I've been trying to make space on my laptop and phone. Was thinking about what I should keep and could do without, cause like maybe some things are nice to keep for different reasons. Maybe you guys could suggest some reasons

Right now I just have one folder where I put everything and most are unnamed and I think there are many doubles by mistake, it's really chaotic.

Recently I deleted my old YouTube account and restarted it with the same name, kind of a mistake cause I had a lot of favorited videos that I'll probably forget and not come across again.

Also I deleted my super cool Cinder Gates SoundCloud page too I wanted that to be like my band name with a Post-Hardcore type genre vibe whatever that is, but this idea was from awhile back.

Deleted all my GarageBand files too. I'm thinking now that I have some experience I could do things better like straight away name a file and stuff.

So I guess the question is "what kind of things should I keep?" Aside from tips on organizing. Some files are like 2-3gbs.

Might be a lot of rubbish I got saved up

Thanks in advance!

I saw that metaverse would do all things that we could already do in real life including concerts
I am going to ask directely, do you think that metaverse would make disapear the live concerts ?
Because honestly, I am afraid that we have to enjoy all activities only in metaverse and honestly it scares me
I need to see concerts in real life, I need to hang out with friends in real life
And I feel that all things in real you could in metaverse would not have the same feeling you could have than in real life
Don't get me wrong, I don't have anything against NFT, some projects are really cool and even there is no utility, in art side some projects are beautiful
I am simply sceptical about metaverse thing
Maybe I am exaggereting, you can disaggre with me (we are not in Reddit lmao)
I just needed to say that because it's been a few days that this question is in my mind and stressed me and I didn't know how to say or to start what I mean

Thank you for watching my thread
Take care of you

Hey guys I've been playing guitar for at least 4-5 years. I'm don't know much about amps or effects pedals or pickups, I usually just buy what sounds good to me lol. Any tips on how to keep sustain on your guitar. Thanks! And keep on shredding

I'll be live on SynTV this Tuesday, February 8, at 4pm MST/AZT talking about guitar tone, getting to know your gear and what it can do, why is tone important, etc. We will workshop a blank preset on the AxeFX and build the start of a tone together as we go.

This is being demonstrated on an AxeFX, but the tools we will cover are useful regardless of your equipment - physical modelers, software modelers, tube or solid state amps, and hybrid goodies like the Boss Katana.


See you there!

So I picked up a Marshall Code 50 earlier this week. I wanted to upgrade from what I had before. I can say that this thing is amazing. Has anybody else messed with this amp?

Hey everyone!

So little change in program today, Iris decided to cancel her stream due to personal circumstances and I decided that I could jump on stream and chat a little bit!

The subject of this stream will be covers! More specifically, I want to get into a sort of ''breakdown'' of some well known covers by different popular artist and how some can reinvent a song in their own style and still make it super interesting! I've had this idea because I've been listening to Retrovertigo by Mr Bungle a lot and I was just fascinated by both the original and the Avenged version. After, I went in just went into a spiral of listening to different covers of song that I liked who really took the concept and did something special and different!

In other words, I just want to get into a nice chill conversation about music, being creative in the process of songwriting and how some artists have been able to readapt a song they loved to be closer to them!

I'll see y'all today on SynTv at 15hEST!!!

- Rad Synner

any A7x fan, in a car with friends: puts on an avenged sevenfold station

station: starts playing dual clarinets.

A7x fan:

You got away with harmonic scales, but I am still sending Doomguy after you if you say that our songs need to be melodic...

1. Topics of discussion
2. Melodic minor scales

1. Topics of discussion

In this tutorial, we are going to talk about melodic minor scales. So, let's have some fun.

2. Melodic minor scales

A melodic minor scale is also obtained by altering the natural minor scale. This time around though, we raise both the 6th and 7th notes of the said natural minor scale.

For example, the melodic A minor scale will consist of the A, B, C, D, E, F♯, G♯, and A notes. Here's how it looks like:


And yeah, there's this weird rule that my theory teacher taught me that when you play it in descending order, you're supposed to play the notes at their original pitch. I don't really know why that's the case. Just remember that when writing songs using a melodic minor scale, you're supposed to sharpen the 6th and 7th notes.

Anyhow, here is the scale played back.

And with that, we conclude this tutorial. Next time, we are going to discuss modal scales. See you then.

Best delay settings for Synyster gates like solos?

:syngates:Yo Family! This month’s #AOTM is a special one. I went with one of my favorite soundtracks by the master himself, Danny Elfman, in this dark epic, Batman.

This also happens to be one of my top 5 favorite movies of all time, it’s an absolute masterpiece imho and the music serves a huge part. The themes for the characters are flawless and even tho he goes into some classic, quirky, Elfman awesomeness, I love that this collection of music is generally darker, more serious, and super fucking epic a la The Batman Theme.

