Ragged Wood (Fleet Foxes Cover)

Well, I've done it again.

There are things going on in this video I really dig. Some things I do not. I was under a pretty big time crunch while working on this and didn't have time to correctly learn the backing vocals. It's not perfect, but it was fun. The second guitar was a little hard to hear because of all the echo. Trust me, you're not missing much. I didn't have time to properly learn that either. Again it's close enough, and sometimes trying to acheive perfection means not having as much fun...It''s a balance I choose to stay on the "fun" side of.

Oh dear God, that shaker. The shakere shaker is HARD to play. It's basically a mesh net with small seashells wrapped around a giant gourd. I chose it over the two little egg shakers I have because I thought it would sound better (it has a deeper sound). It does sound better - when it's in time...it's really hard to keep that net steady. I should've gone with the egg. I didn't bother to do a track without the shaker so...I'm stuck with this one. The vocals were too good to pass up...mostly.

I got kinda lazy with the mask this time so it looks a little wacky when I point and cross the threshold lines. I did animate the mask but because it's taped at 24FPS and edited at 29.97 there are blurry frames that make it difficult to tell where exactly the mask should go. It mostly looks good, so I went with it.

The sound in this bathroom I thought was just too good to pass up. Hope you enjoy.

Thanks for the comments on all my vids; I appreciate it.

Btw, Does anyone really read this?

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Fleet
• Foxes
• Ragged
• Wood
• Chris
• Dodgen
• Acoustic
• Covers
• Bathroom
• Beardiest

[TheNextNoelGallagher]

I hate the 2 people who gave this a thumbs down.

When you started out with the vocals, I thought there was no way in hell this was your voice. Oh man, this is good. I literally got chills watching this. You even LOOK like Robin Peckinold!(although I'm sure that's purely by coincidence ;-) )

Keep jammin' dude, this is amazing.

[ChrisDodgen]

@TheNextNoelGallagher Thanks. If you like this you might check out some of my originals. I tried to emulate the fleet foxes sound in one of my own songs from my "december" series just recently. (It's #11 - called Chasing Lily.)

[JiggyNDow]

The one in the shower looks like he's playing a hedgehog...EXCELLENT cover by the way.

[ChrisDodgen]

@JiggyNDow That IS a hedgehog. You have to know how to stroke their fur just right.

[JaiGuruuDevaaOm]

Though I am a wee young girl, my greatest wish is to have your voice.

[ChrisDodgen]

@JaiGuruuDevaaOm That would actually be quite weird indeed.

[kc42291]

you could sing in my shower any day.

[ChrisDodgen]

@rebeccamykitten I've received many marriage proposals over these videos. That was somehow the hottest.

[wildchild32928]

ALL OF YOUR COVERS ARE AMAZING! Keep up the good work!

[fueledbyamandaa]

Holy crap. You're amazing.

[EvaLikesToSing]

This is actually gorgeous :)

[spydermatt01]

best cover i have seen on youtube

[corgilover8]

Incredible!!!!

[DarleyBecky]

Amazing!

[PhillyT120]

I read it =P

[TheToobbiie]

can you send a tutorial how to do it?