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When you can and have time, I wanted to ask you please if you could put together some extreme metal presets for low tuning guitars for Mooer GE-200 and share them a big hug from Buenos Aires, Argentina
Not sure if it was your comment we saw on his original review of our amp or not, but if it is, you're why we mentioned this type of video to Taylor!🤘❤ Hope it helps!
Bruh, your video convinced me to buy a audio interface and do my own riffing, thanks man! I really like the message to not be too hard on yourself, and let the creativity flow.
As a complete ignorant in music theory and with very bad hearing skills as far as learn song by ear is concerned, the harmonies in third tip is fucking awesome! Thank you!
Dude HELL yes. My biggest weakness is that I'm good at writing riffs, but TERRIBLE at writing songs. I'm almost scared to even try putting ideas down in a DAW, but I need to get over that and learn how to actually write songs. This video was incredibly helpful!
start playing different riffs after another see what blends or sounds cool or interesting, then stick with that. Eventually you come up with chains of riffs that sound interesting together and it makes the intros verses choruses solos or short leads and accents breakdowns blastbeats and outros. Then place them anywhere the functionality of the song needs it, take away and change as much or many times as the songs need to be GOOD, not just ok. Make them exquisite. Now, you shall gain noteriety. Have a good one. Start building more chops over the top of looped or recorded chops. Make riffs up with drum beats going and adjust anything you come up with.
I love how easy you went about this. Writing death metal is already a difficult process as is to perform let alone recording it, but you did it with a that gave it legs with a very productive & repeatable process. More people could see this 🙏🏼
Man I love Reaper so much, it's perfect for me, you change skins and pretty much everything about it, routing is easy, sidechain super easy! Just perfect!
I was thinking about switching from Cubase to Reaper instead of spending the cash to cross grade. I don't use all of the features Cubase has anyway haha
@@burtsgurttbh, i wouldnt go backwards. Cubases has a lot of benefits to life over reaper due to that cost, and you never know when those extra features will come in handy
@@burtsgurt you know, for me I'm more about the quick/fast editing, and for me Reaper works best for editing, faster and it's lighter on CPU, some people say if you use a lot of midi Cubase is better, or if you own any Steinberg interfaces, the stock features on Reaper are enough for me, and I use a lot of 3rd party plugins anyway. The cool thing about Reaper is you can try for as long as you want before buying the license.
It's definitely an easy and super versatile program to use. I've owned Logic for over a year, and while I KNOW I need to switch for a number of reasons, I actually have a really hard time learning it compared to Reaper.
That was actually really helpful, thanks man! As I'm trying to start actually writing songs, not just riffs, I struggle lots with coordination and structure, but watching you doing it, was very inspiring!
Bro, this was crazy helpful and really plainly stated. A lot of channels tend to speak over the viewers head and makes it hard to figure out what they're doing and why, but this was about as plain as it could be.
Thank you so much for making this video, I've been writing lyrics and riffs for an album for a couple years now, and I couldn't quite make it work with just recording stuff on my phone. This is the info I needed to make it all seem possible. Thank you
great walk thru taylor. i needed it no great song just came out at one time in 5 mins lol. it got me pumpin and i wrote a new song today juast based on using these ideas and not sweating it. thanks for the content
10/10 video. Great tips on here. Definitely got ezdrummer on my radar now. Now, once I get my DAW to detect either of my interfaces I’ll be unstoppable
Another feature I like on ez drummer 3 is the band mate. You put your guitar or bass track in and it finds all the midi grooves you have that it thinks will match the audio you gave it, then you just pick one and tweak if needed!
Learned more from this video than 2 months of fiddling with reaper on my own 🤘. Digging into drum synths next. Bought Glenn Fricker's Extinction Level Event. Pretty excited to try it.
Love this. I initially thought, it seems like an interesting way to compose something. Then I was looking at a Drive Like Jehu tune today, trying to understand it, and it looks like it was exactly like you did it. Except noise rock doesn't make much sense. Thanks for your efforts in all you do.
