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“Mother” (Pink Floyd Acoustic Cover Song) – The Laptop Sessions
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
By Jeff Copperthite:
Good evening and welcome to your Sunday edition of the Laptop Sessions. Today, as promised, I bring you another installment, and one from Pink Floyd. This comes by request from Dave – thanks Dave, now my vocal cords hurt.
Not because the vocals are high, which is usually what could cause some strain to a voice. This song has quite a low register through most of the song. It is something i’m not used to dealing with. The song is “Mother” from their album “The Wall” – same album as last Monday, but different disc.
This song has some solid lyrics and at the time of songwriting for “Expressions”, the song “Independence” was influenced by this song somewhat. The guitar part is easy-going and not that difficult to play. The band also threw in some subtle time signature changes in the song – see how many you can spot.
As mentioned, ow, my voice. It took me approximately 15 takes to make it through the song. Near the end I came in late on an “ooo”, but since I was so close to the end, I decided I had expended my voice enough, and to keep chugging.
On Wednesday, I will be bringing Original Wednesday your way, and I will be tapping into Jim Fusco’s library again. I had a song in mind from my own library (a new one), but I want to clean it up before I do it for Original Wednesday. So in 3 weeks 3 days, you’ll hopefully see that one.
Come back tomorrow for a new Jim Fusco acoustic cover song!
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“Comfortably Numb” (Pink Floyd Acoustic Cover Song) – The Laptop Sessions
Monday, July 28th, 2008
By Jeff Copperthite:
What can I say – I just enjoy clicking the “add new category” button to the right of me when I write my posts every three days.
Jeff Copperthite introducing a new band to the sessions? Again?
Yes! Yes! And yes! Chris may kill me…
I am proud to introduce one of the greatest rock acts of all time to the Laptop Sessions. I think they’re so great, that i’m going to be doing 2 more sessions from them for my next two. In fact, if you request a song from them, I just might change the songs I have in mind!
Pink Floyd is the band today, and i am performing a song from their bestselling, multi-platinum 2-CD album “The Wall” called “Comfortably Numb”. You may know that “The Wall” is considered a rock opera, and if you are a fan of any of Pink Floyd’s songs, or classic rock at all, you would do well to get your hands on this album. This song is in the middle of the 2nd half of the album. It is a slow song with two awesome guitar solos, and a spacy synthesizer. None of those things are on this performance, however. Just me and my acoustic, like usual.
I think I really did a good job on voice switching. Roger Waters has many singing styles and uses two of them in this song – his evil, sneering voice, and his kind, smooth voice. Not to mention the “scream” in the song. I try to replicate that in this performance, but again – it’s one of me on the video, and its like 5 of him on the album. That’s just how we roll here on the Laptop Sessions.
Remember, request a Pink Floyd song and I just might change my mind on my next two performances!
Come back tomorrow for (perhaps – I was wrong last Friday) a cover song by Jim Fusco. By the way, congratulations to Mike on his first Laptop Session. He really nailed that Elvis song – I suggest you look down the page a bit and watch for yourself if you haven’t done so already.
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