How I Did It
Samples are used in:
Tools I Used
Cakewalk Sonar Producer XI
Rapture Synth plug in
Cakewalk S1 String Section
Epiphone Electric Guitar
Shure SM57 for vox
Samples I Used
Primary source material from Kara Square (naked piano arrangement) and Stefan Kartenberg (orchestration of Kara's arrangement) which I found on ccMixter. Sax Solo is a composite from loops by Slap Johnson found on Looperman site. All source material is under CC 3.0 Attribution.
Original Samples
I played slide guitar; added a string section,synth pads,wrote lyrics, sang lead and backup vox.
Process
Everything arranged and mixed in Cakewalk. Sonitus Multiband Compressor used on main stereo output at mixdown.Completed remix of course of 2 days. Approx. 9 hours spent.
Other Notes
It was a good feeling as always.People who don't compose and record music couldn't possibly understand how much they are missing by only listening to it. It's far better than sex or drugs. The only things better than music are Love, and God!