Absolutely awesome and exactly what I needed to improve my work flow.. got abit lost in the mixing stage but yeah getting ideas out and flow... 2nd to none!! Thank you for making this video!!🤘🏻
I was curious to what all programs you were using. I may have missed what you have said as I'm at work... but, literally the beginning of the video I just started doing because like you showed and I've heard, place a drum clip and its off and I couldn't figure out why, when I was playing with a metronome.. lol . And boom the mystery was solved. Lol. I think the funniest part of this video was when you said not to waste your time on the instrument you don't play, unfortunately I am a bassist, so I actually don't waste my time on the instrument I do play, instead it's on guitar. Ha😅, but I get the idea. So while I'm waiting for my band to finish their parts on our album, I'm continuing to write for the next album and my solo project. So this video was very informative and I continue to look forward to all tips. Thanks
Personally, I find that it’s useful to have a few sections that come up multiple times in the song, so that it is cohesive and doesn’t all sound like a bunch of riffs strewn together
Some really good tips there that I can use man, cheers for this. I'm still getting my head around Ez / Superior Drummer but seem to find it much easier to construct the beats first and then put riffs to the beats instead of the other way around. Whatever works eh :D
Yeah, I go back and forth. I usually start with guitar and if nothing is coming out, I'll try to write drums first. Either way, the end result is what matters.
I want to teach a little secret. If you have guitar pro, you can find any song you like from any band where theirs a guitar pro song and copy and paste the drums into a new file with just drums then save and extract as midi to get any of your favorite drum grooves. Sometimes I do this if I can’t find a groove on ez or superior drummer but I’m going for a specific feel. It’s endless.
For the record would love to do a channel in the same approach. You guys doing this keep me inspired to play ... I'm almost 40 and still trying to riff thanks to the inspiration of you youtuber shredders
When you can and have time, I wanted to ask you please if you could put together some extreme metal presets for low tuning guitars for Mooer GE-200 and share them a big hug from Buenos Aires, Argentina
Excellent video, I this took me too long to learn long ago when I first started producing. Interesting study that the producing and engineering engages more of the left side of the brain, and writing riffs and the creative activities engage more of the right, so I like to stay in each appropriate zone and focus on either creating/riffing or engineering, but not interchanging. There's no shame in looping your own material.
Thanks for inspiring me to get back to recording again! I've been doing this for so many years that I've forgotten so many little tricks and techniques like this. I tend to get into creative ruts that last for YEARS! lol It's crazy how much the tools have improved over the years. I would have killed to have this equipment when I was a little metal head. Now I do have it but lack the inspiration to dedicate real time to this. Time for a change!
Very cool video (I am also a Reaper user). I'd suggest that you turn the klick track off when listening back to the tracks. It's really loud, and I can't hear the programmed drums. Other than that, great suggestions throughout, especially setting up templates.
Very good tip on the side chain compression between bass and kick drum. Do you do that for between snare and (??), maybe in your other comprehensive mixing project?
Wish I knew how to ( or had the money to) have software and things like this. What I do is... get a drum track or use a metronome Then I just go.... Make stuff up for at least 7 hours hahahah. Then when I got something I separate it into verses,choruses,interludes, Then think of a genre or storyline or something like this.... Then just go... But I use a BOSS BR600. It’s old as. But still powerful. But I cannot recreate such amazing stuff like you do here man. But please by all means get one of these boss things and you will see how sick it is. The song I make are on my soundcloud under “ incensed “ the profile picture is two guitar necks with a weird face in the middle. I’m not showing off just showing you what I have in terms of music equipment and how it sounds. I will definitely take note on your productions too. Thank you
This was very helpful and informative. One tip from me ..turn the metronome off when you are explaining things more in detail. I hope you make more videos like this in the future. Love the channel and your band. Thanks for all your hard work. Have a nice day!😁👍
Sick. You gave me some good ideas for something I'm doing soon. I'm curious about what your approach would be to producing your drums and bass to use as a backing track if you wanted to bring the song to goof around at an open mic or something equally as ridiculous with live guitar and vocals. I'm planning on panning the drums hard left and the bass hard right so the sound guy can mix and EQ however he sees fit and pump it through the floor wedge.
