It's a particular skill, I think, doing backing vocals. You're blending the vocals between the gaps, between the music.
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There are a lot of people using technology that are playing to a click with backing vocals already stuck in there on some computerized thing that runs along in time to the show so they have these amazing vocals that are only partly the guys on stage producing them at the time.
I usually prepare a track, and then I work with the artist when it's time to do the vocals.
I usually prepare a track and then I work with the artist when it's time to do the vocals.
The vocals are what immediately draw people in and sell the song.
When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.
It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals.
Producers like to record all the drums first, then they do the bass, then all the guitars, so you're constantly moving from one song to another.
Doing the instrumental thing, you're really looking for the power of the melody to carry the record.
When it comes down to the music, it's just you and the microphone. It's not you and the record execs.
I think it is your job as an artist to be able to hear a song.