Welcome to your Fabulous Friday edition of The Laptop Sessions, and I am proud to bring you a session that I’ve been waiting to do for a while.
This session is “Jane” from Ben Folds Five’s last album “The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner”. I last did a song from this band as my 2nd Laptop Session – “Emaline”. That session is close to 1,000 views, so I thought this would be a good time to do another from Ben Folds Five.
Not only that, but for this video I kept my guitar on the stand, and performed it on my keyboard.
I think this version came out quite well, although I did have a bit of a “crack” in the chorus as I changed to falsetto. Ben Folds has an incredible vocal range that is just slightly out of reach to my voice. Other than that, I think that this video is a great one (it better be after 23 takes).
Oh, and I should break 4K views over the weekend! Thank you everyone for making the Laptop Sessions so popular!
I hope you enjoy “Jane”!
Editor’s Note: Unfortunately, Jeff’s acoustic cover song music videos are no longer on YouTube, but we decided to keep his cover song blog posts up. We figured these music blog entries would be good for posterity’s sake and because Jeff always gave such insightful posts each Session. We hope to see Jeff’s impressive catalog of acoustic rock songs here on the Laptop Sessions cover songs and original music blog again in the future. But, for now, please make sure to check-out hundreds of other acoustic cover songs from all of your favorite bands here on the Laptop Sessions music blog!
Welcome to the final month of The Laptop Sessions session per day project! Today I kick it off with a great cover from something most of our fans have never heard of.
Waaaay back in January, I did an acoustic guitar cover of a song from the video game Final Fantasy 8, and the reception was nice from users who have heard it (although I admit, it wasn’t played PERFECTLY). Well, today I bring you another cover from a song in a video game. This time, the game is Chrono Cross, a game from 2000. The game itself is one of the best of all time, so if you’re a role playing game player and have not played it, check it out.
I bring this song to you for 3 reasons.
1) I’ve been playing the Chrono Trigger DS port since I got it on Saturday, and have had both playlists on my Winamp for a few days now.
2) I’ve been meaning to do another instrumental cover from a video game, so this provided me the perfect combination with reason #1.
3) I called in sick to work today because yesterday I had a sore throat, and lo-and-behold, my voice was not up to singing today. Therefore, an instrumental is just what the doctor ordered.
The song is called “Dimension Breach”. It is played just after the main character Serge, crosses into the space between dimensions – one of which is his “home”, and another dimension in which he had passed on 10 years ago. The tune fits the mood of the game at that point in the story.
On Thursday I will be back for the first of 10 videos that I will be recording to close out my portion of session-per-day. I as well am looking forward to hearing the 10th anniversery show that we here at guitarbucketlist.com recorded along w/ the other 3 cast members of WCJM this past Saturday. I hope you do too – we laughed a lot as well.
Tomorrow Jim will be back for his terrific Tuesday cover. Don’t miss it!
Editor’s Note: Unfortunately, Jeff’s acoustic cover song music videos are no longer on YouTube, but we decided to keep his cover song blog posts up. We figured these music blog entries would be good for posterity’s sake and because Jeff always gave such insightful posts each Session. We hope to see Jeff’s impressive catalog of acoustic rock songs here on the Laptop Sessions cover songs and origianal music blog again in the future. But, for now, please make sure to check-out hundreds of other acoustic cover songs from all of your favorite bands here on the Laptop Sessions music blog!
Dispatch has been one of my favorite acoustic bands since the first time I heard The General back in high school. So a couple hours ago I found myself dying to record an acoustic cover because my good friend/producer Peter Dupre lent me his beautiful Taylor guitar, which sounds too sweet not to record. So I tossed up some mics, slapped the camera on a tripod, and attempted to do a better job at providing sufficient light for the flip mino to do it’s thing. Anyway hope you like it, if you haven’t already you got listen to the Dispatch album Bang Bang, it’s a classic.
** EDITOR’S NOTE: **
It’s with great pleasure that I welcome the latest guest performer to the Laptop Sessions blog: Mr. Pat Noonan! He has sent several videos my way recently, and I knew instantly that it wouldn’t be a question of whether or not to feature him on the site, but rather which video to choose.
When I read his YouTube description for this cover, I felt this would be a great introduction to the Guest Sessions for him. I hope you’ll enjoy his performance as much as I did, and check back soon… there’s sure to be another Pat Noonan guest session appearance soon!
Hello and welcome to another all-new week of great material at the Laptop Sessions acoustic cover song music video blog! Before I address my session for tonight, I should begin by announcing that this will be a jam-packed week of sessions, reviews, and other posts. There’s Monday and Tuesday accounted for as you can always depend on, and rest assured that there is a Guest Session lined up for Friday. In addition, I have some bonus chords coming your way, as well as a bonus Weekend Review post before the week is out. All this when I’m beginning one of the busiest weeks of my life!
First of all, let’s get down to the session at hand. For today, I’ve recorded “All of the Time” from the band Locksley’s second release, Don’t Make Me Wait. This is one of those rare — but very exciting — CDs I came across quite randomly in the used CD rack at Newbury Comics. I can’t really explain what possessed me to buy the album, but I was thrilled by what I heard. Now, before you get your hopes too high, I should admit that their sound is some kind of cross between garage rock and early Beatles. It’s a bit derivative, but I have a very good feeling about this group of guys, and I feel like they are going to evolve and come out with an album that is all their own in the future.
Hopefully, that “future” will be this March when they release their next album!
Funny enough, the band that gave us Don’t Make Me Wait and the accompanying title track has also, just as of last week, delayed the release of their new album, Be in Love, by nearly a month and a half. Apparently, an opportunity to engage in a higher-profile marketing campaign arose recently that they couldn’t pass up. The only problem was that they needed to hold off on the release to complete the necessary preparations.
Of course, I had decided to record this song today based on the Be in Love release date of tomorrow, January 26th, 2010.
Still, this will give me some more time to enjoy this album and wonder what the new one will be like. I suppose that could be a good or a bad decision, as expectations often have a way of killing the real experience…
To return to the present, my version of “All of the Time” is based on the 2008 reissue version of the aforementioned album. I was really pleased with the way this song translated to an entirely acoustic live Laptop Sessions performance, complete with my first recorded use of my “G” harmonica. Unfortunately, I screwed up lyrically; it’s just one word that I missed, but it doesn’t make as much sense the way I sang it. The most frustrating part is that I was singing it correctly before I hit record!
I think…
Regardless, this was my best take, and I hope you enjoy it. I know I enjoyed learning and playing it, especially since it was one of my rare two-takes-and-I’m-done Laptop Sessions experiences. That’s why it truly does help to practice days in advance and sing along in the car a ridiculous number of times! But, as much fun as it’s been learning and recording the song, posting my Locksley-themed Weekend Review, and writing this post, I’m off to get some work done now so I can sleep well before continuing a week of grading exams and papers, closing out the semester by Thursday, closing in another sense on Wednesday, and moving five minutes closer to work on Saturday.
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