How to Make Latin Multitracks for Worship with Khristian Diaz

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We’re joined by Khristian Diaz, a worship musician with Puerto Rican and Honduran roots who’s bringing Latin flavor into worship. From his viral “Praise” remix to creating Latin multitracks, Khris shares how music became his way of connecting with God and inspiring others. He opens up about his journey, creative process, and the heart behind the upcoming Vessel Conference—a vision to pour back into musicians and ministers. Along the way, he gives practical advice for keys players, talks about why exploring different genres matters, and shows how tone and humility shape your sound just as much as skill. To top it off, Khris jumps on the keys for a live demo, flipping a CCM favorite into a Latin arrangement right on the spot. If you’re a worship leader, musician, or music lover, this episode will spark new ideas and fresh encouragement for your own journey. Don’t miss it!

Khristian Diaz

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Welcome to the Worship Keys YouTube channel. My name is Carson Bruce, so glad you're here. We talk all things music theory, gear, industry and ministry for your worship keys playing. If this episode is beneficial for you or you have any questions as you continue to watch, feel free to comment below and I'd love to hear any feedback that you have along the way. So let's get into today's episode. Today I am with khristian Diaz. Today's episode's actually all about Latin multi-tracks Latin worship music, which dude we've never done on the podcast before. Wow. So I'm super excited that you're going to take us there. Many of you may actually know khris from Instagram World Vibe with khris. Two Ss, by the way. Yes. Y two S's man. I added the other s to add to the vibe. Okay. Okay. Just oh, vibe with khris, like that. But, I don't know. Now everyone thinks I'm khris with two S's, but it's only one. Okay. But what can I do about it? I just have to live with it now. That's it. Biris two S's. That's awesome. Yes, sir. Now, I love your account, man, and you make, you have a producer mindset, you're layering a lot of music, you're directing a lot of music, and you're based out of Lawrenceville, Georgia. Is that correct? Yes, sir. Outside Georgia. Of Atlanta, Georgia, yes, sir. Right up north? Yeah. Amazing. Born and raised here. Yes sir. Born and raised here. Outstanding bro. Tell us a little bit about your background. How'd you come to know the Lord for one, first and foremost, man? Yes sir. Tell us about that. Yes, sir. So I have grown up in church. I've lived in a Christian household my entire life, which I believe is a great blessing. My parents taught me the way how, they were supposed to. And I grew up in a Christian Pentecostal church and that's where I get a lot of my musical background. Music inspired me from day one. I started playing drums at two years old. Wow. And then I moved into drums at two years old. Yes sir. Yes sir. I started playing drums in church at four. I continued until I started getting curious about these other instruments. I started my grandfather he played a guitar called El Cuatro, which is a Puerto Rican based kind of instrument, and he also played a lot of nylon string guitars. So I got an interest for guitar and I was like, man, I really wanna learn it. So I started picking up acoustic guitar and then in quarantine around that time I started picking up electric guitar and keys. And it's music has just been a blessing. I feel like music is one of the ways that I'm able to just connect with the lord, one-on-one. And I know that the gift that he has given me, I recognize that it's him. Yeah. That has given it to me. Cool. And it's. Not because of anything else or anyone else. Yes. It's because God allowed me to have this gift, so I take really good care of it, love that. But I'm thankful my my upbringing. I'm really thankful for all the people that have just taken the time to pour into me. And there's so many different genres of music out there, but there's so many sub genres within khristian music. Yes, sir. There's the contemporary Christian music that we hear. All the top hits, yes, sir. On radio there's even top 40 of the modern worship type thing. There's the gospel and there's Latin. I want you to speak on your Latin background, your love for Latin music. Yes, sir. Where did that come from and who are your favorite influences? And also. I just wanna say too, like in the worship genre, it doesn't just lend itself to one sound. Worship is like a lifestyle for one thing, right? It's not really music it's your lifestyle. But tell us a little bit your heart behind Latin music and where that comes from, man. Yes sir. So I am Puerto Rican. I'm half Puerto Rican and half Hondu. So from Honduras as well. So when it comes to Latin music, it's very vast. Awesome, right? Many genres. For example, the ones that Puerto Ricans are mostly into there's two that I know of, that I know that we love as Puerto Ricans. Salsa, the one that I usually do a lot is called Sogo. Okay. There's another one that's called Lenna, which is a more traditional Puerto Rican type of music. Got you. The same vibe. They use I could be saying it wrong, Bandidos, basically like tambourines, but they have a drum skin on them. Got you. Yeah. So they use those