What is your favorite chord progression that you either use a lot or has a big impact on your style of playing? For me that would be the Andalusian cadence (i-bVII-bVI-V), I-iii-ii-vi-vii* or i-III-bVII-bVI

Arm nerve problems manifest as lack of dexterity, numbness, lack of strength.
Ulnar nerve, as far as I remember, refers explicitly to to the ring and pinky finger nerve.



After many months without a problem I must have slept over my arm, woke up this week with my fingers not as numb as other times but weaker.
I can't do barre chords, can't bend strings towards the ceiling, only towards the ground. Still workable, but

I have started stretching based on this video

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Just a general thread, watch your health , I know at times I thought stretching is for 'guitar athletes and tryhards, I'm not doing anything fancy here', and, well, now it's a little difficult to do even the basics

What’s up family? I’ve been playing for about 4 years (sadly) on and off. Typically the way she goes is I play for a bit, get frustrated that I’m not progressing super well despite not practising things that will help me progress, and tuck my guitar away for a month or so before I start it again.

LATELY I’ve been taking it much more serious, signed up to learn from Papa Gates with all you beautiful people, and enrolled in in person lessons to take my playing from “somewhat okay rhythm guy” to certified bad ass! Here is a jam from this morning
Constructive comments only please! I know I have a few bad habits and a long way to go, but I’m not looking back!
Oh and did I mention I picked up MY DREAM GUITAR? I’m loving it!

cheers guys, and until we can play lessons again, here is a little something let me know if these links don’t work!

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For those with a floating bridge...how many half steps can you raise the pitch before the string hits a fret and buzzes/mutes? For example my G-string (lol) can go 6 half steps (G to C#) but right before it gets to D it hits the frets and becomes a harmonic and then dies out.

I'm not sure how high you should be able to go without hitting the frets...otherwise I would lower my action more but I don't know what ammount of room my floyd rose should have.

Thanks!

I have the custom-s model and I have dead frets and I know it’s a problem with the truss rod but I don’t actually know how to fix can anyone give me an idea or do I just bring it to guitar center

What’s up everyone! I’m back today with more jamming to a little piece of Heaven. Being that it’s actually not a super guitar heavy song compared to most of their stuff, a lot of this is borrowed from players who have done covers before, or “composed” by listening to the track itself. Let me know what you think! Any tips and tricks as well as constructive comments are certainly welcome!
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Hey everyone...
I just had to share my new guitar. I cannot believe that I managed to buy it for only £295. It is in perfect condition
It was so risky too as I couldn't see it first... I was so excited unpacking it.

Meet my ZV Fractured Mirror!
Even Zacky couldn't believe the price.

It is a joy to play but needs a lot of polishing ha ha.

Hey everyone!

By now you know the drill! Book yourselves Tuesday September 20th at 9ham PST/12hpm EST/18hpm CET for the fifth edition of Parental guidance with Papa Gates!

We'll see you then!


- Rad

How do I get the best metal tone in my amp

Hello there,

I thought it would be a fun thing to ask... so while playing/writing/improvising how do you visualize the fretboard? What do you see, what kind of "map" you have in your head?
Do you have the root notes and intervals as your base? Or note names? Or triads/chord shapes? CAGED? Scale shapes? Pentatonic boxes? Or something I didn't even mentioned?

I don’t compose before recording typically because I think improvising smaller studio settings strikes a note on your style of music instrumentation.
I do compose before the recording session if it is usually a tighter list to go into the studio with.

For example: graphic design for music is usually the first thing before either composing or recording, and even samples. So I’ll go with those first before laying out any thing worth recording or bulks of notes and writings.

Got really familiar with guitar pro. Programming your own drums is the way to go if you are a solo artist. GarageBand has a decent drummer and you can even makes simple progressions.

So for style I’ll lay it out with either samples or graphics then pick which instrument is best for harboring a tone for either going all the way down the set list or maybe for a really tasty solo being planned to be spawned out for my heavier stuff.

Never like to have a project not being used for more than a month usually.

Post your writing tricks, tone setters, or even striking styles you’ve learned over the course of being in the fam.
I’ll post some examples later just trying to start the thread rn.

