Ep.9 Recording the final overdubs
With the guitar takes edited down, it's time to finish up the rest of the tracking and overdubs for "Lucky Number".
In this episode of Greg Well's Start To Finish Series, he completes the edits on the keyboards tracked in episode 8 and then gets Bryce Drew back behind the microphone to record a gorgeous layered background vocals arrangement that elevates the song to a new place.
By the end of this episode, the full arrangement will be tracked, edited, and ready for mixing.
Watch as Greg:
- Explains his composition choices on the keys
- Discusses several past experiences and how they inform his decisions today
- Explains why he leaves the vocal in while working on the arrangement
- Edits the multiple takes of keyboards to find the indispensable moments
- Composes the background vocals with Bryce Drew
- Guides the vocalist through writer's block
Watch the rest of the series here.
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The emotional landscape of Bryce Drew's music is brilliantly unsteady, with peaks and valleys ascending from emotive ballads into rhythmic pop anthems that carry the heartbeat of her Trinidadian-American roots. But in her soulful dexterity as an artist, and her innate ability to draw out complex emotions often hidden in the mundane, Bryce Drew shows she has all the elements of an icon in the making.