hey chris liepe here with a one-take cover of since i've been loving you by led zeppelin
performed with the original led zeppelin band behind me and robert plant's vocals
removed which is super fun to do i hope you enjoy it there's a lot of challenges that are present
when you set out to do a one-take cover of a song like this so stay tuned after the cover and i'm
gonna discuss my preparation my practicing and my overall approach to tackling a song like this and
doing it in one take if you like what you hear and you like my unconventional approach to the voice
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i've been working from seven
to eleven every
it night makes a life a dread
i don't think that's right
i've really the best of
love you fools
but baby since i've been loving you
i'm about to lose
everybody trying to tell me
let me tell you let me tell you i really didn't be so good
right
watch out
sit up and cry
and all my tears it felt like rain
don't you hear them
do you remember mama what enough to ponder
you know i must have one of them newfangled newfangled baptism man
i've been working from seven seven seven to eleven every night when it really makes a life
that's right
my
just
since i've been loving
your mind
the main thing that i had to focus on going into this song was vocal budgeting
i know knew what i wanted it to sound like i knew what i was capable of i know what my
voice is capable of in the studio setting and i know what my voice is capable of in
a live or karaoke setting this was much more akin to a karaoke setting or a live setting
because i was planning on doing it all in one take even though i was in my studio
so i have to come to terms with the fact that i know how my voice feels going in to my performance
and keep a special part of my mind on how my voice is behaving
so that i can let my voice lead me into the next section or the next challenging part i need to be
able to save energy in certain places so i can really wail in other places and when you listen
to robert plant live he does the same thing if you listen to my performance you can absolutely hear
those sorts of things happening how do you prepare to sing a song like this typically
what we tend to do when we're getting ready to record a song is we'll practice it all the way
through a bunch of times after all i'm singing it all the way through that's my my goal in the
in the performance so i should just do it three or four times as a warm-up and then go no
that's not what you should do that's not what i did here and when i do the whole singing a
bunch of times all the way through i am totally out of gas by the time i am ready to do a real
take the take that you heard me do was the first take i had sung for the day what i did instead of
plowing through it a bunch of times is on other days and i've known this song for a long time i i
practiced it when my voice after i warming up when i got to the point where my voice was fresh i'd
practice it i'm practicing it all the way through i practice it singing it all the way through on
mic sometimes i'm practicing all the way through not on mic really spaced out over many many days
then on the day that i went to record i turned the track on and i got stuff set up in the studio
and i mumbled over the track i might walk up to the mic and sing part of the verse and then i'd
come over to the desk again and then i'd return some emails and then i'd grab a drink and then i'd
walk to the mic put my headphones on and squeal out part of the i don't know part of the song
i just let it loop and i and i kind of warmed up did some sirens over it did all sorts of
crazy things with my voice while the track was going i let it loop six times or so and then
took a break having not sung the song all the way through once that day took a break went ate lunch
took a walk came down hit record stepped up to the mic and went and that's the take that you
hear if i would have gotten inside my own head and started focusing on on all of the the nuances that
i wanted to do that day i would have burned my voice out and i would have been able to do it so i
hope that this has been entertaining and informing for you in terms of how to approach tough songs
when you want to perform them not just when you're wanting to create a great studio performance but
when you're wanting to really perform them then to shed some light on on how to get there for you
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