How to make Post-Punk

Do you think hardcore

punk

is too fast and dumb? Is the world around you a crumbling disaster, sending you spiraling into depression? Are you still mourning the death of Bella Lugosi? Do you want to write slow, danceable songs that can be played with echo? cave full of bats you just described my life so let me take your hand and lead you down a dark path to the bleeding heart of

post

poned is a

punk

rock musical genre that emerged from the darkest place known to man in the United Kingdom a musical genre with heavy emphasis on dark imagery drowned in reverb and is one of the most essential musical genres in goth culture indie music and fashion stores selling joy division products

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punk is a major departure from its usual punk roots and draws heavily from measured in the British glamrock and pop art scene, as well as industrial reggae and disco, while visually and lyrically taking elements from avant-garde influences such as modernist art philosophy, left-wing politics, film and literature, alternatively, its pants elegant are terripunk, so the easiest way to describe post punk is to imagine the opposite of punk instead of being fast, loud and angry, it's slow, catchy and melancholic instead of screaming voices, it's emotional singing in instead of an energetic drummer, it's a steady dance drum instead of being rift based, it's driven by bass and melody instead of overly distorted guitars, it's a lot of clean, mid-gain guitars hey guys, check this out , look at this guitar, look at this distortion bezel, let's

make

rock and roll, hell yes, distortionists, rather conformists, the only thing that both genres have in common is the DIY sound and aesthetics, having many low quality productions and, sometimes. that minimalist post punk style of playing is also a counter move to the british punk scene which actually became too commercial.

It also didn't help that sex pistols became dirty on TV, what's that because all that chewy punk stops being taken seriously. Some bands had to change their sound while hardcore punk returned to the underground anyway, post punk emerged in 1978 with bands like wire susie and the banshee and public image limit the leather band formed by xx pistol vocalist and now traitor punk rock's jolly watan their debut albums help set the stage for the sound and aesthetic of post punk to go mainstream with songs like Hong Kong Garden and Public Image, but the band that put it in the spotlight was, of course, Joy Division.

Their album Unknown Pleasures uses repetitive rhythms. bright guitars, high bay synth pads and ian curtis, melancholic vocals and lyrics put postpunk in the spotlight and inspire numerous bands such as cure bauhaus magazine the slits the smiths nick cave and the bad seeds and gangster four who perhaps You might be wondering now wait are There aren't some of these new wave fans too, yes, but really no band or artist under the New Wave label is too polished or poppy to be punk, but not polished enough to be pop. The main difference is that the new wave tends to have a higher level.

The musical production and seems more flashy, while the postponed music can be harsher, mechanical and darker, so it is not wrong to say that the cure can be both post punk and new wave. The main similarity is that both emerged after the punk scene in the early 80s, but back. to post-dsl punk due to its dark and brooding sound, the genre became a major part of early goth culture in the 1980s. Early goth fashion trends were pioneered by artists such as Susie Sue, who dressed entirely in black with fishnet stockings, thick eyebrows and postponed Egyptian-inspired

make

up.

Fashion is also ground zero for many substyles of gothic fashion, such as traditional gothic, new romantic, and bat cave. The latter emerging from London's postponed Batcave club would also become the basis and inspiration for other musical genres such as death rock, gothic rock, gothic metal and shoegaze. I don't get it, there's been a bit of a postbunk revival with bands like the Strokes Arctic Monkeys and Interpol, but the genre has retreated back into obscurity, so let's go to England and, by the way, put those goth assholes back on the center of attention. If it's not obvious enough, we'll focus more on the British post punk sound.

