Pestkop (The Bully)

PentaRay

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I posted this song a few days ago, and labeled it "Children's music". It seems to me that this label does not appeal to many MacJammers, as it was played only a few times. Maybe the new label can raise more attention... By the way, it really is ROCK FOR (not too young) CHILDREN
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A song about bullying, in my own beautiful langue: dutch. Though aimed at children (I also wrote and/or arranged music for children's musicals and other children's music projects) I did not want do make any musical compromises. In fact I rarely do when making music for children. And a subject like bullying just askes for music that is a bit spiced up. I wrote this one several years ago but it didn't find its way into a project yet. Mainly because I am not 100% satisfied with my lyrics, especially in the second part of the bridge. Please listen carefully ;-)

Thanks to Jim Award who did the drum part.

And thanks to Alicia Hood who made a webquest about bullying, from which I "borrowed" the artwork.

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Lyrics

About bullying, a "Pestkop" is a bully in the dutch language.

Song Stats

Hits: 371
Comments: 2
Fans: 2
Plays: 19
Downloads: 0
Votes: 0
Uploaded: Jul 11, 2009 - 08:43:19 AM
Last Updated: Aug 23, 2009 - 09:02:05 AM Last Played: Nov 24, 2009 - 02:40:26 PM

Song License

Creative Commons License:
NoDerivs-NonCommercial

Song Actions

Keywords:

bullying (1), children (55), dutch language (1), rock (1437)

Hardware:

Aria Pro II electric guitar
Ario Pro II bass guitar
Yamaha CPX acoustic guitar (only in first verse)
Roland electronic drums
Studio Projects condenser mic
Behringer guitar amp

Software:

Logic Pro, including several fx

Comments

tonestones	tonestones said 102 days ago (August 16th, 2009)
	Great tune. There is a TV show in the US about a rock band in NY called ZO2 (http://www.zo2.com/). They do day gigs of playing rock for children. I don't know dutch, but this songs reminds me of the show just a bit. Great tune. Well done. Check out my latest song called Damballa

PentaRay

PentaRay said 100 days ago (August 17th, 2009)

thanks
I just checked out ZO2, they seem sympathetic to me and I like their songs. I wrote music and lyrics for several children's projects in my home town. In our country we have a tradition of school music projects, they are called 'school musicals' but usually there's a lot more dialogue in these plays than in the well-known musicals like Cats. Which is because children won't be able to sing for such a long time - and because every child in class should get a role in the play, regardless of their musical abilities.

There's a kind of school musical industry over here, producing several new titles every school year. I tried but it turned out quite difficult to get into this scene, it's a kind of 'old boys network' if you know what I mean. So my projects were performed at some local schools but never got beyond that point.

I really like to try different styles of music in these projects. In fact I don't think this song would work very well when sung by children, they tend to start shouting when the music is rocking like this. I hope it could find its way into some educational project or show about bulling some day, sung by adults.

Check out my latest song called Just You Wait 'till I Am Sober (LIOLI#09)

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