this is with a cold?! O_O absolutely stunning, your voice is mesmerizing, keep up the amazing work!

Yeah my voice is usually a bit more powerful and controlled than this but my cold has subdued it. :)

I've been itching to sing my heart out for the last few days but this nasty cold smacked me around a bit so I couldnt until today. My voice is all funny at the moment X3

Thanks very much for your comment !

God damnit, I can't believe I skipped you're songs ;_; you have a very beautiful voice.

:D Thank you very very much :D~

Your very very welcome ^^

Final fantasy always has had some of the best music out there, its always so pretty and you do it great justice even with a cold XD

I don't understand. You don't have an orchestra at your house do you? How do you get that good of a string sound or is this the original track with the vocals replaced. This is ridiculously good and I'm starting to get jealous.

Oh, I totally forgot to mention >.<;; I will edit it now. Uusually I explain the backing track and what I did and didn't make myself. This one is just the orchestrated version I nabbed. It is exactly the same as the link I put in my submission comment :) But I am working on finding a backing track that was made specially for me to sing on, I am not sure if I can get it though.

I'm not sure if It would be what you want, but I play pretty much every rock band instruments and do my own backing tracks for my stuff. The best would be if you ever wanted like, a men's quarted behind a solo line. Listen to my stuff and know that it's always an option (plus having you sing on something associated with me would certainly boost my popularity).

I will have a look at your gallery :) I usually check out most of my watchers actually because I like to see their stuff. Thank you for the offer :D

Oh, were you still looking for an avatar btw? I read somewhere you were 2 weeks ago :P

sure, I have a trade that should be done any day now but I'll take anything I can get!. I can do something for it of course.

Well let me know what you fancy if you want an avatar and I can see what I can do ^^;

This has always been one of my favourite songs. Fantastic cover!
I'd love to hear a full version some day. :3

I love this theme, it's so simple but it's really emotional i think. I always wanted to sing to it and when I found they did a vocal version I was happy I could give it a go, even though I don't speak a word of japanese >.<;;

Thank you very much :) x

Bad Lily, you should be resting not singing. But damn, this was seriously with a cold? @@;; You sound so awesome that I can't believe you are sick whatsoever .-. Beautiful voice ^^

Haha~ I know, I guess it came out this way after I sang it about 20 times. My nose/throat wasn't so bad when I did this last ngiht, but today I definately annot sing in tune, my nose is too blocked up! I am considering recording myself to show people how bad my spoeaking voice is. It is pretty random how it was semi ok last ngiht, but I think the difference is that my voice is not as powerful or as sharp as usual.

your voice gets more and more lovely every time i hear it. with a cold or not you did a fantastic job.

Thank you very much ^^ I am pleased you like it, I am flattered reading all my comments :) x

I can't wait for the full version, and await it!

It will sound different to this sicne I will redo it :) So I hope people still like it as much when I do it. I might have sorted some backing as well by then instead of using the instrumental version from the DS game.

LOVELY!!! Good job Lils!

Cold my ass >.< it was good!

Your ass is vold? *rubs it* XD!

Seriously though, I think singing this about 20 times helped to make it clearer, at first I was a bit rusty but it isn't too bad on this one.

You have a cold?... "not being able to sing"!?... Liar! D;<

*laughs* I promise I am not lying. I've suffered terribly since sunday :P But I am past the worst of it I think, and I had a lucky evening last night when I did this. I think it's still clear I am stuffy though on this recording compared to usual, My vocals are definately a lot mellower.

Yeah, it is abit more mellow, but you have such a beautiful voice regardless. ^^

Stunning job! Beautiful. Particularly impressive that you have been able to sing that while suffering with a horrid cold.

I know, it was fluke though I think, today I suck. I had a few hours where I was determined to try and sang this around 20 times, probably more :P And one of the takes was good enough to keep. Back to having a stuffy nose now and sounding like a penguin lol XD

Only 20 takes? Seriously, that sounded like you really worked hard on that. To pull off such a feat in so few takes is astonishing!

I tend to record, then find like ONE thing i don't like. I am obsessive. Even in this take on the snippet here I am grumbling over a few places where I believe I am weaker. The thing is I hate singing in smaller parts, like, recording a line, stopping, recording the next etc. I record the whole lot in one go, so this was one take. x_x So when I mess up I have to record the whole thing over XD It gets really stressful but I prefer the natural flow of vocals like this isntead of stop starting.

When I was doing my Music Tech course, I was notorious for the 150+ Take studio sessions. I'd keep people in the studio for as long as it took... and then some just in case they still had a little bit of magic left in them. I'd try several different takes. I'd break the parts into the usual Intro, Verse, Chorus, Bridge, Ending, etc. I'd have a few full takes, especially for the drummers (poor guys) and I'd also throw in some ad-libbing and other flourishes just so they wouldn't get bored. You never know, you might get something interesting on the spur of the moment!

