How To Play: Harder Better Faster Stronger on Vocoder (Daft Punk)
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- Опубликовано: 17 сен 2024
- How to Play the iconic vocoder line from Daft Punk's 2001 smash hit "Harder Better Faster Stronger".
This was tricky to get down! I recreated the vocoder using an Electro-Harmonix V256 vocoder with the built in robo-voice controlled with midi from my Nord Stage. From there in Logic I bit-crushed the sound, added chorus, distortion, and reverb to get the final sound.
I think it got pretty close, but this would not have been the vocoder Daft Punk would have recorded on. That was likely a Digitech Talker - which I would love to get my hands on but they are incredibly rare! However, a lot of the sound of the vocoder comes from post-production, the processing effects, and adding a French accent to some words! (e.g. "fast-eur, strong-eur" & "do it, make-suds"). I transcribed the notation in Sibelius and animated it in After Effects.
In London I have been part of a group that has regularly performed this music in nightclubs and venues all around the UK. We perform this and many other Daft Punk classics and I am privileged to play vocoder and talkbox on this show! It is such a shame that club culture and gigs have all been cancelled because of the Covid pandemic. I think I speak for all musicians when I say we miss it so much and cannot wait to perform as soon as we can! The parties are going to be incredible.
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Note: Some of the "hour" phrases sound like "power" or "now or". In Daft Punk's official lyrics, this word is always written as "hour" so that's what I have put. However, with the vocals, I imitated the sound that is on the record to make it most accurate. Like all scores, they are a guide to get the best performance, not the gospel. Thanks!
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"Harder Better Faster Stronger" by Daft Punk (Virgin Records)
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You actually pronounce strongœr correctly. I'm extremely impressed.
This is the most accurate version of this song I've ever seen! Great work! And I love the sheet music up top
Thank you very much!
10/10 on all fronts, my friend. Please keep the awesome content coming.
Thank you!
bless you for transcribing it onto sheet music, and absolutely incredible playing! truly one of the best covers on youtube!
Thank you!
I want you to know this, this is the best cover Ive ever heard of daft punk in all my years on the internet. I have been searching since RAM someone who actually knows how to use the vocoder properly and no other can do it like you, congrats and you should feel proud of yourself! KEEP GOING MAN you should make your own songs!
Thanks so much dude that means a lot!
There’s some original music on Spotify and Bandcamp if you’re interested!
@@Jamesbeckwith1 thank you!
This is the ONLY cover i've ever heard that comes close to getting the "More than ever hour after" part right. It's the coolest part and nobody but you gets it. THANK YOU
The details and that passion of doing it awesome is what conquered me with your video. GREAT WORK...!
thank you!
By far the best cover of this I've seen on youtube. Nailed the vocoder tone also. Well done!
Why thank you!
That’s the best cover I’ve seen on RUclips very well done 👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
This is amazing my friend!!!! Thank you for showing us this!!! Much love for this one, keep it up🔥🤘
Thanks a lot!
Killed it!!!!
Cheers!
you slayed it
Cheers!
That was immense
incredible work, holy shit!
How does this only have 5000 views..... This is definitely a video that ends up in your RUclips recommend and its got like 12 million.
Thanks mate - appreciate it!
THAT IS AWESOME!!! Great work!
Thanks!
Dude, that was great!
Thanks a lot!
Holy shit man. Well done and thank you for the transcription.
Me, 2 months ago: Wow, they must see this!
They: *DİSBANDS*
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Ha yeah I know. It’s really sad as they’re so legendary and everyone was waiting for the last big gig. Such an anticlimax that it’s all over 😢
aga cidden çok kötü oldu
Love this it's awesome!!!!! 🔥🔥🔥
Thanks Anandi!
Waooh! Dude, that's very close to the original, congrats!!. your're awesome ;)
Thanks so much!
Wow I LOVED this vid
Thanks!
Great work! At the end, you have a satisfaction face well deserved!!
This is phenomenal!
Thank you!
As a French person, here is some advice. On the french "fast-eur, strong-eur", the accent doesent need to be as strong haha. It can be Strong,euh for example.
VERY VERY ACCURATE
Thank you for teaching this glorious dog.
Oh man, this is absolutely amazing!!!! lol
Thanks a lot! Great tutorial! I a m enjoying with my talkbox :)
Woooow thats fun to play!
bravo !
Thanks!
Amazing!!!
Greetins from Brazil!
Thanks!
Amazing bro
Thanks man!
Amazing 👏👏👏👏👏
nice! :)
Thanks!
Sweetie moment
Awesome 👍
Thanks!
Strongyeur
I think I know this guy, I didn't know he did RUclips videos
fucking amazing bruv
It's really good but you just need to pitch down your vocals abit! Although goodjob!!! And I- I can't still play this, it's really hard to do!
I feel like the original was done with a talkbox, but with your vocoder it still sounds perfect.
it was actually done with a vocoder
I've been wanting to hear a version of this by the ehx v256 it sounds very close to the original suspected to be the digitech talker
Thanks! Yeah it is a really great vocoder especially for the money. Obvs there’s a lot of FX on this for the HBFS sound but it’s great without all them too. The Digitech seems to be the one that everyone says but at 3x the price it’s a real sting! Would love to try it though
@@Jamesbeckwith1 the2005channel has a couple vids with covers of daft punk parts and covers with the talker it really shows the power of the advanced encoding of the rare vocoder and i would love to see a cover of within with the v256
1:48 can’t just be giving me goosebumps like that man not cool
Sadly I can't read sheet music and I'm a talkbox player
Can you make a human after all cover? It would be very very very very cool
also you can say work it harder make it better do it faster makes us stronger... loop it just play over it still works \
Holy shit
1:17
Amazing cover! Is there any chance you could upload the sheet music?
Wowwwww, fuck1ng amazing! 🎆🤩🎆
Might be a stupid question, but how does it work, the vocoder? When you press a certain note does it automatically generate your voice to that certain pitch? You don't have to actually sing in tune right?
Vocoding is kind of like real time autotuning, except autotune is meant to be less noticeable. Vocoding takes the main phonemes of your speech, and sets it to the key of the played note. It's similar to a talkbox, but the big difference is that a vocoder modulates your vocal sounds, while a talkbox generates the sounds which you then modulate by moving your mouth.
on the first hour never did u say now-or nev-er or am i hearing wrong cuz it sounded like that
Info in description
Sorry but could you post a link to just the sheet music
Why do I actually sound like the voice box?
What is the font in the beginning
From reddit
Try the song within, beyond, and lose yourself to dance
You should make a video with only the keys pressed!
At the 25sec mark, your keyboard actions don't align with the music you are playing "faster"
more strings
1:23