00:04Hey everybody, I'm Dani from The Warning, and I'm here at Guitar World in New York City,
00:11ready to talk about some of the riffs that my band and I have written for our newest album,
00:17Keep Me Fed. So we're going to start with the first single that I love very, very much.
00:22This is a song called More. It goes a little bit like this.
00:43Woo! All right. So first of all, what you need to know about this song in general is that right
00:49now
00:50I am in drop D tuning, but my pedal board is actually pitch shifting. It's half a step down,
00:57if I'm saying that correctly. So yeah, the original sound from my guitar is not the same
01:03of what's coming out of the amplifier. So that's interesting in and of itself.
01:07And for this album, I tried to step out of my comfort zone. I'm the only guitar player on stage
01:16in the band. So I'm used to playing a lot of power chords, a lot of rhythmic stuff.
01:21And for this new album, we spent a lot of time in the studio, along with our producer,
01:27to kind of like shake things up a bit. So I'm doing a lot of different things that I haven't
01:32done
01:32before. One of the things being having riffs with a lot of bendings in it and just kind of like
01:39playing along with the band like you saw at the beginning.
01:47So I just have to get all those micro tonalities out of it and get it right every time. You
01:54know,
01:55if you play guitar, you can overbend or underbend any bending easily. So I have to
02:06just kind of get that all the time. It was quite a challenge. And I do that every night
02:12now at the live shows, which, by the way, we are on tour. So if you haven't seen us on
02:18tour, feel free to to join us on stage and just rock out. But that's my favorite part of
02:24this song along with the with the bridge, which gets kind of funky. Look at this.
02:46I love that riff. It makes me want to dance as you saw. Like, if you see it live, you'll
02:52see me totally for sure moving around. But yeah, that's one of the first songs that came
02:58out of this new album. And one of the first ones we wrote, actually. But I have so many
03:05riffs to talk to you about this album that I'm going to change songs right now. Because
03:09one of the other challenging things that we had this time around was I tried new, for lack
03:17of a better word, equipment using things. Wait, let me find the song real quick. This one is
03:24also in drop D, but regular drop D. So no pitch shifting this time. And I'm going to use a
03:31slide.
03:32The crazy thing about this riff is that I'm using what was used as the bending last time,
03:39but now for a longer time. So I can't have a bend go that long. You'll see in a minute.
03:46It goes...
04:00And that's like the drop into the chorus of the whole song. It sounds amazing when the whole band
04:06just joins. But the crazy thing about this is that since I need this for that big riff moment,
04:12I need to play the whole song with the slide on my finger. Now I'm not used to that at
04:18all. Even
04:19finding a slide that fit my tiny hand was a challenge in and of itself. So I had to learn
04:28how to play in a clean way without the slide getting in my way for like the rest of the
04:37song,
04:37which goes kind of a little bit like this. This is normal. But then it goes...
05:04So having the slide not get in the way of that became like something I practiced a lot. But I
05:11love
05:11this riff. And along with my trusty pedal board, I get to harmonize it as well. So I go...
05:21And then I go for a bigger effect.
05:30Woohoo! So I may be only one guitar player on stage, but trust me, I'll figure out a way to
05:36make some noise
05:37and just completely fill out that space of guitar and make ourselves present for sure.
05:45So that song's called Apologize. I didn't mention the name. But it's also very cool because my sister
05:49pal gets to scream at the top of her lungs. It's such a great energizing song for a stage.
05:55There's a lot of songs that we play in Drop D, actually. This one is called Sick. And it's also
06:02a
06:02very cool riff that I really, really love. Here it goes!
06:19Woo! Now, the crazy thing about this riff though, is that I am the guitar player
06:26and the lead singer of the band. So with this particular riff, I have to sing on top of it.
06:32So there's a lot of riffs on this album that had that kind of like, okay, how am I going
06:38to do the
06:39vocals and the guitar playing at the same time? I don't know if you will be able to hear this
06:44at the
06:44same time, but maybe I'm going to try and do the chorus because it's this riff and some singing. So
06:50it goes...
