Mull Of Kintyre A Cappella

This started out as a voice exercise, as I'm taking voice lessons. I saw an a cappella group perform, and thought it would be a neat idea to make an a cappella version of my practice song. Little did I realize what I was getting into! Eight months and 40 overdubbed tracks later, I have this, LOL. Yep, that's all just me. I'd like to thank Bonnie Lass, chrisduffy, Bobbie En Tejas, and jdcarra at kintyreforum-dot-com for sending me their photos to use in this video.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Paul
• McCartney
• Wings
• singing
• acappella
• cappella
• kintyre
• music
• travel
• Scotland
• folk
• unsigned
• orchestra
• Beatles
• celtic
• multitrack
• recording
• Reaper
• voice
• vocal
• audio
• microphone

[ScalerWave]

Wow, sounds like the vocal lessons are coming along nicely. I've never heard this tune before but you did a great job none the less.

[videopane]

Thanks, glad you liked it. If you never heard the original, add this extension to the YouTube home page:

/watch?v=nYhTye_A9H0

so you can see it and see how I emulated the arrangement (YouTube doesn't allow pasting URLs).

[raindogred]

awsome job. wonder what your recording setup is. microphones, interface etc?? really nice job-stunning.

cheers

[videopane]

Thanks to all for your replies. Glad everyone liked it. :-)

I used a program called Reaper to record. Highly recommended. You could use any multitrack recording software to do something like this, really.

I used 5 different mics. It doesn't matter what gear you use to record something like this, because they're all monophonic recordings, one track at a time. I suppose you could ultimately just use one mic going into one simple interface if you were ever curious to try something like this.

[FfionCatrin]

This is well mint :) !

EVERYONE WATCH ME SINGING IT PLEASE :D :D :D :D

[starrfisher]

it would be cool to hear a school chior sing this song. its such a pretty song.

[okrimitnoc]

Excellent job!!!!

I posted my video (My Bonnie) two day ago and it was worth it was related to this One of yours so I could enjoy your version of this fantasic song.

I love it as much as the original.

[4FabBEATLES]

@avajoyce if you're interested in how msic is recorded using multi tapes and stuff- there a part of the documentary run by Paul McCartney on the DVD "Chaos and Creation at Abbey Road" where Paul shows how he recorded Beatles/Wings stuff using a few tapes

[UnshavenStatue]

Je l'adore! :)

[KennethKaniffFromCT]

I'm not much of a fan of A Cappella renditions of songs but this is pretty good.

[levey]

nice.

[avajoyce]

Now, that was just pretty frikkin' amazing. Harmony was spot on. What's the process of multi-track recording? What special equipment is required? I've got a couple of ditties that I always wanted to find enough good  voices to do an a-capella version of some instrumental tunes, I guess it's easier to just be all the voices myself.

[scottishbassclarinet]

sounds as close to the original