What Your Ear Missed Across Asake's Entire New Album

Ajouté : 2026-05-12

[00:00:00]Ashaka just released an album and a lot of people have a lot to say. Well, I do too. But here's the thing. Most people have no idea what it took to make the song or what is even in [music] the song. The instrumentation, the production. Ladies and gentlemen, that's where I come in. So, if you want to increase your musical knowledge by [music] far in the next few minutes, all I need you to do is to take your headphone or your earpiece and lock in.

[00:00:24]>> I beg you, listen to this. in [music] everything you do.

[00:00:29]Does it damn good? [music] >> First of all, let's talk about that.

[00:00:37]That strings that you're hearing there is what I like to call fast strings.

[00:00:42]Now, listen to me. Strings have reaction time. Some of them have a quick attack.

[00:00:47]Some of them have a slow attack. Attack is simply the time it takes for a sound to go from zero volume to its highest volume when it is played. You can hear that this is fast.

[00:01:00]A slow string will sound like this.

[00:01:07]You understand?

[00:01:14]>> You hear that?

[00:01:17]Well, guys, that's why we call a riser.

[00:01:18]You see, there's something that a riser does to the human body. It starts from here, then it goes here before it goes here. Sound is just vibrations or oscillations per second. So, how many discs per second and that is what we call frequency. It means vibrations [music] per second. Now, a low frequency means that lower vibrations per second.

[00:01:37]A higher frequency means higher vibrations per second. You are here, low frequencies, low vibrations per second.

[00:01:44]And this is a high frequency, right? And it goes from here all the way to here.

[00:01:48]So now imagine what it does to your ears like this.

[00:01:53]Then it drops. It's a form of anticipation like something is about to happen.

[00:01:58]It drops.

[00:02:02]>> Praise be to God.

[00:02:05][music] >> Praise be to God. No matter your [singing] condition, >> forget all [music] your love. Something must go before something come [singing] back. [music] [music] >> Okay. Now he's trying to attract the western audience. I've heard this kind of line before.

[00:02:38]doesn't get it's in the key of F.

[00:02:41][music] If you listen to that thing carefully, you can hear some breakages inside like now you can use a gate to represent that. Let me explain. Basically, just take the literal meaning of a gate.

[00:03:00]Allow something to pass. Don't allow something to pass. Now, imagine there's a gatekeeper standing there and saying, "Hey, this sound pass. Hey, this sound don't pass. Basically, that's what the gate means. Understood?

[00:03:13][music] >> But do you know my favorite part of the song? Listen.

[00:03:21][music] [music] Let me show you. Let me show you.

[00:03:46]>> [music] >> Oh man. Man, this song is beautiful.

[00:03:56]Guys, listen to this masterpiece.

[00:03:59][music] Man, I don't like that progression. So guys, now let me explain something. Most music that we hear are in the four four time signature, right? 1 2 3 4 1 2 Listen.

[00:04:18]3 4 1 [music] 2 3 4 1 2 3. Your experience as a producer is your knowledge about this time signature and how you able to play around the chong.

[00:04:29]We have the four four time signature. We have one, two, three, four, front. Then it was resting here. You understand?

[00:04:37]That that was that was quite unique, you know. The details, man. [music] [singing] [music] >> [music] [music] >> It is my favorite song in the song.

[00:05:05]>> [music and singing] [music] [music] >> See this song is this this.

[00:05:23]Okay. I like it.

[00:05:25]Okay. Okay.

[00:05:31][music] Okay. Okay, this song is very very busy.

[00:05:34]I'm hearing a lot of things. Okay, now there's one thing I'm hearing. It sounds like a grinding shining. Something is scratching something. Now, let me take this book. Hopefully, you hear it. And this, you hear it when I hit it. When I grind on it, you hear it. That sound exactly. So now imagine that on metal.

[00:06:03]Okay.

[00:06:08]I love the fact that they gave the saxophony some time to shine. But listen to the EP. It's not playing. It's not striking. It's striking.

[00:06:18][music] >> [music] >> See that the song came with some kind of vibe. I hear nothing.

[00:06:36][music] >> There's some arpeggiated synth coming in. It has some filter on it.

[00:06:46][music] >> It's different. That's all I can say.

[00:06:50]Now, this is the key.

[00:06:55]That was two ticks.

[00:06:59]>> [music] [music] >> 11:00 [music] the fascinating things I found in this particular song.

[00:07:24]>> [music] >> What am I?

[00:07:30][music] [music] >> Oh, this song is what?

