It Took 6 YEARS To Finish This Song... (But it was worth it!)

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  • One song, Six years... but it was worth it.
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  • @peteplaysmusic
    @peteplaysmusic  18 днів тому +13

    One song, Six years... but it was worth it. Listen to the song here: bit.ly/3yWX9SM
    Check out my Sweetwater page here: sweetwater.sjv.io/QyYQV9

    • @THEDJAG-gt1tz
      @THEDJAG-gt1tz 18 днів тому

      Amazing skills here. This reminded me that maybe I should continue on my songs I've started on, but haven't finished! You're a great guitarist!

    • @yangust4833
      @yangust4833 14 днів тому

      Awesome! Could you please publish a tab here?

    • @motoxjosh29
      @motoxjosh29 14 днів тому

      love the composition! ive been over 15 years finishing a song. i really need to sit time aside to focus on one of them. Will you be offering tabs for sale??

    • @peteplaysmusic
      @peteplaysmusic  14 днів тому

      @yangust4833 Thanks! I can’t upload them to UA-cam but the Tabs are on my Patreon and Bandcamp. Link in the description :)

    • @peteplaysmusic
      @peteplaysmusic  14 днів тому +1

      @motoxjosh29 Thanks! Yep, Tabs for this and all my songs are on my Patreon and Bandcamp. Link is in the description :)

  • @Vetkach
    @Vetkach 18 днів тому +27

    The chorus riff is chef's kiss

  • @stephendavey5113
    @stephendavey5113 18 днів тому +30

    Getting big Keith Merrow energy. Very rad!

    • @peteplaysmusic
      @peteplaysmusic  18 днів тому +8

      Definitely channeling some Merrow vibes here :)

    • @robscallon
      @robscallon 17 днів тому +5

      Keith Merrow’s influence on UA-cam guitar really should be studied.

    • @SplinteredCompany
      @SplinteredCompany 15 днів тому

      @@robscallon You'll have to do a video with him!

  • @georgeyhavoc
    @georgeyhavoc 17 днів тому +12

    that chorus sounds like it's straight out of Fit For an Autopsy's vault! unreal track dude!

    • @JamesElise160
      @JamesElise160 17 днів тому

      It does have a rather "far from heaven" vibe about it. But, that's certainly no bad thing at all.

    • @georgeyhavoc
      @georgeyhavoc 17 днів тому +1

      @@JamesElise160 definitely not dude. outstanding songs both of em

  • @robscallon
    @robscallon 17 днів тому +6

    🤘😷 sick.

    • @peteplaysmusic
      @peteplaysmusic  16 днів тому +3

      Thanks dude 🙏 😀

    • @hatempire
      @hatempire 9 днів тому

      Been a minute since the last "Progressive Metal Town" video, right? 👀 Wish you could collab more often.

  • @corentinfauquet4555
    @corentinfauquet4555 15 днів тому +4

    That song is Bonkers. It was clearly worth the wait! Chuggy and swing at the same time, there's everything a good metal song needs, perfect. Would be interesting to put some vocals on it!

  • @darklegion720
    @darklegion720 18 днів тому +14

    Very Fit For an Autopsy

  • @BrokenStrings231
    @BrokenStrings231 10 днів тому +1

    Such a cool song! It gave me Gojira and Periphery vibes.

  • @Babis_music
    @Babis_music 18 днів тому +4

    Gojira meets Obscura! Nicely done mate!

  • @eugenefender1279
    @eugenefender1279 13 днів тому +1

    Awesome song, Pete! Chorus and the bridge riff almost sound like classical music to me.

  • @gatesj2538
    @gatesj2538 3 дні тому

    Yeah, that chorus hits pretty hard.
    Pretty sure my neighbors are going to learn to enjoy this one.

  • @MetalGuitarGuy
    @MetalGuitarGuy 17 днів тому +1

    Awesome playing, as usual, Pete! 🤘🏻😎🤘🏻 That Legato section is especially impressive...

  • @pepupapi
    @pepupapi 17 днів тому +1

    Your original instrumentals are awesome.

  • @zachsmith5058
    @zachsmith5058 16 днів тому

    Absolutely love the riffing. The chorus has such a Castlevania vibe to it. Would be absolutely proud to have wrote a song like this!

