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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!!

I tried tapping before, but didnt "pull off" the tapping finger in correct way. PG explained how to do this, and im practising on it. Tapping is really fun!

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!

This bends are hella tricky because there are so many 😱 I also kinda bluffed my way through some parts in PGs solo because I lost track a little bit 😅

Here is my video on practising lesson 43

Another song from the "Directile Dysfunction" EP

This is my first take on lessons 29 and it's cringe. You've been warned

I know, /another one/. Nice short vid for once. No commentary on this one, so here's my thoughts: I think I've finally got it! When I was playing, it certainly felt smoother. Now, I'm not sure whether I'm nitpicking, not holding the pick right, playing slow initially, or whether I still haven't quite got it, but watching the video back, my hand still looks a little bumpy and not as smooth as I initially thought. My left hand made a fair few mistakes - Watching Ben's video on how Syn sweeps, I picked up on a slight change I needed to make to my pattern, right at the bottom of the sweep, so most mistakes are here where I try and correct that (Downstroke on 5th string instead of upstroke). But I'm happy with my progress overall. Now, I'm gonna go work on some scales!

Split video and audio recording to try and improve both. Also took in Calvin's suggestions for the rhythm and tail of the it.