covers

I frequently use cover songs in my teaching, usually at the first of the semester.  Students are accustomed to persons "covering" songs- reworking a tune to make it their own.  So I introduce typical covers where little changes and then the more absurd ones (ex: "Hot in Here" original and cover).  It helps them to understand specific musical elements that are different and those which remain the same in a context that they are very familiar.  Overall, they find that tempos sometimes are altered, instrumentation most often, rarely form, sometimes melody and genre.

Now the question of the evening: what to do with this one!



There are no words to describe the sheer amazingness of this.