Hello Taylor! Really nice helpful and simple video explanation of songwriting process that just inspired me to continue creating! Thanks for that! I have one question: In the part of drum pattern choosing while you have opened EZ Drummer and you click on PLAY button next to drum pattern, your riff is playing along that example. How do you turn that option on?
You just press play (space bar) in the DAW and then when you press play on the groove, it will play it over your tracks. Unfortunately it's not always sync'd up, but I've just gotten good at pressing play when the loop starts.
I just have a collection of sick riffs no songs yet. For me, I don’t record or write down a riff unless I think it’s already really sick. Unless it’s just an idea and I don’t want to finish it at the moment.
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When you can and have time, I wanted to ask you please if you could put together some extreme metal presets for low tuning guitars for Mooer GE-200 and share them a big hug from Buenos Aires, Argentina
This is a great video man! Cheers
😅 I asked for a video on how you make your demo songs like a month and a half ago maybe? Am going to save this video for reference , thanks 👍
Not sure if it was your comment we saw on his original review of our amp or not, but if it is, you're why we mentioned this type of video to Taylor!🤘❤ Hope it helps!
@@modernmusicsolutions 🥹 actually yes!! It was in the video review of your plug in , thanks 🙏
That's awesome. I'm glad you got some insight into the process. It was really fun to make this video, and I hope it helps people get their ideas out!
Bruh, your video convinced me to buy a audio interface and do my own riffing, thanks man! I really like the message to not be too hard on yourself, and let the creativity flow.
You'd neve regret that investment. Just have fun with it.
As a complete ignorant in music theory and with very bad hearing skills as far as learn song by ear is concerned, the harmonies in third tip is fucking awesome! Thank you!
Dude HELL yes. My biggest weakness is that I'm good at writing riffs, but TERRIBLE at writing songs. I'm almost scared to even try putting ideas down in a DAW, but I need to get over that and learn how to actually write songs. This video was incredibly helpful!
real.
start playing different riffs after another see what blends or sounds cool or interesting, then stick with that. Eventually you come up with chains of riffs that sound interesting together and it makes the intros verses choruses solos or short leads and accents breakdowns blastbeats and outros. Then place them anywhere the functionality of the song needs it, take away and change as much or many times as the songs need to be GOOD, not just ok. Make them exquisite. Now, you shall gain noteriety. Have a good one. Start building more chops over the top of looped or recorded chops. Make riffs up with drum beats going and adjust anything you come up with.
Thank you so much for wearing that at the gates shirt I've been trying to find their music again for such a long time
Slaughter of the soul is such cool album, the sweatshirt that makes your "soul go cold, only the dead are smiling"
🤘🏼🔥 Thanks for being down to do a more experimental video showing off your process man! Hope this helps a lot of people!
🥳
I love how easy you went about this. Writing death metal is already a difficult process as is to perform let alone recording it, but you did it with a that gave it legs with a very productive & repeatable process. More people could see this 🙏🏼
Man I love Reaper so much, it's perfect for me, you change skins and pretty much everything about it, routing is easy, sidechain super easy! Just perfect!
I was thinking about switching from Cubase to Reaper instead of spending the cash to cross grade. I don't use all of the features Cubase has anyway haha
@@burtsgurttbh, i wouldnt go backwards. Cubases has a lot of benefits to life over reaper due to that cost, and you never know when those extra features will come in handy
@@burtsgurt you know, for me I'm more about the quick/fast editing, and for me Reaper works best for editing, faster and it's lighter on CPU, some people say if you use a lot of midi Cubase is better, or if you own any Steinberg interfaces, the stock features on Reaper are enough for me, and I use a lot of 3rd party plugins anyway. The cool thing about Reaper is you can try for as long as you want before buying the license.
It's definitely an easy and super versatile program to use. I've owned Logic for over a year, and while I KNOW I need to switch for a number of reasons, I actually have a really hard time learning it compared to Reaper.
That was actually really helpful, thanks man! As I'm trying to start actually writing songs, not just riffs, I struggle lots with coordination and structure, but watching you doing it, was very inspiring!
Awesome! Glad to help!
Bro, this was crazy helpful and really plainly stated. A lot of channels tend to speak over the viewers head and makes it hard to figure out what they're doing and why, but this was about as plain as it could be.
