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  • Опубликовано: 6 авг 2024
  • Does TikTok actually have... GOOD songwriting advice? Let's find out!
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Комментарии • 73

  • @treyxaviermusic
    @treyxaviermusic  10 месяцев назад +4

    Have you tried any of these in your own songs?

    • @jacobdarby1174
      @jacobdarby1174 10 месяцев назад +2

      I'm in the process of using all these techniques right now for my next song. :)

    • @stationdisatrous647
      @stationdisatrous647 10 месяцев назад

      Trey, we need a full version of the song!

    • @Rightchickenwing
      @Rightchickenwing 10 месяцев назад

      No, but given me food for thought for sure. Trey wheres a new song from your band ffs?!? 😮😮😮

    • @Rightchickenwing
      @Rightchickenwing 10 месяцев назад

      16:39 the problem is everyone is gonna go and look at these "hacks" and then everyone will be trying to use these same hacks. But some songs will come out better than others

  • @aprilkurtz1589
    @aprilkurtz1589 10 месяцев назад +20

    Tool likes their Fibonacci medium rare. And hell yeah.....Angel of DEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTH!

  • @riptideL
    @riptideL 10 месяцев назад +28

    more of this please. There is so much info on recording and mixing but nowhere nearly enough about songwriting. Nice 1!

    • @treyxaviermusic
      @treyxaviermusic  10 месяцев назад +7

      Everything on this channel is about songwriting, so you’re in the right place!

  • @BombstractGnome
    @BombstractGnome 10 месяцев назад +2

    That first tip tho “what’s the worst that can happen, make a bad song, delete it”

  • @BigChutes
    @BigChutes 10 месяцев назад +2

    I don't even know what is going on here, I am not a songwriter... but I was entertained none the less. Great video!

    • @treyxaviermusic
      @treyxaviermusic  10 месяцев назад +1

      Interesting that the algorithm plopped it on your lap then, but welcome nonetheless! I aim to entertain hahaha

  • @JETGuitars
    @JETGuitars 10 месяцев назад +7

    That was awesome! Who knew the trash pile of tiktok had some treasures in it! By the way, I was not ready for a c-section mid vid, but we had one, and it was well-timed and I feel much better having had it. 😂

  • @ericfritts5994
    @ericfritts5994 10 месяцев назад +1

    Trey's never hurting for lyric inspiration: "If you need surfing with mennnn"

  • @intriguedviewer501
    @intriguedviewer501 10 месяцев назад +4

    Using the Fibonacci sequence is kinda silly. If there is a climatic part of your song, such as a solo or breakdown, consider putting it around 2/3rds into the song's playback (seconds or beats wouldn't matter). Essentially 2 parts before it to build up tension, 1 afterwards for closure.

    • @cobrasys
      @cobrasys 10 месяцев назад +1

      Well, what the guy said there was basically what you said, only he tried to make it fancy. The value of φ (phi, or "the golden ratio", which _is_ related to the Fibonacci sequence, but is also its own thing) is ~1.618; he's telling people to multiply the length of the song by 0.618 to find the "phi moment", which will give you 61.8% of the length of the song... which is very close to 2/3rds (which is ~0.667 or 66.7%).

  • @madmanno5566
    @madmanno5566 10 месяцев назад +1

    The advice about “2 years” reminds me of “4000 rainy nights” by Stratovarius, where Tolkki originally wrote it as “3000 rainy nights”

  • @crankydragon
    @crankydragon 10 месяцев назад +2

    Phonetics + Metaphor is akin to "form meeting function".

  • @xamislimelight8965
    @xamislimelight8965 10 месяцев назад +3

    If I had a dime for every time a prog kid told me to "use the Fibonacci sequence" (a writing joke Tool themselves thought was weak) I'd have enough money to buy a Gibson. I wouldn't, but I'd be able to.

  • @malodesi
    @malodesi 10 месяцев назад +3

    It's so anstonishing how well some of these instantly worked out! Great video and inspiration!

  • @LulzWalker
    @LulzWalker 10 месяцев назад +2

    I thought this would be cringe af, but I was pleasantly suprised. Thank you Trey!

