It Took 6 YEARS To Finish This Song... (But it was worth it!)

[@peteplaysmusic]

One song, Six years... but it was worth it. Listen to the song here: bit.ly/3yWX9SM Check out my Sweetwater page here: sweetwater.sjv.io/QyYQV9

[@THEDJAG-gt1tz]

Amazing skills here. This reminded me that maybe I should continue on my songs I've started on, but haven't finished! You're a great guitarist!

[@yangust4833]

Awesome! Could you please publish a tab here?

[@motoxjosh29]

love the composition! ive been over 15 years finishing a song. i really need to sit time aside to focus on one of them. Will you be offering tabs for sale??

[@peteplaysmusic]

@yangust4833 Thanks! I can’t upload them to KZbin but the Tabs are on my Patreon and Bandcamp. Link in the description :)

[@peteplaysmusic]

@motoxjosh29 Thanks! Yep, Tabs for this and all my songs are on my Patreon and Bandcamp. Link is in the description :)

[@Vetkach]

The chorus riff is chef's kiss

[@peteplaysmusic]

Thanks! :)

[@robscallon]

🤘😷 sick.

[@peteplaysmusic]

Thanks dude 🙏 😀

[@hatempire]

Been a minute since the last "Progressive Metal Town" video, right? 👀 Wish you could collab more often.

[@stephendavey5113]

Getting big Keith Merrow energy. Very rad!

[@peteplaysmusic]

Definitely channeling some Merrow vibes here :)

[@robscallon]

Keith Merrow’s influence on KZbin guitar really should be studied.

[@SplinteredCompany]

@@robscallon You'll have to do a video with him!

[@georgeyhavoc]

that chorus sounds like it's straight out of Fit For an Autopsy's vault! unreal track dude!

[@JamesElise160]

It does have a rather "far from heaven" vibe about it. But, that's certainly no bad thing at all.

[@georgeyhavoc]

@@JamesElise160 definitely not dude. outstanding songs both of em

[@eugenefender1279]

Awesome song, Pete! Chorus and the bridge riff almost sound like classical music to me.

[@peteplaysmusic]

Thanks! :)

[@corentinfauquet4555]

That song is Bonkers. It was clearly worth the wait! Chuggy and swing at the same time, there's everything a good metal song needs, perfect. Would be interesting to put some vocals on it!

[@BrokenStrings231]

Such a cool song! It gave me Gojira and Periphery vibes.

[@soulrebornofficial]

As usual you make everything look easy. It's impressive how much talent and creativity goes into this video. Greetings!

[@MetalGuitarGuy]

Awesome playing, as usual, Pete! 🤘🏻😎🤘🏻 That Legato section is especially impressive...

[@darklegion720]

Very Fit For an Autopsy

[@chasongriffin213]

I THOUGHT THE SAME THING 😂

[@4playkandy819]

Favourite band , I watched this video 10x

[@zachsmith5058]

Absolutely love the riffing. The chorus has such a Castlevania vibe to it. Would be absolutely proud to have wrote a song like this!

[@sinisterfame622]

Great original piece, Pete. Complex, heavy, and epic. We'll done.

[@peteplaysmusic]

Thanks! :)

[@KjordsFjord]

Awesome song! Love the contrast between the heavy chug and the melodic runs. Love that you were able to bring the full song into fruition! I can really relate with having songs slowly form themselves over the years. I've got several riffs from years ago that I'll come back to every so often and develop it into something more (or turn it into something completely different!)

[@thomasfoster4091]

Love the mix on that guitar tone. Smooth in the highs and still very aggressive. 🤌🏼 I wish I knew how to do that!!!! 😂

[@Sandpef]

I definitely headbanged to the main riff ! Chorus sounds like Within The Ruins to me and it's a banger.

[@ericvernon1182]

That bridge was sick man!!! 🤘🤘🤘

[@Necron00b]

Love everything about that. The sweepy kinda riff is my jam, might try and give something similar a go on a new track. haha

[@lfox02]

Coming across this song on Spotify drove me crazy, I knew I'd heard it in _some_ video of yours before!

[@Babis_music]

Gojira meets Obscura! Nicely done mate!

[@pepupapi]

Your original instrumentals are awesome.

[@Mak_Trvln_SLP]

Very cool track. Didn't expect the changes when I heard the first riff, but this is a a very diverse track and I love it!

[@jeffreymartinez5829]

When I saw the title of this video I was so stoked and, you're right, it was worth it! Great song! I really dig the chunky parts. That's just what my ears are drawn to. But those shreds were epic too!!

[@nikkmorse]

Perfection takes time pete....absolutely love it 🤘🏼😈🤘🏼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@MarkJBaber]

A fellow draig, but he isn't wrong. Great video dude.

