Writing BREAKDOWNS Using Dice Rolls

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[@YuveqZ]

Andrew Baena edited a week ago?

[@OnionMilk420]

That tone is amazing!

[@disastermidi1990]

@@YuveqZ probably uploaded the vid last week, made sure everything was set to go and had it premier today

[@luisalbertotoribionunez3126]

bro this so cool,ima try and participate, dude can i use a bass too?

[@rivervaughanmusicstuff5771]

Yo! If anyone needs these dice specifically but don't have physical ones, use the Google search bar and type in "roll a (d6,d8,d12)" and Google will roll them for you.

[@victoraugustomulato5087]

G O I R A

[@williamsundbaum6652]

Glad I'm not the only one that took notice of the missing J lmao

[@Anti-You420]

Driving me nuts

[@tp3821]

beat me to it

[@orangejews150]

THANKS FOR NOTICING THAT!

[@26muca07]

G O , I R A

[@eggboi4488]

Dungeons And Djent Riffs

[@timothymckane6362]

Needs a d20 dice for some more notes.

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@@timothymckane6362 I fucking see you in everything I watch

[@highpsi7463]

Dungeons and djragons

[@kadinleblanc]

666th like let’s keep it perfect no more likes😂

[@doomslayer_ch4280]

dungeons and drop tune

[@Rain593]

Andrew: 1 bar of music is 4 quarter notes Prog kids: 😐

[@themcg7189]

Ryan Pawelko AkA Tool Fans

[@Jimb1264]

Prog Musicians: Actually I prefer 127 64th notes, it's just as simple as 4/4 really

[@TheAnteros999]

I feel attacked 😂

[@deepsolar169]

@@Jimb1264 Same with 10/20. Just as simple as 2/4

[@AidanMmusic96]

Or as Ron Jarzombek wrote, "A Headache and a Sixty-Fourth"! 4/4 plus a 64th note at the end, its trippy!

[@skungames5035]

I’m getting the feeling this is Baena’s way of asking if anyone wants to play DnD with him

[@Aphaiton]

I'm down. :D

[@user-pu7wp1fc4f]

@@Aphaiton Same

[@mevolent4784]

Ill play

[@albertroux9519]

ya u got a party now man who's the dm??

[@whatbreaksthesilence8508]

The Venn Diagram for D&D gamers and Gojira enjoyers is a circle

[@treyxaviermusic]

writing songs with dice eh, that sounds like a good idea I should try that

[@haygax5767]

Idk man I think someone already did it... You'd be making unoriginal content 🤪

[@joshuascott1266]

You should check out the Arbiter Method with playing cards! I like it even more.

[@haygax5767]

@@joshuascott1266 interesting 🤔

[@cobalt._.27]

it's actually a real technique used for writing breakdowns, called "Vermont Rhythms."

[@davidowen28]

D&D players about to play the most sick breakdowns ever written.

[@JayDawgDrummer]

Me: i want gojira offical merch! Parents: we got gojira merch at home from wish! Gojira wish merch:

[@BaenaCarcosa]

Finally a creative comment about the shirt lol

[@JayDawgDrummer]

@@BaenaCarcosa lmao i had to 😂

[@tim-tim-timmy6571]

As soon as I get my dices with "1" on every sides, I enter your contest.

[@matt926uk1]

'dice' is both singular and plural

[@Natetherocksmith]

@@matt926uk1 actually die refers to a single one

[@matt926uk1]

@@Natetherocksmith sorry i was misinformed :)

[@jeremysahl4521]

Use a marble

[@rvnsprng]

Binary dice. It's just a coin flip. Best breakdown technique

[@havvot948]

Pi by after the burial be like:

[@adrielAlpuche]

HAVVOT haha yes

[@vikinglars4569]

The song Pi is based on the number pi and it's decimals, so it's actually not random at all.

[@icantfinditdammit]

@@vikinglars4569 wow thanks, that was in no way implied by the title of the song or the original comment above.

