So there are two things that are confusing me. First is something I kinda got down and that transitioning from a verse to a chorus or chorus to a bridge. What are some steps or ways I would to kinda build up verse to a chorus or another part of the song. Second is strum patterns. I have been having a lot of trouble finding good strum patterns to use in a song so what should I practice to start heading in the right direction. The only two I really know is just either straight eighth notes or the one strum pattern that Avenged Sevenfold uses in like 50% of their choruses (natural born killer, heretic, etc.)

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I am very tentative of calling myself a singer to new people, with my own songs I'm great but m.shadows is a different breed. M.shadows was partly the reason I didnt know I had potential to sing. Because his singing is very good etc and hard. I hope I'm turning a new leaf in my singing.

Merry christmasss or whatever you celebrate have a great dayyyy everyonee

I've always been curious how he actually plays it. If he alternate/economy picks the lead gtr in the chorus or he does a really slow sweep pick.

It's really not that urgent. I'm alot more comfortable alternate picking it but idk.

What's up fam? So recently my mental health has gone into a steep and scary decline. And I never realized until I got this low how much music has helped me over the years. I came real close to saying "fuck this life" and I happened to hear "In The Light" by Zeppelin. And I realized that there is hope out there. This isn't the end. I wonder how many other times music has pulled me out without me even realizing it. Anyone else experience this? What music/artists have helped pull you back up and kept you going?

Hello friends, happy Monday!

The homie @Radu-Cristian Perde and myself will be back at it today with “Two Fancy Dudes #9: Metallica, Pantera and A.I.” on SynTV! We had to miss the last few weeks as my day job got incredibly busy (as they do during the holidaze ) and I had to cover for some co-workers who ended up with rona, but we’re back this week with what is sure to be a baaaaanger of an episode at 3pm pst/6pm est!

We hope to see you there!🫡

Hi everyone, this is a topic I have spoken about in lots of posts but I am still really struggling with riff writing. I find that I'm not really a creative type of person and never really have any ideas floating around in my head for solos or riffs etc and i really want that to change.

I look at riff writing really logically like there is some kind of formula to crack but I know that isn't true. Its just frustrating to sit down and put a drum track on but not be able to come up with interesting rhythms, chord structures or lead fills and in all honesty I don't know where to start.

I always hear people "having ideas in their heads" and i feel like I cant be a songwriter because I just don't have that.

I would love advice and maybe practice exercises if possible to help with being able to come up with interesting rhythmic patterns that lock in and around drum beats, creating chord progression and lead fills, really just how to break out of the mould of playing the same chords and notes in scale order as apposed to jumping around and playing complex chords.

The styles I mainly wish to be able to write would probably be pop punk, early metalcore and more djenty stuff like monuments and periphery.

Hi guys! I'm here with a question about the guitar strings. I play an old and cheap electric guitar (model Les Paul) and I've always used to use strings with 10-46 scale. Currently, I'm using the Ernie Ball regular slinky (the ones with the green pack). My question is, if I want to try the super slinky (the ones with the pink pack), which are 9-42 scale, could I have some kind of problems with my guitar? Is the string scale related to the guitar model, or is just up to the style/type of music you're going to play? I've always put the 11-52 on the acoustic guitar and the 10-46 on the electric, but I've never tried the 9-42 and I'm just curious.

definitely hits that avenged sevenfold tone!

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just demoing with some riffs and solos that I haven't played in a while

I was hesitant with getting the cab pack or which to get closest to the album tones, but that hellwin cab impulse response that came with the preset sounds awesome!

hellwin cab pack:

I've been playing on and off for most of my life, and just found out about this site. It looks like there are a lot of good lessons to be had here and support from the community as well.

I cut my teeth during the heyday of the 80's commercial and thrash metal greats, but after several long breaks - it's time to refresh my knowledge of the six-string. I'm still trying to avoid the noodle-loop and formulate a practice plan to actually use the material on this site to my advantage.

I look forward to engaging you all and sharing my progress.

Cheers!~

Hello peeeeeeeeps. I love syn's 6th sweep etude but the second stretch is hard on my poor hand. Does syn have a big hand???
Any tips for big stretches???


And omg does any one know what chords are played on the backing track? It's so beautiful.

