Month: February 2010

[COVER] The Ponytail Parades (rough)

Post author By Adwin
Post date February 11, 2010
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The second rough keyboard and vocals recording of the night is a cover of one of my favourite songs evar. Its “The Ponytail Parades” by Emery (acoustic piano version from The Question Deluxe Edition). And yes, I *did* use this song for my Silent Film collection of Gogo.

My bastardization in usual Adwin Lam-bastardization mode included:

running out of air
singing off key
playing the wrong notes
being boring by playing slower…
spacey recording due to horrible mic positioning

With all this said, enjoy! I really look forward to making a MUCH improved version of this. Justice must be done for Emery.

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[COVER] Boston (rough)

Well, here we are. The first keyboard and vocals recording ever. I can’t read sheet music, so I learned this by ear and some chords. A really horrid “first try”, which is why I appropriately named it “rough”; just about everything that can go wrong does:

spacey recording due to bad mic positioning
running out of air and going off key
playing the wrong chords and notes as only a newbie keyboard player would
telephone going off (actually, it came in at a GOOD moment and sounded…good?)

A better version is definitely in the works…but this was just something for laughs and cringing. I need some telescopic boom mic stands, as the current set-up is really inflexible for mic positioning capturing the best sounds.

This song is called “Boston” by Augustana. This is my bastardized-Adwin Lam style recording. Enjoy!