Oh yeah so this is a different type of remake it is an a hard-hitting trap B or anything like that but I think it’s still worth taking a look at this track in all its simplicity it still manages to be interesting for the whole duration of the track which is about three Minutes using very little elements just the piano and occasionally it adds strings and some other sounds as well but the main being the piano just like two days ago I was giving lesson oh and we were talking about how to make a piano intro just sound that more interesting so for anybody who’s Creating a ensure to their song that uses piano this also could be very relevant I tried a couple different piano sounds Alps the piano in Sweden is quite muffled it’s nothing too like bright sounding it’s very subdued so my first idea was to try and use labs which Is a free piano plug-in I talked about a bunch of different few pianos a while back this was good except just a little bit too subdued very pretty though but it didn’t match the exact sound used in Sweden I tried keys own classic the poem which This one is that it’s just too bright sounding it’s too clear of a piano so this one is not free but it did do really well what I had to do was turn the the lid of the piano down that muffled the sound quiet a lot and also Turned the tone to soft added some reverb and just a bit of compression nothing too much nice and easy see nice and easy compression so transcribing music is something that I’ve had to do a lot of at school I had to do one pretty much every week for three years lots of fun If you have a lot of difficulty with doing that what you can do is open up Melodyne and just record into here like it should be smart enough to know you’re recording chords but if not you can set to polyphonic it just chose decay for me so I just left like that And then once you’re done you can just save it as a MIDI file in settings and then drag it in and you will have the the MIDI they’ll be like quite a lot of wrong notes however But is trying its best here is a simplified version that’s all this song really is is based off these four chords Which repeats over again of course if you just to do that for three minutes long it’d be extremely boring and you’d want to stop listening this track is in D major the the first chord is a E minor chord you would think E’s at the bottom in the Bass oh it’s a minor chords over here your vagine the baseball is that a G major or minor chord but it isn’t what I think this chord is is a D major chord But instead of putting the base as a D they’re using what’s called a slash chord where you play a different bass note with a different chord on top of that instead of using the D we’re going to use not the e not the f-sharp but the G the G is still in scale so we’ll use that and also gonna take the D way so we’re just left with those notes now here’s something similar is happening you could also technically call this a slash chord because we got a F sharp minor chord here and we’re not using F-sharp in the bass instead reaching the a in the bass so you can say oh that’s the F sharp minor slash a but you tend not to do that because this bass is actually the the third of the chord so you call that an inversion I’m not Really a big fan of inversions I think they never sound that defined of a chord it’s not like a but for a very gentle almost ambient track it makes sense because it’s not too attention-grabbing of a chord it’s supposed to be very easygoing so I think it works again Another slash chord we’re using the fourth and then taking that down However we’re missing a very important part here every half a bar the base note moves about towards the G then it goes up to our B and then back down to the a This is just an extra base note thrown in there it’s just movement for for the song Yeah that main pattern does repeat each time but it starts off a lot quieter so So I’ve turned the velocity down quite a bit and you can see it starts to get louder and louder you can also see that it’s not just one line getting louder and louder each note has its own different volume velocity and it’s very easy to change this if you Select one of these notes then you can just like scroll up and down and just that one particularly nur on its own will change velocity you can select a bunch of them and then all those notes will change velocity if you had to do that for each one that took quite a lot Of time so you can actually automate that process go to tools randomize and to the levels and then just yeah look at that you can just randomized each velocity so if these were all the same yet randomized velocity they go and so now each note will just play a little Bit different which is gonna be a bit more human and then eventually we start to add your notes kind of like a melody on top of the existing structure But it changes each time it’s not the same melody every four bars either sometimes they’re similar but just slightly different for instance like each time you hear that Derr Derr but then the second time you hear there’s like an extra layer on top of it so that Makes it a little bit different here you can see this going down in melody but then later on it does the same thing but opposite So there’s little tricks are applied here and there just to keep it fresh sounding and again less a lot less repetitive then we come to the other instruments in the track let me put these strings in the same pattern as the piano just so I can see them match up With the piano in the background that’s the nice thing that you know you can go to view helpers not view helpers and then ghost channels turn that on so that you can see other notes so you know oh yeah you know these are gonna be matching up with the chords that you Already have this is just taking notes from the chords that we already have then another layer of notes come along that are even higher Okay I lied this is actually a chord change in the track It is a couple different chords just for a small bridge section the nice thing about the velocities is not just oh yeah you’re making each note sound like different volumes but it really does change the color of it let’s say take this chord now I’m putting more emphasis On this note instead of the F so these are exact same chords but it’s just the character of them is incredibly different pretty interesting that it’s just a B minor chord although without the v this is a major chord a major chord and this one really is just a a Major seven chord and then the last chord is held down for quite a long time you get an extra two bars of just piano pure piano and then we go into this pc koto sound i hope i pronounced that right it’s just taking the exact same chords from the intro so nothing really New but the sound is different we’re using the pizzicato which is from the the factory library and you open up the string and sambal you just drag that in there and choose pizzicato and this is different from like staccato because staccato is also very short ever Staccato is struck with a bow like young and piece of carter is plucked so that just plays just as two rounds of the core progression and then go back to piano and we also have this harp that layers over the chords playing playing nice little harmonies with itself like just imagine – melody lines but then playing at the same time so you could have just had this on its own or you could have done this but instead we’re using both of them More like melody lines it’s constantly adding new little melodies even if they’re just really small differences see this is also similar it’s also going up the scale again but it starts off going down first whereas the round before it just goes up and here you see the endings are different as well this Goes up and then down again it also goes up and down but then kind of slower and this that’s the same but just over a longer period of time it’s all in the name of just creating a more gentle easygoing listening experience iconic iconic track what else is there Really say about at this point the harp the pizzicato the strings and the piano the old contact I will leave these other two labs and keys in classic because they are free but you can use any piano you can replace it with your own piano you’ll find like some pretty decent Stuff actually in the packs folder piano stuff and there’s other string section I’m sure you’ll you’ll manage and find some similar samples yeah that’s all I have to say scribe for more tutorial remake type stuff support me on patreon so I can keep making more content and if You’re ever interested in lessons you know just give me a call I’ll be there You Video Information
This video, titled ‘How C418 made Minecraft’s most Iconic song “Sweden”‘, was uploaded by Dylan Tallchief on 2019-08-22 12:00:05. It has garnered 465072 views and 21923 likes. The duration of the video is 00:12:30 or 750 seconds.
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