My Writing Process!

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Learn how I compose my music (for Oceans Ate Alaska, my solo songs, Termina, I Am Abomination etc) and hear some ideas that nearly made it onto 'Steezy' but just missed the cut! If you want to see more content like this then please let me know in the comments below! 🤘🏻
My solo album is out now, so if you want to hear some final results then use the links above to check it out! 🥳
Massive thanks to @billybrownhill for filming and editing this video for me :)

[@fosterzylel1307]

My man we definitely need more of this for sure

[@ChrisTurnerDrums]

Thank you man :) appreciate that 🤘🏻

[@TheKefChannel]

@@ChrisTurnerDrums really cool! Love it

[@johnnygotgrowls]

What a fucking awesome process. I love watching other people's writing process it's so intrinsically interesting how everyone just manages to "get it done" in their own way. Fantastic work my friend.

[@ChrisTurnerDrums]

Absolutely man! I’m glad you enjoyed seeing my process :) 🤘🏻

[@bcarp3]

We need that full release 😫

[@cyber_shinigami]

Good stuff. Very useful by the way. Thank you.

[@tman8713]

Your brand of technical metal core(and ocean’s by extension) is some of the coolest music that’s come out in reason memory

[@ChrisTurnerDrums]

Thank you so much dude :)

[@claytonbeehler8127]

I loved this video

[@lthg18]

USE IT! I need that song :D

[@waxilliamladrian]

Was super curious as to your process, thank you for putting this together 🙏

[@ChrisTurnerDrums]

Hell yea dude! Thanks for watching 🤘🏻

[@cgrind3000]

This was amazing, love seeing other musician’s creative processes. Wish more would do this, I always learn some good stuff!

[@ChrisTurnerDrums]

Absolutely man! Glad you enjoyed the vid :)

[@ChrisCoignet]

I love how when you get to the kicks (3:00) it's just like nooooooooooooooooooooottttttttttttttttttttttttteeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssssssss ALLL THE NOTES

[@coletrondeluxe]

please Chris! finish that song!

[@nicholi2789]

I think I speak for everyone when I say we’re good with you just reviewing your graveyard and unreleased stuff.. we’d be happy to watch hours of that.. kthanks

[@ericanderson5342]

Absolutely use that beat for a new song!!! Super dope and jenky!!! Guitars sound sick in it also!!

[@ChrisTurnerDrums]

Thanks dude :) there’s still some mad ideas to come! 🤘🏻

[@zorbitalz]

Thank you for putting this together! It was enjoyable to watch and super helpful!

[@ChrisTurnerDrums]

Glad to hear man :) thanks for watching 🤘🏻

[@haize3257]

Loving this video! As an amateur musician that's been struggling with songwriting, this has been really helpful for me! Really enjoyed the album as well!

[@ChrisTurnerDrums]

Sick! Glad it was helpful man :)

[@mayplecreative]

This is super super helpful. I've always wondered what your writing process has looked like and those are some great tips. Also loved hearing the unreleased stuff 🔥 would double love it if it was released some day 👀

[@CNMedia.Service]

YES!!! Thanks for this Chris (:

[@ChrisTurnerDrums]

Welcome! Thanks for watching :)

[@JustinJCoelhoBooking]

We need the song

[@Scoob25rswrx]

make it a complete song

[@Currently_aligning_again]

4:10 is pure HEAT🔥...you have to release it

[@nathanstatham]

I love this. Found a bunch of similarities with my writing process as well, your “graveyard” of ideas on the far right side of the DAW is just like the “idea boneyard” I’ve got in mine as well. I’ll end up having a great idea but just nothing to incorporate it into at that time. Always nice to be able to come back to it or reference it at a later time. Good to know there’s others who have a similar process! It’s easy to get into that loop of “ideas” but not turning it into a “song” though. That’s what I struggle with the most.

[@pasqualeserrani8662]

6:50 - 7:12 ... 🫠 soo much double bass .. 🫶 love it bro. P.S. Where did you get your cap!? what brand is it ? I need one that size 🥲🥲

[@Alex__H]

Geez, literally everything you play here is gold

[@ChrisTurnerDrums]

Haha cheers man 😅🤘🏻

[@zacharysawicki4111]

Use it

[@ChrisTurnerDrums]

Which one? :)

[@zacharysawicki4111]

@@ChrisTurnerDrums @4:10

[@zacharysawicki4111]

@@ChrisTurnerDrums but turn it into an OAA song

[@nunorodrigues573]

4:10 Yes. Record it right now

[@ChrisTurnerDrums]

😎😎😎

[@MKeenElrumi]

My favorite drummer... Criss salam dari indonesia

[@ChrisTurnerDrums]

🙌🏻🤘🏻

[@odious5317]

Definitely turn that first one into a song. It's groovy 🤘

[@ChrisTurnerDrums]

Thanks man!! I might have to haha

[@odious5317]

@@ChrisTurnerDrums 😎

[@grimecube]

@@ChrisTurnerDrums You do

[@jarrod.ives92]

dude... the fuck? haha. audio instead of midi... damn. that's honestly sick. I've literally only ever seen producers in electronic music take that route. And even most of those guys (or gals) still use SOME midi. Damn. haha. I'm literally 3 mins in rn and can already tell this is gonna be interesting.

