Damon Albarn's Songwriting Routine, Using Garageband To Create Blur Songs

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10 ай бұрын

Damon Albarn & producer James Ford unpack the never heard before demo of 'The Heights' plus hear how Damon uses Garageband for his writing his guitar parts.
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@TapeNotesPodcast 8 ай бұрын

WATCH THE FULL EPISODE HERE👉 bit.ly/blurandjamesfordvideo

@reisakakibara 10 ай бұрын

those whistles are actually damon writing another album while being interviewed

@TheFakeyCakeMaker 9 ай бұрын

Loved this. What so many muso journalists miss is that these guys are musicians, they want to talk about their music not their private lives. We want to hear it. Loved listening to Damon talk about his process and how he gets to the places he does with song writng. Very inspiring.

@T.I.L.P 10 ай бұрын

I'm still not over that video of him showing Zane Lowe how he wrote Clint Eastwood. Got to love his honesty.

@Underfist101 10 ай бұрын

The Deesser on Damon's vocals must be working goddamn overtime lmao

@kentbyron7608 10 ай бұрын

Garage band is underrated for its simplicity. But the elegant user interface is designed brilliantly with great thought put into how to keep the interface simple, and it has far more features and track count than even the Beatles had. That's a mind blower to me, and it's available free on all iPhones and iPads. The amount of creativity possible with GarageBand is up to the artist. As far as software design is concerned Garageband is a masterpiece.

@yanmetcaluire 10 ай бұрын

Can't compare myself with Damon but I play Garageband for maybe 12 years and this software still gives me inspiration... A free soft and you can make a song ! Who told a Mac was expensive when you realise all the stuff you get inside to create your world !

@DiRtYLaWs2007 10 ай бұрын

GarageBand is amazing. Still using it regularly today after 10 years.

@iawnlad 10 ай бұрын

if youre in damons position, as in working with a producer when it comes to making an album, garage band is really all you need to get your ideas to come to fruition. I use logic over here and i couldnt get it to open for about a week as i couldnt log into my icloud. so during that i uses garage band and was completely surprised in its depth.

@Inequities 10 ай бұрын

What’s garage band lol

@xero5101 8 ай бұрын

@@Inequitiesthe basic version of Logic

@vixo551 3 ай бұрын

It's a DAW, where you basically record music (digitally) and you can put drum machines and midi instruments and make songs with it. @@Inequities

@Inequities 3 ай бұрын

@@vixo551 oh ok, thank you!!

@SuperMojoRisin 10 ай бұрын

That demo sounds beautiful

@paulembleton1733 10 ай бұрын

Never owned a Mac but iPadOS GarageBand is fun, and a great learning tool. It gives a big picture view of music making.

@steven_uk 10 ай бұрын

Can we put a de-esser on Damon's mic?

@benking8610 10 ай бұрын

He always has the singing s sound because of his teeth

@KudosCultureCartel 10 ай бұрын

Sounds like the grandpa from Family Guy

@KudosCultureCartel 10 ай бұрын

@@benking8610 why whats wrong with his teeth?

@GordonPavilion 10 ай бұрын

Yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

@KRDZoom1 10 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@wallsfarmpictures 10 ай бұрын

You said it. It's really all there in Garageband!

@clivehunte3026 10 ай бұрын

Omg, I've not seen James Ford in years, he was a great drummer back in the day and I had the opportunity to play bass alongside him back in the Ear to The Ground days in Manchester.

@jasongoodwin7373 10 ай бұрын

He played drums in The Last Shadow Puppets too, he's great

@mobdividual 10 ай бұрын

ive been using garageband to mix for years. its fun and easy and can be done on my phone

@DanielKarlMorgan 9 ай бұрын

Garageband is my go-to for getting ideas down quickly too. I swear by it!

@acrookedbeat9013 9 ай бұрын

been creating dub reggae on my imac and garageband for years , sounds great to my old ears

@DownThePieRateHole 10 ай бұрын

Love the hell out of this.

@Newmusicreview 10 ай бұрын

Damon is morphing into Elvis Costello

@Hrendelpouchany 10 ай бұрын

Omg I hope not. Damon is worth 10 Costellos.

@timadam-smith9107 10 ай бұрын

Love this

@sonijam 10 ай бұрын

I like those microphones.

@nasuwtsjh8348 10 ай бұрын

This is great!

@andrewespada742 10 ай бұрын

a robot😂 jk love ya

@trimmtrabb23 10 ай бұрын

How I still love him

@rcdmrl 10 ай бұрын

“I’m hitting a wonderwall” 🔥

@phatato 10 ай бұрын

Was anyone else surprised by how deep his speaking voice is given how high he sings in blur songs?

@hillyhilltop 10 ай бұрын

Probably the smokes

@ganganor4964 10 ай бұрын

Dude that’s all I’m thinking about the entire video

@glitterisse 10 ай бұрын

Um he just get older (55yrs) and yk voice getting bit deep after years of loud singing

@waltercoyle6393 6 ай бұрын

@@glitterisse Which is minimal. The smoking is what is really making him sound like a post-menopausal woman.

