this is great man...i thought you sang it very well, i mean people who say you can't sing are just comparing you to michael jackson and thats not fair, you know. awesome job with everything!
wow i really liked it. the vocals weren't the best but they weren't the worst. Harmony was at least there. The various instruments you can play made up for it. I was wondering what program do you use for recording your audio and what video editor did you use?
love the instrumental.. rly nice.. I was wondering.. which mic do you prefer.. your re20 or shure sm7b? anyways nice bongos? you should get into tablas they would fit your style.. this looks like it took alot of time too I appreciate it!!
i'm glad you like it. Thanks. the RE20 and SM7b are both great mics! I like them because they sort of mellow out the strident Hi Mids of my voice. The RE20 is a warmer sounding mic. It makes my falsettos sound creamy and dreamy. The SM7 has more presence and cut through the mix. For vocals, the SM7b is probably the more versatile one, but lately I've been preferring the RE20 for my own voice. Be sure to use a good preamp as well!
I first saw you in misscarolinexoxo's video and thought all of you were talented. but i really think you must be an original musician because i have NEVER seen anyone do a video like this. good job. Lol.
some places sounds off with the rythm but hey its music no 1 is PERFECT. as for the vocals ya its for higher pitch MJ was like 11 when he did this 1 lol but i like your rendition all in all :)
yeah I'd also like to point out that I did this in the original key of the recorded song. And Motown's policy is to record songs a half step too high for the artist just to get them to sing out more. So it would've been high for anyone. And I didn't transpose it in order to preserve the bass and the backing vocals.
hmmmmm well I've just never had a chance to play the pickup ones. Meinl seems to use boundary mic technology rather than pickups. So why not just buy a PZM and get that room sound? In general I tend to mic everything just because I have more control over the sound. I also REALLY like the sound of my mic preamps! It's an ongoing experiment on the best way to mic cajons though. They tend to sound pretty boxy ironically. My fav cajon sound so far is Misscarolinexoxo's Bad Romance cover.
I'll breakdown what I said for you. Raw is natural or uncooked correct? MJ is raw cuz he was just natural. He was just good from when he started hence why I said he had raw talent. Also I know this has been recorded by others dumbass. Please learn paraphrases before you claim you know what I am talking about.
Don't use big words that you don't understand. Paraphrasing is merely restating a quote or passage in a different style or form to add clarity. Whatchu talkin' about Willis?
I am not interested in your beliefs that MJ is uncooked or natural. As a kid, he got lots of training from Daddy Joe and then Motown. Motown trained all their artists to improve performances.
Your negs regarding Nic de la Riva's cover of this song is the problem, not your dumbass ideas about MJ
@Pinkie&Anni: thanks for the words man. Haters will be haters man and the only "real" people in this world are the ones that do what they do with paying attention to the haters. Soul is reflecting your own experience in your own way, being true to yourself. Not how much you sound like MJ.
This vid wasn't made to please haters. It was made to pay tribute to MJ and if you enjoy it then much thanks. If you don't, then hopefully you move on and find your own soul.
im not hating on you my brother. im just saying that your not meant for this high pitched shit you feel me? i said you would be great for emo/punk rock. read all of the comments not just these girls ight bro?
lol and i just said lemme brak it down for you meaning im paraphrasing what i just said. restating and clarifying for you! and you just said that he was natural from the moment he sang and now your saying he had training? lol?
uhm dude that was not good at all. Your voice was definitely not made for this song. You just sang it and there was no soul in your voice. Sorry but this was terrible
LOL Shut up teenybopper! This is not good at all. I give him props for the be-bops and the instrument playing but the overall singing was not good at all. Maybe I can see him doing some type of rock like emo/punk or screamo but when it comes to MJ you have to have raw talent. Also I showed this to my father who grew up in MJ's era and said this was not good at all either. I think that this dude should try out Rock music:)
Before you post crappola like this, at least TRY to learn and know something about music. Michael Jackson NEVER
had "raw talent". He was pro quality from
the time he first started. Refined, sophisticated, and natural born. Stopping dissing talented people and go back to something you are better at: gaming and virtual friends.
