From the course: Tips on Producing a Great Song Demo
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Arrangements don't fix songs
From the course: Tips on Producing a Great Song Demo
Arrangements don't fix songs
- [Instructor] A final thing to keep in mind when you're getting ready to go into the studio and demo your song is that arrangements don't fix songs. Your song should work as a single instrument and vocal. Here's what I mean. Sometimes when we finish a song and I doesn't feel quite right, we assume that we can fix whatever isn't kind of gelling by adding a full band arrangement to it and thinking that will kind of smooth off the rough edges and make everything sound good. The reality is that great songs absolutely work as a single instrument and vocal as well as with big productions. Now, this is not to say that a well-written song won't sound even better fully produced, honestly, there is no substitute for a professionally recorded and produced full band demo. It will almost always be more compelling than a single instrument and vocal but first and foremost, it has to work in its stripped-down form. So, by way of example, here is the song in its simplest acoustic guitar and vocal…
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