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  1. Zygen
    (Jezz I really need to learn to make decent titles ;p.)
     
    Ahem, so, I did this a couple weeks ago now I believe(i forget exactly how long, but it was the same day I did the "Bats" cover if I remember.) and I finally decided to upload it here, since I had it lying around.
     
    Since this was done on the same day as the "Bats" cover I didn't spend as much time with it as I probably could have, and thus I honestly think it isn't that impressive, and I could have done better, but it wasn't necessarily terrible, so I figured I'd upload it, because afterall, this is a blog just for my cover attempts, both good and bad really.
     
    If you've known me long enough here, you'll actually know that I've done a cover of "Celestia's Ballad" before, and it's on my other Blog somewheres, and on my Soundcloud I believe, but I decided to do another cover, because it's been over a year since that cover, and I'd like to think I'm a much better vocalist then I was then. Plus my mic quality issues are less abundant, and overall things are much cleaner for multiple reasons.
     
    Like I said, not the best I probably could've done, I got a bit lazy on some of the ennuciations, and I still think the last note is kinda dirty, and there are other things scattered around, but it was atleast in my opinion an improvement over the last time I covered this, which is good enough atleast.
     
    Who knows, maybe i'll re-re-cover this sometime, and do it better, I could realistically re-do any of the covers i've done multiple times considering that this is a blog for cover attempts realistically ;p.
     
    Anyways, I'll let you guys listen and analyze and critique, and finish with my rambling.
     
    The recording was done the same as always, in Audacity, using my Blue Snowball mic(which I still think is a bit disappointing as a mic.) and I only edited it by removing the noise. (Well as much as I could without messing things up to much.)
     
    So hopefully you all enjoy!
     
    https://soundcloud.com/zygen/celestias-ballad-cover-7
     
     
    Oh, and after you listen to that, or before if you dare, you can listen to the first time I did this over a year ago, the instrumental isn't in this, and there's a bunch of noise because I didn't know how to audacity back then, but if you'd like to listen for comparative or referential purposes, or just to make fun of me or something, feel free!
     
    https://soundcloud.com/zygen/celestias-ballad-cover-1
     
    Have a great day you guys!
  2. Zygen
    Hey guys! What's up! I finally decided to post this cover, I've been avoiding it partially due to being busy, and partially due to site troubles, but I finally got around to deciding to do it.
     
    I recorded this last Wednesday, because I had like almost 2 hours or so to sing home alone due to my family being out. And I knew essentially when they were returning, making me even more comfortable again.
     
    So I enjoyed my time and sang some stuff, there are some thing I tried to sing and they turned out bleh, mostly because I didn't spend a bunch of time on them, and some I just sung for fun during that time, but during that time I decided I wanted to try and do some kind of cover that I knew I could post, and I also decided to try one of the songs that might normally take a bit more time than others.
     
    So, after some exploring of stuff(Just so you know I tried "This Day Aria" and yeah, that song is difficult, i need a lot of practice to get that one ;p.) and I finally decided on "Bats".
     
    I also realized that Bat's has the exchange throughout between Fluttershy and Applejack, and the way that it transitions I wasn't going to be able to do it quite the same as I normally do songs, where I sing the whole thing through as one recording.
     
    So I actually had to record each part in the song separate, well I could've probably done Rainbow dash and Rarity's together or something, but it was easier not to.
     
    So I had separate recordings for Applejack, Fluttershy, Rarity, Rainbowdash, And the Chanting part.
     
    This is the first time I've ever done any multi track song, usually I just have the instrumental on one track, and my vocals on another, but I had like 5 different vocal tracks this time.
     
    I had a few issues with it at first, but in the end I think it worked out ok.
     
    The most major issue I had was with the chanting, because I kinda messed up the harmonies, and they turned out bad, I tried some artificial harmonies with audacity or something, but that was just bleh. So I gave up on the collective chanting(Partially because I couldn't figure out the different parts, although I suppose I didn't spend a bunch of time on that) so anyways, that's not in there unfortunately, Hopefully you enjoy regardless, maybe I can do this sometime again when I understand how to do that better.
     
