I know practicing to a metronome is a must and I have to admit I avoid using them often. When practicing I tend to go at my own pace which tends to bit quicker than the songs tempo. Are backing tracks good to use in place of a metronome?

So I started a small band with some of my friends and obviously we chose to play in our small school's talent show. The unfortunate part of going to a small school is they don't tend to do things "by the books" so we were rushed in at the very end to set up without a soundcheck and resulted in a pretty shitty performance, but it could have gone so much worse. I am honestly not disappointed with how it turned out but I feel my nervousness contributed to a bunch of mistakes. So my question to any guitarists that have more experience on stage, how long does it take for "stage fright" to go away or at least die down some?

So I recently started looking into the Deathbats Club and was wondering if theres anyone here who has experience with NFTs that can maybe help me better understand the concept and what I could use it for....aside from the cool perks that come with some of the deathbats...what is the personal advantage?...and what could I use my deathbat for if I had one? Shoot me a message if you'd like to discuss.

Hey i gotta slight buzz/hum coming from my Dean ml dimebag tribute guitar. i just put a seymour duncan dimebucker pickup in the bridge. all my grounds and solder joints look fine and i have continuity all over the guitar... when i touch the metal on the toggle switch, the jack input, the bridge and strings and the neck pickup the buzz/hum goes away.. i replaced the pot and resoldered it again for that pick up and still get buzz.. any ideas? I have tested my 2 other guitars on the same amp and patch chord to make sure they arent the issue aswell.. Im kinda stumped now lol. any help is greatly appreciated
should add that the noise does get louder when i touch the pickup i installed or if i touch the height adjustment screws for the pickup but it gets quieter if i touch the height adjustment screws on the neck pickup (stock i didnt change neck pickup the stock pickup has a metal baseplate but the new dimebucker the screws go into a plastic baseplate) but if i touch the strings the noise goes away then i can touch the pick up i get no noise... ive taped any piece of wire that cud possibly touch anything to ground out aswell. im stumped lol
the hum/buzz/noise disapears when you turn the volume pot to zero or when you turn the tone down to zero...
Any ideas anyone? lol thanks in advance

Hello I'd like to start the discussion about accurate interactive tabs for many Avenged Sevenfold songs. As many of you know alot of these songs are very technical, not having a proper tab only adds to the stress of learning a song.
Interactive/Pro tabs also relive some of the stress of learning songs I think I would be a great feature.

Is there any app that DOESNT have to be paid for or subscription free and be able to have tabs and chords

In the cosmic solo, Syn plays something where its like a note… but then a harmonic…. and it happens again a bit later, but its much more smooth that the first. I thought that was really cool, anybody know how to do that? If you don’t know what I’m talking about, I can elaborate.

It's been a while since I've had a chance to be active in the community but I just had to get on to share my excitement because I finally get to go see A7X in Chicago for the first time! I've been waiting so long for this and I'm so FREAKING EXCITED!!!!!!!!

Is there any possibility that syns new golden headless guitar or his white and golden signature is available for purchase somewhere in the future?

Any ETA on when these lessons will be fixed? Very stoked to get to learn them, thanks!

I live in India I used to upload my messing around on guitar with a melody at the center of it on Sportify and got like 5000 streams in a month using an online free distributer which does not exist in India anymore
The streams show that people had intrest is this kind of stuff
I want to Upload stuff on Sportify again but there is Distributers are way to expencive
Is there a way to upload stuff on sportify for free
The traks were mid at peak so you can also do it and make some money if lucky and if not most of you surely practice improvising so it is nothing extra just record audio in phone and master it with any AI website using a song you love as refrence to the AI and it makes very intresting music if your refrence is an absurd example for context so I trien giving pop sounding example to early Nirvana and the song changes it is really cool

I'm playing the six notes (5,7,5,7,5,7) with the amp connected and it just doesn't sound the same,any suggestions?

