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so we just finished our final lyrics

to our first course

we include some background doubles

some wide and centered doubles

some ooze just a little bit of ear candy

to really fill out that chorus

and now it's time to do that for the verse

a little bit less

more sparse

because we want the chorus to have the most leads

in this case

for this song

it might be different in your song

but we're working backwards

and that's how I love to do it

so let's get to it

huh okay let me just hear what we

have in the course right now

why you gotta go

Love Me Like You

do do do do do do do

I want this to like

I wanted to sound effortless

and I wanted to sound like I wasn't trying too hard

um I'm always thinking about what I want my vocal

performance to sound like in my head

before I actually start recording um

things are bound to change

but I have an idea that

I don't want it to be exactly the same as the chorus

because it's

it's it's a

it's a curveball here in the change of chords

Musically uh

when the chorus pops up

and a lot changes in the elements of the song

and I want that to reflect in the vocals as well

so let's put these squeaky headphones on

um I had this melody you heard in the last lesson

that was kind of sparse

I've added a little bit in my head

it makes sense to add

like a little bit more call and responseness into it

because I don't want it to be too sparse

where there a lot of time goes by in between each line

um I had no no no

space and I think instead I'm gonna do

but I guess

I haven't really worked out the lyrics

and we're just gonna do it while we record

which is something I love doing

that's cool

now that I say that out loud

let's see how something like that sounds like

and whatever song you're working on whatever

stylistically

it's totally okay to not have everything

done right away

you can really surprise yourself and like

be surprised how your voice sounds

might prompt you to think of a different way to

say something

it's usually how it works for me

so let's aren't

let's make sure that this is down

the king of vocal feedback

cause I have my microphone right next to my speakers

huh

another thing that could help

your vocal performance is thinking of like

if you're an artist

thinking of the music video

what it's gonna look like while you're singing it

I sometimes will do that

and some of those videos actually

ended up being what I thought in my head

which is pretty cool

oh so I think lyrically

we're saying

why you have to go and get my hopes up

you love me and love me like you did

and act like I don't exist

and get distracted and you're gone come on

why you have to go and get my hopes up

I think the thing we have to talk about it's like

what do you say

before that

um and in my mind

it makes sense to talk about

what I'm actually going through

I think of myself like you know

laying on a bed at 3 o'clock in the morning

you know replaying things

and what I could have said differently to this person

what I've how I could have acted

a little bit differently when maybe I said too much

just overthinking things

and then I start to think

what would I sound like when I'm overthinking

not thinking logically uh

some kind of

channeling that in my vocal performance too

you say something like

uh you know

I'm painting this picture in my head

but I don't really live in reality

it's so pathetic that I can't

stop thinking about how perfect we could be

why you have to go

why do you have to go and get my hopes up

something very vulnerable like that

I didn't know the song was gonna be so vulnerable

but the chords kind of prompted that from the

from the get go when I came with it

um so let's see how this sounds

I paint this picture in my head as the first lyric

and we're gonna do uh

but I guess I

these little things in parentheses here

uh we're gonna just do those as like

little background responses

and I think it's gonna end up being pretty cool

hmm sound like Bob Ross right now

very calm we're gonna paint a little happy bush

good hmm hmm

head hmm in my head

so you don't have to do this

but I like to put my verse in pre choruses

on different tracks

again I think it's just placebo

you can easily get away with putting

your vocals all on one track

but sometimes I'll make the chorus lead

a little bit louder than the verse

I don't know

we're gonna label this verse

I think that calls for a little more reverb

up in this picture

balance that out in the Q I mean the compression

let's drag picture over a little bit

see where we're actively

it's like actively stretching while you work out

we're still we're just

we're just tweaking and adjusting as we go

my head just so satisfying

I'm gonna move these two over

paint this and this right here boom

I paint this picture

I'm gonna bring that P over

my head hmm

I paint this picture in my head

I like that

and picture in my head

I'm not mad about it being a little loose

because sounds good in my head

but I guess I

let's do those bad

that background response

those can go on these

these group vocals down here

we can put them on the same track as these kind of

let's actually put them hmm

let's put them right here on these hopes up tracks

but I guess I

but I guess I but I guess I

but I guess I but

but I guess I

I can say bye bye maybe it's a bit differently but

but I guess I

but I guess I but I

but I guess I

