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Help buying an ibanez
Any time, Ethan! You are most welcome.- Conor Mason
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- Forum: Instruments, Hardware and Setup, & Troubleshooting
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Help buying an ibanez
Hi Ethan, Hope this helps. First off, I'll give you my impression of Bare Knuckle Pickups....Totally freakin' awesome!!! I have two sets, the Nailbomb Alnico 5 set and a Holy Diver 7 string set. Ibanez tends to use Aftermaths for the most part, which are tight tracking, focused pickups with a...- Conor Mason
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- Forum: Instruments, Hardware and Setup, & Troubleshooting
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Introduction To Strumming & The Tik Tok Pattern – Lesson 11
great stuff. I listened to a lot of classic rock, progressive and classic rock with acoustic guitars featured to absorb strumming. Nancy Wilson from Heart is a killer player with really cool strumming parts. Pick size can make a huge difference. I tend to split the difference between a Jazz III...- Conor Mason
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- Forum: Lessons Classrooms
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Awesome A7X video with Rick Beato, former producer!
anytime folks! I figured some folks had seen it before, but wanted to pass that along. He does great stuff including theory and song structure. I follow him now!- Conor Mason
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- Forum: Deathbat Nation
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About Overview of The Major Chord – Lesson 8
You are most welcome! My pleasure. I'm a teacher as well, so I understand! I'm the same way and always dissect things until they are a pile of dust, haha. have fun with it!- Conor Mason
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- Forum: Lessons Classrooms
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Awesome A7X video with Rick Beato, former producer!
Hey Syn Gates fans! I wanted to pass this video along in case some have missed it. This is a video by Rick Beato and I love his videos. He has this one series called, "What Makes This Song Great?" and he did one about an A7X song! He actually sat down with Syn himself and went over the riffs...- Conor Mason
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- Forum: Deathbat Nation
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hello everyone, i'm new here i'm Ricardo
Welcome! this is a great community! feel free to reach out! rock on!- Conor Mason
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- Forum: Introduce Yourself!
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About Overview of The Major Chord – Lesson 8
Hey! yep, you got that right! The Major scale, regardless of key (i.e. C, D, E, F...etc) is the series of notes that create that tonal sound or center. When you take the first( root) note in the scale, then add in other tones from that scale, (root-3rd-5th for example) that creates a sound like...- Conor Mason
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- Forum: Lessons Classrooms
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About Overview of The Major Chord – Lesson 8
Hi Soukayna. I hope this answers your question. When he is teaching the chord itself, he is showing you the notes that chord is made up of from the C Major scale (for the C major chord). If someone plays the notes individually versus all at once, letting them each ring out; that is called an...- Conor Mason
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- Forum: Lessons Classrooms
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Hola!
Welcome! Guitar is a lifetime journey and this entire community is awesome! Welcome to the fold!- Conor Mason
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- Forum: Introduce Yourself!
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whew what a crazy week...I need a weekend of guitar...
whew what a crazy week...I need a weekend of guitar...- Conor Mason
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Just For Fun – Six Magic Notes For Soloing – Lesson 10
awesome lesson! really helps to learn how to play in a tight spot and work on phrasing, timing, and note use while soloing. Lots of fun to play around with- Conor Mason
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- Forum: Lessons Classrooms
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The C Major Scale – Lesson 9
This is such a foundational scale! There are many riffs and licks in music that are played with this scale. One riff is the intro to 'Tucker's Town' by Hootie and the Blowfish. This is the basic 'do, re, mi' scale. I also try to find the notes in every position possible as I learn scales. This...- Conor Mason
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- Forum: Lessons Classrooms
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Easy Drop D songs
There are a few. Some artists will do a drop tuning after lowering their guitar anywhere from a half step flat (Van Halen, Linkin Park, Alice in Chains, etc) to 2 steps flat like Pantera, Dream Theater in certain songs. Are you comfortable down tuning your guitar? If not, that's totally cool...- Conor Mason
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- Forum: General School Questions
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Should I start learning solos?
Hello! Absolutely yes! I definitely recommend learning solos and use those pieces as a way of making learning the guitar more interesting. I am the exact same way. I use basic exercises as a warm up, but then really 'practice' by jamming and using what I have learned. I even play along with my...- Conor Mason
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- Forum: General Chat
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Which guitarists inspired you to start playing guitar?
Geez....weighted question! I was around at the beginning of MTV when it was just a music channel, haha! There were so many guitarists and bands played in my house all the time. Acoustic guitarists like Leo Kotke or Kenny Loggins were played, as were the Beatles, Bill Hailey and the Comets and to...- Conor Mason
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- Forum: General Chat
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Wishing everyone a pleasant Sunday! Rock on!
Wishing everyone a pleasant Sunday! Rock on!- Conor Mason
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I wish everyone health and safety. I work in healthcare for a major insurer on the inpatient...
I wish everyone health and safety. I work in healthcare for a major insurer on the inpatient authorization side. It's crazy out there. Stay home and shred! Happy Friday!- Conor Mason
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The Major Scale – Lesson 7
Nice Lesson as always folks! Easy intro to the major scale for anyone. On my experience, 3-note-per-string runs are easier to execute, especially when you get into breaking down timings and types of notes you are playing in a run; i.e. 8th notes, 16th notes, 32nd notes, etc. I always try to...- Conor Mason
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- Forum: Lessons Classrooms