LOGIC SESSION BREAKDOWN: "With The Love In My Heart"

hello everybody how's it going welcome my name is Jacob this is my room in London it's so lovely to see you we are here today to discuss analyze thrill over explore dive into the depths of this song called with the love of my heart which is really exciting for me and so I think we should pretty much just get straight into it but before I do I just want to say how how utterly blown away I've been from all of your lovely kind of comments and and and feedback from this song because this song is a crazy sort of tintinnabulation adventure and it's it's cool to see you guys kind of responding to those feelings it's wonderful and all of the little Instagram clips it's just making my heart sing it's lovely anyhow so this song is essentially explint to five different sections there's the a section which is kinda like the orchestra glow that's what I call it the second section is is like the funky verse sections this one verse and this is second verse as well and then the c section the third section is like it's kind of like a dancefloor vibe fourth section is beast smash funk and the fifth section is keep emotion and all of this stuff kind of happens in a variety of owns I guess the structure the official structure is a b a b a c da e something of shower and I was thinking like man I've got to written another one of those a Bab a CD a E songs like again I keep falling into that same trap anyway one day I'll change so let's let's jump straight in let me see this is gonna work okay so I can get rid of my stream window this is logic and I'm sure by this point you're fairly Quinton with my kind of logic setup so this is like a beast of a session if I keep scrolling you'll see how many tracks I have present this is like what my brains look like over the last year I've obviously there there 39 other sessions just like this because there were 40 songs on Jessie which is this crazy album this one clocks up to three five eight but what I've realized actually in preparing for this stream is that there are two other logic sessions that have contributed to this one which combined contained 360 tracks as well so they'll she like 720 tracks in this session which is just ridiculous it's just crazy but luckily my computer has 128 gigs of ram thank you - Ben Bloomberg so that's super cool and I can essentially play the session let me see this is gonna work if I just play the session see system overload so I'm talking about and again so this has become the story of my life music okay let me see if I can play you a few of the tracks so let's talk about the sort of like majesty of this particular session before I jump into the other session so this is like where everything comes together this is all of the sessions combined all good vibes there's a whole different set of session for Orchestra which are bring up in just one second and there's another session for the hip groove which is like the B smash funk it's called the hip groove not because I think it's necessarily hip just because that was the running name of the logic session so so as we go through I'll kind of explain what's going on take some things apart and and I'll answer some questions so he goes so this zone here our faces in the show it looks like the faces in the show I think it's okay why let me check out okay so let me let me go left to right and explain what's up yeah tells my mum by the way she's fantastic okay so here we have the orchestral globe so we've got voices and also each one of these tracks as an individual voice [Music] so you kind of like wall of sound path it's very exciting there are multiple buses or vocal tracks this these are this is a bus here one note Vox is one of the buses in fact I think there are let me just see this but I think there's like if there's actually 110 tracks just for just for voices so everything above this this bus here is a vocal track and these kind of yellow circle vibes those are buses which means that they have their folders in which other trucks can sit and so you can put plugins on folders and so these are all the plugins I have on this particular folder there's a compressor which looks like this there's a space design which looks like this there's an imager which looks like this and then there's neutron which looks like that and these are all different plugins they do different things let me just hide all this windows for you for one second so yeah so you guys should put plugins on individual trucks and on folders which is kind of crazy let's just go down so I can show you all the stuff that's going on here gone very old-fashioned this is the orchestra as I open up the session you'll see that much of these many of these checks have different yellow lines and yellow lines our volume so when you sort of zoom out and see what's up that's like a ton of volume information because obviously you want to play these tracks musically that's that's what logic becomes a bit like I said a musical instrument when when things can be dynamic and you can you can breathe into them so yellow lines equal volume in case you didn't know and so this is the orchestra I exported the ocean in one track because I couldn't fit 300 tracks on this section because there was a maximum number of 256 all the tracks and logic I continuously battle against logic for this but such is the way of things and so one nice thing to mention here is that I have perked I have put this thing oh no not that one this one is that right yeah so this green line here is not a volume line in fact it's a it's a pitch shift and oh it's send me a frozen the track yeah so a pitch shift it's going up one fifth actually this should be up a fifth and two cents video it's going up a fifth and I'm feeding it in and out so 100 here is completely fit and then zero is there's no picture so it's just asked the sense of a sort of sky sky Edition okay so I'll show the auction just one second just other things to bear in mind for the beginning of this oh dear computer see this is the thing about having this number of tracks is you get an unhappy computer tinkle is always the one doesn't like tinkle which is a whole number of things they look tubular bells in blocking spheres