland Pride" in English. This theme was chosen by @lasembradora.

Hola mi familia y comunidad de Hive Open Mic. Son bienvenidos a la semana ciento treinta y uno de Hive Open Mic. El Tema de esta semana es "Orgullo Patrio", y significa "National Pride", u "Homeland Pride" en inglés. Este tema fue elegido por @lasembradora.

As a form of introduction, I think I am a Nigerian. Well, I am not so sure, but that's what my parents told me, so I have to believe and Obey them... (yunno, its a commandment from the Big Man in heaven)

Please ignore the paragraph above, its not my writing.

Como forma de presentación, creo que soy nigeriano. Bueno, no estoy tan seguro, pero eso es lo que me dijeron mis padres, así que tengo que creerles y obedecerles (yunno, es un mandamiento del Gran Hombre en el cielo)

Por favor, ignora el párrafo de arriba, no es mi letra.

NIGERIA! NIGERIA!! NIGERIA!!! I have watched so many wonderful presentations from my fellow Nigerians on the chain, and indeed I am impressed.

I am impressed not because @sapphirekay was dressed in her costume, nor because 3 different (Jaydrs) @jaydr presented one song in one video, nor because @obaro found his namesake on Hive. "hELO" Obaro how is the family?

Naaaa!

It's none of those!

I am impressed because many Nigerians still have hope that Nigeria will be great once more, and many still enkindle the flame in others.

For those I tagged, sorry oooooo, I just wanted to find small trouble ihyeee

¡NIGERIA! ¡¡NIGERIA!! NIGERIA!!! He visto tantas presentaciones maravillosas de mis compatriotas nigerianos en la cadena, y efectivamente estoy impresionado.

Estoy impresionado no porque @sapphirekay se haya disfrazado, ni porque 3 diferentes (Jaydrs) @jaydr hayan presentado una canción en un solo video, ni porque @obaro haya encontrado su tocayo en Hive. "hELO" Obaro ¿cómo está la familia?

Naaaaa

¡No es ninguno de esos!

Estoy impresionado porque muchos nigerianos siguen teniendo la esperanza de que Nigeria vuelva a ser grande, y muchos siguen encendiendo la llama en otros.

Para los que he etiquetado, lo siento oooooo, sólo quería encontrar pequeños problemas ihyeee

Surprisingly, two years ago we saw the demonstration from the Nigerian Youths; they protested against Police Brutality.

Yes, it was surprising because no one expected that the "Lazy Nigerian Youths" will come out enmasse to demand for good governance and an end to Police Brutality; #EndSars.

We saw once more that the flame was enkindled, and that many Nigerians are now willing to move away from their comfort zones to demand for good governance from the Buharistic Government.

The Highpoint of this movement, the #EndSars movement, was on 20th of October 2020 (20/10/2020). Some of the Youths lost their lives in their quest for a Better Nation; demanding for good governance.

I remember staying glued to the Live Streamed Video by DJ Switch who was present at the night of the Lekki Massacre. These Youths were shot at while holding and waving the Nigerian flag, at the same time singing the National Anthem.

I witnessed the horrific and crude method they used to save the life of one of the Youths that was shot at, but he didn't survive. Yet, at the end, the Government still denied that a massacre happened.

Sorprendentemente, hace dos años vimos la manifestación de los jóvenes nigerianos; protestaron contra la brutalidad policial.

*Sí, fue sorprendente porque nadie esperaba que los "jóvenes nigerianos perezosos" salieran en masa a exigir un buen gobierno y el fin de la brutalidad policial; #EndSars.

Vimos una vez más que la llama se encendió, y que muchos nigerianos están ahora dispuestos a salir de sus zonas de confort para exigir una buena gobernanza al Gobierno buhonero.

El punto álgido de este movimiento, el movimiento #EndSars, fue el 20 de octubre de 2020 (20/10/2020). Algunos jóvenes perdieron la vida en su búsqueda de una nación mejor, exigiendo un buen gobierno.

Recuerdo haber estado pegado al vídeo transmitido en directo por DJ Switch, que estaba presente en la noche de la Masacre de Lekki, en la que se disparó a estos jóvenes mientras sostenían y ondeaban la bandera nigeriana, al tiempo que cantaban el himno nacional.

Fui testigo del horrible y burdo método que utilizaron para salvar la vida de uno de los jóvenes a los que dispararon, pero no sobrevivió. Sin embargo, al final, el Gobierno seguía negando que se hubiera producido una masacre.

This post isn't meant to expose the ills of the Nigerian government neither is it dedicated to describing the horrific scene, if it were I would have tagged it as NSFW, and probably won't be able to post in the Hive Open Mic Community.

But, this post is dedicated to those falling heroes who lost their lives in the fight for good governance, especially those who died on 20th October 2020 (20/10/2020). Few days from now will be their 2nd Memorial, and I think dedicating this piece to them is apt.

That’s why there's a blood stain on the flags

We hope their death won't be in vain, as we still struggle to Take Back Naija from the hands of the greedy and selflish rulers.

Este post no pretende exponer los males del gobierno nigeriano ni se dedica a describir la horrible escena, si lo fuera lo habría etiquetado como NSFW, y probablemente no podré publicar en la Comunidad de micrófono abierto de Hive.

Pero, este post está dedicado a los héroes caídos que perdieron la vida en la lucha por el buen gobierno, especialmente a los que murieron el 20 de octubre de 2020 (20/10/2020). Dentro de unos días se celebrará su segundo memorial, y creo que dedicarles este artículo es adecuado.

Por eso hay una mancha de sangre en las banderas

Esperamos que su muerte no sea en vano, ya que seguimos luchando por Recuperar Naija de las manos de los codiciosos y desinteresados gobernantes.

LYRICS OF NIGERIA'S NATIONAL ANTHEM

Arise, O compatriots, Nigeria's call obey

To serve our fatherland

With love and strength and faith

The labour of our heroes past

Shall never be in vain

To serve with heart and might

One nation bound in freedom, peace and unity.

Levantaos, compatriotas, obedeced la llamada de Nigeria

Para servir a nuestra patria

Con amor, fuerza y fe

El trabajo de nuestros héroes del pasado

Nunca será en vano

Para servir con el corazón y la fuerza

Una nación unida en libertad, paz y unidad.

Words of the National Anthem culled from Nigeriahc.org

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• Other images created by me using Canva and from my Samsung Galaxy A12 Camera
• Translation via Deepl Traductor

I AM KSAM

ksam is a "uniquely creative" Hive lover who combines his musical, writing, linguistic, video and audio editing skills to promote creativity and ideas in the Hive Community.

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Lovers of Good Music on Hive!

Lovers of African Music on Hive!

My Afri-tunes Community people!

This is another week in our lovely Afri-tunes Community, a community that fosters and spreads love on Hive blockchain through our African Tunes and music.

This is week 31 of our musical event in the Community.

Ironically, I set off to present a song titled "Smile for Me", but I ended up being sad and angry.

You wanna know why?

Have you been in a situation where after recording about 20 times you were able to get 5 different somewhat "perfect" layers of videos. But, when it was time for you to synchronise the audio, electricity immediately goes off. Not just that, your laptop which normally works with battery (not necessarily with Electricity), immediately develops romantic love and special affection for Electricity, and goes off with it (So technology also fall in love?)

In other words, you've gotten the perfect audio-video, but before you saved the work, your Laptop went off. And when you switched it on, everything was cleared!

Like, EMPTY!!!

TABULA RASA - A CLEAN SLATE!

It wasn't a funny experience at all. In fact, I didn't want to continue again because I knew how difficult it was for me to get a somewhat perfect video in the 5 different layers.

However, I picked up my remaining courage, switched on the Generator and continued with the recording. This was why I struggled to smile, unlike the first set of recording where the smiles came out uncontrollably and freely (hahahaha).

For this week, I chose the Afro-beat song "Smile for Me" by Simi, a Nigerian musician.

For me, this song appears to be a song from a heart that loves his/her partner so much that he/she can do anything for the partner. The heart seeks validation, mutual and reciprocated love, so much that it offers to be the world and to do anything for the other. Infact, the heart offers to die for the other.

Does this kind of love still exist?

I wonder!

Well, let me leave the Lovers to keep on loving, and let single people like me focus on my guitar and play.

I hope you enjoy this piece

LYRICS OF SMILE FOR ME BY SIMI

Chorus

I, I, I want to be

The one wey you fit die for

I, I, I want to be

The one who makes you do the things you thought you'd never do

Let me be the one for you

I, I want to be, your weakness baby

See complete lyrics from azlyrics.com

Special thanks to starstrings01 obaro and every supporters of this great community. KSAM loves you all.

I ❤ LOVE YOU ALL

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• Video recorded via my Samsung Galaxy A12
• Adobe Premiere Pro and Powerdirector Mobile Application were used for the video editing

I AM KSAM

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🎵 Music Lovers of Hive Open Mic community! 🎙

Hello my Hive Open Mic Family and Community. You are welcome to Hive Open Mic week One hundred and thirty. The Theme of this week is "Creativity and Freestyle." This theme was chosen by my brother, very good friend and former course mate, @onos-f.

He is a Great musician who can play Flute, Recorder, Guitar, Violin and keyboard in one song... and he can play at least 15 Musical Instruments (not jokes oooo).

Little wonder he chose the theme Creativity and Freestyle. Although the past week was so tight for him, I believe if he was free he would have amazed us with his rare creativity. But he was creative enough to drop his entry amidst his tight schedules.

My boy @onos-f, it remains one year and you'll be like your elder brother, meeeeeee (hahaha... be a good student oooo)

Hola mi familia y comunidad de Hive Open Mic. Son bienvenidos a la semana ciento treinta de Hive Open Mic. El Tema de esta semana es "Creatividad y Estilo Libre". Este tema fue elegido por mi hermano, muy buen amigo y antiguo compañero de curso, @onos-f.

Es un gran músico que puede tocar la flauta, la flauta dulce, la guitarra, el violín y el teclado en una sola canción... y puede tocar al menos 15 instrumentos musicales (no es una broma oooo).

No es de extrañar que haya elegido el tema Creatividad y Estilo Libre. Aunque la semana pasada fue muy apretada para él, creo que si hubiera estado libre nos habría sorprendido con su rara creatividad. Pero fue lo suficientemente creativo como para dejar su entrada en medio de sus apretadas agendas.

Mi niño @onos-f, falta un año y serás como tu hermano mayor, yoeeeeee (jajaja... sé un buen estudiante oooo)

I've been thinking about what I'll play or do to bring out my creativity. As a really poor musician who don't listen to music, I had no song on my playlist, neither do I have any in mind to present. I am songless!

@hopestylist and I were in the same situation but since she is a better musician, it was easier for her to overcome this hurdle as she could easily search for songs from her multiple playlist.

Since it was quite late to do any joint piece or collaboration, we decided to present the same song, but we'll try to CREATIVE AND UNIQUE in our individual Presentations.

Okay, so this is my own little way of being a little bit Creative and Unique.

He estado pensando en qué voy a tocar o hacer para sacar mi creatividad. Como soy un músico muy pobre que no escucha música, no tenía ninguna canción en mi lista de reproducción, ni tampoco tengo ninguna en mente para presentar. No tengo ninguna canción.

@hopestylist y yo estábamos en la misma situación, pero como ella es mejor músico, le resultó más fácil superar este obstáculo, ya que pudo buscar fácilmente canciones de su múltiple lista de reproducción.

Como era bastante tarde para hacer cualquier pieza conjunta o colaboración, decidimos presentar la misma canción, pero intentaremos ser CREATIVOS Y UNICOS en nuestras presentaciones individuales.

Vale, esta es mi pequeña forma de ser un poco Creativo y Único.

The song she suggested was "Anyone" by Justin Bieber. It was my first time of listening to the song and I "fell in love" with its melody instantly. She suggested the song barely 10 hours ago, but I was busy at that time. I began practicing (first time) the song 7 hours ago.

While practicing, some crazy thoughts came to my mind, and that was what resulted to what I did in this video... don't laugh at me too much... its all for the creativity... hahahaha

SPECIAL THANKS to NEPA (Power Holding Company of Nigeria) for keeping the Electricity till I was done with the editing of the video.... they are the real MVP.

I hope you try to enjoy this piece and don't laugh at me too much!

La canción que me sugirió fue "Anyone" de Justin Bieber. Era la primera vez que escuchaba la canción y me "enamoré" de su melodía al instante. Ella sugirió la canción hace apenas 10 horas, pero yo estaba ocupado en ese momento. Empecé a practicar (por primera vez) la canción hace 7 horas.

Mientras practicaba, algunos pensamientos locos vinieron a mi mente, y eso fue lo que resultó en lo que hice en este video... no se rían mucho de mí... es todo por la creatividad... jajaja

AGRADECIMIENTOS ESPECIALES a NEPA (Power Holding Company of Nigeria) por mantener la electricidad hasta que terminé con la edición del video.... ellos son el verdadero MVP.

Espero que disfruten de esta pieza y no se rían demasiado de mí.

LYRICS OF ANYONE

Dance with me under the diamonds

See me like breath in the cold

Sleep with me here in the silence

Come kiss me, silver and gold

You say that I won't lose you, but you can't predict the future

So just hold on like you will never let go

Yeah, if you ever move on without me

I need to make sure you know that

You are the only one I'll ever love (I gotta tell ya, gotta tell ya)

Yeah, you, if it's not you, it's not anyone (I gotta tell ya, gotta tell ya)

Lookin' back on my life, you're the only good I've ever done (Ever done)

Yeah, you, if it's not you, it's not anyone (Anyone), not anyone

Access complete lyrics at azlyrics.com

• Hive Open Mic Week 130 Banner, a property of Hive Open Mic Community.
• Other images created by me using Canva and from my Samsung Galaxy A12 Camera
• Translation via Deepl Traductor

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ksam is a "uniquely creative" Hive lover who combines his musical, writing, linguistic, video and audio editing skills to promote creativity and ideas in the Hive Community.

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Lovers of Good Music on Hive!

Lovers of African Music on Hive!

My Afri-tunes Community people!

This is another week in our lovely Afri-tunes Community, a community that fosters and spreads love on Hive blockchain through our African Tunes and music.

This is week 30 of our musical event in the Community.

Among the litany of things I love about Hive, one of them relates to the fact that I get to listen to and learn new songs. Can you imagine that I rarely listen to music except if I want to present or play somewhere?

You know, I am a quack musician, right? (Your answer should be NO, don't agree with me!)

Two weeks ago and some days ago @sholex94 and @marybello presented a song on Afri-tunes. It wasn't a collaboration though, but at different intervals. Who knows, maybe you two can Collabo (winks).

Listening to the song, I felt deeply in love with it (coughs) Love at first ~~sight~~ hear (infatuation loading).

Well, I loved many things about it, from its melody to the meaning of the words of the lyrics.

The song is titled, "DADDY WEY DEY PAMPER" by a Nigerian Gospel artist called Moses Bliss. Okay, for those who don't know, the title of the song is written in Pidgin English. In Normal English it would be something like: "A Father who shows excess Love."

Well, I'm not a "pidgin translator" expert, I believe other great translators will do justice to the translation in the comment section.

The song speaks about the excess love God showers upon us amidst our sin, amidst our weaknesses, failures and shortcomings. He still blessds us; He still shows us mercy. Truly, this Daddy sabi Pamper well well ooo.

Alright, so much for the talk-talk, I hope you enjoy my guitar cover, because YES! This Daddy don too Pamper me well well.

Special thanks to starstrings01 obaro and every supporters of this great community. KSAM loves you all.

I ❤ LOVE YOU ALL

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• Other images designed via Canva and Powerdirector Mobile Application
• Video recorded via my Samsung Galaxy A12
• Adobe Premiere Pro and Powerdirector Mobile Application were used for the video editing

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🎵 Hello Music Lovers of Hive Music community! 🎙

The Lord's Prayer, which is the "Our Father..." can be seen as both a Prayer itself and a structure or a guide to pray. Remember, according to the Gospel account of Luke, the disciples asked Jesus, "Lord, teach us to pray" (cf. Lk 11:1).

As a prayer, it is one of the sweetest prayers in the bible, and it was handed over by Jesus himself. And as a guide to pray, it contains all the necessary elements which our prayers should have.

• Our Father in Heaven, Hallowed be thy name, Your Kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as in Heaven. - Prayer of Praise (extolling the greatness of God) and adoration.
• Give us this day our daily bread - Prayer of Petition or intercession (asking God for your need)
• And forgive us our tresspasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us - Prayer of Contrition or Repentance.
• And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from Evil. - Also Petition (but asking for God's guidance and protection)

From Matthew 6:9-13.

El Padrenuestro, que es el "Padre Nuestro...", puede considerarse tanto una oración en sí misma como una estructura o guía para orar. Recordemos que, según el relato evangélico de Lucas, los discípulos pidieron a Jesús: "Señor, enséñanos a orar" (cf. Lc 11,1).

Como oración, es una de las más dulces de la Biblia, y fue entregada por el propio Jesús. Y como guía para orar, contiene todos los elementos necesarios que deben tener nuestras oraciones.

• Padre nuestro que estás en los cielos, santificado sea tu nombre, venga tu reino, hágase tu voluntad en la tierra como en el cielo. - Oración de alabanza (exaltando la grandeza de Dios) y adoración.
• Danos hoy nuestro pan de cada día - Oración de Petición o intercesión (pidiendo a Dios por tu necesidad)
• Y perdona nuestras ofensas, como nosotros perdonamos a los que nos ofenden - Oración de Contrición o Arrepentimiento.
• Y no nos dejes caer en la tentación, sino líbranos del Mal. - También Petición (pero pidiendo la guía y protección de Dios)

De Mateo 6:9-13.

Many great musicians and composers have composed lovely tunes to add melody to this beautiful Prayer and prayer guide. One of the tunes I love the most is the composition of Don Moen. I love its simplicity and calm nature. And that's why I have chosen it to share with us today.

Oh, by the way, I wanted to record and share this on Monday, but electricity only came in in the evening. So I had to record both layers, and edit them as well and now it is 1:00am on Tuesday.

But, all the same, I hope you enjoy this piece.

Muchos grandes músicos y compositores han compuesto hermosas melodías para añadir a esta hermosa Oración y guía de oración. Una de las melodías que más me gusta es la composición de Don Moen. Me encanta su sencillez y su naturaleza tranquila. Y por eso la he elegido para compartirla con nosotros hoy.

Por cierto, quería grabar y compartir esto el lunes, pero la electricidad sólo llegó por la noche. Así que tuve que grabar las dos capas, y editarlas también y ahora es la 1 de la madrugada del martes.

Pero, de todos modos, espero que disfruten de esta pieza.

• Translated via Deepl Traductor
• Image designed using Canva Mobile Application and Powerdirector
• Images shot using my Samsung Galaxy A12
• Video recorded using my Samsung Galaxy A12
• Video edited using Adobe Premiere Pro 2020 and Powerdirector Mobile App
• Audio mixed using FL studio

I AM KSAM

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🎵 Music Lovers of Hive Open Mic community! 🎙

Hello my Hive Open Mic Family and Community. You are welcome to Hive Open Mic week One hundred and twenty-nine. The Theme of this week is "Trust", chosen by @ruthlopez

Hola mi familia y comunidad de Hive Open Mic. Son bienvenidos a la semana ciento veintinueve de Hive Open Mic. El tema de esta semana es "Confianza", elegido por @ruthlopez

In our world today, there is a rapid decline in the number of people who still regard Trust as sacrosanct. This is because many people have abused the trust people have for them because of their selfishness, wicked heart, search for fame at the expense of the other or for social media clout.