    Anyways, I'm going to stop rambling and let you all have what you came here for. Actually one more thing! This recording was done with a different mic setting on my microphone, (Blue snowball) It has less sensitivity I find, so I wanted to see if it would make things sound any better.
     
    Tell me your opinion on that if you have the chance. I thought it was nice because the mic didn't get this loud noise when i got really loud as easy.
     
    Alright, everything else is basically the same, so hopefully you enjoy! Idk if i'd say it's the best I could've done, even with the almost 2 hours I spent recording attempts for this, (I only got like 5 saved recordings for AJ and Flutters, and only like 2-3 for the rest of the parts.) it could've been better, but I'll let others give their opinions.
     
    https://soundcloud.com/zygen/bats-cover-2
     
    Enjoy!(Hopefully)
  3. Zygen
    I already technically uploaded this on a thread, but I wanted to try it here on my blog and see which one people prefer.
     
    (Thread here http://mlpforums.com/topic/108680-zygens-cover-attempts-and-thingys-thread/ )
     
    So, I won't ramble on again (yay) so straight to the point, read the thread if you want to see some of my ramblings, otherwise here ya go!
     
    https://soundcloud.com/zygen/smile-song-cover-4
     
    This is one of two recordings I uploaded, I'm unsure which is my favorite, so try one, or both, and tell me what you think!(Warning, to much exposure to Zygen's singing may lead to unidentified side effects, listener discretion is advised.)
     
    https://soundcloud.com/zygen/smile-song-cover-3
     
    Enjoy! Atleast I hope you do
     
    And feel free to tell me what you think! I know I need a lot of practice, so don't feel bad to let me know!
  4. Zygen
    Hey y'all! So i figured i needed to post something to my blog, and i felt like the best idea was to post some recording of me singing Terribly "Smile smile smile" i did while i was home alone for a little.
     
    I sung like a dozen times, but eventually settled on two different recordings, i couldn't pick between the two, because both have problems in different places, so i just decided i'd post both.
     
    So, without further ado, i shall give you some of my terrible recordings!
     
    https://soundcloud.com/zygen/smile-cover-1
    This one was actually my first recording i did, so i wasn't as warmed up, however it also meant my voice wasn't as tired, so it got better as it goes on mostly. Still has a few mistakes, and quiet in the beginning, but yeah.
     
    https://soundcloud.com/zygen/smile-cover-2
    This one was like one of my later recordings, so i was more warmed up, however i also had my voice tired a little more, and i get tongue tied a few times, but overall its a little more confident and smoother, for the most part.
     
    I couldn't pick which, so i decided to post both, because like i said, both have flaws in different places, and fixed flaws in other places, so i just picked both.
     
    So if you want, tell me which you liked better, or which you listened to before you had to run away to save your eardrums
     
    hope you enjoy! I have another idea i'm thinking of starting on this blog, so i'll see what happens with it. Stay tuned for more!
     
    (This has been a look into the mind of a Zygen! (Or as mel would say, "The voice of zygen") Zygen is not responsible for any damage caused in the reading of this blog, if you experience any issues please consult a doctor immediately.)
     
    Batteries not included.
     
    Edit: by the request of swick I put the cover up onto Fileize for him, and for others who can't view Sound cloud correctly.
     
    Fileize Smile cover 1
    http://www.filz.us/view/4201354e-889/
     
    Fileize smile cover 2
    http://www.filz.us/view/b8c8dff3-169/
     
    Again enjoy!
  5. Zygen
    Alright, so I thought about just posting this in a status update, but I kinda like how the blogs are much more free with the character limit(Well actually I don't think there is a limit on characters in a blog, so quite a bit more free ;p.) and it just looks more formal and stuff, and I had something happen today that was interesting in my opinion, and made me feel good today. And I figured it'd make a fairly decent blog entry, so I was like "Why not? I haven't done a blog on here in a while anyways."
     
