Not Doing Song Covers

 

Except these kind of are. My last 5 music+comics have been like this. Like a buskers Fake Book, or not remembered correctly, close, almost cover versions.

I want to do original music, then here, almost well known songs. 

Not the thing can put on YouTube or Bandcamp, and fair use is not a universal concept. For example it does not exist in Japan.  

The lyrics are what people remember, or mostly remember...

Interesting thing to try for a change.  I basically gave myself a morning to record and sing a 60sec piece of music, then make a music+comic around it. Hadn't played the song before.

So I usually look up the TAB for it.  Find the track on YouTube if I don't already have it, and open up my template for this stuff. Same drums and default instruments and set the tempo. All of these songs here use the same three ultra simple 4/4 drum patterns.  Record some verse chorus like bits and ram them together. I play the parts, they way I do my original stuff. I am NOT trying to copy the original artists. 

Other than maybe a hint of a Scottish accent in the singing maybe  😀. 

Then have 3 or 4 attempts at the singing and keep the best takes. So it isn't that I spent any time practicing these songs I don't know. Part of the incorrectly remembered feel.

Thing is, as I don't own these songs, there is little point in spending much time working on them, learning them, other than for the educational value. To me anyway. 

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