Thriller - Michael Jackson. Instrumental cover

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This is my instrumental cover of Michael Jackson's Thriller. A song that practically defines the 1980's and was one of Michael Jackson's biggest hits.
This track was immensely complex to figure out, and the original production still stands the test of time today. Quincy Jones who produced the original was genius in my opinion.
I've been wanting to recreate this track for years, so I'm excited to present my instrumental cover today.
Everything in this production was worked out by ear, and I used only VST istruments, which include Native Instruments Battery 4, FM7, Session Horns, Refx Nexus and Steinberg Retrologue. It was produced in Cubase Pro 12.
The Vincent Price monologue and laugh I recorded myself in the morning to get an appropriate tone, with some EQ, reverb and compression (Native Instruments Raum).
Any questions? Please post them in the comments.
If you enjoyed this, you might want to check out my 80's cover collection here:
• 80s Music covers

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6 окт 2024

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Комментарии : 78

@YourVabsy Год назад

You reach 04:18 and suddenly you get elevated to another LEVEL. Awesome 😍🎶👍

@juliancroot Год назад

Glad you liked it. Thanks for checking it out. 👍

@beedalton9675 3 месяца назад

@@juliancroot well done.brother well.. done..was the original guitar sythinzer.... I applaud to guys like you keep Mike alive he never left us

@Peck_Bull 2 месяца назад

GREAT!!

@matthardern1594 3 месяца назад

Amazing!

@juliancroot 3 месяца назад

@@matthardern1594 Thanks 👍

@maj373 4 месяца назад

Wow!

@LoveUnlimit Год назад

Your laughing sound at the end was so funny and 😈..... Made me have very big smile 😁....

@juliancroot Год назад

Mission accomplished 👍. Thanks for watching.

@TachyBunker Год назад

Came here from doctor mix. Great cover, more hyped up

@ge0music307 2 года назад

Brilliant, you always make your compositions flawless.

@juliancroot 2 года назад

Thank you. I'm glad you think so. 😊

@mathiasstoewer5488 10 месяцев назад

Absolutly fantastic, or like we say in geman: "Einfach nur geil".

@juliancroot 10 месяцев назад

Thanks Mathias 👍

@saimarboston6209 Год назад

Крутяк👍

@stormlord3309 2 года назад

It’s a yes from me 👍. Excellent job and very atmospheric.

@doctorjones945 Год назад

Excellent! Awesome! 👍👍 Cheers from Quebec!

@juliancroot Год назад

Many thanks!

@stefanczarnecki9190 10 месяцев назад

wow ...amazing hello From WARSAW

@juliancroot 10 месяцев назад

Thank you Stefan. And hello from the UK 🙂

@stefanczarnecki9190 10 месяцев назад

@@juliancroot I see that you use AKAI. I wonder what sound you would achieve on a Yamaha or Moog

@juliancroot 10 месяцев назад

@@stefanczarnecki9190 the akai is just a controller. All the sounds are VST instruments

@JNJBYCCMJ 2 месяца назад

I managed to learn alot from this video

@juliancroot 2 месяца назад

@@JNJBYCCMJ glad it was useful. Thank you

@MarkBowenPiano Год назад

Another great recreation. Well done!

@steveschnetzler5471 2 года назад

Nice Vincent impersonation, I am always impressed by your videos, thanks.

@juliancroot 2 года назад

Always appreciate your watching Steve. Thanks.

@jameskvo 7 месяцев назад

I wish my studio was a tidy and slick as yours. I'm surrounded by empty coffee cups, cables disappearing into places I can't remember where, a stack of redundant gear and too many screens

@juliancroot 7 месяцев назад

You only see what I want you to see 😁.

@jarnopereira 2 года назад

I found your channel today and I'm delighted, you deserve to be seen by the whole world 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

@juliancroot 2 года назад

Wow, thanks Jarno.

@doctorjones945 Год назад

SO cool! Nice job again!

@jorgeandrade20 6 месяцев назад

So good!

@ThomasLeypoldt 2 года назад

love this!! I remember you playing this brilliantly on the piano back at the film workshop. It was great to hear your recreation of the original! I noticed lots of small, interesting melodies within the composition that I have never really noticed before as well!

@juliancroot 2 года назад

Thanks Thomas. Yeah great memories from the workshop. Thriller never gets old IMO.

@CDK11 11 месяцев назад

This in amazing! Soo good!

@juliancroot 11 месяцев назад

Thanks 👍

@Tavarcio 2 года назад

this is great

@juliancroot 2 года назад

Cheers Tavarcio :)

@bio-kismet 2 года назад

From fb and here to support ~~ It's amazing!!!! 🌷🌷

@juliancroot 2 года назад

And your support is greatly appreciated. Thank you very much.