Such that, nowadays, people find it hard to Trust others, to open up and share their plight to others, because who knows, your story might come up next as the trending news in social media.

This has been happening for quite a while, but with social media and the search for fame, it has increased so much. Many people disguise with the claim of confidentiality, while in reality they'll make your words an open secret.

This shouldn't be the case.

I know there is no way to remedy this and it seems like the decline will be so bad that family will not trust each other, and this will increase the rate of individualism in the world today.

In as much as it will be difficult to remedy this, I encouraged everyone of us to be different. Make a difference; don't be like others, instead stand out.

Be trustworthy and let others feel that genuine trust. This can really put smiles in the faces of people, you know right?

Well, for this week, I'll be sharing a Christian song titled Trust and Obey. It's a song that encourages us to trust in the Lord and Obey him. He will continue to abide with us and bless us abundantly.

I hope you enjoy this solo piece with my Recorder.

En nuestro mundo actual, está disminuyendo rápidamente el número de personas que siguen considerando la confianza como algo sacrosanto. Esto se debe a que muchas personas han abusado de la confianza que la gente tiene en ellos debido a su egoísmo, a su corazón perverso, a la búsqueda de la fama a expensas del otro o a su influencia en las redes sociales.

De tal manera que, hoy en día, a la gente le cuesta confiar en los demás, abrirse y compartir su situación con los demás, porque quién sabe, tu historia podría ser la siguiente en ser noticia en las redes sociales.

Esto lleva ocurriendo desde hace tiempo, pero con las redes sociales y la búsqueda de la fama, ha aumentado mucho. Muchas personas disimulan con la pretensión de confidencialidad, mientras que en realidad harán de tus palabras un secreto a voces.

Esto no debería ser así.

Sé que no hay manera de remediarlo y parece que el declive será tan grave que la familia no confiará en los demás, y esto aumentará el índice de individualismo en el mundo actual.

Por mucho que sea difícil remediarlo, animo a todos a ser diferentes. Marcar la diferencia; no ser como los demás, sino destacar.

Sean dignos de confianza y dejen que los demás sientan esa confianza genuina. Esto realmente puede poner sonrisas en las caras de la gente, ¿lo sabías?

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Bueno, para esta semana, voy a compartir una canción cristiana titulada Trust and Obey. Es una canción que nos anima a confiar en el Señor y Obedecerlo. Él seguirá permaneciendo con nosotros y nos bendecirá abundantemente.

Espero que disfruten de esta pieza en solitario con mi flauta dulce.

LYRICS OF TRUST AND OBEY

Verse 1

When we walk with the Lord in the light of His Word

What a glory He sheds on our way!

While we do His good will, He abides with us still

And with all who will trust and obey

Chorus

Trust and obey, for there's no other way

To be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.

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• Other images created by me using Canva and from my Samsung Galaxy A12 Camera
• Translation via Deepl Traductor

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The Video above contains a practical guide and explanation on how to effectively place your buy and sell orders for tokens in Hive Engine.

Outline for Ease of Access

• How to Use the Hive Engine (Using Leo as an example)
  • Journey to the Hive Engine Market
  • Understanding Market Terminologies
  • How to Place Buy Order
  • How to Place Sell Order
• Conclusion

☆ HOW TO USE HIVE ENGINE

In the above tutorial, I discussed the second layer tokens on Hive, their location in your Hive Wallet, how to convert from Hive to second layer tokens, and how to sell off your second layer tokens for Hive.

In the tutorial I mentioned that there are various methods for carrying out the transaction (Hive-engine, beeswap and leodex), but the tutorial focused on the beeswap method.

But, in this tutorial, we shall discuss the method using Hive Engine to buy or sell tokens. This method involves placing your buy or sell orders.

NB:

1. Ensure to use the beeswap method to Convert from Hive to Swap.Hive and from Swap.Hive to Hive.
2. With the Hive-engine method, unlike the beeswap method, you will not get the transaction done immediately but the transaction will be done when the order is filled. This can happen within minutes or months.

☆ JOURNEY TO THE HIVE-ENGINE MARKET (Using Leo as an example)

Before we can either place a buy or sell order, we need to go to the Market area on the Hive-Engine.

1. Open your Hive Chain application on your mobile phone
2. Go to the Browser section of the Mobile App
3. Log on to beeswap.dcity.io/convert and Convert your Hive to Swap.Hive

1. After the Transaction is successful, input the following address in the search box: www.hive-engine.com
2. Go to the desired Token you intend to buy (you can use the search button to search for your preferred tokens)
3. When you find your desired token, scroll right and click on the exchange icon and it will take you to the Market area.

☆ UNDERSTANDING MARKET TERMINOLOGIES

• The Hive price sits above, while the dollar equivalent goes below.
• Last Price refers to the last transaction that occurred (selling/buying price)
• Ask Price refers to the lowest amount that a user is willing to sell his or her token

• Bid Price refers to the highest amount a user is willing to buy a token
• 24h refers to the percentage increase or decrease in value of tokens within 24hours
• Volume refers to the amount/quantity of tokens sold within 24 hours

NOTE:

• If you intend to buy a token, then you should watch out for the Ask prices, to see the orders placed by users who wish to sell their tokens.
• If you intend to sell off a token, then you should watch out for the Bid prices, to see the orders placed by users who wish to buy tokens.

ALWAYS BUY LOW AND SELL HIGH!

☆ PLACING YOUR BUY ORDERS (BUYING A TOKEN – Using Leo as an example)

• Go through the Sell Orders to see how much people are willing to sell off their tokens

• After this, go to your Buy orders to see the bids people have placed to buy the tokens.

• The arrangement of the buy order (from top to bottom) represents the amount users intend to buy a token (from the highest to the lowest amount)

• If you intend to buy the tokens quickly, then you can place your bid a bit higher than the first bid place.
• However, always aim to BUY LOW, AND SELL HIGH
• Once you have confirmed the amount or price you intend to place your bid to buy the token, then move over to the area to BUY LEO

☆ THE BUY SECTION

Price represents the amount or price you intend to place your bid

Quantity represents the quantity of tokens you intend to buy.

When you fill in the quantity, the Total will automatically pop up to show you the total amount of Hive (Swap.Hive) needed to purchase the quantity of Leo.

When you are satisfied with the price, quantity and Total amount, then you can click on BUY LEO (or the token you want to purchase).

With this, your order will be placed and it may take 1minute to 24 hours or weeks for the order to be filled.

☆ PLACING YOUR SELL ORDERS (SELLING OFF A TOKEN – Using Leo as an example)

To sell off your tokens:

• Go to your Buy orders to see the bids people have placed to buy the tokens.

• Go through the Sell Orders to see how much people are willing to sell off their tokens

• The arrangement of the sell orders (from top to bottom) represents the amount users intend to sell off their tokens (from the lowest to the highest)

• Your duty is to place your bid at the highest amount in the sell order or if you want a quick transaction place it lower than the first sell price.
• Once you have confirmed the amount or price you intend to sell off your token, move over to the area to SELL LEO

☆ THE SELL SECTION

Check the Buy section for the explanation of Price, Quantity and Total features.

When you are satisfied with the price, quantity and Total amount, then you can click on SELL LEO (or the token you want to sell).

With this, your sell order will be placed and it may take 1minute to 24 hours or weeks for the order to be filled.

If you have questions and you need clarification, do well to drop your concerns in the comment section below.

Remember to follow the same steps if you want to place an order for Pizza, BRO, LOH, Neoxian, CTP, POB and other amazing Hive Tokens.

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• Screenshot and screenvideo from my Hive Engine Wallet.

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I AM KSAM

I may not be your favourite author, but you can journey with me to help me develop my writing skills. I am always open to criticism, correction and learning 🥰.

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Lovers of Good Music on Hive!

Lovers of African Music on Hive!

My Afri-tunes Community people! This is another week in our lovely Afri-tunes Community, a community that fosters and spreads love on Hive blockchain through our African Tunes and music.

This is week 29 of our musical event in the Community.

For this week, I'll be sharing a beautiful song by Adekunle Gold titled, Fame. This song has a striking lyrics that prompts one to reflect on the desire to receive Fame at the expense of one's family or friends.

In this "Masterpiece" by Adekunle Gold, he questions the necessity for searching for outward fame and wealth, when inwardly one is unsettled, bitter and lonely.

AG Baby (as he is called) and his wife Simi never fail to give us great music with captivating lyrics and wonderful instrumentation.

Well, for this piece, I'll be doing a guitar cover recreating the rhythm in a first video and the melody in another.

I hope you enjoy this piece

LYRICS

I've gone to many places with a lonely heart

I'm longing for a place where I can be a part

I'm here in my own house but home seems so far

I've tried to cut the distance but I feel it's so far

Sometimes, my mama's house don't feel like home

Sometimes, my baby's arms don't feel like home

Sometimes, with my friends, I feel alone

Sometimes, I feel alone

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh

Lyrics gotten from tooxclusive.com

Special thanks to starstrings01 obaro and every supporters of this great community. KSAM loves you all.

I ❤ LOVE YOU ALL

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• Other images designed via Canva and Powerdirector Mobile Application
• Video recorded via my Samsung Galaxy A12
• Adobe Premiere Pro and Powerdirector Mobile Application were used for the video editing

I AM KSAM

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🎵 Hello Music Lovers of Hive Music community! 🎙

Without anyone telling me, I think I've recorded little progress with regard to learning the recorder in a short period of time.

As a musical instrument that doesn't require amplification or speaker, I can easily practice the recorder without thinking about electricity. Also, since it isn't too loud like the Trumpet and Saxophone, I can practice it in doors without being bothered that my neighbours will be disturbed by its sound. However, I am careful to practice it at nights so that I don't disturb anyone. But, when there is no electricity and everyone's home generator goes on in the compound, I have no fear adding to the noise with the sound of my recorder... hahahaha

In a bid to take a higher step towards my practice of the recorder, I thought it necessary to do a wonderful combo with the guitar.

In my Cover of Cold Play by The Scientist which I posted yesterday as a musical entry for Hive Open Mic week 128, I played the recorder over the guitar just at the ending of the piece. But, this time around, I decided to play the melody of the whole song using the recorder.

I chose a cool and calm song which should bring out the beauty of the recorder and the song itself. The song is a Marian Song, a song about Mary (Mother of Jesus Christ), titled, "As I Kneel."

Well, as a form of clarification, we know that kneeling doesn't imply worship. Kneeling can be a form of respect... in fact, in the Yoruba Culture Kneeling or full Prostration always accompany Greeting an elder. It's an act of respect. Hence, in the same way, the "kneel", here, is also a sign of respect for the role she played in abiding by God's will, bringing forth & nurturing Jesus and staying with him till the end.

Before I forget, I'm still suffering from the Heartbreak my Ring Light caused me. It broke and now I just had to devise a creative means to manage for shooting my videos.... lol...

CAUTION ⚠️ DON'T LAUGH!!!!

Why did you laugh? (Im in tears... sobs)

Well, the part Connecting the tripod stand with the ring light broke. At this point I don't even know who to give for repairs. I wish it is repairable.

While I wait for ideas on how to repair the ring light, I just had to be creative. Since the ring light itself is the main part, I had to put it on top my bed and I looked around for things to support and wedge the ring light and the phone. So that when I place my phone, the ring light will still be in an upright position. So that's why you can see the pressing iron and 30,000MaH Power bank on it... hahaha

This cover is one I enjoyed the process and also gave a little of my best in the recording, editing and writing aspect of this post.

I hope you enjoy this piece.

• Image designed using Canva Mobile Application and Powerdirector
• Images shot using my Samsung Galaxy A12
• Video recorded using my Samsung Galaxy A12
• Video edited using Adobe Premiere Pro 2020 and Powerdirector Mobile App
• Audio mixed using FL studio

I AM KSAM

@ksam is a "uniquely creative" Hive lover who combines his musical, writing, linguistic, video and audio editing skills to promote creativity and ideas in the Hive Community. He is the founder of Afri-tunes alongside starstrings01 and obaro. Afri-tunes is a newly founded musical community on Hive that aims towards nourishing and enriching the Hive Musical Family (and the Hive Community at large) with African Tunes and Musical Genres. It is our sole aim to spread the love, the calmness, the smiles, the culture, the songs and the dance associated with African tunes. Kindly click C/AFRI-TUNES visit our community on Hive. You can participate, support us or stay glued and watch out for amazing African songs on Hive 🕺💃

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Hello my Hive Open Mic Family and Community. You are welcome to Hive Open Mic week One hundred and twenty-eight. The Theme of this week is "Desamor" whuch means "Heartbreak" in English, chosen by @yosoyla72

Hola mi familia y comunidad de Hive Open Mic. Son bienvenidos a la semana ciento veintiocho de Hive Open Mic. El tema de esta semana es "Desamor", elegido por @yosoyla72

In the past week till now, I haven't really been the best of myself; I've been a bit off. You know that feeling that you know something is wrong but you don't know the root or the cause. I think that is it.

If I knew the reason, then I will be able to find possible solutions to help me get better.

To add to this unexplainable feeling, my Ring Light decided to disappoint me in a special way. It broke in such a way that I don't even know what to do or who to give for repairs. The light is still functioning, but the ring light cannot be fixed on the Tripod Stand again.

En la última semana hasta ahora, no he sido realmente el mejor de mí mismo; he estado un poco apagado. Conoces esa sensación de que sabes que algo va mal pero no conoces la raíz o la causa. Creo que es eso.

Si supiera la razón, entonces podría encontrar posibles soluciones para ayudarme a mejorar.

Para añadir a esta sensación inexplicable, mi Ring Light decidió decepcionarme de una manera especial. Se rompió de tal manera que no sé ni qué hacer ni a quién acudir para que la reparen. La luz sigue funcionando, pero la luz anular no puede volver a fijarse en el soporte del trípode.

In the midst of this crisis, I have to choose a "Heartbreak" song. Oh ~~shit~~ everything keeps adding up. And by the way, I also repaired my electric guitar the past week. Mhen! What a week! I hope this week will be better.

In line with the theme of Heartbreak, I decided to choose a song that speaks about parting away in relationship (heart break). A song by The Scientist titled, Cold Play.

One thing that amazes me with this song is the creative video. If you watch the video the first time, you will be really confused at the beginning, but when you get to the end of the video, you'll get a clearer picture.

The video is like a rewind such that the characters move in a reverse way till they get to the beginning of the story line, which is at the end of the video. Hence, you need to watch it all to understand better and get the clearer picture.

I think this my unexplainable feeling also affected the way I played the guitar. I was not just the best of myself, in fact, I wasn't myself. However, at least, the Recorder made me smile a little. I am happy with the improvement I've made in just few days, and I believe @onos-f will be proud as well.

NB: The part with the recorder comes up at 3:35.

I hope you enjoy this piece.

En medio de esta crisis, tengo que elegir una canción "Heartbreak". Oh ~~shit~~ todo sigue sumando. Y por cierto, también reparé mi guitarra eléctrica la semana pasada. ¡Mhen! ¡Qué semana! Espero que esta semana sea mejor.

En línea con el tema de Heartbreak, decidí elegir una canción que habla de la separación en la relación (ruptura del corazón). Una canción de The Scientist titulada, Cold Play.

Una cosa que me sorprende de esta canción es el creativo vídeo. Si ves el vídeo la primera vez, estarás realmente confundido al principio, pero cuando llegues al final del vídeo, te harás una idea más clara.

El vídeo es como un rebobinado en el que los personajes se mueven en sentido inverso hasta llegar al principio de la historia, que está al final del vídeo. Por lo tanto, tienes que verlo todo para entender mejor y obtener una imagen más clara.

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Creo que este mi inexplicable sentimiento también afectó a mi forma de tocar la guitarra. No era lo mejor de mí mismo, de hecho, no era yo mismo. Sin embargo, al menos, la grabadora me hizo sonreír un poco. Estoy contento con la mejora que he hecho en pocos días, y creo que @onos-f también estará orgulloso.

NB: La parte con la flauta dulce aparece a las 3:35.

Espero que disfrutéis de esta pieza.

LYRICS

Come up to meet you, tell you I'm sorry

You don't know how lovely you are

I had to find you

Tell you I need you

Tell you I set you apart

Tell me your secrets

And ask me your questions

Oh, let's go back to the start

Running in circles

Coming up tails

Heads on a science apart

Nobody said it was easy

It's such a shame for us to part

Nobody said it was easy

No one ever said it would be this hard

Oh, take me back to the start

Lyrics from Azlyrics.com

You can see the complete lyrics in the video below

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• Other images created by me using Canva and from my Samsung Galaxy A12 Camera
• Translation via Deepl Traductor

I AM KSAM

@ksam is a "uniquely creative" Hive lover who combines his musical, writing, linguistic, video and audio editing skills to promote creativity and ideas in the Hive Community. He is the founder of Afri-tunes alongside starstrings01 and obaro. Afri-tunes is a newly founded musical community on Hive that aims towards nourishing and enriching the Hive Musical Family (and the Hive Community at large) with African Tunes and Musical Genres. It is our sole aim to spread the love, the calmness, the smiles, the culture, the songs and the dance associated with African tunes. Kindly click C/AFRI-TUNES visit our community on Hive. You can participate, support us or stay glued and watch out for amazing African songs on Hive 🕺💃

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🎵 Hello Music Lovers of Hive Music community! 🎙

I've been trying to practice some songs with my recorder. The recorder is a professional recorder but the "recordist" is only a learner (hahahaha).

I downloaded a Recorder Chart pdf online which shows me the finger placement for 2 Octaves from C - C¹ - C². With this finger chart, I can easily identify the Major scales of all 12 Keys, as well as to play some patterns with them and the pentatonic scale as well. However, I don't intend to rush things, let me take things slowly.

The truth about music is that music is one and the same... before you begin to counter my claim I mean music theory. Yes, music theory is one and the same. And music theory would equip you with the fundamentals and basic showing you that MUSIC IS ONE AND THE SAME. hahahaha I am back to the same statement. You are free to burn me at the stake if you think I'm wrong (lol).

Why did I mention this?

If you understand music theory, it will be easy for you to play multiple musical instruments, if you wish. All you need to do is to learn the anatomy of the instrument, the unique blowing pattern, fingerings techniques and other unique techniques it has. Then apply your knowledge of music to it... that's all. With practice and consistency, you will improve.

Well it is also important to have the instrument close-by, that will surely guarantee progress. I've tried learning multiple instruments like violin, side flute and many more, but since I neither have it nor have easy access to where I can practice, I've recorded little or no progress at all.

The major issues I have with wind instruments are breathe control and sustainability. Maybe it's health related (probably), but it really affects my Saxophone tone and now the recorder. I hope I get better at it. Maybe if I had my saxophone ill have more time to improve on the obvious weakness. Probably I'll try to use the recorder to work on it.

In this piece, I played a Christian song with the Recorder. A song titled, JESUS, REMEMBER ME. It is a song with only one sentence which is repeated in different melodies. The sentence is: "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom." It is a sentence or expression that was made by the criminal who was crucified by Jesus' right hand; asking Jesus to remember him when he gets into his Kingdom. The same can be said of us, as we hope and work to also enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

If you care to know, this is my third attempt at playing on this Key (Key G) with the Recorder, and I got the recorder as a gift on Saturday and started relearning. So pardon me for my mistakes.

I hope you enjoy this piece.

