Multitrack Here Comes Santa Claus (MERRY CHRISTMAS)

[SJRogers]

You got real jazzy at the 1:01-1:56 mark. I like. :)

[DomLaz1]

There are those that would feel unmoved by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir or Andre Bocelli (sp?) at their best! Simon, I am moved & excited by your voice & delivery! I found you via Vance Perry & Mike Beck. To be part of a crowd like that, your talents are no small potatoes, my brother! Please, please, oh please give us more full length presentations. The world truly does need more of this kind of sweet, pure music!

[klutch141]

.............=D

[Romeo6141982]

Seriously, This is amazing. Like its so perfect its scary.

[TheBMW2002ti]

Love it, love it, love it. Great job, very entertaining....great voice, great look, wonderful spirit. Thank you for your efforts and for sharing this with the YouTube community! I will order your new CD.

[thebl00per]

Simon, don't listen to the idiots. This is fab work, my friend! If they only knew how difficult it is to get something to sound this good, even with Melodyne.

[TnTuCw]

impressive timing

[Drum3r541]

Cool hair yo

[BarbershopTenor]

Hi Simon, so sorry I have missed you in Stockholm on Saturday. I went to the Zero8 concert and saw you leave (must have been after the early show) when I came in. Did not react quick enough... Nice work on this one! GREAT choice of music and perfect execution... Love the tune! Keep the excellent work up! And thank you.

[EvilKnievl192]

respect bro

[FineyLeee]

@Sylvanas590 You can contact Marshall Webb on the email address thevocalcatATaolDOTcom, and if you'd mention that this video brought your attention, I'd be realy thankful!

[Sylvanas590]

@FineyLeee You got it. Thanks very much!

[Sylvanas590]

Hey Simon! I'm looking into doing this song this coming winter, so I was wondering if you could send me a link to where I can buy/download the sheet music?

Thanks!

[Anderulio]

Autotune abusing is a crime.

[FineyLeee]

@Anderulio Prefering unclean music over clean because it's not "natural" is being a hippie.

[Anderulio]

@FineyLeee Please. Read my comment again. I'm talking about autotune.

You don't even know how's this guy's voice. You could do it better than him.

Autotune is to singing what photoshop is to photography.

[FineyLeee]

@Anderulio In case you didn't notice, I'm "him".

I'm not autotuning anything. I'm melodyning. And Melodyne is more like a color enhance filter, something that makes a picture look nicer, although such intense colors would never exist in reality.

I prefer it this way. Sorry if you don't. But it's not a crime...

[kssifrot]

@FineyLeee

or comunist



[StingingSuzumebachi]

@Anderulio You're a crime.

[Anderulio]

@StingingSuzumebachi Hahaha!! Indeed.

[Blumenkatze]

great, but it little bit to perfekt

[StingingSuzumebachi]

@Blumenkatze How can you say that? Does this song not create music in your heart?

[Blumenkatze]

@StingingSuzumebachi

i like a little bit unperfect songs

[StingingSuzumebachi]

@Blumenkatze Then listen to something else, I guess. I really love this because it's perfect. Well, not because it's perfect, but because of the perfection of harmonies, I can feel the vibrations as they're supposed to sound. It feels great, and activates something in me that makes me feel just pure happiness... something people without perfect pitch cannot activate truly.

[Blumenkatze]

@StingingSuzumebachi

do you have nothing to do than to bother me? why can't you just accept my opinion?

if you like it, fine. i have no problem with that, but for me it's to perfect.

[trlkly]

Wow. You actually sang the different parts differently? No one does that on here. When the different parts have solos, they sound like different people LIKE THEY SHOULD!

Don't know if it's you or the mixer, but credit where where is due.

[vivaarnoldo]

FineyLeee says: "I think it turned out great!"

Dito.

Cheers mate.

(I know, I know, I'm 6 months late...bah...humbug on being late.)

[Musicaltenor1]

Hey do you know where i can get this arrangement of this song??? btw Big Fan!

