It's day four of the #13 Yuletide Audio Tips from our Icelandic Yulelads.
If you missed the first three you can check them out here:
The fourth Yule Lad to come down from the mountains is Þvörusleikir.
The English translation of his name is Spoon-Licker and he "steals Þvörur (a
type of a wooden spoon with a long handle - I. þvara) to lick. He is extremely thin due to malnutrition."
Spoon-Licker brings something a little different to town today.
He seems to have gotten his hands on a preview from our "The Long Wait for Christmas" bonus video where I dissect the production and arrangement of our two Christmas
songs.
These guys are shifty f***ers but I'll let it slide this time because the snippet he snagged is actually pretty valuable when it comes to producing your own music.
When we talk about mutes in the arrangement we often think about muting guitar parts for an entire section of a song.
In this case it's about muting the backup vocals so that they weave in and out between the lead vocal phrases.
You don't want the backup vocals to clash with the lead vocal, especially when they have contrasting parts.
So check out the minuscule mutes I made (ah, alliteration!) in
our "Santa" song and think about how you can incorporate something similar in your productions.