and all sorts of think that's actually all MIDI and I did that all in advance but there's also some real stuff later miscellaneous scrot this is a choir kampachi s8 who actually provides some vocals on the first track of this album and I put them in here because it's in the same key and here we have a organs this is the tempo one to 123 and this organ here is doing fives two three four five this one's doing seven contradiction for us except hundreds of thousands of good times so combined it they just provide this sort of like nonsense a little bit so I'm talking about and then let's just go down and see what else we've got there's obviously plenty to look at anything else down here oh you know some piano so glory a devout Vienna notes yeah an ocean there we go ocean such there breathes and Simpson book so that's why I use oceans oceans are good to be here to add air you know what I'm saying let's see if there's a bit of Celeste over here I'm just going to finish going through my layers I'm not going to go at this pace the whole thing all those will be here forever but this is the drums [Music] which is cool and yeah it's in seven beats and of are it's not in there it's like a trick because you think it's in one [Music] just kind of funny and I asked that sense of I don't know it kind of like it's like like like you're constantly falling backwards but you're also being driven forwards kind of thing anyway so the beginning is this of tumultuous waves and waves of stuff this base comes in at one point it goes like [Music] and if you have like a sub sub woofer in your bedroom or on your cell phone then you will hear that that is like rain because rain goes with oceans quite nicely and this is the sort of stops in collapse I want to tell you story about this so last year I did a show in Manchester a venue called the band on the wall and super fun it was you know one of the best shows of the tour UK tour December December 2017 I think yeah and and after the show was over I got the whole room to essentially well half the room and got their phones out and filmed and the other half the room did the stomping and clapping rhythm that I taught them which is this thing and if you go to Twitter and type in hashtag JC stomp clap you'll see all the videos that were posted there were 24 videos and I downloaded them all and put them into logic and then I compress them put a bunch of effects on them and make it sound like really fat and that is a course with a pH not an F and the cool thing about those sounds is that it sounds like this it's like big old like we will rock through your kind of collapse and then permeate the entire album actually but this song especially the verse here they really kind of like define that that groove and it's just cool because it was a room of these awesome people in Manchester both of them come back to Manchester in February so see you there if you live in Manchester okay voyaging into the verse let's just have a quick with this percussion [Music] drums Tom's are recorded you see each individual region is kind of sliced up because I'm very pedantic about my timing and so you know in order for the groove to feel like it sits in the pocket often I go and tidy up things after I've recorded them and also sometimes I record things in a rush so I need to go and tidy them up that's more for Tom and then down here we've got this snare driver and that's all recorded over you see this it's like over there there's just the that was the kick plate okay and then there's this thing yeah [Music] all these kind of fills and these are fun because they actually sped up by about I think they're like 120% speed so there's like this there's this sound it's a difference in sound it's like instead of it's like so if you go instead of cool so I liked it so I can't quite play that fast so lucky I can do that in logic and so that is a lot of stuff my family did some collapse which is cool and they'll see the JC stomp claps or present but two clicks and crackle crackle is nice because it adds the sense of like fireside you know I'm saying fireside and there's this thing called sidechain compression which if you don't know what it is you should know what it is it's really interesting basically you have one sound and then you have another sound and you can press this sound through the dynamic range of this sound so if you have to compress through then it would go up and that's all I'll pop music goes like so actually the crackle is sidechain to these kicks just which is kind of fun and then there's some like Tim P like you wrong with Tim please it's like such a I also forgot to say about with the voices I forgot to mention so these guys here he's kind of they flew into each other pretty to a bed of sound and then over the top of them I obviously sing that the lead vocal part which is up here no wings to fly no song to sing no hand hold and alongside me manage this and female voices and that's my two sisters it's nice because it's this kind of like whole great big hug you know whatever whatever my family record things for me which is sometimes they're all over the album in different different shapes and sizes but it makes me very happy because my family and also I can't sing like that so it's a nice thing together have them involved anyway let's uh let's keep it moving because I know you've got places to be and people to people to see [Music] so there's a ton of voices as I discussed before nice so just a little quirks to explain if you're interested these guys here among laughing yeah this red red fade oh it means like fit slow down here you know rather than fade up and you have two options with those and you can fade out well slow down so I always need somebody if I want that snatch away feeling which I did hear and so there's just there's tons and tons of tons of voices because this like multiple gang layer thing is the thing I'm a real fan of them for this song I wanted to get my boots on go there you know I'm saying and I also did a bunch of GATT like a gang vocal stuff I wanted to show you where's that yeah yeah so this is like a bunch of me mates and my mates in Los Angeles those one day where we like came together and I said keep seeing all this really