☆ LYRICS OF JESUS, REMEMBER ME

Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom

Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom

I AM KSAM

@ksam is a "uniquely creative" Hive lover who combines his musical, writing, linguistic, video and audio editing skills to promote creativity and ideas in the Hive Community. He is the founder of Afri-tunes alongside starstrings01 and obaro. Afri-tunes is a newly founded musical community on Hive that aims towards nourishing and enriching the Hive Musical Family (and the Hive Community at large) with African Tunes and Musical Genres. It is our sole aim to spread the love, the calmness, the smiles, the culture, the songs and the dance associated with African tunes. Kindly click C/AFRI-TUNES visit our community on Hive. You can participate, support us or stay glued and watch out for amazing African songs on Hive 🕺💃

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Last week Wednesday, on the 14th September I celebrated my birthday, and on Saturday evening (17th September), @onos-f gave me this lovely musical instrument as a gift; A PROFESSIONAL RECORDER.

Isn't she beautiful??

El miércoles de la semana pasada, el 14 de septiembre celebré mi cumpleaños, y el sábado por la noche (17 de septiembre), @onos-f me regaló este precioso instrumento musical; UNA GRABADORA PROFESIONAL.

¿No es preciosa??

You know @onos-f is a multi talented instrumentalist who blows everything blowable. He blows the Side flute, Tenor recorder, Alto recorder, Sopraino Recorder, side recorder, whistle, trombone and saxophone, among others.

He also plays the violin Family: violin, viola, cello, bass and double bass. He plays the Piano, Guitar and Jazz drums amongst other instruments.

Little wonder he wows us with different musical instrument presentations everytime, and he also plays more than one instruments in some presentations.

He's a great musician and I'm glad he is doing well on Hive.

Ya sabes que @onos-f es un instrumentista con múltiples talentos que sopla todo lo soplable. Toca la flauta lateral, la flauta tenor, la flauta contralto, la flauta soprano, la flauta lateral, el silbato, el trombón y el saxofón, entre otros.

También toca la familia del violín: violín, viola, violonchelo, bajo y contrabajo. Toca el piano, la guitarra y la batería de jazz, entre otros instrumentos.

No es de extrañar que nos sorprenda con diferentes presentaciones de instrumentos musicales cada vez, y también toca más de un instrumento en algunas presentaciones.

Es un gran músico y me alegro de que le vaya bien en Hive.

I believe with this gift he'll be serious with teaching me also, so that I'll become better with the recorder.

The last time I practiced the recorder was about 4 years ago, when I just picked up the $1 recorder from a musical store because I couldn't afford the Saxophone. I didn't learn it so much during that time. However, when I met @onos-f last Saturday, he showed me few things on the recorder and with my small knowledge of Saxophone, I decided to try this out today.

I wish to share a Christian song titled, AS THE DEER. For me, this song speaks about the ardent desire of my body, soul and spirit to worship God in Spirit and in truth. It uses the analogy of the deer that yearns and thirst for water, to speak about how the soul yearns and thirst for God.

I hope you enjoy this piece from an amateur "Recordist", hahahaha is that the title of one who plays the recorder?

Creo que con este regalo se tomará en serio lo de enseñarme a mí también, para que mejore con la flauta de pico.

La última vez que practiqué la flauta dulce fue hace unos 4 años, cuando sólo cogí la flauta dulce de un dólar en una tienda de música porque no podía permitirme el saxofón. No la aprendí mucho durante ese tiempo. Sin embargo, cuando conocí a @onos-f el sábado pasado, me enseñó algunas cosas de la flauta dulce y con mi pequeño conocimiento del Saxofón, decidí probarlo hoy.

Quiero compartir una canción cristiana titulada, COMO EL VENADO. Para mí, esta canción habla del ardiente deseo de mi cuerpo, alma y espíritu de adorar a Dios en Espíritu y en verdad. Utiliza la analogía del ciervo que anhela y tiene sed de agua, para hablar de cómo el alma anhela y tiene sed de Dios.

Espero que disfruten de esta pieza de un "grabador" aficionado, jajajaja ¿es ese el título de uno que toca la flauta?

☆ LYRICS OF AS THE DEER

As the deer panteth for the water

So my soul longeth after Thee

You alone are my heart's desire

And I long to worship Thee

You alone are my strength, my shield

To You alone may my spirit yield

You alone are my heart's desire

And I long to worship Thee

I AM KSAM

@ksam is a "uniquely creative" Hive lover who combines his musical, writing, linguistic, video and audio editing skills to promote creativity and ideas in the Hive Community. He is the founder of Afri-tunes alongside starstrings01 and obaro. Afri-tunes is a newly founded musical community on Hive that aims towards nourishing and enriching the Hive Musical Family (and the Hive Community at large) with African Tunes and Musical Genres. It is our sole aim to spread the love, the calmness, the smiles, the culture, the songs and the dance associated with African tunes. Kindly click C/AFRI-TUNES visit our community on Hive. You can participate, support us or stay glued and watch out for amazing African songs on Hive 🕺💃

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Hello my Hive Open Mic Family and Community. You are welcome to Hive Open Mic week One hundred and twenty-seven. The Theme of this week is "Tevazu" whuch means "Humility-Modesty" in English, chosen by @okayozdemiroglu

Hola mi familia y comunidad de Hive Open Mic. Son bienvenidos a la semana ciento veintisiete de Hive Open Mic. El tema de esta semana es "Tevazu" que significa "Humildad-Modestia" en inglés, elegido por @okayozdemiroglu

For the past week, I was really sick and not able to do much on the blockchain. I also had to pause musical presentations as well to take care of my health without having to go through the rigours associated with the process of thinking of a song, making a video, editing and publishing. However, a better part of me didn't feel really happy about this break. Well, I'm better now and I thank God about it.

For this week, I'll be sharing a song from the Catholic Hymn Book titled, "Take our Break we ask you." This is an offertory song that displays an act of self-surrender to God.

Christ invites us to share His banquet of love; he sets the table for us, and at the same time he is the victim who shed his blood for the sanctification of humanity.

The song calls us to be humble and modest in our dealings, surrendering ourselves to God and being ready to live according to His plans for us.

I'll be playing this piece with the Keyboard. It has a quite Solemn ambience, portraying that act of self surrender.

I hope you enjoy this piece.

La semana pasada estuve muy enfermo y no pude hacer mucho en la cadena de bloques. También tuve que hacer una pausa en las presentaciones musicales para cuidar de mi salud sin tener que pasar por los rigores asociados al proceso de pensar en una canción, hacer un vídeo, editarlo y publicarlo. Sin embargo, una parte de mí no se sentía muy feliz con esta pausa. Bueno, ahora estoy mejor y doy gracias a Dios por ello.

Para esta semana, compartiré una canción del Libro de Himnos Católicos titulada, "Take our Break we ask you". Este es un canto de ofertorio que muestra un acto de entrega a Dios.

Cristo nos invita a compartir su banquete de amor; pone la mesa para nosotros, y al mismo tiempo es la víctima que derramó su sangre para la santificación de la humanidad.

El canto nos llama a ser humildes y modestos en nuestro trato, entregándonos a Dios y estando dispuestos a vivir según sus planes para nosotros.

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Esta pieza la tocaré con el teclado. Tiene un ambiente bastante solemne, retratando ese acto de autoentrega.

Espero que disfruten de esta pieza.

LYRICS

Chorus

Take our bread, we ask You,

Take our hearts, we love You;

Take our lives,

O Fatger, we are Yours, we are Yours.

Verse 1

Yours as we stand at the table you set;

Yours as we eat the bread our hearts can't forget,

We are a sign of your life with us yet,

We are Yours, we are Yours.

Verse 2

Your holy people standing washed in your Blood,

Spirit filled yet hungry we await your food,

We are poor, but we've brought ourselves the best we could:

We are Yours, we are Yours.

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• Other images created by me using Canva and from my Samsung Galaxy A12 Camera
• Translation via Deepl Traductor

I AM KSAM

@ksam is a "uniquely creative" Hive lover who combines his musical, writing, linguistic, video and audio editing skills to promote creativity and ideas in the Hive Community. He is the founder of Afri-tunes alongside starstrings01 and obaro. Afri-tunes is a newly founded musical community on Hive that aims towards nourishing and enriching the Hive Musical Family (and the Hive Community at large) with African Tunes and Musical Genres. It is our sole aim to spread the love, the calmness, the smiles, the culture, the songs and the dance associated with African tunes. Kindly click C/AFRI-TUNES visit our community on Hive. You can participate, support us or stay glued and watch out for amazing African songs on Hive 🕺💃

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Lovers of Good Music on Hive!

Lovers of African Music on Hive!

My Afri-tunes Community people! This is another week in our lovely Afri-tunes Community, a community that fosters and spreads love on Hive blockchain through our African Tunes and music.

This is week 27 of our musical event in the Community.

Today is the day that my parents said I was born some years ago. I have no choice than to believe them. Yes, I have no choice!

Even the official birth record from the Local Government also says the same thing, so let me not express any doubt yet (don't mind me please 😅)

Although I had a dry day, as expected, I was mesmerised by the show of love, care and concern from my lovely family on Hive. The wishes, unexpected gifts and calls overwhelmed me and all I can say is...

THANK YOU! THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!!!

Since I was close to the keyboard, I decided share a Birthday song with the touch of African Vibes in it.

This Birthday tune is similar to the tune of the Ijaw/ Izon & Isoko Gospel song titled Ewe ewe wo by Asu-Ekiye.

I can't remember where I heard this Birthday composition from and it's following lyrics. However, I decided to share the one I know and did a little bit of freestyle with my rusty fingers.

I hope you enjoy this piece.

LYRICS

Oh, happy birthday

Oh, Happy birthday

Happy Birthday, Oh Happy birthday

Special thanks to starstrings01 obaro and every supporters of this great community. KSAM loves you all.

I ❤ LOVE YOU ALL

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I AM KSAM

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Lovers of Good Music on Hive!

Lovers of African Music on Hive!

My Afri-tunes Community people! This is another week in our lovely Afri-tunes Community, a community that fosters and spreads love on Hive blockchain through our African Tunes and music.

This is week 26 of our musical event in the Community.

For this week, I'd love to share a Guitar Freestyle of the popular Christian Praise and worship song. It's an English song, but I wonder if it is also sung outside the African Church setting.

There are so many English Praise and Worship songs that have become "Africanized" such that we begin to wonder whether these songs are actually sung by the original English speakers. Well, even if they are, they can't sing it like the way we do. The African vibes and rhythm to songs is unique and spectacular.

For this piece, I didn't play it following the regular style or pattern that many of us know it to be. I altered the ending Chord of the song's Chord progression and replaced it with minor Chord and then it's major Chord. This gives a unique, moody and "solemn" ambience. I also did much of an amateur guitar freestyle over the Chord progression of the song.

I think I should start considering getting a Keyboard (Piano), its been a while I played it. Having it closeby will also create enough room for crazy musical explorations and musical growth.

I hope you enjoy this piece.

LYRICS

Everybody testify you are good,

You are good Jehovah you are good,

Everybody testify you are good,

You are good Jehovah you are good.

IGBO VERSION Madunilee Nasi Ebube

Ebube Jehovah Marama

Madunilee Nasi Ebube

Ebube Jehovah Marama

Special thanks to starstrings01 obaro and every supporters of this great community. KSAM loves you all.

I ❤ LOVE YOU ALL

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Hello my Hive Open Mic Family and Community. You are welcome to Hive Open Mic week One hundred and twenty-five. The Theme of this week is "Nothing is Impossible" chosen by @bernice001

Hola mi familia y comunidad de Hive Open Mic. Son bienvenidos a la semana Ciento veinticinco de Hive Open Mic. El tema de esta semana es "Un mundo mejor para todos" elegido por @bernice001

For the theme of "Nothing is Impossible", I'll like to give it a Christian or religious interpretation. For this, my theme will be "NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR GOD."

Indeed, nothing is impossible for God to do. He is all Powerful, all Knowing, ever Present, the Unmoved Mover and the Uncaused Cause. He is the Great Architect and Intelligence behind the creation of the Universe, and all it contains. The beauty of creation points to the Creator, nay One who is Superior in all ratifications. A being infinite beyond comprehension and One who transcends spatiotemporal realm, yet is actively involved in the activities of the realm; not distinct from His Creature. One who is both immanent and at the same time transcendental.

With Him, the Impossible becomes possible, and He makes way where there seems to be no way.

Yes, to give thanks and praise to the Great God, I will present a guiar cover of the song by Judikay titled CAPABLE GOD. This song speaks of the greatness of God to do all things, both things that are possible and impossible in the sight of men. And since I've been sick for a while, I use this medium to also pray for healing upon myself and those who are sick.

I hope you love this piece.

Para el tema "Nada es Imposible", me gustaría darle una interpretación cristiana o religiosa. Para ello, mi tema será "NADA ES IMPOSIBLE PARA DIOS".

Efectivamente, nada es imposible de hacer para Dios. Él es todopoderoso, omnisciente, siempre presente, el Movedor Inconmovible y la Causa Incausada. Él es el Gran Arquitecto y la Inteligencia detrás de la creación del Universo, y de todo lo que contiene. La belleza de la creación apunta al Creador, es decir, a Uno que es superior en todas las ratificaciones. Un ser infinito más allá de la comprensión y Uno que trasciende el reino espacio-temporal, pero que está activamente involucrado en las actividades del reino; no es distinto de Su Criatura. Uno que es inmanente y al mismo tiempo trascendente.

Con Él, lo imposible se hace posible, y Él abre camino donde parece no haberlo.

Sí, para dar gracias y alabar al Gran Dios, voy a presentar una versión guiar de la canción de Judikay titulada CAPABLE GOD. Esta canción habla de la grandeza de Dios para hacer todas las cosas, tanto las posibles como las imposibles a la vista de los hombres. Y como he estado enferma por un tiempo, uso este medio para también orar por mi sanación y la de aquellos que están enfermos.

Espero que os guste este artículo.

LYRICS OF CAPABLE GOD

[Verse 1]

What can’t you do

What won’t you do

Nothing Impossible

Nothing Impossible

What can’t you do

What won’t you do

Nothing Impossible with our God

[Chorus]

You do not LIE, You do not FAIL

What is hard for you to DO

It doesn’t exist oh

It can never, ever exist oh

You do not LIE, You do not FAIL

What is hard for you to DO

It doesn’t exist oh

It can never, ever exist oh

Lyrics from muslyrics.com

Complete Lyrics video

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I AM KSAM

@ksam is a "uniquely creative" Hive lover who combines his musical, writing, linguistic, video and audio editing skills to promote creativity and ideas in the Hive Community. He is the founder of Afri-tunes alongside starstrings01 and obaro. Afri-tunes is a newly founded musical community on Hive that aims towards nourishing and enriching the Hive Musical Family (and the Hive Community at large) with African Tunes and Musical Genres. It is our sole aim to spread the love, the calmness, the smiles, the culture, the songs and the dance associated with African tunes. Kindly click C/AFRI-TUNES visit our community on Hive. You can participate, support us or stay glued and watch out for amazing African songs on Hive 🕺💃

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Hello my Hive Open Mic Family and Community. You are welcome to Hive Open Mic week One hundred and twenty-four. The Theme of this week is "Moonshine" chosen by @anna-newkey

Hola mi familia y comunidad de Hive Open Mic. Son bienvenidos a la semana Ciento veinticuatro de Hive Open Mic. El tema de esta semana es "Un mundo mejor para todos" elegido por @anna-newkey

The theme "Moonshine" reminds me of my early childhood days. During these times, at night, the children in the compound gather together for fun play. We sat down on the bare ground and played different types of games that were apt for that moment.

I remember playing some games but I don't think they have names. We only know and call them by the songs we sing while playing them. For instance:

"There's Fire on the Mountain, run run run, a big Big fire", "Willie Willie Willie... Change your style," "After Round One Original panadol extra..." 😅 "Who is in the garden?" and Hide and Seek (Boju boju).

Aside games we also cracked jokes, told ourselves dry stories and we created fictional characters as well.

I grew up in Lagos (city), not in the village. So we didn't have the privilege of listening to wise sayings from old men or women. Instead, we were looking for places to watch those Mexican series: Passion, 2nd Chance (Paloma and Diego) and the Gardener's Daughter, among others.

My childhood was awesome, and I played well!

El tema "Moonshine" me recuerda a los días de mi primera infancia. En esos momentos, por la noche, los niños del recinto nos reuníamos para jugar de forma divertida. Nos sentábamos en el suelo desnudo y jugábamos a diferentes tipos de juegos que eran aptos para ese momento.

Recuerdo haber jugado a algunos juegos, pero creo que no tienen nombre. Sólo los conocemos y los llamamos por las canciones que cantamos mientras los jugamos. Por ejemplo:

"Hay fuego en la montaña, corre, corre, un gran fuego", "Willie Willie Willie... Cambia de estilo", "Después del primer asalto Original panadol extra...". 😅 "¿Quién está en el jardín?" y Escondite (Boju boju).

Además de los juegos, también contábamos chistes, nos contábamos historias secas y también creábamos personajes de ficción.

Yo crecí en Lagos (ciudad), no en el pueblo. Así que no teníamos el privilegio de escuchar los sabios dichos de los ancianos. En cambio, buscábamos lugares para ver esas series mexicanas: Pasión, Segunda Oportunidad (Paloma y Diego) y La Hija del Jardinero, entre otras.

Mi infancia fue increíble, ¡y jugaba bien!

However, I won't be choosing any song from my childhood days, rather I'll choose the song Talking to the Moon by Bruno Mars.

Talking to the Moon speaks a lot about a "failed relationship"; one that has left a "hole" in the heart of the singer. He cannot get over his loss and he is drowning in loneliness. He hopes she feels the same way and he tries to communicate this with her through talking to the moon; still with hopes that she reciprocates this.

While the Moon created a perfect environment for funplay (based on my childhood story), it has become a means of communication for Bruno Mars, and for Ware Wolves, Full Moon is a Festival for them (don't blame me, I watch lots of movies...lol).

This implies the multiple use and awesomeness of the moon. And referring on its awesomeness one will be necessarily drawn to reflect on its Creator (God).

Happy Sunday to you all!

Sin embargo, no voy a elegir ninguna canción de mi infancia, sino la canción Talking to the Moon de Bruno Mars.

Talking to the Moon habla mucho de una "relación fallida"; una que ha dejado un "agujero" en el corazón del cantante. No puede superar su pérdida y se ahoga en la soledad. Espera que ella sienta lo mismo e intenta comunicárselo a través de Talking to the Moon; siempre con la esperanza de que ella le corresponda.

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Mientras que la Luna creó un ambiente perfecto para el juego de la diversión (basado en mi historia de la infancia), se ha convertido en un medio de comunicación para Bruno Mars, y para Ware Wolves, la Luna Llena es un Festival para ellos (no me culpes, veo muchas películas...lol)..

Esto implica el uso múltiple y la maravilla de la luna. Y al referirse a su magnificencia uno se verá necesariamente atraído a reflexionar sobre su Creador (Dios).

¡Feliz domingo a todos!

LYRICS OF TALKING TO THE MOON 🌚 🌙

I know you're somewhere out there

Somewhere far away

I want you back, I want you back

My neighbors think I'm crazy

But they don't understand

You're all I had, you're all I had

At night when the stars light up my room

I sit by myself

Talking to the moon

Tryna get to you

In hopes you're on the other side talking to me, too

Or am I a fool who sits alone talking to the moon?

