please tell how to do ear training so that i can create new melodies. how you get melodies in your head while listetning to chord progressions and music tracks . i am a beginner
I just wanna say thank you for all of the helpful tutorials. Without these videos, I would not be where I am right now. Thank you Austin, for showing me how to make pop music!
This is probably how Taylor Swift came up with the likes of "Lavender Haze" or how Lewis Capaldi and his team put his last album together. It's the bare minimum that's required to construct a song and yet people lap it up in droves.
Love seeing your process Austin! Definitely inspires me to go write some melodies (something I've been struggling with recently). Also how do you always upload something right on time with something that helps me with my exact problem??😂
Lauten 208 into Heritage Audio HA81A into AudioScape76D into RME UFXii Then in my DAW it was just autotune, VMR with a 76 and 2A doing some compression, then Waves Deesser, then Pro-Q3, then Rvox. Send out to Dimension D, VintageVerb on a hall setting at 4.5 seconds, vebsuite on a .5 sec room, and a repeater with a stereo 1/4 delay! My typical starting point chain
In the melody writing sections, it seems as though you came up with a melody on your first pass and stuck with it. Did you have melodies already planned out before the video? Or do you typically take the first melody that comes to mind? If you do have a slower, more iterative process for coming up with melodies, I think that would be super interesting to see!
No, nothing was pre planned. Normally I love the first melody that comes to my mind, but sometimes I'll lay down 3-4 other options and sit with them if I'm not 100% on the idea. This is about as slow as my melody writing process gets honestly
Not to take a stab at Austin here but IMO a slower process helps a ton. For example, in this song all the parts ended up to have a lot of similarities. In fact all sections were dancing around approximately the same notes and also shared some rhythmical & pick-up structures as well. This exact thing imo is what separates a great song from an okay-ish one. The "melodic math" Austin was talking about previously wasn't applied at all here as sections were not consciously contrasted in a more intelligent way. Obviously for a lot of songwriters that conscious contrast doesn't happen automatically but you can work it in if you do spend more than those 20 minutes. And it's well worth it.
Hey, love these vids, always very interesting! Your vocals in this reminds me of Vandelux and Tailor - By Your Side, and speaking of which, I'd love to see you do a video on how to produce and mix a dry, roomy and organic sound like that song at some point! Thanks, keep up the good stuff!
this is probably gonna be the dumbest question ever, but with these videos i’m always lost right at the beginning with it. writing lyrics and melodies comes naturally to me, but i don’t play any instruments other than singing. my question is, for someone like me, where do you start? how do you “outsource” these instrumentals? i feel like i sound stupid asking this but i genuinely don’t really know how to go about it, and it’s the reason why my songs never go anywhere other than my drawers. can someone help😅?
I would say start trying to get into sessions where there is a producer laying down a track with the artist, and you're there to help write lyrics and melodies. Or start hiring producers to help you flesh out your own song ideas. Not a dumb question at all!
@@MakePopMusic thank you! that’s very helpful. and if i can bother you with another question, how would you go about it if you were in my situation? i don’t have any friends who produce and i don’t really know how i should approach them for something like this (i don’t really count with much of a budget either so i’m feeling very stuck).
maybe is better to use google sheets instead of word like docs. It allows you to comment lines, see alternative lines in another column, numbers, main words, rhymes, etc.
This was incredible! Noticed the D# was kind of a “return to” note throughout the process, like the overall melody dances around that note. Any reason why?
I wish i could sing. 😢 It really makes a huge difference when you can produce and sing. Nice video. Is there a video where you teach how to just come up with melodies.
I finally broke through the hang up I've been going through this year with lyric writing partially thanks to this video. I realized that I'm just too good at coming up with melodies that I can't trust myself to come up with the melody completely first. Rather I found I can write ease if I come up with a theme and from that emotion write phrases almost as I was speaking but while I am listening to the song and with correct pitch and rhythm. This way I don't have have the frustration of having a great melody I can't find words that naturally fit.
thnx for this vid Austin great as always. What's the pitch correcting software you were using for the vocals, is this stock in cubase. A vid on pitch correction would be super sick. Thanks again
This is probably the best lyrics writing video. I just brought a ur44c and started using the AI version of cubase12 that came free with the ur44c. Got to get some good advice on cubase. I'm gonna be able to afford the pro version soon. Would you upgrade to pro 12 or wait a bit for a newer version e.g. cubase 13.... love your style and this video is very helpful to me
Austin this is brilliant, and i'm no amateur :) On the other end, I have my doubts if this is all on the spot, I'm a spontaneous guy and can come up with some cool stuff on the spot but this seems almost impossible - You write the melody on the spot, and remember it with doing just 1 pass, all the turns and melody twists. The lyrics are brilliant, this kind of stuff takes a while to craft... Just curious if this really is on the spot bc it seems that you gave it serious thought before..
Hey I wanted to ask for you mix some of my songs, I have 5 dollars yet I didn't quite know how to ask, do you take offers or is there anyway I can contact you?
