#249 - Writing A Song From Start To Finish
Added 2022-11-18 15:30:01 +0000 UTCMy friends, you voted for it, and you get it: in today's video, I write a song from start to finish together with you :) I hope my workflow gives you some ideas for your own process!
As a bonus, I also exported all the tracks of the project for you - so if you have a DAW, you can try mixing or remixing it yourself: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10Z3oqMGpss44_8GseXjmlWiE149D0dfB?usp=sharing
Remember to upload your version to the VIP Facebook group for feedback or just to share what you came up with! You can also make this into a track of your own, I'd love to see and hear you get creative this week :) Have fun!
By the way, here's a Dropbox link in case Google Drive doesn't work for you: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/r0kz4t3obv3h4l2c8y2zz/h?dl=0&rlkey=pyt7godhspc0o02v9ojz9hno7
Comments
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
Gabriel Feno
2022-12-06 19:08:00 +0000 UTCThis 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
2022-11-25 05:45:09 +0000 UTCI 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 :)
Bernd Brodträger
2022-11-25 05:44:03 +0000 UTCAm 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!
Jason Wojcik
2022-11-25 03:43:35 +0000 UTCHi 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...
Conrado Vitor Lopes Fernandes
2022-11-25 01:35:09 +0000 UTCI 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)
Bernd Brodträger
2022-11-21 06:37:07 +0000 UTCHi Bernth, Thanks for this lesson! Can you tell us the EZ Mix Pack you used for the drums? Thank you!
Stephan
2022-11-19 16:51:20 +0000 UTCIf 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
Max
2022-11-19 15:44:12 +0000 UTCYou 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.
Sephiroth
2022-11-19 12:10:28 +0000 UTChttps://aegeanmusic.com/pitchproof-specs hope this helps :)
Bernd Brodträger
2022-11-19 08:33:27 +0000 UTCIt 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!
Davens Michael
2022-11-19 01:04:35 +0000 UTCtab please? =3
Skittles
2022-11-18 22:00:17 +0000 UTCyou could try using dirtrokid
Dave
2022-11-18 19:21:59 +0000 UTChey 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?
Dave
2022-11-18 19:20:03 +0000 UTCWhat’s your method of copyrighting and distributing your music
Perry
2022-11-18 18:36:35 +0000 UTCYes it's there now. Thanks
Michael
2022-11-18 18:32:05 +0000 UTCIt took a while to sync, should be online now! :)
Bernd Brodträger
2022-11-18 18:15:53 +0000 UTCBernth, 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.
Michael
2022-11-18 17:51:46 +0000 UTCJust 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!
Bernd Brodträger
2022-11-18 16:50:04 +0000 UTCNo video, black.(247,248,249)
Reinhold Leschinsky
2022-11-18 16:32:42 +0000 UTCAwesomeness!
Michael O.
2022-11-18 15:51:05 +0000 UTCDude just woke up.
Aki Karvonen
2022-11-18 15:33:08 +0000 UTC