Lyrics from Azlyrics.com

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• Translation via Deepl Traductor

I AM KSAM

@ksam is a "uniquely creative" Hive lover who combines his musical, writing, linguistic, video and audio editing skills to promote creativity and ideas in the Hive Community. He is the founder of Afri-tunes alongside starstrings01 and obaro. Afri-tunes is a newly founded musical community on Hive that aims towards nourishing and enriching the Hive Musical Family (and the Hive Community at large) with African Tunes and Musical Genres. It is our sole aim to spread the love, the calmness, the smiles, the culture, the songs and the dance associated with African tunes. Kindly click C/AFRI-TUNES visit our community on Hive. You can participate, support us or stay glued and watch out for amazing African songs on Hive 🕺💃

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🎵 Hola mi comunidad Pukumundo🎙

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Hello my Pukumundo Family this is Pukumundo La Voz Cantate week twenty-nine.

Hola mi Familia Pukumundo esta es la semana veintinueve de Pukumundo La Voz Cantate.

For this week I'll be playing the song that was sung in the outstanding Spanish NETFLIX series titled "La Casa de Papel," which can be literally translated to as "The House of Paper." However, from this wonderful Netflix series we now know it as MONEY HEIST.

The Song is titled "Bella Ciao" and it has become a very popular song Internationally because of this Netflix series. Albeit it was a wonderful song within the Spanish world, however this series made people of different languages know and love the song.

The series is one I love and one I was faithful to watching the five series. Well, I'm a fan of Movies (if I can watch the 750 episodes of Naruto in less than 2 months, what is 5 season I can't watch? hahahaha there are many things you don't know about me) I would have been actively participating in CineTV movie community, but it's sad that I can't be everywhere. However, it won't stop me from enjoying my movies 😎

I will be playing the rock version of this song using a Rock Beat Preset I tweaked from my Guitar Multi Effect Processor. I hope you enjoy this Rock cover.

Para esta semana voy a poner la canción que se cantaba en la destacada serie española de NETFLIX titulada "La Casa de Papel", que se puede traducir literalmente como "La Casa de Papel". Sin embargo, por esta maravillosa serie de Netflix ahora la conocemos como MONEY HEIST.

La canción se titula "Bella Ciao " y se ha convertido en una canción muy popular a nivel internacional gracias a esta serie de NETFLIX. Aunque era una canción maravillosa dentro del mundo español, sin embargo esta serie hizo que personas de diferentes idiomas conocieran y amaran la canción.

La serie es una de las que más me gustan y a la que fui fiel para ver las cinco. Bueno, soy un fanático del Cine (si puedo ver los 750 episodios de Naruto en menos de 2 meses, ¿qué es la temporada 5 que no puedo ver? jajajaja hay muchas cosas que no sabes de mí).

Hubiera participado activamente en la comunidad de películas de CineTV, pero es triste que no pueda estar en todas partes. Sin embargo, eso no me impedirá disfrutar de mis películas

Tocaré la versión rockera de esta canción usando un preset de Rock Beat que ajusté desde mi procesador de multiefectos para guitarra. Espero que disfruten de este cover de Rock.

LYRICS OF BELLA CIAO

Una mattina mi sono alzato

O bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao, ciao, ciao

Una mattina mi sono alzato

E ho trovato l'invasor

One morning I awakened

Oh Goodbye beautiful, Goodbye beautiful, Goodbye beautiful! Bye! Bye!

One morning I awakened

And I found the invader

View complete lyrics and translation of Bella Ciao song from thewaofam.com

This is my Piano Cover of Bella Ciao which I presented as an entry for Hive Open Mic 107. You can view the complete post here

https://3speak.tv/watch?v=ksam/ubtyyonc

This is the original version of the song.

• Other images not referenced are mine, created via Canva

• Translation via Deepl Traductor

Let's Rock on 🤘

I AM KSAM

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🎵 Hello Music Lovers of Hive Music community! 🎙

Today is another Tuesday and I will be participating in the Three Tunes Tuesday Initiative that was started by @ablaze

This is the 65th week, and my entry or song choice will be ALL ABOUT LOVE.

In discussing ALL ABOUT LOVE, I am going to share 3 Love/Romantic Songs that live in my head rent-free. In other words, these songs are songs I love so much and they are always on my mind.

They are:

☆ Let Her Go by Passenger

☆ All of Me by John Legend

☆ Love Someone by Lukas Graham

☆ LET HER GO

Let Her Go is a 2012 Soft Rock music that was released by the artist, Passenger.

The first time I heard this song was in the month of December 2019, when I accompanied some friends to visit a sick and aged Professor. He spoke so well about the song and shared some memories that accompanied this song, when his late wife was still alive.

From that moment onwards this song got a free accommodation space inside my head (lol). I don't collect rent from it.

It is a very lovely song, with lyrics that is relatable, based on reality and commonsensical.

You only need the light when it's burning low

Only miss the sun when it starts to snow

Only know you love her when you let her go

Only know you've been high when you're feeling low

Only hate the road when you're missing home

Only know you love her when you let her go

And you let her go

Lyrics from Genius.com

☆ ALL OF ME

"All of Me" is a Pop song that was released by John Legend in 2013.

I think I've been with and known this song since forever, and it has also been one of my favourite love songs, together with a host of Ed Sheeran's songs. Well, it is unfortunate that I didn't choose any Ed Sheeran song this time around since my last piece was all about his songs.

☆ LOVE SOMEONE

"Love Someone" is the most recent song among the trio. It is a Pop song released in 2018 by the artist, Lukas Graham.

I first listened to this song in the first week of March 2020 when a friend of mine sent it to me for us to prepare for a musical presentation that was scheduled for April 2020. However, with the advent of Covid-19, the musical presentation didn't hold on again.

This is a lovely song and one worth listening to.

I had a hard time trying to find the best approach and way to sync all three songs. I hope I did justice in a way to this combo.

I played them on only one key (Key G) so that I will be easier for me to change from a song to another.

Permit the errors on this piece. I tried to make only 1 recording each, because if I continue stopping because of a single error it will take me next week to make a perfect mix, since three songs are involved and they need to flow seamlessly.

I hope you enjoy this piece

Till next week

I AM KSAM

@ksam is a "uniquely creative" Hive lover who combines his musical, writing, linguistic, video and audio editing skills to promote creativity and ideas in the Hive Community. He is the founder of Afri-tunes alongside starstrings01 and obaro. Afri-tunes is a newly founded musical community on Hive that aims towards nourishing and enriching the Hive Musical Family (and the Hive Community at large) with African Tunes and Musical Genres. It is our sole aim to spread the love, the calmness, the smiles, the culture, the songs and the dance associated with African tunes. Kindly click C/AFRI-TUNES visit our community on Hive. You can participate, support us or stay glued and watch out for amazing African songs on Hive 🕺💃

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🎵 Hola mi comunidad Pukumundo🎙

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Hello my Pukumundo Family this is Pukumundo La Voz Cantate week eight.

Hola mi Familia Pukumundo esta es la semana veintiocho de Pukumundo La Voz Cantate.

For this week I'll be playing the song by Maroon-5 titled "Memories."

The first time I heard this song, it's melody reminded me of the Classical piece Canon in D major, but since the song is on B, maybe this can be called Memories in B major.

Each time I listen to this song, I am always impelled to embark on an introspective journey. I look deep within myself and try to remember/recall past events.

I remember the friends I've made along this journey of life, I remember those who were once close friends but now they've turned to WhatsApp Status Viewers, I remember my secondary and university school days. I remember all those who we've crossed path with and the few that are still in communication presently.

I also remember my Tripartite journey on Hive and how far I've come. I remember the friends I've made, the communities I enjoy posting in, the success and wins I've achieved on Hive.

I also remember my first biggest upvotes on Hive (hahaha), that's still part of the memories. I also remember my many $0 upvotes or no votes at all with no comments (hahahaha). All these experiences were necessary as they helped us to prepare for the worst and hope for the best.

Sometimes I drown myself in the bad memories; sometimes I reminisce on the pleasant memories and pray they happen often.

However, for the bad memories i can't change, I look forward to and pray for a better tomorrow so that I won't give room for further Regrets.

Cheers to all our memories; good, bad, funny and dry, they all help us and build up/form our experiences, which in turn shapes the way we react in the present.

CHEERS!

I hope you enjoy this Rock cover.

Esta semana voy a tocar la canción de Maroon-5 titulada "Memories".

La primera vez que escuché esta canción, su melodía me recordó a la pieza clásica Canon en re mayor, pero como la canción está en si, quizá pueda llamarse Memories en si mayor.

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Cada vez que escucho esta canción, me siento impulsado a emprender un viaje introspectivo. Miro en mi interior y trato de recordar/recordar acontecimientos pasados.

Me acuerdo de los amigos que he hecho a lo largo de este viaje de la vida, me acuerdo de los que una vez fueron amigos íntimos pero ahora se han convertido en espectadores de estados de WhatsApp, me acuerdo de mis días de escuela secundaria y universitaria. Me acuerdo de todos aquellos con los que nos hemos cruzado y de los pocos que siguen en comunicación actualmente.

También recuerdo mi viaje tripartito en Hive y lo lejos que he llegado. Recuerdo los amigos que he hecho, las comunidades en las que disfruto publicando, los éxitos y las victorias que he conseguido en Hive.

También recuerdo mis primeros upvotes más grandes en Hive (jajaja), eso sigue siendo parte de los recuerdos. También recuerdo mis muchos 0 upvotes o ningún voto sin comentarios (jajaja). Todas estas experiencias fueron necesarias ya que nos ayudaron a prepararnos para lo peor y a esperar lo mejor.

A veces me ahogo en los malos recuerdos; otras veces rememoro los recuerdos agradables y rezo para que se produzcan a menudo.

Sin embargo, para los malos recuerdos que no puedo cambiar, espero y rezo por un mañana mejor para no dar lugar a más arrepentimientos.

Salud a todos nuestros recuerdos; buenos, malos, divertidos y secos, todos nos ayudan y construyen/forman nuestras experiencias, que a su vez dan forma a la manera en que reaccionamos en el presente.

¡SALUD!

Espero que disfruten de esta portada de Rock.

LYRICS OF MEMORIES

CHORUS

Here's to the ones that we got

Cheers to the wish you were here, but you're not

'Cause the drinks bring back all the memories

Of everything we've been through

Toast to the ones here today

Toast to the ones that we lost on the way

'Cause the drinks bring back all the memories

And the memories bring back, memories bring back you

VERSE 1

There's a time that I remember, when I did not know no pain

When I believed in forever, and everything would stay the same

Now my heart feel like December when somebody say your name

'Cause I can't reach out to call you, but I know I will one day, yeah

PRE-CHORUS

Everybody hurts sometimes

Everybody hurts someday, ayy-ayy

But everything gon' be alright

Go and raise a glass and say, ayy

Lyrics from Azlyrics

For the complete lyrics, you can watch the lyrics video below.

This is the original version of the song and official Video.

• Other images not referenced are mine, created via Canva

• Translation via Deepl Traductor

Let's Rock on 🤘

I AM KSAM

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🎵 Music Lovers of Hive Open Mic community! 🎙

Hello my Hive Open Mic Family and Community. You are welcome to Hive Open Mic week One hundred and twenty-three. The Theme of this week is "A Better World for All" chosen by my good friend @daniky

Hola mi familia y comunidad de Hive Open Mic. Son bienvenidos a la semana ciento veintitrés de Hive Open Mic. El tema de esta semana es "Un mundo mejor para todos" elegido por mi buen amigo @daniky

When I saw the theme "A Better World for All," the first song that came to my mind was "Heal the World" by Michael Jackson. I know that many people also felt the same, however it also reminded me about something.

I remember the year 2020 when Covid-19 struck the world, and the whole world felt the effect of this deadly pandemic. Covid-19 "paralysed" the whole world; all social activities were on standstill, the economy was in crisis, hunger was knocking at the door of the majority of people in the world, hospitals were filled with the sick, yet to be sick and the diseased, families had to be separated from each other, and many people lost their loved ones.

I can go on to recount the damages Covid-19 did to our world, however, I know it won't do us any good as many of us are still battling with the Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) caused by this Pandemic.

During this period one of the songs that was played frequently in many television stations, online media outlets and in people's home was this wonderful song HEAL THE WORLD.

Yes, the world needed (and still needs) healing. It was as though Jackson released this song to accompany us in that dark time.

We thank God that the severity and fatality of the pandemic has been reduced. We thank God for healing our world through the instrumentality of our wonderful doctors and great scientist. We continue to pray and act in order to make the world become "A Better World for All."

I hope you enjoy this my guitar cover, and permit my flaws.

Cuando vi el tema "Un mundo mejor para todos", la primera canción que me vino a la mente fue "Heal the World" de Michael Jackson. Sé que mucha gente también sintió lo mismo, pero también me recordó algo.

Recuerdo el año 2020, cuando el Covid-19 golpeó al mundo, y el mundo entero sintió el efecto de esta pandemia mortal. El Covid-19 "paralizó" al mundo entero; todas las actividades sociales se paralizaron, la economía estaba en crisis, el hambre llamaba a la puerta de la mayoría de las personas del mundo, los hospitales se llenaron de enfermos, aún por enfermar y de enfermos, las familias tuvieron que separarse unas de otras y muchas personas perdieron a sus seres queridos.

Puedo seguir relatando los daños que Covid-19 causó a nuestro mundo, sin embargo, sé que no nos servirá de nada ya que muchos de nosotros todavía estamos luchando con el trastorno de estrés postraumático (TEPT) causado por esta pandemia.

Durante este periodo, una de las canciones que sonaba con frecuencia en muchas cadenas de televisión, medios de comunicación online y en los hogares de la gente era esta maravillosa canción HEAL THE WORLD.

Sí, el mundo necesitaba (y sigue necesitando) curación. Fue como si Jackson lanzara esta canción para acompañarnos en esa época oscura.

Damos gracias a Dios por haber reducido la gravedad y la mortalidad de la pandemia. Damos gracias a Dios por curar nuestro mundo a través de la instrumentación de nuestros maravillosos médicos y grandes científicos. Seguimos rezando y actuando para que el mundo sea "Un mundo mejor para todos".

Espero que disfruten de esta portada de mi guitarra, y permitan mis defectos.

LYRICS OF HEAL THE WORLD

VERSE ONE

There's a place in your heart

And I know that it is love

And this place could be much

Brighter than tomorrow.

And if you really try

You'll find there's no need to cry

In this place you'll feel

There's no hurt or sorrow.

PRE-CHORUS

There are ways to get there

If you care enough for the living

Make a little space, make a better place.

CHORUS

Heal the world

Make it a better place

For you and for me and the entire human race

There are people dying

If you care enough for the living

Make a better place for

You and for me.

Lyrics from SongLyrics

See the complete lyrics from this lyrics video

Heal the World Official Video

• Hive Open Mic Week 123 Banner, a property of Hive Open Mic Community.
• Other images created by me using Canva
• Translation via Deepl Traductor

I AM KSAM

@ksam is a "uniquely creative" Hive lover who combines his musical, writing, linguistic, video and audio editing skills to promote creativity and ideas in the Hive Community. He is the founder of Afri-tunes alongside starstrings01 and obaro. Afri-tunes is a newly founded musical community on Hive that aims towards nourishing and enriching the Hive Musical Family (and the Hive Community at large) with African Tunes and Musical Genres. It is our sole aim to spread the love, the calmness, the smiles, the culture, the songs and the dance associated with African tunes. Kindly click C/AFRI-TUNES visit our community on Hive. You can participate, support us or stay glued and watch out for amazing African songs on Hive 🕺💃

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Lovers of Good Music on Hive!

Lovers of African Music on Hive!

My Afri-tunes Community people! This is another week of our lovely and amazing event on Hive, Afri-tunes, and this is the 23rd week.

As at 10pm yesterday (Wednesday 17 August), I was still indecisive with regard to my choice song for the Week.

I wanted to play a contemporary mix like Overload by Marvins, but it seems I wasn't in the mood for it. So I crossed that off my mind.

Then I decided to explore songs that aren't too recent but not too Old. Flavour was the first musician that came to my mind.

I remember his song Ada Ada, and I tried it out first. It wasn't giving me what I wanted, but it led me to Golibe.

Well these two songs are very connected and somehow compliment each other.

On the one hand, "Ada Ada" is an eulogy to a beautiful bride who is getting married in the Traditional way. Flavour, in this song, praises her beauty in different ways, and he also speaks of how everyone has gathered to celebrate this day with her.

On the other hand, Golibe, which was released 2 years after Ada Ada, is also an eulogy to a beautiful bride just like Ada Ada. The only difference is that Flavour also speaks of the personal struggle he (the protagonist) took to find his bride.

Well, another notable difference is that, in the former, he names the bride "Ada Ada" (an Igbo name given to every first daughter), but in the latter, at the end of the Golibe song, he listed some names. Well this doesn't mean that the song is only for those bearing the names, rather he is just trying to tell us that so long as you're in the category, then you worth it.

By the way, "Golibe" is an Igbo word that means rejoice.

That is the reason why both songs are used during traditional wedding ceremonies in the South Eastern part of Nigeria.

On my own part, I love Golibe song better and that's why I chose it to share with us on this great day.

I hope you'll enjoy this piece.

LYRICS OF GOLIBE

IGBO Verse 1

Otego m chobalu nwa di mma m ga-anu

E don tey I have been searching for you

Otego m chobalu asa di mma oyoko

E don tey i have been searching for you

Fortunately oo m wey funu nwata di mma Anwunta atabeghi ya

Baby na sweet paw paw

Pre-Chorus

Baby get something, nekenenu nwata nwelu something

Achala ugo nwanyi nwa bu Ugegbe oyibo

Chorus

Nwata makata mma le le (makata makata) Iye eeeehh (makata makata) Omakata mma eeeeeh (makata makata)

Nwata di mma I say nwata makata mma le le (makata makata) Iye eeeehh ooo (makata makata) Ololo olooooo(makata makata) Nwata di mma Nwata makata mma le le (makata makata) Omakata mma eeeeeh (makata makata) Iye eeeehh (makata makata) Nwata di mma I say nwata makata mma le le (makata makata) Iye eeeehh ooo (makata makata) Nwata makata mma lelelele (makata makata) Nwata di mma

Verse 2

Golibe golibe Your mama born you well

Golibe yoyoyo eeeee Nwata golibe

Ugegbemuooo golibe na mama yi musili yi ike

Golibe yoyoyo eeeee mma si na chi

Concluding Part

So mma

Ugegbe makata (so mma)

Adugo makata (so mma)

Iyawo makata (so mma)

Nneka makata (so mma)

Ogechi makata (so mma)

Njideka makata (so mma)

Adaolisa i makata (so mma)

Nkiru makata (so mma)

Chinelo makata (so mma)

Chinenye makata (so mma)

Chikaodili makata (so mma)

ENGLISH TRANSLATION Its been long since I've been looking for a beautiful woman to marry

Its been long ave been searching for you

I've been looking for a beautiful woman for a long time

Its been long ave been searching for you

Fortunately I saw a good child

Mosquito hasn't bitten her

Baby is sweet pawpaw

Pre-Chorus

Baby get something, look the child has something

Spotless Eagle, foreign reflective mirror

Chorus

Baby shinning beauty

Beautiful

Baby shinning beauty

Baby is fine

I say the baby is shining beauty

Beautiful

Baby is fine

Baby shinning beauty

Baby shinning beauty

Beautiful

Baby is fine

I say the baby is shining beauty

Beautiful

The child is shining beauty lele le

Baby is fine

Verse 2

Be happy be happy

Your mother gave birth to you well

Be happy!

