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+title: Cover of Stevie Wonder's “Superstition”
+tags: music,cover,chapman stick
+---
+
+
+[Here](https://soundcloud.com/rekado/superstition) is my
+almost-finished cover of Stevie Wonder's *Superstition*.
+
+<iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/114302583"></iframe>
+
+The drum sounds come from a single Wavedrum track; I played the
+Wavedrum with hands only (no sticks). What sounds a bit like hi hats
+is really the snare of the snare drum sound, played with the
+fingertips. The patch consists of a velocity-sensitive snare drum and
+bass drum sounds. (There are still some spots in the drum track that
+don't sound tight.)
+
+The bass is a custom patch on the Nord Lead synthesizer (a little too
+much portamento, I think).
+
+Where in the original several clavinet tracks are used I recorded a
+single Alto Stick. The main theme is played with the left hand on the
+bass side while the chordal accents are played on the melody side with
+the right.
+
+Sadly, I don't own any brass instruments, so I played the unison
+section on the Alto Stick (two-handed), added a guitar and spread them
+wide apart in the stereo spectrum.
+
+I also added a few splashes of Ukulele whenever it's a little quieter
+in the song. Because I have one (yay).
+
+I'm not really satisfied with the whole thing, but it's impossible for
+me to distinguish between annoyances due to perfectionism and those
+that are actually justified.  I'm still working on a video showing the
+arrangement on the Stick; before publishing it I might revisit the mix
+of my recording and tweak the sound a bit.
+
+The whole track was recorded and mixed with
+[Free Software](https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html), most
+notably [Ardour](http://ardour.org) and the
+[Calf audio plugin suite](http://calf.sourceforge.net/plugins.html).
+To the developers and maintainers: thank you so much!