Writing Lyrics and Recording Vocals | Road to Pro Producer

In this episode, I show how I write lyrics, I record vocals for the song I'm working on, and share how I make it sound good.
👇👇Open Me! 👇👇
❤️❤️❤️ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL ❤️❤️❤️
► SAMPLE PACKS
varsitybeats.com
► STREAM MY MUSIC (artist project 2017-2021)
distrokid.com/hyperfollow/ste...
► POST YOUR MUSIC TO SPOTIFY, APPLE MUSIC (commission link, you get 7% off)
distrokid.com/vip/seven/1562086
► CHECK OUT MY GEAR -- MY AMAZON SHOP 📦 (commission link, no extra cost to you)
www.amazon.com/shop/varsitybeats
► SUPERTHANKS
If you want to send some bread, that's cool too 🤍 (next to the like button)
----------------------------------------------------
🚨🚨🚨 MY SETUP 🚨🚨🚨
🖥 Software: Ableton Live
🎹 Main Synthesizer: Serum by Xfer
🎸 Guitar: Fender Stratocaster
🎸 Bass Guitar: Sterling Sub Series 5-String
🎤 Mic: Shure SM57
📷 Camera: Sony a5100
📷 Lens: Tamron 11-20MM F/2.8
📦 Shop my full setup 👇
www.amazon.com/shop/varsitybeats
(If you use this link, I get a commission at no extra cost to you)
----------------------------------------------------
🌐🌐🌐 SOCIAL MEDIA 🌐🌐🌐
TWITTER
/ beatsbyvarsity
INSTAGRAM
/ varsitybeats
TIKTOK
/ varsitybeats
----------------------------------------------------
🎬🎬🎬 MORE CONTENT 🎬🎬🎬
This one took a long time to make! I spent 3 weeks working on just the vocals but I'm happy to say I landed on something I'm proud of.
Some of the stuff I cut out of this one had to do with rhyme schemes and why I wrote the lyrics the way I did. Something I've noticed is how much I dislike AAAA rhyme schemes (rhyming the same sound at the end of every line). There's something about it that feels cheesy and inexperienced; I had to cut out a whole rant about that because it was so long and uninteresting.
I also had to cut some stuff out in between talking about Phrase Banks and showing off the final lyrics which made it sound like I cranked this thing out pretty quickly. I wrote and rewrote the lyrics over the span of a few months but I couldn't figure out how to fix what I said in the edit. I started writing lyrics to this in October 2022 and didn't really finalize them until I was recording them (March 2023).
I hope you like this episode and I'd really appreciate it if you shared it too!
----------------------------------------------------
💌💌💌 CONTACT 💌💌💌
► Business 👇
Email / varsitybeats
► Questions 👇
Leave a comment ❤️
----------------------------------------------------
#varsitybeats #musicproduction #edm

[@ORUMusic]

Loving all the OST music in the background. And the song is sounding awesome so far! That vocal processing is 🔥🔥🔥

[@jonah712]

welcome back

[@synthomuito]

man i've spended the last 3 days going through a rabbit hole of writing lyrics videos and i'm so happy to be able to see your take on this now!!

[@shiwakao]

fuckk the new vocal processing sounds so good it's very madeon. super excited for the release !!

[@VarsityBeats]

thank you! :)

[@gustavo1556]

hi maybe you could do a video on different ways of starting a beat

[@shoutaluya]

Please how do you record your vocals in such a way that you can set the Autotune melody with MIDI? Do you play the midi melody first and then fix the recording to that??

[@VarsityBeats]

I start with the melody on maybe a piano and write lyrics that fit it, then record them. I usually go back and edit the melody after so it makes the lyrics fit better rhythmically. Sometimes the auto pitch correction sounds good without the midi routed in so I go back and listen through it once like that, kind of picking and choosing when I use the midi melody and when I use the automatic pitch correction. i hope this makes sense haha