Baby be happy

My mirror be happy your mama born you well

Be happy beauty is from the creator

Baby get something, see this girl has something

Mosquito hasn't bitten her

Baby is sweet pawpaw

Concluding Part

Adugo so beautiful

Iyawo so beautiful

Nneka so beautiful

Ogechi so beautiful

Njideka so beautiful

Adolisa so beautiful

Nkiru so beautiful

Chinelo so beautiful

Chinenye so beautiful

Chikaodili so beautiful

Lyrics and translation gotten from Musixmatch

Instrumental was extracted via Moises

The video of the song was done without much instruments unlike the audio

I prefer the audio

Special thanks to @starstrings01 @obaro and every supporters of this great community. KSAM loves you all.

I ❤ LOVE YOU ALL

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I AM KSAM

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🎵 Music Lovers of Hive Open Mic community! 🎙

Hola! Mi Familia y comunidad de Hive Open Mic.

Bienvenido a Hive Open Mic Semana Ciento veintidós. La tema de la semana es Emoción, Elegido por @sunsethunter.

Hello my Hive Open Mic Family and Community. You are welcome to Hive Open Mic week 122 and the Theme of this week is "Emotion," chosen by @sunsethunter.

11 days ago, I made an entry to Pukumundo La Vox Cantate week 26, and I played the Rock version of the song Can’t Help Falling in Love by Elvis Presley. While playing it, using the rock style, I felt something else was missing, because the Rock version took it from a Romantic level to more of a fun style of play.

To an extent, it was devoid of the emotions, and romantic ambience that is unique to this song.

Have you watched the 2018 movie, Crazy Rich Asians? Do you remember the Wedding Ceremony between Araminta and Colins?

Hace 11 días, hice una entrada a Pukumundo La Vox Cantate semana 26, y toqué la versión Rock de la canción Can't Help Falling in Love de Elvis Presley. Mientras la interpretaba, utilizando el estilo rock, sentí que faltaba algo más, porque la versión Rock la llevaba de un nivel romántico a un estilo de juego más divertido.

Hasta cierto punto, carecía de las emociones, y el ambiente romántico que es único en esta canción.

¿Has visto la película de 2018, Crazy Rich Asians? ¿Recuerdas la ceremonia de boda entre Araminta y Colins?

Mheeeen! That was hooooot! That is a quintessential of what this song can do; the emotions it carries and the Romantic vibes. The Chills!

Hence, prompted by this, I chose this song as an entry for this week. Plus, based on @hopestylist recommendation on my Pukumundo’s entry, I also promised her 😏 to do a version that would bring out this romantic vibe. Oya Ayaff fulfil my promise

I hope you all enjoy it.

¡Mheeeen! ¡Eso fue hooooot! Es la quintaesencia de lo que puede hacer esta canción; las emociones que transmite y las vibraciones románticas. ¡Los escalofríos!

Por eso, impulsado por esto, elegí esta canción como entrada para esta semana. Además, basándome en la recomendación de @hopestylist sobre la entrada de mi Pukumundo, también le prometí 😏 hacer una versión que sacara esta vibra romántica. Oya Ayaff cumplir mi promesa.

Espero que todos la disfruten.

Drum beat from my NUX MG-200 Ballad preset.

LYRICS OF CAN'T HELP FALLING IN LOVE

Wise men say

Only fools rush in

But I can't help falling in love with you

Shall I stay?

Would it be a sin

If I can't help falling in love with you?

Like a river flows

Surely to the sea

Darling, so it goes

Some things are meant to be

Take my hand

Take my whole life, too

For I can't help falling in love with you

Lyrics from LyricFind

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• Other images created by me using Canva
• Translation via Deepl Traductor

Greetings to the wonderful Admins and moderators of this wonderful community for creating and managing this great platform.

I also appreciate all my friends on Hive and musical friends on Hive. It is nice knowing you all and being friends with you all. I'm grateful for your wonderful comments on my post always.

I AM KSAM

@ksam is a "uniquely creative" Hive lover who combines his musical, writing, linguistic, video and audio editing skills to promote creativity and ideas in the Hive Community. He is the founder of Afri-tunes alongside starstrings01 and obaro. Afri-tunes is a newly founded musical community on Hive that aims towards nourishing and enriching the Hive Musical Family (and the Hive Community at large) with African Tunes and Musical Genres. It is our sole aim to spread the love, the calmness, the smiles, the culture, the songs and the dance associated with African tunes. Kindly click C/AFRI-TUNES visit our community on Hive. You can participate, support us or stay glued and watch out for amazing African songs on Hive 🕺💃

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🎵 Hola mi comunidad Pukumundo🎙

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Hello my Pukumundo Family this is Pukumundo La Voz Cantate week twenty-seven.

Hola mi Familia Pukumundo esta es la semana veintisiete de Pukumundo La Voz Cantate.

For this week I'll be playing a Christian song by the Nigerian Gospel Artist, Mercy Chinwo. The song is titled Excess love.

Personally, this song speaks to me about the Excess Love of God towards me, my family, my friends and everyone. It reminds me that the love of God is unfathomable and unconditional; it is abundance and pure.

Esta semana voy a poner una canción cristiana de la artista nigeriana de gospel Mercy Chinwo. La canción se titula Excess love.

Personalmente, esta canción me habla del exceso de amor de Dios hacia mí, mi familia, mis amigos y todo el mundo. Me recuerda que el amor de Dios es insondable e incondicional; es abundante y puro.

This song is a cool, slow and solemn song, but I'll give it a unique interpretation.

I'll be playing a Rock version. I'll use a Rock beat preset with a reduced tempo 80 BPM from my NUX MG-200.

I'll record 4 different layers with my lead guitar and sync them.

I hope you enjoy this piece.

Esta canción es una canción fresca, lenta y solemne, pero le daré una interpretación única.

Tocaré una versión Rock. Utilizaré un preset de ritmo de Rock con un tempo reducido 80 BPM de mi NUX MG-200.

Grabaré 4 capas diferentes con mi guitarra principal y las sincronizaré.

Espero que disfrutéis de esta pieza.

LYRICS EXCESS LOVE

Your love is kind, Your love is patient

You fill my heart with so much peace and joy

You're amazing, You make my life feel brand new

You're amazing, You make my life feel brand new

Jesus, You love me too much, oh

Too much, oh, too much, oh, excess love, oh

Jesus, You love me too much, oh

Too much, oh, too much, oh, excess love, oh

Jesus, You love me too much, oh

Too much, oh, too much, oh, excess love, oh

Jesus, You love me too much, oh

Too much, oh, too much, oh, excess love, oh

Tu amor es amable, Tu amor es paciente

Llenas mi corazón con tanta paz y alegría

Eres increíble, haces que mi vida se sienta nueva

Eres increíble, haces que mi vida se sienta nueva

Jesús, me amas demasiado, oh

Demasiado, oh, demasiado, oh, exceso de amor, oh

Jesús, me amas demasiado, oh

Demasiado, oh, demasiado, oh, exceso de amor, oh

Jesús, me amas demasiado, oh

Demasiado, oh, demasiado, oh, exceso de amor, oh

Jesús, me amas demasiado, oh

Demasiado, oh, demasiado, oh, exceso de amor, oh

Lyrics from Azlyrics

This is the original version of the song

• Other images not referenced are mine, created via Canva

• Translation via Deepl Traductor

Big shout out to @nahupuku @orimusic and all my very good friends in the Pukumundo Community.

Let's Rock on 🤘

I AM KSAM

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Lovers of Good Music on Hive!

Lovers of African Music on Hive!

My Afri-tunes Community people! This is another week of our lovely and amazing event on Hive, Afri-tunes. This is the 22nd week of our Afri-tunes event.

For this week, I'll be playing an Afro-beat song by the renowned Nigerian Musician, Simi. The title of the song is Joromi.

Whenever we hear the title, Joromi our minds flashback to the Legendary Sir. Victor Uwaifo Highlife song titled Joromi. He was the first to use the titled and word Joromi to compose a song. I can remember doing a small cover of his High Life Joromi song as an entry for Afri-tunes Week 2, or weekend 2 (as we called it that time).

https://3speak.tv/watch?v=ksam/uedbrpqi

However, Simi's Joromi is somewhat different from Victor Uwaifo's.

Well, I'm not here to give a critical analysis on the difference. Instead, I'm hear to share the wonderful music to you.

What inspired me? 🤔

I think I just wanted to present Simi's song for this week. I had to choose between Smile for me, Duduke and Joromi. So, Joromi won the battle and I had to record it yesterday Night.

I played the song with my lead guitar in 5 different layers:

1. Chords (Strumming)
2. Harmony
3. Bass
4. Solo/Improvisation
5. Melody

I hope you enjoy this piece amidst it's obvious unprofessionalism.

LYRICS OF JOROMI

Joromi Joromi

I want you to love me

Joromi baby

Joromi Joro

Kiode? Kilode o?

Why you no dey call me

Kilode baby?

Kilode Joro

I dey give you signal (joromi)

Why you no dey see me ah (joromi)

I give you green light tire (joromi Joro)

Omo kilon bubble o (Joromi)

Make you no dey fumble o (Joromi)

I go shoot my shot e o Joro

So Joro baby take my number

(Take my number)

You know you can call me later

(Call me later)

Me I want to be you lover

(Be your lover)

On baby, call me later

(Call me later)

Lyrics from Genius.com

Special thanks to @starstrings01 @obaro and every supporters of this great community. KSAM loves you all.

I ❤ LOVE YOU ALL

• Afri-tunes Logo and Week 22 Banner - property of Afri-tunes Community
• Other images designed via Canva Mobile Application

I AM KSAM

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🎵 Hello Music Lovers of Hive Music community! 🎙

Greetings to you all!

Today I'll be sharing a song from the Catholic Hymn Book which is also sung by other Christian denominations. It was sung as the recessional hymn at today's Evening Mass, and it is titled, FAITH OF OUR FATHERS.

By Faith of our Fathers, the song reminds us of the unwavering faith the Apostles, Apostolic Fathers and Early Christians had in Christ.

The song speaks about the struggles and persecutions they went through, and amidst that they never relented, infact they were joyful in serving God.

It's a good thing to learn from their steadfastness to the faith in Christ amidst all they encountered.

We know that we all have to go through various challenges and struggles in our daily lives. And our world today isn't helping matters because Secularism has eaten deep into almost all aspects. In the same way, standing for Christ or the sake of the Gospel has become a difficult task to carry on. In fact, in some places today (especially some part of Northern Nigeria) one cannot be bold enough to say he or she is a Christian because of the persecutions of Christians in those areas.

This song reminds us to remain relentless in standing up for our faith in Christ, just like the Early Fathers.

It encourages us to remain true to God's Word, as we look forward to entering the abode of eternal Happiness and Joy which can only be found in Christ.

• Images edited via Canva

I AM KSAM

@ksam is a "uniquely creative" Hive lover who combines his musical, writing, linguistic, video and audio editing skills to promote creativity and ideas in the Hive Community. He is the founder of Afri-tunes alongside starstrings01 and obaro. Afri-tunes is a newly founded musical community on Hive that aims towards nourishing and enriching the Hive Musical Family (and the Hive Community at large) with African Tunes and Musical Genres. It is our sole aim to spread the love, the calmness, the smiles, the culture, the songs and the dance associated with African tunes. Kindly click C/AFRI-TUNES visit our community on Hive. You can participate, support us or stay glued and watch out for amazing African songs on Hive 🕺💃

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https://3speak.tv/watch?v=ksam/tcmismep

🎵 Music Lovers of Hive Open Mic community! 🎙

Hola! Mi Familia y comunidad de Hive Open Mic.

Bienvenido a Hive Open Mic Semana Ciento veintiuno. La tema de la semana es Amor de Familia, Elegido por @osmely.

Hello my Hive Open Mic Family and Community. You are welcome to Hive Open Mic week 121 and the Theme of this week is "Love of Family," chosen by @osmely.

Family is the Cradle of LOVE ❤

It is where Love is Born, experienced, Nurtured and expressed. It unites couples and their offsprings, and makes them One Family in love.

It is clothed in sacrifice, understanding, trust and mutual respect. And when these qualities are meticulously adhered to, peace is bound to reign in the home.

However, frankly speaking, the 21st century world is drifting away from the ideals of a happy home. When you hear of marriage breakup stories, divorces and toxicity in marriages you wonder what the couples were doing during the dating or courtship stage.

Some relationships and marriages also make one to wonder if love has become transactional as if it were converting HIVE for LEO in Hive Engine or Leodex.

This is appalling!

Worst still, we are breeding a new generation that don't even know what love is. They mistake Love for Lust and build their relationships on Lust or wealth. Honestly, I wonder the fate of Family life and family love in the next 5 decades.

I think there is a need for World Wide reorientation on love in order to dilute the misconceptions and misconstrued identity of love. Infact, to eradicate it, if possible. This should be the first step towards achieving progress.

However, where the world wide reorientation is only an utopia, then we should make individual effort towards achieving the goal.

La familia es la cuna del AMOR ❤

Es donde el Amor nace, se experimenta, se nutre y se expresa. Une a las parejas y a sus descendientes, y los convierte en Una Familia en el amor.

Se reviste de sacrificio, comprensión, confianza y respeto mutuo. Y cuando estas cualidades se cumplen meticulosamente, la paz está destinada a reinar en el hogar.

Sin embargo, hablando con franqueza, el mundo del siglo XXI se está alejando de los ideales de un hogar feliz. Cuando se oyen historias de ruptura, divorcios y toxicidad en los matrimonios, uno se pregunta qué hacían las parejas durante la etapa de noviazgo.

Algunas relaciones y matrimonios también hacen que uno se pregunte si el amor se ha convertido en algo transaccional, como si se tratara de convertir el VIH en LEO en Hive Engine o Leodex.

Esto es espantoso.

Peor aún, estamos criando una nueva generación que ni siquiera sabe lo que es el amor. Confunden el Amor con la Lujuria y construyen sus relaciones sobre la Lujuria o la riqueza. Sinceramente, me pregunto cuál será el destino de la vida familiar y del amor familiar en las próximas 5 décadas.

Creo que es necesaria una reorientación mundial sobre el amor para diluir los conceptos erróneos y la identidad mal interpretada del amor. De hecho, para erradicarla, si es posible. Este debería ser el primer paso para lograr el progreso.

Sin embargo, si la reorientación mundial es sólo una utopía, entonces deberíamos hacer un esfuerzo individual para lograr el objetivo.

For this week, I selected Bob Marley's Evergreen Reggae song titled ONE LOVE.

Maybe it's an utopia, but then it'll be a great thing if the whole world upholds Love and jettison hate or Prejudice.

By the way, I played this piece with my electric guitar. I didn't want to use any external instrumental, so I tried replicating it somehow, although drums and keyboard sounds were lacking 🥺

I hope you enjoy this piece 😊

Para esta semana, he seleccionado la canción Reggae Evergreen de Bob Marley titulada ONE LOVE.

Tal vez sea una utopía, pero entonces será una gran cosa si el mundo entero defiende el Amor y desecha el odio o los Prejuicios.

Por cierto, esta pieza la toqué con mi guitarra eléctrica. No quise usar ningún instrumental externo, así que intenté replicarlo de alguna manera, aunque faltaban los sonidos de la batería y el teclado 🥺

Espero que disfruten de esta pieza 😊

LYRICS OF ONE LOVE ❤

One love, one heart

Let's get together and feel all right

Hear the children cryin' (one love)

Hear the children cryin' (one heart)

Sayin' give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right

Sayin' let's get together and feel all right

Let them all pass all their dirty remarks (one love)

There is one question I'd really love to ask (one heart)

Is there a place for the hopeless sinners

Who has hurt all mankind just to save his own beliefs?

One love, what about the one heart, one heart

What about, people, let's get together and feel all right

As it was in the beginning (one love)

So shall it be in the end (one heart)

All right! Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right

Let's get together and feel all right, one more thing

Source: LyricFind

• Hive Open Mic Week 121 Banner, a property of Hive Open Mic Community.
• Other images created by me using Canva and Power director
• Translation via Deepl Traductor

Once again, I can't forget to appreciate the wonderful Admins and moderators of this wonderful community for creating and managing this great platform. For hosting this weekly event and making sure it is always successful.

I also appreciate all my friends on Hive and musical friends on Hive. It is nice knowing you all and being friends with you all. I'm grateful for your wonderful comments on my post always.

I AM KSAM

@ksam is a "uniquely creative" Hive lover who combines his musical, writing, linguistic, video and audio editing skills to promote creativity and ideas in the Hive Community. He is the founder of Afri-tunes alongside starstrings01 and obaro. Afri-tunes is a newly founded musical community on Hive that aims towards nourishing and enriching the Hive Musical Family (and the Hive Community at large) with African Tunes and Musical Genres. It is our sole aim to spread the love, the calmness, the smiles, the culture, the songs and the dance associated with African tunes. Kindly click C/AFRI-TUNES visit our community on Hive. You can participate, support us or stay glued and watch out for amazing African songs on Hive 🕺💃

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Lovers of Good Music on Hive!

Lovers of African Music on Hive!

My Afri-tunes Community people!

I don show oooo!

This is another week of our lovely and amazing event on Hive, Afri-tunes. This is the 21st week of our Afri-tunes event.

For this week, I'll be dedicating this beautiful song to my brother @chosenfingers

From his post and his further "chat" it "seems" he was served "breakfast," although I'm not sure ooo (don't say you heard it from my mouth). But he made an entry 6 hours ago and he titled it "NOT THE GIRL" MUSIC COVER FROM A BROKEN HEART. So there you have it, you heard it from his mouth.

As a way of showing empathy, sympathy and not apathy, I wish to present a song by Chike. Titled, If you no Love me.

Chike is a well-known Lover boy in the Nigerian music industry because of his wonderful love and romantic music. In this song he expresses the way he cherishes and values love, and such he tells the "lady" not to lead him on as though she is interested in the relationship while she isn't. In other words, it is like a pre-breakfast or "phobo-breakfast" song. Hahaha, did I just coin a new word?

Phobo-breakfast: fear of breakfast

Breakfast (in relationships) in the Nigerian English has a different meaning: it refers to heartbreak 💔

For Chike to sing this kind of music, still baffles me.

@chosenfingers was/is also our official Lover Boy 😅 and for him to sing his own breakfast song, ahhhh the similarities is strikingly choking 😅😅

I hope you enjoy my guitar cover

LYRICS OF IF YOU NO LOVE ME

Calling me the sugar wey dey your tea

Calling me the honey wey dey your bee

Anything you tell me I dey believe o

Showing me around like I lost my way

Telling all your friend say na mi be bae

Baby see me I don dey believe o

Tell me make I know now

If you show me make I know now

If e nah sure me make I know now

If you nah love me o

Tell me make I know now o

If e sure me make I know now o

If e nah sure me make I know now o

If you nah love me o

Make you nah talk say you love me o

Haai if you nah need me o

Make you nah talk say you need me o

I take this love seriously o

Baby o make you nah play me o

No go dey talk say you love me o

No play me oo

Calling me the sun wey bright your day

Calling me the joy wey dey catch your face

Anything you talk baby I dey believe o

Nobody dey gree to dey toast me again

When dey wana come you dey block their way

Everybody don sabi me with you o

Tell me make I know now

If you show me make I know now

If e nah sure me make I know now

Tell me make I know now o

If e sure me make I know now o

If e nah sure me make I know now o

If you nah love me o

Make you nah talk say you love me o

Hai if you nah need me o

Make you nah talk say you need me o

I take this love seriously o

Baby o

Make you nah play me o

No go dey talk say you love me

Lyrics from LyricFind

Instrumental extracted from Moises Mobile Application

Special thanks to @starstrings01 @obaro and every supporters of this great community. KSAM loves you all.

