"DARK MOD" - ORIGINAL STEEMIT GUITAR MUSIC! - MY FIRST GUITAR PLAYTHRU VIDEO!

So I've been saying for a while

I was going to start sharing some play through videos, I've just been so busy lately. I wrote this song about a week ago, and decided to record the guitar part as a little video demo (also so I don't forget the riff lol). As I start sharing more videos, I'm gonna be using DTube and Dsounds a lot more, I'm sick of Soundcloud and didn't really wanna use YouTube, but it uploads directly so it was easy, and it's just the 1st of many, so plenty of time to get it right. I also am going to be doing audio directly into my computer, so we can get a much better audio quality, plus the video.

Watch DARK MOD here.

This song is going to be a full track,

with bass and drums (probably do them on Ableton), but so far this is what I've finished. I like the format of the whole thing, we start and end with the same riff, which is a form I really like in this case, that intro/outro riff doesn't happen anywhere else in the song. We also change keys twice, playing in Dmajor and also Amajor/F#minor. I kind of happened upon that modulation by just playing two of the riffs I had written, and realizing they flowed together really nicely.

The intro riff is pretty simple,

a lot of downpicking, but the interesting part is that the riff is 5 measures of 4/4. This is kind of a Pixies move, makes anything that is just in 4/4 a little more interesting, as it takes an extra measure to resolve. The progression is Dmaj (with the III an octave higher), D5, G5, D/B (Bminor basically), A to Eminor then repeat. I wrote this riff a while ago, it kind of sounds Sonic Youth-esque to me.

Watch DARK MOD here.

The next riff is the A part

of the verse segment. So you can follow along, the form of the song is: Intro, A-Verse, Chorus, B-Verse, A-Verse, Chorus, Outro. The A-Verse begins on Gmaj7add9, then we move down playing F#, E, and down to Dmaj7add11. This plays twice, and then we move onto the Chorus.

The Chorus begins with

G#maj6, down to Fmaj6, so that resolves us to F#minor nicely. We then play F#, E, D (with some filler notes after D each time) two times, then F#, E, G (flat seven, I love the resolution this is part of) and ending of Amaj. The last chord is A#maj6 and moves us nicely into the B Verse section.

Watch DARK MOD here.

The B portion of the verse

is a similar shape to the A part, but definitely different chords. The first chord is BminorMaj6add9 I think? Haha it's a complicated chord, but then we slide down, like the A part, but playing A, G, and F#minor7add9 (similar chord to the one we begin on). This plays 2x then we play the A Verse part again, leading into the final chorus.

The last chorus is the same as the first

except for the ending. We end on a D#add9, which is dissonant and word, but the F in it moves us nicely to the F#, and the D# drops down to D, and we begin the outro riff, in D major, like the intro.

Watch DARK MOD here.

That's all for this one, hope you enjoyed my playthrough and the little walkthrough above. I'm gonna be doing a lot more videos, and I'm gonna make sure the audio situation with a direct line in is worked out for the next one, so it'll be the best possible quality. I'm also going to start tabbing/transcribing these (not sure which, maybe both) so I'll start sharing images of that for anyone interested in it.

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