Hey guys! As I said in another thread, I had my girlfriends's sister wedding yesterday. It has been an awesome party! I had a really cool time with family and friends. It has been once of those big parties that you never forget.

My girlfriend and me decided to prepaid a surprise for them. She wrote lyrics and I composed a punk song and invited to many relatives and friends to sing it. One part each other and then a big chorus full of voices.

We also filmed them doing some acting without telling them what we were going to do with the images.

We recorded and filmed everything at home (except the married couple videos).

The lyrics talk about how they met and how we can describe each other in a comic way. The repetitive chorus says, "It's the story of Denice & Juan".

The surprise has been very well received by everybody and the full hall started to applaud in the last chorus.

Check the video: (I also appear there singing and playing).

This is very nice

That was awesome Gabriel! What a great contribution and wedding present! So tell us, are you and your girlfriend next to tie the knot?

Very nice, Gab! This is an awesome idea for a surprise. I guess the new family was really impressed for such a present.
Rich has right, tell us Gab, you are the next?

Wow! Gabi! Congrats man I think that the most outstanding work, aside from all the producing and arranging, was to get everyone to learn their parts and sing in tune! Was it difficult? I think that it would've been funny as hell to film failed takes or so! Kudos to you amigo!

Hi mate!

Awesome surprise present!!!
This is so nice video with full of good feelings and it's even more valuable after 10 years and later.
Great job by you and your girlsfriend! My respect Gab!

What a treasure you gave them Gabe

hahah everybody in the family is asking the same thing...




The recording process has been so enjoyable. Just a few had sung in the past, the other ones were saying... "no, this is impossible, I can't sing". But then we discovered that everybody had some musical ear, everybody could sing in pitch (or very close to pitch). And everybody get back home happy of knowing this. This is the part that I like more of producing. You have the possibility of get the best of people and then they feel happy about it..

What a brilliant present Gab!!!

Awesome!
Your girlfriend really outshredded you on the guitar hero guitar

haha yeah! she is faster than me with that guitar!

Hehe! This is where I wanted to get to

Usually, people that don't have anything to do with music, other than maybe listening to it, think that they have no musical ear or talent just because they haven't tried it yet. The worst thing is, that the majority is somehow fooled by the society in thinking that they shouldn't even try 'because it's not possible for them' You sir, are a very clever and talented guy, who managed to get the best out these folks! Good going!

How much autotune was used?

I can hear a little but not as much as I was expecting

This was an excellent video/song Gab! I know they appreciate it very much and will cherish it forever. That is the best gift anyone could have given them.

Wow what a great wedding present. Tell Denice and Juan congratulations.

Wow what a great wedding present. Tell Denice and Juan congratulations.

the people were singing nicely! Let's not dig into that

hahaha sincerely not too much. Everybody could sing in pitch with some little issues that I fixed just because we were hurried and they aren't professionals.

I think that it would've been a little too much if you would've edited and 'fixed' the pitches so much That happy folks vibe would've probably gone away I am curious, how much tweaking happens in a major vocalist's recording? Myles Kennedy for instance...

I think that everything goes through auto tune at that level and in that style just to be sure that it's perfect. Don't you think so?

I totally agree, but I would be curious to hear a raw vocal take from one such as Miles I'm curious to hear the actual level of awesomeness and than the edited version

It would be cool but I don't think that known singers would like to share it.

Me neither, but sometimes I find it so frustrating that I have to work uber hard to nail something with my voice and it's STILL not there when I record it.. I was wondering how the big boys are doing it

Very nicely done, Gabriel!

yeah, you never know, unless you can be part of a production. And I think that this depends a lot on each singer and that this can be suspected watching them on live concerts and comparing it with the studio albums.



Thanks friend!

Exactly! Out of what I've seen around, there's a ton of bands that sounds amazing on the studio recordings but not that great onstage mainly because of the vocals. It's a dealbreaker most of the time and regardless how the instrumental part sounds, if the voice is not at least atthe same level of proficiency, people will know immediately - the voice is the NUMBER ONE make or break factor for the audience most of the times. And there are a lot of external factors that can influence this. For instance, if a vocalist doesn't have good monitoring onstage... well, he is doomed and the show is doomed. It takes A LOT of experience to dodge this issue out of what I have learned so far..