Believer - Imagine Dragons cover || Vibes web3 music competition week 12 (Pain!)

Hey guys! first of all, a cordial greeting to the organizers and all the people participating in Vibes web3 music contest on Hive, it´s been twelve weeks of amazing talents fulfilling this event with the magic only music can bring. To be honest it was a hard week for me, and many things didn't happen the way I had planned, or how I would have liked them to happen, I would have loved to publish my participation sooner, but i couldn´t for different reasons, for example, but here we are and i´m grateful to be able to share my entry for this week of Vibes with all of you.

Pain. when i came to notice this was the weekly theme, i said to myself that i could not let this week pass without participating, because i think this is a deep and meaningful topic, and it resonates with me. Pain makes us human, we are all destined to experience it through our lifetime, so it kind of connect us in some way, and therefore it is a natural source of inspiration for artists since the beginning of art itself. Speaking of pain, one of my best friends had an accident on his motorcycle just 2 days ago and he injured his head, thanks god he is alright now and his wound is healing, he is also a musician and a hiver, my friend @franciscodesousa who is also the one who borrows me his guitar sometimes, like in my past entries but after what just happened to him i thought it would be disrespectful to ask him for the guitar, like, the guy just had an accident let´s give the man a break y´know, so im recording this week with my old guitar that´s missing a string.

So as we all know there is physical pain and there´s also another kind of pain, a bit more complex, the emotional pain, this one is the one that has inspired most songs through the history of music, of course, many of my own songs are quite inspired by this emotion, but this song of Imagine Dragons seemed to fit just perfectly with the theme, i also considered to do a cover of Kurt Cobain´s version of "In The Pines" because i think that song really conveys that feeling of pain, and "You Know You´re Right" too, for obvious reasons (the song says "pain" like 100 times hehe) but maybe in another ocassion, this time i decided to perform "Believer", a very challenging song for many reasons, starting with the fast-tempo rap-like parts of the lyrics (im sure @verbal-d will appreciate that) i must say that as a spanish native speaker i´m proud of being able to sing an english song in this level of difficulty, the tempo and the silences present through all the song also add some difficulty, add to that the difficulty of singing those lyrics while playing the guitar, im sure the judges will consider all that. I also added some additional voices as choruses to back up the main voice, i´m not an expert doing this but i hope you enjoy the result.

I would like to clarify that my knowledge of music theory is very limited, and my knowledge of musical production/edition/masterization is almost null, i just put all together on the Videopad edition program and try to make it sound good. I know that im posting this on the edge of the time lapse but i hope my entry is valid, i really put a lot of effort and love on this one, so i really hope you like it, see you all next week!

link to my entry:

https://x.com/JulioPalomo_/status/1797884624590541086