The Papi Project

I purchased a new computer, so I was going through my old computer and backing up files. I found an old Cubase scratch folder (scratch is where Cubase keeps the countless backups of your audio files), and I found a treasure trove of fun recordings long forgotten. One of those recordings is my dad singing an old Spanish gospel song. I decided that a great way to teach myself pro tools would be to try and turn this singing into a fully fledged song.

This will be quite challenging as there are numerous problems with the recording.

1) This was in my old recording setup, which had the guitar and vocals coming in on one line, so I'll have to work around that.
2) My dad's singing fluctuates wildly in volume, and clips quite a bit during certain sections.
3) This was not recorded to a metronome, so the beat fluctuates.

At first glance, here is what I want to do.

1) Add a vocal compressor to even out the peaks and valleys.
2) Map out the tempo in Pro Tools, so that I can add some sort of percussion.
3) Record a guitar track to accompany the song.
4) Use a VST Bass to add a bassline
5) Either transpose my dad's voice, or record myself singing background vocals (5th, 7th or both).
6) Add musical accouterments as needed.

Here is the original, untouched file: