SUPPORT / DONATE: https://theofficialdavester2296.wordpress.com/ -- Feat. 100% LESS Robo-DAR and MC-Gangsta-Weeb dancing duo silliness (as it normally should be). Once again, I'd like to thank all whom voted for Touhou during the previous COVER BATTLEGROUNDS! Shoutout again to both Niko and Jodnafl for nominating/suggesting this song way back then! With the vocals out of the way, some of the more subtler elements can shine through here in this backing version. One such element being that shamisen that plays the main melody very quietly towards the left side during the choruses. I had actually wanted to try using a flute of some sort for this, but in the end, a subtle shamisen wound up fitting nicely into the mix. I sadly didn't get to record my bass guitar for this cover. As much as I wanted to, I wound up needing to turn to some synth options in order to get the tone I was searching for. In fact, the synth-bass bus wound up becoming a big super layer, consisting of like 8 or 9 different sounds. I also messed with an LFO to fiddle with the volume of this mix-bus, the giving it a bit of a "pump" sound, on top of the "pumps" from sidechaining the bus to the kick. Rhythm guitars were fun, *chugga-chugga*. I really wanted to play the main melody alongside the vocals, but it didn't quite mesh well. So instead, since I'm still going through my "whoa, double tapping!"-phase right now, I wound up tapping out a little melody during the choruses. I'm also really happy with how the new clean guitar parts sounded. I wanted to make this cover heavy-sounding, but not like angry-metal-man kind of heavy. I wanted to capture a mixture of dark and light, a bit of yin and yang, I suppose... Fitting now that I think about it as I type this. So I went all in on my "Aluminum-Metal" sound; a nice light metal. As I worked on this, I could hear how I wanted to do the verses in my head. I was imagining choirs, strings, and maybe even an organ to accompany the verse. The organ wound up getting cut, but the new choir and string parts really add a nice texture to the verses. Actually, the strings wind up playing very quietly throughout the song, just backing up everything else. The strings I think really lighten things up a bit, it sounds more optimistic and bright compared to the darker mood the choir and rhythm guitars are giving off. The contrast between these two moods is most notable during the verses. I also wound up using a nice synth sound that I just started using not too long ago (used it in the Undertale cover right before this one). It just adds such a nice rhythmic feel to the track. You can hear it fairly well at 0:38. Also, I should point out that I didn't recreate those high-pitched distorted whistles/squelches from the original. I've been a bad boy and went and sampled that bit from the original and layered it underneath, shhh don't tell nobody, pls don't sue :(. Oh, one last thing that I remembered that I forgot to mention in the lengthy vid description of the other video. I wound up doing this song one half-step lower in pitch than the original. This was totally an accident at first, because while I was still thinking of doing the original version from Touhou 4, I had assumed that the remix version was also in the same key/tuning. By the time I realized that this assumption was wrong, I had already been recording the rhythm guitar parts. No big deal though, it actually worked out pretty nicely. After all, metal logic dictates that everything is heavier the lower you downtune your guitars (Drop B for any inquiring fellow guitarists out there). Anyways, hope you all enjoy this instrumental version of this cover! ~DAR OPUS DOWNLOAD: https://www.mediafire.com/file/je14elw7faecy6b/Touhou+-+Bad+Apple+[Instr+Cover+By+DAR].opus/file Vocal Version: https://youtu.be/rEU69Mf463g Originally Composed By ZUN Remixed version by Alstroemeria Records ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Make sure to Like, Share, and Subscribe if you enjoyed! Follow me at: (The Den of DAR) Official DISCORD: https://discord.gg/uEAfRWP DAR's Cover-To-Do List: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DowH1EIjiLyeg29cFx-4XOWpr7-bl1Pwb2_OfVaQ1SE/edit?usp=sharing Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Davester2296/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Davester2296 ReverbNation: https://www.reverbnation.com/Davester2296 Originals Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/Davester2296 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL_-Zlu9_4U