Landen Purifoy Hears Avril Lavigne For The First Time

[00:00:00]It sounds like an early 2000s punk rock song that was made currently.

[00:00:04]>> [music] >> Dude, I mean that that song is epic. I I can't wait to put some on it.

[00:00:11]What do I want to do [music] here?

[00:00:12]Everyone's chanting talk box talk box and then >> [laughter] >> Wait, I just want to hear this all day.

[00:00:20][music] Harmonically, you get an A+ from me.

[00:00:23]That was sick. I'm scared to hear the real song.

[00:00:26]>> [music] >> Hey, my name is Landon Pigg Carrafoi. I am a musician and content creator. Uh mostly known for playing things like the talk box.

[00:00:35]>> What's up? This is a talk box. Yeah.

[00:00:39]>> And many other crazy instruments and testing them out.

[00:00:44]Oh, it's so loud. Yeah, we're going to have a great time today. I'm excited.

[00:00:47]>> You watched a few of these videos. Do you know what's about to happen?

[00:00:50]>> Um I know the general flow, but I've never experienced the real deal. So, I'm honestly a little scared, but we're going to see.

[00:00:58]>> In a moment, I'm going to give you a song that you haven't heard before. I have a whole list of songs we're going to go through them one at a time. I'm going to give you just the drums and the vocals. All the other instruments are stripped away, so you have complete musical freedom.

[00:01:11]>> Okay.

[00:01:17]>> I'm going to make it bend and break.

[00:01:18]>> Oh, okay. Yeah, we know this.

[00:01:21]>> We're going to send another one your way.

[00:01:24]>> You know, you you make me feel so >> I know this.

[00:01:27]>> Woo!

[00:01:37]>> All right.

[00:01:38]>> Excellent. This is the first one I'm like I'm not 100% sure you'll know this one. So, >> [music] >> I don't think I know this.

[00:01:56]I want to hear the chorus though, cuz I don't know. This is a bop though.

[00:02:01]>> [music] [music] >> It sounds like an early 2000's punk rock song that was made currently. Dude, I mean that that song is epic. I I can't wait to put some on it. What would you like to do? Do you want to like figure out some chord progressions through over the song? Do you want to like experiment with some different sounds? Um I think I want to do both of those. Figure out some chord progression maybe, yeah.

[00:02:30]Let's hear that intro again and uh play around with it.

[00:02:34]>> it.

[00:02:37]>> [music] [music] [music] >> Intro is chorus, so we'll keep I think I'm going to keep the 4 1 [singing and music] 5 to the 3.

[00:03:04]>> [music] >> All right.

[00:03:07]Okay, what is that? That's the pre-chorus. [music] 2 3 6 5. Okay, I kind of like that. I kind of like that.

[00:03:23]>> [music] >> Yeah, I like that.

[00:03:28]>> Harmonically, you get an A+ for me.

[00:03:31]>> And then it's just like another chorus or whatever, right? And then >> just chorus out to the end and then >> Okay, I like the progression.

[00:03:36]>> That's nice, man. You got a nice skeleton of the song.

[00:03:39]>> It's fun.

[00:03:40]>> Now that you have the arrangement sort of pretty much mapped out, how do you want to go about laying some parts down?

[00:03:45]>> I I need some chords in the back, so I want to do like either synths or pads or something. I want to I want to lay down the bed uh the musical bed, so [music] find something here.

[00:03:58]All right.

[00:03:59]Let's Okay.

[00:04:10]>> [music] >> We I need some pulsing. I think I really want some pulsing.

[00:04:32]>> [music] >> Man, you're doing this all manually. No programming, just >> Yeah. Now I'm wondering if I want that to keep going.

[00:04:40]>> [music] >> That's what I need.

[00:04:48]>> [music] [music] >> And now we're doing that walk up.

[00:05:01]>> [music] >> Cool. For course, let's see. I'll just >> [music] >> Yeah.

[00:05:12]>> [music] >> Let me lay down some pads on the bridge real quick to give me some inspiration.

[00:05:20]>> [music] [singing] >> Okay. So, that'll give me a little something.

[00:05:27]What do I want to do here? [music] Wait, I just want to hear this all there. It's What's the What's the tempo of the song?

[00:05:33]>> Technically 170.

[00:05:38]>> Okay, let's see what this does.

[00:05:43]>> [music] [singing] >> Cool.

[00:05:51]>> Nice, dude.

[00:05:52]>> alien.

[00:05:54]I feel like I haven't done the beef, like the meat of the track. Okay, let's lay down this bass and see see what it sounds like.

[00:06:07]>> [music] >> Oh my god.

[00:06:13]>> Honestly, it's sounding really good in here.

[00:06:15]>> Sick. Okay, good. I'm excited.

[00:06:19]Man, I wish I could just change I want it to bow bow every time.

[00:06:23]>> [music] >> There we go. All right, cool.

