Cannonball Cover, with vocals NOT BY ME! HOORAY!

[mangold]

This is a cover I did with K-Mac, a vocalist ive been working with for awhile, also recorded with my new set up courtesy of D-Mart, the best tech man alive.

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[sfmartins]

The guitar very nice!

The voice if very sweet too. Nice recording!

Thanks!

[mangold]

The guitar very nice!

The voice if very sweet too. Nice recording!

Thanks!

since you listened, what style of music can you hear that vocalist singing, because we're writing music for her right now and we're having trouble pinpointing a style, because we only listen to male vocalists mostly

[boy52]

Hey dave, this was a pretty good recording overall. Clean vocals on the girl's part. As for the guitar, I noticed that in the end as the song got more intense, you started to strum a bit faster too. Rhythm is crucial! I know that this was a problem of mine in the past, so I have to be extra-conscious to stay on beat whenever the song changes directions. But good job overall!

[sfmartins]

The guitar very nice!

The voice if very sweet too. Nice recording!

Thanks!

since you listened, what style of music can you hear that vocalist singing, because we're writing music for her right now and we're having trouble pinpointing a style, because we only listen to male vocalists mostly

It's hard to tell with just one song, but I always find girls to be great with acoustic sound (like this song you've recorded). This is because girls have clearer voices (well not ALL girls... ).
Anyway, this week I saw a nice English band with a girl singing and they had:
Electric guitar, bass, drums, keyboards and violin. Their sound was like Dave Matthews Band but with more rhythm. The girl's singing was strong and it was great.
Maybe you wanna try a similar sound with your vocalist.

Don't know if this was a great help...

[mangold]

Hey dave, this was a pretty good recording overall. Clean vocals on the girl's part. As for the guitar, I noticed that in the end as the song got more intense, you started to strum a bit faster too. Rhythm is crucial! I know that this was a problem of mine in the past, so I have to be extra-conscious to stay on beat whenever the song changes directions. But good job overall!

my name is andy but thanks.

edit: btw did anyone else think i sped it up at the end? because i just listened again and it sounds pretty even, except for the fact that i delayed the first note of the outro.

[mangold]

The guitar very nice!

The voice if very sweet too. Nice recording!

Thanks!

since you listened, what style of music can you hear that vocalist singing, because we're writing music for her right now and we're having trouble pinpointing a style, because we only listen to male vocalists mostly

It's hard to tell with just one song, but I always find girls to be great with acoustic sound (like this song you've recorded). This is because girls have clearer voices (well not ALL girls... ).
Anyway, this week I saw a nice English band with a girl singing and they had:
Electric guitar, bass, drums, keyboards and violin. Their sound was like Dave Matthews Band but with more rhythm. The girl's singing was strong and it was great.
Maybe you wanna try a similar sound with your vocalist.

Don't know if this was a great help...

yeh that does help a little, we have really eclectic influences on our writing. what i really want is a solid soulful acoustic group singing slower songs along the lines of cannonball and like hallelujah, unfotunately none of us can write lyrics anything near that, and she prefers a fast more poppy tone... i have high hopes tho. shes got mad talent

[6_strings_for_life]

i enjoyed listening, thanks for posting

[juineaux]

lovely job on the song. Your guitar playing is spot on, and her voice is really good....has a haunting quality to it....which fits the song perfectly. Do you two have any other songs?

[mangold]

lovely job on the song. Your guitar playing is spot on, and her voice is really good....has a haunting quality to it....which fits the song perfectly. Do you two have any other songs?

wow that means alot coming from you...
we play alot of covers together, but we're dis-satisfied with just doing covers so we're trying to write original material but we're both pretty stringent and critical of our own stuff, we hold it to high standards.

we just got this new recording setup last week, so the tracks will begin to stack up. thanks again tom.


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