[Juggler1097]

You have a beautiful voice! Excellent job! Also, this sounds almost exactly like Return2Zero's version of the song; either way, I still love both versions.

[hpiznxt2myheart]

This makes me so happy.

[christiankittyluver]

that was really cool!!  =)

[omnislash241]

hey man I swear I walked past you at international last year at Anaheim. Man you are something else. I wish I could do my multitracks like yours. I don't have the equipment for it for one, and I need more vocal coaching. Congrats man, this one is very impressive. I was wondering if I could buy this as a track? or get it so I can put it on my ipod. I like it alot. :)

[FineyLeee]

Thanks for the kind words! If you just want the full mix of this to put on your iPod, just send me an e-mail and I'll send it along. It's free!

[omnislash241]

i sent you a message on youtube with my email, i don't think I have your email :p

[FineyLeee]

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently: SeanboykidderATgmailDOTcom

[Jeftaaa]

dude!

[bordonthestreet]

damnit you jacked my video response goldmine!

[tagtenor]

Nice arrangement!

[wickedrocketelvispel]

again, this is ridiculous!!!!!!!

[13Superkitsune]

Wickedrocketelvispel meant ridiculous in the good way i believe :)

[wickedrocketelvispel]

indeed I did :) big fan FineyLeee!

[EvilKnievl192]

the bells at 1:27 xD nice job

[MiarinoBoobxo]

Woww That Was Well Good :')

[Ex0P0l1t1c5]

Good to hear you use vibrato aswell. ;p

[ConvictConz]

This is fucking amazing! You are amazingly talented! Wow! And you are really REALLY cute!

[dushka2001]

i´m always asking the multitrackers for whole songs.

this was a cracker, full of swing and very entertaining. i hope soon the robotic thing will be solved.

thanx for sharing.

[kcaparotta]

I think it may have been mentioned once before, but it bears repeating. The arranger is the incomparable MARSHALL WEBB. He's quite an amazing a cappella singer himself.

[daniscool99]

To purhase learning tracks!

[PhantasmWoW]

I want to hear you sing in dutch, or swedish, whatever you call that language. Swedutchish? I don't think I have heard anything like that. Maybe the Loituma people... don't know if they were swedish or not.

[Ex0P0l1t1c5]

@PhantasmWoW Dutch is not the same as Swedish ;p I doubt Simon can speak it. Loituma is Finnish.

[sephiroth3782]

loving the expression on the bass at 1:29

=)

[blackiron44]

the eyebrows! gah~! lol

[kinacab]

the hair haha

[andreaacme]

Ok Mr.FineyLeee ... This time you've excelled in posting a complete song with magical amosphere and awesome chords, emphatic acting and clever expressful volume and rythm control. This, compared to the other song you just posted about Xmas, strikes me more because of its originality; it simply reaches so

much character.

Well done boy and most of all, welcome back after a long time of "silence". 5 stars

[strongbad635]

I dream of the day Simon makes a multitrack of one of my charts.

[ksaun95]

lol i love 1:12 "here comes big fat santa!"

[firemanbucs]

Your voice sounds like a synthesizer.

[trudbol]

I agree. Your pitch and technique are crisp and clean, no doubt. But I too sometimes feel like I'm listening to a human MIDI file. I don't feel warmth in your attitude or voice. As a listener, it bothers me a little bit, I feel like I'm watching gymnastics, when in fact I'd like to see someone dancing. Great job anyhow, hats off to your performance. I would have rather felt moved, but I am definitely impressed.

[FineyLeee]

@trudbol So why don't you watch dancing instead?

I apologize for any lack of emotion that you think this song might suffer from. But if you're referring to the pitch correction itself as a lack of warmth or attitude, then I think you're mistaken. I have learned that everyone has different preferences of "purity" in their Barbershop sound, and it's impossible to please everyone. I myself think that this sound is close to perfect, exactly what I prefer, so doing it differently wouldn't be "me".