    So on with the story shall we?
     
    So today was a Friday school day, usually pretty normal, but good as it's the end of the week.
     
    But today I had a little bit of an interesting thing happen in English class.
     
    So yesterday for English class we were given an assignment that we had the chance to do at home that night, or do the next day in class. I myself did the assignment the night before, simply because I wasn't sure if i'd have time or not to do the assignment as my English teacher has the tendency to turn things into stories and get off track sometimes.(I find the stories interesting in many cases, some are simply history, or background information or something, but they can drag on a while.)
     
    Anyways, the assignment was this poem analyzing assignment, honestly I am not anything amazing with analyzing poems, but I did it regardless well enough i'd hope. We used this format called "TPCASTT" I don't know if anybody else has had teachers use it, but my English this teacher had us use it for two different poems.
     
    So anyways, since I was finished with my assignment, my English teacher asked me to help a student with the assignment.
     
    Now the student who I was helping is one of those students who doesn't really want to do much of any school, and usually would rather cheat or just copy answers, and he kind of expected me to let me do that considering I had finished my work, and I was told to help him.
     
    Now, I'll admit that many times people have asked me this, and I have just kinda gave up, or not said anything, especially if it's someone i'm more well acquainted with. Plus, I'm usually pretty shy and quiet around people I do not know that well, and typically won't say anything and just let them copy.
     
    But today I felt compelled to do something different, and guess what happened?
     
    I said no.
     
    *Surprise*
     
    Lol, but really, I don't usually do that kind of thing honestly, I guess I maybe have a hard time doing so at times, especially if I know the person, but today for some reason, I was determined to say no.
     
    Now, did that mean I simply said no and gave up on him? To have him sit there and do nothing?
     
    Nope, didn't do that either this time. I decided to go all "professor" on him, I say professor because I kind of felt a bit teacher like the way I went about the whole thing.
     
    So instead of "helping" him I helped him. By guiding him through what to do, the real way to help.
     
    At first he just kinda thought it a joke, but after some rejection of him asking to just tell me the answer I kind of got him working.
     
    Then a student sitting next to him asked me for some help, I ended up rejecting what he wanted, for me to just tell him the answer, but he seemed the most willing to accept my help. So I again said mostly what I said to the other guy I was originally assigned to help.
     
    And then after that my teacher asks me if I could take on another person to help(Something along those lines, he is an English teacher, and thus he talks pretty formally, i'm sure you understand what I am saying. I forget his exact words.) regardless I decided to accept. This last student was a girl who again like the other two, would have rather I just tell her the answers, instead of helping her to learn how to find it out, but again, I rejected this idea, and I tried to help her as well.
     
    She was the least willing of all of them to accept my advice and guidance, and after the first few parts of the assignment she just kinda gave up.
     
    Another student asked me for "help" again, but I rejected her idea of help, and she rejected my guidance.
     
    So she isn't really important to the story, the other girl stayed around for a little bit, and I feel I may have got through to her slightly, but I feel like she was much more concerned with just copying, because she would try to copy from guy who was the most willing to learn how to do it himself.
     
    So eventually she just kinda left.
     
    I focused on the two guys left, mainly on the 2nd one who was most willing to learn how to properly do this. I kind of felt like a teacher, because I kept encouraging him to think and explain himself, instead of telling him what to do, I think being in counseling oddly enough kind of helped with this, even if counseling had nothing to do with this really, because my counselor would often ask me to explain myself, instead of letting me be vague.
     
    The other guy kind of thought for himself, but eventually he was mostly just copying. And then I think he started guessing.
     
    So I focused my attention on the one guy who seemed to be atleast listening and trying to figure out the poem for himself(especially important considering how poems are alot about interpretation anyways.)
     
    And through my teacher like attitude of helping by explaining the process and helping to encourage and guide thinking, he was actually getting through things, which I thought was pretty good considering that he probably would have rather just copy the answers. He came up with all the answers on his own, with only some input from me guiding him.
     
