what is up everybody it's Tom td3 welcome back to another video last video
we got to work on a new track to kind of break me out of my creative block that
I've been in for the past couple weeks it's a synth wave track it's super kind
of mellow eighties nostalgic vibe I'm calling it when we were young so if you
haven't checked out that video you might want to watch that first so go here
today we're gonna pick up where we left off in the last video and we're going to
do a little bit of work on the arrangement of this tune I'm not super
pumped about where the arrangement is right now so I want to make some
adjustments there and then I want to write some lyrics and ideally today I
would love to get at least a scratch vocal if not a basic full lead vocal
just at least recorded so we can start building around that so I've got like
our finalized arrangement for the song and all that now that we know exactly
what we're trying to accomplish today let's get into it
so right off the bat the thing I'm really not digging the most is that the
intro is just too long yeah its eight bars of intro and then the first verse
we need to cut it down to four bars so that's a pretty easy fix I'm just going
to pull all of these drums forward a bar
so the whole point of shortening this intro is to get right to the point I
don't think it behooves anyone to have a long drawn-out intro unless it's a
cinematic or instrumental piece don't means it really depends on context I'm
trying to marry a combination of nostalgia retrosynthesis but with a pop
sensibility to it so I want to hop right into the first so that the listener is
into the song
also not really feeling the downbeat on that hook line I don't like it to go
like right here I don't like that downbeat note I don't like that I like
it to wait that's cooler to me so in this second versed here I wanted to pull
out the downbeat of the drums so that when it comes out of the chorus it's
sort of like a breath and then gets back in so kicks back in just a moment
and that's that so what I've done is I've just kind of shortened everything
up I've condensed it down into a little bit more manageable thing a little bit
more manageable arrangement I think I think this makes more sense
I still think though ending needs a little bit of work I'm gonna get
everything out I think I'm gonna drop instruments out as we get there because
I want sort of a big vocal choral thing happening at the end just big and epic
and inspiring and cool this the core progression this one 5/4 thing yeah one
this one 5/4 things like big and it makes me like the whole feeling this
song gives me is a feeling of nostalgia just like hanging out with my friends
when I was a kid and so I want to play that up in the lyrical content the
arrangement and all the vocal stuff so I think now we've got it in a point where
we're ready to start doing a little bit of work to it lyrically so now it's time
to sit down and pull out the OL iPad and write some lyrics to this bad boy when
I'm writing lyrics to songs I generally like to work in notepad on my iPad how
many times can I say pad I like to pad to my iPad nope
notepad so I can paddle around and figure out what sort of padding I want
to put in the song so I'll just open up notepad on my iPad here and go full page
with it and let's see this song is called when
we were young that's the working title and what I'll do is I'll generally try
to start sometimes I'll start with a chorus sometimes I'll start with the
first verse this time around I'm really feeling starting with the first verse
cuz I want to set up what the story's gonna be and then the chorus is gonna be
the thing that ties it all in write that chorus is the point of the song and the
whole reason to write all the lyrics is to emphasize the main point and I want
the hook to be something like when we were young I know what that hook is
gonna be I don't know no melodically what I want it to be quite yet but I
know what lyrically I want it to be so I'm gonna start from that place in verse
one and build into the story that will then get us to the point where we
declare when we were young and then the second verse will be a continuation of
the FIR of our story but in a way that carries
forward into sort of new territory and then gets us back to the course again to
again emphasize the point of when we were young and then the bridge can go a
thousand different ways generally speaking I don't know what I want to do
yet but I feel like I'm gonna know when I get there and now starting with the
first verse what I'm gonna do is open up my voice memos and then what I'm gonna
do is reference the melodies melody ideas that I have recorded in here like
I did in the last video if you'll remember and I'm gonna listen to that
melody idea along with the lyrical content I sort of have in my head a
little bit and see if I can't figure out a way to make them work together that's
why I use this to record those ideas so that when the time comes I don't have to
remember them in here I've got them in here so I'm gonna listen to this and
then try to put this first together
all right now we've got these lyrics done I want to go back into the session
here and I want to make just a couple little adjustments and then we're gonna
call this one for the day I feel good about it
we got lyrics written a phone recording done got a work tape scratch vocal tract
into there which is cool so I just want to make a couple little arrangement
fixes here I'm gonna pull my lyrics back up and reference them so that I can know
exactly where I'm trying to make these
drums a little bit longer in the second verse here because I think that it's
gonna be cooler that way right there and then we're gonna drop off this base as
well that way when the bass and the drums kick back in in that second verse
no kicking hard and it'll feel like home the lyric we can be anything like we can
be anything boom okay back in then yeah it'll create a moment which will be
nice and I said earlier that I wanted to change this to chord in the bridge but I
really don't think I want to do that anymore because I think it works well I
think the problem was I was walking up to five four five two six on the
downbeat of the chorus and instead of doing that I'm just going to three four
hold on the four also had a couple of things that were fighting in there that
I played it incorrectly that's on me that's gonna be it for today I feel good
about this track I am tempted to up the tempo just a little bit it does feel a
bit slow to me so I may play around with tempo between now on the next I'm going
to record we'll see yeah that's it for today lyrics are done melodies done the
session is ready to start getting added to and we're gonna do that next time so
thank you guys for watching thank you for being here as always where my head
is on this one now as I think I'm going to release this one as a single on its
own I think gonna do it next I'm gonna finish this
song before I get back to the ghost mountain EP or whatever and I'm gonna go
from there I want to do a vocal song it's been a minute since I put out a
vocal single and damn it I want to do one so that's what I want to do anyway
thanks for watching I love you guys I will catch you next time peace