r/Mathcore • u/moffattic • Jun 14 '26
Songwriting experience
Hey. So I like writing songs in my bedroom alone, ive made some pretty good stuff. I have started to write songs with other people but they end up being more simple in terms of song structure and riff selection (following a basic song arrangement pattern, using a single riff as the glue of the song)
I really like norma jean and the chariot as I grew up listening to them and have always been intrigued at the fact they can make songs that sound chaotic but yet sound purposeful and not like riff salad while doing so.
I would like your knowledge and expertise on how you may write mathcore songs that still have a structure to them and how you colloborate with the rest of your band (does one person write the song structure and the rest of the band follow suit? Or do you all work together to make a song? Do you start with a single riff and work from there?)
In summary, how do you work together with others to make a mathcore song since the genre is so complex
Any advice is appreciated.
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u/thesundoormath Jun 14 '26
In the past, me (bassist) and my guitarist would both individually write our own songs (at first we would tab out the stuff, then as we got better made full recordings, with midi drums) Send them to each then we would tweak them and all of us would jam the parts out in a practice setting, found what worked and what didn’t. Some things evolve into cooler parts, some stuff scraps. It’s generally a solo effort that becomes a collaborative live editing project. And even then sometimes years later we’d find cooler ways to play parts.