I ❤ LOVE YOU ALL

• Afri-tunes Logo and Week 20 Banner - property of Afri-tunes Community
• Other images designed via PowerDirector Mobile Application

I AM KSAM

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🎵 Hola mi comunidad Pukumundo🎙

Property of Pukumundo Community

Hello my Pukumundo Family this is Pukumundo week twenty-six with the theme of La Voz Cantate.

Hola mi Familia Pukumundo esta es la semana veintiseis de Pukumundo con el tema de La Voz Cantate.

For this week, I decided to bring in something different. As @obaro noted jokingly, I have been presenting only Gospel songs for about 2 weeks in the different music communities on Hive (Music community, Hive Open Mic, Afritunes and my last entry on Pukumundo was also a Gospel music). @obaro advised me to go and establish a Church... hahahahahaha

Well!

Today I'll be doing something different. I will be presenting a love/Romantic Song by Elvis Presley titled "Can't Help Falling in Love."

This song, to me, is a true definition of a Romantic Song grade A. It is a song that harnesses the true spirit of Romance and Love in its delivery. It's calm and serene nature can prompt someone to find the love of his or her life to avoid intimidation... hahahaha

The words of its lyrics are so intentional that they can spur one to embark on the journey of love, albeit it prepares you for the journey so that you don't be like the fools that rush in.

However, sometimes love can be blind, especially when "I can't help falling in love with you." 🤩

I hope you enjoy this piece 🥰

¡Bueno!

Hoy voy a hacer algo diferente. Estaré presentando una Canción de Amor/Romántica de Elvis Presley titulada "Can't Help Falling in Love".

Esta canción, para mí, es una verdadera definición de una canción romántica de grado A. Es una canción que aprovecha el verdadero espíritu del romance y el amor en su entrega. Su naturaleza tranquila y serena puede incitar a alguien a encontrar el amor de su vida para evitar la intimidación... jajaja

Las palabras de su letra son tan intencionadas que pueden incitar a uno a embarcarse en el viaje del amor, aunque te prepara para el viaje para que no seas como los tontos que se precipitan.

Sin embargo, a veces el amor puede ser ciego, sobre todo cuando "no puedo evitar enamorarme de ti". 🤩

Espero que disfruten de esta pieza 🥰.

LYRICS OF CAN'T HELP FALLING IN LOVE

Nathaniel Bassey ministering at The Liberty Church London

Wise men say

Only fools rush in

But I can't help falling in love with you

Shall I stay?

Would it be a sin

If I can't help falling in love with you?

Like a river flows

Surely to the sea

Darling, so it goes

Some things are meant to be

Take my hand

Take my whole life, too

For I can't help falling in love with you

Lyrics from LyricFind

This is the original version of the song

I love this second version; the band played through various Genres and displayed wonderful skills 👏

I love this funny Rock version 😅😅😅

• Other images not referenced are mine, created via PowerDirector

• Translation via Deepl Traductor

Big shout out to @nahupuku @orimusic and all my very good friends in the Pukumundo Community.

Let's Rock on 🤘

I AM KSAM

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https://3speak.tv/watch?v=ksam/fepdzifm

🎵 Hello Music Lovers of Hive Music community! 🎙

Happy Sunday to you all, I wish you blessings and favour of God on this great day.

I wish to share a great song with you on this great day. It is a Christian song sung by Don Moen, titled "This is your House."

Feliz domingo a todos, les deseo bendiciones y favores de Dios en este gran día.

Deseo compartir con ustedes una gran canción en este gran día. Es una canción cristiana cantada por Don Moen, titulada "Esta es tu casa".

Today is Sunday and many of us, as Christians, have gone (or will go) to our various Churches, Chapels and places of worship to praise, glorify and adore the Most High. Although we do this individually everyday, we set Sunday apart as the Day of the Lord to offer communnal worship. This does not diminish the importance of personal devotion and spirituality rather it strengthens us and makes us united as one body in Christ.

In this communal worship, Christ tells us that He is present amongst us and His presence will remain till the end of time. Hence, this prompted me to play this song by Don Moen today.

In this song, Don Moen speaks about communal worship and the presence of the Spirit of God in such gatherings. Yes, let's invite and welcome God in such gatherings, and not only that, let us also welcone Him in our hearts and let His presence fill us with love and joy.

I hope you enjoy this piece.

Hoy es domingo y muchos de nosotros, como cristianos, hemos ido (o iremos) a nuestras diversas iglesias, capillas y lugares de culto para alabar, glorificar y adorar al Altísimo. Aunque lo hacemos individualmente todos los días, reservamos el domingo como Día del Señor para ofrecer un culto comunitario. Esto no disminuye la importancia de la devoción y la espiritualidad personales, sino que nos fortalece y nos hace estar unidos como un solo cuerpo en Cristo.

En este culto comunitario, Cristo nos dice que está presente entre nosotros y que su presencia permanecerá hasta el final de los tiempos. De ahí que me haya animado a poner hoy esta canción de Don Moen.

En esta canción, Don Moen habla de la adoración comunitaria y de la presencia del Espíritu de Dios en esas reuniones. Sí, invitemos y demos la bienvenida a Dios en esas reuniones, y no sólo eso, también démosle la bienvenida en nuestros corazones y dejemos que su presencia nos llene de amor y alegría.

Espero que disfruten de este artículo.

This is the official Video of the song

This is a version with lyrics

• Translation done via Deepl Traductor
• Images edited via Canva

I AM KSAM

@ksam is a "uniquely creative" Hive lover who combines his musical, writing, linguistic, video and audio editing skills to promote creativity and ideas in the Hive Community. He is the founder of Afri-tunes alongside starstrings01 and obaro. Afri-tunes is a newly founded musical community on Hive that aims towards nourishing and enriching the Hive Musical Family (and the Hive Community at large) with African Tunes and Musical Genres. It is our sole aim to spread the love, the calmness, the smiles, the culture, the songs and the dance associated with African tunes. Kindly click C/AFRI-TUNES visit our community on Hive. You can participate, support us or stay glued and watch out for amazing African songs on Hive 🕺💃

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https://3speak.tv/watch?v=ksam/xqreswwi

🎵 Music Lovers of Hive Open Mic community! 🎙

Hola! Mi Familia y comunidad de Hive Open Mic.

Bienvenido a Hive Open Mic Semana Ciento Viente. La tema de la semana es Mi Felicidad, Elegido por @jorge234nv.

Hello my Hive Open Mic Family and Community. You are welcome to Hive Open Mic week 120 and the Theme of this week is My Happiness, chosen by @jorge234nv.

For a long time, I've been unable to answer one important and pertinent question about my life. Most times when I get such questions from friends and acquaintances, I simply give them any response on my mind at that time to prevent further enquiries and "investigation" 🧐

WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY? This may be a simple question to you, but to me it isn't.

Your best bet will be music, since I am a "multi-beginner" instrumentalist. Infact, I also thought it was music till I began this journey of introspection. Being creative will be another option, chatting with friends or watching movies. PS: Since I began this personal journey, I had to "lower the volume" of these options, however Hive revived them.

But,

I am unable to hinge the reason or source of my happiness to a physical reality, because this implies that if that thing isn't available then that'll be a long sad day/weeks/months/years for me.

HAPPINESS SHOULD COME FROM WITHIN So many motivational speakers will tell you that "Happiness comes from within," but, the fact is that this quote is incomplete. We should ask: Within where? In your body, mind or where?

In as much as they don't limit Happiness to the physical and external realities, they also don't give definitive response to where Happiness should come from.

Durante mucho tiempo, he sido incapaz de responder a una pregunta importante y pertinente sobre mi vida. La mayoría de las veces, cuando recibo este tipo de preguntas de amigos y conocidos, me limito a darles cualquier respuesta que se me ocurra en ese momento para evitar más indagaciones e "investigaciones" 🧐

¿QUÉ TE HACE FELIZ? Esta puede ser una pregunta sencilla para ti, pero para mí no lo es.

Tu mejor opción será la música, ya que soy un instrumentista "multiprincipiante". De hecho, yo también pensaba que era la música hasta que comencé este viaje de introspección. Ser creativo será otra opción, charlar con los amigos o ver películas. PS: Desde que comencé este viaje personal, tuve que "bajar el volumen" de estas opciones, sin embargo Hive las revivió.

Pero, Soy incapaz de vincular la razón o la fuente de mi felicidad a una realidad física, porque esto implica que si esa cosa no está disponible entonces será un largo día/semanas/meses/años tristes para mí.

La felicidad debe venir de dentro Muchos oradores motivacionales te dirán que "la felicidad viene de dentro", pero, lo cierto es que esta cita está incompleta. Deberíamos preguntar: ¿Dentro de dónde? En tu cuerpo, en tu mente o en dónde?

En la medida en que no limitan la Felicidad a las realidades físicas y externas, tampoco dan respuesta definitiva a de dónde debe venir la Felicidad.

Well, my choice of this beautiful song by Adrienne Camp titled IN CHRIST ALONE is an affirmation that Christ, alone is the source of my happiness. In him, my hope is found. He is my light, my strength, my joy and the Solid rock upon which I stand firm.

This is not only a reassurance for me, but it is also a personal reminder to me about the place of Christ in my life.

I hope you enjoy this piece ❤

Pues bien, mi elección de esta hermosa canción de Adrienne Camp titulada IN CHRIST ALONE es una afirmación de que sólo Cristo es la fuente de mi felicidad. En él se encuentra mi esperanza. Él es mi luz, mi fuerza, mi alegría y la roca sólida sobre la que me mantengo firme.

Esto no es sólo una tranquilidad para mí, sino también un recordatorio personal sobre el lugar de Cristo en mi vida.

Espero que disfruten de esta pieza ❤️.

LYRICS VIDEO OF "IN CHRIST ALONE"

• Hive Open Mic Week 120 Banner, a property of Hive Open Mic Community.
• Other images created by me using Canva and Power director
• Translation via Deepl Traductor

Once again, I can't forget to appreciate the wonderful Admins and moderators of this wonderful community for creating and managing this great platform. For hosting this weekly event and making sure it is always successful.

I also appreciate all my friends on Hive and musical friends on Hive. It is nice knowing you all and being friends with you all. I'm grateful for your wonderful comments on my post always.

I AM KSAM

@ksam is a "uniquely creative" Hive lover who combines his musical, writing, linguistic, video and audio editing skills to promote creativity and ideas in the Hive Community. He is the founder of Afri-tunes alongside starstrings01 and obaro. Afri-tunes is a newly founded musical community on Hive that aims towards nourishing and enriching the Hive Musical Family (and the Hive Community at large) with African Tunes and Musical Genres. It is our sole aim to spread the love, the calmness, the smiles, the culture, the songs and the dance associated with African tunes. Kindly click C/AFRI-TUNES visit our community on Hive. You can participate, support us or stay glued and watch out for amazing African songs on Hive 🕺💃

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🎵 Hola mi comunidad Pukumundo🎙

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Hello my Pukumundo Family this is Pukumundo week 25 with the theme of La Voz Cantate.

Hola mi Familia Pukumundo esta es la semana veinticinco de Pukumundo con el tema de La Voz Cantate.

For this week I'll be playing a guitar cover of the Christian Rock Song by Nathaniel Bassey titled "Casting Crown."

Nathaniel Bassey is a well-known Gospel artist in Nigeria and he has released multiple songs that have been and are still being sung in Churches today. Some of these songs include "Imela", "See what the Lord has done", "Onise Iyanu", "Olowogbogboro" and "Wonderful Wonder" (a song I played for my entry in Afri-tunes #20)

The Song "Casting Crown" is a song of worship and adoration to God. It is a song that proclaims God, Adonai as King who reigns on High (both in heaven and on earth and has powers over the physical and metaphysical/Spiritual Realms).

I tried replicating the song by creating and combining different layers to bring out the bass, rhythm, chorus and then the melody of the song over them.

By the way, creating videos can be a ~~pain in the ass sometimes~~ Imagine after shooting the different layers of your videos and having finished the audio editing, you discovered that you didn't press the START record button for your Camera 😅😅 Guilty as charged 😅 That's why the bass and chorus guitar layers didn't show.

I hope you enjoy this piece 🥰

Para esta semana tocaré un cover para guitarra de la canción de rock cristiano de Nathaniel Bassey titulada "Casting Crown".

Nathaniel Bassey es un artista gospel muy conocido en Nigeria y ha lanzado múltiples canciones que han sido y siguen siendo cantadas en las iglesias hoy en día. Algunas de estas canciones son "Imela", "See what the Lord has done", "Onise Iyanu", "Olowogbogboro" y "Wonderful Wonder" (una canción que toqué para mi entrada en Afri-tunes #20).

La canción "Casting Crown" es una canción de culto y adoración a Dios. Es una canción que proclama a Dios, Adonai, como Rey que reina en lo alto (tanto en el cielo como en la tierra y tiene poderes sobre los reinos físico y metafísico/espiritual).

Intenté reproducir la canción creando y combinando diferentes capas para resaltar el bajo, el ritmo, el coro y luego la melodía de la canción sobre ellos.

Por cierto, la creación de vídeos puede ser un ~~molino en el culo a veces~~ Imagina que después de grabar las diferentes capas de tus vídeos y haber terminado la edición de audio, descubres que no has pulsado el botón de grabación START de tu Cámara 😅😅 Culpable de los cargos 😅 Por eso las capas de guitarra del bajo y el estribillo no aparecieron.

Espero que disfruten de esta pieza 🥰.

Casting crown song with Lyrics

Nathaniel Bassey ministering at The Liberty Church London

• Other images not referenced are mine, created via PowerDirector

Once again, I can't forget to appreciate the wonderful Admins and moderators of this wonderful music community, and all my musical friends on Hive. It is nice knowing you all and being friends with you all. I'm grateful for your wonderful comments on my post always.

I AM KSAM

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Lovers of Good Music on Hive!

Lovers of African Music on Hive!

My Afri-tunes Community people!

I don show oooo!

This is another week of our lovely and amazing event on Hive, Afri-tunes. This is the 20th week of our Afri-tunes event.

For this week I'll be presenting a Christian song by Nathaniel Bassey titled "Wonderful Wonder" which I always call "You're Amazing." Maybe I do this because "You're Amazing" appears more than "Wonderful wonder" on the song's lyrics. Am I the only one guilty of this "crime"? 🤔

For this presentation, I'll be using my electric lead guitar. I'll be playing without the song's instrumental, instead I'll create one myself by creating the Chord, bass line and harmony/choir/accompaniment with my guitar, then I'll play the solo over it. The timing voice will be made with my guitar also (muted sound)

I hope you enjoy it... 🥰

Special thanks to @starstrings01 @obaro and every supporters of this great community. KSAM loves you all.

I ❤ LOVE YOU ALL

• Afri-tunes Logo and Week 20 Banner - property of Afri-tunes Community
• Other images designed via PowerDirector Mobile Application

I AM KSAM

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🎵 Music Lovers of Hive Open Mic community! 🎙

Hola! Mi Familia y comunidad de Hive Open Mic, Feliz Domingo y feliz fin de semana. Bienvenido a Hive Open Mic Semana ciento noventa. La tema de la semana es Prejudice Elegido por @lisbeth26

Hello my Hive Open Mic Family and Community, Happy Sunday and Happy Weekend to you all.

You are welcome to Hive Open Mic week 119 and the Theme of this week is Prejudice, chosen by @lisbeth26.

I had a hard time choosing a song to present for this week, however I decided to share a song I love so well. It's a love song by Christiana Perri titled "A Thousand Years." Oh, that reminds me, Showing Love can be a step towards overcoming Prejudice you know.

Like I said, I chose this song because of my personal attraction to the song. I love the arpeggios of the guitar which created an awesome atmosphere for the song (this, I tried doing in my piece). I love the arrangement of the chords and the progression.

The lyrics is one that would make you ponder and think about love. And for Single people like myself and @starstrings01, especially with the weather that isn't conducive for single people it will give us hard time. 😪 maybe @starstrings01 has already left the single league, I'm the only one left 🥲

I hope you enjoy this piece ❤

Me costó mucho elegir una canción para esta semana, sin embargo decidí compartir una canción que me gusta mucho. It's a love song by Christiana Perri titled "A Thousand Years." Oh, eso me recuerda que mostrar amor puede ser un paso para superar los prejuicios, ya sabes.

Como dije, elegí esta canción por mi atracción personal hacia ella. Me encantan los arpegios de la guitarra, que crean una atmósfera impresionante para la canción (esto, intenté hacerlo en mi pieza). Me encanta el arreglo de los acordes y la progresión.

La letra es una que te haría reflexionar y pensar en el amor. Y para las personas solteras como yo y @starstrings01, especialmente con el clima que no es propicio para las personas solteras, nos hará pasar un mal rato. 😪 quizás @starstrings01 ya dejó la liga de solteros, soy el único que queda

Espero que disfruten esta pieza ❤

LYRICS OF A THOUSAND YEARS

Verse 1

heart

Beats fast

Colors and promises

How to be brave?

How can I love when I'm afraid to fall

But watching you stand alone?

All of my doubt suddenly goes away somehow

Chorus

One step closer

I have died everyday waiting for you

Darling don't be afraid I have loved you

For a thousand years

I'll love you for a thousand more

Verse 2

Time stands still

Beauty in all she is

I will be brave

I will not let anything take away

What's standing in front of me

Every breath

Every hour has come to this

Chorus

One step closer

I have died everyday waiting for you

Darling don't be afraid I have loved you

For a thousand years

I'll love you for a thousand more

And all along I believed I would find you

Time has brought your heart to me

I have loved you for a thousand years

I'll love you for a thousand more

I'll love you for a thousand more

Ohh

Bridge

One step closer (X2)

Chorus

I have died everyday waiting for you

Darling don't be afraid I have loved you

For a thousand years

I'll love you for a thousand more

And all along I believed I would find you

Time has brought your heart to me

I have loved you for a thousand years

I'll love you for a thousand more

Source LyricFind

Songwriters: Christina Perri / David Hodges

• Hive Open Mic Week 119 Banner, a property of Hive Open Mic Community.
• Other images created by me using Canva and Power director
• *Translation from my head 😜 + Deepl Traductor

Once again, I can't forget to appreciate the wonderful Admins and moderators of this wonderful community for creating and managing this great platform. For hosting this weekly event and making sure it is always successful.

I also appreciate all my friends on Hive and musical friends on Hive. It is nice knowing you all and being friends with you all. I'm grateful for your wonderful comments on my post always.

I AM KSAM

@ksam is a "uniquely creative" Hive lover who combines his musical, writing, linguistic, video and audio editing skills to promote creativity and ideas in the Hive Community. He is the founder of Afri-tunes alongside starstrings01 and obaro. Afri-tunes is a newly founded musical community on Hive that aims towards nourishing and enriching the Hive Musical Family (and the Hive Community at large) with African Tunes and Musical Genres. It is our sole aim to spread the love, the calmness, the smiles, the culture, the songs and the dance associated with African tunes. Kindly click C/AFRI-TUNES visit our community on Hive. You can participate, support us or stay glued and watch out for amazing African songs on Hive 🕺💃

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Many of us think that the only opportunity to Earn on Hive is by making quality posts, and that's all.

Well.... Certainly, you can earn from that your Quality and amazing content/post. But, Naaaa! That's not all there is on Hive.

You've only scratched the surface and you're satisfied with the crumbs when you can easily dig out the diamond. - Ksam

A dig dive into the Hive Ecosystem or Hive Blockchain will reveal so many possible ways you can earn, which we can call our

"STREAMSSSSSSS of INCOME"

When you make this dive, you'll discover that the ten (10) ways I'll mention in this post are just the basic ways that Newbies can also get involved with.

