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0:00 Check one, two. Check one, two. Yup, I can hear you too. Alright, so sorry about the change in schedule, sleep schedule I must say with messing around Yeah, so I have a few things that I wanted to work on today. Part of ...
2:58 The Climb — Miley Cyrus
5:02 Yeah. uhm sides oh yeah i see it okay all right let me uh all right all right Alright. Alright.
6:01 Always gonna be another mountain Always gonna want to make it move Always gonna be an uphill battle Sometimes you're gonna have to lose in about how fast I get there in about what's waiting on the other side It's the cli...
6:30 Hell... I services from... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
6:49 Ain't about how fast I get there, ain't about what's waiting on the other side It's the climb
7:05 Thanks for watching!
7:26 In about how fast I get there, In about what's waiting on the other side It's the climb
7:41 yeah yeah yeah I'm gonna add a breathmark there I think that that's that probably part of what I didn't like about the recording was I don't think I was breathing in enough before It's the Climb and so my pitch was all o...
8:59 I usually do, even though it's not how Miley does it.
9:02 and that's not how it's written. I usually do a truck driver's gear change into E to do the last verse, just to, but other than that, you get the idea. So another one I wanted to do, and this one I will admit upfront is,...
9:37 Music
9:43 Oh no, it starts in A minor. Led Zeppelin, Stairway to Heaven. So it's...
9:58 I was reminding myself.
10:21 I don't know why I'm having trouble with the intro. Probably a lot better than i will.
10:56 .
11:00 slowly but surely
11:03 pushed yeah that's it so most of some of the times you
11:16 Exactly up until a couple of years ago I didn't even have that, I played by ear, but I have mastered at least reading guitar chords, which is very helpful, for sight reading stuff.
11:36 There we go. There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold when she's buying the stairway to heaven When she gets there she knows if the stores are all closed with a word she can get what she came for And she's buy...
12:15 Yeah. So it's... I hadn't actually thought of transposing it. But... It has to be a... Yeah, it has to be... Yeah. And I could do it in the— all right. Let me try it to— actually, let me try it like this one more tim...
13:05 and we can try transposing it. There's a lady sure the Glitters is gold And she's by a stairway to heaven When she gets there she knows If the stores were all closed With the word she could get what she came for yeah I'm...
13:32 You know, I kicked it up a notch. I'm pushing a little harder.
13:35 Stairway to Heaven — Led Zeppelin
16:05 What the heck? Oh, sorry about that.
16:09 Spirits — The Strumbellas
17:28 Okay. Yeah, I think I just need to kick. I need to...
17:44 kick it a little harder in the beginning than I was. I definitely, I felt like when I was singing a little
17:52 harder, it became much more intelligible. So, yeah, I think that's the...
18:01 Part of the problem might be that I'd leave too much room for dynamic range, like in the intros.
18:07 like a duck too far down and some of that is probably from you know I started out singing lead forProd in France many years ago
18:18 ... when I didn't have any further to go, and now my top is a lot higher than it used to be. So I don't have to leave so much room on the bottom because there's...
18:27 There's a lot more there than there used to be. Yeah... Yeah, but I... Yeah, alright. Right here. Yeah. All right. Let me just again add a note. All right, just added a note to that so that... and I'll have to practice t...
20:05 🎵 🎵 🎵 Getting' crazy on the waters, 🎵 🎵But it's the life that I choose, 🎵 🎵 🎵Singin' about the switchblade, 🎵 🎵Singin' bout the switchback, 🎵 🎵And I torture a tattoo, 🎵 🎵 And I'v...
20:39 Sorry, what? Yeah? ...In a screaming ring of faces. Alright. I- I'll- ...In a-
20:54 I don't, I don't know where I'll be tonight But I'll always tell you where I am In this screaming ring of faces She had a ticket for the line She had a ticket for the races Just like me, she was a victim other' night I p...
21:33 Uh. Okay. Alright. And the big rub...
21:47 Tunnel of Love — Dire Straits
25:05 And then there's a long piano outro Yeah. in elementary school. Secretary31172etic .we b e h f e l e g e e f f t e h f e cart . f c s g s
25:58 Gettin' crazy on the road sales But it's the life that I choose Sing about the six-blade, sing about the switchback And that torture tattoo when I've been ridin' on a grocery When the cars they scream and slam And I don'...
26:22 Yeah, you can, but I think I like it better the other way. I might, I mean, I know it's more challenging because I've got more syllables faster, and I probably need to do a better job of managing my air, especially in th...
26:38 And the big wheel keeps on turning beyond burning up above. And I'm just high on this world. Come on and take a low ride with me, girl, on the Tunnel of Love. Was that Moira Eora looked at me again?
26:55 for yeah, I already think you know yeah I get it put some marks on the
27:21 No it's it's it's definitely a thing where I need to take a breath before
27:25 on the Tunnel of Love, which, I haven't been doing. But because otherwise I start to run out of air near the end of it and what ends up happening is in order to keep the pitch I sacrifice volume which as you pointed out ...
29:10 (unidentified song) unidentified
32:08 And then the rest is all instrumental. Yeah, there's only so much bandwidth in the world, and it probably don't need to be sending video to the back of my head, anyway. That's good. Yeah, it's a fun one, it's one of my i...
33:26 This Too Shall Pass
34:25 Yeah. Yeah. Alright, let me try again here. Okay.
34:49 This Too Shall Pass
35:39 Blade. Blade. OK. Do you Do you?
35:48 Do you ever feel like memories won't fade? Trapped in the past, with death's blade.
