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Rare Americans
Jan 18, 2023
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Want to Learn How to Play the Ukulele for Mama Bear?
Watch now (2 min) | As Jongo says, “we don’t have ukulele in the rest of the song”, so here’s how to play the Chorus (and pre-chorus) of Mama Bear! PRE-CHORUS: F Amin Bb Gmin Bb C CHORUS: F Bb (Back and forth) Enjoy, Don’t forget to post your own covers of the song once you go through the video…
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2 years ago · 2 likes · 4 comments · Rare Americans
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HOLY SH*T! We're up for a Canadian Grammy!
Guys! We did it! For the first time in our career, we’ve been nominated for an award, and its a pretty cool one to say the least. We’re up for “Breakthrough Group of the Year” at the 2023 Junos. As the large majority of you are in the USA, you probably don’t know what the Juno’s are. They are the Canadian version of the Grammy’s, so its a big deal here. People often forget how much of a powerhouse Canada is in the music industry. Several of the top artists in the world hail from Canada like: Drake, The Weeknd, Justin Bieber, Shawn Mendes, Tate McRae, Avril Lavigne, and the list goes on and on…
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2 years ago · 28 likes · 18 comments · Rare Americans
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Guitar Walkthrough - BERLIN
Watch now (4 min) | NOTE: OUR GUITARS ARE TUNE A HALF-STEP DOWN! If you follow this tutorial and don’t tune your guitar like we have it, everything will sound wrong. CHORDS: C#min Ama7 E G#7 Enjoy! Post your own cover of the song and tag us. We’d love to see it…
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2 years ago · 18 likes · 16 comments · Rare Americans
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WATCH: The BBN Movie Trailer
It’s 2023 already? Wild. It’s fun to look back on a year and see everything you did. That’s what’s so great about iPhones, the notes and photos apps where you can re-live your year. I took a ride down the last 12 months for my own reflection and figured I would let you guys into it as well. Sometimes I give myself no credit for anything, I’m very much a “whats up next?” type of person, but that’s something I’m working on. Having gratitude for myself, being proud of what I’ve accomplished, and celebrating the little wins. So here’s a look back at 2022…
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2 years ago · 39 likes · 23 comments · Rare Americans
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That Time We Recorded "Steam to Blow" in South Korea
Watch now (4 min) | Travelling is one of life’s joys. I’ve been fortunate to travel to over 50 countries in my life. As a kid my dad wanted to show us the world. Every year or two we would take a trip somewhere off the beaten path like Poland, or Russia, or Central America. We would leave the day school started and come back two weeks later. He’s rationale was “where are you going to learn more, in a text book, or actually experiencing it for yourself…
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2 years ago · 14 likes · 7 comments · Rare Americans
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Hullabaloo - Live
Watch now (3 min) | This is by far one of the most fun songs for us to play live. We recorded this one during a live streamed performance on March 6, 2020. The concert was called “An Evening with RA”. We sold 5,000 tickets to streamers to watch. The event was a smashing success. We learned a ton and we couldn’t be more stoked on the results of the concert…
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2 years ago · 15 likes · 11 comments · Rare Americans
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Gas Mask - The ALTERNATE Video
Watch now (3 min) | Here’s the first music video we made for Gas Mask. I produced by myself here in Vancouver and hired a local team to help execute the vision. The idea was to take inspiration from the film Save The Last Dance. A character dealing with mad pressure from outside sources who finds the courage to face her fears. In our case it was an overly controlling mother who wanted to dictate and micro manage her life…
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2 years ago · 38 likes · 16 comments · Rare Americans
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Hey Sunshine Guitar Walkthrough
Watch now (6 min) | As Jongo says, “This one is very simple”. Same chords through-out the song VERSE: E G# C#min A PRE-CHORUS: E C#min BRIDGE: Emin A G#min C#min B Enjoy, Don’t forget to post your own covers of the song once you go through the video…
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2 years ago · 19 likes · 7 comments · Rare Americans
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How We Made Hullabaloo
We made this video, which was scheduled to be released along with our song “Hullabaloo”. We had made previous videos similar to this in the past that our fans really liked, but our label at the time didn’t want us to put it out…
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2 years ago · 8 likes · 2 comments · Rare Americans
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HULLABALOO QUARANTINE VIDEO
What an interesting time capsule video. Given the title, this was made early on in the pandemic, when Vancouver was on a full scale “quarantine”. The upload date says Feb 26 2021, however, the initial idea was to release this video along with the original version of Hullabaloo back in April of 2020. Our label at the time didn’t like the idea, so we never ended up releasing it…
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2 years ago · 7 likes · Rare Americans
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You're Not a Bad Person, It's Just a Bad World
You’re Not a Bad Person, It’s Just a Bad World We started recording this album in the summer of 2021. Honestly, I had to look back through social media posts to find the date because this year has been so damn busy. I’d argue to say the busiest of my entire life…
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2 years ago · 10 likes · Rare Americans