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    8Bitjay
    

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    I know the feeling guys. I just got back into making music. It's just a hobby for me, but it's a bummer when even the significant other doesn't seem to care. Another problem, I have some old tracks, samples and refills on a hard drive in a computer that died. I should just get a drive enclosure and pull that stuff out. There are songs there I would like to rework.

    As for getting music together, I've found that the more stuff you have, the harder it can be. Also, I sometimes have to listen to one song for inspiration. I sorta try to imitate its style, if that makes sense. I don't copy it directly, but maybe the intro inspires me to start a certain way, and I let it go from there. Right now, Reason 5/Record 1.5 has been working for me. Sure, it's not Logic Pro and thousands of dollars worth of VST synths and fancy hardware, but it does what I need for now.

    Posted 9 months ago #
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    @Bitjay - you said "I sorta try to imitate its style, if that makes sense". Does it make sense? Absolutely. What I always find so funny though is that when I'm done, no one would EVER know what it was I was trying to emulate as I am so terrible at emulation. It works to my favor I guess but bothers me as well.

    Posted 9 months ago #
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    8Bitjay
    

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    I'd say it's a good thing. You took an inspiring track and made your own song out of it. Of course there is also the occasional cover song, which is GREAT for learning how to use your synths and figuring out music by ear. This later helps when you have that awesome synth line buzzing in your head and you want to put it into the daw of your choice.

    Posted 9 months ago #
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    @ 8Bitjay;
    My old project did some live gigs and I remade Cyndi Lauper's She Bop as an industrial dance track for the gigs. Yeah cheesy I guess but I did learn alot from the experience. Whoever came up with those synth lines was either extremely lazy or extremely talented in the classical sense. I guess I'll never know but whoever that person was they taught me some shit.

    Posted 9 months ago #
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    What gets me is how complex even some of the easiest songs become. I am currently working on a cover of Sex Dwarf (I know, everyone covers that song) and I am surprised. The song is very simple, but there are so many subtle touches and variations throughout that it's tough if you are trying to make it sound just like the original.

    Posted 9 months ago #
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    @ 8Bitjay; That is the hardest thing I can imagine - trying to do the original as close as possible. I could never do that, I don't have talent like that. If you can then you are sick, insane talented. When I did She Bop I turned it dark and ugly and evil and harsh. It was fun as fuck but I couldn't do no better than to transpose it to what I know best. If I was to do an authentic cover of it I might get close but I could never get it right. We tried doing a cover of Death in June too. We worked on Fall Apart for our future gigs that never happened. But as simple as that damn song was we couldn't get it like the original for shit. If you can do it then you have some serious ability. Run wit dat!

    Posted 9 months ago #
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    Jairus Khan
    

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    Making covers sound like the original is a waste of time and talent, as far as I'm concerned.

    Posted 9 months ago #
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    i tend to prefer covers that take the song in a new direction, but every once in a while someone does a great note-for-note 'tribute' cover. FnM doing The Commodores - Easy, for example. if you can't do it well you shouldn't release or perform it though, see: Sisters of Mercy crapping all over Pink Floyd's - Comfortably Numb.

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    It was online for years but I just dropped my website where I had our 1:30 remake of the Dukes of Hazzard theme song. I did it in a futurepop vein and we played it live one night. Most of the crowd was too young I guess to know what the hell it was which ended up making it a funny experience. "just some good ole boys" crowd: puzzled looks...

    Posted 9 months ago #

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