Only You (Yazoo) Cover

I mashed up an isolated live vocal of the Jackson 5 performing 'ABC' and the 1997 song 'Steal My Sunshine'.  There were four semi-tones of difference between the two songs, so I pitch shifted the vocal down one and the instrumental up three.  The tempo alignment was pretty close - I just had to slow down the music a few beats and slightly realign a few bits of singing here and there.

ABC & Steal My Sunshine Mashup

This is a Melanesian choir song that was used in the film 'The Thin Red Line'.  I've done a short acoustic rock cover.

Jisas Yu Holem Hand Blom Mi (Acoustic Cover)

Lullaby (Billy Joel) Cover

A cover I that heard on SoundCloud (see my 'likes' list)made me want to cover this song myself.  I recorded all the vocal and mandolin tracks on my phone and transferred them into my mixing software to improve them and add other instruments(piano, bass, percussion, accordian) with my midi keyboard.

Blowing In The Wind (Bob Dylan) Mandolin Cover

I was playing around with this song on my keyboard and thought I'd see how it sounded on my uilleann pipes with a bit of reverb.  I therefore recorded it using the 'Improvox' app on my iPhone to apply some reverb rather than go to the trouble of getting out my proper recording gear.

Song for Ireland - on my uilleann pipes

a ukulele-based cover with additional instruments and vocal harmonies

Top of the World (Carpenters) cover

My cover with guitar, mandolin, piano, bass and tambourine.  I repeated the bridge at the end with some backing vocals the second time round.  Sorry my vocal is a bit strained in the high parts.  I wasn't going to do the "ho" and "hey" bits because I find them annoying in the original version, but I compromised and just did them at the very beginning and end.

Ho Hey (Lumineers) Cover

PLEASE NOTE: I am no longer emailing an mp3 of this recording to people (it got too much for me).  
You can download it by copying and pasting the URL of this track from your web browser into the relevant box at the following website:
https://scdownloader.net/download

Can't Help Falling In Love (Piano backing/karaoke track - Ingrid Michaelson's version)

This is Bruno's vocal stripped from the song with my voice instead of the instrumentation. It features some very bad beat boxing!

The Lazy Song (Bruno Mars) Acapella Multitrack

Can't Help Falling In Love - Multi track Acapella

I found this lovely bagpipes performance on YouTube (‘Dark Isle Bagpiper’), and added an organ to it, plus some cathedral type reverb.

Highland Cathedral (bagpipes and organ)

Gabriel's Oboe - live performance on uilleann pipes

This is a work in progress that I'm putting on SoundCloud to share with some musicians I know.  I'm pretty proud of the guitar tracks, as I have very little guitar playing experience.  The guitar used is a Fender CD140SCE and was played through the internal pickup.

Inisheer - tin whistle and guitar

Inisheer - guitar backing track

This is my cover of Mumford & Sons' new single.  It's a bit slower than the original and I did something different with the second verse.  Except for the two guitar tracks, all instruments were generated within Pro Tools recording software through my midi keyboard, and the vocals are multi-tracks of my own voice.

Since recording this song, I have gone back to the Pro Tools project and improved the mixing and mastering - a slightly better version can therefore be found on my other SoundCloud page here:  http://soundcloud.com/gold-music-productions/i-will-wait-mumford-sons-cover

I Will Wait (Mumford & Sons) Cover

This  lovely tune was shown to me by a violin player during a jam and I put some chords to it on my keyboard. I asked him to play it for me to record on my iPhone so I could play around with it on my recording software at home, and this is the result of that playing around.

Shepherd of Silver - Violin and harp

I tried singing it, but I sounded sh*t, so I turned it into a guitar instrumental version instead!

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