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hello there

welcome back today

we're going to do something a little bit differently

different than the last lesson

in the last lesson

we made the quote

comfortable song

and for me that includes every Charlie Puth ism

that you hear in my music currently

all the chords

all the nice synths

all the the

you know the syncopated drum patterns

all those wavy melodies and everything like that

that's my comfortable song

that's a song that

even after I was done making it here

I just wanted to continually listen to

because I love it

and I think it'll actually turn itself into a real song

one day today

we're gonna do something a little bit different

for real always told me this

you want to go outside of your comfort zone and I

it's you know

kind of like

what does that mean

it's such a ambiguous statement

but I think what he meant is

make a song that you don't necessarily

that you wouldn't necessarily listen to

or a song maybe with elements

sonic elements

that you dislike strongly

for example

I dislike songs that

um maybe cause I'm like

a really happy person

I just like songs that are very whiny

uh it's just my personal taste

I dislike songs that don't have drums in them

let's see no drums

sound whiny

sound lyrically whiny

um are a bit overly narcissistic

in a way I mean

we all have to have a certain amount of narcissism

to be artists and producers and what not

but when it's

like overloaded

I just will not listen to it

and I think the goal today

for us is to make a song that we really

truly don't like

but in turn

what you're doing is

you're relaxing your mind a little bit

this unused portion of your mind is going to be used

and I have a sneaking suspicion

that I may end up liking this song a little bit

I I know I'm gonna

if you see me cringe face a lot

I probably will stop cringe facing a little after

um I get the first course

I don't know

um but the goal right now is to make a song that

you don't like

so I'm thinking about what that could be right now

because just like you

I'm starting with a blank slate

so my mind is going crazy right now

let's start with okay

let's just get this

might not be the instrument

but we're gonna start off with a piano

which is super ironic

because I play piano

I grew up playing piano

it was the first instrument I ever Learned

it's the only instrument I really know how to play

if I heard a song starting off like this

I would be like hmm next

like very very simple

like simple chords are okay but if it's like

oh really like this like

like the singer would be like

like just whiny or something

but what we're doing right now is yes

it's very fun

we're gonna relax our minds

and we might actually make something that we really

really like

so let me just mess around here

this might take me five minutes guys

but let me just like

kind of just get in the mode a little bit

I'm not in a particularly bad mood at all right now

I just wanna I don't wanna make like a sad song

I just wanna make something that sounds mopy

cause I just don't like songs like that

this is this is funny

I mean it sounds pretty

it's hard it's a weird feeling to describe right now

let's get a like overly indie I guess

like sounds like a broad I I dislike Broadway so much

so this is like

but Gertrude

what would we do with without the like

like stupid stuff like that I it's

my mind's going like in a million

I think like that's too happy is

hmm

yeah

okay let's take

let's let's boost it up even more

let's take an instrument that I truly love

and play something on it that I truly hate

it was funny

I have a whirlitzer right here

but I have the real one right there

so we're gonna use the real one

new track

Mono 3 and four

let's put like

anytime I use a whirly

I like a lot of vibrato

but since we're making something that we

don't really like

unfortunately back it off a little bit

I got a reward myself so just a little more

whiny whiny whiny whiny wine

maybe we should call it Wine Fest

it's actually kind of dope but no we hate that

I don't think I've made a production

now that I think about it

without drums

maybe in two years

the last work I did with Boys 2 Men was all acapella

I love that record

but I always do drums and my songs

because I'm so insecure

that my voice is just gonna stand out

on its own too much

tempo is that okay so we're gonna Mark our tempo

was that 100

let's go even slower let's be super sad

let me get this bench oh

okay

give me something

okay so let's let's start there that's so

those chords are so plain

playing chords are fine but

and you know what we'll do so

you know how in the last lesson I took

I use the NS1 a lot to get rid of the noise

guess what we're not using in this song

that we don't like the NS1

we're gonna keep all that noise on

I also never sing down here

I'm so used to like attentions and E flat minor

and it's like above the 5th and like

we're gonna go super low on this one

we're not gonna quantize anything

it's gonna be all loose and

it's kind of dope though haha

that would like the pre chorus of all that noise

that electronic

let's just Rhodes

I'm still gonna label everything that I do

let's do this okay hmm

oops made a mistake maybe I should keep it

that's the chorus

and I might not even tune these vocals

just might make it super like

this is can be heard in Hot Topic

a lyric should go there but

not that but something

let's see here

1 2 3 4

this is intro

1 2 3 4 this is verse one

oh let's put a really dumb effect on here

one that I never use

I'm just gonna I feel like I'm just gonna like pick a

let's go to sound toys and just pick a

should we add more trouble oh

what's radio I don't know I've never used half of those

I wanna hate it so bad

I never use this one this good

let's do this alright oh

like literally that tremolo was gonna be our rhythm

okay one more instrument that we hate

it's kind of dope though just so annoying

see what happens when you like

tell your mind to do something

it's like it does the opposite all right let's

it's all sound too good

it's like a little layer of it on top of the

same melody

I do a lot of fun

first two okay this is actually quantize that

like I'm telling you

this track is gonna be really

really simple

because there's nothing more

I love tracks that have layers

you saw on the last last couple lessons

like I love layering stuff

I love layering my voice

like I don't even

I'll do the least amount of layers that I've ever done

on any song in this

like no drums no hi hat

what even is this instrument called trippy 60s thingy

just gonna cut off

it's actually dope

but I hate it

but it's dope the reason

the reason why I know I'm gonna like this song

and it's not even written yet

is because I I it's I

I never get too introspective in my music

I always just want people to have a good time

I never really like

make it so much about me and what I'm going through

I'm not even really gonna spend a lot of time

producing something like this

