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Week 6: Come Cover Me4/5/2022 Since I felt like I needed a bit of a win this week, I found myself gravitating towards a sort of musical comfort food for me: learning songs and recording covers. On paper, this didn't really help me make progress on songwriting, but it did make me feel a bit better about my musical endeavors in general. So, this isn't really a blog about all the great successes I've had with songwriting, but rather a representation of where my head is right now and what I need to do to reset myself when I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed. By the end of this project, I'm hoping to go through all the stock photos of stressed people I can find. Photo by Christian Erfurt on Unsplash This Week's Progress: Songwriting & RecordingProgress does continue on "Dying Light" and its chorus section. There are so many variation on the lyrics at this point, and I just don't know which one makes the most sense for the song (assuming any of them are good). So, with that being said, maybe I can outsource this a bit more. Tell me, do any of the below sound halfway decent? I'm not married to any particular sequence or combination.
This Week's Progress: VocalsAs has become my sort of Saturday ritual of late, I did take some time to do more vocal warm ups and practice my singing. Since I wasn't feeling particularly inspired by the choruses I was struggling to write, I instead went through old recordings I had done, and stumbled upon an instrumental cover I did of "Chapter Four" by Avenged Sevenfold. I knew it was out of my range, but my voice was warmed up, so just for fun I did some takes of the verse and chorus vocal parts (the non-screaming sections, though it would be cool if I could pull those off). The results were... inconsistent at best. I did go through and do some broad pitch correction afterwards just to see if that would make much of a difference in the quality of the vocals. Perhaps if I had a software like Melodyne I would see a bit more apparent changes in the quality of the vocals, but as it is even pitch correction isn't doing a lot of good at fixing the overall tone of my voice. I'm going to keep working on vocals just because I think it is a good skill for me to develop, but I think I might honestly just consider scrapping the requirement that my pre-production recordings have to have my vocals on them to be considered "complete" for the purpose of this challenge. Some Stats
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