Poopots's Cover Challenge #21 - the letter H

flying_pie

Welcome to the 21st Poopot's Cover Challenge

The winner of our last challenge @2003amxl has spoken and chosen our track for the letter H



Heartbreaker by Mariah Carey


That's right. Seeing as no other famous guitar based band has ever recorded a song called Heartbreaker it obviously has to be Maria ft Jay-Z

If that's not your bag then you can record any track starting with the letter H

But… if you cover the chosen track you will automatically receive a bonus 5pts as a head stat


* RULES:

Entries to be sent in mp3 format to the following Email address:

covers@thefretboard.co.uk

Please comment in the thread when you've sent an entry.

You may wish to submit artwork to go with your entry. It brightens up the playlist and might subliminally get you more votes but it's not mandatory. 

Entries close at 11.30pm on Friday  23rd December 2022... get onto it!!!!
 

A playlist of all the entries will also be posted below.

https://soundcloud.com/thefretboard/sets/poopots-cover-challenge-h

Vote for your top 3 with 5 points awarded  for first place, 3 points for second place and 1 point for third place. Entrants obviously aren't allowed to vote for their own entry. The winner has the honour of choosing the next track

Good luck!

fnpt

FFS

CMW335

I will start if permitted, this is a cover of Hallelujah performed not by me but my wife on vocals and then @thecolourbox on keys/instruments. I put out a help wanted ad for this track back in Dec 2020 and Stuart duly responded. It was my first conversation with him and we went onto become good friends albeit never met in person sadly. He was always encouraging me to get involved so feels right to submit this one here

https://on.soundcloud.com/LBmCZ5TcQfXt7kZo7

flying_pie

@CNW335 it's great to have that but can either yourself or @thecolourbox please emailm an mp3 and the photo to covers@thefretboard.co.uk ? 

CMW335

@flying_pie sure thing, I will dig this out later

Habanero

I swore I’d never go back the day I hung up the wig and tight dress and quit the Mariah tribute act.

Luckily I have a backup plan for the H round.

IMC1980

Sent mine in. Been waiting for the opportunity to show off my Jay Z skillz!

flying_pie

Fantastic. @IMC1980 in da playlist

(and I had a day off yesterday so managed to record a track too)

CMW335

flying_pie said:

@CNW335 it's great to have that but can either yourself or @thecolourbox please emailm an mp3 and the photo to covers@thefretboard.co.uk ? 

Mp3 now sent 

flying_pie

@CMW335 in the playlist too. Off to a cracking start

thecolourbox

In an unexpected turn of events, I've managed to knock out two covers today (albeit one of them I'd done some of the midi stuff some time ago, so not entirely today )

Although that does now mean I'm now on three entries (as i'm the piano on CMW335's entry), hopefully that's ok and makes up for all the ones I've missed before

flying_pie

@thecolourbox in the playlist. Good effort, chief!

thecolourbox

Thank you @flying_pie ;
Did you get the second one as well?

flying_pie

#2 for @thecolourbox in the playlist

horse

Just emailed mine over

flying_pie

@horse in the playlist 

westford

Walking over to my friend's house in the dark last night, I caught sight of a scrap of paper in the glow of a streetlamp bearing the word "POOPOTS". I thought it was a sign that I should record something for this contest. On closer inspection it was the packaging for cakes/doughnut-ty things called "POPDOTS", but I'll try to get something done anyway. (Also, I just googled the singular popdot and that is something quite different, lol!)

fnpt

I've feel into the same conundrum again. I've recorded all the parts for my entry, I am fairly happy with the results, however...I can't sing it. I just don't have the range.

So my options at the moment are:

1) leave it as it is, a kind of instrumental backing track (not really something I particularly like);

2) Replace the vocals with a guitar track (again, not my cup of tea);

3) Ask for someone's collaboration for the vocals

Would 3) be a breach of the rules? And if not, would any of you be interested in providing the vocals?

mrkb

fnpt said:

I've feel into the same conundrum again. I've recorded all the parts for my entry, I am fairly happy with the results, however...I can't sing it. I just don't have the range.

So my options at the moment are:

1) leave it as it is, a kind of instrumental backing track (not really something I particularly like);

2) Replace the vocals with a guitar track (again, not my cup of tea);

3) Ask for someone's collaboration for the vocals

Would 3) be a breach of the rules? And if not, would any of you be interested in providing the vocals?

Other tracks have had guest singers on (Halleluyja is one).

Ping me what the song is and i'll see if i could do it justice.

flying_pie

Collaborations are absolutely fine. I would very much encourage it if it results in a better track.

The only rule is that if you contribute to someone else's track then you can't vote for it

flying_pie

@fnpt in the playlist