Honeyworks - 今好きになる (Ima suki ni naru) Cover
Project Overview
Hello!
My short bio:
I'm a musician who's been playing for the electric guitar for about a year now and I have been covering songs in the past mostly from vocaloids and Japanese rock. I picked up the acoustic and bass awhile back and I'm beginning to use them for my covers! I use covers to judge my overall progress in how I play and it has definitely help me learn how I sound like and how to improve as a whole. Once I get a midi keyboard and a electric drum set, I plan on doing a full solo band on covers and the only thing I would need is to find a vocalist for every cover I do! I have never collaborated with any musicians so I think this would be a great and fun opportunity for me!
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Here's a link to my Youtube video page
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG0XB6wvAt1lxckJBcpplLQ
The format of the cover will be laid out how you see my past covers. I'll be recording all of my parts in addition to the video (I feel like seeing someone play/sing is really cool). You will NOT have to record yourself on video, but if you would like, that'd be wonderful! You can also disguise yourself if you want to(face mask, costume, etc), in order to record and disguise yourself!
I was gonna cover this song with another vocalist cover, but I wanted to see if I can collaborate with actual vocalist instead! This is a cover absolutely for fun, however, I ask that you have a good microphone. What is classified as good? Well I'm no expert on microphones considering I've only owned two (blue yeti and MXL V67G), but the lowest tier of microphones would probably be a blue yeti snowball ($50). If your not sure, I ask that you audition anyways along with a description of your recording setup (basically just tell me what microphone you have and how you record!).
My role in the song will be acoustic guitar, 3 electric guitars (one is for the riffs and solos because I don't have any midi pedals to change my tone on demand xD), and bass.
The big goal for me is to learn how to EQ/Mix your vocals alongside my instruments so it's a great opportunity for me to try this! You will be given credit for your vocals of course!
I will be using the Off-Vocal track so we'll be playing over this (I'm gonna try my best to EQ the song so my instruments kicks through them, while trying to retain the original song quality as best as I can):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3nJIAk76eE
A cover example in japanese of this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj6UDLEiSa0
The original song link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqlpuarOvq8
Lyrics:
http://vocaloidlyrics.wikia.com/wiki/%E4%BB%8A%E5%A5%BD%E3%81%8D%E3%81%AB%E3%81%AA%E3%82%8B%E3%80%82_(Ima_Suki_ni_Naru.)
The deadline is subjective and is just a date I chose. I ask that you prioritize your school, family, and personal life above this! I'm very understanding and will never push you to complete this project if you feel like your unable to for any reason.
Why am I covering this song?
Well, because it sounds good! On top of that, Honeyworks has always astounded me how their songs are so interacting and vivid. The guitars are so unique, creative, and not boring (their song called "Inokori Sensei" demonstrated this extremely well!). All of their other instruments are astounding too.
What I expect from you?
Whoa! That question sounds kind of scary, but do not worry! I expect you to have fun and I even encourage you to be CREATIVE! At one part of the song you felt it would be cool to hum in harmony for a cool background noise alongside your vocals? Go for it! Did you suddenly feel the groove of the song somewhere and decided it would be cool to add some "La la la" phrase? Go for it! This is all up to you of course ^_^.
If this audition fails, It's no worries, I will just have to default on covering the song over a vocalist who's already done the song!
Confused? Feel free to ask me questions!
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Please sing 30 seconds or more of any part of the song you like! I ask that you sing in your full potential singing voice, meaning that you should sing like you would in a live situation. Please do not add effects, but you may harmonize your vocal lines if you wish! I would also prefer if you have the background track on too. Oh and please have a pop filter of some sort.
Exception to the Japanese language: I can make an exception to make this an english cover instead, if you can show me that it sounds good in english. In fact, I would encourage you to prove me wrong as I would love to hear this song in english, but in my ears, the Japanese feels natural and smooth, while sometimes, English translation sounds rigid and strange in lyrics. I would say this is subjective depending on how the singer sings :). So have at it! Oh and feel free to modify any english lines that you feel that would be better. Also, keeping the line "Ima Suki Ni Naru" in the lyrics I think would be really cool in hybrid with english (since it references the song title).
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