HOW TO WRITE DJENT RIFFS - Part 1: Syncopation and Polymeter

[@jessepaul8819]

This is super man! Very concise and detailed

[@nuke97]

Just got a MacBook M1. I am excited to go on this journey. I hope you continue this as a series. Great video.

[@LucasAngeloMusic]

It's been a while since I used a Mac for anything, but I'm pretty sure you'd have access to everything I'm using. I think Guitar Pro 8 is on Mac, and I'm using Ableton Live 11 behind the scenes for my voice-over and guitar noodling. I'm glad you enjoyed! I completely intend to continue this! My goal currently is one new song, one stream, and one tutorial each week. This coming week, I'll be exploring how bands like Meshuggah use the concept of motifs to write songs.

[@TheKentg01]

Lucas, thank you. This was a great lesson. It's nice to see someone else using guitar pro to write out song ideas. If you have time to take this further, that would be great.

[@LucasAngeloMusic]

Absolutely! My plan is to go deeper into the idea of motifs and different methods of motivic development next. I'm aiming to post one of these a week, aside from my writing livestreams and original music. I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[@TheKentg01]

@@LucasAngeloMusic That sounds good. I'm in.

[@CERDIP]

Pretty complex

[@rajeshhkkapoor8549]

Lucas...appreciate the efforts and for me its meshuggah for life. Been trying my head around to play meshuggah on bass. My tunings are G F C A# D# and i tune to 432 or 435 hz. The software explaination...kills it..makes it a bit off

[@LucasAngeloMusic]

That's a little bit outside of my area of experience! I'm no bassist. The one thing I do know is that the bass in Meshuggah songs is typically actually in unison with the guitars when they're going particularly low. As far as tunings and such, I know the tune to F Standard (or a half-step down) on their 8 strings, but as far as the details on the bass go, I don't really know!

[@rajeshhkkapoor8549]

Can you take their half whole diminishef scale ,say in C and then show how to come up with a simple kickass meshuggah riff..verse 1,riff 1n2,chorus n bridge

[@LucasAngeloMusic]

I can certainly try! I wasn't sure what to do next as a tutorial, but this is a great suggestion, thank you! 🙏

[@LucasAngeloMusic]

As a little bit of an update, I'm working on something like this as a case study. My plan is to try writing something like that as a practice run first, then I'll create a new video where I go through the process step-by-step (ie. Not just analyzing something I wrote ahead of time, but walking through writing it as I go)