I decided to change my choice of song, but stay with the same group. Coldplay. After I had put up “Violet hill”, I got a large number of requests to try “Viva la vida”. Too many requests to ignore really. So I set about recording that one. It’s another one from their latest album with the same title.
some consider that it’s not very professional to cover songs with backing tracks, but I always find a use in everything I attempt in music. One of the things I want to get really good at is production. It’s great to record all the musical parts perfectly, but if the mix isn’t produced properly, then all that work means very little.
One of the aspects I’ve been concentrating on is vocal production, and I’ve been trying to match that of the original song. I think it’s made a big difference in the result, and it’s teaching me how to produce my own voice in relation to the different types of music.
I’ve implemented vocal boosting on this song. Plus low to moderate plate reverb in the verses. Chorus and a heavier plate reverb in the chorus.
This is the result. Viva la vida.
Viva la vida - Coldplay cover by Jeffstunes
Now for the statistics digest for my Youtube channel.
I’ve had a few subs come and go, but yesterday I woke up to 6 new subscribers overnight. The total now stands at 727.
Channel viewings are currently 16,529.
My total video views have done it! They’ve broken the quarter of a million views. All of this within a year of posting my first video. The current figure now stands at 254,512.
Hopefully I can now go back and do that old Coldplay album track 
Jeff Edwards