Billie Eilish - Ocean Eyes (Official Session) Breakdown 

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This feels like reading someone else’s diary. It’s like a secret I wasn’t supposed to see. 😅 Their work is so inspiring!

And she was 13..13!

Wasn't Finneas like 17 or 18 when he produced this track? And I think they did it quite fast for Billie's dance project or something. Anyway, cool that it doesn't have to be all polished to become a hit.

This is beyond useful for music writers starting up, thank you so much for this!!

When you realize how much work is in ONE song

billies voice is just wow.

The fact that he learnt how to use all of this on his own is mind-blowing. Do we even realise how crazy that is? They will have an amazing career, no doubts.

I feel like every artist need to release videos like this so we can get a higher appreciation of the production process

11:40 haha I am a producer myself. I use this technique a lot. He added the low voice there to distract from the harsh cut they made on the vocals (when billie sang mind slightly out of tune) so the deep voice hides it. Basically, you add stuff to cover the imperfections that's how it is when you don't have a professional studio. So it is not random, just smart :)

Let's not forget that Finneas was only 17 when he produced this.

This was such an amazing eye opener, I have been crying myself to sleep for years because I thought my 20-30 track DAW projects would never, ever, EVER be worthy of releasing. I used to hear tales of artists fitting in hundreds of tracks and that was what was necessary to make hit music, that plus all kinds of expensive hardware. This breakdown shattered all my beliefs and gave me hope that maybe one day, I too can strike gold, as long as I just keep at it! MUCH THANKS, keep doing what you do because it's great!!

Finneas: 36 tracks Jacob Collier: You gotta pump those numbers. Those are rookie numbers.

There are a bunch of more outtakes in the vocal takes. In one of them she yells „stop hating on me“ at Finneas. Quite funny :D

this video is actually so fun to watch! you are also super super professional!!

19:51 dont mind me im just in love with how cute she sounded 💀💀

18:37 aaaaa how cute 🥺⭐

Thank you for doing this

This opened my mind so much to production wow

no ones probably ever gonna see this but, for any song, if you're curious to hear some backing vocals the easiest thing to do is listen to the song with an auxiliary cord. Get the cord where the audio jack is and very slightly pull the wire out but not where its out of the hole completely. If you get it right you'll be able to hear the background music and some vocals. I'm pretty sure people have done this already but I recently found out about it. but yeah i thought it was cool. anyways thanks for taking the time to read this if you ever do🥰

2:57 is the most beautiful sound ever

It’ll be cool if you could play all the take 1’s at the same time so we could hear how it would’ve sounded

Please please do more like this. People like me who are trying to learn this stuff from scratch don't know what we dont know and hence dont even know what to search for when you break down songs like this it really helps understand what's really going on. Thanks so much

This is soo inspiring. Really makes me feel like I could record something myself.

Some things that jump out. 1. Billie is an excellent song writer and arranger. A huge part of the succes of the music is her, the production is def secondary, designed to stay out of the way 2. Her soft, stripped down style allows them to get away with really usable recordings in an untreated room. The louder the artist tends to sing or perform, the more room sound you get. 3. The production sounds pretty different from the final mix on the radio. I def feel like the mixing engineer layered the drums in particular, and did some work on the pads and stuff to make em more exciting which we don't hear in this session 4. There's no autotune on the session and she likely doesn't need much, HOWEVER the mixing engineer would be using melodyne to really tighten up any performance issues. 5. I also wouldn't put too much stock in any of the processing here for the same reason. The mix engineer would change a lot of this. 6. Using multiple compressors is a pretty common technique. It's prob made most famous by Michael Brower. I prob use 4-5 compressors on my vocals. 7. That said there's a lot of great stuff to learn here and very interesting to see it all stripped down. It's pretty expected ultimately but for a beginner it's great stuff

I'm so happy I have access to this project file!!!! There's so much amazing production information hidden inside of it!!

These breakdowns are honestly more helpful than most youtuber tutorials

you have no idea how much help you did to all the beginner musician out there. i cant actually find any word to thank you bro. absolute great job!!

this break down made me like the song even more

omg this video is pure gold! Thank you so much for existing 🥺❤️

What an amazing pair of artists. I’m so thankful they shared so much of their process, in the form of tracks and in the recent documentary. And of course thank you for the guided tour! Can’t wait to see what they create in the coming years.

