Heartbeats - José González cover

I thought I'd give this song a try. Very difficult to get the vocals right, had to redo them several times before I found them acceptable. Hope you will like the result.

The original is played with a capo on the first fret. I play it 1/2 step lower because the singing was a bit easier for my range.

The tuning is as follows: D-A-D-F#-B-E, hope that helps you. If you need a complete tab, I used bits and pieces from all over the place wherever I could find some. I put them together and wrote my own tab. If you want it, just take a look over here: http://idisk.mac.com/rubenarends//Public/Heartbeats%20-%20Tab.pdf

Goodluck!

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[Randerion]

@tubmac nice vid ! what mic do you use ?? nice sound

[TubMac]

@Randerion,

Studioproject, the B-1.

Thanks for the compliment.

[tremoloheart]

What's that guy mean, "you have edited your voice" ? Tell me how you edited it! What kind of equipment is required. It sounds wonderful. It seems to me that there's only so much editing that can be done. You have to have something to start with. Your voice has to be at least on key right? I'm one who is also a little indimidate with my voice and shy about it. Anyway, thanks for posting. I love it.

[TubMac]

@tremoloheart,

I think he means that I recorded the vocals separately. I did this 'cause I only have one good mic. If you want to record vocals and guitar at the same time you'll need two mics. Further I used some echo and a standard vocal compressor, but that's nothing special, it is used all the time on every record you listen to.

I use Garageband on my Mac, an easy to use audio editing program, since I'm a n00b in that aria :-).

[eagl01]

I don't like very much the fact that your guitare is stereo and your voice only mono. But in the meantime, you play it very well and you sing it very good. so except for the mix, I have to say Very Good Job :)

[BensTunes101]

Loved it man great playing and singing! :) 1 quick question... How did you record this like what program and mic. Thanks :D

[foxyfer01]

AWESOME JOB!

TUTORIAL PLS!!!!!

[SkylightDemiseBand]

Brilliant cover man!

Nicely done vocals too!

Check out our FULL BAND rock version of this song on our channel!

Hopefully we've done it some justice!

[killerhobo97]

Woah sounds freaky cool with earphones on but the audio being on right only is annoying

[RipuBhatia]

nice guitar playing, the vocal is sorta limp tho, i know you're tryin to imitate his soft style, but i don't really sense any emotion there

[Randerion]

@tubmac thx ;)

[smokedmonkeys]

please please people. this is not Jose cover, please follow traditional artist tradition. this song was written and performed almost ten years ago by a band called The Knife. Jose was inspired by them...shouldnt you atleast honor the original artist like Jose did, if you respect his riff?

[MaximumProductionz]

Sounds like you could have sung it with the capo by the way your singing, but nice one anyway :)