Bruce Swedien says it best when talking about the experience of recording “The Way You Make Me Feel”: “Jackson recorded all the vocal parts, including the backing vocals, dancing around a darkened studio to the track. He'd sing his line, then he'd disappear into the darkness dancing..." YOU GET TO HEAR THIS when you listen to his vocal tracks in isolation! The stomps, the snaps, the adlibs... The FREEDOM! :) This is one of more more simplistically inspirational in the Michael Jackson catalogue. The upbeat melody, the "sky is opening" vibe that the rhythmic elements and the melody perpetuate. It is magical. Enjoy!!
Man you have no idea HOW MANY TIMES I HAD TO REWIND THIS EPISODE! His voice gives me goosebumps. This was just as incredible as leave me alone. Now if you really want to see the best of michaels gritty voice, you gotta breakdown the song "They don't care about us" next! Please 🥺😩
Michael’s voice just blows your socks off every time you hear him. He sang the heck out of this song. Even though the original session was recorded slower (as far as I know), he could still hit the notes he did in the final version. He even did live. As he got older he struggled more with his voice, but still had his undeniable vocal abilities, just not as consistently as he did when he was younger. I also heard he suffered a lot from exhaustion in his voice along with chronic laryngitis later on. His voice is one of a kind and iconic until the end of time as far as I’m concerned. Thank you Chris for doing these videos. Can’t wait for you to go back further and dive into the Off the Wall album sessions. Rock With You, etc. In my opinion that was his best era. 😄
Michael is a very underrated singer because he was and is the best entertainer that ever lived, but thanks to your videos about him I can really appreciate his vocal’s skills. I love what you do and I beg you to make more videos like this
I think his vocals are honestly underrated. No joke. People overlook his vocal abilities and acrobatics. Riffs and Runs. I actually made two videos showcasing exactly that. 😄
The crazy thing about these multitrakcs is that when I listen to the released versions I have no idea that there are so many things going on underneath..and the crazier thing is michael hears all these disparate pieces in his head as he is composing.
HEARTBREAK HOTEL, first song written by Michael (We can hear his universe coming, the atmosphere, the sound design, sounds effects... It's a wonderfull track with sounds, mixing and vocals experimentations... PLeaaaAAAAAaaaaaase !!!
@@amaryllisoriol782 Are you sure ! I know since 40 years that Michael wrote words and music (and create sound effects arrangements) for the first time. It was the first time that Michael was the entire CONDUCTOR ! Can you please tell me what he wrote before ???? The first time was on the "Triumph" Album, never before. What do you think, honey ?
@@amaryllisoriol782 He signed with EPIC ! But, with the beautifull "Blues away", he just did some little stuff. With Heartbreak hotel, he's the master. It's so different for him, understand it ! I rally think Heartbreak Hotel is considered by himself as his first song. So... Bye, Honey !
My favorite thing that I've learned from looking at finished mixes is that you don't have to make things PERFECT. They just need to fit together and compliment each other. It almost doesn't matter what they sound like isolated as long as they work in the whole. Like, flour doesn't taste great. Sugar alone is too sweet. Raw egg? No thanks. But combine them and you're close to a cake recipe.
"The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work." MJ I'd love to hear something from Invincible album as well, if possible. 🙄 Sooo underrated album. Whatever Happens, Speechless, Don't Walk Away, Butterflies... The list goes on and on and on... 😁
I've got all of his albums and Invincible is one of my favourites, I cannot for the life of me figure out why people dislike it. They say he wasn't "trying" on that record or wasnt his usual self, but why isn't he allowed to branch out and be more R&B?! Another complaint was that it was too long - why is that even a complaint 😂 more MJ for your money lol
Quite possibly the most perfectly agile BARITONE who is a master of using his MIXED/HEAD voice(Mistaken for a natural TENOR). Traditionally Baris tend to have a sweeter falsetto as well. Beautiful analysis. For a natural tenor you'd probably have to look to George Michael or El Debarge, totally different textures. 10/10.
That grit you speak of was very present on this album. "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" might be the only song where he kept it vocally mellow throughout the whole song.
