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How Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince Made The Ultimate Summer Song
🕑 Added 2024-07-12 15:30:02 +0000 UTCToday we’re diving into "Summertime" by DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, and looking at 3 specific things that all combined together to make the song the forever song of the summer.
NOTE: This is the extended edit which is 2 minutes longer than the YouTube version.
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Josh Nelson
One of the key elements of this piece is how all the individual components starting with "drums please", moving to the timbales (if that's what they are), the scratching, then (mix, music, production, vox et al.); how they all ASCENDandSOAR in the subsequent 5-6 seconds around the "ahhhhh". Serious note to producers on that construction - as it grabs right away. Mr. Diggs could articulate this much better than I...
Josh Nelson
Love the Vivaldi mashup at 7:57 - love to see more of that kind of thing.
