How To Write and Produce Indie Pop Like Valley & Abby Holliday

I show you my process for writing an indie pop song while producing it in ableton. The final result ended up sound like Valley or Abby Holliday (really happy with it).

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Hi, I'm Seth, I've been Songwriting & Producing music for the past 10 years. I made this channel because I couldn't find any music production tutorials in my niche on guitar based pop that actually broke down specific songs from artists like the 1975, LANY, Muna, etc. Every week i make an instrumental from scratch in the specific style of a popular guitar-based pop song and show you how I recreated it. I show you my sample selection, production tricks, guitar tones, mixing chains, mastering plugins, all of it. I've worked with many artists in bringing their creative ideas into the real world. I've worked on projects for Warner Music Group and three songs I've written (and two I've produced) have made it onto Spotify-Curated Playlists (Love Pop, OPM Workday Marathon, & New Music Friday Philippines, Cozy Christmas Pop).
00:00 Introduction
00:27 1. setting the vibe
00:44 2. collecting inspirations
01:00 3. get a rough vocal to write to
02:28 4. find a vibe
03:28 5. find influence vibes
04:15 6. record 1 dumb layer
05:40 7. arbitrary challenges
06:09 8. render stuff as audio and mess with it
07:14 9. be flexible to changing the vision
07:30 10. minimal mixing
07:40 11. mess with texture
07:53 12. consistent vibe check
08:28 13. fill out lows, mids, and highs
08:38 14. break the challenge
09:30 Final Demo

[ryanvd]

At the start, I just couldn't help but hear "so baby pull me closer in the back seat of your rover" lmao

[laharofficial]

Dude, really love this new approach! It's really cool getting to see your thought process behind each step and watching the song come to life as the video progressed. Hearing the chords over your rough vocal melody 2:58 was like watching an "aha moment" in real time. Can't wait to see what's next!

[theo-sierra]

Thank you very much for your videos, awesome work! Do you think you would be able to give some explanations about how Abby Holliday does her weird double vocal voices like in Sleeping Sculpture and some other song? Would love it!

[ryanvd]

This is so cool, I just discovered your channel and it's an awesome resource. Please keep it up. As a video idea, it would be really helpful for us beginners to understand how to get good sounding guitar tones in different genres, for instance, I mostly write in the Alt Rock/Pop genre (The Band Camino, Waterparks, Flor, etc) and I just have an impossible time getting good tones (not sure if it's just gear, skill, or signal chain issues, I suspect all three). Learning how to make a good signal chain and any recording tips for that sound would be extremely helpful. Thanks!

[hyno]

the guitar tones are amazing!! Please make a video about the guitar tone

[ТимурГиев]

Thank you very much this video is very useful! I learned how to make🌟 these effects!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😂🤩😃🤓👍