Blackbird – An a cappella cover of the Beatles song by chilljam.com
Continuing on our Beatles kick, we’ve got an a cappella cover of the Beatles song Blackbird. Last weekend, we didn’t get together to jam as Jeremy is out of town. However, I ended up not being able to sleep later that night and decided to work on a version of Blackbird that we were toying with several weeks ago while hanging out on my deck.

When we were hanging out, Neil and Jeremy were playing acoustic guitars and playing around with different ways of playing the song based on the original song’s guitar line. I’ve honestly not heard the song in many years, so I think I was actually throwing them off while they were trying to figure it out.
However, when we were jamming on it, it felt like a song that would naturally translate to an a cappella performance. The melody in the lyrics carries the song in an easy way so, I just decided to lay down a track for fun.
Also, last week was my wedding anniversary and my wife and I went out to dinner. At dinner, there happened to be a decent bluegrass band playing and I was really into the way the band carried their four part harmonies. So I decided to try working out a four part harmony to this song for fun as well. I sang through the song in entirety 4 times, each time in different pitches. Afterwards, I mixed it down so to make use of the harmony lines better in contrast to the single voice lines.
Anyways, this is the result.

Original song written by Lennon/McCartney.

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