Oh I agree... I also looked at music tech courses a bit a few years ago but I don't know if it's really for me. I have no idea what I could even do with it. Besides people were telling me you had to have some kind of grade to get in music-wise. But is that true?? I recorded my older songs in hundreds of takes as well, sometimes I would make it up on the spot with the backnig as well like guitar solos and the like. I was a bit sloppy like that. These days I do it a bit differently. Also my computer doesnt seem to like me doing too many tracks or takes, i guess the audio disk gets a bit clogged and the memory is too low... I only have 2gb ram I think... My PC is three years old now and was the best when I got it. It's annoying how fast these things improve :P

If I could play keyboard, I would play To Zanarkand for some hours >.<, but don't know if its possible to learn without lessons. Nevertheless, nice one, even if with a cold.

I have never had piano lessons, yet I picked it up pretty well by learning things by ear. Maybe you could learn on your own since you already have a musical sense? I can play To Zanarkand a little but not all the way. I tend to improvise though and I can't sight-read music. It's frustrating because my mind just picks music up by ear and I learn it that way which means I know no theory work at all. My guitar teacher used to scold me a bit for not reading music and pretending I was :P XD

From my experience, lessons make it easier to start playing an instrument, but they only go so far for me. I've never been formally trained, and I'm not a graded pianist. Despite that, it would appear I can play Mussorgsky (check my most recent submission, plug plug). If you have the willpower and dedication, you'll be able to play whatever you want.

I agree, for some people, being taught isn't the best way to learn. I can pick up most instruments and play them, after a few minutes I will have managed to play a tune on an instrument I don't know. I think it's jsut down to my ear rather than skill. I might never be amazing at one isntrument, but I guess that's the trade off for having such keened hearing. I would love to actually learn the piano though, I think I have potential there. My hands are pretty small though XD

Say what you want about your talents, but I think you are well on the way of mastering at least one instrument: your voice.

As for myself, I really suck at performing for an audience. I can't even play in front of family without screwing something up. My last school recital had my hands shaking like a leaf. I was barely holding together. XD

I have the same problem... well I used to, last time I tried. I haven't performed that many times because I am so shy about it. That's why professional singing or whatever would scare the crap out of me XD I shake a lot too, I understand what it's like. I used to hate standing in front of class doing verbal presentations too, I'd go red and stutter a lot x_x I dreaded it so much.

I can sing quite well live now, maybe practise helps :s I would like to preform I suppose jsut to see if I can. But I am still scared!

I eventually got over my stage fright for speeches and the like, but I've never conquered it for musical performance. I think it's because I really really care about putting on a good show for people and get worked up over trying to make it perfect.

Yeah I am the same, even when i am recording I am freaking out about it not being good enough.

I just cheat. Oh the joys of using a keyboard! :D

I was thinking about that soo long now. I managed to learn guitar by myself without lessons, but I don't know if this would word with keyboard. The sound of a piano is so awesome and calming, so I really want to play, but neither I have the money for a teacher, nor I have time to practice regularly.
And I know what you mean Lily, I can't read notes >.< When I play guitar I also play by chords like everyone else but notes... I can remember where I borrowed a keyboard from a friend once... took me 2 days to learn Halos Peril via youtube videotutorial, but I felt it wasn't right, since I only learned the order of keys to be played by heart. I don't know, I am very confused with this all... there are days where I'd love to play and there are some days where I think I will never manage to play good enough. Sounds a bit stupid, I know, but my friends said that I have a musical sense so I cannot really decide what to do.

Thing with piano is having an actual piano too. I mean, I grew up with a synthesizer keyboard type thing, it was massive and you could make your own synthesised sounds on it. I was lucky to have it I think. I used to compose my own things when I was really young and I recorded them onto casettes XD My dad gave me a book of Beatles sheet music, and I tried to teach myself how to read the notes, but I jsut couldnt learn on my own at that point. But I found that instictively I could learn things from listening to them. If I hear a song for the first time, by the next verse or chorus I already know each instrument part and the drumming pattern and the melodies. Maybe you can do the same by the sounds of it... I thought you mentioned getting a keyboard recently? Or were you just looking into getting one? I don't remember.

I was looking into getting one. But first I wanted to buy a good acoustic guitar

Consider myself blown away; much better than I was expecting. Your voice carries between syllables and words very well!

^_^!! Oh wow, thank you for such a nice comment... I am smiling because it made me happy that someone I watch/admire likes my singing x_x! I obviously don't speak/know japanese so I always worry that I am not accenting the right parts of the vocals, if that makes sense, and also I can't help sounding english when I try to pronounce the sounds. It will never be perfect but oh well. I learn it by listening so I can only do so much.

Fortunately singing lets you get away with murdering a language so long as you put on a convincing performance.