[artismylife55]

@FineyLeee i love the both of you guys so much the two of you have verrryyy unique stiles to your singing and i love them both.

[benyouwhat]

Oi! I love you dude. This is my xmas tune of choice now... I'm a drummer but well into my harmonies. Thankyou for the music! Enjoy... (come to a Calvin Harris show and say Hi!)

[Partyburner]

It sounds very nice and it's indeed good to see you finally decided to post full songs. Your tags only strategy was making you fall back more and more: Danny and Vance already overtook you in terms of no. subscribers.

The "santa" shortly after 1:04 was suddenly less loud. Did you use too much dynamic compression here? Well, maybe it's just YouTube's compression's fault. BTW: When you mention YouTube compression, do you mean dynamic compression or the AAC compression to save file size?

[FineyLeee]

Fault? It's artistry. I sang it like that. I wouldn't compress different parts differently much anyway...

YouTube rerenders the video when you upload a clip, and they process it through a number of audio and video filters. Somewhere, they've made something that distorts everything over 50% the maximum sound level, which is outrageous. Obviously, the guy in charge of that compression doesn't know what he's doing.

[MrMontgomery09]

@Partyburner DICK!!!!

[Partyburner]

What did I do? I didn't want to be offensive in any way - just saying I like the video and the fact that Simon posted a full song. And I asked a technical question. How is that offensive or in any way a reason to yell at me?

[brianisawesom]

@MrMontgomery09 DICK!!!!!

[trudbol]

@MrMontgomery09 What's with the hating man?

[vivaarnoldo]

No doubt about it...this was OUTSTANDING!!!!!!

Thank you for sharing. And the volume thing was fine. Better quality at a pleasant level than...

Cheers mate.

[8TheEightisSilent8]

You have such an incredible voice. I love listening to all your tags/songs, and this one was another 5 star performance! Keep up the good work!

^_^

[larrycfc]

Great job, cool video effects and wonderfully artistic singing!

Notice the tiny disclaimer at the very end - this arrangement is by Marshall Webb. The credit got mixed up with my Mary's Boy Child, coming soon.

[rwgaro]

Incredible! Is there any pitch adjustment or are you a total freak?! Love it...

[murry537]

tight! I sure hope no one makes you take it down for copyright reasons. I like it a lot.

[FineyLeee]

Yeah, I was thinking since I'm not the first one to do full-length songs, I'd have noticed if someone got busted for copyright reasons...

[murry537]

They only pick on the ones who are really good....which means I should be safe then :)

[lporec4life]

One of my more favorite recordings you've done. Great job as always!

[delirius72]

great job!

[heyjudenanana]

Great, great job! I don't know how you time each recording so well but it's really amazing. I especially liked the bells :)

[badman620]

the General Assembly should be the chorus you made the trax for huh? I sang with Larry in that chorus and had the pleasure of seeing my old chorus in the summer. Nice guy too. Great chart as well.

[COMALiteJ]

Great job as usual!

About YouTube: they don't really have sound engineers. They have an automated reprocessing system that re-compresses uploaded videos unless they're already exactly as YouTube wants them.

The problem is that any lossy codec will have to mangle the sound somewhat, which means that some samples will be made louder and some softer. If you normalize to 100% (0db) before compressing, some wave at the max amplitude may be pushed beyond it, causing clipping.

[COMALiteJ]

The solution is to normalize to somewhat less than 100%. I would go -1db or down 10% (depending on whether my software's normalize feature sets its parameter as dB or %) for each lossy audio codec pass that it will have to pass through.

So, since your final output counts as one codec pass, and YouTube counts as a second, you should normalize to no higher than about 80% or -2dB.

[FineyLeee]

CJ, trust me on this, there IS no "solution" other than what I just did. My other recent tags have been pushed back to about -6 dB, and the distorted sound is still coming through. This one is a -8.8, and it turned out alright. But the sound level is so low, you really have to crank up the volume on the speakers.

