Saya ingin membuat lagu yang gila seperti synyster gates, di mana selalu ada solo di setiap chorus, akan terjadi hanmony dengan campuran vokal penyanyi, apa tips Anda?

Wow, I'm trying to get this up and going again and a lot has changed. Are we not able to write a bio anymore? I remember we had like where we were from, a little bit about us, and how long we have played guitar. I can't figure out how to do that now.

SYNVENGERS, @Ed Seith @Radu-Cristian Perde @Alicia Willis @Jamie London @Millie Imber ASSEMBLE and help me out! (I had to add Jamie in as a Synvenger,lol)

Since everyone is pretty hyped about the Black Moon guitar, you guys should definitely check out the Instagram page and official website of the music store Drumguitarcityland, because they have very interesting Synyster Gates USA custom shop guitars for sale (f.e. a Joker guitar). And since they are USA ones, these are probably the best Syn Gates guitars when it comes to quality.

So, I love chords and typically I do key changes and all the other shenanigans when I write a song. However, this afternoon in the bus Eleanor Rigby came on and I thought to myself since I'm changing strings on my two main electric guitars I think I'm gonna try learning it tonight.

Now I'm learning it and the thing I notice is that the whole song pretty much is Em C or C Em depending on which part you're looking at.

I mean there are some variations for Em like Em7, Em6 and EmAug but the core is really just the Em and C and that absolutely baffles me because that song is simply one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard (and the instrumental is all Cello I believe) and the harmony is so simple.

Long story short, keep it simple

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I hear similar elements from past albums of his but I hope everyone's listening to it. .duff fucking kills it on bass.

I've been asked to teach my cousin play guitar. It's a one time thing. He has never played before. I figured I could teach him two chord shapes and the pentatonic, but after that I get lost. He probably is going to want to see an example or play a song, my mind will go blanc.

What should I show him as an introduction to guitar? All advice is welcome

So March 15th I ordered the schecter syn golden goddess guitar from his site. After hearing nothing from support I messaged them and was notified the last 3 golden goddess guitars were damaged beyond repair. I am so sad as I was super excited to have something signed by @Syn Gates himself. They are unsure if another will be made either. I knew I should have spent extra and got the limited edition dark knight. Welp rant over. Time to be sad for the next week

I'm interested in getting the blood moon hoodie but I dont know what size to get or how they are fitted. I usually wear a size M for T-shirts. My hoodies are size M but fit differently. Both slim fit. One hangs loose but the other one looks almost small. Are these hoodies loose and baggy fit? Should I get a size up?

I would like to invite you all to wish the happiest of birthday to our dear Social Media master, Jamie London!!

Does he have this name because he was born in London, Ontario, Canada? Unfortunately, no. It's just because it really sounds fucking cool.
But I do want to say how thankful I am to him and to everything he does for the Synner in general. He works tirelessly everyday to give life to this school through our socials and I know for a fact that it's not at all an easy job. But I also know that he's fucking crushing it and that we are REALLY lucky to have him in our team.

And so I raise my glass to you Jamie and wish you a happy birthday and only the very best because that's what I think you deserve!

To many more years!!!

Happy birthday @Jamie London, hopefully you'll have a wonderful dag with a bunch of crypto and some cool fashion stuff!

Hey there people!
I am looking to make my dream come true and get the Custom-S guitar
The problem is that locally it's out of stock and I can't find a website where I can order the guitar to Israel.
I'm specifically looking for the BLK/SILV design.

Can someone please help me

How in the hell do I control my fingers and keep them near the fretboard??? HOW?!?!? is there some exercise I can do?? I surely got better compared to one year ago, but it's not enough and I can't progress on speed if I don't control that, in both picking and legato. Help

so I’ve wanted to make metal covers of pop songs or just add guitar to them and I have no clue how I would come up with guitar parts that match the rhythm/beat of the songs I wanna play. Where do I start and what do I need to do to achieve this?

So recently I have been experiencing diplacusis, or double hearing. The hearing in my right ear is extremely pitched as opposed to my left ear, and it throws sounds off and makes everything sound weird and strange, especially with music, with this music sounds extremely pitched and out of tune. As you can imagine this also throws my guitar playing off as everything sounds off and out of tune, despite my guitar being perfectly in tune and everything sounding in tune to everybody else. I have been dealing with this for about a week or so and it has been driving me crazy. I was just wondering if there were any tips to help while playing, because it has been driving me up the wall this last week. Thank you for any help in advance.