[00:06:29]>> [music] >> Yeah, sick, dude.

[00:06:33]>> that. Sounds good.

[00:06:34]>> All right, we got everything except for the whatever your final layer is.

[00:06:37]>> Yeah, um >> Everyone's starting to talk box, talk box.

[00:06:41]>> [laughter] >> Hey, it might work.

[00:06:44]>> [singing] >> Yeah, we'll do that.

[00:06:49]>> Cool, man. That's so fun.

[00:06:52]All right, Lance, you got a lot of things layered in. Are you ready to put everything all together?

[00:06:56]>> I think I am.

[00:06:58]>> All right, let's make some noise.

[00:06:59]>> Cool.

[00:07:03]>> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> You better know that more than you could chew. Can you taste it?

[00:07:47]>> [music] [music] [music] [music] >> I don't hold your [music] breath cuz you're still choking on your words.

[00:08:16]Those things you said might be the [music] last ones that I heard. So, come pick up your clothes from the front yard's sprinklers on. Burn the rest in the backyard. Should've had [music] the guts to say goodbye. Now, you're going to have regrets for the rest of your life.

[00:08:32]Just face [music] it, we didn't make it.

[00:08:35]You bit off more than you could chew.

[00:08:36]Can you taste it?

[00:08:41]>> [music] [music] [music] >> I bet you taste me on the tip of your tongue. Tip of your tongue.

[00:09:04]Tip of your [music] tongue.

[00:09:06]I fell fast when I know I should've run.

[00:09:08]Know I should've run.

[00:09:10]Know [singing] I should've run.

[00:09:11]I bet you taste me on the tip of your [music] tongue.

[00:09:14]Tip of your tongue.

[00:09:15]Tip of your tongue.

[00:09:17]I fell fast [music] when I know I should've run.

[00:09:20]Know I should've run.

[00:09:21]Know I should've run.

[00:09:22]>> [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Let's go, man. That is sick.

[00:09:49]>> That's fun.

[00:09:50]>> You were on the right track when you were, you know, you're like, "Okay, I it feels very pop punk."

[00:09:54]>> Mhm.

[00:09:54]>> Who do you Who do you think this is?

[00:09:56]>> I'm thinking like Avril Lavigne or uh >> This is actually Avril Lavigne.

[00:10:01]>> Oh, okay. Hey, I got that spot on the first time. Sick, okay.

[00:10:03]>> The pop punk sound is very reminiscent of like her early 2000s, like The Best Damn Thing album.

[00:10:08]>> Yeah, yeah.

[00:10:09]>> But the song obviously is called Bite Me, which you deciphered through the talk box lyrics. And she actually recorded this with a very famous drummer. Care to guess who it was?

[00:10:18]>> Barker?

[00:10:19]>> Yeah, Travis Barker. He's the drummer of the track. [laughter] >> how I That's yeah. I'm not even a drum guy, but it's just yeah.

[00:10:24]>> Yeah.

[00:10:25]>> I'm scared to hear the real song.

[00:10:27]>> Here it comes.

[00:10:28]>> Let's go.

[00:10:34]Okay.

[00:10:39]Okay.

[00:10:44]Oh, I thought it was Okay, it's similar. It's like three chords.

[00:10:56]>> Okay.

[00:10:58]Yeah.

[00:10:59]Yeah, okay, okay. Similar, yeah.

[00:11:02]>> [music] >> Yeah, cool.

[00:11:09]Oh, did a little break?

[00:11:14]Yeah, okay.

[00:11:16]>> [laughter] >> That was sick.

[00:11:17]>> Yeah, any thoughts on the original?

[00:11:19]>> I like my two that I added.

[00:11:21]>> How you walk up?

[00:11:22]>> On the on the Oh, and the walk up. But I like that >> Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:11:27]>> during that that verse. Yeah, and the chorus is interesting. It's starting on a six. It gives that like there's a problem and then uh happy. So, it's problem, [music] minor, and then it gets better. Whereas, mine starts happy.

[00:11:42]>> Yeah, yeah. You started a lot happier, yeah.

[00:11:44]>> Yeah. Cuz we start [music] on the four, so happy. Yay. [singing] Yay.

[00:11:49]And the three is barely sad.

[00:11:51]>> [laughter] >> Yeah, I think your version was very musical. Like, you didn't [music] overplay or anything. You just like played what you thought it needed.

[00:11:57]>> Right.

[00:11:58]>> Which is how you make money in the music industry, you know?

[00:12:00]>> Sure. Yeah.

[00:12:01]>> [laughter] >> I'm Landon Purifoy, and that was my version of Bite Me by Avril Lavigne.

[00:12:07]>> I gave you a shot. You don't get it >> [music] >> twice.

[00:12:10]Yeah, yeah.

[00:12:12]It won't be together, not for baby. You can bite me.