a cover of not that girl from the broadway musical wicked.
i only provided the vocals. i did not arrange the instrumentation. i was reminiscing about how good the musical was and how badly i want to see it again. as a product of those thoughts came this. i got lazy and only wanted to do one take. i could have done a better job. *shrug*
a cover of beautiful surprise by india arie.
i love this song and i don’t think i did it justice. but i had fun doing it. i added full reverb in the vocals and it sounded kinda cool. i don’t know how i managed to mess up the channels though but that’s for another experiment another time.
firefly by jane lui.
i can finally say i taught myself to play the guitar. took me 3 weeks to learn and practice this song and it’s still not great. but i tried. my left set of fingertips will never be the same. this is a cover snippet of a song by a talented miss jane lui. you can find her on youtube at http://www.youtube.com/luieland
revised repost: streetlights by kanye
this is a repost, but the mixing was re-edited for slight improvements. you might find the lagging isn’t so obvious and the volume of the vocals don’t just disappear near the end of the song as much anymore. don’t know if those things are obvious, but i figured since i can’t record anything new for a month due to blisters on my fingertips (from guitar-playing) i should at least try to improve on my editing skills.
repost: falling slowly collaboration
it’s the same file as what was posted earlier, but i increased the volume using Audition, so it’s easier to hear. i really love this song so i felt it was worth the re-edit.
kanye west cover of streetlights.
the first BETTER QUALITY clip i’ve made. bought a new mic and downloaded a trial version of Adobe Audition. i have no clue how to use that program. i’ve been experimenting with it and this is the first completed project. it’s not great cuz i can’t explain the lagging between voice and piano at a few points (it’s two separate clips that i joined together) and there’s about a million other things that i need to improve on. but i think it’s good to document the progress. maybe the next few will be better. this project took the span of about a week to accomplish cuz i just have no idea what i’m doing. figuring out how to get the best sound from the mic took about three days on its own and mucking around on Audition took up even more time. it’s all for fun. but man, every project henceforth will be more time-consuming than it used to be! hope you enjoy.
my first real collaboration! cover of falling slowly, performed with my friend erin. we had a hell of a time rearranging ourselves to get an acceptable sound balance and the guitar i provided her kept going out of tune. but we’re happy with the finished product and we definitely had fun doing it =)
{vocals: erin, me; guitar: erin; piano: me.}
“like a comet pulled from orbit as it passes the sun,
like a stream that meets a boulder halfway through the wood”
- for good -
from the broadway musical wicked.
“ain’t about how fast i get there,
ain’t about what’s waiting on the other side”
- the climb -
roll your eyes at me all you want for doing a miley cyrus cover, but the lyrics sum up a certain state of mind that i should have. the song itself isn’t bad either. maybe you’ll like it too.
“i’m holding on your rope got me ten feet off the ground.”
- apologize -
this is me fooling around with the chords i kinda figured out but it still needs work cuz the chords for the chorus is supposed to be different from the verse. i got a bit tired and stopped taking it seriously. it’s a bit rushed too. sorry - yeah, i’m apologizing.
