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  1. Noah Berends

    SGS SCHOOL MEETUP PLANS ARE HERE! CHECK IT OUT, YO!

    Damn, the one time period I’ll be out of LA. Maybe next year!
  2. Noah Berends

    Help me pick a guitar!!!

    Since you mentioned smaller hands, some of the budget PRS models may be worth looking at, like Ed mentioned. If you’re accustomed to a Strat then you’re accustomed to 25.5inch scale length, which is the distance between the nut and the bridge saddles. PRS scale length is 25 inch, which is longer...
  3. Noah Berends

    What are you currently listening to?

    Getting ready to see these guys in about a month…
  4. Noah Berends

    What are you currently listening to?

    Technical skills of an insane level.
  5. Noah Berends

    Needing Help Changing a Song's Pitch + Tuning Questions

    It’s very easy to change a track’s pitch in Audacity if Reaper is a bit too complex (which for some it is, and that’s totally understandable). Under track effects there will be one fir pitch and you can alter pitch by the cent or by steps. Since drop B is, like others said, 1.5 steps below drop...
  6. Noah Berends

    Rock am 2019

    My best friend texted me a couple days ago and she was super excited about the Slipknot one. Gonna watch it together. I’m excited
  7. Noah Berends

    What are you currently listening to?

    I’m confident that this is one of the greatest songs I’ve ever heard.
  8. Noah Berends

    "Paradigm Strings" Problem With Sustain?

    Paradigms are the only strings I’ve ever used that have rusted within a month. I’m not a fan.
  9. Noah Berends

    anybody wanna do a collab possibly?

    I’ll have a lot more time this summer to focus on music, so count me in.
  10. Noah Berends

    How fast are you guys?

    I sat down and did a little bit of testing of this a while back out of curiosity, and the peak speed I was able to hit accurately on a legato run was between 20-23 notes per second depending on fingers used in the pattern This reply was modified 6 months, 3 weeks ago by  Noah Berends...
  11. Noah Berends

    What got you guys into metal?

    It was more of a steady progression. My first ever exposure to rock was listening to The Beatles on the family PC after I found all my dad’s CD files. After that, it was basically going down the rabbit hole into heavier and heavier music. I really liked it, and it felt natural to me, so I would...
  12. Noah Berends

    Has There Ever Been One Thing That Just Took You So Long To Get

    Legato. I couldn’t do it for the life of me, then in a very short time (under a month) it’s like a light switched and I started to make crazy improvements faster than anything I’d done before.
  13. Noah Berends

    BIG FUN IDEA!!! Synyster Gates School Meetup?

    I might just be interning in LA this summer, so that might work out perfectly…
  14. Noah Berends

    BIG FUN IDEA!!! Synyster Gates School Meetup?

    I would love to do something like this.
  15. Noah Berends

    Anchoring fingers

    It’s all about what you’re playing. I personally don’t anchor, but I do consciously switch between picking with a closed fist and picking with my fingers flayed out based on what I’m playing. Speed/alternate picking, I’ll pick closed-fist because it’s a bit more reflexive with speed and I can...
  16. Noah Berends

    How to thicken up a good tone

    Give the lead tone a lot more mids than the rhythm. Give it a place in the mix to sit where there’s not a lot of other frequencies. So less mids on the rhythm tones, and make the lead tone predominantly mids. That’s how it’ll stand out the most against the other. Some kind of volume alteration...
  17. Noah Berends

    GOJIRA

    One of my favorite bands period. Flying Whales and Silvera are 10/10.
  18. Noah Berends

    Custom Necks

    That could be exactly what I’m looking for. Thanks Ed!
  19. Noah Berends

    Custom Necks

    Dang, I didn’t realize how busy I was and how much time I had spent away. Looking forward to spending more time learning this next semester. ANYWAYS. I’m not having a lot of luck with Google so I thought I would reach out here. Does anybody know of a company that will build guitar necks...
  20. Noah Berends

    Any ways to reduce thumb strain while playing?

    Ed’s got the real stuff. As with any other muscle in your body, endurance is a built thing, so while the strain could be attributed to a mildly flawed technique, at the same time you may just need to build endurance slow and steady. As with everything else in guitar, play as relaxed as possible...
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