Youtuber challenge accepted.

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Metal89

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So this morning a metalhead youtuber posted a challenge. The youtuber is Farvann. He does tongue in cheek tutorials on how to write various metal songs in different sub-genres. Although, he tends to focus on black metal...not my thing... its the one sub-genre i tend to steer clear of. Without getting into the lyrical content as that in and of itself would violate multiple forum rules on different levels. on a Technicality level, the whole point is to sound like :poo:. thats not even me making fun of it. Lo-fi, crappy recordings are the name of the game in that sub genre. You can take whatever guitar and amp you want...it seriously does not matter. Dime everything out, slap on a boss MT-2 pedal and record through a crappy mic.... To put this in perspective, i recently listened to recordings i did when i was 16 years old just because of nostalgia (and no im not putting them here because i ended up cringing the entire time) and i recorded through a 10$ computer mic that was almost right up against my zoom fire-15...and i had a boss MT-2 pedal. You compare the tone and quality with my VERY early recordings to any black metal song... it's REALLY close...only thing missing is tremolo picking on my end...but i digress.

So the challenge is, he provided a drum beat...a drum beat i have yet to listen to as I'm doing this in real time, and I'm supposed to make a song using that beat, he even provided a midi file if we wanted to use our own VST's on the drums (SWEET!). So let me have a listen....

BY THE BOOK OF HEAVY METAL WHAT HAVE I GOTTEN MYSELF INTO?!?!?!?!
He said it's about 150 bpm, so im thinking, "Well thats not bad, some of my songs went up to 185" noooo.... its 4 minutes of what sounds like BASSSNAREBASSNAREBASSSNARE as fast as the human body would allow somone....Where are the toms Farvann?? WHERE ARE THE TOMS?!?!?!?! You know, i should had known... typical black metal beat...although this would also apply to Deathcore too...so...Death metal it is...IF I can even do this.... And he's probably expecting a black metal tune...in the Army I learned a very important thing...if you are going to be wrong, then be wrong with conviction so at least it looks like you put effort into it, i mean you are screwed either way. So in typical me fashion...Symphonic Deathcore....

I make no promises that i can even do this...thats a whole lot of tremelo picking that im usually not accustomed to.. Now a song like this almost DEMANDS to sound sinister....so it needs a synyster name....I'll think on this while i inject myself with 1,000 cc's of pure caffeine...
 
Ramo, you are as bad as I am.

I love jokes or making a funny action from what some people may say.
I used to tell a joke about Bill Cosby.

It goes like this, His wife was all dressed and ready in bed, Bill heads in from the bathroom and has 2 Aspirins in his hand. As he holds them out to his wife, she says, " What are those for? I don't have a headache. "

Bill says, " That's all I needed to hear!!!"
 
chilipeppermaniac said:
Ramo, you are as bad as I am.

I love jokes or making a funny action from what some people may say.
I used to tell a joke about Bill Cosby.

It goes like this, His wife was all dressed and ready in bed, Bill heads in from the bathroom and has 2 Aspirins in his hand. As he holds them out to his wife, she says, " What are those for? I don't have a headache. "

Bill says, " That's all I needed to hear!!!"
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One of the joys in life for me is making people lough, love cracking jokes man. My family gets annoyed they say everything is not funny and joke, well thats funny to me you saying that , thats my response :)
 
So about halfway through now. Took me a bit to decide what i wanted to do with it, and by the time i did, my wrists were tired....by the time i got halfway to a good spot to break for the day my wrists are done....However, so far so good. definitely a challenge, then the real trick is to make it symphonic so it really stands out. but for now, giving my wrists a freaking break...
 
Metal89 said:
So about halfway through now. Took me a bit to decide what i wanted to do with it, and by the time i did, my wrists were tired....by the time i got halfway to a good spot to break for the day my wrists are done....However, so far so good. definitely a challenge, then the real trick is to make it symphonic so it really stands out. but for now, giving my wrists a freaking break...
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I want to see/hear finished “product”
 
Ramo said:
I want to see/hear finished “product”
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I’ll post it, but I think only SOME of the metal heads here will like it. But I’m not going to take any offense, playing to blast beats generally isn’t my thing. This is more or less just to test my own ability to do it. :)

I’ve managed to make it pretty melodic for what it is, and I’m pretty happy with how it’s turning out so far... although I feel dirty for the absolute abuse I’m putting my Flying V through on this one...
 
Metal89 said:
I’ll post it, but I think only SOME of the metal heads here will like it. But I’m not going to take any offense, playing to blast beats generally isn’t my thing. This is more or less just to test my own ability to do it. :)

I’ve managed to make it pretty melodic for what it is, and I’m pretty happy with how it’s turning out so far... although I feel dirty for the absolute abuse I’m putting my Flying V through on this one...
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Im metal head but i dont like black metal for many reasons.
V is meant for that, not for Bon Jovi stuff :)

its good to challenge yourself and push beyond your ability. I should try too:run:
 
Metal89 said:
I’ll post it, but I think only SOME of the metal heads here will like it. But I’m not going to take any offense, playing to blast beats generally isn’t my thing. This is more or less just to test my own ability to do it. :)

I’ve managed to make it pretty melodic for what it is, and I’m pretty happy with how it’s turning out so far... although I feel dirty for the absolute abuse I’m putting my Flying V through on this one...
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I for one am also looking forward to hearing your work. I admire you for stepping out of your comfort zone to do this!
 
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