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Thank you for saying that. I appreciate you, for being here and letting me know. I hope you have a fantastic day!

Thank you! I truly appreciate you saying that since the video took a long time and completely tanked haha. Yes! That's a great example. I use that on at least one of the remaining songs for the album. Maybe both.

Yes! Great suggestion! I actually do this a lot as well. Or I would sometimes also repeat the root note of the upcoming chord over and over and make it go from really quiet to louder. I think that builds nicely too. This is super valuable feedback. I will try to be a lot more clear on what I call attention to and when. I've actually noticed this before in older videos that I struggle with it too haha! It's so obvious to me in the moment, and I have the whole part/song clear in my head visually when I make these videos.. but then that fades with time, and I approach it with a fresh perspective, and can feel a little lost. So, I'm really glad you pointed that out, it's very helpful.

@@heitstrengningmusic Yeah it's a very common thing to have something obvious in your mind while working on it, but not so much when you get back to it later! I've experienced it too :) It can help having someone watch your video before release, if you don't wish to wait several days to "test" it yourself

@@sloenmusic Just having you bring it up is already a huge help! So, thanks again.

Hi Dektri! Thank you so much. I truly appreciate that. And right back at you. I took a look at your channel and I really like your guitar playing. Great work!

I'm glad you had fun Michael! Thanks for watching and have a great day.

Oh my nostalgia. Deckard Cain, is that you?!

Haha! Just embrace it!

Thank you for your comment! And for watching. Being open minded about music makes life and creativity so much more enjoyable, interesting and enriching if you ask me. Have a wonderful day!

I'm glad to hear I wasn't just amusing myself! Haha. Thanks for commenting.

Cool! I am not familiar with them but I have to check this out now. Thanks for telling me!

@@heitstrengningmusic thanks

Sure does! The potential is amazing. Haha, "but in a good way." Are there no good scenes in Twilight?! I think the first movie at least has some nice pacific northwestian atmosphere to enjoy! But yeah, that's pretty much it I guess.

@@heitstrengningmusic Lots of people like to hate on Twilight and I get it because the writing is not great but I honestly enjoyed the first one, especially the visual shots of the forests and the creepy soundtrack

@@jacobopstad5483 I am with you. I like the first movie alright for its overall mood and atmosphere.

Haha! Exactly. Yes.

I'm glad you think so!

Thank you for the nice words, and for watching. I hope you're having a wonderful day!

I'll have to listen to those! Thank you!

@@heitstrengningmusic The Frankie tunes actually might cheat a little and have either bridges or intros that veer off E, but it's amazing what they can do with 90% of the song in one chord. And they turned them into huge hits.

Hello there! Thank you so much for watching, and for the kind words! I hope you'll still be here for the release, it's about halfway completed, but most songs are (almost) written. Have a wonderful day!

@@heitstrengningmusic btw, I like how you made a list of features describing the music you were going to write; well, maybe it's a common practice, but the way you did it - I literally recognized myself, because I would do that for my visual art. I find it fascinating - describing something that is not brought to this world yet

@@8w6good8 I don't know if it's common actually. We discussed this a little on the Discord recently, as I was talking about a song idea I had and how I had the whole song in my head, and what I wanted all the different sections to be like, but I didn't have anything written yet. I got the impression there that this wasn't very common, at least among them. But I love that. I love how everyone's process is so different. So, I'm with you completely. It's very fascinating. I have a very clear picture of what I want to bring into this world usually, and the challenge is to get it as close as possible. Which is hard! Where can I see some of your visual art btw?

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Hi John! Thank you for your thoughts! I appreciate the input and that you took the time to share your thoughts. I would assume most CZcams viewers are non CZcamsrs anyway so there's definitely cred in your position as that, and as a music fiend haha. I'd like to think I've come some ways since this video, and I've been working on the things you've mentioned. The biggest struggle is by far having enough time between work and family to put out enough quality videos. I hope your day is going great, and it's always wonderful to see the CZcams algorithm do its thing (when it works)!

Haha! I also love its Opeth-esque quality.

Thank you so much for this! Finding enough time between work and family to keep making videos can be so hard. Comments like these give so much energy to keep going. And I'm pretty sure I'm speaking for all small CZcamsrs. Have an awesome day!

Thank you! And have a great day!

Whatever works for you! I've always felt like it's easiest to base it off of the minor scale. Indeed. It's a goldmine for those kinds of sounds!