If you’ve never seen this movie I would implore you to watch it first. It’s even got music from Prince in this bad boy, really GREAT Prince in fact

I had the amazing honor of working with Danny on the soundtrack for Wanted. He was all business, a perfectionist, and a man of great mystique. He’s exactly how you’d imagine him if you only knew of his work for Batman(as opposed to his work for PeeWee Herman lol).

This AOTM might contain the most secrets to any A7X album than all the other previous AOTMs combined

Lemme know what you guys think and again, please watch the movie first if you haven’t already. It’s the Tim Burton directed version with Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, and Kim Basinger.
Truly a masterpiece

All my love,

SYN
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Well guys I did it again!! There’s now a red and black bedazzled syn guitar. What do you think?
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Hey everyone!

So I wanted to share today my experience about bad technique and where it leaves me. Before anything, here's a bit of context. I started drums about 3 years ago. I bought a pretty cheap kit from a friend and just started hitting stuff around for fun. Of course, eventually I started taking drums more seriously as I developed my studio and my ambitions for music and so I started to practice more seriously and more consistently.

Unfortunately, I never had a drum lesson and I just sort of went behind the kit and improvised. Went on the internet to check what people advised and I thought I understood what they said about kicking. Using your ankle to push on the pedal and build your muscle and motion from there. Okay, I thought i had it down. And so as disciplined as I am, I was practising everyday but eventually, I started feeling pain in my right knee. Okay, I schedule a meeting with my doctor in February 2021 and we talked about it. I told her about my life style and what could cause the pain and the thing is that, at the time, I was jogging everyday as well so when I said that, she said that jogging might have had a bad effect on my knee. (For more context, I was jogging during winter time with boots on. This is definitely a bad thing that can cause pain). So as per her advice, I stopped jogging thought she said that the repetitive nature of drumming could play a role in that however since she was a general doctor, she had limiting knowledge on drumming. (continued with different workouts though). But the pain didn't go away even months after I stopped. I had to take breaks because the weird pain was annoying. It never was anything that stopped me from walking or anything. It's just that the fact that I was feeling my knee so strongly couldn't be good for the long term.

So I went and saw my doctor again in august and this time, she told me to the an xray of the knee to see what could be there. I did so and my bones were just fine so it must mean that it was the ligaments. And so I kept wondering what to do and what could be the cause of it even though I had a little voice in my head that clearly was telling me what was the cause. The pain came from my right knee and lightly appeared in my left knee. I practice a lot of double kick so it wasn't a surprised but I was still using the right foot to kick more than the left one.

And so a friend drummer and I finally came to the conclusion that I developed simply a bad technique for kicking. I was using my entire leg to press on the pedal instead of doing an ankle motion and so doing this repetitive movement went and caused uncomfortable feelings on my right knee.

So what's left to do? Well, unfortunately to accept my mistake and start over. I have to dismantle everything I knew and used to do and build it back up from the ground which means that that I have to take it all back down in terms of speed. All progress I made will have to be reevaluated and yeah! But this is what has to be done. I made a mistake and now that I properly realized it, I have to go on correct it. Yes it's going to slow down things in the sort term but at the end of the day, by doing this, I put all the chances on my side to be able to play drums properly but also to avoid general physical pain in the long term so yeah, gotta do what I gotta do!

Just wanted to share my story because I highly believe in accepting when we make a mistake and doing something about it. We can't always be perfect and it's all a learning curve. Making mistakes is a part of the process to general betterment. And the next step is to recognize it and then to correct it so, there I go!

Have a great day everyone!

- Rad

Being modest, I am still a beginner guitarist though I probably don't give myself enough credit. I'm always learning. I have been playing off and on since Jr. High School, fucking Van Halen started it all for me lol. Once upon a time I met Sammy Hagar when I was 15. Guitar is the best therapy and metal has always been a life long obsession. Music runs in my family and I feel it's something I need to master or I will forever feel like a fucking loser.

It's time for something new. We're taking the riff challenge to a new level!

The rules of this challenge will be the same as the good old riff challenge. You remember that one, right?
For those of you who don't, and the newer members it goes as followed:

To join, all you have to do is leave a comment stating you want to be challenged. Anyone can reply to your comment giving you a random lick from the internet or a lick from a song, and you can do the same to others.
(Try to make sure there are tabs for the lick. You can mention your level to get a fair challenge)
Learn the lick you've been given. It would be fun if you record yourself and share it here. You can play the lick over the original track or use it in an improv, that's up to you. Don't worry about recording quality, this is all for fun and to motivate your playing.
After that shout for a new lick, or challenge someone else.

You're allowed to make requests about licks in a specific style to learn something, or to ask for something new to expand your horizon.

I challenged myself with a random lick I used in an improv. (Is it really an improv if you’ve been playing it for 3 days? ) I’ll post it in the first comment.

The first official victim of the challenge is @Radu-Cristian Perde !
I challenge you to learn Killswitch Engaged - Holy Diver, the post solo lick.

