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It’s dark, cold and raining, so a little practice in the PJ’s is in order. I started trying to learn “This means war” last night and quickly got frustrated because I was having a really hard time getting into this groove, but I’m still trying. One little piece at a time 🙃 Missed some palm mutes but hey, it’s a start.

This is my entry attempt for this awesome contest. The riff that I wrote requires a lot of palm muting technique, that I am learning from ,,Lesson 18- Introduction to Power Chords and Palm Muting". As Syn said it ,, This is the main rhythm style and technique for Avenged Sevenfold" so it was a most for me to learn it :)) I was focusing really hard to nail this with maximum precision, plus I layered the tracks ( 5 guitar tracks, 2 on the left, 2 on the right, one in the middle), so it had to be dead on. The hardest part for me was changing between palm muted and unmuted notes, because in this riff one palm muted note is followed by an unmuted one almost every time. And also there is a little bit of string skipping too. I hope you like it and good luck to every Synner! Cheers! :))

Hey Everyone, so I'm getting better at this solo, I've just still gotta work on my accuracy. The main problem I'm having right now though is that when I play the 2nd string it sounds pretty weird almost like I'm tapping the fret. I think the issue might be that I'm fretting it too hard so it makes it sound like that. But what do you guys think? I'd love some advice on how to correct this. Thanks!

Decided to post my riff after the encouragement I got from many of you. As I said, it's not much, but I am proud of it. I returned to the CAGED System and based my Riff around Syn's Tip in Lesson 29, where he encourages us to stay in one position when playing and making the most of it. To demonstrate why that is benefitial I played my chords in different positions first and the main riff all in one position. Here's the theory behind it: My Riff is based around Dm, the Chord Progression is Dm-F-G (Dm-A-Dm-A-F-A-Dm-A-G-A-G-A to be exact). The main riff is sweeping the arpeggios (I think) all based around the fifth fret, using Dm in the Am shape, A in the E shape, the C shape for F and the D shape for G. I always play D, F or G arpeggio on the up sweep and the A on the down sweep. I am doing this in so much detail to get some extra practice with the CAGED system. Also I am aware there is no F# in my key, which I play when sweeping the G arpeggio but I thought it adds a nice touch.

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I covered this 7 years ago - forgot that it existed! I added a bit of Jimmy's vocals as a tribute to him as well ^^

hiii this is my entry attempt for this contest, my fingers hurts a bit ahahah, but i hope i'll be worth the time, in reality i didn't use a Syn's tip but i tried to create using the tapping technique for this "synyster gates" kinda riff hope you like it and wish me luck cheers from🇮🇹

So this is my entry, as some of you know by now I'm a very beginner but I wanted to participate. At this stage of learning I've been focusing more on rhythm play over soloing, so, for this contest, I thought I would get out of my comfort zone and come up with a little solo of my own (my very very first!!!) following lesson 10 "Just for fun - six magic notes for soloing". Syn's tips is: " Help each other find the tonal centers of your favourite songs so you can start jamming with em. Share your jams by uploading your videos to the Discussion Thread or Original Riffs". I tried to jam on a famous song, but really didn't feel like I was doing something really mine, so I used a backing track (in A minor) and played a little solo using the six notes of the pentatonic pattern as shown by PG. Hope it qualifies to enter the competion, if not, please admins let me know and I'll work on something else 🖤

I uploaded this when I first joined the site, and it got taken down after the refurb - So I thought I'd stick it back up 😊 It's basically some midi keyboard ramblings over an idea for an American Space Movie type Theme 🌍🇱🇷 ⭐ enjoy!

Had a guitar lesson with bill today and it put me in a really good mood so I decided to do a cover today! Went with aerials because I love system of a down too much! plus there songs are so fun to play! Enjoy!!

One of Syn's really useful tips in Lesson 37 was to commit as much of the Circle of Fifths to memory as possible - something I had put off doing for a while before joining the school. So I decided to memorize it properly and see if I could write a short instrumental cycling through all 12 keys in Lydian - which gives it this weird wonky feel - I put a creative twist in this one and got my foot involved too. Definitely had too much fun making this :D enjoy!

This lick that I developed employs multiple 3-1-3 patterns. I'm not sure how 'musical' it is theory-wise, but I obviously didn't play a pentatonic-based lick, as he stated in the lesson video that the 3-1-3 pattern can be played in non-pentatonic variants.

Hey! This is my entry for the pedal contest. For this riff I wanted to try and tell a story with the guitar parts so theres a lot of harmonies woven in and almost like a call and response between the guitar parts but I just video taped the main lead part. I pictured what it'd be like if you were able to dream with your favorite person in the world and could control your dreams and do whatever you wanted in them and that was the inspiration behind it. When it comes to using techniques I learned in some lessons I'd say the Intro to Hybrid Picking definitely helped with this. Specifically within those lessons I used simultaneous hybrid picking, along with the chordal arpeggiated hybrid picking that Papa Gates explains, in "Syn's Tips" he describes the versatility of this technique (applicable to metal, jazz, fusion, classical and in this case I applied it to a more math rock context) and I never understood that till I learned how to hybrid pick. Anyways hope you all enjoy and good luck!

Here is a little something I wrote using Syn's tips from lesson 90. More specifically the "Holdworthian" sound with lots of legato and big stretches. A lot of these licks come from our standard sweeps and arpeggio shapes that we all know and love but throwing in some legato and passing tones. Enjoy! :)

First posted riff on here. I took a lesson I picked up from Syn’s pentatonic lesson and made it a little thrashy with a bit of a melodeath vibe with the guitar tuned all the way down to C Standard for some extra spice

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I was weary to post this because it’s not the kind of “riff” I normally see here, but it does fit the very basic definition of a riff so I hope this is okay. I love fingerpicking and have been trying it for awhile over simple basic chords. Syns tips in lesson 91 made me move away from my beloved Am chord 🤣 Syn talks about suspended chords and add chords etc.basically unique voicings. I was going to do a variation with my beloved Am and a Aminor6 but I branched out and tried some new chords. I’m using: E minor 7 Cadd9 G major D/F# Also, I’ve never named anything but “Raindrops” seemed perfect. I love sitting outside during a shower or storm and this little riff sounds to me exactly how the raindrops sound as they fall onto various objects around me. ❤️

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Finally got Inside Beast flowing all the way through. I was playing with a live version and not just the music video this time! What a wonderful way for me to come back and share my progress with you, loves.

Some Jazz fingerpicking

Eddie's solo played in my style