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:syngates:Happy Halloween family! This months #AOTM is The Director’s Cut by the great Fantomas, truly a great listen in the spirit of the season. This project is fronted by Mike Patton of Mr. Bungle and backed by an all star lineup comprising Dave Lombardo of Slayer on drums, Buzz Osbourne of The Melvins on guitar, and one of my top two fav songwriters of all time in Trevor Dunn of Mr. Bungle on bass(the other being P Mac).

This album is so fucking cool because Dirty Mike and the boys reinvent some of my fav soundtracks of all time. Classics like The Omen, Rosemarys Baby, The Godfather, and more. In fact, the entire album is a cover album that packs a serious punch. Not recommended for the faint of heart

I’ll keep it short and get at ya in the comments but PLEASE, go listen to the originals after you finish the record. This one is a clinic on reinvention, arrangement, and production. Enjoy.

All my love,

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Hey all! Over on the Synner Instagram page (@ Synnerofficial) we’ve started posting a new song of the week each week in the stories. These are unrelated to the AOTMs or anything like that, it’s just a fun thing we’ve begun doing to hopefully inspire some discussions here and hopefully give you some new tunes to check out!

We’re keeping track of them on the “SYNNERs Song of the Week playlist” which will be updated weekly here: Login to view embedded media
This weeks song is “The Heart Collector” by Nevermore! Have you heard the song before? Do any parts of it stand out to you musically? Feel free to discuss and break it down along with the last few previous SOTWs below!

I figured I'd share with you some of the scales I like to use when playing gypsy jazz. I'm leaving out modes because I'm a lazy fuck

My main ones are the following

Harmonic minor which I typically use on minor chords

Natural major which I uses over major chords (sweet Georgia brown and djangology are probably good examples for just G major scale)

Double harmonic major over dominant chords sounds really good to me


As a bonus I mostly base everything of arpeggios and my go to one are typically m9, basic triads over most chords and diminished and sometimes augmented arpeggios over dominant chords.


Other options you could use are things like melodic minor, super locrion, diminished scale and augmented scale but typically I don't use that often because for whatever reason my ear doesn't dig them so much

Hey everyone! I just wanted to give a bit of a warning going forward, and I know not everyone will see this but I'm putting this disclaimer up, and maybe the mods or admins can chime in about this....

One of the reasons why I stopped giving feedback is the emotionally charged bag of excuses and ego trip-based responses I'd get in return. No matter how nicely I'd put things or how many great things I'd say, I'd still get excuses and defensive responses. Not everyone did this, but it started to get to where I wanted to say "Fine, fuck it. Keep making mistakes then." And I started to feel like it was a waste of my time. So if you post up a riff, EXPECT CRITICISM IN SOME WAY FROM ME. You can't handle the things I say? I don't care. Suck it up. You're going to hear it anyway. I've never been rude to anyone on here and after having so many private lessons and even spending a hell of a lot of time on another school, I have learned so much that I can't wait to share it with you all.

Now I'm not saying I'm going to be a bitch. And there's a time and a place for criticism. Like if you're clearly a beginner and you're working hard and fumbling through something, or if you've learned something TRULY difficult, you'll just get a big sense of praise from me. But if I can tell you're a seasoned player and there's just some minute tweaks I see you could do, or if you really need help, I'll speak up.

Anyway, if I ever come off abrasive, know that I really don't mean it. I just got fed up with sugar coating things and still having people getting emotional and stepping on my face. So there you have it. If Captain Ed can take my criticism on the chin, you can too.

The End.

Are the legato videos working for anyone else? The backing tracks work for me on all. But on Legato I and VI I've tried playing the actual videos and they just load forever and never come up.

Hey there Synners!

I'd like to hear everyone's feedback about "when it's time to move on." I've been researching and on another school I learned "When you start getting bored, it's time to move on." But I'm not necessarily getting BORED, but I'm practicing a really difficult solo that's well beyond my ability. And I'm caught between "moving on" means "quitting" and "moving on" means "it's no longer really fun."

I've been practicing this for almost a month now. And it's one spot that's about 2 measures long. There's a LOT of fast sixlets in the solo (it's not Scream), and I can play about 90% of the solo up to speed but I really want to be able to do this. But it seems like I'll be stuck on this for years and it'll consume a lot of my practice time. Is it time to move on and do something different? Thanks in advance!

Hi,

I was trying to find some good presets but well, could not find anything good with Bias FX 2 so I think the best way would be to create an amp with Bias Amp 2 which will get close to what Syn was using.

Did anyone have tried to achieve some good/interesting results with Bias amp 2 and/or Bias Fx 2?
I know that Bias Amp 2 have amp modeling feature but in order to get some good result, isolated guitar track would be needed and it not an easy thing to find .

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.