hey Chris Liepe here with Judith A Perfect Circle Maynard James Keenan multi-tracks or
in this case better described as stems I have submixes of different instrument groups so I
have the vocals by themselves I have several drum tracks and uh some guitar tracks and and
then uh some little additional sorts of things interesting layout if you ask me I felt like I
I had to do this song or really wanted to do this song because the the message is is
so relatable lots of you watching this probably know the background but Maynard wrote this song
after his mother who got paralyzed mostly after having a stroke and Maynard's you know observing
the way that she behaves and you know Maynard's like why this is and I feel like that that why
gets us all we see things that we don't understand we experience things that we don't understand
and why we can't do anything else it's complete these things are completely
out of our control and I mean I totally want to make this about the music but
this particular song has stuck with me through the years as I've seen families suffer
as I've uh been through some suffering myself any time I I'm close to someone or
know someone who's close to someone where something happens and you're just like
anyway enjoy this fantastic vocal performance wonderful musical arranging I'm able to do stuff
like this on my channel because I teach people how to sing and I'm able to use these multi-track uh
sounds and and song sessions because it falls under fair use what this means is I can't play
the whole song all the way through it means I can't play large portions of the song and
I must start and stop quite a bit and add educational sorts of commentary to it so if
you want to hear the whole song just go listen to the whole song but if you want to dive into
some of the nuances of production and arranging this is the place you want to be if you want to
discover what your voice can really do you have questions about you know am I doing this right
or am I doing that right click the link below and join my free course and I'll help you work
through some of this stuff all right let's get into this let's start with some of the drums
so clearly a kick drum mic like that's what we have here sting is when I listen to how
so that's a gate on the snare
that's not all that accurate of a gate
and then it's opened up there I think a lot of times those of us who have worked
with acoustic drum sets using Gates we try to get that gate super accurate or maybe
even sometimes we'll go through and we'll you know do this sort of thing and just get the
um just get the snare hit you know do something like that and it's kind of neat
to hear these these stems because this isn't necessary it's masked if we listen to this
we hear a few things which I think is really interesting we hear first of all a fantastic room
sound but we also hear that they have some sort of ducking going on in these room sounds where
the the snare comes out the the raw snare mic comes out a little bit and the room mics duck down
it's interesting to hear those sorts of techniques
being used you wouldn't think that just by listening right
fantastic drum sound
and then we've got this other drum track here let's see here
just the toms
so we don't hear any Tom ringing here that's that's intentional right we we
get rid of all the information in between the
uh the Tom fills because we don't we don't need that messy sound in there
thank you
that's cool
always love these guitars man I mean I love the
the panning choices are super interesting to me they're not as wide as you'd think they are
you've got those octave things that go way out right but this part right here
no no no those are narrow let's listen to the bass and the guitar together
yeah wow
and then the panning changes there too ah we know that part
additional guitar tracks here that we can hear in isolation
that's neat
again here notice the panning it's right in the
middle it's rare it's making room for all these other dreamy parts
thank you
very cool
foreign
by itself
I like that crunchy
you notice when the base goes High ER it sounds very clean and then when it goes
lower it it breaks up a bit more I think part of that is it sounds like it's being
played with a pick but I think part of it also is that we we do have two base feeds
we can't see that in these tracks but we have a cleaner one that reacts
better with those those higher sounds and then as you as you overload it a little bit more that that
dirty bass feed becomes more prominent you hear it differently in the different registers of the bass
it's a really common way to record bass with you know like a direct clean direct and then a miked
uh uh cabinet and and you you might have like a little bit of drive on on one of those signals
so anyway let's give you some vocals and the production on these for Maynard these are wet
these are wet vocals and and there's some some cool arranging things going on as well yes um
oh so many always for me to show you how you sing has abandoned you
by the way these are the censored versions the ones I got uh but it's interesting
listen to these listen to this sound
um inspiration it's a wide sound but it's one performance this is not a doubled vocal right
here this is a combination of a light chorus that widens the sound we've got drive on it
and then his his performance he's compressing his voice as he's using his voice a little bit
too and Maynard's amazing at this I've done lots of videos on Maynard if you want more
particular how to sing like Maynard stuff be sure to check out the the tool and A Perfect
Circle videos that I've done on the channel I'm not gonna be doing that so much in this video
you you know so those are doubled are you man you mad and left soon as watching never
thought your question why so and you have this a b thing going on uh with with the
vocals which is which is really cool and you can hear the different transitions really well
never tasted the fruit is is super localized that he doesn't have the the chorus and widening
you know slap delay sorts of effects and and spatial augmentation that the that the lead
vocal has which I think is is neat to hear in context it's not like you kill someone
and there you can hear this this delay happening it's not like you killed someone
oh the hateful Spirit into his side I like hearing those cut breaths again it just
we don't have to be that precise and anal when we're editing our vocals over hateful
Spirit into his side praise the one who left you broken down and paralyzed you did it all for you
Maynard's always really good at hang at holding out notes I love how the tone changes
slides down there he
lets it go and he gets more mellow it doesn't sound like he's running out of breath gradually
changes that tone it's so pleasing and it so perfectly fits with the rest of the mix it
it sort of becomes an instrument I love that about Maynard's voice oftentimes I
find that it becomes an instrument it's fun to hear it in isolation get it off
a big part of that is that he's not singing you you yeah
he changes it to y'all he changes it to that vowel shape and that just Blends right in
oh
love it oh so many wasted me to show you how you
dog my husband and you were crying Christ to your God and say something
though he's the one who did this now here you can hear a bit more
effect on the like they did this to you it's a slap delay so it's not quite as
dry this time but listen here say the taste of the fruit is drier
so that's super interesting you've got this
this effect chain being added to to that column response to those higher more aggressive vocals
and I I would have never ever heard that kind of thing just listening maybe if I really known
to listen for it I'm gonna listen to this song differently now even though I've listened to it
I don't know how many times tons of times uh but these are the kinds of fun things
that you you discover when you get to listen to these isolated tracks you killed someone
it's not like you drop a spotful Spearman to his side talk to Jesus Christ as if he
knows the reasons why he did it all for you foreign oh yeah this is fun to hear
oh with that Reverb trail that comes in sneaks in
there it begins to sound like a scent and all those voices become one that's cool
yeah oh yeah cool
oh you hear the little like sort of moan outs there
oh it's great okay now we're all waiting for this
that is awesome
never before have I heard those layers like that that is really neat I gotta listen again
it starts completely dry and then you've got that oh
my mind has always been so focused on that scream at the end and how long he
holds that I never really paid attention to all those little other things you know
I got the guitar I mean listen to the when you get the whole thing in there
I mean I hear it and I've always heard the background vocals but not really in
the the orchestrated way that we just heard it that was super neat thanks
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