Boggin’…

I’ve wanted to cover the tune “Beggin‘”, since I heard the Madcon version. The original tune was sung by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. I started a couple of years ago by recording a basic Guitar, Bass and Piano. The opening guitar was surprisingly easy, as was the piano, four-note intro. Also, the bass intro…do-doob, doobey-doob doo.. I doobey-did with no problem! Next came the high piano ‘morse code’ part. Suddenly, it was beginning to take shape! I should have left it there! Quit while I was ahead!

I had forgotten all about it until a couple of days ago and I thought “I’ll just add some parts, do a vocal and it’ll be done!” – easy peasy!

Well, it’s done and uploaded to Bandcamp, here, but I’m going to have to make some changes. First problem is, there’s too much in it! I need to get rid of some of the guitars – the parts don’t stand out. Second, the backing vocals need to be re-done – it’s made up of three harmonies I did but, as I’m no Frankie Valli and no Four Season, I tried to ‘fatten’ them up using a pitch changer, which kind-of-worked, sort of nearly-ish! However, the biggest mistake was forgetting to do the Oooo’s! The Oooo’s are probably the best bit of backing vocals in the tune. And, finally, there are some conflicting frequencies between one of the guitar parts and one of the piano parts. The basic chords are A-minor, G, F and E, but I decided to add some ‘magic’ to the piano part by changing the F to an E suspended. Very jazz…but I didn’t do that with the original guitar part, and it’s noticeable.

Ach well…what the hell! Here’s a nice picture which explains things beautifully…

*** UPDATE – June 2020 *** Reduced all the Reverb – Muted lots of Guitar parts – Removed all the Pitch layering on all the Vocals – Still haven’t added the Oooo’s though! ***

*** UPDATE – Nov 2020 *** Redone all the vocals – Muted more guitar parts – Added more Piano parts – I also added the Oooo’s part using Piano because I couldn’t sing the harmonies (too high for my voice!) ***

*** Definitely done Now! ***