You are dumb as shit Pinkiweasel. "Raw Talent" is being born with natural voice/singing capabilities. I just said in a paraphrase and did not come out and straight say it. So before YOU post crapola like this try to learn what im saying.
Wrong again Pinhead. "Raw talent" is that which is inexperienced and untrained. MJ was NEVER that. Nic is not trying to do an imitation of Michael Jackson on this song. He is doing a cover of a song recorded by the Jackson 5 but not written by them. The song has
been recorded by plenty of others dumbass.
I can only read what you write, not what you mean Booger. And actually it is you who is dumb as shit, as you have proven again right here on the world wide web.
The more I watch it the more I like it. Two questions: what is the box drum thing that you are playing? and just how old are you? You look about 15 but your talent and skills say you must be like 30 -something or more. Whatup?? And are you in Hawaii?
i'm sure you have plenty of great comments about your talent and stuff so let me comment on something else. in this video, you look like jake cuenca especially w' your glasses on. cutee! ^^,
Very cool. I guess I'll thank her the next time I see her! Thanks MissCarolinexoxo. If you're a long time subscriber to her, you may or may not remember me from an old video or two.
lol, thanks? I guess you just accumulate instruments after doing it for awhile. But these days, I don't think you REALLY need a studio to make a recording, i guess. yay for home recording.
Excellent! BRAVO! --- you superbly did all the tracks all by yourself ---- and that is real talent. Ordinary folks could not even sing a note or play one instrument and there you are singing and doing everything. Not only the playing and performing but recording all the layers of tracks together, mixing, dubbing, etc. Thank you for sharing. Keep on doing your thing. You're one of a kind.
Is this a Joke?
iScrash 1 year ago
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mult Show Man
hannibalneto 1 year ago
no groove....
ausmais 1 year ago
Sounds great!! We have a family band please check us out!
collegefundband 1 year ago
wow. awesome, man !
great job!!
b0laas 1 year ago
musically inclined yet vocally inept... sad
RTLippy 1 year ago
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Tuba408Bass 1 year ago
I love the voice on 2:22
nice vocals dudes :)
Stouterdj 1 year ago
^^ Great
XxlukasxX3 1 year ago
cara aprende a canta primeiro
pelo amor de Deus que é isso
TheFilipefontoura 1 year ago
haha almost same gear and setup i have :P good cover
iBricK12 1 year ago
this is really good i was wondering what program you use for mixing
pyrofiliac 1 year ago
this is great man...i thought you sang it very well, i mean people who say you can't sing are just comparing you to michael jackson and thats not fair, you know. awesome job with everything!
86entourage 1 year ago
wow i really liked it. the vocals weren't the best but they weren't the worst. Harmony was at least there. The various instruments you can play made up for it. I was wondering what program do you use for recording your audio and what video editor did you use?
azianfreak7806 1 year ago
great made, but you aren't a spesial good singer..
okeyda 1 year ago
@okeyda
Well I'll have to disagree, and I'm pretty sure that Nic is a good speller.
Pinkieweasel
Pinkieweasel 1 year ago
u cant sing
RTLippy 2 years ago 7
@RTLippy LMFAO!!!!!!
Niidawiiz 1 year ago
love the instrumental.. rly nice.. I was wondering.. which mic do you prefer.. your re20 or shure sm7b? anyways nice bongos? you should get into tablas they would fit your style.. this looks like it took alot of time too I appreciate it!!
peace
POOPOOSOLDIER 2 years ago 2
@ the POOPOOSOLDIER!
i'm glad you like it. Thanks. the RE20 and SM7b are both great mics! I like them because they sort of mellow out the strident Hi Mids of my voice. The RE20 is a warmer sounding mic. It makes my falsettos sound creamy and dreamy. The SM7 has more presence and cut through the mix. For vocals, the SM7b is probably the more versatile one, but lately I've been preferring the RE20 for my own voice. Be sure to use a good preamp as well!