a lot. The Dominicans, which I love, the Dominican culture do a style called meringue. Which is a little different as well. And they all have their own flow, their own swing. They all have their own style. So I start to submerge in them and I'm just like, okay, let me study from here. Let me study from over there and let me just see how things can just be put together, you and yeah that's where my love for Latin music has started because they play it a lot at church. That's something that, for example, the gospel world has their, their quartet songs. They have their hymnals, they have their praise breaks. Yeah. Yeah. Same thing with the CCM contemporary world. They have their flow, their worship moments. They have what they're known for. The Hispanic church has our Coritos, we have everything that, relates to us. We have our different styles. We have bachata, that's another we ero, like there's a whole bunch of different sub genres that is in the Hispanic church. And I remember when someone would let's say we're about to do the offering and. Someone hit, the piano player would hit an a minor chord and everyone's oh shoot, we're about Doritos. It's about to get crazy. And it's just if anything, if it's, instead of calling it more like a genre to us, it's more like a feeling. Okay? Okay. It's more about it, it represents us. It's part of who we are, yeah. In, in, in a way. And it's something that we relate to and it's always just been a part of our life. So that's my love for Latin music. That's beautiful, man. Yeah. And that's great to hear. I actually love the country of Honduras. My older sister lives in Honduras married a Honduran preacher. Wow. And they have two boys. Wow. And that's amazing. We were just in Guatemala in August. Me and my wife, and my sister and my mom. Because Guatemala is right there beside Honduras. We went to Antigua Love, love the city of Antigua. Oh man. That whole, they got volcanoes over there. It's beautiful. Yeah. We also love Honduras. My sister got married in Roatan. Oh, that's beautiful. That's a beautiful place. Beautiful there. But they actually live in Siguatepeque. Oh, nice. That's where in Honduras. So they used to live more towards San Pedro Su a little bit. Now in Siguatepeque. Wow. Those are beautiful places, by the way. They have a great ministry there in Honduras and they have a nonprofit called Ver Wow. Validate, educate, restore, and then Ver to Sea, obviously. Wow. So they do great work in the country of Honduras. And I love Wow. Love being able to go visit there. Tell us about your home, church. Yes sir. So my home church is called Palor. It's a church that is so close to my heart. Honestly. I really love that my pastor genuinely cares for who I am as a person, not just as a musician. That's good. I've had a lot of experiences with pastors that have only cared for me for what I could bring to the table. And it was sad because I'm really big on loyalty and it's just like once that gift portion would go away or wasn't as available as before then. I see how the energy, towards me would shift. Yeah. And that was something that would hurt me a lot because I would give everything, I'd give my a hundred percent to everyone. And I remember when I met this pastor, I was just helping out the church with music. There was nothing, no strings attach, nothing involved. But yet the love of the pastors, yet the love of the church overwhelms me, oh man. Yeah. And after some time I was just like. Man I can't deal with this anymore. And I called him, I was like, Hey, it would be such a blessing to have you as my pastor. And he was like, khris, this church accepts you. We accept you. I accept you with open arms. And that's my family man. That's my family. I've seen, I love that. Endless support from the church. And I'm just so thankful that I was able to find a church where I could call them family, it's just really important, when I'm out, when I'm traveling, I could come back home and I can rest and I can. Just be there with people that I know genuinely care for me and love me. Yes. And it's a blessing. I love that story, man. I love to hear that. Because so many don't have that story, at least right now, and don't have that experience right now. So it's good to hear encouragement we need the church, we need each other. And it's good to have a pastor that supports you, not only Yes, sir, musically, but as a person, I think we can all resonate with that as a musician. So that's incredible. A few more things now guys. I don't. If you want to skip ahead, feel free. khris is gonna show us some amazing ways to build out, really, it's like a pre-production type thing. A demo of a song of his choice. He showed up today. We didn't know what song's gonna make. But one thing that I love about you, khris, is your remixes. So I do want, again. We're not gonna have too much time here on the front end of this episode. I want you guys to hear him play and build some multi-tracks, but tell us the story of your praise Latin remix. Yes, sir. Yes sir. And actually, can we play a little bit of that here on the episode of the song? Yeah, of course. Okay. Of course. Let's play, let's, we'll play it right in here right now so you guys can hear it. Tell us a little bit the whole story of the Latin praise remix, man. Yes, sir. So I was at a local church here in Georgia, and I remember