Maynard James Keenan JUDITH Multitracks (Listening Session & Analysis) A Perfect Circle 

Really wish APC had stuck more to this style. Amazing music.

This whole album is…perfect. Definitely in my top 3. It’s totally nuts when you discover it was recorded in a garage in 1999.

Some amazing musicians on this one.. Maynard, Billy Howerdel, Josh Freese.. really impressive piece of work. That entire album is fantastic. One of my all time favorites. “ The hollow” is one of the best rock songs ever written in my opinion.

I have the honor of being the guy that recorded Maynard's first attempt at singing a song he wrote lyrics for. 1987 or so, on my Tascam 4 track!

These sessions are amazing. Honestly, I find them very valuable, with a lot of production and singing techniques/tricks to learn from. Thanks Chris,

That’s definitely Billy singing some of those long background (synth like) reverbic vox! I can just hear him. Killer breakdown Chris thanks for this

Is today national Maynard Day? Because Rick Beato just uploaded his interview with Maynard as well. Believe it or not, I'm watching this first though.

Believe me or not, these videos are incredibly meditative to watch. Next time I get myself some coffee I should just turn one of these on and sit back in my chair.

I love that the video for Judith was directed by David Fincher.

This is the way to listen to music. Now everyone can appreciate this fantastic piece of art even more. Thank you, Chris!

one of the best hard rock songs of all time.. so dope to be able to hear all these tracks isolated. Especially those guitars!! Top 10 best tones ever!! Thanks for the vid, dude 🤘🏼

This was huge, man. I love how you dive down into every little nuance. Like tasting for different notes in a cigar and picking them all out. I also never heard that big scream in all of its glory the way you can hear it hear... really have me a much deeper appreciation of not only the music, but production of the song. Amazing.

After many years today I listened to this song and been thinking on how amazingly he sang it... And now I'm shocked seeing you uploaded this video in the exact same time. Like, WOW, Chris, you're reading my mind or what? 🤔😄

Oh hell yeah that's the stuff! Looking forward to more stuff about James from you! He's my favourite Inspiration in singing. Keep up the good work!

Aww yiss, one of my favourite songs. Man I love this series and you're doing such a great job dissecting those tracks, on a technical and emotional level, really something special here. Love that you talked about the meaning of the song at the beginning aswell

One of the best songs in their library…a true test of time. Beautiful.

The bass and guitar together 🔥

I'm glad you clarified it was the edited version so quickly; for a second I was like, "Did I just hear what I wanted to hear all these years??? @_@" hahahaha. Great video, as usual! 🎶 🤟 Rock onnn!!!

Love your analyses and that you also dig into the instrumentals. Very helpful stuff man 🤘

Paz is an Angel! 😻

Yeah man I know what you mean about the big note at the end, I've always focused on that and tbh never really 'heard' those harmonies over the top, so great to hear isolated and also just an awesome texture in what was already an awesome vocal performance, pure class. Thanks for another great vid Chris 🤘

One of the best songs ever. Great to hear these tracks isolated.

This track still gets me as excited as it did so many years ago

man this is awesome, your videos make me a better vocalist every time I watch ☺️

Fantastic video Chris, wow those isolated tracks sound good!

I'm happy to see you doing more Maynard Chris and loved the speech at the opening you summed it up the best way well said 👏👏

This stem track is a lesson in itself, man. The vocal orchestration is amazing! But always has. Need more of this!

Found your channel about a month ago and I binge-watched almost every single one. Your videos are awesome and super entertaining! I hope you are doing well sir, thank you for these amazing analysis!

Thank you so much Chris! That ending was epic as it always sounds. But isolated. Oh man!

Cool. Subscribed. I found that really interesting. Certainly one of my favourite vocal performances ever put on a record and a fantastic song that as you say you really can identify with.

I love watching you rock back and forth like I do whenever I talk about something I love

I always get goosebumps when I listen to this song. Great analysis, thanks!

Love this man, you know I have been with you a long time I love the breakdown stuff like this. Also, you hit me in the feels with one of my favorite songs. Looking forward to more good shit as always. I need to catch up on some of your recent content. But I appreciate the broader musical analysis here. Love you man, you're my go-to.

I love the jumping back and forth between the heavily compressed almost scream to the really clean: THANK YOUR GOD your lord your christ HE DID THIS took what you had and... Love doing this at karaoke bars, it's challenging and if you can pull it off people flip out.

Aaa thank u so much!!! I love APC sooo much!!! ❤️‍🔥🔥🌹

Always appreciate a Maynard video 🙌

Loved your video. Last 2 minutes gave me goosebumps

What surprised me was hearing the vocal stem at the end where that high vocal phrase was much cleaner than I originally thought. Before then, I thought Maynard did a vocal fry on the highs at that part but he was actually only putting some heat on the low part while singing totally clean on that high note!

This is GREAT EAR CANDY!!! hope you do more from their 1st n 2nd albums. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👍

one of the greatest!!!!!! Maynard rules and this remains one of my fav APC songs, thank you!

This song got me in to APC, Tool and somewhat Pucifer. Thought I recognized Maynards voice in "Parabola" and I was hooked. This song is so amazing both musically and meaning.

Love your content bro

Subscribed! Thanks for the vid, bud!

Wow! Thanks so much for this!

very good pick as well.... love that song

This is cool. Thank you. 👍🏻

Glad I put headphones on for this

Wow that last bit is a good 18 seconds. I never really noticed how long it is. Greay video Chris.

Thanks for this Chris. 😃😃🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼

Great isolated vocal video. The guitars were cool too. Amazing what they did with the vocals that would not have been identified when hearing the song with all the instruments.

