Uploaded by jimlapbap on Dec 9, 2011
If you're interested in the sheet music (warning, currently not clean looking) please contact me through jimlapbap.com. (Also warning, it's pretty hard, so keep that in mind, too.)
After doing a B-side "I'm All You Can Think About" as a madrigal, inspired by the King's Singers' rendition of "Can't Buy Me Love," I realized one of the most famous TMBG songs could also make an interesting madrigal.
This is quite the hiatus as I'm still working on my dissertation, but I had one day to slam this all together before diving back in to the dissertation. I have about 25 ideas for video I'll be churning after I defend the dissertation.
Typical stuff:
1. I use pitch-correction and transpose the female parts up an octave, the point is the arrangement, not my singing abilities.
2. I did this this in obvious takes, there's a lot of noise that goes on outside the place.
Original song info:
"Birdhouse in Your Soul" ©1990 Elektra Records
written by They Might Be Giants
produced by Clive Langer & Alan Winstanley
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All Comments (8)
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from one who only comments on one video in three thousand, you've done something amazing here. :)
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i find your covers rather charming. i'll definitely subscribe!
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This is beautiful. I too have covered this sweet song on this here YOUTUBE.
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Another great cover! I love it when a cover of a song has better enunciation than the original and I discover the lyrics of a song I already knew for the first time.
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As a fan of the original, let me say that I truly loved your version. Ditto the below comments about enunciation. Seems like you're having a little trouble carrying the melody on the high end, though. Are you working the very edge of your vocal range?
FeelFreeToArgue 2 months ago
@FeelFreeToArgue Thanks!
The female parts I record an octave below and transposed up with Melodyne, so that always sounds a little funky.
Another explanation is that in counterpoint like, most of the voices are given much more equal weight, so I wanted to make sure all four voices were clearly heard, so the balance ate up the soprano line now and then.
jimlapbap 2 months ago