17:40 “work hard on every moment of every song” - honestly that perfectly describes exactly what i love about their music; there’s never a dull moment

YES! WE NEED MORE BREAKDOWN LIVESTREAMS!

I am an old guy and my kids turned me on to this music...not an easy task as I don't normally like new music. These guys are true, talented musicians (something that seems kinda lost today). I love the music, and the passion that is involved in making it is so inspiring. Keep up the good work.

Wow, never saw actual good musician sit there and break down their music in the DAW before, this is phenomenal.

i love the passion behind all his explainations, you can tell how much he loves his work

Crazy to think that such few people are able to make such a masterpiece

@AJR I have been listening to your music for about 2 years now. I have cried multiple times and id just like to say thank you. Your music means so much to me and it has helped me through some really tough times in my life, particularly way less sad.

Me being a random Joe being able to see this kind of beyond master quality original… (words can’t describe) song making process is shocking. This is something you’d think only a select group of people would be able to see. SO GOOD!

This is fascinating. I adore hearing the evolution of a song. You use such unique sounds, it's part of why I love your music so much.

I *LOVE* that they use trumpets and instruments like cello and violin, i wish more musicians would do it but i’d be afraid they’d do it wrong or miss the point 😅

I have so much of an appreciation for this song. It has so many instruments, so many little details, I absolutely love music like this.

I love the demo for WSV. Super interesting!

AJR songs just scratch that deep down itch in my brain and I love it

2:10 I know that there’s people out there (including me) who want to hear the full original song for Worlds smallest violin 🎻

Absoloutely fantastic man! I love all the songs, you guys are awesome!!

I love how you get so excited about the music and production. It gives people inspiration

@ajr thank you for putting this out!! after the problems in the live stream i was sad i couldn't watch back again

Love these videos! So informative of making your music! Make more of these

I love all of these breakdown streams, they are just so good

I wanna thank you guys for making your music. The first song of yours I listened to was sober up. In 2022 June 7 I went to your concert in OKC. It was the happiest I've been in 5 years. When sober up played I was so happy. So thanks

I love these types of videos. You guys are brilliant! ❤️

Hey AJR im going to the atlanta concert and am very excited to see you guys! Love your work!!!!!!

You guys do such a beautiful and amazing job at making songs💖🥰🌹

this really cleared things up! thank you AJR member orphan!!!!

Love this so much. I was never super into Worlds Smallest Violin till last night. I got super into it last night, and what do ya know. This releases the next day!

Watching this breakdown makes me appreciate the song so much more. And it was pretty much my favorite to start with. But i really hope you guys end up using the scrapped ideas for future songs

Love this! Thank you Ryan!

We need more breakdown videos🎉❤

This is so helpful! I love making music, but it’s hard and quite frankly I still don’t understand a lot of this, BUT it’s still so helpful. Even if I don’t understand the technical terms, I still can kinda understand what you’re saying.

Watching this only made me love and appreciate this song even more. 💛

Favorite song really cool to see you break it down

i love the breakdown live streams❤❤

ONE OF THE BEST BANDS OF ALL TIME

Hello AJR thank you for making all of This music. I went to go see your concert in Detroit. And I loved it I sat up in the top row And I don’t wanna go back up there ever again lol it was such a steep place to be. The concert was amazing thank you

Oh my god that was my favourite song before and now its still my favourite song you absolutely did amazing

Hi AJR love your music

hello AJR, its good to see your face again after the concert which was amazing btw. I have been listening to you for more than two years and I already know your one of the best. You guys are amazing and incredibly talented good job. How I found out about you guys was when my friend introduced you guys to me, from that day on I never stopped listening to you guys.Good work :)

THIS IS SOOOOOO GOOODDDDD...... LOVE IT. I have realized many things in my new favorite song

I wish I turned the notifications on now! I missed the live!! 😂 I can't believe this went on air 5 months ago and I've only just posted this comment. 😂 You guys are brilliant and thank you for being an inspiration to many! Keep up the good content and please, if you become super famous than you already are, please don't go cocky like most music artist's do. Just continue being you. 😁

The love of my life! I really love this song

love this so much

Yay thanks for reposting it :D

Awesome dude

I LOVE your music!

THIS IS AMAZING!!! 😍

THANK YOUUUUU FOR UPLOADING IT😭

i got into producing music because of you Ryan!

Thank you for making nice musics and give me the chance for inspiration when I want for it. From 🇰🇷

My daughter introduced me to AJR with this song and I was hooked. Now AJR is all I listen to on the road.

Amazing work

The cello and violin part is fucking harmonious!

So glad its back! I was scared I wanst going to get to see it

Seeing the amazing sounds that make up this masterpiece was very interesting to see. I hope to make music as good as this and with such understanding some day but I know it will always be completely impossible for me.

This masterpiece of a song!