@@heitstrengningmusic Well, for me, I don't plan to play with others so I don't need total scale mastery. I don't need duplicate names, either. So, I try to not memorize too much. Like maybe I'm weird but since the notes are identical, why call C major scale an A minor scale just because the chords are Am, Em and Dm? I mean, it's all the same notes. So why memorize 14 modes when you only need 7? That's my thought. Thanks for the vid though. It definitely gave me a reminder of how to get a vibe and something cool by restricting yourself to a scale type or mode etc. Cool stuff!!

@@TruthSurge Thank you. And yeah, you make a good point. So much of what's relevant depends on how we use the information and what our needs are.

I totally get it. Those are different skill sets, and being good at one doesn't mean it doesn't take conscious effort to get good at the other as well. What about writing instrumental music? Or go online and look for people to help you with the lyrics part? I'm sure there are tons of song/lyricwriters out there looking for someone to write them music for example.

I agree that three songs would be even better! But like you say, the amount of work it would take would be too much at the moment. I struggle to put out videos as it is, and I'm trying to write an album. But thank you for the nice words! I do however have another video on this scale if you're interested in more. It's called This Otherwordly Scale is Perfect for Eerie Heaviness (super catchy title, I know).

@@heitstrengningmusic You had me at 'eerie heaviness'. 😁

Thank you!

Hello there! Thanks for the comment. What part of the video is blowing your mind? I'm always super curious to hear about other perspectives on these things.

I am so sorry for your loss. But what a wonderful way to honor her. And thank you for taking the time to write this comment, and for sharing. The way you put it about putting another dirty dish in the sink is brilliant. I hope your day is going well!

Thank you kindly for the awesome comment! Birkenhead? That's Merseyside, right? Hope you're having a good evening, and absolutely, good luck to us all! We're all in this together after all.

I can relate to this! It's a great point you bring up actually, because if you don't make "copy paste" music, and things progress more linearly, and are written that way, it can be a true challenge to make edits or change parts around. When every idea is based on what happened just before. I have some challenges like that on my album I'm working on. And thanks for the nice comment! Always good to see you here!

@@heitstrengningmusic I hope you manage to see your tracks through! You need more stuff on streaming 👍

@@sloenmusic Thank you! I agree haha! If all goes well, it won't be too long until the next song is out.

Thank you! Not familiar with DBZ however, is that Dragonball maybe?

​@@heitstrengningmusic ​ Dragon Ball Z yes! I tried to find out which song it reminded me of, the more fitting one I was able to find is called ''The Strongest Guy in this World'' , starting around 0:20. The eerie vibe, while being an instrumental background music brought back the memory x)

@@olocippicolo Thank you! I'll have to check it out!

Thank you! I really love the sounds you can get from this scale, it's such a strange and eerie vibe.

@@heitstrengningmusic very good scale thank you for sharing.

Good to see you back! Hope all is well!

@@heitstrengningmusic - All is well thank you though not much to tell.

That's so awesome. I appreciate you letting me know! Have a wonderful day!

I love that you are beginning to revisit your music again after a year! For me, it's very helpful to take notes and organize the things I'm working on at the moment, to not get overwhelmed by all ideas and options I have accumulated. Thank you for the very nice comment, and it's good to hear someone else can relate as well. Best of luck with releasing the music! I would love to hear it!

Same here. Hope you can release something soon.

@@dektrimusic I promised myself I’d release one song this year! Hopefully I can hear your stuff too one of these days.

@@DJH3ARTL3SS I promised that too. It was one of my new year's resolutions. Almost half of the year is gone, but I have faith I'll finish one of my ideas by the end of the year.

Nice job!! And yes, yes you do! Best of luck!

Tack, antar jag. Haha!

Extremely relatable, to say the least! I'm glad someone enjoyed it! Haha. I often wonder if any of my attempts at being funny are ever noticed/appreciated!

I finally said the heck with it and use ez mix and ez drummer. It handles the tones and mixing and mastering. For an aspiring pro maybe not good enough but for a hobbyist or demos I think it works well. It also got rid of options paralysis. I know which tools I'll use. Sadly there is no ez practice and the recording part is still a pain.

@@JD-vj4go I agree! It works great for hobbyist, and relinquishing control of so many parameters can ease some of the stress in a way. As you say, get rid of option paralysis.

Thank you. Always good to hear I'm not the only one. I have but there aren't any where I live haha. And also, I really like working alone in that sense, in the comforts of my own space, and I like the feeling of having time to try things if I think of something. I think the added pressure of working in a studio would be hard for me. But, I am growing more and more interested in the idea. I am curious to hear the difference in the end result as well, for sure. I am definitely someone who would be completely happy with just writing songs, and outsource ALL the recording if I could.