The TRUTH About Blink 182's "Feeling This"

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[@SugarpillProd]

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[@francescobarbaro7575]

Any song from Neighborhoods :D

[@turnlow8528]

Neighborhoods

[@BigOlEmery]

Maybe Green Day redundant

[@BigOlEmery]

@sugarpillCovers I’m gonna have to buy some merch lol

[@logankeilty4529]

Enthused

[@philiom7724]

blink's albums are a masterclass in audio production.

[@henriquedecara]

Agreed. The only problem is to reproduce all this masterclass on stage 😂

[@Pr3cision357]

@@henriquedecarabut that’s why you you either love them or you don’t. Believe it or not they’re just having fun on stage they’re not trying to strategically hit every note perfect. They’re just having fun. And if you appreciate that art You love them. If you’re looking for a perfect production of the song on stage you gotta look elsewhere

[@melray6287]

It’s cool how they can use the same chord progressions in many songs and still sound different

[@tigmil8116]

Don't leave me and online songs

[@joshjams]

Travis

[@melray6287]

@@joshjams Good point , also rhythm/harmony too tho

[@xintlzer3354]

Travis and just a little bit of creativity and energy lol

[@hotstankygarbage788]

YO THAT 6 STRING BASS IN THE MIX IS CRAZY. I've heard this song ad long as I've been alive and never noticed that mixed in. I've watched the 2003 documentary and listened to 2003 so many times. It's insane how they took pop punk to such a level where almost 20 years later and I'm still noticing new things in the mix.

[@hadinasrallah8928]

Jerry finn was king

[@psychotropictraveler514]

@@hadinasrallah8928 legend

[@CannaToker420]

@@hadinasrallah8928 Jerry Finn was God

[@dantommo4797]

@@CannaToker420 Only God is God but Finn was great in the studio. The 4th member of blink

[@SugarpillProd]

God is dog spelled backwards 🤯

[@noahsherman6488]

even tho it was their lead single on that album I think it’s a song that deserves more attention. it’s my favorite song by blink. the outro, the guitar, the bridge, the drums, the bass, the meaning, a MASTAPEICE

[@dawesreads1263]

This is a great example of how to use the studio to make a great sounding yet complex record, which has enough simplicity that it can be recreated decently enough live. Seriously though, the amount of things I didn’t hear in the mix despite having loved this song since I was 16 is unbelievable.

[@iankarg1436]

Honestly, I have no words. This is not one of the BEST BREAKDOWNS. IT IS THE BEST BREAKDOWN.

[@lukepawlowsky6446]

So much effort went into this and I appreciate every ounce of it 👏🏼

[@sabretechv2]

One of my favorite blink 182 songs and hardly anyone ever covers it in these types of videos. You’re the best man!

[@robertsteinberger]

Dissecting and analysing songs is how I learned how to arrange. Great work!

[@kphoenix137]

2:40 today I learned this was in the song. Amazing

[@Meandmybrother12345]

Really like this approach to breaking down songs. Keep it up!

[@macbeth031]

The stems for Feeling This are pretty cool aren’t they. Made me realise how much I hadn’t heard before.

[@BigOlEmery]

2:39 No one’s going to talk about how this man did only down strokes

[@zachl9260]

that’s how blink does it

[@BigOlEmery]

Yea I know. I’m just appreciating that he did it 100%. He didn’t play it the lazy way

[@andy_182]

It’s the only way to do it. Anyone who does it otherwise is not playing Feeling This. They’re playing something else

[@BigOlEmery]

@@andy_182 there’s a thing called up and downstroke picking. Blink uses it all the time

[@BigOlEmery]

But I do agree

[@brezkysimaremareofficial3951]

Man I love you man

[@SugarpillProd]

Man I love you too, man.

[@Abeuss]

I’ve head the bass six part but always thought it was some kind of studio magic.. of course I only learned what a bass six was two years ago. I bought and Ibanez src6 and play is Sundays and Wednesdays at church.

[@mellin7049]

this series is phenomenal. keep it up!

[@rashaansmith4713]

the makes me happy to see this. I listen to this song literally every day just to try and find stuff iv never heard before, and safe to say there are two things on this video for sure

[@iZam1993]

Bro you never disappoint 🔥

[@andreswolfgang5783]

Nice work man. Aesthenia is also one of those songs where you can find a lot of cool things when you pull it apart

[@francescobarbaro7575]

Priceless, like most of your videos.

