Hear-N-Aid tribute by the ADA Depot

[thebigz]

This is pretty cool! No chance I could do guitar work on it, but if no drummers stepped up, I could do that.

[Snoogans]

oh, fuck yea!! That lead off solo. The lyrics are awesome. Who's the singer?

The singer's a girl called Amy. She's the missus of Dave, who runs the site.

[Newc]

Very cool. how hard is it to put all this stuff together?? Would be cool to do.
Chris

As I understood it, the hardest part was getting the vocalists. Originally there were like 5 or 6 that were interested, but either scheduling or ego got in the way, so they had to scramble and find other singers to beg.

As for the solos, the rhythm track was split up among all the volunteers according to the number of different solos in the original, and I think it was expanded a bit to let everyone have a spot.


And for you guys who downplay your chops - it's not a competition, it's a community. Going into it I knew that I'd be playing alongside guys who had all the shred stuff that I can't do, but that didn't stop me.

Heck, if you can do a hammer-on and bend a whammy bar and a few harmonics, it's a solo!

They don't have to be chock-full-o-notes - look at I Love It Loud - 7 notes!
Or Living After Midnight - 38 notes, most of which were used again, so you've probably got about 5 different notes total.
Or Heading Out To The Highway - 13 notes, half of them re-used.

Besides, EVH has made a career off not being able to play a solo :ROTF:

[thetroy]

I am not very good but don't have any schedule or ego problems for singing!

Besides the words are pretty easy...

We're STAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARS

We're STAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaars

[khabibissell]

That was cool! I agree that we should do this as well.

Who did the video editing? Did you have to send audio/video separately?

[Newc]

One of the ADA admins did the editing with the guy who runs Arco Productions, the shop mentioned in the opening.

I think most of the video clips were done separately from the audio, or at least the tracks were separated. You can set up a video capture system so you are getting the Direct In audio for the video as opposed to relying on the camera to pick it up.

Most clips were sent in as separate files, and they had to be of a high-enough quality (44.1 wav, AVI video) so the editing and final rendering wouldn't have extra loss.

[VoiceX3]

Yeah, this would be a GREAT idea for the JCF! Nice job on this Matt.

Hey if we could pull something like this off, count me in for vocals for sure..... I could play a little something, but I'm sure contributing as a vocallist would be a way more valuble contribution.

Can we make this a reality here?

[Spivonious]

I'm up for it if we do it here.

[Newc]

So whadda we got so far, 10 total? That's enough to get started.

Here's the original on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZktrrqT1A0

I guess the first step is laying down the drums, bass, and rhythm, so Bigz if you wanna start it off with the drums?

We should start with a rough sketch and then hammer out whatever details as we go along. Once the rhythm is finalized we can add the solos and vocals.

Agree? Disagree? Discuss.

[blindmuddy]

So whadda we got so far, 10 total? That's enough to get started.

Here's the original on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZktrrqT1A0

I guess the first step is laying down the drums, bass, and rhythm, so Bigz if you wanna start it off with the drums?

We should start with a rough sketch and then hammer out whatever details as we go along. Once the rhythm is finalized we can add the solos and vocals.

Agree? Disagree? Discuss.

Agree

[jacksoncsplayer]

I have a smoking singer that I think would like to be involved when we get there, I'll have him join the board and get involved as well.

[VoiceX3]

So whadda we got so far, 10 total? That's enough to get started.

Here's the original on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZktrrqT1A0

I guess the first step is laying down the drums, bass, and rhythm, so Bigz if you wanna start it off with the drums?

We should start with a rough sketch and then hammer out whatever details as we go along. Once the rhythm is finalized we can add the solos and vocals.

Agree? Disagree? Discuss.

That sounds like the best corse of action to start with. What vocal process were you thinking? Just singing select parts or have each vocallist do the whole thing and chop it up and mix vocals that way? That'll probably be the best way to get good natural tracks. I find that doing a line or 2 or just a verse that a lot of singers overdo it because it's a small part, whereas singing the whole thing makes for a more balanced recording. Then we can use the best parts of each vocallist.

I'm f'n stoked about this idea!!!!!!

[Newc]

Yeah, the Frankenstein method was what I had in mind - everyone sings it all and it gets chopped up.

Who knows, someone may end up as a duet without even trying

I had thought about doing the solos that way as well - figure out how many people want a solo in the middle, loop it for x-amount of time, have everyone solo over the whole thing, then chop them up.
Again, someone could end up harmonizing with someone else, or doing a quick left-to-right complimentary panning section.

Just a thought

[Newc]

Where's Bill - think we could throw in a blastbeat section just for him?

[VoiceX3]

(Here's the lyrics for anyone who needs 'em)

**STARS**
Who cries for the children?
I do

Some time in the night
When you're feeling the cold
Take a look at the sky above you

Those are faces in the light
If the story were told
They are calling you, calling you
Yeah

We are magic in the night
We are shadow, we are light
We are forever you and I

We're stars
We're stars

We can be strong
We are fire and stone
And we all want to touch a rainbow

But singers and songs
Will never change it alone
We are calling you, calling you

We're the beating of a heart
The beginning we're the start
Forever we will shine
Yeah

We're stars
We're stars
We're stars
We're stars

(Guitar solos O PLENTY!!!!!)
1st solo: Craig Goldie/Eddie Ojeda
2nd solo: Vivian Campbell/Brad Gillis
3rd solo: Neal Schon/George Lynch
4th solo: Yngwie Malmsteen/Vivian Campbell
5th solo: George Lynch/Carlos Cavazo
6th solo: Brad Gillis/Craig Goldie/Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser

We are magic in the night
We are shadow, we are light
We are forever you and I

We're stars
We're stars
We're stars
We're stars

We're stars, yeah
We're stars
We are shadow, we are light
We're stars
We are magic in the night
We're stars, oh yeah
We're stars
We're stars
We are magic in the night
We're stars
We are shadow, we are light

We're stars
We're stars
We're stars
We're the magic
We're stars
We're stars
We're the beating of a heart

We're stars
Forever we will shine
We're stars
We're stars
We're stars
We're stars