Sorry, television and the rest of America. A side note. Did you know that post punk is super popular in Russia? Don't seriously go to Spotify, search for post punk and see. how many russian post-fun players show up and for any russians looking and putting the dispenser here, welcome my darklings, if you want the goth kids to be dancing then we might as well start with the music, okay, for the music theory part, I need everyone to pay attention. I know it's going to be a little difficult because, look at me, a lot of post-punk songs usually just dance in the minor scale, sometimes the major minor mix, but to keep it simple, just stay in minor, everyone does that anyway, a Sometimes they dance. the fifth, the fourth and maybe the third, so stay there and when you see that gothic example, it doesn't hurt to go off the main note a little bit because a lot of postponed bands just dance around one note, so just dance around the root and you should be fine for chords, it's usually a power chord, they never make it like the hit and no, keep it simple and if you want to liven it up add an open course, like sometimes when here I like to add the bottom strings like this arpeggiates that can be fun, you can also do it with bar chords, I probably tuned my guitar at some point, yeah, you can also hear how it would slowly evolve into today's more ghostly sound, so I really like it.

Old girl punk bands just keep it simple so I should do that too to be as post punk as possible for the chord progressions, the simpler the better so you know just do the basic chords. I like to do one six five one six seven. add a few threes here and there, there's really no rule for chord progression, so for me, keep it simpler, three four chords punk style, so watch your favorite song after the mistake and see how they do the progression, many of them just stick with it. like three chords and remember that the level of the most famous song is torn, but your split is just a D major chord and then the rest is just melody and that's it, like it's a very thin song, so you can see how he slowly became involved.

In ghosting, the main point is to use the limited tools to create an atmosphere that allows your lyrics to shine. What do you want to sing about with the excitement of a horny bat? The themes and lyrics tend to lean on the darker side of life. By singing about its positive and negative aspects, you stay focused on death, illness, breakup and nightmares, all expressed through fear, sarcasm or very little emotion, you don't have to make your theme so obvious. Post-punk lyricists tend to keep things extremely vague, but they do drop hints. into the larger narrative with metaphors and word clues such as needless to state the obvious that the song could be loosely based on the impending fear of the apocalypse during the Cold War fighting off neo-Nazis harassing a Chinese restaurant or how Margaret Thatcher It would have become more useful if it became a unisex bathroom, but hey, at least you have options.

You may sound like a poor teenage vampire in your 50s screaming, but mom's snooze voices usually stay deep and in a sort of speak the voice language of old horror movies? so the vocals will be a bit deep and sound like you're yawning all the time, although it doesn't hurt to raise the register with your gothic voice. Female voices in the genre are very similar with the same yawning theatrical style but in the upper register, so you want to sound like a seductive and slightly sleepy witch, leave your listener spellbound by talking about what it is, oh that is easy, p-o-n-e-d, you nailed it, no overdrive pedal, sunny today because you'll be relying on a clean amp for the most part, you won't.

It's not the basis of the song, that role is given to your bass friend, so what you'll do instead is just play simple chords or broken chords around the bass melody. It's very rare that the guitar is in the main focus. It's very rare that it uses a lot of distortion like those immature punk bands, so only use it if completely necessary and then layer it with chorus delay and reverb if you want to get even fancier and add an extra background layer, add an acoustic guitar that way your song can easily be covered by the lonely goth sewer in the subway the guitars with saturated distortion are mainly kept in death rock and gothic rock, so wait for that episode, demon friends, congratulations for once the focus is on You kid, first get yourself a good foundation with new strings and play some.

Neat bass melodies, anything that has a nice drive or cleanliness to the sound, can sometimes seem like the bass itself is playing the main melody, a really fun fact, on the level, torn by the division of joy, the bassist he's playing much louder than normal bassists normally do. mainly because he couldn't hear himself during practice, so you start playing much higher on the fretboard, meaning he's been more experimental with bass in UK garage, more like British trash for sins , they mostly stay in the background as a pad that fills the soundscape. Giving more space to the guitar and the bass will very rarely be given a larger role, such as in the joy splits, where he occasionally plays the very steady drum beat made for dancing to keep the momentum on the hi-hat or the ride with a very steady drum beat with kiko 1 and 3 and snare on 2 and 4 and then add some variations here and there, now add some reverb later, if you want you can make the hi-hats a little faster aka double, It doesn't hurt to kick the drummer.

