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    Tapping: pushing downwards or pulling upwards?

    What would be the best option for doing pull-offs with tapping, to pull away upwards or to push away downwards? When i’m tapping I usually use my middle finger and push away downwards, Syn seems to do this aswell in the “Syn’s etudes”. But in more advanced tapping techniques where you use...
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    Sweep picking trouble

    Keep practicing, there are no shortcuts. This applies to any technique.
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    Easiest A7X song to learn?

    Unholy confessions was one of the first a7x songs I learned.
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    slow down software

    I use an app called anytune
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    Song suggestions for Volume-Pedals

    The count of tuscany from Dream Theater, roughly 11:15-14:15
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    Metronome

    You can use this site for example: http://www.tempotap.com/ Tap along with the rhythm of the song and it calculates the bpm. I also have this metronome app on my phone called “pulse” where you can do the same.
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    Do we live in a simulation?

    While that video is very interesting, I don’t see how it proves that we live in a simulation. I rather proves that there’s still a lot we don’t know about the universe. But I guess it doesn’t disprove it either.
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    Can you create your own scales?

    He probably meant hexatonic, a scale with 6 notes per octave.
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    left-handed playing right-handed guitar (and vice versa?)

    So, I’m left-handed but I play on a right-handed guitar. The reason for this is very simple, before I started playing guitar, before I ever even held a guitar, when I imagined playing guitar I always imaged playing on a right-handed one. I never even considered playing on a left-handed guitar...
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    Can you create your own scales?

    I entered those notes in a guitar scale identifier and it didn’t recognise it as a scale. But there’s quite a big gap between the A and C# so I added a B and it says this is the D# jewish (magen abot) scale. I think it’s unlikely that you will come up with a scale that no one has used yet, since...
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    What lessons would you like to see added?

    Tapping licks like the ones in that master class solo.
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    Cleaning strings

    I never clean them actually. I just wash my hands before playing, but that’s because I don’t like playing guitar with greasy fingers.