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idk what jack antonoff was on when he helped lana make NFR but it truly is a masterpiece. Both of their best pieces of work.

@DannySullivanMusic

2 жыл бұрын

It's tremendous somebody spots what's good

@Aki-hb1jy

Ай бұрын

Still his best work after all these years, now closely followed by Ocean

@missschronicle

26 күн бұрын

Nothing can top ultraviolence

As a blind guy who is learning about music videos like this even though I cannot see the screen just listening to Jack talk his craft blows my mind! I wish they were more of these and longer videos by Jack and other producers on how they do what they do loved this video and Jack is so brilliant

@josephfitzgibbon2961

2 жыл бұрын

Bro how you type this comment

@blindmandan

2 жыл бұрын

@@josephfitzgibbon2961 every single cell phone on the market has some sort of voice to text feature. It started with the 4S with the iPhone and I have an iPhone 8 plus and a dictate everything there is a microphone next to the and a just dictate everything. Also every phone on the market has some sort of voiceover or talk back it’s also called which reads everything that I touch under my finger on my phone screen and then instead of tapping something to activate it a double tap to activate it tapping with one finger on the screen reads was underneath your finger! Thank God for technology and thank you for for asking! Most people don’t even ask and just assume that I’m lying about being blind which is a whole Nother weird thing that happens most of the time. But again thanks for asking and sorry for some of the typos my dictation isn’t perfect but I do the best that I can. Cheers

@gothfairy6977

2 жыл бұрын

if you can reply to this you’re not blind

@arlofleenor1838

2 жыл бұрын

@@gothfairy6977 you know there are tools to help blind people use technology right?

@mixng7030

2 жыл бұрын

good luck on your journey! there is a full series of these videos on mix with the masters, as well as loads of other series by other musicians; a subscription is quite expensive thought :/

i could watch him talk about the making of his songs every day of my life and never get bored

@lilacheek1394

2 жыл бұрын

omg hi bestie i hope you get ur polaroids

@deborahleone514

2 жыл бұрын

@@lilacheek1394 hi bestie

I got teary eyed watching this. The greatest is my ultimate fave song of Lana. 😭

@ItisMoody

2 жыл бұрын

It is SUCH a masterpiece! The fact it was not a major hit everywhere is what is wrong with today's music (also Lana literally never even performed it anywhere or pushed it out so really unfortunate.)

I love how there's so many tracks and instruments yet it doesn't sound muddy or messy, every little thing just complements each other. Perfect mix 👌

@meggieczepiel4723

Жыл бұрын

I know right?! How did they do that??!!! I have my guesses, but still, like Day is saying, most of the layers are doing basically the same thing. It's amazing that it doesn't sound muddy!

@kayla7799

Жыл бұрын

@@meggieczepiel4723 it has to do with the mixing and audio levels and EQ.

this guy DEFINITELY grew up on the Beatles

"english sounding" he wanted to say BEATLES lol

@tinkercitymusic

2 жыл бұрын

A Day In The Life! haha :)

@jointhecult

2 жыл бұрын

lol then adds sitar & mellotron

@alfieholloway

2 жыл бұрын

I wrote with a guy from Nashville in London and I am English and I wrote what I thought was just a normal melody and progression but he was like “ oh wow that’s so English that’s exactly what I wanted to write when I came here”

@brendanmetz2306

2 жыл бұрын

Beatles music makers will describe their music as anything but Beatles music

@mitchmcturtle6890

2 жыл бұрын

@@brendanmetz2306 lmao so true

Arrangements really a special skill not everyone is blessed to be able to do it, nice lesson ty

Jack's use of layers is brilliant. When you have a nice chord structure, it's easy to start to go towards counter melodies, but Jack just layers the same stuff over and over and makes one chord structure out of 10-15 pieces. Also makes his vibe very hard to reverse engineer and steal.

Jack loves that half step between the 5th and 6th notes. It's littered all over his work whenever it just needs that little extra piece to make a simple chord structure a bit more engaging.

Every few months I have to go back and watch all the Jack production videos, glad there's a new one to watch. Although I don't think I could listen to that "english sounding" band as much as he does. Never really caught onto their sound, love it through his lens though!

Idk why but his work with Lana is always so magical

I always felt the same about the song, as this kind of lamentation on culture and one's own place in it. the english/royal aspect mixed in with the funeral makes so much sense! love how his mind works... and I would LOVE to have all those little files with each recorded part of this song, those harmonies were divine. This one's my favorite from NFR too.. it really embodies the whole essence of the album imo

@dontoromanoff5002

2 жыл бұрын

I would do anything to get those files. Magical piece. I go back to search for a live rendition of this song every few months, but alas there aren’t any yet. But it was a treat to hear these snippets instead.

the progression of this song feels like a mix of "Yesterday" and "Baby I'm Amazed" VERY McCartney.

@wardrobemalfunction3998

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah sound's a lot more like a Day in the Life as well, you could sing those words on top of it easy

@oneammonday

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe.

