posts/2010-03-26-billie-jean.markdown


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---
title: Billie Jean
date: 2010/03/26
tags: video, music
---

![Playing Billie Jean on the Stick](/images/posts/billiejean.png)

[This video](http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTMyOTc3Nzcy.html) was recorded some
time in December 2009. I had just learned how to [tap with both hands on the
Chapman Stick](/posts/2009-07-01-chapman_stick.html) when I was contacted by
representatives of the Chinese video portal [Youku.com](http://youku.com). They
asked me to provide them with a quick video of myself showing off the peculiar
instrument I told them I had just learned to play.

Later the video was to be tacked on to [footage that was recorded some days
earlier with the Youku team](http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTMzMDA1MDU2.html).
All together this was supposed to be my entry for the voting to join the show
全家都来赛 (the official English name is the silly *"Super Family"*).

As the show's purpose is to present talented families, I asked Jackie to play
the drums while I would cover bass, chords and vocals of Michael Jackson's
*Billie Jean*. The result [can be seen
here](http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTMyOTc3Nzcy.html).