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MaxDeGroot
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Dare To Be Stupid

"...quickly gave him a peck on the cheek."
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Christmas At Ground Zero
I was going to record this earlier, but the arrangement I was going to use simply didn't work.

So, I went with a simpler one, and did a lot different.

First of all, I put it down a major fourth. The original key was just to high for my voice.

Then I tried an experiment: I slowed down the tempo about 10%, recorded it at that tempo, the sped the tempo up 10% after recording. That made pronouncing the words much easier, and it actually worked.

Then, I decided to have The Beach Bears do the backing vocals. Recorded them as I usually do with the speed changes, then changed the tempo for them all afterward.

Then, I put it through Melodyne to get the precise pitches needed to make this sound very Devoish. (I discovered overdoing it didn't work).

Then back into Audacity to compress, balance, stereo, and voila. This is the result.

Backing track by The Karaoke Channel and purchased on iTunes. Original song written and performed by Weird Al Yankovic

Keywords
comedy 3,857, devo 12, novelty 12
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Type: Music - Single Track
Published: 7 years, 5 months ago
Rating: General

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moyomongoose
7 years, 5 months ago
Sounds like someone straight out of the family on the TV series Malcolm in the Middle.
daedalus
7 years, 5 months ago
Dude!  Let me first applaud your choice in musical numbers and next your execution!  Excellent choice!  And it sounds great =P
KingKennichu
7 years, 3 months ago
I love this song I have like over 6 Wierd Al CD's on the shelf in my room I love him.
microbuss
5 years, 2 months ago
me too
this song was used in the 1986 Transformers The Movie & its on the soundtrack!
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