The first original song that came to my attention was the Oasis track Half the word away , It is constantly repeating melodic phrases and chords , it is a chain circle of the same chords played with basic instrumentation. Another thing i noticed with the original is that , the lyrics are very basic and have no depth or meaning to them there just sung thoroughly, and with no effort for example like singing for fun ., Although the song is vocally driven by Noel Gallagher, as he has good pitch and tone but doesn't empathise his lyrics and uses one tone throughout, he also sings it gracefully which makes it sound happy, but when you strip it down like the cover version it brings out a completely different meaning. The chords ' C , FMaj, E and Am', are used. On the other hand , Aurora (cover ) an independent artist took the song and made an emotional impact on it so it had a story to tell and a depth to be understood clearer , so people could related to it , she lowed the melody down and made it piano so that it was very soft , as well as that she is also doing it in a 'dolce' way (sweetly') , and very quietly with a smooth texture, less textured , and the instruments are very held back (ritenuto) . She renditioned the track and made it acoustic in which she completely took out drums and neglected them , which was taking away the emotion the song needed , from the Oasis side. She had piano and a light hit hat drum , she also added harmonies which made specific parts more empathised and unique to herself, she had some violins involved which was completely different to Oasis , the ending of the piano was very delicate ready for an echo of harmonies to end completely, Aurora as an artist is generally smooth and elegant with her approach. Call and response was happening in her lyrics as well but in an octave higher than her lead vocals , near the end she develops her melody so that it all becomes louder to have an impact on her lyrics a well as the beginning moving a story, Noel also has a general allegro tempo to hi and its in more of a dancey styled mood .
My second original is a Rock band called the 'Zutons' which first wrote the song ' valerie' describing a Friend going through a rough time drink driving. The Zutons start the song with distortion on electric guitar through the chorus, but in the verse basic drums are playing, in chorus the drums are more reconisable because there playing single notes moderately loud but in the verse its played softly and lento for the verses compared to the chorus. Although comparing Amy Wine house's ft mark ronson to the original, they have completley flipped the genre and made it RnB and more funky, and her lyrics and more snappy and quick whereas the zutons, slow the lyrics down and take it slowly, also Amy winehouse is famous for her riffs, and she adds riffs and more vibrato on the chorus of her rendition of the song, she adds more soul into the lyrics as if she wanted to get across a more soulful jazzy approach to the song versa RnB , and the Zutons song is in more of a minor key about a sad rough story but Amy changed it to make it lively and get a feel to it , most people now prefer Amy Winehouse's to the original.
My third original that i have choosen to listen to is Leonard Cohan Hallelujah. Leonard started of in a folk genre with a variety of amazing instruments espeicallt brass instruments it has a slow soulful feel to the style with basic melody but a large range of instruments, Basic harmonies singing the 5th and then in unison, Leondard's song is in a baritone synth which is completely the opposite to the cover Pentatonix re-estabilablished it , changing features to make it new to todays model world from synth to tpyical 'American idol' , it is an ACAPELLA version filled with a vocals layering eachother, starting with one vocal main line and covering on top to make the melody it starts with 'ohs' a massive change in society as pentatonix used no instruments just there own voice to create the sound of a choir formated , they have tight harmonies and all come in at specific times creating the piece altogether, but there is overall a Huge change in the way everything is set out with the original by Leonard comapired to the Pentatonix , although many other artists have also covered hallelelujah the 'Pentatonix' cover really stood out to me as completely unexpected and unique to their own , they mashed it up to make it sound like and original. As well as this Leonard is a jazz artist so hallelujah is in a jazz style which involves brass instruments such as saxophone , double bass. He also has swung rythms which are completely vanished in the cover version. Leondard keeps his original flat and on same pitch but pentatonix develops from that. Pentatonix are very experiemental with the song having a baritone start off as well and good use of vibrato