Hey guys! Hope everyone is well. So glad the lessons are back and running Thank you to everyone who worked hard on getting them back up! I've had my guitar for about a year now and I'm not a complete beginner, but I still don't know a whole lot of things, so I'm starting the lessons from the very beginning. Regarding the tuning lesson, I have been using guitar tuna/my amp tuner to help me tune(I dont own a clip tuner just yet). I've been trying to practice how to tune my guitar using the method in the lesson, but I just cant seem to get it. Is there any tips or tricks you guys have to help me master this skill?

Hi,

I’m completely new to the Synner forum. A very good friend of mine has just given me his Synyster Gates guitar. I have never seen a version like this before and am struggling to find anything about it! It is a ‘Syn Custom NT’ and has a tuneomatic bridge, string thru body, a set neck and Seymour Duncan pickups.
Can anyone tell me about it? Apparently only 10 of them ended up in England, hence the ‘5’ on the cavity plate written in red sharpie. Thanks, Red.

After 8 months 5 days and 6 hours of playing guitar, I started a band and we had our first jam session last Thursday. It was a little difficult syncing up but it was pretty cool. I’m gonna call it a band jam, yes it sounds a bit cheesy but has a nice ring to it, maybe, ok I am not calling it band jam, that is gonna get old really fast. Band rehearsal practice jam session or for short, BRPJS. Anyways, Here’s a video unfortunately the phone fell and most of the video is towards the ceiling. Login to view embedded media

Here I am trying to get better at Guitar by a living legend from a little unknown band that I saw at The Attic in New Braunfels, Tx in 2000. Glad to see how far Avenged Sevenfold has come.

hi if there is anyone with the knowladge or experiance on processor repair i need some help. I've been using Pod xt Live on stage and it started lightly at first but now it uncontrollablely switches tones between channels in the middle of a song while edit button is closed. For more clear explanation for example, when i play the rhythm section with clean channel that has gain on 1 and then switch to the distortion channel for solo with gain on 8-9 or whatever doesnt really matter, the gain of the distortion channel suddenly drops down to 1 same level as the clean channel i used right before. Is there anyway i can fix it myself at home there arent really any good lithuers around me and literally not a single one that can repair pedals etc.

Check it - and all the other cool giveaways.

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Hi guys i was trying to record guitars for my songs, and i've heard about blending different amps into one guitar track but i don't have a clue how is it done. so if some one can enlight me on this would be great.

PD: I would want to do this with Virtual amps like bias fx 2 or Amplitube since i don't have any real amp with me now.

So I was sitting in class one day and struggling to think of a good rhythm combination. So I thought hey why don’t I try all of them. If one beat has 16 different variations, one measure shouldn’t be that bad right, and boy was I wrong. I calculate everything for one measure and I got 64. Now you probably are thinking, “Well okay it is a bit tough but spend some time with it and you can find something good”. Heh heh, well that is just going down to the eighth subdivision. The amount of combinations of sixteenth subdivisions for one measure is 256! Crazy right? Really says to how infinite music is.

Hi i have a Christmas gig this Saturday I'm going to be playing Christmas metal songs at the independent in sunderland im really nervous its my second gig and it's gonna be so long

As you know, Zacky Vengeance is one of the amazing guitarists of Avenged Sevenfold, so I decided to make a draw for his birthday and post it here !
Happy birthday Zacky Vengeance
You and Synyster Gates are incredibles guitarists

Hi folks,
I’m trying to figure out how to produce the effect Syn is using in the Chorus of the song Angels.

My ears are hearing a high octave effect and volume swells. It may also be some sort of delay or reverb effect where he has the mix set to 100%.

I know he’s a Fractal user, and that’s what I’m working with. I’ve already been trying stuff with a volume block and a pitch block for the octaves. Nothing so far. I’ve tried some different delays as well, but nothing.

Would love some help from the community!

Does anyone know the best strings for soloing and bends
For my other guitar

The lessons of Synner are amazing. Is there a way to print the tabs that I can use for reference.

I can play most of the solo, but am currently struggling (and have been for about 3 or so months now) to do the part right before the duet, the part where it's a fast up then back down on the frets kind of thing, does anyone have any tips, or advice, on how I should go about doing it, or any exercises that could help? Right now I've just been trying to do it slowly then speed it up but I'm not making any progress doing it this way.