10 Levels Of Djent
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ต.ค. 2024
- Djent/Progressive Metal is one of my favorite genres, with bands like Meshuggah/Periphery/TesseracT/Animals As Leaders etc. So it's time for me to whip out my 7 string guitar, play some low-tuned Djent-y riffs and go through the (IMO) different levels of Djent, featuring lots of Drop G riffage (as well as possibly lower than that...). Hope you like it!
Did I miss any level? \o/
If you like Djent, you'll probably like my "10 Hours Of Procedurally Generated Djent" video;
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Did I miss any level? \o/
Yes. Level 11: make your computer write music for you and achieve Djen.
@@kyoobqa facts! xD
@kyoobqa Damn, forgot to include that x'D
The Mick Gordon
One of the basic levels: non-binary meter/mixed meter along with heavy syncopation. You kind of did it with your dead notes riff but it's a basic part lol
Man, your progcedurally djenerated album was a marvel.
Thanks a lot!
progcedjurally*
@@DennisMartenssonOfficial I just wished it had a longer section, the songs cut too short breaking the experience. It could be complemented by a band making it a full song.
You've got this shit down to a science, dude.
Haha, thanks!
Cool :D
Literally lol
Literally
That Level 10 Asking Alexandria riff took me back to my teens.
Haha, same : D Used to listen to that kind of music a LOT back in the day!
its inspiring me some amator scream the lvl 10 omg
Which song is it?
Isnt that as i lay dying ?
@@briocheman21 It’s not the exact song but pretty similar:
Asking Alexandria - Not the American Average.
Many of their songs has this melodic pattern.
To be fair, the core'esque feel of a looooot of "djent" bands is really something I don't get. Emo vocals and pop riffage is just not what I'm looking for when my favorite band is Meshuggah.
To each his own! I dig that vibe : D
So much this. Just want some brutal riffage, not drop tuned Evanescence.
@@citizensnips2348 And I want brutal riffage with emo vocals, to each their own.
@@theostragonidis7548 yeah, but you've got lots of options to choose from. But you are correct, we both have different opinions. Well done.
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You forgot level 11, the straight double bass level!
Haha, should have included that!
This should be used as an actual reference point to the entire subgenre itself.
you sir, have set the bar! 🤘🖤
Thanks a lot!
This was a perfectly good song in its own right then you get to step 10 and switch genres to something more energetic and stop... what a tease. Loved it
Glad you liked it! : D
You are my favourite youtuber when I need my daily dose of djent :D Awesome as always, keep it up!
Glad to hear it! Thanks a lot!
Loved that metalcore ending 🖤
Glad to hear it!
Song name? Sounds like BFMV but I'm not sure
No it's worst part.( Bends the best!
@@JuanCruzFabi Interesting, to me it sounded like In Flames.
@@killers31337 I was wrong, it wasn't BFMV, that riff sounds like Knives and pens guitar riff, by Black Veil Brides. That's the riff I was thinking of
From what I understand, djent originated as a joke, but...what exactly is wrong with playing this way?
That was straight up nasty. You forgot the Dennis Martensson Level, equivalent to god mode :P wait that was the entire thing!
So good man
Aww, what a sweet comment! Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it!
@@DennisMartenssonOfficial Do you play in a band at all? Or have any full songs? I'd listen to this all day
@MBDrums I do play in a band! This is our TH-cam channel; th-cam.com/channels/1ADnsOR1CGHewlZU2TXCbw.html
Me and another guy sharing writing duties for the instrumentals. Last song we released was 95% me or so. (:
Other than that, I bundled together some songs I'd written for previous videos in an EP, you can listen to it here;
th-cam.com/video/gZ1xOpZFgsE/w-d-xo.html
@@DennisMartenssonOfficial that’s so sick! I’m gonna check it out, thanks for the info!!🤘
Awesome video! I'm guilty of loving every level of djent. This type of metal is just amazing to me!
I was wonder if you had any tips on how to get your drum sound? I've been trying for weeks to get this exact "squishy" sounding drum kit and I can't figure it out. I've come close, but yours sounds so much cleaner. I have GGD Invasion, and love the way they sound, but this drum sound is exactly what I'm trying to achieve but haven't been able to figure it out. Any help is greatly appreciated!
Glad you liked it! Definitely also guilty of loving the entry level Djent as well, haha.
I'm actually using Modern & Massive, heavily processed though. Not a single trick to making them sound a certain way, sadly. But for kick, don't be afraid to EQ and compress heavily. I have tons of processing for my kick. As for the snare, I think it's important to realize that each snare track is gonna sound horrible on it's own. You just need to know what you want to get out of it. Snare top is where the main part of the snare's body comes from, snare bottom is the high-end "snap" of the snare, and the room sounds are where the "smack" comes from. Honestly my snare sound is probably 50% just the room sound!
@@DennisMartenssonOfficial Man, I really appreciate the reply! This is very helpful information. I will definitely keep all of this in mind. Thanks a bunch!
that "Eary" type echo at the beginning.. sounds insanely good.. you must share your knowledge on how you created that.. PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE lol
so boring. "baaaaah, bah-bah-baaaaaaah" lmao, trap rap transposed to metal. Remove the fat sound and there's nothing.
