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  • 5 Things That Happened During Recording

    5 Things That Happened During Recording

    5 things that happenedWhat are 5 things that happened during the recording sessions for Thump Thump Thump? Come watch a video clip that showcases 5 things that happened or were observed while we were in the studio recording. Huffington Post, eat your heart out! I only write that because they weren’t privy to the sessions, nor would I give them the exclusive that I’m giving you.

    Share it with your friends.

    Better yet..

    Don’t. Then you can be like – I told you so. When the music, video and book come out.

    5 Things That Happened

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    Transcript:

    Where’s my dragon?
    So I saw my first episode of Game of Thrones last night.
    Oh, your first?
    Yeah.
    You’ve never seen it before?
    No. And it was the latest episode.
    What a great. Great show.
    What kind of a mic is it again?
    612 by Telefunken.
    It is a Telefunken 612. Yes.
    From the island of St. Croix.
    it is funk. Like F, U, N, K. Funk.
    Telefunken 612.
    C12.
    C12. Thank you.
    It is a low impedance microphone if anyone ever asks you again.
    I will keep that tidbit of information locked away in my head.
    I was about to give up Logic.
    Really?
    What?!?
    What?!?
    The reason why I was about to give up Logic.
    They hadn’t put an update out in years.
    And they didn’t seem to really be caring that much.
    Well you know as long as Apple is serious about Logic, I love the program. I would never go anywhere else.
    Oh yeah!
    Hey. Jazz!
    Nothing says amateur more than an jazzy guitar licks on a guitar out of tune.
    That’s just the worst.
    Sorry to all Jazz players.
    PolyTune.
    Just. For all those out there in YouTube land.
    If you haven’t seen my silly video with T.C. Electronics…
    Examining the PolyTune for the first time…
    Search for me, you’ll find it on T.C. Electronic’s website.
    And I look like a complete clown.

  • Making A Hit Song

    Making A Hit Song

    making a hit songWhat goes into the making of a hit song? This is a curious question. If there was one true answer, everyone would be doing it, and nothing would actually end up being a hit. Right? Conspiracy theorists like to believe that the major labels have some sort of computer algorithm that can predict if a song is a hit or not. As the British say: Bullocks. They don’t know any better than any one else, the different is, they’re in a position of power to sell something.

    While recording Till We Meet Again, George, Jesse, and I get into a quick discussion about things that can help make a song a hit song. In this case, we’re talking about a little trick that Jesse and I did with a particular transition of a song from one part to another. We changed something about the song structure in such a way that it makes people take notice. Watch the video about making a hit song and find out what we did.

    Making A Hit Song

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    Did you catch what we were talking about? Think you can go write a hit song now?

  • Life Of The Party By Shawn Mendes

    Life Of The Party By Shawn Mendes

    Life of the PartyA couple of weeks ago I was tooling around in my car running an errand when over the iTunes Radio comes this tune called Life of the Party. I immediately thought to myself, dang this guy nailed it. Not from a lyric standpoint but from a musical standpoint. Then comes a little more research to find out that it was co-written. I still haven’t gone far enough to figure out who actually recorded, produced and mixed it. But said producer did a masterful job at making this guy Shawn Mendes whom I think is about 15 years old, sound like a long time pro. That’s not an easy task.

    The real trick is the production on the track. It’s laden with tons of sounds that flow one to another and work extremely well. Shawn’s vocal over the top of it sounds like a great set of takes edited together with the right amount of emotion. The verses are little bit on the lax side, but the chorus kicks it so hard that the verses don’t matter.

    Hopefully this kid will get more practice in on his writing and really make an awesome career in music.

    Life of the Party

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    I love it when you just don’t care
    I love it when you dance like there’s nobody there
    So when it gets hard, don’t be afraid
    We don’t care what them people say
    I love it when you don’t take no
    I love it when you do what you want cause you just said so
    Let them all go home, we out late
    We don’t care what them people say

    We don’t have to be ordinary
    Make your best mistakes
    ‘Cause we don’t have the time to be sorry
    So baby be the life of the party
    I’m telling you to take your shot it might be scary
    Hearts are gonna break
    ‘Cause we don’t have the time to be sorry
    So baby be the life of the party

    Together we can just let go
    Pretend like there’s no one else here that we know
    Slow dance fall in love as the club track plays
    We don’t care what them people say

    We don’t have to be ordinary
    Make your best mistakes
    ‘Cause we don’t have the time to be sorry
    So baby be the life of the party
    I’m telling you to take your shot it might be scary
    Hearts are gonna break
    ‘Cause we don’t have the time to be sorry
    So baby be the life of the party

    Come out tonight, come out tonight
    There’s no one standing in your way
    Come out tonight, come out tonight
    We don’t care what them people say
    We don’t care what them people say

    We don’t have to be ordinary
    Make your best mistakes
    ‘Cause we don’t have the time to be sorry
    So baby be the life of the party
    I’m telling you to take your shot it might be scary
    Hearts are gonna break
    ‘Cause we don’t have the time to be sorry
    So baby be the life of the party

    Yeah, yeah, yeah
    Life of the party
    So don’t let them keep you down
    Oh you know you can’t give up
    ‘Cause we don’t have the time to be sorry
    So baby be the life of the party