    And while he wasn't able to finish the entire assignment that day, our teacher let everyone finish it for homework, and since I had guided him through most of it, I think he atleast learned somewhat how to do the poem analysis.
     
    I don't know for sure how much of it he took to heart, and how much he thought I was just being nerdy and a jerk by not helping him, I don't know how much he laughed about the whole thing, or if he actually learned from the experience. I even mentioned while rejecting having the girl copy my answers that copying the answers would only get her so far(I know, kind of cliche, but it's true.)
     
    And so I feel that through actually attempting to help for once, instead of letting them copy, I feel like I atleast got through to them to some degree, to maybe help them not to just copy their way through school.
     
    Regardless, I felt quite accomplished actually, and I felt like I did a pretty good job of being a sort of teacher in a sense. It was actually quite enjoyable to see that I actually was making progress with teaching and explaining the process to him.
     
    So yeah, today was a pretty nice day, simply because that made me feel accomplished.
     
    Was I being to much of a nerd? Should I have just given up and let them copy? Should I have not bothered to try and help change their ways? Idk really. I don't know for sure how effective it is, infact, I doubt that any of them will never cheat or copy again just because some kid in their grade told them it wouldn't pay off, but i'd like to think that the effort maybe helped them atleast consider it, maybe I even helped to some extent, and I think that's what counts.
     
    So yeah, sorry for being a bit rambled and long winded, I do that a lot, especially writing stuff.
     
    Hopefully this was atleast somewhat intriguing to you all, so tell me what your thoughts are on the whole thing if you get a chance. Did I do the right thing? Or was it a simple waste of my time?
     
    That's all for now, You can get out of my mind now ;p.
  6. Zygen
    Hey y'all! I just started this blog! And I decided to kick it off with a little something, and since I did some cover stuff for a little bit while I was home alone earlier, I got a few tries at "Pinkie's Lament" and while I didn't get a cover I felt was satisfactory enough for my main blog, I got some ok ones.
     
    This one is one of the covers(It says cover 4, but that's the file name, I had some issues with that, so I'm not actually sure I remember how many times I tried this, 4 might be around there. I only have like 2 decent recordings, maybe a third if I decide to upload it.)
     
    Anyways, this is "Pinkie's Lament" I think this is overall the best of the two, although I may upload the other one for comparison sometime. This one I feel does better overall though.
     
    Of course, there is still plenty of mistakes, maybe some I'm not even aware of as someone who is still very much learning to sing, but regardless I imagine you knew that considering the title of this blog ;p.
     
    Here it is!
     
    https://soundcloud.com/zygen/pinkies-lament-cover-4
     
     
     
    One thing I should note, is that I make a bunch of mistakes towards the end, with forgetting the lyrics, and I get off key in the last little section for a bit, for some reason I couldn't remember the notes on that part or something. I was doing this along to the instrumental, so I didn't have Pinkie to go off of anyways. But I felt this was the better way to go about it, even if I actually haven't done a lot of attempts at covers without having the actual singer, and just listening to the instrumental, so I apologize if I miss a few notes.(or more ;p.)
     
    I also messed up on another lyric earlier, for some reason I messed that lyric up every time, I don't know why. Probably should've memorized the lyrics better, but I didn't have the time really.
     
    I think that about does it for what I can remember as far as obvious mistakes.
     
    Other than that, hope you enjoy somewhat, I know I am not the best singer, and still need lots of practice, but I hope you enjoy regardless!
     
    Oh and again, as i've said before, critique is more than welcome! Just as long as it's constructive of course! Don't degrade my confidence to much or anything, I don't have a lot of it, infact I have a bit of stage fright when it comes to singing, which is why I only really sing when I'm home alone.
     
    Oh and this was recorded using audacity, with a blue snowball microphone, and other than that, I didn't do any editing of the vocal recording, besides gain adjustment and noise removal in audacity, I didn't do any pitch correction or anything(Not to my knowledge anyways, unless audacity does that automatically or something.) So this is basically the raw thing more or less.
     