weird stuff and they said all right okay so then so then we did it it's just a bunch of yeah like we believe away going things like that and later on it gets it gets into this so there's all sorts of things and they sing the melody and also just kind of like jammed I'm saying it's jammed but ho-ho is actually Steve Vai the guitarist aesthetic actually I know that for that's pretty cool okay anyway let's just uh let's return to slightly on you in the song and I want to show you some of the orchestra as well because their workshop see permeates this for example [Music] cool and so you might be wondering well why only two tracks well the answer to that is of course that there's a different session where the officer lives and I'm going to show you this session it's this one I think so don't close so if we can run both sessions at the same time doing well this is loading I didn't also just want to show you the the Sibelius score so surveillance is of musical notation app and I spend lots of summer this year and this is what it looks like this is what the score looks like when you kind of write it up in paper and so just an example that's what you just heard sounds stupendous empowering I always find Sibelius schools were empowering [Music] [Applause] [Music] it is to fight the 5s and the 7s down here with the organs all of that was was in the end it was done with Orchestra which is cool all these sustained notes see how logic is getting on show me who it is so this session is a different logic session and this has 268 tracks in it this is the orchestra and this ended up being about 4 tracks of the other session bonkers a but let me just let me just show you some stuff so [Music] so this of course is is jules buckley the medical officer I didn't mention that but I think you already knew that the metaphor guest is one of my favorite officers in the whole world they're just amazing as you can hear for yourself and Jules was just so integral to getting this off the page and into real life so here for example we have the strings and the way we record the strings was we have room microphones which are up here so here's some deckers and two other options taking parts in the room and then there's a microphone on every single player and these are panned in different places and they don't that panel corresponds to where they are seated in the room so obviously for one for one pass or one take for one section you have a ton of tracks because the orchestra is just a ton of use issues I think is about 60 60 musicians if it's a tittie track and I'll stay here with this section by section but you can see here for example that's a string this is a different string dark this is the string line pretty cool much the brass and the way in which I composed this music was I made my original logic session and I've recorded all of that all of these notes using MIDI and using contact sounds often often times because contact sounds very realistic what they're quite realistic so for example you'd have how would you actually in this session yeah demo so that's like all of that that's all of the instruments but I recorded them here on my own in this room and then we obviously went and recorded it and it sounds like this which is a lot better than when I played it on the keyboard twice much on the winds all sorts of stuff so so tons of wondrous things to play with all of the percussion as well that we did was really fun yeah okay so yeah I just wanted to show you the sort of the nature of that and then later on or do how are we going around later on when it gets so they're kind of like oh yeah then this stuff happens all these stabs just cool [Music] I went him to cut those up with scissors and made them really short and stabby and put some weight affects them to make them sound like they're not real but in fact they are real anyway I'm gonna I'm gonna not save this session and this is going to take about one minute twenty seconds to reload so while this is reloading I'm gonna take some questions let me see if I can go on to the right mode oh cool so so friends of mine give me some give me some questions don't be too far so we're going to read them all but let's see okay oh yeah I can see that you guys are saying that I'm streaming in mono and it's true I am extremely in mono it's because this microphone here is the only microphone that I have available this is my vocal mic and almost all these tracks were recorded sort of sitting in this actual chair the Blue Chair of joy and and this is micronized on all the workbook was in but but unfortunately a PCI card in my system has failed and so as Ben Bloomberg has helpfully informed me this is the only way to get through working so that's why today you are stereo list your mono maybe that's all good right okay so let's see how do you start a tune like this it's a really good question I can show you a little plan here I just I just took this up by mistake while I was waiting for you guys to arrive this is like a little bit of a plan for the song and there are a few different grooves I had a katana grooves that I've been working across the album's oh that's logic saying it's done it ready yeah I had a ton of grooves and I wanted to find the right ones that went in the right orders to get this kind of like whirlwind piece to work is essentially as you may have kind of gleaned this song a bunch of themes from the album kind of all put together and there'll be lots of different parts that you'll hear throughout the elements very exciting as you see everyone down there just a few good sections is all you need just absolutely true and so this is like this is Jacob language for example some of these I've used some times I haven't used like urges like we didn't use that idea but stomp stomp clap I did use typically a cascade I used that Prince cause 1999 why not producer the piece by Stravinsky Lianne La Havas is a friend of mine and all sorts of all sorts of other things so there's there's a ton of ideas I do a lot of this all on planes so I'll sit on a plane and I think well how can I make a collage that makes some kind of sense and there's sort of like was a groove that was actually originally part of a different song I didn't end up using