Punk Guitar Track

Punk Guitar Track

The guitar section of this track consists of two guitar tracks recorded through Logic's amp simplifiers, utilising two different virtual amps in order to get a mix of guitar tones, creating a strong and powerful guitar track.


The guitar comes in after the 4th bar of the intro, playing a short lead melody over the drums, as is common in hardcore punk music. This short melody then transitions into the first verse riff, which is uses 4 simple power chords repeatedly strum. This very simplistic and power chord-based style of riffing is extremely common in hardcore punk songs as many of the musicians did not have very much experience with their instruments.

This verse then switches into the chorus, which is another simplistic power chord riff, however the strumming rhythm and chords used themselves are completely different to the first verse. The chorus in the track is very short at 6 bars long, this is due to hardcore punk typically being short, with vocals consisting of a couple of sentences. The track then goes back into the verse, before going into the back into the chorus.

The track then transfers into the bridge of the track, consisting of two power chords, an open E power chord and a F# power chord, in slower-sounding and heavier riff in order to break up the repetitiveness of the track.

The track then goes back into the chorus, before going into the outro, in which there is now a tempo change to 160bpm in order to incorporate a slower, groovier riff as the track approaches the end. The outro riff still consists of power chords, though it also uses fret hand muting in order to give the track a different rhythm to the rest of the track.

Changes to the drum track

I have also made some changes to the drum track I created earlier in order to fit better with the guitar. One of the main changes I made was switching the type of drums in order to mix each individual piece of the kit to allow for better mixing of the drumming. I also increased the length of the intro by four bars, increased the length of the verse by two bars, and shortened the chorus by two bars.