Shit like this is what people need to see, especially if they play at all at any level. Like myself, I'm a drummer first but I love messing around with guitar riffing, but I can't read music and don't know any scales on the guitar (no actual training, more of a picked it up and started playing type thing). So, point is little tidbits of info like this are very helpful for musicians like me.
I haven't gotten into deathcore but these tips are helpful and I can see them being used in other genres. Definitely going back to this video and try some of these. Thanks
As someone who plays deathcore and doesn’t know music theory this video has helped me tremendously. Now I can take my riffs to a new level and be able to finish songs
Now check out the double harmonic minor. I use harmonic minor but will get a little more tension by sharping the 4 in the harmonic minor occasionally. Creates some cool chromaticism and if you go R, 6, #4 it sounds gross
This is probably the best deathcore tutorial and explanation ive ever seen. Ive been playing seriously for 19 years, and i was already playing, pretty much nu metal, when the deathcore scene started forming, i fell in love with it immediately, and kinda naturally fell into playing it. And then whitchapel appeared God damn
Thank you so much! And same here. Despised Icon, Whitechapel, All Shall Perish, not sure if you'd consider old Emmure and ABACABB Deathcore but I was all over that Thanks for checking it out
@BrendonKPadjasek oh hell yes, all those bands plus the acacia strain. I almost forgot, THE DOOM EP that album changed my life, and learning it got me into 2 different bands
I alreayd knew this just from playing for years, but wow this gave it a language I never had before and wow are you on point for what riffs work for deathcore
Wow! This is the first time I've heard anybody mention Ion Dissonance! They're one of my favorite bands! To be fair though, they don't really seem like deathcore to me. They have elements of deathcore, but they're mostly mathcore. Edit: I forgot that they had that new Deathcore album. I mostly listen to their old albums.
Oh yeah their old ones are definitely more like techy/ grindcore. Cool as hell. Minus the herd is probably the most deathcore in. Probably my favourite heavy album of all time. Not many people know about them so I always try to sneak them in there to get credit haha
Thank you so much! It’s my favourite amp sim. There’s a 14 day demo if you wanna try it out yourself and I have a 50% discount code (where I earn a small commission) if you decide to buy it. The link is in the pinned comment.
@@BrendonKPadjasek I know I'm not the original commenter but I'll put my two cents in cos I'd love to see that too! I would say Humanity's Last Breath, Allt and Vildhjarta for me (basically anything thall with Buster involved haha!)
@@AnthonyRodriguez-c9g eh thanks so much for checking it out! I also often watch videos of things I already have a decent understand of as I always learn a little something, even if it’s a shortcut or something
I’ve been getting a hankering for writing some Deathcore style stuff again; you basically just took all of the “tricks and observations” I made years and years ago but helped them make a little more actual music sense. 😂 Always glad to have your videos pop up and get some motivation man, keep going strong like you have been all year! 🙌🏻
I’m technically decent, but my music theory knowledge is terrible. This is quite literally the first guitar RUclips video I’ve seen since the inception of RUclips that I find easy to understand, and helpful more than I can articulate. Thank you
@ Melodic hardcore, metalcore, and bands like Balance and Composure (which list themselves as melodic post-punk, but I kind of lump that sound into ambient alternative, with others like Mayfield, Ghost Chant, Judgement)
Wild to see this as such a concise list, had to figure out all of this on our own back in the day song by song over the years. Kids watching this will get a crazy leg up, I can't wait to hear how they take it even further.
Thanks my friend! I have a 1 hour real time video on here of how I mix metal. I haven’t gone over how I dial in tones but I’ve already started filming that one so stay tuned!
Canadian Heritage Moment - Deathcore Edition. P.S. I enjoy how your tone is a bit phasey. I do the same thing with heavy tones sometimes and it just makes for some extra gnarl.
