Well....I must say that the vocals are very pretty & pristine-so much so,that it has me wondering why you are not singing as a vocation-or at least,as a side-line??
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Thank you very much. That's very nice of you to say. This was all one take. No comping was done, and I didn't do any pitch correction either (not that I'm against that. I believe in using all the tools available.. heh). That said, it took about 20 takes to get the one I finally used, though.
I know this is very nit-picky of me,but I am stickler for accuracy,when it comes to cover songs
Hm. I guess that's where you and I see things differently. I wasn't trying to ... meticulously recreate the original. When I sung live, I never tried to do that either. It's just my performance of the song is all. I think there's room for some vibrato in Imagine.
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Just as there's room for hybrid deaf choir / show choir arrangement of it as performed on the TV show Glee. Certainly plenty of people much more talented than me have covered that song with far more wildly adventurous interpretations than mine. Without that we wouldn't have "Black Magic Woman" by Santana (a cover of a Fleetwood Mac song that has now far surpassed the original in popularity), or George Thorogood's popular re-working of Bo Diddley's original, "Who Do You Love?", or perhaps even more apro po the wildly different arrangements of Beatles tunes as done for the movie
Across the Universe many of which I think are fantastic (the slowed down and thoughtful rendition of "Girl", for example, or Joe Cocker's amazing version of "Come Together"). Anyway, there are countless other examples. I don't know. That's just how I view cover songs. You're mileage may vary. Ultimately, I just enjoy singing, and this was a great song to learn my software on, and I tell ya, a side benefit is that it made my mom smile when I gave it to her.
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As for the music-I remember reading that you were primarily a vocalist & that instrumentation was secondary,if that.I couldn't help but notice how choppy sounding the piano was and that some of the bass notes in certain segments of the song sounded wrong(can't confirm at the moment,as I have not heard the tune in a long while).
This one I can't argue with. Hehe. I'm no pianist, and although I tried my best to get the bass line right, I can't gaurentee I got it all.
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Thanks very much for your thoughts. I will try my best to make use of them in the future.
Overall though,a 5-star-pro-quality vocal performance...which really has me itching to take vocal lessons....something I should have done long ago.
Thank so much again. There's nothing like putting together a vocal performance you feel good about, especially in front of a live audience of 1000+ people. Those moments were among the best and most memorable in my life.
You have a great voice, Thom. If you're serious, you really should get together with a teacher. You'd be surprised how fast you can improve; and how those out of reach things you really want to be able to do become not so out of reach after only one or two lessons. I will say that it's darn near impossible to learn how to sing well from books, though. It's like any instrument, it takes experienced instruction, time and lots of practice.
Thanks again for listening, and for putting up with my verbose response!
Scott