Instrumental rock-metal recorded using EZDrummer 2

[valentinbk]

Hey folks, I’m Valentin, a lead guitarist-solo artist and I’m currently working on a project of guitar centered instrumentals with the genres varying from soft rock to heavy-prog metal.

I’ve recently moved to using EZDrummer 2 for my recordings. Very happy with the way it sounds and making drum parts is now a lot easier than it was.

Below are some of the tracks:
Insomnia (soft rock):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK_Md9XOtTU

Sandstorm (heavy-prog metal):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp0P4n6H-kg

Hope you’ll enjoy the music, and let me know what you think

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[valentinbk]

New release in the solo project – a melodic metal instrumental track

[Brad]

Clean and smooth, extremely well played. Nice simple, yet compelling visual, fits nicely with the music.
Bravo

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[valentinbk]

@Brad said:
Clean and smooth, extremely well played. Nice simple, yet compelling visual, fits nicely with the music.
Bravo  

Thanks Brad!

[valentinbk]

Hey folks, just recently released a new track in the solo project called “Open Season”. The style is somewhere between hard rock and old school heavy metal

As usual, EZDrummer 2 is my drum software on this one.

[Mark Grant]

Nice work Valentin,

I like the Harmonic Minor sounds on Sandstorm. At least I think it sounds Harmonic Minor.

Some very cool rhythm riffs later into the 3rd one. Heavy stuff but with a good groove.

I’ll try to check your latest one soon.

Good job with the drums too.

www.zeroempire.net

[valentinbk]

Mark Grant wrote:

Nice work Valentin,

I like the Harmonic Minor sounds on Sandstorm. At least I think it sounds Harmonic Minor.

Some very cool rhythm riffs later into the 3rd one. Heavy stuff but with a good groove.

I’ll try to check your latest one soon.

Good job with the drums too.

Thanks! Sandstorm is in Phrygian Dominant, a mode of it.

• This post was modified 5 years, 1 month ago by valentinbk.

[Mark Grant]

Phrygian Dominant, ok. I like it. Has that cool middle eastern sound to me

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• This post was modified 5 years, 1 month ago by Mark Grant.

[valentinbk]

Mark Grant wrote:

Phrygian Dominant, ok. I like it. Has that cool middle eastern sound to me

Oh yeah, it’s a really fun scale

[valentinbk]

Just put out a mini release with an extended, heavier ending for Open Season:

[valentinbk]

Hey folks, just got a new release out, this one is on the heavy-thrash side.
As usual, I got EZDrummer 2 (Modern Kit) for the drum sounds, and I used EZMix 2 for some compression on the master bus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJPKpQrwBeQ

Hope you’ll enjoy this one

[valentinbk]

Hey folks, just released a new one, also on the heavy-thrash side.

This one though is a little different from the usual ones. The drums here were programmed by Ryan Van Poederooyen (who did a phenomenal job), and I got the Metalheads expansion for the drum sounds here

Hope you’ll dig the result!

[valentinbk]

New track is now up, this one is more on the prog metal side.

Ryan Van Poederooyen programmed the drums on this one as well (and did quite an amazing job). Metalheads expansion for EZDrummer 2 was used for the sounds, for the most part based on Ryan’s actual kit (everything except for the snare).

Hope you’ll dig it

[valentinbk]

Hey guys, new track is here. This time I was aiming to do sort of a mix between alt rock and heavy metal, leaning more towards the heavy side. Huge emphasis on the bass part here. Ryan Van Poederooyen programmed the drums on this one too, and took it to directions I couldn’t even imagine.

Hope you’ll dig it

[ORanesteer]

Hello, Valentin. I am happy to find people like you on this forum. It’s not often you have to meet soloists here. I visited your YouTube channel, and I so sincerely like what you are doing. It sounds good and clean. I am a huge fan of metal, rock and so on. So I appreciate what you’re doing. From this day on, I am your fan and a subscriber to YouTube 🙂

Just a music lover and part-time developer at Andersen.

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