@themaskedviolinist1075 2 года назад

Great job.. As always 😉👍👍👍

@juliancroot 2 года назад

Thank you so much 😀

@Jon_Soti Год назад

Wow!!! Great cover! Love the overall production and the sounds! May I ask for your permission to add vocals?

@juliancroot Год назад

Thanks Jon, and thanks for asking. Feel free to add your own vocals.... If you want to use it on your channel, please clearly credit me in the video and description. Thanks 👍 Also contact me directly if you want to colab more closely...email is on the channel description. Thanks.

@burakkonak2342 Год назад

awesome performance

@juliancroot Год назад

Thank you 🙏

@oldendays9554 Год назад

Wow! Better than Doctor Mix.

@The-Logician 2 года назад

It’s close to midnight, and Julian’s lurking in the dark, under the LED light, you see a sight, that almost stops your heart. You try to scream, but Cubase takes the sound before you make it.

@juliancroot 2 года назад

Lol, you feeling ok Trevor?

@The-Logician 2 года назад

@@juliancroot never better! Great rendition of one of my all time favorites

@juliancroot 2 года назад

@@The-Logician mine too!

@sonnyraine8159 2 года назад

Very Cool Bud

@juliancroot 2 года назад

Thanks for the visit

@Peck_Bull 2 месяца назад

4:50 5:00 🤣

@antonfokker4671 9 месяцев назад

Excellent job ! What is that little keyboard part at 0.53, what exactly do you play there ?

@juliancroot 9 месяцев назад

Oh that's just a Rhodes Piano patch, playing a C sus2 chord (I think from memory), but without the 3rd. In context it sounds more complex than it really is.

@carminegontzmusic 2 года назад

This is really cool. Good job!

@juliancroot 2 года назад

Thanks Carmine.

@jessegimbel Год назад

Wow, these sounds are excellent. I'm working on a project where I'm building a track with many elements similar to Thriller, also working in Cubase, and while I've got the bass sound dialed in nicely, I haven't found trumpet sounds in Cubase like you have here, nor been able to work out the nice verse pad, or the electric guitar-type sound. After seeing this video I'm going to have to keep looking. Any tips would be greatly appreciated!

@juliancroot Год назад

Nearly all my synth sounds are layered, so my tip would be to look beyond what you get with a single preset sound. When it comes to emulating real orchestral instruments, like the trumpet, I use real instrument sample libraries like EastWest Hollywood Orchestra and NI Session Horns.

@jessegimbel Год назад

@@juliancroot very helpful, thank you!

@juliancroot Год назад

@@jessegimbel 👍 Happy music making.

@Jabbaaaaaaaaaaaaa 2 года назад

We def need a top gun danger zone remix!

@juliancroot 2 года назад

I've been thinking about doing this one... Or maybe Meet Me Half Way (also Kenny Loggins) from Over The Top.

@RafaelLima15 7 месяцев назад

How Can I get your multitracks?

@vkanth2 Год назад

Listening between the first 10 -30 seconds seemed like "West End Girls" by Pet Shop Boys 😀. Perhaps you can do a cover for this too? Nice work on the instrumental covers!

@juliancroot Год назад

I have a few Pet Shop Boys tracks on my 'to do list'. West End Girls is one of them. 😀 Thanks.

@vkanth2 Год назад

@@juliancroot Thank you looking forward to the release.👍

@Heve62 7 дней назад

Sounds very vice city lol

@elhijodefrancisco 4 месяца назад

Can I use for a video? In the description I give you the credit!

@juliancroot 4 месяца назад

Very sorry, but no. My current wish is to keep my content unique to this channel.

@elhijodefrancisco 4 месяца назад

@@juliancroot Ok!

@ВАСИЛИВАНОВ-л7ь Год назад

SMOOTH CRIMINAL PLS

@juliancroot Год назад

That and Stranger In Moscow are on my list. 😁

@johnpeace971 Год назад

I could never stand the artificial sound of Thriller. Synth drums, synth bass, synth synth synth. What artists need to do is stop trying to reproduce this sterile record and re-make it with real instruments and MJs vocal trax. Let's hear a real bass, real horns, real strings. All that should survive from the original recording is the vocals and the guitar

@juliancroot Год назад

Ooof.... Each to their own I guess 😁. Of course I disagree and I appreciate those nostalgic synth sounds. But it's the complex arrangement that really makes it work.

@Peck_Bull 2 месяца назад

Eighties, dude, EIGHTIES!! ❤