Maroon 5 - Moves Like Jagger (Guitar Cover)

The Song:

"Moves Like Jagger" is a song written by by Adam Levine, Ammar Malik, Benny Blanco, and Shellback; the latter two are also the producers. featuring singer Christina Aguilera. It was released on June 21, 2011, as the fourth and final single from the re-release of the group's third studio album Hands All Over (2010).

"Moves like Jagger" is a disco, electropop, and dance-pop song. It features a "throbbing" synth, fast-paced beat and electronic drums. The song is introduced by a whistle melody and light, funky guitar in the key of B minor and has only two chords an Bm7 and an Em7. I love pop and Maroon 5 is a really great band.

The Video:

The process of final product you are seeing is as follows: I import the original track from iTunes into PreSonus Studio One, tempo map it in PreSonus Studio One, and record all the guitar part as close as I can get them to the original track.

I then buss the guitars to an effects track where I use a send for reverb. On the master I have a limiter, compression and EQ and I usually master in the same workspace. All the guitars are recorded through a Fractal Audio AXE FX III, I generally use Fractal presets and tweak them a bit.
I record the video on my iPhone (with the lesser quality audio), import the video onto my PC desktop where I use DaVinci Resolve to edit the video and replace the iPhone audio with the studio quality audio from PreSonus Studio One. On tunes like this where I use multiple tracks, I use an Apple Mac with more power than the PC for the video. My PC chokes when there are multiple guitars in one video.

The Equipment:

I recorded this track using a 1997 Gibson es-335 dot, Tobacco Sunburst. This is a 60’s slim tapper neck and has been pleked. Changed out the Grover tuners for Kluson double ring, chanced to a historic truss rod cover and volume/tone knobs. I play the all guitars on this track directly into a Fractal Audio FXIII and then directly out to my DAW (PreSonus Studio One).