Yeah the Otto Audio II II II II has a built in function that turns your mono DI into a stereo set amp with some sort of detune. Thanks for watching haha
Love you videos! Can you make a vid on how to mix higher tuned guitars (like drop c to drop a range not e standard that would be cursed) I would love to hear your mixes
@@BrendonKPadjasek tbh i had some ideas on how to play deathcore, since i'm those kind of music producers who play a little of each instrument, and i love extreme metal and deathcore. I knew some of the techniques u shared by mere practicing some suicide silence songs (or fragments to be more precise), and the techs i didn't know trully felt like it solidified all that i had learned on my own. Literally all I learned was compressed in this vid, and more, which made it perfect for me! I checked some of ur other vids and they all seem to be really really helpful, since i use ableton all the time and i have a couple of synths, so i might go in a rabbit hole with ur channel. Anyway, thanks again and i'll be waiting for more stuff! ps ur projects sound real neat, love em c:
@kusaedonai thank you so much for checking the other projects out as well! Honestly, Ableton is the best haha. I just got 12 and I’m likely only using 15% of what it’s capable of but those changes are amazing. I also make samples for a plugin company so I’m also one of those producers who are all over the place haha
Can't watch this right now. I'm usually a shred kid and always had difficulties writing breakdowns, that aren't just boring basic low E or D or B or A chugs (think mid/late-2000s ...core-Breakdowns) but also not so complex, that it doesn't sound like a breakdown anymore. So, can't wait to check this out in the evening.
Hey Brendon. What scale lengths do you have on the 7’s. Used to use your g tuning for my old band and want to get a 7 string back but not sure what to go for. There’s a decent one that’s 25.5 and I remember this being okay before but not sure if I should go 26.5. It’ll have an evertune either way
I would strongly suggest a 26.5 or a 27”. This guitar is 26.5 and to get this tuning to stick on my 25.5 7 string I have to use uncomfortably thick strings
@@BrendonKPadjasekcheers dude. What’s that original keisel that you used in the worst of both worlds playthrough is that 25.5? Wasn’t sure if it makes the stretches hard cause obviously it’s a bit of an alternative tuning
@jamesmatthews3749 yeah that one’s a 25.5 but the top to strings are a drop G and drop A# where as with this guitar it’s a low E and Drop G Which one are you thinking of using?
I Highly recommend Ableton Live to everyone. Super easy to use and everything you want to do is a click away as opposed to other DAW's that I've used require soo much more work
I would say the name of the video is a bit missleading. Tecniques are how you do things (in this case tremolos, tapping, both types of harmonics, scrapes) and musicality is what you do which is bigger portion of this video. Technique-wise i would add string skipping and mixxing dowsntrokes with alt picks.
@@BrendonKPadjasek i would say something like "Musicality behind the modern deathcore" or more of a clickbait thing "how to write modern deathcore riffs"
@AleksandrRudiak but I guess I’m not showing how to write riffs I’m just showing techniques that are used in deathcore , but maybe not going into as much detail that you would have preferred? Because how to write deathcore would require me to go step by step writing a riff I believe.
@@BrendonKPadjasek maybe, but i think when you show common leaks/scales/chord progressions it is more about how to come up with these things more than how to play things which someone already wrote
@clarenegracey yeah I guess that’s where the chromatic scale comes in lmao. I’m so accustomed to just playing what sounds nice to the ear that I don’t even think about theory most of the time haha
@@BrendonKPadjasek Not even. Using note names or intervals are incredibly beneficial to understanding music, particularly in how notes relate to one another. You, on the other hand, are thinking in terms of fret numbers... that's actually hilarious!
@@monsterram6617 haha when playing I definitely think of it in musical terms but this video is meant for people of all musical knowledge levels so that made the most sense to me as people like us who understand it, understand which scale and mode a phrase is coming from
@@BrendonKPadjasek Let's not kid ourselves here and pretend that most metal guitarists can instant recall every note on the fretboard or demonstrate a fluent understanding of interval relationships. The reality is that very few can and it's because they never learn. You may be playing to that common denominator, but that bar is quite low. You can do your audience a solid and teach them the proper terminology at the same time. It's not going to hurt anyone to actually know their instrument. 👌
Its not a room mic, its actually a function in the guitar amp to split the signal from mono to stereo to listen as if you're double tracking. I enjoy using it when playing guitar as it feels closer to being in a room with an amp
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@@BrendonKPadjasek melodic deathcore
@Descendants_Ov_1984 could be sick !
Whatever hits you with the most inspiration, this format is great so I'll watch anything you put out be it nu metal or black metal
@roythescrub461 ohhh no metal could be cool. Thanks for the kind words!
