Project: Queen For A Day

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Project: Queen For A Day 2019-08-31T14:59:07+00:00 Yes, I've totally lost my mind. I know it. I'm going to do a Queen tribute CD. Not covers. Original songs in their style. Brief Background: Been a Queen fan since 1974. So it's 45 years. I know their music inside and out from a "casual listening perspective." However, I've never actually sat down and analyzed their songs in depth from a technical perspective, which I'm going to have to do if I'm going to have any chance of pulling this off. Essentially, I've identified 3 main things that make the Queen sound. 1. Freddy Mercury 2. The Background Vocals 3. Brian May's Guitar Obviously, I can't sing like Freddy Mercury. Hell, I can't even sing like Freddy Krueger. So I'm not even going to attempt to mimic him. Maybe I can hire Marc Martel. The guitar I can at least make a fairly decent recreation having just gotten Amplitude Brian May. It actually sounds very good. But that's just the start. I'm going to have to study his guitar parts in depth to see what he's doing. Fortunately, with virtual guitars, performance won't be an issue as long as I can discipline myself to program these things a note at a time if I have to. This will be a lot of work. As for the background vocals, I've already started to do some extensive research on how they got that Queen sound. It is more involved than you can imagine, including numerous overdubs and very specific ways in how the vocal parts were even recorded. How they ever did anything live is beyond me. Anyway, that's about it. Am I missing something or are those 3 things pretty much the key to their sound? Any tips you can give me, aside from telling me I'm out of my mind and should abandon all hope for pulling this off, are welcome. Musically, I know I have the skills to write like Queen. Whether or not I can make a presentation that will do any of these songs justice, well, that's something else entirely. Even I have some serious doubts about doing this. But, I'm going to try. I know what's coming, so fire away. I've developed a very tough skin over the past few months. wagtunes https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=339303

Karbon L. Forms Karbon L. Forms https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=29033: KVRian; 1372 posts since 10 Jun, 2004 from Inverness, Scotland

Post by Karbon L. Forms » Sun Oct 06, 2019 6:02 pm

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The needle returns to the start of the song
And we all sing along like before
And we'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow...

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"Hell is other People" J.P.Sartre
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