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Fun Rhythm Songs?
Mötley Crüe - Kickstart My Heart... the chorus riff is just tons of fun IMO.- chris_is_cool
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- Forum: Lessons, Studying, & Practicing
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NEW CONTEST !!!! (Deadline January 20th)
The extra riff category is cool for quickly checking out all participations, but people are generally confused either way about what to do, so it probably doesn't matter :ROFLMAO: . Love this contest, already have an idea in mind but it will take a couple more days to really flesh it out.- chris_is_cool
- Post #40
- Forum: General Chat
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Alexi Laiho has passed away
That's terrible, so fucking young 😢😢 . Saw CoB two years ago, they kicked so much ass and tore the place apart. I do remember some people saying that Alexi didn't look that healthy compared to 10-20 years ago, but I'd never expected something like this.- chris_is_cool
- Post #20
- Forum: General Chat
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Meet Your New Queen/Me Renouncing My Role :)
Once a queen, always a queen. The work you put into this school and this community is beyond amazing, and now, after passing the torch, you can enjoy the school again as it is meant to be enjoyed. Long live the queen @Jak Angelescu . Aaand congrats to our new overlord @Alicia Willis , no one...- chris_is_cool
- Post #11
- Forum: General Chat
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What's your guitar routine?
Usually start with some song I know well, to warm up and get in the mood. Then I go for some chromatic runs to a metronome, first at a "medium" speed (for me medium, advanced shredders may find it slow), that is slowly pushed (like 1 or 2 bpm per week), and then the same runs about as fast as I...- chris_is_cool
- Post #9
- Forum: General Chat
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Amp Contest Winner!
For distortion I was thinking about coupling this with a Revv G4, the reviewers on thomann seem to like it a lot, and I want some brootal sounds out of Ampy. 😁 But the Horizon Precision Drive looks great as well, might have to check out both.- chris_is_cool
- Post #93
- Forum: Contests & Challenges
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Solo - Whiskey In The Jar (Thin Lizzy)
I was to busy for Synners Saturday, sorry. BUT I still want to keep a quota of at least one upload per week, so here is something I've been working on for the past month or so... The lead parts of Whiskey In The Jar, so the intro and main solo. Im orienting myself on the Thin Lizzy version...- chris_is_cool
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- Category: Riffs
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How long have you been playing?
Well, lets just say the most important scales of western music have 7 notes. Of course that's not all there is in music in general. But yes, a scale with 7 notes gives you 7 modes, each with a different "tonal center". Im still super early in my journey of really learning them as well, as in...- chris_is_cool
- Post #30
- Forum: General Chat
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How long have you been playing?
Well, natural minor is just as much the diatonic scale, just with a different starting point of the sequence (Major is whole-whole-half-whole-whole-whole-half, natural minor is whole-half-whole-whole-half-whole-whole). As are the other modes of the scale, in fact. So for me, calling it the...- chris_is_cool
- Post #28
- Forum: General Chat
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How long have you been playing?
I tried starting to play in 2019, mostly just fucking around and playing by tabs, and quit after 3 months... Then 1 year later I started again when covid hit and been at it with structure ever since. So in total, I have a playtime of about a year, but I usually say I've been playing for 9 months...- chris_is_cool
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- Forum: General Chat
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Pedal Contest Winner 📣
Huge congrats to all of you, those were absolute killer riffs/soli. Very well deserved.🤘🥳- chris_is_cool
- Post #26
- Forum: Contests & Challenges
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Why do some chords have numbers on them?/ Having trouble figuring out chords
Well, the major third in the D# scale is the ugly F##. Yeah, it's absolutely the same thing as a G, but sadly, in the context of the D# major scale we have to call it F##. Anyway, the flat third would then be one half-step below the F## (or G), so it is F#. So the F# is what we need for the D#...- chris_is_cool
- Post #38
- Forum: Advanced Techniques & Theory
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Why do some chords have numbers on them?/ Having trouble figuring out chords
You got many things right already... To answer your questions, it is best to start considering the chromatic scale. The chromatic scale is the mother of all scales, it is all 12 notes in an octave. So on a piano, it would be all white and black keys taken together. Written out for one octave...- chris_is_cool
- Post #34
- Forum: Advanced Techniques & Theory
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Top 10 albums of 2020
I've been awful at keeping up with new music this year, but here are my top 10 albums this year, in alphabetical order, no ranking. Confess - Burn 'em All Dark Tranquillity - Moment The Ghost Inside - s/t H.E.A.T - II Heaven Shall Burn - Of Truth And Sacrifice Midnight - Rebirth by Blasphemy...- chris_is_cool
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- Forum: General Chat
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How do you practice?
At the moment: Start with some song that I know well, just for warming up. Then about 30-60 minutes of exercises, most of the time to a metronome. Usually a bit of chromatics with permutations, and at the moment a ton of exercises with the 3 note per string positions, with different groupings...- chris_is_cool
- Post #17
- Forum: Lessons, Studying, & Practicing
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Overview of The Pentatonic Scale – Lesson 20
Yup, you got that right. Edit: to elaborate a bit... The interval structure of the major scale is (W = whole step, H = half step) W W H W W | W H. The | stands for the 6th note of the scale. If we start this pattern with the |, we get W H W W H W W, which is the interval structure of the...- chris_is_cool
- Post #16
- Forum: Lessons Classrooms
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Blues Improv - Syn's Tip Challenge - Lesson 68
Well... I tried xD. To adress rule #1 directly: A major cornerstone of Blues (sorry for the pun) is the I7 IV7 V7 chord progression. Now, Syn tells us in his tips for lesson 68, that a cool scale to chose over this progression is the mixolydian scale, which is a major scale with a flat 7. He...- chris_is_cool
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Comment by 'chris_is_cool' in media 'Pinky Floydy Improv (noob edition) (Synner Saturday)'
Thanks, I suppose that's true, repetition of cool stuff is one of the cornerstones of music in general after all. I still think there should also be enough variation within the same theme to keep it interesting. But I guess thats also why I self record this stuff, to reflect on what I want to...- chris_is_cool
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Pinky Floydy Improv (noob edition) (Synner Saturday)
Well, I still need a day or two for the Syn Tip challenge, but I do have something for Synner Saturday. Today I came across this awesome backing track on youtube which featured the chord progression of Comfortably Numb, so I had to try to improvise a bit over it, because I can't get better if I...- chris_is_cool
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