An Acapella of "Weird Fishes", filmed in World of Warcraft (Patreon)

Published:

2018-02-18 17:44:43

Imported:

2023-10

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It's not often I hear a song that *really* affects me, but this is one of them. It's been a decade since I first heard it, but I love it more now than ever...so much that this song came to mind first when thinking about music projects. The structure of this song is like no other, and I love the way the guitars stack on each other with the bass and vocal melody (in the original, that is. In this version it's ALL vocals).

With 25 vocal tracks and 10 percussion tracks, this song matches the huge stack I had going on in "One Winged Angel". The more I experimented with this song, the more fun I had, so I just kept adding more vocals!

I envisioned the video being completely underwater, but I don't have the camera nor the capability to do any real underwater filming. So I did the next best thing; diving underwater virtually in a video game. World of Warcraft always had amazing underwater landscapes even in old expansions, so I went back to "Cataclysm" and spent a whole day rediscovering the ocean there & filming. This marks the first acapella video on my channel without the classic multi-Smooth frames, but I think this beautiful song deserved its own visuals.

Let me know what you guys think of it.

Thanks!!

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Smooth McGroove - Weird Fishes Acapella

My a-cappella arrangement of "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi" originally by Radiohead. This song has so many beautiful elements...I could fill this space with paragraphs trying to describe them. Probably favorite song from the album "In Rainbows" and one of my favorite songs to jam to, period. I did my best to create something different from the original, yet still keep what I loved about the song alive. I ended up with something like 25 vocal tracks, not including the 10 tracks of claps and other percussion. All sounds made by my mouth & hands. I haven't had this many vocals stacked since One Winged Angel! As I was visualizing a video for this a-cappella, I could only think of being under water. It's fitting that I ended up recording the video for this song in World of Warcraft, because when this album dropped I was diving pretty hard into The Burning Crusade. ●Support my videos on Patreon ► http://www.patreon.com/SmoothMcGroove ●Listen to this song on Spotify ► https://goo.gl/cS6ZDv ●Download this song on iTunes ► https://goo.gl/X9UbDY ●Download this song on Google Play ► https://goo.gl/Ymdr7z ●Follow me on Facebook ► http://www.facebook.com/smoothmcgroove1 ●Follow me on Twitter ► http://twitter.com/SmoothMcGroove