What makes me more angry is that the Bad album didn't win any Grammy statuette in 1988. Michael was very sad at the award, you could see in his eyes how much he was wronged. The Bad album is full of impressive vocals and the Grammys had the nerve to boycott Michael, and for what reason? we know how the industry hated him.
"we know how the industry hated him" we? who? Source for it or it didn't happen. In 1987 it definitely wasn't the case. MJ waited too long with next album. And don't forget that at the same time George Michael released Faith and Madonna released True Blue.
@@wertor666u dont have to bring them in this conv they have nothin' to do with it, it's U2 who won thé award, while MJ just release one of the greatest album of all time
Watching that we are the world documentary and Lionel Richie talking about how Michael wrote all the music by humming the parts into a tape recorder because he couldn’t play any instruments shows he was on a whole different level
I created a short piece for my school music exam 20 years ago by using the exact same method, imagining the sounds in my mind and singing into a tape recorder. it's only now I read about it being Michael Jackson's chosen method 😮 and that people say it is part of his genius 😮😮😮 and I barely passed my exam Lol
Wow, Wow, Wow! Those guitars in isolation are fantastic! I love the POP in the guitar on track 10 even though I don't understand how it got there! It's really only when you hear the instrumentation and arrangement in isolation that you fully appreciate the mastery of craft that everyone brought to the table (or mixing desk) on these albums. Individually so simple and often dare-I-say basic, but combined with such genius into an incredible sonic masterpiece! Wow!
This is excellent in that, if you remember Michael paid particular attention and discussed and even instructed the Keys player on the phrasing and the groove of this rhythmic figure in the 'This is It' film
I just love to watch your analyses you make on MJ's vocals! They are made in the same energy he sang and performed, that simple joy of discovering, the playfulness , the passion, immersing yourself in what you love to do. Thank you so much Chris Liepe! And I subscribe to others request, Heartbreak hotel would be great! I would add what Darkchild and Akon said abt MJ when he was recording: he needed tshirts to change himself because he was sweating a lot, that was his inner energy set free. Because everything was from ,,his soul,, as Akon said.
I had 2 different version of this sone where the ending is different. This one with the multitrack that has Michael repeat the "Give it to me" at the end of the song vs one that doesn't have any vocals at all at the end. Growing up, I was used to the one without the vocals at the end of the song and only around 2005 heard the ones vocals at the end. I was listening to the oens without vocal since in the early 1990 and gotten used to that and throught the vocal at the end was different. Seeing and hearing the multittrack in this video, it was very pleasing to see how it was all put together and getting beautiful understanding on how Michael thinks, do and being in his music. Trully amazing. I only wish I saw this ivdeo when it came out a year ago, but I'm glad I am seeing it now!!! Thank you!
I've been checking your videos for some time now. I still don't know why your videos don't get more views, it's so great to be able to decompose popular songs and hear some fun facts ! Sounds awesome, videos so great !! Love from France !
MJ give HES heart and soul in HES music .He was empty handed at the GRAMMY but when sign to do A BAD TOUR THATS HE BECAME THE GREATEST ENTERTTAINER IN THE WORLD.
If you want to see someone talking about “exactly” how Michael Jackson songs and sounds were made, go to Anthony Marinelli’s RUclips - he was an engineer on many of the famous songs. He also speaks with Greg Phillingaines and others who were there at the time. Fascinating to see the drum and synth sounds recreated on the old traditional synths they used at the time.
Practicing Michael Jackson makes everything else so much easier IME. Whenever I feel like I'm oversqueezing or getting close to bellowing, practicing Michael reinstates that register balance, and the elasticity that comes when I squeeze "just enough", especially songs like this that kind of live in the upper part
Amazing, Michael era fora do normal. É incrivel ouvir como foram construidas suas músicas. Eu que sou completamente ignorante sobre assunto, pergunto.... Essa quantidade de camadas era coisa do Michael, dos bons artistas de antigamente? Hoje ainda fazem composições com essa quantidade de camadas e detalhes? Se alguém puder me responder agradeço;
I used to look forward to the release of the 12 inch versions off BAD, as they would always include A cappella versions, I was blown away when I first heard TWYMMF.
