Cover Challenge 16 "C"

poopot · October 2021

right then my little pickles.. Welcome to the 16th Cover Challenge

The rules are simple - there are no rules*

We all start with the same song suggestion and record our own cover version. It's up to your imagination as to what you do with it. It could be faithful to the original or as out there as you wish.

@bezzer has spoken and the choice for the next cover challenge to be covered in the cover challenge is:

Wait for it....

"Cardiff" by Stone Sour

https://youtu.be/c7meuHwLdAk

but... there’s a twist... you can choose to cover the Stone Sour track or you can choose to cover ANY song beginning with the letter “C”

however... if you cover the Stone Sour track you automatically get a bonus 5 points... if you cover the other you start from scratch!...

* RULES:

Entries to be sent in mp3 format to the following Email address:

covers@thefretboard.co.uk

You may wish to submit artwork to go with your entry. It brightens up the playlist and might subliminally get you more votes but it's not mandatory.

Entries close at 11.30pm on Friday 26th November... get cracking

A playlist (below) of all the entries will also be posted in the voting thread. Vote for your top 3 with 5 points awarded for first place, 3 points for second place and 1 point for third place. Entrants obviously aren't allowed to vote for their own entry.

Snap · October 2021

i'll have a do at this track. Good and heavy. Plenty to think about here.

Habanero · October 2021

I’ll be taking the C option.

Snap · October 2021

I have started. I can feel an industrial vibe brewing......

Bezzer · October 2021

Snap said:

I have started. I can feel an industrial vibe brewing......

We have similar thinking clearly! Although I’ll probably abandon that when I realise I’m crap at industrial!

Snap · October 2021

Bezzer said:

Snap said:

I have started. I can feel an industrial vibe brewing......

We have similar thinking clearly! Although I’ll probably abandon that when I realise I’m crap at industrial!

ha, yes. So I started and already it's ended up pseudo cinematic. Not quite what I was after, but let's see where it goes. I'm trying to figure out Butch Vig drums at moment, clearly my refusal to read instructions or tutorials is not paying off at all. Might have to ditch my pride and watch some YT.

Basically this track is a load of eastern tinged riffing in C#. that's my basic assessment!! Lob in some angsty vocals, sorted. Righto then,,,,

Habanero · October 2021

Like last time I'd not heard of the song or artist before, though wikipedia tells me some members went on to be in Slipknot.

poopot · October 2021

mines in the playlist:

https://soundcloud.com/thefretboard/sets/cover-challeng-16-c?si=cdba761cfd894997bb0f59987b716597

Sorry,,, not sorry

Habanero · October 2021

@poopot Hilarious, but would be a hanging offence on some guitar forums!

poopot · October 2021

Habanero said:

@poopot Hilarious, but would be a hanging offence on some guitar forums!

Dunno about that!… I have however made a shit song better

Snap · October 2021

@poopot - brilliant Bubba!

stratman3142 · October 2021

OK @poopot wins

Springywheel · October 2021

@poopot I would love to kick back over a bag of popcorn and see reactions to this on The Gear Page or TDPRI. I imagine it wouldn't go down so well

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Habanero · October 2021

Springywheel said:

@poopot I would love to kick back over a bag of popcorn and see reactions to this on The Gear Page or TDPRI. I imagine it wouldn't go down so well

The bloke who runs gilmourish.com would spontaneously combust.

Springywheel · October 2021

Habanero said:

Springywheel said:

@poopot I would love to kick back over a bag of popcorn and see reactions to this on The Gear Page or TDPRI. I imagine it wouldn't go down so well

The bloke who runs gilmourish.com would spontaneously combust.

I don't know about spontaneously combusting, but he'd turn to 60 cigarettes a day at least

poopot · October 2021

Balls to em

floyd are not as sacred as Floyd fans like to think…

I think my cover has done it justice to be fair…

dodgy vocals - check
dodgy production - check
dodgy pentatonic solo - check
dodgy strings - check
pig - check

I’ve also shortened it so that’s a bonus

Habanero · October 2021

Springywheel said:

Habanero said:

Springywheel said:

@poopot I would love to kick back over a bag of popcorn and see reactions to this on The Gear Page or TDPRI. I imagine it wouldn't go down so well

The bloke who runs gilmourish.com would spontaneously combust.

I don't know about spontaneously combusting, but he'd turn to 60 cigarettes a day at least

Only if the cigarettes were brand and vintage correct

stratman3142 · October 2021

Well at this rate I'll need 6 months for this one. I've spent the past 3 days alone, just trying to replicate the massive drum sound of "Cardiff" (which doesn't really come across in the the Youtube clip).

At one point I didn't realise I had my monitors turned up loud while I was listening on headphones, which led to a spell in the doghouse.

Snap · October 2021

poopot said:

Balls to em floyd are not as sacred as Floyd fans like to think…

I think my cover has done it justice to be fair…

dodgy vocals - check
dodgy production - check
dodgy pentatonic solo - check
dodgy strings - check
pig - check

I’ve also shortened it so that’s a bonus

my youngest, who's studying music A level, and is quite an accomplished bassist and pianist can't understand the hype around Comfortably Numb. I explained how the solos are so highly regarded and her view was "what's so clever about them, its a bit boring".

Personally, I love the track, but it is very over hyped

Habanero · October 2021

Snap said:

my youngest, who's studying music A level, and is quite an accomplished bassist and pianist can't understand the hype around Comfortably Numb. I explained how the solos are so highly regarded and her view was "what's so clever about them, its a bit boring".

