Interesting thoughts bro. When I started write songs It was a mix with old darkthrone and burzum...and still the influence of BM veterans presents in my music. But your life experience, your thoughts, your vision on some things makes your creativity unique. On my opinion influence is ok, with time and experience you find your own way. Sorry for my English, it's not my native language.
@@zehrothschild8347 Thanks for the kind words. I do not have a website or pages on the sites. The last track was recorded in 2011. Since then, I have stopped making music, although I hope that in time I will return to the guitar, since there are ideas in my head ...
Getting the drum track down is one of the best tips. I learnt this the hard way... :-s Recorded my guitar and bass first (I I was playing in time...), then added the drums. Shocked and horrified how out of time my playing was. Ended up reprogramming the drums to fit my "rhythm" - took me four hours of pain. Never again. ;-)
@@ifrit999 Probably. 😀 I'm not a particularly good guitarist or songwriter though so programming the drums and playing to that helps me to remember which part of the song I'm supposed to be playing. 😄
Thank you. For bass I use it in midi too, but I usually try to add 20% of off notes (off the bass notes from the rhythm chords) to make it interesting, the rule 80/20 some say.
You certainly made a good point...with all the amp sims, guitar vsts, effects, tricks ect, you absolutely do not need 4+ layered guitar tracks. In the old days, maybe sure, but its obviously a different day and time in heavy,extreme guitar recordings
There are some free drum vsti out there..the free Steven Slate Drums is what I use lately and I'm satisfied with it. Great content though! And fuck! Another one that loves to play on Standard E. Subscribed!
Very cool and informative Boris! Unfortunately, my financial situation is either pay rent, or buy a guitar.😅 But , I will save this video for future reference when I can finally buy a guitar. That'll work.👍💙I did have a nice 1978 Gibson Flying V, but one of my Metal hating relatives busted it up.
Damn, sounded Great! BTW: My uncle used to be a film projectionist for the movie theaters in the 80's and when the reel to reel would snap, he had to splice and edit, which the film was either thrown away or "kept". I have some film from Nightmare of Elm Street...be glad to send it your way! I mean, its like the negatives you used to get after developing pictures...but pretty cool to own....I have almost a piece of every 80s movie!
I have been commenting that the bands on bmp sound too similar, and must be listening to the same couple of bands like darkthrone and burzum. but everyone just thinks im an asshole
I am an American former radio morning host/programmer (Where I founded with friend the best death/black metal hours ever---The Witching Hours featuring every big time interview from that genre you can think of!
Wowww thanks bro this was really helpful.as iam one man band into black metal and death metal style and .I have newly started to write songs using reaper, bias fx 2 elite guitar software and so far having a greattt time but your tipss are awsome as I don't have bass so now I will try the bass using your suggestions
This inspired me tbh :) but the problem is I just started learning guitar today and what should I do? Learning theory with some scale? ;) Help me guys :)
The scale are really important in my opinion. Learn the scale, do different exercises with them and youll already be able to do some stuff. The scales helps you also to get confidence with your hands.
@@borist. hey Boris thanks man for your videos. I'm into black metal (Mgla, Vinterland, Sargeist, Noenum, Horna, Behexen etc...) thrash metal, doom/death and funeral doom. I also live DSBM. I play little guitar, I can power chord, do easy picking and tremolo, but I struggle with fast picking and hitting different strings especially thrash metal, also struggle with alternate picking. Any tips? Thanks I can play songs of the level of Lost Wisdom by Burzum and slow doom riffs.