NicMaVie 2 years ago
You cracked me up so hard. Lmao.
I first saw you in misscarolinexoxo's video and thought all of you were talented. but i really think you must be an original musician because i have NEVER seen anyone do a video like this. good job. Lol.
JessicaCasarez 2 years ago
Amazing. I'm speechless.
DodgerAndLakerGirl 2 years ago
wow i super love this... you're very talented....
leighmargaux 2 years ago
the start is not so good but dude you rock it at the end.
hug0leroux 2 years ago
i love you! hahaha
beldandy28 2 years ago
God! you have another video pare.. who are you Nic?... Good luck
CarlosMiguel673 2 years ago
AWESOME...!!! :)
un619 2 years ago
so like, this is awesome. that's all.
MattAlmodiel 2 years ago 2
awesome!
liapryce 2 years ago
some places sounds off with the rythm but hey its music no 1 is PERFECT. as for the vocals ya its for higher pitch MJ was like 11 when he did this 1 lol but i like your rendition all in all :)
MikeLibman 2 years ago
thanks buddy
yeah I'd also like to point out that I did this in the original key of the recorded song. And Motown's policy is to record songs a half step too high for the artist just to get them to sing out more. So it would've been high for anyone. And I didn't transpose it in order to preserve the bass and the backing vocals.
NicMaVie 2 years ago
@NicMaVie
Now don't be coy Nic. You know very well that you can hit those high notes when you are singing in your upper register.
You proved that a couple of weeks ago
when you posted your version of I Can't Stay by the Killers. You showed glimpses of your various voices in
I Want You Back, but this upper voice is
really a great younger boy sound with no
vibrato. You must have been a choir boy.
BTW: You play a miked cajon inthe vids, but have you tried one with a pickup?
Pinkieweasel 2 years ago
hmmmmm well I've just never had a chance to play the pickup ones. Meinl seems to use boundary mic technology rather than pickups. So why not just buy a PZM and get that room sound? In general I tend to mic everything just because I have more control over the sound. I also REALLY like the sound of my mic preamps! It's an ongoing experiment on the best way to mic cajons though. They tend to sound pretty boxy ironically. My fav cajon sound so far is Misscarolinexoxo's Bad Romance cover.
NicMaVie 2 years ago
I'll breakdown what I said for you. Raw is natural or uncooked correct? MJ is raw cuz he was just natural. He was just good from when he started hence why I said he had raw talent. Also I know this has been recorded by others dumbass. Please learn paraphrases before you claim you know what I am talking about.
AuthenticBlaze 2 years ago
@AuthenticBlaze
Don't use big words that you don't understand. Paraphrasing is merely restating a quote or passage in a different style or form to add clarity. Whatchu talkin' about Willis?
I am not interested in your beliefs that MJ is uncooked or natural. As a kid, he got lots of training from Daddy Joe and then Motown. Motown trained all their artists to improve performances.
Your negs regarding Nic de la Riva's cover of this song is the problem, not your dumbass ideas about MJ
Pinkieweasel 2 years ago
@Pinkie&Anni: thanks for the words man. Haters will be haters man and the only "real" people in this world are the ones that do what they do with paying attention to the haters. Soul is reflecting your own experience in your own way, being true to yourself. Not how much you sound like MJ.
This vid wasn't made to please haters. It was made to pay tribute to MJ and if you enjoy it then much thanks. If you don't, then hopefully you move on and find your own soul.
NicMaVie 2 years ago
edit: withOUT paying attention to the haters. (obviously)
NicMaVie 2 years ago
im not hating on you my brother. im just saying that your not meant for this high pitched shit you feel me? i said you would be great for emo/punk rock. read all of the comments not just these girls ight bro?
AuthenticBlaze 2 years ago
lol and i just said lemme brak it down for you meaning im paraphrasing what i just said. restating and clarifying for you! and you just said that he was natural from the moment he sang and now your saying he had training? lol?
