does anyone know what the whammy bar is for a synyster gates custom S? i’ve looked everywhere for months and even bought a whammy bar that was the wrong one and my guitar never came with a whammy bar and i can’t change strings any help would be awesome

So I recently started looking into the Deathbats Club and was wondering if theres anyone here who has experience with NFTs that can maybe help me better understand the concept and what I could use it for....aside from the cool perks that come with some of the deathbats...what is the personal advantage?...and what could I use my deathbat for if I had one? Shoot me a message if you'd like to discuss.

So I started a small band with some of my friends and obviously we chose to play in our small school's talent show. The unfortunate part of going to a small school is they don't tend to do things "by the books" so we were rushed in at the very end to set up without a soundcheck and resulted in a pretty shitty performance, but it could have gone so much worse. I am honestly not disappointed with how it turned out but I feel my nervousness contributed to a bunch of mistakes. So my question to any guitarists that have more experience on stage, how long does it take for "stage fright" to go away or at least die down some?

Hey i gotta slight buzz/hum coming from my Dean ml dimebag tribute guitar. i just put a seymour duncan dimebucker pickup in the bridge. all my grounds and solder joints look fine and i have continuity all over the guitar... when i touch the metal on the toggle switch, the jack input, the bridge and strings and the neck pickup the buzz/hum goes away.. i replaced the pot and resoldered it again for that pick up and still get buzz.. any ideas? I have tested my 2 other guitars on the same amp and patch chord to make sure they arent the issue aswell.. Im kinda stumped now lol. any help is greatly appreciated
should add that the noise does get louder when i touch the pickup i installed or if i touch the height adjustment screws for the pickup but it gets quieter if i touch the height adjustment screws on the neck pickup (stock i didnt change neck pickup the stock pickup has a metal baseplate but the new dimebucker the screws go into a plastic baseplate) but if i touch the strings the noise goes away then i can touch the pick up i get no noise... ive taped any piece of wire that cud possibly touch anything to ground out aswell. im stumped lol
the hum/buzz/noise disapears when you turn the volume pot to zero or when you turn the tone down to zero...
Any ideas anyone? lol thanks in advance

I know practicing to a metronome is a must and I have to admit I avoid using them often. When practicing I tend to go at my own pace which tends to bit quicker than the songs tempo. Are backing tracks good to use in place of a metronome?

:syngates:Yo Family! This months #AOTM is very special to me because I believe that you will learn so much from this album. MBDTF by the eccentric Kanye West is a clinic on songwriting, arrangement, dynamic, the eclectic, performance, and mixing.

I don’t expect all of you to be thrilled about this rec but this album and this artist has elongated my bands career by inspiring us to create when it felt like we had no more to say.

I have to be honest, hearing someone shred or play a rad riff on the guitar no longer inspires me to pick up mine. Over the last decade I have made it my life’s work to go through the YouTube rabbit hole to source new techniques, equipment, and beyond. I’ve done this to help create the world’s greatest guitar school. I also use these techniques and tricks in solos and I feel that it gives me an edge so, win win.

Today, what compels me to write music and play the guitar, is when I hear someone make music sound like nothing I’ve ever heard before. And to do it with master craftsmanship is the icing.

Kanye delivers on all fronts with this heavy hitter. Dark Fantasy opens this brilliant body of work with a beautifully arranged pop gospel that has so much depth in tone and texture. Then we settle in with a classic R&B guitar theme with Gorgeous and we are off

So I spent a lot of time in deliberation with @Jamie London trying to decide between this one and his album Ye. If you are inspired by this first record, please check out Ye. It might not be his best album ever but Ghost Town is my fav track he’s ever written and the dynamic throughout the entire record is like nothing I’ve ever witnessed.

So give em a listen and lemme know what you think.

All my love,

SYN
:syngates:
APPLE Fantasy
APPLE Ye

SPOTIFY Fantasy
SPOTIFY Ye

YOUTUBE Fantasy
YOUTUBE Ye

Is there any possibility that syns new golden headless guitar or his white and golden signature is available for purchase somewhere in the future?

SO… I am currently eating ice cream in the truck on the way home from getting said ice cream and the two flavors are chocolate chip cookie dough and Cookie Monster which is cookie dough and small chunks of ice cream sandwiches. but then it got me thinking if rock bands had their own ice cream flavor… what would it be
Put your food minds to the test and tell me your ideas and especially a avenged sevenfold ice cream

I live in India and want to play a song at a wedding in a week.
What song should i go for, for an acoustic guitar bucause Alter Bridge music which I normally play won't work at all.
Please also send a tutorial because things i can play with tabs are not things i can play infront of people without them



My YT https://www.youtube.com/@Ravenstorm163
My IG https://www.instagram.com/nuke_crow/
Can also message me on insta if you like to help with the song suggesion

So you're telling me that these chords can actually get even weirder?

1. Topics of discussion
2. Modifying the triad
3. Advanced added tone chords
4. Chord variations you may encounter

1. Topics of discussion

In this tutorial, we will be combining chord forming techniques and learn how we can build chords by using different triads. So, let's have some fun.

2. Modifying the triad

During this course, all the chords we've talked about involved using the four basic triads: major, minor, diminished and augmented.

But...what would happen if we decided to be a tad sadistic and modify that triad? What would happen if instead of a major triad, we used a sus2 triad? As you know, a sus2 triad consists of the 1 2 5 notes. A Csus2 triad consists of the C D G notes.

So, what would happen if we add a B♭ on top of a Csus2 triad? We would get a C7sus2 chord. Here is one way to play it:


Go ahead and try to play it and then try to play a C7 chord to notice the difference.

