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How To: Make a Romantic Anime Intro Song

Let's be honest here. It's pretty much a post-hardcore song as well. As I said when I was writing this, it is one of my favorite songs I've ever written. I know that's something I say often, but I gue...

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This Week's Song [Free Early Download]

Mastered by SixteeninMono once again, here is "Drifter"! This is a more traditional Desert Level theme (although this is a guitar version to make it more interesting). I hope you guys enjoy! 

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Two plans for this week. ONLY THE MOST WORTHY SHALL BE CHOSEN

The original idea for this week was going to be a "How To: Make a Desert Level" theme. The fire/desert overworld song was fun, but I wanted to try something a little more "traditional" when it came to...

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How To: Make a Forest/Ruins Level Theme

Didn't realize I haven't posted this here yet. Shame on me and my forgetfulnes- what were we talking about? Anyways, I hope you all enjoyed this forest theme! It was really fun playing around with the...

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This Week's Song [Backing Track]


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This week's song [free download]

Bam! Here it is! This wasn't meant for this week, but inspiration hit me last night...so I made this song and the entire video in about a day. It's now one of my favorite songs I've written. Funny how...

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"Before the World Dies" (Non Guitar Version)

When making the backing tracks, I muted all of the guitars for fun and thought this sounded pretty interesting. I thought I would share it with you all! 

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A stockpile of backing tracks. Get em' while they're hot!

 Here are some backing tracks I've been meaning to make for quite awhile. Need something to jam to? Look no further! Want to hear how all the background stuff sounds without lead guitars and othe...

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This Week's Song [Early Free Download]

These next few songs are some of my favorites. Having more time to work on music has really been a relief. Lots more experimenting and implementing my own style. With that all being said, here's my fo...

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Upcoming Videos/Ideas!

 

Incoming more...good stuff (hopefully good stuff? I'm excited anyway!) So this week's video was a bit of a tough one, mainly because I had to decide between two ideas. One is "How To: Make a ...

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How To: Make a Haunted House Level Theme

This video grew much more than I thought it would. I loved the making of it, but I didn't expect people to like it nearly as much as a guitar video with a performance. It already has more views (and p...

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Future video/song plans!

Still working hard on being way ahead of schedule. Making my way to the ultimate goal (consistently 8 weeks ahead)! As I mentioned last week, you guys will be getting a "How-To: Make a JRPG Boss Theme...

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This Week's Song [Free Early Download] (Backing track coming soon)

This one is pretty damn exciting. Always love making battle-style themes and getting to throw some metal in. This is another one mixed and mastered by Sixteen in Mono, so you know the quality is good ...

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This Week's Song [Final Version Free Download]

I swear sometimes these titles sound like click bait torrents

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How To: Make a Fire/Desert Overworld Theme

WOAH 3 updates in a single night? That's crazy (it's actually because I've been composing stuff all this week whoops. I hope you enjoyed them nonetheless!).

This song was insanely fun to do, mainly ...

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Future song (sneak peek)

I mentioned this in the past, but the Fire/Desert Overworld theme was a means of getting some groove out. I have a more traditional Desert style theme coming, and I'm pretty excited. This will probabl...

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Plans for this week + Future plans

 

So as I mentioned last week, I'll be doing a "How To" on haunted house/ghost level music! Thank you all for your opinions on the track and percussion. Reworking that is currently the final st...

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I need an opinion on a track (if you guys are interested) [song sample]

I would just like to know which of these has better percussion. One is a slightly modified version of the other, but the difference should be clear. If you think the percussion itself is too harsh, fe...

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This Week's Song (Remastered) [Free Download]

(not clickbait)  (you won't believe this!)  (a song you don't want to miss!)  

(Shady Cicada HATES house centipedes??)

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Plans for this week (and next)

So as I mentioned already, this week will be a groovy desert/lava overworld theme. There's a lot of guitar and a lot of brass. My kind of deal. Sixteen in Mono is mixing/mastering it as well, so we ha...

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How To: Make a Space/Sci-Fi Level Theme

This one was some chill fun! I think the hardest part was actually attempting to learn the song on keyboard. I'm still kind of a newbie at it, but these How-To's have definitely helped me get some pra...

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Sneak Peek of a future song! Opinions are welcome [Free Download]

Hey, guys! So progress is going well in terms of getting myself ahead of schedule. Today, I was supposed to make a grassy overworld theme......so....here's a haunted house theme! The second half has d...

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Update about this week and next

So for this week, I created a song for a Desert/Fire Overworld theme. It's one of my new favorites, and because of that, I want to get it professionally mixed/mastered. This means it will be delayed u...

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This week's song and next week preview [Free Early Download]

I'll be making a post in just a minute, but the song that was meant for this week will have to be delayed. It's a new favorite of mine, but because of that, I'd like to get it remastered so it can be ...

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Plans for this week's video (+ future ideas)

 

I actually had a bit of trouble deciding what to do for my first 2018 video. I decided to experiment with a desert/lava style over world theme. More on the groovy/gruff side of things (think ...

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How To: Make a Christmas Metal Song

This was a strange idea. I don't even know why I decided to go through with it. I ended up loving the chorus and the second half of the song more than I should have. I might even use them for future p...

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This Week's Song Download [Finally!] + Backing Track

It took forever, but here it is. Because it's a video solely based on the channel, I don't expect it to do amazingly. But if it DOES, I'll consider getting it mixed by SixteeninMono. I hope you all en...

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Setlist for this week's video!

 

It's 9:03 a.m and I just finished tracking all the guitars the way I want them. I still need to sleep and make the video before the sun goes down. I was supposed to send you guys the song las...

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Confirmation on this week's plans (Song download coming later today)

Hey, guys! As I said last week, I'm planning to see this year out with a medley of some of my originals (How-To's). The medley is currently over 9 minutes (it might end up even longer. Ohhh boy). Maki...

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How To: Make a Final Boss Level Theme!

I almost forgot to throw this one up! This is probably one of my favorite songs I've written all year. Unfortunately, I was hit with that little "non ad-friendly" symbol and views/comments suddenly st...

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