that song because didn't feel right but the groove itself I really liked and I wanted to use it for something and yeah that groove is actually inspired let me see if I can find it oh it's my iPhone 6's device let me see if I can find there somewhere it might take a while for me to find it there's a voice memo and I do so many voice memos it's been it's been buried right underneath all of this stuff I'm not sure I can find it but anyway I was at a stuffed poppy gig and they and they went into this groove in F sharp but it was like and I was just like whoa that's super cool and I went home and and sort of recreated it from memory oh here it is super cool super and so I was sitting in with him with that shows at the House of Blues of Boston and I just happened here and I was just like that's the missing green I've been waiting for because I'd had the first planned at the beginning planned and had the ending planned so then I went home and made that groove which is called the hip groove which I'll get to later and and so that's kind of how it all came together but there's just tons of sort of concentration you have to put into making sure that all the agreements flow and all the transitions are right and things like that I've regained my logic session so I'm just gonna move on and answer some of your questions again later on but let me see so this is gonna play that's actually me but I recorded that at at a slower speed and then sped up so it sounds like you guys heard that but one of my favorite bits of the whole song some guitar storm yeah can't do that storm and so all that electric guitar was was this guitar there and the bass was that bass as well and let me see anything else to speak off this is my car like hilarious trap without traffic pressure this is real trap this is a real trap music so it all sort of like bass and if you kick there's three different kicks here and they will compress the other and this bus was called beast of a kick and the bus has our base and chefs and limiter and compressor oh shoot sorry I'm really sorry my goodness logic is logic is written herd users been looking at my face this whole time okay so just to make sure it is actually returned okay nice my bad kick drums trap boot Oh actually this is something else [Music] and this here there's this cool kind of tail reverb like a reverse reverb to show you is this thing I did like mangled vocals and these are mangled through a plug-in called a little altar boy which changes a formant irrespective of pitch and formant is you it's like that thing in the pH is this thing and no wings fat so this has a higher format than pitch and it's also treating the group as a whole so it kind of mangles it as one sound these guys no priest no Instagram no fat birds I see 16 tracks of the same thing underneath you can't hear because I'm in mono but those actually panned hard which means there to the left and hard to the right so uh spread Zack said this section is to feel like it's gradually opening so that's what I've been doing is gradually opening the stereo image just so you know let me see if there's anything else to to let you know about I mean there's all this stuff obviously but we have got a ton of time each one of these ingredients has its own volume and so it's very important that they're all automated things sort of like rising and falling subtle changes there's cross phase all this this kind of stuff is kind of like admin work of making albums you know anyway so base here it's real bass and MIDI bass at the same time and though this is more drums tambourine blips and blobs beatboxing and then anyway we kind of like launch into this great big next section this is thing called dream climb yeah I made this in a plugin called a brick Tweaker that a viewer has no brakes we go thanks for sticking around with us by the way I know this is a bit tenuous but it's like a crazy crazy throbbing sub to gain tension blast the indeed it is and that kind of like little written it's like a great big reshuffle that means the section has to change all sorts of other things anyway and then we go into this other group which happens to be at three-fifths of the tempo of the root of the original song so that the song is at 123 BPM as you can see up here and the yeah and this section I cover what it is you guys you guys will know what tempo this is I can do on the calculator except that no my computer's just Finny wheel no worries anyway so so this next section if you actually tap your foot through the whole thing you'll come out the other side and the tempo is equivalent and I didn't actually change the metronome but let me say 123 over five times three seventy three point eight that's what I thought same three point eight but the metronome actually just keeps going chaos absolute chaos but anyway it's it's cool because there's a kind of strange relationship with this between the two tempos that means that it's possible to emotionally gauge your way from one to the other it's not a random tempos very very well considered but with a lot more value Oh [Music] kind of like funky vocals good fun and some kicks and kicks the amount of time I spend in this room just like plotting around getting so amped up at this groove as many hours I was very excited about it so this is the bass here [Music] and you cannot you can hit you can see the baselines all written down here in it in MIDI this is piano roll and I played it on this keyboard down here and so that's that's fine and then yeah this groove the hip groove there's a whole bunch of different things let me just let me bring up this hip rear session but this is gonna load fast my spinning room a bit essentially there's a few different ingredients going on here it has this kind of little thing to it you know how some girls like don't check with this groove is like anyway there's a bunch of like blues like these guys and in sloppy sloppy mechanism this I think is in it as well bunch of sludge put a box of slugs to my right tambourine so I can show you this real like that okay so sleighbells spoons so spoons is this box of spoons there and to use it as an alternative hi-hat because it's such a good vibe to have like no things jangling and stuff so I tend