[@matthewpatterson4386]

The track playing at 14:00 can definitely be an awesome track, I can feel the feels that would be in the rest of whatever that song would be 🙌🏽

[@cl4r3nce51]

As a guitarist its so sick to see songwriting from a drummers point of view, awesome video deffo need more of this

[@ChrisTurnerDrums]

Thanks dude :) glad it was useful and cool for you! 🤘🏻

[@mattmeade3272]

DEFINTELY use that unreleased piece, that was nasty

[@rainyboy2281]

WE NEED STEEZY DELUXE EDITION

[@ChrisTurnerDrums]

😅🙌🏻

[@TinnyHidge]

You maybe don't appreciate how entertaining this is to others.... but it is! Cheers! 🤘😀👍

[@ChrisTurnerDrums]

Glad you liked it man :)

[@MediaBoy13]

Love that you don't use midi

[@Beabo]

Beabo approved

[@ChrisTurnerDrums]

😂🤘🏻

[@sver9628]

"Butcha boys has simple drumming" alright man...

[@juanmendozaroldan5366]

As a guitarist and someone who self-manages his solo project, I find myself obliged to work on the drums for my songs, and one of the drummers I see the most lately to inspire me is you, so I really appreciate you taking the trouble to show your creative process , greetings from Argentina! pd: sorry for my bad english, i used google translator xD

[@ardyanSTM]

Chris ate alaska

[@ChrisTurnerDrums]

😎

[@willox2]

that graveyard is full of gold if you ask me, steezy was insane and i can't wait to hear more

[@ChrisTurnerDrums]

Thank you so much dude 🙏🏻🤘🏻

[@zukulencia-samav7949]

Why is that first unreleased track isn't an actual song¿¿

[@tatepaul3947]

Dude it’s so sick to see you write in a very similar way! And some of those graveyard parts actually went hard 👌🏻 I wanted to ask too, with the little guitar chugs that you mentioned you pitch up or down, do you record a single guitar chug as an open to do that pitching up/down or how do you go about that? Would be sick to see a video of you piecing an idea together from scratch if you feel like doing one 🤘🏻

[@AbhiBass96]

Graveyard? You mean the next Steezy record, right?

[@ChrisTurnerDrums]

Maybe some of it will be!!

[@thomaskeyser294]

AbsolUTELY use that, lol

[@PeterMarciano117]

M8 MAKE A SONG CALLED GRAVEYARD

[@ChrisTurnerDrums]

That’s actually a sick idea haha

[@PeterMarciano117]

@@ChrisTurnerDrums Graveyard, tombstone, tomb, skele-bois, skull cracker, tryin' to come up with some track names for ya. Reach out on Insta if there's anything I can do for ya!

[@nolan_riddle]

sounds like old unprocessed

[@osiris8128]

I hope the graveyard I get buried in sounds like that.

[@thepavelwearsprada]

13:50 it definitely should be a single!

[@ChrisTurnerDrums]

🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@Coloourfull]

I don't want her, I need her. that song at 10:58 sounds so fucking cool and then im gonna be entirely happy with this dude 😂 u are a genius🤘🏽

[@rohanbuchner8907]

This is by far the most bizarre composition approach. 🤣 But hey it works 🔥

[@Ryo7_7]

I'm entirely happy with this 👌🏾

[@ChrisTurnerDrums]

😅🤘🏻

[@Noio.]

i think this doesn t apply just for music...

[@ChrisTurnerDrums]

Absolutely dude

[@ElyciusM]

That first one is sickkkkkk. It's crazy cause I was just wondering about your writing process when this vid appeared on my feed. My phone is reading my thoughts lol.

[@portal432]

We all know you start writing music in the bathroom after eating Thai. You must eat a LOT of Thai. Fun fact, the Djent genre started in the bathroom.

[@moosoo19]

Holy fuck, the second song you showed at 6:38 is absolutely filthy. Please make this happen one day. The drums are 👌 and those chugs are perfect, they sound MEATY 🥵

[@isaklinton324]

Why aren't u using midi? Not used to the workflow?

[@Asbey]

Did you make those one shots yourself or are they from somewhere? I can't find any that sound anywhere close this good.