Genuis arrangement. Thanks for letting us in on the process!

That’s was so amazing to watch. Jack broke down every possible part of creating a song from start to finish even the exact thought process he was having during is song writing process. For someone whose interested in jack’s music. This is gold! Also, that guitar part he was working on in the beginning is dope. Hope he plays that riff live sometimes.

Wow. So complex! It just sounds so harmonic and beautiful, you don't even notice all the layers while you're listening.

the violin and cellos are beautiful

I wish MWTM would make a series where they dont focus on Mixing but like he does, show how tracks are built up. Thats so fucking interesting!

78.999 is one of my favourite tempos too

Jack anton Off is a legit master. I can't get enough of his production videos.💯

Wow.. he just George Martin'd the heck out of that original progression. Lovely to see him break it down & get to hear all the isolated tracks of the additional instrumentation.

this song really sounds alot like yesterday mixed with in my life

learn so much from this channel :)

Thank you for sharing this.

I have SO many small notes and voice notes 😂 it’s overwhelming. Inspiring video

Fantastic work Jack

this is his best song and Lana's! It's also the one that's about something other than a relationship

wow, this is so amazing I loveee it

This is beautiful 😍

I am in love with this video

This sounds sooooo beatles

If the Beatles had recorded Billy Joel's The Longest Time

I would kill to be in the same room as this man while he works.

@zawar5951

2 жыл бұрын

And end up in a prison choir or band or something! That sounds like a plan to me

@seanrimada8571

2 жыл бұрын

I have a target

Well good! Makes it look easy!

Thanks. Love it.

Thx for inspiration...

the greatest is so amazing. The melody gets me every time.

Interesting. Thanks! I love that song.

Would love to produce songs like these

I love you Jack.

the greatest is my fav too wow

I wrote with a guy from Nashville in London and I am English and I wrote what I thought was just a normal melody and progression but he was like “ oh wow that’s so English that’s exactly what I wanted to write when I came here”

Thank you!

so fascinating

Amazing!

she's doing promooo we love to see it

The Greatest omg just gives me Goosebumps all over best song ever and I mean ever 💙

The chord progression sounds so similar to Clairo's song, Blouse

@victor981006

2 жыл бұрын

Jack produced that song too

@zeeisnotayewrapr

2 жыл бұрын

@@victor981006 I was waiting for someone to notice the pattern

@Speed_Demonz

2 жыл бұрын

Also Yesterday by the Beatles

@martins1254

2 жыл бұрын

It remainds me Karma Police.

@AlmostHomeSounds

2 жыл бұрын

and 21 Guns

This progression sounds very similar to the one used in Blouse by Clairo (also produced by Jack). Nothing wrong with it, it's a nice progression and lots of songs share the same progressions.

@benjaminhanson4569

2 жыл бұрын

Love progressions

@alansmith8584

2 жыл бұрын

Also a bit like lordes liability, great progression though so why not!

@Al-iv8su

2 жыл бұрын

Also Good Morning by Bleachers

@FPSBuzz

2 жыл бұрын

@@Al-iv8su he loves those descending lines

@kodi3881

2 жыл бұрын

Lol, this progression is pure Beatles, everything else is a copy.

In a nutshell: have a bunch of instruments replay the melody.

@MarinaAndTheDevil

2 жыл бұрын

The pop girls have enslaved him

@DedSec44

2 жыл бұрын

and rip off some beatles vibes and should be good

@Jazman342

2 жыл бұрын

There’s an old adage that if a song is any good it will stand on its own with just acoustic guitar and vocals. This is not it. It’s a chord progression, short and unimaginative , with one little melodic motif. Everything else is just layering.

@jojo-fj7lw

2 жыл бұрын

@@Jazman342 why so?

@Jazman342

2 жыл бұрын

@@jojo-fj7lw why so what? I don’t understand the question

The greatest is one of the greatest songs of all time! I am so glad they made that song. And how it resonates during the pandemic is just scary good...

@paraworldblue

2 жыл бұрын

Listen to "A Day in the Life" by the Beatles. Lana's song was heavily inspired by "Day in the Life", and almost kind of made it as like an epilogue to that Beatles song, like a "here's where that story ended up 60 years later"

this guy is insane and nuts i wanna be like him

Straight Knoledge. Wonderful Mind

Oh man I wish he also talked about the drums

@akaenteng2895

2 жыл бұрын

That drum fill before the first chorus is amazing!

@hunter-hh2mn

2 жыл бұрын

He does in the full course!! You need a premium subscription but it's one of the most useful things i've ever watched

The greatest song literally

So dope

wow, absolutly amazing jack

deve ser um sonho trabalhar com ele

MORE. OF. THIS. PLEASE. All the mix break downs are cool and all, but just because Andy Wallace boosted that bass drum at 60hz isn't gonna mean shit when it comes to you cleaning up a dumpy recorded kit. These kinds of song breakdowns, as well as Adelle's 'rolling in the deep' one seem to be the most valuable IMO. You can take the lessons of process away instead of just watching an engineer masturbate with the minutia of a plugin. There's gotta be more emphasis on songwriting and arranging than just compression tricks -- this is why we have so much slick sounding garbage music.