I can't get enough of these kinds of videos. I just love the production process of artists - I find it truly fascinating and inspiring. It makes them seem more human to me - like, we're all kinda using the same gear, trying to make art. We all have out own process but with very different outcomes. Music is life!

I hadn't heard of Billie before and one day I stumbled upon their official video of "Ocean Eyes." I was blown away by how beautiful the song is! It's really excellent and thanks for breaking it down like this. You point out many very helpful insights to things that were left in that I know I would have cut out. I'm glad to see you reacted the same way. But he was young and I'm sure he's learned a lot since then. Despite that, all of that striving to get it right clearly paid off for them! Great video... thank you. :-)

So just so everyone knows, in logic pro you go to "file>new from template>demo projects" and you can "get your hands on" the actual studio session of ocean eyes. So you can experiment with the track yourselves. Good video though

you explain everything SO well, i appreciate how you break everything down so simply and define all the terminology you use, it's extremely useful for us regardless of what level we're at. so good!!

I loved how you explained EQ and compression, rlly clear straightforward easy to understand!

Dude this was the coolest thing I’ve seen in a long time. One of my fav songs and you explained everything so well as well as the theory. You’re awesome!

Korean RU-vidrs really need to learn from this video. This video is simply a one-take recording and cutting out some errors, no sound effects, no BGM, no flashy video transition effects, no subtitles, no intro jingle and computer graphics. This video is just pure and goes straight to the point which is a bunch of secret information. Viewers willingly pay their time to receive that precious information and we are happy.

Thanks for doing this breakdown! Love this song and seeing the session. You know what you're talking about and broke it down wonderfully. It also goes to show, that while the nice expensive gear and plugins are great and allow for awesome creativity...you don't need it to create good music. You just need a vision and a passion.

What a video, man! Bring more Billie Eilish songs heree, i'd loveee to see that! Great content!

Her vocals give me chills! The genius of those two combined will go down in music history no doubt

I've certainly been able to take away a ton from this video. Can't wait to implement some of these models in my music. It's super dope you were able to get this haha. Much love for sharing this with us.

You have a good understanding on production. You helped me out hugely- putting words and understanding to processes. Thank you!! 🙏 🙌

This is one of the most helpful Logic videos I've ever watched! So much gold. Thankyou!

Really cool breakdown brother!

I had no idea of the many meticulous details of producing songs I have a whole new appreciation for finneas

I honestly love videos like this! And he's doing such a great job explaning! SUPER!!

I love love love these deconstructions!

I could literally cry watching and listening to this! thank you

The coolest thing about this is that everything is done with Logic vanilla plugins. Wow. Im literally blown away that this is possible.

Excellent description of the workflow and various techniques used. Some real subtle processing that goes into the final mix but makes a world of difference. Great video.

love to see this man, thx for the show !

Bruh. I’m a visually learner trying to get into music production, and watching you just break down this awesome song is awesome. Thanks!

This was a great breakdown! I actually liked your stereo mix output better than the original :) Thanks for sharing & keep up the good work!

I love this video. I just finished it and I just want to watch it all again. Awesome stuff dude.

Love Billie and Finneas, thanks for doing this video it was very interesting! Really enjoyed watching this!

Listening to this as a person who wants to make their own music start to finish makes my mind blown yet my dreams slightly shattered hahaha. And this is scratching the surface

Incredible breakdown man! My favorite is how you pointed out the bleeding through the headphones. I would love to learn more about the double compression. I thought this was some perfect production it was just a lot of takes and good processing by someone who knew how to use their tools. Subscribed!

shes honestly amazing!!

this video basically answered all the questions i had about recording and mixing vocals. huge massive thanks for the upload man

Artists should release their files like this really shows how much work goes into making a track.

I'm just over here admiring how the vocals were recorded, damn billie is creative

Man, your amazing I can’t believe!! So unique content and your talented!! You’ll definitely be famous

Wow! This was great to look at. God bless you for putting this out man!

Great video! Really enjoyed this. Just getting started in music production and dissecting tracks like this really helps to give different ideas, methods, and just better understand the process. Thank you!