I just finished learning the stage it's a really hard song to play

what’s wrong with my account from a long time ago until now I haven’t seen Papa Gates and Synyster teaching. The video doesn’t work here at all. I think this is related to the verification problem, where before getting verification, of course I can’t play the video but not now I’ve got verification but why can’t the video play and the link I show the problem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG7ED0JYlR0





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What type of strings are better for metal and hard rock?I

And also what is the best way to clean your guitar strings

What is first full song you ever learned? For me it would be Animal I have Become by Three Days Grace

How do I change strings with locking tuners

So, just finished the new Deth that just dropped, phew! My brain is on fire.

It's heavy as in deep. It's one of those albums I can tell will grow on you with multiple listens, which I look forward to. There's so much to take in I hesitated to even post this originally and had to wait for my heart rate to slow down.

Very warm tones overall. I find it fascinating how an album's sound can match the overall cover art and message they are going for. Dystopia was sleek, metallic (no 'a'), grey and futuristic. This one brings everything back to browns and earth tones, black plaques, WARM leads. Vic Rattlehead goes from the future to some sort of early-modern or renaissance era setting.

The title track as well as Killing Time (yes I thought of 'Doin Time') and Celebutante are the highlights for me. The latter is certified thrash with a quote from the classic "Looking Down the Cross".

Spoiler alert: it's funny to hear Dave call military cadence and recite nursery rhymes, as well as the Monty Python quote to start the album.

Anyway...talk amongst ya'selves.

Hey everyone! I'm getting a lot better with using Reaper but the biggest problem I'm having is setting up FX chains with amp simulators and stuff. A few of the problems I'm having are....

1. The sound randomly cuts out. If I do a vibrato or a bend, randomly it's like the signal cuts out and it cuts the sound. So it sounds like I'm doing a sustained vibrato and it just stops. It's not my cable because it works just fine through my amp.
2. I hear two different tones in my headphones. I literally hear a clean guitar tone (like the sound you have when the record button isn't armed and it just sounds like a bad clean tone) along with the amp simulator tone. I hear them both at the same time.

I have searched all over the internet to no avail.

Setting up FX chains has been the bane of my guitar recording because nothing sounds good. Like, at all. I get a great tone straight into my amp, which is why I'm buying an amp mic on my next paycheck.
It seems like every Youtube video/Guitar Reaper tutorial tells me to set up the chain differently. But here is where I'm standing at currently...

Reatune
Reagate
VST3 Ignite Emissary
VST3 Ignite Nadir
JS Distortion
JS Reaverbate

Any help would be much appreciated. I have spent at least 200 hours trying to figure out how to dial in a decent tone and everything sounds like shit. Thanks guys and gals!

Hey all, just a casual heads up that my boy @Jamie London and I will be live for the 3rd episode of our little show this Monday at 3pm PST/6pm EST!

Come hangout!

I keep pressing play but it wont play the video i tried it on the app and the browser it doesnt work anyone got an idea?

New here and hoping to learn to be a more refined player here. Been making noise for a long time, but it is time to learn some real chord progression and scales. Oh and you have to slow down Papa Gates to like 40-70% speed if you haven't. It is super helpful, but also makes him sound plastered drunk!

Hi everybody! I've joined this community a few weeks ago, my name is Benedetta and I'm from Italy. I'm 25 and I started playing guitar when I was 15. I'm a self taught and for the first 4-5 years I used to play something like maybe one hour per week, then I dropped for other 4 years til two years ago, when I recived a guitar as a gift for my university gratuation. So I started playing again! I'm still a self taught, but one month ago a friend made me discover A7X and then I found out about this website! I hope to learn and have fun!

So I’ve always been the guitar behind a lot of the music I have. With tabs on a few other instruments in a band I’m in. But I’ve never really don’t lyrics. Words were never my forte, so I’m having trouble writing lyrics. Any help? Guidance or advice?

Hey guys!

Just posting a short update to say that my Live Streamed Video Premiere of 'Solo Over Sidewinder' will be happening THIS FRIDAY 6PM EST!

Tune in to find out how to Solo over the Acoustic section in Avenged Sevenfold's Song - Sidewinder and to learn some Minor Triad based soloing concepts!

Looking forward to hopefully seeing some of you on Friday!

id say i'm decent at putting a nice song together, but it just sounds weak. like i don't know what i'm doing on guitar, because i don't. how do i write cool riffs and spooky melodies? i can only seem to write sad emotional stuff with little to no shredding.