Thanks!
6:33 I think it's one of the riffs in Kill or Become by Cannibal Corpse haha, excellent !
Wow, that was so cool to see as a fellow songwriter. Man, I might borrow some of your ideas into my workflow!
Please do 💪
Thank you so much for making this video, I've been writing lyrics and riffs for an album for a couple years now, and I couldn't quite make it work with just recording stuff on my phone. This is the info I needed to make it all seem possible. Thank you
OH! that IS a beautiful cable going into your UAD. Do share. And thank you for a lovely upload - very helpful.
Thanks. Happy Cable company BTW
Man, this is exactly how I write. Thank you for this video. It really made me feel more secure about how to write and it made my day. So thank you :D
That's GOLD, Jerry!
This was gold brother. Appreciate ya. I'm gearing up to start recording like this.
Hell yeah, DO IT! 💪
Bro I never sit thru a long UA-cam video but yours was the best teaching lesson I’ve ever had!!! Never stop these!!! You’re doing gods works!
Thanks so much, I really appreciate it!
Ezdrummer is so perfect for writing love it! Killer video bro!
Thanks dude!
Awesome! Very well done!!
Thanks!
great walk thru taylor. i needed it no great song just came out at one time in 5 mins lol. it got me pumpin and i wrote a new song today juast based on using these ideas and not sweating it. thanks for the content
Amazing content!!! This is one of the best channels on UA-cam.
Thank you sir!
Thank you for this video! I learned a ton. I really appreciate it. Subbed.
Nice to meet you!!! Thank you for lesson and also for how u mixing it !!!!
Yes! I love videos like this. I’m writing a post rock album at the moment and this is very helpful.
Awesome, glad I could help!
10/10 video. Great tips on here. Definitely got ezdrummer on my radar now. Now, once I get my DAW to detect either of my interfaces I’ll be unstoppable
I'm making a video here soon on EZ drummer vs Superior drummer as well. I actually recently just switched. But IMO EZD is such a great tool and value!
You make badass songs dude! Its cool to see how you make them
Thank you!!
Oh believe me, it is absolutely about your riffing! I would have never subscribed if the first random clip i saw of you had no good riffs. 🤘
Thanks for the tips, I mainly play core stuff but I still found some of the general advice helpful.
This video helped me a lot and made me subscribe to your channel. Loved the content!
Another feature I like on ez drummer 3 is the band mate. You put your guitar or bass track in and it finds all the midi grooves you have that it thinks will match the audio you gave it, then you just pick one and tweak if needed!
Learned more from this video than 2 months of fiddling with reaper on my own 🤘. Digging into drum synths next. Bought Glenn Fricker's Extinction Level Event. Pretty excited to try it.
That is an ABSOLUTELY GNARLY bass tone
Love this. I initially thought, it seems like an interesting way to compose something. Then I was looking at a Drive Like Jehu tune today, trying to understand it, and it looks like it was exactly like you did it. Except noise rock doesn't make much sense. Thanks for your efforts in all you do.
Absolutely awesome and exactly what I needed to improve my work flow.. got abit lost in the mixing stage but yeah getting ideas out and flow... 2nd to none!!
Thank you for making this video!!🤘🏻
I was curious to what all programs you were using. I may have missed what you have said as I'm at work... but, literally the beginning of the video I just started doing because like you showed and I've heard, place a drum clip and its off and I couldn't figure out why, when I was playing with a metronome.. lol . And boom the mystery was solved. Lol. I think the funniest part of this video was when you said not to waste your time on the instrument you don't play, unfortunately I am a bassist, so I actually don't waste my time on the instrument I do play, instead it's on guitar. Ha😅, but I get the idea. So while I'm waiting for my band to finish their parts on our album, I'm continuing to write for the next album and my solo project. So this video was very informative and I continue to look forward to all tips. Thanks
Bruh, you just made my year
I love the Clairvoyant. A+ Video.