Game on

I recently got the gold satin burst guitar after having the black and gold custom S for 6 months and wanted to share my thoughts on the two of them.
The main reason I got another one was so I could keep one in E standard and one in drop D tuning. That way I can use my gold pinstripe one to play syn’s etudes and other songs in E tuning while using the gold satin burst to play drop D stuff.
The Satin finish is much preferred for me personally since it makes sliding so much easier especially in afterlife and the stage. Also the 14 inch fret radius does make a noticeable difference if you play while standing up.
The gloss black and gold one does look a little bit more solid and feels almost heavier and higher quality, but I do like the satin one more for playing since it is easier and I personally like the look better.
I often wondered if there was really much of a difference between the two and after playing both of them daily I know
If anyone has any questions about the two of them feel free to ask!

Login to view embedded media This is the song I think I am concerned about the mixing it's just hard as I making with a charity so it's hard to have the most time to get the mixing precise. Also Whenever I go to the studio to record I have a 1-hour slot to record aspects of the song also singing so can feel quite pressured to get it right and have only 12 sessions. I guess I work slow. I know there are vocals that are pitchy and some tonality issues. I do have belief in my ability in singing, it's just hard to get the best takes in an hour slot without a warm-up, etc. I most likely can not make any vast changes.
Was just hoping I was being a pessimist about the song and perhaps someone could reassure me, that it's not all doom and gloom. The charity has been great to me it's a record label for artists with mental health. As I am someone who suffers from this. I do love the song but I am taking it with care to want it to be proficient and to be well satisfied with it.
My other song has not been mixed and I am more confident about it. If you wanna check that one out it's below. The songs are unreleased. So hard making music not knowing how people will perceive it. Thanks for reading.
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Hello, as I've been playing drums for roughly half a year, I was wondering how I should position the kit parts?
Spacings and placement, right now I kind of feel like I'm facing left a bit too much.
I'm right handed and the kit consists of 3 Toms, 2 that connect to the Kick Drum, a Snare, a Hi-Hat Pedal, 2 Cymbals and a Ride ( I think those are the names )
Each time I'm jamming at this place I go to I find myself adjusting the Hi-Hat and snare distances for space and feeling comfortable.
Is there a proper way to lay them out?
To me it seems fine when I look at it but I have little to no experience
I can't imagine where the double kick would go with the Hi-Hat there ( if there was one )
One more thing, sometimes if I place one not so great I have to adjust my approach as to not hit my fingers with the Snare, Hi-Hat.


I'll try to get a picture tomorrow if it helps

Thanks in advance!

Thomann.de is it safe for shopping?

Whaddup Synners?

For all my transcribers out there I had a question.

I am starting to pick up ear training and I wanted to ask you all what would be more beneficial for me.

For my age I know that I cannot develop a perfect pitch so would training intervals be more effective?

Whad do you think?

Additionally. Do you have any easy songs to initiate myself to transcriptions? I tried choosing songs and always end up biting off more than I can chew and get kinda discouraged.

Thank you all in advance!

I'm buying a custom soon. I cant decided between these two guitars. Please help me out.
My biggest concern is that satin will leave shiny marks or glossy marks.. Did anyone experience that?
Gold/black vs satin Burst

Hey dudes, ya miss me! It's been a while. Over the course of the past few months I have been practising a lot of technique, my sweeping and legato has become more fluid but one thing that seems to not improve is my alternate and economy picking, the main stumbling block is that everything feels quite clunky, the pick seems to get stuck on the string than moving through it and it's something that I have no clue how to fix. I have tried pick slanting both ways but to no avail.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Heyo everyone!

Just want to let y'all in on a little something... we know y'all like those webinars and so as the title spoils it, it will happen in early march!
A more formal announcement will come with more specifics like the date and time BUT just know that it's going to happen on SynTv with of course Syn himself and its exclusive to Legend+ upgraded users!

We're excited to see y'all in the chat, I'll give you guys more details as we get them!

Have a great day!

- Rad Synner

Howdy,

A simple thing you can do with cheaper humbucker is swap out the ceramic magnet for an alnico one.

Something you will want to ensure is that you keep the magnet in the right orientation. (Or potentially to reverse the orientation if you want that out of phase sound).

An easy way to do this is to use a compass to make sure it's in the same orientation.

Usual disclaimers, don't do a magnet swap unless you are comfortable with what you are doing and I'm not advising you go do this, more if you already were, here's something that will help.

Hey everyone

New here and new to Schecter. Recently I bought my first, a 2006 C/E. Loved it so much that I went and got a 2006 30th Anniversary C-1 Limited. Both were like new. Just got a 2004 today that's a 2004 c1+.

Looking for a community to discuss these wonderful guitars.

Slainte
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What's up everyone, time for me to get back live on stream and I wanted to continue on my quest to become a great cellist! It'll be a pretty chill stream where I'm just gonna go over what I'm doing currently on the cello, share some progress and just overall have a chill time so come hangout friend!

Tomorrow Friday February 4th at 17h EST!

See ya there!

- Rad Synner