[@MrBaronCabron]

@@vikinglars4569 based spock

[@Natetherocksmith]

There are free online dice rollers if you are like me and don't have any

[@jamescruz8678]

Nate Phillips Yes but you don't get that satisfying _clickety clack_ when you roll them in your fingers. Free dice rollers are super convenient though ngl

[@paullevan1945]

@@jamescruz8678 I bought d8 real cheap on Amazon

[@eggboi4488]

I'm legit gonna do this now for a six song EP, why the hell not, thanks Papa Baena

[@Viper-dz2kw]

Don’t you mean a six sided ep

[@eggboi4488]

@@Viper-dz2kw :O

[@tzon6802]

@@eggboi4488 is gae

[@eggboi4488]

@@tzon6802 nay thee

[@willasinwilliam]

Call it dicing with death

[@TC-fy3vo]

The mans a genius

[@huggniceman4975]

Dungeons & Deathcore

[@jborreggine8759]

These are metalcore style breakdowns. You won't find them in deathcore.

[@MattlProductions]

@@jborreggine8759 I think you're missing his wordplay off of Dungeons and Dragons

[@jborreggine8759]

@@MattlProductionsYou think wrong then.

[@tutorialdebatata6154]

Dungeons and *Mathcore*

[@jborreggine8759]

@well doneI know it's wordplay you illiterate man-child. It's irrevant.

[@ErebosGR]

Adam Neely: "REPETITION LEGITIMIZES."

[@AFN2750]

Repetition legitimizes

[@melancholicmelon7338]

repetition legitimizes

[@jareds1515]

Repetition legitimizes

[@isaiahmumaw]

“A dice”

[@BaenaCarcosa]

Yeah my bad on that haha

[@dsadams17]

And "two of these dices"

[@sanctified5523]

*D&D players cringe in unison*

[@byronterrill7098]

Am a fan of your channel but I have to say one pair of dice is call a die again big fan no disrespect

[@sanctified5523]

@@byronterrill7098 No, one *pair* of dice is still dice. If it's just one, it's a die.

[@simonruth471]

Hell Yeah Rocking that Goira-Shirt🌝

[@suprovobhattacharya7590]

Rolled a 400 sided dice, stuck in quantum space, instructions unclear.

[@fabiofsumi]

Who is ira and why you want her to go? :O

[@jaanuspeet2458]

Go Ira go!

[@einfisch3891]

Who new dnd nerds were so violent over the word "die"

[@EricSwanson1]

You can also use a random number generator that goes between 1 and 8 to pick which note in the scale to play in conjunction with your dice roll. To generate a random number between 1 and 8, just use the randbetween function in a spreadsheet.

[@bedjentlewithme]

As someone who's been having writers block lately this is an amazing idea can't wait to try this out

[@mrraimundo130]

Right? Also check out some of those online djent generators. You can find pretty interesting results there.

[@disastermidi1990]

@@mrraimundo130the djenterator is what I like to call it

[@gretavarga3566]

2:07 2:27 3:00 4:23 5:00 5:23 5:59 6:13 6:39 6:55

[@matekovacs9656]

The "J" is silent...

[@elnombre91]

Nah, it's like Swedish (or something), "dyent".

[@khorn102]

The Irish Republican Army has snazzy merch these days

[@dropdar9257]

Amazing comment

[@seankirschke2616]

Dice = multiple. Die = single. Dices = something that should send you to the shadow realm if ever spoken.

[@TromboneSauce]

Sean Kirschke I’m pretty sure he was avoiding saying die so he wouldn’t get auto demonitized because of saying die

[@sorentrexler3688]

Conveniently rolled a diminished triad for the ambient overtone thing lol

[@sam.richa_2942]

Nobody: Bards in D&D:

[@isaacfausett5662]

This is a great way to get through writers block, it gives you the opportunity to screw around, and find something that could sound amazing.

[@Defekcija]

We used to do this with our phone numbers years ago! Your method is also very fun.

[@rgt_nexus2561]

Ive never heard of you until you did the video with Nick. And im glad i found you i find alot of inspiration from your play style as a guitarist of 15 years myself. Your solid man and the Gojira shirt sold me. Got your self a sub brotha

[@julianbarriga8513]

The fact you have so many different six sided dice and a dice tray, I’m smelling a fellow D&D adventurer :)

[@TH-gu4wj]

You're gonna put someone's eye out with that tone dude. Sounds killer.

