Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc. Track Deconstruction at Sonar +D, Barcelona 

These deconstructions are one of the best things that come out of Point Blank Music School

90s kids any one? Love this tune ! (Intro) Feel Good - 1:06 Fun Facts - 2:56 Vocal Reference - 4:38 Music Theory - 5:10 & 11:15 Beat - 6:31 BASS - 13:13 Electric Guitar - 15:22 Electric Guitar - 2 16:00 Strum - 17:35 Guitar RIFF - 19:45 Synth Arpegio - 20:25 FX STAB - 24:10 Wobble dub sound - 26:52 Acapella - 28:10 Final Decunstuction - 29:25 You welcome :)

Instead of moaning about some random sound issues on the stage, people should focus on recognizing how little it takes to make a song shift from good to great. It's amazing to see how simple and repetitive the arrangement is on this song, while the weird but extremely interesting chord progression and the great vocal performances on top make it shine. Obviously, the groove is simple yet effective too. It just goes to show: Focus on the important bits of your songwriting and bloody practice your performance to become a master. Thanks, Ski, for another inspiring deconstruction!

It was recorded at studio 13 (damon's studio) Kong studios is a fictional studio in the universe of the virtual band.

This song really is a masterpiece, amazing to see the deconstruction

only 10 mins in and I cannot thank you enough for this breakdown I love how you go into the music theory as well and keep it simple for a beginner like me, this is so awesome !

That drum beat and guitar really set it off!! Great job to you and all behind the scenes!

This is not easy to perform on the fly.....brilliant deconstruction!

I was waiting for that joint for long time ! thank you guyz Greets from France

Crazy to hear how complex the track sounds, yet so simple when you actually see process. BRILLIANT

Absolutely amazingly talented guy.. Ski thank you Sir!!

This is fantastic! Great work and thanks for sharing!

Always a treat! Thanks Ski and Point Blank

Brilliant! And done live. Amazing advert for your school. If I was young I’d be signing up

Brilliant!! Really good to watch the musical theory as well..

takes some knowledge to be able to do this, cant wait to start the music production and sound engineering degree at point blank next year just happy to have the youtube channel for now haha

Amazing job Ski, you rock man!

Feel Good Inc credits: Vocals: Damon Albarn De La Soul Bass: Morgan Nicholls Elec Guitar: Simon Tong Acoustic Guitar: Damon Albarn Drums: Cass Browne James Dring Produced/engineering: Danger Mouse Tom Girling Jason Cox

Awesome breakdown thanks.

You are one of a kind! Great stuff and thx for sharing your knowledge with us! ./ivar

Terrific deconstruction as always!! Thanks Ski!

Ski, always on point! Nice one.

Awesome! Thank you! Great guy!

You missed the part that comes in under the vocals in the first verse, the quiet detuned sounding plucky synth, haha but thats super picky, this is insane, so cool

genius! like for other deconstructions! tks

Yeah I've been waiting for something like this cool man. Now would you pls do a Brand New Heavies deconstruction or Morsheeba(hope I spelled it right)) thanks

Wow this is incredible love it !!! It’s incredible

Classic track, cool stuff

Fantástico Ski!! (always)

Thank you

Really nice vids. Learn a lot from them. I get a little bit lost with Ableton and the arrangement view he always uses. A bit difficult to guess in what part of the song things go. It'll be easier for non-Ableton users if he so kind could use the other window where one could have a visual contest of what he is doing. But apart from that all good!!

2:00 Loving this 180° phase inversion between L and R hahaha

amazing deconstruction and very informative video ! There is one cool sound missing - at 2:04 - there is a short "beep" sound which sounds really amazing anyone has an idea if it was sampled or synthesizedf ?

Beautiful

love this!!!

This really was a top notch deconstruction by Ski who's all-round talent is on the level... Enjoyed watching and found great inspiration in how this was made. Thanks man.

Very cool!

Amazing!!! 👏👏👏

wow that was impressive. nailed it.