  • @Rightchickenwing
    @Rightchickenwing 10 месяцев назад

    4:52 Omg didn't expect the crazy ref dancing

  • @nooneinparticular9868
    @nooneinparticular9868 10 месяцев назад +2

    So it’s interesting as someone who has been writing since I was 12, 40 now, to see all these thoughts on how to write. Lyrics for me usually come last. I usually take a mostly finished song and just go for a walk. Listen to it. Feel it. Until my brain wanders enough to grab onto a first line. I don’t usually go into a song with intentions of writing about something in specific. It takes time. I usually am able a few months later to realize what I had been saying

  • @rmp5s
    @rmp5s 10 месяцев назад

    Andrea Stolpe is AWESOME...she was my professor for a couple courses when I studied at Berklee and she was one of my absolute favorites. Her and Jimmy Kachulis. Legends!! They have a bunch of great people there, but they were a couple standouts. For sure.

  • @JustinNogle
    @JustinNogle 10 месяцев назад +1

    Professor Charles, err Trey Xavier to the songwriting rescue! 😎🎸🤘

  • @Rightchickenwing
    @Rightchickenwing 10 месяцев назад

    11:01 I find your lyrics in Scream "Carrapace wearing the face of a man" is really cool

  • @SlyHikari03
    @SlyHikari03 10 месяцев назад +1

    The two things i think of when i hear Fibonacci being used in music are tool's lateralus and Gilded runner from Genshin impact.
    Ps. I love your editor,
    Also, 12:50 is pretty neat.

  • @Rightchickenwing
    @Rightchickenwing 10 месяцев назад

    4:09 this is a cool video idea. Hope you can find more niches like this Trey! 😃

  • @JackTaylorGuitars
    @JackTaylorGuitars 10 месяцев назад +1

    Towards the end I swear I could hear Adam Neely shouting in the distance?

  • @dominicspizzirri4399
    @dominicspizzirri4399 10 месяцев назад +1

    This was a great video. I’ve learned so much from you and things like this. Thanks man. You’re doing amazing work. Hope all is well.

  • @nicolaebreaban8154
    @nicolaebreaban8154 10 месяцев назад +1

    I am learning so much from your channel! Thank you!

  • @josueiprojectsbass
    @josueiprojectsbass 10 месяцев назад +5

    Anything? 😏

  • @reidlee7742
    @reidlee7742 10 месяцев назад +7

    THE ABSOLUTE KING OF BERRIES

  • @hatempire
    @hatempire 10 месяцев назад

    The songwriting corner of Tiktok seems like a rich community. More videos like that, please, Trey!
    Also, I have two questions about a specific band and would be great to know your insights if you feel like answering:
    - Do you enjoy Bad Omens (especially their latest album)?
    - If you dig them, would a song be worth of a video analysis someday? I love how they borrowed influences from The Weeknd and trip hop to fuse it with metalcore sprinkles (and i really think that Noah is a clever lyricist).

  • @RobbieFitzgerald
    @RobbieFitzgerald 10 месяцев назад +1

    That one for oblique motion fascinates me. I think thats what Mr Big used on To be With You, if I understand it correctly.
    Edit: Wait. It was Extreme, More Than Words.

  • @kuromyou7969
    @kuromyou7969 Месяц назад

    I watched this video yesterday and, no joke, I heard it in my dream this morning!

  • @chrismusicx
    @chrismusicx 10 месяцев назад +1

    Hey! I went to school with Brit haha what a surprise.

  • @thomaskinsey3424
    @thomaskinsey3424 10 месяцев назад

    Paranoid by Black Sabbath has almost all the verse vocal melody on the up beats, but more importantly there’s little flips in and out of the downbeat in special places where the syllables require it, very similar to the example Trey made. Great stuff man!

  • @Rightchickenwing
    @Rightchickenwing 10 месяцев назад

    8:14 NICE!! 😃

  • @TehCoza
    @TehCoza 6 месяцев назад

    "trying something in music never hurts" use a shard of glass as a guitar pick

  • @Tobias1985
    @Tobias1985 10 месяцев назад +3

    trey's goin' modern again!

  • @BcBaxley
    @BcBaxley 10 месяцев назад +2

    This Song is so Prog 🤣🍻🤘

  • @Lord_Swoledemort
    @Lord_Swoledemort 10 месяцев назад +1

    What’s up? What’s up? What the fuck is up Denny’s?

  • @user-jj7qn7sm9j
    @user-jj7qn7sm9j 10 месяцев назад +2

    So you made a Police song XD. Great vid Trey. -Moto

  • @videosbyddc
    @videosbyddc 10 месяцев назад +1

    +1 for ViB3 MACHINE! 👍

  • @dropaudio7586
    @dropaudio7586 10 месяцев назад +1

    13:42 is this guy saying that fibonacci wrote music? I can't figure out who the "his" could otherwise be.

