This Time (Acoustic Rework)

It's been a while since I made covers so here's the latest one I have came up with. Summer has just started and from the very first day I knew exactly what to do. I have been working on a lot of stuff lately and this one was the newest entry on the list. It may seem pretty odd but this was actually unplanned. After I took my last exam for the semester, on that afternoon, I immediately tried to improvise an arrangement for the song. 

The first time I heard this song was on Armin van Buuren's radio show A State of Trance (episode 700 part 2). The song is entitled "This Time" and it is produced by Nic Chagall (1/2 of Cosmic Gate) and the vocals are by Jonathan Mendelsohn. I really love the melody of the song especially on the intro part; and I think it is really captivating. 

In 4 days, I spent 5 sessions working on this one; each session ranged from 2 to 4 hours. I only used the tablet for recording so it's not really high quality (but I think it can suffice). What made it difficult was me being so error-prone; sometimes it takes me 20 or more clips to finally record the right one. Aside from this, I also had to avoid having background noise especially I have to layer the audio clips. 

After some time spent in shooting and editing for this project, the end product is just probably 60% of what it's supposed to be. First off, I wanted to create a video but along the course of the project, I did a lot of editing on the audio clips that they wouldn't correspond to the video clips anymore. Also, this one is just a part of the whole ideal cover. I had to take the first two parts away since I really had difficulties in putting the rhythm and solo clips together. They just didn't seem to harmonize and that got me so frustrated. But of course it's better to produce some little output rather than letting the whole project go to waste. I also had to go home to my hometown the next day and leave my college apartment so I rendered what I could. 

I know I may not have produced a 100% output for this project but working on it still gave me a sense of fulfillment. For me, it feels great to have produced something and this feeling motivates me to produce more in the future. Right now, I am staying hopeful that I can finish the things I have started so I could finally make the best of what I can today.