This is the final project for my class MRT 316N at The University of Texas at Austin.  I took the song "Jolene" by Dolly Parton and the cover of "Jolene" by the White Stripes and recorded a cover featuring the lovely voice of Ms. Caroline Watson and the all-star playing of Scott Blanco (guitar/drums) and Mason Hankamer (bass).

Vocalist: CAROLINE WATSON
Guitarist: SCOTT BLANCO
Bassist: MASON HANKAMER
Drummer: SCOTT BLANCO
Producer: NICK HAGER

Jolene Cover

A friend of mine asked me to record this track to serve as the score for his short film project in the Radio-Television-Film program at The University of Texas at Austin.  Enjoy!

Natalie's Theme from "NO" (2014)

FINAL PROJECT for Fall 2014.  Cover of "White Christmas" as covered by The Drifters.  Doo-wop style.  

Produced by: Nick Hager
Vocals: Emma Graves, Andrew Heger, Nick Hager
Bass: Nick Hager
Drums: Ben Meuer

White Christmas Cover (as sung by The Drifters)

This first project is a “free skate” allowing you to follow your instincts and self-directed path.  This is a mashup of "Forget You" by Cee-Lo Green and "Your Lips Are Movin'" by Meghan Trainor.  The project is designed to highlight the similarities between the two songs and show that a combination of the songs can yield a lyrically and musically cohesive piece of music.

Produced by: Nick Hager
Vocals: Emma Graves
Guitar: Nick Hager
Piano: Nick Hager

Forget Your Lips (Cee-Lo Green and Meghan Trainor Mashup)

This was a project where we took the chords from Beethoven's String Quartet No. 14 in C#m (No. 6) and adapted them to a new melody.  

Produced by: Nick Hager
Vocals: Gary Powell
Synths: Nick Hager

Elysium

For this project, I took Jayson Niner's acapella recording of Audrey Bounds singing "This Little Light of Mine" and adapted it into my vision of a horror film's trailer.

Produced by: Nick Hager
Vocals: Audrey Bounds
Sounds produced by Spectronics Omnisphere

This Little Light of Mine

This project is a condensed guitar version of the theme from “Game of Thrones”.  With this project, I wanted to take a fully realized orchestral score and play each part that I heard on the guitar.  Every track was played on the same guitar and cut during the same session.  My goals were to stack guitar parts and give them space from each other through compression, EQ, and panning so that the final product is a frequency complete “guitar orchestra”.

Produced by: Nick Hager
Guitar: Nick Hager

A Song of Ice and Fire for Guitar

The traditional Irish folk song, “The Parting Glass” has seen many variations and covers across hundreds of years.  I had heard the tune several times before and wanted to arrange my own version of the tune.  In this project, I combined a cappella elements and string writing/recording to create my personal spin on “The Parting Glass”.

Producer: Nick Hager
Vocals: Dusty Dimitri
Guitar: Dusty Dimitri
Cello: Hannah Rose

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