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Before/After example of me singing a song I ain't never tried before

3,482 views · Published 8 November 2018 · 9:30 · Indexed 1 November 2026

Channel: TruthSurge · 2018 · Entertainment

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Okay, this might be interesting to someone.  Someone said I should sing a song in a lower key (well, several people have said that).  I told them I liked to sing songs in the ORIGINAL keys because it just sounds good to my ears.  Anyway, this dude mentioned Miles Away by Winger.  He had done a lower-key version with acoustic guitar.  His version was okay and sure, if you do ACOUSTIC, you can get away with that.   But I thought I'd like to try singing it, also, but in the right key.  So, I d/l a backing track, sang over it totally cold w/o ever rehearsing once or even listening to the song first.  THEN, i put my special sauce all over it and in this vid I put that immediately after the low pitch version.  So, you can hear the difference even with my first attempt at singing this.  My pitch isn't too bad, given I had never sang it till I recorded that first and only take.  But I didn't know what to expect in the high sections.   So.... that's basically how I record these higher pitched tunes.  I work it out SONICALLY first, by laying down what I think is close, then once I get a good EQ etc., then I will sing the thing till I'm happy with ONE full take.  THen I will punch in lines if they suck, tweak even single syllables if the pitch or timing is off, etc.  THEN, I will either resing on a new track to double the chorus parts etc or just duplicate the track and fudge a lot of stuff on that track to SIMULATE a vocal doubling and that process is an entire lesson in itself.  Anyway, I think I could pull this one off with practice.

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