Chords for ODESZA - Making Of: Light Of Day

_ _ _ _ _ It takes us a long time to figure out the flow of a record
_ _ We just tend to like to find a place we want to end up
_ We got to a point where we were kind of trackless in the album.
We're trying to figure out what the ending is
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Trying to remember if I contacted them or if they contacted me I actually am not [A] sure
_ _ We've been fans of him for a very long [E] time
We actually [F#m] found ourselves going like to [D] electronic in the beginning and
[A] That's what [F#] we felt like the album was missing [F#m] a little bit of heart like some real texture some real instruments
I [F#] remember I had this idea laying around _ _
[D] _ I had been writing this song because I was making my
[B] last album at the time
[C#m] He [D] sent us this really bare [A]-bones just kind of beautiful chord progression with piano.
It's very simple
[E] It's just kind of a rising theme [A] starts low and just goes higher and higher and then
[B] _ So _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ [F#m] what _ _ _ we did is we took his piano [E] stuff and then [A] started chopping it up
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[A] _ _ _ [D] We made pretty drastic changes like right [A] away
_ The idea was mainly to take you know
This really ambient setting and [E] flip it and put it into more driving on the [Bm] floor beat
I'm sure that first version we sent [A] him was a little shocking.
[D] It was a banger and I was so [F#m] happy
_ _ That's like kind of where I always felt like the song was going [A] but that's not my [E] it's not my profession to make bangers
[D] _ _ _ In the end it's really perfect [A] balance of kind of both of the things that we do well
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It took a while to like we would take
There was one point where we didn't work on the song for like four months
_ You just got to sit with it for a long time and like not [F] think about other things not be distracted like really spend time
Living and breathing what you're trying to do and then comes I think the really good stuff.
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[G] _ _ I
Went to college and I cut an album [D]
and the local radio station started playing it.
It was not
monumental
[A] But it gathered some kind of a following
[G] _ _ [D] _ _ _ We just love searching for old samples, [B] we're not necessarily like just hunting for samples we just enjoyed [D] his album _ _ _
It [G] feels like you're like finding [E] like a piece of treasure, but no one's found, you know
Like this is hauntingly beautiful.
We got to find a way [F#] to use this _
_ _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ And you guys knew nothing about Steven Ambrose's
No, not [D] one bit [A] while _ _ _ _ I was doing different musical projects I was also
_ _ _ Doing the in-ear monitors _
_ _ _ So did he create [F#] them or he helped?
Yes.
Yes.
He created an in-ear
_ _ My _ [F#m] _ _ mom bought me a $10 guitar I
_ [F#] _ _ was in the closet singing so I would cut my ear like this and
[A] Put my and sing like this so I [F#m] could hear doing this with my hands
[E] Allowed me to do something that [F#] was quite intimate and was not the least bit electronic
So I was [B] correct.
My [A] son's musical wonderkids [F#m] Steven Ambrose at 13 created an in-ear hearing device
I don't putty glue and radio parts
_ [Bm] _ Is that the same dude it's [C#m] gotta be [D] yeah
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I
My [F#] _ _ [A] goal was to [Bm] allow the artist to experience the aesthetics [B] of his own [A] performance
_ [F#] _ _ Were you surprised when you got hit up about this project with Odessa that they were gonna want to use your vocals?
I
was amazed [B] I _ _ _
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[A] Wondered what is it about [E] these guys?
That would find [Bm] something so obscure and
_ then
What really [A] amazed me was?
[D] What this?
Cut that I [F#m] did and I think I wrote it when I was 16 and what it [A] aspired to
_ They [B] captured with music that [Bm] I had never heard before
_ _ Often we have a [C#m] bunch of elements and none of them work together
_ [D] Separately and the [G#] fun project for us is to make it feel cohesive
[A] And so that's what we spend a lot of time doing because that song did not work for a really long time
You have the 60s folk vocal over _
Nordic strings and a dark house driven moment
[B] We kind of [A] reached a point where like this is something exciting new [D] and kind of became the foundation for [F#m] the record
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[E] _ _ _ [A] _ _ [Bm] _ think in a [E] lot of ways
Music to me is _ [A] the best version of myself
Feel like I'm [C#m] doing something important when I see [A] someone else react to it and it's [F#] made them feel anyway _
[F#m] Why do I like this is kind of my question?
I always go to is it the emotive core progression?
Is it the sound design?
Is it like [F#] a simple drum break?
That's really
[A] Like the focal point is trying to get that [F#m] emotive [B] sensation response out of the music
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[F#m] Art really [C#m] without communication [D] doesn't exist
[A] so audio is
[E] Simply a communication of art
We feel something very deep
It's a spiritual thing whether you [A] believe in God or not
Something that cuts so deep into our core being that we can't really explain it
_ Often when I go out in the morning, I'll listen to what they did with this and
_ one of the things that I realized is that
you can listen with your ears and
Even listen with your heart
_ _ But you really hear with your understanding
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