Deconstruction: the Weeknd - 'Blinding Lights' w/ Ski Oakenfull in Ableton Live 11

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Back for his first Deconstruction of 2022, our Head of Education and Curriculum and master of Track Deconstructions Ski Oakenfull breaks down the biggest track of 2020, the Weeknd's, Blinding Lights. He shows how it was influenced by Rod Stewart's track, Young Turks from the 80s as well as a-ha's, Take on Me for the melody. Join us as Ski brings the track to life, piece by piece.
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CONTENTS:
Intro: 00:00
Ableton & Equipment: 01:50
Beat: 02:30
Bass: 04:20
Music Theory: 04:50
Chords: 06:20
Melody: 08:50
Arpeggio: 09:42
Arrangement: 11:30
Acapella: 12:46
Playthrough: 13:22
Rod Stewart - Young Turks: 14:51
Outro: 17:53
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@filipjonathan 2 года назад

It's amazing how simple this song is and yet it's taken over the whole world!

@thesahel7218 2 года назад

the vocals make it seem really complex with the prechorus and verses

@chickenlolipop7501 2 года назад

Fr it really brings tons of inspiration to learn to make music, well at least for me it does

@oscarv8267 2 года назад

His education and experience makes it seem simple but there is nothing simple about it🧐 Actually it’s been years for this song to evolve into this masterpiece

@MrSh4des Год назад

@@jocu475lmao

@David-hs1bu Год назад

its not simple you are just biased as hell, high on copium

@baroufess 2 года назад

Pure gold these deconstructions .Now i know about the Rod Stewart track too.Thank You So Much!!!!

@herbytube2006 2 года назад

Could not say better... Ski´s Dcon´s are amazing !

@maikrobin 2 года назад

I don´t know since how many years I´m watching this channel, but Ski is getting better with every track ( actually he doesn´t - he is constantly great..!!) And every video puts a smile on my face! Thank you for that and please keep them coming! 🙏

@jazzsong8566 2 года назад

Ski, you are a genius! Need more deconstructions along the year. They are awesome 🙏🙌💚

@evolvic 2 года назад

Brilliant, as always.🙏❤️

@ishaanvohra2311 2 года назад

Yess! I've been awaiting this video for so long!

@RockstahRolln 2 года назад

Wow!! Fantastic deconstruction with both The Weekend and Rod Stewart! Excellent stuff as always Ski!

@aaronmichaelread 2 года назад

Brilliant deconstruction. I knew of the Take On Me likeness / mod but didn't know of the Young Turks one. Now when I play the official Instrumental version that it available everywhere digitally. I am going to try and sing along using the Young Turks lyrics to the Blinding Lights Instrumental and see if I can actually keep pace.

@seanstage Год назад

Unbelievable, I wish I could like this more than just a simple like!!

@zapp442 2 года назад

Master Ski. Thank you for all your deconstructions. So informative and educational.

@adrianoconnor3020 2 года назад

love rod in the mix,great job as usual

@ThePawTrax 5 месяцев назад

Love the format of tbese deconstructions

@PointBlankMusicSchool 5 месяцев назад

We love these kinda comments!

@caseyjones8507 Год назад

Even if I'm not particularly interested in the track of subject, I genuinely get SO much out of these deconstructions. Ski just has a way of distilling things down to the core of it.

@serkering8712 2 года назад

Amazing work of deconstruction. Would love to see 'TalkTalk's Life's what you make it' deconstructed.

@WillisKeeper 2 года назад

Ever since I heard this song the first time I was wondering why everything in it sounds so oddly familiar. Thanks for letting me know!

@AndersChanTidemann Год назад

That was really awesome - thanks so much!

@officerpd 2 года назад

AWESOME! Thank you very much!

@frano5957 Год назад

A master decrypts a master :)

@kahmusicaustralia 2 года назад

Fantastic work mate. Loved the smoothness of your workflow :)

@PabloDeModeOfficial 2 года назад

Excellent! So simple and complex at the same time :)

@akshayyc010 2 года назад

Loved it. Really helpful 🤌

@markjhorsley 2 года назад

Great vid as always ski

@pittan86 2 года назад

Lovely Lovely stuff here. Thanks very much!

@homelessballoon 2 года назад

Brilliant Ski! As always. 😀

@endfreq 2 года назад

Great deconstruction for a great song.

@MsEtherx 2 года назад

incredible, thanks

@roma_redblack3640 Год назад

I love you for this angel work

@smgmusiq1882 2 года назад

Amazing.❤🔥

@markandrewsdj 2 года назад

Really nice deconstruction, Ski!

@MrJonesdj 2 года назад

Amazing!!

@dianafernandezs 2 года назад

Amazing!

@Scheffan 2 года назад

love your videos!!! thanks for the teaching. greetings from Argentina

@juandenz2008 2 года назад

Informative deconstruction !

@favio347 2 года назад

Basically its a great educational video, thanks for sharing.

@hillyfieldproductions Год назад

Just amazing. Wow

@PointBlankMusicSchool Год назад

Thank you!

