There is unironically nothing more comforting as a songwriter than watching Misha screw up chords or play a part too loud while tracking something. Reminds me that even absolute machines have to fiddle around to get stuff to sound right

that moment when his first draft of an idea has a better mix than something you’ve spent weeks on

I don't think I've ever seen a better behind-the-scenes look at creating music. Thank you so much for the vulnerability of doing this in front of an audience!

You could have your own Bob Ross type show. This is great.

That's such a beautiful motif Misha! Very excited to watch it develop, thank you for this valuable content 😍

This is probably one of the most useful contents on youtube that almost nobody shares Thank you very much Misha, you are amazing man!

In the past couple of months I’ve hit a rut in guitar. Recently I invested in a mini home studio set up MacBook Pro, Scarlett 2i2, monitors. Got Bias FX for guitar & GGD Modern & Massive for drums and it has breathed new life in my song writing and guitar in general. These types of videos give me inspiration to write. I’ve been learning as much as I can about working in a daw, mixing, programming drums and etc through this KZfaq channel. THANK YOU @getgooddrums @mishamansoor

27:10 Misha: Let's see if we can expand on this! *starts tuning his guitar but his audio is fastened* Me, who wasn't looking at the screen: He brought a mandolin?!

Misha Mansoor mumbles and plays guitar - The Movie!

Generous genius at work. Anyone else agree?

Its really nice to see your heros and inspirations as just a normal player outside of the music videos and live videos ,it in a way puts them down to your level and you feel like "holy hell I could do that" it really shows you just need comitment to a riff no matter how basic

I'm not even a musician so I don't know what I'm doing here, but this is so fascinating to watch.

This is awesome! I kind of feel like I am watching Bob Ross paint some happy little trees🌲. Misha room painting some happy little soundscapes

I have been waiting for this type of video, from this very person, for so long. such an inspirational writer to me.

having just purchased your Modern & massive pack this masterclass series timing is perfect! Thank you!

I love this video! It kinda reminds me of the 2 hour challenge Devin Townsend did a while back. Misha, thank you for sharing your process. This definitely inspired me.

Holy shit misha. You have no idea how much i needed this. Thanks man. Seriously.

that tone with that effect gives me p1 vibes in beginning.

Didn't even watch the video before liking it, whatever this is I'm here for it

I've never been so excited for an upload!

"The two count, I can make it!" This is me every time oh god oh fuck

This may be the most important video on youtube, thank you 🙏

Can’t wait for the next Part! It makes me really lucky to see that also a genius like Misha works with trial and error. Love it.

This really is very harmonically interesting. Loving how it is turning out. By the way, I have been struggling with awful piano rolls to sequence drums since 2006, and your deep dives into Cubase caused me to finally switch over and I love it. It's honestly got the best drum editor I've ever used, so thanks a ton for your tips man.

Thank God For this. Sometimes it gets way to easy to hear a finished project from an artist and just assume they spot the whole thing out in one full stream of consciousness without any effort at all. Like the song was written in 10 minutes

I've been trying to piece together how to write, mix, and master on my own for awhile now. This is hands down the best source I've found. There is so much great concepts and ideas. Thank you so much for this! I sincerely appreciate it.

It's definitely comforting to know Misha goes about songwriting and everything the same as me and many other. If only I had a decent recording tone, a bass and confidence in my audio engineering skills, maybe I'd stop scrapping ideas and produce some good material like this haha Sounds really good, Misha. Could imagine this as some sort of Interlude, possibly on your solo album? Look forward to the next parts!

Thank you for sharing this process. So interesting to see Cubase being used so fluidly. Seeing you program the drums in there so quick and easy really has me excited to get stuck into trying it. Love your work

this is so cool, so happy you released this! cant wait for part 2 and 3!

Thanks for doing this. Every time I get stuck, I come watch your vids for inspiration. I think you've single-handedly been the biggest catalyst for my growth in the studio over the last several years. I've learned more from you than I have through Berklee at this point.

Awesome to see an absolute champ at work. Good and interesting to see how you draw the line on what needs to be properly done in the writing process and what is just part imperfection of the writing and to keep the creative juice flowing! A lot still to learn for me!

