Steemit Open Mic Week 73 - Close to You

Hi! Here I am again with another classic for this week's #openmic.

I started loving all the classics when I started to sing for weddings. This one is from The Carpenters titled 'Close to You'. This is a song that you can hear in most of weddings and gigs. It has become one of the standards and even first on every setlist. One very catchy and memorable tune. It also has a very sweet lyrics. That's why I love this a lot. Never missed out a chance to do this in every gig.😃

This has to happen first before we start any of our recordings. 😆 These two have been trained to sleep in noise since the day they were born. LOL. It's either my tv series sound or us recording or even the voice of Daddy's friends playing board games.

After learning that our memories often fail us, we decided to do some simple draft to make sure we don't screw up too many times (of course we still did! haha). If you noticed, we decided to include some chord changes in the chorus, a borrowed chord. There's also a rhythm change towards the end, which usually people tend to slot in the climax at the middle of the song but not at the very end. We really played around with the ending which ended up with playing/singing unison and also an​ attack.

If you don't know what this is, this is a breast pump. 😂 Between our many many takes, I have to slot in time to do my now fulltime job. I am one of those breastfeeding crazy mom and it's not making my life any easier. 😪

So finally after all the sidetracking​ and repeating, we finally got our video done! And it's 1am in the morning. Yawn. Still need to get up early to send my son to school in the morning. So hope you enjoy this song!