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    Question!

    Go watch “Avenged Sevenfold: All Excess”. He was in a car drunk and said something like “I am Synyster Gates, and I am awesome!” and that was that.
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    Now I am really glad I stayed home to practice

    You’re asking if anyone knows how to deal with being high and drunk? I dont know man, throw on some Zeppelin or Pink Floyd and try to imagine yourself in a simpler time.
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    Syns Signature Pickups

    I will say, even though Hector’s video is very good and the tone sounds great, its really difficult to tell how different the pickups sound without being in the room and playing through an amp and cab. Recording adds compression a lot of the time making it more difficult to hear nuance. Also...
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    Come watch Eds streama

    Dude, an hour isnt even enough time to scratch the surface of what the axe fx III can do. MAYBE enough time to get through the amp block, but probably just enough to get through the basic settings, preamp, and power amp. I said it in the chat I think, but the Axe FX is the single most important...
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    Come watch Eds streama

    Just did, good stuff! I unfortunately got in super late though and will have to go back to watch the whole thing. Had to buy those lottery tickets for that billion dollar pot, ya know? Cant win if you dont play.
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    Pickup Height

    Adin is correct, active pickups are SUPPOSED to be set super close to the strings because the magnet is so weak. The battery and preamp are what give the pickup its volume and punch. Try backing them off just a little bit, get your bridge pickup where its best for you. Small movements go a long...
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    Arpeggios..

    It depends on the sound you are going for. They all have their place.
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    Synyster Fractal Audio video

    Who is your source, sir?
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    Synyster Fractal Audio video

    Ahh, I was getting more the Bogner Twin Jet vibe which I’m pretty sure was what they used on “Nightmare”. I think maybe what I’m hearing now as I listen to the isolated guitar track is just double tracking or maybe the uberschall with an overdrive in front of it, particularly chunky part after...
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    Min7 arpeggio

    You gotta watch out with the 7th though. The 3 and the 7 are what REALLY defines a chord and whether its major, minor, or dominant. Major 3rd & major 7th- Its a Major 7 tonality. Minor 3rd and minor 7th- its a Minor 7 tonality. Major 3rd and minor 7th- Its a dominant tonality. You can literally...
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    Synyster Fractal Audio video

    Im just curious to what amp sims he’s using. To me it sounds like the Uberschall sim from that chunky attack, which makes sense because that’s what they used to record and tour with. The Uberschall has a pretty specific attack on the chunks. Hopefully ol’ Syn will drop those presets on us, but...
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    Min7 arpeggio

    Also, as the great Dan Gilbert would say, “your new mantra is chord tone, chord scale, key center”. Those are kinda(but not limited to) your options for soloing and writing melodies.
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    Min7 arpeggio

    I hear ya man. Honestly the best way, in my opinion, to think about it is- what chord am I on, how do all 12 notes relate to that chord, and where is that chord going. Then, whatever your starting chord is, thats your 1 or your root. The whole thing about C Major and A minor being the same or F...
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    Synyster Fractal Audio video

    Just posted a few minutes ago! https://forum.fractalaudio.com/threads/artist-video-synyster-gates-of-a7x-makes-the-switch-to-the-iii.143660/
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    Min7 arpeggio

    You can actually use both. The Bb may sound a little funky over the F7 because it’s the 4 doesnt work great over major chords. The #4 is more useable. But the Db/C# is an augmented 5th, the F is the root, and Ab is a b3, so that would give you an altered dominant sound of sorts, which wont sound...
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    Chord Progressions notation QUESTIONS!!!

    Ha thanks, I’m kinda just a theory nerd is all
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    Chord Progressions notation QUESTIONS!!!

    Yes, augmented chords are a “+”, half diminished aka minor7b5 are notated with that diminished circle and a line through it diagonally. You can notate chords in lots of ways some times people just notate the tonic and quality like Bb min maj7(Bb minor with a major 7th) With the Roman numeral...
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    So i think i may have f$&ked up…

    Yeah dude, your actually at an advantage considering your fretting hand does most of the work. A lot of guys play almost exclusively legato like Allan Holdsworth or tj helmerich and dont really pick at all. My guess is that your fretting hand is just more developed is all. If you want to work on...
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    Axe FX III Rivera Knucklehead Tre Amp Match

    I realize that this probably isnt relevant to most of the people here, but if you have and Axe FX III and are interested, here is my first amp match of my Rivera Knucklehead Tre with JJ EL34s and JJ preamp tubes. They are admittedly a bit older, but they gotten much play over the last 4 years or...
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    Cab Packs

    I would head over to the fractal forum for questions about comparability, someone on that forum is sure to give you definitive answer
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