Oh, yeah. That sounds... Is that Plasma? I'm going through the Plasma. Plasmaaaa! Hey, today we're looking at album art that we've never seen before. It came from a viewer of this channel. We've never heard the music on this album. We know nothing about it, just the album art. And we're gonna try and create what we think the music is that goes with this art, and then we'll see how close we get. Should we look at it? Okay. I know we can make something cool with this. Yeah, I don't know what music this is, but I know I like it. It's like spanning so much time, because you got the dinosaur, you got this robot face. This is definitely like, you're gonna use crazy synth noises. But the rest of it feels like a western from like prehistoric times. There's some country guitar on this. There's gotta be country guitar on this album, right? But there's crazy synths on top, and like it's goofy and colorful and fun. Well, definitely fun, but does it have a dark edge to it? What does "que pasa" mean? It means like, "what's going on?" Oh, but what is that? Is that like the record label? Or...? Maybe it's just for fun, just a little dinosaur being like, what's up? Oh, dude, this is the artist, so 'Que Pasa' is probably the song name. Curb Service is the band, Geno G is the vocalist. Can I just do like an aggressive rap on this about like riding dinosaurs and killing other dinosaurs? Yeah, love it. We can go from western feeling to heavy, right? Like chuggy? That feels like it would fit too. It's some blend between like country and hard metal. Yeah-- With a little electronic sprinkle. Yeah, okay, so here it is. We start writing with resonator guitar and a wild synth. Yeah, let's try some. Let's get in there. Maybe Geno G just starts all his rap verses with saying "que pasa", like "what's going on?" And then goes into "What's going on? I'm riding a dinosaur." Or maybe I get a slide? I just want to slide with you. ♪ I just want to slide with you ♪ Ooh, this is the chorus, dude. I'm feeling more minor with it. Oh yeah? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, and if you're sliding that. Oh man, this might... Th-- ugh-- This slide is a... Do we have some like Vaseline or something? This slide... I might be a slide guitar player permanently if I put this on. Oh, and it could be like one of those things where then the bass just does it. And then Geno G comes in and we just have like splurts of noise, know what I mean? Oh yeah. That's the one. Yeah, one, two, three, four. Okay, cool. Yeah, I like that. Ooh, we could just also do it with pauses where it's like, bunch of other stuff here for the verse, all right, yeah, lots of space. Do you want me to get on drums for us to track this? Yeah. Yeah, that makes sense. Let's do it. Three, four... Bwom bwom-nom. Oh dude, dude, straight boom bap. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I think before we go back to the chorus, some space where it's just open and then the beat is heavier when you hear it again. But we need like a full 16 for Geno of just straight boom-bap. Yeah. Is Geno doing two verses? Like it's always Geno every verse? And maybe the band does the chorus? Instrumental chorus? But I think we should say "que pasa" in the chorus. The title is 'Que Pasa'. The title is 'Que Pasa' and the verses are, "What's going on? I'm riding a f***ing dinosaur." It really does feel like that. Here's what it is. You're like a time traveler. That's the robot face. Yeah, yeah. You're the robot face. Oh, maybe, okay, maybe the robot speaks English. I feel like the dinosaurs are part of the planet. "What's going on? Que pasa?" And you're like... There's the dinosaur bones and it makes me feel like he killed one, but maybe he brought the bones too. They like traveled to Earth from some other planet where robots and dinosaurs are still around. AI and the dinosaurs teamed up... But then who's Geno G? I think Geno G is the robot. There's only one character on the cover, so unless the triceratops is in the band. I think the triceratops is just like a horse... and I don't think they're contributing much creatively. It's an amazing sentence. Okay, I think we figured out a lot of things here. - Yeah--
- We got to write the music now. Now we got to actually do the music. Play the electric while I'm tracking the drums so there's no bleed, and then we'll get the resonator on its own. Let's get a click. Oh, yeah! That sounds...is that Plasma? I'm going through the Plasma! Plasmaaa! Three, four... That was it. That was it! - Okay--
- I think I missed a symbol somewhere, but we can-- That's fine. Hit a symbol right now. Nice. You want to lay down bass? I should go with resonator guitar, actually, because that's more... That's more core to the song. Yeah, do that and bass, though, for sure, and I'll just do lyrics. Yeah, we got to get going on that. Awesome. Que pasa? Let's take a quick break. Session Studio is a free app that makes it way easier for you to collaborate on a song and to get properly paid and credited for the songs you work on. ♪ Get paid ♪ You can work on lyrics together in real time. You can upload audio, whether it's demos, bounces, stems, and it also collects all the important information that happens in a session into one place. Everyone involved in a project is properly credited, and you can determine your revenue splits. ♪ Revenue splits ♪ So it replaces all the