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okay so now we have our skeleton of the song

and we have a lot of the lyrics done

we have a very Rudimental production

and now the goal is to add to that production

and make it become just a little bit more exquisite

as time goes on

and that's adding things like little bits of noise and

uh little intricacies that will sometimes

actually even trigger some songwriting ideas

so the first thing I wanna change is this snare

I really hated this snare

here it is if you want it not good

but I just needed to put something down

just have something feasible there

uh but now we're gonna find something

I did a little think and I think I have the solution

splice is your friend

it's the first time I'm see these are all great samples

the sound of Italian disco oh my God it's great

so oh my God

I'm not even super sure what the snare is gonna be

I know I usually go for something dry but I don't know

the snare in my opinion

is the most important part of the production

cause it makes

it's what could make the song sound super different hmm

oh

oh oh

I like that one because it's almost a d flat hmm

it's like a little bit sharper

it's like a d but what's that one's intriguing to me

what was the other one I liked yeah

alright cool I don't want it to sound like a dubstep

thanks it's just be like low key

um and one thing I can't stress enough

is make your monitors really really low

don't blast your ears

you're gonna 1

save your hearing and No. 2

you can detail mix

it's not as exciting

but it'll be exciting when the product is done

you can blast it for all your friends

let's see

the tail is a little long so let's start by

I'm going to do maybe a little more do another one

why

you

gotta go and get my

why you gotta

so that's where the drums would come in

so I'm just gonna reference it there

oh this is your best friend

gotta go and get my

let's do um

I want like that little fill there

like a stupid little fill so

I'm gonna take off the sustain on the Transient Master

kind of maybe even sustain a little more

kind of cut it off at the end nice

like this phone I'm going to

gonna bring that volume up on this

kick a little bit more

get that little club before

back off a little bit

oh there's a whole section to do here too well

that wrong okay get this right here

so the drums out here

I don't know I like that

bring these little high hats up now

really bring these high hats up damn they're low

um just do a little cla action

see a little cla never hurt anybody

remember that white noise snare

we're gonna bring that up to

it's gonna act as a clap

and it has some little delay on it too cla up

ah see that really did something to the snare

because here I'll solo that little white noise thing

and this snare

it's a pretty ordinary snare

but like a 7:07 kind of sounding thing

but when you put that little

hmm

Prince used to do this all the time too

on his snares

he used to like

kind of lair a little bit of printed tape gate

we don't have a tape machine

but we'll kind of do something similar

so it's kind of cool

I do this sometimes

take the snare

duplicated track

go to my favorite Valhalla reverb plug in

you're going to see that

I use a lot of the same plugins all the time

just because they just work

need to reinvent the wheel

take this take the size down

take some hose out

and

okay and now print that thing

just cause and even delete that track

you don't put it on every single one

but you put it on maybe I don't know

let's see what how it sounds on every other one

you want me yes I do that you want me

it's like an almost inaudible difference

but it just like so you have dry dry dry wet

that remind

that's a good idea too

okay so let's do another Princey kind of thing

um which is to layer like

a Lynn drum clap on the fourth one

it just gives the drum snare a little bit of dynamicism

um is that a word

who knows claps

maybe now

something with a little bit of like pre shift on it

so it'll be like

hmm that's kind of dope but it might be a little hmm

I like that hmm

okay so we got three to choose from let's hear

I like this one this Ester thing

let's see if we can hmm

oh I don't even need to do anything

that just blends nice

so place that there and I don't know

just a way to keep the listener engaged the whole time

they'll probably never even notice it

and I got a plan for this section here

okay so let's stay organized here

let's get the grid going

the little clap under the gated snare joint

I think that clap is too long

just a little deadness

maybe have it happen a little quicker

read my snare

the bridge here right

okay so that is good so clap should go there

it's kind of interesting actually

it's a collapse of the whole time

maybe let's try this

you want if you okay

so if you're gonna go the route of

putting the claps over everything

maybe you want to like

just make them sound

like a little different length every time

sometimes I'll even go into a

pitch in time and just

it doesn't crash the whole damn computer maybe

just bring it down in pitch ever so slightly again

no one's ever really ever gonna know but I'll know

you'll know

long time that could be cool

let's take a little bit of break from drum land

that could be cool

they did that a lot in the 90s like that stagnant

and I got that SoundOn the motif

so let me open up a new track

we're gonna go over to keyboard land now

motif is No. 4

I have it running through this nice TG two

a little noise but who cares let's see

hmm string ensemble looking for a string ensemble