@glitterisse 6 ай бұрын

@@waltercoyle6393 What? Not only cigarettes made his voice deeper. I mean biological aspects. It's going with age and probably all the time when he yelled while he made songs or tours and concerts. And why do you think he has voice like post menopausal woman?

@andsoistopped 10 ай бұрын

That Mono T-shirt. 👍

@GbrElfunk 10 ай бұрын

Yeah, the energies

@bobstar76 10 ай бұрын

Just gave wondamonwall a mighty promo boost

@willmfoley 10 ай бұрын

Drink when you hear 'energy'

@Nick_Barre 10 ай бұрын

Technical / gear question please: what mics are you using? I've spotted (and admired) them in other high quality podcasts. Thanks in advance ;-)

@habacuque 10 ай бұрын

Neumann BCM104?

@Nick_Barre 10 ай бұрын

@@habacuque Thankyou-that's kind of you.

@plummetplum 10 ай бұрын

Is Damon on 0.5x speed setting?

@hoisin75 10 ай бұрын

I just went back from logic for iPad to GarageBand. Much more straightforward

@freddy_cyclone 10 ай бұрын

dat whistle

@andsoistopped 10 ай бұрын

3 albums in. GarageBand is amazing.

@hammerecords 10 ай бұрын

And for tonights performance Graham is being replaced by Garage Band. So funny.

@LightningJosue 10 ай бұрын

The quirkier part of St. Charles Square definitely comes out of Graham. Very evident in the demo to album comparison

@cph2004 10 ай бұрын

I like the fact that damon says he uses garageband. A friend of mine uses garageband, and he says how good it is, but i am a loyal Fl Studios user. Sorry.

@gtabro1337 9 ай бұрын

So that's what Kenny Beats has been up to in the UK

@Paul-dw2cl 10 ай бұрын

That’s Damon’s place, right? He seems to do a lot of interviews there

@Paul-dw2cl 10 ай бұрын

@@tasoskont.6716 ahh. ya learn something everyday

@glitterisse 10 ай бұрын

Yeah his studio 13!

@callumcoates-keddy9107 10 ай бұрын

David Sounds like Herbert the pervert from family guy with those whistles.

@kahyui2486 10 ай бұрын

Hey chrisssssss

@MScantlin 9 ай бұрын

I think Damon’s nearly boiled.

@TapeNotesPodcast 9 ай бұрын

Hahahaha

@jbrenner19 3 ай бұрын

it sucks bc ive always written random shit on keyboards or shitty daws or whatever but i can never finish a project off. ill like write a few loops for a bassline and chorus or whatever then get completely stuc and i need to know how they do it

@danzesociety 10 ай бұрын

Damon so underrated

@gman5218 10 ай бұрын

By who? Even people who hated blur recognised his talent

@JucaNeryGuitar 10 ай бұрын

That's Pro Tools!

@brianthompson1485 5 ай бұрын

Damon and Kenny?!?! WOAH KENNY

@thegroove2000 9 ай бұрын

If Damon uses it then im gonna.

@MaxEfpunkt 4 ай бұрын

what's the song at 07:01?

@s.r.b.4582 10 ай бұрын

Man they talk about things being not over processed, and then all we hear is over processed instruments and voices, wtf hahaha

@swirlysound 10 ай бұрын

i was just thinking that when i read your comment haha.

@Hrendelpouchany 10 ай бұрын

So there is very little about the song writing process here and when they show the DAW it’s not Garageband. I’m wondering if Apple have slipped Damon a few quid 😂

@callumcoates-keddypsychesy5954 9 ай бұрын

What's with the hard whistle?

@TapeNotesPodcast 9 ай бұрын

We de-essed the crap out of it but to no avail!

@callumcoates-keddypsychesy5954 9 ай бұрын

Damn son! At least you had thee Damon Albarn on your podcast. That is massive.

@machineagevoodoo2106 10 ай бұрын

NDH 20

@davelordy 10 ай бұрын

Man, people are deluded over AI, everyone cueing up to give out the same tired tropes "it'll never do X" or "it'll never replace Y" . . . it's amazing that their technical insights (lol) just happen to rule out encroachment into their particular area . . . they haven't got a clue what's coming.

@avandemordes 8 ай бұрын

Garageband it's the small bro of logic, logic now its on the iPad, I've been using GB for a decade on the ipad, last year i mixed a record, that was mixed also in a Mac using logic pro, guess which one went to the master

@TapeNotesPodcast 8 ай бұрын

I'm guessing the GB mix?

