Jun 9, 2012
Here is a final project I did for school... well just the music, not the editing. My favorite part is when the frog jumps in slow mo toward the end.
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Here is a final project I did for school... well just the music, not the editing. My favorite part is when the frog jumps in slow mo toward the end.
'All Is Fair' Score.
My sister, Lee was editing a student project that needed some music. The only problem was she needed it in 2 days... I said that I would do score it and we got it finished in time. Lee also did all the beginning and ending graphics. They look so cool. Oh and besides the editing, she also did all the sound effects and sound editing. Great work Lee!
COFER COFERS THE CLASSICS
Come Together - Mark Cofer
This one was made with a little help from my friends... (Beatles joke intended) The awesome Shannon Hurley lent her talents for the keyboard and Ben Eisen (yes of the Ben 500 and Lovers & Poets) played the bass. Thank you guys for the help!
I left most of the song just like the recording. I played an acoustic guitar and played the lead parts with a slide. I don't know how much I made this song my own, but all the parts that make up this song are so great and why mess with perfection?
Things I'm working on...
I think as for now I am not going to do a 'Song-A-Week' anymore. I have too many other exciting things going on. I have been trying to concentrate on songwriting and I want to start playing more live shows, so I'm going to get some friends together and film a few live performances and also start make a few videos for my songs. I have a few great new songs I am excited for everyone to hear and hopefully will be pressing my next album on vinyl. I am going to try to have it finished in the next few months. I would love everyone's input on which songs they have liked of mine recently and would like me to include on the album.
I am also recording an EP for my buddy Dave Robinson, who is a recent Nashville Transplant. We will be done with the recordings probably by the end of the month. They are sounding great so far.
Summertime | markcofer This is my 'Song Of The Week' and going along with the theme of a Long Winter I decided to write a summertime song. I ran out of time this week to get started. I had the idea last Monday, but didn't have time to start writing it till Friday. My buddy and fellow singer songwriter Dave Robinson cowrote it with me on Friday night. The lyrics are about typical things you do in the summer, with a hint of loneliness from a girl who left you behind, but is back for the summer.
On Saturday, I put down the basics of the song. I knew from my demo I did last Monday that I wanted a doubled vocal line and a driving beat. The lead vocal I did at the same time with Dave harmonizing. It was my first chance I got to use the 'figure 8' pattern on my new AKG C-414, that made me very excited! (And by the way for the recording impaired, all that means is that you can sing out of the front and back of the microphone). At the end of recording the basics, it sounded very thin, so I added an organ, steel drums, and a clav (all of which remind me of the summer, don't ask me why the clavi does, because I am not quite sure). I love the way it turned out, it is different and that is what I love about it. I loved the arrangement of instruments I used, they all fit nicely. It took up until 2am, but I finished!
Tell me what you think! Does it bring up any warm feelings of summer?
You can DOWNLOAD this song on bandcamp - Why not add it to your summertime mix while you're outside enjoying the sun? CLICK HERE and then click on BUY NOW. You can name your own price... my suggested retail price is one dollar :) and if a dollar is just too much, then you can enter $0 and get it for free!
Here is a clip I had to redo the sound for in school. I re-orchestrated it, added the sound effects, and the foley. I tried to do the voices, but can't throw my voice very well, I always sound the same. So, Jeremy Groves did the Mayor's voice at the beginning and Kyle Thomas did the rest. Thanks to both of you for the help! And thanks to The Claw for being the dead girl's voice! Hope you all enjoy it.
Song - A -Week
Everything Changes - Mark Cofer
This song is exactly what the title implies. This song is dedicated to the Isaacson's who just got their offer accepted on a new house!!! Congratulations all of you! Also, I just got the invite for the 10 year reunion, which frightened me. With thoughts of all this change came this song. My favorite part is the reverbed slide guitar in the background. My musical idea for this song came with a suspended chord. If you don't know, suspended chords want to resolve. I hung on a suspended chord during the line 'I wish that things could stay the same' to give it the feeling of you want to stay the same (on the suspended chord) but you can't, it wants to change (or resolve). I used a djembe for the bass kick, some brushes for my snare, and a tamborine and I really like how they all sound together. I hope you like it! Tell me what you think. Does it sound like a song Burt Bacharach would have written?
COFER COFERS THE CLASSICS
'I Don't Wanna Grow Up' as sung by Mark Cofer
I am trying to cover one song from Paste's list of the greatest living songwriters. I have gotten behind on doing this, but here is #4... Tom Waits. This is a Tom Waits song off of Bone Machine. I had a hard time picking a Tom Waits song, because I love so many of them. I attempted to do one of my favorite songs ever, Ol 55, but I couldn't quite capture it. Lyrically, this is one of my favorite Waits songs, it is so great, I wish I could have written it!
By the way, Hayes Carll did a great cover of this song too.