I got called to play drums. It was one of the many. Rare occasions that I got called to play drums and I was like, man, I'm hype. I'm, I saw the set list. Praise has j had just came out. Okay. Yeah. Not too long ago, it was really fresh. Every church was doing it, that whole era. And I remember that the end had a drum solo. Now I'm hearing the percussion tracks and I. Man, but this sounds like Latin to me. It's just inevitable. And I remember I asked the MD and I was just like, Hey man I don't know if it's cool with you. But do you think like I could just try to add some Latin beats, some Latin accents, maybe put Songo in there and just be able to experiment with the song? Especially just that solo section. I was like, bro, I can play the rest, like the record. It's cool. And he was just like, no man, I don't think it's really gonna fit. I don't think, you should try. It's not really that type of song, and I was just like, okay, I respect you. You're the md, I'll submit to what you say. It's cool, fine. I played it like normal, but it's still, I still had it in my head like, man, but I promise you, this would've been crazy. You would've been, yeah, you would've gone in. Yeah. So I was like, all right, cool. And then I go home and I was just like, man, I don't know. I couldn't get it outta my head. I was just like. This song can be Latin. And I was just like, you know what? I gave it to God. I was like, God, I don't know if this is gonna work, but give me an idea. God. Like I always do that, by the way. Whenever I don't. Have ideas or even before I start a recession, I'm just like, God, I give this to you. Give me the idea. Show me what you want me to play. This is your project. It's not mine. So that's a concept that I place into every production, every little project that I do. And that's why I did in that occasion. I was like, God, like I don't know what to do, but I can't let anything or anybody tell me what I can or cannot do. You gave me creativity. That's right. Yeah. Show me what you want me to do. Yes. Yes. And I went for it. I remember I started, I think in the course, I think and in the part that goes praise, right? Yeah. And I found out the same thing, found a percussion track on YouTube and I was like, okay, found one. Here we go, boom. Dragged it in there. And I just heard the percussion track and the vocals. I was like, this is Latin. This is Latin. It matches, and Exactly. The syncopation. Exactly. And in a lot of Latin songs, they have choirs like that. Where it's just, it sounds huge. It sounds big. Sure. Yeah. And I was just like, man, I started playing and the whole thing went one to the other. And I was like, I love that. I was like, man, I don't know if I'm gonna get as much support when I made it. And I phoned a friend and I was like, Hey. What do you think about this video? And I was just like, man, 'cause I'm nervous. I don't think, I don't feel like it even sounds good. And he was like, man, no. This is killer bro. You just have to post it. You just have to post it. Just stop caring and just post it. Yeah. I was like, okay, cool. I posted it. I remember it was the day of my birthday. Okay. I posted the video. It's a good day to post it. Yeah. Yeah. 'cause everyone was already there telling me happy birthday. I posted it. Next thing you know, like 10,000 views and 20 minutes and I'm like whoa. What's going on here? Yeah. Like I'm freaking out, my phone's blowing up, everything's going crazy. And like in one day I think it had a hundred thousand views and I woke up the next morning and it's at 300 and I'm like, whoa. What's going on? Incredible. Yeah. And God did his thing ever since then. It, he really used that situation to even changed my life, and I just give all credit and all the glory to God for that 'cause that was a God thing, praise God, man. Yeah. I'm thankful. I love that. I'm really thankful. Yeah, I love that story, man. What I love about it is that you knew that God places in your heart that you needed to create this sound out of this song. You took this arrangement and let this be encouragement for others who are listening as well, that when you're stepping into authentically who you are creatively, it's amazing what doors will open for you. And it doesn't mean that it's gonna be a viral Instagram moment. Exactly. And it might not be as glamorous as some other person's story. But when you truly step into what God has called you to do, what you feel to do, I know sometimes there's tension within the church with musicians. Sometimes you're in a place where you don't feel like you can fully. Give it your all creatively. But when you're at a place and you feel like home I can truly create, whether that's in your studio at home, I'm gonna make this demo and just go at it, which you've done many times and you've collaborated with many other people too, or you know it's your own church and you're creating an arrangement for your church. If God's given me this talent and I'm walking in this uniquely only I can do this because I know God has gifted me in this moment in time to do this. That is huge. So I think that's amazing. I love the arrangement. Thank you my brother. It is so much fun, Lord to God. And you can check it out on his Instagram. You have on your link tree. You have different versions of this. Yes sir. Yes sir. So practice with it, shed with