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LETS MAKE SOME MUSIC! This lesson shows how you can steal a rhythm pattern and grow it into an entire piece of music. We begin with a heavy metal instrumental, and then follow up with an early 80's pys-rock-pop experiment. The goal here is to concisely demonstrate the process of music making, and some of the decisions that are made throughout. 

A few weeks back, I did a live composing session. During that livestream, I wrote the fundamental idea for what you're hearing in this lesson. It might be fun to revisit that to see how it has evolved since!

Note, this video is currently unlisted and will go public tomorrow (in case there are any outstanding errors that slipped past me).

I HOPE YOU ENJOY!


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Stealing Musical Ideas To Make Unique Music [COMPOSING / PRODUCING / SONGWRITING]

Learn to write + produce your own music! https://shorturl.at/j2Lr9 My patreon: https://www.patreon.com/signalsmusicstudio Writer's block begone! In this lesson, I show how easy it is to write original and awesome sounding music by stealing a simple rhythmic pattern (and a few other ideas along the way). The rhythm is known as a double tresillo, a grouping of 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 4. I explain that rhythm in detail here: It also pops up in my last video on Metallica's Orion: Here's more information about the merging of minor thirds and major thirds: I mention the chords+motifs strategy, which is shown here: Here's the sus chord video with the Beardstank groove: One thing you may have caught is that I didn't actually play a riff over the picardy third. This is because after mixing and mastering, I decided to change the arrangement a bit. The point still stands though! Also, some folks will complain about my notation in the thumbnail. I get it. I also think that anyone who has studied rhythm for a decent amount of time will easily accept (and maybe even prefer) that notation over the proper one that uses ties. it's so ugly!!!! Table of contents: 00:00 Intro 00:45 Writing Heavy Metal 07:24 LISTEN: ONE MINUTE METAL 08:20 Writing (NOT) Heavy Metal 12:50 LISTEN: LATE 70's PSY POP ROCK?

Comments

Captain Byte

WOOOO!! DOUBLE TRESILLO! AWESOME video, Mr. Lizzio!!

rémy Mondillo

👏👏👏👏very interesting lesson

Tommy Dahlman

You should get a Ronnie James Dio clone to sing on the metal version. Great stuff. ✌️✌️

Hafiz Azman

This was a fantastic lesson, thank you Jake!! It's definitely my favourite composing technique, building off one specific interesting motif or idea. I tried it with a looping 5-note rhythm, for this piece I did for my game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNpVVk3BAZw As a non-guitar player, seeing your instrumentation choices and ESPECIALLY seeing how you bring in different bass/guitar techniques is really useful to me. It also helps me understand why making music for a rhythm game somehow always helped me write better songs in general, because i actively try to reuse motifs so that the players can play along more easily. Cheers!

Marcoroni

Awesome. Really cool tunes. You're a really good producer/songwriter/musician. Love these tunes.

Ybritt

Tremendously entertaining and inspiring video! Especially since I struggle to get going with my own creative work. This gives me the template for how to go about it. One question: how long time did it take from idea and first steps to finish for each of the songs?

Thomas Carroll

cool vid. you should make a melodic minor mode chart btw. fill out my wall ;)