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On Nickelback and “musical fraud”

I may be one of the few people that are alone in this (is that sentence even right?) – but I just have to comment on a recent “phenomenon” that has been making waves on the internet about the credibility of Nickelback.

For those of you who don’t know, Nickelback has recently been attacked, accused of “recycling music” – hence are “ripping-off” the fans by feeding them with material that has already been used.

Before I even go any further in my commentary, I suggest you listen to the NPR article about it.

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Some music stuff

In the past, I mentioned lusting after some recording gadget really bad – then I followed it up with a subtle deliberate statement of my intention of getting it in another post as soon as it was out. Then on yet another post, I mentioned failing to acquire said item while I was in the US.

Anyways, when I say “it will be mine” – I goddamn fucking mean it! Ok, so didn’t really say it (I did for the T5 though) – what I meant to say is that I never ceased to follow up the status of the said product from the parent company even when I got back home – Until I finally got the following response:

Hi Carlos,

Actually they should be on store shelves right about now. GC has recieved a shipment. Sweetwater and other dealers should have them as well. Depending on their shipping choices some may get them today or over the next couple days.

We will be posting driver updates with more features this week too so make sure you go to our website and get them if you pick up a unit.

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What a Wonderful World (a cappella)

I now have my first “cover” song in the music section! It’s an arrangement by GP which I believe he based on Guy Sebastian’s interpretation of the song.

I was literally suckered into recording this – as I don’t know why he actually needed it recorded. But since it was a “genre” that I’ve never really tried recording, it’s all good.

At first he sent the piece and the MIDI of the voices… which I thought I was just going to use as a basis for the main vocal line. Once I was done with that, I sent it to him and the next message I got was:

“Ok, now for the rest of the voices.”

Sneaky little bastard hahahaha!

The original recording had 4 measures more at the intro – which I cut out since it tended to take too long before the verse started.

Another trivia for this is that since I’m a tenor, I can only go so low – so I needed some help on the really low notes. Notes such as those found in the time markers 0:11, 0:34, 0:57, etc. were sung with an aid of a synth (or sometimes a synth only).

No need to post lyrics for this since it’s a pretty well-known song (you can always google it)

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Your Majesty

This one’s for Arjay (as per his comment on one of the previous posts) hehehe.

Reprise of my old song “Your Majesty” with the following changes:

  1. Re-recorded the guitar part with my Taylor T5 – used percussive playing (slapping the guitar) for rhythmic effect.
  2. Added bass track via Reason
  3. Added electric guitar parts
  4. Added ambient pad via Rapture
  5. Re-done the vocal track with some lyric changes

You can compare it to the old one below:

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Fine

The reprise versions continue… this time with the song “Fine”

As stated [verbatim] in the Music Section:

Reprise of the song “Fine” with the following changes:

  1. Re-recorded the guitar part with my Taylor T5
  2. Re-done bass track with hybrid of reason and T5 sounds (for the slides)
  3. Added electric guitar parts
  4. Re-done the vocal track with some lyric changes and added harmonies

What I meant by #2 was that I used the T5 as a bass (thanks to the GT8) for the slides then matched the EQ of the bass module in Reason to make it sound like a single instrument.

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