Producer Reacts to Harry Styles - Watermelon Sugar Chords

_ _ _ _ What's up everyone, welcome back.
I'm Blake McLean and I'm a music producer.
So as you probably already guessed, doing Watermelon Sugar today.
Pretty stoked on it.
I've done the song before but a music video came out today so I was like why not do it one more time.
You know, maybe break down some of the stuff that I missed and uh, cause I know there were things I missed the first go around.
So yeah, thought it might be fun.
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So uh, yeah, oh also the watermelon.
So instead of saying call and response today I'm just gonna eat watermelon every single time.
_ Um, maybe not every single time because I feel like that I might end up sick if I do that.
Cause there's a lot of call and response in this song.
But let's uh, let's dive in, let's get going.
So watermelon sugar. _ _ _ _
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[F] Just like strawberries _ _ [Am] on a summer evening.
_ _ [C] _ And it sounds [G] just like a song.
_ _ [F] _ _
_ [N] So, also I have to pause this weird cause it's a music video.
So um, I have to like cut every single time I do.
So there's actually like a little like Rhodes electric piano there in the back right away.
That's kind of giving it this old school [Dm] feel, you know.
_ _ [Am] And that summer feeling, _ [C] _ it's so [G] wonderful.
_ _ Breathe me [F]
in, [Dm] _ breathe [Am] me out.
[N]
Also notice the little like um, there are little responses, I will eat in two seconds.
There's little responses in like the reverb behind him.
And they change the verb just a little bit whenever it hits [C] that pre-chorus.
I don't know if I could ever [G] go _ without.
I'm [F] just _ _ thinking [Am] out loud.
[C] I don't know if I could [G] ever go without.
Watermelon [F] sugar high.
_ Harmonies that they bring in.
Watermelon sugar [Am] high.
_ _ [C] Watermelon sugar high.
Watermelon sugar high.
_ [F]
Watermelon sugar strawberries.
_ _ [N] Those horns just give it so much impact to like transition it into the next section.
And also the guitar here starts, it starts really driving the verse a little bit along with the little [F] tambourine.
[Am] On a summer evening, [D] _ _ [C] _ baby you're the [G] one you're in love with.
_ [F] I want you on my belly, _ [C] and that summer feeling, [D] _ _
[C] _ feeling what's [G] in you.
So, breathe me in.
[N] It's also like, _ there's a lot of, it's doing the same thing like the same line, same line, little tail line.
Same line, same line, little tail line.
Super prevalent in pop music.
Like they use it in pretty much everything.
_ Also, I want you to hear, they've continued to add things throughout this entire song.
Also this music video is crazy.
My ADD is full force today. _ _ _
What was I going to say?
Oh yeah, I remember.
I want you to listen, so on this breathe me in, breathe me out.
Like that.
I don't know if I could ever live without.
_ Watermelon sugar high.
That I don't know if I could ever live without.
That without is the exact same note as the watermelon sugar high.
So the end of the pre-chorus, a lot of times, camera just did that thing.
I can't help but say it does.
But at the end of the pre-chorus, you kind of either want to end on like a two note or like a five note.
Or you want to hit that, _ you want to hit the same note that you're going to hit when you're coming [G] in like he does here.
[D] Let's keep going.
_ [Dm] _ _ _ _ [Am] _
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_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ [G]
Ready?
Also _ _ [F] _ _ _
[B] notice [A#] everything that they've added in here on the second [Dm] chorus, just to give it a little bit more oomph than the first chorus.
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ Watermelon sugar high.
Watermelon [G] sugar high.
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
[C] _ _ _ [F] _ [G] _ _ _
See [Dm] _ _ _ how [N] much farther in they brought his vocal there too, just to show that it's a good change.
I was about to press something.
Here we go.
[Dm] There we go.
_ [C] On a summer evening, _ _ _ and [G] it sounds just like a song.
I don't think I talked about that [F] either.
The acoustic guitar, _ _ _ it's like doubled and it's pan-stereo.
So actually it sounds a lot fuller or more full than it would in any other portion of the [G] song.
I think they keep it.
_ _ _ [Dm] I want your belly, _ [Am] and that summer feeling.
I don't know [C#] if I could ever [D] go [E] without.
[G] Watermelon sugar [Dm] high.
[F]
Watermelon [N] sugar high.
Also that lead in is just perfectly set up.
And I mean the horns kind of just help with that transition, just keep it a little bit smoother.
Also the guitar, if I remember right here, is doing_
There's so many things going on right now.
My brain is like, whoop whoop whoop whoop, all over the place.
That was an interesting sound too.
_ I'm pretty sure the guitar is playing like elongated notes and kind of helping push that melody and keep the motion [C] of the melody out. _ _
Watermelon sugar high.
Watermelon sugar high.
_ Watermelon sugar [G] _ [Em] _ _ _ [Dm] _ high. _
Watermelon [C] sugar high.
[C#] I never noticed those harmonies there either.
Like the_
[G] Watermelon sugar high.
[C] I think that's it.
Watermelon sugar high. _
Watermelon sugar [G] high.
The little runs, oh that's sick. _ _
_ [Dm] _ I just wanna taste [Am] it.
I just wanna taste [F] it.
[C] _
Watermelon [Dm] sugar [G] high. _ _ _
[Dm] I just wanna taste it.
[C] I just wanna [F] taste it.
_ [C] Watermelon sugar [Bm] _ [G] high.
Watermelon [N] sugar_
I love the video too.
_ Oh, no way!
It's like Kiwi!
_ _ Cool!
Oh my gosh, it's just like Kiwi.
That's sick!
_ Obviously I'm a huge fan of the song, and I know my brain was slightly scattered because I have like watermelon tea, and I'm doing it in Premiere Pro today, which is even weirder.
So it's kind of thrown me out of my element, but I hope you enjoyed the video regardless, and I hope you maybe got a little bit more out of it than you did the first time around.
And