Alizée Sings The Blues

[lilly]

wow lefty!! Can I know what you used to make this remix!?

[Tomtentp]

Originally Posted by heyamigo

wow i didn't know this can be done. it's crazy. well done too. great job!

He said it.

Originally Posted by Piblokto

Incroyable !
Try to find a way to send her this remix. She's got to listen to it !

Couldn't agree more.

How the hell did you do it? It's amazing!
I will treat this one as an official remake.

[lefty12357]

Originally Posted by lilly

wow lefty!! Can I know what you used to make this remix!?

I used Sonar 7 Producers Edition software. It's what I use to do all my recording and is the heart of my home studio. Here's a screen shot of the track view of this particular song.



I started out by writing a rather standard blues song that would match close enough to Fifty Sixty in certain structural ways. I then recorded each part one at a time, putting in the piano, organ, drums, guitars etc. I never use prerecorded loops because, as a musician, it's important to me that I write and play everything myself.

Once the music was complete, I took Alizée's a cappella vocal that I downloaded from Myspace, and cut it into separate clips for verses, chorus, etc. and imported them into the appropriate locations in the song. Using the tools in Sonar, I shifted the time and pitch of her vocal to match the melody and timing of the song. Voila! Alizée Sings The Blues! I only wish I had a clean version of her vocal to work with. It would have been much better.

Thanks to everyone for your comments.

[Toc De Mac]

Fricking amazing originality. I wouldn't have thought it possible.

PLEASE send it to Alizée!

[tbailey]

wow!

is that software professionals use?

that's a really great song - easily one of the best if not the best Alizee remixes i've heard

[Nicolas]

WTF!!!! You're the alchemist of the remakes man!! Great Job!! Thanks god I'm back at time to see this!!!

[Ruroshen]

Wow.

Holy crap, sir. This is genius! The first two were great--I would even call the first one spectacular, enough that it gets played more often on my iPod than the official remixes, and I never get tired of hearing it--but this version is positively transcendent.

I genuinely hope she hears this, and it makes her and Jeremy think about what they could do with the next album...because, wow...

[Chommpers]

This is a great remix, I am usually not to big a fan of them, there are very few I like, but this one is really cool, pretty unique to the typical techno like sound most remixes turn out to be.

[RadioactiveMan]

[lefty12357]

I always work hard on my music, but hard work doesn’t necessarily guarantee that people will like it. I don’t know, but for some reason I thought this would be one of those songs that wouldn’t be liked. So I was a bit surprised by the reactions to this song. I sat on it for over a week trying to decide whether to post it here or just delete it. I guess I’m a poor judge of such things and I’m glad I resurrected it from the recycling bin. When you’ve been inside a song for so long it’s hard to know what it looks like from the outside.

As far as Alizée goes, I hope she does hear it someday, but there is a distinct possibility she might not like any of my music and I have resigned myself to accepting that possibility up front. When you look at what she says she likes to listen to, it doesn’t resemble too much the kind of stuff I do. Hopefully, if she hears it, she will at least appreciate my hard work and good intentions.

Thanks again, everyone !