36:03 Death, a process , yeah, it's death a process of free ass that's death. That's yeah that that was... Let me try that Trapped in the past
36:17 Trapped in the past with Death's Blame
36:21 I'm With Death's gameplay
36:33 With death's play
36:36 trapped in the past, with death's blade Let me try it from the top again.
37:15 This Too Shall Pass
38:40 all right and then we have the... I'll skip the instrumental bit Mr. Chairman, this is�
39:00 This Too Shall Pass
39:48 and so on. Yes this is completely me. This is off the album I'm working on. Yeah well Well it has been, but I'm re-recording the vocals on it because that's... Yeah. Yes. So...
40:57 Yeah, so, not really, and part of the reason why is you have to remember that this is one of the many, many songs in which the way I record it is–
41:05 is with two vocals one an octave above the other. So yeah, no, what you'll, it... Yeah.
41:18 um, and I will use all kinds of cheating to avoid that, including standing while I record it and also possibly a nudge of compression here and there, but the other, the biggest thing that will fix it is the fact that I'm...
41:33 um, at the same time
41:36 There's too shall pass Dark takes on forever, moving future in the past Sometimes we wish things And that'll be lower in gain in the mix, but it'll be there And it'll support when you get to the Forever young and unafrai...
42:05 both octaves in yeah, now I...yeah. So this is a very common thing for me to do because I love how it sounds is to record two...
42:25 two parts, one an octave above the other, and then
42:29 put the upper one a little bit lower in the mix, because it gives this much fuller, richer sound that I just adore. Yeah, most songs I write, I end up doubling the vocals. I don't always do it an octave up. Sometimes I d...
43:27 I could, for sure, but I think that I've been forever scarred by the fact
43:32 My dad was a barbershop quartet singer and so I kind of liked that. Four-part niecely singing the whole phrase thing. I do, I do also, I don't do whole
43:44 As long as in four-part harmony I'll do things where only the chorus is or...
43:47 only a part of the verse is, so that it, maintains its punch, but, it's, you know, if you know any tricks for perfectly timing phrases, if you care to share them I could, I can use all the help I can get on that. Mostly ...
44:30 Yeah that's an interesting idea. I do it against a counting metronome in my headphones, but I've never done
44:37 with something visual. And maybe...
44:40 Maybe just wind- get out the old school wind up
44:43 Um. Yeah... Yeah, what I've got is in my headphones... Yeah. In my headphones I've got the the counting one two three four, but...
45:12 Um, I'll have to see if I can find somewhere I have one of those, um, pyramid old school piano metronomes, which, I, I can see where-
45:20 actually seeing the turn around might help a lot.
45:45 Yeah like, I can get that just by popping up the waveform for the counting metronome, or the generator for it. The generator for it is actually
45:53 The 16-step sequencer... you know, the old school 808 drum machines with just the light that goes across over and over... Right. Yeah, I will...I'll check that out, and I'll also try another couple of things I have lying...
47:13 Now, it is definitely for playing the music, the uh, music part having accounting-
47:19 is the bomb.
47:22 My drummer, who wouldn't even play a tic, has fallen in love with the idea of recording to a metronome since discovering how handy a counting metronome is, but for the vocal parts, it is a problem because of the fact tha...
47:50 and then, it, and it does...
47:54 of course you know I'm using these large diaphragm condensers
47:57 I can hear my dogs walking five rooms away. It definitely bleeds into the vocal track.
48:05 I have to keep it pretty low in the mix, but the nice thing about a visual metronome is I can flash the entire room lighting if I wanted.
48:12 that would not even be that hard to do And that-
48:20 to you will not show up in the vocal track.
48:25 Yeah I'll try that. That's a good thought. Let's see if there's anything else I wanted to go over with you. I think we have time for one more, okay um I have I done haitcher with you yes no yeah yeah, yeah, that one alri...
49:03 Hallelujah — Leonard Cohen
52:23 yeah see, that's that's how it's writ that's how it's on the lyric sheet Yeah. You know, all right, I'll try, I'll try and bend it a little.. Yeah. I'll try and bend it a little that way. See how I feel on it. I definite...
53:52 The organ pedal bass and the synthesizer, they are like... I definitely, when I do it live...
54:01 I don't just play it on piano, I do it with the organ bass and I do a lot of, in the instrumental part, I do a lot of synthesizer pad stuff.
54:12 I'm definitely just a sucker for a good pad.
54:21 It's thi....
54:24 This keyboard here, the Novation is the only time I've ever gone into a music store and basically I always go around and play all the keyboards. I played that when I was like that
54:35 Not one's going home with me, because it's just...
54:39 I programmed it so it's even sweeter than it used to be, but even just with
54:43 the stocked voices that the Novation people have just got it going on when it comes to those 80s pad sounds so uh yeah anyway um do you want to do one more or you want to call it a night all right um all right let me do ...
55:17 The Way It Is — Bruce Hornsby
56:06 yep is should I do like a Z instead of an S do you think they're? is all right let me try that
56:31 The Way It Is — Bruce Hornsby
58:25 And so on and so forth. Yes it's, and, I mean it's always been one of my favorites. Right. Great. They've got to press the button slide. Woah, I thought that was going to go the other way. One very small step at a time. ...
1:00:46 Well, yeah, although, and even with the people who go to the party, even the people who-
1:00:52 the party I wonder how easy do they sleep at night I mean Thomas Jefferson wasn't totally comfortable with slavery given his behavior during the evening we do All right. And Yeah, alright, well, um, I will I'll get back ...