Thursday, January 12, 2006
Above It All part 1
My New Years Resolution included some musical promises. Among them is the recording of one cover song a month. While there are a number of "classics", I think I'd like to tackle, I've decided to select songs from the Internet Archive, licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike and Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licences. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs is a bit limiting and seems not to permit re-interpreting works, so I avoid those songs that don't allow for building on them. I don't have a problem with that licence. I use it on some of my own music as well as the previous two mentioned. The attribution-sharealike licences are suited for sampling, remixing, or in my case, covering and re-imagining these songs.
So, the first cover song of the year will be Above It All, originally titled The World They Loved To Hate by Cry For Life AKA Crystal Walters. I was struck by the unusual sentiment expressed in the lyrics. I'll send my apologies when I'm done.
I tweaked the lyrics just a little bit, changed the title, and simplified the chords so that I could create an arrangement of sorts. Then I opened up Audacity, and recorded a couple of quickie demos with guitar and voice.
Every cover I record this year has to be finished on the month I start it, so these projects won't be as open ended as my usual stuff. Of course I can always come back to them after they're "finished."
Instead of posting an audio link with every post, the finished song will be posted to archive.org along with the individual instrument and vocal tracks. I may also include examples of the song at various points of its' progress.
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So, the first cover song of the year will be Above It All, originally titled The World They Loved To Hate by Cry For Life AKA Crystal Walters. I was struck by the unusual sentiment expressed in the lyrics. I'll send my apologies when I'm done.
I tweaked the lyrics just a little bit, changed the title, and simplified the chords so that I could create an arrangement of sorts. Then I opened up Audacity, and recorded a couple of quickie demos with guitar and voice.
Every cover I record this year has to be finished on the month I start it, so these projects won't be as open ended as my usual stuff. Of course I can always come back to them after they're "finished."
Instead of posting an audio link with every post, the finished song will be posted to archive.org along with the individual instrument and vocal tracks. I may also include examples of the song at various points of its' progress.
next>>>
Labels: Above It All, Audacity, covers, Creative Commons, Crystal Walters
