Listening style..

Macklemore - Can't hold us

This song structure starts with an:
- Intro
- Verse 1
- Chorus
- Verse 2
- chorus
- Bridge
- chorus

Instruments

1. Synth lead
2. Claps (from real hands - not from Logic)
3. Kicks (real kicks from human feet & a deep club kick)
4. Piano
5. Bass
6. Horns
7. Percussion ( hi hats, tambourine )

The producer of the song is called Ryan Lewis him and Macklemore are like duets - together. I think the genre of this song is Hip hop, with just a hint of Pop because of the time signature (4/4), it goes in 4 beats per minute. The rhythm of the kicks go in crotchets and so does the claps but in 2:05 it changes to semi quavers.

I like The claps and kick because it represents the sound of what church/gospel people do when their making a beat while singing. They do this when they stump their feet.
I can tell that the kicks were recorded as real life stumping from people's feet, in the intro, also the claps are recorded from human hands.


Everything about this song is perfectly mixed & mastered. Many instruments are levelled such as the kicks and the claps, they are levelled out together which means they are balanced. I can tell that the piano has been velocitsed which means that the chords in the piano has the same level of volume.
In the mix there's a nice deep - Bass (club) kick, it's been used very good. I can also tell that the producer 'Ryan Lewis' used a good sense of Compression on to it, I can tell because of the quality of the kick. It's really punchy and quite bassey as well. The attack of the kick is really good I would say that the attack on the kick is around about 40-60%. Although it is a deep bass kick, there's not much of bass on it there's only a little bit. In the mix if the  song is that the vocals is the loudest first, second is the drum beat, then third it's the piano & the horns.


What I also like about this song is that the Piano is the main melody and it's easy to remember for people.  The chords for this song is, Em, Dsus, Bm, C and the bassline is E , D , B, C. This is how the chords go in order:

• Em x4 + bassline E
• Dsus + bassline D
• Bm + bassline B
• Then it goes back to a C x4 + bassline C