Thanks for taking a peek! It’s interesting you say i pick songs that “fit” me because a number of these 20 covers this month were NOT songs I chose, but songs my student wanted to learn. That said, I’m doing the orchestration, as you said, getting good at tweaking songs to make them work for me, especially when it comes to style of playing and transposing both for my voice and playing level.
Of these 10 songs, the Beatles on the 18th and TMBG on the 19th are the only ones I would tend to learn and play for myself.
Yes - a long time discussion I’ve had with some of my more, performing, friends was that they advocated for a “note for note” Cover, versus an adapted interpretation. It seems, while that NforN thing may have been a thing - presently, one friend in particular in my region said, he could presently “quit his day job” and make it on his gigging work (all covers, and some real work, not “easy”, etc., and some tunes he really, really does not “like”).
It’s interesting to watch trends.
For me, if I had to (had to) cover a song I didn’t like and could not interpret it to “me” (I’d wonder why they’d want that), but aside from key and range I would/could.
Hahhh… I’m not a fan of that “wedding march” as-is - but in a neoclassic, over driven with slight slap-back and reverse pedal I am sure I could. I guess, just keep the down and back beat, such as it is and they’d make that last 50 feet okay.
It’s interesting you say i pick songs that “fit” me because a number of these 20 covers this month were NOT songs I chose, but songs my student wanted to learn. That said, I’m doing the orchestration, as you said, getting good at tweaking songs to make them work for me, especially when it comes to style of playing and transposing both for my voice and playing level.