How to write a ROYAL BLOOD song
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- čas přidán 15. 06. 2024
- Writing a Royal Blood Song | One Man Bands Episode 1
Welcome to One Man Bands! Each week I take a popular musical artist and write a song inspired by their style, this week the artist is ROYAL BLOOD.
On Monday I covered Royal Blood's "Figure It Out" check that out here -
• ROYAL BLOOD - FIGURE I...
I thought this would be a fun way to introduce the concept of One Man Bands and I am really happy with the way this song came out. The body of this video is my method of putting the song together, then you can hear my song at the end of the video at 20:42
Diving into Royal Blood's music to create this song has been an absolute pleasure and a fun restriction in only having 2 instruments to use; the ways Royal Blood use to get around this limitation are a key part of how I wrote this song.
SPACE LYRICS:
Who’d have thought a life in the middle
Is better than a life at the top?
And maybe if you changed just a little
You wouldn’t be so prime for the chop
It costs twenty-thousand dollars for a handshake
I’m getting claustrophobia
I need a little more
Space
If I wanna
Space
If I wanna
Breathe
I need a little more
Faith
If I’m gonna
Faith
If I’m gonna give myself a little more space
I need a little more faith
I need a little more
So here you are screaming “give me something more”
‘Cos you’re different from before
With your face against the floor
Double down
Double back
Double cross
Devil underneath the gloss
‘Cos your heart is at a loss
Playing that way
You make it ugly
You may win one day
It won’t be with me
Understanding
Beyond demanding
Love notwithstanding now
I need a little more
Space
If I wanna
Space
If I wanna
Breathe
I need a little more
Faith
If I’m gonna
Faith
If I’m gonna give myself a little more space
I need a little more faith
I need a little more
Space
I need a little, a little more space
I need a little, a little more faith
Here are the Royal Blood tracks I reference in this video:
Out Of The Black - • Royal Blood - Out Of T...
Lights Out - • Royal Blood - Lights O...
Loose Change - • Royal Blood - Loose Ch...
Little Monster - • Royal Blood - Little M...
Sleep - • Royal Blood - Sleep (O...
She's Creeping - • Royal Blood - She's Cr...
Hook, Line and Sinker - • Royal Blood - Hook, Li...
Like the video if you enjoy my song, comment which artist you'd like me to cover next, and subscribe for more songs!
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If you just want to hear the song I wrote, I will upload it separately on Saturday!
Join me on Monday for next week's One Man Band Cover! - Hudba
I hope you all enjoy my first songwriting video, writing in the style of Royal Blood was an absolute blast! Let me know in the comments who you'd like me to do next!
How do you not have more subs?? This is great dude and super insightful!
I'm only just starting out, have a lot of hard work to do before I'm deserving of big numbers! A long way to go yet, but every person that jumps on board I'm hugely thankful for. Things are all uphill from here. Thank you so much!
You absolutely nailed it.
Mindblowing and so dirty sound I need to take a shower again. Sounds like a combination of King and She's creeping.
Thank you ever so much, the dirty Royal Blood sound is absolutely unrivalled for me! I can't wait to hear the studio version of King, blew my mind when I heard it.
Bro guessed the Space B-side
Dude you deserve a million subs, this is back to back awesome! Cheers from Brazil
Thank you so much dude! Let’s get to 1000 first, then we’ll work our way up! Who knows where we’ll end up…
I'm really sure you already know that Royal Blood has a song called like that, but I'm sure that's what brought me here and I'm glad. Greetings from Spain
Check when I uploaded this, I beat them to it 😉 Hola amigo!
I also really don't care what gear you use and how worn it is. You're doing an amazing job, you're making music, that what matters.
Superb job - well explained to someone who loves music but gave up the recorder at age 8 - love the song
Great video! Also ... underrated pun at 20:15
Hahaha thanks so much! There are always SO many bas(s)es to cover ;)
Arctic monkeys or RHCP would be mint
Huge shouts, I am ON IT, thank you mate
Really enjoying watching these.
Its funny how royal blood come out with demo called Space, this man called
I'm almost disappointed it wasn't their take on this song, would have loved to hear that hahaha
@@JohnAzopardi but this is the band that inspired me to play bass, still going 2 years strong
Who’s here after royal blood released a song called space. Ironic
I love it
Really good video mate. Love how you broke down all the tricks he uses for playing and singing at the same time. All the same things I had picked up on myself. You explained it all brilliantly though. I never comment on videos either but found this really impressive so fair play to you sir.
Thanks a bunch! They're such a clever band, more so than I think most people give them credit for, it's seriously hard to get two instruments sounding so big, I'd love to revisit them now Typhoons is out and is such a departure from their original style. I really appreciate the support and I'm very proud to be one of your few comment recipients!
