I am a new guitar player with a knowledge in theroy(to a degree) and those things from other instruments. I want to have my own style obviously although want to get an A7X'Y feel. IF that makes sense. I dont quite understand how or when one should put certain parts of a song together. I.E I have several riffs that sound fairly Early to mid A7X'x although as soon as I finish playing one Idk what to do. Should I write a verse? If so what makes it not boring. This whole repition is ok to a certain mesure is new to me as before guitar I was and still am a classical musicain. Any help is much apreatciated!!

Hello, just a friendly reminder that my interview with Fred Archambault, who worked with Avenged on Waking the Fallen, City of Evil the Self-Tittled and much more, will start in 1 hour!

You are all welcome to join for free and enjoy the knowledge and experience!!!


- Rad!

Minor Blues Etude

hello guys, i have a question, i have synyster gates custom-s, but why when i use the top pickup (not sustainiac) the sound is very low, is that normal?

Stormy Monday Etude

Creating Tension

3-1-3-1-1-3 - G minor

Finally made my first cover video! My playing is a little sloppy for my first video but what I'm looking for is feedback on the quality of sound and lighting so if anyone has any constructive criticism or advice they'd like to give please share! I'm still learning and trying to figure all of this out on my own while trying to get something together for my first performance at this open mic night Login to view embedded media

Usually, I would go and remind him of how old he's becoming but I feel nice today so instead, we are ALL going to pretend like if Ed is now 26 years old.

Join me in wishing him a happy birthday!

Hi I am a new guitarist with musical background. I am going to be getting a Syn Custom S. I really like it and want to use it in a band me and my friend are forming. But dont want to feel as though Im a copy cat. I like the design and the custom look of it. I have looked into making my own guitar but cant quite get the whole idea of who to talk to about doing this. Also am on a restricted budget. Would I be a copy cat for using this guitar in preformances?

Hi guys so I've been toying with the idea of starting lesson/tutorial videos on how to play some Avenged songs. With learning a lot of songs completely by ear over the years, I've developed my song transcribing to a point where I pride myself on being able to do it very accurately. Especially with Avenged just cause I've obsessed over the guitar parts since I was like 13. Is this something you guys would like to see? Would you guys prefer to have tabs in the video? I've never created tabs just because I haven't used them to learn songs in years but if it's something you guys feel is necessary I'll be sure to look in to it. Would you guys prefer to see just solo lessons or full songs? Let me know all suggestions welcome.

Hey all! Just wanted to wish a very happy birthday to our very own @Matt Wildcat! Wildcat is one of the most kind hearted, positive, infectiously good humans I have ever had the pleasure of knowing!

Happiest of birthdays to you, forever fetus

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So I've been working through strumming and chord changes, reviewing past lessons as needed. I fully admit I don't practice as much as I should because I don't have a good space to practice in/don't want my SO to listen in. Thus, I mostly practice on Saturday nights when he's not home. Anyway. Tonight, I decided to go into another room and try practicing. My SO suggested I sit on a folding chair to help with muting strings, so I gave that a try. I am still muting strings ! I feel like I've tried dropping my wrist, curling my fingers more (they won't curl much more), everything under the sun. And nothing. I don't know what else to do . I thought getting a full size guitar would help but it didn't. I thought sitting in a better chair and droping my wrist and curling my fingers more would help but it didn't. I don't know what else to try. I know that my fingers won't curl anymore than they already do (I've tried), so it might be that I'm not cut out for guitar? I don't know what else to try and I don't want to bore you all with more videos of the same chords over and over. Changing between chords is hard, too, but I think that will come with practice. But I don't know what else to do about the muted strings. Nothing seems to work . I don't mean to sound whiny...I'm just venting some frustrations.

Thanks to everyone who watched. Had so much fun!
See you in a month!!!

What does the $15 upgrade do??

I haven't seen any Nirvana style guitar yet on here but I was wondering if anyone knows how kurt makes those noises on guitar? Like the really scratchy distorted noises in his songs.
Its all over all of his songs but this very beginning of this video is a good example:
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Some other easy to find examples are the ending of Aneurysm and beginning of Serve the Servants.
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I have completed the recording of my album. Does anyone know a way to display/preserve guitar strings? I know syn was selling his one time I think.

Hey everyone! Long time no see!
Just wanted to touch base and see what everyone is working on?? I love hearing about little bits and pieces that people are focussing on

Sup Synners! Hope you're all doing well and looking after yourselves!
Wanted to let you all know I'll be going live on SynTV THIS THURSDAY, July 28th at 11pm GMT / 3pm PT / 5pm PT for a special livestream, where I'll be celebrating my birthday and playing Stray for you all It's totally free and will be a great time, I'm sure.

Hope to see you there! Much love

I have made a few posts about this before but I have researched into the subject area more and tried to monitor my movements more and I feel I can better explain the issues I am experiencing.

The first thing I noticed was that I find it really difficult to change strings without making large movements with my wrist or with my elbow/arm. It usually result in my wrist being perpendicular to the strings which makes it tough to play higher (in pitch) strings and when coming back up the strings to finish a scale etc. When watching professional players like Syn, Papa Gates and people like Bernt, they are able to cover large distances with hardly any wrist deviation so I didn't know if there were any tricks.

The second issue which stems a lot from the first is the angle of my wrist when picking. I was watching Troy Grady's video on Upward Escape Motion and one of my big take aways was when he talked bout setting the range of motion. This basically entailed tilting the wrist downwards due to the upwards deviation of the wrist (when parallel to the strings) is much less than the downwards deviation so it in theory allows for the upwards deviation to be bigger. This has helped when picking notes on a single string but I still struggle with position of the wrist when fgoing up or down the strings.

I think this is due to an issue I spoke about before which is getting my wrist and elbow movements to work in tandem. Usually its either my wrist trying to make all the movement or my arm pushing through the strings but I have seen a lot of people use the technique of picking a few strings and then pushing with their arm when their wrist starts to deviate a lot.

Overall Im at the point where (and I know its a stupid thing to think) but I'm just like, "is my body just not capable of making them movements that are supposed to be made for ergonomic playing "and I cant really think of a way of sorting it.

the third day



here I am on the third day, with a lot of embarrassment, and the little finger that doesn't seem to be part of my hand haha. but im exited with this comunity


I can't wait to get to the blues part of PAPA Gates. I saw a little bit of today's live performance today and I was blown away.

Here is the video of the third day

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I finally booked my first show! I’ve been practicing a lot lately trying to get some of these videos made and they’re definitely still in the works. But I’ve got a lot more work ahead of me to make my first show a good one. I only get 15 minutes but I’m gonna make those 15 minutes count. I’ve already got my songs picked out (Bat Country, Sonne, Seek and Destroy (radio edit)) I’m definitely going to send out some of my videos soon but before that happens I will be spending a lot of time getting ready. I’ll also be representing the Synner community with my new badass Synner shirt I bought! Wish me luck guys! I’m definitely posting a video of my first performance which will be on September 2nd!

Hi

Its me again...
I start a few days and i love the course so far.... im learning with Synner and im practicing with rocksmith. Im totally enjoying it.

I ask couse I didn't buy an amp, i only had the guitar, the rocksmith cable, and when im making the course i use the software bias amp with a clean amp to listen wtf im doing.

Do someone of you use software instead amps?