WRITE METALCORE Song in 1 HOUR? CHALLENGE
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- Опубліковано 18 чер 2024
- I attempt to write a melodic metalcore instrumental song, Similar to Glassjaw / Snapcase in 1 hour on a 7 string guitar. Using GGD Invasion Drums, STL Tonality Will Putney and Josh Middleton for guitar all in Ableton 11 Live. Music can take a long time to write, especially metal, deathcore and djent music given it's technical side, but this is a great way to write efficiently.
I find this technique works great for writing songs quickly, as by the end of the episode I have 75% of a song laid out. This song, especially when finished, reminds me of the early 2000s metalcore that I grew up listening to, but with modern production. Listen to the song for free in the link down below. Thanks for watching!
I'm Brendon Padjasek of the band Structures from Toronto, Canada and welcome to my channel based on modern metal, djent, and deathcore music, production, mixing and song writing.
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0:00 Intro
0:22 Begin Writing
1:38 Intro Drums
3:42 Verse Writing
5:53 Riff Section
7:35 Riff Drum Writing
8:58 Chorus Writing
9:58 Chorus Drums
11:58 TIME'S UP!
12:15 THE SONG
14:21 After Thoughts/ Improvements
15:17 Final Thoughts
#music #guitar #metal #songwriting
Thanks for watching. Let me know what style you'd like me to try next!
Deathcore!
Hell yeah I can definitely do that! Thanks for watching !
Bro you deserve more views on these videos. Amazing song. I learned from your drum programming and riff writing videos that these help break my writiers block so much. Keep it up dude!!!
Thank you for the kind words. I'm always stoked that what helps me write and break writers block helps other out as well. Thanks for watching and if you have a genre I should try next time let me know.
As well as if you have any suggestions for videos !
The riffs are amazing ! Not adding vocals to this song should be illegal 👀
Hahaha thanks my man! I might do some for an episode to help with vocal writing. We shall see haha. Thanks for watching
Ngl this song fucks. But super impressive to get this in an hour! Loved watching the process. Would love to see more of this!
Thank you so much. If you haven’t listened to the final version in the link check it out. I added production and put in the extra song writing
Let me know what style I should try next in an hour
@@BrendonKPadjasek IT GOT EVEN NASTIER GOD DAMNN!! The bass and synth are dope!
@@taylorlaw873 haha thank you! the next episode is how I add synths in a song so stay tuned. Also super pumped about the bass runs and stuff haha
having 11 minutes left to do the drums on the chrous actually made for some pretty intense television! thank you for the fun video!
Haha yeah I was super nervous. Super happy with how it turned out in the end and I barely changed the chorus drums. Keeping it simple worked really well in the end. I learned a lot hah
Thanks for watching !
Writing all this and for it to come together in under an hour is definitely gonna be underrated by most people. Bravo man
Thanks Gabe! I appreciate that and it definitely doesn’t always turn out haha. Lucky it did this time. Although most times I feel like I can come up with at least 3 riffs I like in that time.
5 this time around was super fortunate for this video haha haha
This fuckin rocks man! Have been absolutely loving your regular uploads!
Thanks TQ! I’m trying to make as many videos as I can while I have the time to. I have quite a bit of work coming up in the next few weeks so it’ll be challenging to keep it consistent but I’m definitely going to try. Thanks for watching and giving me a reason to make more !
I like these videos. Its fun to watch your process and its pretty informative too. Also it was funny to see you pleasantly surprised with the transitions lol The song was cool!
Haha thank you so much! I really enjoy doing these for myself and getting over the whole self conscious thing of like playing super sloppy while figuring out what the riff will be but I’m glad people enough them.
I was mostly shocked at how off it sounded lmao but also I knew that the right drum part and transition would make it sick. I actually really love the way the final song turned out
Awesome stuff man, I hate that I missed it 😩 but cool content non the less
Haha it’s all good, thanks for watching regardless. It’s hard finding a decent time to do the premieres taking in that everyone lives somewhere else in the world. I just go of what time UA-cam tells me most of the viewers are on. Maybe Sunday’s might be better
Insane!
Thanks for checking it out Ryan. I may do another one of these in the future!
You dug your own grave with that meter change brother haha great content!
I absolutely did haha. But if was able to salvage it in the end I believe. Check out the final version if you haven’t yet
Thanks so much for watching and enjoying the content
I would actually love to see the clean up process/how you handle adding in/smoothing out transitions
Ouu that would have been a good idea! I unfortunately did all of that off camera later when I was re recording the guitars. I’m finished up the video of how I add production though so that should be out hopefully on the weekend !
Thanks for watching. Maybe I’ll do that on a future song
Genuinely glad to see Ableton being used by other heavy bands. Such a secret weapon that most people miss because they pass it off as "oh thats for edm, im good" lol
Curious as to if you have ever used any asspact of Ableton in a Live setting? We've replaced almost our entire live rig with Ableton at this point and it comes in super clutch.
Hell yeah. After trying Ableton I literally won’t go back to writing in any other DAW. It’s too quick and easy to experiment with sounds and get ideas down.
I’ve used it live when Musical Directing artists I’ve played with, and Jon (Northlane) uses it to run the live show with his synth patches and extra tracks.
Man I love your content.
This may be a silly question but how do you record these? Is it a special part about your DAW that lets your record your audio the whole time even when you’re not recording your guitar tracks?