  • @achannelaboutnothing9070
    @achannelaboutnothing9070 17 днів тому

    Reminds me of within the ruins old stuff, 👌🤌 learning chorus asap

  • @337BLOOMLEE
    @337BLOOMLEE 13 днів тому

    Dangggg.... Speechless 😮
    nice work

  • @InitialDreadly
    @InitialDreadly 16 днів тому

    This would go so perfectly over a boss fight

  • @danbaardsen1388
    @danbaardsen1388 17 днів тому

    That bridge riff❤

  • @stevenlx4120
    @stevenlx4120 17 днів тому

    This song is awesome Pete, the chorus melody is really sick, it reminds me kind of Muse vibes mixed with Keith Merrows, and all the bridges ans extra stuffs you've added compared to the first version sounds amazingly good, especially that bridge After the second chorus. Well done Pete, as usual this is great content 🤘🏻🤘🏻

  • @thomasfoster4091
    @thomasfoster4091 17 днів тому +1

    Love the mix on that guitar tone. Smooth in the highs and still very aggressive. 🤌🏼 I wish I knew how to do that!!!! 😂

  • @M4RCi92
    @M4RCi92 17 днів тому

    What a journey. 6 years for one track! You had a blast creating it, wrote a shitton of great riffs, practiced a lot, learnt a lot. Be proud of yourself dude. The result, this absolute 🔥barn burner🔥is just the cherry on top. I'm happy for you.

  • @Unitron2112
    @Unitron2112 17 днів тому

    Awesome song! Love the contrast between the heavy chug and the melodic runs. Love that you were able to bring the full song into fruition! I can really relate with having songs slowly form themselves over the years. I've got several riffs from years ago that I'll come back to every so often and develop it into something more (or turn it into something completely different!)

  • @njr386
    @njr386 18 днів тому

    Love it.
    Must've felt good to finally piece it together. Keep it up.

  • @valentin1601
    @valentin1601 17 днів тому

    Excellent job !

  • @blgdinger3
    @blgdinger3 10 днів тому

    cool thanks I'm taking this

  • @Necron00b
    @Necron00b 18 днів тому +1

    Love everything about that. The sweepy kinda riff is my jam, might try and give something similar a go on a new track. haha

  • @ericvernon1182
    @ericvernon1182 17 днів тому

    That bridge was sick man!!! 🤘🤘🤘

  • @haterkmp
    @haterkmp 17 днів тому

    Nice one Man! Six years but not overthinked, very smooth. I like it :)

  • @Mak_Trvln_SLP
    @Mak_Trvln_SLP 17 днів тому

    Very cool track. Didn't expect the changes when I heard the first riff, but this is a a very diverse track and I love it!

  • @jeffreymartinez5829
    @jeffreymartinez5829 18 днів тому

    When I saw the title of this video I was so stoked and, you're right, it was worth it! Great song! I really dig the chunky parts. That's just what my ears are drawn to. But those shreds were epic too!!

  • @xNoktemAeternus2
    @xNoktemAeternus2 18 днів тому +1

    Solo is sick

  • @nikkmorse
    @nikkmorse 17 днів тому +1

    Perfection takes time pete....absolutely love it 🤘🏼😈🤘🏼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

    • @MarkJBaber
      @MarkJBaber 17 днів тому +1

      A fellow draig, but he isn't wrong. Great video dude.

  • @dannydemonic3665
    @dannydemonic3665 13 днів тому

    badass! Love it

  • @Fizz-Pop
    @Fizz-Pop 17 днів тому +1

    Very cool!

  • @Crrrr0wFire
    @Crrrr0wFire 18 днів тому

    Very nice. Finishing stuff can be super satisfying. Agreed, it was worth it.

  • @benjaminprietop
    @benjaminprietop 17 днів тому

    that was amazing! lml

  • @marksvirsky9103
    @marksvirsky9103 14 днів тому

    Incredible song

  • @HerrHopeVonBear
    @HerrHopeVonBear 17 днів тому

    🤘🔥🤘Beautiful! Gorgeous! Fabulous🤘❤️‍🔥🤘!!!

  • @jigaddyjigs5908
    @jigaddyjigs5908 18 днів тому +1

    damn that chorus riff is soooooo good wtfffff

  • @szynom2587
    @szynom2587 17 днів тому

    Amazing riffs, especially chorus, engaging and melodic. Add the layer of classical music and symphonic deathcore banger will be ready

  • @chadbeck4139
    @chadbeck4139 17 днів тому

    That harmonic at 4:20 was tasteful! Haha 🤙

    • @Dm3qXY
      @Dm3qXY 17 днів тому

      eh.. all harmonic stuff does that.

  • @Sam-np9xe
    @Sam-np9xe 17 днів тому

    That was pretty gnarly my dude.

