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title: Cover of Stevie Wonder's “Superstition”
tags: music,cover,chapman stick
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[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!
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