it's cool let's bring that down

but I guess

I

but I guess I

but I guess I

but I guess I there we go but I guess I double that

but I guess I

but I guess I

but I guess I

but and and same approach as we

doubled the chorus leads and everything like that

just using a kind of using your mind

like not singing everything the same way

because it's just gonna sound like a phased out

over produce vocal

but I guess bye bye bye

I'll sing this little dope here

but I guess I

but I guess I

hmm but I guess I

but I guess I

it's the f did I put the f natural back in

yes but but

gotta get it but

but I guess I

sometimes if it's a fast note and I want it to

be on pitch

I'll kind of sing the note like hold it out like

but I guess I

to kind of just get my mind used to it

but I guess I

not perfect but

but I guess but

but but I guess I was good

but but I guess I drag it down hmm

but but I guess I but but I guess I but

but I guess I

but I guess I

but I guess I

brought these

but I guess I

but I guess but I guess I

but I guess I

but I guess I get down here

but I guess I but I guess I but I guess I okay

but I guess I

do that

you know we could do I know we need to keep recording

but just to keep everything going keep it exciting

little cheap trick

edit selection bounce that down

make like a super super controlled delay see

take the all these plugs off

duplicate this

because I wanted to be like

I could easily just bust a delay

but it's so cool when the things are printed

and you don't have to worry about things overlapping

this will all make sense in a second

so start here left

and now I love this setting is telephone Vox setting

where did it go today

but make this one a little bit more closed

but I

but I guess

I but I guess I

could even just go a little bit more on this one too

that's better

but I guess

I but I guess I

my favorite thing in the world

you already know

80s

make

the decay a little bit down

this one down even more

size down a little

but I guess I uh huh

but I guess it would sound like you hmm

but I guess I even shorter with this picture in my head

but I guess I with this picture in my

but I guess I can do other things too too OK

just gotta mess around with it

lead vocal and it's already in the

it's not do that cares

it's okay let's keep it moving

you want to get too caught up

see I'm getting too caught up

what's going on

oh that's amazing

it was operated on 64 samples the whole time

oh my goodness

at least put it up to 1:28

but I guess I

this can go

but I guess I

but I guess I good for now

what in the world

just don't live in

but I guess I just don't live in reality

oh that's gonna be good just a little

it's good I got down but I guess I just don't live

a little vocal crack there it's emotional

but I guess I just don't live

same thing we'll do the delays in a second

let's get the whole vocal down

and I'll admit that

and I'll admit that I couldn't and I'll admit that

but I guess I just don't live

I think and I'll admit that

my brain tells me to go up and then down

because on the first response we went

we went up up

up down now we can go down down

and now I meant that

and now I'm at that

let's bring the record track

since I know they're down here

let's bring this down

now I'm at that

and now I'm at that

and now I'm at that

and now I miss it and now I miss it

nice and now I miss it double that and now I miss it

and now admit that

and now admit that and now I'm a couple more times

and now admit that

and now admit that

and now admit that

and now admit that

and now admit that

couple more and now that I'm at that

and now I admit that

and now two breath he's on the end

and I admit that rounds it all out it's nice

and now admit that

and now admit that that dead air up

but I guess I just a little

and I'll admit that

but I guess I just

hey I'll admit that I'll admit that

because cat rhymes kind of rhymes with head

but I guess I just let's play it back just so I can

sometimes you have to kind of shape the word so it like

rhymes exactly with it

that I can just do your best

if it's like a soft rhyme

just do your best to shape the vowel sound

is to the word that you want to rhyme it with

so head can

okay I'll admit that it's so

I like that I can that I can

and it's okay that that's like that that is that

that note right there is a little off tune

but we'll fix it

actually don't even mind it sounds real

hey and now I met that

it's so pathetic I like it so it's so

I gotta sing pathetic a little bit differently it's so

that I can I like that let's drag that over

it's so pathetic that I can static

we can drag to the left it's so pathetic that I can

kind of make it sound real though pathetic

I sound like I'm saying can

and although I love that take

I need to maybe I can sneak a little

I just love that take

I'd love not to redo that

but let's see it's super

let's see if I can cheat it

take the ant at the end see if we do it

there we go that's pretty good it's super

but I guess I just don't live

again can't stop thinking

that we're going back to the low

up up up down

can't stop thinking

I guess I'm thinking care how many solos did I do

but I guess

I guess I'm thinking

always thinking

guess I'm thinking okay

can't stop won't stop looking for the records baby

guess I'm thinking

that sounds awkward on its own

but it'll make sense when it's in a group

guess I'm thinking nice

guess I'm thinking guess

can't stop thinking

okay