This absolutely just made my Friday! Thanks Misha and GGD crew!

Misha amazing work you're doing for the rest of the musicians/producers, We love the way yo do music so thank you so much for treasures like this.

Currently writing some stuff, this helped me a lot, more so because of what other people said, that being that even top musicians like yourself (in my opinion) fiddle around and mess up sometimes. Thank you. 🎹🎸🌹

i try to avoid trial and error the best i can, but i cannot deny that for the amount of songs misha produces, this is probably the most efficient way

This is exactly what I do when I sit down with a guitar, an idea, and my DAW. I intermingle musical ideas with mixing and getting the sounds right in my head. I flesh it out from there. So many say to save the mixing until after pre-production. Nope, not me. I have most of the mixing already done with the song is complete. Then I spend a little time with final mixing tweaks. Great video!

This is why I love songwriting; there's nothing more satisfying than taking a simple musical idea and hearing it come to life in the form of a song.

the jam reminds me of the band Toska w/ Rabea Massad. cool stuff

This is great. So many artists I know get caught up on having to do everything perfectly the first time and can never get the concept that what you hear from bands is just the end product of a lot of hard work and trial and error. Good bands don't just "wing it" every performance.

Dude, of all the cool stuff in here... swapping he left and right rhythm tracks to make prevent some of that copy paste feel when the guitars repeat is the dopest lol. Never once crossed my mind to do that before

Misha: I just wanted to say thanks a thousand times for this. I have been playing for years and years, and as silly as it sounds. I had no idea how a song was constructed without other people to build it with. You saved the day!!

Misha I wanted to tell you that the third Periphery album emotionally devastated me, and it will inspire my band to create more complex and nuanced music. In my opinion, you contribute madly well to the development of overall music. Now I am checking what you have to offer in your songwriting masterclass. Let's go!

This is so amazing. I kind of followed in his footsteps (compositionally, not the recording and mixing part), and my extremely basic riff started sounding more dynamic and melodically richer.

The content we need in our lives

Man, this is so cool to watch. Thanks for doing this Misha!

I love this video cause it's so honest and unpolished!

Oh my God, this is content I didn't know I needed in my life! Misha, this is genius bro, please do some more! It's so helpful to get a look into your creative process! Thank you!

Finally! I've been waiting for this topic from Misha for a long time. Super top ✊

Thank you so much Misha for letting us see how you create masterpieces. They all start somewhere. Also shows us that we have to try and try again until it works. Brilliant

Dude this was released on my birthday so I know its a sign I am on my break of being a songwriter. This is really informative and it's great. Made me less insecure about my songwriting while giving me new techniques. Thank you! This is what I have been needing.

Id expect to pay at least 100$ for this quality of masterclass

Looking forward for part 2 and 3! I recommend to anyone watching this to also check out The Devin Townsend Challenge

I'd hate to draw any attention from the brilliant display of creativity and workflow, but Misha's got some forearms!

I don’t have time to fiddle around with a song for hours. That’s why I made a system that boiled down my songwriting process to minutes and cranks out what I’d already do. Using D&D dice. But I’m not making huge prog songs either.

The video we have all been waiting for.. Thank you soo much, The insight you have provided is priceless. Also thanks for letting us hang with you while you write.

Wow not only is this really helpful to me but now I have that intro stuck in my head, very haunting yet beautiful at the same time. Really excited for pt 2 and 3 and the finished song!

This is cathartic af. Love it

This is awesome man keep it coming. I really need to get the hang of the drum programming and break away from sample libraries

Misha when is the next part? such an amazing stuff. And this melody... hands down

Misha's posture during this is impressive AF

Misha. Thanks so so much for this. I've been destroying myself confidence with my writing as I had convinced myself I was doing it all wrong. But this vid is an object demonstration of how I write ( albeit at a much lower quality and lower technical and musical ability). Come up with a hook/motif and build from there. I just need to massively improve the quality of my motifs and harmony knowledge.... MASSIVELY. Thanks again. Inspiring to watch.