Hello Synners, I hope your month of October is going well and that you start feeling the fear emanating from the shadows of that one corner in your room!

In the good spirit of spooktober, I wanted to share with you one of the strangest story that involves both music and mystery! And without further ado, let me introduce you all to Mr Robert Johnson:



Robert Leroy Johnson, born on May 8th 1911, was a blues guitarist, singer and songwriter who's legacy still to this day remains draped in uncertainty and mystery yet his influence on generations of musician is still very much felt. He grew up in Memphis which is where he acquired much of his love and knowledge for the blues and music in general while his older brother was teaching him how to play guitar! He was also known to play the harmonica and jaw harp at school.

After some years, he returned to the Mississippi Delta to rejoin his mother and work on the fields as it was common back then but... he decided otherwise. He wanted to be a musician and that's it! But at the same time, love also came in the way. At 19 years old, he married Virginia Travis who made him promise to stop playing music as back then, it was seen as an act of devil worshipping because, the blues was thought to be the devil's music! (Does that sound familiar?). And so, her family wouldn't let her marry him if he played music. Out of love, he agreed. Unfortunately, fate decided otherwise for Robert. A year later, Virginia dies in childbirth.

And so Robert took back his guitar and started playing again. Particularly, Robert was a big fan of blues legend Son House who happened to have been a neighbour of Johnson. Of course, the latter would play guitar in front of Son House and Son House was quoted as saying: “such a racket you’d never heard!… ‘Get that guitar away from that boy,’ people would say, ‘he’s running people crazy with it.’”

Now this is where the spooky part comes in: Johnson left to travel across the Delta after this and came back 2 years later and met again with Son House and asked to play again for him. Son House not expecting much allowed him to do so but he and everyone in that room were soon blown away by his performance! They just could not believe what they were hearing. When asked about how he improved so much in that time, Johnson simply said: ''I was walking with my guitar on my back in clarksdale and reached a crossroad. I was really tired and almost falling asleep but then a cold wind came out of nowhere and so I raised my head and saw a tall black silhouette with a tall hat. I didn't know what it was and I was paralyzed. Without saying a word, the silhouette took my guitar, tuned it, gave it back to me and disappeared in the night.''

From that moment on, Johnson became a simply amazing guitar player. He developed his own playing style and was simply an outstanding musician! The thing to note about him is that he was a crowd pleaser and played the song that the people requested him to play, even going as far as memorizing them on the spot, just as much as playing his own growing repertoire!

Johnson did 2 recording sessions: one in 1936 where he recorded 16 songs and another in 1937 where he recorded 13 others for a total of 29 songs recorded during his career. Here is a special one if you pay attention to the lyrics

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Robert Johnson passed away on August 16 1938 at the age of 27. His death not being reported publicly, he merely disappeared from the historical record and it was not until almost 30 years later that a musiciologist found his death certificate, which listed only the date and location, with no official cause of death. Some of the stories surrounding his death go from being poisoned by a jealous husband (he loved the ladies) to as far as the devil himself coming to claim his soul for the gifts he gave him at the crossroads.
To add even more to the mythos, still to this day we don't know where he is buried as there are 3 different graves with his name on it.

Oh and a little detail to add about him. As you see, he passed away at age 27 and he is the earliest member of the infamous 27 club... I will leave it at that!

Now of course with nowdays ressources, it seems people have filled in some gap in his history but... I like to believe in a little paranormal and it only adds to his legend so I'll keep it the way I know it!

In conclusion, Robert Johnson's legacy is uncontested. While listening to his recordings, it is important to take the context and the possibilities of the time as his music and style is revolutionary and has inspired modern music legends such as: the rolling stones, Eric Clapton, Robert plant, Fleetwood Mac, Bob Dylan... too many to name. And anyone influenced by the names I just dropped are then indirectly influenced by Johnson. Needless to say that his legacy, as much is music as the folklore, goes down in history and leave him remembered as The King of the Delta Blues.

Happy October

Scream for me, Long Beach!

If you were a metal fan in the 1980s and you didn't know this rallying cry, then you weren't a metal fan in the 80s. It really was that ubiquitous. Released 36 years ago this week, Live After Death is, quite simply, the best live heavy metal album ever made. Filmed over 4 nights at Long Beach Arena (not too far from Huntington Beach) in California, late in the year-long "World Slavery Tour" to promote the near-perfect Powerslave album from the Golden Age of Iron Maiden (with an additional 20 minutes recorded from 4 nights at Hammersmith Odeon in the UK), Live After Death is a ferocious picture of Iron Maiden in their glorious prime, with an equally ferocious Derek Riggs illustration of "Eddie the 'Ead" bursting from the grave, a bolt of lightning devastating the bolt holding his skull together after the full lobotomy represented on the Piece of Mind album cover. This is probably my favorite album cover of all time.

