I feel like clean cut dude with a surf guitar and an oxford shirt buttoned all the way up makes the best hardcore. Throw some all black New Balances in and he's unstoppable.
it's like almost 2 AM here right now and I can't believe the top search result of "screamo guitar riffs" is actually a pretty comprehensive and authentic tutorial, got me wanting to just hop out of bed and grab my guitar and just try some shit out lol, great stuff! Definitely gonna try this out
ive been trying to write some screamo songs since months, just now im getting near to truly understanding it. this video was really helpful, thank you man
You should try emulating bands in the subgenre you're looking for. Learn to play their songs first, then take what you learn from that into writing your own stuff. Eventually you can find your own voice and style that is uniquely yours, but still pays homage to the music that inspired you. Pro Tip: 'Screamo' isn't a real subgenre. You're probably looking for hardcore, post hardcore, or metalcore. Calling it screamo music is often seen as cringey and disrespectful.
@@newa0nni’ve been doing this but i lack chords I DONT KNOW WHAT CHORDS IM MISSING i have tons of songs and melodies that want to come out but i just can’t make them sound the way they do idk if it’s my tuning or i simply lack chord knowledge
@@newa0nn calling it screamo isnt really "cringery or disrespectful" tho. A lot of bands have adopted the "Skramz" titling to loosely identify the sound that they play and Skramz in itself is a pretty known sub-genre of punk at this point. I mean it's having one of it's biggest revival now with a lot of new bands and big bands that aren't strictly traditional Skramz, but Skramz-influenced sound. Like a good example would be Portrayal Of Guilt's earlier work, with them labelling themselves as Blackened-Skramz, although they have shifted heavily on the Black Metal side lately. So essentially screamo/skramz is an actually sub-genre used to define sounds that are popularized by bands like pageninetynine, rites of springs, jeromes dream, etc
It’s true! It is! I’m so excited, because no one ever talks about how to play hardcore or really anything other than EDM and metal As a metalhead, I’m at least glad that there’s a broad variety for thay
hey man this video was really cool. would you be willing to make more videos/share what kind of chords you play in this tuning? they sounded great and would love to get a closer look at them if you're willing. either way very informative and cool. dont see alot of vids on this kind of subgenre.
Yes dude, please share more of your knowledge. I've recently gotten into skramz (was just at a Frail Body gig tonight with some great supports) and would love to play some different riffs from what I usually do
@avarel666 As Living Arrows are sick, they were local support for when I saw FB in Brisol. Bit more emo but they got some skramz. Chalk Hands were on the UK run obvs. Earth Moves are woefully underrated, such a good band, a bit more pensive and post-metal vibes as well
good video, didn't mention playing to a met. For the more hardcore influenced skramz that tends to be more percussive it is way easier to play to a met when song writing.
Asombroso, amigo. Me ha costado mucho entender esta música a nivel teórico y llegué a pensar en un momento que simplemente era caos tras caos, pero no, es bastante complejo y tu video me está motivando demasiado para hacer mi propia musica, pripviat! saludos desde México.
gracias! Teoria es un metodo para describir y communicar ideas, es una lente perceptiva, y siempre tu puedes aplicar este perspectiva. Tambien, hay muchos formas de teoria, ya veces un metodo particular puede ser mejor. hola desde chicago!
I like that Dano. Ecspecially with the natural headstock. I got a 59 shortscale bass very similar look. Undertated for metal and alternative genres. Cool video man 👍👍
If you could do more videos breaking down more of the specifics of what your doing in these rifts, that would be killer. Im a music theory guy and theres all kinds of stuff id like to pick what sorts of harmony techniques are implimented in screamo. Theres alot more interesting stuff going on in the genre than most people seem to realize. Also this tuning seems really interesting. CGCGCEb right?