So when I saw this popped up I HAD to see it and not just because I am a huge MJ fan but because I have LONG theorized that this track at some point was recorded in a lower key and pitched up. I know just about all there is to know about Michael, I am very familiar with his voice and yes he's always had a huge range but his tessitura was not here at this point in his life. It's just a theory but it VERY interesting that the raw stems aren't available!
@@NPLXIV Interesting because Ive never heard any such admission and whenever I bring up the thought Im attacked lol. I dont know what 6% would quantify as note wise but I feel this song was a whole step down from E. The times when he would sing an intro live it was always down there as well.
@@mssha1980 I dont know if I would believe that , sure there are other songs where I can hear the same 'helium' sped up quality on his vocals but I think there are also some unaltered songs as well
@@MighterM that’s from the mouth of his engineers. They said the entire album is sped up. Apparently it was a common practice during that period. This engineer mentioned MJ sounding chimpmunk like on the bad album. His engineers were doing seminars where they let people listen to the raw tracks. It’s called In The Studio with MJ or something like that.
Leave Me Alone is seen as the "dark inversion" of The Way You Make Me Feel. I know you've done both songs, but it would be interesting if you could compare and contrast the two.
Hi I just subscribed to your channel and I’m loving these videos, especially the Michael Jackson and Kurt Cobain ones. I would like to recommend that you do one of these to “Song of the Siren” by Rose Betts. I think it’s a beautiful song and if you should listen if you haven’t before. Keep up the great work!
Love this, but would also have loved to hear what the bass sounds like isolated too. Are these files available anywhere? I really want to do a drum cover of this track at some point.
The human drum fills are also sex. He says "I'm in ecstasy" when he does that vocal percussion. So it's him being those gated drum fills AND also sex noises. A two for one special.
Can you dissect Beatles multitracks? I would like to hear your take on them, and the interplay of the different tracks is so interesting for that band. A track is often simple but effective, and it seems like the way a certain track contributes to the song as a whole isn’t really appreciated enough.
The bad album was a strange but great album. Strange as by the time he dropped this.. the sound of music had changed. He'd gone to sound more mainstream with the album. However, new jack swing had taken off and Janet was also starting to get head of him a year or two later. Hence the dangerous album without Quincy Jones
Actually Quincy had minimal involvement w/ the Bad album. It's been said there was already tension in MJ & Q's relationship since Thriller which got worse during Bad, but MJ had to fulfill the 3-album contract they signed together. Doing Dangerous sans QJ was just natural progression on the direction MJ wanted to take, nothing to do w/ Janet or anyone else. Dangerous btw is NOT all new jack swing. I'd argue the 2nd half of the album, the NON new jack swing tracks, are stronger. Also saying "by the time he dropped Bad, sound of music has changed" doesn't really apply bc none of his songs could be put in a box anyway. Like "Leave Me Alone" isn't exactly regular "pop", neither is "Smooth Criminal", and both remain interesting pieces to this day
where in the world did you find this?!? I have a huge collection of Michael's multitracks, but have NEVER been able to find this one! Only the 5.1 moonwalker stems which are very poor quality. I know you probably can't discuss where you got it lol, I'm just blown away
Great stuff, Chris. Do you have anything on how to create a multitrack recording with video? For example, someone wants to record their vocal along with a backing track, and then create a video of them singing that vocal into the mic with the completed/mixed audio? What would you need gear-wise to do that, and how is it done. Cheers!
Wondering if it sounds a bit strange because the songs are actually recorded at a different speed. Heard something else you reacted to in "Leave me alone" and thought about that too. Maybe it doesn't matter, but that thought struck me ☺️ Original recording speed: ruclips.net/video/XzCtp90-OCE/видео.html
I heard they did this because the tracks needed to be compressed on to vinyl and to fit on the record they had to increase the speed? Something related to that. He could actually hit the notes he did in the final version. He did it live many times.
