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Someone once asked me if I could only do one english cover song which one would it be?. This was my answer.




House of The Rising Sun

House Of The Rising Sun - Cover

Chill out Instrumental 'Another brick in the wall;Tribute to pink floyd

Instrumental  Version of "Gimme Some Lovin’" (1966)- for its "50th Anniversary"  
[more info >> below]  - SPEAKERS recommended wo/headphones - 

This is the second collab work with Paul (@paul-racle )- Several months ago, while we were working for the previous collab song, he sent me his cover(backing) of this song as well, and kindly asked me if I’d like to add some onto it. I said Yes!! ...it's one of my all time favorite songs again ! 
His initial version of backing track can be heard in the vocal version featuring our good friend, David - link: https://soundcloud.com/david-louthan/give-me-some-lovin2-paploviante-david-lee-louthan

As you can hear there, the initial version itself already sounded great to my ears, and seemed to work perfectly for vocal addition or so. On one hand, I felt that it wouldn't be interesting enough if I merely interpose guitar solo or the other onto it. So, I asked him if I could re-arrange the whole structure of backing, and he generously allowed me to do whatever with it...
I apologize for my delay in finishing(I'd completed most of arrangement and recordings a few months ago- before the vocal version was published, but I haven't had time to do music at all since then...not only for this)...but finally I could find a little spare time to do....Hope you enjoy!
Once again, I'd like to thank Paul for his offering and patience.

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[Music Info]

Instruments marked [*] were done as live, all else were done with DAW.

Paul Paploviante (Initial Version);
-Drums-1 (Bashing basic 4/4 beat pattern except fills - from 0:14 in this version),
-Bass Guitar*(0:17-)
-Backing Guitar-1 (Chordal Comping on the ctr,  0:28-)
-Synths (Brass Lead for the main Verse-Chorus lines and Comping)
-Organ & Piano.

Hiroshi Kohno (Arrangement & Addition);
-Arrangement & Remastering of all parts of initial version (incl. Extensions of Intro & Bridges, Addition* of Gliss & Triplets onto Organ /of Hi-Keys onto Lead Synth, etc)
-Drums-2*(Addition of Tom-rolls, all Fills-in & of Extra Beat Patterns than 4/4, Changes of Cymbals & Kicks of Drums-1, etc)
-Tambourine & Percus 
-Backing Guitar-2*(Main Riffs played throughout on the ctr-rite & partially on the left)
-Backing Guitar-3*(Wobbling Bassy Riffs on the left for the Intro from 0:28-, and for Solo sections from 2:54-) 
-Lead Guitar* (Solos & all Fills)
-Mixing.

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- Original song was written by Steve Winwood, Spencer Davis and Muff Winwood, released in 1966 (London), and performed by The Spencer Davis Group ( later the reprise/self-cover by Traffic). 

- The picture for the cover art was borrowed from the album of Traffic's "Traffic" (1968). Copyright of the original picture must belong to the original artist and the label.

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[Additional Notes on Arrangements & Recording]

-Guitars: Fender Strat '58 w/ Marshall JVM (overdrive, reverb, open-mic), partially w/ Vintage CE-1, Jen Crybaby Wah (only to narrow the range), MXR Phase 90(only for B Guitar-3)

I have some albums including this song (the original version by the SDG, the live version by Traffic and some other covers), and I love the Traffic's version most.
So, my arrangement started firstly by re-interpreting that version(for the  guitar riffs, percussion, etc).
That one can be found on their album "Welcome to the canteen".
>>Amazon Link: amzn.com/B00006399Z

The major differences from the SDGs original are the riff - than the famous one that the SDG borrowed from the Homer Banks' song "A Lot of Love" - and the rhythm sections. 

You can also see on Youtube, that there is another one(with similar riff arrangement ) performed by Winwood's band featuring E.Clapton("The ARMS Concert, London 1983", which I think was the best performance by them). 
>> Youtube Link: youtu.be/5vvH-mUaPEY

Whereas, those versions that I love don't have any lead phrase of guitar.
Therefore, all guitar licks in our version were written myself.

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[Posted on 21st (Sat) May, 2016]

Gimme Some Lovin' -  2016 Version (Instrumental) -  P.Paploviante & Aerogene070

All Of Me / john legend
Johnlegend – All-of-me-3

All Of Me 02 （Rock Instrumental cover Version,john legend）

the greatest gig in the sky (instrumental tribute to Pink Floyd)

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To sing this song, needed my whole courage
recorded 2008
It's not perfect sung.. but I gave all my feeling in it..

Some day I'll plan to redo it.. to sing it better (longer notes) ;))

Carla

Sade - No Ordinary Love cover by YaVa

My Tribute and salutation to the Late and great musician-Leanard Cohen.

Hallelujah - Insrtumental Tribute To The Late Leonard Cohen

Hope Beethoven is not offended with my version.  Heard it in my head this way and this is the final version of it.  A moment of peace!!

BEETHOVEN SLIGHTLY CHILLED a moment of peace (moonlight) Sonata  (final version?)

Instrumental version of “I shot the sheriff”, the song written by Bob Marley (The Wailers).