My cousin Bobby, who sold me my first used guitar (An Aria Pro II "explorer" style fixed bridge beauty in black), was a huge Maiden fan. By the mid-80s, I was still into the more radio-friendly "metal-lite" fare, like Def Leppard and Quiet Riot, with a few other similar bands sprinkled in. I was still fairly new to the scene, and new to guitar, but Bobby pushed me to dive into Maiden. I bought Powerslave on vinyl, because I had a record player in my room. I remember pulling the album out of the sleeve and putting it on, gorging myself on the Egyptian imagery as I laid down on the bed with the dust jacket draped in song lyrics.

About halfway through Aces High, the guitar solo kicked in, and it was so much longer than any solo I'd ever heard before that I had to wonder if they'd simply NOT used the rest of the lyrics printed on the sheet and finished the song as an instrumental. Of course I was wrong. By Two Minutes to Midnight, the gruesome lyrical imagery ("jellied brains" and "feed them to our babies," etc) made this the most "evil" thing my young mind had ever been exposed to (so far). Maybe they really WERE satanic??? Back in the Village was among my favorite tracks on the album. The riff was just crazy. So fast, so powerful. The nearly 14-minute Rime of the Ancient Mariner was amazing, though I thought it was a bit too repetitive and the slow section in the middle just way too long (and I got my literature teacher to play the song, in its entirety, in our class when we studied Coleridge).

That album changed my life. Seriously. And the cover had so many "easter eggs" all over it. I studied it for days.

Soon after came the live album, Live After Death. I asked for this album for Christmas, and to her credit, Mom (disgusted by the cover art as she was) wrapped the vinyl double-album in Santa paper to put it under the tree. I absolutely devoured it. For all the songs that weren't on Powerslave, these versions were the very first ones I heard, and therefore they will always be THE proper versions of the songs. Hearing the studio versions of songs like Revelations later made them seem slow, and dull. Lifeless. Everything on LAD was absolute ferocity.

Then there was the home video of the entire show. So much to see, from the Eddie props, to the Egyptian backdrop, to the live performance, with each and every one of the members on top of their game. Watching Dave and Adrian trade licks, Adrian leaning on Dave's shoulder. It wouldn't be until over 30 years later that I could actually see them do the same thing in-person from about as close, and I was as giddy as a schoolboy when I did. Bruce running the massive stage end to end over and over again, never missing a note (and I can confirm, he can STILL fuckin do it, even over 60 years old and recovered from throat cancer!).

When I got a little older and had a car, I bought LAD again on cassette. Then when the CD came out, I bought it yet again, without realizing the entire 4th side (The Hammersmith songs, some of my absolute favorites on the album) weren't included because they wanted to keep it to one CD. Eventually, the 2-CD version was released and I bought it YET AGAIN.

Favorite tracks: Revelations, Hallowed be Thy Name, 22 Acacia Avenue, Children of the Damned, Phantom of the Opera
Dislike: No "Back in the Village," and the ripping version of "Sanctuary" on the companion home video release is not included.

Hey Kids! Happy October!
I need some help. I've been toying with the idea of doing some live dates up here in Vermont and was thinking of doing acoustic/vocal with a loop pedal - just for fun.
My usual deal is with backing tracks - and even though I've recorded some killer backing tracks, it feels old fashioned and a bit like guitar karaoke.
So here's the deal. I don't have a loop pedal and I've never used one. lol.
Does anyone here have experience with using one - the ins and outs, tips, problems, constraints, reasons I should use one, reasons I shouldn't use one, best pedal to get, etc. ???
Maybe links to videos of players who are nailing it with a looper?

Appreciate any help you can give.
Cheers!
pg

Hello everyone, I hope you're all doing good!

Today I wanted to share with you a video and I highly believe that this is one of the MOST important video any of you who wants to be a professional musician could watch.
See, the music industry is a complex beast that requires an understanding of it in order to be most prolific. One of my biggest issue in general with artist who wants to be pro is that they focus so much on the art and completely neglect to look into the business side of things so that they can understand properly what they are doing.