AuthenticBlaze 2 years ago
awesome
PILOTHIGH 2 years ago
Great job on putting everything together.
angryjalapeno 2 years ago
uhm dude that was not good at all. Your voice was definitely not made for this song. You just sang it and there was no soul in your voice. Sorry but this was terrible
AuthenticBlaze 2 years ago
not good at all ?!
I Think you have no Idea about whats good or not.
Maybe his voice isnt made for this but all in all it was good.
before u start to hate make it better.
AnniLeinx 2 years ago
LOL Shut up teenybopper! This is not good at all. I give him props for the be-bops and the instrument playing but the overall singing was not good at all. Maybe I can see him doing some type of rock like emo/punk or screamo but when it comes to MJ you have to have raw talent. Also I showed this to my father who grew up in MJ's era and said this was not good at all either. I think that this dude should try out Rock music:)
AuthenticBlaze 2 years ago
@AuthenticBlaze
Before you post crappola like this, at least TRY to learn and know something about music. Michael Jackson NEVER
had "raw talent". He was pro quality from
the time he first started. Refined, sophisticated, and natural born. Stopping dissing talented people and go back to something you are better at: gaming and virtual friends.
Pinkieweasel 2 years ago
You are dumb as shit Pinkiweasel. "Raw Talent" is being born with natural voice/singing capabilities. I just said in a paraphrase and did not come out and straight say it. So before YOU post crapola like this try to learn what im saying.
AuthenticBlaze 2 years ago
@AuthenticBlaze
Wrong again Pinhead. "Raw talent" is that which is inexperienced and untrained. MJ was NEVER that. Nic is not trying to do an imitation of Michael Jackson on this song. He is doing a cover of a song recorded by the Jackson 5 but not written by them. The song has
been recorded by plenty of others dumbass.
I can only read what you write, not what you mean Booger. And actually it is you who is dumb as shit, as you have proven again right here on the world wide web.
Pinkieweasel 2 years ago
nic, im loving you, from video to video. :) lalalallove.
blazepearl18 2 years ago
tthis is out of sight!
78ybbob 2 years ago
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Ahh! This IS amazing! 8) I can't stop listening to this cover!
spongebobtrini 2 years ago
marry me? ^^
ulikepez 2 years ago
galing mo nman pre.. too awesome.. Gla that you're a Pinoy .. keep it rockin .. and make all your brothers proud..
Itaas ang ating bandila at Mabuhay Ka!!
imnotfamouse 2 years ago
great cover, i loved it haha :)
shygurl627 2 years ago
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SOORY BUT THAT SUCKED
cnmnglz 2 years ago
@cnmnglz
Well for a 38 year old woman/man ?
who likes to watch young boys' crotch
grabbing cement humping videos on u-tube, you should know. Move on
Pinkieweasel 2 years ago
I wouldn't normally watch a cover of a Jackson 5 song but you've done a great job :)
tamaraeeren 2 years ago
The more I watch it the more I like it. Two questions: what is the box drum thing that you are playing? and just how old are you? You look about 15 but your talent and skills say you must be like 30 -something or more. Whatup?? And are you in Hawaii?
Pinkieweasel
Pinkieweasel 2 years ago
Ha ha I like this comment! It's 3 questions, but i'll give you the straight answers.
Cajon. 22. No, California.
Thanks for watching though! Glad you're enjoying it!
NicMaVie 2 years ago
You are major talented! Pretty flippin awesome!
ClogUrHeartOut 2 years ago
That was crazy nice.
DavidJTaitingfong 2 years ago
i'm sure you have plenty of great comments about your talent and stuff so let me comment on something else. in this video, you look like jake cuenca especially w' your glasses on. cutee! ^^,
kariatcp 2 years ago
amazing !
moolgoki 2 years ago
Very impressive, dude. Do some more
Pinkieweasel 2 years ago
GéNIAL !!!! <3
cocoraban 2 years ago
I think it's great what you have done...
congratulations to the cameraman by the way!