it's just about like

getting the message out

and I never write lyrics on the spot either

so I'm gonna kind of challenge myself

and make myself a little uncomfortable

and kind of do that

let's go key

is this an a minor

I don't think I've ever written a song in a minor

that's true I haven't

and what's great

you know what's crazy about not taking the when

I could easily put an NS1 and take the noise off here

like but like

I put that tremolo tremulator effect

and it sounds like rhythm now

and if I took the noise off

maybe it wouldn't be so

wouldn't be as prominent

alright one day one day you'll know

one day someone sang it to me one

comes back well that's actually fucking fire

one second let me bring this up here

give me a little bit of reverb something

it's inevitable it's inevitable it's inevitable

it's inevitable

it's just bound to happen

it's inevitable how would you fit

you can I think you can fit that in there

everything so

since there's not a whole lot going on

in the production here

I'm just kind of balancing everything out

like when I say uncomfortable song

you don't like

want it to I mean

unless you wanted to like

I'm not trying my

my goals here is to like

write lyrics in front of you

which makes me uncomfortable

provide you the start of a song

which will probably end up with no drums at all

kind of like how lonely by Justin Bieber

um is has no drums in it

I don't really make songs like that

so there's two uncomfortable aspects going for me

at the same time

so I'm like sweating

turn around huh then you'll

ball let's add a couple more layers to this

I'm thinking really simply wallowy

bad strings that like

don't even belong like wedding like bad wedding strings

I don't even know what kind of song this is

okay

we have

oh it's gonna hurt

oh so this is by the way

this is just contact 5 session strings

I don't think they've changed these settings for years

and they're still so good

you don't have that you should get it

bad let me just pick a different string let's do this

okay so the strings should come in at the pre chorus

at the now and then the second verse happens

it sounds like a funeral

yuck here we go commit hell yeah

hmm

let's add another layer of strings

let's be even more extra

the whole point today is to be extra

we're making a ballad

I dislike ballads

but I like a certain type of ballad

but I don't like ballads used here in like

a spa if that makes sense

something like that

yeah

it's a lot of fun

yeah

that's good oh

you know what it needs to okay that's got me thinking

you know I have a real Mellotron over there

but I'm gonna just use the

it's hard to get over there right now

so I'm just gonna use the fake one

maybe just call it strings two s t R

strings two um

Mellotron

it's like something really like oh wow

you use the strawberry Fields forever

wow use that sound

use the strawberry flute sound that's super innovative

just another flavor start at the pre

sounds like a bad like Disney movie right now

but I think it can be dope with a good lyric

it's all broken

it's like it would be great with just the roads

but the whole point is to do something

that's just gonna rub our ears slightly wrong way

but might think of a different

might make us think of a different lyric

just take a little low out of it

I

love you

let's add one more element here

so we were gonna add like

a bell for something like that

so let's just do that

um key scape

let's go back to key scape

very very powerful tool

um bell tone keyboards

I feel like that's used in every rap song though

fairy dust

I'm so dumb

it's so terrible

something

see if it start from the beginning see what's happening

just keep the red line

copy and paste the verse there let's quantize that

it's actually kind of nice it keeps the

like it sounds like it's in a bad movie

but there's something

you know like when like

certain songs are so cheesy that they just turned dope

it was like

the music video to Every Little Step by Bobby Brown was

like a very cheesy video

but it was just so unapologetically cheesy

that it was just dope

and he was he had

he just exuded so much confidence

put a little sideshin on that just for

to keep the rhythm Dum dum ding ding ding

so these are the layers that we have right now

let's put a little reverb on this

spice it up a little bit

like there's not gonna be a ton of instruments in here

so it's important to blend them all

and make them sound good

even though it's not your favorite

so grandiose on

some of the chords are changing we wanna

let's put a LA gray on here like balance that out

I want people to fall asleep to this

and really that

and then I'll copy and paste this over here

let's put the form together obviously

I seem already coming up with these little

like figure or like

course I get

something's tell me to repeat this section here

and then this the intro

and then just like I don't I don't even wanna replay it

I just wanted to cut off improperly nope not like that

just like really that's it

leave the rest of it

okay so label all our stuff

pre 2

of

course two

for this is the outro

look at this

verse 2 maybe I cut this in heaven

mute the strings to see what that's

it's kind of dope without the strings

yeah I think that's a great form

actually okay

so we have our

we have our song form we have um

no drums because we don't want drums

we wanted to sound Willow Washi

I want this to sound like a boat

that's about to tip over

and everyone's like really

they're not

like scared

they're just like

inconvenienced

and this is what would be playing in the background

like it's like they're in like

Pensacola Beach

Florida it's very warm water

they're gonna be fine

and there's like

you know life jackets and

yeah you know

police and stuff

and they're gonna come rescue everybody

and everyone's literally just like they're

they're just mildly wet

and this is what's playing in the background

just a mess um

so now it's time to actually take it kind of seriously

um we're having a lot of fun with it so far

or at least I am

um I now urge you to

gonna go to the same approach

you don't have to

um disregard drums

like you could

for example

want to make a

say you don't like reggae music

make a reggae song

you might shock yourself

I mean I'm shocking myself here

because I thought I was gonna use really basic chords

but I kind of trip myself out

because I really like the na na

na na na um

that turned out to be the tag of the chorus

so make your reggae song

make your rock and roll song

make your jazz

smooth jazz pop song

whatever you wanna make

make your pop song

maybe you don't like pop music

make something that you don't care for

and you might trick yourself into liking it

um this is just another way to open our minds up

when we're being creative

you can use this method when you're

when you have some writer's block and

uh you can't come up with anything new

um so now is the time

I can't wait to hear what you come up with

and next is lyrics