[StormX]

Well, sorry it's been so long, I've been gathering stuff. This is just a general info post about everything.

Song Structure
Since someone posted about this, I'll start off with this. So yeah, the majority of songs are put together in two ways. Verse, chorus, verse, chorus or verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus. It's not really bad to make a song this way, but it's refeshing to hear a song that's not like that. A lot of emo bands had different structures, a good example is Saetia's "venus and bacchus". And a lot of other songs in that genre. It's just kind of, starts off slow, builds up, explodes, gets really quiet, explodes. But you can make it any way you want. But for most kinds of music, you want some kind of loud/soft dynamic in the song. It' just sounds good, or so I think. Unless your doing pop, or something along those lines, pop is generally verse/chorus and they sound the same.

Again, it's kinda hard, cause I don't want to tell you exactly how to do your song.

Drums
I'm not a drummer, so I can't give you details into writing drums. But I'll give some good general advice. First off, you don't want to make any beat that sounds like another song, cause your whole song will sound more like that song. Defiinatly try to be very original, because I know a lot of people, me inculded, really like an awesome drum beat. Just don't, please don't, overdo the double bass. That turns your song into instant sh*t. Yeah, double bass is cool, but not the whole times. Throws in a few bursts or short sections, it sounds much better. Unless you just have a totally chaotic part, then the double bass works well. And DON'T overlook cymbals. I've seen a lot of bands that barely use cymbals in their songs. Cymbals can add a lot to the song, so don't skip them.

Bass
And you can't forget bass. Bass can really make or break a song. Like I said before, try not to just do the root note of the guitar chords over and over, like blink 182 does. I already said it earlier, pretty much everything about bass, try to write a unique bass line that stays with the song, but doesn't just follow the guitar.

Guitar
I'm going to try to go into a lot more details about guitar than I did last time. And give some different ideas for writing guitar parts. These are things I've picked up from talking to people, and in lessons.

One powerful technique for writing heavier music is using the blues scale. Yeah, I know, it's called the blues scale, but it's much more useful than just blues. When used right, espically with some bad sounding distortion, the flatted 5th can sound pretty..."evil". This can be used for riffs or solos, but I think it sounds better in riffs. try using sets of 3-5 notes using a flatted 5th. Mabye throw in a slide or some kind of harmonic.

But you may also want to use the blues scale for writing solos. Most of the solos in heavy music are written with the pentatonic scale. But you can also use the blues scare. As with any solo, try not to make it sound too scaley. What I mean by that is, don't go up the scale 3/4 of the way or something, so it sounds like the scale. Again, the flatted 5ths make everything just sound more evil. Bends, and rock bends are good, when not overused, and so are pinch harmonics, just don't use too many.

I'll have some more guitar stuff later on.

Alright, that's it for today, more in the next few days. Hope im not just wiriting everything everyone already knows.