[@jeffreykey3316]

Dude clicks that mouse just as hard as he hits the drums 😂

[@86camarojake]

Dude.. "Start of Song" at 13:51 NEEDS to be finished bro. Fucking 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@cully67]

Omg Chris that graveyard song at 11:00 is UNREAL..got it on repeat

[@JustinKeithD]

GRAVEYARD?!?!?! I had stank face the ENTIRE time. ps. Butcha boys is easy? Then I'm an absolutely garbage drummer.

[@zedb2216]

calls it a graveyard and that graveyard is THICC

[@ChrisTurnerDrums]

😂😂😂😂

[@jimmygee5]

Noob question, but how did he generate the guitar waveform input in the toneforge vst when he doesn't play guitar?? I try do this myself

[@CaNTBREaKCHRiS]

Is that an Audio Technica AT-4033 SE?

[@marlonvieira8300]

You are sick..I just can't breath imagine that you can just play this.

[@markdavis7645]

Better be backing up those tracks somewhere other than your house/local computer. If a flood or fire happens, you could lose everything. Offsite backups are a must!

[@nicholi2789]

“I’ve got it running through two bass amps to really stank it up” Love it lol

[@Deathbatjuan100]

Dude! That last beat was just straight filthy. You gotta get with dan and finish it. 🔥💪🏼🤘🏻💯

[@hzpfyjdcrbq]

He actually just said that Butcha Boys has simple drumming

[@actionpodcast9527]

Could you tell me which drum kit you are using, where can I buy/download it?

[@austinvonglahn]

Chris I can tell you, with utmost certainty, why you don't like midi: Pro tools. It makes midi so goddamn annoying

[@MrJonasWar]

Just like the surroundings! Nice setup

[@KeebCR]

Your work flow is wicked fast. Using just one shot samples I'm going to try that for a change of pace

[@P.dripps92]

The first vocal thing after the demo of how easy drums are.. sounds like the beginning of Nova haha

[@Valkyrie887]

Yo that thing you made in like 2 minutes is unexpected heat, should look into that and expand

[@toddmuehling2818]

Hell yeah that’s a song! LFG! 🤘🏽😎

[@sirdougieaudio]

The drums are very reminiscent of Lost Isles😍

[@v0id416]

what drum samples are you using? the kick and snare especially sound good. the kick sounds very steven slate

[@drunkenyeknom]

this seems soooo much harder than MIDI 😭

[@LiveTheDream24]

Jesus fuck, that first track was a random session with no plans for it......wow

[@codygranger5155]

Need that new mx master 3s silent clicky boy

[@samschuch5868]

What's the software called? Procells?

[@d3vs3b96]

I think you're pretty!

[@joetalento5486]

I'm pretty sure he's not entirely happy with these projects

[@jacksonislegend]

Yo that first bit absolutely should be turned into a song. That slapped

[@prashivec.]

i want this video!

[@ChrisTurnerDrums]

That’s what I like to hear :)

[@yenshie10]

'Butcha Boys has simple drumming' That one cracked me up... 😅

[@ChrisTurnerDrums]

I think it does 😅😅😅

[@bumblebeekaiodinson331]

The First one and the one at 13:54 Absolutely Need to be Songs!!

[@waffleboytom]

MAKE THAT A SONG FOR SURE, OMG THAT WAS FIRE

[@godzg]

Lol.. you say you should've used that.. I said the same thing at the same time..

[@jdplumber007]

So Chris what games you been playing lately on your pc.... Chris- O you know just epic metal simulator 2022, it's the best.... super cool video man

[@ChrisTurnerDrums]

Lmao legit 😂😂😂

[@YatinSrivastavaProject]

The video should've been titled 'OMG CHRIS TURNER USES SAMPLES". Everyone would've lost their shit :P

[@ChrisTurnerDrums]

I did consider it 😂😂😂 I’m just not that click bait kinda guy tho haha

[@ShemiNoam]

Chris, my dude, this is phenomenal. Humble, real and eye opening. Cheers brother 😁

[@ChrisTurnerDrums]

Thank you so much man :) glad you enjoyed it :)

[@LostSinceSundayBand]

Totally dug this for sure

[@WittyName44]

come on now. "Yes" isn't strong enough a word.

[@ricardomar626]

Imagine a collab between this drum god and tim henson ! Pleeeeease use me as a button to make it happen!

[@CodinomeFranca]

what program name do you use in the creation process?

[@supliment5038]

im guessing that someone you know made those guitar tracks? or is it midi?

[@draxthimsklounst6173]

Hope to see youon tour in america soon, love all of your work. Please dont ever stop.

[@joturna1]

damn that graveyard has got better riffs and rhythems than most music that is out there oO

[@GumboRyan]

4:10 fuuuuuuuck yeh. 4:40 please do. Lol This was a great video man! Explained very well and stresses the importance of creative thinking. And your mindset of getting the ideas input quickly and seamlessly is huge! Much appreciated.

[@GumboRyan]

Just finished the vid. great tips! And now looking forward to hearing any of the demos turn into songs. Lol