@cubedroid5087 2 года назад

These videos are so helpful

@Keithoconnellsongwriter 2 года назад

Great video Ski. I attempted to deconstruct the main riff section with all the parts when it first came out. I ended up using Serum to create the main intro sound. I must revisit it to compare where I can make some improvements. I love these videos. Keep up the good work 👏

@MrMallum 2 года назад

Bang on! Really gr8 vid

@floatinganarchychannel3204 2 года назад

Beautiful workflow. I love the use with analog! Are the patches for analog available online somewhere?

@clint-lee 2 года назад

Genius!

@oryolmusic 2 года назад

dude, very fresh deconstruction

@PendelSteven 2 года назад

15:04 I do this with Izotope RX. Even the version you get with Music Production Suite can do that. I mean, if you bought that for Ozone, Neutron, Nector & Vocal Synth.... Don't forget you have a plugin for that!

@JamesBermingham 2 года назад

Great programming and sequencing. 👍

@ReeltoRealDemoTapes 2 года назад

Awesome Ski

@soundfilet1373 2 года назад

superb!!!!

@JoelHernandez-vs1kn Год назад

Gracias

@ggyatt 8 месяцев назад

Man you're the god, thank you

@a.d.h.s. 2 года назад

amazing!

@TheVoltar100 2 года назад

Well done!

@u-sayn 2 года назад

Great 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

@ClectaSkiMusic 2 года назад

You're just showing off Ski...(haha Kidding of course) this was so awesome thanks for doing this & keep them coming.

@SamyKdj 2 года назад

Super !! :)

@winstondsouza42 2 года назад

Maaan 🔥ski are genius

@Le_Lys_Eclectique Год назад

Hi man thank you for the great work! It would be AWESOME if you could show how to deconstruct "Premiers Symptômes" by the French Band "Air". I would LOVE to know more of this track! Thank youuuuuuuuu!!! ❤🙏

@psyolent. 11 месяцев назад

thank you this is really very good. i never made the connection between turks by rod and this.

@PointBlankMusicSchool 11 месяцев назад

Cheers Gregg.

@DJFusia 2 года назад

Brilliant Ski !!!! Your Deconstructions are always on Point !!!! I would love to see a demo on how you made those Kavinsky Synth and Kavinsky Bass sounds using the Ableton Analog stock plug ins !!!! I am using Ableton 10... the Analog plugin looks different or perhaps I have the wrong one selected.... Thanks for everything you do sir !!!!

@snmix90records80 2 года назад

Thanks for the greatest deconstruction. Which software do u use to extract that acapella

@BestTop-tj3kx 2 года назад

Very very good 😀

@muratevgin 5 месяцев назад

How cool 👍I’ve always wanted to make videos like this for my own songs. Your videos are amazing👏Thanks for the inspiration🙏🏻

@PointBlankMusicSchool 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching. Please tag us if you do make anything of your own.

@muratevgin 5 месяцев назад

I will. Your welcone🙏🏻🎬🎸

@Phaseish Год назад

damn i wanted to see what the arpeggio rise part was XD obv some c- outline & that descending scale part , and the detuned riser part in hook B. he dropped the instrumental with it which is very humble and cool ,. all in all great stuff glad I found your channel!

@djade76 2 месяца назад

Spectralayers 10 or Izotope RX is great for Separation. Great Video btw - The Rod vocals sit nicely with Blinding Lights. Good work

@user-nf5bn7hm2y 5 месяцев назад

One love from india sir❤

@atanasprodatanasov9233 2 года назад

I didn't knew John Oliver is such an excellent musician.

@moksh8 2 года назад

First to comment - You make it possible to dream! Please do Sacrifice next? Keep up the good work! Thanks

@Drrolfski 2 года назад

Pretty cool, ngl

@BeardslapRadio 2 года назад

The thumbnail had me thinking that John Oliver had gotten into music production.

@albertlopez2762 2 года назад

I really enjoyed this. I've heard of another app to get acapellas...it's called lalal or something? In any case, I really liked how you included the theory/chords although I suppose one could argue what the key center is.

@CatherineMeeson Год назад

So grouse, just found your work amazing different way to use ableton

@kayokk- Год назад

Great job. Thanks

@strangerthings9143 2 года назад

the weeknd untouchable

@gamonutz 2 года назад

ngl when the 'young hearrrrts run freee' dropped... I was rockin

@arixtomusic 2 года назад

Very similar 🤯

@ivermctinn5487 2 года назад

Great as usual, though I can't believe you didn't mention Maniac by Michael Sembello? 😉

@larrydavid2728 2 года назад

If you listen to the 1st 10 seconds of Chicane salt water originally version. You can hear the beginning of this track

@dazziep4468 2 года назад

I love watching your deconstructions, I keep hoping that one day you will do Future Sound Of London - Papua New Guinea ... please please please that would be awesome..I know you won't though as you will be inundated with thousands of great tracks to do but I can wish ;)

@AutPen38 Год назад

There's also an annoying problem with Papua New Guinea. The publisher of it doesn't just claim the copyright money from tutorials that include snippets of it. They do the whole "takedown" thing and the RU-vid video gets completed blocked, so no one can watch it.

