7 aturan meng cover lagu orang lain

Rule #1: If you flip the gender in the lyrics of your cover, you’re making a crappy cover version.
Listen, sing it like it was sung before, regardless of whether you’re a man or a woman. If you can’t handle the homo-eroticism that this causes, get out of the kitchen. There’s a few songs that work toward proving that this rule is true. Sheryl Crow’s “Sweet Child of Mine” and Joss Stone’s “Fell in Love With a Boy” are horrifying examples, but not the worst..

Jadi lagu apapun yang kamu nyanyikan seandainya ada cinta untuk dia (pria/wanita), tetap nyanyikan saja. Jangan diubah lirik nya, misal nya kamu (cowo) yang nyanyi lagu cewe. Lagu asli nya ditujukan untuk “he”, ya jangan diubah jadi “she”. Kamu kan cuma meng-cover lagu orang, pendengar asli nya pasti pengen lirik asli yang dinyanyiin, bukan lirik yang dirombak ama kamu!

Rule #2: If everyone else’s cover of the song you covered covers your cover version, you’ve probably done a good job.
Band kamu lagi mengcover lagu (misalnya) lagu Dream Theater – Fatal Tragedy. Terus band kamu ikut acara musik dan mainin lagu itu, direkam pula dan diupload YouTube. Pas ditonton di YT, ada banyak komen positif dan hasil cover band kamu lebih disukai. Lalu band2 yg lain ikut2an cover lagu DT itu tapi pake style cover band kamu.
The result is, band kamu bisa dikatakan bagus dalam hal meng-cover lagu itu karena ada banyak yang ter-influence. Tapi jangan keseringan lho. Original one is a better!

Rule #3: If a band’s first single is a cover song, that may be an indication that the band’s own songs aren’t all that.
I’m not here to talk crap about The Black Crowes, but when “Hard to Handle” was their first single, it occurred to me that the band might not be so good. And sure enough, I didn’t find much else to like about their first record. They got more interesting as time has gone on, but their musicianship has always been better than their songs, in my opinion. That’s why their most satisfying record is the one where they do all Led Zeppelin songs with Jimmy Page. Well, that and the song “Sometimes Salvation”– that’s pretty great, too.
I feel like the Black Crowes are an exception, as even a really good cover as a first single is a sure sign that you have a one-hit wonder on your hands:

Single pertama dari sebuah band adalah lagu cover dari band terkenal. Strategi yang bagus untuk langsung mengenalkan band baru itu. Persoalan nya adalah bagaimana dengan lagu2 lain nya?

Dari artikel ini, dijelaskan bahwa band The Black Crowes mengcover  lagu2 Led Zeppelin dalam album mereka. Itu hal yang  bagus untuk mengenalkan band baru, tapi perhatian kepada lagu2 buatan mereka jadi kurang. Imbasnya? Just to be cover band, not more.

Rule #4: If you don’t know the words, don’t just make up your own. Look them up. It’s easy.
One of my all-time favorite bands is Moxy Fruvous. I’d link to their website, but they let it lapse many years ago, as they went on hiatus back in the 20th century, leaving their de facto lead singer as a popular CBC host, and the other guys in the band to do whatever it is Canadians do, like play in Great Big Sea and teach Canadian folk songs to school children. And I loved this band, but their cover of Abba’s “Dancing Queen” has made me cringe for years.

Lyric from Abba: See that girl, watch that scene, diggin’ the dancing queen.
Moxy Fruvous version: See that girl, catch that beat, diggin’ the dancing queen.
Now here’s the thing about Canadians. They enunciate. It’s what makes them great. But every time that non-rhyming “beat” was sung with proper emphasis on the “t,” I wanted to punch someone. Sure, that’s because I’m an OCD lyrics nerd, but I couldn’t have been alone.

I’m sure there’s countless examples of this, but unless you’ve got some important reason you’re changing the lyrics … and it better be good … sing them right. It’s not your song to change.
And because I do love Moxy Fruvous, enjoy one of their original songs:

Berhati-hati dengan lirik! Begitulah rules no. 4 ini. Jangan diotak-atik seenaknya (nyambung ama rules No. 1). Kalo memang kamu ga tau lirik nya, Google dong ah. Gitu aja males, apalgi nyanyi nya. It’s not your song to change.

