“You can’t just put it in there, it has to work”

Despite being hailed as a genius, Rick Rubin It has often found itself at the center of controversy. Esteemed musicians like black saturday‘s old butler and Tony Iommi, Josh Klinghofferand Corey Taylor have openly criticized his contributions, while Rub He himself has admitted that “he doesn’t know anything about music.” However, his incomparable ability to elevate artists from Killer to Johnny Cash highlights his genius, a sentiment echoed system of a Down‘s Shavo Odadjian.

Reflecting on his experiences working with Rub, shavo said to Nik’s Late Night Podcast (as transcribed by The best guitar): “When it comes to arrangements and songs, I learned that by watching Haystack work with System and how everyone worked with Haystack in the first two records. Saw that. I was there. I was very present in all of that. So he Haystack The songwriting mentality stays with me.”

shavo elaborated on how Rub’His methods have been ingrained in his creative process: “And to this day, I write thinking about how Haystack would fix (a certain song), not how Haystack I would do it, but how I was taught. It’s become kind of part of my DNA. it is mostly Beatles-Origins of the style song, where you have the chorus, the verse, and then the chorus, and then the intermediate break, the chorus, and it’s over.”

Address common mistakes in song arrangements, shavo noted: “You can’t just stick it in there. It has to work. There’s always that little section that you need to build up, that ties two sections together so that it feels like it belongs there, not that you put it there. I’ve heard song bands that have great riffs, but they put them right after each other and you just can’t follow them and you don’t remember a riff. After you’ve heard the song, there’s something like 10 riffs and none of them become memorable.”

The key, according to shavolies in a well-thought-out arrangement: “It’s just because of how they arranged it. If you have that and you arrange three, four of them in a really good way, where they complement each other, then you get something that, when the song ends, or the person wants to hear it again or is already humming it. It’s all about the presentation.