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  1. Ed Seith

    NEW SYNYSTER GATES SCHOOL PROJECT!! EVERYONE PLEASE READ!!

    DONE! Do you know how hard it was for me to lock it at 1 goddamn minute? You know I can’t shut up…
  2. Ed Seith

    Down pick like god (Hetfield of course)

    Jak answering the important part of the question first!
  3. Ed Seith

    Effects and channel switching

    “Anything is possible if you have enough money.” This is true here. To do this with individual pedals requires a complex and semi-custom switching system. That’s why since I started going this route with gear in the early 90s, I always went for a multi-effect unit. In 1990, I bought a Fender...
  4. Ed Seith

    After Long Time

    This is really cool. I’ve moved away from the really fast writing and recording hits, and I need to get back to it – this SOUNDS really good, and I dig what you’re laying down! That riff at :50 is nice and MEAN!
  5. Ed Seith

    Down pick like god (Hetfield of course)

    YMMV. A lot of amazing thrash downpickers swear by the endurance method – set your metronome for a pace you can comfortably keep downpicks on, and then just do it NONSTOP for 4-5 minutes, every day. Increase speed as it gets too “easy.” I could never get that method to work for me, but I never...
  6. Ed Seith

    NEW SYNYSTER GATES SCHOOL PROJECT!! EVERYONE PLEASE READ!!

    So I can forward you the questions in a text message, right? 😉
  7. Ed Seith

    I can’t alternate pick

    The other approach to Ethan’s method on 3nps scales is to play each string’s sequence twice, so: 3-5-7-3-5-7 then move up to the notes on the next string. By using an even number of notes you can use Troy Grady’s downward or upward pickslanting method which makes for smoother and faster picking...
  8. Ed Seith

    String Buzzing Problems

    I don’t hear the problem clearly, but I’m assuming it’s on the low frets? Changes in temp and humidity outside, like happens in fall and spring, can have a real and definite effect on a guitar set up with super-low action. The Floyd should not matter in this case. If I were you, I would try...
  9. Ed Seith

    Project rebuild: revenger fr

    To Ids’ point, making your own neck is inadvisable. There are a number of companies that make precision necks with a number of different joint types to satisfy the need. I would NOT recommend making your own neck from scratch unless you’re an expert woodworker. Someplace like this might be able...
  10. Ed Seith

    GUITAR LESSONS INCOMING!!

    Hector, that’s where I’m having the hardest time breaking away from old habits – doing the chunking like that in my head. I know the fingers are more than capable, but breaking down that speed wall for stuff like this really is all in my head, and I don’t know how to fully get around it yet...
  11. Ed Seith

    Beatles bass lines

    I had read somewhere a long time ago that that was mostly because the radios and players people listened on back then didn’t really respond well to low bass? Elton Hohn was a real artist. He did a great supergroup-type album with Freddie Jupiter, Jami Hendrix, and Keith Lune.
  12. Ed Seith

    Care and Feeding of your Best Friend Floyd

    As long as she continues to get bags and shoes, I get guitars! Fair and equitable!
  13. Ed Seith

    Care and Feeding of your Best Friend Floyd

    I will, especially since the color didn’t really come out right in the Metal Minute video I posted.
  14. Ed Seith

    Care and Feeding of your Best Friend Floyd

    I *like* my walls of guitars!! Added a new one yesterday!
  15. Ed Seith

    Care and Feeding of your Best Friend Floyd

    Please let me know if it’s actually helpful and provide feedback for future videos!
  16. Ed Seith

    Influences ?

    @jak, how did I miss Al Pitrelli? I love his playing! From the two Widowmaker albums, to his time with Savatage and TSO (we won’t talk about his time with Megadeth)…
  17. Ed Seith

    Kiesel Solo Contest 2019

    That was nice – really unconventional final note that works really well. Great stuff! I plan on entering for fun – so many amazing modern players, I don’t stand a chance, but it will be fun anyway. Good luck!
  18. Ed Seith

    Care and Feeding of your Best Friend Floyd

    All- Over the last couple months, a LOT of folks have been complaining about their Floyd Rose tremolo, on both their shiny new Schecter Synyster Gates models, and on other models. I had an older guitar with a Floyd on it that I was going to put much heavier strings on and set up for Drop B...
  19. Ed Seith

    GUITAR LESSONS INCOMING!!

    I agree with it. Dissecting a solo and knowing the theory behind it takes some of the mystery out of it, for sure. The witchcraft is not always in the notes, but in what you do with them. However, my problem with learning Syn’s stuff is that within his note choices, the intervals in his melodic...
  20. Ed Seith

    Influences ?

    Hmm. I’ve been around a while, so my primary influences are mostly from the 80s. First order: Rhoads, Satch, Bettencourt, DeMartini, Davey and H from Maiden, Frank and Tommy from Tesla, Keith Douglas from Tora Tora, Criss Oliva from Savatage, Mark Tremonti, Andy Timmons, Syn (I want him to be...
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