Awesome stuff man!! Just started picking up the guitar and am super interested in the skramz approach to it. Question about your picking, Im still new to guitar but I’ve seen people preach about how you have to hold a pick like ur doing the okay sign or hold it like this or like that. You seem to just hold it freely in between ur index and thumb which definitely feels the most natural to me, is that okay to pick that way off the bat? Or should I learn the “proper” way first and then adapt to whatever feels most comfortable afterwards?
hey thanks! i guess my philosophy about form and guitar playing is that, you’ll probably figure out something that works up until a point, and then have to adjust when you want to move into a new skill. it’s kind of a natural process. i hold the pick flat against my thumb pad and kind of against the side of my index finger. seems p easy to grab pinch harmonics this way, and i find i can pick fairly quickly, but there may come a point where i need to adjust i guess.
i can come up with riffs and play lots of songs. i taught myself how to play like 6 years ago and never understood tuning someone break it down. hoe do i know how to tune down blah blah properly lol
im not sure if there’s a ‘proper’ way to tune down really. i made a video talking abt how i set up a guitar, but i could make another going into more detail about maintenance and how you can specifically get things rigged better for a lower sound
Yeah I don't think they are the only band doing it, but I do like their sound, the melding of a lot of subgenres that were considered fairly disparate maybe 10-15 years ago is pretty cool. There's always been metalcore/screamo crossover acts (the critic comes to mind), but it's def getting bigger these days.
just joined a local midwest emo band, they already aren't satisfied with me writing "too sad screamo riffs", and here I am watching a video to help me be even more screamo. guess I should convince my bandmates to change the intended style...
I've played in a lot of bands, and still do! Not trying to promote my music here though, just trying to pass on some tips bc I've noticed a lot of people ask about how to play stuff like this online.
@psychwardsandcymbals how can it be a misnomer if that was the original word for the genre, just cause people mistakenly call mcr screamo doesn't make the actual meaning wrong
the word screamo was definitely used around 2000, but like emo, no band wanted to be called that. skramz is something i heard for the first time way after 2010. i only heard skramz used by kids that weren't even born when most those bands were around. most bands would insist on just being hardcore bands. labels would be used to describe the sound. you had gravity, ebullition, gold standard labs, dim mak and such, which would tell you more about the style of hardcore they played. neither screamo nor skramz were really endemic genre descriptions.
fun fact: 'screamo' is a word that scared moms made up to describe music they didn't understand that their kids were listening to and isn't _actually_ a genre of music
while the term screamo was often misapplied to post-hardcore and metalcore bands in the 2000s it is its own genre (also commonly also referred to as skramz) that combines emo with more dissonant forms of hardcore such as grindcore and powerviolence.
@@yrgettingnicereveryday "often misapplied" is very generous. Moms learned the word emo and attributed that word with: moody, wears black clothes and eyeliner, doesn't talk much, stays in their room listening to sad/angry music, writes in their journal a lot" Then came the advent of "how can you listen to that noise, they aren't even singing" once they heard screaming in the music. Screaming was very much considered an invalid vocal technique. To describe the screaming music their emo children were listening to, they invented the catch-all term 'screamo' People who use it today either don't understand musical genres in rock/metal or are trying to retcon the word in despite its origin
@@chrispysaid the term screamo was made way before scared moms started using it to describe everything with screaming in it, buddy. it is an actual genre now called skramz because the normies (i hate that fucking term but whatever) took it pver and just started applying it to every song with screaming
I feel like clean cut dude with a surf guitar and an oxford shirt buttoned all the way up makes the best hardcore. Throw some all black New Balances in and he's unstoppable.
Danelectros 6 strings, especially in a seafoam blue/green, are the most hardcore guitars on the face of the planet
If the guitarist of the band looks like this, you're dying in that pit.
