Just a little doodle I made at 2 AM in my dorm. I was looking up tabs for Opeth's "Harvest" and came across the chord this is based off of (Em9), and so this is the result so far. This is just a VERY rough version; more will probably be added later. 

Autumn Night Intro (Original)

Just a little segment of a classical piece I found on a Wikipedia article (anonymous composer, late 13th century, France). Figured I'd give it a shot. The article and piece can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hocket

In seculum d'Amiens longum segment

This one's over a year old, but since it's almost Christmas time, why not? Kinda did this for kicks, but also to play around more with production and whatnot (since I'm still pretty much a production n00b). Enjoy, and may ye have a very Metal Christmas! \m/

12 Brutal Days of Christmas

This is something I actually worked on a while back. I wrote the main melody (or part of it) last year (2010), but never really finished it, so it may sound a bit awkward here at points as I improvised a bit. The main melody was originally supposed to be played by an accordion, so this was initially going to be a folk metal project, but now it's just... Well, metal. Anywho, there's a wee bit of clipping, but I'm satisfied with it overall. I hope you enjoy!

Untitled Metal Track

One of my neighbors in my dorm (Chris Cole) walked into my room, showed me this riff, and we just started working with it, lol. This is the result so far, as we are still perfecting it. Please excuse the mess-ups. Let me know what you think!

Song Collab with Chris (plus solo improv)

This is the result of a doodle that I did recently, and hope to make it into a full song in the near future. Probably my first "real" attempt at melodic death metal. Enjoy!

New Melodeath Riffage

Made with Acoustica Beatcraft using new samples I found on Google (legal and royalty-free of course). There are moments when you can tell it's from a drum machine, but these drums sound WAY better than the pre-installed samples (although I am still using the pre-installed toms), and I shall definitely be using these in future music. Now just to fine-tune the overall mix.

New Drum Sample Test

A song that has been in the making for months has finally come to life! After many hours of work, thought, and a few frustrating delays beyond my control, here it is at last! This is probably my best work yet, in terms of both music and production. I wanted to do it right this time, and hopefully it turned out decent. Also, fun fact; the original title was "Autumn Night on the Mountain," but I decided to shorten it at the last second.

Autumn Night

As usual, all guitars, bass, and drum programming by yours truly. ;) Musically, it's obvious that this is heavily based on the third movement of Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2 Op. 35 (better known as "Funeral March"). Practically though, this was mainly done to test out the acoustics in my new room and for some mixing feedback. If any knowledgeable soul would be willing to give some input on things such as tone, mixing, etc, this novice would be grateful to you. Let me know what you think!

Funeral (mixing test)

Greetings, world. I'm really just another average-Joe that plays guitar. This page is for my solo work, mostly consisting of metal-oriented stuff with a few other goodies here and there.

Brett Haynes