  • @PIZZAdayisback
    @PIZZAdayisback 18 днів тому +2

    Cool riff

  • @RanterInShades
    @RanterInShades 18 днів тому

    You are such a bomb riff writer.

  • @thomassochacki128
    @thomassochacki128 13 днів тому

    Good things come..

  • @imametalhead696
    @imametalhead696 18 днів тому +1

    Badass song dude!💯👌🔥

  • @ChaosPootato
    @ChaosPootato 17 днів тому

    Well that was awesome

  • @CIRCLEOFTONE
    @CIRCLEOFTONE 18 днів тому

    Nice dude ❤

  • @chrishuttel7291
    @chrishuttel7291 17 днів тому

    Das ist mal wieder richtig geil. Bitte mehr davon ❤. Ich liebe deine Songs. Apex 2.0 ist immer noch mein aller größter Lieblingssong von dir 😊. Du hast mega Talent 🤘

  • @robertdonosobuchner3129
    @robertdonosobuchner3129 17 днів тому

    Great!

  • @IvoSousa
    @IvoSousa 16 днів тому

    i would have started with this pretty cool riff at (4:35) as a main riff with more repetitions throughout the song and potentially leave the one with what you started off for the bridge or something like that, i feel like a riff as catchy as that should definitly been played more

  • @k.g.2825
    @k.g.2825 18 днів тому

    Absolutely amazing! Good job! The stuff you do is always satisfying. Greetings from germany 🤘

  • @back_stabbath9729
    @back_stabbath9729 18 днів тому

    Pretty neat dude! Reminds me a lot of The Safety Fire but a bit more 'surgical' sounding if that makes sense lol keep up the good work!

  • @KevinKoolx
    @KevinKoolx 17 днів тому

    Hell yeah! 🤘

  • @user-xq1uj4cu1c
    @user-xq1uj4cu1c 17 днів тому

    Sick riffs and a nice solo. I loved it \m/ But I must confess, that headless guitars give me agony

  • @ghostfaceninetyfive
    @ghostfaceninetyfive 17 днів тому

    I remember the first time hearing this chorus legato chop riff from a free amp sim plugin demo 🔥

  • @soggytatty3845
    @soggytatty3845 18 днів тому

    About time Pete!

  • @shorstky9732
    @shorstky9732 17 днів тому

    How do you get so clean legato and sweeps OMG :O

  • @monstruonegro05
    @monstruonegro05 17 днів тому

    🔥🔥

  • @tonystef3983
    @tonystef3983 18 днів тому +2

    Cool riffs, though I was expecting some vocals :)

    • @peteplaysmusic
      @peteplaysmusic  18 днів тому +2

      Thank! I can't sing/scream but maybe will collab with someone in future. All my songs are instrumental but I try to make the riffs memorable and catchy :)

  • @1234drums
    @1234drums 14 днів тому

    Awesome ❤❤❤❤

  • @musicmore5169
    @musicmore5169 17 днів тому

    I LOVE SONGS THAT DONT REPEAT A LOT ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ I LOVE IT BRO, TRY N DO AN ALBUM WITH OLA ENGLUND

  • @honigdachs.
    @honigdachs. 16 днів тому

    Well ... at least you had fun doing it.

  • @DimageSapelkin
    @DimageSapelkin 16 днів тому

    It begins like Cannibal Corpse, then goes Necrophagist ;]

  • @user-ps5jo5dz4x
    @user-ps5jo5dz4x 18 днів тому

    OoooOOOOo, i remeber this! Red Shecter guitar video!

  • @Metalltool
    @Metalltool 18 днів тому

    Sometimes it's just about finishing the song mate! Sounds heavy. In the end I think it's a much better feeling having finished a piece than sitting on it forever.

  • @njr386
    @njr386 18 днів тому

    I have a whole graveyard full of unfinished guitarpro songs. Guess its time to dig some up.

  • @Fechory-projet
    @Fechory-projet 9 днів тому

    Está guapa

  • @TheGaryHughes
    @TheGaryHughes 18 днів тому

    See you in 60 years for the album drop

  • @Williams1505
    @Williams1505 18 днів тому

    Beginning riff gives me Invisible kid by Metallica vibes

  • @redd780
    @redd780 17 днів тому

    You've just wrote Fit For an Autopsy song😄

  • @yannleroux1005
    @yannleroux1005 18 днів тому +2

    We never finish a song, we abandon it because we can't make it better. That's a wonderful composition, I think every musician has a project or a song they constantly come back to. I myself have one particular song which holds me for more than ten years, even after I recorded it twice.

