matt222 wrote:I heard someone on here the other day say that covers were for the talentless. I assume they were refering to a lack of originality. They are missing the point. A cover can NEVER be original - it's someone else's work entirely that anyone else can merely adjust. So there's no aim to be original when one produces a cover.
But THIS area of the forum IS dedicated to covers and those that take interest in them for what they are - nothing more, nothing less. To those who might think people who make covers are talentless, I'll stand my own original compositions up against their's any day.
Replica covers are a test in sound creation and synth programming, coming as close as possible to the specific timbres. They are also a good way to develop technical skills.
They are a thorough test on the ear. As we all know, the available scores for any Jarre tracks are terribly limited - even WFC. Even the most minimal albums like Oxygene have at least 8 individual elements.
They are also a test on the speed of the brain - learning to follow intricate sequences note by note, unpicking them, recognising loop-points and different time signatures and transcribing them perfectly considering individual velocity and note duration.
I agree with all this a 101%. And I like how you've elaborated on the process, which by no means is at all easy. That's why I said they're a fun tool (for newbies), because not only do you learn all kinds of techical knowledge when you do 'em, but you become more confident in yourself to be able to handle all the things required of you in this biz.
As to the talentless, I put that in because I knew it would be misunderstood, refer to my last post in that thread to see who I meant, I never meant
us.
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