I love these Cory Wong covers @Al1885. This was great! Ever since your last one, the striped album has been on regular rotation for me. You make it look fun. I might have to give one of these tunes a go sometime…
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I’ll just throw it out there that you don’t need to make a video to do a cover. I have no interest in that, and for my bandmate and I it isn’t practical at all anyway; I just use WinAmp visualizations for the video part of my covers 
You can also just use an image.
And I totally get the hesitation people have around not thinking they are good enough; we all have that. One of the most valuable and exciting parts of this thread is the feeling you get from taking a chance and throwing it out there for people to see, and the reaction from the folks here. You’ve got a real friendly audience here.
Technology wise - I get that. You really do want a computer to be able to do this, mobile-only would be a struggle (but is possible!). Not sure what to suggest there. And there simply is a minimum amount of software you need to learn to do this. You have to be able to record yourself and have a backing track. But beyond that, it’s all refinements really; you can skip them.
Posting covers here has been one of the most rewarding parts of the forum for me, and I am reminded it’s been a while since I did one. I have a song I am working on now but it’s going to take a while.
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Hey thanks @dlamson13
I have a few songs I’m going to be adding on to the set lists. As many of our audiences are musicians they love this. It taxes the keyboard player a bit as he has to do the piano and horns.
My next on the list is meditation. I’m gonna try to chef it up a bit, lol.
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My progress grew rapidly when I started posting covers here. Lots of constructive feedback and and even more than that was just the positivity.
And as far as recording equipment goes… I think my first several covers were just done with my phone. Point it at myself, hit record, played along to the song and posted it.
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Sounds so good Al!
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I had planned on figuring out how to record today, but got distracted by writing. Will try again tomorrow
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So lets say I have a laptop with Windows would it be possible to download something to record on on that @Barney ?
I did a cover ( maybe a couple) a good while ago but couldn’t remove the original bass from it which definitely was a downer.
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Hi @Mac it’s Sunday morning here and I’ve just got up. Let me grab a coffee and I’ll make you a quick online guide including pictures on how I remove (for free) the bass line from tracks for my covers. Give me half an hour 
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yup…
here’s how…
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Here you go @Mac. For removing the bass from the track I want to cover I use a free online website called Moises.ai
You have to create a free account with Moises (i.e. signup) and it gives you 5 free track separations per month. If you’re doing less than 5 covers a month, you’re good.
It works by listening to the track and then using some clever software that’s smarter than me, it separates out the tracks into vocals, drums, bass and other.
So first off create an account and login. It should take you to the library page. Click on the blue Upload button.
Click on the Separate track icon
Then click on this box with the dotted line round it to open up your file directory. I can’t remember how Windows does it, but navigate to where you store your music within Windows File Explorer and select the MP3 file you want to use.
Once you’ve selected your file it should appear in the box in green text. Click on the blue Next button.
It should default to the 4 track box at the top. If not select it and it turns white. Click on the blue Submit button
It should taker you back to the library page. Select the track you want to work with
You have a series of sliders (white dots) that you can can drag to increase or decrease the volume of each track. Start by dragging the bass track down by -10dB. Then have a listen. If it’s removed enough of the bass you can then upload that track as a new mix.
Click on the blue Download button; a drop down menu appears and click Export Mix
Moises will then generate a new track and save it to you wherever Windows saves downloads. You need to rename that file with something like ‘song title minus 10db’. This make it easier later when you’re starting to record as you’ll know which is the original music file and the amended one.
That’s it. You now have a track with the bass removed.
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Fantastic job @Al1885
Cory Wong, for me, is one of those guys I really love but don’t listen to, just can’t get into him on a regular listening basis, must be all that jam band stuff.
Love the camera angle, makes it look like you have a 72" scale collection.
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@JerryP - aside from your playing, your ability to get a perfect tone for any situation out of any of your basses has gotten crazy good. They need your ear in a recording studio!
Just fantastic man!
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That’s so true, it’s the first thing I love about @JerryP covers. You have got great ears. You too @John_E, I can feel the hours behind the scenes in each and every song.
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Lol, yeah it’s the byproduct of the ultrawide lense on the Q8N, I’m sitting 2 feet away and I’m inside the frame, it’s remarkable. If I use a normal camera I’d get my torso and anything from the 10th fret to the neck pocket, lol.
I like how Cory does all of his recording except for the feature guests that sending files via the interwebs, he records them live. That’s just super awesome, of course I think he fixes a few notes in the post but still a massive task.
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It’s so easy! Get yourself a DAI like this one
https://focusrite.com/en/audio-interface/scarlett/scarlett-solo
Plug it into your computer, open up GarageBand, ableton, reaper, etc. Plug in your bass and start playing! Use Moises.ai to separate your tracks, it’s a breeze!
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Spent the last few days learning this one. Unfortunately I wasn’t filming when I recorded this as I wasn’t really expecting to get such a good take on my third full play through. Timing just a little off here and there but I thought it was pretty good. This may complete my STP journey for the time being, I am feeling like trying some stuff from genres I don’t usually play or listen to just to change things up. I will say that the bridge in this song is perhaps the most enjoyable few bars of music I have learned so far. It just sounds so cool to me and is so fun to play.
A few notes about this song which you will see in the tabs. First, during the main riff, DeLeo seems to play double notes at random throughout the song. There doesn’t seem to be much of a pattern to it so you kind of just have to feel out when those double notes are played as it’s tough to keep track of while playing. Also, the third time you play through the chorus, every D played on the A string actually sounds to me like D down an octave, except the song is in standard tuning so I don’t see how you could access a lower D other than 10th fret of the E string, but the change in pitch isn’t that significant. What he may be doing here is playing a chord, possibly D & open E, but I couldn’t tell exactly so for the sake of simplicity I transcribed the notes all the same.
Anyway, here’s my cover
Stone Temple Pilots - Sex Type Thing
https://audio.jukehost.co.uk/ZcN0kmCBZVGTkw5Mzj7yVbtNDm0OFEOE
Tabs (sorry, took three screenshots to get this one)
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@Barney you have to let me know where you got that stingray. I have been looking for that colour at long and mcquade but they no longer sell these.
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