to do that this is a sex bus down here which is just like noises breathing keep momentum going let me see there's kicks like I said collapsible snare I keep that on a pocket every now to bring it out crackle and it's crackle with a lot of high-end showing you see how I've cut the low end out of that very nice Chris those claps kinda like sounds like when you're on a train and you'll begin to jangle on the rails like it's bit like that tops rule so that's the way we'll fit together drum courtesy so so that is that's the hip proof I'm not gonna save my changes I'm gonna return to this session it should take about one minute twenty seconds to reload sorry not to another question before we head to the end of the session give it to me okay some questions I'm asked to wait like 20 seconds because I know there's a little bit delay over here let me see okay while I wait for the questions to come in I just saw the latest the very latest cut of the video for this song and I couldn't believe my eyes it's so insane I think you can really like it it's so it's just it's like I think it's the most crazy thing I've ever seen but it helped me really helps tell the story because this song is a story it's not just a crazy jumble of sections it's it's a real story sort of lyrically as well cuz it's all about forgetting this there's a world of adventure which which will unfold over the next few months or so with with Jesse and so it's about finding that combat sense of that sense of battle and courage and joy and and searching and openness and youth and kind of dawn of the whole thing because yeah this this is quite at the beginning of the first term which is all about kind of like winter becomes the spring so it's all about like new growth and so the video kind of shows parts of that as well it's really exciting I'm really excited to see it and so that's cool okay let me see there's some questions come in I'm just trying to find the best one to choose let me see oh yeah here's one it's one what what what advice would you give to someone who wants to make music in their rooms like you did on your first album well first of all I say that you should never ever feel any reason to be anybody other than yourself in your creative space and I think that it's something you should be celebrating and discovering and uncovering so for me every time I make something it's like I'm uncovering things about myself or about the process there's a sort of ancient philosophy in Japanese art funnily enough funny you should ask that the it kind of revolves around the idea of creating something being a in process rather than a yang process soyeon is about inwards and yang is about outwards in a very very kind of crude sense yin is is the shadows and yang is the light and so in in ancient times people used to write things on rock for example using sculpture so they car things out of rock and that would create shadows on the rock and the shadows would define the form and so their philosophy is that the meaning is what is behind the thing and your job as a creator is to remove sort of parts of the exterior to reveal what's within which is a really nice idea and so that's I think one of the reasons why in Western books for example in literature we often write in black ink on white paper but in the Western world we've we've begun to feel like the black is on is on the foreground of the white and the white is just a background but actually the way the Japanese this particular to the vein of Japanese philosophy would operate and look at that would be that the white is actually the form and the black is just what's behind it which is why it's black which is a lack of light and white is light and anyway that's quite tenuous way of of sort of saying that I think that rather than thinking that you've got a great big mound of things to build from scratch you already know so much about music probably and about yourself and about humanity even if you don't know much about music you you know instinctively about music a lot you know for example you know what you like and you know what you don't like without even trying so for me I think as a creative person once you've sort of established that it's possible the harem earth to be yourself and that that's a positive thing and it wouldn't be necessarily easy all the time but it's exciting to uncover things it's just matter uncovering it's like you you generate things you create things you create things you try to quit things without thinking too much and then once you start thinking it's a matter of thinking what can I lose to reveal what I'm trying to say here you know you you lay all of the materials out and then it's a matter of cycling through and thinking okay this is what has meaning this is what has meaning and now how can these join together how can this be married or if this is a melody that's in my head right now how can another melody support it harmonically or how can a group support it rhythmically and so all these different musical ingredients kind of joined together and for me it's just a matter of thinking well how can i yeah how can i uncover what's going on and so i did a ton of experimenting i think the best way to learn is just by just by doing it it's just by experimenting and so yeah my sense of practice has revolved around this group screen for not this exact monitor screen which is quite new but this room and this space and the idea of creating as much as I possibly can by throwing things onto onto pages and onto papers and virtual pages and and then beginning to uncover and engage meaning from that so I think that really the best thing to do is to do as much as you can creatively without judging it for as long as you can without judging it as children do you know it's not about knowing whether it's right or not it's about making a judgement that it's good or bad that's for me about unhelpful so it's good to think well this is a thing and how can I work with it and and for me that's quite freeing and so when it's when it's a matter of putting together say an album it's just a matter of first of all gathering all of your raw materials not judging them and they're beginning to work with them rather than sitting down and thinking well