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  1. Ed Seith

    You know Is it only me that like the simpler, chords/solo progression?

    I think I remember hearing that he was just getting into sweeping techniques, and that looking back his sweeps and stuff were very simple at the time. Maybe that’s what he was referring to?
  2. Ed Seith

    You know Is it only me that like the simpler, chords/solo progression?

    City of Evil was anything but simple.
  3. Ed Seith

    Heads Up On The Testimonial Video! Permission Requests for Video Clips!

    Anything I’ve sent you or posted (God help me) is fair game.
  4. Ed Seith

    what is your favourite tuning?

    Most of my guitars are in E Standard, though all are set up to easily drop to Drop D. The Les Paul is a hardtail, and the Ibanez have tremsetters that allow for the change in a pinch without altering the pitch of the rest of the strings too much (the tremsetter didn’t work well on the PRS trem...
  5. Ed Seith

    Playing guitar while being drunk

    Only Slash and Keef sounded good drunk. No one ever sounds as good as they thought the sounded when they were drunk. A slight buzz to loosen the muscles and the mind is one thing, flat out drunk is another.
  6. Ed Seith

    Some Friendly Advice Needed

    There are people who tell Syn that HE sucks. That is, sadly, the modern internet. Fuckwits and babbies have a forum beyond the schoolyard playground to vent their insecurities now. You’re never going to impress everyone. You’re never going to be loved by everyone. You’re never going to be an...
  7. Ed Seith

    Beast & the harlot solo chromatic last part help!

    The official pace is 154, but 152 would be an easy mistake.
  8. Ed Seith

    Recommendations

    AWESOME! It’s super-motivating when you get rewarded for your hard work. BE PROUD! Lower end Ibanez and Schecter guitars are generally good quality assembly-line instruments, and they tend to be affordable. If you provide a budget range and what your musical goals are, we can make some more...
  9. Ed Seith

    Beast & the harlot solo chromatic last part help!

    Hard to tell you without hearing you play it, but my best guess based on what you’ve said is that you’re not clean enough on it at 152 bpm yet. So if it sounds fine at 130, bump to 135 and keep practicing it there until it “sounds fine” and is easy enough to nail. Then bump to 140. And so on...
  10. Ed Seith

    Alice in Chains

    @Bartosz, there is a Greatest Hits album that would be a good starter.
  11. Ed Seith

    A Thought to Keep in Mind When Soloing/Improvising

    I would say that playing to a metronome is a very important *part* of *practice*. Learning a brand new part, it’s important to play each bit as slowly as you need to – repeatedly – to get it comfortably under your fingers. Once there, you start playing it along to a metronome at a stupefyingly...
  12. Ed Seith

    Alice in Chains

    I posted a long response and it got lost because of site maintenance. Summary: Band: good Jerry Cantrell (guitar): Good Heroin: Bad Man in the Box: most widely recognizable song. Should be fun.
  13. Ed Seith

    A Thought to Keep in Mind When Soloing/Improvising

    I live in opposite world. I got bend and vibrato for days, but my speed comes from a strange place, so I am focusing on strict alternate picking right now. Syn’s Etude #1. It’s a great way to force you to break up picking into different numbers of notes per beat, too. Interestingly enough, an...
  14. Ed Seith

    How did you get your first guitar?

    My first guitar was a rental. No one in my family had any musical inclination, though my middle sister played flute through high school in the marching band. Alto Music in Monsey, NY, rented me a Fender Jaguar and a little Peavey practice amp for about $25 a month, I think. After a few months...
  15. Ed Seith

    Met – nothing else matters

    Rock music takes a LOT of liberties with key signatures. The easiest and most prominent way is through use of the power chord. By only using root and fifth (and octave), and omitting the third entirely, key becomes largely relative in many cases, and then you’ve got the folks (like our guy Syn)...
  16. Ed Seith

    Met – nothing else matters

    The song, like many standard-tuned rock guitar songs, is in Em. The A chord being major and not minor is probably because Hetfield is not a huge theory guy and it “just sounded good.” There’s a nice discussion thread I found on this, and those guys can’t seem to agree, either. What key...
  17. Ed Seith

    Guitar Pickups

    The Tone Zone and Air Norton have become a favorite combo among Ibanez players for a number of years. The Tone Zone has been around for decades – I dropped one into my 91 540R in 91 or 92 and loved it – it stayed in there until I started experimenting about 8 or 9 years ago. I tried EMGs (too...
  18. Ed Seith

    Guitar search

    It’s almost like a tiger stripe pattern, not really a quilt, which is what PRS is known for. It’s gorgeous.
  19. Ed Seith

    Godsmack singer as Frontman of A7x?

    Sully is also a bit too dominant a personality. If you’ve ever seen them live or followed them with any interest, Godsmack is pretty much Sully and three guys. A7X would not work with that kind of arrangement, IMO.
  20. Ed Seith

    I need help with music theory I feel ashamed

    *NOTHING* to be ashamed of.
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