Bittersweet Candy Bowl

That’s right, I want YOU to help me practice my singing voice. With a bit of free time over the summer, I’ve decided to practice my singing more, what with college musicals something I may be interested in. But singing the same old songs I’m used to get kinda boring, and what better way to spice it up than to put up a request topic? The gist of it is - name a song that you would like to hear me sing, as well as any details about how said karaoke could be handled (i.e., the inclusion of harmony, music, etc). I will then fulfill that request to the best of my ability and post the result here, for anyone interested enough to listen to. You can then comment, suggest points for improvement, request new songs, and so forth. However, I will need to put a few guidelines about what I will accept as requests.

I will NOT agree to sing songs which:

- Contain profanity, extremely suggestive themes, or anything obviously NSFW (i.e. Birthday Sex, most hardcore hip-hop).

- Contain a large amount of throat-hindering screaming (i.e. Most Slipknot songs and other Death Metal).

Song requests come on a first-come, first-serve basis. When placing a request, you can expect results in 2-5 days, depending on varying factors. However, there are some song choices which will hinder my speed. Such songs include those that:

- Are sung in a foreign language.

- Are significantly difficult to sing (I’ll want to make sure the quality is good).

- Are significantly long (Over 6 minutes).

- The source of which are difficult to obtain (It is suggested that you provide the song in question as a link or music file to me when making a request).

Song requests come in three flavors - Full music, karaoke, and acapella. full music is obvious (Sung along with the entire song). Karaoke is sung with an instrumental version of the song, without the artist’s actual lyrics in the background (It is STRONGLY recommended that you provide an instrumental to your song choice if you wish for a karaoke-style song). Lastly, is acapella, which is without any source of music in the background - all you hear is my voice. with each flavor, you can also request that I sing both melody and harmony for the song. Note that this will naturally make your song take longer to sing. Requests can be reserved now, but “production” will not begin until Monday. Thank you in advance for adding flavor to my practice.

(P.S., I do not have any direct method for uploading music files. Until I can be helped to find a way, current music request will be returned via e-mail/Skype message).

enjoy

Looking for a challenge for your vocal chords? Ok… I challenge you to sing…

Love Is War (Fye Cover).

This is the cover by Fye, which is a far better version to gauge how to sing it well. It’s not particularly hard to find the instrumental version of it, so I’m going to say do it Karaoke style. Just in case though, here’s a link to the Instrumental one on YouTube, complete with links on how to get the MP3 etc (and an image that shows what to click since the site is in Japanese)

Love Is War (Instrumental).

An acapella version of Super Mario Bros. 2’s Overworld theme.

On a slightly more serious note, if that doesn’t float your boat there’s always The Great Gig in the Sky by Pink Floyd.

@ whf:

Since you gave no specifications, I assume you’d like for me to do the song on full music without harmony. Luckily, the song’s pretty simple to sing - only memory of the lyrics and timing will be a problem. Expect this done sometime by tomorrow.

@Mav:

You’ve chosen a song in Japanese AND a pretty high-pitched one to boot… Awesome! However, this means it’ll take a while for me to properly get this going. Expect yours done… Wednesday-Thursday-ish.

@The Brow:

As far as The Great Gig in the Sky goes, I’m sadly gonna have to reject that for two reasons. Firstly, the lyrics in there are very hard to make-out/mostly ad-libbing. Secondly, while it’s definitely not Death Metal, the consistent high-pitched screams are still pretty throat hindering. However, your SMB2 song gave me the perfect idea to practice proper harmony-mixing. Expect a detailed (albeit short) acapella theme song the day after Mav’s request is finished.


EDIT: After reading through my first post, I’ll make a quick change to my guideline - songs with “some” profanity are allowed (i.e. Last Resort, The Rock Show), as long as I do not have to curse every three measures.

@Maverick I friggin love you man :I That version you posted of Love is War gave me goosebumps

This
And this
and finaly
this, though not expected

hahaha

@Triplesexy:

The first two, I believe I can do (Why do people always want the japanese songs?). However, realise that stacking songs is kinda unfair to others who want requests. I will do the Gorillaz one after The Brow’s, but the latter one might have to wait if new requests are issued before then - I hope you understand.

