Chords for The Making Of Lil Peep's "Benz Truck" With Smokeasac | Deconstructed

[Gm] _ Me and Peep [Dm] started talking like [Bb] 2014 or 15.
He reached out to [F] me and was just kind of like, yo, [Gm] I like your beats.
I only knew him at the time [D] as his email.
I just knew him as Gus.
[Bb] I had sent him like, I don't know how many beats, like 10 beats I [Dm] think.
And he sent me back one song and I was like, I [A] replied like in all capital letters like,
[Gm] damn you [Dm] snapped.
I love you, thank [Bb] you, you're a brother, you got a [Dm] boyfriend, I stopped seeing you
when I [Gm] started, but I never seen since, you still on [D] my mind, man, I'm pressing the shutter,
[Bb] you sound like a, what was that fuck, it's a bitch good, [F] what was that fuck, it's a bitch [Gm] good.
_ Me and Peep became real close, like I considered him, he was my best friend.
It was destiny, you know, like I really felt like it was meant to like just all come together
like that, like from us talking on email to meeting in [Bb] person and then to just being like
borderline like homeless together, like it was just real [D] rough for us.
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_ _ [Dm] The song started off with me like [Bb] I had gone into the studio with Rob Cavallo [A] and my other friend Juan.
We were just kind [D] of jamming out, like Rob was on guitar [E] and Juan was on bass.
I told Rob I wanted [Dm] to do something with a fast tempo but have like a slow vibe to it
at the same time.
We recorded for hours and I looped this one part, it just [Bb] caught my ear so much and I
knew it would be great for a song.
So I threw it in, gross beat, put it on [D] half speed, it's a very like common thing to do
with like I think [Bb] like trap beats, a lot of trap [Dm] producers do it and that's kind of where
I picked it up.
[A] So it's like real slow and dark [Dm] and eerie kind of, you know, but that changes a little
bit once that gross beat's taken off of it.
It's just, _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
yeah, so it lightens up a little bit.
It's not as dark or [Am] eerie but it still has a dark tone to it, you [Gm] know.
[Dm] I started adding 808s to [Bb] it and I was like, it just didn't sound right to me and I wanted
to do something different.
[N] So I was like, let's just cut out the 808s and use straight bass guitar, you know.
It feels a little bit more like authentic.
He just jammed across the melody and we got_ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ I started off with some drums that were kind of just bouncy.
So _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I sped the hi-hats a little bit just to give it that like fast motion, kind of like
you're in a car, you can cruise out to this shit kind of vibe. _
I _ _ _ _ _ _ like to keep it simple.
It's just kind of like that vibe where it's like really simple melody but has like a dark
tone to it.
Just bouncy drums.
And then as the song goes on, just like change the progression of the drums a little bit.
I take out the hi-hats, you know, to kind of give some like space to the vocals. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Real simple.
And I threw a little rim sound in there.
[B] I like rim sounds a lot.
And sometimes I'll even use them as my snares.
_ _ _ _ And with the hi-hats, I ended up speeding it up even more.
I put it into triplets.
So it kind of [Dm] gives it this weird kind of bounce. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ And I bring the verse in right here and I just filtered out the main guitar and then
just had the bass guitar playing.
It gives this open space [Bb] for the vocals to really stand out.
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_ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ [D]
So I use Fruity Free Filter for all my melodies.
And what I do is I automate the frequency.
I basically have it rise.
You can kind of see it.
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[Bb] _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ So the frequency goes up and it basically takes out that low [D]-pass kind of sound. _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ I was sitting right next to him in the room when I [Gm] watched him record and I was just like_
It was always [D] cool for me to see what was going [Bb] through his brain while he was writing
because he didn't even [Dm] hum or anything.
He would just literally write [C] and then set up the microphone and [Gm] just lay it [D] out.
So I sat there and heard him record the [Bb] hook and I was just like, alright, we got [Dm] a hit.
I really felt like we were on to something [Gm] groundbreaking.
Pretty soon you're gonna hate [D] me.
Can't stay in the K [Bb] now.
You know I'm famous.
[Dm] All the money I ever made, _ [Gm] I'm about to change it.
[D] You got to step inside his brain, [Bb] kind of.
[Gm] And him as a [Dm] person, he was just one of the greatest people.
An amazing [A] soul.
He had, [Bb] just like everyone does, we all have our problems.
He really was big on making people feel comfortable in their own skin.
[E] My main goal is to keep [D] his legacy alive and keep his name out there.
Keep the movement going. _ _ _ _ _
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