@avandemordes 7 ай бұрын

@@TapeNotesPodcast that's right ;)

@martinmeister5394 10 ай бұрын

I was going to record my music two years ago using garageband a while back...I got this big book called garageband for dummies and the more I red the more I realised I'd be making something complicated that was simple...it's ok until you try to play live again and have to find a way to compensate for not having garageband behind you

@robertjamesonmusic 10 ай бұрын

Lol, you can use half backing track half live instruments. So many possibilities these days

@martinmeister5394 10 ай бұрын

@@robertjamesonmusic I'm just being weird about it lol

@martinmeister5394 10 ай бұрын

...why make something in garageband just to take it to the studio to finish 😩

@robertjamesonmusic 10 ай бұрын

@@martinmeister5394 because if you bring something at least half or fully finished into the studio then you don’t waste thousands of dollars in the studio figuring out if your song is a piece of shit or not. You’ll know that what you are bringing is something you can use

@martinmeister5394 10 ай бұрын

@@robertjamesonmusic you and Damon are making me want to try gb again lol

@jamesbaker9342 9 ай бұрын

Didn’t know Mr Robot was british

@johnmarriott3982 10 ай бұрын

Whats the song at the end

@TheFifthBanana01 10 ай бұрын

It’s the demo or “early” version of The Heights from their new record.

@johnmarriott3982 10 ай бұрын

@@TheFifthBanana01 know any way I could listen to it?

@TheFifthBanana01 10 ай бұрын

@@johnmarriott3982 probably not, it looks like the only one who has it is Damon.

@johnmarriott3982 10 ай бұрын

@@TheFifthBanana01 awww .. sounds really good. Really like the album version though. Peace and love

@deloreanized 10 ай бұрын

The problem in recent years is that live recordings with real performers are so, so, so heavily processed (compression, velocity, quantitation, etc) that, at the end of the pipeline, you hear that snare drum, and it sounds like if it was sampled one time and then cut and pasted to the grid.

@paninovevo1162 10 ай бұрын

Compression tho has been used a lot since always

@ThiagoCP 10 ай бұрын

@@paninovevo1162Have you ever heard Carol Kaye saying that all of her bass track were never compressed?

@LiveMusic-fj3tc 10 ай бұрын

Why is he always dropping the F bomb?

@new_memeplex 10 ай бұрын

Thanks or this interview. I am so bored with those interviews by places like the Guardian or the Times where they focus on cliched topics like Britpop, Oasis, heroin etc ALL THE TIME no matter how much time has passed.

@TapeNotesPodcast 4 ай бұрын

You're welcome, glad you enjoyed it

@Jamesp1972 10 ай бұрын

That tune is great with no adornments...they're a bit naff

@nasuwtsjh8348 10 ай бұрын

The GarageBand being referred to is iPad Garageband...?

@paulembleton1733 10 ай бұрын

You weren’t looking at the screen where you? Me neither, yay iPad GarageBand is fun! Someone should do this. But no, that’s a Mac laptop.

@nasuwtsjh8348 10 ай бұрын

@@paulembleton1733 the MacBook is running pro-tools. Thanks, it I was referring to the GarageBand on which the original demos were recorded.

@newbreednet 10 ай бұрын

pretty sure what Damon was lolling at was that it was one of those "touch instrument" guitars from garageband, i.e. yes from iOS @@nasuwtsjh8348

@aldocorzo5440 10 ай бұрын

Prolly. Gorillaz / The Fall (2010) is an album that was made almost entirely on an iPad, according to Damon himself

@MrSkunky2009 10 ай бұрын

Bizarre....

@jon_onj 10 ай бұрын

1:20 Damon Alburn

@glitterisse 10 ай бұрын

Dan Abnormal?

@jon_onj 10 ай бұрын

@@glitterisse Demon El Burn

@glitterisse 10 ай бұрын

@@jon_onj Demon All burnt!!!

@jon_onj 10 ай бұрын

@@glitterisse Demon hasborn

@glitterisse 10 ай бұрын

@@jon_onj Demon Allblur

@getwetsoon 9 ай бұрын

but this is not garage band, isnt it?

@sickboy6663 10 ай бұрын

Didnt know he whistled his 's' until now. Sounds like the old peado from Family Guy

@ben_haviour 10 ай бұрын

Gosh... those Neumann mics really don't favour his "Ssshhh" sizzle.

@glitterisse 10 ай бұрын

Jesus just he had problem with tooth :b

@glitterisse 10 ай бұрын

But yeah too clear. Neumanns sound

@_Only_Zuul 10 ай бұрын

garageband is great for songwriting, maybe not so much for production..

@alankavanagh3023 9 ай бұрын

Rockstar is when you can wear Carhartt Workwear and make it look fashionable! Rock on Damon Alburn

@suites.74 10 ай бұрын

My take with AI - you can't "REPLACE" the human but you can maybe 80% "REPLICATE" the human. If we have humans to keep making original content, then we can feed these models with new information and they can do cool stuff. But if we get lazy and stop thinking and try to let computers do all the thinking, we'll go around in circles and end up dumber.