djent songwriting step 1: riff salad | Thick Riff Thursday, Ep 8 

You should do some livestreams! Would be sick to see this type of content in an unedited format :)

The very first riff reminds me a lot of Dracul Gras - Periphery. About 2:50 into the song

I’m a guitarist, I basically don’t make my own music but I’m here for the djent

Guitarist mainly here. I love making Djent/Metalcore music with hhppy Pop melodies and sensibilities :) Happy Djent lol

Been loving these thick riff Thursdays man! I’m mainly a guitarist but I do a bit of everything. Former producer/engineer here

My new favorite series of all time🤘🏼

Seeing someone actually dude the midi drums by hand like this, separating the cymbals and kick/snare..mind just opened up

Ayyy, fun video from you again. I'm a guitarist / vocalist from Poland, dabbling in production. Your workflow is really inspiring as you lay ideas and tracks pretty effortlessly.

My primary instrument is my voice. In two choirs for school. Next is guitar. I like the piano to but I just dabble in it. Percussion is fun sometimes.

Guitarist making similar music. Progressive metalcore, djent stuff. Love your videos and this series! Super helpful!

Texas based here. I mostly do vocals for my project but I compose as well. its symphonic metal with some djenty and prog stuff. love all your Thick Riff Thursdays so far.

Main instruments drum and guitar, things i make Classical, prog, digital fusion (funky chiptune), chiptune, and some jazzish. Can't wait for you to continue somethin with justin now that he's out of school. THe LBR series was a joy to watch.

Thank you Nick for always bringing joy to my thursday, love to see you doing what you love, always a big fan!

Great stuff man! Sick riffs! Love it. Guitarist and backing singer here in a modern metal band.

Absolutely love these videos, another reason to look forward to the end of the week! Watching you work though ideas is such instant inspiration to pick an instrument up or go work on a mix that has been sitting for waaay too long

A few weeks back youtube threw one of your vids in my recommended list and I just thought "wow this dude knows his shit and has a really organized system". Anyhow you inspired me to start following your recording routine and making banger riffs and recording them. Really underrated channel that puts up high quality content. Keep it up my guy

Really enjoy your videos man. Love the longer videos personally. Also, im primarily a drummer/guitar player but play several instruments.

Hi there! I mostly do vocals and divital arrangements but recently started to play a guitar and really liked to take a look at your brilliant work and workflow

Honestly glad I'm not the only one that struggles with getting those perfect tight takes. Never knew about guitarists ego 😅😅😅

I’m a guitarist and I’m getting into writing djent/modern metalcore, these videos are super helpful for inspiration

Great work, keep em coming. Cheers from STE

That's super sick Nick! I learn so much watching your vids and I try to use it on my own riffs and comps, too. I just love how you reinforce your ideas in a complete mix! (My main instrument is the guitar)

Was there a part two to this one? I was looking forward to the next episode finishing this one 😂

Awesome and helpful video man! I'm a bassist and guitarist with some drumming experience, and I want to write prog metal. Your videos and your music are a huge inspiration to me, you always capture the vibe of your riffs so well!

You should run a contest where listeners write and record vocals over your less instrumental tracks. Would be amazing!

Dude just discovered your channel and been binging it a bit lmao. My main instrument is the guitar but I do have a few projects where I am the vocalist, and what you said about "the energy take" is so true. Anyway love the vids dude, I've always wanted to see some producer content kinda like Andrew Huang's but to this style of music, and you nail it perfectly ❤

I love this riff. I would love to learn to play more riffs like this. What songs would be a good place to start learning how to play riffs like this? These djenty, bouncy, poppy, slidey riffs.

Really enjoying this series and getting a peek at your approach! I'm mainly a pop punk/metal-ish guitarist and also do recording and production.

aspiring guitarist and singer here! I really like prog, djent, midwest emo and lately been obsessed with the kind of hyperpop that Brakence makes :P

Mainly a guitarist for like worship music, but also a vocalist. Working on an indie soft rock Christian project but also a modern alt metalcore thing Still working on getting harsh vocals though, so it might be a while

I'm a guitarist & I like to make music similar to yours but I'm also a big fan of making "simpler" deathcore, lots of breakdowns etc. I also make plenty of acoustic stuff as well. Love the vids man!

Loving these thick riff thursdays. Really liking this riff salad to full song workflow! To answer your question from the video, I'm primarily a guitar player but I also play violin and bass and I kinda sorta do vocals as well. My main thing is folk metal, but I'm really all over the place stylistically.

Drummer here! Love the content.

Guitarist who prefers to create somewhere between deathcore and djent style music. Newly trying to get into recording on my own and loving the content. Very informative and fun to watch and love your play style.

Started on bass, playing ska and pop punk. Also listen to and really appreciate the guitar playing on metal and hardcore. Found you via Insta but longer form here is so good. 🤘 From Scotland

Thiiiiiiiiickneeeeeeeeess daaaaaay

Been binging your vids since finding them. About the question you asked midway through, I’m a bassist but just trying to get some riffs down on guitar while writing

It's giving Spiritbox

Banging riffs again 🔥 As per your RU-vid analytic request - I play guitar and sing, mostly write alt rock stuff these days, but I really want to get into making prog/djent stuff. 🙂

Great video dude! Could hear some p5 influence on that riff, don't know if that was intentional or not haha, looking forward to the next episode!

i cant stop playing totk edit: oh and cool riff btw

Male / 30 / Guitarist mostly (20+ years) but I play a bit of everything / Heavy Alt Rock mostly, but I dabble in a number of genres. Have always had a massive love for Djent/Metal, just can't play it for shit. Subbed a few weeks ago, loving Thick Riff Thursdays!