  • @Utzilainen
    @Utzilainen 17 днів тому

    how about a colab with Ola Englund :)

  • @CognitiveDrive
    @CognitiveDrive 5 днів тому

    It sounds like Vitalism "Pagan"
    But may be I'm wrong
    It sounds awesome anyway

  • @johnhillgren7566
    @johnhillgren7566 12 днів тому

    Can someone please tell me how to do that upwards "harmonic-sou ding" string rake that everyone is doing these days.? I can kinda get it on fret 2, but I notice Pete is pulling it off on occasion with his fretting hand higher up the neck than that. Does it come from the picking hand, like a pinch harmonic.? Any help would be appreciated. It's such a tiny quick little technique, but Ive just loved it ever since I first heard it and would love to incorporate it into my own writing.

    • @peteplaysmusic
      @peteplaysmusic  12 днів тому

      I do it mostly around the 5th fret but it can be done almost anywhere on the fretboard. Think of it as a ‘muted harmonic’ it’s similar to a natural harmonic except you mute the strings with your fretting hand.
      With your fretting hand, play a natural harmonic with your pinky and rest your other 3 fingers on the string at the same time to mute it. It’s important not to press too hard. With your picking hand just drag the pick through the strings as normal.
      Hope that makes sense? :)

  • @consequenceable
    @consequenceable 12 днів тому

    ❤😊

  • @oskrb01
    @oskrb01 18 днів тому

    It reminds of gothic church music. IMO Got that estetic.

    • @peteplaysmusic
      @peteplaysmusic  18 днів тому

      Not sure what that is but I'll take it as a compliment :)

  • @dmitrsseleznev3771
    @dmitrsseleznev3771 4 дні тому

    I think you should definitely have more views than you're getting

  • @Williams1505
    @Williams1505 18 днів тому

    Tuning
    ?

  • @fatfriarmusic
    @fatfriarmusic 17 днів тому

    Being in music for a long time I've seen artists say this took so many years to finish. It's such a bullshit way to mark progress on a riff idea into a song. It's basically a way to say since it took so long it'll be this great and wonderful work of art and quite often the opposite is true.
    So if you had to clock in and out on the amount of time it actually took to "write" the song what are we looking at? A couple weeks worth of actual hours it took to make?
    Good tune, not knocking it at all, my only critique would be the drums are boring and the song would be better served by hiring an actual online drummer rather than programming them. So many great drummers for hire online and will cut a track In a day or two and usually give you 3 passes to choose from and I've paid anywhere from 100 dollars per song to 500 dollars per song so it's not expensive to do at all and the results are so much better than programmed drums.
    A drummer could've taken all those riffs to the next level and made the song come out of that "UA-cam guitarist programs boring drums behind A killer riff niche" that plagues most YT guitarists.
    ESPECIALLY in metal, drums make the song. You can have a great riff all day long but if the drums are shit the riffs suffer and for me that's what's going on here. It'd be interesting to hear this redone with a real drummer, no triggers, a real drummer, real drums played and recorded with mics to see how much better this song could be.
    It deserves real drums.
    🤘😎🤘

  • @thesickhorseranch1930
    @thesickhorseranch1930 18 днів тому +5

    A7X could have released this and nobody would have thought it out of the ordinary. Very cool project!

    • @UndarZ
      @UndarZ 17 днів тому

      Except for the mixing.

  • @b_rec
    @b_rec 17 днів тому

    is it ok if i write lyrics and growl the f out of it on this?

  • @shadowman9981
    @shadowman9981 17 днів тому +1

    I really like the whole second half of the song. First half kinda boring imho.

  • @spacedog2980
    @spacedog2980 17 днів тому

    this is a fucking

  • @thegoodguy44
    @thegoodguy44 17 днів тому +1

    The drums sound super unrealistic. Quantized to 100%. Sounds like a bunch of riffs not connected very well.

  • @UndarZ
    @UndarZ 17 днів тому +1

    Guitars could've used a lot more high end and presence, since they sound so muffled. And the drums sound distant and disconnected from the guitars. Otherwise a nice tune.

  • @flombnonstopstereo9414
    @flombnonstopstereo9414 18 днів тому

    6 years because of playing stupid videogames?

  • @Draken0023
    @Draken0023 17 днів тому

    Dude, you have got to do a collab with Greg Burgess of Allegaeon! Listening to this song immediately made me think of those guys. Rock the f*ck on, man! 🤘