[@lewisfilby2394]

this was too cool. subscribed! cant wait to watch more of your videos

[@Farfarawai]

very interesting analysis dude, good job

[@SugarpillProd]

Thanks man, glad you enjoyed it!

[@allkive]

Feeling this is such a great song, nice video

[@joaquinmartinmarchena9697]

Nice job, mate! Greetings from Spain!

[@jevinday]

holy shit I thought this was gonna be a short story about the song but I was totally wrong. that was so awesome! definitely one of my favorite Blink songs and definitely my favorite Blink album without a doubt.

[@SJMKS.0]

Can you do one for 'Always'?

[@NESADDICT]

Yes please

[@qmkut9121]

X3 on this please :D

[@silvaright]

Loved it, can I request you do this with Carousel?

[@rickymccrum1814]

My all time favorite song... thank you 🥰

[@vitoscaletta807]

Tape effect 🐐

[@stanislav_yurchenko]

Very interesting! Thanks so much!

[@Noface-zev]

We need to collab so bad you’re amazing!!!

[@AtomizedSound]

Their best record by far to me. I remember Mark using that Fender VI bass on Always but I didn’t know he used it on Feeling This too.

[@Cash_Lovell]

He Didn’t use it on Always, He used a regular 4 String and a Weird Synth Bass on the verses, but he does use it on the Bridge of Violence

[@FairyCRat]

Bro, imagine knowing your favorite songs so well that you can play them better than the people who frickin recorded them. Nice job dude

[@linoangeles6088]

Great job 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@kintaro_f]

very interesting! love the shirt. 🤘

[@debnotdebt]

kinda my fav song, in term of the production and the song itself

[@alem182]

i love this channel

[@Pantimoto]

what music is there at the end with that 8/16bit sounding feeling this?

[@jakereuter7617]

This is dope!

[@duyver101]

This is one of my fave blink songs. Sadly it always sounds a bit awkward live. (Even by blink standards) Perhaps this is due to a lot of these intricacies missing.

[@dfsxgh]

Totally. These and the vocals are way different

[@albinobangz9182]

I really liked this video, this song is so good.

[@TheSigp220]

How do your hands do that? looked at a few of your videos. You're a machine, dude!

[@claymore6005]

How do you play the part in 2:39 the right guitar

[@derylleon]

Very cool

[@GabMacedoo]

What does it mean to be “mixed under”? Does it mean the volume being lower or adjusting the frequencies?

[@SugarpillProd]

It's referring to the frequency content of each instrument, and which one is being used for the bulk of the low end in the mix. Because of how low frequencies work, you can really only have one instrument dominate that area, so generally that will be either the kick or bass, and which one that is depends on the arrangement, production and mix.

[@bxbbyxx]

This was super interesting!

[@Manhasnoname8645]

Bravo!

[@Turtlemannnn90]

My all-time favorite Blink song

[@Noface-zev]

the mix on the bass vi is amazing I have one but a jazz master and it doubles as a fat 6 string baritone electric too which is what I use mine for in drop f to drop d1 :)))

[@valk_182]

I felt like I already watched this same video like last year? Did u re-uploaded it? Please say so, I can't be in this craziness level 😫

[@skullkid112]

Hey SP! How about the flanger on the intro drums? Could you elaborate on that as well?

[@SugarpillProd]

Not really sure what else there is to say about it. It's just the drums being ran through a flange effect, haha.

[@CKDrumsInc]

Awesome

[@MrGuitarDemo]

All your instrumental tips and the demonstrations sound great, but how do the vocals work? That's what I'm wondering. I've had practice and lessons and think im "technically" a much better singer than them (more range, power, can sing live, dont need pitch correction for example), but they sound so much better on the studio records to me tonally, so is there studio magic to consider there, mics, preamp,s interface type, fx causing that "doubles glossy chorus"...or are their voices just better for this genre and i cant quite match that tone? I got some examples of singing onchannel please lemme know. I know I shouldnt aim to sound exactly like X singer but I like to point to them as starting points or something to learn from. It sounds like tom for example isn't just raw, and not just autotune either, there's a whole cocktail of fx or something. When you pull a isolated vocal there's usually a ton of reverb that's not noticeable on the total track, how do that do that for example?