again just playing them separately I just do two

so when you solo it it sounds kind of crappy

but in the mix it'll sound it'll sound nice

let's bring this down

just drag them to the left a little bit

get it to hit a little bit harder bend bend

pew pew pew pew pew pew pew pew pew

okay so they're kind of beefy

so go to the EQ and kind of take some lows out of it

really simple

uh some plate reverb

just like a little flavor to it

kind of just add

this to it

I fell out of love with the plate reverb

I'm going to the reverb that I know see

I'm trying to try new things and it just never works

so good

see where we're at so far

okay so the next thing to accomplish

the chords are different in verse 2 and the chorus

if I saw this

no of course I don't

I think I remember what bass setting was on though

hmm gonna play the bass

like I played it in the chorus but now

that's the same base right

that's it okay so let's build out the verse now

guess I got to it's kind of dope okay

guess I got to that's kind of what I did

see what happens when I quantize it no quantize

boom boom boom

guess I got you did he do dude

guess that's good

um so now you have a song that has one verse

one that sounds like its own thing

in its own spacious Odyssey world

and then you have verse two

which sounds kind of like the chorus

but with different chorus

so each section is different um

so I would want to listen to it again and again

but then again

this is the song that I love

to make something like this

so let's tighten up this base pocket

hmm hmm

guess I that's good for now

just to get something excited about it bring

you can bring it down to the bass track where it has

like that little compressor on it

okay so now I got to get this sound

duplicate everything right here

I think I have that still loaded up on the june oh

june oh 1 0 6 going to number seven

this is the same thing

oh okay

okay so I did what was the rhythm I did on that I

and that's exactly what I'm gonna do for the verse

so let's on this record this boom

yes

okay and recording each chord separately

so you have all the freemen in the world to drag

anything anywhere you want

so this is the first chord right here

I'll just keep it to the vocal

so I can just play along with it

this the

there it is just loop it guess

I'm gonna take off this little compressor on here

cause I'm missing all the attack

and it's kind of nice when it's punchy

so I'm just gonna leave it on there

just in case I change my mind later

but I don't think I'm gonna

so let's put this organ back in here see what

I don't like it

okay no two chords at the end there boom

boom take these out

okay

boom right here

so I want this section here to be the antithesis

of what this second chorus is here so I think

I think I can go into Omnisphere and get let me do this

new track

instrument track

makes it Spectre Sonics where the hell is it

there it is

I'm gonna go into the pure samples

because they make

great okay

this is I think

yeah this is

listen to this

oh my God I use this

said every Drake song ever but this is like the nicest

I think a is even better

what's CS eighty song yeah different vibe

hmm

these are great

and then it's just like a release because you okay

so you're in the air

uh I don't know where

okay do all those separately print

what to do so

now that we're lining up all the chords blah blah blah

I'll probably add more I just want to get the base down

you know it'd be cool putting that little

towel chorus on there

just like cut it off

okay let me listen let me get my bearings here

it would be kind of stupid if

so you want things to like sound delightfully cheesy

I think there's this great

this diva plug in which I don't use all the time

but like they have a really is it which one

I was okay that will crazy

can you imagine if it like just the entire times

like this is the verse

it's just one chord pedal d flat give me a good sound

maybe some

the thing go that's kind of dope

oh almost all right

I go up to the a flat

guess I got to look so

I could get like a guitar going there

I'll probably make a fake guitar

will do that at another time

and then kind of layer it with a real guitar

cause it's very hard for me

to explain to a guitarist like

I don't play guitar at all

it's very hard for me to explain to a guitarist like

what I want them to play

because I have a piano mind

and they're like dude

I don't have all those notes that you have

so it's good to get something feasible down

that they can hear

BA BA boom

I want some separation between I hate many so much

but I want some separation here's the only way to do it

I guess I got to

okay print that that's good for now print

let's make this a little bit bigger

hmm favorite

more wider

first base guess I got to hook so easily

Manny makes a great distortion so we'll plug in

this is good I think he's got a good sword base

you put a little distortion on it

because people are gonna listen to this on iPhone

you want them to hear the resonance

so kind of maybe even lo fi

put the reverb at the last end of the chain

but maybe put a pan man on it

I could go like wow

wow wow wow

I'm trying to make it sound like

like chariots of fire and in

the most legal way possible

rhythm let's put it to one bar

half done

with just a little bit of

maybe that maybe that maybe that bass does belong there

I'll definitely duplicate it

and put a little sidechain LFO tool on it

to make it breathe a little bit better

put that after the um

the reverb that I've improperly just

put on the channel but

