Pretend - Nat King Cole Cover

I attempted a different type of song to cover this time. A classic from Nat King Cole called "Pretend".

Pretend you're happy when you're blue, It isn't very hard to do,
And you'll find happiness without an end, whenever you pretend.


Pretend Nat King Cole Cover by aytida88

I hope you like it. Let me know what you think.

Reflection

I felt like being creative today. I started off trying to write a short story, but soon deflected to this. It's about the kind of enlightening talk you have with yourself, reflecting on where you are and wondering which way you are headed. Let me know what you guys think :) Edited using GarageBand, Audacity and Ableton. I'm sure there's an easier way to do it, but I ended up using a hybrid of the three because I like different features in each of them (The instruments in Ableton, the recording and mixing in Audacity and the "Warming Waves" pad in Garage Band)

   Reflection by aytida88

Lyrics:

Hello there, you look out of sorts.

Living someone else's dream, are you not?

There's no shame in turning back,

Pause and think about where you at.

Gutten Abundance

Something I came up with while I was supposed to be working on some presentation. That's always the best time for ideas I suppose :P

   Abundance by aytida88

Props to Garage-band again..

Trains Porcupine Tree - Cover

Train set and match spied.

   Trains Mixed by aytida88

Love this song by PT. I was just getting the hang of Garage band, so decided to do this. Recording time : an hour or less. Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun. Apparently I had recorded the guitar one bar too short so had to skip some parts of the vocals.

Be kind, rewind.

I recorded this song today. Most of the layers were done in Ableton and I added a couple of vocal layers in the end. (I removed these in the final version, which is purely instrumental) Hearing it kind of made me feel nostalgic. Let me know what you guys think of it.

 Nostalgia Instrumental by aytida88

Parasite

Here's the demo of a song I wrote and composed yesterday. It's called Parasite.


   Parasite by aytida88
 
Lyrics

Strip this symphony into it's component notes,
Tear me down and figure out why I do so.
Split my mind and redefine the person i know,
Re-wire my brain, again and make it your home.

Yellow Cover

This is my first non-Porcupine tree cover for the blog. I love the old-school Coldplay tunes, they seem to exude a lot of personality, whilst having simple sing-along lyrics. I hope the follow-up to MX is more unique. This one is a classic tune,so I thought I'd give it a shot. Did it over 2-3 days because of my other pending work. If you say it isn't really faithful to the original, I agree, because I didn't see the point of doing a watered down take of the original (which I can't even hope to do justice to), so I just went for my own interpretation, in places. Recording this was kind of cathartic, I'm not too sure how to explain. I guess, the act of harmonizing with someone, is a source of unbridled joy, even if it is with yourself. I dedicate this to my sister, because it's her birthday today. I can't do a Bartesque 'Lisa it's your Birthday', so this will have to do.

   Yellow Cover Version by aytida88