How Jack Antonoff creates songs from small ideas
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- Опубликовано: 4 авг 2021
- Full video available exclusively on mwtm.org/ja-lana-del-rey
A sneak peek from Jack Antonoff's 'Inside The Track' series where he explains how a small spark inspired the song 'The Greatest' by Lana Del Rey.
We’re very proud to present our first video release with songwriter, musician, and record producer Jack Antonoff! In this series, we learn about how the versatile creator got involved in songwriting, recording, and production, and progressed from his analog roots to current approaches and techniques. Antonoff imparts his opinions and philosophy on such vital matters as vocal style vs. lyrics, writing sessions, capturing emotion and space, analog vs. digital equipment, simultaneously writing and producing, committing to takes and sounds, collaboration, sharing a vision, avoiding vocal booths, mixing your own productions, and more. He dives into the multi-track session of ‘The Greatest’ by Lana Del Rey, taking you through the initial guitar chord progression from which the song was developed, early demo material, unusual decisions regarding instrumentation and levels, lyrical arrangement, and a variety of parts that includes acoustic guitars, piano, Mellotron, drums, cellos, synthesisers, vocals, and electric sitar! 
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Full video available exclusively on mwtm.org/ja-lana-del-rey
idk what jack antonoff was on when he helped lana make NFR but it truly is a masterpiece. Both of their best pieces of work.
It's tremendous somebody spots what's good
Still his best work after all these years, now closely followed by Ocean
As a blind guy who is learning about music videos like this even though I cannot see the screen just listening to Jack talk his craft blows my mind! I wish they were more of these and longer videos by Jack and other producers on how they do what they do loved this video and Jack is so brilliant
Bro how you type this comment
@@josephfitzgibbon2961 every single cell phone on the market has some sort of voice to text feature. It started with the 4S with the iPhone and I have an iPhone 8 plus and a dictate everything there is a microphone next to the and a just dictate everything. Also every phone on the market has some sort of voiceover or talk back it’s also called which reads everything that I touch under my finger on my phone screen and then instead of tapping something to activate it a double tap to activate it tapping with one finger on the screen reads was underneath your finger! Thank God for technology and thank you for for asking! Most people don’t even ask and just assume that I’m lying about being blind which is a whole Nother weird thing that happens most of the time. But again thanks for asking and sorry for some of the typos my dictation isn’t perfect but I do the best that I can. Cheers
if you can reply to this you’re not blind
@@gothfairy6977 you know there are tools to help blind people use technology right?
good luck on your journey! there is a full series of these videos on mix with the masters, as well as loads of other series by other musicians; a subscription is quite expensive thought :/
this guy DEFINITELY grew up on the Beatles
I love how there's so many tracks and instruments yet it doesn't sound muddy or messy, every little thing just complements each other. Perfect mix 👌
I know right?! How did they do that??!!! I have my guesses, but still, like Day is saying, most of the layers are doing basically the same thing. It's amazing that it doesn't sound muddy!
@@meggieczepiel4723 it has to do with the mixing and audio levels and EQ.
i could watch him talk about the making of his songs every day of my life and never get bored
omg hi bestie i hope you get ur polaroids
@@lilacheek1394 hi bestie
"english sounding" he wanted to say BEATLES lol
A Day In The Life! haha :)
lol then adds sitar & mellotron
I wrote with a guy from Nashville in London and I am English and I wrote what I thought was just a normal melody and progression but he was like “ oh wow that’s so English that’s exactly what I wanted to write when I came here”
Beatles music makers will describe their music as anything but Beatles music
@@brendanmetz2306 lmao so true
I got teary eyed watching this. The greatest is my ultimate fave song of Lana. 😭
It is SUCH a masterpiece! The fact it was not a major hit everywhere is what is wrong with today's music (also Lana literally never even performed it anywhere or pushed it out so really unfortunate.)
Idk why but his work with Lana is always so magical
Jack's use of layers is brilliant. When you have a nice chord structure, it's easy to start to go towards counter melodies, but Jack just layers the same stuff over and over and makes one chord structure out of 10-15 pieces. Also makes his vibe very hard to reverse engineer and steal.
Arrangements really a special skill not everyone is blessed to be able to do it, nice lesson ty
Jack loves that half step between the 5th and 6th notes. It's littered all over his work whenever it just needs that little extra piece to make a simple chord structure a bit more engaging.
the progression of this song feels like a mix of "Yesterday" and "Baby I'm Amazed" VERY McCartney.