it. There's shed tracks. One more thing I wanna talk about before we let you play piano and build some tracks out spontaneously, by the way, I'm not sure what you're gonna do, but I, it's definitely gonna sound Latin and be totally your authentic self, one thing I wanna ask is what things do you have in the future? Do you have any events? Do you have any workshops? Do you have any conferences? Do you have any ways people to connect with you? Yes sir. So I am actually, planning and praying a lot for a conference that is gonna be coming up in January. Okay. The conference is called Vessel Conference. Vessel Conference, and it's a conference directed towards musicians and ministers. Awesome. The vision is the fact that musicians are always pouring into other people, but it's very rare for a musician to get poured into. And also we could talk even about healing in a way because. For example, in my case, in the beginning of this year God opened a lot of doors for me and it was something that happened really fast and he put me into places where I was not qualified to be in. It was a lot of things that I had to learn, I had to get up to par on, and that season I was scared. And for the first time in my life I started having even panic attacks. And I remember the first time I had it, I remember I was on the tour and I was in a hotel room in Florida and I had my first panic attack. And I remember my heart was racing, my mind was spiraling. And I was like, God, like what do I do? I don't know what to do. And I was scared. And I remember. When it all passed, I was just thankful to God. I was just like, Lord, like I don't ever wanna feel this again. What do I do? I was praying and I remember the next day I met up with my cousin and he was like someone he is someone that I look up to a lot. He's a amazing musician, amazing bass player. We went out to eat and I explained to him, what was happening? And he looked at me and he was like, khris. I need you to stop, look at me and stop. And he was like, it's not that serious. And I look at him and I'm like, what do you mean? And he goes, bro, I know music is your passion. I know music is your lifestyle in a way, but it's not that serious. Stop and look around you by giving your 110% in into music. What else are you missing out on in life? What are you missing out on? He was like, look at your family, look at your friends. Look at your relationship. Look at your health. Look at your mental health. If you're only focusing on one thing, what is happening to everything around you? And then he tells me something that impacted me and that literally started the vision for a vessel. And he tells me, he was like, how can you be a vessel that pours into other people if your vessel is cracked? He looked at me and he told me that and I remember I couldn't say anything. I was just like, it's true. If I'm trying to pour into other people everything that I have left, but yet my vessel's cracked, there's still, let's say water or oil or whatever, just coming outta me at every moment. I'm pouring out into other people, but yet my vessel's cracked and I'm just getting empty and empty. And when am I getting filled? Wow. And that's something that. I know it doesn't just happen to me. Yeah. It happens to a lot of musicians. Totally. And I was just like I want. For one, for musicians to heal, and I want musicians to understand that as well. Yeah. And that's when God placed in my heart really heavy. That vision for Vessel conference. Wow. That one, if at least one day in the year, these musicians can come together and just get their cup filled. Wow. Just get their vessel filled for that way they can continue to be a vessel to other people. Or if their vessel is getting filled. For them to heal, for those cracks to be away. Maybe the scars might still be there, but that can be a testimony to other people, to other vessels, to other musicians. Love that. And vessel conference is gonna be coming in January. And I'm very excited. I have a lot of masterclasses that are gonna be happening. A lot of panels. There's gonna be worship nights, there's gonna be a huge shed, which I'm really excited for. Come on. Four or five drum kits. Four or five drum kids. Yeah man. Three, four pianos. Are you gonna be on the kid or are you gonna be on the keys? Man, I'll be everywhere, man. I'll be running around like a crazy kid, it's going to be really crazy and I'm really excited for what God's gonna do, most importantly, and, god is good. Vessel Conference 2026. So good. Yes sir. Remind me, but I de definitely do wanna link that the conference registration link here. Yes sir. In description on YouTube or if you're listening on Apple or Spotify podcast, you guys can check that link out to get more information. Yes, sir. On exact dates, exact location. It's gonna be in Lawrenceville, Georgia. Yes, sir. Outside of Atlanta. If you're in Georgia area, definitely make an effort to come, even if you're. In Nashville, Tennessee. Even if you're in Birmingham, Alabama. Even if you're in California. Yes, sir. Even if you are in Dr. Yes sir. You're in Honduras. Try to fly in, man. It's bilingual. It's gonna be Spanish and English. Come on. That's awesome. So it's gonna be amazing. Yes, sir. I love that, man. Yes, I love that. And I think every time that happens, it's a further indication of what heaven will be