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  1. John Tierney

    Feature Requests for Synyster Gates School?

    check the member forum
  2. John Tierney

    I'm new

    Hi Michelle, I totally understand where you are coming from. I myself have ADHD, anxiety and minor depression, also I am consistently surrounded by people who are very talented and successful while I’m just meh. What I do is keep reminding myself that they sucked at one point in their life and I...
  3. John Tierney

    Arm pain

    1) STOP practicing, you will just mess up the ligaments in your arm. 2) Stretch out before playing. Do athletes just go play w/o warming up. No of course not 3) Read this. Helped me a lot https://www.seymourduncan.com/blog/the-players-room/keep-it-loose-stretches-for-guitarists
  4. John Tierney

    S T R E S S E D

    Also I saw you wanted an actual guitar teacher. DONT DO THAT. With your schedule it will just add extra stress on your life because they expect you to just know X thing and when you can’t practice as rigorous it will make it worse and you sink funds into it that can be used elsewhere. Use this...
  5. John Tierney

    S T R E S S E D

    Hi Kallie if I may chime in. I understand EVERYTHING your saying, when I got back into it I was full course load in college and was in things like Organic Chemistry, Physics and all that crazy stuff and on top of that I have ADD so it took twice as long to learn in ANYTHING as well as having a...
  6. John Tierney

    Help for being stuck at guitar?

    Theory wise, I write EVERYTHING in a journal like the keys and what notes go where, circle of fifths, and I write out the chords too belonging to X root etc. Being honest I’m not much of a writer but doing this helped me in visualizing how everything sort of comes together and it’s a great...
  7. John Tierney

    Feature Requests for Synyster Gates School?

    I would like to post pictures of like diagrams or other methodology and maybe a section for shapes of scales and chords perhaps
  8. John Tierney

    A tool to help

    I found them really helpful I REALLY LIKE All Chords. Thanks 😁
  9. John Tierney

    feeling like I'm not good at guitar

    Stop and think. Look back at that 2 year mark and compare that you to the right now you and say “I couldn’t do ____ technique or riff and now that’s easy”. I’ve been playing I think with a more serious midset for 2 years. I’ll tell you a quick story, when I first picked up my first guitar, I...
  10. John Tierney

    A tool to help

    Hi guys I found something that may help you with your practice. It’s an app called scale bank and I wanted to share this in the forums because I think it’s a great app to help you visualize the notes in the scale, how the scale changes by going into a different key, and I think it helps with...
  11. John Tierney

    What drives you?

    I’m curious for anyone, what makes you want to keep going with this journey even when you don’t want to. Also why did you start? I’m curious to know what inspired you
  12. John Tierney

    Linking scales and making the sounds I like

    Figured out my problem (Lessons 69 and 70)
  13. John Tierney

    Linking scales and making the sounds I like

    I’m mainly self taught but I’m having difficulty in understanding how you can link scales. I watched the CAGED videos but it’s still kind of hard for me to understand. Even when I just kind of goof off on my amp or on a program I use for practice, I feel that I’m trapped in the box but I...
  14. John Tierney

    Muting while tapping

    I kind of do a semi bar, I ALWAYS have the tip of my finger on the adjacent string which mutes that and if I want to jump to that string I can “roll” on that string. For higher strings like the first one kind of make a bridge arch with your finger and pluck it to see if it’s muted and if I want...
  15. John Tierney

    Advice for beginners

    -I think a good idea for starting is to get a journal and write out the scales and by extension the chords on paper. That way when your kind of confused in the lessons (like me sometimes) turn on the fretboard option and you can see the notes in the scales at work (REALLY HELPFUL). -Try and...
  16. John Tierney

    Recording my own songs

    How does one make their own song. I’m trying to go that route but not sure how to get it to sound unique usually I deliver it sounding similar (lyrics). Doing the music part I struggle with that a bit too. Any advice (first time trying this)
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