And yes, the third is definitely out of the question - in fact, that was one of the songs I was thinking about when making the NSFW guideline.

get around to it whenever man i wasent trying to be unfair to anyone, and the third song was just a joke anyways,

Boooooo! That third song could definitely come in handy.

The founding of the 1st International BCBoys Choir.

@Jerk:

Handy for what? Blackmailing me later? XP

@Taeshi:

Another video game semi-scat theme, and it’s Sonic too?! Love that game series (The old ones at least). I’m gonna go ahead and assume you mean Act 1, and I’m also assuming you’re not joking. Also, yeah, this one’s much more complex than SMB2, so it’ll take a bit. Expect it, at latest, Monday next week.

Work in some opportunistic hip thrusting and you’ve got yourself an epic multipurpose pick up line.

You should sing Always by Erasure

you should sing like a virigin 8D

O.N.E. - Yeasayer

http://thecreatorsproject.com/creators/radical- friend/media/89

@ Norix, person, and B-Man:

Sounds good (Yes, Like a Virgin’s not that suggestive, and there’s no profanity, so I’ll do that). However, that’s a lot of songs at once, so I don’t know when any of those will be done. ^_^’ Expect them sometime next week, after Taeshi’s request, in the order they were posted.

(Double post)

Also, Maverick, sorry for this inconvenience, but it’d take me forever to learn to sing the song on an instrumental, and therefore, I’ll have to use the actual music video and sing-along.

(TRIPLE POST YEAH)

whf’s request: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=79WVT84Y

Maverick’s request: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4QGLQAL8

The Brow’s request: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FXO18NYL

Listening to my request of “Love Is War”, I have a couple of critiques. It’s good, but I’m guessing that just hearing people say “Loved it” somewhat defeats the purpose of the exercise.

While impressive that you were able to hold the note for that long in regards to the scream near the start, it fell a tad flat and felt like it needed to go an octave higher than the rest of the song. It’s a damn hard thing to pull off though, so that’s completely understandable.

My only other real gripe (aside from the one or two timing/lyrical flubs which are excusable due to the obvious language barrier) was that your rendition seemed to lack the raw power and emotion that the song needs to drive itself. It’s a song about a protagonist who is in love with someone, but they are already in a relationship, and although it’s wrong, the protagonist declares war against their love’s partner, determined to win them over in spite of the obstacle of their current relationship.

It’s why I’m in love with Fye’s rendition. You can feel the anger, despair and determination in every syllable of the song. Where as in yours, while technically sound, staying in key and hitting the notes, lacks that emotion and feels a little flat. Again, this can be attributed to the language barrier, but it’s still a point worth mentioning.

The ability to feel and convey the strength of the emotions of a song’s protagonist is what separates good singers from great singers IMHO.

If you don’t mind,heres mine.
Spirits of Steel
Some parts you need to shout with passion,hope you can do it.

Triplesexy’s request - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BQJCJIZO

Taeshi’s request - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=M1039I2Q

And OMG MORE JAPANESE SONGS-OLAWFPJHAPWFHAWF

Expect it next week.

(Double-post, because that’s how I roll).

I hope Mav’s not gonna be the only one to comment on my request! C’mon guys, I need some feedback!

SING THIS.
Ten Thousand Fists

First off, sorry to those who are still waiting for songs - I’ve had some run-ins with my recording space and it’s been hard to get a good request out.

However, I still have two new songs to give out. ^_^’

First is a free song that I choose myself every 5 song requests, Monster Remix - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=W7TA6R2P

Second is Norix’s request, Always by Erasure - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XGZUYWO0

You should do “Speed of Sound” by Coldplay as performed by the Vitamin String Quartet.
Other good ones they’ve done are:
Fix You
In My Place
Shiver (This one would be harder)
Politik
Yellow
Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol
Fireflies by Owl City
Sweet Child O’ Mine and Guns and Roses
Through the Fire and the Flames by Dragonforce (Sounds insane on the violin)
Bittersweet Symphony by The Verve


And pretty much every other pop song in existence. They are all instrumentals.

