How to Write a Green Day Song

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this is a new version of my "How to Write a Green Day Song" video from Dec. '20. this one is better.
In this video, I break down the Green Day sound and create an original copycat Green Day song from scratch! I talk about chord progressions, vocal melodies, guitar and bass tones, the drum sound, and the production techniques that make Billie and the boys sound like themselves. Enjoy!
Stream "The Revolution": bit.ly/3BVMvHu
Leave a comment and let me know which artist I should do next! ⬇️
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0:00 Intro
2:20 Tré Cool’s Drum Sound
4:17 Mike Dirnt’s Bass Tone
5:26 Billie Joe Armstrong’s Guitar Tone
6:41 Full Band Demo
7:08 The Vocals’ Sound & Lyrics
9:22 Breaking Down the Song
10:24 Billie Joe and the Flat 7 Chord
12:00 Tre’s Drumming Style
12:57 Mike’s Playing Style
14:01 Verse 1
14:53 Chorus
17:57 Verse 2
18:45 Bridge Pt. 1
19:52 Bridge Pt. 2
22:12 Guitar Solo
23:28 End of Song
24:29 Full Song - “The Revolution”
27:37 Outro
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@decorativewingdings 7 ай бұрын

21:36 im now imagining all the gang vocals being the obnoxiously high one

@MorganTC Жыл бұрын

The intro muting of the strings reminds me of Forever Now off Revolution Radio which is fucking badass

@jimmyintheskyband 2 жыл бұрын

Good job! I love the flat 7 chord synopsis. This makes so much sense and really fits the green day style. Great breakdown of "why" you did what you did. Makes sense to me.

@RenatoBorgesMth 2 жыл бұрын

I don’t understand a lot about music, but Green Day is definitely underrated. I agree with you. My music teacher said that American Idiot is as great as any album of The Beatles. He’s probably exaggerating, but we can agree on his point about the band being underrated.

@amesoeurs 2 жыл бұрын

This video fucking rules man, you gotta keep making them. Maybe Nirvana? QotSA would be very interesting. Particularly enjoy your music theory parts and how you create chord progressions in certain styles.

@elizabest007 4 ай бұрын

I agree they are undervalued.

@danielsolano330 2 жыл бұрын

Great video, mate. I just wanna say a couple things: 1. The falsetto oohs are actually very common in punk, The Ramones and Bad religion did them even before Green Day. 2. I think “Blue Night" would've been a cool fake Green Day name. 3. I absolutely loved it how you moved your arms like BJA during the bridge, kudos for that. Anyway, I hope you keep making these kind of videos, they're always a good time for me. If you're taking requests... I know halloween is over but I'd like a Misfits video. I'd die to hear you make your best attempt at a Danzig impression.

@EricAmesmusic 2 жыл бұрын

thanks for the feedback my man!!

@WublerDublerCubler Жыл бұрын

It would be red if you inverted the colors actually

@juliendammert7488 2 жыл бұрын

Great videos. I started with the Foo fighters one and continue with this one. I really like the breakdown part. And your songs too. Thank you for them.

@joewilliams5396 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks to Ali Spagnola & your colab, I'm here. I was impressed.

@Andy-cz4xw 2 жыл бұрын

the jazz bass is solid for the earlier stuff. it reminds me of the Gibson Grappler/Grabber that dirnt used.

@anadebarros 6 ай бұрын

This is better than what Green Day is doing lately. They should hire you next time.

@Zerroo1945 4 ай бұрын

You mean Saviors?

@elihartsoe6718 2 жыл бұрын

agree with your stance on tre cool. so underrated and an amazing drummer

@DigitalGringo 2 жыл бұрын

I was listening to this at work and went to subscribe and I cant believe you only have 2k subscribers and 900 views keep it up homie this is good stuff

@davidbutler1209 2 жыл бұрын

Its awesome! Do a song in the kirplunk sounding era of gd....