Thanks for the love dude! So glad you dig the amp! 😄🤘
Personally, I find that it’s useful to have a few sections that come up multiple times in the song, so that it is cohesive and doesn’t all sound like a bunch of riffs strewn together
Some really good tips there that I can use man, cheers for this. I'm still getting my head around Ez / Superior Drummer but seem to find it much easier to construct the beats first and then put riffs to the beats instead of the other way around. Whatever works eh :D
Yeah, I go back and forth. I usually start with guitar and if nothing is coming out, I'll try to write drums first. Either way, the end result is what matters.
I want to teach a little secret. If you have guitar pro, you can find any song you like from any band where theirs a guitar pro song and copy and paste the drums into a new file with just drums then save and extract as midi to get any of your favorite drum grooves. Sometimes I do this if I can’t find a groove on ez or superior drummer but I’m going for a specific feel. It’s endless.
Great result and overall tone! Thanks, Taylor! 🤘
Dude, this video is sick! The matching palette of your longsleeve and the guitar, the tone is awesome and some riffs that sound like Decapitated🤜🏼🤛🏼
definitely Decapitated vibes going on!
So good and original lol, those aren't riffs that's like calling a knife a spoon.
Lots of useful information in this one.
Man I am loving the look of this axe !
That Leviathan Cross inlay is 🔥🔥🔥🔥
For the record would love to do a channel in the same approach. You guys doing this keep me inspired to play ... I'm almost 40 and still trying to riff thanks to the inspiration of you youtuber shredders
Pretty similar to how I write songs. Great video!
Un gran saludo desde Buenos Aires, Argentina! Aguante el metal!!!
When you can and have time, I wanted to ask you please if you could put together some extreme metal presets for low tuning guitars for Mooer GE-200 and share them a big hug from Buenos Aires, Argentina
Nice.. 👍🏽
Slaughter of the soul !!!!
🤘
Awesome Taylor!
Great way to beat "analysis paralysis"
You da man.
Thank you for this vid.
So much good info.
Reaffirms my approach.
🤘😑
Excellent video, I this took me too long to learn long ago when I first started producing. Interesting study that the producing and engineering engages more of the left side of the brain, and writing riffs and the creative activities engage more of the right, so I like to stay in each appropriate zone and focus on either creating/riffing or engineering, but not interchanging. There's no shame in looping your own material.
Thanks for the video.
Very informative.
Glad it was helpful!
this is the exact things I do to write music. only I using ez drummer 2. but the same idea
Really good technique, not only for Death Metal.
Thanks for inspiring me to get back to recording again! I've been doing this for so many years that I've forgotten so many little tricks and techniques like this. I tend to get into creative ruts that last for YEARS! lol It's crazy how much the tools have improved over the years. I would have killed to have this equipment when I was a little metal head. Now I do have it but lack the inspiration to dedicate real time to this. Time for a change!
Very interesting and amusing how your have the relaxing piano jazz music playing in the background!! : )
Thanks for this. I have been curious what your process is. Good shit! , also.... EZ BASS, dude! Fuck tracking bass manually! haha!!
Awesome, glad you enjoyed it! YES I might go to EZ bass next hahaha.
I would buy physical copies of Sacrificer if I could find any. I love having liner notes and art with music
holy shit i cant even begin to describe how helpful this is. thank you
I really needed tips on writing a good Country song, Bahahaha.
Tip # 1: Don't
Major point is, be sad.
I suggest listening to Willie Nelson for a good starting point. Metal is awesome but limiting yourself to one genre won't help you make good art.
rip off tyler childers!
Nick Jonas can help you with guitar soloing.
HEAVY AF. Great work dude!!!
Perfect! i use Eurobass. Killer bass sounds:)
Nice lounge-ish background music tho'...
Goodjob brother, greetings from Bali, Indonesia
I heard rob from cannibal corpse say to keep it simple to get the basic structure and then build on that with more intricate stuff later
It's the easiest way to do it IMO. Way easier to build off of something, than to try and make a finalized riff or song from scratch.
Beats a 4 track....this was amazing and made me feel very old 😁🤘
Very cool video (I am also a Reaper user). I'd suggest that you turn the klick track off when listening back to the tracks. It's really loud, and I can't hear the programmed drums. Other than that, great suggestions throughout, especially setting up templates.
This was so fucking useful, thank you very much !
Awesome, glad you enjoyed it!
