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Discussion question, how does a musician copy a performance
DeeAa wrote:
Interesting question as we're just in the middle of process of making a dozen 'carbon copy' tribute recordings of bands we used to love in our youth - i.e. we're recording their songs and trying to make it sound as close to the original as possible. This is a fun exercise, and it's a fun exercise mostly in reverse-engineering the original mixes and trying to figure out what went into them in the first place. If you don't have the original charts it's that much harder, too. I have worked for a couple of cover bands that wanted to sound exactly like the original bands, and it was fun trying to research the original recordings and to listen to them and attempt to duplicate the sound. I don't do that kind of work anymore, but it was oddly rewarding. I never thought about it any further, my view is more like that when you copy what someone has done, learn to play it the same and create a very similar sound, you're effectively getting into the performer's head somewhat, so it's more like what happens as you do it, copy the playing etc. not vice versa. Right. The thing is, you can't spend forever in their head, you eventually either go insane and turn into an Elvis impersonator or you have to go your own way and express yourself. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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