back and forth that usually has to happen with Google Docs and Dropbox and different messaging services, and the whole notoriously convoluted process of getting paid as a music creator. Session Studio is integrated with all major DAWs and is very secure. Max Martin uses it, and he really doesn't want his stuff to leak. Have you heard of Max Martin? He's a big deal. There are all these identifiers that you need to provide to the right platforms. With Session Studio, you just put in your info one time, and then with each song you work on, you scan a QR code, and all of the info about that song and the collaborators is connected and ready to go. ♪ Mmmm, I'm ready to go! ♪ It's completely free to sign up and use, and you can do that right now with the link in the description. ♪ Sign up! ♪ ♪ Sign up! ♪ Session Studio is also running a competition where you can win $2,000. Just submit a song securely through the Session Studio app. Full info and terms and conditions are linked below. ♪ Session Studio-o-o-o-o ♪ Let me tune too, I'm a little bit out. Sweet, I'm ready. Sorry, I should at least get the first chord right, geez. We could sample it. What do you think, Andrew? Geno would sample it, he's a robot. Sampling? Yeah. Okay, so we're done with resonator guitar. I'm going to move on to bass. I finally get to use the '75. This is a perfect bass for this too. All right, I'm ready. Just give it from the top, I'll do the whole song. Yeah, just bass is sick. Uhh...take it from the top, take it from the top. Nailing songs in one take is just part of the fun of playing, like... rock music to me, even if I might be eating time. But with Andrew writing lyrics, it doesn't matter. Yeah, from the top. Awwwwhhh... Oh, I was so close, but I messed it up. Just punch me in right before then. I didn't do it. I had a wrong note after this whole thing about how I like to challenge myself. You don't win them all. Nice. That was some funky bass. Then it's just lyrics and synth, right? Yeah, I'm kind of hearing like... some other instruments, but given the album art... I think there's only synth. Yeah, I mean, it sounds so good with just drums and bass. Yeah. But we need synth on it. While Andrew's writing, I'm going to see if I can do something on the synth. How does one synth? So what I'm hearing is... ♪ Bwaaaaaaaa! ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let me switch-- If this is the sound you want to use, I can set it to... I don't know what sound I want to use. If you saw that robot coming after you, how would you... He sounds like that, I think. All right, so you want to be able to like... Yeah, you got an octave and then a little bit of wiggle. That's cool. It's really robot-on-a-triceratops. I think once Andrew has the vocals, I think that's it. I think that's the song. I mean, you could keep on like experimenting with that. Just go through... Let me show you the preset button on the synth. I think we nailed it, yeah. Just for like one-off sound effects though, just to collect them. - Oh, okay, yeah yeah yeah.
- Just to collect them. I think what would be cool right now is we dial you into the sound effects category, and you just press this button to cycle through different sound effects. And if you just do like little one-off things, we can find ways that they-- Oh! Fit in the song... I already found one. I don't know what you're hearing. Just imagine there's a cactus nearby, you're in the desert, you're on a triceratops. Oh, yeah! Yeah! Just get a bunch of those wild, bunch of sound effects, we'll put them in to match the lyrics. All right, just start me from the top and I'll just start adding birds. Rob, that sounds awesome, but... go through a bunch more presets and just try a bunch more like one-off sound effects rather than playing it like a solo. Yeah, playing it like-- I think we got room for like so many cool... one-time sound things that would be a little accent. Yeah, that bird was just killing it though. Oh, the bird's one of my favorites. Yeah. Just like grabbing a bird off a tree and squeezing a melody out of it. I need to check through the sounds. "Wet feeling." What is that? Doesn't sound that wet to me. That's a bicycle, but take me to the verse. I want the bike tire because it could be... an animal in the desert or the machinery of the robot. So cool. I just got to do like four more bars, I think, and it's going to be sick. I'll give you some space. Okay, verse one is done. Verse two, I've got a great ending and I got to like build up to it. I think having two rap verses is like setting the lyrical difficulty to max. Just in the amount of pure words. Oh, I'm so close. What are these lines going to be? What else do I want to say about this image? I feel like I've used everything. Okay, Rob, I'm just trying to find like one other line. Okay. Look at this picture with me and just like... tell me some stuff that it makes you feel or that you see in it or like what else is happening in this story? I've just written so much now. Like, I can't get anything else out of this. Something Jurassic Park. Ooh, Jurassic. Jurassic. Bombastic. Yeah, bombastic. - Oh my gosh, we're doing it.
- Jurassic, bombastic... We're trying to rhyme "back" right now. Back... And like, I don't know. Well, he has a sack. Yeah! Plenty of stuff in the sack. What's in the sack? What's in the sack? All right, I'm gonna do it. - Sweet.
