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so by hopefully now

you have your track that you're not so pleased with

but pleased with that kind of happy medium a little bit

you're making something that you normally wouldn't make

that's the whole purpose of this lesson

so now we're gonna try and tackle some lyrics

I was toying around with the idea of the lyric

um being on uh

the 3 and the 4 where this comes in

just mimicking that melody

in my mind when I was making

I was like maybe the lyric should be really bad

like LA LA LA but then

something kind of interesting popped in my head

about how things

um in life and just in general seem to

uh reinvent themselves and rice

recycle themselves and come back

like how there's like

this whole 80s music movement uh

that's happening right now

it's a music that was being borrowed from

almost 30 years ago

it's now kind of being recycled

and being put into popular music again

everything comes back around

everyone's uh

obsessed with the 90s all the sudden

they're watching shows like saved by the bell

everything comes back around

and when I said that to myself

it kind of um

perfectly fell on top of these chords that everything

around so we're gonna try that

I think one of the most uncomfortable things for me

is writing lyrics in front of people

and you guys won't

and you don't see it right now

but there are people watching me right now

so I have to write lyrics in front of them

so that itself is sort of uncomfortable for me

even though these guys are super cool

um we're gonna try and tackle that right now

um we have a very bare track um

and with no drums

and I don't even plan on really

tuning up my voice too much

or going too crazy on the vocal layers

I just want my voice to stick out like a sore thumb

which I hate

I love to put layers and effects on my voice

cause I'm very insecure about my voice um

so let's get to it hmm

let's start with the chorus

I think this lyric will work

so in my mind

it would be like someone saying like

one day you'll know that everything comes back around

and I haven't figured out why in my mind

someone saying that to someone

but it's someone who is wishing

in my mind this song is about someone wishing that

the time right now 2020

which is not an amazing year

we all know it um

they're wishing that it could be 2,015

which was a great year

we could all go to concerts

we could all go out to parties

we could all socialize normally um

everything seemed to be at bay a bit um but

maybe what this person is telling this person is that

that they don't have to worry

everything's gonna eventually come back around

and be fine

it's really good actually drag that down

no it's gonna turn my delay up a little bit

cause these are long notes one

it's now okay

now the second half of that

I was thinking of

like a very

very long word

that you normally wouldn't say in a course um

one day you'll know

inevitable kind of

it doesn't rhyme but like

there's some space in between the amount of measures

where it kind of tricks your brain into thinking

oh damn it might actually rhyme

let me just sing that everything a little bit better

I like that that

everything comes back sky get back

it's enough someone saying this to somebody

I feel like it's like my mom saying this to me

it's like it's like another way of saying

this too shall pass it'll all line up someday

never it's such a weird word to say in a chorus

maybe copy and paste this every

kind of cheating a little bit but

just do that instead simpler

like the most amount of vocal ooze and Oz

I'll just do this just on the post

oh that could be cool going down there so um

let's copy and paste this chorus vocal

again I'm usually super super detailed oriented

I'm trying not to be right now

because it's what makes me kind of uncomfy

that's the most I'm gonna do just that

not even gonna

not even gonna really line them up because

just gonna pretend I didn't like

have as many lining up skills

just doubling

and on that little

I'm not really doing that

same infliction on the lower harmony

this is what we have

oh we have to do that

let's we're gonna so we're going chromatic

so we're gonna go to advance in the auto tune

we're gonna go to chromatic still set it to minor

oh yeah I have to do it here too

I'll just take the old tune off

sing completely naked

it's kind of like a like a B+ Neil Young rip off

oh oh oh whoops oh

okay let's hear what we got for the course

like I'm telling you like I don't wanna put on

put any doubles on the course or anything

and never and never

I wanna take out those freaking

just really quick

I'm just gonna filter that down just a little bit more

just texture one day

I like that isn't it

maybe bring the strings in here

oh okay that um first melody would be like

so if I so now I'm thinking middle C

I'm going up on the chorus

so I kind of want to do most of the time

you want to do the opposite on a different section

so going up go down

down up maybe on the verse go LA LA LA

Lala so we're gonna go down

let's see what what happens hmm I

I don't wanna hit that either that

it's okay if you don't see it now cause one

it's okay if you don't see it now

because one day you'll know

it's like I'm trying to like

that's why I love working backwards

backwards because you're trying to like bridge the gap

and it's much easier to do that working backwards

see and just like a little

slightly different rhythmic approach

oh put a little cuz there

cause one day I don't like the cause I mean I

I think that's nice cause one day I would

I've literally never written a song like this

um it's okay

yeah

it's okay when you get to my age

you see a lot of things it's like very introspective

I like I would never write a song like this

it's like very

like wise old woman or a man telling a story

it's okay if you don't just finesse that I will

you you you will see when you get to my when you get oh

things it's okay it's okay it's okay

you'll see you'll see I thought you're not

you will submit you you'll see a little smoother

but it's a bit maybe fit a button there

that's not perfect

but I want to kind of vocal fry

I don't want the

but it's okay leading to be actual notes

I just want to be like a little it's okay

cause one so it sounds like right now

something lyrically is happening

where someone older and wiser

is telling someone younger who is very impatient

maybe myself

that you just need to calm down

you need to exercise patience

because everything is gonna work itself out one day

when you get

I think we're getting somewhere soon when you get

alright so right now

we're gonna get just the verse melody because um

there's a lot of similar parts here

I wanna break it up a little bit

um but maybe some triplets

but let's get the verse melody first

let's see what we can come up with

I gotta start from the beginning

but it's okay oh said to me she's like

when you get too much said to my age that said to me

when you get to that's a good little bridge to the Prix

okay better not leave

this is what she

okay this is it

has to be a e rhyme

then

travel back to 2003

this is what she this is what okay I

I don't wanna give that note away so then

just a dummy rhyme right for right now