@BarrettRodriguez 3 месяца назад

Very nicely done. Time to get Abelton. The song has Max Martin all over it. The man is a master at pop hits. I wonder now if the song was written with instruments or a DAW.

@stev5293 2 года назад

This is great. However is there any way to get an acapella without the artefacts? Want to do this myself.

@orbitaljellyfish808 3 месяца назад

John Oliver’s musical genius younger brother 👏👏

@redlettervagrant1159 2 года назад

A question I've been struggling with for a couple years now: Do you know why when I get my tracks to the loudness of one of my reference tracks, it will sound fine in my studio monitors and my headphones, and even my couple sets of crappy speakers I keep in my studio in order to get a feel for what it sounds like on cheaper speakers, but on a phone or via my phone's bluetooth in my vehicles, I always have to turn my phone down 2 notches because at full volume it will be distorted?

@olxs__ 2 года назад

Because phone speakers can't handle the harmonic content above certain frequency range, thus sounding like a sort of saturation

@marcusviniciusmagalhaesdea3779 Год назад

To me, the song samples the opening of the 80's cartoon "Pole Position".

@talnomix3164 2 года назад

Which snare did you use?

@user-zu8zn1xw5g Год назад

hello, what is the name of the program you use at the end of the video to extract the vocals? she breaks the track into 4 components: vocals, drums, bass, and melody.

@kingkuts 2 года назад

Take on me base line

@marcocabrera9476 Год назад

Cual es nombre del software que separa los elementos de la canción?

@TeleporterM11 2 года назад

Ski I can understand how you recognized the notes and chords but how did you arrive at or find similar sounding instruments, Did you use any Ai software to help you.

@AutPen38 Год назад

Years of experience. In much the same way that a classical musician can tell the difference between a violin and viola or clarinet and an oboe, experienced synth heads can recognise basses, pads and plucks that were staple sounds on synths like the Juno 60 or the DX7. It's relatively easy - for an experienced sound designer - to recreate synth sounds from the early '80s with modern VSTs and stock plugins, because it's mostly just a case of using a saw wave and getting the filter, resonance, and ADSR envelope right.

@Phoebedumplings 2 года назад

These a reconstructions surely? 😎

@skioakenfull 2 года назад

probably yes! 🤔 although you've got to deconstruct it to reconstruct it!

@skowdish 8 месяцев назад

Could u tell me how to make the yellow outlined box grouping those tracks

@DeepfriedBaby 2 года назад

I always thought it had an influence from that aerobics championships video that was a trending meme video.

@ralphooms4776 Год назад

What is the name of that Programme which is Used to separate the rod stewart vocale?

@kdjbeatzz349 2 года назад

how did you find these chords???

@pw7752 Год назад

Close listening and some trial-and-error is my guess. Plus lots of experience would shorten that process!

@SNAGGABENZ 7 месяцев назад

It would like to hear take on me mashed up with 🎉blinding lights. For Rod Stuart mash up the syth needs to cut and copied to the chorus

@joelsterling3735 2 года назад

Do an ABBA song next!

@debler 2 года назад

From day 1 i Argued n swore this was inspired by Michael Sembello - Maniac!!! 😏 🎶💃👏💃👏💃🎶

@skioakenfull 2 года назад

It definitely sounds influential, especially with the arpeggio synth!

@debler 2 года назад

@@skioakenfull Thank you!! Glad someone else hear's it... 🙂 🎶💗🤗💗🎶

@ntartienii Год назад

Still fighting to find how to set that cut off knob

@SkinnyJeansLive 5 месяцев назад

Can you send the drum preset? Is it a groove agent file?

@bojanstromboli1306 Год назад

Do a deconstruction of sunrise by simply red.

@ambrocado 2 года назад

B R I L L I A N T

@athen33 2 года назад

mixing engineering was by the master serban ghenea

@user-ur1tf5cg5f 2 года назад

neural mix pro how i download

@JamesJohnAgar 2 года назад

Great well done, so would the Weekend have had to pay some sort of Royalty to Rod Stewart then if he ripped the beat/chord from the original songs?

@juandenz2008 Год назад

No. Generally speaking the Harmony and the Rhythm are aspects of musical works that can't be copyrighted. So feel free to use a rhythm and harmony that you like. Note I'm not talking about a specific recording which can be copyrighted.

@AutPen38 Год назад

Things are gradually changing and there's sometimes an agreement/payment for elements of a backing track, but music copyright law historically assigned intellectual property ownership only for the top line melody and lyrics. It's why a lot of (mostly black) bass players and drummers that have been sampled to death died in poverty, while the lyricists, singers, and music publishers usually got paid. As a general rule, you are free to "steal" the notes in the chords, bassline, and drum patterns from other songs, but not the lyrics or main melody. This old rule is basically why Ringo Starr and George Harrison only had half the money of Lennon and McCartney. Harrison wrote his own guitar licks and Starr invented his own drum fills, but the copyright of those Beatles songs went to Lennon and McCartney for writing the toplines.