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  1. Ed Seith

    Frustrated!!!

    For one, always end on perfect. What does that mean? It means if you're practicing a certain passage, you should play it 80 at a comfortable speed, then 10-15% at a speed slightly higher than comfortable, where you are a lot more likely to mess up, then the last 5-10% back at a comfortable...
  2. Ed Seith

    Play like ...

    I definitely didn't. I was more stubborn and defiant than that. I wanted to be true to myself more than I wanted to make it in music. Judge for yourself if I made the right call there. :cool:
  3. Ed Seith

    Play like ...

    As someone who was just beginning to strike out with my first real band around the time Nirvana hit, I can tell you that (for me, at least), it was disheartening and a constant source of anger and frustration. For years.
  4. Ed Seith

    Play like ...

    I do hate the modern approach, where one quantizes all the nuance out of everything. I've been listening to a massive mix of old 70s pop and AOR songs lately and just marveling at the nuances of the performances, the rawness of some of them comparatively, even in the context of a pop song.
  5. Ed Seith

    Play like ...

    #WhatPapaGatesSaid
  6. Ed Seith

    Finger position help needed.

    5-7-9 is about as big a stretch as my miserable sausage fingers can manage, and I do that 1-2-4. I can't get the same stretch between 3-4 that I can between 1-2, but honestly, I try to avoid stretches like that down low on the fretboard because they're just downright uncomfortable to me, even...
  7. Ed Seith

    How to be a great player

    He is memorable, for sure, and Christ, that harmonic at the end! WHOA!
  8. Ed Seith

    How to be a great player

    The ability to play almost anything, and the maturity and understanding not to. I find the "shred war" things technically impressive, but not at all memorable. I think a great player finds the balance between the soul-searing technique and the melody, and the feel of a single note in the right...
  9. Ed Seith

    Comment by 'Ed Seith' in media 'Sieze the Day Solo'

    Thank you!
  10. Ed Seith

    Comment by 'Ed Seith' in media 'Blues Audition'

    Oh, you're out of line there. I'm not fit to change Davey's strings!
  11. Ed Seith

    Comment by 'Ed Seith' in media 'Fade to black 1st solo'

    This is great! Two things to offer - #1, NECK PICKUP. That's how Kirk plays it. That's how we play it. Try it, you'll like it. #2, you're rushing the slower parts and playing ahead of the rhythm. As you're listening and playing along, kind of try to hear Lars doing stick hits or a hi-hat part to...
  12. Ed Seith

    Comment by 'Ed Seith' in media '"The Stage" solo'

    Great timing, feel, and vibrato. Your bends are almost all coming up a little flat, so that's something to work on. Sounds awesome! A great exercise is going back and forth from playing a note (say, G string 12th fret) and then bending up to that note from one step/two frets below - so the 10th...
  13. Ed Seith

    Comment by 'Ed Seith' in media 'SGS collab audition Blues'

    That's how it's done! Love it!
  14. Ed Seith

    PM'd

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  15. Ed Seith

    I've been really lacking in keeping up with posts here on the site. Not just riffs, but POSTS. I...

    I've been really lacking in keeping up with posts here on the site. Not just riffs, but POSTS. I apologize and will try to do better. I used to read through EVERYTHING and I'm just so far behind right now.
  16. Ed Seith

    Which Syn Cab Packs/AXE FX 3 Amp models to use for songs Afterlife/Nightmare/Buried Alive (clean)??

    For the heavy tone, one of the Hellwin 4x12s is your safe bet. Use your ear. I believe Syn said a LOOOOOONG time ago, when the cab packs first came out, that the Sound Kitchen cab was what he tended to use on tones like Buried Alive - the really clean or slight breakup tones. Intro to The...
  17. Ed Seith

    Comment by 'Ed Seith' in media 'Blues Audition'

    Thanks so much! I miss smokey bars!
  18. Blues Audition

    Blues Audition

    Doing the Blues for the Syn Gates school. This is the PRS Custom 24 with the pickup selector in #4 (Bridge humbucker and neck single/tapped) and a low-gain lead tone with more delay than I usually use. This is about the 10th take of just winging it, with the first 9 being iteratively finding a...
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    That's alright. We can help you change that. Welcome.

    That's alright. We can help you change that. Welcome.
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  20. Ed Seith

    With all the quaratining, I was getting a little short of exercise at home, so I bought a desk...

    With all the quaratining, I was getting a little short of exercise at home, so I bought a desk riser for my work computer setup so I could work standing up. Now, after I set it up, I realize I just lost my guitar setup and restringing workstation as a result. Sigh...
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