I use protools and as far as I’m aware on that, I can’t have a mic and guitar input recording permanently while laying down, and re recording guitar takes without stopping all tracks recording at once
I know that’s confusing so no worries if my question doesn’t make sense.
Cheers
Hmmm that might be the way I’m recording from OBS. If you see the audio moving in Ableton, then I’m recording, if you hear the audio and guitar without seeing the recording than it’s likely just OBS and then I add the amp to the signal in Resolve when I’m editing the video
Thank you so much!
I just wanted to say thanks again for the amazing content. Much love from Montréal! Would be super cool to have a Discord Community or a Patreon to support you even further :)
Love the hoodie choice too! Thoughts on Obsidian??
Thank you so much for the kind words. I’ve definitely thought about it, I just don’t know what I could offer more in a Patreon or Discord than what I provide on UA-cam. I guess once I monetize on UA-cam there will be more opportunities
Ahaha thank you! I have this hoodie from our 2013 tour hahaha. I love it. Jon is one of the best song writers in the world. Definitely in the heavy genre. What did you think?
@@BrendonKPadjasek Monetizing on UA-cam is a great start for sure! What I think might also be beneficial is extending to a monthly Patreon $5, $10, $15/$20 a month tiers for instance. Where the base gives you all the updates before it hits general public and a Discord server access, the mid-tier gives you access to votes/polls for what to see next and third tier might be old demos or material you've worked on in the past with a private channel for those supporters etc.
Just an idea of course! Not like I'm biased in any way having created the Northlane one with a couple online friends and managing it for the band haha
Obsidian is peak Northlane in my opinion. It's just got everything. Nasty riffs, amazing electronic elements throughout, love the heaviness and softness juxtaposed. Plus a few throwbacks to having Node elements, Mesmer elements as well as the evolution to Alien (even though I think this record is heavier lyric wise, angry-marcus vocal wise)
That’s a very good point. I guess my concern is that I don’t do UA-cam stuff full time so I’d have to make a serious effort to supply the Patreon with stuff that you don’t get on UA-cam. And sometimes I can’t put out a UA-cam video every week haha
@@BrendonKPadjasek Very fair points! Every band/person's patreon varies for sure. Some are constantly active, others pop in every so often while the supporters get to enjoy the special perks
I for one, would love to be able to support your channel cause I've loved what you've done in Structures, in Northlane and even solo stuff. Plus it was super cool meeting you during the Alien VIP!
Either way, if ever you want to get your feet wet and potentially start a little Patreon, it'd be my pleasure to help 😁
That’s amazing and thank you so much for the kind words. I’ll definitely reach out to you when the time comes ! Thank you!
If you can do this in a hour, you gotta release more music! Need more BKP in the world.
Hahaha thank you! It’s just a matter of being able to make them when I don’t have work on the go
This actually turned out pretty dope though. That transition back isn't that bad. LoL. But I totally know what you mean. Its like quicksand, the harder you get into it, the harder it is to pull out and you're just hoping there's a fucking way out 😂
Exactly! Haha I ended up getting out of it (if you listen to the full song you’ll see what I mean)
Thanks Matt! I think it turned out pretty cool haha
@Brendon K Padjasek that certainly turned out way better than expected lol. I really dig the entire song! Those guitar textures are delicious 🤤
Hahah thanks for checking it out! I think for one day of writing and recoding guitsr and bass and one day of adding synths and mixing in pretty stoked on it
@Brendon K Padjasek I only wish to get something that good in a couple of days lol.
Curious to see your approach at addressing clean vocals in a mix
Thanks for checking it out. Do you do clean vocals?
Our vocalist is starting to attempt them and i have only been mixing his screams so I haven't had to encounter them before.
Very similar to screams but less distortion, I end up cutting a lot more low end out and have a ping pong delay to carry the vocals more. Everything else is up to your ears
what kinda scale do u use here?
i like your cap LOL
Hahaha thank you! Blender changed my life
how much for another Structures EP or LP?
Haha just time and your promise to listen to it once it’s done
Could you do this with midi guitars? I would like to program guitar parts for demo’s.
That’s a good questions. I’ve never used programmed guitar before but I’ll have to take a look!
Thank you for the response, I would greatly appreciate it
I’m (Obviously) not a guitar player, I’ve been posting and asking for tutorial on programming midi/sample guitars for demo writing (from an actual guitarist) for years now. Lol you’re the first one to respond.
I appreciate your time.
@nunyabizfam106 eh no problem! Is there a specific plug in you were thinking of checking out? Or a couple I should look into ?
@@BrendonKPadjasek sound iron axe machina (I bought this one on sal a few weeks ago), Solomon tones Odin; and maybe the free shred Dave stratus 3?
@@BrendonKPadjasek Thos would be great for programming ideas from scratch, But I'm also interested in the new(er) heavyocity "Damage guitars" which is pre-made rhythm and loops you can re arrange.
...I do it similarly, nice
Like, your whole writing process?
@@BrendonKPadjasek ...basically yes, I'm just not pressed by time
Haha yeah that’s the fun of it. Try limiting yourself to an hour next times. It’s surprising how much you can get done. Thanks for watching also!
sounds like invent animate
Oh interesting. Ill have to give them a listen. Thanks for watching !