@@JordanX767 Yes, it has absolutely nothing to do with not being able to sing in that pitch. Many other artists have done it, both speeding it up and slowing it down. I think they thought it was just a cool effect 😊
@@JordanX767 it was recorded in this key but because back then you can only speed it up with the pitch going upwards theyve ended up in a key 1 semitone above the original. Michael recorded it B4 and C#5 on top what you hear here, but because of the speed up on the single and Spotify it is sung with a C5 and D5 on top.
Hey Chris, love the videos..but my only grevience is that there's too much interrupting commentary which, for me, ruins the listening experience of these wonderful tracks. I wish we get to hear longer bits at a go..and the commentary is saved for later. Just saying.
I can't play longer bits or the video will be taken down by the copyright owner. I am only allowed to play in short bursts. I have had multiple MJ videos blocked and had to re edit them so that I would be allowed to keep them up. This format fits into fair use and is the only format the copyright owners will allow.
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Bruce Swedien says it best when talking about the experience of recording “The Way You Make Me Feel”:
“Jackson recorded all the vocal parts, including the backing vocals, dancing around a darkened studio to the track. He'd sing his line, then he'd disappear into the darkness dancing..."
YOU GET TO HEAR THIS when you listen to his vocal tracks in isolation! The stomps, the snaps, the adlibs... The FREEDOM! :)
This is one of more more simplistically inspirational in the Michael Jackson catalogue. The upbeat melody, the "sky is opening" vibe that the rhythmic elements and the melody perpetuate. It is magical.
Enjoy!!
This is the video where he talks about re riding this song ruclips.net/video/TK_rX4MjvA4/видео.html
Tooo dangerous walking in dark and when vision not eyeable thanks anyways 4:50 😊😊
Michael literally puts everything into his vocal recordings like no body I’ve ever heard
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Man you have no idea HOW MANY TIMES I HAD TO REWIND THIS EPISODE! His voice gives me goosebumps. This was just as incredible as leave me alone. Now if you really want to see the best of michaels gritty voice, you gotta breakdown the song "They don't care about us" next! Please 🥺😩
yea man
you need to @chrisliepe
Michaels voice is one of the most satisfying things ever.
Michael’s voice just blows your socks off every time you hear him. He sang the heck out of this song. Even though the original session was recorded slower (as far as I know), he could still hit the notes he did in the final version. He even did live. As he got older he struggled more with his voice, but still had his undeniable vocal abilities, just not as consistently as he did when he was younger. I also heard he suffered a lot from exhaustion in his voice along with chronic laryngitis later on. His voice is one of a kind and iconic until the end of time as far as I’m concerned. Thank you Chris for doing these videos. Can’t wait for you to go back further and dive into the Off the Wall album sessions. Rock With You, etc. In my opinion that was his best era. 😄
Michael is a very underrated singer because he was and is the best entertainer that ever lived, but thanks to your videos about him I can really appreciate his vocal’s skills.
I love what you do and I beg you to make more videos like this
I think his vocals are honestly underrated. No joke. People overlook his vocal abilities and acrobatics. Riffs and Runs. I actually made two videos showcasing exactly that. 😄
He’s Thee Greatest Singer Of All Time! And super versatile the most versatile👑🌟
Please keep making more of these. I love me some MJ
Michael Jackson in the studio is the definition of passion.
The crazy thing about these multitrakcs is that when I listen to the released versions I have no idea that there are so many things going on underneath..and the crazier thing is michael hears all these disparate pieces in his head as he is composing.
He was a genius musically.
HEARTBREAK HOTEL, first song written by Michael (We can hear his universe coming, the atmosphere, the sound design, sounds effects... It's a wonderfull track with sounds, mixing and vocals experimentations... PLeaaaAAAAAaaaaaase !!!
That is not the first song written by him honey.
But you’re right heartbreak hotel is one of my absolute favorite
@@amaryllisoriol782 Are you sure ! I know since 40 years that Michael wrote words and music (and create sound effects arrangements) for the first time. It was the first time that Michael was the entire CONDUCTOR ! Can you please tell me what he wrote before ???? The first time was on the "Triumph" Album, never before. What do you think, honey ?
