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This giant lesson is essentially a mini documentary on how to create a classic rock 80s metal hit track. Of course it's several decades late, but I certainly don't mind- there's so much to learn through out this process, from wielding music theory to collaborating with other musicians, and I believe this lesson does a good job of demonstrating that entire process and what it can lead to.
It also features the one and only Kerry Devine as a guest vocalist to guide us through the twists and turns of melodies in the fifth mode. His work can be found here:
Rockstar Roadshow (National Act): rockstarroadshow.com/
LAVA Rock (Chicagoland Area): lavarockband.com/home
All of this was done to highlight how to use the Mixolydian scale/mode but I got a bit carried away. Once I realized I was having a vocalist help, I felt obligated to turn it into a full single instead of a little musical tidbit as I've made in my other Riffing With The Modes videos. It takes me a TON of time to finish a single like this, well over 100hrs was spent just on the song for recording, tracking, editing, mixing, mastering, tweaking. The lesson video was nearly as taxing, but I did elicit some help in editing the basic parts of my music video so thanks to Joe Watychowicz for filming some of those fun 80s shots for the video and doing some basic editing work.
What's really weird, is Ben Eller happened to post a video describing 80's hair metal pedal tone riffing on the exact same day as I posted this video. Check out his video here to understand the concept in MUCH more detail!    â˘Â The Secret Sound of the 80's! Â
The song will post separately as a music video here in a few days once the track is up on spotify. To be quite honest, I could talk for another 40 minutes about obscure and tiny decisions that HAD to have been made when producing this song but I had to reign it in somewhere, so if you're interested in a part two let me know!
Videos mentioned or referenced this one:
ACDC + Mixolydian:    â˘Â Why Your Mom Loves AC/DC - Mixolydian... Â
Metallica Scale:    â˘Â How To Write Metal Riffs using the ME... Â
Blues Lead lesson with microbends:    â˘Â Live Quarantine Lessons - Blues Guita... Â
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Table of Contents:
00:00 Intro
00:37 Mixolydian Vibe + Inspiration
02:55 Writing An Intro Riff
06:49 Recording and Producing an Intro
09:23 Bass Guitar Options
12:00 Intonation Issues with Major Thirds
14:35 Writing a Verse with Movable Thirds
17:09 Writing a Prechorus
20:22 Writing a Chorus
22:17 Using the Neutral Third
25:50 Crafting a Solo Section
17:32 Writing a Bridge
29:48 Extra elements of a song
31:52 WHAT'S COMIN' TO YA?
25:48 Composing with Intent
37:37 Succesful Collaborations
Views : 427,744
Genre: Education
Date of upload: May 5, 2020 ^^
Rating : 4.958 (169/16,000 LTDR)
RYD date created : 2022-04-08T11:11:47.161422Z
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
Now all we need is Rick Beato taking this apart again for a What Makes This Song Great :)
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It's crazy these kinds of videos and full breakdowns are available for free. This channel is such a blessing!
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"I wanna make an 80s song, but I don't want it to sound cheesy." -Jake Lizzio, 2020 A.D.
In all seriousness, this is an excellent video. Giving us things to think about is infinitely more helpful than telling us what notes to play.
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Can you do something like this with 60âs - 70âs psychedelic rock? Like, Jimi Hendrix or Pink Floyd or Santana or The Beatles. How they employ the Dorian mode, how the develop a song to start off slow and slowly climb to a climax with a great solo, and what not? I would love this. Iâm super interested in writing music like this, but Iâm just not sure how everything really goes together. Thanks!
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Damn, Jake compressed 1986 into one 4 minute song. So Bon Jovi.
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âPolluting the youth with a bluesy twingeâ sounds like a followup album.
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39:24: "If you think he is as impressive as I am". I almost never laugh out loud. This time I did.
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This was the most work I've ever put into a single YT project, topping my 7 modes/7 musicians. I'm gonna make the next few videos a bit shorter so it's not so long in between uploads but I hope you think the wait was worth it! Also, the single will be on spotify soon, when it's up I'll be reuploading the music video to the channel here as a standalone video. Until then the mp3 is posted for all patrons or you can skip to the song at 0:31:52. ALL HAIL BEARDSTANK AND KERRY DEVINE! Oh and make sure too look for me in the reflection of kerry's glasses, more than one instance where i'm caught red-handed grinning like an idiot while filming lmao. And remember, Rock is only dead if you let it die!
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Man, they need to add an extra like button because this one isn't cutting it. Great vid man!
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That, is badass. If I heard that on the radio I would totally think it WAS a real '80s hair-metal song--and I was around back then. (As a kid, but still.) I love all the little details in the video too, like the rainbow unicorn t-shirt and all the very '80s effects and colors. Definitely one of the most fun NEW songs I've heard in a long time.
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Love it!! You got a new fan :)
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"I started getting that Van Halen vibe and I thought synths would be a great way to amp that up"
- David Lee Roth has left the chat
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Love that "mom" is Steven Tyler doing his Julia Roberts look
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Speaking of A Major, and A minor,
C Major chord asks his relative if he wants to go have a drink in the bar.
Relative says, "I can't. I'm A minor."
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I'm 51 now so the 80s is in my blood :-)
I searched for Mixolydian and your video popped on the list, watched the whole 40 min and I must comment!
First of all wow, how you built it and explained everything... I'm speechless... you understand music writing in levels that I will probably never will, it was really enlightening how much thought you gave this, and for that you have my total respect!!!
Now, the song, oh god, don't get me wrong, I know to where you aimed and you made it there 110%... but I must confess I HATED those bands that did Metal Pop back in the 80s :-)
I did love Van Halen to death, and still does, but they where something else.
Ratt? Toto? hated 95% of their material (tho I did love Warren Di Martini and Steve Lukather as guitar players).
This song here, no matter what my taste is, if it was written in the 80s, it would have been getting radio time for sure and (sadly) some success for the band :-)
Amazing how you did it... pfff
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I'd really love to have an album of all the music that you've written for these videos. You and all the people you surround yourself with are all so talented.
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Jake. This. Kicks. Ass. Nostalgia, check. Awesome guitar tones, check. Music theory support and explanation, check. This is really an example of amazing content, because it teaches and entertains. Really like how you put this together. Thanks!
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As a musician that was alive in the 80's, I can say it was a great nostalgic trip to the time I was listening to Poison, Motley Crue or Warrant on cassette tape. Great video, I know a lot of effort has been put into this.
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Dude you are classic! Great video!
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@MixolydianMode
4 years ago
I appreciate this.
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