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  1. TheTroller

    LEAVING FEEDBACK ON RIFF VIDEOS

    Higher quality amps and recording devices are better at filtering out all of the ugly sounds, such as amplifier buzz, etc. If you watch videos of Malmsteen from the late eighties, you can sometimes hear a buzz when he finishes his licks or pulls off a bend.
  2. TheTroller

    LEAVING FEEDBACK ON RIFF VIDEOS

    Some critiques fail to take into account factors such as audio quality, to be honest. I also think that there's a difference between poor fretting technique and poor hand synchronization.
  3. TheTroller

    LEAVING FEEDBACK ON RIFF VIDEOS

    Maximum dunning kruger effect. Brutal.
  4. TheTroller

    What are you currently listening to?

  5. TheTroller

    ABBEY ROAD by The Beatles

    To be honest, I don't really (for the most part) enjoy anything from the 20th Century from the Anglosphere before Malmsteen, Rhoads, and EVH (Two of them were literally Non-English Europeans).
  6. TheTroller

    Check out the sweep and economy etudes. They're extremely difficult, yet beneficial.

    Check out the sweep and economy etudes. They're extremely difficult, yet beneficial.
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    Comment by 'TheTroller' in media 'Anastasia intro'

    Unless you're Michael Romeo
  8. Here we go again with the Afterlife solo... But I corrected the buzz occuring during the transitions between the sweeps

    Here we go again with the Afterlife solo... But I corrected the buzz occuring during the transitions between the sweeps

    I also made sure to try and fix any muting issues. From listening to the isolated guitar track of the solo, my interpretation of it is that the ascending sweeps (when I go back down, vertically) are faster than the descending sweeps, which is why I sweep faster when ascending. It's also...
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    I've washed my hands in hot water before for around thirty or so seconds to loosen up my finger joints during the morning and it's worked before

    If anyone wants to try that out.
  10. TheTroller

    Alternate Picking Exercises 3 – Lesson 75

    Imagine playing the '24' exercise up and down the neck as fast as you can. That would develop insane muscle memory and synchronization. I might do that, eventually.
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    Comment by 'TheTroller' in media 'Syn's seventh economy etude (It sounds much cleaner in real life and my phone is a terrible medium for transmitting the sound)...'

    > Now the big trick will be, being able to incorporate it into your regular solos. Absolutely. I've tabbed down a City of Evil inspired solo that I came up with too, but it's pretty difficult, so I haven't really played it yet, but it has a series of economy arpeggios similar to the chorus...
  12. Syn's seventh economy etude (It sounds much cleaner in real life and my phone is a terrible medium for transmitting the sound)...

    Syn's seventh economy etude (It sounds much cleaner in real life and my phone is a terrible medium for transmitting the sound)...

    Even though I could have done much better with more practice (Although, I spent six or so frustrating hours on it today), this lick isn't easy at all. I'd go as far as to say that at full speed, it's more difficult than the entirety of the Afterlife solo, as advanced economy picking isn't easy...
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    Comment by 'TheTroller' in media 'When you spend hours working the second alternate picking etude up to speed and it's obscurely recognizable'

    I've been working on cleaning it up today. Because I rushed it, I was siren fretting it last night (not hitting the notes precisely with the tips of my fingers, as Syn does, but with the flat part of my fingers)
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    Comment by 'TheTroller' in media 'When you spend hours working the second alternate picking etude up to speed and it's obscurely recognizable'

    0.25 speed on Youtube. The lick is three notes, six notes, six notes, six notes, six notes, six notes, six notes, six notes, six notes, six notes, and four notes.
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    Comment by 'TheTroller' in media 'When you spend hours working the second alternate picking etude up to speed and it's obscurely recognizable'

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    Comment by 'TheTroller' in media 'When you spend hours working the second alternate picking etude up to speed and it's obscurely recognizable'

    > possible the hand syncing is a little off I wasn't muting the strings with my pointer finger. If I was picking faster than I was fretting, there would have been a buzzing open string sound in the background the entire duration of the video. It's probably a combination of my poor fretting...
  17. TheTroller

    I wish that I could say the same.

    I wish that I could say the same.
  18. When you spend hours working the second alternate picking etude up to speed and it's obscurely recognizable

    When you spend hours working the second alternate picking etude up to speed and it's obscurely recognizable

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    I'm just some guy from NJ, but I have developed a foolproof way to learn any instrument.

    > Step 1: Set a minimum amount of time to play, this can be any amount you can handle but I wouldn't go under 20min per day, 1 hour a day works great when you're starting out though. I like to overwork my fretting hand to exhaustion, and then I wake up with much better muscle memory.
  20. TheTroller

    Guys, practice the Etudes!!

    Yeah, I'm practicing the second alternate picking etude at the moment. I definitely regard it to be conducive towards my playing (intermediate level lead, not that I'm a lead guitarist in a band, but that I mostly play lead stuff) and it goes to show that this website is oriented towards all...
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