Pop music production techniques (Glass Animals - Heat Waves) 

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I love these videos on tune breakdowns and love even more that you're not restricting them to dance. There's a lot to learn from different genres, including pop, whether you like them or not. As you've said yourself before, don't restrict yourself to one type of music. Another top tut 👌

I've studied music, am a trained musician, and am signed to a record label. I still watch your channel because its always got something good and useful !

This was fucking brilliant!! Not just one of those "how to recreate ____ beat" but you actually broke the song down in detail and I learned so much. Would love love love love to see more pop song breakdowns like this.

Fantastic stuff. My favourite breakdown so far. Learning a lot, thanks!

I love also when you break down tunes, very instructive and well explained. Un grand Merci!

This is soooo good, so different from every other Music Production videos on RU-vid. You take so much time to dig deep into details, and vulgarize everything so well. Learned a bunch, thank you so much, and please keep going because these videos are awesome.

I really really like where this channel is going in terms of topics!

this was immensely informative! seriously one of my favorite production channels on youtube

As usual, one of the best video tutorials out there. Keep it up!

The tutorials were so good I watched them even though I'm not into Techno/house - you got me to start listening to some Techno! But super happy to see you delve into the world of pop/indie that I'm more into. Thanks for this!

Love that you don't limit just to one genre. Brilliant content! Thanks

I really enjoyed this type of video! Great deconstruction!

Big up Oscar! So important so get inspired by other genres! Thank you for the amazing work once again!

I love how you break down all kinds of songs and make them really digestable. As someone completely new to music this has been a super enjoyable series as it really makes music production more tangible and fun. And I found some new music through your breakdowns! ;)

yet another fantastic video, thank you Oscar! My dream is to write really catchy pop songs yet I always end up making some dance music instead, this gives a lot of inspiration! Have a good time with your family you legend!

this is incredible! i’d love to see a vid on another glass animals song !!

Thank you so much, incredibly helpful tutorial!

I love this song and this video was both entertaining and informative. You have earned my subscription good sir!

Amazing content! This is one of my favorite videos. Incredibly helpful. Especially the music theory! Thank you! So appreciated!

Great deal. Such high quality. So much praise!=

Amazing :) I love the song too, so it was a pleasure

Oscar, there's a really good free VST called Ample Guitar. Try it out

Agree with the others. Great one. Thanks for the deep dive.

I love the care taken to go in-depth - extremely helpful! Thank you! It could be interesting to check out a breakdown of Grandson. While he uses lots of guitar, he balances electronic elements with rock in an extremely interesting way. Some of my favorites are We Did It and Dirty!

This is a great format for a video: recreating tracks and production choices you like. I don't make this kind of music, but I found this very helpful!

i was listening to that song so much haha. great tutorial!

Fun, interesting and relevant... Bien joué. 👏

Thank you for Sharing. Learned something and also Got Introduced to Glass Animals. Cheers

Best regards for the family! It's always great to have a new Underdog video

Nice video! So good to learn ftom diferent genres! Congrats!🙂

This Album is Dope!!!! Very Emotive Songs... Love it!!! Thank You for the Decon!!!!! Yeahhhhh I hope you’ve chosen of their sweet songs!!!!😜😜🔥🔥👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

This is probably my favorite tutorial, the chord progression part was especially helpful. Thank you!

Great tutorial. thank you!

It’s been a year. This song’s still in my head… But thank you so much for making this analysis

Very very helpful and great video, thank you (:

More pop stuff please. It's fresh!

This is such an unbelievably useful video

do more breakdowns!! i love this video

My favorite tutorials atm! Thanks a lot for this!

excelentes tutoriales. muchas gracias!

Hello Oscar, thank you for the inspiring videos!!!!

This channel is gonna get huge! Deserved

Loved it ❤️

Freaking loving your channel man. One of the best and most sincerely helpful out there. Please keep up pleasing us with some extremely inspiring and motivating stuff (especially Techno pls :P) Love from Chile

I love glass animals 😍

thank you so awesomeeee

This channel is a hidden gem.

hey oscar ! you're the number one. i love your music production videos, and have a good one with your family :)

I'm an Underpuppy now. I just need to actually start making music again. I have that feeling like I am almost where I want to be. Thanks so much for the inspiration!

fully supporting your channel

Great video! Love how you dissected in great detail. And great that you're in Ireland (or were). Greetings from a Dutch guy living in Ireland!

EPIC!

