MUSIC CREATION IN CONFINEMENT ?

[Kurt Cocaine]

I'm doing a load of moody/dark techno recently. Neighbours are loving it.

Stick it up on the Electrónica thread if you've anything online...

[The Butcher]

I compose a lot of metal in MIDI (I blame playing a lot of Doom back in the day  ), wrote this over the weekend ->

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpHmKFNbOxo

[Anton Arcane]

I've been trying to get some lyrics together but it's not really happening for me. Did manage to get a few riffs going over the last few weeks though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1fTUqp4jnk

[TurnTheAirBlue]

Not exactly 'creation', but anyway... Fucking love this song!!! Just a total fucking riff-fest and very enjoyable to play.
From my favourite album of the 2010s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsmXxxbPE-c&feature=youtu.be

[polymer]

I'm doing a load of moody/dark techno recently. Neighbours are loving it.

Stick it up on the Electrónica thread if you've anything online...

Remixing bits and pieces as I figure out how to use certain apps/software packages. Will stick up a link shortly.

[TurnTheAirBlue]

Been listening to a lot of Vader lately and threw a few of my own Vader style riffs together.

https://youtu.be/N2irThR-i6U

[ochoill]

I made some sort of mostly electronic EP with a few bare distorted guitars on it.  Absolutely did not set out to do it, but the songs started writing themselves that way, one of them started out as an attempt at a sort of funeral doom-ish bass line but turned into an NIN rip off.  Suddenly I had 5 songs that aren't metal at all.  Was up trying to put vocals on them yesterday because fuck it I may as well finish it off and stick it up online, but the vox are slow going because I'm not great lol.  Still, happy to have something finished from the few months of confinement.

[Anton Arcane]

I had the idea of starting a thrash band last year and as my previous band, Stereo Nasty, were heading more and more in that direction towards the end it seemed like the natural thing to do.
After writing a few songs though I had one of my "what am I doing? Give up now and save yourself the trouble" freak outs and pulled the plug on the whole thing. I picked it back up in March though and kept at it until Trackmix reopened last month. I got eight songs down and also did vocals which was a first for me. I'm going to put out next month but here's a song off it in the meantime.

https://youtu.be/FGFjnOmaASc

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

John Petrucci spent confinement becoming Rasputin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK8YS-w1LXQ

[Thorn]

Holy fuck

[Mooncat]

Started writing John Carpenter style synthwave-esque stuff over the break, which came as a surprise to me as I'd never had any intention of doing synthwave inspired stuff. I'd picked up the Boss SY-1 synth pedal just before the lockdown, been watching a ton of 80s horrors during lockdown, and it just kind of happened naturally... 

[TurnTheAirBlue]

My first attempt at recording some 'original' material... The drums were a fucking pain in the arse to program. I'm using the word program loosely - the drums were a pain in the arse to 'drag and drop' would be more accurate. There are a few dodgy bits here and there. For example, there are too many snare hits on some of the blast beats during the verse. Also, I'm not entirely happy with the verse riff, I'll probably go back and try something different with that part when I have time. I was trying to do something in the early AngelCorpse style, but I'm not mad about the riff at all. Maybe it's just the fact that there are currently no vocals on the track and the riff needs to hold it's own for 30 seconds without them. I'm pretty happy with the intro, chorus and outro / breakdown, they hold their own as they are, which is adding to the notion that the verse riff is weak. The intro is more or less Slayers Black Magic sped up with a few different note choices (you might have noticed that anyway). The outro is done in the Vital Remains / AngelCorpse style, right down to the flanging effect you hear in 'Wartorn' from Exterminate album. Hoping to get 5 tracks demoed by the New Year.

Any feedback, insults etc... welcome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHjWGRKekUU

[blessed1]

My first attempt at recording some 'original' material... The drums were a fucking pain in the arse to program. I'm using the word program loosely - the drums were a pain in the arse to 'drag and drop' would be more accurate. There are a few dodgy bits here and there. For example, there are too many snare hits on some of the blast beats during the verse. Also, I'm not entirely happy with the verse riff, I'll probably go back and try something different with that part when I have time. I was trying to do something in the early AngelCorpse style, but I'm not mad about the riff at all. Maybe it's just the fact that there are currently no vocals on the track and the riff needs to hold it's own for 30 seconds without them. I'm pretty happy with the intro, chorus and outro / breakdown, they hold their own as they are, which is adding to the notion that the verse riff is weak. The intro is more or less Slayers Black Magic sped up with a few different note choices (you might have noticed that anyway). The outro is done in the Vital Remains / AngelCorpse style, right down to the flanging effect you hear in 'Wartorn' from Exterminate album. Hoping to get 5 tracks demoed by the New Year.

Any feedback, insults etc... welcome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHjWGRKekUU

Not the style of metal I'd be into at all but that sounds tight as fuck!
I program all my drums as well but I use guitar pro to do them which is way easier.

[Eoin McLove]

That's class. I'd reconsider the approach of essentially robbing other bands' riffs and altering them as it's a cop out, and judging by your playing you could easily come up with your own original ideas. I love the flanger abuse. More more more! The programming sounds good to me too. Lash some nasty vocals over it all and it'll be a winner.

[TurnTheAirBlue]

Yes, I'm quickly finding out that being original is difficult!!! Also, writing riffs is a piece of piss, writing songs is a nightmare!
Anyway, that's the sort of stuff that comes out when I sit down to play, so I tend to just let it happen.
That style is definitely what I'm shooting for. The goal is to be as original as I can be within the confines of that style.
Time will tell.