Song of the Week Week, Part Five

[Song of the Week is a "weekly" feature which is supposed to update every Thursday Friday, but almost never does. In it, Drew records a song, or attempts to record a song, or gives up and writes another movie review.]

So what I'm thinking is, I'm about 7 or eight weeks behind on SotW. And I need an impetus (if that means what I think it means) to do a post every day again, which various factors have been keeping me from doing. So hey, I thinks, I'll just do a Song a day for a week and kill two birds with one incredibly time-consuming stone. I have no idea if I'll actually follow through, but here's part five (of seven, obviously).

"Don't Stop Believing*":


Since I just did a "sensitive" cover of a rapcore song, I thought I'd turn things around and go with its spiritual opposite (its exact opposite is a yodel version of Muzak, oddly enough): the indie-rock cover of a cheesy pop song. As with before, they can be serious, joking, or possibly both, but unlike last time, I'm too tired to find examples. This is like my fifth song attempt today**.

Anyway, Journey turned hardcore punk. Uh, the trick is to just do whatever. I just took four of the chords and played them the whole time (E5, B5, C5, and A, if you like to play along at home). Originally I actually used the solo, but it sounded bad and I took it out. Which is unfortunate, because it's actually my favorite part of a song I'm otherwise ambivalent about.

*Note that I spell it with a "g". Journey does not.
**In case you're wondering, one of them is half-finished and might serve as a future SotW, one was badly recorded (and kind of tuneless) and was deleted, two were different attempts at this song (one was in a different style, and the other was the same idea, but with the guitar and vocals recorded separately. I couldn't get it to sound right so I did them both at the same time). The last one I actually finished, and still might post later, probably as a bonus song for part seven this week. Don't get your hopes up, though, because it's crap.

Also, here's a list of the most-commonly used words in this blog. I think it's a little skewed because it's only showing recent posts, but I'm guessing the biggest ones ("song" and "one-- which a just used twice in on-a single sentence)

Click here to see Part One
Click here to see Part Two
Click here to see Part Three
Click here to see Part Four

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