WRITE METALCORE Song in 1 HOUR? CHALLENGE

Published 2023-06-08
I attempt to write a melodic metalcore instrumental song, Similar to Glassjaw / Snapcase in 1 hour on a 7 string guitar. Using GGD Invasion Drums, STL Tonality Will Putney and Josh Middleton for guitar all in Ableton 11 Live. Music can take a long time to write, especially metal, deathcore and djent music given it's technical side, but this is a great way to write efficiently.

I find this technique works great for writing songs quickly, as by the end of the episode I have 75% of a song laid out. This song, especially when finished, reminds me of the early 2000s metalcore that I grew up listening to, but with modern production. Listen to the song for free in the link down below. Thanks for watching!

I'm Brendon Padjasek of the band Structures from Toronto, Canada and welcome to my channel based on modern metal, djent, and deathcore music, production, mixing and song writing.

LISTEN HERE:
www.beatstars.com/beat/snappedcase-metal-song-1534…

License one of my Instrumentals to Release as your own song:
www.beatstars.com/brendonpadjasekv5r

0:00 Intro
0:22 Begin Writing
1:38 Intro Drums
3:42 Verse Writing
5:53 Riff Section
7:35 Riff Drum Writing
8:58 Chorus Writing
9:58 Chorus Drums
11:58 TIME'S UP!
12:15 THE SONG
14:21 After Thoughts/ Improvements
15:17 Final Thoughts

#music #guitar #metal #songwriting

All Comments (21)
  • Thanks for watching. Let me know what style you'd like me to try next!
  • @leopardboy18
    Bro you deserve more views on these videos. Amazing song. I learned from your drum programming and riff writing videos that these help break my writiers block so much. Keep it up dude!!!
  • @taylorlaw873
    Ngl this song fucks. But super impressive to get this in an hour! Loved watching the process. Would love to see more of this!
  • The riffs are amazing ! Not adding vocals to this song should be illegal 👀
  • @Fitzington
    I like these videos. Its fun to watch your process and its pretty informative too. Also it was funny to see you pleasantly surprised with the transitions lol The song was cool!
  • @shwyuuuu
    having 11 minutes left to do the drums on the chrous actually made for some pretty intense television! thank you for the fun video!
  • @gabe3737
    Writing all this and for it to come together in under an hour is definitely gonna be underrated by most people. Bravo man
  • @taariqahad
    This fuckin rocks man! Have been absolutely loving your regular uploads!
  • @splicedbandga
    Genuinely glad to see Ableton being used by other heavy bands. Such a secret weapon that most people miss because they pass it off as "oh thats for edm, im good" lol Curious as to if you have ever used any asspact of Ableton in a Live setting? We've replaced almost our entire live rig with Ableton at this point and it comes in super clutch.
  • @ITzRobertoBRO
    Awesome stuff man, I hate that I missed it 😩 but cool content non the less
  • @immymortal
    I just wanted to say thanks again for the amazing content. Much love from Montréal! Would be super cool to have a Discord Community or a Patreon to support you even further :) Love the hoodie choice too! Thoughts on Obsidian??
  • You dug your own grave with that meter change brother haha great content!
  • @SquatyDog
    Man I love your content. This may be a silly question but how do you record these? Is it a special part about your DAW that lets your record your audio the whole time even when you’re not recording your guitar tracks? I use protools and as far as I’m aware on that, I can’t have a mic and guitar input recording permanently while laying down, and re recording guitar takes without stopping all tracks recording at once I know that’s confusing so no worries if my question doesn’t make sense. Cheers
  • @mullandglow
    I would actually love to see the clean up process/how you handle adding in/smoothing out transitions
  • @XVamooseMoose
    If you can do this in a hour, you gotta release more music! Need more BKP in the world.
  • @Elevada
    This actually turned out pretty dope though. That transition back isn't that bad. LoL. But I totally know what you mean. Its like quicksand, the harder you get into it, the harder it is to pull out and you're just hoping there's a fucking way out 😂