Top 5 POP Songwriting Tips For Metalheads - With PRODUCE LIKE A PRO's Warren Huart | GEAR GODS

[@blakecurtis7809]

Happy to see Warren here. As a death metal and grind drummer, I have a lot of respect for the man. And learn much from him. Gear Gods is rad as well, keep up the great content guys!

[@LivingMonstrasity]

Thanks Gear Gods for this video. Easily one of my favorite videos from you guys and I appreciate the discussion you had with Warren Huart. I felt as if I was listening back to previous conversations with friends and just talk about music. That's why some of us are here; for the love of music.

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks for the great comment! Trey rules! He's extremely knowledgable and knows his schnizzle! So it was an easy conversation to have! Have a marvellous time recording and mixing, many thanks Warren

[@RohithMusic]

I think the combination of Opeth with Steven Wilson really nailed all aspects of this in their early 2000s albums

[@DIZCHU]

I think harmony and structure are the two things a lot of metal bands skimp out on. They're either doing basic generic melodeath with pop song structures or incoherent riff salad. I think a band that has mastered the art of structuring a song is Moonsorrow. Their average song length is around 15 minutes yet the way they incorporate memorable musical themes and structure their songs in a way that ebb and flow make them masterful. Definitely not what I'd consider "pop" songwriting though.

[@troymosher4877]

Love the intentional leaving out of 3rds on the guitar to make all the 3'rd in the voice pop. I had never considered such a thing.

[@mdwayne741]

I have learned so much and have been so inspired by Trey's videos and tutorials! Thanks so much.

[@vishnupillai2864]

We needs them! We needs the dynamics precious!

[@TheZooropaBaby]

right, Brian Eno's those "Oblique Strategies" cards say things like "half the tempo of the song" or "switch the interment" or something to stir the songs.

[@CIRCLEOFTONE]

My fav gear gods. Good stuff.

[@machiwoomiapoo]

I'm writing a lot of music lately and the one tip that I want to do more of is adding more dynamics. I haven't sung on any of my tunes either, but when I do I'll remember to mess with that 3rd. I do mess with the 3rd all the time when I solo. I teach music during the day and write it at night. Thanks for the insight Warren Huart. I appreciate it. Take care and have an awesome weekend. Sam from the Machiwoomiapoo channel. :)

[@guyomepxfx1]

First Black Sabbath album is the reason why we started our doom band The Bottle Doom Lazy Band & i actually checking all their albums i missed from 80s & 90s. That's the feeling i want to bring in my grindcore band & almost all new extreme metal bands missed,

[@Dropaprayer]

Such a wonderful video, Trey! Dynamics is key!

[@eds4754]

the temperament of guitars makes 3rd really difficult to tune nicely with a lot of distortion. avoiding them on guitars and filling them in on other instruments works great!

[@Producelikeapro]

Agreed Ed!! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren

[@sVieira151]

Devin Townsend likes to do this a lot. His riffs are based heavily on 5ths and 8ths.

[@romainmetal]

Great video! I really like the harmony advices, that's something I'll have to experiment with

[@Aretumis]

Hell yeah, rocking an Archspire shirt

[@Gemini_Samura1]

What about Coheed and Cambria? Those guys have nailed down the metal you are talking about.

[@richardsteffens6159]

One could only hope they get as much credit as they deserve.

[@TavaresProject]

Chris Carter yes exactly

[@TheSonsofHorusx]

dude y'all should check this guy out, even if your not interested in technical recording talk, he does some great interviews and makes people that are lame seem interesting, like any great producer

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks very much! I love being able to interview people! Have a marvellous time recording and mixing, many thanks Warren

[@SorooshMhs]

8:29 woah 😂

[@jaybirdgoody]

dynamics and melody are the key

[@wheresallthezombies]

dude trey thanks so much for saying this. i love metal but i listen to few metal bands because there's so many bands that are killer players but lack the songwriting aspects. oh and trey is an attractive guy in the metal scene. not a joke, true statement.

[@TheSaintberzerker]

I have been "singing along with" metal for 25 years. I don't see a problem.

[@KirbiusMaximus]

Great video man!

[@GatorBait_Studio]

great vid and warren man i am seeing you everywhere. busy busy great info. also speaking of outside the box Im using Ableton Live instead of pro tools and trying to blend reaktor blocks and metal. WIP

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks Rick! I appreciate it! Yes, I'm having fun talking with so many incredible people!! Have a marvellous time recording and mixing, many thanks Warren

[@Escapism7133]

Thoroughly enjoyed this video!

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks very much Patrick! Have a marvellous time recording and mixing, many thanks Warren

[@ThomasFarrow]

where can I find the gear gods intro song??? I must hear the entire tune!

[@uglijimus]

I want to see how it was recorded and mixed!!! tutorial please!

[@andresilvasophisma]

Lack of dynamics, one of the reasons why current metal records are so boring. Everything it's all in your face.

