Today I watched an interview with Young Guru on Pensado’s place. Throughout the interview Young Guru explained his production techniques when working on The Blueprint 3.

At 19:58 he says “I’m trying to make the artist the best artist they can be, not who I think they should be”. he goes on to explain how important it is to understand that as a producer you are working for a client and you should be willing to to make the client happy with the work produced even if you personally don’t agree with some of the choices made. For me personally I need to understand that every artist I work with may have a different vision for their music then I do and although I will have my input, ultimately it is the artist’s music.

At 21:25 he describes the track empire state of mind as a”pop record constructed in a hip-hop way”, he goes on to explain how the track uses a drum loop and sampling. My track inspired by Young Guru’s production techniques mimics a pop record constructed in a hip-hop way, there is a programmed drum pattern on a loop and although I have not used any samples all the instruments have been programmed in using sounds on the DAW Fruity Loops.

Empire state of mind is a song driven by piano and at  24:45 Young Guru called the piano a  “mid-range eater” he the explained why it is necessary to boost between 2000khz-3000khz for female vocals he called it  “magic range”. My track inspired by Young Gurus production techniques is also driven by the piano. So from today’s research I have learnt how to better blend my female vocalist with the piano.

This post relates to learning outcome 5