Been married since he was 18 and has a kid named Mint.
east bay ray/greg ginn
substitute-teacher-core goes hard as fuck
it's like almost 2 AM here right now and I can't believe the top search result of "screamo guitar riffs" is actually a pretty comprehensive and authentic tutorial, got me wanting to just hop out of bed and grab my guitar and just try some shit out lol, great stuff! Definitely gonna try this out
happy to hear it's got you motivated!
ive been trying to write some screamo songs since months, just now im getting near to truly understanding it. this video was really helpful, thank you man
You should try emulating bands in the subgenre you're looking for. Learn to play their songs first, then take what you learn from that into writing your own stuff. Eventually you can find your own voice and style that is uniquely yours, but still pays homage to the music that inspired you.
Pro Tip: 'Screamo' isn't a real subgenre. You're probably looking for hardcore, post hardcore, or metalcore. Calling it screamo music is often seen as cringey and disrespectful.
@@newa0nni’ve been doing this but i lack chords I DONT KNOW WHAT CHORDS IM MISSING i have tons of songs and melodies that want to come out but i just can’t make them sound the way they do idk if it’s my tuning or i simply lack chord knowledge
@@newa0nn calling it screamo isnt really "cringery or disrespectful" tho. A lot of bands have adopted the "Skramz" titling to loosely identify the sound that they play and Skramz in itself is a pretty known sub-genre of punk at this point. I mean it's having one of it's biggest revival now with a lot of new bands and big bands that aren't strictly traditional Skramz, but Skramz-influenced sound. Like a good example would be Portrayal Of Guilt's earlier work, with them labelling themselves as Blackened-Skramz, although they have shifted heavily on the Black Metal side lately.
So essentially screamo/skramz is an actually sub-genre used to define sounds that are popularized by bands like pageninetynine, rites of springs, jeromes dream, etc
Awesome video, very under rated genre. Skramz is one of my favorite hardcore genres.
It really is underrated. I started learning some old Thursday recently and it’s actually pretty hard! And I’ve been playing for like 20 years
Omg this is LITERALLY first how to screamo on guitar tutorial on UA-cam ever!!! Wooooow
It’s true! It is! I’m so excited, because no one ever talks about how to play hardcore or really anything other than EDM and metal
As a metalhead, I’m at least glad that there’s a broad variety for thay
@@mysticmagicsmurfdarklord6844 Yes! This is true gold and honey for my ears
hey man this video was really cool. would you be willing to make more videos/share what kind of chords you play in this tuning? they sounded great and would love to get a closer look at them if you're willing. either way very informative and cool. dont see alot of vids on this kind of subgenre.
yesss, please chords
He made a video for that!!!!!
@@Ivexxyhe made a video for that!!!! :)
I've been dying for a video like this
this is perfect for getting me back into learning guitar. thanks bro
0:56 KITTY!!
this was truly helpful. First time I feel like I've had a video completely catoured to me and what I needed.
Yes dude, please share more of your knowledge. I've recently gotten into skramz (was just at a Frail Body gig tonight with some great supports) and would love to play some different riffs from what I usually do
yoo frail body is so good, wasn’t expecting a rockford monday
i missed frail body n algae bloom i was so bummed. do u know any other current screamo in the uk??
@avarel666 As Living Arrows are sick, they were local support for when I saw FB in Brisol. Bit more emo but they got some skramz. Chalk Hands were on the UK run obvs. Earth Moves are woefully underrated, such a good band, a bit more pensive and post-metal vibes as well
@@avarel666 they're not super active right nowbut cassus is fantastic, and then Cady are also uk based and absolutely rule.
good video, didn't mention playing to a met. For the more hardcore influenced skramz that tends to be more percussive it is way easier to play to a met when song writing.
yeah I totally agree! honestly didn't really occur to me because I practice p much everything to a metronome, hardcore or not, these days.
