Bzean123

R.I.P David Bowie, once for actually passing and another for me slaughtering his music.  Nevertheless, here is my nearly late cover of "Starman" In tribute to the Starman himself who most certainly is back home planning his next visit to Earth right now.  
http://picosong.com/Bv5m/

I liked that, Felipe. I recorded that one the day after he passed. Might do a bit of a remaster at some point for more fidelity. 
I liked Ronws singing Space Oddity too. Actually I've liked everything everyone has done so far. This thread has some of the highest batting average of our challenges.

RIP David Bowie:
 
Great idea gsoul, keep em comming folks!

He breaks left, he breaks right, he scores!! Another slam dunk. Never even heard this song before, but now I have one more Bowie song I like.
Bzean gets most of the credit for suggesting something along the lines of this. We just voted

Nice one, MDEW. I almost forgot how you sound. You get this folklike quality pretty easily.
 
Enjoyed that one, Ron. First time I ever heard that entire song.
 
I think you pretty much decided it for me, Killer. Time for me to pick back up that guitar. Not bad at all. I know how limited time can be so feel free to take your time with it. And that actually brings me to the next thing.
 
How about we let this one go to the end of 2016? It would give everybody the opportunity to do multiple tributes and take their time. Of course, we'll still be doing new challenges while this goes on. We'll get some variety in this sub-forum.
 
And hopefully we don't lose anybody else this year.

I'm digging both of these. Gsoul sounds great with the Prince tune. I think with an improved mic you'd sit right in that track.
MDEW, I love that. Your voice sounds like you, but more more confident, firm, and supported. It sounds like the best direction you could go. 
I had time to be as loud as I want today without disturbing anyway, so I took rough stab at Life on Mars. It has so many chords and is difficult for me to play and sing at the same time.
I wanted to make sure something was posted before the challenge was over, but I'm hoping to get a better version once I get the chords and guitar playing more memorized.

Great Job Bzean and Gsoul.
I was working on a Glenn Fry song and may upload it later. Too much thought going into it.
This is more the way I work. Remember a song, look up Lyrics and chords and just record it. The melody may be a little off and there is no embellishment. Just my way of interpreting the story.   Here is one for  Merle.

Awesome. I missed your voice. It's so distinct and that song is a great fit.
I've got a weird situation at home now, so I don't know if I'll have enough personal time to record loud noises right now. Otherwise I'd be all over this.

Bravo, Bzean, bravo.
 

Already been thinking about what I'm going to do.
 
Probably going to be this song by Prince. SO much soul!
 
 

As we just about come up on the halfway point of 2016, we've unfortunately lost several big names in music. Prince, David Bowie, and Maurice White of Earth, Wind and Fire, just to name a few. This is a challenge where we will challenge ourselves by selecting a song from the catalog of one of these great artists and attempting to sing it ourselves.
The only requirement for this challenge is that the song must be by somebody who passed away in 2016.
As far as time limits for this one goes, I was thinking about 45 days but suggestions are welcome.

This is just a draft. It is late I am tired and it is what it is. I just wanted to give proof that I am working on something.
 Be kind give tips................ Thanks.
 

I like Jeremy's version cause it has just a hint of escalating intensity as the pitch ascends while being emotive and palatable  You've made progress, man.  It's not an not an ugly sound nor overly pretty either so it has some edge with a song that might sound a bit sappy.  
Me, I  wanted to do a spontaneous one take thing singing and playing guitar cause those are the skills I've been wanting to work on lately.   
https://app.box.com/s/n6u41ddi8na8ovbtwvq8lntst132kxz6
It was only afterward I realized I hadn't checked the mic sensitivity properly so I clipped in a few loud parts. Sad. But hopefully I learned my lesson. If you're determined to do one take, it's even more important to check mic levels.

I finally had a few minutes,
late at night so I had go with something soft. Let me know what you think.

Nice interview Robert!

I would like to dedicate this cover to KillerKu who wrote a wonderful review to my "Fever" cover.....I love singing and explore almost every music genre but sometimes I feel like being dragged to some particular songs like this one....please tell me what you think!

I forgive you. (you asked for forgiveness.) 
 
And don't worry about lapses in playing. I get that sometimes, on songs I have been playing longer than you have been alive.
 
My memory is what I forget with.
 
I like your voice and you've got the right tone. If you wanted to be in a Beatles cover band, you would do well.

Raise your hand if you heard the guitar and then just clicked the close button.
This is about the singing not the style........If you have comments please post. I am trying to improve not impress.

I don't mind the nit picking at all.   I noticed those wonkey things also. I start off the verse flat and kind of slide into it, If you thought the high parts were flat you should have heard the rest of the 2 or 3 hours worth of recording that I scrapped. 
    I had to change that bridge with "Cards on the Table"  I just could not sing that G#4 covered or straight and had to drop it to the F4.  I was surprised that it worked as well as it did.
    Thanks for listening. I do plan on working on this some more.