@@dropshot5791 its all about let your brain/muscles/hands work together. Take it slow and play a lot. Use a metronome and play the time that you're confortable with and after you master it, get 5/10 bpm up and continue to play until you don't master that speed and so on. Fast picking will comes with time🤘🏻
Yo, Boris T, I'm actually quite new to the black metal space so I don't know many bands (actually, just two), I really like Deafheaven and this guy, Mare Cognitum. So could you please recommend some good ones? I will also check out your stuff
Will a drum track be perfect for people Without a drum set Ik this sounds stupid but I’m barely beging to play guitar so yeah sorry if it sounds stupid
Thank you for your video, it is great, but I am totally confused, is this a correct way to compose a song? never heard that, you are composing a song based on a drum track that somebody made it and you download it and make your guitar and bass based on that? I wouldn't call this composing a song, I thought composing a song from scratch means, you first think about a riff, melody or some tones that nobody did it before and you compose that on your guitar, then you add your bass and drum, vocal to it, please correct me if I'm wrong
@@borist. Hey Boris, thank you very much, you are absolutely right, totally agree, actually you are very experienced, I am new in making music, I think for someone new like me, these drum tracks are very useful
Great lesson, man. Reminded me that it’s nothing wrong to sometimes use some composing limitation, especially if one has little practical experience. After spending huge amount of time learning theory and such, i realized that just can’t chose a way of composing a song among lots of possibilities. “Drums first ? No, that’s boring, but what kind of riff to use for a song part - maybe chord progression-like chugs .. or blacknroll stuff , or progressive 7th/9th/13th chord perversions. Maybe use in a bridge some strange time signature. And scale - natural minor or maybe diminished or harmonic minor, what mood do i need. And what kind vocal to use in that part - Satyricon grimness or Nagash-like squeals or Crest of Darkness -style hiss , maybe some Solefald tired voice. Synths above - crazy chiptune stuff or classic sympho or trance supersaw or minimoog vibes. And so on. And no songs in result. I don’t mind total avant-garde black, just damn hard to make those choices ))
@@borist. I mean that when vocal starts to singing then their voices became unusual, such as hard something like that. But when they are talks normally then their voices became usually just like regular person. For me this is somehow wondering 😁
@@عٱٱ ahh you mean when they sing in scream/growl. Oh well, that's not something too hard to learn but it's really hard to explain. You have to use your throat combine with your breathing but really.. Explaining it is really hard. I learned it when I was a teenager just listening my favourite bands and tried to imitate them. It came out naturally
I like the unpretentious aesthetic. Both the most useless and useful video on black metal songwriting I've seen yet. Will rip off. Two thumbs up, subscribed.
Thank you for this. I’m at the beginning stages of my project and this video really helped me a lot. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate it.
I'm glad to hear that man 🤘🏻
Interesting thoughts bro. When I started write songs It was a mix with old darkthrone and burzum...and still the influence of BM veterans presents in my music. But your life experience, your thoughts, your vision on some things makes your creativity unique. On my opinion influence is ok, with time and experience you find your own way. Sorry for my English, it's not my native language.
Ivan, you get a website or link to your tunes? Love to check em out! Keep rocking! 🤘🤘👿😈
@@zehrothschild8347 Thanks for the kind words. I do not have a website or pages on the sites. The last track was recorded in 2011. Since then, I have stopped making music, although I hope that in time I will return to the guitar, since there are ideas in my head ...
Good job man i respect your job 100%
Getting the drum track down is one of the best tips. I learnt this the hard way... :-s Recorded my guitar and bass first (I I was playing in time...), then added the drums. Shocked and horrified how out of time my playing was. Ended up reprogramming the drums to fit my "rhythm" - took me four hours of pain. Never again. ;-)
Didnt quite understand you!
So what should I do first to record a track?
@@ifrit999 Drums first. Then guitar/bass/ whatever. Without a good beat to play to it all goes wrong.
@@joolz666 but shouldn't you record the guitar with metronome first?
@@ifrit999 Probably. 😀 I'm not a particularly good guitarist or songwriter though so programming the drums and playing to that helps me to remember which part of the song I'm supposed to be playing. 😄
@@joolz666 Oh okay..I am working on an album..check out my first track..i am working on the 2nd track's drums now..first one is drumless btw
So many and so varied useful tips in a single video. Thank you!
