Chords for Sweet & Lynch - Unified EPK Producer (Official)

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[Abm] _ What [E] I'm doing, my role as producer is I'm helping to [Ab] complete the songs and put the icing on the cake.
And my favorite part of this whole process is being in the studio tweaking knobs.
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_ _ I'm hearing more of a _ grindy kind of a sound.
_ _ _ Does that have more of that in it?
The ahhh, where it gets dirtier? _
Almost a distorted kind of a_ _ _ _
_ _ _ Can I hear that?
Something like that dude?
I grew up in the studio.
Going in and out of studios my entire life.
I know what I want, I know what I hear, I know how to achieve that.
And everyone's happy with the results.
[Abm] And the fact that Frontier has put their faith in me to produce says a lot.
And [Ab] it's very humbling.
You know, when I first started working with [Abm] Michael, I didn't know that he was going to take on the production tasks.
You know, I thought, well, I know him as a singer and a [Db] great guy.
And [Bb] when he got involved in working on these songs from [Ebm] a production standpoint,
the sonic [F] atmosphere of the record and how everything just sounds fantastic and the arrangements are [Gm] beautiful,
[Eb] he had a lot to do with that.
Because on the first record especially, [Ab] I would send in things that were in really [N] rough form.
It surprised me because he did what I wouldn't have even thought of doing.
You know, very creative.
I mean, he brought in, [Ab] you know, keys and [Bb] effects and did arrangements that were really unexpected and interesting.
And I just have [Bb] a certain way of [Abm] arranging things just out of habit.
[E] And he, it was great because he took this sort of [E] objective viewpoint that I wouldn't have [Db] never considered
and took it to [Ab] another unique place.
So I really appreciate what he did on a sonic level, on [F] an arrangement level.
[Ebm] I've been working with Michael [Db] since the late 90s, [Abm] long before I'm recording studio.
[B] Michael and I since then have [Db] made 10 records together, which [F] has been a blast.
And he knows what he wants, which is awesome.
He, like, every time we work on a part, you know, [A] like he's the guy that's sitting in the back of the room
and notices one little thing and jumps up and [Bb] says, hey, try this.
And, you [Ab] know, and everybody gets excited because they're always good ideas.
Oh, the [Ebm] verse, the verse.
Oh, yeah, just, [Db] let's come [E] up with something [B] more special.
[Db] Right now it's a little blasé, you know.
_ [Ab] I mean, you're playing the right part.
It works, but it's just not quite going.
And we [E] really get into trying to get [Eb] the best sounds and everything.
[N] And he's always got the best players and just good people.
He's got the ability to [Ab] hear if we're working on a background vocal part that's, you know,
[E] got five or six different parts to it.
When we're working on the first layer, he has the ability to hear the whole thing in his head.
So when there's, you know, three or four people out there singing and they're just singing one note,
he knows what the next four things [Ab] that are going to happen are.
Because I'm afraid if we build up too much vibrato, it's going to become washy and crazy.
Still timing, we got to get the timing a little better, mainly on old change. _
There's [A] people that just kind of [Ab] have that naturally, you know, and Michael's one [Bb] of those people.
[A] And you can tell also [Ab] that Michael spent a lot of time sitting around playing guitar
and really working on his chops because he's a great guitar player.
He [G]
never [Ab] really talks about himself like that.
I don't even [F] know if he thinks of himself like [Fm] that, but he's an amazing guitar [G] player.
Michael's great because he's very fastidious and he kind of understands where [Ab] the song is going to end up.
So, [F] you know, you get into studios sometimes with producers who aren't [Fm] quite sure they're [A] looking for the magic, you know.
[N] Michael kind of understands, like, this is what I got, these are the players I got, I know what they do,
and I know what the final picture [Db] is going to be.
And so, again, it makes Brian and my job way easier [F] because we have absolute direction
and we don't [Eb] have to sit around and kind of poke [F] around and try things.
We can kind of just do [G] a lot of what we do, but within context [Eb] and in [F] service to the music that we're doing here.
Can we do something [Gb] a little different on this chorus, guys?
It'll put a big old smile on my face.
What do you like?
You know how you're just hanging on that note, riding it, [G] is it an A?
Yes.
Okay. _
[N] Instead of_ _ _ _
Go back and forth between the octave, up high.
Just to make that bass pop out a little bit more on this chorus and make it a little more [B] special.
I got something [F] else, I got another trick up.
Okay.
I can [Gb] go to a sub-D, I can turn it down real quick.
Why not?
Let's make this chorus really have its own thing.
[D] Michael's got a [Fm] super open [E] mind to try different [Gb] things and [E] he knows exactly what he wants, that's always [Ebm] true,
but then he's also [B] just open and super [Gb] creative and [Eb] wants to hear [Ebm] what people are willing to kind of bring to the [E] table as well,
which I think [Gb] is kind of the mark [Db] of a truly creative person, I think.
Pulling the best out of people really is crucial to make a great album.
I don't want to dictate to these guys [Eb] what to do and say, hey, do this and this only, and then it limits what they [Gb] can really do.
I keep saying to these guys, man, what are you hearing there?
Give that to me.
As long as [E] the accents are there and the [B] pushes and pulls are there, I want to hear [Bm] you.
Instead of just a regular, typical fill, I said to [Gb] Brian, what would you do?
And he [Bb] did something, [Gb] I'm like, dude, do that, that's [B] awesome.
I want to bring out the best in them and I try.
I've worked with a lot of producers where it's not a good fit, but he fell right into it and he was a natural.
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