Some days ago, Alphio (@alpha-roots) sent me the rhythm track of this song, and kindly asked me if I would jam with it. I said Yes... It's one of my all time favorite songs again.

His initial version sounded great to my ears as I instantly loved it, but when I started jamming along, I personally felt that it was a bit too slow for me to add the lead melody so on... and bass sounded a bit too low (despite that original key is Gm, it had -1 octave + 1 tone= Am) and worried that bass would sound less prominent and not audible through the speakers as compared with the other parts I’d first planned to add.
I also wanted to have a little more up-down accent patterns and accessory notes so on for the bass line (especially for the verse A) in this regard and chordal variations as well on the rhythm guitar as the original has more and a little more for own arrangement.  

So, I revised almost all parts on his initial track except the hand percussion by him [>> Details below ].

The initial track can be heard here, please check it out：
https://soundcloud.com/alpha-roots/i-drummed-the-sheriff

I apologize for I've destroyed Alphio’s minimalism...but I had much fun working with it and I would like to thank him again for his kind offer and for allowing me to arrange it freely. 

My arrangement basically followed Hiram Bullock’s cover version (Jazz Rock version with ‘Guitar vocals’) except the rhythm guitars and the ending solo sections adding some improvised phrases of mine.
Well, I could play other versions as well - original studio version, Clapton’s cover version etc -  but, since I’m not a good singer, I decided to do like this anyway. 
Hope you enjoy. Any feedback would be appreciated.

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The original music was written by Bob Marley (The Wailers) for their album “Burnin” (1973)
Hiram Bullock’s version can be heard in their album “Manny's Car Wash” (1995) and in some albums of Jaco Pastorius. 
Cover picture source : http://www.pageresource.com/wallpapers/78319/bob-marley-free-music-reggae-hd-wallpaper.html
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Cover :

[Initial rhythm track by Alpha-roots]
- Drums-1 / Bass Guitar-1 / Percussion / Rhythm Guitar-1

[Revision of Initial rhythm track]
- Changed the tempo (about 11% faster than the initial one).
- Shifted up the key of whole track an octave(keeping Am) and mixed it with the initial track to have a bit more treble tone of bass (it was not able to do re EQ-ing of the bass separably as I received the single mp3 mix)
- Extended each section of main theme (intro and interludes) and altered the rhythm parts of them
- Changed some rhythm patterns (altered Hi-hat patterns, etc.) especially on verse B sections.

[Addition by me]
- Drums-2 (All fills, Addition of other Cymbals, Toms, Kicks and of Snares; the later two are mainly only for the theme and for 3rd & 4th verses solo sections)
- Bass Guitar-2(Additional phrases and high notes incl. some slaps & ghost notes overdubbed onto Bass-1)
- Lead Guitar-1 (Distortion guitar with or without pedal-wah for “guitar vocals” & solos )
- Lead Guitars-2&3( Two Clean ones for the fills and for the ending solo)
- Rhythm Guitars-2&3(Chordal brushing & wah fills overdubbed onto Rhythm Guitar-1, and some phased unison phrases onto Bass Guitars)
- Piano

All of my parts were played and recorded in the studio (live, open-mic rec) except Piano.
- Guitars:  Distortion Lead >> Fender Japan Strat (w/Dimargio DP182 ), Boss CS-2, CE-1 & Jen Crybaby Wah, Marshall-JVM (Tube Distortion, Channel Delay & Reverb) ; Clean Lead, Fills & Rhythms >> Fender USA Strat ‘58 & CS Telecaster, Maxon RTC600, MXR Phase90, AD-9 & Crybaby Wah, '65 Deluxe Reverb Amp.
- Basses:  Fender USA '66 Precision-Bass , Boss CS-2, Bassman Amps .
- Drums:  Tama Acoustic Drum Kit w/Zildjian Cymbals (6-mics rec).
- Piano & Mixing: DAW

I Shot The Sheriff  (Guitar-Vocal Version) - aerogene070 w/ Alpha-roots

This work is also a collaboration with Marco Turrini following the previous work. We tried what happens if I play "MEMORIES OF THE PAST" which is one of Marco's masterpieces together with him.How I would add my interpretation to this work while making full use of Pink Floyd's flavor and Marco's honed sensibilities, that was my problem.A big fan of Pink Floyd can not defile the honor of Pink Floyd.  :)
I sincerely thank Marco Turrini again. Also, I would like to confess that I'd like to express my respects to the many musicians who gave me a lot of musical influences, involved in this work.
And thank you for listening to this work from the bottom of my heart.