Thank you. For bass I use it in midi too, but I usually try to add 20% of off notes (off the bass notes from the rhythm chords) to make it interesting, the rule 80/20 some say.
This is what we need. Thanks for the great video!
You're welcome
You certainly made a good point...with all the amp sims, guitar vsts, effects, tricks ect, you absolutely do not need 4+ layered guitar tracks. In the old days, maybe sure, but its obviously a different day and time in heavy,extreme guitar recordings
Весь современный метал с пластиковым звучанием и неинтересным скучным материалом, каждый день просто горы музыкального шлака выпускают😤
There are some free drum vsti out there..the free Steven Slate Drums is what I use lately and I'm satisfied with it.
Great content though! And fuck! Another one that loves to play on Standard E. Subscribed!
This just melted my face.
Very cool and informative Boris! Unfortunately, my financial situation is either pay rent, or buy a guitar.😅 But , I will save this video for future reference when I can finally buy a guitar. That'll work.👍💙I did have a nice 1978 Gibson Flying V, but one of my Metal hating relatives busted it up.
Destroying a gibson is a crime.
Get reimbursed at minimum.
@@roberth4395 I did, and I am now saving up for a drumkit and another guitar.👌🤘
Oh my that's a tough choice🤔. Guess the landlords gonna have to wait until next month or you can move to cold cave and record trve black metal 🤘
Boris youre an absolute awesome dude for giving out this information for free. Bravo, brother! Cheers from across the pond!
Dang these are some of the best tips I’ve ever gotten
Gracias por los consejos!! Salud desde Galicia
No matter what standard of tuning I use, I always go flat. It's better everytime. Eb on my 6 Bb on my 7.
Thank you. The video is great \m/
Damn, sounded Great! BTW: My uncle used to be a film projectionist for the movie theaters in the 80's and when the reel to reel would snap, he had to splice and edit, which the film was either thrown away or "kept". I have some film from Nightmare of Elm Street...be glad to send it your way! I mean, its like the negatives you used to get after developing pictures...but pretty cool to own....I have almost a piece of every 80s movie!
cover of hells fire by marduk on guitar! id love to see that!
I have been commenting that the bands on bmp sound too similar, and must be listening to the same couple of bands like darkthrone and burzum. but everyone just thinks im an asshole
I like to loop the parts when I write a lyric - loop the verse only and write the verse , loop the chorus and write the chorus...
I am an American former radio morning host/programmer (Where I founded with friend the best death/black metal hours ever---The Witching Hours featuring every big time interview from that genre you can think of!
juro ante todos los demonios que voy a hacer una banda onda burzum tributo al diablo y el vino, gracias master
Great video bro, your contenct is very good, this video help me a lot to improve my compose stuffs! 🤘🏼🔥
Wowww thanks bro this was really helpful.as iam one man band into black metal and death metal style and .I have newly started to write songs using reaper, bias fx 2 elite guitar software and so far having a greattt time but your tipss are awsome as I don't have bass so now I will try the bass using your suggestions
Hop davai davai
Just play those blastbeat don ‘t talk 👊🏻
This inspired me tbh :) but the problem is I just started learning guitar today and what should I do? Learning theory with some scale? ;) Help me guys :)
The scale are really important in my opinion. Learn the scale, do different exercises with them and youll already be able to do some stuff. The scales helps you also to get confidence with your hands.
@@borist. thx man :) I will do that 🤘🏽🤝😉
@@borist. hey Boris thanks man for your videos. I'm into black metal (Mgla, Vinterland, Sargeist, Noenum, Horna, Behexen etc...) thrash metal, doom/death and funeral doom. I also live DSBM. I play little guitar, I can power chord, do easy picking and tremolo, but I struggle with fast picking and hitting different strings especially thrash metal, also struggle with alternate picking.
Any tips?
Thanks
I can play songs of the level of Lost Wisdom by Burzum and slow doom riffs.
@@dropshot5791 its all about let your brain/muscles/hands work together.
