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  1. Ed Seith

    Nails and bends

    As you bend, you SHOULD be pushing the strings together, and if you bend far enough, all three strings should be together under the fleshy part of your fingers. Definitely NOT “over the nail.” That sounds like a good way to lose fingernails and break strings. What you SHOULD be doing is learning...
  2. Ed Seith

    First song

    Iron Maiden – Flight of Icarus. None of the lead parts or anything; it was just power chords and rhythm, but it got me going. It took a while, but it was 35 years ago, so I can’t remember how long.
  3. Ed Seith

    Recording software recommendations

    EZDrummer is incredible if you write and record your own stuff. Indispensable, and light years ahead of the awful crap drum machines we used to have to use.
  4. Ed Seith

    Recording software recommendations

    Reaper. It’s a genuinely professional DAW (Digital Audio Workstation). You can use a full-featured version free for 3 months, and it’s then $60 US for the full version, which comes with two full-version upgrades, as well. So, with them on Reaper 5.7 (I think), you would not have to purchase...
  5. Ed Seith

    What are you working on?

    I haven’t played a gig in TWENTY ONE FUCKING YEARS. That’s right kids, before a lot of you were born was the last time I stood on a stage. April 1997. For 2017, I decided I was going to get back out there. I had a few false starts with bands that didn’t measure up to my expectations, and now I...
  6. Ed Seith

    Anyone else notice this?

    Criss Oliva from earlier Savatage (he was killed in a car accident after “Edge of Thorns” in 1991) was insane at legato stuff in a more metallic context.
  7. Ed Seith

    A question about my new string

    Stretch it better and it won’t detune as much or as fast. https://www.guitarworld.com/blogs/ed-s-shed-stay-tune-stretching-your-strings
  8. Ed Seith

    Breaking bad habbits

    You will *always* make mistakes, in almost every performance. What changes is that you make different mistakes, learn how to mask them better (I *meant* to do that!) and, in the case of live performance, chalk it up to running around like a fucking lunatic and putting on a SHOW, knowing that...
  9. Ed Seith

    PRS or Schecter

    Schecter makes a nice guitar but they are NOT in the same league as a core PRS. I own both and the quality of materials and hand workmanship in my Custom 24 make it VERY clear why it’s a $4,000 guitar. Perhaps not “four times as good” as a $1k guitar of any brand, but the law of diminishing...
  10. Ed Seith

    your first guitar

    1986 Ibanez PL1660 in pearl white. I think I paid $250 for it new. Ibanez “Pro Rock’r” trem and some kind of rail-based humbucking pickups. Great, comfortable guitar. I customized it to unrecognizability and when I bought my new 1990 RG550, I left the strings off it for six months and the neck...
  11. Ed Seith

    Favorite guitarists – besides Syn Gates and Papa Gates

    Mark Tremonti, Matt Heafy, Paul Gilbert (dude is so intensely in love with music and playing guitar without pretension that you can’t help but love him), Adrian Smith, Frankie and Tommie from Tesla, Keith Douglas from Tora Tora, Brad Paisley, Richie Sambora (check out the solo in “Dry County” to...
  12. Ed Seith

    Hearing Protection

    Ear plugs. Every. Time. Practice, gigs, concerts, everything. They have high-quality plugs for musicians that allow a flatter frequency response than just stuffing your ears with styrofoam. Music shops carry them for about $15-20US.
  13. Ed Seith

    Fractal Axe fx and AX8 users

    I’ve had my AxeFX2+ for about a year now. I’ve found that the best starting point for working on ANY kind of tone is to start, of course, with the Amp and Cab models, and the VERY FIRST thing to do is “fix” the cabinet model with high and low pass filtering. This can all be done within the cab...
  14. Ed Seith

    How to learn a metal-solo. Advanced Level.

    Yeah! Totally forgot to mention Amazing Slow Downer! Ahh, man, if only that had existed in the 80s when I was teaching myself! What a great tool!
  15. Ed Seith

    How to learn a metal-solo. Advanced Level.

    Tough to answer without more detail about where you are. Your profile says you’ve been playing 4 years, so I’ll assume you have a decent set of “rhythm hands” and want to move into lead work. Start with an easier solo. Ballads are usually a good start. Syn makes some really… UNIQUE… note...
  16. Ed Seith

    Drop C tuning or below modifications advice?

    Lots of good advice here. Definitely heavier string gauges to avoid floppiness, and also those lower tunings tend to NOT sound good on guitars with shorter scale lengths, like Les Pauls. There’s a REASON bass guitars, extended-ranges and baritones typically have longer scale lengths. OP’s 25.5...
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