Ceremony music- behind the scenes ^^

i'm awaiting a few videos from my friends cameras to get the behind the scenes on the dances ^^

but for now! behind the scenes on the ceremony music ^^ Alot of people have been asking me how I was actually able to get the love story arrangement by jon schmit before he actually released it as a mp3.

For those of you who have NOOO idea what I'm talking about, this is the song i used:

Love story meets viva la vida by John Schmidt:


I simply fell completely in LOVE with this arrangement.... it was so beautiful! I kept waiting and waiting for the mp3, religious checking his site to see if he had it available yet. BUT he was never able to release it in time! (had difficulties getting rights from coldplay)

So being insanely desperate, I ripped the music off of the youtube video. But as you may notice from the video.. in the beginning a 0:13 there some laughing sounds.. and then later at 0:16 a really loud obvious yawning sound.

So how did I do it? How did I take that all out? and take out all of viva la vida?

Garageband on jeanna's mac book pro and numerous hours of listening to the song over and over and over and figuring out how to use garage band haha =)

Heres exactly what I did:

1. Get rid of the laughing/yawning: I layered the song over and over each other to mask the yawning sounds. The begining repeats a few times, it was tricky, but doable ^^

2. Split the song in to two parts: 1st part for bridesmaids/flowergirl/ring bearer, 2nd part for me and my daddy ^^ My favorite part of the song started at 2:44, its the part of the song when shes feeling like shes losing faith and hope.. and then he pops out no where tells her he loves her and that hes worked things out with the parents, pops the question and tells her to go get a white dress. *dreamy sigh*

So, part 1 is from 0:00 to 2:41 that way, if someone walked to fast or too slowly, there was a pause in the music ^^

and part 2 (my favorite part of the song!) is from 2:41 to 3:44 (right before the song cuts to vida la vida) and I cut it to the very end at 5:49 where it ends with love story again ^^

3. Part 3 somehow cut viva la vida out without make the song sound totally chopped off: This is the part that took me the longest.. and I am the most proud of! ^^ it was super complicated to get the music to sound right.. but after hours of playing with it... and trying to layer the song differently, I somehow magically did it! hahah I ended up backing up a bit and layering the transition from viva la vida back in to love story, and meshed that up with the downard scale, and somehow it just worked! I have no idea how. ^^

Heres was the result ^

Love story part 1:



Love story part 2:



In the end I'm sad to say that Jon Schimdt was unable to get clearance to release the song on mp3 from coldplay.. but at least he got the okay from taylor swift! so this is newest remix of the song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZIIJ0_R_Ok All love story AND downloadable!! hahah to bad it didn't come out in time for the wedding ^^ but i still love it!

Enjoy! =)