September 2011
1 post
Sled Dog Studios moving to Monthly Schedule
Hey Everyone,
It has been a great couple weeks here with the Free Track Friday program. We collaborated with some great names in a cappella, pushed ourselves and pushed some boundaries.
However, with the school year starting up we are moving the Free Track Friday program to a monthly release. This will give us time to put out the same quality everyone would expect during our busy season.
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August 2011
3 posts
Free Track Friday #11
SCIENCE!
For Free Track Friday #11 we bring you a creative mashup of Adele’s Rumor Has It with Muse’s Supermassive Black Hole arranged by Katie Riegal and Josh Goodman.
For Supermassive, we were excited to use a lady bass :) To achieve this, we ran Leanne’s voice through a Boss OC-2. The OC-2 is an analog octave pedal which produces two separate octaves below the root of...
Free Track Friday #9
COLLABORATION
Free Track Friday #9 is Michael Bublé - Sway. This track started with Dave emailing Tom Anderson from a wedding saying “You need to arrange Sway right now. k thx bye.” After a great deal of confusion, Tom created a BEAST of an arrangement. 10 parts, splits in 9 of the 10 parts. At least 3 people on each part with doubles. Massive….simply massive.
Once we...
Free Track Friday #8
FROM THE ARCHIVES
Most of you may have been expecting to see Michael Buble’s Sway tonight. Well, we received some VERY unexpected names on the track and as such wanted to take an extra week to really polish it before release. Thus, this week we bring you a track from the Eight Beat archives of 2009, Jason Mraz’s Geek in the Pink. This is the first track that Dave tracked, edited,...
July 2011
3 posts
Free Track Friday #7
Original Composition!
This week, Sled Dog had the pleasure to work with the Smoking Hot Pipes on an original composition by Matthew Bielewicz. You all should remember Matthew Beilewicz from his solo on Free Track Friday #5, Little Lion Man. Percussion on this track was performed by Mickey Hamilton. Background vocals were performed by the Smoking Hot Pipes.
Couple interesting things with this...
Free Track Friday #5
ORGANIC PRODUCTION
Quite a few people wanted to hear a more organic tune out of us. Welp, here ya go! Mumford & Sons: lots of banjo, driving kick drum, folky, powerful. BTArranging: tongue twisting, rhythmic, wall of sound. The result? spectacular.
This was our first project using Dropbox for remote collaboration. Drop in a MIDI and PDF of the arrangement, let your singers know the...
Free Track Friday #4
When you start with a great solo, everything else falls into place. This week’s track is Jessie J’s - Mama Knows Best. First thing’s first…CHECK THIS OUT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y29eTcRFEl8
Mama Knows Best was arranged by Mickey Hamilton and arrangement edited by Tom Anderson. The arrangement was mostly based on the original with some ideas taken from the live...
Free Track Friday #3
Scene 1: Roh and Dave occupy separate rooms in the “Eight Beat” apartment @ RIT’s University Commons. Roh being Roh wanders around the apartment all day every day reciting everything from Bobby McFerrin to Lordi.
Roh: “Dipide Jipide Dipide JIpide Dipide Jipide Dipide Jipide”
Dave: “If I wrote you a symphony, would you say how much you mean to me”
Roh:...
June 2011
4 posts
Free Track Friday #2
This week’s Free Track Friday is a lighter tune: Keep Your Head Up by Andy Grammer. We first heard this song on the Songs for Japan compilation and thought it went along well with one of the overarching goals of this program: charity. Each Free Track Friday will be posted online for free for a week, after which it will be posted on iTunes. All of the proceeds from our iTunes sales will...
My a cappella group on Perez Hilton! →
joepowerbass:
HOLY SHIT YOU GUYS.
I am SO FUCKING STOKED!!! We’re on fucking PEREZ HILTON!!!
Please go check it out, especially if you like Adele! :D :D :D
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Free Track Friday #1
Welcome to the Sled Dog Studios tumblr!
This summer, we’ll be documenting our quest through the “Free Track Friday” project. Every week we will be arranging, recording, editing, mixing, and mastering a new track and releasing it for free each Friday. The following week we will upload the track to iTunes and donate the proceeds to charity. We’ll also be posting here to...