like. Man, I think it's, yes, sir. One other question. We're about to let you loose over here, but what's your best advice to worship keys players? Especially maybe in the Latin community. Yes, sir. And I say this to a lot of people. You need to listen to multiple styles of music. That is a must. One of the biggest things that could have that changed my life was the first time I listened to gospel music. I listened to a tight tribute album. Yeah. And it changed my life. It changed my sound, it changed the way I approached music. It just introduced me to a lot of, so Ta tri ta Tripbit turned it for you. He turned it for me. And I think that was the first track that I listened to from that album. Yeah, dude, that's insane. That, that track changed my life. Insane, right? Yeah, it was crazy. And that's number one, listen to not only listen to Latin, listen to gospel, listen to. R and b, listen to neo soul, listen to jazz. Yeah. Listen to indie. Come on. Don't sleep on pop. Yeah. Yeah. Pop is probably one of the most complicated, most intricate styles of music. Gets a lot of hits in there too. Yeah. It's just, for example, if a pop progression is so simple, think about all the ear candy. You have to put into a pop song. To be able to keep your mind interested. True. It's crazy true. If you just sit down and listen to all the different elements, you're like, bro, what the heck? I didn't know that was there. I didn't know that specific riser was there if they used that sound. It's crazy. Yeah. If you use those concepts, place them into your own productions, you'd be surprised at how much you can elevate everything you know. It's the way I'm able to place Latin into a gospel song. It's how I could even mix Latin and gospel together. Everything, all music can be tied together in some way, shape, or form. Oh man. So expand your repertoire. I feel like that's the most important thing and so good. Yeah, man. And second, focus on your tone. Focus on the way you sound. Yeah. Tone is important. You could be the best player, but if your tone sucks, it's not gonna sound good to hear you. True. Search up videos, look at it, ask friends. I feel like pride is the downfall of every musician. And if you have too much pride to ask your brother, Hey, help me out. Yeah. Help me get a better sound. Or what do you think about how I sound and stuff? Then you're just gonna be stuck in your own world thinking you sound good. And everyone around you's oh it sounds bad. It sounds like trash. So I would really encourage musicians to just. Ask each other for help. There's nothing wrong with asking someone for help. Love that. I've asked a lot of people for help on things where I'm like, Hey what do you think of this, bro? This sounds like trash. Take it off. Yeah. I'm like, oh, okay, fine. Let me, I'll test it. I'll be like, okay, let me see if it's just you talking or if it's me. What I'll do is I'll mute a specific thing in a production. Be like, okay, yeah. He had a point, I'm like, thanks bro. Like it's cool. It's cool. Feedback's crucial, man. Yeah. Don't be scared to get feedback from others. You'd be very surprised that what you could figure out, oh, totally. So I think those are the main two. Love that, that are very important. For sure. Love that, khris. Dude, without further ado, take it away on the keys, man. Man. Thank you. Sounds good. I'm gonna try my best. We are going to be doing some Latin arrangements. Uh, I was just here and I just asked my brother Carson. I was like, Hey, what is like a popular CCM Christian song that's been popular nowadays that someone could be like, man, that could never be Latin. And we mentioned the song. What a beautiful name. So let's see. So we, you know, we started playing the normal progression and we were like, you know, what a beautiful name it is, right? Five, the name of Jesus Christ, our king. Right? Very CC M, you know. We should all know this song. And you hear that and you're like, man, how on earth could that even be Latin? Right? And there's a lot of times where you could hear something and you just don't believe. That something could be possible until you just try it. Sometimes during production, it's not about being in the box, it's not about being right. You just have to go for things. You have to be creative because being creative is what makes you different. It's what sets you apart. If God gave us a mind to think and to be creative, why don't we use that creativity to give him glory? So let's see. The first thing I do when I make a Latin type of arrangement is it needs rhythm. It needs life. So if I played those same CCM chords and if I just added a beat to it, what would happen? So usually I go to YouTube, I find some Latin percussion tracks, and I find them in the BPM that I need, and I just add them to the session. I will arrange them to my specific needs, and then I put 'em in the session. So in this case, when I got here, I was just like, okay, let me find a Latin percussion track. 