Yeah sound's a lot more like a Day in the Life as well, you could sing those words on top of it easy
Maybe.
Genuis arrangement. Thanks for letting us in on the process!
Every few months I have to go back and watch all the Jack production videos, glad there's a new one to watch. Although I don't think I could listen to that "english sounding" band as much as he does. Never really caught onto their sound, love it through his lens though!
Wow. So complex! It just sounds so harmonic and beautiful, you don't even notice all the layers while you're listening.
That’s was so amazing to watch. Jack broke down every possible part of creating a song from start to finish even the exact thought process he was having during is song writing process. For someone whose interested in jack’s music. This is gold! Also, that guitar part he was working on in the beginning is dope. Hope he plays that riff live sometimes.
I always felt the same about the song, as this kind of lamentation on culture and one's own place in it. the english/royal aspect mixed in with the funeral makes so much sense! love how his mind works... and I would LOVE to have all those little files with each recorded part of this song, those harmonies were divine. This one's my favorite from NFR too.. it really embodies the whole essence of the album imo
I would do anything to get those files. Magical piece. I go back to search for a live rendition of this song every few months, but alas there aren’t any yet. But it was a treat to hear these snippets instead.
Jack anton Off is a legit master. I can't get enough of his production videos.💯
the violin and cellos are beautiful
Thank you for sharing this.
78.999 is one of my favourite tempos too
Fantastic work Jack
the greatest is so amazing. The melody gets me every time.
learn so much from this channel :)
I am in love with this video
This is beautiful 😍
Thx for inspiration...
wow, this is so amazing I loveee it
Well good! Makes it look easy!
I would kill to be in the same room as this man while he works.
And end up in a prison choir or band or something! That sounds like a plan to me
I have a target
this is his best song and Lana's! It's also the one that's about something other than a relationship
This sounds sooooo beatles
Thanks. Love it.
Would love to produce songs like these
the greatest is my fav too wow
I have SO many small notes and voice notes 😂 it’s overwhelming. Inspiring video
Thank you!
this guy is insane and nuts i wanna be like him
so fascinating
Interesting. Thanks! I love that song.
The Greatest omg just gives me Goosebumps all over best song ever and I mean ever 💙
Wow.. he just George Martin'd the heck out of that original progression. Lovely to see him break it down & get to hear all the isolated tracks of the additional instrumentation.
The greatest is one of the greatest songs of all time! I am so glad they made that song. And how it resonates during the pandemic is just scary good...
Listen to "A Day in the Life" by the Beatles. Lana's song was heavily inspired by "Day in the Life", and almost kind of made it as like an epilogue to that Beatles song, like a "here's where that story ended up 60 years later"
this song really sounds alot like yesterday mixed with in my life
Straight Knoledge. Wonderful Mind
The greatest song literally
I love you Jack.
I usually can connect two songs w the similar aspects but I didn’t realize how much it sounds like yesterday. Also had no idea how much layering was involved. How do u even mix that 😭😭😭
deve ser um sonho trabalhar com ele
she's doing promooo we love to see it
Thanks Jack, you and Lana changed my life with Norman 💚
Amazing!
wow, absolutly amazing jack
This progression sounds very similar to the one used in Blouse by Clairo (also produced by Jack). Nothing wrong with it, it's a nice progression and lots of songs share the same progressions.
Love progressions
Also a bit like lordes liability, great progression though so why not!
Also Good Morning by Bleachers
@@Al-iv8su he loves those descending lines
Lol, this progression is pure Beatles, everything else is a copy.
Jack is sooo good, his own unique take on sound. And him and Lana together . Just stunning .
Need to see this video for songs from Melodrama
Literally one of the best songs in music history… I’m not even exaggerating
I wrote with a guy from Nashville in London and I am English and I wrote what I thought was just a normal melody and progression but he was like “ oh wow that’s so English that’s exactly what I wanted to write when I came here”
THIS SONG IS EVERYTHING!! 🧡🔥
hey, we might be related lol
So dope
If the Beatles had recorded Billy Joel's The Longest Time
He's a real genious
In a nutshell: have a bunch of instruments replay the melody.