okay so it's essentially just two lines

we have to come up with what they have to like

be really honest so now we have like

we started out with something that we really

that I really didn't particularly care for

and now kind of as expected

I grown into it a little bit I actually kind of like it

this is the second verse here

that's nice

hmm ah

oh LA LA LA

say different melody here

um some uh something like uh I don't know

something weird there

freestyle you might actually come up with

like something really crazy for a bridge or like

some background heart

you'll see a lot of things you don't have to you know

you have to cherish the day or something like that

don't ever wish the day you done it

just you just trust that things will line up

the way they're supposed to be the oh

something like

hold on maybe

that's actually pretty good for the first

I miss the way it used to be

I know like you're saying to someone I wish as

oh I am maybe the no

tell you uh I told my mom she could

okay I begged her wish and I could

I beg to wish and maybe that's a way to start off

I miss the way things used to

I like I miss the way things used to be

Victor a big tuition

that's almost like when Paul was like

not that I'm comparing this song to the genius of

let it be but like

when he had a dream and seeing Mother Mary

and she was like

just let it be

go back in time

things used to to the to the way things used to the way

I miss the way I miss the way things

clearly nothing in the morning right

okay so we have to kind of like

we have a very small amount of real estate

to kind of like say that in like that

everything will be okay

things used to

a big tuition that

she said everything will align used to

you know I am

okay baby

mine let's just fill fill something in for nothing

it all will it's not clear enough in it what will align

life will align a big tuition I could

I asked her if she

I have to ask her something things used to

I can sing faster isn't you

oh I asked her if she can pretend

I don't think it will be fine hmm

okay I could go back in time

cause I miss the way things used to be

it's weird I know this is like uncomfortable

I'm like actually for the first time

very comfortable trying to figure this out right now

it's like a picture

a picture wishing I could go

I wonder if one day things all oh baby

yeah I'm wondering if one day I

was wondering if one day I was

I I'm one I was one

I didn't know if everything I didn't know if everything

I didn't know if all one day things are thinking time

let's go back to life there

because I want to put things in this next part

way life used to be

like when you have this little real estate

you wanted to be super

super clear

and your delivery

I begged to wish and I could

one day I'm wondering if

let's see if that sounds good baby

okay

things will be fine I'm wondering if one day

I'm wondering if everything will be fine

hmm I wonder

I'll be all right I'm wondering

I'll be alright I'll be alright baby

this is what will be alright I'm wondering if

this is just get all be all right

we'll all be all right and this is what she said to me

I'm wondering

it's almost like it doesn't have to be a song

just about pandemic vibes

everyone's wondering about the future

I beg all the time I beg to wish and I could go

I'm wondering simpler

I'm wondering if it would watch that in

let's see if that kind of makes sense

did I say day already

I begged her wish and I could go back in time

I miss the way life used to I didn't say day yet

I think I said day here I'm wondering

this is what I didn't say day

so now when we get to the chorus and we hear day

it's like oh new word

but it's okay if you

so second verse

we have a little melody flip here

I love you too much

listen that verse one more time

I actually actually fucking love this

about to be patient

maybe there when you get too much you just have to be

when you get to because when you get to my age

you see a lot of things

is that it'll all work itself out essentially

and then I can brush

all you have to work

I'm gonna definitely put that on different line

for granted patient

it doesn't really rhyme but take anything for granted

so that's how you some some

running uh uh never change

everything you want there um everything

it is helpful everything will fall back into place like

I'm just thinking of words that rhyme at this point

don't worry things will fall

this could almost be like a country song even

yeah things will fall back in place

I'm essentially saying

the same thing as the first verse

but it's just a

just a little bit

just a different way

more refined

just a different way to say it no

so now we're just missing the first line of them

for Christmas I was nothing for

I try to I try to get myself

something like I try to get it down to down not to down

that's automatically correct I try I try

no no the

and not to down on myself and not to take things for

looking down on myself and not to take things for

not to take things for granted to down on myself to

just one more line I wanted to be good

just a babble for now and then I'll like

come back to it and think of it

let's see what we have so far

okay so this is the form right

now let's listen back to this

I I'd say roughly like this

very unusual for me to come up with these many lyrics

the main goal for me now because I have grown to really

really like this

this is the skeleton for the most part

and it's kind of a skeleton with extra legroom

because usually I would just feel these you know

melody things would like babble lyrics and nonsense

but there's some actual real stuff being said here

so let's just take a listen and

okay so that is the rough skeleton of the song

it's kind of like an upgraded version for me

and very unexpected

because usually I have a bunch of these

melodies just babbled out with non lyrics

and I'd figure it out later

but in the spirit of being uncomfortable

to get comfortable

I wrote most of these lyrics

in front of the camera crew and

and the production

which is something I've never done

and I kind of wrote something that

I don't think I would write really by myself

so that's very cool

so I urge you to do the same thing maybe

I don't know

maybe you can have like

a couple friends just like

play video games or something

in the background when you

when you make something

or just have a

try having an audience

when I used to write a lot with Ty Dolla Sign

who's still a good friend of mine

he always had his friends in the studio

because he's described it to me as

like performing

and you can

like feel the energy in a room

when someone likes something

they kind of

they don't even have to say anything

it's just their body language that will kind of react

in a way so

maybe that's what you should do

have a friend

or your mom or dad

maybe your dog

someone you wouldn't normally allow in your studio

in your creative environment

I think a good lesson here

is to not be too precious about things

um and you never know

you'll surprise yourself

and make something that you didn't think you could make

I certainly did that right now

so that's your next assignment

I urge you to do the same thing

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