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The blog of Los Angeles based singer-songwriter Tyler Barabas. Here you can find information on my latest projects, music, videos, live shows, & some of the stuff that #Inspires_me.

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    Everything vibrates… stay tuned for the track. :D

    Each life revolves around a rhythmic vibration. A heart beat. A breath. An affirmation that time flies, but there’s time before death.

    There’s a subatomic rhythm to everything, don’t you see it? And even if you lost your touch, your taste, your sight, and covered your ears you’d still feel it.

    And although everyone meets their end, I’ve discovered that life itself is eternal and it’s gonna keep turning long as we still got love for each other.

    And everything vibrates, so everything’s alive in one way or another.

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    I wrote this song when I woke up today, and since Valentine’s day is coming up tomorrow I thought it’d be fitting to post it. I’ll probably make a better quality recording in a few days, so that’ll be available really soon. If you like it, please share! Cheers!!! :D

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    This is called Alone With Your Sweater (The Facebook Song)! I wrote this song with my sister, Chelsea Barabas, after a hilarious late night discussion about finding our exes on Facebook.  We had so much fun making this video. I hope you enjoy! 

    Thanks so much to Nate Johnson, Samantha Ramia, Blayne Rabanal, Adam Hayman, Gino Francisco, Jake Shaver, and everyone who participated in the making of this! Please share share share!!

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    I Know I’m Home (The Whataburger Song) is a song I wrote with two good friends, Ian Latimer and Laura Cheek. We were on a looong road trip from LA, to Vegas, to Salt Lake City, to Denver, to Lubbock, and finally to Austin, TX (where my heart remains). We were several hours from Texas, very bored and very very very hungry. But we didn’t want to spoil our appetites until we reached a delicious Whataburger. That hunger and extreme boredom was the inspiration for this song! lol

    We decided to make a video so that A: We could remember how it went in the future, B: It could promote the show I was going to be playing in Austin that week, and C: We thought our friends on Facebook would like it. They did. In fact, they loved it. The video immediately went viral — It’s now been shared over 12,000 times on Facebook. Thank God for Internet!

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    Within just a few days of I Know I’m Home (The Whataburger Song) being uploaded to YouTube, we were contacted by someone from Whataburger’s corporate office.  He told us that they loved the song and would like to have us out to the head quarters and meet Mr. Dobson and Mr. Atkinson (the CEO and the President)!  It was a great time! Mr. Dobson and Mr. Atkinson were nice enough to take us out for a delicious Tex-Mex lunch, and then let us take the tour. At the end we got a bunch of free What-stuff!! Hats, shirts, blankets, cooler, mouse pads, coasters, and a sweet gift card that went toward a Honey Butter Chicken Biscuit party later that evening!! Whataburger seems like a great company to work for. Many of the people I met there told me that their family had been working for Whataburger for several generations. I think that says a lot. I gained a lot of respect for Whataburger as a company (I already loved the food). Now, if they could only put our song in the commercials!! That would be amazing.

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    There are over 30,000 known recorded versions of the song Summertime, by George Gershwin.  It is no doubt one of the most important songs of the 20th century. Janis Joplin’s performance of Summertime is hands down my favorite version.  Her soulful, raspy voice is perfect for the tone and mood of the music & lyrics.

    This #inspires_me.

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    Forward movement always. Success is inevitable.” ~William ‘Signature’ Washington. #MakeMusicOrDIe

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         This is a song I wrote around this time last year entitled “The Perfect Place.”  It’s just a simple love song… just about appreciating the simple things you love about someone.  I get a lot of questions about how I developed playing style.  There was a day back in Summer 2010 that I was hanging out with some good friends of mine at this delightful little music festival we have in Texas called the Kerrville Folk Festival.  We were sitting at our campsite, and I just felt inspired to play my guitar like a drum. I started tapping in lots of different places to experiment with the natural acoustics of the instrument. I found a sweet spot near the bridge that seemed to get this nice bassy tone that natural rung the strings behind it.  I remember the first time I hit the guitar there, and everyone in the group looked up… like “what was that?”. So that day, I decided to give my guitar its first “love beating” lol. I literally played it like that until my hands were too sore to play anymore.

         When I got home, I looked around on YouTube to find other artists that were doing something similar. There are tons!! Turns out there are lots of rhythmic acoustic styles that incorporate drumming from artists like Andy McKee, Ben Howard, Erik Mongrain, etc. And no wonder because it really does create a uniquely pleasant sound.  Sometime in December of that year I just sat down, with a new guitar tuning I’d been messing with, and wrote this song. Although it took weeks to refine, the original version of it was completed in about 45 minutes. I was so inspired by that sound, it just flowed out of me.  

         I couldn’t have made this video without the help of Jake Shaver who directed and shot the video.  You can check out his other YouTube channel at YouTube.com/logostudiosjake to see his other projects. Thanks also to Adam Garcia from BlueRed studios for helping me make the recording. Finally, a special thank you to Allan Rich, an amazing songwriter, who really mentored me in the process of writing this.

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