Chords for The Making Of O.D.

Hey friends, I'm [C#] back with another making of video, [F#m] this time for our [Bm] song OD.
If you haven't heard OD, please do yourself a favor by clicking here, and then coming
back to this video right [C#] here.
In my last video, I talked about the importance of recreating songs [C#] that you like from scratch
just to understand how it's [F#m] made.
For this particular [G#] song OD, the inspiration came from Kanye [F#m] West's Champions.
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I like these chords so much that I made my own beat to the chords.
This was around 2017, so I thought vocal chops were super cool, so please don't judge.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ So, although I was super in love with these chords because they're so triumphant and just
[F#m] epic sounding, it was really hard to make a cool guitar part.
So I figured, why not change the chords to make it easier to write guitars to?
So I took the chords.
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [A#] So if you start from the second chord [E] _ and change this [Em] E, [F] move it to an F, then we have_
_ [F#m] So it sounds a bit darker. _ _
_ It sounds a bit medieval and Castlevania Dracula type beat.
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[E] So we're gonna go ahead and change every E to an F.
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We're gonna do [E] our lower ones, _ _ _ _ _ and our higher ones.
_ _ [Bm] So then here on this chord, _ _ _ [A] _
we're gonna change this A [B] to a B.
[G#] We're gonna go ahead and do that on every time that happens on that chord.
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_ _ _ _ [G#] _ _ [Dm] And then so for this [Bm] chord, _ [Fm] because our root is an F, [G#] we're gonna go ahead and mute the F sharp,
just so we don't have a bit of clashing.
And then on this [C#] chord, _ we're gonna move it to a D.
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[F#m] See why that sounds cool here in a second. _ _
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Alright, so once I made the chords darker, I was still having a bit of trouble making cool guitars.
So I turned on the arpeggiator just to see how it sounded. _
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[Bm] Pretty much wrote the song for me.
That obviously sounds pretty dumb, but once I heard it, I thought I could make that way cooler
if I just spiced up my note selection and used, you know, a variety of techniques
to make it a lot more interesting.
I'm gonna turn off the arpeggiator so you can hear how my note choice accents the chords
and gives it a bit of flavor _ as it's transposed to the guitar. _ _
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_ So [E] that's how the main riff was composed. _
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_ [G#m] So moving on to [C#] structure, here's some backstory.
I heard [F#m] this Taylor Swift song, [G#] Look What You Made Me Do.
For some reason, the first time I heard it, [Bm] I just hated it.
It just made me mad.
My [C#] first instinct was to talk hella [F#] shit about it, and then I had to take a step [C#m] back and [C#] ask
myself, why do I hate this so [F#m] much?
Rick Rubin [Bm] once said, the best art divides the audience.
I had to wonder why did this song cause such a strong emotion [D] in me, a strong [C#] negative emotion.
So I downloaded the song and [C#m] I analyzed it and realized it was a [F#m] structural masterpiece.
Even if I didn't like its vibe or lyrical content or performance or literally anything
else about it, just because you don't like it [F#] personally doesn't mean it's [C#] not objectively good.
So we based the entire structure off of Look What You [C#] Made Me Do, as you can see [F#m] here.
It's the same thing.
Intro, [Bm] first chorus, first one, pre-chorus, chorus, verse two, pre-chorus, chorus, bridge,
post-chorus, [D] bridge, thing, [F#] and then here we have our [C#m] final chorus.
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_ _ [F#m] _ Fun fact, this song was actually supposed to feature Ichigo [C#] Nito.
At the time, we only had the one [Fm] main riff, so I structured it out and left a bunch of
blank spaces for him to fill in.
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So obviously we [F#m] hadn't written guitar here yet.
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_ _ [F#m] _ _ [C#] _ Another section of [F#m] the pre-chorus that was [F] not written yet.
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_ _ So this is the post-bridge pre [C#m]-chorus thing right before the final drop.
Its kind of [Bm] purpose was to be like really intense and just like build it [C#] up so much.
So _ _ [D#] the funny thing is, is this is directly off the Taylor Swift song.
If you picture us strumming the power chords like
[B] and _ then also Klay's drum solo, you just, it just, it's the same part. _ _
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_ [B] Anyways, I [C#] hope you guys enjoyed this making of video.
[F#m] Obviously you can listen to the [F] final song to hear [F#] Scott and the Klay's contributions as well.
If you didn't [G#] know, I have a discord group which you can join by clicking the [C#] link in the description.
Leave a comment and [D#] let me know if there's a Polyphia [C#m] song you'd like a breakdown for.
[C#] Thank you guys.
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