“Cum On Feel the Noize” is a song by the British rock band Slade released in 1973. It was written by lead vocalist Noddy Holder and bassist Jim Lea. Song reached No 1. in the UK and remained in the charts for 12 weeks.
Picture: Slade
In 1983 American heavy metal band Quiet Riot recorded their own version of the song which success drew huge nationwide attention to the 1980s Los Angeles metal scene and also helped to break Slade belatedly in the US in 1984.
Picture: Quiet Riot
Originally, Quiet Riot’s lead vocalist Kevin DuBrow was strongly against of covering the song, because he wanted the band to write every song on the album. In addition, he was not a big fan of Slade. Instead, the band decided to try to cover the song as badly as they could so the label would refuse to release it. Plan didn’t seem to work very well as the single was a million-selling hit in the United States, reaching No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. Song made history as the first heavy metal song to ever reach the Hot 100.
Slade was a little bitter about Quiet Riot’s success with their song. Slade version was big hit in other countries, but not in US and later Quiet Riot’s version overshadowed Slade’s worldwide.
Source: Various articles of Wikipedia
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I’ve planned to cover Quiet Riot’s version of the song many times, and finally did it. Song has great melody with powerful open chords and Carlos Cavazo’s beautiful solo makes it one of the best rock songs ever recorded.
I made history as well as this is the first guitar cover I did solely with iPad! Learned the song with Anytune Pro which I also used to change the song pitch from E flat to E to prevent re-tuning my guitar. Also used Anytune to increase the song speed by 3%. I then exported the tuned song into Cubasis.
Picture: Anytune Pro
Played the Harley Benton Fusion-II FR Pro guitar via Apogee Jam guitar adapter into JamUp Pro guitar amp app, recorded it with Cubasis 2 where I mixed it with the original song, mastered the song in Final Touch app, imported the final song into LumaFusion where I edited and composed the live Quiet Riot video and my playing video into one and made the final edits and exported into Youtube.
Picture: Positive Grid’s JamUp Pro with the setup I played the song
Picture: Cubasis 2 recorded the guitars (few takes) and mixed with the original song
It really seem desktop & laptop computers are soon history as there’s so much you can do with iPad. Also very good thing is that there’s not much piracy in iOS platform and that means users actually buy apps and developers get money, which in turn encourages them to develop apps further. Also app’s are inexpensive compared to desktop versions.
My cover of Cum On Feel The Noize:
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Made a video how I played this song in my cover video. I’m not claiming this is the only way to play, just a way I played it. Didn’t want to do a traditional guitar lesson video, only some parts of the song and if you are familiar with the song, I’m sure you know what part goes where. If unsure, please see my cover above.
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