More videos on dissonance, uses of the pitch shifter, and Dexcore-style glitch (Savior). Thanks!
Shit like this is what people need to see, especially if they play at all at any level. Like myself, I'm a drummer first but I love messing around with guitar riffing, but I can't read music and don't know any scales on the guitar (no actual training, more of a picked it up and started playing type thing). So, point is little tidbits of info like this are very helpful for musicians like me.
So glad to help! I’m a drummer second so that’s sick that you’re taking up another instrument.
I’ve been a guitarist for 15 years, but I’m also an idiot. So videos like this are helpful for me too!
@jdestrada6281 hahaha we’re all idiots in our own way. Believe me hahah thanks for watching
Thats the way to go brother! Trust the process!
@KLPV79 absolutely
you truly provide the most accessible and helpful metal centric content on this whole ass website, ty guy.
I do my best haha thanks!
I haven't gotten into deathcore but these tips are helpful and I can see them being used in other genres. Definitely going back to this video and try some of these. Thanks
Eh thanks so much! Yeah I to be honest don’t even know which genres are what hahah I just go with what others say.
As someone who plays deathcore and doesn’t know music theory this video has helped me tremendously. Now I can take my riffs to a new level and be able to finish songs
I am so very glad to hear that. Thank you so much!
Now check out the double harmonic minor. I use harmonic minor but will get a little more tension by sharping the 4 in the harmonic minor occasionally.
Creates some cool chromaticism and if you go R, 6, #4 it sounds gross
@SilentAsianRoach wouldn’t that be a Lydian formation? Or is the 6 flat?
This is probably the best deathcore tutorial and explanation ive ever seen.
Ive been playing seriously for 19 years, and i was already playing, pretty much nu metal, when the deathcore scene started forming, i fell in love with it immediately, and kinda naturally fell into playing it.
And then whitchapel appeared
God damn
Thank you so much! And same here. Despised Icon, Whitechapel, All Shall Perish, not sure if you'd consider old Emmure and ABACABB Deathcore but I was all over that
Thanks for checking it out
@BrendonKPadjasek oh hell yes, all those bands plus the acacia strain.
I almost forgot, THE DOOM EP
that album changed my life, and learning it got me into 2 different bands
@GrimFowler that’s awesome. Acacia goes hard
@@BrendonKPadjasek you sir have gained a subscriber for life. I will send any one wanting to be a metal guitarist to your channel
Thank you so much. Are there any topics you’d like me to cover in future videos?
This vid made me turn on notifications for your channel. Direct to the point, brief and 100% pure gold!
Thanks so much. Pressure’s on to make sure it’s all gold then haha.
Such a high quality tutorial !! Really easy to follow and very partical. Bro sure knows how to deathcore.🤘
Definitely deserves more views and subscribes.
Hahaha thank you so much! Hopefully they’ll come if I keep making videos like this
I alreayd knew this just from playing for years, but wow this gave it a language I never had before and wow are you on point for what riffs work for deathcore
Thanks for checking it out even though you had a great understanding already!
Wow! This is the first time I've heard anybody mention Ion Dissonance! They're one of my favorite bands! To be fair though, they don't really seem like deathcore to me. They have elements of deathcore, but they're mostly mathcore.
Edit: I forgot that they had that new Deathcore album. I mostly listen to their old albums.
Oh yeah their old ones are definitely more like techy/ grindcore. Cool as hell. Minus the herd is probably the most deathcore in. Probably my favourite heavy album of all time.
Not many people know about them so I always try to sneak them in there to get credit haha
Thank you Brendon.
No problem Rick!
Dude that tone is sick
Thank you so much! It’s my favourite amp sim. There’s a 14 day demo if you wanna try it out yourself and I have a 50% discount code (where I earn a small commission) if you decide to buy it. The link is in the pinned comment.
Sounds kinda weird to me
That’s a ton of quick info dude. Thanks.
No problem. I try to keep it as helpful and explain only as much as one feel necessary
I know it's not the point of the video but i always gotta say it, your tones, both on gutar and the drum tones are always insane dude!🔥
Thank you so much. This was definitely a minimalist approach so I’m glad it’s sick haha
@BrendanKPadasek you should do Thall. I think it’s only done really well by a few bands.