90 BPM dragged it on there. And I put a kind of a ghetto synth lead just because I wasn't trying to sing the whole time. But now I'm gonna just play that same exact progression, uh, or I'll play the verse, I'm gonna play the verse of the song and let's see what happens when I just add one simple percussion track. So as you can tell, already the flavor is there, you know, and all I did was just add one simple percussion track. Now, how can you add onto that? What if you just. Decide, Hey, all right, let's add a little bit of flavor. You know, let's, let's add just something different to make it sound a little different. So let's just run it back. So even there, you're like, oh, okay, so now you're kind of getting the gist, right? Like it's, it's feeling like something authentic. It's feeling like it's something different. Even if little mistakes are made or if they're, you know, it doesn't matter. It feels different. It feels good in Latin. The most important part is feel. If you don't have the feel, then nothing's there, you know? So now comes the other part. That was the soft part. It was just very, very chill, uh, very low. And it has to build up to something, right? Everyone's waiting for that part where we're getting high, where the energy is hyped, right? And for this case, it's the chorus of the song. So let's run it back. And this time let's just add. The little light and spice that we're talking about, right? Here we go. And in this one I'll, you know, press record and see what happens. 1, 2, 3. So, yeah, not my best take in the world. But the feel is there, right? It's all about feel. Now you might be thinking, all right, but something feels off, something you know is missing. And the one other than percussion, and other than piano, one of the most important elements of Latin music is the bass. If the bass is not there, the feel isn't there, you know? So let's add that. So let me find a base here. Uh, let me just go through all the simple sounds here that we have. I'll just go to here, I'll go to logic. The logic bases are amazing by the way. Uh, we'll go to base, uh, we'll actually go to Legacy. the legacy bases have really good stuff. Um, we'll just get a normal acoustic base, or sorry, not acoustic, an a electric. Let's find an electric base here, let's go for. Try this Stinger bass. I don't know why it has reverb. It's probably just the reverb here. Perfect. So let's add base. I'm not sure if I'm gonna add bass to the verse yet. I could, but let's, let's do it. Yeah. Here's where it comes. So, yeah, not the cleanest thing in the world, but the feel made a big difference. You know, like the feel that the base was able to bring was just a really big thing. So if I say that there could be a top three main elements is the percussion, the flavor that you put into it, and just adding that base. I mean, without the bass, you don't really have nothing in this genre, you know, so it just compliments anything. As you can tell. There was one part where in the piano I went to the four, or my intention was to go to the four. You know, I think it was, uh, and then since I was in a high octave, right, I did like a rootless voicing there unintentionally. And then when I was on the base. Let's say I played this voicing while I was, doing, you know, the, Latin part. So let's say if I played a voicing like this, you could put a four there, right? But I unintentionally on the bass played a two, right? So same voicing. You could do a four or a two. I un I unintentionally played a two and I was just like. Wait a minute. That actually sounded really good. So I left it, you know, so, so now, you know, so like the name of Jesus Christ, our king, that just, it adds a whole different vibe, you know? So I recommend you experiment with Rootless, voicings, you know, there's three different things I could do here, right? You can do, uh. A six, right? Or you could do a four or a two, right? So I say you experiment with things like that. When you do a rule is voicing a the top, you have space to try different things. So I would recommend that, uh, it's helped me in a lot of arrangements where I've done a. A lot of crazy things because of that, you know, because of mistakes that I have made out of mistakes have come some of my best ideas. So don't get disencouraged about your mistakes. We make 'em all the time. I made like 20,000 just now, but because of mistakes, it gave me ideas that helped elevate the arrangement to the next level. So be encouraged. Like don't be disencouraged because of any mistake that you make. Mistakes are a good thing. You learn from them more than anything. All right, so let's take some time and just add a little bit more layers. Uh, this is just, you know, a basic, start, if that makes sense. Uh, of course, if I were doing this as a, you know, actual production or if I was gonna finish this, you know, I'd spend hours on this, but I don't have hours, right? So from the basic concept that we made, even if it's not the cleanest, let's just see. So. I have a sound that I really like, that I kind of tried to mimic from a guy called Preston. Uh, his Instagram is called Fon World. I remember he played a event with Joel Barnes in the, uh, gas South arena, and I loved a sound that he was using. Uh, it sounded like a vintage bell. And then I grabbed what I heard from him. I added my own stuff to it. I'm a very, I'm a guy that loves a lot of ambience, a lot of movement, a lot of textures, and the sound sounds like this. I can use it for a lot of things. So it just has a lot of versatility even with the wheel. A lot of movement. So this, uh, in the context of the trek, uh. I believe it would sound good. So let's just see what we could do here. Lighten, sometimes