@@edwardickxs7061 his first written and released song is blues away. Don’t remember if he’d left Motown yet but he was much younger.
@@amaryllisoriol782 He signed with EPIC ! But, with the beautifull "Blues away", he just did some little stuff. With Heartbreak hotel, he's the master. It's so different for him, understand it ! I rally think Heartbreak Hotel is considered by himself as his first song. So... Bye, Honey !
@@edwardickxs7061 no Michael said he wrote Blues Away and that was his first song he wrote that was recorded and released.
This was one of my favorite songs as a kid in the late 80’s.
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This was my favorite song as a kid in the 2000's, timeless
My favorite thing that I've learned from looking at finished mixes is that you don't have to make things PERFECT. They just need to fit together and compliment each other. It almost doesn't matter what they sound like isolated as long as they work in the whole. Like, flour doesn't taste great. Sugar alone is too sweet. Raw egg? No thanks. But combine them and you're close to a cake recipe.
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This could not have been expressed better. Awesome way to describe mixing
Totally agree
Love this analogy!
Great comment!!
"The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work." MJ
I'd love to hear something from Invincible album as well, if possible. 🙄 Sooo underrated album. Whatever Happens, Speechless, Don't Walk Away, Butterflies... The list goes on and on and on... 😁
I've got all of his albums and Invincible is one of my favourites, I cannot for the life of me figure out why people dislike it. They say he wasn't "trying" on that record or wasnt his usual self, but why isn't he allowed to branch out and be more R&B?! Another complaint was that it was too long - why is that even a complaint 😂 more MJ for your money lol
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Quite possibly the most perfectly agile BARITONE who is a master of using his MIXED/HEAD voice(Mistaken for a natural TENOR). Traditionally Baris tend to have a sweeter falsetto as well. Beautiful analysis. For a natural tenor you'd probably have to look to George Michael or El Debarge, totally different textures.
10/10.
That grit you speak of was very present on this album. "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" might be the only song where he kept it vocally mellow throughout the whole song.
Heal the world too?
His voice brings me happiness 😊 🎶 🎵
Look for "Heart Break Hotel" (This place Hotel). Or " The Lady in my life", my two favorite MJ songs.
What makes me more angry is that the Bad album didn't win any Grammy statuette in 1988. Michael was very sad at the award, you could see in his eyes how much he was wronged. The Bad album is full of impressive vocals and the Grammys had the nerve to boycott Michael, and for what reason? we know how the industry hated him.
angry? grammy? I never watched grammies, I just listened to MJ, that's all I needed
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Bad is full of hits , overall a superb album , i love it
"we know how the industry hated him" we? who? Source for it or it didn't happen. In 1987 it definitely wasn't the case. MJ waited too long with next album. And don't forget that at the same time George Michael released Faith and Madonna released True Blue.
@@wertor666u dont have to bring them in this conv they have nothin' to do with it, it's U2 who won thé award, while MJ just release one of the greatest album of all time
I watch mj songs every time you do them.🤩
Watching that we are the world documentary and Lionel Richie talking about how Michael wrote all the music by humming the parts into a tape recorder because he couldn’t play any instruments shows he was on a whole different level
I created a short piece for my school music exam 20 years ago by using the exact same method, imagining the sounds in my mind and singing into a tape recorder. it's only now I read about it being Michael Jackson's chosen method 😮 and that people say it is part of his genius 😮😮😮 and I barely passed my exam Lol
I guess I’m the only one who thinks the way he sings “tell me twice” is by far the best vocal part of the song. (8:05)
nah the high notes are crazy lol! too many 6th octave notes for me to count on
Another awesome Michael Jackson isolated vocal. Love it!!
Wow, Wow, Wow! Those guitars in isolation are fantastic! I love the POP in the guitar on track 10 even though I don't understand how it got there! It's really only when you hear the instrumentation and arrangement in isolation that you fully appreciate the mastery of craft that everyone brought to the table (or mixing desk) on these albums. Individually so simple and often dare-I-say basic, but combined with such genius into an incredible sonic masterpiece! Wow!
