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#249 - Writing A Song From Start To Finish

🕑 Added 2022-11-18 15:30:01 +0000 UTC

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Gabriel Feno

I really missed this one. It's amazing 🤩 wow didn't I see it until now 😅 I think that's there is more trick that i can apply to must of my song. Sometimes I forget the initial idea of riffage and then I recorded as you say, but after a lot of take I can't "fix" one take to reproduce this in for the Left or Right channel . This way I have a different riff on the L and R

Bernd Brodträger

This is how I would personally approach finding a consistent routine, hope it helps: https://www.patreon.com/posts/232-how-to-build-68819801

Bernd Brodträger

I really like to do a lot of takes, but sometimes I end up choosing one of the first ones - so it's not that it takes a lot of takes until the 'perfect' one, they are all a bit different and it's great to just sit back and listen to find the best one for the arrangement :)

Jason Wojcik

Am I seeing that you did 85+ measures of that riff to find the perfect one? I am starting to really get into recording and making my own jam tracks. It is blowing my mind how much I really don't know. Excellent video, thank you for making it!

Conrado Vitor Lopes Fernandes

Hi Bernth! I super like your stuff and feel like I'm getting better thanks to you. Every piece of your work is very instructive. But after the lessons and challenges I always get lost in what to do next to put all the pieces together. Could you help me? If we have some kind of trail, a path or a star in the sky... Maybe you've already done that and I don't know...

Bernd Brodträger

I mostly just use the Drum Bus 1 & 2 presets, I'm not sure which kind of pack or expansion they are part of! The difference is not that big, but the drums do sound louder and more articulated this way (a bit of compression and an EQ shape)

Stephan

Hi Bernth, Thanks for this lesson! Can you tell us the EZ Mix Pack you used for the drums? Thank you!

Max

If your taking request for future lessons to post on patreon I would like a lesson on how I can come up with anything on how to write good ideas for sweep picking and how I can turn that to a really good skill

Sephiroth

You are so totally different to me when it comes to songwriting ^^ Always feels like you are mostly going with theory, while I am just... well... playing my guitar and when I feel like there is a good lick or riff, I start to compose a whole song around it. The only thing I really have in mind doing this is... keeping the song in one key. Although in my early days not even that... I was often switching between 2 or even 3 keys in a song. I kind of miss that "skill" since the songs sounded more interesting... today I am kind of afraid to do it that way. I don't know why since the old stuff sounded pretty good, too. The rest of my songwriting is just... jaming along... guitar pro is helping here... while writing songs I always write it down there simultaneously and then I am playing guitar other the riff or melody until I find something cool that fits. Works pretty good for me.

Bernd Brodträger

https://aegeanmusic.com/pitchproof-specs hope this helps :)

Davens Michael

It would be best to have a video tutorial on this with a theory and guitar technique behind so that we can use it as a blue print for our song writing exploration in the future. Thanks Bernth for this awesome video!

Skittles

tab please? =3

Dave

you could try using dirtrokid

Dave

hey Bernth, i have the pitchproof plugin but it has a very low quality tone, are there maybe different versions of it? could you send the download link for it?

Perry

What’s your method of copyrighting and distributing your music

Michael

Yes it's there now. Thanks

Bernd Brodträger

It took a while to sync, should be online now! :)

Michael

Bernth, great lesson. The timing is perfect. BTW - the file "Full Tutorial.mp4" is not in the Dropbox download but is in the Google Drive listing.

Bernd Brodträger

Just checked and it works on my end, seems to work for everyone else as well (please let me know if that's not the case!) - I added the full video for you in the Google Drive folder now!