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Hi I'm Charlie Puth, and this is Closer.
I believe you can take old genres of
music and take old styles of music and
just kinda trick people into what they're used
to hearing. If it weren't for my Dad, I wouldn't
even know what the genre of R&B is
and if it weren't for my mom I wouldn't
know what Folky Americana Classical Music... and I
brought Jazz music onto myself.
I don't know
how many piano teachers have slapped my hand
for not reading the music. I always hated
reading the music cause I always thought it
was so much more fun to listen to
various recordings of, you know;
I can, I can just hear the record and
play it back from memory, I guess subconsciously I
would change a couple of notes and the teachers
would be like, you know;
This girl's really pretty
I'm going to like that picture. I decide
the night before what kind of song I want to hear
and I set it as my alarm so I'm
like pleasantly surprised and then I light this thing
which is Sandalwood and do this movement, clear
the bad energy, I throw on my Gucci
flip flops, kind of start the day just
based off of that. Let's go, to the
studio, first step, turn on the MIDI keyboard,
cool lamps, cool vibes, candles are usually lit
but I'm not feeling it today, I don't
want to light any candles today.
This is literally where everything is made, I had started
Attention, I was on a train to Tokyo,
it just came to me that I wanted
to like write an orchestral piece like with
pizzicato strings, like;
and I heard all of these
chord changes and like this lush orchestra playing
so I started, I took out contact or
something and just started layering strings, so I
got back to the hotel and I replaced
the *string sounds*, with a guitar and I
took my phone out and recorded an E flat, B Flat,
E Flat, B Flat, F Sharp, F, E Flat, B Flat, D Flat,
A Flat, D Flat, E Flat, F. Every song I produce
I add my beat box. *beatboxes*
All my music it's Really exciting right now
in my life because it's all starting to,
kind of like come together, it's all starting
to sound like a vibe where I'm super
proud of, of the um, the old stuff
but it was really me figuring out like
where I wanted to go musically.
World exclusive.
*music plays*
That was stupid.
Jazz chords.
I have to picture
the music video in my head while I'm
making it so when I'm making this
song and I'm hearing the post chords,
I'm picturing people like at a salsa bar
like dancing like you know, guy twirling a
girl around or whatever, I can't dance for s***,
but you know what I mean. I think
I order a shake every morning, I actually
workout you mentioned Adele before, I saw her working
out at the gym one time which was
pretty cool, I like working out, working out
with Adele. I need a haircut so badly,
this is unacceptable.
One way I can use this
app on my phone which is why I'm
calling my album VoiceNotes, is cause
every song was made with the Voice Notes app.
I'll do that and just have fun
with it.
*music plays*
I don't know how well you can hear
that but it's just like feels like I'm
playing with a band, and I'm the band
so I can control, um I can control
everything which is super fun for me, I get
excited just thinking about it. It's very crazy
and I have 8 million subscribers, I forget that I'm
like one of the bigger YouTubers. Youtube is the reason
why I have confidence to perform on stage
because before YouTube I didn't, I had no, you
know basis to perform in front of people,
I didn't want to because I was too afraid,
and YouTube gave me you know, having
growing a fan base on YouTube gave me
the confidence to, go on stage.
I'm really bad at writing out music notes so
I actually just write the letters out and
I have perfect pitch so I know that,
this is an F sharp.
Yeah like, you can't
deny that this sounds like so good
because it does and it's all from these
notes here.
*music plays*
Ohh, it's so like, just the
*sings melody*
I want everybody to
in places that I can't like go to
overnight, music can reach them immediately, it's universal
in a way that's not just specific to
one region. Australia has been waiting for me
to go to Australia for a long time
but every time I get ready to go
something happens where it has to get
like postponed a month, and then it gets
postponed another month like when I go to
Australia it's going to be a party, I'm going
to like, oh I'm going to have so
much fun, when I go to Australia.
I love like working with hip-hop producers
like Mike Will, just cause there's no like, there's no formula
it's all just based on feeling and when you
work with guys who are making music based
on what they're feeling it's usually, it's just
like, the music feels better it doesn't feel
so contrived.
Where do I see myself in
10 years? Hopefully just as happy and motivated
as I am right now and not jaded by
any success. I want to make a boy
band, I want to like produce a record
for like a boy band, like I want to
put them together and like, just see them
just dominate the world. That would be super cool.