@pianoatthirty

3 ай бұрын

You are spot on about this! Great music is about the feeling that goes into the creation, not the obsession over engineer minutia.

Need to see this video for songs from Melodrama

Thanks Jack, you and Lana changed my life with Norman 💚

I usually can connect two songs w the similar aspects but I didn’t realize how much it sounds like yesterday. Also had no idea how much layering was involved. How do u even mix that 😭😭😭

Jack is sooo good, his own unique take on sound. And him and Lana together . Just stunning .

THIS SONG IS EVERYTHING!! 🧡🔥

@joshvalle5521

2 жыл бұрын

hey, we might be related lol

I read the news today.. oh boy.. all you need is love

He's a real genious

Literally one of the best songs in music history… I’m not even exaggerating

Hearing Lana's raw adlibs was bone chilling

Nostalgic low-fi sound...

When i find myself in time of trouble...

A legend walks among us

@ChanRawrer

3 ай бұрын

No, they take private jets 😂

Dope

Directly out of the Beatles playbook!

I can hear the backbone of Fun in there too, just no Nate Roos melodies

I usually do not dare to add more instruments than the band actually has, because I always fear that the audience might be disappointed when a song doesn't sound live like on the record. Maybe I have to be more brave and change my point of view.

@isaacdynys6518

2 жыл бұрын

Well just look at stairway to heaven. When played live, it doesn't have all the layers it does in the studio recording, but zeppelin owns that and makes it unique. You just have to come up with a different arrangement to play live.

@thisdaym

2 жыл бұрын

It’s 2021, where everything is made up and the streams don’t matter

@eboethrasher

2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately a lot of artists and bands perform with tracks these days, even with backing vocals or doubled lead vocals at times. It is disappointing when they are artists I like, too. Like, you don't need to have a tape with keys and bass on it, you can get a bassist and a keyboardist easy enough, and just make sure they sing backups fairly well. Hell, even 5 piece bands performing with tape. Bleachers? Hell no, they are fully live, 2 drummers, total all out awesome.

@aguy827

2 жыл бұрын

Live doesn't need to matter. The Beatles could hardly play SGT peppers live... Don't limit yourself just because a few boomers somewhere might decide to hate it if it's not just a band

@aguy827

2 жыл бұрын

@@eboethrasher There's nothing wrong with tracks at all. Only in context with what you're used to.

Reminds me of Pink Floyd-ish Dark Side of the Moon sessions

Great

wow he's a genius

That’s the Beatles’ “yesterday” pretty much

@jossmordecai5063

2 жыл бұрын

i was thinking day in the life

@amiablealleycat

2 жыл бұрын

Or any Beatles song, but who cares?

Looking at this video and realizing I'm wearing exactly that same shirt. Bananas

3:07.....revolution

The chord progression reminds me a lot of Hymne à l'amour by Edith Piaf

@ddpppbd

2 ай бұрын

Same i looked for your comment haha (doing ctrl+F of course;), the little piano notes also

Imma work with Jack someday

@MaggieRosethe6ix

Жыл бұрын

Me too

Nice video. One question is why do the waveforms look like they are all so compressed and often looked maxed out where the peaks are all given a flattop haircut. Is that intentional?

I love this. He just makes female artists like Lana and Taylor shine!

CREATIVITY 👍

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🔥🔥🔥🔥

Hey MWTM! I read the news today. Oh, boy...

I want to see an episode of classic albums one day where they break down NFR

@DannySullivanMusic

2 жыл бұрын

for sure. totally true!!

genius :)

@aguy827

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed

Genuinely scratching my head as to how this man is a success

Simplified "Day in the Life" guitar progression starts.... "I think it's kind of a........ (don't say Beatles Day In The Life) uhh.... English sounding progression.... kinda regal (whew, I think we're in the clear)" Sitar comes in.... "..and I had this electric sitar..... goin through a space echo....... and that just kinda made it a little like.. (DONTSAYBEATLESDONTSAYBEATLES) special..... and odd.." Piano comes in..... "..then I just started doing these... (well at this point it would be pretty hard not to notice) ..Beatles runs"

i am learning that i need more layers

@baronvonbeandip

2 жыл бұрын

Layer responsibly, kids.

“I needed strings so I went to a mellotron” like it’s just another toy

"I think it's kind of an English sounding progression..." *It's literally a Day in the Life by the Beatles*

@audacious1876

2 жыл бұрын

So "small ideas" mean "Beatle Music"(A Day In The Life)? hahaha

@MrFree-vj8qj

2 жыл бұрын

its one of the sounds of that era, the beatles are just the most popular guys.

He wrote the song on acoustic guitar and then built up that chord progression with other instruments to fill out the track?!? Unheard of!

Let it Be in a different key?

All the time "finding sounds that are interesting and cool"!