Make More INTERESTING Song Transitions with ONE SIMPLE RULE.

you doing this kind of stuff with the transitions in your songs [Music] well let's get that mix out of sweatpants slap on the leather chaps cause you're a kush after hours [Music] welcome to after hours my name is gregory scott tonight i want to talk to you about leveraging the arrangement for drama and contrast so the arrangement is inherently built in by the composer by the songwriters and the performance that they do and then we as mixers get to highlight and even augment and sometimes even change the arrangement to better serve the production so let's focus in now on the compositional things and i'll give you a little compositional trick that you can use if you're writing the music but also if you are mixing music that a client handed you you can grab things and move them around which we've all done this we all need to do this because sometimes you get something that's just it's not it's not very well done if you will and you're like that's not quite interesting there we got to make this more interesting or sometimes the session just isn't organized and there's just stuff floating around random things you're like what is this where does this belong it's like they didn't make strong choices they just laid down a bunch of ideas for a section and we're like there we go there's my 16 sounds for this verse as a composer i like for old sounds to go and new sounds to come in pairs anytime you have a transition happening whether it's from a verse to a pre-chorus a chorus to a middle eight anything like that you want to have two sounds or four sounds going they just they go away now sometimes they end before the transition happens sometimes they ring out after the transition happens but the point is they don't carry through musically and become a part of the next section in a sustained fashion so often what will happen is and even in a simple rock band where there's just drums bass guitar and voice you'll hear the guitar playing and the bass and the drummer's planting and then the intro's over and he hits the crash symbol and then the vocal comes in but nothing else changed the drummer changed from the ride to the hi-hat and the vocal came in but that's not a pair of things coming and going that's just one thing going and one thing coming it's not that interesting even if the guitar player kind of changes his rhythm up it's just still not the same so what you would want to do there if you're the composer is you'd want to double or triple the guitars or have a different i mean strum an acoustic guitar if that fits the genre or like just a synth pad or a piano some other kind of a sound that lives in the intro and then when the drummer hits that crash and the verse kicks in that ancillary sound and the intro goes away now you got two things going away the hi-hat come in and the vocal come in now you've got a meaningful shift you will feel that as a listener you'll be like okay i'm in a new section now so those are the kinds of structural things that you can do as a composer very very basic very open-ended you could do almost anything in terms of what comes and what goes but for my money what's really important is that at least two if not three or four things for the most dramatic transitions go and nothing comes in like things just go away and you're left with whatever was happening in the section before that didn't go away it's a really powerful way to go or two things come in or four things coming four things going and four things coming in is uh there's this massive shift in the landscape of the song it's a really really powerful dramatic thing to do that can be really effective for going from a chorus to a bridge a lot of times you'll hear that where all this stuff changes we notice that stuff so do this stuff as a composer subscribe to the rule of pairs and always have things coming or going in pairs and the more drama you want multiply that out four things coming four things going and then as a mixer leverage all of those different elements to come and go in different ways spatially height wise and depth wise keep that listener engaged [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 4min 48sec (288 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 30 2020