  • @dropaudio7586
    @dropaudio7586 10 месяцев назад +2

    I was really hoping we'd get to hear the full song at the end. :(

  • @naughtysmurf64
    @naughtysmurf64 10 месяцев назад +1

    I actually learned something!!😂

  • @lowenbad
    @lowenbad 10 месяцев назад

    I’m good at production and arrangements, but I am terrified of writing trite lyrics and ruining a composition that I worked so hard on.

  • @stationdisatrous647
    @stationdisatrous647 10 месяцев назад +1

    The c section... The climax section lol

  • @JSNM_
    @JSNM_ 10 месяцев назад +1

    syncopation is the kewpie of mayonnaises

  • @TheStrykerProject
    @TheStrykerProject 10 месяцев назад

    Dude! I TOTALLY want to hear a song that at EXACTLY 61.8% mark of the song, a new section busts in. Like, I can just imagine on the up beat of the third note in a measure, you have to immediately switch to the "C" section. 😂 Using such exacting techniques just KILLS the joy of a song, imo. It's the same with movies. I had such a hard time finishing the Marvel Avenger movies because they were SO formulaic with their action sequences. Sure, at first those sequences were awesome (in the true sense of the word), then later, even within the same movie, I was like, "OK...time for a new lyric!" And don't get me started on overly repetative lyrics/choruses...UHG!

  • @user-yk4gd1fl4z
    @user-yk4gd1fl4z 10 месяцев назад +1

    The Friday stream ever coming back ??

  • @orlock20
    @orlock20 10 месяцев назад

    Modal is the adjective and mode is the noun. The seven modes are taught in basic music theory.

    • @treyxaviermusic
      @treyxaviermusic  10 месяцев назад

      That didn't make any sense in the context though

    • @orlock20
      @orlock20 10 месяцев назад

      @@treyxaviermusic It's probably cut from a longer video. It would make sense when talking about Gregorian chant harmonies. Gregorian music is in modes and not modern scales.
      He is saying he likes harmonies are on the third of the chord being played by an instrument. If the instrument is playing a C and two people are singing, then one is singing in E an octave higher than the instrument and the other is singing in E an octave below the instrument.

    • @treyxaviermusic
      @treyxaviermusic  10 месяцев назад +1

      That makes even less sense, the thing he’s describing is a pedal tone, he clearly just used the wrong word. Nothing he describes is specific to any of the modes

  • @rikkubeans
    @rikkubeans 2 месяца назад

    Or you can just be After The Burial and write a giant breakdown based on the numbers of Pi.

  • @GuySchwartzakaChuckNorris
    @GuySchwartzakaChuckNorris 10 месяцев назад

    It's so weird to listen to slayer as a grand grandson to holocaust survivers, but slayer are awesome and brutal af

  • @rmp5s
    @rmp5s 10 месяцев назад

    "Emo emo emo emo emo emo emo emo"...🤣

  • @chrismonaut
    @chrismonaut 10 месяцев назад

    I mean... raspberry IS the king of berries. Tastes the best and is really healthy as well.

  • @DA-lt9tg
    @DA-lt9tg 8 месяцев назад

    Are you by any chance a Quake player? I've heard the word "clutch" usually only there.

  • @aery3854
    @aery3854 10 месяцев назад +1

    Are you still accepting songs for your song contest😢

  • @DroctorKloebner
    @DroctorKloebner 10 месяцев назад

    13:41 did someone say tool?

  • @SanderVerstraten
    @SanderVerstraten 10 месяцев назад

    Glad you're on TikTok so I don't have to.

  • @Amhiel
    @Amhiel 10 месяцев назад +1

    Cue all the TOOL fans explaining Lateralus in 3, 2, 1... 😁

  • @brentradshaw5057
    @brentradshaw5057 10 месяцев назад

    Is there something wrong with youtubes viewcount? You should be getting way more views

  • @ericolson326
    @ericolson326 9 месяцев назад

    Unless I'm missing something important, that Fibonacci suggestion seems like full-bore nonsense. I could get behind a rule of thumb about having a climax or change every x# bars or seconds, but making it relative to the overall length of the song is ridiculous. So in the latest incredible 10 minute prog epic, we have to wait 6 fucking minutes to get to the interesting part? Listeners have no clue how much longer a song is going to be, just how long it's been already. We all have a sense of when we're getting to the "okay, I got the idea" point and start reaching for the skip button -- that's where the change needs to go.

  • @redcomn
    @redcomn 10 месяцев назад

    Ah yes I used math in my song 😂😂😂

  • @Jeremy-hx7zj
    @Jeremy-hx7zj 7 месяцев назад

    Hi Trey. Big fan of the channel but youre just WRONG about raspberries. Garbage berry.