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No Rain (Blind Melon cover) - Mike Masse, Sterling Cottam and Jeff Hall

This is a really good cover, but for some reason it sounds like his vocals are being auto-tuned - can anyone with better ears confirm?

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Classical version of Skrillex - Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites - Piano Cover - Aaron Isles

Interesting attempt at a drop on the piano…

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OV Wright - Everybody Knows (The River Song)

Classic Soul from 1965. Came across this after I had to Shazam a song, which suggested this. The song in question was definitely more modern - my guess was Pretty Lights, but I wanted to know which song. A quick google later gave the answer - High School Art Class, and an excellent future resource if you know the sample - whosampled.com. You can see the above example here (listing the other samples from the song as well).

ryannorth:

This is the last thing you hear before you die

theworstthingsforsale:

The Otamatone looks like a cool mini-synthesizer. You slide a finger up and down the neck to change the pitch, like a slide guitar or tannerin, and open and close the mouth for a rudimentary filter.

The problem is that you can never produce a note that’s actually in tune. It’s not a matter of precision on your part. It’s the fact that the pitch ribbon doesn’t work smoothly, but instead jumps from one pitch to another, none of which are in tune with each other or with the Western tuning system.

I bought one of these a couple years back and assumed I just needed practice until I saw the official Otamatone demos (one of which is above) and realized not even the people who made it could get the fucking things to play a single note that’s in tune.