Learning a lot from you

Cool stuff Oscar, love it! (although I am not a music producer in any way)

I’ve always wanted a good break down of a glass animals track

This is Awesome. Please break down the song Ghost Keeper by Klangkarussell and GIVVEN next. It has some super interesting sound design.

Oh my god I want your final version of this SO BAD

Thank you for the wonderful video! I learned a lot, as I usually do from your videos =) What kind of headphones are those that you're using in the video, and are they ones you would recommend? Thanks again, I love your videos!

Ireland - this makes me happy! Hi from Waterford. 😊

ur content is just awesome, with ur vids only i came from 0 production experience to actual production

Please deconstruct any of Yello (from Switzerland), like Call It Love. Their beats and all the details are amazing

Oh wowww thanks for introducing to glass animal heat wave . Thanks Oscar for video such great teacher you are love & respect for you man. Producer listen that song that has some cool things to learn on guitar paning and mixing. I guess with ample lite 2 (its free vst ) and guitar rig you can achieve and need some basic chorus and verb and delay . And one more thing i like in that song is harmonies and there placements in stereo field. Amazing.

I like Glass Animals, hate this particular song, and love your videos. Truly the best music production tutorials out there, always very accessible yet still detailed 👌🏼 My favourite Glass Animals song is Life Itself, so check that out if you're into them! Really like the diversity here, I think as music lovers we can all appreciate good music whatever the genre is, and it's always interesting to see how something is constructed even if only to serve as an example of what to avoid ;) Suggestions for other tracks to deconstruct: - MGMT - Little Dark Age (is also well known and kind of indie pop) - Jesper Ryom - Trivia (he has a very unique style and this one is a real banger) - C2C - Delta (no words needed) Thanks for all the great content!

He even teaches us when on vacation. fckin Legend.

lovely and helpful video! and I really like a video about how to make a jamie xx track!

Wow, it's mad that we're on the same island right now. Greetings from Belfast :D

I really like the reverb of that kitchen. Next time you are home grab a pulse signature.

Not a fan of that song at all, but definitely want to see what you say about it. Weirdly, at the weekend i was with a couple from Kilkerranmore which is quite close to where you are in County Cork. Weird.

More breakdowns and theory.

So without further ado, here's my like, sir.

3:35 wouldn't be more efficient and controled to just cut the sample in the simpler's window?

awesome baldy keep it up, we are hungry :)

Analysing one of the recent planetary assault system tracks would be cool.

Your family in Ireland! What up cuz?! ☘️🇮🇪

Welcome back to the emerald isle 👍

24:45 That small segment sounds familiar. Is this a very common sequence, because I get a suspicion that it's referencing a song from the '80s for contextual meaning. Do song makers drop eastereggs like other media makers? I'm struggling to remember which exact song at this time, but it was certainly on the radio constantly.

Nice :-)

13:14 - why did you choose to put the sixth note of the bassline an octave below in regards to the chordprogression?

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Aleej Manneke!

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Would love for you to go in to the vocals. I feel it is really the hardest part for me

What type of system are you using?

Took the time to G33k with us! And I know I appreciate it even though I still get hung up on triads, chords and some other theory.

Amazing breakdown. Can you do an Aaliyah song?

Lov u

best tutorial! can you share the ableton file?

What part of Ireland?

i swear when i make it big ima give a shoutout to you

I feel that I'm listening to Smalltown Boy from Bronski Beat, but a few octaves lower and slower....🙄

Do Max Martin if you like!

I've been using guitar tabs website for years and I never knew there was a piano view for chords...

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You should do other genres to show your viewers how all music is the same and we can use all as inspiration. I think rock n roll has so much in common with techno arrangement for an example.

Yo are you Irish? Your accent is weird for an Irishman. Edit: Thank you so much for this video ! Learnt a lot. Can you do one of these for Aphex Twin? I am currently struggling with a mindboggling (for me) duo of questions: In a techno track that may be played at raves, how do you make waves of sound, usually during breaks (i dont really know how to explain it otherwise)?; and how to play live at an event (not really about crowd reading, but what you actually do - like fades)? Thank you!

That was a very useful video, but I would not recommend that way of determining a key to anyone. There are far too many songs using notes outside of the key in their chords, including electronic musicians like Ben Böhmer. I would also argue this song is really in C# dorian.

U forgot the G tone in D#?

I would love to see you take a look at a progressive house song such as Time Stood Still or Moments by Roald Velden, anything by Shingo Nakamura, Mango, Talamanca, or Blood Groove & Kikis (to name a few). The genre is more or less out of style now so it's tough to find any sort of production resources for it, but the sound is super unique and beautiful.