As awesome as Dragonforce is, their lyrics are invariably retarded.

@Jerk
I know, but the cover that VSQ did was amazing.

If you want basics, stick to early Beatles stuff. If you want ridiculously complex look into King Crimson or Yes.

Just got done listening to the song i requested and i have good news and bad news

The good news is you do have potentional, there is talent there but unfortunatly not mch soul im afraid, at times it sounded simply like you were reading along to the music instead of singing (still better than any attempt by me) You have skill but you’ve yet to figure out how to put your very life experience’s into it, remember the good and the bad and let it flow man, in music you have to accept evrything in order to focus on the emotion your going, for, there can be no good without bad, Just keep trying and you will figure out how to put your soul into the music one day

You’re talking about the Blues, Triplesmex, whether you realize it or not.

certainly the blues is included in the above stament J. but i truly belive you have to put your all into music to make it great.

In response to Triplesexy’s criticism - If you’re referring to the chorus, then I’ll review how my emotion sounded then. However, during the verses, it’s obvious that the singer is trying to sound apathetic, so I simply followed his image.

This response was totally not an excuse to bump my thread.

Awww…. Megaupload never works for me… I usually just share singing stuff using vocaroo…. I bet your singing voice makes me want to crawl into a hole and lay there waiting for the rain.

MEGA SUPER PROGRESS REPORT GOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Person’s Request - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3UDHBL27

Captain Bacon Man’s Request - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IVASHLNI

Nothing much to really say about these songs. They were just rushed a little bit, so it’s prone to a few more errors than my later ones. I like how CBM’s Request went though, even if the falsetto part sounds awkward.

QUESTIONS/COMMENT/CRITICISMS WELCOME!

HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY!!!

I request ‘New york I love you’, by LCD soundsystem!!

Awesome cover dude.

Jumper


Just for kicks

I love singing to this !!! Just try !!

Broken - Seether and Amy Lee (With lyrics)

Just to give the guys here an idea of the ques up, I’ll list them now.

Kou - Spirits of Steel

Triplesexy - Geki! Teikoku-Kagekidan (Kai)

McCardell - Ten Thousand Fists (I’m pretty sure this is an rp name, can someone clarify who this is?)

Mallow - Speed of Sound

The Singing Ninja - Jumper (I’m assuming this is *Ninja)

Faustii Goethe - Broken

I hope to finish these songs quickly, and thank you for your patience.

Oh oh oh I know! Trust Me by Yuya Matsushita! Okay yeah it’s Japanese. You’ll do fine! I’ll give you the song over skype~

… Ahahaha~

Oh! In full music as well. You dun have to do the short rap part that’s in it either unless you want to try. Thought this would be a good song to practice more of your foreign pronunciation on. It’s also a bit more bouncy in rhythm and has some run on lines. Use your breath wisely!

And this is totally in no way a ploy to make you awkwardly sing in Japanese. Nope.

One more song, from the ones i like to sing !!

Seether - Truth (Acoustic)

(Actually Seether is really good for this game, and this one is my favorite)

=)

@Spradic Zoom: That “McCardell” is Ace, whoever this one is.

Also, what about Tribute by Tenacious D? The “History” duet ended up really funny and another one would make no harm, right?

I wasn’t really going to, because seems you have a whole lot of requests anyway, but then I heard this on the radio and decided to HIT YOU anyway. I had another one in mind too, but maybe later.

Owl City - Fireflies

Shiksa - Say Anything

This is my request, I wanna see how you do spradic :3 (skip to 0:33 to get to the actual song)

Do this song with full music. Fairly straightforward, but if you sing it like a robot, I will never forgive you.

Mike Posner - Cooler than me
A relatively easy song lyric wise.
Practice with with irregular beats.

*NOTE: I linked you the radio version cause it’s shorter, but you can tackle the orginal version if you’d like.
http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=aIymtj3JqO4&feature=related