I definitely should. Great call. Which bands would you say are doing it proper?
@@BrendonKPadjasek I know I'm not the original commenter but I'll put my two cents in cos I'd love to see that too! I would say Humanity's Last Breath, Allt and Vildhjarta for me (basically anything thall with Buster involved haha!)
@@joederbyshire_ "anything with buster involved" couldn't have said it better myself
@joederbyshire_ Buster is the absolute king. Thanks for checking it out
@sorlak_12 heavily agree lmao
Great video Brendon!
Thank you Donny! Glad it was helpful
6:51 the scrapes while staring off is way to fucking relateable lmao
haha its like an impulse
Dope video i e been playing 23 years and i actually learned something from thia good job man
@@AnthonyRodriguez-c9g eh thanks so much for checking it out! I also often watch videos of things I already have a decent understand of as I always learn a little something, even if it’s a shortcut or something
I’ve been getting a hankering for writing some Deathcore style stuff again; you basically just took all of the “tricks and observations” I made years and years ago but helped them make a little more actual music sense. 😂 Always glad to have your videos pop up and get some motivation man, keep going strong like you have been all year! 🙌🏻
Haha thanks for checking it out and the kind words !
Where have u been all my life ? This was SO useful thank you 🙏🏻
Haha sorry I didn’t put this out earlier. Thanks for watching
Such a great tutorial! Muchas gracias por las referencias!
Saludos desde Panamá 🇵🇦
Thank you so much for checking it out! Glad it was helpful
I’m technically decent, but my music theory knowledge is terrible. This is quite literally the first guitar RUclips video I’ve seen since the inception of RUclips that I find easy to understand, and helpful more than I can articulate. Thank you
I’m so glad to hear that. I try to make it as easy to understand as possible so I’m glad it worked out. Any other genres you’d like covered?
@ Melodic hardcore, metalcore, and bands like Balance and Composure (which list themselves as melodic post-punk, but I kind of lump that sound into ambient alternative, with others like Mayfield, Ghost Chant, Judgement)
I am but a simple man. I see Brendon and deathcore, I click. 🤘🦖
Hahaha you’re more than a simple man my man! Thank you
Thank you for “breaking it down” for us! 😏
Hahaha and the award goes to…
8:39 those never fail to make me completely melt into the song 🤤🤤🤤
Same here haha
this is awesome content man! gonna def mess around with that diminished tapping
Thank you so much. Yeah I love doing that on the high strings. Not exactly sure why I didn’t do that in this video haha. Very Danza
Another sick video Brendon. Thanks!
Thanks for checking it out!
Wild to see this as such a concise list, had to figure out all of this on our own back in the day song by song over the years. Kids watching this will get a crazy leg up, I can't wait to hear how they take it even further.
Same here. Exactly why I’m happy to share all the things that took thousands of hours and wayy to many concerts t figure out lmao. Thanks for watching
such a sick video, been getting into heavier skramz lately
Thanks for watching!
Holy shit man! Your tone is sick af! Absolutely love it!
Can you make a video how to mix such stuff?
Thanks my friend! I have a 1 hour real time video on here of how I mix metal. I haven’t gone over how I dial in tones but I’ve already started filming that one so stay tuned!
Love this videos. By the way have you already swapped the pickup in your squier bass VI? It’s been a while since you made a video with it
Thank you so much. I actually have! I just haven’t got around to filming a video yet as I’ve been a bit swamped with mixing work lately
thank you so much man, now i know what should i practice when i get my first guitar!
Eh thats awesome. You’ll definitely have to take it slow for your first while on guitar
Right to the very core of it. With Death. Very helpful Video, thank you very much. Keep going! I need to check out your Band!
Eh thanks so much! Feel free! Our last ep is what I’d suggest checking out. None of the Above
You merely adopted the deathcore, i was born in it, molded by it.
Also, dont ever underestimate good ole chromatic scales.
Hell ya, thanks for the video my dude!!!
No problem at all! Thanks for watching
Canadian Heritage Moment - Deathcore Edition.
P.S. I enjoy how your tone is a bit phasey. I do the same thing with heavy tones sometimes and it just makes for some extra gnarl.