@CallingAllFreaks 2 жыл бұрын

Very very helpful man! Much appreciated. Great breakdown of why you did what you did. I, similarly started guitar mostly because of Green Day and my guitar teacher started by teaching me nearly half of American Idiot. Also similarly I'm a one-man band in terms of I produce (although I mostly produce for rap/dancehall), play guitar, bass, drums, piano, and a bunch of misc band and foreign instruments... Heh, it's a little tough now to keep up with practicing them all... I haven't really told anyone but I wanna tell you. I just started writing a pop/rock/punk/emo/metal fused project inspired by the mid-late 90's. So oh my gosh this is soooo helpful for understanding what I'm partially aiming for right now. So again, much appreciated for the effort you put in and I hope there'll be more from you. I'm subscribing.

@Peakyblinderspeakseries Жыл бұрын

8:47 it was a very fitting voice for a blink-182 song

@TheLucyblades 2 жыл бұрын

Came here from Ali's video. You've got real talent!

@dieguis6598 Жыл бұрын

Luigi finally escaped the green Mario title and found his calling with music.

@mouse.in.my.pocket 2 жыл бұрын

Enjoy this type of content. Thanks!

@nouveaumanifesto 2 жыл бұрын

the bass line reminded me alot of dirnts playing style, probally the best Mike sounding line I've heard, definitely sounds like green day to me, bass sounds a little more like the dookie era however

@brunovaz91 5 ай бұрын

Amazing work, dude! You nailed it!

@alejandrosoria7862 Жыл бұрын

I love the result, it's great🎉🎉

@IsraeliGovernment Жыл бұрын

tingles dude, very Rev. Radio vibes for me! very well done!

@AleZayas 2 жыл бұрын

Great video. A lot of insight for people looking to sound more like Green Day or take the parts that they like the most from them to use it in their own music.

@nichasatummyache2510 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely love this. I wouldn't say it sounds like dookie. Sounds more like if Uno Dos and Tre had a lovechild with dookie. no complaints though it's a totally capable green day song

@dylanhope7450 2 жыл бұрын

This is great bro

@kevinrowe6902 9 ай бұрын

very impressive. I would have put this down as rev radio b side if I did not see you make it in front of me.

@alejandroguerra7561 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing video my man, I´m subscribing

@dominique1974cool 2 жыл бұрын

wow

@drdlehrsch32 2 жыл бұрын

Eric, I really enjoyed this! I, like you, started playing guitar and “singing” primarily because of Green Day…I definitely don’t sound anywhere near BJ compared to you, but definitely patterned a lot of my “singing style” by listening to Green Day. There are many things you mentioned throughout this video that I completely resonated with! You should check out some of my covers if you feel so inclined as it seems we have a lot of commonality in terms of musical tastes. Again, great video…I subscribed and look forward to checking out some of your other content👍

@EricAmesmusic 2 жыл бұрын

I'll check your stuff out! I'm glad this video resonated with you. thanks for the sub :)

@virtualsmartdesignllc247 Жыл бұрын

Great 🎉video Dude! Big talent… you are a crack!

@stefankorner9007 Жыл бұрын

Sounds a lot like deadbeat holiday, Church on sunday and Android to me, maybe in all that Songs are pretty distinctive green day elements.

@RoraighPrice 2 жыл бұрын

you should do what if the freinds theme was made by Green day

@LogansMediaHub 2 жыл бұрын

You sound like a mix of Billie and tom Petty but it matches the song well good job.

@guitarist2463 2 жыл бұрын

Actually, Jason White played on the trilogy. According to Billie on Cuatro, Jason is in the right channel while he's on the left. I'm sure they both played lead too. Billie did the Fuck Time solo and Jason did the Stop When The Red Lights Flash one, when I saw the clips of them recording.

@EricAmesmusic 2 жыл бұрын

oh shit, I didn't know that. thanks for the info! that's neat

@guitarist2463 2 жыл бұрын

@@EricAmesmusic no problem. It's pretty hard to tell. Billie was the only guitarist on the studio for all the successful albums.

@Kinseliplier 2 жыл бұрын

I like that other fake green day song you did with steve terryberry.

@kabukijoe99 9 ай бұрын

You are good at GD music

@kevinkibble8342 Жыл бұрын

Just play it tuned half a step down and it could easily be mistaken for being the real thing!

@mangrangpordung8883 2 ай бұрын

Can you teach us how to write cool lyrics like greenday

@saultfry501 Жыл бұрын

I think you sound more like Mark Hoppus from blink-182 than Billie Joe, still a great voice!

@jacestephenweatherall1732 Жыл бұрын

Good job but What about Jason White guitar?