Well done sir! Loved especially the chorus where you hit the high notes smoothly in unison - very Royal Bloodish! Hats off and keep up the good work! My vote for the next video goes for Arctic Monkeys or Queens of the Stone Age!
Thank you so much man, that means the world to me! Arctic Monkeys I'm already on, QOTSA are literally one of my favourite bands of all time... in fact I may already have been working on a QOTSA song...
@@JohnAzopardi Haha I knew you have a lovely taste in music! Take your time, can't wait to hear the next songs!
Henkka hahaaa you legend, I will be on it ASAP, stay tuned
Hey, this could easily be a Cleopatrick song
This was one of your songs that I somehow missed. Excellent work John.
Are you kidding me that they released a song called Space after you???
Mate I'm not even kidding it freaked me out completely when I saw the track listing
This was fantastic! I wish you would've gone into a little more detail on how you came up with some of the riffs though....
Thanks a bunch dude! Granted as this was my first video I hadn’t quite nailed down what I was talking about yet, I will come back to Royal Blood at some point and dive a bit deeper into the riff writing process!
@@JohnAzopardi Thanks to you for sharing your knowledge, man! Looking forward to more videos!
Awesome!!
I already knew how they achieve their sound so this was nothing new to me, but honestly, your song was fucking dope. I loved it. The tone was really good, and your voice fits perfectly. The chours is sick man.
I really appreciate that! The hardest part of putting these songs together is still writing things that long term fans will enjoy, so it means the world to me to hear you did! It’d be fun to come back and do one with RB’s new sound
@@JohnAzopardi Well I subbed and I'm looking forward for more of your stuff. I really enjoyed your covers, and specially this "royal blood style" tune you made. The chorus man, damnnnnnnnn do I love it
Amazing! 🔥🔥
Great song! great video!! Congrats.
The new limited edition Royal Blood song is also called space. What kind of future vision do you have? 🤨
Honestly it freaked me out to no end when I saw the track listing, in saying that I wouldn’t be opposed to hearing their take on the song...especially given it’s produced by Josh Homme
@@JohnAzopardi Josh Homme is a legend
Mad Visions
Great explanation!
Thanks ever so much! Very glad you enjoyed it!
I love the song ! Great job
I'd love it if you could do Arctic Monkeys (whatever Era or album you like)
This is a seriously good call, I'm getting on it as we speak. Stay tuned x
I would absolutely love to hear you do a queens of the stone age song!
Damn son this is better than some of the songs on the second album 😅
Wow that is high praise indeed! Really appreciate it, I'd love to revisit Royal Blood and try out their new vibe at some point.
John where have you been? I hope all is well fella.
Well done John, cover was fantastic, sound was spot on... amazing rendition... keep going... guessing you are using a DAW and getting your "amps" from there, rather than physical... what tech are you using?
Thanks ever so much man! I've experimented with a few different combos of amp sims but keep coming back to Amplitube, then for heavier stuff I'm a big fan of the Archetype plugins as well. Funnily enough I used a lot of stock Logic plugins for this specific one, but the more recent stuff is Amplitube or Archetype!
i love this video
I love you for loving this video
Is there a spotify link for your song? Shit's badass. You should make more music in this style.
Yes mate! Just search John Azopardi on Spotify and all the One Mans Bands songs will come up!
If we talking about bass, here's idea for the next one: Bassinvaders. "Romance In Black", "Godless Gods', "Dead From The Eyes Down', "Razorblade Romance" - those are the songs that you definetely should check out.
Thing is, there are a normal amount of people in the band, but there's no guitar. Only basses. Three of them.
I will have a listen and see what I can make of them!
Make a Franz Ferdinand song!!!
ooh this is a new suggestion and I like it, I think I've actually played on the same bill as Franz Ferdinand bizarrely enough! Great shout, they're added to the list!
Similar vein to this maybe a black keys song is in your future?
Black Keys is a fantastic shout! Cracking band, onto the list they go!
Fantastic song! What is your effects chain for the vocals?
Thanks a million! For this one if I remember rightly it was quite heavily dependent on tape saturation as it sounded quite common in Royal Blood's music at the time. Off the top of my head it will have been Vocal Rider > FabFilter ProQ > FabFilter ProC 2 > SSL Channel Strip (Waves) > GW VoiceCentric (Waves) > Kramer Tape (Waves) with the tape emulator being hit pretty hard
What amps/software did you use for this?
I mainly used Amplitube, but for this there were a few different amp sims running side by side, one of which was Logic's stock bass amp designer!
Do some tool or led zep?
patrick hanbury okay those are serious suggestions, I’ve been on a Tool binge recently, if I can somehow learn all the parts for a Tool song then I’m absolutely doing it
Junk
Cheers big man xox