[@SugarpillProd]

Thanks! So what you're describing there is honestly a lot of different things. Tone-wise it can be to do with how the vocal was captured (as in microphone selection) but this can also be changed in the mix through EQ, saturation and so on. Though for the most part, engineers generally try to capture to most pure, natural vocal sound they can, so that you have more options to work with in the mix. An exception to this would be Tom's vocal during the extended chorus (1:14 in the song) where it sounds like he intentionally sang very far away, possibly in a bathroom or some type of tiled room, to get that roomy, echo sound. Or maybe this was added in post, but he's definitely singing a lot further away from the mic than he does for the verse section. In terms of this song specifically, the vocal arrangement is actually quite simple. Tom is single tracked for each verse, and his vocal is super dry and upfront (as in no delay, reverb, etc). And then Mark's "Feeling This" lines are filtered so they have more of that lo-fi vibe, to contrast with Tom's full frequency vocal. Then for the chorus, Mark is double tracked (which is singing the same exact part twice, then stacking these on top of one another). If you listen to when he sings "smile", you can hear there's a tiny timing discrepancy between the two takes, so you know it's doubled. But a more obvious indication of this is that slightly chorus-y sound you get from stacking two very similar sounds on top of each other. As they're keeping both panned in the middle (so centred) it just gives you a fuller sound, without any phasing issues because they're two separate takes. Then Tom has a harmony line during the 2nd repetition of each chorus, which is again filtered, similar to that of Mark's verse vocal. It's only during the outro where things get more complex, from a tracking perspective. Most of this is just doubles again, so Mark's lead vocal is doubled, and then it sounds like Tom's harmony is also doubled, along with all the additional lines coming in, which you hear once the music fades out at the end. But again, in terms of the arrangement, they're basically just alternating between single and doubled parts, along with filtered sections to contrast with the lead vocal. Something to point out is that a lot of work goes into making a vocal sound "natural" in a mix. Most vocals - especially for this kind of music - are going to be too dynamic to sit in a mix, so they're likely to be tracked with compression on the way, and then smashed with a load more during the mix. You really don't want much dynamics out of a vocal in rock music, because it doesn't allow for the voice to cut through otherwise. It'll just get drowned out by the instrumentation. Then they'll also look to treat the vocal for any harshness (like "s" sounds or mouth clicks) to make it sound pleasant to listen to. I wouldn't worry too much about the "cocktail of fx" as you put it, if you're purely focused on your vocal sound. This is very much a mixing decision, and it's more to do with getting the vocal to sit in a mix. Some mixes will make use of a dry vocal sound, to make it more upfront and in-your-face, like they do here with the verses. But then you may want to add space to these during a denser chorus section, which can be done through various uses of delay and reverb. Having listened to a few of your examples, your voice sounds totally fine, I think a lot of the problem is just down to the treatment of your vocals. They're not very compressed, so they don't feel as though they're really part of the mix, more so just sitting on top of the instrumental, if that makes sense. Your doubles also sound quite loose, and to really benefit from this technique, you need to make sure they're as tight as possible when tracking, and then go in and edit these further after recording. It also sounds like you're using way too many effects, for no real reason. I would suggest not using anything until you're really comfortable with how and when you should apply them. Reverb in particular just kills your vocal sound if it's not well placed, because you're pushing the sound of your voice further into the background the more you add. It sounds decent on your "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" cover, as the instrumental allows for this space, but on something like your "Black Parade" cover, it's just clouding up your voice and washing the vocal sound out of the mix. Sidechaining would be a good thing to learn about here though. If you're unfamiliar, it's a way of ducking the effect every time you sing, but then the sound of the fx you're sidechaining will be brought back up in-between the gaps of your vocal recording. It's generally a much better application of those effects, rather than just slapping a reverb on your voice and having this running throughout. I hope some of that is useful to you!

[@qmkut9121]

Anyone got tabs for that six-string bassline?

[@skatermdq]

The bass is love

[@alix003]

this rocked

[@nightwing5405]

Whats the intro/inbetween the parts song?

[@SugarpillProd]

It's taken from a cover of Stockhome Syndrome I made awhile ago.

[@camerondenesha6856]

Nice Dreamwalker shirt!! AVA!!!

