Produce an Indie Rock Song (A 5-Step Guide)
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2024
- The 5 key components for producing an Indie Rock song similar to artists like Phoebe Bridgers & The Killers.
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Have you ever wondered how to produce an indie rock song? If so, then you've come to the right place because today you're going to learn the 5 key components for producing that dry indie rock type of song as heard from artists like Phoebe Bridgers.
00:00 Intro: Produce an Indie Rock Song
01:14 Key #1: Dry Acoustic Drums w/ a Warm Analog Sound
06:20 Key #2: A Blanketed Vocal Sound
09:29 Key #3: No Long Reverbs on the Vocal
11:17 Key #4: Simple yet Interesting Guitar Arrangement
15:38 Key #5: The Chorus "Triad Energy Lift" 
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This is an amazing tutorial! One of my favorite quotes: “Don’t try to fix problems that you hear in solo if those problems aren’t even present in the final mix.”
magic of simplicity
Great video!
I think it would also be cool to see videos like this that cover other areas of the genre (e.g. the more raw, punky side with bands like The Strokes or Pavement)
Great suggestion. Thank you!
This is definitely helping me produce NICU's upcoming first album. Love the influence of that classic indie sound, hell I was in high school 2001-2005 so I was there.
some of my takeaways:
- muffled and dry can be a cool stylistic choice
- more compression is not always better
- the acoustic + 3-panned electric guitar takes w/ different chord shapes & amp settings is a really wonderful classic indie sound
- don't aim for perfection, especially when stacking or layering. Allow intricacies to develop :)
- make that chorus drop really HIT by adding L-Mid-R sounds.
The trumpet was a gorgeous sound, just sound-design and melody speaking!
Wow, really nice. just great advice, thank you!!!
Love to hear it! Thanks so much 🙏
this was exactly the tip I need ed for the chorus thank you!
Dude , this video is great, thanks!
Dude. Thank you for thisssss
so good, thank you!
Great vid!
great source of inspiration and really straight to the point guide, thank you :))
Thank you! I'm so glad you found it helpful.
This video is a life saver
Such great content here! Wondering if you’ve considered doing an extended, more in-depth version of this tutorial, I would love a walk-through of your plugin chains, etc.
dude this was great for mixing tips too. solid job!
Thanks so much!
Def stealing this chorus tip! Nice video! Thanks for this. Also your voice reminds me of Conor Oberst who has collared with Phoebe a bunch!
Love it! And thank you that’s quite a compliment!
Amazing data! greating from Argentina!
Thank you! And welcome. Im so glad you’re here
I like the approach - I also like "Kyoto" by Phoebe Bridgers
very good
hey marcus I really enjoy your videos, is there any way we can listen more to your work, like your music covers or maybe, if you do that, songs from customers or artists you produced?
keep going :)
Yes, I may incorporate more of my original stuff here. I've found, however, that people seem to enjoy the familiarity of remakes rather than my own songs when I'm teaching. For my online courses, I use exclusively originals songs to avoid any copyright infringements. Thanks for the comment! I'll definitely keep that in mind.
Incredibile video, the cool thing about the bass is that is played by Jenny Lee Lindberg from Warpaint which is so good in doing complicated things. Could you please do analysis of The War On Drugs sound ?
Love that! And thanks so much for the e request. I’ve added War on Drugs to my list for potential content so hopefully you’ll be seeing something related to them on my channel soon :)
Nice voice!
Thank you very much 🙏
Thanks for the great content man! What direction are you taking the reverb, FX mix if its more of a Tame Impala, Beach House type vibe? Also, would be awesome to hear more in depth about Khruangbin's style of production
Appreciate it! I would probably start with a 2-3 second Plate or Hall reverb and then experiment with plugins like OTT, Flanger, and Phaser on the reverb channel.
And your request has been noted. Thanks!
@@theindiemusiclab Just seeing this reply, big thanks Marcus!
Sounds good man. What amp sim are you running through?
mann , you are god!!!😅
thanks 🎉
thank you so much for this! i'm just starting making music, i was wondering how you learned all this? just learning by doing?
Appreciate the comment! Most of what I’ve learned is by making a bunch of songs, although I did get a lot of help from RUclips & online courses and such. Education is necessary but secondary. You will definitely grow the fastest if you put the main focus on getting your hands dirty and consistently working at it and getting 1% better every day.
@@theindiemusiclab Thanks for your answer! yh i figured i should get my hands dirty because there is almost nobody on youtube doing tutorials on styles i wanna make haha i'll buy a better cubase version next month and start!
As a video suggestion: i really like this holly humberstone, (new) bears den beaty type of indie if you wanna do a video on that! literally nobody ever did a tutorial on this type of indie folk songs
Rad presentation bro. Is it hard being the artist and engineer? Sometimes I wish I could be 1 or the other
How to do a charlotte day Wilson vocal chain🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼???
nice work !
Thank you 🙏
Great video what program is this that he is using??
The DAW I’m using is Studio One.
Hey. Are there any good indie rock songs that have ride cymbals in them? Particularly the chorus.
Hi, I'm kinda new to making and I don't feel like spending hundreds in plug-ins that I don't really know. Do you think it is possible to make something great in this style with the free ones ?
Thanks for the tips anyway :)
Do you always keep the Addictive Drums on one track? I'm a bit of a control freak with that stuff and I always route the individual drums to different tracks, disable some of the built in AD effects and put on some of the third party ones, put compressor on a room (or use different reverb as a room), layer the snare with a sample etc.
I tend to take the opposite approach with VST drums.
If I can make my drums sound great inside the software without routing to individual channels, I love the simplicity of that and then I’ll usually process the drums overall with a plug-in or 2.
Your approach is probably more tried and true though and there is value in having more control over each individual channel.
How are you using Omnisphere in this track?
what software do you use?
I am intermediate Guitarist
I want to make indie music , is keyboard playing important for Indie music production
Or I can get 25 keys midi and learn only guitar profishnally
It depends. If you’re trying to create a guitar driven sound, then by all means, you could get a simple 25 key keyboard to fill in the tracks with some additional keys based production. There’s no shame in doubling down on what you do best. There’s no rule that says you need to be a good keyboard player to make good indie music
Hi Marcus
Do you have Some Hiphop , Trap ,808 Type Samples Packs in Your Collection or you only Use acoustic Drums
I am also Planning to Produce only Acoustic Sounds coz I am a Guitarist
Should I delete my Trap Hard hip-hop Samples those are Free Samples 10gb
what is the app you're using called??
Studio One but I often forget to mention because it really doesn’t matter which DAW you’re using.
what program is he using?
studio one but it doesn’t really matter you can do this on any
what DAW is this?
Studio One
you sound like a teacher