Van Halen - Jump [80s Power Pop Cover]

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It took 38 years, but I finally found the proper way to do my take on one of the most iconic rock (and slightly "synthy") rock songs of all time. How could I ever improve on something that's already perfect? I hope I have at least been able to add a little extra beef here and there, basing it on Rick Beato's detailed insights on "What makes this song great" episode where he dissected Jump by Van Halen a couple of years ago.

Using those snippets he provided as well as what I believe is a recording from one of the singles back in the 80s with the a cappella vocals from the original, I set out to reconstruct my own take on this song, with some beefy synth bass, drums and keys to boot. The hardest task was to time-align the original song with the isolated vocals which also drifted from each other (I'm assuming tape/turntable drift somewhere in the loop back then) and then trying to mesh that with my more four on the floor grid approach (Sorry, Rick! ;)). I did end up doing a slight tempo variation throughout the song though to match the feel of the original session we all know and love.

I used a lot of layers to fatten things up, so there's a lot of Yamaha electric bass from Motif-Rack, Parker from reFX Nexus4, four layers of synth brass from Oberheim Matrix1000 (I don't own an OB-Xa/OB-8), Yamaha XS7, Ensoniq SD-1 and Roland JD-800. I've used some synth guitars and other sounds for the background guitar parts, but ended up using the original guitar solo from Eddie - it was impossible for me to translate it into something useable on my synths.

Hopefully I've managed to show this song some honor.

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"How much of your gear do you want visible in the video?"
"Yes."

Anvilshock

This is probably what the record company actually WANTED Van Halen to do with 'Jump'... I love it!

XavierRadix

I was only born in the late 90s. Only in the last few years have I started to listen to and like music from the 80s and 90s from time to time.

Nintendo_Freakx

It takes courage to tweak such a classic song. I'm glad you had the courage - you put your own silky synth touch onto this song in a way that gives it a different feel without changing what a generation loves about the song. Bravo!

David-ijhv

Video: 0:33
Me: liked the video immediately

Sonictrainkid

I still can’t believe he’s gone, but their music will last forever… I’m so glad Eddie’s kid Wolfgang is carrying on the legacy 🤘🏻🎸

LeonSKennedy

I think Eddie would looking down and smiling at this. It's terrific 👍

bruceferres

Great cover!! Would love to hear Dreams by Van Halen!

miniman

This is awesome, you played the keyboard so perfect, so many people don’t 👍👍

kristiandawe

I hope Content Match doesn't strike this down, because it's an amazing cover. Great job isolating and dubbing the vocals & guitar! That had to be a project in itself.

McTroyd

Just finished jumping to the infectious beat and sounds in the lounge room.

petertalon

I think this will still be the best cover 5 years after this.

Sonictrainkid

Other teenagers in the early 90s interested in girls, smoking, and getting upto no good. Me drooling over the synths in sound on sound magazine and seeing that jd-800 was just porn to me. (that and s3000 akai samplers). Closest I got to a Roland as school was a JV-30 that the music teacher got the school to get as I was into sequencing on my 520st and Casio CT-680 and Yamaha PSS-51. And yes that Roland did go home with me a few times too 🙂

Simon-uidb