This Is Why Your Metalcore Song Sucks... 

What string gauges do you use?

It's cuz I m ur #1 fan

@@BaenaCarcosa It's funny, I don't know ANYTHING (in the most literal sense, here) about guitar tabs & am self taught (and did it for 15+ yrs on the road later, too, so...yayyy...success...🙄) but lemme ask so I'm not hanging myself over nothing k? So I've luckily been kinda obsessed w/these influences usually (or seemingly) almost quasi-the-polar opposites of what you guys covered in a lot of your stereotype videos (christ on a cracker, at least i hope so now tho, anyway!) but...thru dumb luck or luckily being dumb AF, by being so very old, out of touch, & just as unskilled, I just had records of groups (metal-wise) on repeat like The Haunted, ETID, Zao, Darkest Hour, and early Cave In's CDs. Now, while the rest of the civilized world had social media & a life, I just wanted to ask, are there any ways you can think of (as I'm already a subscriber of yours) that I can mitigate all the seepage of deathcore (despite that i do enjoy newfound loves like END, Erra, etc) & "djent" etc?? Am I wrong to think I can mix what I love about more snarling crust-core-esque acts like Trap Them, Converge, or Johnny Booth etc AND stir it together w/some blackened metallic HC (not "metalcore" as apparently that describes weirdos who play nu metal-esque reboot riffery AND wore strange masks before COVID--i.e bands like Alpha Wolf or whatever...no offense...just not for me)?? Example: I suck at the aforementioned styles of songwriting on my axe yet it comes out like a differently abled grinding new-era-18V-meets-a less tech & Simple Jack skill-level Curl Up and Die + Refused? I know...sounds as horrible as reading this entire post...that's why i'm asking if I should just tow that line or is it "cool" to be in ur 30s writing 2000s era HC and just never doing any open chug-only breakdowns, only doing a riff then letting the drums do the half-time parts (if that makes sense)

Leave it up to the esp

Miss May I approves

also linkin park used similar pattern in qwerty verse riff

mein land

13 12 0 0 12 10 0 0

even tool did this on forty six and two thats how i learned

Just cuz something is generic doesn't mean it can't be good haha, I love this stuff too that's why I know how to write it!

Andrew Baena you’re goddamn right homey

@@BaenaCarcosa you so right though

I love generic riffs as long as they are killer

It’s so dope though! Couldn’t stop head banging to that. Generic but it’s still sick 😂

Had the same idea

Or the good Old 8-5-0-3!

@@the12lookslikeyou bmth sleep walking chorus

Damn this brings back memories

Im new to guitar..what exactly does 5 7 8 mean? Thanks

Oh damn RGT 85 listens to metal? 😳

It does sound like something off of Beauty And The Breakdown

@@YaBoyJRock42069 Totally sounds like that record.

Agree!

OMG! Losing it^^

@jancsi 1 obsolete was a banger not gonna lie 🤣

do you mean hertas/gallops or actual triplets

@@shubaki6778 Both are great when it comes to the generic breakdown, but actual triplets. Like the second half of the first breakdown riff from Triumph by Elysia

@@D0VEWORLD Elysia. Wow. Throwbacks

That's true, definitely way better than most of the bands now. At The Gates-core for the win 😆🤘

Bleeding Through!!!

On Broken Wings baby

Any more early 2000s metal core bands that are good please it's hard to search

@@oopsyboops4806 KSE, Trivium (Ascendancy is my personal favorite), AILD, The Agony Scene (They sounded really dark), old Bullet For My Valentine, Bleeding Through, Atreyu, to name a few.

AGREED. #FellowVocalist

Ahhh....My fellow Vocal Annihilators...I too Concur!!!!!✊😎

and in my opinion the drums can do a lot as well to Spice It Up!

I gotta be the only person here who doesn’t hear a single shred of Vanna musically in this. BMTH? That one I can get behind.

was just about to say this

It's a great guitar haha! Wouldn't be so widely used if it wasn't

You haven't been writing for a long time, right?

@@drkstrnd yes, I haven’t been writing for a long time

@@doomslayer_ch4280 listen to as much of the music, you wanna write something similar to, but don't watch tabs or tutorials, just try to figure out for yourself how to play it, with this you will get a kinda unique approach to the music you wanna make. And obviously practice your pull offs, hammer ons and your picking hand speed... Have fun learning to write some bangers ;)

@@drkstrnd ok, thank you! I’ll make sure to try this!

@@doomslayer_ch4280 also learn theory! a lot of people say that theory "ruins creativity", but that's bullshit. even just getting a grasp of natural and harmonic minor scales has improved my writing a LOT. www.musictheory.net/ is a site where you can get theory lessons and exercises for free.

I love generic riffs as long they are killer

Use the eq on the deum kick tô sound in 60hz , and the Bass in the 80hz , after up the Harmonic 160hz, Just talking Abou the bases zones, but It Will help

@@SetflyRock OK thanks man I'll try this out!

Multi track your guitars and have one left and one right and make sure to make the kick and snare the most present thing then the bass just wants to hold the beat so remove the mids and high and low pass to taste if you want abit more clarity and impacted

@@joesmith5617 hey thanks for your help ! I'm recording my second project and this is exactly what I'm doing, it's helping a lot !

Cherish it

😂😂too true

No more like of mice and men

🤣🤣🤣

Nah I'm getting a lot more TIAH vibes