The pop girls have enslaved him
and rip off some beatles vibes and should be good
There’s an old adage that if a song is any good it will stand on its own with just acoustic guitar and vocals. This is not it. It’s a chord progression, short and unimaginative , with one little melodic motif. Everything else is just layering.
@@Jazman342 why so?
@@jojo-fj7lw why so what? I don’t understand the question
The chord progression sounds so similar to Clairo's song, Blouse
Jack produced that song too
@@victor981006 I was waiting for someone to notice the pattern
Also Yesterday by the Beatles
It remainds me Karma Police.
and 21 Guns
I read the news today.. oh boy.. all you need is love
Oh man I wish he also talked about the drums
That drum fill before the first chorus is amazing!
He does in the full course!! You need a premium subscription but it's one of the most useful things i've ever watched
MORE. OF. THIS. PLEASE.
All the mix break downs are cool and all, but just because Andy Wallace boosted that bass drum at 60hz isn't gonna mean shit when it comes to you cleaning up a dumpy recorded kit. These kinds of song breakdowns, as well as Adelle's 'rolling in the deep' one seem to be the most valuable IMO. You can take the lessons of process away instead of just watching an engineer masturbate with the minutia of a plugin. There's gotta be more emphasis on songwriting and arranging than just compression tricks -- this is why we have so much slick sounding garbage music.
You are spot on about this! Great music is about the feeling that goes into the creation, not the obsession over engineer minutia.
Nostalgic low-fi sound...
Directly out of the Beatles playbook!
Hearing Lana's raw adlibs was bone chilling
3:07.....revolution
Reminds me of Pink Floyd-ish Dark Side of the Moon sessions
wow he's a genius
A legend walks among us
No, they take private jets 😂
I can hear the backbone of Fun in there too, just no Nate Roos melodies
Nice video. One question is why do the waveforms look like they are all so compressed and often looked maxed out where the peaks are all given a flattop haircut. Is that intentional?
Great
When i find myself in time of trouble...
Dope
i am learning that i need more layers
Layer responsibly, kids.
Looking at this video and realizing I'm wearing exactly that same shirt. Bananas
The chord progression reminds me a lot of Hymne à l'amour by Edith Piaf
Same i looked for your comment haha (doing ctrl+F of course;), the little piano notes also
That’s the Beatles’ “yesterday” pretty much
i was thinking day in the life
Or any Beatles song, but who cares?
I love this. He just makes female artists like Lana and Taylor shine!
Hey MWTM! I read the news today. Oh, boy...
Imma work with Jack someday
Me too
I usually do not dare to add more instruments than the band actually has, because I always fear that the audience might be disappointed when a song doesn't sound live like on the record. Maybe I have to be more brave and change my point of view.
Well just look at stairway to heaven. When played live, it doesn't have all the layers it does in the studio recording, but zeppelin owns that and makes it unique. You just have to come up with a different arrangement to play live.
It’s 2021, where everything is made up and the streams don’t matter
Unfortunately a lot of artists and bands perform with tracks these days, even with backing vocals or doubled lead vocals at times. It is disappointing when they are artists I like, too. Like, you don't need to have a tape with keys and bass on it, you can get a bassist and a keyboardist easy enough, and just make sure they sing backups fairly well. Hell, even 5 piece bands performing with tape. Bleachers? Hell no, they are fully live, 2 drummers, total all out awesome.
Live doesn't need to matter. The Beatles could hardly play SGT peppers live... Don't limit yourself just because a few boomers somewhere might decide to hate it if it's not just a band
@@eboethrasher There's nothing wrong with tracks at all. Only in context with what you're used to.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🔥🔥🔥🔥
hi, is my impression or all the stems are normalized?
genius :)
Indeed
I want to see an episode of classic albums one day where they break down NFR
for sure. totally true!!
The greatest is the best song on the album 😭 it's so nostalgic wtf
Can somebody tell me what daw do they use?
pro tools
All the time "finding sounds that are interesting and cool"!
Genuinely scratching my head as to how this man is a success
Let it Be in a different key?
“I needed strings so I went to a mellotron” like it’s just another toy
I heard the news today, oh boy! Oh I believe in yesterday....
"I think it's kind of an English sounding progression..."
*It's literally a Day in the Life by the Beatles*
So "small ideas" mean "Beatle Music"(A Day In The Life)? hahaha
its one of the sounds of that era, the beatles are just the most popular guys.