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Steely Dan vocal/guitar cover ( Don't Take Me Alive )

4,067 views · Published 18 August 2017 · 5:42 · Indexed 23 October 2026

Channel: TruthSurge · 2017 · Entertainment

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Okay, just got in the mood to sing so, I picked this one cuz it's not impossible like Foreigner or Dio.  I'm no Donald Fagan or Larry Carlton but I just did my best sort of.  I flaked on the solo cuz I couldn't be bothered learning it note for note.

I stole a backing track from some website and added the solo guitar part and backing vocals and lead vocals.   I used auto-tune just to get the pitches a tad more in tune on the background vocals and also on lead vocals.  It's pretty relaxed so you don't get that fake auto-tune sound like on lots of pop tunes.  I doubled the vocal on the "yes I crossed....".  Guitar was done in one take, no punch ins or fixes but I did edit one or two tiny string flubs due to my stupid guitar being too close to the edge of the frets.  I also pitched up that string tap near the start to make it more interesting.  There's a lot of processing on the vocals (compression, auto-tune, eq, multiband eq, delay, convolution reverb, pitch shifting).  So, dat about covers it.

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