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Guitar Cover of Becoming The Bull by Atreyu. Check me out on Instagram: @tatanka8756 Check out my originals on: Reverbnation.com/ifwallscouldspeak

Here's my brief take on lesson 53, plus some questions I've got (at the end of the vid!). Not gonna lie, today was a bit rough because I started to doubt myself a little in terms of my ability, so I didn't get as much done as I wanted to. Hopefully I'll be able to push that aside and press on tomorrow. If anyone can give me some advice or critique my current playing technique (picking hand, fretting hand, guitar positioning, anything like that), please do so. It's been driving me crazy today as I just don't know whether I'm on the right track. Cheers all!

Legato exercises ! I had to have a little fun and see how fast I could do it with my “strong fingers” towards the end 😂

Had to upload it via Youtube...instagram does not allow me to post it here, dont know why.

I have so much to learn. Recorded three chords, D, C and G and tried to solo over them in one position. I tried my best to get some embellishments in there and some double stops as PG suggests, but it is a lot to do for me at once.

So here's me showing you one of my favorite Metallica licks and breaking it down. It's taken from the song "My Apocalypse" and has some interesting things going on. In fact it's so tricky that Kirk Hammett stated he needs to practice it a lot so he won't mess it up live. Hope you enjoy and I would love to see you try it!

Short 30second clip. I’m doing a legato exercise jak taught me without a pick, then using my pick minimally, and doing the whole lick. I’m repeating this over and over. Also I am checking my bends but I forgot to show that. Trying to get those right too before I move on to the next section.

Repost of material lost in the site update. Not bad for only getting 2 minutes to warm up lol

Repost since this was removed with the site update. My first time performing in over a year, and my first attempt at this monster of a song! I was expecting to have at least 30 minutes to warm up for the 2 son...

Repost of old material that was lost in the site upgrade. Very proud of what I achieved, even though I learned the middle of the solo is totally wrong LOL

Here it is, my first original lick - using lesson 52! I know it's not the greatest, it's not shredding and some of it is probably kinda boring, but I'm proud of the progress I've managed to make! Who knew it could be so tough writing a lick over one chord! It's not complete, I improvised the ending because I'd spent all day writing and just kinda burnt out and wanted to jam it already. With that though, I really hope you like it!

Dis is sum hard riff.

Some time ago I created a sweep exercised based around the Am pentatonic scale. As @[223:@Millie Imber] took my advice and is attempting to write her own licks and improve her sweeping I made this short video about my sweep exercise.

Mind that you can shift chords in a way that it is still the same chord, but also by using the same shape and making it a bar chord, you can shift it just like with scales. Eg. moving the C shape up to frets would give you a D chord. That might have been a bit misleading in my video. Was not sure if I should upload this. I feel like I know what I am doing but can't bring it well to the camera. Let me know if it made sense to you.

The ring and middle fingers of my left hand fall asleep when I play this song standing up...I must be getting old 😂

This is why I wanted to play guitar, but never tried because it was too hard and above my skill level. Thanks to @[5:@Jak Angelescu] for basically just saying “go for it !!!” I’ve not been this excited in the entire time I’ve been learning and playing. So guys, if you have that “Holy Grail” song,solo, riff, etc that you have been too afraid to try.....join me and let’s all just fucking go for it !!!!!!! ❤️

After doing another CJ's 2 Cents(https://syngates.com/media/cjs-2-cents-lesson-59-overview-of-the-modes.3562/) I had to improv to this.@Jak Angelescu

First proper attempt at an improv solo jam thing! I took the advice of writing my own licks and adding sweeps in, but obviously I needed to take a step back to the basics of learning scales and what notes I can use to write my licks first! So, once I learned this scale, I decided to quickly try jamming it out! After several horrible videos, I finally wrapped my head around what notes sound good with each other. It's not perfect, there's still a few dodgy notes here and there, but given this was complete improv, I think it sounded pretty good! Tomorrow, I'm gonna focus on writing a simple lick to play over this track, then I'll move onto the next position! Very excited!!

Me attempting to use what I learned in Lesson 29 a second time. I made a backing track going back and forth from D to C. I can use two pentatonic scales but have to stay within one position. That was pretty hard and a lot to focus on. Hope it sounds decent at least. Also standing up for @[5:@Jak Angelescu] :P

Learn how to play that cool guitar part in "Higher" that comes after the final chorus. Let me know if this was helpful and what other Avenged Sevenfold tutorials you would like to see.

Learn how to play that cool guitar part in "Higher" that comes after the final chorus. Let me know if this was helpful and what other Avenged Sevenfold tutorials you would like to see.

I tweaked some parts a lite bit but I think it's about 90% correct.

Been working on this for awhile. Watch PG’s fingerpicking video awhile back to help with it. It’s simple tune but it’s so hard for me to multitask lol but I think I’m getting a wee bit better at it. Also, if you make it through my screeching or just wanna skip ahead, I ask a question at the end. 🙃

I never posted day 3 of learning this...oh well...this is my 4th day and I completed it so that was the kinda learning process I normally go through. Some are a lot more difficult than others...this was a pretty easy one tho!