About the Track

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I bought a ukulele from Amazon Prime day and wanted to put it into a song somehow. However, when it came to original music, my vibe at the time was definitely piano and I was finding it difficult to add in ukulele. So I took one of my favorite songs from one of my favorite bands and did a cover.

I didn't have fancy technology or a real music studio. Nor had I purchased any software (GarageBand is fantastic but now that I have Logic I can never go back). I only had one microphone and a record button. As a result, this song was recorded all in one take, vocals and ukulele at the same time in the same microphone. (This isn't usually how it's done, lol.) It only took three tries for me to get one I was satisfied with.

I say satisfied in quotes because it was WAY out of my comfort zone to be singing, let alone publishing it on the internet. I knew that I wasn't going to sound that great and that the final product wouldn't be polished, but I still wanted to try. I consider this track a huge step in my learning process and growth. It gave me motivation to continue writing songs for vocals and to learn more about how to record and mix tracks with vocals.

So, yeah. I know the track isn't perfect. I know that it's really simple and has some flaws. But I don't care because I love Imagine Dragons, I love creating music, and I love where I have gone because of this cover.

The album art comes from an image on Unsplash. The link no longer is available, but see the Internet Archive's version of the image (by Aaron Mello).