I Thank You God For Most This Amazing Day - Eric Whitacre cover

[undercovervagrant]

I like the cleanness of the piece, the interpretation is a bit brash for my ears personally (tempo and dynamics) but for the first time I've heard all the words which is an achievement that deserves a BIG thumbs up.

[OzarkWalkers]

I love your interpretation of this beautiful song. There are so many recordings of choirs doing this with tonality problems...you're dead on. Nice work.

[codex010]

Muito BOM! Mesmo muito bom. Acho que manter a afinação é excepcionalmente difícil... Extraordinário.

[DCtoobz]

To the artist: Thank you for sharing your work of love. I think you honored the muses and Whitacre's music too, IMHO.

Nay-sayers: do one better than that or sit down and be quiet.

[2011Ashy]

....I'm sorry but... this isn't right... Not for an Eric Whitacre piece...

[SanctusLumiere]

Can someone tell me what the last chord is? The final "God"? It's so chilling and beautiful....I asked my Dad, and he said it sounded like a suspension but he wasn't sure

[sephiroth3782]

@SanctusLumiere

The last chord, from the bottom upwards is:

F♯2

D♯3

G♯3

B3

C♯4

D♯4

E♯4

So its sortof a Bmajor 2nd Inversion chord, but also with the notes of a C♯major chord in it as well =)

[albertTalcott]

@sephiroth3782 Actually, it's more like a C#11th chord flat 7. C#, E#, G#, B, D#, F#. Those are all the notes for a diatonic C# major 11th chord, with a flat 7th.

[Milkdudds92]

Lolz, its Eric Whitacre meets Harry Potter and Franki Valli!!! Seriously though, good job, dude!

[salveson92]

I would be more than interested in your transcription. if nothing more than the first 20 seconds or so. email is my username at gmail, should you decide to share =]

[deanktenor]

dude....that's all you? wow, crazy falsetto.

[luke82092]

wow, u are so precise on the timing concidering u had to do different tracks and put them together. how did u get the timing so well? BRAVO!!! :)

[kghobbes]

there is NO vocoder on this recording. he may have used a touch of pitch correction, but i even doubt that.

the effect that everybody so ridiculously thinks is a vocoder is produced by the way his voice blends, combined with a mediocre microphone and a bit too much reverb.

i, for one, think it's fantastic.

[traanncce]

@kghobbes thankyou!! i was starting to get a tad frustrated especialy when people were voting up the vocoder accusations.

[mummaliza]

ARGH oh dear god what's happened to Eric Whitacre's beautiful music? Not my favourite version got to say... It sounds like the beegees on LSD!

[maestrodirettore]

This would be nice to listen to if:

There were a better dynamic gradient, and not just what seems like three dynamic levels.

Some of the vowels were fixed: the "leaping" greenly spirits of trees is kind of cat-strangling.

But it's an interesting idea, and you've done a good job of making all of the notes audible, unlike some of the best choirs out there. I definitely think Whitacre should Virtual Choir this piece.

[RyGil91]

I LOVE IT!!!

[ytcomposer]

Wow. Even if it is Vocoding or Autotuning, it's still a really, REALLY cool idea. I'd love to just show my own compositions using my own voice. The age of the composer might not be dead after all. :D Thanks!

[gonadlady]

EW. This is bad bad bad bad bad bad...

[dangmills]

Sam, you are one amazing musician... and I mean you truly are a musician ;)

[TheMusicality]

its still awesome.

[MrXrofl]

heavily auto-tuned. too puss puss to be awesome?

[VanSensei]

@MrXrofl This song kinda clashes with each other's parts. A LOT. There's parts where the sopranos and altos are in 6 parts singing the thing the other part just sang. There's 13 parts at the end. It's really hard to stay in tune with this one.

[musicguy2793]

@VanSensei That's what makes it so darn amazing xD 

[SanctusLumiere]

It still sounds beautiful :P Sure, the original is prolly a lot more majestic....but is still sounds nice.

[abberibaba]

nice work, I really appreciate this. And I can just image how nice this could sound in a smaller vocal ensemble instead of a big choir, thanks to this. Inspiring!

[KDMAnderson]

I REALLY love Eric Whitacre, and I think these are fantastic.

Something I really like about this is that, because it's all one voice, it's even more pure a timbre than an actual choir would be. The harmonies just jump right out and smack you on the face. They're so clear and audible. I love it.

The only thing I was kind of on the fence about was your vowels, but that's totally a tertiary concern because of how awesome this was.

Well done! (Five Stars)

[ComposerOfDK]

I love this video. It's done perfectly!

[chaosofsarah]

i don't care what he used to make it, it sounds awesome =]

[choirnerd101]

Oh he's really singing it all. He's using a pitch corrector. It's kind of difficult singing that high completely in tune with yourself.

[StingingSuzumebachi]

No it's not. It's called control. If you can control your voice up there, then you don't need a pitch corrector.

[chtellez]

Enlightening!!! Great work!

[stanscriven]

I'm pretty sure this guy uses what's called a Vocoder. It's the same effect used in songs such as Imogen Heap's "Hide and Seek" and "O Superman" by Laurie Anderson.

The effect allows you to sing any melody with text, then transcribes your voice into any various combinations of homophonic harmony assigned by simple midi programing. This feature is available in many instrument sampling programs, with the most popular being Reason.

[rtg0025]

I think this is so perfect; I would rather listen to this than to the actual recording. This is so fabulous. I can't believe you are singing every part. That's so cool

[rootbeer7281]

go listen to the real one. While interesting, it is nothing compared to a choir.

[HarlemHeat360]

A bit erratic at times but I love it anyway. That and you are working hard editing this and doing all the different parts so kudos. 9/10

[youngun550]

AMAZING! As usual

[ale5728]

Yep! Im listening to this CRAXY Recording again! It amazes me how you say you did this with your VOICE!

The most thrilling part of this rendition was at 1:04 - 1:37

[ale5728]

Man its GRRRRRRREAT.. Reminds you ot I dont know its awesome dude.. Its like Bluesy! and Jaxzzy!!!

[POLYPHONYOFMYHEART]

wow!!! BRAVO!!!!!! so expressive :D

[lordovil]

wow

[jamrc46]

Sam, Another beatiful performance!!! Very tight harmony, and synced!! Very Impressive!! Thank You for sharing!! I think your on the right track as far as the large room accustic effect.

[Major2219]

traanncce (------Read

YOU SOUND AWESOME BRO!!!!

[bordonthestreet]

Fuck, man. this stuff is almost unbelievable. You are a harmonizing Monster.

[christoperfect]

Haha... Or he can read music. :P

Still sounds really cool with the whole digital thing going down. Refreshing after you're used to the Polyphony recording.

[bordonthestreet]

haha, oh c'mon. This is more than reading music. Though I wouldn't be surprised if Sam here transcribed the song parts by ear instead of reading it off of a sheet.

Singing to the cent takes an incredible amount of skill over learning to 'read music' lol

[traanncce]

i  transcribed it =) it took some intense listening, but it was worth it!

[mrmcdoodles]

And I thought I was good at dictation...kudos!