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We have had so many requests to cover this song over the last few months… So here it is! Despacito (Luis Fonsi ft. Daddy Yankee) is definitely a big departure from our usual fare, and we know that this song has been covered countless times; however, we decided to arrange and post it because we knew we could bring something very different and exciting to this song. So, please give it a listen and a chance before you decide that you don’t like it simply because you don’t like the original song. We will continue to cross styles, genres and decades with our music! We have heard a lot of covers that utilize backtracks, but we didn’t want our harps to just be a karaoke voice-over. Everything that you hear is what we can play live on just two harps – no backtracks or overlays needed! Since we don’t have Latin American harps, we had to create techniques to give our arrangement a more Latin flair. If you watch carefully, you will see that we dampen the strings almost continuously throughout the piece. The dampening gives a percussive effect and allows each note to be heard clearly. We even took this to the extreme starting at 0:59 where Camille dampens the strings a split second after playing them. Also, Kennerly uses her nails to sharply and quickly strum the strings while simultaneous dampening the strings with the other hand, which also creates a fun percussive effect. You can hear this starting at 0:47. Some other things to watch/listen for are playing the strings close to the soundboard (which gives that section a more guitar-like feeling), sharply broken chords, and even a pitch bend (at the beginning of the piece). We hope you love our fun and unique arrangement as much as we do! In the least, please give us a thumbs-up for wearing 6” heels while playing huge harps that are strapped to our bodies. And we didn’t even sprain an ankle. ;) ;)

Filming this video was a challenge! After filming for a few hours, we were almost done when a gust of wind blew over our tripod – breaking our tripod and video camera. All of our video footage was lost. We went to a nearby electronics store, but the video cameras were too expensive and the experts said they couldn’t retrieve our footage. We shed a few tears and then pulled ourselves together. We asked our mom to walk around and film us with our iPhone – she had never filmed anything with an iPhone before. Thumbs up for mom! We went back to the video location (the same day we had filmed and lost our footage) and filmed this video! We hope you enjoy!

Download + stream this track:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/despacito-single/id1279413188
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075DH1G4C
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/6O2KPh0UdcXtkQoqcYy6JY

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Music Arranged by Camille and Kennerly
Music Produced by Camille and Kennerly
Music Mixed and Mastered by Kevin Bartlett
Video Concept by Camille and Kennerly
Video Filmed by Diane Carlson (our mom!) on an iPhone (no filters, no color correction)
Video Edited by Camille and Kennerly
“Despacito” was written by Luis Rodriguez, Erika Ender, and Ramon Ayala

Camille and Kennerly obtained licensing from the original publisher to release their harp audio recording of “Despacito” as heard in this original music video.