Together, Davina Miaw, Brandon Rhinehart, and I created a cover of a Billboard Top 100 song. (posts) This selection took us a few minutes of deciding. Finally, we discovered that we enjoyed Portugal. The Man’s Feel It Still on BandHub. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBkHHoOIIn8) We were ambitious in our ideas on how to make this cover a success. I feel like we tried our absolute best with the materials at hand, and made a product that we all thoroughly enjoyed! Our group was determined to make this cover our own piece of work. We avoided using a pre-made YouTube backing track, by making our own. Brandon worked very hard to make a backing track with the drumset on GarageBand. He used the actual song to create drum loops that lined directly up with the song. We also created a beat by having Brandon clap along with the back-beat. Davina and I then played a bass line on the piano together, in two different octaves. Finally, we all got together, learned the words to the song, created a couple props, and sang the song together! For the most part, the recording process went smoothly. However, we discovered that about 3/4ths of the way through our cover, one of our tracks skipped, but then fixed itself. Every time we went to record over this track, if kept glitching, and there was no way to prevent it. As we were recording over the track, we would try to catch up to where the track glitched to. However, when we did this, the time it took for us to catch up to the track when recording then also glitched at the same time, making all the tracks out of time. This was one of the most frustrating parts of the process. We tried to fix it in multiple ways, as well. As you can see in our cover, at one point, as we are singing, I take my headphones off and begin singing without listening to the backtrack. This was one of our solutions, because singing along to a backtrack that is out of time is very difficult. We ended up slowing down in relation to the tracks as we sang alone, but it all ends up coming back together at the end somehow! This experience built stronger relationships between our group members. We were faced with several frustrating situations, but we were all able to help each other out to avoid getting too stressed out. I, personally, began to get frustrated a few times, but we all ended up laughing it off, and persevering! This process also taught us a lot about problem-solving. The issue with the glitch in the track was a big one. We were able to discuss and explain the problem with one another, and work together to come up with different ideas and solutions to ensure that our cover sounded as good as it possibly could. As a musician, I was able to think hard about the solution to this problem. However, my previous experiences with a problem like this were never quite like this. I tried multiple ways to solve it: Taking the headphones off, keeping a metronome running throughout the song to stay on track, listening to the skipped track and try to keep steady, and more. However, we were unable to find the source of this problem, and didn’t quite end up being able to fix it. Through this project, though, I feel that we all gained a stronger relationship with one another, and enhanced our musicianship and problem-solving skills! Our Cover: https://bandhub.com/s/5a24c0228775e068a68a8262
https://bandhub.com/s/5a24c0228775e068a68a8262
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