I'll show to my students to demonstrate what can they do to enjoy music at home.
Why don't you try to do the same with "ABC"?
dexamento1970 2 years ago
thats nasty dude
unitysucks 2 years ago
かっけー！
rokujo17 2 years ago
wow. must have taken you a while to compose all this (Y) well done ^^
mhtSTAR 2 years ago
wow, I'm not sure how I stumbled upon this video, but you did really well in this. sounds like a whole band!
rachelanncauilan 2 years ago
that was amazing no doubt no doubt
just the singing was iffy haha but other than that man you rock!
keep doing what your doing
your very talented
pnoykid26 2 years ago 2
everything was perfect!! but find a new singer ;p
but yeah thats a great studio you got there :D
its awesome how u did this!!
sjeakske 2 years ago
Perfect Nik ! Amazing voice :)
Laneey 2 years ago
Amazing.
wormeatsbird 2 years ago
That's talent mate
beezneez911 2 years ago
dude your sick man very talented good stuff!!!
Metane44 2 years ago
awesome !!
valerushky 2 years ago
great !!!
ricardovisk 2 years ago
amazing outside of the lead singing. Imagine Ozzy singing Nsync..
gregory49 2 years ago
Great job, Nic!! Tito Jim just showed it to me. Love it. This is one of my favorite Jackson 5 songs, too. =]
-Ysabel
hieizgirl2000 2 years ago
Cool. Good thing Caroline favorited this or I wouldn't have seen it.
fragan01 2 years ago
Very cool. I guess I'll thank her the next time I see her! Thanks MissCarolinexoxo. If you're a long time subscriber to her, you may or may not remember me from an old video or two.
NicMaVie 2 years ago
This is so awesome. I love seeing a visual to the music...
Great video man!
1:21
thegreatdanedini 2 years ago
Very Talented Brother!
sysaephanh530 2 years ago
PERFECT! Great Job, Keep it up!
sysaephanh530 2 years ago
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Fantastic!!!!!!
Listen my new song Already Choose You and tell me your opinion please.
SUPERMEGADUARTE 2 years ago
Great job Nic
radelariva 2 years ago
So uhm. How do you own so many instruments? I swear it looks like you live in a studio.
markwazhere 2 years ago 5
lol, thanks? I guess you just accumulate instruments after doing it for awhile. But these days, I don't think you REALLY need a studio to make a recording, i guess. yay for home recording.
NicMaVie 2 years ago
Excellent! BRAVO! --- you superbly did all the tracks all by yourself ---- and that is real talent. Ordinary folks could not even sing a note or play one instrument and there you are singing and doing everything. Not only the playing and performing but recording all the layers of tracks together, mixing, dubbing, etc. Thank you for sharing. Keep on doing your thing. You're one of a kind.
cajqosmio 2 years ago
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not very good
gotrice415510 2 years ago
lol you should elaborate on that.
nerdberdvids 2 years ago
Wow, Nixie, you take up after Jordan! Erm, I mean, you're better than Jordan! XD lol bust his balls a bit..
Great job @ the artist who had the nutts to not get sued by trigger happy Gordy.
SeanM4rtin 2 years ago
loll thanks sean! this type of editing fit these videos. syncing and matching was tedious tho. There will be more!
nerdberdvids 2 years ago
CHAMPION! daaaaaaaang Nic helllaaaa good! makes me miss you!
praxlove 2 years ago
wow. there was like.. 21805291 of you in this vid. very creative. and great video xD
yolazieb0y 2 years ago
dude, you are fantastiC!
DownTownContact 2 years ago
good shit right here.
mccheesy27 2 years ago
that is bad ass nic! when you coming back to SF?
sooperwill 2 years ago
I've been in the bay for two months already! Where have you been!
NicMaVie 2 years ago
Woot woot!
nerdberdvids 2 years ago
Very Good man !!!
karateppe61 2 years ago