Considering Facebook and other sites with video features have managed to get it right, you would think YouTube should be able to too, right? I mean, aren't they the biggest site?

[FineyLeee]

I've been involved in YouTube forums about this, and everyone agrees with me. YouTube REALLY screwed up this one. And no one in the staff admits the problem, nor do they fix it. The society that uses YouTube for music is currently furious about. And for all I care, I could switch sites...

[COMALiteJ]

I need to find these YouTube forums, I guess.

I wonder if YouTube wrote their own codec encoders? There's no need for them to have done that other than ownership and NIH Syndrome (and perhaps to avoid paying licensing fees to the MPEG Consortium), since high quality encoder code already exists for all platforms for the relevant codecs. For Flash Video, Adobe makes their own encoder that works reasonably well.

I'd love to see a YouTube-like site that uses Ogg and HTML5 tags. No Flash needed!

[zachpiano]

Amazing is that your arrangement?

[CGAWLEY]

Awesome!!!! Is that your arrangement? If so, can I please get a copy?

[COMALiteJ]

Listen and look more carefully at the slide at the end. It says who the arranger is: Larry Triplett.

[SaxymanMLC]

No tag???????????

(sniffle)

[virtualbeck]

BTW, what is the chord at 1:33? It's when you sing 'sight'. I love it.

[jibcraip]

F#Maj7

[t1e1rry]

Love it :) This is great! Merry Xmas

[Chr1sR0s3]

awesome job! hopefully we can get more full length videos :-)

[scoggles]

Simon!! This is my favorite one yet.

[VSTenor]

Simon! Way to go man!!! Totally love it.. you're seriously awesome dude! Proud of you man.. keep on crankin' it out!!! - TW

[Nealsiegal]

Fantastic! Finally a Christmas song that put me in the spirit of the holidays. Thanks

[vanceperry]

Wow Simon! That was just incredible! It is so great that the master has put up a full song, and it is PERFECT! Way to go, bud!

[bordonthestreet]

ohh man, just great!

merry christmas you lovable singin bastard!

[sprtrmp88keys]

ding ding ding DONG

[firemanbucs]

Nice! I want to see you stretch your bass voice a little more! How bout a C2 or even an arrangement with a Db?? Think of it as just an excuse to get drunk again. :-) Merry Christmas Simon!

[ngordon88]

I love the choreography at 1:14 lol Nice Job Simon. Prestige just learned this for our Christmas show we had last week! It's a fun tune =)

[GameShowGuy]

Excellent job!

[Maxbhs]

Älskar detta, Simon

[AlexGhone]

AMAZING

[ohthejoyoffire]

Nice! Perfect.

[virtualbeck]

Wow. Amazing job buddy! I thinking about putting together a mixed CD of the YouTube Multitrackers doing their Christmas songs. I'd need your MP3 file......

[metallic219]

wow that was awesome!

[TheBig5Brass]

Great job!

[SugarbabyLA]

WOW! that was amazing!!! your voice is like an angel ow ow!! <3 btw love the hair ;]

[MrSteenstra]

Great!

I loved the "ding ding ding dong part" at 1:28

[dovad16]

Terrrific!! I loved it. I think this was one of your best yet...and MERRY CHRISTMAS to you too.

[bibbeny]

Awesome. Way to cool. Loved the swing. Wish I had better speakers on my p.c. to really hear how good this sounds.

[manentialXdeXvidaXwi]

your really good man... keep em' coming

[terfone16]

That was really good, loved the facial expression of the bass. I also like the visual effect. Great Job! :D

[robangus]

Loved it!

[dirodritt]

awesome

[vanish129]

FINALLY A WHOLE SONG!!!

EPIC!!!!!!!

[ZMaine]

Awesome Simon!

[Sylvanas590]

great!

[chaseferrellmusic]

Awesome job! :)

[Lince7777777]

haha. Really enjoyed it. Nice work!

[omgitsApollo]

finally! very nice!

[468chuckles]

FIRSTIES and awesome vid

[RidersBandgeek]

Awesome!