Some of you may know that Vanessa and I are Jason Mraz fans. Some time ago, she recorded "I'm Coming Over (Hidden Track)"; just her playing the guitar and singing. I LOVED it.
The original song performed on the album (call "Hidden track") and especially on stage, has many many tracks; many voices and lots of instruments. So I suggested we have a go at adding some more tracks to it; for example the flute (which is important to the song), a bass and perhaps some backing vocals.Though at this point I've lost track of who suggested what. To my delight, she thought it was a cool idea. I sent her a synthesised flute track soooooooome time ago. It was her summer as you'll see in the video.
Add in one excuse or another to this story, some good, some pathetic.
For example, my acoustic bass moved out of home and lived in the repair shop for quite some time. After waiting for aaaaaaages I went on the hunt for an electric bass (first visual appearance in this video). Decide for yourself which basket those two excuses belong in. Well getting to the point, it took me until recently to get back to this and finally record the tracks I promised. Ness has added more too as you'll see, in fact as you've never seen her before on TG. SO cool! Yet ANOTHER instrument from our multi-instrumentalist. I've had a heap of fun and learned a lot from working with Ness on this (beside the fact that she's a sensitive, patient and intuitive teacher, which I already knew). For one thing, I learned the validity of the phrase "less is more", particularly for the bass. Thanks for being such a sweet friend Ness. You've got such a nice way of making suggestions which improve things and allow for personal style and growth, without stifling creativity.
Oh I also learned that's it's not the best idea to update your operating system, your video editor (iMovie) and your music editor (GarageBand) all at once before a new project. So just in cases anyone else thought it was a cool idea... nah!
Here it is. I hope you like it. A TG Collaboration of "I'm Coming Over (Hidden Track)" - by Jason Mraz from his LOVE album.
Enjoy.
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