Rearranging A Cover Lesson

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- Justin Myrick4th May 2011
  Awesome lesson Cosmin. I love the arrangment!
- K1R4th May 2011
  Great and very useful lesson! I was looking for a lesson like this few days ago.
- Mudbone4th May 2011
  Great song Cosmin
- Kristofer Dahl4th May 2011
  Amazing Cosmin - your lessons are always very thoroughly prepared and inspiring!
- Piotr Kaczor4th May 2011
  Great arrangement and guitar fx - sounds fantastic!
- Ivan Milenkovic4th May 2011
  Great job on this lesson man, very well arranged and produced!
- Cosmin Lupu4th May 2011
  thanks you guys! looking forward to your questions on this one
- Ben Higgins4th May 2011
  Amazing Cosmin ! I love your approach to cover songs and your arrangement is really fresh. I really dig your use of semitones played on adjacent strings ! :-D
- Cosmin Lupu4th May 2011
  QUOTE (Ben Higgins @ May 4 2011, 12:32 PM)
  Amazing Cosmin ! I love your approach to cover songs and your arrangement is really fresh. I really dig your use of semitones played on adjacent strings ! :-D
  
  I'm a bit obsessed with it )))
- thefireball4th May 2011
  Great lesson!
- thefireball4th May 2011
  I just listened to the original. Amazing version you have. I like Phil Collins voice. He's a great singer. I just hadn't heard this song before. I'll have to check out this lesson so I can learn some more techniques.
- Cosmin Lupu4th May 2011
  thank you very much well, glad I could do something good, both for you and Mr. Collins
- Daniel Realpe10th May 2011
  Incredible work! sounds excellent
- Cosmin Lupu10th May 2011
  Thank you Daniel
- El Fortinero29th September 2011
  is it to late to say exellent approach!!?
- Ivan Milenkovic5th October 2011
  Never too late, it is very good approach

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- Tags: Phil Collins, Reggae, Alternative metal, Modern metal, PRS, Dancehall, Groove, Cover, Cosmin Lupu,
Hello GMC’ers! Coming up with a good and interesting cover for a song can be a difficult task. In my opinion, a cover should use the actual melodic lines of a song but re-orchestrate it so that it may bring a totally different vibe to it and make it shine once more, maybe even brighter than before.

The song you might recognize beneath my arrangement is Phil Collins’s classic “Another Day In Paradise”, colored with the alternative metal orchestrations, reggae/ dancehall grooves and a few interventions here and there which are meant to personalize it even more. The song is usually performed in the key of E minor but for this cover version and tuning, the key which I found most fitting is C minor. I actually perform this song with a band called Voodoo, whose style is based on this combination.

The main video shows how all the parts are being put together, while the other videos explain each different part thoroughly and how the chord progressions are transposed.

Focus/ Benefits:
* Rhythmic Sense
* Orchestration
* Improving your metal riff vocabulary from the perspective of mixing different styles.

Meter:
4/4

Tuning:
C - G - C - F - A - D
(From thick to thin string)

Tempo:
112 BPM

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* Give feedback (upper-right-corner)
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Follow the footnotes presented for each part so you may understand everything there is to know about this approach and hopefully you’ll start making up your own personalized cover versions of famous songs.

Cheers!/ Cosmin

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