SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT Studio Multitracks (Listening Session & Analysis) Kurt Cobain, Nirvana
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Published 2022-10-28
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The isolated vocal analysis video: • Smells Like Teen Spirit - Kurt Cobain...
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This song teaches us a TON when it comes to studio vocal performance and production... Being able to hear ALL of the studio parts and how they blend together and inspire one another represents a whole other level of inspiration.
There are dissonances in the additional guitar tracks that I've never heard until being able to isolate them out. And you know what... I hear the lead vocals completely different now. Actually, I hear the whole song differently. Now I can't un-hear those guitar parts haha...
Join me for some incredible easter eggs and sounds that slip by us all in the public mass-released studio mix!
All Comments (21)
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If you listen to the whole song, you can actually hear Daves snare drum slowly detune. If you listening to the beginning and the end you can hear it. He hit soooo hard!!!
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8:00 A friend of mine awhile ago pointed out that dissonant guitar part that you can only really hear "subconsciously", but once I heard it I could never unhear it. The way it rises adds more energy to the chorus; it's genius.
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For me as a guitar player and huge nirvana fan, that backing guitar track in the chorus was something I NEVER noticed, and I'm blown away by it. I always thought I heard everything in this song since I listened to it several hundred times, maybe even thousands of times, and yet there's still something to discover. Thank you so much, Chris, for that insight! <3
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Never heard that guitar part in the chorus. Rick Beato didn't talk about it in his WMTSG on the song. Dead Wax didn't talk about it on the episode they did on the song. Incredible to learn something new about such an iconic and seemingly simple song. I'm currently doing a Nirvana podcast. We just did our first episode on Bleach. I can't wait to bring that guitar part to my cohosts' attention. As music savvy as they are, and as big of Nirvana fans, I can guarantee you they've never heard it either.
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The sound engineers / techs definetely deserve more recognition than they get. Kurt was and is a legend, but that would not happen at least to that level without this brilliant production!
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That guitar slide into the chorus is awesome, not noticed that before.
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I saw some interview with Butch Vig a couple years ago where he talked about that "hidden" guitar line in the chorus. If it wasn't for the man himself talking about it, this would have been a new revelation to me. Butch blended that second guitar line in so well that you don't even know it's there, yet if it wasn't there you would know something was off.
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The part about the bass lagging behind the kick is something I've never thought of, but from a production standpoint it makes perfect sense. Nowadays we'd fix that with some simple sidechain compression, but you don't have that when recording to tape, at least not as easily. But having the bass hit slightly off from the kick makes it so those low frequencies conflict with each other as little as possible.
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Chris, I’ve purchased over $1,000 of online courses over several years to help with singing - just a few of your free YouTube videos have helped way more than any of those courses. Thank you for what you do. This song and Nirvana as a whole is what got me into music and made me want to be a musician in the first place. Love your channel, man.
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Your demonstration of the bass being out of the pocket is SO IMPORTANT. I deal with this very often with band recording, it just breaks everything. Bass and kick "harmony" is everything, EDM got it for a long time, but rock people seem to often neglect this (except for the few that actually sound great). Not linked to vocals or anything but mandatory!
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Amazing. This record is pure gold, I think Butch Vig had a lot to do with it (actually he convinced Kurt to double the voices telling him John Lennon always did that). That disonant guitar is genius!
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I’d love to hear some isolated stuff off of their first record bleach…must be gnarly!
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I was confused until I saw the intro. 😂😂 Love the Nirvana videos.
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I had no idea there was another layer of guitar in there. I thought it was just the main riff and the solos and that is it. Wow
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i never noticed that about the snare being in tune like that, interesting stuff. also thanks now i have a better understanding of the power of instrument panning, awesome.
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I’d heard that extra guitar track on its own somewhere on YouTube, but never in context with the rest of the song! Great stuff as always Chris!
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Thank you for this session! 🤩
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thanks, Chris 🙏🏼 yet another time
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Precious video indeed! Thank you for your suggestions and work man!
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This is great content. Thank you for sharing!
