Watch Me Paint Beethoven Eating Pie! - Merry Christmas Beethoven

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I thought it would be fun to paint Beethoven enjoying himself at a Christmas party for the album cover of my song Merry Christmas Beethoven. Merry Christmas Beethoven is a piece I composed and produced in the style of a classical trumpet concerto. I recorded myself painting and sped it up for this video. I’ve taken to recording myself painting. Not only does this provide proof that I’m not using generative AI, but it also gives people a view of how people paint things digitally by hand. Hopefully future generations, who will likely exclusively use generative AI for all art and never learn to paint themselves, can look back with interest on how people used to make art without generative AI.

Also featured are other music releases of mine including Dreaming in the Snow, a piece I composed for a Christmas recital held at a local church. It features my sister playing the cello. World Rhapsody is a solo piano piece I composed and performed for my high school homeschool graduation.

These are the tracks featured in this video:
0:00 Merry Christmas Beethoven    • Merry Christmas Beethoven  
2:34 World Rhapsody    • World Rhapsody  
5:18 Autumn Sunrise    • Autumn Sunrise  
10:14 Mint Chocolate Chip    • Mint Chocolate Chip  
14:11 Dreaming in the Snow    • Dreaming in the Snow  

To produce my music, I use musicians and virtual instruments that I either perform or meticulously program in a digital audio workstation (DAW) program. Most of these virtual instruments work by taking thousands of recordings of the individual notes from real instruments and packaging them in software that allows one to play that instrument on a keyboard. These are called sample libraries. If you are interested in learning about them and where to buy them check out my playlist here:    • Sample Libraries  

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My Daw is Cubase Pro 14: https://www.bestservice.com/en/cubase...

The virtual instruments I used to create the music for this video are as follows:
I used the Synthogy Ivory II American Concert D piano for the piano part in Dreaming in the Snow to accompany my sister playing her cello. They now have version 3 available. Here is a link: https://www.bestservice.com/en/ivory_...

For Autumn Sunrise and Mint Chocolate Chip I used Emotional Violin and Cello by Best Service. The viola in Mint Chocolate Chip is a real musician.

Emotional Violin: https://www.bestservice.com/en/emotio...

Emotional Cello: https://www.bestservice.com/en/emotio...

The guitar in Mint Chocolate Chip is the Electric Mint guitar which is included in the Komplete 15 Collector’s Edition by Native Instruments. Here’s a link: https://www.bestservice.com/en/komple...

For orchestral strings I used Berlin Strings: https://www.orchestraltools.com/berli... and 8dio Agitato: https://8dio.com/products/adagio-agit...

For orchestral woodwinds I used Berlin Woodwinds: https://www.orchestraltools.com/berli...

The orchestral brass I used was Aaron Venture Infinite Brass: Infinite Brass https://www.aaronventure.com/infinite...