Hawaiian

Pop/Contemporary Samples

Cruiser

My version of the Hawaiian classic, "He Wahine U'i" done as a tribute to the late, great Gabby "Pops" Pahinue. No copyright infringement intended here. Just for everyone's listening pleasure.

He Wahine Ui - Full Cover of Gabby's Version

Another Hawaiian track in the style of Hui 'Ohana. This time, Kanaka Waiwai based on the story of the rich young man in Matthew 19:16-24. All props to Led Kaapana who developed his own style of guitar soloing, that I'm tryinh to emulate - Jus' press! No copyright infringement intended.

Kanaka Waiwai
by Johnny Almeida

Kanaka Waiwai - Full

Here's my version of the classic mele hula, "Ke Aloha". No copyright infringement intended.
Words by Lei Collins
Music by Maddy Lam

Ke Aloha - Full

Just a short sample cover of the great Bruddah Iz's "Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World". No copyright infringement intended.

Ukulele - Vox Sample Somewhere Over The Rainbow - What A Wonderful World Cover

Summertime EP

Lover Tonight

Destinations

Masese

You Can Have It All performed by Maoli
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You Can Have It All

Maoli - You Can Have It All

I'm a big fan of Toto and I thought I'd give this cover of Africa a go. This may be my most ambitious cover project yet. Here's the nerd breakdown: I transcribed the keyboard parts - brass synth pad, kalimba and flute - in MuseScore and then exported the parts as midi files into Reaper. I used a few different Native Instruments plugins for the sounds. The drums and percussion parts were done in EZDrummer 3 and guitars and bass are real. And so is my voice. Except for a little Autotune, EQ, compression and reverb. 😉 And of course I had to add a guitar solo as an outro. Just because. Hope you like this sample. It'll become a backing track without the vocals and guitars. Hopefully it won't be taken down as a copyright strike. I own no rights to this music.
Africa
By David Paich and Jeff Porcaro
Columbia Records

Africa - Full Cover

A cover of Maroon 5's "This Love". It will become a backing track without the lead vocals and rhythm guitar. No copyright infringement intended - just for local cover band performance purposes. All arranging, home recording engineering, instruments,  vocals, drum sequencing done by me. Thanks for listening!

This Love - Full Cover

A cover of Kalapana's classic, "The Hurt". It will become a backing track without the lead vocals. No copyright infringement intended - just for local cover band performance purposes. All arranging (notation for midi done in MuseScore), home recording engineering, instruments, vocals, drum sequencing done by me. Thanks for listening!

The Hurt - Cover

A quick cover of Cecilio and Kapono's classic "Friends". It will become a backing track without the lead vocals and lead guitar for my cover band Mark 'N Friends. No copyright infringement intended.

Friends Cover

A quick recording that will become a backing track without lead and background vocals. A cover of Ehukai's "Molokai Slide". No copyright infringement intended.

Molokai Slide - Cover

A quick recording that will become a backing track without lead and background vocals. A cover of The Manao Company's "Spread A Little Aloha". No copyright infringement intended.

Spread A Little Aloha - Cover

Feel Good Island Music

When I Think About You

This cover recording is for demonstration and educational purposes only, demonstrating the capabilities of the Roland GR-55 Guitar Synthesizer and the Reaper Digital Audio Workstation recording software.  The recording artist, Toto, owns all rights to the song and original recording.  

Not sure what happened to the third mix, but I decided to remix again.  This was like the second full song I recorded with the Reaper DAW and Roland GR-55 guitar synth. Used compression and exciter on the entire mix and added some EQ, compression and reverb on the vox. A few vital stats:

Piano: GR-55 "Double Low Piano"
Strings: GR-55 string ensemble - I forgot the actual setting.
Drums: MT Power Drum Kit 2 software
Bass: Cheap Jackson bass through Boss ME-70 set for clean tone with some EQ
Rhythm guitar: Floyd Rose Strat with a bit of chorus through the GR-55
Lead guitar: PRS Custom 24 through the ME-70 in the lead stack model with a bit of boost and delay

A few glitchy playing spots on the GR-55 "piano" but I auto punched some really rough spots. Generally pleased with the results. Wish my voice was better.

Update 6/20/24: After over 8 years I tried polishing this off once again. I deleted a lot of the guitar synth "piano" noodling, and added some air, limiting, and normalized the volume as best I could to about -12 dB LUFS. Lead vocals could come out a bit in the mix.

Molokai Slide - Cover

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