How to Write Your First Song
Have you always dreamed of writing your own metal songs, but don’t know where to start? In this video I share my workflow, let you in on some tricks to get your creative juices flowing and overall tips on song arrangement. We’ll also cover how to come up with riffs for verses, choruses and other parts, and how to match your drum patterns to those riffs.
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Once Upon a Time… Space – 40th Anniversary Metal Cover
Growing up, I was mesmerized by Once Upon a Time… Space. This year it celebrates its 40th anniversary and still comes across as futuristic and visionary. So I made a metal cover of one of Michel Legrand’s songs from it: Hyper-espace.
Read moreI Finally Released a Song on Spotify
I’ve wanted to publish a song on Spotify since forever. And now I’ve finally made a song I think is good enough to do that.
Read moreQuantizing Metal Guitars with Stretch Markers in Reaper
Learn how to fix off-beat metal rhythm guitars with Reaper’s flexible quantizing mechanic stretch markers.
Read moreGet the BBC Symphony Orchestra Plugin for free
Get the Discover version of Spitfire Audios BBC Symphony Orchestra for free, a great plugin for making symphonic arrangements in your DAW.
Read moreNailing Your Metal Bass Tone with Parallel Processing – Video
The standard of processing metal bass is to split it into three parallel tracks based on frequency, and treat those three tracks differently. When they are merged back together, they will make the perfect bass tone that glues with your guitars and with your drums. This video teaches you how!
Read moreRecording Metal Guitars in Reaper – Tutorial
Learn what equipment and software you need to get started recording guitars, how to battle latency, how to stay in tempo and how to double track.
Read moreThe World’s First Viking Metal Song with AI-generated Lyrics
I made an AI listen to 5000 hours of viking metal, and then I made a song from the lyrics it came up with.
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