This is excellent in that, if you remember Michael paid particular attention and discussed and even instructed the Keys player on the phrasing and the groove of this rhythmic figure in the 'This is It' film
Very helpful, insightful, And recording magic! Thanks for diving in, Showing us superb mastery fun behind the scenes, Fun hit song!! 👌
I just love to watch your analyses you make on MJ's vocals! They are made in the same energy he sang and performed, that simple joy of discovering, the playfulness , the passion, immersing yourself in what you love to do. Thank you so much Chris Liepe! And I subscribe to others request, Heartbreak hotel would be great! I would add what Darkchild and Akon said abt MJ when he was recording: he needed tshirts to change himself because he was sweating a lot, that was his inner energy set free. Because everything was from ,,his soul,, as Akon said.
Wow what a treat
Thank you this gave me goosebumps what a epic track and breakdown
Has to be one of my favourite vocal isolations thus far....perfection 🤩❣
I had 2 different version of this sone where the ending is different. This one with the multitrack that has Michael repeat the "Give it to me" at the end of the song vs one that doesn't have any vocals at all at the end. Growing up, I was used to the one without the vocals at the end of the song and only around 2005 heard the ones vocals at the end. I was listening to the oens without vocal since in the early 1990 and gotten used to that and throught the vocal at the end was different. Seeing and hearing the multittrack in this video, it was very pleasing to see how it was all put together and getting beautiful understanding on how Michael thinks, do and being in his music. Trully amazing. I only wish I saw this ivdeo when it came out a year ago, but I'm glad I am seeing it now!!! Thank you!
one of my favorites too... thanks for sharing such vocal knowledge Chris!
So good
I've been checking your videos for some time now. I still don't know why your videos don't get more views, it's so great to be able to decompose popular songs and hear some fun facts !
Sounds awesome, videos so great !!
Love from France !
Thank you so much!!! You make me love once again these incredible mj song!!!! Please keep on!!! Love from Italy.
Awesome track. Michael was at his peak vocally around 1985-1990.
I would love to hear the multi track of Who is it . If that excists.
I don't know anyone who has been able to locate it... I'd love to do that one as well!
Amazing vocals.
MJ give HES heart and soul in HES music .He was empty handed at the GRAMMY but when sign to do A BAD TOUR THATS HE BECAME THE GREATEST ENTERTTAINER IN THE WORLD.
One of my favorites
Chris trying to explain the "gone girl!" to sum up.... MJ is just that good lbvvs
Oh Brother tq Frm Malaysia
yes yes yes my favorite series ❤
Brilliant. Thanks Chris.
If you want to see someone talking about “exactly” how Michael Jackson songs and sounds were made, go to Anthony Marinelli’s RUclips - he was an engineer on many of the famous songs. He also speaks with Greg Phillingaines and others who were there at the time. Fascinating to see the drum and synth sounds recreated on the old traditional synths they used at the time.
Incredible
lots of sound mixes and matches to each other. amazingly beautiful.
YESSS!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH
It sounds like he spoke in such a soft tone in his everyday voice to save it so he could just explode in his music!
Never realized how blues-ey the guitars were
plz do "she drives me wild"
thank youuuuuu chrisss love you💜
Daria tudo para ver essas gravações em estúdio do Michael. São uma preciosidade.
Practicing Michael Jackson makes everything else so much easier IME. Whenever I feel like I'm oversqueezing or getting close to bellowing, practicing Michael reinstates that register balance, and the elasticity that comes when I squeeze "just enough", especially songs like this that kind of live in the upper part
Amazing! I love your MJ videos.
Just subscribed 🤩
Thanks for subbing!
The snare mic was in a metal garbage can underneath the snare. They wanted to get a “back alley echo”
Man you're amazing 👏
Thank you so much 😀
would love if you somehow got “i can’t help it”. just a very lowkey song but so beautiful to me
also, loved the analysis as always :)
I think there is a raw track of I can't help it on yt. It might be titled demo, though it's just an earlier stage of the track or a raw track.