In the video above, I discussed these 10 ways to Earn on Hive extensively and I gave relevant/practical examples. However, this post will offer the summary of what I discussed in the video above (with additional points).

The Ten ways I mentioned are:

1. Creating Quality Contents (author's reward)
2. Making Quality Comments
3. Participating in Community Contests
4. Voting (Curation) Reward
5. Tribal Tokens (author and curation rewards)
6. Annual Percentage Rate (APR) on Hive Power (HP) and Hive Backed Dollar (HBD) Savings
7. Liquidity Pool (LP)
8. Hive Power (HP) Delegation
9. Airdrops on Hive
10. Hive Blockchain Games

1. CREATING QUALITY CONTENT (AUTHOR'S REWARD)

Hive supports and encourages authors as it hosts a platform where authors can earn from their ORIGINAL and PLAGIARISM-FREE CONTENTS.

However, aside creating contents and just "dumping them", do well to engage your audience and other authors; put differently, respond to people's comments on your posts and drop amazing comments on their posts.

2. MAKING QUALITY COMMENTS

While making quality comment helps you build relationships or bond with other authors, it can also fetch you few bucks, which if you accumulate can be "something hoooge" (huge) 😉

3. PARTICIPATING IN COMMUNITY CONTESTS

This is also a great way of earning, where you can earn Hive, HBD or Tribal Tokens.

Many communities host Contests daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly, among others. So, as a member of a community, try to be updated with the Contests and activities of the community. All you need to do is to follow the Rules of the Contest....

READ THE RULES, DIGEST IT AND FOLLOW IT CAREFULLY.

The truth is that many people join new communities through these Contests. So don't be afraid to explore other Contests and join other communities where you can actively participate and engage in.

4. VOTING (CURATION) REWARD

Did you know that when you vote contents you also earn from it?

Wait a second 🤔

When you receive upvotes from people, they aren't dashing you Money, you know right? Instead they earn when they do so, you know this right?

Or don't you? 🥺

If you don't, maybe you can understand it a little with this example:

Let's say we all invested in a business with different amounts: some invested with $5 and above, others with $100 and above, and few individuals with $100,000,000.

In this business, one of the benefits is that there is a share of $500 available daily where all the investors can share and benefit from. However, the rules are:

• Rule 1: Your investment amount determines your share of the $500 (which means, someone with $5 worth of investment may get only 0.001 share, while someone who has $100,000,000 worth of this investment may get up to $100)
• Rule 2: You cannot receive your share directly, you can only receive half of it when you give it to someone (for instance: you give the person the whole $100... but when it is time to put receive the money in the account, the money will be shared by you two: he or she takes 50% while you take the other 50%)

Okay let me break down this simple story:

The investment is the HP (Hive Power) and your amount of HP determines your voting mana. This voting mana is the share of investment meant for us, however we cannot receive it directly. We must vote others and then we can get at most, 50% of our $ votes.

That's why we need to accumulate more HP so that you can earn more when we vote a Content.

However, to safeguard the Blockchain and make wise voting choices, only quality and original contents are worthy of these votes. Plagiarised contents and their authors get punished by the Hive Watchers 👁 be careful... don't let that eye Visit You 🤫

PS: 😔😔😔 I wish I had more HP to curate quality contents and support zealous and hardworking Newbies 😔😔😔

5. TRIBAL TOKENS (AUTHOR AND CURATION REWARDS)

Tribal Tokens are second layer Tokens or Community Tokens built on Hive Blockchain. I'll encourage you to visit @samostically post on Tribal Tokens and the Use of tags to understand this better.

These tokens are used as rewards in communities. This usually goes alongside with use of tags. The right content with the appropriate use of tags can fetch you some Tokens (aside Hive Votes). These tokens can be traded at the Hive Engine.

Some of these tokens can be staked or powered up and when you power them up, you can earn curation reward.

For example, if you have a staked $LEO and you vote a post that has a #Leofinance tag, when you vote the post, automatically you vote with your HP voting Mana and Leo voting mana (together with other Tribe Tokens voting mana, if their tags were used). So which means as you get Hive curation reward, you will also get Leo curation reward (one-up curation reward, etc). The same happens with all staked layer 2 Tokens on Hive.

Power them up and accumulate more 😉

If you want to withdraw, it will take 4 weeks unlike HP that takes 13 weeks.

You can also delegate your Tribe Tokens also, and win tribe Tokens in contests.

(O boy! We just mentioned about 4 different ways in just one way)

6. ANNUAL PERCENTAGE RATE (APR)

The details in these images can be found in your Hive Wallet. So go check it up yourself 😉

By Annual Percentage Rate, we simply mean Interest accrued in a year (however, we receive them monthly).

Hive gives you Percentage interest for Investing or Staking Hive (HP) and for Saving with HBD.

Can you see that?

20% Interest for HBD Savings.

You can utilise them well, you know 😉

7. LIQUIDITY POOL

This may be a bit technical, but I will try to simplify it so that you can understand better. If you understand it then you can see the endless possibilities in it.

To convert BEE coin to Hive coin, it means that Hive coins should be available in the Pool to give to the person who needs BEE, in exchange for his or her BEE coin.

Hence what you do in Liquidity Pool is that you make your coins available for this transaction/conversion.

You are neither selling nor giving it out, rather you just make it available. And for doing so, you will be given rewards in Hive coins or other Tribe Tokens, depending on the Pair you wish to add Liquidity on.

When you log on to beeswap.dcity.io/convert you will see the available pairs.

To do this, you should have both pairs, even if they are 0.051 Hive and 0.1 BEE. However, your reward will be little.

(You can reply with a comment for this so that I can explain better)

8. HIVE POWER (HP) DELEGATION

Like I said earlier, the more HP you have the higher your voting Power. With the voting power you can reward quality posts and earn from the reward as well.

However, if you feel you don't have time to move around to curate quality contents, you can delegate the HP to someone or a project (or a Community's official account) to do this in order to support these authors.

While some delegations may come as an act of charity (where you may not gain from them), there are others where you get your 50% curation rewards in Hive coins. Hence, by supporting your favourite project, you also earn from it.

For instance supporting projects like @ocdb @ecency @curangel @leo.voter and @psyberx among others you earn weekly or daily rewards.

9. AIRDROPS ON HIVE

Airdrops (on Hive) are reward we get for Investing in a project on Hive or just owning a Hive account.

Some of these are Tokens given to all Hive holders for the sake of promoting or advertising their tokens, some are Tokens given to holders of Hive based on their staked (HP) and some are given to those who invested in various projects on Hive.

For instance the #Larynx token which many of us claim every month was given to those who created their Hive account prior to when the Snapshot was taken (Last Quarter of 2021). The amount earned also depends on the HP holdings when the Snapshot was taken.

SPS has its own and Leofinance as well (Staking and Farming Cub is also something worth learning).

10. Blockchain Games on Hive

If you've been following my posts, I've done various tutorials on Blockchain Game. You can begin with this post on Blockchain Games - Newbies Tutorial to have a good foundation and understanding of blockchain games.

However, by way of summary, with blockchain games:

☆ You play a Game for fun;

☆ You Earn Cryptocurrency (in-game currency) in the game;

☆ You Earn NFTs in the game; and

☆ You also Trade in the game (trade your crypto coins and sell NFTs at the Market place).

Oh! Before I forget, Hive is a Cryptocurrency, which means the value is volatile (it can increase/decrease in value at a rapid rate). So when you accumulate more Hive now that Hive is low, as the Value of Hive increases your savings and worth in $ also increases.

SO, HODL HIVE 😉 And remember, these are just the basic knowledge oooo!

There are endless possibilities to earn on Hive.

And by the way, this is my 100th Video on 3speaks 😁

• All designs were made by me using Canva Mobile Application and PowerDirector.
• All screenshots were taken with my phone and of my wallet account on Hive and Beeswap.

Have you read these posts by me?

☆ DIARY OF A CONTENT CREATOR ON HIVE

☆ INFLATION: FROM THE LOCAL MAN POINT OF VIEW

☆ Buying, is not the Solution!

☆ These are Hard Times

I AM KSAM

I may not be your favourite author, but you can journey with me to help me develop my "penmanship" skills. I am always open to criticism, correction and learning 🥰.

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🎵 Hello Music Lovers of Hive Music community! 🎙

In less 24 hours ago I recorded a musical piece as an entry for Afri-tunes Week 19 Musical Event on Hive. The piece is a Guitar cover of the remix of the song SUGARCANE BY CAMIDOH. Although the choice of the song was motivated by the goal to make @hopestylist love it "by fire by force" 😜, it is also a song I love so well.

I love the vibe and beat of the song, together with it's flow and melody. Although some parts of the lyrics aren't in English, infact I only discovered this when I searched for the lyrics of the song. Most times when we don't know the exact lyrics of songs, we sing rubbish 😅😅 still yet, we vibe hard to the beat and melody.

This song is also a trending Afro-beat song as well, and it is one you'll hear in most parties where they're vibing hard to Afro-beat songs.

In my Cover on Afri-tunes, I used the instrumental of the song downloaded from 430box.com. However, after posting the video I decided to do something different.

I decided to play the same song, however, rather than using an instrumental, I decided to recreate something that would serve as an instrumental or beat to the same song. Then I played the melody over it.

THE CREATION PROCESS

Tools Used

• My Stratocaster baby: I haven't named her yet 🤔 (My Electric Lead Guitar)
• NUX MG-200 Multi Effect Processor
• FL Studio
• Adobe Premiere Pro Software
• Power Director Mobile Application
• Samsung Galaxy A12

Well, for the audio recording mix, I did everything with my Electric Lead Guitar and my NUX MG-200 Multi Effect Processor.

• I used the guitar palm mute technique to recreate the tempo/timing or quasi percussive beat, although I went too fast at the beginning. I removed the delay and reverb from my already set preset.
• I used a flanger mod for the background arpeggiated Chords which is somewhat similar to the one used.
• I tweaked a bass preset from the effect to add bass line in the piece 😅
• Then for the melody and close-by harmony/backing lines I used strong of my favourites already set present for them.

The outcome may not be a good combo 😁😁😁 but I enjoyed what I did, amidst the stress 😁

I hope you enjoy it.

https://3speak.tv/watch?v=ksam/nqhlqhsc

The video above is my entry for Afri-tunes, which is the same song but with an external instrumental gotten from 430box.com.

You can also check the lyrics of the song from the post from the entry Guitar cover of the remix of the song SUGARCANE BY CAMIDOH.

The video above is the official YouTube video of the song.

I AM KSAM

@ksam is a "uniquely creative" Hive lover who combines his musical, writing, linguistic, video and audio editing skills to promote creativity and ideas in the Hive Community. He is the founder of Afri-tunes alongside starstrings01 and obaro. Afri-tunes is a newly founded musical community on Hive that aims towards nourishing and enriching the Hive Musical Family (and the Hive Community at large) with African Tunes and Musical Genres. It is our sole aim to spread the love, the calmness, the smiles, the culture, the songs and the dance associated with African tunes. Kindly click C/AFRI-TUNES visit our community on Hive. You can participate, support us or stay glued and watch out for amazing African songs on Hive 🕺💃

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Yesoooo

Lovers of Good Music on Hive!

Lovers of African Music on Hive!

My Afri-tunes Community people!

I don show oooo!

This is another week of our lovely and amazing event on Hive, Afri-tunes. This is the 19th week of our Afri-tunes event.

Did I just say week 19?

Wow!

How time flies!

That means we are 19 weeks Old on Hive Blockchain.

Wow!

It hasn't been an easy journey but we are grateful to God, to Hive and to everyone of us. The support and participation has been massive.

I say a BIG: THANK YOU, to all our supporters, curators, viewers, subscribers and those who actively or passively participate in the community.

For this week, I decided to act like a trouble maker 😌

I was still indecisive in my choice-song for this week's event, but my body was "already ready" to vibe to SUGARCANE BY CAMIDOH. But I told it to be calming down and to wait fez.

But, not too long after that mind-body debate, I watched @yhuddee111 entry and it was the same song 😏 (mama read my mind shaaaa).

Scrolling down to the comment section, haunty @hopestylist said maram @yhuddee111 and hunkul @sleemfit individual covers of the songs dey enter her eyes (is enticing her to like the song more).

Well, it was there that I concluded to play the song.... just to prove to @hopestylist that this is just the beginning: "she neva see anything" 😁 and it is also a call for her (just like @sleemfit said) to present her own cover 😁

Yea, thank you so much! I know I like trouble 😌 I hope you enjoy it... 🥰

LYRICS OF SUGAR CANE

Chorus: Camidoh

Oh-ah, sugarcane sweet but girl your love is sweeter

Sobolo juice mixed with a little ginger

Oh girl I wanna be with you

But you no dey get enough time for me

I wanna live with you

I get reason why I can’t let go

Girl you never know say you’re kongo aso

Man dem suffer to find your love

Girl you never know say you’re kongo aso

Man dem suffer to find your love

Girl you never know you’re kongo aso

Man dem suffer to find your love

Girl you never know say you’re kongo aso

Man dem suffer to find your love

Verse 1: Camidoh

Matsɔ nye dzi nawo girl don’t dull

Coming like a thief in the night no njɔ

Girl you know say, all of my niggas dem ball

Nothing you go ever ever need at all

Matsɔ nye dzi nawo girl don’t dull

Taking it a brick a day me I no dey rush

Baby, if you want me

Kakyerɛ wo maame sɛ wodɔ me-yeah

Verse 2: Mayorkun

Show me your jiggle let me see (let me see)

And let me see the woman that is with (that is with)

I put a couple thousand dollars on your wrist (Put on your wrist right now)

Omo-omo they can’t touch you

I never see this kind babe wey dey do some kind things

Make me feel some kind way

You know I’m not just tryna get laid

Cause I know some kind chicks do it for the right pay

Baby make i fire you with my machine gun

Sixteen rounds, I be king kong

Girlie make i sample you my brand new song

Bebe nlooo oo-oo-oo

Chorus: Camidoh, Mayorkun & King Promise

Oh girl I wanna be with you

But you no dey get enough time for me

I wanna live with you

I get reason why I can’t let go

Girl you never know say you’re kongo aso

Man dem suffer to find your love

Girl you never know say you’re kongo aso

Man dem suffer to find your love

Girl you never know you’re kongo aso

Man dem suffer to find your love

Girl you never know say you’re kongo aso

Man dem suffer to find your love

Lyrics gotten from Notjustok.com

Instrumental downloaded from 430box.com

Special thanks to @starstrings01 @obaro and every supporters of this great community. KSAM loves you all.

I ❤ LOVE YOU ALL

I AM KSAM

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🎵 Hola mi comunidad Pukumundo🎙

Property of Pukumundo Community

Hello my Pukumundo Family and Community

My name is ksam and welcome to Pukumundo week 24. The theme of the week is La Voz Cantate.

Hola mi familia y comunidad de Pukumundo. Mi nombre es ksam y bienvenidos a Pukumundo semana veinticuatro. El tema de la semana es La Voz Cantate.

For this week, I'll be playing the Traditional Christian Song titled Blessed Assurance. However, instead of playing it the Traditional way, I'll play it in the Jazz Standard style.

By the way, Rock musical genre has its roots in Jazz music (and a mixture of other Genres). So, we can say that these two mighty Genres have some degree of similarities between them, although they are obviously different from each other.

Para esta semana, tocaré la canción cristiana tradicional titulada Blessed Assurance. Sin embargo, en lugar de tocarla a la manera tradicional, la tocaré al estilo del Jazz Standard.

Por cierto, el género musical Rock tiene sus raíces en la música Jazz (y una mezcla de otros Géneros). Por lo tanto, podemos decir que estos dos poderosos Géneros tienen cierto grado de similitudes entre ellos, aunque obviamente son diferentes entre sí.

The choice of this song is borne out from my ardent desire to always remind myself of my place in God's kingdom which was made possible by Christ's wondrous paschal mysteries with its high point being his Crucifixion and death on the Cross. This singular act of love won my (our) Salvation. So I hope you enjoy this piece (don't mind my voice 😜 I'm still learning how to sing).

La elección de esta canción nace de mi ardiente deseo de recordar siempre mi lugar en el reino de Dios, que fue posible gracias a los maravillosos misterios pascuales de Cristo, cuyo punto culminante fue su Crucifixión y muerte en la Cruz. Este singular acto de amor ganó mi (nuestra) salvación. Así que espero que disfrutes de esta pieza (no te preocupes por mi voz 😜 todavía estoy aprendiendo a cantar).

LYRICS OF BLESSED ASSURANCE

Verse 1

Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!

Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine!

Heir of salvation, purchase of God

Born of his Spirit, washed in His blood

Chorus

This is my story, this is my song

Praising my Savior all the day long

This is my story, this is my song

Praising my Savior all the day long

Once again, I can't forget to appreciate the wonderful Admins and moderators of this wonderful music community, and all my musical friends on Hive. It is nice knowing you all and being friends with you all. I'm grateful for your wonderful comments on my post always.

I AM KSAM

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🎵 Hello Music Lovers of Hive Music community! 🎙

Greetings to all Hivians and lovers of Music.

Happy Sunday and happy Monday to you all.

I began recording this piece on Sunday but the audio/video editing extended till this moment (1am on Monday). Notwithstanding, as a Sunday piece I chose a Christian song by Don Moen, titled Be Magnified.

Saludos a todos los hivianos y amantes de la Música.

Feliz domingo y feliz lunes a todos.

Comencé a grabar esta pieza el domingo pero la edición de audio/video se extendió hasta este momento (1am del lunes). No obstante, como pieza dominical elegí una canción cristiana de Don Moen, titulada "Be Magnified."

Amidst all the trials and difficulties we encounter on daily basis, the uncertainties of life and the uncertainties beclouding our future and goals in life, I strongly believe that we should never forget to Give thanks to God and exalt/magnify His great name.

Just like Don Moen says, "Tough times in the middle of the storm do not diminish the reality of God's presence." Certainly, God is always present and we should remain steadfast and confident in him. He will surely calm the storms in our lives and make ways for us, where there seem to be no way.

In all things, Give Him thanks; Magnify His name: BE MAGNIFIED LORD, YOU ARE HIGHLY EXALTED, AND I BELIEVE THERE'S NOTHING YOU CANNOT DO.

En medio de todas las pruebas y dificultades que encontramos a diario, de las incertidumbres de la vida y de las que enturbian nuestro futuro y nuestros objetivos en la vida, creo firmemente que nunca debemos olvidar dar gracias a Dios y magnificar su gran nombre.

Como dice Don Moen: "Los momentos difíciles en medio de la tormenta no disminuyen la realidad de la presencia de Dios". Ciertamente, Dios está siempre presente y debemos permanecer firmes y confiados en él. Él seguramente calmará las tormentas en nuestras vidas y hará caminos para nosotros, donde parece que no hay camino.

En todas las cosas, dadle gracias; magnificad su nombre: MAGNIFICATE SEÑOR, ERES ELEVADO, Y CREO QUE NO HAY NADA QUE NO PUEDA HACER.

