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  • Oct 23, 2020

    Not unlike a lot of the mainstream songwriters behind some of the biggest hits we love, Mariah will improvise melodies over chords being played on a piano by a collaborator. Sia is another example of this process

    Along with Drake and 40
    soundonsound.com/techniques/noah-40-shebib-recording-drakes-headlines

    ”Drake and I do take pride in writing songs together, just the two of us. We'll start in an old-school way, with me on the piano or at my Wurlitzer, finding a chord progression, and he'll start singing some melodies.”

    ”These sketches will sometimes make it to the record. I'll sometimes sample them. If you listen to the song 'Hate Sleeping Alone' from the iTunes version of Take Care, you'll hear all sorts of bits of background vocals in the background, which sing the same melodies, but without words. It's the scratch melody of Drake singing before he had written the words.”

    Michael Jackson was known for improvising melodies and lyric ideas, which can be heard in a demo of Billie Jean

    Along with Kanye West, who used gibberish with a flow at first so words could be filled in later

    My biggest takeaway is that since songwriting is largely about the feelings you evoke, and those feelings come through the voice for the listener, it makes the most sense to use your voice to create that. Here’s Future detailing how he uses his voice to create (0:59)

  • Nessy 🦎
    Oct 23, 2020
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    I’m in a BRAVE thread

  • Oct 23, 2020
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    I’m pretty sure D’Angelo did this too. Not sure. Prince aswell and Steven Tyler from Aerosmith

  • Oct 24, 2020
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    rayray

    I’m pretty sure D’Angelo did this too. Not sure. Prince aswell and Steven Tyler from Aerosmith

    Yep

  • Oct 24, 2020
    BRAVE

    Yep

    !https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K3GVnoWLyd0

    Yep! This video was wat I was referring too. He also spoke about it in a album documentary too. Love his work process

  • Oct 30, 2020
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    love this thread, here's one of my favorite ones

  • Oct 30, 2020

    can't leave this one out too

  • Oct 30, 2020
    Nessy

    I’m in a BRAVE thread

  • Oct 30, 2020

    if kanye made black skinhead in 2020 that would literally be the version he dropped

  • Oct 30, 2020
    zazaza

    love this thread, here's one of my favorite ones

    !https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tkHSyk0IGs

    Oh yeah this is mad nostalgic. Song is a bop

  • Oct 30, 2020

    BRAVE

  • Good thread OP. Not gonna lie, it's a little weird seeing Future without his glasses on.

  • Zaywop 🐶
    Oct 30, 2020
    Nessy

    I’m in a BRAVE thread

  • Oct 30, 2020

    Kendrick and jay elect do this too

    A lot of artists actually

  • Oct 30, 2020

    Idk but Billie Jean has got to be the grooviest mf song ever