[00:07:47]>> Yeah, that was cool. Listen to our second voice. [music] There's a panning working now in music when we say pan simply put to move. So when they say pan to the left to the right it's like moving the audio. So we can hear that shaki's voice is being [music] moved to the left to the right.

[00:08:04]Searching fire. Searching fire. You get me? [music] That thing that you heard is what we call a [music] stacato. Right now we have a stacato and a pizzicato. This is how a pizzicato sounds like. [music] This is how stacato sounds like. In a stacato, they use the bow itself.

[00:08:25]Picato on the violin. They just plug it with their hands.

[00:08:30]Baby, [music] [music] >> this song is fire.

[00:08:47]and go [music] father.

[00:08:59][music] [music] [music] >> Listen to this. Listen to this.

[00:09:20]>> Uber.

[00:09:22]Wait, is that blaze beat? Hey, BL.

[00:09:27]Which voice is that?

[00:09:31][music and singing] Who play [music] that? Who [singing] play that? Who play that B? That thing is a very common thing for bases. It's in the key of F sharp, right? So, it's kind of like this.

[00:09:47]Yeah, [music] [singing] very very common thing in the basis language, right? But what voice is that?

[00:10:01][music and singing] [music and singing] Oh my god.

[00:10:20][music and singing] You know the beautiful thing about learning an instrument like this harmonies become so much more easier.

[00:10:44][music] in abundance.

[00:10:50]>> Most beautiful thing about learning music is that the more you grow, the more you realize that less is actually more. There's not much in the song, but it's doing the job, you know. [music] >> Now, how would I approach a song like this? Okay.

[00:11:12]Oh. [music] Oh.

[00:11:18][singing] That was a nice [music] job.

[00:11:32]>> It's a king of crowd format. Do you remember?

[00:11:37]>> [music] >> I'm trying to get something girls can't stop working my but [ __ ] my style every time is my type by my side for the street with a shine rocking good [music] shine.

[00:12:10]>> [clears throat and music] >> That's what we call legato. Swing swing legato. So something like this.

[00:12:22]You understand? The sound doesn't stop.

[00:12:24]Yeah. So the progression is this.

[00:12:26][music] Many many colors. God bless [music] your no no. Now a shaker, right? The sound that the shaker is going to produce [music] depends on the kind of materials it was made of. Right now, if we have a shaker that's metallic, even though I've not seen that in a while, the sound, but most shakers are made up of wood, in the wood, the sound that is going to be produced will be determined by the grains [music] in that wood, right? If it's made up of beads, it's going to have a much more rough sound. It's made up of sand, is going to have a smoother sound. Like, but it's made up of beats, you're going to hear crack.

[00:13:18][music] Listen to this. Listen to this. [music] [music] >> Now guys, that's what we call a muted guitar.

[00:13:45]So guys, a guitar is made up of strings and strings are supposed to be let loose. Anyhow, you understand what I just said. But if you hold or you dump in a string, it produces a dumping sound. You understand? But if it is released, it has like you get what I mean?

[00:14:07]Okay.

[00:14:10]>> [singing] >> When you're done, I'll do my solo.

[00:14:15][music] >> But you know, there's something that I like about guitars. They have this arpediated feel.

[00:14:25][music] [music] [music] This song is a fire song. So you see the nice thing about music is that nobody really reinvents the wheel. So if you get to understand chord progressions, you can basically form songs out of anything. The chord progression you were playing was what [music] [music] somebody can do something different like >> [music] >> You see, bro, so many things. [music] [music] [singing] So see music is so so so special man if you really understand it it's like it man to unlock something new in your mind that you even never really thought was there. That's the thing. It's one thing to know that [music] you don't know and it's another thing that you don't even know that you don't know.

[00:15:53][music] Bro, what an album. What an album. Tell a friend to tell a friend that Shak is back. Hopefully, he produces more albums, you know. Now, here's the thing.

[00:16:07]If you love everything that happened right now and you have a song and you know perfectly well that there's something missing in this song and you can't [music] really figure it out yourself, you know the song is not complete. You want me to listen to it and use my expertise to point it out for you. Well, I can help. The link is in the description. We hope on a call 1 hour you and I dissecting [music] your sock from the ground up, end to end. I promise you one thing, you'll come out a changed person. One thing I'll say, I've opened the spots for only five people and if you check on the [music] site, there will be a particular date where the prize will go up. So now is your chance. Don't miss it. And until then, [laughter] be creative.

[00:16:58][music] W says he goes.