LYRICS OF BE MAGNIFIED

Verse 1

I have made You too small in my eyes

O Lord, forgive me;

I have believed in a lie

That You were unable to help me

But now, O Lord, I see my wrong

Heal my heart and show Yourself strong;

And in my eyes and with my song

O Lord, be magnified

O Lord, be magnified

Verse 2

I have leaned on the wisdom of men

O Lord, forgive me;

And I have responded to them

Instead of Your light and Your mercy

But now, O Lord, I see my wrong

Heal my heart and show Yourself strong;

And in my eyes with my song

O Lord, be magnified

CHORUS:

Be magnified, O Lord

You are highly exalted;

And there is nothing You can't do

O Lord, my eyes are on You

Be magnified

O Lord, be magnified

Be magnified, O Lord

You are highly exalted;

And there is nothing You can't do

O Lord, my eyes are on You

Be magnified

O Lord, be magnified

O Lord, be magnified

Lyrics from Genius.com

Once again, I can't forget to appreciate the wonderful Admins and moderators of this wonderful music community, and all my musical friends on Hive. It is nice knowing you all and being friends with you all. I'm grateful for your wonderful comments on my post always.

I AM KSAM

@ksam is a "uniquely creative" Hive lover who combines his musical, writing, linguistic, video and audio editing skills to promote creativity and ideas in the Hive Community. He is the founder of Afri-tunes alongside starstrings01 and obaro. Afri-tunes is a newly founded musical community on Hive that aims towards nourishing and enriching the Hive Musical Family (and the Hive Community at large) with African Tunes and Musical Genres. It is our sole aim to spread the love, the calmness, the smiles, the culture, the songs and the dance associated with African tunes. Kindly click C/AFRI-TUNES visit our community on Hive. You can participate, support us or stay glued and watch out for amazing African songs on Hive 🕺💃

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🎵 Music Lovers of Hive Open Mic community! 🎙

Hello Music Lovers on Hive, this is my entry for Hive Open Mic week 118. The theme of this week is "Love hurts" and this theme was chosen by @khaleesii

For this week, I'll be playing a piece by Adele titled "Someone Like You."

This song clearly expresses the idea of "Love Hurts" in its story. It tells the story of estranged Lovers: the man, in the story, has obviously moved on, while the woman still struggles and she finds it hard to believe that the two are no longer together.

Indeed love hurts when things go "south" between lovers; love hurts when the unexpected happens and shatter the relationship between lovers. It becomes sour when the ingredients (trust, communication, understanding...etc) are no longer active.

It hurts, especially when we get heartbreak in a manner we didn't expect. It hurts when we are served "breakfast." 💔

By the way, the word "breakfast" is a slang for "heartbreak" in Nigeria. So when I say @benii served me breakfast, it means she broke my heart 💔 😪

I played the chords and melody of the song with my guitar. However, I encountered a synchronisation problem while recording this piece 🤦‍♂️ it affected it so much. But, I hope you enjoy this piece ❤

LYRICS OF SOMEONE LIKE YOU

I heard that you're settled down

That you found a girl and you're married now

I heard that your dreams came true

Guess she gave you things, I didn't give to you

Old friend, why are you so shy?

Ain't like you to hold back or hide from the light

I hate to turn up out of the blue, uninvited

But I couldn't stay away, I couldn't fight it

I had hoped you'd see my face

And that you'd be reminded that for me, it isn't over

Never mind, I'll find someone like you

I wish nothing but the best for you, too

"Don't forget me, " I beg

I remember you said

"Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead"

"Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead"

You know how the time flies

Only yesterday was the time of our lives

We were born and raised in a summer haze

Bound by the surprise of our glory days

I hate to turn up out of the blue, uninvited

But I couldn't stay away, I couldn't fight it

I had hoped you'd see my face

And that you'd be reminded that for me, it isn't over

Never mind, I'll find someone like you

I wish nothing but the best for you, too

"Don't forget me, " I begged

I remember you said

"Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead"

Nothing compares, no worries or cares

Regrets and mistakes, they're memories made

Who would have known how bittersweet this would taste?

Never mind, I'll find someone like you

I wish nothing but the best for you

"Don't forget me, " I beg

I remember you said

"Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead"

Never mind, I'll find someone like you

I wish nothing but the best for you, too

"Don't forget me, " I begged

I remember you said

"Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead"

"Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead"

Lyrics from LyricFind

Songwriters: Adele Laurie Blue Adkins / Daniel Dodd Wilson

Once again, I can't forget to appreciate the wonderful Admins and moderators of this wonderful community for creating and managing this great platform. For hosting this weekly event and making sure it is always successful.

I also appreciate all my friends on Hive and musical friends on Hive. It is nice knowing you all and being friends with you all. I'm grateful for your wonderful comments on my post always.

I AM KSAM

@ksam is a "uniquely creative" Hive lover who combines his musical, writing, linguistic, video and audio editing skills to promote creativity and ideas in the Hive Community. He is the founder of Afri-tunes alongside starstrings01 and obaro. Afri-tunes is a newly founded musical community on Hive that aims towards nourishing and enriching the Hive Musical Family (and the Hive Community at large) with African Tunes and Musical Genres. It is our sole aim to spread the love, the calmness, the smiles, the culture, the songs and the dance associated with African tunes. Kindly click C/AFRI-TUNES visit our community on Hive. You can participate, support us or stay glued and watch out for amazing African songs on Hive 🕺💃

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VIDEO TIMELINE * 00:00 - 00:51 || Introduction/Recap * 00:52 - 01:39 || Splinterlands Game (Introduction) * 01:40 - 01:51 || 7 Elements in Splinterlands * 01:52 - 03:01 || 4 Levels of Card Rarity * 03:13 - 05:14 || Card Types (Summoners and Monsters) * 05:15 - 05:59 || Analysing the Cards (Monster) - Introduction * 06:00 - 06:23 || Mana Cost/Cap (explanation) * 06:24 - 07:07 || Stats (Melee, Ranged and magic attack, health, speed and amour) * 07:07 - 08:08 || Abilities (explanation) * 08:09 - 08:58 || Analysing the cards (summary/conclusion) * 08:59 - 10:11 || The Battlefield * 10:12 - 12:45 || Preparing for Battle (Rules, mana cap, playable Splinters, selecting Summoner and monsters) * 12:50 - 13:13 || Creating an account * 13:15 - 16:39 || Practice Battle * 16:40 - 17:15 || Getting the best out of Splinterlands Game (earning in-game Cryptocurrency and NFTs) * 17:16 - 18:10 || Concluding Remark and Appreciation

Click to access Splinterlands Website

Hello everyone, my name is @ksam (Kalu Samuel), and it is my pleasure, once more, to anchor this tutorial for the Newbies Initiative Programme.

By way of Recap, in the first part of this tutorial on NEWBIES INITIATIVE TUTORIAL - BLOCKCHAIN GAMES I introduced us to the world of Blockchain Games and I said that there are four major features of Blockchain Games.

1. You play blockchain game for FUN
2. You earn in-game Cryptocurrency
3. You earn NFTs
4. You Trade the in-game crypto and NFTs

Thus, with the above basic knowledge of blockchain game, we shall have a look at Splinterlands game, which is one of the most successful Blockchain games on Hive and among other blockchains.

We shall present a tutorial for Splinterlands game to help everyone understand the basics of the game.

SPLINTERLANDS GAME

In the video above, I gave a guide and tutorial of Splinterlands game for Beginners. I am aware that I didn’t discuss some aspects of the game that need to be touched, hence, this post will offer the summary of what I discussed in the video above with an additional exposition/explanations of some important aspects.

• Splinterlands is a play to earn crypto and NFTs game on the Hive Blockchain.
• Splinterlands is a card game that requires strategy (use of intellect) and is fun.

IMPORTANT FEATURES IN SPLINTERLANDS

☆ ELEMENTS

There are 7 Elements in Splinterlands

• Fire
• Water
• Earth
• Life
• Death
• Dragon
• Neutral (Mercenaries)

☆ SPLINTERS

There are 6 Splinters or Primal Forces in Splinterlands

• Fire
• Water
• Earth
• Life
• Death
• Dragon

Notice that the Neutral Element isn't categorised as a Splinter

☆ RARITY

Rarity refers to the availability or distribution of cards. In Splinterlands we have 4 levels of Rarity.

• Common
• Rare
• Epic
• Legendary

In the video, I gave an example where a pack of 1000 cards contains 700 common, 200 rare, 80 epic and 20 legendary.

The probability of picking a legendary card (20/1000) in a pack is very low as compared to picking a common card (700/1000). Hence, the legendary cards are few, scarce and their worth is higher 💎

☆ SUMMONERS

A summoner is one (card) who harnesses one of the six Primal Forces, and uses its power to summon Monsters.

☆ MONSTERS

Monsters are individuals or creatures that are summoned by the summoner to the battle field.

ANALYSING THE CARDS

• 1 Mana Cost: Cards are selected based on the Mana Cost of each card. The Mana Cost of the Summoner and Monsters (when added up) should not exceed the given Mana Cap of the Battle.
• 2 In the STATS we have the 3 attack methods:

| Name | Image | Function | | --- | --- | --- | | Melee attack | | This is a close combat-hit Monster. Preferably, it is best suited for the first row, however, some Melee Monsters with Abilities can attack from any angle, and some rules may permit them as well. | | Ranged attack | | They can attack from far distance alone. If they are close by (1st position) they won't be able to attack. | | Magic Attack | | They can attack from any row. Their attack damages the health directly, while ignoring the opponent's shield (unlike the Melee and Ranged Monsters). |

We also have the health, speed and armor/shield.

| Name | Image | Function | | --- | --- | --- | | Health | | This is the life status of the Monster. Once it reaches zero (0) the monster becomes dead | | Speed | | Fast Monsters attack faster than slower Monsters, and some fast monsters can evade attacks from slow monsters. | | Shield | | For Monsters with armor, their Armor must deplete before their health, except if its a magic attack whose attack hits the health directly. |

• 3 It indicates the Splinter/Rarity of the card.
• 4 The name of the character.
• 5 The higher the level, the higher the STATS of the Monster.
• 6 By combining duplicate cards, your card/Monster gain experience.
• 7 Abilities are special skills which summoners and Monsters possess.

Note: The card of a summoner is different from a Monster.

The summoner (left) doesn't possess STATS like the Monster (right) because only the Monsters fight the actual battle.

THE BATTLEFIELD| PREPARING FOR BATTLE

The images above are essential in order to understand the Battlefield of Splinterlands Game and the process of selecting your team. You need to consider the Rule set, Mana Cap of the Battle and available Splinters (more explanations in the video above).

PRACTICE BATTLE

Having studied the Splinters/Primal Forces, rarity, the different cards (Summoners and Monsters) and their STATS, as well as the Battlefield and preparation for battles, it is necessary to practice what we have learnt.

First of all, you have to create an account: you can do that through this link here: Creating a Splinterlands Account

You can follow the video for guidance as well as to see a battle example.

It is important to note that in order to earn from Splinterlands game you have to buy the Spell Book (cost $10).

When you do this, then you'll be able to:

1. Win Dark Energy Crystals (DEC - in-game crypto) after battles,
2. Participate in daily quest to win coins, portions and cards.
3. Win coins, portions and card at the end of every season (16 days),
4. Participate in tournaments and win prizes (crypto, NFTs and more),
5. Win and trade NFTs
6. BLOG about Splinterlands and get curated by the SteemMonsters account. You don't need to be a pro in the game and you mustn't win a battle before you post. Just stick to the guidelines and you can get your post curated twice in a week.
7. You can also participate in giveaways.

By way of emphasis, with blogging about Splinterlands, you can get back the $10 you used in buying the Spellbook.

When you follow the Splinterlands weekly Challenge it makes you know these Monsters and Splinterlands better, and it helps you grow in the game.

Having understood what Blockchain Games are and the aspect of earning in-game Cryptocurrency and NFTs on blockchain games, and having known basics of Splinterlands game through this tutorial, you can do well to check this tutorial I did on Splinterlands game: A Detailed Beginner's Guide to Splinterlands Game/Battles. You can also follow me to view my weekly entries for the battle challenge.

Important notice ⚠️

Before the next task is given, I would answer every question on the tutorial on Blockchain game and Splinterlands. I hope by doing this, I'll clear all doubts before you commence the task.

Hence, there will be a discord meeting held on the SMILE DISCORD SERVER on Saturday, 16th July 2022, at 7 pm GMT where all newbies can bring their questions and paste them into the #help-chat channel which I will provide answers to them via voice or can be pasted in the comments of this post as well.

After the Discord Meeting on Saturday, A task will be given and then published on the @newbies-hive account with a video of what took place in the meeting. Please do well to bring in your Hive questions in the meeting.

Note: The meeting is not compulsory, but we do advise you to attend and ask your questions.

• The line dividers are property of Hive Learners Community
• All Splinterlands images and screenshot are from Splinterlands Website and property of Splinterlands, for the promotion of Splinterlands game.
• Designs were made through Canva and Powerdirector.

I AM KSAM

@ksam is a "uniquely creative" Hive lover who combines his musical, writing, linguistic, video and audio editing skills to promote creativity and ideas in the Hive Community. He is a "crytopreneur" and a game lover. You can follow him to view more tutorials and critical analysis of Splinterlands and PsyberX games.

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🎵 Music Lovers of Hive Open Mic community! 🎙

Hello Music Lovers on Hive, this is my entry for Hive Open Mic week 117. The theme of this week is "True Friends" and this theme was chosen by brother and friend @chosenfingers

For this week, I'll be playing a piece by Ed Sheeran titled "Thinking Out Loud."

This song is one of my favourite songs from Ed Sheeran. It speaks volume about the journey of love between lovers, one that even if it lasts for years,its loving effect should be renewed always, as if it were just beginning.

The relationship between this theme and my choice us quite simple: As Lovers you should first be friends. It is a necessity.

I hope you enjoy this piece ❤

LYRICS OF THINKING OUT LOUD

When your legs don't work like they used to before

And I can't sweep you off of your feet

Will your mouth still remember the taste of my love

Will your eyes still smile from your cheeks

And darling I will be loving you 'til we're 70

And baby my heart could still fall as hard at 23

And I'm thinking 'bout how people fall in love in mysterious ways

Maybe just the touch of a hand

Oh me I fall in love with you every single day

And I just wanna tell you I am

So honey now

Take me into your loving arms

Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars

Place your head on my beating heart

I'm thinking out loud

Maybe we found love right where we are

When my hair's all but gone and my memory fades

And the crowds don't remember my name

When my hands don't play the strings the same way, mm

I know you will still love me the same

'Cause honey your soul can never grow old, it's evergreen

Baby your smile's forever in my mind and memory

I'm thinking 'bout how people fall in love in mysterious ways

Maybe it's all part of a plan

I'll just keep on making the same mistakes

Hoping that you'll understand

But baby now

Take me into your loving arms

Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars

Place your head on my beating heart

I'm thinking out loud

That maybe we found love right where we are, oh

So baby now

Take me into your loving arms

Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars

Oh darling, place your head on my beating heart

I'm thinking out loud

That maybe we found love right where we are

Oh baby, we found love right where we are (maybe)

And we found love right where we are

Lyrics from LyricFind

Once again, I can't forget to appreciate the wonderful Admins and moderators of this wonderful community for creating and managing this great platform. For hosting this weekly event and making sure it is always successful.

I also appreciate all my friends on Hive and musical friends on Hive. It is nice knowing you all and being friends with you all. I'm grateful for your wonderful comments on my post always.

I AM KSAM

@ksam is a "uniquely creative" Hive lover who combines his musical, writing, linguistic, video and audio editing skills to promote creativity and ideas in the Hive Community. He is the founder of Afri-tunes alongside starstrings01 and obaro. Afri-tunes is a newly founded musical community on Hive that aims towards nourishing and enriching the Hive Musical Family (and the Hive Community at large) with African Tunes and Musical Genres. It is our sole aim to spread the love, the calmness, the smiles, the culture, the songs and the dance associated with African tunes. Kindly click C/AFRI-TUNES visit our community on Hive. You can participate, support us or stay glued and watch out for amazing African songs on Hive 🕺💃

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Yesoooo

Lovers of Good Music on Hive!

Lovers of African Music on Hive!

My Afri-tunes Community people!

I don show oooo!

This is another week of our lovely and amazing event on Hive, Afri-tunes. This is the 17th week of our Afri-tunes event.

Eeeeem, for this week I'll be presenting Teni Makanaki's song titled Uyo Meyi.

Before now, I've been in search of the meaning of the song. Well, I wasn't so serious though, if not I would have checked Google. However, I used this as an opportunity to search for the meaning.

"Uyo Meyo is a traditional Ondo saying from Nigeria that talks about rejoicing and happiness. The Ondo tribe is part of the larger Yoruba culture in South-West Nigeria.

For more information visit lyricstranslate.com

Clearly, it speaks about rejoicing and gladness. Wonderful themes in a wonderful piece.

I hope you enjoy my guitar cover of this piece ❤

LYRICS OF UYO MEYO

Titiri biri biri deh

Eyeeh

Kajo kajo kajo

Kayo kayo kajo

Ùyò meyo lé'hun osan okan mi o eh

Ùyò meyo

Ùyò meyo

Oh ùyò

Ùyò meyo lé'hun osan okan mi o eh

Ùyò meyo

Ùyò meyo

Eh ùyò

Ùyò meyo lé'hun osan okan mi o eh

Verse 1 Everybody's born a winner eyeh eyeeh

If only you just believe yeh eh eyeh

Close your eyes and come and see nah eyeh eyeh yea

Don't you worry 'bout a thing nah

'Cos if you work hard

You can get it if you want

If you strive hard you can be just what you want

If you work hard you can climb the mountain top

'Cos nothing is too small

And nothing is too big

Chorus Ùyò meyo

Ùyò meyo

Oh ùyò

Ùyò meyo lé'hun osan okan mi o eh

Ùyò meyo

Ùyò meyo

Oh ùyò

Ùyò meyo lé'hun osan okan mi o eh eyeh

Verse 2 What my eyes have seen eh eyeh

Ohun toju mi ti ri ah eyeh yea

Don't let them tell you, "You can't"

And they won't help you just so you know

Just keep on pushing oh uhooo

Ibi ti daddy mi o de, ma de be ma tu kòja oh

Ibi ti mummy mi o de, ma de be ma tu kòja oh

Ori ori mi jówó

Ori la 'na ko mi oh uhooo

Ori eeeee mi másùn yeh eyeh

Chorus Ùyò meyo

Ùyò meyo

Oh ùyò

Ùyò meyo lé'hun osan okan mi o eh

Ùyò meyo

Ùyò meyo

Oh ùyò

Ùyò meyo lé'hun osan okan mi o eh

Verse 3 Owo mi mare fun fun nene yeh

Ma yan fan da n'óke n'óke eh fan da

Teni edulamo

Omo oluwoleje

Omo apata gan

Moduro gboin gboin l'ese mi o eh eyeh

Ah

Wan ro pe ótan shugbon olórun so pe oku

Wan ro pe ótan shugbon olórun so pe oku eeeeeh

Omo la'so n'aiye omo la'so n'aiye ooh

Olaoshebikan o gbodo sun eh eyeh

Ko durotimi l'ojojumo

Ma je k'ota korin mi jo wo

Ibikibi to ba ti hun mo mò pe inu re dun

Tori

Mo she rere n'aiye mi ah mo she rere

Tori

Mo yan fan da n'aiye mi ah mo yan fan da

Mo sh'oriire l'aiye mi o eh mo sh'oriire eeeh

Mo she rere n'aiye ah mo she rere

Lyrics gotten from Musixmatch

ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE LYRICS OF UYO MEYO

Let's dance always, let's always rejoice

The joy I have expressed for others shall be my portion too

I rejoiced with you, I rejoiced with you

I rejoiced with you and now it is my time to rejoice

I rejoiced with you, I rejoiced with you

The joy I have expressed for others shall be my portion too