{"id":35,"date":"2009-05-01T14:09:57","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T21:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.miketuritzin.com\/songwriting\/?p=35"},"modified":"2009-05-06T13:45:03","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T20:45:03","slug":"opeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.miketuritzin.com\/songwriting\/2009\/05\/opeth\/","title":{"rendered":"Opeth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mikael\u00a0\u00c5kerfeldt, head of diverse progressive metal band <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/opeth\">Opeth<\/a>, comments on his process of demoing songs:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>I do have an input into pretty much everything because I demo the songs back home; I have a simple Pro Tools rig set up at my house. So I demo all the songs and I finish all the songs and actually have them sequenced in the same order as I want it to be on the album. So we\u2019re listening to the album before we record it really, if you know what I mean.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I record it with like a drum machine and it sounds good but obviously it\u2019s a drum machine. I\u2019m very interested in drums; as far as I\u2019m concerned drumming in Opeth is one of the most important parts; if the drums are nailed, I can just listen to the drum tracks and I know it\u2019s gonna be a good song if you know what I mean. &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8230; the way I see it, writing songs and arranging [songs] as I do in my home, the way I do it they are so done by the time we enter the studio, that it\u2019s a pre-production that I\u2019ve been so involved in. I think writing songs and having your finger in every pie when it comes to the songwriting, you become a producer if you know what I mean. But when it comes to how to achieve the sounds that we\u2019re looking for, I don\u2019t know shit! I just basically tell our engineer, \u201cWe want good guitar sounds\u201d and he\u2019s like, \u201cOK.\u201d We fool around with a few amps and I tell him that\u2019s good-sounding or sometimes I say, \u201cThat doesn\u2019t sound good\u201d and he says, \u201cWell, it will sound good later.\u201d So, I really don\u2019t have much of a say when I\u2019m working with engineers. But in the end, I\u2019m always happy.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimate-guitar.com\/interviews\/interviews\/michael_akerfeldt_of_opeth_im_very_picky_with_songwriting.html\">UltimateGuitar.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mikael\u00a0\u00c5kerfeldt, head of diverse progressive metal band Opeth, comments on his process of demoing songs: I do have an input into pretty much everything because I demo the songs back home; I have a simple Pro Tools rig set up at my house. So I demo all the songs and I finish all the songs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miketuritzin.com\/songwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miketuritzin.com\/songwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miketuritzin.com\/songwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miketuritzin.com\/songwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miketuritzin.com\/songwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.miketuritzin.com\/songwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/www.miketuritzin.com\/songwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miketuritzin.com\/songwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miketuritzin.com\/songwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miketuritzin.com\/songwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}