I’m mainly a guitarrist. Playing on a brazilian band called “Versch". We released a new song called “Não Dá Mais” recently, if you want to check it out :)

I'm a guitarist/drummer. I've been primarily been playing guitar for a couple of years. I've been working on the thumping technique that tosin abasi uses. I have a strandberg 8 string Rich Henshall edition.

Ooo my this riff rowwwks

Vocalist here 🎉

Just came across your channel today. RU-vid has been on a hot steak lately, so I feel like I might actually get something done. I primarily play guitar. I enjoy messing around with vocals but its just something I do more for fun. Bass pretty swanky as well, but also for fun. Me and a buddy play mostly heavier stuff. I also like to mess around with ambient every once in a while.

primary: guitar, music: metal/hardcore

Prog guitarist here - of course. 😂😂🤘🤘

Skin flutist from upstate New York here!

I would love it if he would update WT Brawn Bespoke to Reaper 7. Still my favorite of all the Reaper themes.

Bass player here, playing metal in a very static x style currently, but i have also played some reggae in the past.

Main instrument is guitar! I play in a blackened deathcore band call Of the betrayer

I'm form Spain and I play guitar and sing/scream in a metallic hardcore band (Tear Me Apart), in a screamo band (Insire Nome) and I also have a metalcore solo project (meloxdeath).

Main instrument is guitar and I do backing vocals (screaming and singing) in a metalcore band.

I'm a drummer that enjoys playing djent, math rock, and prog.

Im a guitarist! And I’ve been learning to produce my own stuff for about 1.5 years now. I’m from holland and I make metal! Mostly Thrash, Glam, core and prog (yea weird combo, still figuring it out)

Answering your question: Im mainly a vocalist but I do some guitars too, envious of your skills hahah

It's been almost a year, Nick. Where's step 2? 😭

i make a bunch of different types of music, but perhaps most relevant to this channel, i am a drummer and I used to play in a djent band. aside from my rapping, most music I make is very heavily influenced by post rock and post metal. the djent band i played in and started (crevassian) was very heavily inspired by uneven structure, miroist and cloudkicker. my goal was to make the most posty djent possible. recently, i've started a post rock band, but also, your riffs have inspired me to write metal (entirely virtually, for now) again.

I play Guitar and thinking about picking up a bass to learn. I definitely want to eventually sing and play keys & drums too but I'm not in a rush. Focusing on guitar first, learning riffs like Holy Wars and You only live once.

i’m a bassist for an indie pop/ synth pop band but the drummer and i are the only ones who listen to heavy music haha

Main instrument is guitar. I play in an alt rock band called Pinehill

4:16 my life hahahahah

Mostly piano these days, but I do have my Tele and Bass VI within reach at all times

Bass is my primary. I write mostly hard/alt rock stuff.

Guitarist and screamer, my dude, playing some post and melodic hardcore.

guitar is my primary and I do progressive breakcore

What amp sims are you using I've been on a bindge of your stuff

I’m a guitarist by default but I do everything in my current “band” cause it’s just me. Program drums, play bass, sing, mix. My music is, I dunno, emo / post hardcore by way of pop punk I guess.

My primary instrument is vocals and i mostly write indie rock

Guitar, my metal, uk hardcore, deathcore

this sounds like that one part of Dracul Gras

hi nick, im learning a lot from you, wondering what kind of mac are you into ...

Bro where’d you go :( missed you two weeks now

Primarily vocalist but I also play guitar. I do vocals and guitar in an emo/pop punk/post hardcore band but I do vocals for everything from pop to musical theater to deathcore to emo and everything in between.

My main instrument is Guitar, but I am also a songwriter as well. Would love to sing but thruthfully I’m no good at it 💀

I’m mainly a bassist but I play mostly everything. I write post-rock/ trying to do metalcore lol

Dope as usual! I’m a media composer and guitar is my primary instrument. I’m good enough to play on most of my productions if necessary.

Ya boi started as a guitarist but now I'm a drummer I played alot of early 2000s rock and pop punk now I'm playing alot of early jazz mainly miles davis

Bro is there any way I can get your Logic Template?

I play guitar/drums, and i sing, and my main genre is djent/metalcore.

I hear Talus battle theme, I upvote.

This sounds like the bridge/outro of dracul gras by periphery

So I mainly play guitar. And I mainly make metal. I have 2 (serious) songs on my channel if you're curious

guitarist, but i play bass and scream in a metalcore band. i also play the trombone. (not in a metalcore band)

I play djent Spitfire libraries

Im a bass player/producer from australia who wants to get into metal/djent production!

Vocals and guitar are my main stuff! I play a lotta proggy metalcore and symphonic stuff. Im happy to be in the minority of vocalists watching you haha My band is called Hornet, and we have one single out called Seven Seals. Feel free to check us out!

I'm a drummer learning guitar and I don't make stuff yet but I wanna do acoustic/soft pop music (joji-esqe) and hard djenty metal songs (plini/jason richardson)

I play acoustic guitar, bass, and I sing.

guitar, making thall

To your question I'm guitatist and singer who plays pop punk

i am guitar i make brr brr deng

I love TRT 😊

Singer and guitar for a metal core band

Dracul gras.. but it’s nick’s version😂🤌 loved it man

I do Instrumental guitar driven music. I also have some Kiesels. My music's kind of like yours except not nearly as good lol

I do vocals and play guitar and bass. I dont know how to genretize my music but I guess I make metal and prog lol

Guitar and try to no avail prog. Lol I'm from the judas priest maiden era. I love prog but man it's hard to play.