Ordered a shirt from Synner. Never ordered from the store. A little trial before I order the pickups lol. Anyways, where does it ship from and about how long we thinking it’ll take to get to Florida? Thanks y’all!

SO… I am currently eating ice cream in the truck on the way home from getting said ice cream and the two flavors are chocolate chip cookie dough and Cookie Monster which is cookie dough and small chunks of ice cream sandwiches. but then it got me thinking if rock bands had their own ice cream flavor… what would it be
Put your food minds to the test and tell me your ideas and especially a avenged sevenfold ice cream

I love the new record and the solos are great. I will not go more into how this record is my favourite ever to keep this short. How do get the guitar tones? I really want to know how to replicate the tones in the mattel verses, the solo in cosmic and the solo and other tones in G. Thanks alot to anyone who helps me. These tones are the most different I've heard and I love them! Also how does syn gets some reverb while he holds down the harmonic notes in the solo which sounds like you're going through a tunnel?

Hey guys, long time no talk eh? I have been ridiculously busy with university (graduating in July)and haven't been able to play guitar as much as I would like but I still manage to noodle around every day. I have been attempting to try and learn songs that I know parts of but dont know fully. I've been playing 11 years and can't play a full song so I wanted to change that but I am finding that what should be fairly easy like a sweep arpeggio trips me up and it's really frustrating.

I feel that this is more of a matter of ability compared to the length of time playing scenario but I honestly don't know how to go about practicing stuff slowly without feeling like im just really shit haha. My technique hasn't always been 100% great but I admit it's a hell of a lot better than it was but I just look at tabs sometimes and hear how they sound in the song and it's a complete muscle memory fuck despite doing similar techniques hundreds of times.

Anyone got advice for just not feeling like a complete tool when having to slow stuff down? At the moment (even though I know it's not) it just feels embarrassing the amount I have to slow stuff down to wrap my head around it.

Hey all!

I’m just beginning my Synner journey. For my 30th, my family pitched in and got me my dream guitar: the Custom-S! I haven’t touched an electric guitar in over a decade so now I have to learn how to shred!

Very excited to be here with y’all- it looks like it’ll be fun! ANYWAY- what was your first concert? Mine was the Eagles back in elementary school

When it comes to sweep picking I am comfortable doing 3 string sweeps at high bpms, but as soon as I start trying to include more strings it seems near impossible. I came to the conclusion that its either lack of practice since I have only been learning sweeps for about 2 weeks now or that once my wrist bends to a certain point it makes it too hard to be able to sweep back down. If anyone has the secret to make it click please let me know, otherwise please share tips to help improve sweeping.

Brian's birthday is coming up in a little over a month. What should we get him?

Maybe everybody can send me their feet pics and we can make a happy birthday collage or something?
Only for the purpose of this present of course, not for my personal use

I’m debating between getting a set of syn pickups and a new guitar. Would the sound of the pickups make enough of a difference in the sound of my guitar to justify saving the money and not getting a Syn standard? Thanks y’all

Woke up this morning and smelled some plastic daisies

Hey everyone! Cj and I will be live this Sunday, June 4th at 12pm CST for the second Worlds Collide panel for Synners!

This week we're discussing the new LIBAD album, as well as getting your thoughts on it and also to discuss how you prefer to enjoy music. We're also going to delve into the AI aspect that's been infiltrating the creative world lately and we also want to hear YOUR thoughts!

GOOGLE MEET LINK HERE:
"Worlds Collide" Ep. 2 -LIBAD-
Sunday, June 4 · 12:00 – 1:30pm
Time zone: America/Chicago
Google Meet joining info
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/nuz-wyhn-soj

Hey everyone!

Just wanted to say thanks to Papa Gates and Syn and everyone involved with the new album for giving my dad an amazing birthday gift. He’s been counting down the days to finally be able to hear LIBAD and he’s been listening to it nonstop since it came out!

I just ordered some stuff from the store and can’t wait to bring it to him. If you guys in the community could send him a happy birthday message I’m sure it would make his world even more

Thanks so much for the new album!