My version of Viva la vida

I chose to do a different song, but remain with the same band. Coldplay. After I had put up “Violet hill”, I got a large number of requests to try “Viva la vida”. There were too many to to pass it off. So I deided to record that one next. It’s the second song of theirs that I’ve done from their latest album, which goes by the same name.

some consider that it’s not very professional to cover songs with backing tracks, but I always find a way of learning something in most things I do. One of the things I want to get really good at is production. It’s great to record all the musical parts perfectly, but if the mix isn’t produced properly, then all that work means very little.

I’ve recently been trying to match the vocal production in the last few songs, to the original songs. I think it’s made a big difference in the result, and it’s teaching me how to produce my own voice in relation to the different types of music.

I’ve used a vocal boost on this one. Plus low to moderate plate reverb in the verses. I’ve used the Chorus effect and a heavier plate reverb in the choruses.

This is the result. Viva la vida.

Now for the statistics digest for my Youtube channel.

I’ve had a few subs come and go, but yesterday I woke up to 6 new subscribers overnight. The total now stands at 727.

Channel viewings are currently 16,529.

The overall video viewings have made it! They’ve gone past the quarter million views. All of this within a year of putting up my first Youtube video. At the last check, the number stood at 254,512.

Hopefully I can now go back and do that old Coldplay album track