what can I do what can I exclude what parts of myself do I like Hall plasmas are doing not like it's like this is myself now let's work with it and I think for me that's how creating feels that's why I encourage you to think it's it's in those terms that I would encourage you to think but there's no right way for anybody that's just how I have tended to attach myself to that process and so I love it because I learned so much about myself through creating music because it's like it all comes down to my decisions and observing with the decisions I make helps me learn about myself and that's really cool it's a long answer to a short question logic has returned I'm going to be right back with the questions at the end of the thing but just to show you where the hip groove has ended up it sounds like this [Music] very nice and then there's this just like one of those like manly bonus of my life just find the screw on the drunk just over there in the middle that I put for my family we'll try to get to sleep let it go to sleep so that goes on the loop which is really cool and then this is kind of brass hit and as I sounded out in massive don't even go to know about massive and massive is this it generates sound and there's a sack with pitcher Ella and pitcher Ella is oh so you've got the Sibelius sounds and this one never does that kind of thing so that's cool and I plead these hits in pitcher Ella and then I joined them with the real brass let me see what I can find the pretty cool all joys of stuff going on there that essentially is that section it just gets kind of crazier and crazier what's this here others some extra bass trillion it's a bass sound choice killer this guy by seducer yeah and then yeah we drums everybody talked about that there's one sound which I think it's quite important to this entire song and that is the heartbeat sample that I found now which is where did I leave that and hisses so lots of lots of tracks here I think it's around the middle I've had to sort of four to find ways of memorizing these sessions visually oh here it is yeah bang in the middle okay so heartbeat sounds like this you somebody understand my soul and yeah that lyric will still work with heart in it someone someone to make my heart beat alright so this is the hobby I Schachter's of massive kick drum in this song and I boosted the game a lot because it's ruled out and then in Neutron there's some EQ on here as well to shape it EQ is what shapes are sound like spectrally it's long story okay anyway so the Beastmaster font section has come to an end and it's like [Music] back to the OG orchestral glow section and when I first play this to my mom she were actually quite recently placed moment she said these two sections don't go together it's some way to gain like gain air and and push into the next section so I added this Gong these two gongs like that which kind of acts as this bridge as they can preach over the shoe section so that your energy subconsciously is carried throughout this tumbling thing you know into back into back as the orchestra and I'll see the the folk line comes back parts of the introduction Orchestra comes back voices with some reverb great big glorious cord it's like well we're nearly at the end because you think it's the end right I bet every one of you thought it was the end when the gong happened am i right so this is the gong has a ton of reverb on it because actually it's in a room I'm guessing it you know it's not okay I take that back I wasn't using ought to vote for that track it's just a gun that I slowed down a lot and then here's a bunch of tracks that I also slowed down this is thunderstorm extended crowd of Asian I don't know how these sounds it ended up on my computer but I ended up with like a film school library of sounds and so the way that I did this is I I took the sound like a gong and I cut it in half and then I slowed down the second half and I took that half of that and so then taken off of that I took off that second off of that and what you get is this yeah is this kind of like ever-lengthening kind of thing so you start with the real sound and gradually you lose and I'm also doing this slowdown thing so it's like this kind of metallic it's like almost like a metallic sound and that comes from this snare drum [Music] but yeah it's just like every possible facet of this audio file has been slowed down so it sounds like this weird kind of like a distress mixture of metal glump you know kind of like a ship yar that's being sunk under water or something and I'm yeah this is just like thunderstorm and proud both mono and ya little bird comes in actually here and then the bird is the bird sort of is collapsed I'm sorry to say that but yeah it is I said then everything kind of goes asleep and it's like whoa was that all a dream and then and then then comes keep in motion which is a very simple very simple section and it's this constant D that goes throughout stay just stay on spool cuz it's the lead vocal which has actually done it in one take which is quite nice the whole thing was one take and so I've changed that I thought of those track different responses and just to it just to explain that so it was like it was like keifa motioned me am i roki my margin and then it was like he'd be emotion but the door has two little black microphone socket which a room mics and then the drums overheads keep in motion so it was me seeing kiva motion but on different microphones which is why it sounds like different kind of different rupes of people or like their different distances away and so that was a that was fun sorry put this back yeah and and so yeah that's what we got here we got we got overheads and drum oh sorry there's actually close mics here so the drums are here drum overheads do [Music] Harvick's it's just just a support and then there's also special there's all sorts of scold or going on underneath the surface here you'll see a dolphin at one point this dolphin comes in let me see if I can find it dolphins it's really really quiet this is here it's just here oh my bad yeah dolphins song believe me haunting my dolphin some lucky there was something like a theatre just search for dolphins and out up came the thing