Blessed Virgin Mary - Mother of God

When I posted Attie singing my version of “Hail, Mary,” I said I’d post one of myself soon. Yesterday, instead of doing what I really should have been doing, I decided to record myself quickly.

“Oh, it’ll only take a few minutes,’ I convinced myself, not completely aware that (a) I was already deeply in avoidance mode — Hello?! I’d just cleaned the A/C filters and de-mildewed the shower instead of doing what I knew in my heart should be my first priority. — and (b) that I was about to lie to myself once again: “Yeah, I’ll just record it and post it . . . and not worry about it.”

After a few minutes in Audacity, I’d stumbled upon how to record separate tracks. I’d been planning to someday research how to do that for a while now, so it was a jaw-dropping moment when I clicked “record” again and up popped a separate track! Wow!

Obviously, I had to experiment a little bit. Since I’d recorded the melody part already, I recorded the third above that. The sound from playback was creating a lot of noise, so I dug out some headphones and tried it again. Then, I recorded the third below the melody. Definitely not professional quality but really fun to do (and free)!

Here’s the original melody:
[audio:hail-mary-melody.mp3|loop=no]

And here’s the three-part version:
[audio:hail-mary-3parts.mp3|loop=no]