Posted on - September 27, 2007 [at] 3:51 pm by Brad
Tagged in - outofit, vocals
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Hey hey. I need some background vocals for the title track of my next album (Out of It). I kinda want it to have a singalong vibe. Instead of just going to some of my singing buddies I thought it’d be fun to try opening it up to anyone out there.
So here’s the unfinished song with rough vocals:
How to play along at home:
1. Record yourself singing along with this song as best you can. It doesn’t have to be the greatest quality, but try to keep clipping/distortion & mic pops to a minimum. Note: I need a recording of only your singing to be able to mix you in.
2. Upload your audio files to ccMixter.org under an Attribution Creative Commons license (which gives anyone permission to use your vocals as long as they give you credit). Please tag the file with “outofit”. Update: ccMixter has a submit form specifically for this. If you’re logged in, go here.
Deadline: Monday, October 15th Sunday, November 11th.
What’s in it for you: If I use your vocals I’ll credit you in the liner notes for the song and ship you out a free copy of the record when it’s done. Woo!
Thank you! (You can see the submissions so far here.)
Update: fieryprophet has mixed all the vocals as of October 16th, check it out [5mb mp3].
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Tom on Out of It community backup vocals
September 27, 2007 at 6:24 pm
Do you just want straight vocals or any attempts at harmonies too?
Brad on Out of It community backup vocals
September 27, 2007 at 7:48 pm
You’re welcome to do whatever you like. I plan to take the submissions and see what works.
Elijah on Out of It community backup vocals
September 27, 2007 at 7:55 pm
Sweet, count me in. Is it OK to try several different versions?
Brad on Out of It community backup vocals
September 27, 2007 at 8:03 pm
Oh certainly, the more the merrier.
mike b on Out of It community backup vocals
September 27, 2007 at 9:20 pm
Awesome — funny, I’m hoping to do something very similar in 1-2 months, but just for the exit chorus of a new song. Anyway, I’m in, hopefully. Fun song, Brad!
Klif on Out of It community backup vocals
September 28, 2007 at 5:44 am
I did something similar to this a couple of years ago.
Alas, mine turned out horribly. Better luck on yours!
Robin on Out of It community backup vocals
September 28, 2007 at 8:46 am
cool… but i need to figure out my recording system…
like the song. got it down.
rr
Aaron on Out of It community backup vocals
September 28, 2007 at 1:13 pm
Cool song, Brad. But I think you should post a non-vocal version to allow for more individual interpretation when singing along. Easier for the singer, ultimately.
Brad on Out of It community backup vocals
September 28, 2007 at 1:50 pm
I’m not sure how usable background vox will be if the timing varies too much from mine, I’m interested to try. But here you go:
http://www.bradsucks.net/music/demos/Brad_Sucks_-_Out_of_It_instrumental_demo.mp3
Chris on Out of It community backup vocals
September 29, 2007 at 1:35 am
I like the song Brad. I knocked out some harmonizing vocals. Now to figure out where exactly to send it, lol.
Aaron on Out of It community backup vocals
September 29, 2007 at 3:47 pm
Ah… I just reread your original post and see that you were looking for backing vox! My mistake. Thought you wanted a whole new lead.
leandra on Out of It community backup vocals
October 2, 2007 at 1:09 am
i am a new member to this website and i want to give your song a shot but i am having a hard time downloading the song whats the best way to do that
fieryprophet on Out of It community backup vocals
October 2, 2007 at 10:25 pm
I’ve uploaded my attempt to ccMixter, but *ahem* it’s rather rough :) I would have put it through some cleaning up, but I didn’t know if you had your own mixing process so I figured I let you do your magic instead. If it’s not clean enough, drop me an email and I’ll try a better take.
Brad on Out of It community backup vocals
October 3, 2007 at 10:16 am
You are awesome, fieryprophet.
leandra: Right-click and save as?
Frogroast on Out of It community backup vocals
October 3, 2007 at 11:07 am
Hi there,
The link to the track is coming back as unavailable.
