Hey everyone, I'm Milan Ring and today for Like A Version I
covered SZA. I did a mashup of Broken Clocks and Love Galore.
I covered SZA cause queen of R&B. Who better to cover and basically I couldn't
decide which SZA song to do so I like jumped on my little spanish guitar in my bedroom and
started jamming Love Galore. I really love the simplicity of those chords the like
major arpeggio and I love the hook and then Broken Clocks I just love the lyricism and
the story so I just realized that they worked really well together and did a mash-up.
Happened to be in the same session as her in LA with the Social Experiment Crew
and yeah we were all there jamming and I met her she's super lovely and sweet. Basically I think
control dropped maybe like a year after maybe two and I was following her and just seeing the single
roll out and hearing the songs and just blown away by you know how much of a great songwriter she is.
After I jumped on the spanish guitar and realized that the mash-up would work
I got super excited and energized and I ran to the studio and I stayed up to 3am making
a demo. For Broken Clocks there's this like vocal sample that goes
underneath the whole track and I thought that would sound really cool as a vocal loop
so I started there started with the vocal loop even like did a pitch shift and like
filtered it so it sounded a bit more like a sample and then I jumped on the bass, jumped on keys,
produced up like a bunch of drums. I did like a bit of a bounce. The broken clocks chord
progression for the second verse and then went back to Love Galore chord progression and then
like threw in these like kind of indie drums got like super into the production and then I
started to do a string quartet arrangement the beginnings of and then I forgot that with covid
restrictions we can't have too many people in the room so I called my keys player and I was like,
hey bro you need to be a string quartet as well as a keys player which he nailed so shout outs
to Amaro and also shout outs to Drawl and DC on bass and drums who absolutely smash it.
I think I really love the end where it just like opens up and I'm just like strumming
on guitar and I kind of made up my own melody like "got nothing but love for you".
It's not really in her song per se but I kind of just like threw that in because it felt like
it just feels like flying and soaring at that point and then it kind of led perfectly I was
like okay I gotta throw down a guitar solo here so the guitar solo was a lot of fun for sure.
So I've been here twice before. I was music director for B Wise's Like A Version a few
years ago and Becca Hatches last year which was super fun. They're both super talented.
It's really exciting to come today to do my thing this time to be in this position, yeah.
I feel very, very grateful for the opportunity. Obviously this platform is
huge and yeah I really just love how long it's been going for, how iconic it is and just seeing
so many friends and other artists just go and smash it so it's nice to kind of be like I did it.