@@richardkovacs2006I believe there is a Stevie demo going around
Hell yea love when you post 🤘🏾🤘🏾
Amazing, Michael era fora do normal. É incrivel ouvir como foram construidas suas músicas. Eu que sou completamente ignorante sobre assunto, pergunto.... Essa quantidade de camadas era coisa do Michael, dos bons artistas de antigamente? Hoje ainda fazem composições com essa quantidade de camadas e detalhes? Se alguém puder me responder agradeço;
There is a sentence that closes something. 🌹 ✨ 💞
His voice in this song is 🔥 so sexy, amazing. Michael is the king 🤴
Hey Chris, absolutely love the video mate!!! Please may I request a tutorial on how Michael gets the grit at higher vocal ranges🙏
I used to look forward to the release of the 12 inch versions off BAD, as they would always include A cappella versions, I was blown away when I first heard TWYMMF.
So when I saw this popped up I HAD to see it and not just because I am a huge MJ fan but because I have LONG theorized that this track at some point was recorded in a lower key and pitched up. I know just about all there is to know about Michael, I am very familiar with his voice and yes he's always had a huge range but his tessitura was not here at this point in his life. It's just a theory but it VERY interesting that the raw stems aren't available!
Michaels songs were sang in a lower key and pitched at about 6% increase. I think Bruce called it sweetener.
The entire bad album was sped up
@@NPLXIV Interesting because Ive never heard any such admission and whenever I bring up the thought Im attacked lol. I dont know what 6% would quantify as note wise but I feel this song was a whole step down from E. The times when he would sing an intro live it was always down there as well.
@@mssha1980 I dont know if I would believe that , sure there are other songs where I can hear the same 'helium' sped up quality on his vocals but I think there are also some unaltered songs as well
@@MighterM that’s from the mouth of his engineers. They said the entire album is sped up. Apparently it was a common practice during that period. This engineer mentioned MJ sounding chimpmunk like on the bad album.
His engineers were doing seminars where they let people listen to the raw tracks. It’s called In The Studio with MJ or something like that.
yesss!!!
Thank you 🙏
Leave Me Alone is seen as the "dark inversion" of The Way You Make Me Feel. I know you've done both songs, but it would be interesting if you could compare and contrast the two.
Sir it is amazing but f you could tell how do you get access to the original sessions.
YES YES YES
MJ's voice is almost as shiny as your lips.
Hi I just subscribed to your channel and I’m loving these videos, especially the Michael Jackson and Kurt Cobain ones. I would like to recommend that you do one of these to “Song of the Siren” by Rose Betts. I think it’s a beautiful song and if you should listen if you haven’t before. Keep up the great work!
Thanks for the sub!
How are you getting these? I’ve been craving to have some Michael Sessions for my studio.
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Yo absolutely love that you are covering MJ, can you do 2Bad next. I think that one would be cool, if not next then soon after 👍👍
my favorite part is missing... "the way ya make me fe-HEEEEEE~~~" where he goes crazy falcetto on it. I was waiting the whole time for it :(
An interesting fact is that michael was recording vocals in the bathroom where they brought him a microphone and all the components for recording
that was in the 2000s lol
Please do a video on Stranger In Moscow. It has a different vibe and vocal perfomance is also very different.
Love this, but would also have loved to hear what the bass sounds like isolated too. Are these files available anywhere? I really want to do a drum cover of this track at some point.
The human drum fills are also sex. He says "I'm in ecstasy" when he does that vocal percussion. So it's him being those gated drum fills AND also sex noises. A two for one special.
The horn section MAKES this song. Other than MJ of course
Shuffle song 🕺
9:12 3:30
Could you please share the stems?
Can you dissect Beatles multitracks? I would like to hear your take on them, and the interplay of the different tracks is so interesting for that band. A track is often simple but effective, and it seems like the way a certain track contributes to the song as a whole isn’t really appreciated enough.
That's a great idea!