[@personalbullshiz5570]

OMG THERES SO MUCH YOU CAN DO CAUSE BREAKDOWNS ARE SO GENERIC

[@ericmaggard6182]

I remember the drummer for Killswitch Engage talking about doing this in the Killswitch home video. Glad to see somebody actually do it.

[@joshhewitt2257]

This video is on a roll......I'll see myself out.

[@izack0128]

Dice and Ping Pong is some of the great tools to make breakdown.

[@WeAreClaves]

I'm gonna have a go writing a drum fill like this.

[@tohellandbacknoface4091]

💪🤘💯

[@somekid7]

Isn't this technically like aleatoricism or something? Jute Gyte uses this game of chance a lot on his experimental black metal albums. Dude is insanely into it, as well as microtones. Super dissonant.

[@M3t4lH3d]

I love this idea!! Thank you so much for that advise 🤘

[@shanemedhurst9714]

I’m subscribed to you on both my accounts, it annoys me how you only have 131k subs, so underrated man, love your videos!! ❤️

[@HarmfulOpinions]

Google "random number generator" and you can do this with any amount of options you want!

[@vulgarknight5856]

Next video: "In this video we will be rolling a new Human Cleric."

[@jqmasamune]

I have a feeling a new song called Die By Die is coming.

[@Existomalus]

Love your Go Ira shirt

[@deadNdivine12]

Nice concept for writing riffs.

[@motoxjosh29]

alright something to do over Christmas break!

[@diffuse7488]

I honesty did not think of this but I used numbered passwords and make little riffs out of them. Nice 👍

[@PTRK-P]

Love this idea! Cannot wait to try this out myself! Looks like I gotta go dice shopping 😂

[@blakematthews9694]

Always heard this is how unearth wrote their breakdowns. Cool shit man

[@mitcheltees6328]

This is gonna help me write new sick as fuck breakdowns! Keep up the good work bro!

[@matt926uk1]

that last breakdown was pretty sweet

[@restlessyouthproductions]

Man you're a solid guitarist man! Great fundamentals , but your own kind of tone and sound.

[@imraanakollo-arenz1449]

Now I know what to do for breakdowns. Maybe you could add a d20 for what frets to add into the breakdown besides chugs

[@ChaBawbe]

The game... I've never lost that many times in such a short video

[@uM5472]

Damn, it's been a while

[@KadeKalka]

Aw heck yeah, this is so sick!

[@richboccard]

This is like the "Arbiter Method" from 2011

[@conorhogan7575]

Yeah that video was dope as hell

[@jacketyt6992]

This works surprisingly well...

[@samts542]

That's what I do in quarantine.

[@MatthewAlenius]

thx andrew, u my hero

[@PokeBiyul]

Might give this a go seems like a lot of fun

[@GrMfull]

Awesome sound

[@spikedye6233]

*Dnd bards with their lutes staring intensely* BARTHOLOMEW HOLDETH MINE ALE GOOD SIR, THESE NEXT SONGS WILT MAKETH THE LAND SHAKETH

[@adamcogan211]

This was such a cool video!!

[@MofosRealReviews]

I used d12 on my breakdown and my song went from Metal to Rap 😓

[@ethanrath7345]

Sick idea man good work

[@evilronusa1825]

What a cool idea!

[@jackc9175]

The dudes from Throne of Iron did this at one point this year. Fun shit!

[@rancidraldur4342]

This is so awesome

[@rumbachumba330]

if you google 6 sided dice, a google app with an ice roller comes up where you can virtually roll dice from 4 to 20 sides or a custom one, for anyone that does not have uncommon dice.

[@kingcurtis666]

This is sick!

[@zachthompson7849]

This is so smart!

