{"id":13885,"date":"2023-05-04T07:55:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T07:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/04\/the-1-way-to-be-a-better-producer-songwriter-active-listening-make-pop-music\/"},"modified":"2023-05-04T07:55:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T07:55:56","slug":"the-1-way-to-be-a-better-producer-songwriter-active-listening-make-pop-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/04\/the-1-way-to-be-a-better-producer-songwriter-active-listening-make-pop-music\/","title":{"rendered":"THE #1 WAY TO BE A BETTER PRODUCER &amp; SONGWRITER (Active Listening) | Make Pop Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"THE #1 WAY TO BE A BETTER PRODUCER &amp; SONGWRITER (Active Listening) | Make Pop Music\"   width=\"400\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z40mY1JC2FI?cc_load_policy=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>THE #1 WAY TO BE A BETTER PRODUCER &#038; SONGWRITER (Active Listening) | Make Pop Music<\/p>\n<p>In this video we will be going over how to actively listen and analyze songs in order to reverse engineer them for your own tracks. We will be looking at Dua Lipa&#8217;s song Levitating and breaking down how to analyze the melodic structure, the arrangement and production choices, and how to listen for elements that are tucked deep in a record.<\/p>\n<p>*Editors Note: When I talk about the chord progression I say Fm7 but it should actually be &#8220;F#m7&#8221;. I play the right chord but my mouth was moving faster than my brain. So it sounds right, but just make a quick note that it&#8217;s the &#8220;F#m7&#8221; not Fm7. Also, the key is Bmin (notated on the analysis sheet correctly)<\/p>\n<p>Download the Levitating Analysis Sheet:<\/p>\n<p>Visit our website! We have sample and preset packs, blog posts, courses, and more!<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.makepopmusic.com\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.makepopmusic.com<\/a>??<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Listen to some of my work!<br \/>\nwww.austinhull.com<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/spoti.fi\/3sIeerL\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/spoti.fi\/3sIeerL<\/a>??<\/p>\n<p>DAW I Use:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/new.steinberg.net\/cubase\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/new.steinberg.net\/cubase<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more content on all things pop music!<\/p>\n<p>Join Our Private Community &#8211; ?<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com\/makepopmusic<\/p>\n<p>Follow Austin:<br \/>\nwww.austinhull.com<br \/>\nwww.facebook.com\/austinhullmusic<br \/>\nwww.instagram.com\/austinhull23??<\/p>\n<p>Make Pop Music is the #1 resource for independent pop producers, writers, and artists. Thank you for being a subscriber!<\/p>\n<p>My Gear:<br \/>\nDAW: Cubase 11 Pro<br \/>\nDesk: AZ Studio Workstations<br \/>\nMonitors: Focal Shape 65s with Focal Sub6<br \/>\nInterface: UAD Apollo Twin USB<br \/>\nMIDI Keyboard: M-Audio Code 61<br \/>\nKeyboards: Roland Juno DS88 &#038; Roland Juno 106<br \/>\nGuitars: Fender American Professional Stratocaster, Gibson Les Paul Studio, Taylor 214 CE Plus<br \/>\nPreamps: Heritage Audio HA81A &#038; Audient ASP800<br \/>\nMicrophones: Slate ML-1, Shure SM7B, JZ BH-1, JZ V67, Lauten Audio LA-320, Lauten Audio LA-220, Lauten Audio LA-120, AKG P170, Sterling ST59<br \/>\nCamera: Panasonic G7<br \/>\nLens: Panasonic 25mm f1.7<br \/>\nCamera Lights: Neewer LED Light Panels<\/p>\n<p>Timestamps:<br \/>\nIntro 0:00<br \/>\nRun-Down of Analysis Document 1:30<br \/>\nFinding the Tempo 2:45<br \/>\nFinding the Key 3:25<br \/>\nFinding the Chord Progression 4:20<br \/>\nDividing the Song Sections 6:00<br \/>\nIntro Breakdown 8:28<br \/>\nVerse Breakdown 9:10<br \/>\nPre-Chorus Breakdown 13:40<br \/>\nChorus Breakdown 15:58<br \/>\nTurn-Around Breakdown 19:37<br \/>\nVerse 2 Breakdown 19:57<br \/>\nPre-Chorus 2 Breakdown 21:35<br \/>\nChorus 2 Breakdown 22:22<br \/>\nPost-Chorus Breakdown 23:20<br \/>\nBridge Breakdown 24:38<br \/>\nBreak-down Breakdown 26:15<br \/>\nFalse Chorus Breakdown 27:15<br \/>\nFinal Chorus Breakdown 28:10<br \/>\nOutro 29:45<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z40mY1JC2FI\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE #1 WAY TO BE A BETTER PRODUCER &#038; SONGWRITER (Active Listening) | Make Pop Music In this video we will be going over how [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[153,2153,1281,12,588,2098,103],"class_list":["post-13885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amp","tag-active","tag-listening","tag-music","tag-pop","tag-producer","tag-songwriter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}