Best with headphones :) The backing instrumentation is my own, and I recorded the vibes part in one take! This song is originally an acoustic guitar ballad about "watching someone you love fall in love with someone else." I really loved the song when I first listened to it and wanted to give it a personal mallets approach!

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYapAVxBKhA
ORIGINAL SONG: https://open.spotify.com/track/3KZwxPpKxrzYpGv0wywmaw?si=bc0cfe80e7274cde
LISTEN ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQvsKm-8JKM

If She's Anything Like Me | VIBRAPHONE COVER

I connect so deeply with the lyrics of this song, and I love it musically too! Fun fact about this cover, I actually threw in some self-created sound effects: rubbing the surface of my laptop with my fingers, drumming on the wall, some samples of my voice, and most unique of all, stirring lemonade in a steel bowl as the ice cubes hit the sides of the bowl for a Tibetan singing bowl type of ambience! SUPER proud of this one, go watch/listen now :)
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTsOQ2Sww98
ORIGINAL SONG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfdxuiwmYJY

break up with a friend | MALLET COVER

Stream

what you did wrong

Watch as performed in "music that shaped me: A Live Premiere Performance": 
Performed by Anvay Nigam
Produced and backing vocals by Advik Nigam

what you did wrong (Stripped)

second | Kalimba + Ukulele

Performed and produced by Advik Nigam & Kristerduster
Originally by dodie

Rainbow | Marimba + Violin

Pearls of Joy | Piano + Voice

My own instrumental cover of my FAVORITE song from the album "WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?"

This is inspired by another song, not an original composition. All rights go to Darkroom/Interscope Records.

Song Covers - Billie Eilish

you should see me in a crown (instrumental)

No matter how much of a Billie Eilish fan you are, this is the song you most likely know. This is my instrumental cover of the song (it's transposed a semitone down from the original if you noticed). Enjoy!

bad guy (instrumental)

This is another one of my favorite tracks from Billie Eilish, and I especially like the music video. Excuse the quality of the screams, cuz they're mine. :I Eh, I did my best.

I hope you all enjoy this instrumental cover! :D

Advik Nigam's Album

bury a friend (instrumental)

Hope you like it! Really proud of this one.

Advik Nigam’s Album

everything i wanted (instrumental)

The complete list of songs by Billie Eilish I've made instrumental covers to. Enjoy!

Billie Eilish SONG COVERS

i love you

party favor

ilomilo

WHEN I WAS OLDER

all the good girls go to hell

I'd say this is Part 2 of my first album on here. I switched to Logic Pro X recently from iOS GarageBand, and for most of these, I'm proud of how they turned out! Happy listening :)

Billie Eilish SONG COVERS (REMASTERED EP)

WHEN I WAS OLDER (New)

THE VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIa-lQrHiVo
ORIGINAL PIECE BY BLAKE TYSON:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUzDxiCC4bE
Thank you Arav and Pranav for hopping onto this project! 

Fun fact, I took the cover picture at the Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco a year ago. It was such a wonderful, rejuvenating place!

Arav Bhattacharya - Marimba 1 | IG: https://www.instagram.com/i_hate_trig/
YT (The Calculator Addict): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPWJjkgfDz_rsebOOmWBxDQ
Pranav Hegde - Xylophone (glockenspiel part) | IG: https://www.instagram.com/hegde687/
Advik Nigam - Crotales, Vibes 1 & 2, Marimba 2, 3, & 4 | IG: https://www.instagram.com/advik.nigam/

From the composer:

Not far from here was originally dedicated to Jesse Milam (a student of Ben Finley at ECU in Oklahoma). His mother had a number of battles with brain cancer, and after one particularly rough semester for Jesse, a friend of his emailed me asking if she could commission a short piece that could be presented to Jesse as a gift from his friends. I agreed, and asked her to get all the friends that wanted to commission the piece together, have them give what they could afford, and then find a local charity where a little money could go a long way. It went to a local food bank in Ada, Oklahoma.

So, I wrote the piece for someone I barely knew, knowing that he probably wouldn't have his mother here with him much longer. I wanted to, in some way, communicate the idea that she would still be here, and that because of her love for him, she would live on in him. They tell me that Jesse was pretty happy when they gave him the piece (he played it on his recital last year). This past summer his mom couldn't fight the cancer anymore. I've gotten to know Jesse a little better since I wrote the piece; his mom raised a great son.

