Great video! Couple of questions about your recording process if you don't mind- did you take a MIDI version of the drums from a tab and give that to Superior Drummer, or what did you pass to Superior Drummer? What did you do for the bass track? Finally, are the guitars double-tracked here or is that just the stereo Line 6 Helix giving that width I'm hearing in the guitar? Really enjoyable to watch, man!

Stephen Eggerton from the Descendents was my longtime favorite guitarist until I heard Ian

I do think he is brilliant at what he does but I also think if more guitarists would improvise more during their first years of practice, they would more likely become a riff writer like Ian. Cause all he does is playing intuitively when you only have one guitar but still need to play melody and rythm at the same time. It's simple on the one hand if you're familiar with it but not so simple if you've never practiced doing that.

@@klamin_originalI'm a musician who's struggling to incorporate that amazing lead aspect that Ian puts into his riff writing, any tips on how I can get there, like some sort of practice that will be useful, if there's any scales he often uses that sort of thing. Thanks man, just asking because you seem knowledge about achieving this sort of lead rhythm

@@remingtonr717 playing in dropped D is the first step to success I’d say, the easiest part is playing a dropped power chord with your index finger and then trying to add harmonies and melody with your remaining fingers. I played some easier metalcore in my early days and that’s how I learned to play rhythm and a “kind of” lead at the same time. And that’s going to enable you to play some Billy Talent songs already in my opinion and as far as I remember it. But yeah, try it, dropped D power chords and then add harmonies with your remaining fingers and that will eventually lead you to intuitively figuring out finger sets for different chord targets. As Ian said he doesn’t really know what he’s playing because he’s probably playing with reference points and interval memory so to speak. I can relate to that, you know where important harmonies or notes are and you know the matching fret intervals of harmonies but you wouldn’t actually know the chord or note you’d be playing while playing or coming up with ideas. I never learned any scales although it certainly would’ve been helpful, but you can achieve all this without knowing scales just by knowing your reference points and harmony intervals on your fretboard. But that’s nothing you usually learn in theory, you pick it up while playing around. And sometimes it also helps to just try to play single notes for lead before adding the harmonies later. Sometimes a melody has to come naturally like a singing voice and later you add the choir basically ;) You can also try that with Fallen Leaves, it goes quite well without the harmonies and just a single note melody line. Finding the proper harmonies later is just some finger work but not as demanding as writing a melody with alle the harmonies already included.

@@klamin_original thanks so much man for the write up, will start playing around with drop d, Iv always stuck around in E/Eb

I remember that game too! I found out about them when my cousin gave me Billy Talent II on CD for my birthday. Love that album. My mind was blown when Red Flag was in an SSX game because I love those games. I just saw them here in St. John’s maybe a couple weeks now. Wicked show! They did an encore and Red Flag was actually the last song they did.

I heard them in Burnout Legends :D

Loved to play this game / gem with my little brother 😁

Ian is the man, hes always been a favourite of mine! Glad you enjoyed thanks so much :)

Agreed! Its actually crazy how many bands are from here that slip under the radar elsewhere!

Three Days Grace, Saint Asonia, Arkells, Bryan Adams, Rush, Nickelback, Streetheart, Sum 41, April Wine, Theory of a Deadman, The Tragically Hip, Art of Dying, Finger Eleven, Evans Blue, Harem Scarem, Danko Jones, Prism, Gob, Thornley, Big Wreck, Big Sugar, The Tea Party, Default, and The Trews. That's almost 30.

@@SwanStudiosTM can’t forget our lady peace !!

Silverstein !

@@SwanStudiosTM nickelback huh?

Absolutely-there are tons of extremely well-known people that are called “underrated,” but your use of the word is very appropriate here. 👊🏻

never will as long as youtube doesnt haha! here to stay!

I agree with this so much! A few years ago when I was in my mid 20's I listened to Rusted from the Rain again, during a very bad period of my life and the song did what nothing and no one else could at the time: Release all those pent up emotions in one big session of crying. Still love the song to this day and nowadays the band is really inspiring me to pick up a guitar and play. Their stuff sounds incredible and looks damn fun to play.

Yes Ian D’Sa is a monster on guitar his riffs are so unique and distinguishable!

Not experience, more dedication. But once you got those down most other things become very reachable. Except for metal. There isn't anything super fast in Billy Talent Songs - but man everything is so fun.

I find it’s the chords that Ian throws together that now it so hard, so many muted strings and odd shapes can be trouble at first, he’s very unique

Thanks for watching!:)

Jimmy Hendrix perhaps, but totally diffrent but you said history soo 😉

@@nightwing5405 true in a way, but many have "copied" him or just used his style, it's great but approachable. i still don't hear anyone remotely sounding and playing like ian d'sa

Yeah man ive always really enjoyed it as well. Glad you enjoyed though thanks so much, lots more on the way!:)

Tried my best thank you!:)

Fun fact about Covered in Cowardice, it is actually the title track of the Billy Talent II album despite them not having the same titles. If you can’t figure it out I’ll tell you why 😎

Same here thanks for the kind words! Your great as well stay in touch!:)

Thank you so much! Stay in touch man!

Couldnt agree more. His style is so distinctive to me at this point, the way he always incorperates chords with melody notes is so unique imo! Thanks for watching Mike!:)

Thanks so much man! But you got me there sp true it was actually one of the last cuts i made for this vid! Billy talent ii in particular was hard for me to make cuts for cause almost every song has a really good base riff at least. Thanks for watching!:)

Thank you kindly!:)

Glad you enjoyed Rich and thanks! Lots more coming soon!

Thanks so much for watching!😊

Glad you enjoyed !:)

Thanks so much Michael , appreciate it brother 🤘

@@cameronfarrellguitar great playing man. Such an underrated band

Thanks Tyler!!

thanks tried my best to capture ians tone!

Thank you!:)))

Hey thanks man means alot! Yeah so many great bands actually come from canada its great!

Your the best bro!:)

Tried my best! Lots more on the way stay in touch🤘🏼

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Thanks so much stay in touch!🤘🏼

@@cameronfarrellguitar Sure👍

Thank you very much Anthony!!

Thanks for the comment Bey!

Thanks man could say the same for you! Lots more coming!:)

I tried brother thanks so much!:)

Thank you!:)

Your the best man, salutes from Ontario! Stay in touch man, love your taste!☺️

Glad you think so! thanks bro!:)

Its actually just an eddie van halen cheapy copy haha! Thanks for the kind words though!:)

thanks so much, I love those bands too! :)

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Thanks man much appreciated!:)

Thank you so much!:)

@@cameronfarrellguitar You're welcome!