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Hey everyone. I got a short update on the progress of my Animals As Leaders CDLC that I've been waiting to make. I actually grabbed a bunch of tabs from Songsterr to create so I have a reason to play my F# Standard guitar when I create these CDLC, but it felt kinda silly to do that when I thought about it since I can just play other songs with F# Standard tunings. To put it short. I've reviewed each and every Animals As Leaders song to see if I want to create it or not. This band is good and all, but it suffers from the same issues that I had with Dream Theatre. They make some good songs, and some bad. I noticed this pattern with songs lately where riffs are either repeated (Not a problem if they are good sounding riffs, just not repeated 50 times, only 4 is my maximum) and then riffs that are plain technique or random. An example of Technique is how Animals As Leaders and DragonForce implements these riffs with different techniques without wanting to make the song sound good. Some of their best songs have these techniques, Through Fire and Flames for example has these weird pacman noises, it’s a matter of taste. Animals As Leaders likes to do this technique I learnt recently called double thumping. Which is slapping two notes at once, on a heavy gauge guitar. It’s good, but if it doesn’t sound good then it’s a bit off putting for me. Not every part of the song has to be perfect. It just needs to draw me into enjoying it in order for me to learn it. I can listen to Animals As Leaders songs and enjoy them, but it’s whether I find the riffs sound good enough to learn. A similar story with Dream Theatre where I downloaded around 20-30 CDLC, I did listen to them, but gave up at some point, instead, I decided to rely on the CDLC creators to pick out their best songs. Although the solo’s are usually really good, the notes leading up to it are too random, almost like they are placed to draw out the song length. Who would have thought? I don’t know much about this ‘Key’ thing that tabbers and guitarists talk about, but whatever it is, I’m not using it when I write my music. Overall, easy to enjoy songs by both bands, but hard to make me want to learn them. Also, I deleted at least 95% of the Dream Theatre CDLC I downloaded. I bought the DLC because they were decent songs. Pull Me Under and Metropolis Part 1. An interesting bit of advice I heard from a stranger went along the lines of ‘Music is made with your ears, not how you play it.’ If the notes sound good to you when played, then it’s most likely good. If it’s not, then it’s not, create a new riff. This is why Harmony parts always get me, it seems when you have two notes played in sync with a different note, it will always sound brighter and in many cases, good. Sorry to go onto a bit of a discussion there, but encase you wonder why I don’t create many Animals As Leaders CDLC, that’s pretty much why.