Rule #5: If you’re not the first to do the novelty cover, don’t do the novelty cover.
This is the part in this post where I should link to 300 covers of “Single Ladies.” Or some sort of parody version of Cee Lo’s “Fuck You.” Were I the czar of music for this great country of ours, there’d be an application process to do a novelty cover, especially when the song itself is practically a novelty song (I’m looking at you, Mr. Green). It’s just too much. Thousands of tweets per day are wasted on horrible cover songs made for horrible reasons. I can’t tell you how many novelty covers there’s been of “Empire State of Mind” AFTER the only that’s ever mattered:

The Colbert Report	Mon — Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Alicia Keys — Empire State of Mind (Part II) Broken Down
www.colbertnation.com
http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:258570

Soal ini gue nyerah deh, liat aja ya bahasa inggris nya…

Rule #6: If you’re a band opening for someone famous, and no one knows you all that well, a well placed cover song will win you some fans.

This is pretty much the corollary to rule #2 above. It’s ok, if you’re brand new, to play a cover. In fact, it will probably help. I mean, if you’re in a club, and there’s a bunch of people waiting around to see the band they really want to see, and they don’t know who the heck you are because your single hasn’t really caught on yet, it’s a great time to play a cover. Now don’t go playing the same cover songs as everyone else. We don’t need another version of “White Rabbit,’ or anything by The Beatles or Rolling Stones.

The best cover song move I’ve ever seen was when Dream Theater opened for Yes. Because the older Yes fans were probably wondering who these metal kids were, they needed a way to get into their good graces. And they did something that most bands would never attempt: they covered the headliner! And it was glorious. This is (unfortunately) the best clip I could find of Dream Theater playing Yes’s “Machine Messiah” while opening for Yes. Amazing.

Nah ini yang paling seru, jadi opening band terkenal! Siapa yang ga mau coba ? Kamu langsung tenggelam dalam euforia kegembiraan, senang dan bahagia. Teman2 kamu di band juga sama. Setelah masa2 indah, baru kepikiran. Ntar mainin lagu apa?

Lagu buatan kamu udah pasti, terus lagu apa lagi ? 1 hal yang pasti menurut rule ini : Cover lagu band yg menjadi main star di acara ini. Misal nya, kamu jadi opening band RUSH maka band kamu setidaknya mainin lagu RUSH yang terkenal banget macam YYZ, Tom Sawyer de el el.
Pertanyaan pun muncul. Kenapa ? Untuk mencuri perhatian. Rata2 penonton yg datang pasti pengen lgsg nonton main act nya, bukan band2 yg jadi opening. Terlalu lama dan menyebalkan, tapi beda kalo kamu mainin lagu sendiri disambung lagu band main act itu, udah pasti menyedot perhatian. Penonton yang awalnya berujar,”Nih band apa sih?” menjadi “Wow, keren banget band itu mainin lagu RUSH – YYZ. Mantap bgt!” Proud!!

Contohnya adalah pas band Dream Theater menjadi band pembuka band prog metal jadul, YES. Mereka mainin lagu YES,”Messiah” dan berhasi mencuri perhatian penonton!

Rule #7: There’s enough acoustic versions of Top 40 hits on Youtube to last society through the End of Days. For godsakes people, stop!
Here’s the search results for “Kesha acoustic cover.”
It’s not pretty, people! There’s two different ones at the top there with over a million views each. That’s about 5 million minutes of time spent watching acoustic covers of a song that wasn’t even that good in the first place. Multiply that by all the songs in the world and all the versions, and all of that time could have solved any of this planet’s more pressing concerns. I love Pomplamoose, but Pomplamoose haters would not have had a Hyundai commercial to kick around this winter. We could have had that high speed rail now, and not in 25 years. Independent energy by 2035? Easy! By 2025! People of the world, we have enough acoustic covers of songs to last us until the end of time. You don’t need to make another one, listen to another one, tell a friend about another one, ever again. Ever!

Pernah terpikir untuk membuat versi akustik dari sebuah lagu, baik itu lagu terkenal maupun lagu yang tidak terkenal. Lalu kamu melakukannya, tapi eits…. tunggu dulu.

Coba cari di Youtube versi akustik dari sebuah lagu, dan hasil ny amat sangat banyak. jadi ga usah lah cover akustikan meskipun hasil ny bagus. Bukan apa2, orang2 udah pada jenuh!

via http://sundiesign.wordpress.com/2011/06/02/the-7-rules-of-the-best-and-worst-cover-songs/