Baka's Corner

Kobukuro - Ring (Live Version Guitar Tabs)

Snake — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 22:34:11 +0000

Originally Posted on May 29, 2007

I’ve like Kubukuro ever since I heard their song Sakura. Their songs are great and their voices are terrific. Even their live performances sounds just as good, if not better, than their studio-mixed CD tracks.

Anyways, two months ago I found these few videos of Kobukuro’s concert from their Tour in 2004. One of the video is the performance of the song Ring from their major label debut album, Roadmade in 2001.

I like this song a lot and have since tried to look for guitar tabs for this song online. I’ve looked everywhere, English guitar sites, Japanese music sites, non of them has the tabs to this song.

I’ve already started learning it on the guitar about a month ago and finally, couple days ago, I decided to create my own guitar tabs of the song from listening and watching the video.

There are still couple of chords that I’m unsure about, since the video either did not show them playing that chord or the shot was too far that I can’t see the finger positions clear enough. If anyone knows of any mistakes I made or if they can correct me on those chords, please let me know.

Okay, here’s the download for the guitar tabs to the song. One is in plain Text file, and the other is in slightly-formatted PDF.

UPDATED Tabs with corrected chord names and some pluckings on Sept 8, 07.

The previous Text and PDF files I posted here were downloaded 67 and 95 times respectively. Didn’t think there were that many people interested in the tabs.

Anyways, I should have updated this a while back but either I got busy or I’ve procrastinated. Back in June, a friend of mine have gone through the tabs and have corrected the chord names and some of the pluckings in the verses of the song. There are also other major and minor fixes here and there. I’ve only made the formatted PDF file this time because this will ensure that when the tabs are printed, it’ll be nicely paged. I’ve also included the MP3 of the performance in case you still haven’t find the song yourself. Enjoy, fellow Kobukuro fans.

Kobukuro - Ring (Live Version from TOUR '04 MUSIC MAN SHIP FINAL) [Guitar TABS] {PDF File} - UPDATED Downloads: 583 times

Kobukuro - Ring (Live from Tour ‘04 Music Man Ship Final) MP3 Downloads: 652 times

Kobukuro - Ring (Live from Tour ‘04 Music Man Ship Final) VIDEO Downloads: 411 times

guitar tabs, jpop, kobukuro

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YUI - My Generation / Understand (New PVs)

Snake — Fri, 04 May 2007 03:06:44 +0000

Sony is really pushing YUI. Release after release, singles and album, plus a tour, it’s like she never stops.

Her next single, being a Double A-side, already has the two PVs released. I’m sure you can find those on Youtube or other usual sources.

For those who has the video, the BETA verion of the Soft Subtitle set for My Generation is now available below.

Please note that this is BETA in the sense that it is based on a Japanese fan’s transcription from the PV and English translated lyrics have yet been done. I will update the subtitles once the official lyrics and an English translation is available.

YUI - My Generation (PV) Soft Subs BETA [for 195MB MPEG-2 or 85.3MB AVI] Downloads: 844 times

The soft subtitles for other YUI’s PVs can be found here:

http://www.bakascorner.com/2007/01/27/yui-pv-soft-subs/

jpop, PV, single, YUI, YUI Lover

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Thanks for the Chocolates

Duckman — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:12:35 +0000

As I wrote a month ago, today is White Day. This is the day when men who received a gift of chocolate on Valentine’s Day give some sort of return gift — “okaeshi” in Japanese — to the wives, girlfriends, daughters and female co-workers who gave them something. It’s pure marketing fluff, of course, but kind of fun, and companies are happy to take advantage of the event by thinking of ways to sell products. Even Apple gets into the spirit of White Day their Japan store page, by suggesting that men buy engraved iPods for their better halves as a way of saying “Thanks for the chocolate!”

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apple, Japanese culture

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Japanese film, Infernal Affairs!?

Snake — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:30:51 +0000

It really ticked me off yesterday while watching the Oscars.

When an award winner is announced and the winner walks from their seat onto the stage, there is a background announcer (perhaps for TV only) that provides some extra info regarding the film and the winner.

As they were announcing the winner of the Best Adapted Screenplay and William Monahan winning for The Departed, the female background announcer said that the film was adapted from a JAPANESE film, Infernal Affairs!!??

WTF!? A JAPANESE film?

Everyone knows that Infernal Affairs is a Hong Kong film.

That was so full of BULL****!!!!

And here you think that it is the Oscars after all and they would be well organized and get all the facts straight.

Did they dig up the info from Rotten Tomatoes’ Infernal Affairs 2’s about page??

Even the IMDB site had the Country origin being Hong Kong.

They better apologize to the Hong Kong people and the Hong Kong cinema for their mistake.

It seems these background announcement was for TV only. William Monahan was oblivious to the mistake and did not correct it on stage. But at least when Martin Scorsese won Best Director, he did mention his appreciation for the Hong Kong film.

hong kong, oscars

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なに?? Beer + Milk = Bilk???