Yeah the Otto Audio II II II II has a built in function that turns your mono DI into a stereo set amp with some sort of detune.
Thanks for watching haha
@@BrendonKPadjasek that’s awesome. I’ll have the check it out 👊
@@divinemental there's a 14 day free trial as well as a 50% discount code if you like it
Awesome video bro, really heplful
Very glad! Thanks for watching
Это именно то, что мне нужно ❤️🔥
I’m very glad to help. Thanks for watching
Okay Brendon I subscribe! Truly inspiring!
Thank you my friend! Always glad to help
Love you videos! Can you make a vid on how to mix higher tuned guitars (like drop c to drop a range not e standard that would be cursed) I would love to hear your mixes
Haha I could for sure. Thanks for watching them!
Amazing techs, I'll be using them to train myself in the art of breakdowns and the diminished darkness. Subscribed! Have a good one!!!
Eh thanks so much! Glad it was helpful
@@BrendonKPadjasek tbh i had some ideas on how to play deathcore, since i'm those kind of music producers who play a little of each instrument, and i love extreme metal and deathcore. I knew some of the techniques u shared by mere practicing some suicide silence songs (or fragments to be more precise), and the techs i didn't know trully felt like it solidified all that i had learned on my own. Literally all I learned was compressed in this vid, and more, which made it perfect for me! I checked some of ur other vids and they all seem to be really really helpful, since i use ableton all the time and i have a couple of synths, so i might go in a rabbit hole with ur channel.
Anyway, thanks again and i'll be waiting for more stuff! ps ur projects sound real neat, love em c:
@kusaedonai thank you so much for checking the other projects out as well! Honestly, Ableton is the best haha. I just got 12 and I’m likely only using 15% of what it’s capable of but those changes are amazing.
I also make samples for a plugin company so I’m also one of those producers who are all over the place haha
Hey this was cool! 🤘🍻
thank you! glad you liked it
Interesting, i like this. I'm 50 and this techniques reminds me Cannibal Corpse sometimes. Their album Eaten back to life was released in 1990.
Oh that’s awesome. There wouldn’t be deathcore without Cannibal Corpse and death metal
Amazing video dude
Thank you so much for checking it out. Glad you found use in it!
Whens that bareknuckle loaded bass 6 video coming out? Super curious to see the results
Literally just got it back. Working on a new track now
Can't watch this right now. I'm usually a shred kid and always had difficulties writing breakdowns, that aren't just boring basic low E or D or B or A chugs (think mid/late-2000s ...core-Breakdowns) but also not so complex, that it doesn't sound like a breakdown anymore.
So, can't wait to check this out in the evening.
I hear you there. I try to keep all my parts as interesting as possible without crossing that boarder
Super Cool
Thanks for watching !
Great tips man 🤘
Thanks so much for checking it out!
Do you have a video on writing leads? if not, could you do one?
I’m actually surprised I haven’t done that yet. Great idea! Thank you
Hell ya brother! We just need the "How to deathcore scream" now haha
Hahaha I just gotta learn that first
You had me at Ion Dissonance
Biggest influence on my playing I’d say
*1-0-ve* _this vibe 🔥🤘_
Hooked on 1-0 chords. Thanks for watching !
Hey Brendon. What scale lengths do you have on the 7’s. Used to use your g tuning for my old band and want to get a 7 string back but not sure what to go for. There’s a decent one that’s 25.5 and I remember this being okay before but not sure if I should go 26.5. It’ll have an evertune either way
I would strongly suggest a 26.5 or a 27”. This guitar is 26.5 and to get this tuning to stick on my 25.5 7 string I have to use uncomfortably thick strings
@@BrendonKPadjasekcheers dude. What’s that original keisel that you used in the worst of both worlds playthrough is that 25.5? Wasn’t sure if it makes the stretches hard cause obviously it’s a bit of an alternative tuning
@jamesmatthews3749 yeah that one’s a 25.5 but the top to strings are a drop G and drop A# where as with this guitar it’s a low E and Drop G
Which one are you thinking of using?
Quick question unrelated to the video, but what do you think is the best DAW for a beginner producer/music artist?
