---- Steemit Open Mic Week 104 – Cope Cover – Sara Bareilles - Gravity ----
Heya guys, first up a big happy birthday to steemit open mic !!!!! congrats on rocking the big 2 yrs old !!!!!! much love :)
Happy 2nd Birthday
ok so about a month ago while i was rocking it out on Copes Corner Pirate Radio over on MSP i played a track by Sara Bareilles called "Gravity". The audience members and myself started getting into a bit of a chat about the track and the video clip being i one shot clip, i have a "thing" for one shot clips because you have to get everything right in one go... this pleases my ocd, lol.
After some back and forth there was some discussion on if i should cover this track for an open mic entry, ankapolo & staceyjean were super supportive and encouraging, so it was decided that i would "Just do it!!!"
Just Do It!!!
After a couple of weeks very on and off of practice i managed to put it together and demo it on another show on MSP, it seemed to go down well enough so it seemed that it was polished enough to record... but my health issues had other ideas, maybe i should have recorded that first performance, lolz. Anyways, i managed to get a recording in this week, bit rough round the edges but gave it what i could at the time :)
I think that one of the most difficult things im finding with recording like this is the balance between how the audio is picked up on the recording. It may not seem like it, but what im doing in the the verses is almost whispered and the chorus is pretty much yelled. Where I position myself in reference to the mic is a factor im still learning to contend with in my current set up, but im having fun learning bout optimizing recordings with what i got even if it can be challenging at times.
So... after all that , lolz. This is the tale of how it came to be that my steemit open mic entry for week 104 is a cover of Sara Bareilles - Gravity, I dedicate this track to @ankapolo and @staceyjean for being awesome steemians and great mates :) much love and copious hugs in your direction guys :)
Lyrics are down below and again HAPPY 2ND BIRTHDAY STEEMIT OPEN MIC !!!!!!!!!
Gravity
Sara Bareilles
Something always brings me back to you
It never takes too long
No matter what I say or do
I'll still feel you here 'till the moment I'm gone
You hold me without touch
You keep me without chains
I never wanted anything so much than to drown in your love
And not feel your reign
Set me free, leave me be
I don't want to fall another moment into your gravity
Here I am, and I stand
So tall, just the way I'm supposed to be
But you're on to me and all over me
Oh, you loved me 'cause I'm fragile
When I thought that I was strong
But you touch me for a little while
And all my fragile strength is gone
Set me free, leave me be
I don't want to fall another moment into your gravity
Here I am, and I stand
So tall, just the way I'm supposed to be
But you're on to me and all over me
I live here on my knees as I try to make you see
That you're everything I think I need here on the ground
But you're neither friend nor foe though I can't seem to let you go
The one thing that I still know is that you're keeping me down
You're keeping me down, eh ooh
You're on to me, on to me, and all over
Something always brings me back to you
It never takes too long...
gives cope cookie pretty song!
noms cookie and returns the favor. much love and copious hugs :)
Nice rendition, brother!
thanks heaps mate , much love and copious hugs in your direction :)
That was a really cool tune... great selection ;9)
thank you , but the selection was all thanks to ankapolo and staceyjean as requested on my Copes Corner Pirate Radio show :)
That was just beautiful, beautiful vocals and powerful delivery mixed with soothing gentleness, I didn't know the song to judge it as rendition but loved what I heard and including it in my forthcoming music and art curation, left a little love there :) ;-) wink!
Thank you for the kind words on my mooziks :) Much love and copious hugs in your direction :) have included the original track below for your listening pleasure :)
aw Cope, it's such an honor to be mentioned along side with such an amazing performance. Honestly I think this is your best!
1:48-1:53 there was a little bit of a middle-eastern note there in your voice. ❤️
@ankapolo Credit where credit is due , you and spacestace suggested i do it and it was the spark which started the creative process:) And thank you for the kudos i dooz my best to put my little heart and soul into each and every one of my performances.
funny thing is i haven't had much contact with that side of my family heritage.... it must be in the genes.... nature vs nurture ;)
Cope that was dooooooooope!!!! Seriously, brilliantly executed. Totes gave me the goosies. Well done 🤗😀💖
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domo arigato for the kudos @staceyjean and many thanks to you for the support on the track selection :) glad you likes it :) much kove and copious hugs in your direction.
so cool, love you mang :)
thanks mang, much love broda !!!!
Just beautiful!...
thanks :)
Terrible two's ..I wondered why the recent attitude, haha...much love mang, you sound great as usual...love hearing you play and getting to watch is even more cool
Tanks mang !!!!! Much love and copious hugs!!!!! when you gonna dooz another open mic entry?
wheels are turning, thinking I might have a good idea if i can work it out
thanks for the encouragement brother :)
all good mang, much love
much more equipped to make it happen in the past two weeks too, so it's gonna help a lot with my new set up and skills
space theme on the green screen !!!!! lolz.
working on the green screen and doing multiple lives tracks on obs so i can play some lead stuff as well, still trying to figure it out
ahh..... fun times..... figuring out stuff can be infuriating , but also incredibly rewarding. Just keep doozing the dooz, take breaks when it gets hard and get back at it when you got the juice :)
ain't that the truth, seems the more difficult it is the more rewarding, I try and remind myself of this while I am struggling...hoping I can work this idea out
trick is to find the balance between challenging enough to be rewarding, but not too much that you end up quitting on it, how it goes for me at least, lolz.
You're awesome
no YOU are !!!!!!!!!! lolz