Finneas and Billie are so dope, man. If I had parents who’d give names like Finneas and Billie I’d probably have that kinda soul too 😂

Best 28mins! So much have learned! Thanks!

Thank you very much for this video! This is amazing! 🙏

Her song ocean eyes is what got me back into music creation in college

Can you breakdown Bad Guy because there are a lot of interesting things in there and bury a friend to

Well done. I actually learned something! Thanks!

This is a great video, love how face paced and detailed it is.

it made me cry, i'm way too far of being that pro.

Thank you so much for this I learned so much I am new to Logic!

This is unbelievably helpful. Thank you so much for doing this!

It feels amazing when you break down someone's music project.

ah man can't stop this video. It's so interesting. I subbed

more session breakdowns please!!!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Amazing breakdown please keep doing more. I love this kind of stuff giving us insight to the successful industry tricks.

I LITERALLY LOVED THIS VIDEO! More breakdowns like this please!

I found the song in Logic Pro, but never thought to look at it. Your analysis and breakdown is so perfect. I learned a lot. Thanks for doing the video.

Hello. Reason to bus most channels to more reverb busses is to set the space for the whole track. When you reverb individual tracks its more about the instrument flavour and/or position in the mix. Good breakdown. Really like Finneas, so please do more of these if possible. Thank you :)

One of the best videos I've seen on YT. Kudos mate. Sharing it on FB and insta 🤘🏻❤️

god I love this. I wish every artist had something like this.

"please excuse the mess in the back" -- looks cleaner than a surgical suite

You really analysed this track... Great job... Billie was 13 here damn and Finneas is a literal god... They're amazing and this song is just wow

Thank you so much for doing this! It was very inspirational :-)

Beautiful song! Glad you did a breakdown of it!

Finneas is a genius producer. Awesome job ! Of course Billie Eilish has an AMAZING voice

“she doesn’t use auto tune. She re records until she gets it” I hope Billy gets to read that , it’s awesome when an artist IDs the work that went into another artist’s work

Your explenation is really really clear, thank you and hope to see more videos like this

Incredible content. Love learning more about Logic and music production!

First how does this not have more views?!!! Second I subbed because I saw u were at 899 haha

This is a perfect example of the back and forth struggle with control in music. Once upon a time it took millions ie; great gear, great rooms, best musicians and trained engineers to make a record. We can also slide “ who you know “ in that equation. When the four track came along people heavily invested in gear played it down. However outside those million dollar studios it was used to create great records. With computers and modern day technology people have been doing this for years with just one piece of out board gear even a primitive sound blaster card, emu stuff etc. Take note the people who invest heavily in tech for music will downplay the bedroom artist and try to tell you about standing waves etc and why you need a good vocal booth. However, lately there has been quite a few gear and tech to combat that issue. However on the flip side this technology has promoted smartphones as a good medium to listen music on. Also most young people are realizing they don’t have to be Barbara Streisand just gimmick it in software. If ever doing a live performance lip sync certain portions. If this is what young people want let them have it they are the future. The only sad part is that songs that create perfect singing and unnatural tones tend to not have long staying power or wind up with the sound of the ‘80s stigma. In the end who cares as long as it sells right. So what is my point? It is not gear but talent and ideas. Billie sounds very good in her natural voice better than many famous singers. There is no need to worry about perfect pitch and tone. She is not a piano tuned perfectly. Why are so many engineers obsessed with this being the litmus test? Sing the flipping song with good production techniques. I am still waiting to hear the person who can sing live for 3 minutes and maintain perfect pitch. I have seen so many artists who performed live, rocked the crowd, loved in their neck of the woods by people outside of friends and family. Only to leave the bedroom producer and get told they are too pitchy blah , blah , blah. We need to bring in this vocal coach, this other one and that other one. One year later still on the chorus of a song previously recorded that was gaining traction. We should let the young people buying these records be the experts

Bruh u did a great job breaking these tracks down, I appreciate it man!

This was amazing thanks fam super inspiring 🙏🏾 her voice is beautiful

can you imagine getting the ACTUAL FILES from a popular song? That is insane and awesome.

You got your hands on it because it comes with every logic 10.5 update. Go to file>new from template>demo projects, and it's there.

man this is really special! Thank you so much

This is sooooo cool! One of my absolute favorite songs!