[@M4RCi92]

What a journey. 6 years for one track! You had a blast creating it, wrote a shitton of great riffs, practiced a lot, learnt a lot. Be proud of yourself dude. The result, this absolute 🔥barn burner🔥is just the cherry on top. I'm happy for you.

[@haterkmp]

Nice one Man! Six years but not overthinked, very smooth. I like it :)

[@Metalltool]

Sometimes it's just about finishing the song mate! Sounds heavy. In the end I think it's a much better feeling having finished a piece than sitting on it forever.

[@stevenlx4120]

This song is awesome Pete, the chorus melody is really sick, it reminds me kind of Muse vibes mixed with Keith Merrows, and all the bridges ans extra stuffs you've added compared to the first version sounds amazingly good, especially that bridge After the second chorus. Well done Pete, as usual this is great content 🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@szynom2587]

Amazing riffs, especially chorus, engaging and melodic. Add the layer of classical music and symphonic deathcore banger will be ready

[@337BLOOMLEE]

Dangggg.... Speechless 😮 nice work

[@chrishuttel7291]

Das ist mal wieder richtig geil. Bitte mehr davon ❤. Ich liebe deine Songs. Apex 2.0 ist immer noch mein aller größter Lieblingssong von dir 😊. Du hast mega Talent 🤘

[@IvoSousa]

i would have started with this pretty cool riff at (4:35) as a main riff with more repetitions throughout the song and potentially leave the one with what you started off for the bridge or something like that, i feel like a riff as catchy as that should definitly been played more

[@achannelaboutnothing9070]

Reminds me of within the ruins old stuff, 👌🤌 learning chorus asap

[@danbaardsen1388]

That bridge riff❤

[@njr386]

Love it. Must've felt good to finally piece it together. Keep it up.

[@gatesj2538]

Yeah, that chorus hits pretty hard. Pretty sure my neighbors are going to learn to enjoy this one.

[@k.g.2825]

Absolutely amazing! Good job! The stuff you do is always satisfying. Greetings from germany 🤘

[@peteplaysmusic]

Thanks! :)

[@PIZZAdayisback]

Cool riff

[@peteplaysmusic]

Thanks! :)

[@kennysoriginalmusicchannel5916]

Amazing song man.

[@peteplaysmusic]

Thanks! :)

[@marksvirsky9103]

Incredible song

[@peteplaysmusic]

Thanks! :)

[@Fizz-Pop]

Very cool!

[@valentin1601]

Excellent job !

[@Crrrr0wFire]

Very nice. Finishing stuff can be super satisfying. Agreed, it was worth it.

[@HerrHopeVonBear]

🤘🔥🤘Beautiful! Gorgeous! Fabulous🤘❤️‍🔥🤘!!!

[@RanterInShades]

You are such a bomb riff writer.

[@johnhillgren7566]

Can someone please tell me how to do that upwards "harmonic-sou ding" string rake that everyone is doing these days.? I can kinda get it on fret 2, but I notice Pete is pulling it off on occasion with his fretting hand higher up the neck than that. Does it come from the picking hand, like a pinch harmonic.? Any help would be appreciated. It's such a tiny quick little technique, but Ive just loved it ever since I first heard it and would love to incorporate it into my own writing.

[@peteplaysmusic]

I do it mostly around the 5th fret but it can be done almost anywhere on the fretboard. Think of it as a ‘muted harmonic’ it’s similar to a natural harmonic except you mute the strings with your fretting hand. With your fretting hand, play a natural harmonic with your pinky and rest your other 3 fingers on the string at the same time to mute it. It’s important not to press too hard. With your picking hand just drag the pick through the strings as normal. Hope that makes sense? :)

[@Sam-np9xe]

That was pretty gnarly my dude.

[@shorstky9732]

How do you get so clean legato and sweeps OMG :O

[@dannydemonicmusic]

badass! Love it

[@bscanal826]

A masterpiece!

[@peteplaysmusic]

Thank you 🙏

[@back_stabbath9729]

Pretty neat dude! Reminds me a lot of The Safety Fire but a bit more 'surgical' sounding if that makes sense lol keep up the good work!

[@TheGaryHughes]

See you in 60 years for the album drop

[@chadbeck4139]

That harmonic at 4:20 was tasteful! Haha 🤙

[@Dm3qXY]

eh.. all harmonic stuff does that.

[@blgdinger3]

cool thanks I'm taking this

[@thegodk1ller]

Badass song dude!💯👌🔥

[@peteplaysmusic]

Thanks! :)

[@xNoktemAeternus2]

Solo is sick

[@soggytatty3845]

About time Pete!

