Miles and Charlie Bonham Build a Timberlake Cover from a Sampled Sound

Miles Bonham builds a “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” cover around a playful sound made by his sister Charlie, connecting a family moment with a produced pop arrangement.

Bonham’s upload identifies Justin Timberlake’s song and the siblings, and explains that the family restarted the project after seeing the children work together. The source keeps this detail connected to the performance and its identified setting. This helps explain the arrangement heard in this particular recording.

The video provides context for the recording process as sounds, keyboard parts and rhythm are arranged into a cover. The source keeps this detail connected to the performance and its identified setting.

Sampling lets a captured sound take a new role, becoming a repeated musical element within the production. The source keeps this detail connected to the performance and its identified setting. This helps explain the arrangement heard in this particular recording.

Charlie supplies the microphone sound, while Miles develops the arrangement around it and connects it with the song. The source keeps this detail connected to the performance and its identified setting.

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Timberlake’s familiar melody gives listeners a reference as the new sounds and instrumental parts take shape. The source keeps this detail connected to the performance and its identified setting. This helps explain the arrangement heard in this particular recording.

Keyboard chords establish harmony and connect individual sounds with the larger progression. The source keeps this detail connected to the performance and its identified setting.

Repeated pulses organize the timing of the sample and keyboard parts. The source keeps this detail connected to the performance and its identified setting. This helps explain the arrangement heard in this particular recording.

The computer serves as a tool for placing and combining sounds into an arrangement. The source keeps this detail connected to the performance and its identified setting.

The humorous opening remains tied to the production work that follows. The source keeps this detail connected to the performance and its identified setting. This helps explain the arrangement heard in this particular recording.

Miles’s separate video using Britney Spears’s “Toxic” offers another production project. The source keeps this detail connected to the performance and its identified setting.

Justin Timberlake’s official video presents the original song in its own setting. The source keeps this detail connected to the performance and its identified setting. This helps explain the arrangement heard in this particular recording.

The companion recordings keep distinct contexts: another Bonham project and the official pop-song reference. The source keeps this detail connected to the performance and its identified setting.

The clip shows an arrangement growing from a short recorded detail into coordinated musical parts. The source keeps this detail connected to the performance and its identified setting. This helps explain the arrangement heard in this particular recording.

Charlie’s sound and Miles’s production have separate roles within the finished cover. The source keeps this detail connected to the performance and its identified setting.

This family recording combines humor, sampling, keyboard and rhythm around a familiar song. The source keeps this detail connected to the performance and its identified setting. This helps explain the arrangement heard in this particular recording.

More videos to explore

Miles Bonham’s Britney Spears project offers another example of his production process.

justintimberlakeVEVO’s official “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” video presents the original recording.

Further reading: Performance background and source. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4PORJRjj5s