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Bandcamp iTunes Spotify Amazon Google Play And available pretty much everywhere else "Lucky People" is the second cover I've done of a song by Waterparks, which is one of my very favorite bands. The first Waterparks song I covered was my "Sick Crave Cover." For this particular track, I learned and recorded song within a day or two (a couple days after the original song's release) the week before finals because I generally enjoy using music as a form of procrastination. The main instrument is, evidently, piano. The only other instruments are my Taylor GS Mini-E Koa acoustic guitar and an egg shaker I made using a plastic Easter egg and rice, though I used the guitar as a bass. My shaker skills have gotten significantly better since the previous Waterparks cover; I feel like playing an egg shaker should be incredibly easy, but it actually takes a bit of practice to be able to get the actual sound to fall on the beat. For the album art, I used a photograph of Christmas ornaments from an excellent stock photo website I know of. I chose this particular picture because I knew it would look good when cropped to a 1:1 (i.e. square) ratio, and it has some purple in the background. The purple is significant because it matches the aesthetic of Entertainment, the Waterparks album that this song is from, the hair of Awsten Knight, the songwriter and lead singer of the band, and my egg shaker. I did the hand-lettering myself in Photoshop. In addition, I knew I wanted to get a snow falling overlay for the YouTube video. It took me several days to figure out how to accomplish this using Lightworks, the video editing software I generally utilize, but after scouring the internet, I eventually got it. To be frank, I think I might've spent more time on that than recording the music itself. Overall, I am fairly proud of this cover. There are definitely some intonation issues with the vocals and some timing errors with the guitar, but as a whole, I had a lot of fun creating this. My primary complaint is that some of the lyrics are wrong, but that's because I used an inaccurate source when learning/recording the song and didn't realize until after the fact.
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