I don't like that anymore now I like the

I like this green track better

I like the sustain in the verse

I don't know where to go

maybe put the base in there too

oh my goodness

this is gonna haunt everyone's dreams

this melody

so let's get the

okay that's good

that um one final thing to do before

because you wanna definitely take a ear break

you don't wanna like

go too deep in the rabbit hole

but definitely wanna make amends

and then I wanna add one more layer of the hi hat

to get a different pitch

hi hat a little bit more airy

and then I think that will add a lot to the pocket

okay hi hat thingy

last thing for now

let's go back to ah screw

let's go back to those drum machines um

a 7:07 hmm

and she

contact Hi hat

that's dope

that'll be it some

okay print that

can't wait to see this consolidated

and then this joint here

you're not even really gonna hear these

but it'll make a difference

do do do do do

okay

just saw the hi hat

so bring this top one a little lower

take a little low out of it

let's find my loop

it's good for a cop just

it's crazy that guitars are really gonna

be the thing that kind of ties all this thing together

let it go

I want this hiat just a little bit more wide

ozone ozone here okay

uh you hit learn

these genius Swedish people who made this

you'll recognize the frequency and then you can

the best place to raise it up and make the signal wider

sick

so now you have wide wide center

wide center wide center along with this hat yeah

okay and I think

let's hear that all with the vocal right now

I think that's a good next phase of just like

slight detail work

production not going out of control again

you wanna leave some room for excitement

but that's just like little intricacies like you know

adding a leather layer of a hi hat that use

this is stuff you'd never do in front of a songwriter

you wanna when you're with a songwriter or collaborator

you want like I

you want to like

move it along as fast as possible or just keep it going

I need to do something about that siblings one second

easy fix suit

I just find some stupid splice like just

just so I remember as a mental note

just like a guitar thing

like guitar

what do they call it pluck

what's it called when you like

strum I guess

strum a guitar guitar strum

don't don't

don't don't

don't don't

don't don't

don't don't

don't don't

now I'm not gonna be able to

this is what I'll do

it's a little far fetched but we'll do it mono track

if you can't play guitar

load up auto tune

this is a neat little trick

um this is how I did the attention guitars originally

d flat major turn it up all the way

go to Guitar Rig in effects folder

a B C d E F

G Guitar Rig make it

summit to stereo

put it like Andy in a bottle

see love that for me

but don't don't don't

don't don't

don't don't

don't don't

don't don't

don't don't

don't don't

don't don't

guitar amps don't

don't don't know

so this is what the guitar would sound like

in the first time

so thunder thunder thunder thunder

done done done done done done

gonna be dumb gonna be dumb

that's good right there so got that recorded

keep that in

doesn't really sound too much like a guitar

but you kind of just bump up the camera

a little bit

this is

the

if that's the loop right there

then go to Audio Suite

and just make sure that thing is hard tuned so we got

see I'm

all over the place here

but I'm gonna just see sharp

a bunch of C sharps

change them

sound like less like a boy

we'll bring this down here

okay NS1

polyphonic

option zero

and you guess I'm watching you hope so isn't that

can you kiss me back

then a guitar player will hear that and be like oh

you can mute that I know exactly what to do but for now

Transient Master

never mind let's do it before

okay

spin it spin it spin it

print that I think that's good for now

and then we'll listen to the whole shish kebabin

it's important by the way

not to spend all day at the computer

because some of the best ideas come when you're

not working at Pro Tools

I know that's like the

not the premise of this right now

but it's important to

you know go outside

put your feet on the grass

hide and meditate

if you meditate

sick okay I actually love this

it's like really really tight

something like that

obviously I wouldn't have those high hats um

at the very

very end but yeah

that's not like

mix perfectly or anything like that

but there's just extra elements to get me excited

because now I gotta

you know write the rest of the lyrics and stuff um

so yeah I think that's a good place to stop for now

and then we'll add more elements at another time

so I just spent some time enhancing my track

adding little things

like little hi hats that you can't really even hear

but it makes the

it makes all the difference

so now it's your turn to do just that

and the next step is going to be

writing the lyrics and finishing the actual song um

one thing you don't wanna do is

get too caught up in production

if you don't have your whole song skeleton done yet

you don't want to then focus on thinking like

oh I gotta then get a different kick I got it

the snare still isn't right like

you need to compartmentalize your thinking a little bit

you need to finish the song skeleton

just babble it out

and then worry about the sounds later

because if you worry about the sounds

and you still don't have a pre chorus

you just have a really good sounding beat

with no pre chorus yet

so make sure you do that first

and then reward yourself by adding more stuff

as a producer would

it's just like a reward system