What Makes This Song Great? "Into You" MAX MARTIN

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ghostpepper · 2022-05 · Strong recommendation

Rick Beato is great. My favourite video of his is about the most accomplished songwriter most people have never heard of - Max Martin (producer and co-writer of this Ariana Grande song and a ton of other pop songs you've heard) [0] Also worth checking out is this 12Tone analysis of Tiny Dancer [1] [0] [VIDEO] [1] [LINK]

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ushakov · 2022-05 · Recommendation

yeah, but sometimes the effect is completely opposite for me it was these pop songs you hear on the radio i used to hate them universally, but once i've started listening more to the tone/melody rather that just the song i found myself hooked all these great pop songs, and i mean all of them are made by a group of people around the Swedish producer Max Martin Taylor Swift, The Weeknd, Ariana Grande, Britney Spears, the list goes on and nobody even knows the man behind the show (which i find quite fascinating) Rick Beato has a video on him: [VIDEO]

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dehrmann · 2020-09 · Recommendation

I recently stumbled across some videos where a producer breaks down how some very good songs are produced. Here's one he does for a Max Martin track where you get screenshots of the track in Pro Tools: [VIDEO] > From there, it should be possible to mangle it into a tabulature? A produced pop track might be a little extreme, but there's a lot going on in these tracks. Even if you know the chord progression, it's hard to tell if a note played by a guitar is played by the rhythm guitar, lead guitar, an overdub, something with double tracking, or even an overtone from the bass, especially when the note makes the chord an add4. The same goes for walking basslines played by the guitar. You also arrange things differently for solo performances, live performances with a band, and produced performances, so even if you could extract a rhythm guitar tab from a recording, that might not be how you'd want to play it solo.

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