Philipraposo1982
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Hi Everyone,
Scenario: I hear a song online / on the radio, I don't know the name of it, can't find anything about the song (no tabs, sheet music, no chords, nothing!). All I have is the audio recording that I can play over and over.
How would you go about creating your own cover instrumental of this song? What steps would you take and in what order?
My goal is to be able to do this and would like to know how to get started.
My own thoughts on this is:
1. Focus on the melody, playing it and recording either tab or writing sheet music for the melody.
2. I would think the next step is figure out the chords to this song. This is where I begin to stumble. Do i need to figure out the key of the song first?! So i can then find the chords in the key and see which ones fit?
3. Once i figure out the chords I would then try and play the melody and build chords around it (chord melody style).
4. From here I begin to add filler notes and ghost notes ect. to add some depth and interest to the piece.
5. add flare and style with slides, hammer ones and pull offs and other techniques.
6. fit in dynamics (loud and soft playing to emphasize parts of the song) and add tension
Does this sound like a decent start? what am I missing? how do you figure out the chords to a song or the key of which the song is in? which is first?
Any help would be incredible.
Thanks
Scenario: I hear a song online / on the radio, I don't know the name of it, can't find anything about the song (no tabs, sheet music, no chords, nothing!). All I have is the audio recording that I can play over and over.
How would you go about creating your own cover instrumental of this song? What steps would you take and in what order?
My goal is to be able to do this and would like to know how to get started.
My own thoughts on this is:
1. Focus on the melody, playing it and recording either tab or writing sheet music for the melody.
2. I would think the next step is figure out the chords to this song. This is where I begin to stumble. Do i need to figure out the key of the song first?! So i can then find the chords in the key and see which ones fit?
3. Once i figure out the chords I would then try and play the melody and build chords around it (chord melody style).
4. From here I begin to add filler notes and ghost notes ect. to add some depth and interest to the piece.
5. add flare and style with slides, hammer ones and pull offs and other techniques.
6. fit in dynamics (loud and soft playing to emphasize parts of the song) and add tension
Does this sound like a decent start? what am I missing? how do you figure out the chords to a song or the key of which the song is in? which is first?
Any help would be incredible.
Thanks
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