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  1. Firsty Lasty

    My debut album!

    This music sounds awesome. Well done!
  2. Firsty Lasty

    Alternate picking

    Don’t overthink it. If something is easier to play starting down, start down. If something is easier to play starting up, start up. If it doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter.
  3. Firsty Lasty

    Songwriting schedule

    I used to spend a lot of time working on writing and recording music, before my computer died and I lost everything lol fml. Anyways, here’s my thoughts. -Spend your time being creative; you won’t Produce & Mix anything that resembles a radio-ready pro recording unless you’re the greatest...
  4. Firsty Lasty

    About To Create A New Practice ''Idea"

    I have benefited a lot from listening to Claus. I don’t 100% follow his advice on things, but he was probably the biggest reason that I was able to go from being complete shit to having the confidence that I can learn almost anything.
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    What Is Difficult for you Guys On Stage?

    I have never experienced being unable to hear myself or others on stage, but that would throw me off so hard. That would probably just destroy my performance. One weakness of mine is that I have no idea what to do if a member or some members of the band starts dragging the tempo down into a...
  6. Firsty Lasty

    Do you use the idea of chord progressions to write?

    “when I think of chord progressions I just imagine a dude strumming a few chords or something like that and not really too metal or anything.” You might be surprised how many metal songs sound great with just one singer delivering the melody over simple guitar or piano chords. For example, I’m...
  7. Firsty Lasty

    Really cool B.B. king style lesson I just found

    I regret that I didn’t go see BB King play live when he was still with us. I could have.
  8. Firsty Lasty

    I wish I had 2500 lol

    For our younger members, you should always keep more than $1000 (preferably more than $2k) ready for life emergencies. For some of you that will be hard to do, but life is hard. Ok serious time over, now guitar talk. I think this is the coolest-looking guitar with this body shape that I’ve seen...
  9. Firsty Lasty

    How fast are you guys?

    Honestly I can’t get my alternate picking exercises clean at 16th notes 150 bpm most days. That’s because I didn’t start learning alternate picking properly until after owning guitars for I think about 20 years haha fml. If I wanted to get something going really fast my best chance would be with...
  10. Firsty Lasty

    Do perferct guitars exist?

    The thing about companies that make things is usually the two problems they hate the most are #1 not making enough things and #2 waste. There’s not any high-volume guitar manufacturer who can afford to bleed money trying to stop every small problem. Wasn’t there an artist who made their...
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    Technique PraKISH

    In response to the question about whether I practice something until I lose focus on it, sometimes. I might move on to the next thing, or I might take a break and then get back on it. I’m very unscientific about how long I practice any particular thing. Practicing “too seriously” puts me at high...
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    Technique PraKISH

    I refuse to do anything for any measured length of time. What I like to do instead is go in order from the the things that require the most focus to the things that require the least focus. High-focus tasks include learning a piece of music or practicing sweeps. Low-focus tasks would be like...
  13. Firsty Lasty

    Solo Trouble

    I took a quick look at alt picking x. That’s not an étude which requires a nice guitar. In current year, nearly any cheap guitar with a basic setup is ready for that challenge.
  14. Firsty Lasty

    Stupidly sloppy playing

    Imo the way to fix sloppy playing is slow down and listen carefully to what you’re doing, focus on the details, and get good by doing correct good-sounding practice relentlessly. You can give yourself incredible results with very basic foundational exercises. Try this: e 7 8 10 7 8 10 repeating...
  15. Firsty Lasty

    Help me

    I thought a bit about how to make a combination video game death/scale practice system work. Here’s my untested idea for learning scale patterns: -Take a bunch of index cards and write the name/description of all of the scale shapes you want to learn (probably do them all from the same key...
  16. Firsty Lasty

    Help me

    Regarding passion, allow me to present “Firsty Lasty’s Law of Motivation”: The opposite of depression/inaction is ambition. Ambition comes from good health and from imagination. Your two choices every day are lie in bed until you die or pursue an ambition that you can effectively imagine. This...
  17. Firsty Lasty

    Trouble with Pinch Harmonics..

    I’ll take the liberty of linking your video for everyone’s convenience, ‘cuz I had to hunt it down. A favorite guitarist of mine, Jacky Vincent, put up a video on this subject just a couple of days ago. His video is probably better than all other videos that you might have seen, so go watch it...
  18. Firsty Lasty

    Do you guys ever have this?

    There have been plenty of times that I discovered that I had 0% memory of how to play something that I knew how to play in the past. What I started doing to resist this is stomping on 2 & 4 with my left foot (like a snare) when learning/practicing music because it feels like the trickiness of...
  19. Firsty Lasty

    Putting locking nuts on a non FR guitar

    Just to avoid me being confused, are you wondering about using a locking nut with a standard bridge, and only having one guitar that you retune during the gig? I don’t see that working well, ‘cuzza how inconvenient it would be to mess around with unlocking and locking shit on stage and probably...
  20. Firsty Lasty

    Do you guys want to hear me sing more often?

    If you enjoy it, do it. I’ll never be a singer, and I know that’ll always hold me back as a musician.
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