07:05So I had to figure all that out in my brain and it just worked out. So I had to
07:12practice it a lot,
07:13but some of the riffs in this album kind of like, it's a complete mind game for sure.
07:19Talking about mind games, look at this. Okay, I'm going to change guitar real quick
07:25to this beautiful Fender baritone that I have over here.
07:32So more about this guitar. It is a baritone guitar, but I have it dropped as well. So the last
07:43string is
07:43not in B. It's all the way down to A. For some reason, I always looked at this guitar as
07:50a seven
07:51string guitar without the first string. So I don't tune it like a normal guitar. And that's going to
07:57come and haunt me at one point in my life, I'm sure. So yeah, the second string doesn't have that
08:06semitone difference as a normal guitar. So if I play a chord, it's not going to sound like a chord.
08:13I don't recommend you to do that. But for me, it works. Apparently, I just learned how to use the
08:19guitar like this. So it's A and then E all the way down to A again, D, then I go
08:27to a G instead of a
08:29G flat or F sharp, and then a normal B. So this, this is the string that is the weird
08:37one that should
08:37not be in G. But I am a little bit stubborn. So that's how I use it. And that's how
08:45I got used to
08:45it. So this song is called Sharks. It's one of the heaviest in the album. And I want to debut
08:53the sound
08:54of this guitar for all of you with this song.
09:17Man, I could just see the mosh pit like it's just
09:21it's such a great riff to play, especially live and with my sisters. Just having that low end and
09:28just those low notes. I'm actually getting into like my sister Alice based territory. But I don't
09:35care. I love it. It's it's great. I love that that riff as well. The song is called Sharks. And
09:41for us,
09:42you know, that semitone difference like Jaws is a shark. So that's literally why we named the
09:49song that way. And we took that route. But yeah, and in this song, we also have a cool bridge
09:55part.
10:14And I have to sing over that too. That was a crazy experience as well. But I love that riff.
10:20And fun fact,
10:21in the studio, actually, this last note.
10:30I took the tuner and just like dropped it down for the studio. But I was like, I need to
10:36get back straight away to
10:37playing live. So I just do like this exaggerated slide as slow as I can to get that same effect.
10:44But again,
10:45it's one of the riffs I very much enjoy playing every night. Okay, back to the original song that I
10:51wanted to display on this guitar as well. It's called Automatic Sun. That's how it goes. And it's my
11:03favorite riff of all time that we've made ever. It's just it just hits the right spot. Here we go.
11:35Hey, there's nothing I love more than just going
11:41It's amazing. This whole song is practically just like complete riffage. I don't have
11:48a single part where I'm not doing a melodic line on the guitar. So that was very new for me
11:54and very interesting. Hopefully, I can make a playthrough of this song later on and show you guys
11:59the whole song. One thing I would like to show you guys as well with this guitar, actually, I have
12:05to tune
12:05it to a normal baritone note, which is a B string for the last string. No more drop A. Oh,
12:14no.
12:15Because I have a quirky little solo in this song that I get to
12:26A little bit of that. Okay, so it goes a little bit like this.
12:53Woohoo! That was a challenge as well. Just to kind of get the synchronization of feet movement.
13:01Finger movement and just overall. But apart from that, I'm usually standing up. So I have to balance
13:08myself like in one foot and I like to move around a lot. So I don't usually plan that out
13:14very well.
13:15And I'm just kind of like tumbling while doing the solo. But that's just the me thing. I have to
13:19work
13:19on that, actually. But yeah, that's also a fun thing about this this song. I have a lot more to
13:25talk
13:25about this album. But for now, I think I'm gonna leave you guys to it and check the album out
13:30so you
13:30can see all the guitar lines. And probably if I have more time, I'll do another one with the rest
13:36of
13:36the songs. You never know. Thank you guys for watching. See you next time.
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