And as you might expect, you can play a C7sus4 chord if you use a Csus4 triad (C-F-G). Something like this:


Of course, this can become as complex as you want. For example, you can also have a C9sus2 chord, if you play your notes right:


Or, why not try a C9sus4 chord as well?


You can play around with these as much as you want and obtain a number of different variations for them.

3. Advanced added tone chords

Much like how we can change the base triad and play a different variation of a chord, we can also add a 9th, 11th or 13th note on top of a complex chord in order to play a, let's say, Cmaj7add11. Let's take a look at it:


Another example of such a chord is C6add9:



Finally, let's try to play a C7add13 chord:


4. Chord variations you may encounter

There will be times when learning and playing some songs that you will encounter variations of the chords we have talked about until now. There will be times when you will see added tone chords that make use of a flatted note, e.g. Cadd♭9. What you need to remember is that whenever you see an accidental next to a note in a chord, you first need to figure out the note from the major scale formed on the root note of the chord and then apply that accidental to the note.

In other words, in order to play a Cadd♭9 chord, you would need to play the C E G and D♭ notes, since the 9th note of the C major scale would be D. Thus, a ♭9 would translate to a D♭.

And that about covers it for this tutorial. In the next one, we will be going through all the advanced chord types we've talked about and figure out where we can use them. See you then.

Is there any app that DOESNT have to be paid for or subscription free and be able to have tabs and chords

In the cosmic solo, Syn plays something where its like a note… but then a harmonic…. and it happens again a bit later, but its much more smooth that the first. I thought that was really cool, anybody know how to do that? If you don’t know what I’m talking about, I can elaborate.

Hi everyone! Hope you are doing great! I was thinking about starting a project, a collab to be precise, and I would like to do it on something A7X, or in a Jared's shred collab. For both of them, I would need some guitarists, bassists, drummers and even some vocalist.
The result would go to my newly created YouTube channel and all participants will have rights to distribute the video freely, unless they really participated.
Thanks for any ideas and hope we can blow everything up!

Whaddup Synners!

So I have been playing around with different picks ever since the Rona stopped the world.


And I settled on the Dunlop flow picks since then. But I always struggled with finding my pick of destiny!
And for a while I thought I found it, a 4.20 mm Behemoth of a pick.

Whilst that pick was great for leads, it really was not good for strumming, and the price of those picks for a struggling musician was also a con.

Thus, I convinced myself to go with a more traditional 2 mm pick from the same line of Dunlop flows. And I tried it for a year. Did not work.

So now, having recently played some funk for fun, I noticed that thinner picks, 0.73 to 1mm usually really help me strum and let loose for the funk.

Finding that situation I decided, that I have not a one pick first all for me currently at this step of my journey. Thus, I chose to get em all, thankfully there are only 11 non-signature flow picks, feeling kinda like a pokemon master over here.

But why all, you might ask?

Because I want to use the pick without having to worry about a replacement. Thus as a future investment, I got 6 of each, and as I love heavier picks I got 12 of them XD

That’s all.

I'm playing the six notes (5,7,5,7,5,7) with the amp connected and it just doesn't sound the same,any suggestions?

Any ETA on when these lessons will be fixed? Very stoked to get to learn them, thanks!

Okay, so my mom’s friend gave her a guitar and it had been in the garage for about ten years and recently I talked to her about it and she had taken it to guitar center to get it restrung and they said they couldn’t do it because something (we don’t remember what it was) was in upside down or backwards and so I said we could figure out what’s wrong and just buy the parts and learn it. So please help me out with this I really want to learn and figure it out. I will send pictures and I will answer any of y’all’s questions and all.

In this lesson we show you the 3-1-3 pattern over a simple Pentatonic scale.

In this lesson we cover more alternate picking exercises to improve your right hand technique.

In this lesson we cover more alternate picking exercises.

Wussup everyone!
So I have a floyd rose bridge guitar, meaning I married to the drop D tuning.

And it's hard sometimes because a lot of metal music is in standard tuning; I was able to transcribe some songs like the trooper so I could play along with a D tuning version from Youtube
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But this method don't work for me for a lot of songs, so I am wondering if there are any people who can relate to this and maybe recommend some songs to learn using this method?

I love the new record and the solos are great. I will not go more into how this record is my favourite ever to keep this short. How do get the guitar tones? I really want to know how to replicate the tones in the mattel verses, the solo in cosmic and the solo and other tones in G. Thanks alot to anyone who helps me. These tones are the most different I've heard and I love them! Also how does syn gets some reverb while he holds down the harmonic notes in the solo which sounds like you're going through a tunnel?

Hey everyone!

Just wanted to say thanks to Papa Gates and Syn and everyone involved with the new album for giving my dad an amazing birthday gift. He’s been counting down the days to finally be able to hear LIBAD and he’s been listening to it nonstop since it came out!

I just ordered some stuff from the store and can’t wait to bring it to him. If you guys in the community could send him a happy birthday message I’m sure it would make his world even more

Thanks so much for the new album!

In this lesson we go over the 12 bar blues and some variations.

I live in India I used to upload my messing around on guitar with a melody at the center of it on Sportify and got like 5000 streams in a month using an online free distributer which does not exist in India anymore
The streams show that people had intrest is this kind of stuff
I want to Upload stuff on Sportify again but there is Distributers are way to expencive
Is there a way to upload stuff on sportify for free
The traks were mid at peak so you can also do it and make some money if lucky and if not most of you surely practice improvising so it is nothing extra just record audio in phone and master it with any AI website using a song you love as refrence to the AI and it makes very intresting music if your refrence is an absurd example for context so I trien giving pop sounding example to early Nirvana and the song changes it is really cool