Duckman — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 21:18:00 +0000

Japan has always been the homeland of crazy high-tech gadgets and a techophile’s wet dream, but leave it to the Japanese to even attempt something of this caliber. I guess it’s great news for beer and milk lovers though, as a liquor shop owner in Japan’s largest dairy farming region has stopped crying about local spilt milk and started making beer from it instead.

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Japanese culture

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YUI - CHE.R.RY (New PV)

Snake — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:48:05 +0000

After releasing the single, Rolling Star, YUI is going to release another new single, CHE.R.RY, next month. And of course, the PV came out yesterday to begin the CHE.R.RY promo.

I was gonna link a Youtube video here, but lately they have been receiving pressure from the Japanese entertainment industry to remove most of the copyrighted contents like PVs and Shows. Instead of embedding the video, I’ll provide a search link which currently does turn up a number of videos of the PV.

YUI - CHE.R.RY PV on Youtube Search

For those who have download the actual video, here the download to the Soft Subtitle set:

UPDATED - 2007-03-09
The Lismo! Version DVD Rip has the same timing as the M-ON version. If you have downloaded the M-ON version of the subs, you don’t need to download it again.

YUI - CHE.R.RY (PV) Soft Subs [MTV Only] Downloads: 595 times

YUI - CHE.R.RY (PV) Soft Subs [M-ON version & Lismo! Version DVD Rip] Downloads: 443 times

The soft subtitles for other YUI’s PVs can be found here:

http://www.bakascorner.com/2007/01/27/yui-pv-soft-subs/

jpop, PV, single, YUI, YUI Lover

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Silverman takes a lickin’ & keeps on tickin’

Duckman — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 15:28:19 +0000

Who would have thought that being a local TV journalist would be hazardous to your health.

But then, you’re not Peter Silverman.

For the past few months, the CityNews ombudsman has been probing the case of a King St. West optician alleged to be selling counterfeit frames bearing the mark of some famous companies. After receiving numerous complaints about the products, the Silverman Helps team went to the store on Wednesday afternoon with hopes for a peaceful reconciliation.

It didn’t turn out that way.

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counterfeit, tv

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ACI Connection from a Forum

Snake — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 07:17:16 +0000

As some of you already know, my current JPop it-girl is the cute, lovely and talented YUI. Ever since watching Taiyou no Uta (タイヨウのうた - A Song to the Sun, aka The Midnight Sun) movie, in which she starred, last December, I was completely drawn to her music.

Since then, I’ve spent a lot of my time lurking around YUI-Lover, the first English forum site dedicated to YUI’s music. It is quite a unique forum and has the one of the most friendly member groups.

One particular member, iron_turkey, has a connection to me that I never thought I would find in a relatively small forum like this.

“So what if he’s also from Toronto. Lots of people live in the city.” That is true. But I never would have imagine that he’s now going to the same high school, ACI, that I went to 9 years ago. He also went to the same junior high, SAM, as well. Boy, do I sound old now.

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ACI, forum, SAM, school, teacher, YUI, YUI Lover

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Anna Nicole Smith dead

Duckman — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 21:35:54 +0000

Okay, what is going on!? Anna Nicole Smith is OFFICIALLY dead from an apparent drug overdose. Anna was transported to Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, Florida around 2 PM EST Thursday after collapsing at the Hard Rock Seminole Hotel and Casino.

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Cancel or Allow?

Duckman — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:28:29 +0000

Apple has once again makes fun of all the nagging security “features” in Vista with their new Get a Mac TV ad. PC has a secret service guard next to him asking to cancel or allow all questions posed by the Mac. The new ad premiered last night on U.S. television.

The ad is a followup to recently released ads called “Tech Support” and “Surgery” in which the PC undergoes an upgrade to Windows Vista.

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ads, apple, tv

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Bad Luck Birth-Day Week

Snake — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 16:02:13 +0000

Birthdays come once a year. I tend not to think of it as anything special, especially since my birthday usually falls during the trade show that my parents do. This year is no exception, as my birthday is on the show’s closing date, which means I have to help pack up the booth.

However, that was the least of my worries. Though nothing bad really happened to me, people who are close to me are taking the full brunt of some unfortunate, yet fortunate events.

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accident, family, luck, scary, unfortunate events

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YUI PV Soft Subs

Snake — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 19:41:22 +0000

In this post you will find all the soft subtitle sets for all of YUI’s PVs available for download.

Each package contains the soft-sub for that song in plain SRT subs, as well as the more advanced ASS subs with Simple Karaoke Effects.

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Rebirth of Baka’s Corner

Snake — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 19:57:30 +0000

Well, it’s been more than a month since I last posted something. It’s been anything but a relaxing holiday for me. Work was long, tedious, rushing for a deadline. *sigh*

I’m glad that is over, for the moment at least.

As you have noticed, there is a new theme/layout for the site. However, I’ve also switched the blogging system to Wordpress. After trying b2evolution, it was a very nice multi-user, multi-blog system. But after some discussions with my friends who will operate and blog on the site, we decided that multi-blog system wasn’t needed and Wordpress has a vast community support that is hard to ignore.

Hopefully, I’ll have some time in the next little while and customize the site.

announcements, design, wordpress

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