😁😁😁😁 great video. Great song. Great voice .

can you please show us much more of Maynard and something from Till Lindemann from Rammstein? Love these videos

Too often do I throw on this song when I need to get situational anger out, Maynard's history with this song is another strong connection to this track. If there was any of their songs that deserves this level of analysis, it's Judith.

That was awesome

The songs isn't about asking why tragic things happen, its about his mother' unbending faith in Jesus, despite his supposed allowing and causing of her suffering.

Thanks for the great breakdown, Chris! As a fellow human, I understand Maynard’s pain, anger and frustration; as a redeemed sinner I understand better that Judith is now experiencing the weight and bliss of glory! May he know it too…

Wow just wow!!!!

Love this song.

I can relate to your opening thing as to the lyrical question and painful content as to Why and wtf!! My late wife and i loved this song and Maynards lyrical writings , but just killer tune all around ..great overall timbre , drum trax, guitar trax everything about it rules!!!

This and The Outsider I think are my favorite Maynard vocal performances. Everything about this song is great though, especially the music video where it doesn't really show their faces at all and things like Lenchantin fixing her hair in the middle of the guitar solo really gives the feeling that they're just jamming in a garage

Billy approaches his guitar parts like vocal lines

I more and more get the impression that your channel is made for me 😅

The thing that’s always awesome about an isolated Maynard is the weird textural stuff he does on certain lines that you CANNOT hear in the recording. Parabola is a great example: the first chorus “all this pain is an illuuuUUuuUusionnnnnn”. He does some weird note runs there that you can’t even pick up otherwise. He’s a master

15:25 wow.. never heard that, amazing stuff.

so pro.

yea the center panning is great for hard rock and metal for the main guitars because by contrast it lets the leads really glow.

Algorithm comment you da best Chris still the most underrated singing channel by far even if you’ve grown a lot!

14:45 I just love the way he sings this line, it's so powerful.

love MJK, proper bloke and a good singer

16:33 Fun how Chris's uhh at the end is like he is finishing the song line in tune but making it part of his commentary line.

Every day should be National Maynard day

i could listen to isolated guitars on this track all day

I've found a really interesting way to actually get a similar duality of tones in my bass recordings by running mine through a solid state 8" regular guitar combo amp. I use some pretty basic passive jazz pickups on my 4 string and then run it straight into the amp with a rhythm channel and a tiny bit of gain on it. The lower strings immediately overdrive the speaker but the higher notes are able to stay crisp and well defined. I've kept my solid state combo amp specifically for recording bass parts because my primary instrument is guitar. But I run my guitar into an all tube Peavy 6505 head (with a tube screamer before the input) with a 15w 8ohm celestion greenback cab. It gives me the headspace on cleans but that speaker is phenomenal at riding the line for rhythm and then snapping into screaming distortion. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't really want to try and mic either amp up for a gig because it probably wouldn't maintain the same characteristics through a PA. But recording with both of those amps makes my life a LOT easier. I mean, they're not carrying nearly enough ass to play live like my old Mesa Road King, but I'm also not gigging at all anymore. I just record stuff for me and play for friends/family. But seeing the look on people's faces when I tell them that I literally record full songs in my basement with less than $3k in all of my gear (including guitars, amps, track recorders, effects, editing, and a full 5/6 piece acoustic drum kit.)

I wish you took the backup vocals off the last screen above it so we could just hear his scream. Shivers.

Hope your doing good Chris, I love these vocal track breakdowns you are doing and being able to hear what someone like MJK is doing technique wise and being able to really listen and pick it apart. Also if you haven't heard yet RICK BEATO just interviewed MJK on his channel and what he had to say was very interesting. He always wants to sing in a way he hasn't before, I won't give anymore away but you should check out out, I think it's 55 min interview. 🤘

15:51 that first high note on the final backing harmony sounds like Paz Lenchantin. She is credited in the liner notes on the album for the vocals on this track, and this is the moment where I can really hear it prominently.

Hey Chris, so glad I found your channel. I’m a long time singer who got discouraged during the pandemic and completely stop singing for at least a year. Before I was easily able to sing stuff from Maynard, Chris Cornell, and Thom York. Now, it’s just gone. Any advice on getting it back? Thanks and keep up the great work.

Sorry nothing better than the bass line in Weak and Powerless from Twiggy (Jeordie). Just unreal.

Is the snare triggered? That might be why it's not totally lined up. This era is pretty notorious for everybody using triggered samples, even with monsters like Josh Freese.

The Bass adds so much in my opinion

Could you make a video teaching about the operistic male voice?

HOLY SHIT. 🙏

Interesting video throughly enjoyed it like your Bass comments 😀 do you think Paz being classically trained offers that crunch sound 🤔? The difference between a Male female ? .

You are a good singer too. No joke.

Paz is an absolutely monster on the bass!

Easily one of the 10 best songs ever written.

Now where is the sound when Paz tying her hair?

makes more sense now when maynard talks about how hard it was to go back and sing these songs live

when will discover your voice be available again? ☹

May I ask where you acquired these stems? I’d love to be able to load stuff like this up in my DAW and do more deep dives like this myself

This is amazing, how do you get the song seperated in the individual tracks?

Ooooooooooo 🎶❤️

I would love to hear the stems from The Hollow or 3 Libras

The auto subtitles does something weird at 11:32, what's the word ? can't hear anything else now ! Great video nonetheless, love hearing APC tracks stem by stem, seems so simple yet so intricate, keep up the good work Chris, cheers.

how exactly does one obtain these multitracks???

Right from the start APC was at a very high level

14:54 enter Billy Howerdel vocals

Chris, what's that watch? It's gorgeous!

id love to hear vinushka from dir en grey kyo has such a wild voice

Can You Made a video awakening galneryus?