I'm thinking of doing a running series for original music where I go through individual instrumentals and explain how/why I wrote something the way I did rather than some standard tutorial. It would be much easier for me to address specifics and you would hear how they work in a final mix. Let me know if you'd like to see that! ❤ Thank you for watching
Sure! It's better to see some new songs rather than just looking at how you can make a slide from one note to another and etc. That's kind of boring. The best tutorial is breaking down the song which contains default articulations.
@@ИльяБойко-е9э I agree! My thought is that if you like the way my song sounds and want to know how I got that sound, I'll just show everyone exactly how I did it vs explaining the idea out of context.
I agree. It would be nice if you can do that, please but it would nicer if you do it entirely from scratch that might eventaully helps beginners on their writing process.
@@sammpaul funny enough I actually had a longer version of this video explaining why I don't record myself writing but it just made the video drag on. In short, it's very difficult because I never know what I'm going to keep or how long I'll take. I also don't have good explanations for my creative decisions. It's more just I am doing this because I can promise it will sound better in the end. A very mad scientist approach lol. I have tried filming from scratch and voicing over it but it was hours of footage that ended up not going anywhere. It's a bit easier to deconstruct something that I consider done than it is to create something under the pressure of needing to show the work. Just like when you go to record an instrument or vocal track you just nailed practicing 100 times and the moment you hit record your skill is just gone. I may do some stuff similar to impact soundworks but geared towards my style of playing/writing. Like how to write your first riffs with shreddage, intermediate and then advanced programming/writing tips. I loved their tutorial series but there's some stuff that I didn't think did shreddage justice. The type of music wasn't my cup of tea either.
@@HollowHeart-Studio Hello, there. I understand what you're saying. I'd love to see your writing process with Shreddage (like how you go from making riffs with the plugins you own).
I spent at least a year or two messing with orchestral plugins before I first got any Shreddage stuff, and yeah - PIANO SKETCHING IS KEY! Getting a melody or one part down is good, but sketching the bones of the thing as much as you can before going to the next step (instrumentation / arrangement) is so important so you're not like 20 hours into polishing something and then realize you have no idea how to end the track or work a particular part.
Exactly! This stems from tracking real guitar for me. Before shreddage, I'd be recording riffs over and over. That was a massive waste of time so I switched to piano. When I use midi guitar or real guitar, I tend to get hung up on all of the small things because I have so many options. Piano just gets that idea out there and then you figure out how it would be played on guitar or if it can be played. Save all that tweaking for when you have a solid structure down :)
You're awesome! But I guess, everyone's still waiting the tutorial on humanizing shreddage 3 guitars as much as it is possible. That could be even more interesting. By the way, those chilly vibes are good. You need to continue doing that in your videos.
Thank you for the feedback! I'll absolutely keep the chill vibes. I could probably work on a video that addresses specifics. I just don't know what people don't know. Since I know how to play guitar, drums and bass, I don't put much thought into it beyond "this is how I play this" if that makes sense haha. I have been considering either taking guitar tabs to an existing song and showing you how to program it. Another possibility would be having people submit their songs to me and I give feedback on their guitar programming for a video.
@@HollowHeart-Studio I also play and record guitar, but sometimes there's not enough clarity or punch to my pitched 6 string, that's why I'd like to add a layer with vst and Hydra has this great pick attack knob that probably can help, imo. Yeah, the idea with tabs is useful. It's clearly to understand that vst guitar is just a machine and we can't get a lot of human sounds and transition between notes, but at some point this vst can be really helpful. I've noticed that in northlane and some erra type riffs where it's tapping and just single notes fretting, hydra sounds the best. And like any other vst guitar it struggles a lot with chords strumming. Maybe you've got any idea how to make them sound more live? Cause I guess it's impossible.
@@ИльяБойко-е9э that's a really good idea layering midi guitar with real guitar for clarity and punch. Especially with low tuned instruments. I think Jupiter sounds the best for anything other than cleans, leads and some chords. For the cool leads that have all the tapping and sliding, hydra does sound the best. I have written some crazy stuff with Jupiter but hydra just does leads so much better. What sucks is that I prefer the sound of a 7 string tuned down 2-3 steps over an 8 string. I don't think midi guitar has enough samples yet for 8th or 16th notes strumming patterns to sound good. I'm finding that manually cutting the notes slightly short and changing up a strumming pattern to be a mix of 4th, 8th and 16th notes sounds the best. It's a bit more interesting too e even if it's not how I'd normally play. I feel like once we can get enough samples to just strum over and over, midi guitar will be as good as midi drums.
@@HollowHeart-Studio jupiter is cool for some light djenty and some soilworkd type riffs, but the one thing i've noticed and that really makes me angry is the sound of plam mutes. don't like it at all. super rounded and actually might work in some double drop D stuff etc, but not in default drop c.
Im like you...I get a melody stuck in my head and I voice record it with my phone. I start with the most powerful, bombastic section of the song which is usually the middle. Then I work my way outwards to the beginning and end
The track at the start is the result but I get what you're saying. I've finished the full instrumental at this point after almost a year. I just didn't film the process of it entirely. I ended up making the midi metal with me series for this reason specificly. I'll eventually try to do a whole song like that. My writing process has a lot of back tracking, deleting or replacing. So, a lot of video editing over the course of weeks and months.
