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  1. Ed Seith

    What does Syn do in So Far Away?

    https://www.fender.com/articles/tech-talk/friend-or-foe-a-feedback-primer
  2. Ed Seith

    String tension v playing

    Absolutely. And if you’re using the same gauge of strings for tuning an entire step sharper, you’ll likely need a setup, too. You could consider a lighter gauge of strings – If you were using 11s for D standard, try 10s for standard. If you were using 10s, try 9s. That will make the transition...
  3. Ed Seith

    What does Syn do in So Far Away?

    The feedback at 5:20, I always interpreted how Syn cuts that note off sharply when it was just “getting good” to be metaphorical for Jimmy’s life. That ending was what made me believe that Syn was doing more than just noodling wickedly and that he was really putting deep thought into a lot of...
  4. Ed Seith

    What does Syn do in So Far Away?

    The one at 2:06 is a natural harmonic hit with the bar depressed, and then allowed to return to pitch. At 5:20, a regular note is fading out, but generating a feedback loop. This is done with high gain and high volume (in-room) – this cannot be done with headphones or direct input, and it also...
  5. Ed Seith

    🍑STUDENT PROJECT DEADLINE THIS FRIDAY🍑

    If you’re extending to Monday, I’ll try, too. Had a stomach bug the last couple days that has impacted my “inspiration” to practice.
  6. Ed Seith

    Christmas Eve Sarajevo!! ☃️🌲🎅

    Indeed, the entire song was on Savatage’s “Dead Winter Dead” album, and Al Pitrelli was in that band at the time. Frustrated that they had a great rock Christmas track but no one would play it, the “Trans-Siberian Orchestra” name was slapped on the identical track and released again, and it...
  7. Ed Seith

    Christmas Eve Sarajevo!! ☃️🌲🎅

    NICE! Great song! I remember this back when it was a Savatage song, before TSO was built around it. Great band, great album – the Savatage album *AND* the TSO album. TSO puts on a helluva show, too. Well done!
  8. Ed Seith

    Broken menu?

    Confirmed. You can, however, click on the menu item to go to a page that lists them all, as a workaround.
  9. Ed Seith

    Building Alternate Picking Speed

    Downward pick slanting and chunking. Many helpful videos online. Troy Grady has a great series on the mechanics of fast playing. Working on those things myself.
  10. Ed Seith

    darkening fretboard?

    Just don’t wash your hands before you play and it will darken naturally. 🙂
  11. Ed Seith

    Other then Avenged, what other shows are you seeing this year?

    Hard to say, to be honest. I’ve seen Maiden in 87 (Somewhere in Time), 88 (Seventh Son), 99 (reunion, before Brave New World) and now 17 for Book of Souls. 87 was my first metal concert, but we were in the second to last row in the nosebleed seats at a show that got WAY out of hand. 88 was a...
  12. Ed Seith

    Buried Alive intro tutorial

    Go for it. Great song to learn that technique on.
  13. Ed Seith

    Other then Avenged, what other shows are you seeing this year?

    Maiden are a BEAST, no pun intended. Caught the Souls tour in 17 and they were as amazing as the first time I saw them in 87.
  14. Ed Seith

    Proud Papa

    My 12 year old son started taking guitar in school this year. A couple weeks ago he came to tell me about Rocksmith (which I already knew about). His birthday is in November, so I bought him Rocksmith today, and said we could talk about his own guitar for his birthday. He’s got my 1991 Ibanez...
  15. Ed Seith

    Afterlife solo. 1 month till the show!

    Sounds really good, Dylan. I think if the reverb we’re hearing is room reflection, then (obviously) nothing can be done about that (and I say that as a fan of reverb instead of delay), but there is too much delay there. If you want to keep both in, then at least one needs to have its...
  16. Ed Seith

    'Mad Hatter' on Spotify!

    I can confirm it is NOT yet on Amazon Music.
  17. Ed Seith

    HELP ME WITH IMPROVISATION

    Lots of great advice here, but only Nike can tie all of it together: JUST DO IT. Getting good at improvisation is all about taking all of the tools our friends here mention above, and then spending real and actual time JUST DOING IT. Yeah, it’s gonna sound like ass for a long time, but the more...
  18. Ed Seith

    Commenting On Riffs. You Can Still Do It + Student Project :)

    Nice progress, Dan!
  19. Ed Seith

    Guitar shipping worldwide

    @Ids, I’d say what’s most likely is that when Syn signed the deal for the guitar, there was no thought of him selling product on his own site. By the time they got around to signature pickups, Syn and Papa were already working on the site, with the store, and so the ability to sell directly was...
  20. Ed Seith

    Commenting On Riffs. You Can Still Do It + Student Project :)

    I’ve been working on the sweep etude #1 to build control and speed, so when I can, I’ll make a video for that so I can check progress in a month. With feedback and coaching from y’all and Syn, I feel like I might be moving away from my plateau (cautiously optimistic, but getting my head around...
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