Title: My Maria
Released: 10 May 2018
Length: 2:44 min

Background & Recording

The song is a cover of the Tielman Brothers. This recording contains so many firsts for me! It’s unbelievable. I’ll try to remember them all.

  • It’s the first song that I recorded together with my father.
  • The first song with multiple vocal lines.
  • The first song where I tried to recreate the drums note for note (from an original studio recording by the Tielman Brothers).
  • The first song that I had to properly mix main vocals and backing vocals, use compression and all that stuff.
  • The first song recorded without my digital amp software.
  • The first song recorded with an actual guitar amp. We used my father’s Fender Blues Junior, experimented with mic-placement etc.
  • The first song where I actually studied and recorded a guitar solo (was it with my father’s Strat?). I should have made some notes.

Listening back, I can definitely hear some flaws. But I’m very proud of what we accomplished with this recording. And I really learned a lot from this process.