The key:Gm , C

When I listened to the sound source of Marco's "MEMORIES OF THE PAST ... TRIBUTE", the first thing I came up with was  "Breathe" by Pink Floyd. It is one song in the album "THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON". Then, on "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" (included in  "Wish You Were Here ")A famous performance came back in my mind. This may be better known.
Both are masterpieces. There are a lot of name performances left. I will introduce it below.
By listening to that songs again, why I remembered that songs, I could find something in common between them, and at the same time you will be noticing something completely different.
What Marco drew for this song is Marco's "Pink Floyd", not Pink Floyd itself. Indeed, I feel an exceptional talent to him. For example,I'd like you to check the chord progression of the second part of this song. Mr.Marco treats it so that it is not cleverly noticed immediately,You will notice that the essence of a famous song nicely included. There should be many people who understood by just listening.Therefore, the title of this song is "MEMORIES OF THE PAST ... TRIBUTE", I do not ask Marco, I imagine arbitrarily and enjoying it. :)

You can listen to the original sound at Marco's page.
https://soundcloud.com/marco-seekx/memories-of-the-past

Pink Floyd - Breathe(London Live 8 - 2005)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dYMQA5_KcA
Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond(Wish You Were Here)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=349&v=54W8kktFE_o

MEMORIES OF THE PAST...TRIBUTE (with Marco Turrini Orch.)

This was done by request..A song done when we all thought we would be drafted to Nam.. somehow connected some of us to that war..  For you Kenny.. tried to stay true to the original on my keyboard.

NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN (cover by request) the Moody Blues

My particular choral version (with plugins) of the famous song Summertime from the opera Porgy and Bess ....

Composed by: George Gershwin
Adaptation, arrangements & producction: Chivicke Home Studio/2019

Summertime (George Gershwin)

An instrumental Cover of the song "No Woman, No Cry" (No, Woman, Nuh Cry) by Bob Marley & The Wailers, released on their album "Live!" (1975) .
Guitar solo starts at 1:54 
----latter excursus on 16 Nov. 2019-----
A full version with Vocals by Jimmy Rivas ( @j-rivas ) is out there:
>>  https://soundcloud.com/j-rivas/no-woman-dont-cry-featuring-hiroshi-kohno
Please check it out.
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Sorry, friends for my being out of contact for a while. 
This year I've not been so productive for music so far.
I’d lost most of music data that were in the making because of the PC trouble occurred several months ago...and since then, have had too much going on to do music. I haven't recovered the DAW and so on either. It makes me less productive, too. But finally I've got some time-off and hopefully will resolve these soon.

In the meantime, I found this one from another HDD in the rubble.
So, I put it here hoping to make up the blank...

It was played and recorded (I guess about 5 years ago) just as a diversion for a change...  Besides Bob Marly’s vocals and its lyrics, I’ve loved the guitar solo of the song (since the first time I  covered this song when I was a high school student) and played it several times.  But in fact, the song has too common chord progression, and without vocals (I cannot sing well), I thought a cover wouldn't work out...so, I added the keys to compensate a little for the vocal lines. Also added the backing guitar for all sections(for which I referred to a live version released in 1980).
For the solo and the rest of parts, I referred to the original live version (Live At The Lyceum, London /1975).  

All instruments (Drums, Percussion, Bass Guitar and Guitars) were played and recorded in the studio (open-mic, live), except Keys and Choirs (which were created with Software Synth and midi-Keys). 

*The cover picture was borrowed from the liner notes of the Japanese version of the original album. Copyright of the original picture must belong to the original photographer, artist and the label.

No Woman, No Cry - Instrumental Cover (Excerpt)

Very particular adaptation of the song J´AIME (1967)by the belgian singer-songwriter Salvatore Adamo.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOI-be81uHs
Adaptation arrangements and production by: Chivicke Home-Studio/2016
Image: hudson-hintze (Unsplash)
 
Quiero, la luna que ilumina
tu silueta al caminar
Con paso de bailarina
tú la sigues sin mirar

Quiero, la calma de la tarde
cuando ya empieza a anochecer
El crepúsculo que arde
como arde mi querer

Quiero, que vengas cariñosa
y me abraces al llegar
Cuando te sientes tan dichosa
que te ríes al besar

Quiero, que tu mano me guíe
si estoy en la oscuridad
Y mi corazón sonríe
lleno de felicidad

Quiero, tus ojos color de bruma
que a veces veo en mi soñar
Son como un manto de dulzura 
que me viene a despertar

Quiero (J´aime) - Cover-versión -  autor:  Salvatore Adamo

Nocturne No 9(m)

Imagine /Lennon / Cover

"My Way" Re-arranged and Transposed for Strings Ensemble By: Delmonia
Photo by: Khalid Matar (Delmonia) - Tree of life, Bahrain 2019

My Way

"If I fell" by The Beatles. Transposed for MIDI Violas by: Delmonia (Considering  the "Alto" Viola score).

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If I Fell

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Tried it my way... hope you'll like it :)

Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody cover by YaVa

And I love her (Instrumental). Cover by: Delmonia
4 Life Guitar tracks played by: Khalid (Delmonia)
Other instruments were played by MIDI sequencer..
https://youtu.be/ehupZztSZAc

And I love her

And I Love Her

I am retired and have taken up music again (after 60 years since I last played the classical piano)for my pleasure. It is great to redo the old classics with the modern sounds and electronic instruments of today. I  
   Also Like making my own instrumental tracks with my 
Presonus studio 4 software, a size midi keyboard and the Kross workstation Keyboard.
I am so grateful for the support, encouragement and feedback from the  sound cloud community.
What an awesome experience and way to bring music to the world together with likeminded friends-thank you all.

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