T-ARA + 8-string guitar = UNLEASH THE BRUTALITY!

Here it is my Metal Guitar Cover of T-ARA's David Guetta-esque K-Pop/EDM song that released back in 2014, "Sugar Free"

First of all, I listened to that song back in June 2021 (or May 2020 I think) I really liked that song, also, this song is also played on the Home Shopping Channel in TV back in the day as well, and I really want to do a Metal Guitar Cover of this song and this song is one of my favorites beside "Sexy Love" and "Number Nine (No. 9)" as always, and the best thing of this song is there's also various EDM DJ remixes of this song (on their "EDM Club Sugar Free Edition" as always) and I love Boram, Eunjung and Soyeon in this one, and Jiyeon's rap is one of my favorites as well, and I really liked it

Aside from that, arrangement wise, I made it into more Heavier Metal influenced as always, and because this song is very EDM type (David Guetta-esque), I decided to tune down my bass down to 5-string Drop E0 (EBEAD) tuning for this song (WHAT?!) which sounds extremely brutal, and I also use an 8-string guitar for this song, and I tuned to 8-string Drop E (EBEADGBE) tuning and I use 09-11-16-24-32-42-54-74 (basically 09-42 set with 54 and 74 for the 7th and 8th string) and it sounds extremely killer, and it worked really well for this song, and for the intro part, I wrote that epic djenty riffs based from the BigRoom version of "Sugar Free" (not the "Original Edit" ones but the BigRoom ones that has the EDM-esque intro part) which sounds very heavy and fits this song really well, and for the chorus parts, (the "Neon sugar free ije neon sugar free" part) I wrote the guitar riff that follows its melody line (just like what I do on "Like the First Time" and "Bangkok City") which sounds even incredible, I also wrote the Animals as Leaders-esque guitar riffs at the second verse which sounds more intensive and at the second pre-chorus I also wrote the heaviest chugging riffs which I really like it as well as I put the guitar solo between the second chorus and another rap part which I really liked it very much, and of course, Mwonga ppajyeobeorin sugar free~

I do not own or claim ownership of this music!

Rhythm Guitar: Jackson Dinky Arch Top JS32-8 DKA HT (Black Satin) (EBEADGBE Tuning)
Clean Guitar: Jackson Dinky Arch Top JS32-8 DKA HT (Black Satin) (EBEADGBE Tuning)
Lead Guitar: Wildwood WSS STD (White) (DADGBE Tuning)
Bass: Squier Affinity Series Jazz Bass V (Brown Sunburst) (EBEAD Tuning)

Drums: Toontrack EZDrummer 2 (Metal Machine)
Synths: Programmed using DSK SF2 and Digital Suburban Dexed (DX7 VST plugin)
Amps: Native Instruments Guitar Rig 5
Guitar Picks: Jim Dunlop John Petrucci Signature Trinity Guitar Picks (1.4mm)
Audio Software: REAPER
Video Software: Adobe Premiere Pro CS6

Lyrics (Hangul and Romanized): https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/tara/sugarfree.html

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