"How to create a Van Canto Song"-Workshop. Episode 1: From an inspiration to the composition
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- Опубліковано 22 кві 2021
- Van Canto's "lower rakkatakka" singer and songwriter Stefan is explaining the idea behind "Falling Down" and how an inspiration is transformed into a Van Canto Metal A Cappella song.
Check out "Falling Down" of our upcoming album "To the Power of Eight": • VAN CANTO - Falling Do...
Pre-order the new album "To The Power Of Eight" (out June 4th) here: smarturl.it/ToThePowerOfEight
Check out our first workshop episodes from 12 years ago (younger Stef, more hair but less records sold, same German accent): • Van Canto - Metal A Ca...
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This is exactly what I needed in my life to have a good day today. thanks.
You’re basically a madrigal composer from the Renaissance born in the modern era. I really enjoy how you’ve written the music to mirror the lyrics in a lot of ways. Gut sehr gemacht!
The bridge is my favorite part in the song too - goosebumps!! It's so interesting to see how the song built up and how you got the idea for it. Falling Down is amazing! ❤️ I'm excited for more parts!! Literally some days ago, I rewatched your old voice workshop and I was hoping that you'll do something similar like this one day again, and here we are! Thank you so much!
The song writing and lyrics from Van Canto are always a masterpiece and mind blowing. Excellent work!! 🤘🏻🤘🏻
Thank you!!
Really interesting. Thank you for sharing the process
Omg, I'm so early. I love you guys so much! Love and hugs from Denmark
So excited to have Sly back :D
YES, Thank you! Much love.
This video is very interesting! Now I have to re-listen to "power of eight" with well understanding of some parts of the song.
Guest lead vocalist on all tracks, that's a powerful move indeed. But I still like the news!
I love that you create these videos on how you guys create your music! I wish other artists would do the same. A few questions:
A) you said you’d been playing with this melody since 2015, so do you sometimes just spend time at your piano/guitar kinda “noodling” and riffing with no real plan of a song? Or is it a rejected part of a previous song that you’ve recycled (you know, cause you’re German, and no one recycles better than Germany! 😁)?
2) do you write the music first around an idea and then write the lyrics, or vice versa, or half of each?
Thanks for sharing, can’t wait for the next video, and the album!! It’s so nice to have something to look forward to again! 🤘
Hi! Thanks for the questions!
A) It was not "rejected", but back then we wanted to try something new, and came up with our "Voices of Fire" ideas, so the first ideas of this song sounded a bit to "Dawn of the bravish" back then. For "The Power of Eight" it was a perfect fit, especially because the song has so much room for working on melody lines for 3 singers
B) 99% it is music first, then some fantasy vocals and then lyrics that sound like the fantasy vocals but still have some meaning ;-)
For Voices of Fire it was the other way around, as the lyrics were already there, inspired by the novel, so it was more like writing a musical.
So Falling Down is one of the "half of each" examples, where also the lyrics (or at least the idea of the meaning of the song) had some impact on details in the composition, for example the "breaking with the expectations" or "surprising arrangements" ideas I mentioned in the first episode.
All the best!
Stefan
Oh, and I missed one question. Yes, personally I spend A LOT OF TIME just "noodling" and riffing around and then suddenly a melody is created and the idea of a new song is born. That's exactly what the lyrics of Falling Down are about :-)
@@vancanto Cheers, mate! I probably shouldn’t have said “rejected”, more “put on the back burner”. If you’re noodling, be sure not to do a Kirk Hammett! Back up, back up, back up! 😂
Sehr sehr cool. Ich bin schon wahnsinnig gespannt auf die nächsten Episoden!
That's so interesting! Thank you for sharing! Can't wait for the next video 🔥
Loved it! :D
Interesting video, I never aspected this process, can you put on UA-cam or fb the tutorial about songs made by the instrument? I'm so curious, but the most important question is how do you do that vocal sound like a guitar, can you show the technique?
I am not a good instructor when it comes to singing techniques. Check out the episode from our first workshop perhaps: ua-cam.com/video/CYg0uDhAj50/v-deo.html
What kind of technology are you using on stage for guitar vocals? Have you guys developed a vocal guitar pedal yet?
Haha. That would be great! The guitar pedal for those who do not have a guitar!
In the beginning we used "real" stage guitar FX from Line6, since around 2015 we use Guitarrig Plugins, coming from a laptop at the FOH mixing desk. So Ross' and my signal are constantly "distorted" through these plugins and our FOH tech switches them on as soon as we sing solo.
The "rhythm guitar voices" are not using a specific effect, we just sound that way ;-)
(ua-cam.com/video/CYg0uDhAj50/v-deo.html)
New album coming? 😌😌😌
Yes. "To the Power of Eight", out on June 4, 2021
ey Steff, gibts pläne dafür dass ihr, wenn der ganze Covid mist vorbei ist, dass ihr mal wieder in der Binger ecke spielt? vielleicht aufm Rochusberger trimmdichplatz, wie in guten alten zeiten?
"Mal wieder" trifft es irgendwie nicht ganz, wir haben mit Van Canto tatsächlich noch NIE in Bingen gespielt. :-D
Für den Trimmdich-Platz bräuchte es eine Jester's Funeral Reunion ;-)
ok, bin ich dabei. noch Gerrit und Olaf bescheid sagen, dann rollt die sache :D
Stefan, hast du eine musikalische Ausbildung, oder ist das alles selbst erarbeitet?
Alles selbst erarbeiten ist doch eine musikalische Ausbildung! ;-)
Ich hatte als Kind/Jugendlicher Gitarrenunterricht bei meinem Bruder und Klavierunterricht. Außerdem ein paar Gesangsstunden bei Oli Hartmann.
Danach hab ich mir vor allem bei den Produzenten, mit denen wir gearbeitet haben, probiert einiges abzuschauen, bei Jürgen Lusky, Charlie Bauerfeind und Ronald Prent hab ich am meisten gelernt.
Und der Rest ist ausprobieren.
Schönes Surface Book =D
Sly