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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.
Grammy award-winning, Canadian musician, songwriter, and record producer, Greg Wells, has been dubbed “A Swiss Army Knife” in the recording studio by the legendary Stewart Copeland for good reason.
As a multi-instrumentalist, he has the ability to artfully mold his productions with incredible precision, craftsmanship, and most importantly, taste. Combining his musicianship with his uncanny abilities as a producer, engineer, and mixer, he has seen album sales top 120 million, with streaming numbers in the billions. With a B.
His diverse list of credits includes superstars such as Adele, Dua Lipa, Twenty One Pilots, Katy Perry, Keith Urban, Celine Dion, Deftones, Kid Cudi, Weezer, OneRepublic, Ariana Grande, Pharrell Williams, Aerosmith and so many more that we would need a really long scroll bar to list them all.
Greg has seen monumental success recently with the release of the motion picture soundtrack for “The Greatest Showman”, which he not only produced but played on as well.
The Greatest Showman
Adele
Katy Perry
Twenty One Pilots
Grace VanderWaal
Dua Lipa