Finally I was wondering if this would be posted

This makes me want to see a Broadway muscial from these guys (or a Broadway themed album) where World's Smallest Violin is featured and is a recurring melody throughout the musical on the protagonist's journey.

Caution: this channel is highly addictive and relaxing 💀

I love this song!

Hi i was at your Hawaii concert it was sick I love your music

lyrics: My grandpa fought in World War II He was such a noble dude I can't even finish school Missed my mom, and left too soon His dad was a fireman Who fought fires so violent I think I bored my therapist While playing him my violin that's so insane (Oh, my God) that's such a shame Next to them, my shit don't feel so grand But I can't help myself from feeling bad I kinda feel like two things can be sad (one, two, three, four) The world's smallest violin Really needs an audience So if I do not find somebody soon (that's right, that's right) I'll blow up into smithereens And spew my tiny symphony Just let me play my violin for you, you, you, you My grandpa fought in World War II And he was such a noble dude Man, I feel like such a fool I got so much left to prove All my friends have vaping friends They're so good at making friеnds I'm so scared of caving in Is that entertaining yеt? that's so insane (Oh, my God) that's such a shame Next to them, my shit don't feel so grand But I can't help myself from feeling bad I kinda feel like two things can be sad (one, two, three, four) The world's smallest violin Really needs an audience So if I do not find somebody soon (that's right, that's right) I'll blow up into smithereens And spew my tiny symphony Just let me play my violin for you, you, you, you Somewhere in the universe Somewhere someone's got it worse Wish that made it easier Wish I didn't feel the hurt The world's smallest violin Really needs an audience So if I do not find somebody soon I'll blow up into smithereens And spew my tiny symphony All up and down a city street While tryna put my mind at ease Like finishing this melody This feels like a necessity So this could be the death of me Or maybe just a better me Now, come in with the timpanis And take a shot of Hennessy I know I'm not there mentally But you could be the remedy So let me play my violin for you

The world's smallest violin, really needs an audience :)

YOU POSTED IT YES THANK YOU I THOUGHT IT WAS GONE YESSSSS

Such a good song, love seeing these vids!!

love u sm.

Yes bro!!

I love you guys so much 💖💖❤❤💕💕

So great to see Innovative ideas in music still today, love the Instrumorphing ideology!! I also do the colors and images whilst producing

THEY RECOVERED IT

An interesting idea for the instrumorphing, doing a fourier transform could convert it into component sine waves that could be interpolated between (you'd have to interpolate the phase and amplitude rather than the real and imaginary parts or else it would just be fading). There's a lot of messy stuff with applying fourier transforms to audio, but most of it has been figured out by audio compression people.

I was literally just watching the breakdown of Three-thirty, Next up forever & Bang 😂

love you ajr

Worlds Smallest vilon IS MY FAV SONG!

fantastic song

8:50 now you know the reason why a piano is called “钢琴” in Chinese

Its good to know you 3 are still alive

I love these

Ok orchestra is one of the best albums I have listened to.

I think you guys need more fans. This song is underrated.

Great song!

Hey, from India. Love your art. And I really want to learn more about music composition (I don't know the correct word 😅). I really want to make art like you, so please keep up these breakdown videos because it really inspires and motivates me to become an artist like you guys.

This is wonderful

This band is one of the best out their. 😁😀💕

I am singer-songwriter myself. I happen to arrange my own songs. So this thing about color and shape thing. I do see music same way. So I used to think I AM CRAZY and music doesn’t happen that way. And I had a small thought process on this. So early in my childhood days I used to listen to music on the early version of windows media player. And there was this visualisation option, where we could set a style. Nd every small elements used to take one shape and color. So may be that’s why I see every element of a song that way. Your stating of the same fact, brings up so much belief in me. Thank you for inspiring so many people round the world. Love from India. Please do a tour to India.

Interesting breakdown

I love how most of the parts could be an song itself

Noo I miss the livestream!

we LOVE this part WE MUST!! 14:13

great music!!!

This is amazing, the amount of creativity and little details that make the song awesome is crazy for a 3 minute song. Song breakdowns are also very helpful as I'm a composer so thank you very much!

YES!

that demo sounds fucking awesome

I know you do the majority of it but I think it would be really cool to have Jack come on for one of these and also give his input on the process, maybe one that the both of you worked on together a lot.

YES

I love ur worlds smalest violyn song it’s fire and very cool my favorite

I'd love to see Don't Throw Out My Legos, absolute banger

YAYY I was so sad when I couldn’t rewatch it after they took it off

There r many people who hate and love just ignore the hate and move on when there's someone popular there will be hate I love your band and that there's still many more people who do like your band I think your songs are awesome

YES MORE

Will you guys ever release the Pro Tools session?

This is great, awesome. Super interesting. But what about the lyrics? They hit me right in the feels.