You're simply amazing bro
Thanks a lot!
People have no idea how much metal and hiphop actually have in common. I ended up becoming a hiphop artist because you don’t have to rely on other people to do it, but I still love these grooves, patterns, and rhythms very much. Great job
There's definitely a lot of crossover, yes! And thanks : D
A lot of artists have already made the crossover happen and it works phenomenally
@@FBI-sr2eg ghost sucks at it
Hip-Hop songs are nursery rhymes compared to this
a pefomance artist?)
Lmao I always find myself instinctively jump to level 10 right away
Nice tone btw!
Thanks! : D
With every video you convince me that I would really love to jam with you! Awesome storytelling with the music and a great video edit. Awesome!
Thanks a lot for the kind words! Really warms my heart. : D
I would love to generate more riffs based on the second level. It seems the most groovy of them all.
Level 5 and 9 tho
I guess this is how non-programmers feel when I start talking about some recursive algorithm I had to write recently.
Hahaha I guess yeah x'D
really cool.
how do you level 6? it doesn't sound like a normal pinch harmonic. there's a screeching to it.
i think its a pitch shifter
Panic chords + hi-pitching
It's a pitch pedal (in this specific video, the one that's in Archetype: Gojira) automated, so basically I just pick dissonant chords, then pitch shift that up a couple of octaves (:
@@DennisMartenssonOfficial thanks
Don't worry about polyrhythms lol the main thing that makes djent djent
Definitely a big part of Djent! It's all in good fun (:
awesome. could you please let your algorithm generate only low Djent for us. something like a 100 track 3 minutes long.
That would be awesome, haha! Let's see if I can make that happen in the future (:
Lololol level 10. Maybe you missed the dissonant intro? Future breed machine \m/
Haha, yeah, I can include that if I ever do a followup : D
IM SIMPLY BEGGING TO KNOW.
WTF ARE THOSE GHOST NOTES AND HOW TF DO I DO THAT
10 Levels of Thall next? Bands such as Vildhjarta, Humanity's Last Breath, Reflections, Indistinct, Aaru, Path Of Giants, etc, basically a style that sprung out of level 9 lmao
That's a lot of my favorite bands as well. : D So thinking about it, haha. Let's see what happens in the future!
@@DennisMartenssonOfficial cool! Keep up the good stuff
Currently at level 6. Wish me luck
Dang man! I’d listen to you play any of these levels tbh… you nailed your tone.
What’s the tuning btw? Just drop G plus pitch shift in a few places?
Thanks a lot!
Yes, "base" tuning is Drop G, in the pitch shifted sections it's shifted down to double drop C. (:
@@DennisMartenssonOfficial disgusting lol
Could you explain how level 6 works? What would you call those high pitch harmonics?
That ambiance part is so magnificent, oh
Thanks a lot!
Wow!!! The best djent lesson ever! Thank you so much, master!
Haha, thanks a lot!
Level 1000: Meshuggah
🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
Haha, exactly x'D
Great video! Now I only need some thiccc strings for my 7 to try it out myself lmao (i think I have bass strings lying around somewhere...)
Also you probably heard it already, but if not let me recommend the new (well a few months old) album from Vildhjarta, 'Masstaden under vatten'... Really had me falling in love with this genre again!
Thanks a lot! Honestly don't need that thick strings, I play in Drop G on my 7 string and I have 72-10 on them!
Yeah, heard that album! it's great!
@@DennisMartenssonOfficial Yeah, I'll have to experiment a bit I think; I want to play something along F standard, so Meshuggah-tuning and I like my strings tight...
I have pretty light strings on it atm since I wanted to play B standard on it (its a multiscale)y
@@broncoxy I have 72-14 on my 6 string right now. They are very tight at SYL tuning (GCGCGC +e) imo and I can work with them at F standard, although the thinner strings get a bit loose at that tuning
my neighbourhood's been djentrified
Awesome!
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I'm confused... I thought ghost notes were basically what you classified as "Dead notes"? so... what exactly at 0:36 were the ghost notes? is it just the extra few chugs inbetween the main beats of the measure?
Ghost notes refers to the drums, haha. Might have been a bit unclear. Essentially the ghost notes are the hits on the snare with lower velocity in-between the hits on the snare with higher velocities!
@@DennisMartenssonOfficial oooh haha, I was aware of what ghost notes were in the context of drums... that's why I was questioning it and mentioned the extra beats between a measure (ghostnotes on a snare) as I thought the video was strictly about the guitar techniques lol but I guess it does make more sense to incorporate the whole composition rather than just mentioning what the guitars do. I was like... A ghost note on a guitar? and just assumed there was a guitar technique with the same name. I know some guitarists do dead notes along to the ghostnote's of snares. I think Ocean's Ate Alaska do it from time to time. Chris turner loves his ghost notes
Periphery are the masters of Djent. Don't get me wrong bands like Monuments, Architect, Skyharbor, TesseracT and Volumes kick @$$ too.
lvl 11 it`s a "Rogue" band. so sick atmosphere. but your one is so cool bro. rock on.
