The vocal track alone has many harmonies and overdubbed parts. You can hear overdubs throughout that none of the musicians are playing / singing / miming.
The video itself looks great, but I suspect it's entirely mime. Final mix and mastering are credited to Simon Petren, which may be (and likely is) yet another location where the audio files were transferred.Īll-in-all, I'm not taking away from the tremendous musicianship of these players, but this is very much a recording and video that only could have been done in the 21st century and it takes advantage of 21st century digital technology. I suspect the reason for the black background and lack of reflective surfaces is this made it easier for Aron Mellergard (yes, the drummer) to perform video compositing, including adding footage of Corry and the Wongnotes horns. So, in the video, at times the horns mimic synthesizer parts, and at other times they mimic actual horn parts. It's quite clear the main horn parts are all synthesizers, probably played by Jonah Nilsson. Another factor, the credits say "additional horns" by the Wongnotes horns, not the key horn parts. (Note, they are using their own gear in the video, not backline gear.) Or conversely, consider what it would cost to fly Cory and the entire horn section to Sweden! This doesn't make sense cost-wise. If you look carefully at the lighting and shadows, there seem to be inconsistencies that further allude to compositing.Ĭonsider what it would cost to fly Dirty Loops and their gear to America. In wide-angle shots, the three Dirty Loops members are on one side of the frame and Cory and horns are on the other side never do these two sides cross. In closeup shots, at no time are any Dirty Loops members shown in the same frame as Corry or any of the horn players. I suspect the entire video is mimed, assembled, and composited, with the three Dirty Loops members having shot in one location and Cory and the Wongnotes horns having shot in another location. Further recordings may have been added in Minneapolis.Ī number of people on YouTube question whether the musicians were ever in the same room together for the video shoot. If you look at the video credits, though they say recorded in Minneapolis, I suspect this means assembled and composited rather than base recordings. Additional musicians (horns, percussion, other sweeteners) may lay down more overdubs in their own studios, which are then further assembled and composited. And then, all the files go to the keyboardist who lays down his actual tracks and vocals. These files go to the bassist, who lays down his tracks, last. Typically, the keyboard player lays down a guide track (and maybe a guide vocal) and sends these files to the drummer who then lays down his own tracks. Rather, they record individually and apart. I'm not meaning to be argumentative, but Dirty Loops (including Aron Mellergard) have discussed their recording process publicly. :-) Aron is a fantastic drummer.Aron Mellergard is indeed a phenomenal drummer! :-) In the eighth bar, I drew in the tie using a paint program! Despite the strange notation, the rhythms do work out, though the durations may not be the exact articulations Jonah Nilsson plays. The music font I used does not provide tied notes and dotted notes, and nor does it allow connecting grouped stems. Again, this is another figure over the bar lines and the displacement is super, super funky!Įdited to add: Sorry for the strange notation.
None of the notes land where you think they'd land.
And, the repeated three note figure that starts on and-of-4 in the first bar and continues as a theme throughout has an almost compound time feel yet it's all duple time. I love the syncopated, displaced shot on the fourth sixteenth note of beat 3 in the first, fourth, and fifth bars, especially in the fourth bar where it stands alone at the end of the figure to lend a super funky, over-the-cliff accent. None of the figures start on the downbeat and all of them cross over bar lines.
DIRTY LOOPS BASS SPLAYER FULL
Yea I liked it.I'm glad you enjoyed this video! It's full of funky stuff, for sure! Just one of many examples, I was transcribing the keyboard part in the chorus, and as best I can notate using an inadequate music font, the rhythm goes like this:
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