Would love to listen to it and give it a shot at backing vocals.
Love your music!
Brad on Out of It community backup vocals
October 3, 2007 at 11:41 am
Huh, it’s working fine here. Anyone else having problems?
Frogroast on Out of It community backup vocals
October 3, 2007 at 9:59 pm
OK… chalk one more up to Vista. I had tried earlier with my laptop and failed but the main computer at home, running XP, had no problems. Sorry for the needless worry!
Oh yeah… bradsucks.com, ahem, gotta love cybersquatters!
elijah on Out of It community backup vocals
October 4, 2007 at 8:28 am
Just posted another version of mine, this time singing as lead versus background vox.
kaddar on Out of It community backup vocals
October 5, 2007 at 9:19 pm
Hey man, just wanted to say this song is rad.
Chris on Out of It community backup vocals
October 6, 2007 at 9:20 pm
I just submitted my version under BLT. I hope I tagged it right. Let me know if you got it, Brad. After listening, I noticed I dropped to a weird key on the “own” word every damn time, but I didn’t hear it when I was recording. Easy fix if this is what you’re looking for. I’m not a great singer, but I love making music ;)
DaveII on Out of It community backup vocals
October 11, 2007 at 8:22 pm
Thanks for the extension. I’ll see if I can get it done.
PoHeadway on Out of It community backup vocals
October 12, 2007 at 7:49 am
This is awesome Brad. I certainly am going to lay down some backup voxs for you.
Anti-m on Out of It community backup vocals
October 12, 2007 at 8:14 pm
Hey Brad! I’m sitting down to tackle this… thanks for posting the instrumental only track — that will help — but would it be too much of a pain to also post your “vox only” track too? That would make things easier for me, anyway!
Anyhoo, this is a cool idea. I hope it turns out well!
–Em
liam on Out of It community backup vocals
October 13, 2007 at 12:45 pm
i think it would sound awesome to have a ton of people going “bum bum ba” like “All the colored women go…” working on my vocal right now
Anti-m on Out of It community backup vocals
October 13, 2007 at 9:33 pm
Also!
Do you happen to have a preference for the file type that gets uploaded? I was planning on zipping .wavs… but I’m happy to compress to .mp3s if that’s what you’d like.
Brad on Out of It community backup vocals
October 14, 2007 at 9:35 pm
Anti-m: WAVs or MP3s are fine. Higher quality the better obviously, but whatever sounds good to your ear.
Do you still need my vocals?
Anti-m on Out of It community backup vocals
October 15, 2007 at 5:02 pm
Nah, I managed to muddle through, I think. Thanks, I’ll post these very soon.
-Em
ouija reapairman on Out of It community backup vocals
October 16, 2007 at 5:00 pm
This looks fun. I thought about trying this once with mychingo, but this looks like a better procedure. Oh, wait — you’re looking for “good” backing vocals? Blast!
liam on Out of It community backup vocals
October 16, 2007 at 5:25 pm
all right, i’ve got mine done. i don’t know if it’s good enough though. could you give me some assurance or unassurance that it is or isn’t brad?
Brad on Out of It community backup vocals
October 16, 2007 at 5:58 pm
ouija reapairman: Did I say good? I’ll take any!
liam: Sounds fine to me. Keep in mind that my idea is to mix a bunch together to get a crowd sound so the individual singing perfection doesn’t matter much.
LSK on Out of It community backup vocals
October 16, 2007 at 9:32 pm
I’m going to join in. Do you mind vocal manipulations? Lately, I’ve been doing lots of zombie-noise-rock, so I’ve been recording at a full octave lower than my normal voice.
Anti-m on Out of It community backup vocals
October 16, 2007 at 11:03 pm
Ok — I’ve got two mono mp3s up there for your use. The levels might be low-ish, but I imagine you can remedy that. For some reason the site wouldn’t let me upload zipped .wavs (despite claiming that such were acceptable?) If you need the .wavs, let me know and I’ll post ‘em somewhere else for you to grab.