The bad album was a strange but great album. Strange as by the time he dropped this.. the sound of music had changed. He'd gone to sound more mainstream with the album. However, new jack swing had taken off and Janet was also starting to get head of him a year or two later. Hence the dangerous album without Quincy Jones
Actually Quincy had minimal involvement w/ the Bad album. It's been said there was already tension in MJ & Q's relationship since Thriller which got worse during Bad, but MJ had to fulfill the 3-album contract they signed together. Doing Dangerous sans QJ was just natural progression on the direction MJ wanted to take, nothing to do w/ Janet or anyone else. Dangerous btw is NOT all new jack swing. I'd argue the 2nd half of the album, the NON new jack swing tracks, are stronger.
Also saying "by the time he dropped Bad, sound of music has changed" doesn't really apply bc none of his songs could be put in a box anyway. Like "Leave Me Alone" isn't exactly regular "pop", neither is "Smooth Criminal", and both remain interesting pieces to this day
Please get Whatever Happens!
where in the world did you find this?!? I have a huge collection of Michael's multitracks, but have NEVER been able to find this one! Only the 5.1 moonwalker stems which are very poor quality. I know you probably can't discuss where you got it lol, I'm just blown away
I have a friend who has a huge stash, and he JUST found this one and sent it to me... He as well, only had the moonwalker stems. So happy he found it!
@@chrisliepe that's awesome. I guess I'll be doing another scavenger hunt for it then!
Update: I found it :D
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what audio interface are you using? looks so cool
Lewitt LCT 1040 mic with it's own interface/power supply going into an Apogee Ensemble Thunderbolt!
@@chrisliepe thank you!
Great stuff, Chris. Do you have anything on how to create a multitrack recording with video? For example, someone wants to record their vocal along with a backing track, and then create a video of them singing that vocal into the mic with the completed/mixed audio? What would you need gear-wise to do that, and how is it done. Cheers!
I cover this exact thing in my "recording and production builder" inside this course: www.mymusicalvoice.com/p/sing-together-365-experience
Enjoy!
Hey Chris another amazing video! But can I ask what microphone your using in this video
Lewitt LCT1040
im pretty sure that this song was sped up. the original was a bit slower, because its sped up his voice sounds a bit higher
2:05. Huh. Odd. My 1987 CD release of the album _Bad_ sounds slower and slightly lower pitched than that.
Strange! Maybe they slowed it back down for the cd release. Some were sped up to fit on the vinyl
michael is like sonic the hedgehog in many ways
Theirs another version of it the original sped version then the one that’s sped up that appears on the bad 25 bad album
I would like you you to do blue gangsta
Wondering if it sounds a bit strange because the songs are actually recorded at a different speed. Heard something else you reacted to in "Leave me alone" and thought about that too.
Maybe it doesn't matter, but that thought struck me ☺️
Original recording speed: ruclips.net/video/XzCtp90-OCE/видео.html
Yes, very interesting!
I heard they did this because the tracks needed to be compressed on to vinyl and to fit on the record they had to increase the speed? Something related to that. He could actually hit the notes he did in the final version. He did it live many times.
@@JordanX767 Yes, it has absolutely nothing to do with not being able to sing in that pitch. Many other artists have done it, both speeding it up and slowing it down. I think they thought it was just a cool effect 😊
@@JordanX767 it was recorded in this key but because back then you can only speed it up with the pitch going upwards theyve ended up in a key 1 semitone above the original. Michael recorded it B4 and C#5 on top what you hear here, but because of the speed up on the single and Spotify it is sung with a C5 and D5 on top.
Can you do a song from the invincible album
Great video.Billy corgan from smashing pumpkins please
Can you PLEASE PLEASE PLEAS PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEAS PLEASE PLEASE PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSEEEEEEE do "Break of Dawn"??!!!!!
Yes!!
Hey Chris, love the videos..but my only grevience is that there's too much interrupting commentary which, for me, ruins the listening experience of these wonderful tracks. I wish we get to hear longer bits at a go..and the commentary is saved for later. Just saying.
I can't play longer bits or the video will be taken down by the copyright owner. I am only allowed to play in short bursts. I have had multiple MJ videos blocked and had to re edit them so that I would be allowed to keep them up. This format fits into fair use and is the only format the copyright owners will allow.
I love and appreciate the commentary
where did u get these brooo