can't stop thinking drag it down

can't stop thinking

can't stop thinking

guess I'm thinking don't care

guess I'm thinking

guess I'm thinking guess I'm thinking

guess I'm thinking

guess I'm thinking

sometimes like

if I'm saying like a

like a lot of staccato words

I guess I'm thinking oh

do those stacata words and then kind of like cheat it

it's a smooth it out so you have can't stop thinking

and then like a couple under it like

can't stop thinking

can't stop thinking

and it's just

I don't know

it just makes it a little bit smoother to the ear

uh last two breathies uh

cause I'm thinking uh

guess I'm thinking

guess I'm thinking there you go one more

guess I'm thinking

guess I'm thinking

okay there's that

guess I'm thinking about

so I have to sing Noza the math has to be right

I guess I'm thinking about

guess I'm thinking about how

boom

guess I'm thinking about how

and I get I'm cool with the overlapping here

we could be sloppy

I need to redo that cause I'm thinking about how

guess I'm thinking about how am I gonna do that

guess I'm thinking about our per

about our per

I'm definitely gonna connect that about and how

because it would sound super awkward if it was

like about how

no cause I'm thinking about now

guess I'm thinking about out

skip that the timing right on that was raise the click

how about our trip about

the perfect could come a bit earlier

perfect we could be perfect we could be

but the P has to come a little forward

and Love Me like let's do those delays really quickly

but I guess I just to

hey I guess I'm thinking oh

and love me

like this is definitely starting to become a thing

let's see reality

where's the delay going to start on that

but I guess I just don't live in

print all that so take it out of arm let's commit this

the best thing that I can

just drag and drop so it's like

yeah then just time it

an element

it's gonna sound like that

and now I meant that it's super

or was it better just one

but I guess I just don't live

and now I admit that there's something cool about it

being slightly double

print this one here

again very tedious work but freaking worth it brother

all this excess

guess I'm thinking

guess I'm thinking

guess I'm thinking about

guess I'm thinking heard some clicking noise there

guess I'm thinking about now perfect

guess I'm thinking

guess I'm thinking

now drag all these to the right a little bit

guess I'm thinking about guess I'm thinking about

guess I'm thinking guess I'm thinking about

let's do it there too I might not use it

maybe one at least edit selection

maybe

boy you gotta go and get my kind of gets in the way

I don't know

okay and one little transitional thing

gonna take this a flat

this a flat right here

let's commit that this is a cool trick to know

you might know how to do it already

I definitely didn't invent this

take all the stuff off

put like for whatever reason

the Pro Tools reverb works very very well on this

where is it d verb

it's actually perfect so

let's print that so delightfully awful edit selection

how to make an active on that one

and then reverse it

just bits the ear candy

that the normal listener is not going to pick up on

but feels weird if you take it out

love me like you did act like God

even if it's not perfect I'll tweak it later

but as long as it's there sounds good

maybe it deserves to be on the whole thing

no I don't like that right before we could be

one of my favorite things to do is

even though the second verse isn't written

just copy and paste the first verse

just to hear the vibe

and it might inspire some lyrics

I think it will put the verse

up up up up just a little

but I guess I just do it

and here I would do a little melody flip

oh yeah

I see I forgot about that little section

I'm glad that's there

easy to copy and paste

do do do

uh just let's get everything over here

don't get my hopes up

this joint right here

I'm so good at copy and pasting things boom

where's my come on come on

did to you right from the beginning of the course

I know to bring it right to the beginning of the course

that's where it would end in my mind

um see what the second verse sounds like though

I guess I just don't know

second verse comes

it comes well

let's listen what we have so far

on the speakers keep free and have these

oh you know

it's super fun too

huh I got my mastering cocktail

and I only put this on until I'm like

I know that things are moving along nicely

I have it saved from a

another song I'm working on

everything is gonna go through here

and I just Learned this

that the Pro Tools Master Fader is before all the plugs

so it's good to know

so I now I can like

make up gain like a Pro L2 and bring it down three

sounds just bigger

it's a time knows I

was really off on there

and I admit that it's so perfect

but I guess I just don't live in

guess I'm thinking about

and love me love let's see

but I guess I just to

it's like I don't know how to explain

the genre of this is like UK is

reminds me of like

Spice Girls

or something like that

it's like this

especially with the string stabs

and everything like that

so this is sounding really great

I think the thing that's missing in this session

is a section of vocal ooze

which is really part of my sound

I love stacking many many notes

and coming up with kind of intricate harmonies

that complement the instrumentation

so I think that's what we're gonna tackle next

in the next lesson