This song comes off a little jokey, but it’s actually really sincere. This has been one of my biggest fears for almost as long as I’ve been married.

Also, not including The Bad Felt, this is the first song I’ve recorded guitars for since May! What?!?

Between the holiday on Monday and jury duty on Wednesday, this has been a really short and weird week for me. I almost forgot I needed to start a song yesterday. Also, as the song explains, it’s been really hot here the last few days.
This ended up a lot closer to last week’s song than I expected to do any time soon. It’s all original music and vocals, but still pretty similar on a couple levels.

As some of you already know, I flew down to California last weekend and attended my grandfather’s funeral on Tuesday. This is kind of a sound collage, combining the Hail Mary prayer from the rosary service, Ave Maria from the funeral, and Taps from the burial. I wish I could have actually recorded the priest reciting the Hail Mary. He had a big, dramatic voice. I could only find one usable recitation on youtube, which I then looped and distorted. I found sheet music for Ave Maria and Taps, then transposed them to the same key and programmed them in FL Studio. This is pretty different from anything I’ve done before… hopefully I’ll bring the rock again next week.

This song also marks the halfway point for the Song a Week project. It’s going by pretty quick, and I’ve actually managed to stay on top of it while still working on other music projects. I guess Virb is going to stop being a free service soon, so I’ll have to find somewhere else that will let me embed music here for free. Any suggestions?

Last week’s remix was pretty much what I expected to do when I decided to do a remix for the contest. This week’s was a last minute decision. When I got all the files for the remix, they included samples of Kristen Wiig beatboxing, making noises, and saying different things. I figured there was no point letting all those samples go to waste, and put together an a capella remix.

This is a remix of the song Champion by Kristen Wiig, from the movie MacGruber for a remix contest on Stereogum. I made this version using three different 8-bit VSTs in FL Studio, and also did another version which I will post next week. Big thanks to Matt Talbot of the Honorable Mentions for figuring out the tempo and chord progression, and for sending me the wav files for the remix. Speaking of whom… the Honorable Mentions did their own remix of the song as well.