By : Clarisa Colton
I have decided that for my remix and adaptation project, I’m going to make a cello cover of the song “Hurricane” from act 2 of Hamilton. It’ll probably end up being a mixture of sheet music I can find online plus some things I’ll add in myself. Those will probably be elements I figure out during the process – like what makes sense and sounds good. I have played the cello since I was in third grade, but have recently not been playing as much due to school – so I’m really excited to play again for school. Cello used to be such a huge part of my life, I even considered majoring in it, so it’s been pretty frustrating to not be able to find the time for it.
I don’t have too much experience with making covers but I did do a pretty rad cover of One Direction’s “Drag Me Down’ in high school (I had my 1D phase pretty late). I had a really good time putting that together so I feel like I will also have a really good time doing this one. I chose “Hurricane” because I feel like it will lend itself really well to covering on cello, and it has aspects that are slower and more melodic as well as some more upbeat parts. I wouldn’t have worked as well to do a song that’s mostly/all rapping because that wouldn’t be able to come across on the cello as well. Some things that will be challenging is that I am a bit of a perfectionist and I know I won’t be satisfied (no pun intended) until I think it sounds perfect – which isn’t really possible. Another possible challenge will be that I’ll probably have to do any recording at home since that’s where my cello is and I don’t really have a space on campus where I could do it, but that will probably be fine as long as I set aside enough time for it (I live 20 minutes away). Overall I’m really excited to begin working on this project!