Thanks!
level 3, what in the fuck is actually happening here. I can't seem to figure it out. This is blowing my noggin piece.
And then you create a DOOM song! Well done!!! Xddd
DOOM music is level 9001
@@DennisMartenssonOfficial lul \m/
Most djenty bois were once metalcore boys that played 5-7-8 until they discovered Meshuggah and swapped out their dumb Drop C riffs with dumber/better Drop E ones. It's more or less the natural life cycle of a djent practitioner to follow this progression of events 😂
From all metal/prog genres I've been listening to all of my life, *djent* mysteriously *sparks* my will to compose songs of my own. That's fvcking sorcery hehe.
Same!
Manly followed because i got the same guitar now i follow because your riffs slap!
That's awesome to hear!
oh man when lev 10 kicked in!! What fx are you using? \m/ \m/
The best djent music is by far the two soundtracks for doom 2016 and doom eternal by mick Gordon
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The only thing I hate more than metalcore is techcore djent! After listening to over 2 minutes of everything that is wrong with djent, the 30 seconds of metalcore sounded like a gift from god, lol! But metalcore is basically melodic death metal performed by emos, so... it has its moments.
Level 3 - how to achieve this lowering sound? I can't observe anything particular on hands.
Felt that 👃🏿 💧"found the noise gate" I Aux this live this
Haha, I'm definitely guilty of that as well!
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Level 10 for me was always August Burns Red. I audibly laughed at that bit, great video 😃
Haha, glad you enjoyed it! : D
I'm definitely at level 10 right now.😀
2:20 subscribed XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Glad you liked it! And Djent is totally a genre, yes!
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This just sounds like a rip of Meshuggah, which rejects your classifications.
um... so, dumb question: is djent just playing a guitar like a bass + a lil extra distortion? 👁👄👁
Level 1, 9, and 10 were some of the best riffs I’ve ever heard. I know level 10 riff is based off of through struggle but are level 1 and 9 based off a song?
I feel like 1-9 is just how to write a meshuggah track. I guess they are the grandfathers of Djent though so everything other djent bands do is a variation.
It wouldn’t be Djent if we went back to Metalcore since Metalcore bands were not as technical and versatile with heir sounds and style plus Djent wasn’t as known either since Meshuggah, Dream Theater and Sikth were sort of newish back then and mostly referred themselves as metal or metal with a hint of other styles yet Djent and Thall were not a considered real thing and wasn’t just common amongst bands that used such label identities.
Is it me, xm radio (octane), or are bands nowadays using a lot of djent elements?
Djent translated into German must be Schaufelgitarre bcs of ze sound of raw metal strings being pulled on a shovel
Check out I bought this cool 8 string guitar, but I’m going to use only one string of it!
Level 11: Djentcore
Haha yep x'D
You missed the most important part "djent" itself. Also those aren't ghost notes.
* Guitarists
"EMGs are shit
*also Guitarists
"That tone is absolutely fire man Holy hell"
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HAHA NOT lvl 10 😭😭😭😭
yes lvl 10
Been hearing too much AILD since highschool to know the ending lol XD
sick riff btw 👌🏼👌🏼🔥🔥
Glad you liked it! : D
How did you do the bends and have them sound like octaves when you only bent one string?
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Lost me at metalcore. I was prepared to buy the album before that :-) Lovely take on it anyway!
Прям сильно попахивает Fractalize'ом
level 10 ahahahaha genius
haha : D
Sounda like DOOM2016/eternal i love it
So.. Basically the doom soundtrack?
9 levels of Måsstaden, 1 level of core kid
haha, exactly x'D
Official "How To Djent" video!
Level 7 & 8 sounds the best :D
Thanks!
You welcome :D
Esse final vem do "Not The American Average" do AA? 🤣
Misha saying yes to every one of these
Haha, I would hope so : D
Level 10 should've really been 9 or 10 string guitar tuned as low as it can go
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I think the Djent is the Bridge for connect Metal to Metalcore. Haha...
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I’m a drummer, and I gotta say. I wish my guitarist had this kind of tone for our band.
Thanks! Glad you liked it!
I wish i had a guitarist. Let alone a band lol
ask him to drop 6k for equipment and you're goood!
... AND YOU ARE ALSO A FCKING GUITAR GOD. HOLY JESUS THIS GUY HAS EVERYTHING.
Maybe you miised ERRA style with a ton of fcking tapping and the big lows
Haha, there are surely tons of people much more talented than me, but thanks : D
When you listen to doom music that's not actually doom music
Rgim7bc? I think I have that guitar. Mines green
So many of these sounded like they came from Currents - Second Skin
Every bit reminds me of messhugah.😮
this is all just different techniques on level 1 of djent
Does anyone know anything similar to the riff at 2:00?
Ive been trying to find something like this for a while.
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Level 10 is Like as I lay dying in djent😍😍😍
Haha glad you liked it : D
"Really low, then really high"
*Korn has entered the chat*
Level 6: The Scream Queen sound?