and then this is like a really I bet you can't hear that because your policy on your phone but there's like an unbelievably low sign sign up I just show you my my speaker there see how it's rattling yeah that is how about that notice I'm getting good at this and then there's rain just because you need to ease the palate after all this it's just like let's sweeten something you know awful this changing you something constant and then there's a well this piano down here [Music] that's nice climbing up this new co-op I make a meal it in this fits thing and then down in fifth so it's just kind of like weakening and then like brightening and then darkening awakening then sleepin II and essentially that is that's kind of it there's there's all sorts of all sorts of little ingredients towards the end but basically speaking that is the session so yeah and talk about 720 tracks it's just quick just crazy and I'm thinking about potentially sort of at one point printing out these in great big frames and signing them so that maybe you guys can one day have one that'd be really nice so I'll keep you posted about that because it's quite a big object and it'd be quite fun to sort of have it not on this screen well my monitor screen is let me see if I can show you so it's a bit rickety trying to show you this camera but this is my monitor screen and so I have to scroll down to see all the tracks so I've just got very used to kind of scrolling up and down all the time but such is such a thing story in my life that's all going to say anyway let me see I'm back okay that's good so I think it's time for some questions I know I've already been here for 50 minutes which is quite quite nice but I'm going to just answer a few questions real fast and then I'm going to leave you to your days so let me see if I can check them out okay bread Evan says bread thank you for bread what what's bread I don't understand what you mean okay let me see Owen needs more bread yeah I think this is a joke I don't understand I'm sorry you guys okay I'm just gonna take a couple of questions I can take three questions in total let me see how funky do you like it Jacob URIs asking how funky do I like that Jacob funky let me see what was different about working with an orchestra well it's different because usually I play the intruments myself but this time I I was composing for a large group of people to play and it's a different process because because that's 60 human beings you'll bring into a room and you want to give them something to to do that they can do and I wanted to sort of to harness the power of of the metropole orkest which is so immense and I've been a real fan of their music for such a long time and I've become friendly the last one he's doing doing some gigs with him and I wanted to embrace them as a force and chose a nice have sat down and we kind of plan what this project was going to be and I said oh well this there's a ton of different musical styles and genres that I'm going to be straddling across the four albums but the first one is it's just orchestral stuff and he was kind of that's great we should go to you know just play you know play for the charts and that should be fine back to the process was was crazy you know crazy complicated because everyone had to wear ears for most of these songs because some of them really chop and change and so have clicks going except for there's one really nice long ballad where it's quite simple so they just they played that one as it was but yeah I also I couldn't done this without Ben Bloomberg my dear friend who was there helping to engineer the session so he kind of put the microphones up in the rooms so to speak and and make sure everything was recording well and so that was a really amazing process and I guess after the fact we came but we came back and Ben when I've been running both these been around me running all of these arm sessions over Dropbox kudos to Dropbox which is insane but Ben has been open up the sessions spatialized the orchestra meet it was just I'm really good cleanup all the creeps and squeaks and then he's been a zooming our different tracks and make them sound real good like vocal tracks and stuff like that and then I'm just going to open the sessions and it's all been where I've left it that's really amazing so I really thank Dropbox immensely for that but it's just like rather than one person making the music it's like 70 people making the music but it's the same it's the same old imagination of mine I guess because I you know all of these notes are where I plan for them to be but what you can't plan for is the energy that the orchestra brings which is so immense and I really felt that at the BBC problems which is such a crazy concert because the Osho and myself were live on stage playing lots of this music from the first album so that was crazy okay next question let me see where do you plan to go on tour is it there's a quick question all of the toilets from my website that's for February March and you can come see me that's kind of like coming across Europe in part and then some in the States and then over the course of the coming year I'll be playing in even more places around the world we'll be back in back in South America and back in Australia and and back in Italy all these different parts of the world and plus many more Asia for example so just stay tuned already I haven't yet finished the album's in fact my job for the next three hours is to complete nicely finished the first album which is there's some songs aren't yet finished so about three hours until I have to submit them up the Masters like proper masters to the mastering engineer which is which is pretty cool it's more question how are you sonically fitting these sounds and frequencies together and what that means to kinda like I guess the high and the low of all these different sounds how do those not sound muddy when when joined together and so really it's a real challenge but I have to say that Ben has been huge for that Ben's taught me a lot about the way in which logic works and sound works and one thing you can do with sound in this amazing plugin Corder called ozone is you can you can place it in this pinnace in a spectral sense