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I always remembered the line from the book about finding a bass line being like a "panther on the prowl" and IIRC mentioning Billie Jean or some other Michael J
by ilamont 7y ago
I always remembered the line from the book about finding a bass line being like a "panther on the prowl" and IIRC mentioning Billie Jean or some other Michael Jackson song as an example. It really made sense.
The same section also warned against hiring some "thumb-slapping dickhead" to play bass which made sense from their perspective (The KLF never used bass players) but doesn't hold true for all types of songs, even dance music.
- rock_hard 7y agoI remember now One of my takeaways was to not try to do everything yourself...if fact to try to do nothing yourself except piecing together existing stuff in novel ways I just watched a YouTube video of one of the producers of Demi Lovato and he frames it like this: “What makes a great producer is not the ability to play any instrument or be a good engineer or anything. You can find others to do that for you. What makes a great producer is the ability to know how to tell a compelling story with your work!” Paraphrased from here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kre17S89-j8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kre17S89-j8 I think this is true for any product...your are selling people on a story/vision...of what could be, not what is!