Asombroso, amigo. Me ha costado mucho entender esta música a nivel teórico y llegué a pensar en un momento que simplemente era caos tras caos, pero no, es bastante complejo y tu video me está motivando demasiado para hacer mi propia musica, pripviat! saludos desde México.
gracias! Teoria es un metodo para describir y communicar ideas, es una lente perceptiva, y siempre tu puedes aplicar este perspectiva. Tambien, hay muchos formas de teoria, ya veces un metodo particular puede ser mejor. hola desde chicago!
keep uploading Dylan this is grate
love the sound of this tuning gna have to try writing some stuff in it
can u kickflip tho
Into the sunset
Lmao
and disappear
Really helpful, thanks !
I will use "bonehead" as often as possible now
nice overview of important concepts
I like that Dano. Ecspecially with the natural headstock.
I got a 59 shortscale bass very similar look. Undertated for metal and alternative genres.
Cool video man 👍👍
nice tuition bro, thank you!
np!
Fun and helpful video, great job explaining as well. Thanks for uplpading!
Ay bro this video helps a lot man keep it up bro you sound good
Saw the Dan Electro and had to comment. One of my favorites on the market.
At 2:50 I thought you were going to play the Arcanum riff from Show Me The Body
just a coincidence lol
@@jamecono An excellent coincidence!
If you could do more videos breaking down more of the specifics of what your doing in these rifts, that would be killer.
Im a music theory guy and theres all kinds of stuff id like to pick what sorts of harmony techniques are implimented in screamo. Theres alot more interesting stuff going on in the genre than most people seem to realize.
Also this tuning seems really interesting. CGCGCEb right?
epic screamo tutorial!
thanks
Pretty interesting hardcore/punk subgenre.
I saw the danelectro and knew we were in for it
What was the notes for that tuning ? very curious sounds really cool.
It's a drop tuning, for this video I had it at CGCGCD#
his guitar design reminds me of cat in the hat (mike myers) type cat n the hat
This is a UA-cam grail, just dropped a fat knowledge bomb!!!
Awesome stuff man!! Just started picking up the guitar and am super interested in the skramz approach to it. Question about your picking, Im still new to guitar but I’ve seen people preach about how you have to hold a pick like ur doing the okay sign or hold it like this or like that. You seem to just hold it freely in between ur index and thumb which definitely feels the most natural to me, is that okay to pick that way off the bat? Or should I learn the “proper” way first and then adapt to whatever feels most comfortable afterwards?
hey thanks! i guess my philosophy about form and guitar playing is that, you’ll probably figure out something that works up until a point, and then have to adjust when you want to move into a new skill. it’s kind of a natural process. i hold the pick flat against my thumb pad and kind of against the side of my index finger. seems p easy to grab pinch harmonics this way, and i find i can pick fairly quickly, but there may come a point where i need to adjust i guess.
love that guitar
very good and informative
This is so good pls more
the old decks in the background rly let me know you're with the shits lmao
thanks. need more of this
Dylan u need to upload more videos
oh hell yeAH could you make one for bass too or?¿?
my technique is slamming16th notes up down up intervals on any 2 strings,, buried alive style ?
Nice a fellow danelectro user
Never expected to hear the word bonehead be used so much 😲
This really helps
glad to hear it!
@@jamecono thank you!
Has anyone transcribed that part at 3:34?
love this dude
so good thank you! any recommendations for shoegazey screamo/skrams bands to check out?
Summer in my veins
Nothing
Hell yeah! subscribed.🤞🏾
make more videos!!!! this is great
i can come up with riffs and play lots of songs. i taught myself how to play like 6 years ago and never understood tuning someone break it down. hoe do i know how to tune down blah blah properly lol
im not sure if there’s a ‘proper’ way to tune down really. i made a video talking abt how i set up a guitar, but i could make another going into more detail about maintenance and how you can specifically get things rigged better for a lower sound
Elliot smith from Mr Robot???
bulletsbetweentongues is starting an entirely new movement for hardcore music.
Hence this video
Yeah I don't think they are the only band doing it, but I do like their sound, the melding of a lot of subgenres that were considered fairly disparate maybe 10-15 years ago is pretty cool. There's always been metalcore/screamo crossover acts (the critic comes to mind), but it's def getting bigger these days.
do you like Tiny Hawks?
never heard them, ill check it out!