[@KristoferProphet]

How to get the open E with capo on 2nd fret?

[@SugarpillProd]

It's tuned to drop D, so having the capo on the 2nd fret makes it an E.

[@KristoferProphet]

@@SugarpillProd is there any real reason as to why they did this in the studio and why he does it live? I remember when I tried it I found it more difficult to play for some reason.

[@SugarpillProd]

@@KristoferProphet He's also droning the D string in-between the octaves, so you need the capo on in order to do this - otherwise it'd be out of tune if you weren't capo'd.

[@wisnumurtzy8596]

Where did you got that The Dream Walker t-shirt?

[@SugarpillProd]

It came in a bundle with the CD I think.

[@travisnielsen906]

What’s the “tape effect”? Was there more to it before the reupload?

[@SugarpillProd]

It's just the effect they use during the ending of the bridge. There isn't anything more to it, it's just a spin down tape effect.

[@jeremycunningham7897]

Oh my days what kind of black magic voodoo is this!! Hats off for workin u way thru that :)

[@HaevyGlow]

That bass tone tho! What are you using for processing?

[@SugarpillProd]

I just use an Axe FX II for all my guitar / bass tones.

[@njlwag]

You're a God damn king.

[@nonbinaryhaircuts]

why the reupload?

[@Scott-sm1bs]

Is that acoustic guitar during transitions the worst of them acoustic?

[@SugarpillProd]

Nah, it's a cover of Stockhome Syndrome I recorded ages ago

[@ItzJake619]

Is that the same Gibson Tom recorded the guitar parts on? It looks wicked familiar to the video of him tracking guitar for the song.

[@SugarpillProd]

Nah, mines an Epiphone. Haven't got that Gibson money quite yet, haha.

[@john_sakel]

What is the name of the song between the parts ? (Acoustic)

[@SugarpillProd]

It's an acoustic cover of Stockhome Syndrome I recorded ages ago. If you search the channel, you should be able to find the full version.

[@john_sakel]

@@SugarpillProd ok thanx for the reply !

[@filthybryan7981]

Best blink song, best blink album

[@hungchannie428]

Is this a reupload??

[@hambonetunes1988]

You should add what lights you use to your affiliate links! I would like to know and buy some!

[@SugarpillProd]

Here ya go - amzn.to/3qSFKCL

[@daviisebarn2489]

LOVE the dreamwalker thsirt

[@ndtschau]

If you could analyse some Rancid-Song that would be great! Matt Freeman is a god of bassplaying...🤘🏻🎸👍🏻😖🎵

[@steverom6500]

Could you release the synth pop sound from your endcard as a whole song? :)

[@SugarpillProd]

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[@oscar18034]

Any reason why this has been reuploaded?

[@SugarpillProd]

Copyright shiz.

[@oscar18034]

@@SugarpillProd ohh

[@sheetfaker7388]

This is a repost right

[@iliketrains3495]

Is the 'Beato' in the description a Pat Finnerty reference?

[@SugarpillProd]

Could well be...

[@iliketrains3495]

@@SugarpillProd but Mark Hoppus knows, like a C chord

[@cthulhu4607]

Lol mark lookin like he touched the monster ball in space jam

[@tonykuchar3237]

The hidden best blink bass line

[@Brokeman471]

FAYTE FYELL SHYORTT THIS TOIMEEEE

[@josephraines4850]

Blink 182's I miss you

[@20java09]

Yo that endcard tune sounded like the menu screen of a blink theme arcade game probably called something like “BoomerTime” or “Blink-Out.” Real talk though I actually found I was playing feelin this all wrong from this video. Tom’s a cheeky guit boi.

[@SugarpillProd]

"Tom’s a cheeky guit boi" couldn't have put it better myself, haha.

[@ahrress9346]

This whole time I thought Mark was playing chords in the chorus, it was two basses

[@aidandevereaux1236]

the drum cover of the intro threw me off without the triplets. i was thinking: this isnt the truth!

[@ellezard0844]

That album is awesome but in live it sounds really empty because of the lack of other musicians

[@macblink]

one of my fav blink-182 songs 🤘🏻it's a masterpiece, and FUCK if people says otherwise!

[@user-hn4rk4mb7b]

😃

[@Bobby_Uterus]

I’ve gotta take a dump. (I’m feeling it) this song has this effect. (I’m feeling it) about to crap my pants. (I’m feeling it).