    So again enjoy! And I hope this blog ends up being a good idea! If so I will have to try and get some more stuff on here.
     
    A good day to all of you!
  7. Zygen

    Welcome To the Junkyard!

    By Zygen,

    Hey y'all! It's Zygen here! I decided to finally start this new blog, because i've had the idea of it for a while, but I've yet to go through with it.
     
    Basically, this blog is going to be more or less only random cover attempts and singing of stuff. However, these will all be singing attempts, which are mostlikely subpar, They may be good in some parts, but bleh in others. Or downright messy. My good clean runs that I feel are good will end up on my normal blog mostlikely, unless I decide to just do all my music stuff on here. http://mlpforums.com/blog/1111-the-mind-of-a-zygen/ (Main Blog)
     
    I may even put non singing covers of stuff, maybe if I want to do covers on Trumpet of stuff, or when I get better at it maybe even guitar, we shall see.
     
    However, this blog will mostlikely stay as the covers that never made it, I like to call it my "Cover Junkyard" because that's what it is basically ;p.
     
    Anyways, if you want to follow this blog, feel free, if not, I don't blame you, either way, just be warned this blog will not be containing awesome singing mostlikely, but may have some really mistake ridden covers and such in it, so only follow if your prepared for some messy mistakes. (Or just to see me embarrass myself failing to sing something ;p.)
     
    Also, I am trying to improve on singing, so any tips are more than welcome! Please, try not to be to hard on me for mistakes, as I am trying to improve, it's not like I plan on being subpar at singing forever. Plus I have confidence issues and a bit of stage fright when it comes to singing, and thus I only sing when my family isn't home.
     
    But critique is more than welcome! As well as tips, of course there are going to be some pretty obvious mistakes at times, just be warned ;p.
     
    That's about it I think, have a great day! And I hope to get some stuff on here soon! Listening to me make a fool of myself .
  8. Zygen
    So, today I was feeling random, and I felt like making a blog post. Then I thought I'd tell a random story, and for some reason this came to mind...
     
    So if you aren't aware, in games and the such, I typically have this affinity for Elves, normally in games when I can, I am usually playing an Elf if it is possible. For instance, in Skyrim all my characters right now are some variation of Elf.
     
    Why exactly do I like Elves though? Well, besides the side of it that I don't really know why, I just do, I have a theory based on some of my own experiences.
     
    Back when I was like, 3 or something, idk I was young enough that I don't remember much about it, I mostly know about it from my parents. Anyways, when I was 3(give or take a few years ;p.) I was at my grandmothers house, and I was running around like the little child I was. Then I fell on something(i really don't remember what exactly.) and somehow I ended up chipping my ear.
     
    So yeah, apparently according to my parents my ear was kind of pointy since it was chipped after that.
     
    Whether that story is entirely true or what, i'm not entirely sure, but I can only assume it is, since i don't really remember it. (Yay for bad memory ;p.)
     
    It could've been made up, but regardless, I think it plays into my liking of Elves.
     
    Or maybe it doesn't. Who knows, maybe I just like pointy Elf ears for some reason xD.
     
    The world may never know....
     
    The reason I thought of this particular story I think, is because I actually got my ear cut while getting my hair cut a few days ago, and I currently have a bandage on it, because it ends up bleeding every time i take it off so far.
     
    And my brother said it makes me look like an elf with a bandage on my ear, so yeah ;p.
     
    Moral of the story, I like Elves.
     
    Hope you enjoyed the story, and if you would like me to think about doing more feel free to let me know. Or if you want me to do something else, I just felt like posting in my blog, since i haven't done so in forever.
     
    Or if you totally hate this series, you should tell me to never blog again, ever!
     
    Maybe not, idk, anyways, i'm going to stop rambling, see y'all around!
  9. Zygen
    Hey y'all! Its been a bit since i've posted in here, i apologize, i haven't had alot of time, and really haven't been as active with thinking of stuff to post here.
     
