Last night I went to downtown Portland with two locals Dustin and Andy to see the Rose Parade. It was a pretty cool event, lots of really tight marching bands and The Last Regiment of Syncopated Drummers. Andy was pretty pumped about the marching bands, partly because he used to be in one (that played in the Rose Parade). It was a good time and good getting to know some good Oregonians.

Here is my arrangement of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.” When I recorded the vocals I was a bit under the weather so that explains why it sounds a bit groggy (or even froggy). I wanted ukulele with what’s called “Brush-Train” drums, which were made famous by Johnny Cash. 

Since this arrangement was actually for school, I had to include some trombone, trumpet, & sax parts. Since I didn’t have live players to record I had to use fake sampled sounds (ugh). I had tried to disguise them best I could with effects, whistles, and other distracting parts.

My Next Project? I need to finish up a song for a friend’s wedding I’m going to at the end of the month.

As always, I included the downloadable Sound Cloud version below.

Somewhere Over The Rainbow by Stella StageCoach