[@heavymetalmixer91]

Gotta agree.

[@guyomepxfx1]

I call it overproduced & when you see the bands live, they don't sound like on the album, it still more weak

[@nicholasolle132]

100 percent agree

[@Metalbass10000]

So many bands think you need to be fast, heavy, brutal, and have vocals that show emotional intensity and power, and that you need to be pushing all of those things as much as possible all the time. What they don't realize is that fast only sounds fast if contrasted with other tempos. Heavy and brutal all the time does not sound heavy and permanently brutal jyst sounds monotonous where nothing feels truly brutal. And worst of all, vocals that are screamed all the time, don't have any intensity at all, it just sounds like someone with no confidence and nothing inside except feeling desperate to sound intense, desperate to sound noticeable. Unfortunately, it's like being around that person that just tries too hard all the time. Nobody can stand being around that person for very long because they just try too hard all the time. And speaking musically, when the verse is screamed at the top of your voice, how do you step up the intensity for the chorus, or for the bridge, or over the breakdown? How do you create drama? Seriously, how are you create that wow moment where the vocalist just blows you away with that one word being delivered with all the intensity drawn from every part of their soul, putting their heart into it. If it's being screamed all the time you'll never notice it. And vocals that are screened all the time, most people, and I'm talking about metalhead lifers like myself, just try to tune them out.

[@Master9754-x4b]

Golem Voice Over EPIC. 'My Precious' ha ha ha

[@jacobclark1182]

Rad vid as always dude!

[@Producelikeapro]

Great times! Have a marvellous time recording and mixing, many thanks Warren

[@wahdefuzz]

thanks you. great video again.

[@monkeyrobotsinc.9875]

Nice video.

[@swingthestatue]

Great video!

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks very much! Have a marvellous time recording and mixing, many thanks Warren

[@somedude5414]

The Warning's 2nd album, "Queen of the Murder Scene" is full of hooks, catchy, and dark. Even the humor is dark.

[@MeshuggahFan-iy6tb]

7:38

[@TavaresProject]

thank you for mentioning Def Leppard!

[@Producelikeapro]

GREAT Band!! Have a marvellous time recording and mixing, many thanks Warren

[@stephsevis8417]

Same here

[@MrOblimey]

Luv this. LISTEN TO BLACK SABBATH!

[@MrOblimey]

...and Toumani Diabate!

[@TavaresProject]

great great great tips

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks very much! Have a marvellous time recording and mixing, many thanks Warren

[@300WINMAG360]

I wish I knew theory like this...

[@SamirMaamari]

Bro tip to write great metal songs : WORSHIP THE DEVIL lml :) Great video guys! Cheers!

[@pterantula]

Tip #6?: "heavy" has nothing to do with distortion, speed, chunk, tuning, etc - it's has to do with how it's written. Joni Mitchell has an entire catalogue of heaviness that CRUSHES most "metal" bands today.

[@epiczeven6378]

For real! POP artists like Michael Jackson, for example, are gold mines for songwriting

[@TheSaintberzerker]

then go listen to Michael Jackson.

[@epiczeven6378]

I know someone who won´t xD

[@LeeronCarbuncle]

Monuments have always reminded me of Michael Jackson, imagine the guitars as 80's synths, it works!

[@Tanner-Kline]

Great video. Have been waiting for people impregnated in the metal community to talk about this more

[@franciscodanconia3551]

My metronome doesn't have a treble knob. Sorry. Had to.

[@MichaelMcGlynns]

Personally, I don't care about songwriting. I like mindless white noise. I'm not kidding.

[@goatsurgeon]

Pop was derived from rock and roll by Chuck Berry. We just need to accept and embrace that, but keep our lyrics out of the blonde girl bull shot

[@coheed987]

War Pigs isn't on the first Sabbath album, it's on paranoid. C'mon man

[@BoyAditya]

what is 5 second of Summer? *google and searching on KZbin ... 5 minutes of regret

[@OGM_OriginalGameMusic]

Never got the bvb hate to be honest. These older elitist dudes who are so far up kiss's arse they can smell what lip balm Gene Simmons' is wearing seem to have this irrational hatred towards Black Veil Brides when, let's be brutally honest here, are just a more modern Kiss. What is the actually difference between the 2 bands?

[@connorbuckinghamstudios6227]

I've never been this early

[@johnbranch17]

what is happening with warrens hair? :-/

[@Producelikeapro]

It's got a mind of it's own!! Have a marvellous time recording and mixing, many thanks Warren

[@lern2swim]

What's your problem with strippers???

[@DriFD3S]

Trey doesn't like strippers???... Wow,.. I never knew he was into dudes. Cool! Great coming out Trey, very discrete. Haha.. Just kidding guy, It doesn't really matter.

[@connorbuckinghamstudios6227]

oh shit I got first

[@Producelikeapro]

Nice!! Have a marvellous time recording and mixing, many thanks Warren