[@peteplaysmusic]

Thanks for watching! :)

[@musicmore5169]

I LOVE SONGS THAT DONT REPEAT A LOT ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ I LOVE IT BRO, TRY N DO AN ALBUM WITH OLA ENGLUND

[@JoaoGabrielJF724]

Sick riffs and a nice solo. I loved it \m/ But I must confess, that headless guitars give me agony

[@jigaddyjigs5908]

damn that chorus riff is soooooo good wtfffff

[@tonystef3983]

Cool riffs, though I was expecting some vocals :)

[@peteplaysmusic]

Thank! I can't sing/scream but maybe will collab with someone in future. All my songs are instrumental but I try to make the riffs memorable and catchy :)

[@1234drums]

Awesome ❤❤❤❤

[@peteplaysmusic]

Thanks! :)

[@InitialDreadly]

This would go so perfectly over a boss fight

[@vincentvachon2842]

That bridge riff 🥵

[@KevinKoolx]

Hell yeah! 🤘

[@njr386]

I have a whole graveyard full of unfinished guitarpro songs. Guess its time to dig some up.

[@ВладКравневич]

OoooOOOOo, i remeber this! Red Shecter guitar video!

[@CIRCLEOFTONE]

Nice dude ❤

[@benjaminprietop]

that was amazing! lml

[@robertdonosobuchner3129]

Great!

[@ChaosPootato]

Well that was awesome

[@Draken0023]

Dude, you have got to do a collab with Greg Burgess of Allegaeon! Listening to this song immediately made me think of those guys. Rock the f*ck on, man! 🤘

[@thomassochacki128]

Good things come..

[@LilLayne11]

Bad ass!!

[@Fechory-projet]

Está guapa

[@honigdachs.]

Well ... at least you had fun doing it.

[@Williams1505]

Tuning ?

[@DimageSapelkin]

It begins like Cannibal Corpse, then goes Necrophagist ;]

[@monstruonegro05]

🔥🔥

[@oskrb01]

It reminds of gothic church music. IMO Got that estetic.

[@peteplaysmusic]

Not sure what that is but I'll take it as a compliment :)

[@CognitiveDrive]

It sounds like Vitalism "Pagan" But may be I'm wrong It sounds awesome anyway

[@fatfriarmusic]

Being in music for a long time I've seen artists say this took so many years to finish. It's such a bullshit way to mark progress on a riff idea into a song. It's basically a way to say since it took so long it'll be this great and wonderful work of art and quite often the opposite is true. So if you had to clock in and out on the amount of time it actually took to "write" the song what are we looking at? A couple weeks worth of actual hours it took to make? Good tune, not knocking it at all, my only critique would be the drums are boring and the song would be better served by hiring an actual online drummer rather than programming them. So many great drummers for hire online and will cut a track In a day or two and usually give you 3 passes to choose from and I've paid anywhere from 100 dollars per song to 500 dollars per song so it's not expensive to do at all and the results are so much better than programmed drums. A drummer could've taken all those riffs to the next level and made the song come out of that "KZbin guitarist programs boring drums behind A killer riff niche" that plagues most YT guitarists. ESPECIALLY in metal, drums make the song. You can have a great riff all day long but if the drums are shit the riffs suffer and for me that's what's going on here. It'd be interesting to hear this redone with a real drummer, no triggers, a real drummer, real drums played and recorded with mics to see how much better this song could be. It deserves real drums. 🤘😎🤘

[@Utzilainen]

how about a colab with Ola Englund :)

[@Williams1505]

Beginning riff gives me Invisible kid by Metallica vibes

[@redd780]

You've just wrote Fit For an Autopsy song😄

[@dmitrsseleznev3771]

I think you should definitely have more views than you're getting

[@yannleroux1005]

We never finish a song, we abandon it because we can't make it better. That's a wonderful composition, I think every musician has a project or a song they constantly come back to. I myself have one particular song which holds me for more than ten years, even after I recorded it twice.

[@consequenceable]

❤😊

[@spacedog2980]

this is a fucking

[@b_rec]

is it ok if i write lyrics and growl the f out of it on this?

[@thesickhorseranch]

A7X could have released this and nobody would have thought it out of the ordinary. Very cool project!

[@UndarZ]

Except for the mixing.

[@shadowman9981]

I really like the whole second half of the song. First half kinda boring imho.

[@thomassochacki128]

Let's hear your little song then.

[@shadowman9981]

@@thomassochacki128 sry for my opinion/feedback.

[@thomassochacki128]

@@shadowman9981 welcome

[@UndarZ]

Guitars could've used a lot more high end and presence, since they sound so muffled. And the drums sound distant and disconnected from the guitars. Otherwise a nice tune.

[@thegoodguy44]

The drums sound super unrealistic. Quantized to 100%. Sounds like a bunch of riffs not connected very well.

[@flombnonstopstereo9414]

6 years because of playing stupid videogames?

[@peteplaysmusic]

Halo is very fun ;)