Nice to see how you work. My own workflow is almost identical, even down to the same master chain!
Very good tip on the side chain compression between bass and kick drum. Do you do that for between snare and (??), maybe in your other comprehensive mixing project?
Killer video what tuning you in
wow.. heavy shit, subscribed !!
Any way you can share the settings on your death kit you used for this song, it’s brutal!!!
Well done! Kinda reminds me of something early Slipknot could've written
METAL! VST is so underrated. I got it for EZD2 Mark Lewis mix with Library of the Extreme by Dirk Verbeuren is killer.
AWESOME!
Wow Taylor is a speedy guy! Riffing at 210 just comes naturally I guess!?
Thank you for this content ! You just won a new subscriber! Cheers from France ❤
LES FRANCAIS SONT VICTORIEUX !!!
Non oui t'as raison ce qu'il fait est vraiment quali
dude can i get the links for everything you used i really need to record some music
Check out his pinned comment for the amp suite, and post production! His drums are also Toontrack EZ Drummer 2 🤘🔥
palm mute, many zeroes, separated polypusation, couple hammer on pull off
or be unique and follow no tips and go chuck schkuldiner
Programming drums seems to be my biggest hurdle to getting stuff down.
It was mine too. Midi grooves to the rescue!
Dude 🔥
DUDE
Wish I knew how to ( or had the money to) have software and things like this. What I do is...
get a drum track or use a metronome
Then I just go....
Make stuff up for at least 7 hours hahahah.
Then when I got something I separate it into verses,choruses,interludes,
Then think of a genre or storyline or something like this....
Then just go...
But I use a BOSS BR600. It’s old as. But still powerful. But I cannot recreate such amazing stuff like you do here man. But please by all means get one of these boss things and you will see how sick it is. The song I make are on my soundcloud under
“ incensed “ the profile picture is two guitar necks with a weird face in the middle. I’m not showing off just showing you what I have in terms of music equipment and how it sounds. I will definitely take note on your productions too. Thank you
Sounds great
This was very helpful and informative. One tip from me ..turn the metronome off when you are explaining things more in detail. I hope you make more videos like this in the future. Love the channel and your band. Thanks for all your hard work. Have a nice day!😁👍
Sick.
You gave me some good ideas for something I'm doing soon. I'm curious about what your approach would be to producing your drums and bass to use as a backing track if you wanted to bring the song to goof around at an open mic or something equally as ridiculous with live guitar and vocals.
I'm planning on panning the drums hard left and the bass hard right so the sound guy can mix and EQ however he sees fit and pump it through the floor wedge.
This actually is a sick video
Noob but just wanted to make sure - Are you in a drop tuning ?
Ty! Great Vid
C standard
@@TaylorDanley The C stands for chug chug
Thank you!
I think you're supposed to use the fifth mode of the harmonic minor scale.
noob question - how do minor chord charts help you in songwriting?
I'm a beginner.
I didn't know put drum sound in like that.
I was typing everything one by one using the computer keyboard and mouse.😂
Hello Taylor!
Really nice helpful and simple video explanation of songwriting process that just inspired me to continue creating! Thanks for that!
I have one question: In the part of drum pattern choosing while you have opened EZ Drummer and you click on PLAY button next to drum pattern, your riff is playing along that example. How do you turn that option on?
You just press play (space bar) in the DAW and then when you press play on the groove, it will play it over your tracks. Unfortunately it's not always sync'd up, but I've just gotten good at pressing play when the loop starts.
Taylor: "...just gonna turn the bass down a little bit..."
Lars: "Good! Use your aggressive feelings, boy. Let the hate flow through you."
😂😂😂
Awesome video ! @taylor how do you record your bass n stereo ? What’s your manipulation inside reaper ?
Thanks dude! I don't. Both of those bass tracks are mono, and are recording the same thing. I just do it this way so I don't have to copy/paste later.
I just have a collection of sick riffs no songs yet. For me, I don’t record or write down a riff unless I think it’s already really sick. Unless it’s just an idea and I don’t want to finish it at the moment.
Super helpful.. is that the snare sound u usually use? Maybe it was my headphones but I couldn't really hear it.
this one is awesome