and let me just really quickly show you what that means because it's been a huge thing for me so say I want to add yeah this looks like there's Orion ozone instance within this track so this is ozone and there's a thing called imager yeah which has four different frequency bands and so if I play something through this track he said I need somebody understands my soul and activity so that's that's the stereo image you're saying that's how much of the of the left and right speaker you're hearing and these lines here as far as I understand it that is like the edge of the frame and you can actually go even further here by limiting the amount of sounds in the middle of them stereo so if you take out some stuff in the middle it will make it feel even wider and so if I just loop that for one second I need some of the unbroken mono see this will make no no sonic difference to you whatsoever but yeah it's the very top of the track it's it's this frequency band up here so like 10 K up and I can put that really wide really narrow wide already now but this one so there's a wonderful frequency band so that's completely mono just how you're here but something with the orchestra that's really cool sometimes to do is to have different elements of the orcs would be spatialized slightly different from each other so you have for example the strings you have the sound here and then the high end it goes and the middle England and then the woodwind is the opposite the high end goes in the middling goes so write the same aware of the object and so when you're listening 20 up spread things out like that a sense of distance can be achieved because obviously if you play 720 tracks it like in mono on top of one another you will die which have you ready sad cuz I like you so it's important to space things out and I always thought that like left and right was a limit but actually there's even more distance you can cover and that's before you even get into like bone URLs and all sorts of other things like surround sound so that's all good one more question and I'm gonna go and finish this album right I really to go and finish that have some food as well let me see one more question okay what okay one more one more question twenty-one against 22 everyone's been asking if we're gonna do this I'm gonna see if I can pull this off the twenty one gets to add video I did on the Northern Line train at one time was like a one take wonder but if I put them like camera down here should be able to see this let me see if I can pull this off you ready I think that was it ladies and gentlemen that concludes our logic session and it's been so nice to have you here it's great to see you once again I'm really really excited for you to see the video for this song it should be out in about a week's time so stay tuned just all those finishing touches right now it's it's nuts absolutely bonkers just insane absolute you are so it looks really good thanks for thanks for diving into my imagination with me this has been the story of my life for the entire of this year and so it's nice to kind of unpack the kind of box of stars that you see here anyway I hope you're having a lovely day where you are in the world whatever time it is in the world it's now approaching 8:00 p.m. here in London I will see you all on tour next year and there's just one other thing I wanted to mention which is that patreon.com is a website where traditionally further in my room videos people were able to upload an upload I like tipped me essentially four things that I do like this and songs and videos and livestreams all sorts of things for this next album I've kind of completely simplified patreon.com and it's now just a place where you can join like my family club kind of thing and if you pledge $5 a month then every month I will do a livestream a bit like this but I'll be playing some songs on piano and guitar and answering some questions it's like a little family vibe and it will be called have you there and obviously every every cent every penny of that money goes directly into Jesse and making Jesse more spectacular and it works in a kind of monthly way so if you want to tip me like five bucks a month feel free if you do if you don't want to tell me that's absolutely fine I promise you but if you do want to tip me $5 or more then that is just so lovely and I will I will see you there on those monthly live streams but until then and until the album comes out which is on December by the way December 7th there's Jesse volume one of four there are four albums coming out in a few in the space of a few months time it's been crazy but December 7th is Jesse vol 1 stay tuned for that the video comes out about this time next week I should hope and then two more songs from Jesse volume one drop in a couple of weeks time so stay tuned for that yeah I think that's pretty much it thanks thanks again for joining me on this lovely day hmm actually snow off the pumpkin from the Jesse launch which is still a good friend of mine so we're going to go and have some soccer together but catch you later be good and be yourself and see you very soon

Channel: Jacob Collier

Views: 183,280

Rating: 4.9613528 out of 5

Keywords: djesse, jacob collier, jacob, collier, with the love in my heart, DJESSE, Jacob Collier, Metropole, Metropole Orkest, Orchestral, Orchestra, Laura Mvula, Lianne La Havas, Take 6, Logic, Session, Breakdown, DAW, Tracks, Madness, Production, In My Room, Voces8, Jules Buckley, music, vibes, Hajanga, Sing The Hajanga, Volume 1, Volume, Hamid El Kasri, June Lee, June, Lee

Id: 6H-cAzfB2qo

Length: 60min 31sec (3631 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 09 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/AndyChamberlain]

Assuming with the love in my heart is significantly bigger than average we might say the average djesse song is looking at 100-200 tracks, meaning something like 6000 tracks across Djesse, meaning about 16 tracks recorded per day on average. A normal song doesnt even have 16 tracks so he made the equivalent of a song every day this past year.

[u/NightlyShark]

Good shit. I love that he does this kind of thing, what other artist breaks down how they made sounds or put together the track?