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Hey! A while ago Jak said I should make a video teaching my process and techniques of learning Syn's Etudes (Great Fun!). So I decided to post a day by day series of what my learning process looks like and hopefully it encourages you guys! Not everyone can sight read Syn's etudes at full speed like he presumably does (Not fair!). So this is for anybody who feels intimidated or thinks an etude may be too hard to learn. Don't be afraid of it! Give it a try..start slow and document your progress daily. I know I post a lot of mine but all you see is the finished product...it doesn't start that way. So give one a try if you don't already use them...I would say 25-40% of my guitar playing is Syn's etudes because I'm a huge believer in mastering fundamental guitar techniques! Obviously it's important to work on playing songs to help with palm muting and playing riffs, which combines 1 or more of these FUNdamental techniques to make beautiful music! Let me know what you think!!
Hangar 18 Bit messy at parts but took a fat minute to learn... Enjoy!
D Major Jam

D Major Jam

Hey guys. So I haven't posted here in a while, and I'm going to tell you why. I lost motivation. And this wasn't the typical "Eh, I don't feel like playing right now". I was in a rut. My dream/goal is to be a professional musician. To be part of a successful band and write amazing music that makes people headbang and cry and have fun. Well, I've become increasingly aware that while I have been practicing for the past year on the school, I was doing a couple of things wrong. 1. I haven't been taking any tangible action towards actually writing music. So now that I'm starting to, I'm writing cliche stuff and find myself stuck in dead ends. 2. Despite being on the school for over a year, I had to swallow the giant, shit-flavored pill that I rushed through the content. I treated it as a race, trying to get to the end as fast as possible. Obviously, that didn't do much for me. I still learned a good amount, but I had to admit to myself that my impatience got the better of me. (Cont. below)

practising palm muting

  • K Kim
  • Jun 3, 2020
  • 2 Comments
Hi all, here is a video of me practising on palm muting. Ive got some advice here lately and im practising on it. Is the mute ok now, or is it maybe too soft, should I pick muted note harder? Any other advice is welcome! Thanks for watching

Piecing It Together

  • Jak Angelescu
  • Jun 3, 2020
  • 2 Comments
There is so much that Bill has taught me. And there is one amazing thing that finally sank in; actually a couple of them, that I can't wait to share with you. First thing is the chord training where I had to find chords knowing the notes. Then I had to improvise over the chords using those shapes. Then I wrote a little riff. The end is me STILL struggling doing the scales up and down the neck. I left my mistakes in. I slow down to try to find myself😂😂
Finally....One last sweep picking lesson to go! (8)
Brown, mid gain. Would you be able to let me know which of these two is better for the collab please ?
Firstly, sorry for the delay 😊 I decided to do the blues verse as it hadn't been done by many, I came up with an original part taking some inspiration from whay Ids had put together. Hope you like it.

Higher by Northtale continued

  • Jak Angelescu
  • Jun 2, 2020
  • 3 Comments
I learned a little bit more! I don't think anyone knows how hard I rock this song. When I listen to this song, so do the neighbor's cows😂 Bill starts the solo section tomorrow!
I’ve really been drawn to my acoustic lately. Probably because I’ve played my electric so much. I don’t practice as often as I should and sometimes I like to just not focus on a particular lesson but just strum some chords and see what happens. For me that is FUN, and I am practicing I guess in a sense. This is just me randomly trying different chords and strumming patterns and seeing what comes out.
Some crazy economy picking in this!
Here’s a cover I did with some friends of one of our favorite bands.
Disclaimer: I am NOT a singer lol However, I have wanted to play and sing for myself for quite some time now but was too scared to try. This is my take on “Blown Away” by Carrie Underwood. It’s a very stripped down version of the original and I modified the chorus because... my ass can’t sing let alone belt like Carrie lol Also, I kind of like it better being a bit more melancholy. Fun fact : I don’t even particularly care for country music, but I love this song. Wasn’t going to post this but I was proud I actually accomplished what I set out to do even if it isn’t great.
Basically I didn't enjoy playing this that much because it's too much of a collection of licks and patterns to me and too little hints to a melodic idea and hence it's a bit sloppy(especy in the beginning) but @[7809:@Jesse Salmons] challenged me to learn it and I said I would so here it is.
Almost missed the deadline :D <3

Practicing Higher by Northtale

  • Jak Angelescu
  • May 31, 2020
  • 4 Comments
For those of you who don't know, I have been taking lessons privately from a guitarist whose band I've become obsessed with. I've been very honored that he s...
Minha primeira música autoral aqui no YouTube. Em homenagem a meu amigo Francisco Andrés Conejeros Espinoza, nosso querido e eterno Chileno, que nos deixou r...

R U mine riff tutorial

A tutorial for the riffs of R U mine by the Arctic Monkeys. I included all the variations as well.

R U mine - analysis

There's suprisingly little in terms of harmony in this song but it's a really cool song nonetheless. I think In doing angels next week and there's a poll for the week after that up as well.

Drop D Warmup Jam

Some slow metal chugging for warm up and testing out my new metal tone. Also playing with my newly made strap for my lovely new Gibson V. I should really start doing these jamz to drum tracks.