@theanthillmob1989 2 жыл бұрын

Great Job! You sound more like Green Day than what Green Day do now! They have sadly lost their way of late with virtually no energy left in their new material. This song is a great nod to the peak of their career.

@kingkyan104 Жыл бұрын

Do you have a more detailed video on the flat 7 chord?

@Glitch_foldy 11 ай бұрын

We have a same name

@AMedia-xf8zf Жыл бұрын

Sounds like Billie Joe. Rocks a stache like Freddie Mercury. Yea you’re good.

@KerimCovers 8 ай бұрын

Amazing work, I always come back to this video to learn more! Im working on a project where Imma write my own song in the style of Green Day, Im already stuck on the drum fills. Is there a way to write drum fills in Tre Cool's style with a mouse in Pro Tools ?

@EricAmesmusic 8 ай бұрын

I think drum fills primarily come down to knowing the drums + knowing how you like to input drum MIDI info. So really any way can work!

@KerimCovers 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for the reply my dude! Your video is helping me out so much! I figured out the drum fills thing today, not a problem anymore! But I really do need help with the sounds / tones. I heard that you said in your video that you used Superior Drummer, which Imma get probably later, but how did you get that Tre Cool drum sound ? Is it a preset that's ready ? Or you had to make it from scratch (Please don't be the latter x) ) And Im trying BIAS FX 2 to get the Green Day'ish modern guitar sound!

@EricAmesmusic 8 ай бұрын

@@KerimCovers hahah I did make it from scratch. I could probably upload the SD3 preset into Drive and link it in the description.

@KerimCovers 8 ай бұрын

@@EricAmesmusic Yes please! You would be doing me A HUGE FAVOR 🙏!! Also I can't get over the fact of how you literally nailed the very core essence of Green Day! The sounds, the vocal adlibs, the solo, the theme etx... literally everything is perfect! I hope I can make something close to this, right now Im tryna figure out the main chords/melody of the song, on which Im gonna build the rest, I tried many riffs but still can't decide nor imagine how the entire thing is gonna play out! Also I wanted to ask, in your case did you start by writing the melody first and used it as a "base" to build the rest of the song? Or did you write your lyrics first and adapted everything else to it? Sorry for the long comment tho, the project Im working on is part of my studies, so I have to take this so seriously x) !

@maureendeloffi Жыл бұрын

Hey, weird! This song sounds just like Green Day! 😂

@Kinseliplier 2 жыл бұрын

26:27 how do you do that effect with your mic? That sounds cool. I've heard that in a lot of music.

@EricAmesmusic 2 жыл бұрын

I discuss it around 20:18!

@Kinseliplier 2 жыл бұрын

@@EricAmesmusic oh

@Kinseliplier 2 жыл бұрын

@@EricAmesmusic how did you do it live at the end though. did you just edit the sound of the video.

@EricAmesmusic 2 жыл бұрын

@@Kinseliplier none of the end of the video was live! I was just lip-syncing to the track.

@Kinseliplier 2 жыл бұрын

@@EricAmesmusic oh

@skippydinglechalk8000 2 жыл бұрын

i played with greenday look up 16 year old greenday

@kaylajohnson4867 2 жыл бұрын

12:55 - it’s a very “very cool” thing

@EricAmesmusic 2 жыл бұрын

lol, I said it's a "very Tre Cool thing"!

@kaylajohnson4867 2 жыл бұрын

@@EricAmesmusic I was making a play on how tre cool’s name means “Very cool” 😆

@EricAmesmusic 2 жыл бұрын

@kayla johnson totally went over my head 😅

@doriancroatia2054 2 жыл бұрын

if only FOAM sounded like that...

@EricAmesmusic 2 жыл бұрын

lol

@boilingoden7984 2 жыл бұрын

I think your voice definitely can sound like Billie's, but I don't think it sounds much like his in the song.

@EricAmesmusic 2 жыл бұрын

I feel like I can really only do his voice when I'm directly trying to emulate his voice from one of their songs. it's so much harder to do it in a context like this.

@boilingoden7984 2 жыл бұрын

@@EricAmesmusic I get what you mean, yeah. You're super talented and very skilled as a musician, it's impressive that you could do something like this at all. Props to you!