A Bit of Sunday Narcissism
Originally posted at Uncreated Conscience.
All I can say is I have no explanation. It started with me complaining on Twitter that I couldn’t figure out what the last chord of the pre-chorus to Lady Gaga’s “Speechless” is. (For the record, I have no idea what its name is, but I play it #F-C-E as the last piece of a pseudo-chromatic downward progression-if that makes no sense, then that’s okay, it doesn’t make sense to me either. I never took music theory and quite literally play everything by ear, so I lack the skills to articulate what I’m talking about.)
You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com
It ended with someone convincing me they wanted to hear what I sounded like. So there it is. That’s what I sound like when I’m singing in a key that’s lower than comfortable (too guttural) and playing a non-USB digital piano with the world’s clickiest sustain pedal. Digital pianos make really loud sounds! (Meaning this was recorded using my MacBook’s less-than-ideal built-in-microphone and run through Garageband’s “Live Performance” filter. Ha!)
Anyone else out there have Garageband? Did you know you can turn a woman’s voice into a man’s? BECAUSE YOU CAN AND IT’S THE AWESOMEST THING EVER. I recorded myself singing “Das Licht Des Himmels” a cappella (excuse the bad German and the mistakes).
Now I’m a girl…
…now I’m kind of a sexy man.
It may only work because I’m singing the original in a very high key (but this is where I’m the most comfortable singing-head voice) because I tried to turn my cover of “Speechless” into that of a man but it didn’t sound as good.
But it’s totally uncanny, no?