Our time here is limited. I've been okay with my mortality for a long time, but I find it difficult to be okay with everyone else's. I've come to deal with it by understanding that people live on in the lives they touched while they were here. It's the idea that my grandparents, parents, teachers, and friends are always with me because I wouldn't be who I am without them. If all goes well, they will be here in the lives I've touched, even after I'm gone. That's what the piece is about, for me.

When John Parks asked me to arrange the piece in memory Brandon Wood, I didn't want it to just be an arrangement of a pre-existing piece. I wanted to find a way for it to reflect Brandon and his life. The introduction and opening countermelodies are built from the letters of Brandon's name. The 'Amen cadence' at the end might seem cliché to some, but for me it is a reflection of Brandon's life. Brandon's faith in God was a defining part of his time here. Those two chords have come to represent so much to so many people. Among the things they represent to me are faith, hope and acceptance.

The ensemble version of Not far from here was commissioned by Dr. John W. Parks, IV in memory of Brandon Wood.

my second home

Not far from here (for percussion ensemble)

WATCH THE VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0eY4ilqniA
ORIGINAL SONG BY TATE MCRAE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG-erEMhumc
Filming and editing this video (and re-producing/recording the audio) was a lot of work, and I'm super proud of the result! Hope you enjoy this as much as I do :)
It's amazing to me how fast 21st-century-born artists are rising into the mainstream. When I first listened to this song (after the music video had been popping up in my recommended for so long), I knew that if I did a cover in the future, it would look like this.

you broke me first | KALIMBA COVER

ORIGINAL SONG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd6dkXWFpNE

Notebook | KALIMBA COVER

ORIGINAL SONG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s5xdY6MCeI

the last great american dynasty | KALIMBA COVER

Logic Session Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWjh3UfSHIw&t=3s
Surprise! I decided to close out the year with one last cover, an orchestral re-arrangement of the theme song of the 25th James Bond film. This is a special addition to my cover EP that will not be part of a deluxe version of it but will be a stand-alone track. 
I look forward to what 2021 has in store! Happy New Year 🎊

ORIGINAL SONG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BboMpayJomw

No Time to Die (BESCREP Deluxe Track)

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyFWX_0rkYE
PIANO & REWRITTEN BY: Advik Nigam
PERFORMED BY: Anvay Nigam

My first release of 2021! My bro is the best, always hopping on the vocals when I don't have the courage XD This is a special release for both MLK Day and the US inauguration. I only changed up the first two lines to match our situation post-election, but I think those two new lines are very powerful. Enjoy this laid-back version of my original song!

STRIPPED LYRICS:
So many storm the building, and yet almost everyone “went home”
Come to think, if they were black, so many would be on death row
The line between both life and death is thinner than ever before
The planet gave so much to us but we might end up giving more

I lie in bed thinking about Earth
And how there’s only one
Can the nation do what is morally right
Before we lose control?

Before I lose my faith in humanity
Know life is a gift we must preserve
Before I question society
Know we’re lucky to be thriving at all
Before it all falls apart
Know we don’t have long to keep it intact
Restore my faith in humanity
Before I have none left
Before I have none left

We say, Black Lives Matter
Not that other lives don’t
We know all lives matter
We’re just setting in stone 
That they have ignored
An alarm clock been ringing
Since 1619, continuing to sleep in
How could the police act on impulse when they’re trained?
And we untrained civilians should stay calm with guns in our faces?
Why is our diversity the weapon that you fear?
We have way more in common than what we do differently

I’m in bed thinking about Earth
And how there’s only one
Can the nation do what is morally right
Before we lose control?

Before I lose my faith in humanity
Know life is a gift we must preserve
Before I question society
Know we’re lucky to be thriving at all
 Before it all falls apart
Know we don’t have long to keep it intact
Restore my faith in humanity
Before I have none left
Before I have none left

Come to think, if they were black, so many would be on death row

faith in humanity (Stripped)

WATCH THE VISUALIZER: https://youtu.be/tI5BE43A2bI
LISTEN ON BANDCAMP: https://adviknigam.bandcamp.com/track/may-be-percussion-arrangement
ORIGINAL PIECE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeU3LS_s03I
Enjoy listening to my new percussion arrangement! I thought this beautiful piano solo by Yiruma would be perfect for a percussion ensemble version. I had the whole thing in my head while making this :)

May Be (Percussion Arrangement)

Hi, I’m Advik! I’m 18. I’ve played piano almost all my life, I’m a percussionist in the school band (mostly mallet percussion but I’ve been in the drumline before), I produce music, and I write songs too! I also have perfect pitch, the ability to identify a musical note without a reference. Subscribe/follow/contact/listen to stay updated! Or don’t. Your choice :)

Advik Nigam

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