I popped this in General Music and it dropped to the bottom, so I’ll stick it in here.
I’ve been doing a solo acoustic/vocal version of this song for a while, basically covering the Sevendust version of it, which was a cover of Johnny Cash’s cover. I used the Sevendust tuning/arrangement, but went a bit nuts with the orchestra stuff at the end. It felt good to get this song out, even though it’s not an original. Working on originals right now is a little too close to the surface, but I really had to get somethin’ out and this is what it was.
I spent about 12 hours working on this Saturday, had all the music tracked for it and went to start the vocals. I got to the first chorus and it was ending a measure too early. I realized I somehow skipped the last chord change where it lets at B5 hang out. It doesn’t happen anywhere else in the song and since I mic’d an acoustic for it then put everything away, there was no way I’d be able to match the tone of the original tracks, so I had no choice but to re-record the whole fucking thing. I’ve got about 16 hours into it but you’re only hearing 4 of them.
I feel I’m definitely getting better at delivering something that effectively communicates an emotional state, which has been my whole trip for the last year. Some of the responses I’ve gotten have choked me up, due to the context of why I picked this particular song. It was cathartic to track the vocals and I was thinking/hoping that would end once I was done, but then I get some of these responses and I’m just tripped right out.
I’ve been doing a solo acoustic/vocal version of this song for a while, basically covering the Sevendust version of it, which was a cover of Johnny Cash’s cover. I used the Sevendust tuning/arrangement, but went a bit nuts with the orchestra stuff at the end. It felt good to get this song out, even though it’s not an original. Working on originals right now is a little too close to the surface, but I really had to get somethin’ out and this is what it was.
I spent about 12 hours working on this Saturday, had all the music tracked for it and went to start the vocals. I got to the first chorus and it was ending a measure too early. I realized I somehow skipped the last chord change where it lets at B5 hang out. It doesn’t happen anywhere else in the song and since I mic’d an acoustic for it then put everything away, there was no way I’d be able to match the tone of the original tracks, so I had no choice but to re-record the whole fucking thing. I’ve got about 16 hours into it but you’re only hearing 4 of them.

I feel I’m definitely getting better at delivering something that effectively communicates an emotional state, which has been my whole trip for the last year. Some of the responses I’ve gotten have choked me up, due to the context of why I picked this particular song. It was cathartic to track the vocals and I was thinking/hoping that would end once I was done, but then I get some of these responses and I’m just tripped right out.
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