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Demo of Beat It composed using only Michael Jackson’s voice
As Jackson couldn’t fluently play any instruments, he would sing and beatbox out how he wanted his songs to sound by himself on tape, layering the vocals, harmonies and rhythm before having instrumentalists come in to complete the songs.
One of his engineers Robmix on how Jackson worked: “One morning MJ came in with a new song he had written overnight. We called in a guitar player, and Michael sang every note of every chord to him. “here’s the first chord first note, second note, third note. Here’s the second chord first note, second note, third note”, etc., etc. We then witnessed him giving the most heartfelt and profound vocal performance, live in the control room through an SM57. He would sing us an entire string arrangement, every part. Steve Porcaro once told me he witnessed MJ doing that with the string section in the room. Had it all in his head, harmony and everything. Not just little eight bar loop ideas. he would actually sing the entire arrangement into a micro-cassette recorder complete with stops and fills.”
"Una mattina MJ arrivò con una nuova canzone che aveva scritto durante la notte. Abbiamo chiamato in un chitarrista e Michael cantato ogni nota di ogni accordo con lui. "Ecco il primo accordo prima nota, seconda nota, terza nota. Ecco il secondo accordo prima nota, seconda nota, terza nota ", ecc, ecc Abbiamo poi assistito alla sua performance vocale più sentita e profonda, dal vivo nella sala di controllo attraverso un SM57. Cantava un intero arrangiamento d'archi, ogni parte. Steve Porcaro, una volta mi ha detto che ha assistito MJ farlo con la sezione d'archi in camera. Aveva tutto nella sua testa, l'armonia e tutto il resto... Michael sapeva in realtà cantare tutto l'arrangiamento in un registratore a micro-cassette completo di stops and fills. "
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