Ziquid Content From June 2021

Roughly two minutes of an introduction to a song... but which song? It may forever stay a mystery...

How to take a classic pop song and make a cover song version of it, in a week. Day 5 compiles the video I shot into a rough cut of the final music video. I kept the lyrics on screen because I will still redo vocals and I want to use this as one of my lyric references as I record.

How to take a classic pop song and make a cover song version of it, in a week. Day 4 is spent shooting raw footage for the music video.

How to take a classic pop song and make a cover song version of it, in a week. Day 3 is the song after starting on the bass, vocals, and video.

How to take a classic pop song and make a cover song version of it, in a week. Day 1b is the song after importing the Garage Band stems into Adobe Audition.

How to take a classic pop song and make a cover song version of it, in a week. Day 1a is the song after some tweaks in Garage Band.

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Song

Our House

Artist

Madness

Album

Our House

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UMG, WMG (on behalf of Union Square); CMRRA, BMI - Broadcast Music Inc., UMPG Publishing, LatinAutorPerf, Sony ATV Publishing, SOLAR Music Rights Management, LatinAutor - SonyATV, UNIAO BRASILEIRA DE EDITORAS DE MUSICA - UBEM, and 13 Music Rights Societies

This past night I lost an opportunity due to my own neglect, and, while I didn't value it as much as I could have, I was nevertheless depressed when I heard the news. I used the time I would have been working on that project to instead record this cover of Depeche Mode's "But Not Tonight", from their 1986 "Black Celebration" album.

How to take a classic pop song and make a cover song version of it, in a week. Day 0 is the starting point --- what the song sounds like before any work is done.

Me singing Uprising at Karaoke Night. Overlaid with my cover of the same song.