14:12 someone was creeping on him lol

Just from the title I know I can already press the like button. Excited to see this!

a straight *4/4* groove passed by 14:13

Cool Great stuff

Beautiful Holdsworth flavors in that motif 🙌🏻

Great validation for me seeing similar ways of recording song making process and comfort that I’ve been heading in the right direction with some of my ideas. Thanks so much. Can’t wait for parts 2 and 3!

I literally began to cry 2 mins into the video I don't if it was just ineffably beautiful or what

Thanks for this, can't wait to see how it turns out.

This is so refreshing! Makes me feel better that I do a lot of what he does so I don't feel like such a cheater anymore haha!

Ive been looking up song writing vids nd subbed to a couple channels just last night! Delighted to see this in my feed today.

Getting some Toska vibes from that clean melody! Looking forward to watching the other parts.

9 min in and im so ready to try sound software, thx for being so transparent.

This makes me incredibly happy, can't wait for the other 2 parts

Misha you are a genius really. It is creazy how good you are at all you do.

i was intimidated to learn daw about 6 months ago, now i feel like i am finally at least really improving and actually learning, this is tough, not easy at all but i love playing around with drums and keyboards, now i feel like i have a whole other dimension of sounds and ideas to play with as opposed to just jammin my guitar

This has absolutely inspired me. Seeing your brain work and how this process goes for you has taken so much anxiety away about getting started with recording. I'm really excited to start tracking things and hopefully will have an EP ready by next year. Periphery was my inspiration to take guitar playing seriously, and to start learning singing and harsh vocals. If I ever make any sort of contribution to the metal scene, I would cite your band as my biggest influence.

wow thanks for this. an awesome look into your process!

You make it look so easy man. Huge fan since the soundclick days.

20:15 That's an interesting idea. I usually write with guitar pro just so I'm focused on what I'm writing. I'm not thinking about "I want more repeats on my delay" or "My tone isn't right". But that does mean that some parts come through sounding emotionless and robotic. And that kind of hinders my writing sometimes. I can't think of what I want to come next or what to add when what I am listening to isn't even hitting me like it's supposed to.

I think I’ll get GGD when I wake 2mrw...really good sounding. Coming from EZdrummer 2 #lockdown

Im taking a break from my own songwriting to watch this ;) I do electronic stuff though.

This series is great, thank you! Would really love to see you do this sort of thing with a heavy Haunted Shores-y style track next.

It just came on the right time. I want to make an album for fun an it is very good starting point for me. Thanks Misha!!

You also can begin this song with an mystical violinsection and than a halftime feel (maybe some vague latin percussion blocks with a filter on it), than after 4 times your drumprogramming now (and accent the last 2 notes on splashes, aka question-answer in musical terms) and 5 over 3 polyrythm pattern for tension at the end of each phrase...And a countermelody in long sounds build up.... Just an idea that pops up in my head man, you inspire us, great stuff you show!!! ;) Thanks man! Cheers from The Netherlands, Jeroen Simons, Independent, ex- Epica. Ps. I dropped your (And Nollies) name at Warren Huart, Produce like a Pro... I like to connect dots in that way too..;)

This is GOLD. Thank you Misha!

i enjoyed when you were trying sincapated palm muting before the open chords to match the high hat, very animals as leaders! I dig the vibe, super dark and moody with a really open ended resolution, could tackle this so many diffrent ways

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I love this stuff. I've wondered why a lot of awesome musicians dont make a handful more videos like this.

Absolutely love that you guys did a series like this. Looking forward to more stuff like this.

PART 2 please! I just recently started learning how to program drums and stuff and this is definitely helpful.

Thanks for this, Misha. I always look forward to watching your production videos.

Thank you for the video and thanks a lot for Misha as well, this video gives me motivation to continue music as a guitarist and composer. Cheers.

What a fantastic video showing the recording process. Thanks so much for the insight into your way of thinking Misha! :-)

Thanks Misha looking forward to the next part !!!!!!! 😀😎😀

Glad I came across this. Cool to see your using Cubase, and this awesome content! Ty. Your efficiency with the drum editor will hopefully rub off on me... nice!

"The 2 count. I can make it". LOL!!!! I feel that.

Always late to the party but love these vids. Thanks Misha GGD is awesome.

This first part with just guitar is giving major Boards of Canada feels.

Beautiful way to doble track at the end hahaha. Love u Misha