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Riffs

Hey! This is my entry for McRocklin Solo Competition. Enjoy!
Carlos Mauricio Owens
🇪🇦No dejes de aprovechar el tiempo de cuarentena para volver a estudiar tus solos favoritos! Hay mucho que puedes re-descubrir! El estilo particular de Marty Friedman está muy basado en utilizar...
SHHHH don't tell Jak I only recorded part of the song!!

Purple Rain - analysis

Jak asked me to speak a bit louder, I hope I succeeded in doing so. You can also still vote for the one I'm doing this week here https://syngates.com/threads/harmony-songwriting-poll-v.3999/

Practicing Lesson 29-31

  • Jak Angelescu
  • Apr 8, 2020
  • 3 Comments
I know I am not playing standing up. Unfortunately I am still recovering from my head incident and I can only play standing up for so long. However these les...
Why is that intro so hard to nail?? A lot of fun to play though!
Evanescence The Weight of the World
Not exactly like the original, didnt play the acoustic part and changed the lick at the end, I think it turned out really well, the end of the lick is pretty much the same what Terry plays anyway xD Few things is theres a part where I play some octaves and doing that standing up I had to use my index and pinky instead of the index and ring fingers :o The little "solo" at the end while I was trying it sitting was so easy and standing up I had to bend myself and adjust the guitar a lot so I could reach the frets I wanted xD But anyway enjoyed a lot! Sorry about the quality its supposed to be 1080p but I think my phone is going crazy xD
Quarantine Jamz Nr.5 A fun little experiment.
Gearing up for that shredd collab learned Audio and some video editing. Hope you enjoy this little jam. Used Audacity and Olive. Both free software. There are also some really cool tutorials for boty of them online. Let me know If you want me to share them!
#Riffchallenge Original
I was nominated by a friend Adam Lutz. Hoping to see my buddy Nick Ulmer post, who also was a former band member with me. I nominated some fellow Synyster Gates Master Class winners, check them out! Adam Dominguez, @jamespaullagraff, and @swain033. Krys Escobar was another, but he already had one done.
As a follow up to my asking for advice on string noise, I made an exercise to help with string muting using basic sweep picking. I can kill 2 birds with 1 st...
Quarantine Jamz Nr.4! This Charming man
$ynners...I finally did it. 100% speed. Im so happy this is one of my all time favourite songs. I love the unending arpeggios. Johnny Marr is one of the Greatests!
Playing around with Wasting Love by Iron Maiden. Haven’t been in the most creative mood, so trying to just practice things I’ve learned before. Playing rando...
Smells like teen spirit - Nirvana
10pm and I cant put the guitar down even if Im not even focused on practicing or whatever xD My neighbours must hate me at the moment as Im playing a bit loud xD Just a quick video anyway!
After taking a break yesterday, I came back and improved! I'm a lot more confident with playing this now, just one slight slip-up nearing the end which you'll definitely hear but I think I recovered well. I'm playing along to the official soundtrack, and the timing at the start is pretty hard to nail down, but I got really close! Finger positions are a lot better too, just gotta work on slides and making those notes sound smoother. It's not so easy standing up, but worth it! Got a better tone on the amp too, it's not much but it's better! Hope you like it! \m/
@[477:@Ids Schiere] challenged me to play this means war, so here’s me having fun with the whole rhythm part of the song!
Cigarettes - Tash Sultana solo cover
Got a wah pedal recently so did a cover of my favourite solo. 👉🏻 swipe for the ending 😂
Inspired by the Video Games Music thread! So, spent a fair while today learning the first half of this theme, worked out by ear. I'd originally been playing it from memory and as such got a few things wrong. Went back, listened to it, and re-worked it out. There's still a few points where I tried reverting back to the original way I played it, there's a time where I hit an open string, and a few instances of using the wrong finger to play. I've been really trying to drill into my head finger positioning, and using my pinky more, which is song is great for, as well as stretching. It's not perfect, but I plan to come back to it and make it better! Also, standing up is HARD!! Another thing I struggled with is the tone. Original is a lot crisper and cleaner. I couldn't replicate this as well as I wanted on my amp, I used a twang setting with a LOT of reverb, treble and mid, a fair amount of drive, and I think some Tape Echo. It's close, but not 100%. Hope you like it! \m/
Quarantine Jamz Nr.3  Dance Macabre by Ghost.
Quarantine Jamz Nr.3 Dance Macabre by Ghost. By far....my least liked song of theirs.......but the solo rippss!
Inspired by the lesson on the twelve bar blues and a healthy amount of nostalgia, I wrote this piece a while back and finally got a demo version out. Hope y'all enjoy!
Recorded over the original track using Audacity. My daughter as special guest xD @[5:@Jak Angelescu] playing standing up and full song :P Ignore my video edit skills xD
Avenged Sevenfold - Buried Alive cover by Alon all guitar parts! Hi :) This is the first official cover that i really worked on with my good friend producer ...
Done for a college assignment. Attempt at the SGS Economy Picking Etude 1 after around a week of practice. Had to focus the camera on my picking hand so apologies that you can't see my fretting hand that much. I keep having problems where I don't let the strings ring out long enough, but here I think I managed to get it somewhat right. A little annoyed that I completely botched the bend right at the end, but this was my best recorded attempt to date. Planning to try move onto the next step of the Etude with the 6 notes, can do it around 70% speed but any faster and I lose it. As for my picking, I feel like it's not smooth enough at this speed, still feels like I'm plucking more despite trying to angle the pick a little. Is it just because it's slow and that once I get faster, it'll be a lot smoother? Also, is it bad I rest the guitar on my left leg to reach notes comfortably? Tips + comments appreciated! (Also a side note to everyone who offered me advice yesterday - Thank you!!)