Linkin Park's Creative Process Behind Let You Fade in the Studio

Linkin Park's Creative Process Behind Let You Fade in the Studio

Linkin Park works on the song Let You Fade, discussing lyrics, melody, and arrangement to capture the right emotional tone for their album.

Inside the Studio for "Let You Fade" (LPTV FROM ZERO: Episode 44) - Linkin Park ♪ (Lyrics):

>> So there's a >>

>> Let me see if I've got the lyrics in

there, right?

Cuz I won't remember.

I don't expect you to forget.

>> >> What's the the lyric that you're forgetting?

Was it forget?

Yeah.

Thank you.

Uh we have a weird piano in there.

As a guide.

I like weird pianos.

Okay, let's go from the top, okay?

>> You can even pull back the grid a tiny bit.

>> Okay.

Just to get even more control over the note.

Yeah.

Okay, it's the last one.

Make it count.

This one's for all the marbles.

>> >> You get this one right, then

um Then you have all the marbles.

>> >> You got all the marbles.

Ready?

Yeah.

Ready for something that'll Yeah.

both relax and inspire.

>> I thought this was like a last song on the album kind of vibe. Like it's like a

really quiet songy song.

Just a piano and two keyboards.

And there's a possibility that we just do

an acoustic guitar.

And that's it.

>> When I heard it when you played it, I

was hearing a variation of the melody.

Mhm.

Okay, go ahead.

So If you held that and then you sung then it would give you

like extra time to sing the entrance.

I wonder if that would also give you

enough to set up the chorus the way you want it set up.

But the bridge plays off

of both the verses and the choruses which

are I'll remember you blah blah

blah and the punchline is you want to forget me.

You're saying the pre-chorus

means different things in different context.

>> I'm saying the pre-chorus sets up half a statement.

I like that.

Breaking our

backs for piles of sand.

You can have it all while it falls through your hands.

Pieces of the story get lost in the end.

But there's no finger pointing in it.

And then the bridge changes the meaning of the chorus.

What's the extra line?

>> I know I'm the one that you want to forget, but I'll remember you.

And

you're adding that which shifts the meaning.

>> Yeah, here's this part again that I know.

Oh, guess what?

You don't know it.

It actually changes everything.

It's like the scene in the movie where

they give you half the scene and you

think it's about one thing, but then they

show you the end of the scene and

then you realize that you got it wrong.

The bridge feels so good when it comes in.

And maybe for introducing different voices it has a different dynamic.

It might be surprising like

what happens.

>> The thing about the version that we've got that I'm just it's making me like a

little it feels like a cop out.

Like it feels like oh, we've got this good song.

We don't know what to do with it,

so we're just going to do the acoustic

version.

That ends the album.

Like it just Got it.

Feels like a waste

of a good song.

Well We did that one too.

I did this.

I don't even remember doing that version.

>> Yeah, whatever. Whatever? No, we didn't.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, yeah.

Let you fade.

I sang I think you have sang it >> never sang it.

Um I did a little bit at one

point and it never

It was like a backing vocal.

Yeah, yeah.

Okay.

I think the trick is that you don't try and get high energy.

Like you

just sing whatever's the most emotionally >> Yeah.

And then the music is like this washy loud thing.

And it does kind of doesn't

let up.

Like it stays loud and washy.

>> And then the two chords again.

Yeah, exactly.

>> I like that.

And the drum beat could go I like it.

I like it.

That could be really fun.

Well, then we shouldn't do it then.

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