    Of course, i had parent teacher conferences today, so i got out of school early, like mid day, and my parents where both working outside, my brother has parent teacher conferences a different day, so he is actually still at school even when i'm posting this, but anyways. I decided i'd record some MLP covers while i'm alone and so i did so!
     
    I choose to do Celestia's ballad, just because it seemed like a nice song to do, and i dunno i just felt like it xD.
     
    I recorded a bunch of drafts of it, and listened to each one, narrowing down which ones were best till i got to one that was the least terrible best.
     
    So yeah, I don't have much else to say, Enjoy the song, and i'd like to hear what you think overall, be honest, because i know i am far far from being perfect. Especially seeing as i've never technically had official vocal lessons ;p.
     
    I thought about putting instrumentals to this, and maybe even my Smile smile smile cover, or a new Smile Smile Smile cover, and Cover of this, and posting it on the forums and Pony.fm, but I think i may need to practice and Iron out things before i feel its good enough to be there.
     
    So i guess for now its confined to my blog ;p.
     
    Anyways without further delayed rambling, here is my cover of Celestia's Ballad!
    https://soundcloud.com/zygen/celestias-ballad-cover-1
    Enjoy! if you enjoy hearing the sound of ruptured eardrums that is
     
    I have a few ideas for blog entries, but i'm not entirely sure if i'll do them, I'll see though.
     
    I guess thats all for now, see y'all later! And thanks for atleast checking the blog out!(Even if you don't read this . Or listen to the recording, or well um anything... xD.)
     
    I'm gonna go play my newly obtained Luigi's mansion, on my (Mostly) newly obtained 3DS!
     
    Hm.. maybe i should post thoughts or reviews on random stuff here... Decisions decisions decisions...
     
    Then again i'm not really sure i'm a reviewy type person...
     
    What? Oh i'm just thinking out loud... Wait your in my mind, which means i'm just thinking to myself...
     
    Jezz, give me some privacy will ya? Show yourself to the door ya stalkers!
     
    Hehe, kidding, later!
     
    Edit: Sorry swick forgot about the alternate link, hopefully this works! If it doesn't i'll fix it when i get back, i'm about to leave for my dads for a few hours.
     
    Fileize link http://www.filz.us/files/7a3f4ddf/2bf/Celestias_ballad_cover_1.mp3
  10. Zygen
    Well, its been a whole year since i joined the forums, since then i've had over 5000 posts, and rightfully so, because this place is just so awesome.
     
    Seriously i want to thank everyone for being simply apart of the good atmosphere and community of people this is, seriously you guys are awesome!
     
    Even when i'm feeling down you guys are comforting, you don't just say brush it off or something, a good majority are willing to have a conversation or vent session, and while i hardly ever take anyone up on the offer, it is still much appreciated.
     
    This place is certainly very accepting, very loving, and just awesome, its hard to put it into words, but i just love the community, not only is it full of amazing talent and creativity, but many well thought out discussions, and all the discussions are very civil compared to many places, and you guys are just so loving.
     
    Not only that but basically all of you don't care about gender sterotypes, and are fine being different, and accepting others differences, aswell as not adhering to general rules of males.
     
    Heck, if i so much as maybe even put like a <3 or *hug* i'd be called "Gay" instantly(I don't understand that as an insult still.) here that doesn't happen.
     
    I just love you guys, i feel so comfortable and able to be open to people here, and i've made some good friends here, and overall had a big loving family to come to, and to have fun with!
     
    So thanks y'all, i don't know what to say, but i know if it wasn't for how awesome this community is, i'd have quit way before having 5600 something posts i have.
     
    Thanks y'all, i hope to be here for many more years to come.
  11. Zygen
    Hello and welcome to the mind of a Zygen! What is a Zygen you ask? Well frankly I don't know xD. But its my user name so roll with it ok?
     
    I just felt like making a blog, because i've been here almost a year, and have yet to do so, and i figured, why not? So yeah here I am.
     