using, uses a lot of bells and a lot of those concepts, so let's just see what we could do. Oh, see. Gotta make sure you get those chord changes. If not. You're cooked. Let's go again. It a. You want the piano to have the foreground. So, yeah, I love how it sounded, in my case, I would've, for example, changed the piano to be able to match with, that synth with this line, right? Just to clean that up, right? So I would go. And I would just get to the piano and I'd be like, Hey, uh, for example, if I sold this, that line right there and then I would repeat it. Same thing. So if we wanted to, let's go ahead and do that. Let's clean that up a little bit. So I'll just, cut this here. Uh, let's just go ahead and cut this and we'll just re we will just redo that ending on both ends. Go ahead and cut these. Alright, let's do piano verse just to clean that up just a little bit, you know? So we'll go there and if you're saying like, Hey, Chris isn't playing pressing record for yet, how is this midi still coming? So if you press shift r after rec, like just playing something, it'll just save and your midi would just come, like if you recorded it, basically. It's a cool tip. Like for example, if you played something you're like, man, that was actually good. I wish I would've played record. If you just press shift r. You have a great surprise coming for you. I actually do that instead of playing record because sometimes you get a little pressure when you see that red and I don't like to see the red, so I just, I'll play it like this, for example, so you don't play this. Perfect. So I played it. I cleaned it up. I was like, all right, yeah, I messed with that. Take for shift. R boom, there you go. It's all there. It could save your life. Remember that? Remember that. So, yeah, so see, so just that difference, you know, we cleaned it up, and it sounds really good. It actually sounds a lot, you know, fuller, and let's just look at some other stuff. There's a sound that I got off my brother called cj, brand music. Uh, that's his, Instagram handle, and he actually sells a lot of gospel. Crazy patches and out of one of them is this one right here, which actually has really gotten incorporated into my sound. If you listen to a lot of my arrangements and a lot of what I do, I use this a lot as ear candy and it's just, it, it is just moving left and right, a whole bunch of stuff, and I just love it. I completely love it. So who knows if this will fit here, but we can try to incorporate it and see what happens. So just gotta be very tasteful. That was a good one. The in the foreground for that one. That's gotta really listen. So like, yeah, so sometimes I like 'em, sometimes I don't. In this case, I think I only even just liked two of them, if anything. So we solo it. See, sometimes you can get sloppy, sometimes, you know, it can be good. Sometimes it can be bad. I think the only one, and the only one I liked was like, uh, this one. This one in the middle. So what I'd do is I would just cut it. I would just cut it and I'd be like, you know what? The only one that actually fits if I want, I can mute 'em, you know, if I want to leave them. But in this case, I really only like this one. It was clean, it was simple. Didn't distract. The rest of them were just random. You know, I didn't really like the placement, so I'll just leave that one. Perfect. So we found a use for that. Sound. Cool. I have one more that I use a lot and this one, I forgot. That worship sound, I man, that worship sound can have my whole wallet and, and just put me in generational depth. You know that worship sound has the best sounds on the market. If you guys did not know, y'all just have to check them out. The majority of my stuff is from. That worship sound and I just combine sounds and I just make them my own. And it's just such a great template to start. You need to get into that worship sound for sure. All right, so this sound is from that worship sound. As you can tell, I have done some EQ changes, brought in a lot of high end, cut the mids a lot, and just took it down a lot of that muddy low end to be able to create. Very ambient, you know, cave sound. So this I only use for specific things. I just use them to likewell into moments. To just do transitions from one moment to the other. I don't really play it like a normal pad. I just find my specific moments like we did with the other song and I just put it there. So let's see. For example, there you go. Very short and. Okay, this is. I do here something. There you go. And that's how you add sounds. Just to make it sound a little thicker. I'm really thankful for you guys taking the time to be able to listen and to just, be a part of my craziness. And I'm really thankful to God for what he's doing, , and what he's gonna continue to do with. All of these things, all of these crazy ideas that he's putting into my head. Uh, and I'm just so thankful for my brother, for allowing me to be a part of this show. I believe in what he's doing. I believe in his ministry. I'm just really thankful to be here. All right guys. Thank y'all so much for sticking around to the very end. Chris Diaz, thank you so much for being on the podcast. Yes. Yes, sir. Thank you so much for having me. This was such a blessing. I hope it could be a blessing to you guys. And, uh, follow, follow Chris on Instagram vibe with