EPTSS Round 17
Assignment
Record your cover of this round's song and submit your recording.
Subject
- title
- Such Great Heights
- artist
- The Postal Service
- createdAt
- Feb 8, 2023, 8:00 AM
- selection
- {"signups":[{"count":1,"title":"My Ego Dies at the End","artist":"Jensen McRae"},{"count":1,"title":"Sugar, We're Goin Down","artist":"Fall Out Boy"},{"count":1,"title":"Lovely Day","artist":"Bill Withers"},{"count":1,"title":"Anything But Me","artist":"MUNA"},{"count":1,"title":"Such Great Heights","artist":"The Postal Service"},{"count":1,"title":"Bridge Over Troubled Water","artist":"Simon & Garfunkel"},{"count":1,"title":"Dramamine ","artist":"Modest Mouse"},{"count":1,"title":"Gold and Green","artist":"Slaughter Beach, Dog"},{"count":1,"title":"Under the Bridge","artist":"Red Hot Chilli Peppers"},{"count":1,"title":"You Lose!","artist":"Magdalena Bay"},{"count":1,"title":"Crave You","artist":"Flight Facilities "},{"count":1,"title":"In Dreams","artist":"Roy Orbison"},{"count":1,"title":"Bad Habits","artist":"Ed Sheeran"},{"count":1,"title":"My generation","artist":"The Who"},{"count":1,"title":"Electric Love","artist":"BORNS"},{"count":1,"title":"Boys of Summer","artist":"Don Henley"},{"count":1,"title":"Rock With You","artist":"Michael Jackson"},{"count":1,"title":"Cold","artist":"Crossfade"},{"count":1,"title":"Heart to heart","artist":"Mac demarco"}],"voteResults":[{"count":17,"title":"Such Great Heights","total":60,"artist":"The Postal Service"},{"count":17,"title":"Dramamine ","total":57,"artist":"Modest Mouse"},{"count":17,"title":"Boys of Summer","total":55,"artist":"Don Henley"},{"count":17,"title":"Lovely Day","total":54,"artist":"Bill Withers"},{"count":17,"title":"Rock With You","total":53,"artist":"Michael Jackson"},{"count":17,"title":"Sugar, We're Goin Down","total":53,"artist":"Fall Out Boy"},{"count":17,"title":"Anything But Me","total":53,"artist":"MUNA"},{"count":17,"title":"Electric Love","total":53,"artist":"BORNS"},{"count":17,"title":"My generation","total":52,"artist":"The Who"},{"count":17,"title":"Under the Bridge","total":51,"artist":"Red Hot Chilli Peppers"},{"count":17,"title":"Bad Habits","total":49,"artist":"Ed Sheeran"},{"count":17,"title":"My Ego Dies at the End","total":47,"artist":"Jensen McRae"},{"count":17,"title":"Heart to heart","total":46,"artist":"Mac demarco"},{"count":17,"title":"Gold and Green","total":46,"artist":"Slaughter Beach, Dog"},{"count":17,"title":"Crave You","total":45,"artist":"Flight Facilities "},{"count":17,"title":"You Lose!","total":44,"artist":"Magdalena Bay"},{"count":17,"title":"In Dreams","total":44,"artist":"Roy Orbison"},{"count":17,"title":"Bridge Over Troubled Water","total":40,"artist":"Simon & Garfunkel"},{"count":17,"title":"Cold","total":38,"artist":"Crossfade"}]}
Timeline
- createdFeb 8, 2023
- signup-opensFeb 8, 2023, 8:00 AM (passed)
- voting-opensFeb 28, 2023, 8:00 AM (passed)
- covering-beginsMar 7, 2023, 2:00 AM (passed)
- submission-deadlineApr 11, 2023, 7:00 AM (passed)
- closing-eventApr 26, 2023, 7:00 AM (passed)
- now — closed
- createdFeb 8, 2023
- signup-opensFeb 8, 2023, 8:00 AM (passed)
- voting-opensFeb 28, 2023, 8:00 AM (passed)
- covering-beginsMar 7, 2023, 2:00 AM (passed)
- submission-deadlineApr 11, 2023, 7:00 AM (passed)
- closing-eventApr 26, 2023, 7:00 AM (passed)
- now — closed
Anyone can sign up — no invitation needed.