[@giacomovit9088]

Is this a reup? I'm sure I've seen it before

[@pantsnjacket381]

Yes. Cuz of copyright.

[@nittygritty7503]

What truth?

[@mintcricket]

просто топ 🔥

[@jordank5975]

I find this technically amazing but also disappointing it can never be recreated live without a thousand prerecorded tracks from a computer playing along.

[@RickyRockstarTNS]

They should keep Matt when Tom comes back just to sing the background vocals at the end of this song. That alone would be worth it.

[@jordank5975]

@@RickyRockstarTNS I've been hoping for this for a while. Matt is a far better guitarist but not quite the greatest improvement on vocals

[@macblink]

0:26 hahaha when Mark played it wrong 😆

[@bigballz4u]

So you're saying that Mark Hoppus himself is playing his own bass part wrong? I find that hard to believe.

[@jasongallman2032]

I don't think that's what he's saying

[@bigballz4u]

@@jasongallman2032 ok what then?

[@jasongallman2032]

@@bigballz4u not entirely sure. It would seem a little goofy for him to be saying the guy that wrote the part is playing the part wrong. I hope thats not what he's saying. Maybe it has to do with the incorporation of the fender bass vi.

[@TheBlinkisback09]

Mark doesn't play it "wrong" but he has always simplified it live. Because, you know, singing is hard to do while riffing

[@SugarpillProd]

He technically plays it wrong now. I'd assume it's down to changing it live, and then forgetting how you originally played it in the studio. I've also seen other people say it's because he sings at the same time - though he's only gotta saying "feeling this" a few times, lol. He's said it himself that he'll just go back and learn parts by ear, like he used to when he was growing up, so you could easily miss things like that. Especially this song, where the bass isn't mixed all that loud to begin with.

[@CFChristian]

What about the added "busy-ness" with the drums in the beginning?

[@gowiththeflowbee8053]

2:39 James Herfield warm up

[@amaurythewarrior]

the title is clear clickbait, but it's a pretty goodbreakdown. i tried to record a cover almost ten years ago (damn, already), and I missed a lot of those details. (that was before having access to the multitracks though)

[@MrMockigton]

i think you got it mixed up in the end, for the verse, the kick is mixed OVER the Bass, audibly, and for the chorus vice versa.

[@SugarpillProd]

The bass doesn't have the same low end in the verse as it does the chorus though. As it's doubled, there's a lot more low end information in the chorus, plus the kick is only used a few times, where as the verse the bass is a lot busier, so you'd naturally use the kick for the low end, because the bass isn't going to be as consistent.

[@SugarpillProd]

If you're talking in terms of levels, then yes, then kick is louder in the verse, but I'm talking about frequencies.

[@MrMockigton]

@@SugarpillProd then your label for "kick" is wrong, since there is no kick frequency - you named two instruments, bass and kick - were you talking about frequencies, it should be "more 100 Hz on the bass in the chorus" doesnt sound as fancy tho, i get why you did it, it is just that the terminology is wrong.

[@SugarpillProd]

@@MrMockigton No, that would be incorrect. It wouldn't be 100hz on the bass, as then the bass would still be above the kick. It changes from the verse because the kick in the verse is providing the consistent low end, where as the kick more or less drops out in the chorus, which then allows the bass to take up that lost frequency range. And I don't understand what you mean by no kick frequency. Are you implying it doesn't have a frequency?

[@MrMockigton]

@@SugarpillProd i think i get what you were trying to say now. your wording is weird and doesnt really help with understanding whats going on in the mix. correct me if im wrong: you mean that the bass has received a boost in the, say 100hz area, whereas the kick is more prominent in the 60-80hz region, which is then swapped for the chorus. that is what you mean by "x mixed over y" - which might be the case, but is not what is happening in the mix here. these drastic results are not achieved by fiddling with the low end - it is more likely a volume envelope or the analog counterpart to that. the bass sound(s) and kick sound also differ drastically, specifically because there is this second bass line that comes in with the chorus and because the kick is more snappy and mid-range-focused in the verse. the main difference here is not which of these instruments sits lower in the mix.

[@t_rox12]

You got my attention with Blink 182, you got my subscription with I think you should leave