Personally, I love the track, but it is very over hyped

I've never really warmed to Pink Floyd at all, I think partly due to the slightly dour lyrics and vocal delivery. Then last year I wrote and recorded a song about the pandemic, and a good friend said it reminded him of Roger Waters!

poopot · October 2021

The only thing the solo has going for it is it shows you how the relative major/minor works…

Bmin pent over the Bm parts
Bmin pent over the Dmaj parts…

Snap · October 2021

Habanero said:

Snap said:

my youngest, who's studying music A level, and is quite an accomplished bassist and pianist can't understand the hype around Comfortably Numb. I explained how the solos are so highly regarded and her view was "what's so clever about them, its a bit boring".

Personally, I love the track, but it is very over hyped

I've never really warmed to Pink Floyd at all, I think partly due to the slightly dour lyrics and vocal delivery. Then last year I wrote and recorded a song about the pandemic, and a good friend said it reminded him of Roger Waters!

I don't mind them but I find a lot of it very middle of the road. They are one of those bands that you are "supposed to like" if you know what I mean. Queen are another - really not for me at all. Dull.

I think I am going to have to start from scratch with this cover. I don't like what I've done so far, it's a mess.

stratman3142 · October 2021

I've just decided to try to recreate the "Cardiff" backing with no vocals. It's become a bit of an obsession.

I'm using it as an exercise to try to replicate the sounds. I'm not even sure I'll finish it at this rate, but I'm learning a lot in the process.

And, if I do finish, I don't expect any votes.

Habanero · October 2021

Snap said:

I don't mind them but I find a lot of it very middle of the road. They are one of those bands that you are "supposed to like" if you know what I mean. Queen are another - really not for me at all. Dull.

I think I am going to have to start from scratch with this cover. I don't like what I've done so far, it's a mess.

I quite like Queen, their first album being the first proper cassette I ever owned. Another of my crimes though is not really liking Led Zep.

I'm mixing my attempt, and concluding that compression is a dark art. It's not Cardiff, but 5,260 miles away.

Bezzer · October 2021

stratman3142 said:

I've just decided to try to recreate the "Cardiff" backing with no vocals. It's become a bit of an obsession.

I'm using it as an exercise to try to replicate the sounds. I'm not even sure I'll finish it at this rate, but I'm learning a lot in the process.

And, if I do finish, I don't expect any votes.

This is a good thing to do! I did that with Hand Cannot Erase. Purely an exercise in tone matching and production. I learned so much in the process.

And obsession is right, you get so close and then … “I can get this closer”. Good luck!!

Snap · October 2021

Habanero said:

Snap said:

I don't mind them but I find a lot of it very middle of the road. They are one of those bands that you are "supposed to like" if you know what I mean. Queen are another - really not for me at all. Dull.

I think I am going to have to start from scratch with this cover. I don't like what I've done so far, it's a mess.

I quite like Queen, their first album being the first proper cassette I ever owned. Another of my crimes though is not really liking Led Zep.

I'm mixing my attempt, and concluding that compression is a dark art. It's not Cardiff, but 5,260 miles away.

Compression is indeed a dark art, and very cool if you can get to grips with it. I use it a lot, in the hope that eventually it will work properly!

In fact, mixing, EQ, compression, etc etc is all a dark art. And then you have the weird thing that is mastering, It's all a bit of a stab in the dark for me, and I started doing PC recordings in err....about 1995!

poopot · October 2021

Snap said:

Habanero said:

Snap said:

I don't mind them but I find a lot of it very middle of the road. They are one of those bands that you are "supposed to like" if you know what I mean. Queen are another - really not for me at all. Dull.

I think I am going to have to start from scratch with this cover. I don't like what I've done so far, it's a mess.

I quite like Queen, their first album being the first proper cassette I ever owned. Another of my crimes though is not really liking Led Zep.

I'm mixing my attempt, and concluding that compression is a dark art. It's not Cardiff, but 5,260 miles away.

Compression is indeed a dark art, and very cool if you can get to grips with it. I use it a lot, in the hope that eventually it will work properly!

In fact, mixing, EQ, compression, etc etc is all a dark art. And then you have the weird thing that is mastering, It's all a bit of a stab in the dark for me, and I started doing PC recordings in err....about 1995!

Come and hone your skills in the mix challenge then:

https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/3088739#Comment_3088739

Habanero · October 2021

poopot said:

Come and hone your skills in the mix challenge then:

https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/3088739#Comment_3088739

Personally I don't think I'm ready for that yet.

I only started on the home recording road in January 2020, and used Garageband 'because it was there'. Then a couple of weeks ago I bought my first plugin, and as it has an AU version I concluded it would work with Garageband. It does, but I then discovered that GB has limited midi features, so it doesn't work fully. Consequently I'm now a Logic Pro X owner with another learning curve.

Snap · October 2021

poopot said:

Come and hone your skills in the mix challenge then:

https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/3088739#Comment_3088739

It's having the time mate tbh. I don't have enough of it.

poopot · October 2021

Habanero said:

Consequently I'm now a Logic Pro X owner with another learning curve.

You have everything you need already with logic

Habanero · October 2021

Sent in my 'C' entry. I still have the 45rpm vinyl single I bought all those years ago and played over and over again.

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