How To Produce VOCALS like ARIANA GRANDE

[@AlinaSmithMusic]

For a tutorial that also shows the instrumental production of this cover, please check Patreon: patreon.com/AlinaSmith

[@SongwriterPorshia]

AMAZING 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 I’m struggling so hard with vocals right now. This was a nice break from my frustration

[@AlinaSmithMusic]

So glad it helped a little!

[@SongwriterPorshia]

@@AlinaSmithMusic it most certainly did 💜 thank you 🌹

[@kensei4237]

ive been wanting to mix my vocals cus i wanna get started, thank you!!

[@AlinaSmithMusic]

You can do it! 🫶

[@chikaodiri]

Like the breakdown of the song arrangement

[@DanielMaia]

you should make a full course on how to produce, mix and edit vocals! I would definetly buy it!

[@lyknfruit]

Alina you're so knowledgeable I love videos that break down things like these so I can understand it better!

[@MelLanzieri]

I’m so happy I found I girl producer sharing this stuff!!! Can you do a deep dive to vocal editing?

[@RaeWilliams]

This is super helpful! Thank you for the content. Vocals are always something that you have to be in the studio to learn, so this is priceless.

[@mathhenri-xy5fh]

We Love You, Alina!

[@AlinaSmithMusic]

❤❤❤

[@Iuri.Vinicius]

I have difficulty with vocal production, this helped me a lot

[@alissacook6937]

You are a production goddess, thanks for sharing your tips

[@TheFinalGamerRN]

Crazy!! Thank you so much, so many ideas!!

[@mathhenri-xy5fh]

RELY's here! ❤

[@吳全坤]

The voice is natural

[@zacharikurbah6358]

I love this, it's so inspiring, I am also learning producing music

[@AlinaSmithMusic]

Thank you!

[@andhe3739]

heyy!! i'd really appreciate if you could make tutorials that are beginner friendly maybe? you're an amazing teacher, but maybe something for producers who are just starting out/ dont have many plugins.

[@strawberry0419]

Loved this

[@Astrowyatt]

Why this video doesn't have 1M likes

[@VicuSchek]

Please breakdown your in the box vocal chain for this record!!

[@cdotcom5297]

great video, how did you learn you skills in vocal production in engineering?

[@BrandonFonseca]

ARIANA GRANDE AND NEWJEANS HEAVEEEEEEEEN

[@BassFunMusic]

☺♪♥Great channel, I'm glad I found it. I'll be checking in here often. Good luck!

[@grupatropic]

Thanks for showing me this, it explains things very well and is quite interesting.

[@YouGuys-ux5sm]

Very useful to me. Thank you. If you would ask me, i would say the tempo in which you tell it and present it in this video is too quick. To me it comes across as if you are in a hurry. A bit slower can also give you and your info more authority. I hope this helps.

[@Iuri.Vinicius]

I would love if you make a video on how to produce a song in Melanie Martinez's style

[@kkosaa]

what app do you use though

[@Clearskies3848]

The first step is actually being able to hit the notes. No amount of mixing and layering is going to give you Ariana Grande sounding vocals

[@green.leafff]

lol thats obvious, and clearly this is a tutorial for people that already know how to sing

[@Clearskies3848]

@@green.leafff even knowing how to sing you won’t be sounding like Ariana. Plus teaching people to try and copy/mimic another artist is incredibly unoriginal and a bad way to sing.

[@Ali-mp3xg]

i have two questions and anyone can answer. how long does it take to be a good vocalist like ariana grande and question nr. 2, can anyone become a vocalist like ariana grande or do you have to be born with a certain type of vocal chords, if that makes sense. like do you have to be born with it and then basically just practice until you have it down, or can anyone get to that level (with A LOT of practice of course)?

[@AlinaSmithMusic]

I would say that what Ariana has is a natural-born gift that very few singers could replicate. What makes her voice sound so great is not only her technique (which is something you can learn) but her tone (which is dependent on your biology - size of your chest cavity, nasal cavity, the makeup of your vocal chords etc etc). I would encourage all singers to find what is special about not only their voice but their style/delivery and work on developing those gifts. For example, for me, it's been my natural gifts with timing and rhythm, for Gisselle it's been expanding her range as a rapper, and for Elli it's been honing the unique style she performs in as an artist.

[@Ali-mp3xg]

got it. thank you for your answer

[@Ali-mp3xg]

i have another question. obviously ariana is not in a group so she creates her harmonies all by herself, whereas in a group, the members would have to record their vocals and then combine them to make a harmony. so in arianas case, does she record her vocals multiple times to create a harmony even if it’s just the same note, or does she just reuse that specific vocal to make a harmony?

[@AlinaSmithMusic]

Good question! So, the way it works for most artists is that all harmonies are performed by them unless they're going for a very specific processed sound (genres like hyperpop might be good examples.) In those genres, you can just take melodies and create copies, which are pitch-shifted into a harmonic part. But with genres like pop/R&B, all the harmonies are naturally recorded, and oftentimes, with artists like Ariana, they're doubled and sometimes even quadrupled. So, let's say you have a simple 4-part harmony: C, E, G and Bb. Usually, pop/R&B artists would record 2 instances of each part - so 8 harmony tracks total. And if they're quadrupling, we're looking at 16 tracks for that one harmony. Which is why it's super common to see something like a hundred vocal tracks in these types of songs, to accomodate all the different harmonies and the different ways they're processed. Hope this helps!

[@Ali-mp3xg]

thank you again

[@alextodea7115]

is that mic really a Telefunken ElaM 251?😱

[@AlinaSmithMusic]

Yes 😅. Took me about 8 years of producing full-time to upgrade to it from the Avantone CV12 I used on all my earlier records

[@alextodea7115]

@@AlinaSmithMusic congrats! Which pre do you have?

[@tungochuy]

Would like to go more detail of each track but your layer SLAPPED

[@urfavkaris]

what program do you use?

[@adamadam33892]

Ableton Live