[@rongold360]

I would listen to an album of this

[@brandilasagna]

Bro i have the same GO IRA shirt 🤘 loved the video haha

[@kianpoole3664]

Wait a min- oh shit

[@peppermintnightmare4741]

That was sick

[@romaliwhispers]

Thank you for this

[@CalypsoShakira]

In the spirit of the drama going on. Those dice are loaded!

[@afterukband5272]

This is a fun idea! And if you don't have the dice, use an online one!

[@benjaminbardzinski3666]

Very cool idea man.

[@crackingtheglobe]

Sick idea hoss!

[@chrisdigital]

I have the same axe!🙌 Great instrument 🙌

[@frayman]

This is really clever!

[@adrielAlpuche]

this is art 🖼

[@yourdowg]

I wouldn’t mind you using that last sample on a song for an ep. that was actually pretty dope.

[@Szaidx]

HOLY FUCK!! DUDE I WAS THINKING ABOUT TO DO BREAKDOWNS USING DICES TOO! That idea is in my mind since i was 18 years old idk and now i seeing this video...

[@respaar380]

Hell yeah i love Go Ira

[@evaniberson5513]

This is actually a sick idea if you can’t figure out what to do for a breakdown

[@theinfinityscout3289]

I played the game. I made 4 rolls of chugs and I got this: Roll 1: 2344 Roll 2: 1244 Roll 3: 4236 Roll 4: 6141 Sounds pretty cool in drop A. Also the back to back 6's are a pain to play

[@longdark4ever]

LOL Dices, die is singular, all kidding aside, what a neat way to write breakdowns, saves a lot of time slapping your forehead trying to come up with something on your own, thanks for the tip!.

[@themorrigan1312]

Too late to enter, but this is still really cool, and im probably gonna use it at some point. I do have both a d12 and d8, but only one of each, so im just gonna stick to a dice app

[@marcuscramus1155]

Love It! Shame im not a guitar player. ..this could do an entire Record!

[@burnout1256]

THIS IS SICK

[@fathomlives]

i made my own rules based off of this (don't worry, it's not for the contest) here they are Rules must have 8 measures of using only the d6 and the d12, then 8 measures of only the d8. if there are no chugs in one measure when using the d8, roll the d6 once in the beat of every other measure. D6 for # of chugs D12 for ambient notes (16th notes) D8 rules 1 - triplet + 2 chugs 2 - two triplets 3 - dissonant chord 4 - silence 5 - dissonant slide 6 - squeal 7 - quick riff/run 8 - drum fill (roll d4 for # of measures)

[@encompassthyeclipse7278]

You actually have to be intelligent to think of something like this, I'm very impressed by the concept

[@sharkoj]

Ok so basically, I’m a half orc monk. Tell me if you’re down or not

[@neillbegay]

Thank you fr fr

[@ares2380]

Damn that tone though

[@unknownmetalheadthing6356]

hey Andrew baena they should call you the breakdown God 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@lt.branwulfram4794]

DM: The tavern patrons look to be eager for you to play your strange instrument, a new 7 stringed lute, first of its kind and tuned to something as conceivably low as many a bard would have it. Metal Bard: I'll show them what I can do with it. DM: Roll d20 for Performance check. Metal Bard: Nat 20. DM: Now roll d12 for effectiveness. Metal Bard: 12. DM: As you start to play, a drummer behind you takes up his position seated behind you, a burly but gentle fellow, another lute player sits beside you, her slender fingers ready to dance upon the frets and her beautiful face nodding towards you. You begin and slowly but surely the patrons bang their steins to the beat of your song, some even form a mosh pit in the middle of the tavern and you notice your party members, the fighter, the rogue, the ranger, the paladin, the wizard, the warlock, the sorcerer, the monk, the artificer, even the cleric and especially the barbarian join in, the fighter's long hair in a windmill, the barbarian's passive yet energetic dancing lighting up the pit, the wizard casting minor illusions everywhere, the paladin and the cleric shining their lights in the air, the ranger and her wolf familiar surfing the crowd along with the monk, the sorcerer and the warlock and the artificer clanging his tools together to the beat.

[@dannyzep92]

Funny enough when the Dillinger escape plan was still making music there was a rumor that they rolled dice for time signatures