    This blog will just be, whatever the heck i feel like putting in it frankly, if I end up doing something I feel warrants its own blog or something then i'll probaly make another for it, but if i just feel its general enough and doesn't warrant its own blog, then i guess i'll post it here.
     
    I have no actual ideas at the moment, but i figured maybe they'll come to me after making this, who knows.
     
    Anyways, um, enjoy your stay, in my mind, well actually get out! I don't want you people in my mind constantly! Only momentarily .
     
    Uh, bye .
  12. Zygen
    Alright guys, so today is Monday, and it was a slow day, slow to get up, slow for school, ect. Mondays are always kinda slow ;p.
     
    But anyways, I got home today, and my stepdad was out of the house on errands, and my mom was outside working (She works till 6, and doesn't come inside all that often.) and my brother had practice for Football.
     
    So I decided it was a nice time to try and sing something, because I like singing, and that's basically what I do most times i'm home alone ;p. If not that and something else.
     
    So this time, I decided to try doing "I'll Make a Man Out of You" from Mulan, why? Because Disney songs are fun to sing! And this one is fun to sing too(Fun fact, i've never actually seen Mulan) so of course I decided I was in the mood for it, and tried it out!
     
    I originally thought i'd only be able to get in like 1-2 recordings, but I actually got in like 4-5 attempts, which is pretty good considering my first run was kinda eh.
     
    By the 2nd or 3rd I had got the hang of things a bit, and so I decided that after listening to them some, that I would upload some, because why not? ;p(I love torturing your eardrums anyways .
     
    So without further ado, enjoy my cover attempt at "I'll Make a Man Out of You" from Mulan.
     
    https://soundcloud.com/zygen/mulan-ill-make-a-man-out-of-you-cover-4
     
    Again, this is basically unedited, no autotune or anything(atleast to my knowledge, unless audacity does some kinda auto pitch correction or something, I don't really care for autotune in most cases when it comes to singing, but that's another discussion ;p.)
    The only thing I did in audacity was stick the instrumental on, record my voice, edit out the noise in the background as much as I could without disrupting the audio quality to much, and threw in some gain so my quiet mic would allow you to hear me hopefully!
     
    Hope you enjoy! Overall this run was pretty clean in my opinion, I actually considered just putting this on my regular blog, but idk, i'm starting to like putting my music on a specific blog, like all of it, but I am unsure, maybe you all can offer some input as to what you think I should do concerning this blog.
     
    There are a few times I get off key, and miss some note, I also feel like I breath kinda heavily sometimes, but that's kinda something I've always sorta done, so idk how much I can fix that. Besides editing out breaths maybe.
     
    Oh, and I cannot sing the random speaking part Mulan does, or really most of the speaking part anyways xD, i tried anyways ;p.
     
    Oh and one more thing, I decided to throw this in as a little extra bonus material thingy, I don't know if this will become a reoccuring thing with this blog, I have thought of posting multiple recordings, and seeing what people think of each, but I don't want to bother people with having to listen to multiple recordings of me singing the same song, so I try and narrow it down to a single recording.
     
    This time, I had a recording in which I messed up the lyrics to the chorus like twice, although otherwise it was pretty good, so I figured for either humorous reasons to laugh at the fact I can't sing lyrics, or simply if your curious as to how some of the other recordings went, that i'd post another recording as bonus material or something.
     
    So here's the "bonus material" which is inferior in my opinion to the other recording, but I will post regardless. Tell me what you think if you do listen!
     
    https://soundcloud.com/zygen/mulan-ill-make-a-man-out-of-you-cover-5
     
    Alright, that's all for today I think folks, I'll have to see if I want to throw my random "Let it Go" cover I have on my computer at y'all or not, i'm debating on that one, since it's kinda overdone, and not the greatest attempt ever, leave your input if you'd like.
     
    And thanks for taking the time to listen to myself sing! It really means a lot to me! Simply knowing that someone atleast was able to tolerate listening to me cover a song.
     
    Have an awesome day!
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