This Is Love (George Harrison 80th Birthday Tribute Cover)

Happy Posthumous 80th Birthday to George Harrison! As a tribute, I recorded a cover of one of my favourite Harrison solo songs, “This Is Love” (composed by George Harrison with Jeff Lynne) from his 1987 album Cloud Nine; it brings up very sunny and warm memories and I love the message in the lyrics, not to mention his slide guitar solo that almost brings me to tears every time I hear it. I’m not a good singer and I had no choice but to recreate George’s amazing guitar solo as best as I could (albeit played on a lap steel guitar instead), but I hope this cover does justice to a great song and honours an incredible musician.
My cover version was recorded on a mix of analog and digital recording technology - the basic track (acoustic guitars, bass, one electric guitar part) was recorded on a Tascam 4-track cassette recorder, which was then transferred to a DAW for additional overdubs with instruments I’m less experienced at playing in as few takes as possible (before the tape potentially stretches too much and/or breaks) - drums, mandolin, lap steel, additional electric guitar, and vocals. Also, that's my dog who walked into my studio space and jumped up on me as I finished singing the very last note of the harmony vocal on the ending...I guess she wanted to pay tribute to George in her own way too!
I'm not very good at sing-into-the-camera style music videos, so I decided to incorporate a time-lapse video of myself drawing a sketch of George Harrison from the Concert for Bangladesh in 1971, along with some pictures of my dog and places I've been in the last few years that fit with the warm and happy vibe of this song. All drawings and pictures are from my private collection.
Enjoy and excuse any mistakes or shortcomings!

[@bubaah]

What a GREAT tribute. My FAVORITE George song. A close second is AWAITING ON YOU ALL.

[@captainmarkeinstein-mmipro4418]

Hey, just came across this wonderful creation. Love it! How do you do the video overlays? Very cool technique. Keep rocking!! Mark Einstein

[@senorblues76]

Thanks so much! :) I use iMovie -- to overlay video, drag and drop a new video clip just above (i.e. not directly on top of the video but just over it so it's like you have two video clip pathways, if that makes sense) the existing video clip that you've already added to the project timeline, and click the video clip you added/superimposed so that it is selected in the "Viewer"/preview window. The top left button in the preview/"viewer" window shows two rectangles nearly on top of each other -- this is the symbol for "video overlay settings". If you click on that, it will give you options for how you want to overlay the video that you just added. What I used here for the most part was "Cutaway" with the opacity set to about 50%. You can use other options like "Picture in Picture", split screen, or if you have green screen abilities (which I don't), you can do "Green/Blue screen".
I'm sure there's a better way to explain it and/or an easier way to do it (particularly if you use other, more advanced movie editing software) but that's how I've been doing it in iMovie. Hope that helps!