Love these deconstructions. Any idea what that small keyboard is?

I've just realised that the crash that he played at 6:45 is the same as the crash in "Clint Eastwood" an alternate band that used the same set of drums in their 2 biggest songs. That's something you just don't see nowadays.

Simply brilliant

Is this part of a music convention or is it a demo during a class? Would really like to see something like this or watch something that Point Blank are hosting in the future!

This was great!!

This is mental! What a master.

Since so many years

Love you Ski!

Ski always makes this look soo easy! Lol. Well done.

im curious, is there a reason why the left channel is inverted during the original song playback? it was very annoying, made me want to turn my head... anyway, this was a great deconstruction as always, thanks.

what machine is he using for the clicky sounds? I WANT ONE also IT IS SO COOL SEEING ONE OF MY FAVORITE SONGS.. EVER BEING BROKEN DOWN!!

awesome

Cool Bro!

Most popular music has got a key signature. Great quote!

have you considered deconstructing something from tondos expanding head band?

please change the second note of the first arpeggio... :)

clever stuff

Man I wish I could wrap my head around the music theory part of this more. Did he recognize the scale by ear or construct the notes and then identify the scale?

Wow. What a lesson. Watch and learn kids, watch n learn.

Awesome Video and good rebuild of the Original but for me the analysis of the song is missing.. why they did this and that and the music theory behind that

I dont get it: why is he using the controller to play the instruments? Why doesn't he use the keyboard MIDI?

Love it! 💋❤️❤️❤️

Great vid, but why is the computer audio quality so bad

This guy has a great attitude. Right Man on the right spot. Keep it UP!

DId he really use the growls as "beeps" on the word "ass"?

How did he get those sounds?

That Eb Chord is definitely minor.

1:38 i need that synth please

There's one sound missing, it's a very subtle melodic sound in the bridge, before the second chorus.

This was incredibly cool, even though I understood a mere fraction of it.

13 years!!!

Time stamp for High hat pattern: 7:27 Clapping sound: 8:28

I would be the one guy when he goes "give it up for feel good inc" everyone claps politely and I go.. WOOO!!

16:26 it was actually Simon tong

Please do Africa by Toto

Did he just get the drum samples from the original song? Because they sound exactly the same...

17:14 Im still watching, but I believe a slide was missed there.

Um as far as music theory goes, the reason you can play a E major chord over an E minor bass riff, I think works because it's because it's blues, not because it was out of tune.

no load on the system but 70°C hot. oh apple :3

deconstruct Sandstorm, pleaaaaase

i can do it too in a couple of months...

Ski's outdone himself on this one

i wonder why nobody noticed, that the polarity of the music is off. flip the phase of one channel, please. voice is ok though.

conveniently leaving out the detuned hula guitar sample lol

20:37

I wish I could get a scholarship to Point Blanck Music School. If not for me at least for my son.

What's up with the audio at 1:00? There's some weird sort of phasing thing going on that confuses my ears.

The tree's are listening..🤔

the computer audio is out of phase ;-)

Damon sailing close to the wind again on this tune ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2EHXH0hYkuU.html

I really hope that nobody was on lsd this day

The best. Contrats.

you should try peggy Gou - it makes you forget

Its sad that u need needs to sound engineer one day technology will phase out these ppl from the creative process

I did my own deconstruction of the song called blood sweat and tears by BTS. I might upload a video about it I didn't do the audio things like this but I did a whole lot of theories

Is it just me or does the bass sound kinda different? like more stringy...idk tbh

i hate the first chord on the arpeggiated guitar, i hadn't noticed it until now, now everytime i listen to the real song i can't stop hearing how wrong it is.

Did the not use The Message for the beat... hence the line... and all they want to hear is the message beat...

should be called 'track REconstruction'

arghhh hate to say this but the "guitar" arpeggio on the first chord is slightly off. i think you got one note wrong and takes me out of the listening experience. other than that impressive decosntruction well done.

Is this a deconstruction of the song or a tutorial on DAWs for the average person?