Closing event
- playlistUrl
- https://soundcloud.com/nate-spilman/sets/everyone-plays-the-926695462
Accepted submission types
- fm.plyr.track
Signups (0)
Submissions (13)
- @natespilman.at
{"coolThingsLearned":"Finally understand reverse reverb tails ","toolsUsed":"Ableton Live, Serum for bass, voice!","happyAccidents":"","didntWork":""}
- @everyoneplaysthesamesong.com
{"coolThingsLearned":"","toolsUsed":"Guitar, Focusrite 212, GarageBand ","happyAccidents":"","didntWork":"I tried to transpose the song into an easier key to sing in, but my knowledge of theory is very poor"}
- @everyoneplaysthesamesong.com
{"coolThingsLearned":"","toolsUsed":"ableton","happyAccidents":"","didntWork":""}
- @everyoneplaysthesamesong.com
{"coolThingsLearned":"Bought Altarboy! ....aaand then didn't really use it! Did set up sound paneling in my closet to create a \\"studio\\" though, so hurray for the motivation.","toolsUsed":"Logic, Soundcloud, midi keyboard, mic. Lots of samples. Oh! And I borrowed a friend to play the closing section. ","happyAccidents":"I kept the Altarboy vocal line (\\"oohs\\") in the middle of the track. It's from me singing directly into my laptop for the demo - but I kept it because I liked the warmth.","didntWork":"So many vocal takes. Struggled to know approach - really soft? Try and belt it? I ended up just stacking vocals and throwing them together for a stronger combined sound,."}
- @everyoneplaysthesamesong.com
{"coolThingsLearned":"A lot of things were new to me. First \\"real\\" song production","toolsUsed":"Reaper, laptop, SM57 and a breast milk collector","happyAccidents":"I could not play guitar/bass because of an injury, So, I went a really different way than what I wanted first,","didntWork":"Using growls. They didn't really fit with the vibe"}
- @everyoneplaysthesamesong.com
{"coolThingsLearned":"Finally understand reverse reverb tails ","toolsUsed":"Ableton Live, Serum for bass, voice!","happyAccidents":"","didntWork":""}
- @everyoneplaysthesamesong.com
{"coolThingsLearned":"Izotope Neutron / Ozone do a pretty decent job of mixing and mastering, but can't fix player issues ;)","toolsUsed":"Ableton 11, Archetype: Cory Wong VST, Izotope Neuron / Ozone 4, and a Gretsch G5420T","happyAccidents":"The arrangement was too boring at the original tempo (~120bpm), but playing it faster also made it more interesting...","didntWork":"I wanted more instruments, but couldn't make them fit anywhere :("}
- @everyoneplaysthesamesong.com
{"coolThingsLearned":"","toolsUsed":"Guitar! And voice!","happyAccidents":"I did a few takes and then decided to improv a lot of the vocals in this one and it was more fun and sounded more natural!","didntWork":""}
- @everyoneplaysthesamesong.com
{"coolThingsLearned":"","toolsUsed":"Voice memo app on iPhone","happyAccidents":"","didntWork":""}
- @everyoneplaysthesamesong.com
{"coolThingsLearned":"I like my voice the most when I don't try to sing like \\"myself\\". That's concerning...","toolsUsed":"Ableton, guitar, bass, keyboard","happyAccidents":"I originally recorded the crowd vocals as just additional backup vocals, but I ended up liking the sound on its own so I ended up making this a \\"live\\" version!","didntWork":"I knew I wanted horns, but didn't have a way of recording them. I chopped up a lot of horn samples to make the different parts, and while it sounds decent, real (reel) horns would have helped a ton."}
- @everyoneplaysthesamesong.com
{"coolThingsLearned":"Literal baby steps in arranging music, finding sounds, putting notes down. ","toolsUsed":"Garageband, Voloco for vocals","happyAccidents":"Lots of fun sounds! ","didntWork":"Vocals, lol. "}
- @everyoneplaysthesamesong.com
{"coolThingsLearned":"Initally started in audacity and ended up scrapping that version and learning Ableton as well as how to VST plugins to work with Ableton","toolsUsed":"Guitar; Focusrite Scarlett interface; Audacity; Ableton; Guitar Rig Pro","happyAccidents":"","didntWork":"Couldn't get the intro to sound the way I exactly wanted (ran out of tracks in Ableton and couldn't get it to sound quite right). Tried recording in audacity while playing different parts on the guitar (including drums) and it was too difficult to sync everything. Drums aren't quite right - particuliarly the reversed snare."}
- @everyoneplaysthesamesong.com
{"coolThingsLearned":"This is my finest creation","toolsUsed":"Logic quicksampler, a purchased copy of \\"Such Great Heights\\" from TPS bandcamp for $1, kick and snare drums","happyAccidents":"Hmmm","didntWork":"I couldn't think of a way to do this song with its original lyrics."}