Africa - a cappella cover

Click on 360p to make sure it says 480p, because audio sucks otherwise!

This is my version of the song Africa by Toto. I arranged this song for Hawkapella, my old a cappella group, and you can watch me performing it with them here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-_60cZFQ84
This was a relatively easy song to learn: I think the group learned it in about an hour. The arrangement was a lot of fun to sing.

I recorded the audio using a cheap condenser microphone connected through an MBox 2 mini to my computer. Normally I would use Pro Tools LE, but since they didn't have a version for OS 10.6, I had to use GarageBand. Reverb added to all tracks, and a little EQ on the percussion to bring out my bass drum sound, but otherwise no effects or tuning added.

The video was pretty hard to figure out how to make... I ended up using a ScreenFlow Demo and then cropping most of the watermark out with iMovie. If I decide it's worth making a bunch more of these videos, I may buy ScreenFlow, cause it's a good program. But for now, this is what you get :)

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Africa
• Toto
• a cappella
• a capella
• acappella
• acapella
• cover
• singing
• beatboxing
• C.J. Smith
• Hawkapella
• voices
• vocal

[dimez97]

Which program you use to make this video, and can you make this with windows movie maker?

[ceegers]

@dimez97 in the info

[pikthunder]

really good man :D which program did you use? :D

[ceegers]

@pikthunder it's in the info ;)

[stevo351]

really good man :D, if you did it in garageband, just to ensure you get the perfect pitch, id slide the 'enhance tuning' tab up a bit.

[ceegers]

@stevo351 thanks! actually, I purposely didn't try to play with tuning, cause it makes it more realistically "live", rather than studio-esque. Perhaps sometime I will make a studio-esque version when I get a working version of Protools though :)

[rgdutton14]

Btw... Awesome cover of one of my all-time faves!! So musical...

[rgdutton14]

I have GOT to learn how to do this!!

[7777guiller]

good job man!

[tmuro17]

Awesome

[meisen14]

sick range

[dickycecilove]

best acapella cover I've seen!

[TheJeromealexander]

amazing!!!

[MatthewIsHere9]

dude your range is sick