Take them out and replace them with a drum machine. Yes, don't be afraid to make the drum beat as artificial as possible. Here's something extra. You can add percussion, mainly tambourine, which can help give the song a nice sense of speed. This is my dance. The most essential effects for the genre are, of course, delay and reverb, the latter being the key ingredient to making a good post-punk bat soup, but for the most part don't be afraid to Be creative and add some experimental things to your song. If the priest and gentlemen of the new church can add a saxophone solo and still make it sound divine, then you can also do repeat legothemizations.

Most pulsepunk songs have a very repetitive sound. They often only use a single riff or lead throughout the entire song. The focus is mainly. about creating a dark environment to play in a club, it's like Pink Floyd, but on the even darker side of the moon, as punk fashion is becoming too common, reject conformist fashion, zombies and dress in simple, shapeless clothing, preferably in muted colors or black when in glam rock, it's very important to look a little androgynous, so feel free to play around. There are masculine and feminine traits so remember everyone, gender is for nerds, makeup is for everyone so if you want you can go for the full Cleopatra look with eye makeup like Susie or black eyeliner messy and red lipstick like the members of The Cure.

Some of you have seen my red lipstick, oh my goodness they look amazing on the hair, whether you keep it very short and simple or go full blown, the higher the hair, the closer to the dark gods after of everything, so take your comb and pull out your hair. That's what you like, right? Anyway, with all that knowledge pumped into my brain, it's time to review my song, incredibly beautiful, you might think the name is taken from the movie or has some deeper meaning, no, the truth is the career boy from resistance I don't get pretty I get incredibly pretty between 100 and 140 that's a good place to start with a snooze song starting with the drums I used the rock solid kit with the spacious rock setup mainly because of that lush reaver but mostly because to that punchy snare and toms giving it that 80's feel with the midi drums, I put most of the drive on the hi-hat and the ride symbols were mainly used as hits, I added a bit of susie and a banshee reference in the tom fillings. but I did it with my own style because normally the drums sound, but I didmine went doo doo doo doo so there's a difference don't sue me shishi both the left and right guitar have bias effects too but each setup is slightly different. a bit more gain intensive and the other is fluffier although both are washed in chorus and reverb and yes that is a distortion pedal, forgive me Robert Smith for having sinned, it's just there to give the tone a bit of bite clean, mainly because I did it.

I don't like how it sounded with a compressor, I'm actually just playing power chords with the highest two strings open to give it some punch and then combining it with arpeggios on the verses here and there. It's quite curious that the guitars in the chorus play two different songs. things, one plays chords and the other just power chords. This is mainly done to keep them different, but it also sounds great to me, the base is easy because I'm too lazy to record the bass for this song. Yes, I recorded raw, that's low. Driven, now I'm too lazy to make a proper bass, the truth is that I wanted an extremely tight bass sound and this was the best way to get it, plus my main bass is better suited to metal material, anyway, I you failed the first time I did the voices. by Page Fire's new member Analina, I was going to do the vocals myself, but she can sing the whole song.

We just have a vocal track with the best takes we could get to give it that raw and simple post punk vocal style and that's it. nothing complicated no effects no settings just guitars, bass, drums and vocals, you take each but the guitars, but in black, I kept the song simplified to give it a decent mix of old school post punk and a bit of modern productions, then I kicked the song into the mix. and mastering engineer and let him take care of the rest, but wait, we actually made two post punk songs, the other one is more of a soft acoustic ballad with a sweet 80s saxophone solo.

I'm not going to go into too much detail about that because this video is already quite long, so check out both songs in the description below anyway, the page wrestling team has hooked up the music video for Drop Dead Gorgeous, which has a similar vibe to all the music videos post -bunk from the 80s recorded on pirated VHS tapes that we even made. 4x3 ratio for an authentic experience change the quality to 480p for that retro youtube sogoff vibe in exchange for fun you fell headfirst to the ground you were lost it's sunny the dress didn't fit you no more years have passed since you fell to the ground now You are lost and never found, you no longer dance to the rhythm of the nightlife.

City lights can shine as bright as it is bright against the darkest blue. Congratulations, you are a group of dark and avant-garde poets and your music has planted a seed that will now sprout into a beautiful gothic tree. It's time for you to come out and see how your music has inspired the world, so I'll come get it.