"Practice makes perfect!"...

...says the one who's skilled enough to attain perfection. Which is also the same person who doesn't and will never exist. Ever. Because humans will never be perfectly skilled in anything because there's always room for improvement and, well, we just aren't wired that way, dammit.

School started a couple of weeks back (for those of you who don't know, I'm finally taking up Music Production in Benilde. Yay!) and I took it upon myself to practice with Logic Pro. I don't even know if what I'm doing is right. So far, I have these two tracks:

I'M NOT YOUR TOY by La Roux

Tempo's off in this one. It was meant to be a raw-ish vocals + guitar track (as made evident by the shitty tem- oh wait, my tempo's always shit). But things happened and I ended up having too much fun.

I DON'T WANNA MISS A THING by Aerosmith

This was initially supposed to be another auto-tune adventure (much like the Banana song), but it seemed too sincere of a song to auto-tune. Does that make sense? I didn't want to "taint" the song with my stupidity. I'm not implying that auto-tuned tracks are stupid, it's more of... the act of me auto-tuning things means I don't take certain songs seriously (POTATO-NA~). But since auto-tuned vocals are cool to some extent, the treatment was used on the back-up vocals.

I figured it'd be easier to practice on covers since the song's already structured a certain way. All you have to worry about is making it your own.

It was fun toying with midi instruments.

AUTO-TUNE ABENCHOORS!

Saw this video months ago:

And I just had to make this

The lyrics aren't spot-on, but hey, I wasn't born a minion.

I've always disliked auto-tune, and I never thought I'd ever use it. But around two years ago, whilst toying with Garageband, I thought it'd be funny to auto-tune my voice and write a song over the drum track that the program automatically inserts and loops for you when you create a new project. Here's a screencap of the post

Curious as to how it sounds like? Click me!

This song is going to undergo some major tuneage tweaks before its rebirth into the interwebs.

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This definitely isn't going to be my last auto-tune abenchoor. Mehehehe.

Huzzah!

Because I need a better platform for blogging, I decided to try this out.

And to celebrate the first post on this blog, here are a few videos I took the other night.

My friend Paul lent me his beanie last week. For some reason, wearing the beanie makes me feel like going out on the streets and singing my heart out and not caring if people walk by thinking I'm an idiot. I've yet to return the beanie to Paul, but I've grown emotionally attached to it, so I might just keep it... forever.

I'm kidding. I have to give it back within this week. I'll just go buy my own or something.

Song 1 - You Really Got a Hold on Me by The Beatles

This is such a fun song to sing. Not to mention the lyrics and melody are nothing short of brilliant.

Song 2 - I Want It That Way by The Backstreet Boys

Are you judging me yet?

Song 3 - Animal by Neon Trees

Song 4 - I Want You Back by The Jackson 5

OHHHH BABY GIVE ME ONE MORE CHAAAAANCE~

Song 5 - Party in the USA by Miley Cyrus

ARE YOU JUDGING ME NOW???

Song 6 - Come Together by The Beatles

I've always wanted to sing this song.

If you watch the videos in order, you'll notice how tired I get after each one hahaha.

Alrighty, that's it for now. Hopefully I'll get to post on this blog more than I do in the other ones. I'm planning to make this my main blog. Tumblr's kind of intimidating. But then again, I get intimidated easily.