Monday, September 18, 2006
Politikill part two
Well, so much for recording one cover song a month. I started this one back in April, and then stopped doing any recording for a while. Including my song of the week. Hopefully my dry spell is over for now.
Today I went back into Ardour and recorded a bunch of kazoos. 4 tracks during the bridge, one for the last verse and end of the song and two for the intro, which were cut and pasted into the ending of the song. I wonder if the kazoo voids the a cappella-ism of this song? Doesn't matter. It's just about done, save effects (if I so choose) and final mix.
I attempted to upload this to Archive.org, but the upload tool ccPublisher 2.2.1 is as screwed up as the last one I was using, 1. something or another. I'm gonna wait to see if it pops up within the next day or two, if so I'll post the link here, if not, I'll ftp it to the site and then post the link here. I don't want any more multiple posts showing up there. I still haven't cleaned up my eariler messes.
Edit: finally uploaded the song here. I'll be using the FTP option from now on with archive.org. Less headaches. 10/02/06
Today I went back into Ardour and recorded a bunch of kazoos. 4 tracks during the bridge, one for the last verse and end of the song and two for the intro, which were cut and pasted into the ending of the song. I wonder if the kazoo voids the a cappella-ism of this song? Doesn't matter. It's just about done, save effects (if I so choose) and final mix.
I attempted to upload this to Archive.org, but the upload tool ccPublisher 2.2.1 is as screwed up as the last one I was using, 1. something or another. I'm gonna wait to see if it pops up within the next day or two, if so I'll post the link here, if not, I'll ftp it to the site and then post the link here. I don't want any more multiple posts showing up there. I still haven't cleaned up my eariler messes.
Edit: finally uploaded the song here. I'll be using the FTP option from now on with archive.org. Less headaches. 10/02/06
Labels: a cappella, Agnula, Ardour, covers, kazoo, Linux, Politikill, Richard O
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Politikill part one
Politikill is a tune originally written and performed by someone who calls himself Richard O. It's about eating facists. I'd wanted to cover this one for a little while, so here we are.
I made one minor change in the lyrics because I do eat meat. Even had some red meat over the last coupl'a Judeo-Christian holiday periods, and for the most part, liked it. Also "hold the feet" was easier to sing.
I wasn't sure what the "name of a cheese" thing was about, but found out there is a President brand cheese. That bit might've been neccesary, because threatening the President may be against the law. Found that out from an episode of The Jeffersons, a long time ago.
I thought I might combine my experiments with Dokaka-eque a cappella recording with PSP Rhythm beats. Naturally any mixture between voice and instrument would void the a cappella-isms, but that's not why (so far) I went with with straight vocals. It was faster. I may still add other stuff later, like guitar and maybe an automated beat. My rhythm is still a bit sloppy.
I recorded in Ardour, starting with the melody and words. Even though I used the click to keep the time, starting out this way could be a problem if I try to introduce a tuned instrument.
I added drum sounds next and then a bassline and two separate tracks kinda mimicing a rhythm guitar. After that, an extra vocal for the very last verse.
I'm not sure if I'm adding anything else. Maybe more harmony. maybe effects and/or instruments. In any case, I may get this done on time.
Here's what it sounds like so far.
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I made one minor change in the lyrics because I do eat meat. Even had some red meat over the last coupl'a Judeo-Christian holiday periods, and for the most part, liked it. Also "hold the feet" was easier to sing.
I wasn't sure what the "name of a cheese" thing was about, but found out there is a President brand cheese. That bit might've been neccesary, because threatening the President may be against the law. Found that out from an episode of The Jeffersons, a long time ago.
I thought I might combine my experiments with Dokaka-eque a cappella recording with PSP Rhythm beats. Naturally any mixture between voice and instrument would void the a cappella-isms, but that's not why (so far) I went with with straight vocals. It was faster. I may still add other stuff later, like guitar and maybe an automated beat. My rhythm is still a bit sloppy.
I recorded in Ardour, starting with the melody and words. Even though I used the click to keep the time, starting out this way could be a problem if I try to introduce a tuned instrument.
I added drum sounds next and then a bassline and two separate tracks kinda mimicing a rhythm guitar. After that, an extra vocal for the very last verse.
I'm not sure if I'm adding anything else. Maybe more harmony. maybe effects and/or instruments. In any case, I may get this done on time.
Here's what it sounds like so far.
Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
next...
Labels: a cappella, Agnula, Ardour, covers, Linux, Politikill, Richard O
