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BillyBlastOff Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 1070 Ventura County, Calif.	Posted on Mar 04 2010 08:26 PM What? John's not playin' with a Les Paul? That ain't Surf! Hee-hee — Be careful following the masses. Sometimes the "M" is silent........................... Top
Sonichris Joined: Mar 06, 2006 Posts: 1910 Wear gloves - I'm in the Rockies	Posted on Mar 04 2010 08:52 PM BillyBlastOff What? John's not playin' with a Les Paul? That ain't Surf! Hee-hee See, Billy gets it! I'm going to make an instructional video on how to play golf, but I'm going to use a garden hose...... and an egg. — "You can't tell where you're going if you don't know where you've been" Top
morphball Joined: Dec 23, 2008 Posts: 3324 Pittsboro, NC	Posted on Mar 05 2010 12:30 PM Sonichris Good points - You may also want to add "Lady" and "Gaga" to you list - that a joke. For good measure, I'll begin shooting the next video around "Twilight", and maybe invite my neighbor, "Jonas", who has a couple of "Brothers". Sonichris Yeah, thats me and some of my band playing with Eddie Bertrand, Tim Fitzpatrick, and Jim Frias, not to mention the above mentioned John Benton. That's a surf lesson! Epic... who or what is producing the siren sounds? — Mike http://www.youtube.com/morphballio Top
bigtikidude Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 25697 Anaheim(So.Cal.)U.S.A.	Posted on Mar 05 2010 12:44 PM At the Beginning of the Video, you can see Tim(HB Kahuna) cranking the handle on a old hand siren that they would mount to a cop car. also Jim Frias ex of the Nocturnes is blowing on a sax mouth piece, like the guy from the Original did. — Jeff(bigtikidude) Top
IvanP Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 10331 southern Michigan	Posted on Mar 05 2010 01:37 PM morphball ColtsSurf Maybe the issue about getting higher hits has to do with the search function on YouTube. Perhaps if the words "surf guitar" were somewhere in the title, we would see The Madeira's numbers up there where they should be? That's partially correct; like any other search engine, it has a lot to do with the meta tags (which is possibly more important than your description). For instance, here is the Madeira video tags: `Madeira surf rock sandstorm pongracic space cossacks` Very bare bones... even though "Madeira" and "pongracic" equates to sheer awesomeness with all of us in the know, many people are just not going to stumble upon this gem doing casual searches. My one and only youtube video is inferior in every way, but has received almost 1465 hits since November 2009. Why? `surf surf-rock guitar shred instrumental misirlou hava nagila Michael Brennan morphball Pulp Fiction Quentin Tarantino Greek Jewish Middle-Eastern Yamaha SGV800 Gomez El Sonido G-spring Alesis SR-16 Sony PCM-D50 Flip Mino HD Audacity Adobe Premiere Surf Coasters Meshuggah Beach Party Dick Dale` My advice is to just throw ANYTHING that you can think of in the tags, no matter how far a stretch. Thanks for that, Morphball, that's actually really great advice, and one we can easily follow! you can tell none of us in the Madeira are very promotion-oriented, sad to say! So, we appreciate this. — Ivan Lords of Atlantis on Facebook The Madeira Official Website The Madeira on Facebook The Blair-Pongracic Band on Facebook The Space Cossacks on Facebook The Madeira Channel on YouTube Top
morphball Joined: Dec 23, 2008 Posts: 3324 Pittsboro, NC	Posted on Mar 05 2010 01:46 PM IvanP Thanks for that, Morphball, that's actually really great advice, and one we can easily follow! you can tell none of us in the Madeira are very promotion-oriented, sad to say! So, we appreciate this. No problem... just put "Meshugga Beach Party" in the tags and description like I did and you're golden! — Mike http://www.youtube.com/morphballio Top
Tuck Joined: Sep 02, 2006 Posts: 3166 Denver, CO	Posted on May 12 2011 05:49 PM I'm pretty sure YouTube treats the words in the description about the same as words offered as keywords. And it seems to treat "x y" as a keyword the same as x and y as separate keywords. I can't see that there's any weighting one way or the other. I'd be interested to learn of contrary experience. I think the only difference is that you get some slight chance to present the words in the description as a coherent essay that someone might read. Not a lot of a chance, but some. So, try to write a short description and use keywords for things that don't fit the text. Like if the guitarist decided to strip naked or is playing a Rogue Sitar or something that doesn't quite fit your textual needs. (Yes, I have seen these happen, as improbable as they both may seem. Not yet at the same time.) Top

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