DYNAMITE COVER SKETCH :: Hello Boy’s & Girls, today I’d like to share with you 2 things. The first is an mp3 of a quick sketch of YBH’s cover of Dynamite, and the second is a brief glimpse into how something like this gets translated from Taio Cruz’s original, into YBH’s version. 

To begin with its just an idea. I had heard this song at a wrap party for a TV show, and in a club setting it was pretty amazing. It had sort of a dream-weaver quality to it for some reason or another. I had never heard it before so I SHAZAMMED it…and SHAZAM! It was Dynamite. I could not have prepared myself for how awful it sounded outside of a noisy party environment though. It’s hyper compressed, Taio’s voice is auto-tuned into a starchy digital oblivion, and all the synth’s are out of the can, and entirely cheap sounding. It occurred to me that a jam like this could use a rock and roll facelift. 

So I sat down and learned the song. For anyone who’s interested the chords are C#m - B - E - A give or take a few subtleties here and there. From there, in order to give the band a reasonable image of what it could sound like, before we rehearse, I do a quick throw down in Pro-Tools, and record everything as quickly as possible. 

Everything is essentially 1 take. The bass and drums are synth, and everything else I recorded in my bed room in less then 2 hours. Oh the wondrous power of digital recording. 

In no way should this be considered a final product, just a sketch. Perhaps one day this will make its way onto a YBH album of some kind…until then, enjoy.

Love, Brendan