While not exactly related to singing, our lovely former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher once gave a speech in French. The reason this is notable is because she couldn't speak a lick of it, and it became so well known that French ambassadors would make witty and degrading remarks about her in French while in her presence. She had learned of this, and asked her speech to be prepared and written phonetically so that she could at least pretend she was bluffing the whole time. It worked. The offending ambassadors weren't too comfortable sitting through that speech as she had managed to put on such a convincing performance that even they were fooled by it.

Hahaha she was certainly a firecracker about most things she did, and she was such a strong woman to stand up in what was a man's game really - that's exactly the type of thing I would do. Seeing those ambassadors squirm must have been awesome XD. You're right I guess, but I don't have help with my pronounciation other than listening. It's probably not TOO bad, but it's hard to make it sound so convincing if you don't know the theory behind the sounds and stuff in a language. I used to get told that when I spoke italian that I pulled it off really well, I guess it's all related to my hearing again.

Jeez. I have anecdotes for practically everything! One of my workmates at EA was Italian. One day, I had been playing a fair amount of Rock Manager (crappy music manager simulation game, but an entertaining distraction regardless) and we got chatting about something. I just so happened to close the conversation with a quote I heard in the game... completely instinctively. It happened to be an Italian phrase apparently, and he looked at me with surprise and asked me if I spoke Italian... in Italian. I could just about understand that, but I had to confess that I couldn't speak a word of it. Oh crazy days! And I'm taking over your comments section! (Perhaps it's time to switch to MSN... HINT HINT)

Oh well. World domination has to start somewhere!

Hahahaha~ Ok I'll log on msn in a while for you <3 Since you're a cute little moogle.

Want to talk to the boyfriend before he goes off to work though so I mgiht be on after half eightish :3

Parlate italiano?! hahaha~

well hey, thats what practice is; and I think like that all the time when i sing German

Beautiful cover <3

Thank you much :) x

Wish I could sing that well with a cold T____T


That was beautiful :3 I wish you could've finished it

aww thank you ^_^ I will finish it sometime XD I love the song

X3 Yay! And you're welcome :D

Wonderful Music, Beautiful Song, Lovely Voice.

This makes my tail wag, like, crazy!

hahaha *offers you yummy treats* XD thankyou very much :D!

your welcome *gobbles down treats*

Much, much ridiculous love. Beautiful voice. I've been reading the comments and you have a pretty insane gift there. Just instinctively knowing the melodies and drumming parts by hearing them once in a song brings Ray Charles to mind :D

Oooh Ray Charles. D:

And thank you ^^;; I think it's a bit of a random gift in a way. I think my voice is improving, but I never listen to it and think I am that good/unique etc. I am too self doubting >.>;

wow, that is beautiful, you should really try and get signed by a record company, you have such an unbelievably beautiful voice, you definitely have a great shot.

I really appreciate your comment :) I just never look at it that way at all. I would love to sing forever, I really enjoy singing so much. But I never see it as more than a hobby or something. I just don't believe I can go anywhere with it. I guess I have never tried to go anywhere with it so I don't know... I mean looking at all the things people say about my singing should give me a massive ego boost but it just doesn't work XD

well, thats fine, I get it, what I think your trying to say is that you don't want to turn your favorite hobby and pastime into your business where you have to deal with the stress of putting out music constantly. Am I totally off base?

No you're kind of right. I found it really hard to turn my art hobby into commission work, i still get nerves over it. But it is necessary at the moment for me to do it.

I honestly think I would be rubbish at performing. Maybe I would get used to it though. I don't know really.

hey, you never know unless you try, but once you try something like that it will be hard to go back. at least your hobby isn't like mine where I'll eventually end up in a box from it. (I ski some of the most dangerous slopes in the world and I'm never satisfied with anything except the most dangerous and life threatening slopes) feel lucky you have a beautiful and safe passion that hundreds of people like me enjoy and appreciate.

very beautiful indeed, lovely song, l think you did it much justice with your wonderful voice

what kinda mic do you use? Your voice sounds really clear even with the effect you used

I got a new one ;o; it's so cute. And really inexpensive. It's called the Go-Mic by Samson who are notorious for good microphones as far as I can see. The mic I got is a condenser mic with three settings for either room recording or focussed omni directional recording (ie, the stuff I do, vocals and guitar seperately and cleanly).

It cost me £32.50. Seriously incredible buy, usually it's around £70. :D

oh wow thas a great find =o

hehe thankies for sharin ^ ^ *hugs*

*sighs so contently...*

Nobuo Uematsu would be proud. He loves it when others take his songs and play around with them.

That, and your voice is just brilliantly beautiful to listen to.

I doubt I need to go on again about how much I love your voice XD

Wonderful

Within the first six seconds, I knew that this song would be in the top five most beautiful ever written. It takes #4.

1- Ballad of the Wind Fish (Final Version, with all 8 instruments)
2- Lilium (Theme of Elfen Lied)
3- Aerith Theme (Original, from FFVII)
4- This
5- Cruel Angel's Thesis (Neon Genesis Evangalion) (Not sure of spelling on that)