Take it slow and play a lot. Use a metronome and play the time that you're confortable with and after you master it, get 5/10 bpm up and continue to play until you don't master that speed and so on.
Fast picking will comes with time🤘🏻
Hey Boris! Do you have any tips on recording vocals or layering? I was listening to The Ritual album and the vocals are super killer 👌
sounds to good to be black metal its for like dark metal
Pls cover i ei gran borti nordre åsen by Isengard, I can’t seem to get the harmonies right
Yo, Boris T, I'm actually quite new to the black metal space so I don't know many bands (actually, just two), I really like Deafheaven and this guy, Mare Cognitum. So could you please recommend some good ones? I will also check out your stuff
I'm not him but try bathory, darkthrone, emperor and marduk for a good start!
As a starter try Satyricon. Everyone started with them, and of course Burzum and Darkthrone.
I don't use drums because I don't have one and I don't use my DAW drums because it sucks
Will a drum track be perfect for people Without a drum set Ik this sounds stupid but I’m barely beging to play guitar so yeah sorry if it sounds stupid
You can find some good drum tracks for free here on youtube man :)
@@borist. thx bro appreciate I enjoy your videos man 👍
Thank you for your video, it is great, but I am totally confused, is this a correct way to compose a song? never heard that, you are composing a song based on a drum track that somebody made it and you download it and make your guitar and bass based on that? I wouldn't call this composing a song, I thought composing a song from scratch means, you first think about a riff, melody or some tones that nobody did it before and you compose that on your guitar, then you add your bass and drum, vocal to it, please correct me if I'm wrong
This way (based on a drum track already composed) is just for people who still aren't familiar with composition etc
@@borist. Hey Boris, thank you very much, you are absolutely right, totally agree, actually you are very experienced, I am new in making music, I think for someone new like me, these drum tracks are very useful
What tuning sound the most evil? Lower or higher?
Lower! Just stay in standard if you're not sure!
Great lesson, man. Reminded me that it’s nothing wrong to sometimes use some composing limitation, especially if one has little practical experience. After spending huge amount of time learning theory and such, i realized that just can’t chose a way of composing a song among lots of possibilities. “Drums first ? No, that’s boring, but what kind of riff to use for a song part - maybe chord progression-like chugs .. or blacknroll stuff , or progressive 7th/9th/13th chord perversions. Maybe use in a bridge some strange time signature. And scale - natural minor or maybe diminished or harmonic minor, what mood do i need. And what kind vocal to use in that part - Satyricon grimness or Nagash-like squeals or Crest of Darkness -style hiss , maybe some Solefald tired voice. Synths above - crazy chiptune stuff or classic sympho or trance supersaw or minimoog vibes. And so on. And no songs in result. I don’t mind total avant-garde black, just damn hard to make those choices ))
Can you tell me how those vocalists change their voices?
What you mean?
@@borist. I mean that when vocal starts to singing then their voices became unusual, such as hard something like that. But when they are talks normally then their voices became usually just like regular person. For me this is somehow wondering 😁
@@عٱٱ ahh you mean when they sing in scream/growl. Oh well, that's not something too hard to learn but it's really hard to explain. You have to use your throat combine with your breathing but really.. Explaining it is really hard.
I learned it when I was a teenager just listening my favourite bands and tried to imitate them. It came out naturally
@@borist. Hmm, got it. Sometimes I thought they were adjusting the microphone😅
into verse chorus on black metal?
not kvlt
Make sure your guitar is out of tune
That's so far out of tune you must be doing it on purpose lol
Maybe he is accidentally bending the strings pls don’t bully him :3 X3
@@CizerKedi could be old strings compromising intonation or something, my strings are always too old
@@tfwnoyandere oh ok :33
I like the unpretentious aesthetic. Both the most useless and useful video on black metal songwriting I've seen yet. Will rip off. Two thumbs up, subscribed.
cool video but first thing should be "Tune your Guitar Dude!" 😉😉