How To Produce A Non-Singer | "Feel Like I Do" by Vin Diesel
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- Опубліковано 27 чер 2024
- So Vin Diesel is making music…and rather than ask the obvious question “why?” I’m going to try and answer a more interesting question: “how?”
How does a producer take a non-professional singer and craft a radio-ready pop song out of their vocals? This is what happened here with producer Petey Martin and Kygo. While Vin does a fine job, this song is a master class in taking a small amount of source material and crafting an entire composition from it. I take a look at some of the music theory and production techniques that they used to make Vin Diesel a pop star.
Specifically, I look at 4 different areas. The producer’s use of vocal chops and sampled vocals, the harmony (or lack thereof) in the song, the amount of instrumental sections, and the specific vocal production used to bury our main vocalist. All 4 of these techniques merge perfectly to create a danceable- albeit pretty boring- pop tune.
I think that movie stars and other non-singers get a pretty bad rep when they veer into music and try to make albums. I actually have no problem with it. I think that creating music is wonderful experience and honestly everyone should be able to have it. There’s definitely a business argument to be made that labels should spend more time and money investing in up and coming talent (ugh I hate that word) than celebrities who will sell to their fan base. But I don’t think celebrities like Mr. Diesel are to blame here.
0:00 Intro
1:01 Technique 1 - Vocal Chops
3:00 Technique 2 - Chord Progressions
6:19 Technique 3 - Dance Breaks
7:43 Technique 4 - Vocal Production
So what do you think? Did the techniques work? Does the song work? Let me know in the comments!
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This needs more exposure to the producer community or anyone interested in music production. Great stuff, the video is put together so well, especially when the effects on the vocals were explained :)
Thanks so much, I really appreciate it. Please feel free to share with anyone you think might find it helpful!
so much of modern pop is less focused on the chords or harmony and more focused on a repetitive melody supported by a bass playing the root notes. glad you touched on that! it makes it all very sing-songy like a nursery rhyme. awesome video
Thanks! I talk about this a bunch in my video on 'Mood' by 24KGoldn. I think that that style of singing in short, repetitive melodic patterns has become a staple of modern rap in addition to EDM-influenced pop like this. You should check it out!
1st time watching your vids and this one blew me away with how in-depth you got with Mr Diesel and the production breakdown. Loved it. Subscribed.
Thanks so much!
This is what Max Martin did to the intro of Taylor Swift’s Delicate. The bts video was posted somewhere here in UA-cam. Great job on explaining!
That makes sense! Gonna check that video out for sure.
Great vid.
Really nice vid!
Thanks so much! Do you play or produce? If so, what kind of stuff?
Vin is a legend among men.
So this is more like Petey Martin and Kygo, featuring Vin Diesel? 😂Because the producers are doing all the work. But maybe because Vin is the one funding the project. So it's his
Haha, essentially yes. That’s a better way to put it!
Just to say, Kygo isn't credited as producer, Petey Martin did produce the song, not kygo :/
You’re right! I talk about this in the video quite a bit. Martin is working under Kygo’s label and I think the influence is clear (although this certainly isn’t to diminish Martin’s production).
At the end of the day, who's name is on the song has very little to do with who is responsible *for* the song. Most pop stars don't write their own songs so that's nothing new. What's changed now is that by cutting up and pitching vocals, you can help a non-singer (somewhat) carry a tune. Of course, this also means that the singer is completely irrelevant, which is great for the recording industry because they just need to stick someone up there who has some presence and doesn't look like a complete idiot while performing. There are singers with genuine talent but overall, that seems to matter less with each passing year.
And a little of the kitchen sink 😂😂😂
V good. I'm trying to get young musicians into this. I'd love to talk or email you. We run a film club in West of Ireland
other than autotune
Thank you!