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  1. Noah Berends

    Is The Riff Page Down?

    The website was having a lot of troubles loading for me this afternoon. Maintenance maybe?
  2. Noah Berends

    Playing syns masterclass solo in the school talent show

    That was dope!
  3. Noah Berends

    What's going on with the collab?

    I’ve had issues with bandhub, it just confuses the hell out of me. I also sometimes find myself forgetting about it.
  4. Noah Berends

    Does this happen to y’all too?

    I did that just the other day. I accidentally wrote the verse to Basket Case, a half step down. Whoops!
  5. Noah Berends

    Is my riff A7X worthy ?

    Sounds like a great opening riff to lead into a fast paced pounding verse. But that’s just my take. I love it, I’d love to hear a full song like this.
  6. Noah Berends

    Best inexpensive Pickup for Clean Sounds?

    Since tone is pretty subjective you might get a lot of different answers from us, so Josh’s suggested tool is probably your best bet. I personally really like clean tones from EMG pickups especially the 57/66 and Het sets, so I would’ve suggested that since you already have them, but most stuff...
  7. Noah Berends

    Goals and Progression

    My main goal on this website is to establish good patterns of learning throughout my entire musical career, to learn the proper knowledge I need to both play the guitar correctly and to write music correctly, and to begin writing my own music using everything I learn, with that eventually...
  8. Noah Berends's riff from April 14, 2018 at 4:59 pm

    Noah Berends's riff from April 14, 2018 at 4:59 pm

    I covered The River by Good Charlotte ft. M. Shadows and Syn! I took things a little differently and played my own slight variation on the solo. Let me know what you think!
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  9. Noah Berends

    Schecter American flag avenger

    I’d love to pick one up if they were ever produced. The flag graphic works really well with the guitar body design imo.
  10. Noah Berends

    Guitar Pep Talk

    Oftentimes as well, those “child prodigy” players are one-trick-ponies. Yeah, they can play Eruption, but that’s probably one of the only things they can play. Ask them to come up with an improv solo in the key of G? They’ll probably be stumped. It’s cool that they can play a song like that at a...
  11. Noah Berends

    M I S T A K E S

    6 and a half out of my 8 years of playing has been done with bad picking technique. Even though I’ve only spent 1 and a half years fixing this, my picking has already surpassed my old technique as far as speed and accuracy. That was reeeeeealy holding me back looking back. I also made the...
  12. Noah Berends

    What are you currently listening to?

    Found this band recently. This and anything off their Worlds Apart album never gets old. Amazing vocal work with the male lead and female backup…not something you see a lot in metalcore.
  13. Noah Berends

    What are you currently listening to?

    Just saw these guys in concert last night. Amazing show.
  14. Noah Berends

    Needing Help With Audio Gear For Video Recording

    I can’t seem to find you with that name…try adding me: noahberends
  15. Noah Berends

    The dang thing won't stay in tune

    Funny story off Alan’s comment, the first time I ever restrung my Les Paul I strung the high 3 strings backwards so all strings were would in the same direction…looking back I’m 100% surprised the strings lasted a whole 6 months that way. I was too afraid to take the strings off and put them...
  16. Noah Berends

    Needing Help With Audio Gear For Video Recording

    I can also give help on the technical side, which I love working with. I’m in college for film and media and I’ve taken a few audio technical classes so I can help in any way I can. It sounds like you have a Scarlett 2i2, which is what I have also.
  17. Noah Berends

    Jak's challenge

    You could take a 30 second chunk of a backing track, if there’s a section that resolves well or sounds like a good ending.
  18. Noah Berends

    Let's Pump Up The Jams!

    Great post. I totally agree, especially with the videos. I myself have been too lazy lately partly due to outside troubles…but I’m working on getting a more reliable setup to record videos and set up a dedicated practice space. I think part of what set back the riffs section was the barrage of...
  19. Noah Berends

    Rocksmith?

    @john yeah the tones are certainly more than functional, I’m just a bit of an accidental tone snob so I’m really picky about little nuances. But the in-song tones are great, Tone Designer just ends up giving me a headache more often than not…so I usually just use a tone that I like from a song
  20. Noah Berends

    Happy Birthday, Papa Gates!

    Happiest of birthdays! Have fun!
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