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I'm thinking of doing a running series for original music where I go through individual instrumentals and explain how/why I wrote something the way I did rather than some standard tutorial. It would be much easier for me to address specifics and you would hear how they work in a final mix. Let me know if you'd like to see that! ❤ Thank you for watching
Sure! It's better to see some new songs rather than just looking at how you can make a slide from one note to another and etc. That's kind of boring. The best tutorial is breaking down the song which contains default articulations.
@@ИльяБойко-е9э I agree! My thought is that if you like the way my song sounds and want to know how I got that sound, I'll just show everyone exactly how I did it vs explaining the idea out of context.
I agree. It would be nice if you can do that, please but it would nicer if you do it entirely from scratch that might eventaully helps beginners on their writing process.
@@sammpaul funny enough I actually had a longer version of this video explaining why I don't record myself writing but it just made the video drag on.
In short, it's very difficult because I never know what I'm going to keep or how long I'll take. I also don't have good explanations for my creative decisions. It's more just I am doing this because I can promise it will sound better in the end. A very mad scientist approach lol.
I have tried filming from scratch and voicing over it but it was hours of footage that ended up not going anywhere. It's a bit easier to deconstruct something that I consider done than it is to create something under the pressure of needing to show the work. Just like when you go to record an instrument or vocal track you just nailed practicing 100 times and the moment you hit record your skill is just gone.
I may do some stuff similar to impact soundworks but geared towards my style of playing/writing. Like how to write your first riffs with shreddage, intermediate and then advanced programming/writing tips. I loved their tutorial series but there's some stuff that I didn't think did shreddage justice. The type of music wasn't my cup of tea either.
@@HollowHeart-Studio Hello, there. I understand what you're saying. I'd love to see your writing process with Shreddage (like how you go from making riffs with the plugins you own).
I spent at least a year or two messing with orchestral plugins before I first got any Shreddage stuff, and yeah - PIANO SKETCHING IS KEY! Getting a melody or one part down is good, but sketching the bones of the thing as much as you can before going to the next step (instrumentation / arrangement) is so important so you're not like 20 hours into polishing something and then realize you have no idea how to end the track or work a particular part.
Exactly! This stems from tracking real guitar for me. Before shreddage, I'd be recording riffs over and over. That was a massive waste of time so I switched to piano. When I use midi guitar or real guitar, I tend to get hung up on all of the small things because I have so many options. Piano just gets that idea out there and then you figure out how it would be played on guitar or if it can be played. Save all that tweaking for when you have a solid structure down :)
You're awesome! But I guess, everyone's still waiting the tutorial on humanizing shreddage 3 guitars as much as it is possible. That could be even more interesting. By the way, those chilly vibes are good. You need to continue doing that in your videos.
Thank you for the feedback! I'll absolutely keep the chill vibes.
I could probably work on a video that addresses specifics. I just don't know what people don't know. Since I know how to play guitar, drums and bass, I don't put much thought into it beyond "this is how I play this" if that makes sense haha. I have been considering either taking guitar tabs to an existing song and showing you how to program it. Another possibility would be having people submit their songs to me and I give feedback on their guitar programming for a video.
@@HollowHeart-Studio I also play and record guitar, but sometimes there's not enough clarity or punch to my pitched 6 string, that's why I'd like to add a layer with vst and Hydra has this great pick attack knob that probably can help, imo. Yeah, the idea with tabs is useful. It's clearly to understand that vst guitar is just a machine and we can't get a lot of human sounds and transition between notes, but at some point this vst can be really helpful. I've noticed that in northlane and some erra type riffs where it's tapping and just single notes fretting, hydra sounds the best. And like any other vst guitar it struggles a lot with chords strumming. Maybe you've got any idea how to make them sound more live? Cause I guess it's impossible.
@@ИльяБойко-е9э that's a really good idea layering midi guitar with real guitar for clarity and punch. Especially with low tuned instruments. I think Jupiter sounds the best for anything other than cleans, leads and some chords.
For the cool leads that have all the tapping and sliding, hydra does sound the best. I have written some crazy stuff with Jupiter but hydra just does leads so much better. What sucks is that I prefer the sound of a 7 string tuned down 2-3 steps over an 8 string.
I don't think midi guitar has enough samples yet for 8th or 16th notes strumming patterns to sound good. I'm finding that manually cutting the notes slightly short and changing up a strumming pattern to be a mix of 4th, 8th and 16th notes sounds the best. It's a bit more interesting too e even if it's not how I'd normally play. I feel like once we can get enough samples to just strum over and over, midi guitar will be as good as midi drums.
@@HollowHeart-Studio jupiter is cool for some light djenty and some soilworkd type riffs, but the one thing i've noticed and that really makes me angry is the sound of plam mutes. don't like it at all. super rounded and actually might work in some double drop D stuff etc, but not in default drop c.
Im like you...I get a melody stuck in my head and I voice record it with my phone. I start with the most powerful, bombastic section of the song which is usually the middle. Then I work my way outwards to the beginning and end
@marcus_ohreallyus yes! It's a blessing and a curse haha.
Wish we could have heard the song every step of the way, instead of simply explaining - but it's a fair tutorial
The track at the start is the result but I get what you're saying. I've finished the full instrumental at this point after almost a year. I just didn't film the process of it entirely.
I ended up making the midi metal with me series for this reason specificly. I'll eventually try to do a whole song like that. My writing process has a lot of back tracking, deleting or replacing. So, a lot of video editing over the course of weeks and months.