Riffs

Took a short video with my phone while practicing... :) Sorry for the crappy quality and frame rate.

This was supposed to be a solo challenge, but I made it a riff challenge. :)

Here's the analysis for Angels

Keep on learning new songs and trying to solo standing up 😅.

So, wasn't planning on posting this today (Or at all, tbh). Originally wanted to do more work on NRtD and cover some sweeping lessons, but had to prioritise this for college.. Just a rough practice attempt at "The Drug In Me Is You", using bar chords. It's not entirely correct in terms of exact chord placements or rhythms, I did simplify it a little. Still though, a good exercise for getting used to bars and stretching my hand (More painful than I imagined though, RIP hand). There are lots of mistakes and my phone vibrating at the start, which isn't ideal, but I liked the sound I got and it wasn't overly terrible, so here it is!

Listen to Bombs Away from my MetamprohaLies EP

Hey! I've posted on here before, but I just want to say I would greatly appreciate if you could check my channel out and leave a like! Thanks a lot!

We had Quarantine Jams, but why not "full" concerts? Basicly choose a couple of songs and play them front to back, without a cut. So here is the setlist: Bullet for my Valentine - Don't Need You - Hand of Blood - Room 409 - Waking The Demon Bonus: Trivium - Drowning in the Sound I think I got too carried away sometimes, but I think I still did pretty well, considering I was barely able to play one full song without messing up at the end of the year. Also first time hearing everything recorded. Hope y'all enjoy and maybe jump in too with your own Quarantine concert! \m/

Me and Bill have been talking arps, and he introduced me to a bunch of different shapes and the notes in the etc etc, and he said they're great to sweep. So, I'm practising sweeping using one of syns etudes (forgot which one tho!) I'm aiming to get this as clean and well timed as possible, so practising it real slow!

Me and Bill have been using Basket Case by Green Day to help with theory. We have been talking about triads over the correlating chords and so here it is! just a short clip as I fuck up, lose it then start again... its a long process but so fun!

Full guitar cover of Avenged Sevenfold's song This Means War All right belong to Avenged Sevenfold https://www.youtube.com/user/avengedsevenfold ____________...

AKA "Why you shouldn't slack for nearly 2 months." Skip to about a minute in for actual guitar, I ramble again. I know, it's crap. I've been slacking real bad,and it shows - BUT I did learn up to the solo! Turns out, my tiny, slim fingers do actually have some reach to them! I know the notes, I can reach them, I just gotta stop panicking, relax a lot more since I'm so tense in my right arm, and go back a few steps to using metronomes and going real slow - I skipped a lot of steps in my eagerness to learn this. I rushed too much. It shows. Don't be like me, folks. But anyway, here's progress. I'm gonna really try get back into my routine of playing consistently again. I was doing so well for about a month!

Check out this song from my MetamorphaLies EP

*i do not own rights to this music. All rights to respective owners* Using backing track with vocals from YouTube. 2018 Gibson Les Paul Standard with Seymour...

Includes excerpts from The Wicked End, Sidewinder, and The Stage. Let me know what you think of my progress!

Yesterday I posted my first day of working on pentatonic VI. This is day 2. I'd estimate I spent 45 -50 minutes yesterday and about 40 minutes today before shooting this video. A lot of times I will let myself learn it up to speed a little sloppy and once my hands are use to the speed THEN I will back down to 60 or 70% and really focus on perfecting it. And then slowly work up to 85 or 90 over time and then drop back down to maybe 80% and eventually I'll get it to 100%.

This is 150 BPM. It sounds annoying but is great for alt picking! Now just to get this speed perfect!

Bill Hudson has teached me so much its unbelievable! I'm so happy @[5:@Jak Angelescu] took the time to tell me what he was like as a teacher and person and it didn't disappoint! heres an exercise.... start with one key, i.e, C, and go down the first major scale and up the next and keep going till you get back to the first one after the 12th fret, now go BACKWARDS along another key and repeat! I went c, to G , to E. It's tough. I'm doing 130BPM at 2 notes per beat. It's a work in progress but i find its real fun!

Kinda nailed it, kinda butchered it, I'm not too sure myself. Also Dancing Dead is probably my favourite A7X song

✝️DRAGON BALL Z - Cha-La Head Cha-La (Opening theme)✝️ ⚠️ ⚠️ ⚠️ ⬇️GEAR USED⬇️ 🎸Synyster Gates Autographed Guitar Satin Goldburst Custom S with Sustainiac and...

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!

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)