A true icon of skateboarding
9:32 suddenly System of a Down
This dude absolutely played VFW shows in their prime
how are you getting that guitar tone?
pin the treble on the guitar, bridge pickup, roll back the high end at the amp. it’s a garageband amp sim lol
What do you mean by pin the treble?
@@TomDavidMcCauleyMax it out, I’m assuming
yo what's on the end of your cats tail? Cool video, thnx \m/
np, she just has a white tip of fur on the end of her tail.
oh cool, hope to see more content from your channel. Do you have original music recorded ?
@@adrianherrera9881 yeah I've been in several bands over the years. Working on a new project at the moment.
just joined a local midwest emo band, they already aren't satisfied with me writing "too sad screamo riffs", and here I am watching a video to help me be even more screamo. guess I should convince my bandmates to change the intended style...
you could always try starting another project!
some big tool influence there!!
ive only ever listened to lateralus really but they have some bops
really big daft punk influence there
@@aaaaaaaaaaaaabbbbGenius
Hell yeah dude
Cat in shelf
love u mwah
what band did u play in ?
I've played in a lot of bands, and still do! Not trying to promote my music here though, just trying to pass on some tips bc I've noticed a lot of people ask about how to play stuff like this online.
but what bands did you play in
So, what bands have you played in?
@@jamecono you've summoned the evil screamo archivists
@@jamecono yeah but what bands did you play in
6:18
I too am a bonehead
aren't we all, that's rock n' roll babee.
@@jamecono what bands were you in
I love bone head music shit
That's pretty boneheaded
good job, i fell asleep to this video TWICE
yew
screamo is a misnomer created by clueless boomers. screamo =/= skramz
skramz was originally called screamo until everyone started to call every song with screaming in it screamo
@@jjazy3439 it was still a misnomer back then lol
@psychwardsandcymbals how can it be a misnomer if that was the original word for the genre, just cause people mistakenly call mcr screamo doesn't make the actual meaning wrong
@@jjazy3439 i dare you to post proof. i'm waiting. you weren't even alive at the time lol
the word screamo was definitely used around 2000, but like emo, no band wanted to be called that. skramz is something i heard for the first time way after 2010. i only heard skramz used by kids that weren't even born when most those bands were around. most bands would insist on just being hardcore bands. labels would be used to describe the sound. you had gravity, ebullition, gold standard labs, dim mak and such, which would tell you more about the style of hardcore they played. neither screamo nor skramz were really endemic genre descriptions.
Midwest emo enjoyer tries to explain metal
fun fact: 'screamo' is a word that scared moms made up to describe music they didn't understand that their kids were listening to and isn't _actually_ a genre of music
while the term screamo was often misapplied to post-hardcore and metalcore bands in the 2000s it is its own genre (also commonly also referred to as skramz) that combines emo with more dissonant forms of hardcore such as grindcore and powerviolence.
Screamo is definitely a real thing baby
@@yrgettingnicereveryday "often misapplied" is very generous. Moms learned the word emo and attributed that word with: moody, wears black clothes and eyeliner, doesn't talk much, stays in their room listening to sad/angry music, writes in their journal a lot"
Then came the advent of "how can you listen to that noise, they aren't even singing" once they heard screaming in the music. Screaming was very much considered an invalid vocal technique. To describe the screaming music their emo children were listening to, they invented the catch-all term 'screamo'
People who use it today either don't understand musical genres in rock/metal or are trying to retcon the word in despite its origin
@@chrispysaid the term screamo was made way before scared moms started using it to describe everything with screaming in it, buddy. it is an actual genre now called skramz because the normies (i hate that fucking term but whatever) took it pver and just started applying it to every song with screaming
you are the goat man i'm struggling at making a song for my band and you are helping a lot my friend 🫡
thanks! I'm glad it helped!