I Highly recommend Ableton Live to everyone. Super easy to use and everything you want to do is a click away as opposed to other DAW's that I've used require soo much more work
Can you teah other metal genres? Thank you❤
Which ones specifically are you thinking? Thanks for watching
5:32 Oh hey whats up Infinite Death era Thy Art Is Murder!
Haha they do know how to deathcore
Just open any Lorna Shore’s gtp 😄
Hahaha
I would say the name of the video is a bit missleading. Tecniques are how you do things (in this case tremolos, tapping, both types of harmonics, scrapes) and musicality is what you do which is bigger portion of this video. Technique-wise i would add string skipping and mixxing dowsntrokes with alt picks.
Hmm what would you have called the video then?
@@BrendonKPadjasek i would say something like "Musicality behind the modern deathcore" or more of a clickbait thing "how to write modern deathcore riffs"
@AleksandrRudiak but I guess I’m not showing how to write riffs I’m just showing techniques that are used in deathcore , but maybe not going into as much detail that you would have preferred? Because how to write deathcore would require me to go step by step writing a riff I believe.
@@BrendonKPadjasek maybe, but i think when you show common leaks/scales/chord progressions it is more about how to come up with these things more than how to play things which someone already wrote
@@AleksandrRudiak fair enough!
You can't actually use powerchords at 1:59 as the fifth isn't available for all four notes
My bad you’re totally right on that!
@@BrendonKPadjasek it's ok bro it's not your mistake it's the mistake of all metal bands LOL but the augmented 5th sounds fuckn nice on the major 7th
@clarenegracey yeah I guess that’s where the chromatic scale comes in lmao. I’m so accustomed to just playing what sounds nice to the ear that I don’t even think about theory most of the time haha
i've watched half of the video before noticing that blender cap, didn't know they made them lol
Haha hell yeah. I absolutely love blender and the ethics behind giving such an amazing program for free. Had to support them
Dissonance chords .
The 43% Burnt Dillinger Escape Plan riff ..
Exactly haha
are you in double drop d?
If you ignore the 7th string the remaining 6 are in drop G with an E as the 7th string
Ive been playing guitar for 20 years and now you tell me there are rules???
Hahahah my bad brother
I am the first who put like on this video
Bless you
@BrendonKPadjasek you are so fvcking good at theory material. I need it for many years to help myself for composing material
@Descendants_Ov_1984 thank you so much. I used to think I was dog shit at explaining things but I think making these videos definitely helps haha
@BrendonKPadjasek I need your email, please. I want to send my result made with your information which taken from your video
Thall when
Thall soon
Yeahhhh boiii
Thanks for checking it out!
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Thank you for watching!
Need a 7 string drop C to play death core. Not for average guitarist
I wouldn't say that really true. Many OG deathcore bands used 6 strings. It's not the amount of strings, it's how you use them
And people say Deathcore is just open string palm mutes....
The triplet breakdowns sound a lot like System of a Down. Lol.
The quick one or the slow one showing off the quarters and eights
"The notes zero, one, three, four"...
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
lmao I know right. Assigning a number to something that should be a letter haha
@@BrendonKPadjasek Not even. Using note names or intervals are incredibly beneficial to understanding music, particularly in how notes relate to one another. You, on the other hand, are thinking in terms of fret numbers... that's actually hilarious!
@@monsterram6617 haha when playing I definitely think of it in musical terms but this video is meant for people of all musical knowledge levels so that made the most sense to me as people like us who understand it, understand which scale and mode a phrase is coming from
@@BrendonKPadjasek Let's not kid ourselves here and pretend that most metal guitarists can instant recall every note on the fretboard or demonstrate a fluent understanding of interval relationships. The reality is that very few can and it's because they never learn. You may be playing to that common denominator, but that bar is quite low. You can do your audience a solid and teach them the proper terminology at the same time. It's not going to hurt anyone to actually know their instrument. 👌
@monsterram6617 I’ll keep that in mind next time
Your guitar seems too big for you
It’s a bass vi and I’m toddler so that makes sense
You should really mute your room mic when your playing and just use straight DI. it's giving a weird delayed feedback sound off
Its not a room mic, its actually a function in the guitar amp to split the signal from mono to stereo to listen as if you're double tracking. I enjoy using it when playing guitar as it feels closer to being in a room with an amp