It's awful, but I played a song all by meself!

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Sun Apr 11, 2010 9:54 pm

So I only know so many songs completely... so I decided to record one.

I totally effed up on some of the chord changes and some the vocal timing is awful... but I did it! and I'm kinda proud.

It's a cover of No Children by The Mountain Goats

[stream]http://www.dwarfcraft.com/Media/Hanan/no%20children.m4a[/stream]

It's really the first time I've ever even tried doing a song by myself.

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Sun Apr 11, 2010 9:57 pm

hahaha you've got teh john darniellez down.

FYI, the stream tags use WMP (on windows), which doesn't support m4a so it doesn't work. i had to go direct.

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Sun Apr 11, 2010 10:01 pm

Reece wrote:hahaha you've got teh john darniellez down.

Lame I was trying to sound a bit harsher and angrier then him.

Nicole said I should have kept the first few takes I did, "they were prettier". Which given the nature of the song is why I kept the one where my voice was already blown.

Reece wrote:
FYI, the stream tags use WMP (on windows)

Lame it works on mine...

http://www.dwarfcraft.com/Media/Hanan/no%20children.m4a

Note the stolen bandwith from Aen, for some reason the uploader isn't working for me.

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Sun Apr 11, 2010 10:05 pm

It's not awful, sondz good. Well done, cochise.

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Sun Apr 11, 2010 10:12 pm

benecol wrote:It's not awful, sondz good. Well done, cochise.

You're too kind. Nicole was right, some of the earlier takes I did were actually what I would call good... but they were vocally maybe a bit too similar to the original. I needed to hanan it up a bit.

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Sun Apr 11, 2010 10:32 pm

Also recorded this for robroe.

http://www.shortscale.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=33826

kim · Post by **kim** » Mon Apr 12, 2010 8:31 am

it's cool

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Mon Apr 12, 2010 10:05 pm

should I have put this in teh whorehouse?

kim · Post by **kim** » Mon Apr 12, 2010 11:17 pm

it's art

i think whore house is more like when you post a song to promote your band or a gig but who cares. well i always feel awkward promoting one of my bands i try not to do it and just record a song and put it up here because you guys' responses are really motivating and makes me realise it's hypocrite to say i just do it for myself, i don't, i love feedback.

art shack, whorehouse, it's pretty much the same really it's not pub babble and it's not straighton geargeekery.

Chicago Mike · Post by **Chicago Mike** » Fri May 28, 2010 3:41 am

I like it!

I never learned a full song until I joined a band and to this day I don't remember a full cover for the life of me. I always get some then give up, or stealz it for my own song (since I end up making shit up on b/c I can't remember or learn it properly).

keep it up, that was refreshing.