–Em
Tolwyn on Out of It community backup vocals
October 22, 2007 at 5:00 pm
Hey, Brad.
The phrasing you’ve chosen for this song is very abnormal; making it difficult to submit/suggest new phrasing.
Do you have a bed-track only?
Brad on Out of It community backup vocals
October 22, 2007 at 9:55 pm
Hi Tolwyn, instrumental is here:
http://www.bradsucks.net/music/demos/Brad_Sucks_-_Out_of_It_instrumental_demo.mp3
What’s abnormal about the phrasing? (Just wondering.)
Flamecone on Out of It community backup vocals
October 25, 2007 at 5:11 pm
Sweet. I’ll post my vocals soon. would I just be able to use my cell phone voice recorder or should I use my friend’s built-in mic?
Brad on Out of It community backup vocals
October 25, 2007 at 11:36 pm
Either’s fine with me, Flamecone.
Mike Roach on Out of It community backup vocals
October 26, 2007 at 4:02 pm
Hey Brad, I’m going to work on mine today. I just found out about it yesterday. I also posted an announcement over on the WANC website. Hopefully we can get get you some more submissions out of that.
Later,
Michael
Stangus on Out of It community backup vocals
October 27, 2007 at 12:17 am
Done! Hope it’s everything you wanted and more. Look forward to the finished product.
-Stangus
Billy's Little Trip on Out of It community backup vocals
October 28, 2007 at 1:00 am
Oh damn, Anti-M reminded me that I need to submit vox alone. I’ll get that done tomorrow. Sorry abooot that.
Chris ;)
Mike Roach on Out of It community backup vocals
October 29, 2007 at 3:32 am
Okay. Finally got mine up and posted. Tried to get it as clean as possible.
Probably won’t matter if a few people have some hiss and noise, but if there’s too many I’d think the noise would accumulate.
Anyway, hope that works for ya’
Eric Gillingham on Out of It community backup vocals
November 4, 2007 at 10:30 pm
I’ll get a recording done when I can, just a side idea, what if you also got those doing songs to webcam a clip or something. Would make an easy automatic music video with some time spent editing.
Brad on Out of It community backup vocals
November 4, 2007 at 10:32 pm
That’s a great idea. I wish I had thought of that before!
Maurice j. on Out of It community backup vocals
November 5, 2007 at 2:50 pm
It isn’t over yet I hope… I see the date has been pushed, yet I see mixed all the vocals… Well Hell, I’m doing it anyway…
Maurice j. on Out of It community backup vocals
November 6, 2007 at 5:03 pm
Threw down my crappy track… I hope I get in, I just think it’s such an excellent idea, it’d be nice to be a part of it…
DaveII on Out of It community backup vocals
November 10, 2007 at 7:36 pm
http://ccmixter.org/media/files/Dave_II/12316
I posted this on the regular boards too because I forgot where this topic was.
This is what I put down for an explanation -
Added lyrics at the end are Tracy Chapman’s. I thought the dichotomy between Brad’s “i’ve got no time to make you believe me†and Tracy’s “You’ve gotta make me change my mind†was too tempting to resist.
And just to let you all know my delusions are no longer suffering in a state of grandeur. Thank you very much Brad. lol
I hope it’s O.K. to have those added lyrics at the end, because they do belong to someone else. Maybe they could just be real quiet? If not maybe you could just cut that part out. Sorry if it adds work to it.
Doodee on Out of It community backup vocals
February 2, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Thanks for sharing
candice on Out of It community backup vocals
June 10, 2008 at 10:39 pm
aww i juz now found diz website and itz lyk a year later :( are u still lookin 4 some1 or did u already find some1?
J.P. on Out of It community backup vocals
September 9, 2008 at 9:14 am
Hey–
The final sounds. Though the track that fieryprophet mixed — just a capella — sounds freaking awesome. Any chance someone could do an updated a capella mix with more voices?
Hmm… that’d be a cool thing to put on a bonus CD…
– J.P.