What Makes a Mix ADDICTIVE? [“All The Small Things”: Lessons from Blink 182]
What does it take to make a mix—and an arrangement—that listeners just can’t turn off?
That’s what we’ll talk about today: How to get an addictive mix.
It’s all the small things in the arrangement, that I like to call “pattern interrupts” and “scene changes”, that keep interest, and that you can build into your own productions and songs today.
To explore these ideas, we’ll be going through a mix that constantly comes up as a reference for great drum and guitar sounds.
…It’s also one of the most streamed rock songs of the 21st century, that has crossed over to huge success with pop audiences.
This track, “All The Small Things” by Blink 182 has the perfect title for this episode. Because, love it or hate it, that’s what it gets 100% right.
Listen to it with me and hear it again for the first time.
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