- I think I've got it. Awesome. Let's try it. I love this song. I got a dino Like a triple rhino Geno's not a side show Boss, I'm final Carnage everywhere that I go Ten ton tracks, you can press them up to vinyl I'm on triceratop-of-this Raze the Acropolis Welcome to the end times This is the apocalypse Cyborg mask and behind I got a brain like NASA Riding through the ash like, Que pasa! Oh, yeeeaaah! Woo! Yeah! Yeah, I'm that guy Cruising with the cacti Battery pack is in the sack I'm Jurassic Instant classic Bombastic Horns in the front Skull on my back Get a flash of a laser blast Hear the glass shatter when I come past Smash every window in the plaza Leave a mass of cadavers in the trash Rolling up on every last human left like Que pasa! Oh, my God. I need a few more takes, but... that feels good. Now do some ad libs. I love that. They can be just improvised. I'll try and think of something. Press 'em up! This is the apocalypse! *whoosh noise* Whoop! Whoop! *explosion noise* Hey! *glass breaking sound* Yeah, haha. And then, Andrew, I was thinking, in the chorus, "Que pasa" can be crowd vocals. I'm hearing a cool thing after... So if I'm on "Que pasa", "Que pasaaaa!", like that's where the gang vocals would be, a little offset. Let's get the whole crew in there, and then you give us direction on where you want us to yell "que pasa". Okay. And we got that, and the song's done. One, two, three... Que pasaaaaa! Yeah, sweet. Hey, this is Larry Gates, AKA Curb Service. I'm a musician, producer, video game developer, voice director from Urbana, Illinois. And I'm about to listen to Andrew and Rob's version of 'Que Pasa', which is a song that I did with Geno G with artwork by Thomas Frye. And we're going to get into it. I'm hearing their version for the first time. Let's go, I'm so excited. ♪ I got a dino ♪ ♪ Like a triple rhino ♪ ♪ Geno's not a side show ♪ ♪ Boss, I'm final ♪ ♪ Boss ♪ ♪ Carnage ♪ ♪ Everywhere that I go ♪ ♪ Ten ton tracks ♪ ♪ You can press 'em up to vinyl ♪ ♪ Press 'em up! ♪
♪ I'm on Triceratop of this ♪ ♪ Raze the Acropolis ♪ ♪ Welcome to the end times ♪ ♪ This is the apocalypse ♪ ♪ Cyborg mask ♪ ♪ And behind I got a brain like NASA ♪ ♪ Riding through the ash like ♪ ♪ Que pasa! ♪ ♪ Que pasaaaaa! ♪ Yes! ♪ Que pasa! ♪ ♪ Que pasaaaaa! ♪ Ten out of ten right here. ♪ Yeah, I'm that guy ♪ ♪ Cruising with the cacti ♪ ♪ Battery pack is in the sack ♪ ♪ I'm Jurassic ♪ ♪ Instant classic ♪ ♪ Bombastic ♪ ♪ Horns in the front ♪ ♪ Skull on my back ♪ ♪ Get a flash of a laser blast ♪ ♪ Hear the glass shatter when I come past ♪ ♪ Smash every window in the plaza ♪ ♪ Leave a mass of cadavers in the trash ♪ ♪ Rolling up on every last human left like ♪ ♪ Que pasa! ♪ ♪ Que pasaaaa! ♪ ♪ Que pasa! ♪ ♪ Que pasaaaa! ♪ Oh, my God. Oh my god! That was so fun. Thanks for letting me be a part of it, y'all. This is killer. Please put that out right away. I think we nailed it. I think that is what this album-- That sounds perfect for the album, or... Yeah, that's what we're going with. We got a 10 out of 10. And now we're going to listen to the original artist's... original song and see how close we got. And see if we nailed it or not. The horn! Oh, I'm turning it up. Okay. All right. Kind of a similar vibe, but oh, they did a much better job with making-- ♪ [Rap lyrics] ♪ The slide! Yeah! Dude! ♪ [Rap lyrics] ♪ This rules. ♪ [Rap lyrics] ♪ Yeah, this is so unique. Yeah. What? ♪ [Rap lyrics] ♪ Okay, that's what I felt. I felt like the song must have existed. Yeah. And then it's so unique, and this is how they visually represented it. ♪ [Rap lyrics] ♪ Right? I mean, this really is like... ♪ [Rap lyrics] ♪ the artist did an amazing job. Yeah. Yeah. ♪ [Rap lyrics] ♪ And they paused before the chorus comes back in. Whoa! It's too bad we didn't have horns like this. Yeah. Wow! That's a great track. I'm just curious now... I want to see like how big is their discography...? You got a couple albums. Oh, wait. It looks like there's just this guy holding the guitar. Maybe it's not a band, it's a person. Yeah and then the rapper is Geno G. There he is. Dude, like I think we nailed it. Yeah, I mean... we went heavier. Yeah, yeah. I mean, we didn't do it exactly, but like... the general gist, I think... Yeah. And this song is awesome. We didn't beat them on the song. Yeah. But I do really like our song. We spent two hours on ours. But that was...that was fun. And I love our song. I would say that's a success. I think we did it. ♪ Challenge complete ♪ Thanks for watching Sonic Boom. Yeah! Links for everything are in the description. Their song, our song. Subscribe if you would like to see us do this again. I hope this isn't the last time we do it just for me personally. That was so fun. Yeah. Go make some music. - We appreciate you.
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