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  1. Ed Seith

    This sucks.

    Your heart will create the pint fairly quickly, but it will use nutrients and stuff to do it, so you need to replenish. Once you drink a lot of water (or Gatorade) and eat a few healthy things, you’ll be back on top.
  2. Ed Seith

    Can an Old Dog Learn New Tricks?

    Starting a new topic on something I had started in another thread. I’m hoping some of the older folks and Papa can chime in with thoughts. I have all kinds of speed and stuff when I improvise, but when I try to learn something note for note, I can’t even manage half the speed I get when I...
  3. Ed Seith

    Acoustic issue

    I was thinking the same thing after it wasn’t the pin, Noah. Those are dirt cheap, too!
  4. Ed Seith

    Hardest A7X solos

    Great words, @filip, and I agree. I guess where I get lost in my mind is that Tony Hawk had his skills when he was young. Hetfield picked like a demon when he was young. As you age, is there a difference between keeping what you have and being able to improve technically? That’s where my brain...
  5. Ed Seith

    Site back up!

    Time to buy those guys a six of Schlitz and give them a pat on the back.
  6. Ed Seith

    Hardest A7X solos

    Thanks, Ids. That’s stuff I do know – I have been playing a lot of years. The problem I think I’m having is one I don’t think you can advise on. I think it’s the anxiety of aging and “I don’t know if I’m too old to improve like I used to” and that degenerates into “Am I so old I’m just going to...
  7. Ed Seith

    Hardest A7X solos

    I hear you, Chris, but lately I find myself struggling with that mentally, and even regressing on things like building my downpicking strength and speed. I’m usually self-correcting, but I’m struggling with this. I know it’s a mental thing, but I’m at a loss for how to overcome it, and I find it...
  8. Ed Seith

    Admynysters: Another Bug/Glitch

    Since we have your attention, Joe – Syn’s Etudes, Sweep Picking #2 is a dead link.
  9. Ed Seith

    Morality and music creation programs

    That’s the difference between being a music creator and a musician, or instrumentalist. Someone like Skrillex is a music creator. Whether I like what he creates is irrelevant – it is music that brings some people joy or some other emotional connection or response. It has rhythm and melody...
  10. Ed Seith

    Posting song in community riff

    Absolutely – bring it!
  11. Ed Seith

    Admynysters- Another Bot Detected 🤖

    Dammit, I hate being right.
  12. Ed Seith

    Admynysters- Another Bot Detected 🤖

    I think Jak is a secret bot.
  13. Ed Seith

    Intimidated Yet Curious Newcomer

    Matt Heafy from Trivium posted a cover of Unholy Confessions THIS WEEK (nothing to do with this site), it’s not all that tired, even in 2018. You’ll get good, honest feedback, given in the spirit of learning. Welcome!
  14. Ed Seith

    Band Recording of Afterlife. 1 week of practice. First actually practice togethe

    I made a long response to this, and my connection hiccuped and it was lost. I think it’s a great start. The intro, as Jak said, and also the drummer needs to be careful on the double time part of the solo. I couldn’t hear any bass guitar in the recording, or that might have sounded better. In...
  15. Ed Seith

    I'm leaving my final post

    Posts like this annoy me. It’s like the person leaving a Facebook group because they got offended about something, and they post about it, hoping everyone will beg them to stay. If you want to leave, leave. No one is forcing you to stay. You might be missed, but we’ll live.
  16. Ed Seith

    Worried for my friend who learning how to play

    I actually don’t entirely support the “acoustic first” in every case. Yes, learning acoustic first will make electric easier later, but it HURTS a lot more to learn acoustic, and it’s slower going, and if the learner is someone who is easily discouraged or has a low pain tolerance, the acoustic...
  17. Ed Seith

    Floyd Rose "maintenance"…

    These are servicable parts. Approach it methodically and make notes or take pictures and it will be easy to put back together. Note where the knife edge blades on the bridge sit in the edge of the screws attached to the body. Take a pic. Remove the strings, remove the back cover plate, remove...
  18. Ed Seith

    Lessons of techniques and styles of play

    Here you go. Spur of the moment, and I’m not warmed up (injury recovery, as I go over in the video), but should get the point across. Let me know if there’s anything I can clarify or go into more detail about. Thanks!
  19. Ed Seith

    Lessons of techniques and styles of play

    I threw a quick video together this morning. I’ll post a link here when it goes live. Let me know if you have any questions aboou the covered techniques when you see it and I’ll be glad to discuss.
  20. Ed Seith

    Notice that sweep picking 2 is missing

    I just sent him a direct chat, in case there’s a better chance of him seeing that.
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