Contracts and rights are a subject that I believe that every single musician who releases their music professionally SHOULD know. The labels company are know to be vicious and will screw people over which is why it's important to know YOUR rights and the terms of a contract to understand properly and thoroughly what you are doing.

And so I wanted to share with you this video made by one of my favorite channel on youtube: LegalEagle. This guy is a real practising lawyer and his videos are always so informative and really well done. Now, I must say that he practices US law and so it might not be exactly the same around the world BUT I think this is a great starting point for anyone who seeks to be more knowledgeable and understanding of music law in general and to understand the different rights that circles around music so they can look into the law of their own country. In this video he talks about Taylor Swift and how she took control back of her music and how this is a very important step moving forward in the music industry.

If you need any more convincing, Rick Beato is featured in the end and from my understanding, LegalEagle has represented him over disputes he had on youtube so... enjoy!!!

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I've seen recently a lot of people talking about how they feel like they aren't making progress and are becoming unmovtivated to play. I've been there and I know it sucks, but personally whenever I see that I am making progress whether during practice or even another day and have those "wow I couldn't do that before!" moments, it makes me really happy and I show all my friends even if they don't know wth i'm talking about it just makes it worth it to me haha. It wasn't always like this for me though I did a lot of research and learned to "practice, with the intent to get better", having that in my mind made all the difference for me so please save yourself years of frustration and think about that next time you get your guitar and start to practice and see how much faster you improve.

It's good to just have fun and improvise but if you're really trying to get better you need to dedicate time to that specifically, ideally every day, and not make the mistake of just noodling around and not pushing your limits, or you will just be noodling at that same level for ever, which is why I decided to make this 1 hour practice schedule and pass this knowledge that helped me on to all of you who read this and hopefully can help you to become a better player and make better use of this amazing resource we have here.

Try to do this or even your own variation of this everyday with the intent to get better

PART 1 - WARM UPS (Ideally warm ups that get you better as well as you're doing them)
5 minutes - Left hand warm up (legato phrases are great for this as they help you get better as well as warm up your left hand)
5 minutes - Right hand warm up (alternate picking phrases/scales/chord shapes for the same reason as above or even just chromatic runs ie. 1-2-3-4 up and down)

PART 2 - VOCABULARY BUILDING (To learn neck and epic shred licks)
15 minutes - Go learn and memorize a lesson/phrase from the course
15 minutes - Practice scales and arpeggios you already know, even if what you just learned is the all you know, start at BPM you're comfortable with, make sure you can play it clean 5 times at least, then increase metronome anywhere from 1-5 BPM and if you can't play it clean within a couple tries it would be smart to lower BPM a few to get it cleaner and start from there

PART 3 - IMPROVISATION/TECHNIQUE
20 minutes - The fun part! Apply what you've learned and jam over the backing tracks to really lock in what you learn. If you select recordings on the lessons there are backing tracks to play over, or you can even use that to figure out the key of what you're looking for and look up backing tracks on youtube, there are so many cool ones in different styles, bpm, etc. This will eventually allow you to shred and bust out these techiques you are learning on the fly.

PART 4 - REWARD YOURSELF, YOU'RE DONE!
Train your brain to WANT to practice more

PART 5 - RINSE AND REPEAT NEXT DAY
Usually after I do this routine I end up jamming/writing for a while or maybe if i'm really into it that day i'll keep practicing for even longer, maybe the same thing again or change it up a bit, and sometimes it's all I do that day, but it's okay because I know that I spent that hour improving mah skills.

Hope this helps someone that needs it, good luck as me anything.
I have some warm ups that helped me a lot i do pretty much every day that personally I think are worth gold that i'll try to get around to uploading for you guys too.

What’s up Synner’s !

I’m sure you all have already seen the Synner Song of the Week, "The Heart Collector" by Nevermore.

I wanted to share with you guys a demo of Jeff Loomis'(Nevermore guitarist) signature Jackson guitar by the one and Only Ola Englund ! I absolutely adore Ola's demo videos because more often than not when we see any metal guitarist's gear being demoed....they don't play metal lol. Ola always delivers, and he’s pretty damn entertaining too.

I've never personally played a Jackson but love the look and sound of this beast.

I'd love to hear you guys' opinions.

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Is it normal to feel uncomfortable while playing a different guitar then usual or is it just me because iv'e been using nothing but my syn custom for a long time but then when i switch to my schecter omen 6 walnut satin it feels completely different and uncomfortable to play does anyone else have this problem or is it just me