Two questions for this thread.

1. What strings does both Syn and Zacky use? I'm always trying out different strings, and want to play some new A7X on their strings
2. What vocal effects are used on songs like Easier and Ordinary? It would be kind of cool to use them at gigs if possible

what if Exist turns to Nobody like the videos and story?

does anyone know what the whammy bar is for a synyster gates custom S? i’ve looked everywhere for months and even bought a whammy bar that was the wrong one and my guitar never came with a whammy bar and i can’t change strings any help would be awesome

Did syn use the HB108 Detonators, before invaders i imagine, and if not what did he use then or was it always invaders and now the synbuckers?

I know practicing to a metronome is a must and I have to admit I avoid using them often. When practicing I tend to go at my own pace which tends to bit quicker than the songs tempo. Are backing tracks good to use in place of a metronome?

So I started a small band with some of my friends and obviously we chose to play in our small school's talent show. The unfortunate part of going to a small school is they don't tend to do things "by the books" so we were rushed in at the very end to set up without a soundcheck and resulted in a pretty shitty performance, but it could have gone so much worse. I am honestly not disappointed with how it turned out but I feel my nervousness contributed to a bunch of mistakes. So my question to any guitarists that have more experience on stage, how long does it take for "stage fright" to go away or at least die down some?

Hey i gotta slight buzz/hum coming from my Dean ml dimebag tribute guitar. i just put a seymour duncan dimebucker pickup in the bridge. all my grounds and solder joints look fine and i have continuity all over the guitar... when i touch the metal on the toggle switch, the jack input, the bridge and strings and the neck pickup the buzz/hum goes away.. i replaced the pot and resoldered it again for that pick up and still get buzz.. any ideas? I have tested my 2 other guitars on the same amp and patch chord to make sure they arent the issue aswell.. Im kinda stumped now lol. any help is greatly appreciated
should add that the noise does get louder when i touch the pickup i installed or if i touch the height adjustment screws for the pickup but it gets quieter if i touch the height adjustment screws on the neck pickup (stock i didnt change neck pickup the stock pickup has a metal baseplate but the new dimebucker the screws go into a plastic baseplate) but if i touch the strings the noise goes away then i can touch the pick up i get no noise... ive taped any piece of wire that cud possibly touch anything to ground out aswell. im stumped lol
the hum/buzz/noise disapears when you turn the volume pot to zero or when you turn the tone down to zero...
Any ideas anyone? lol thanks in advance

In the cosmic solo, Syn plays something where its like a note… but then a harmonic…. and it happens again a bit later, but its much more smooth that the first. I thought that was really cool, anybody know how to do that? If you don’t know what I’m talking about, I can elaborate.

Any ETA on when these lessons will be fixed? Very stoked to get to learn them, thanks!

I'm playing the six notes (5,7,5,7,5,7) with the amp connected and it just doesn't sound the same,any suggestions?

Ordered a shirt from Synner. Never ordered from the store. A little trial before I order the pickups lol. Anyways, where does it ship from and about how long we thinking it’ll take to get to Florida? Thanks y’all!

I love the new record and the solos are great. I will not go more into how this record is my favourite ever to keep this short. How do get the guitar tones? I really want to know how to replicate the tones in the mattel verses, the solo in cosmic and the solo and other tones in G. Thanks alot to anyone who helps me. These tones are the most different I've heard and I love them! Also how does syn gets some reverb while he holds down the harmonic notes in the solo which sounds like you're going through a tunnel?

Hey guys, long time no talk eh? I have been ridiculously busy with university (graduating in July)and haven't been able to play guitar as much as I would like but I still manage to noodle around every day. I have been attempting to try and learn songs that I know parts of but dont know fully. I've been playing 11 years and can't play a full song so I wanted to change that but I am finding that what should be fairly easy like a sweep arpeggio trips me up and it's really frustrating.

I feel that this is more of a matter of ability compared to the length of time playing scenario but I honestly don't know how to go about practicing stuff slowly without feeling like im just really shit haha. My technique hasn't always been 100% great but I admit it's a hell of a lot better than it was but I just look at tabs sometimes and hear how they sound in the song and it's a complete muscle memory fuck despite doing similar techniques hundreds of times.

Anyone got advice for just not feeling like a complete tool when having to slow stuff down? At the moment (even though I know it's not) it just feels embarrassing the amount I have to slow stuff down to wrap my head around it.

When it comes to sweep picking I am comfortable doing 3 string sweeps at high bpms, but as soon as I start trying to include more strings it seems near impossible. I came to the conclusion that its either lack of practice since I have only been learning sweeps for about 2 weeks now or that once my wrist bends to a certain point it makes it too hard to be able to sweep back down. If anyone has the secret to make it click please let me know, otherwise please share tips to help improve sweeping.

Hey guys! First post on here so I hope I'm doing this correctly. So I've been playing guitar for several years, inspired to play lead by THE Synyster Gates himself. I am entirely self taught, all by ear, and mostly deal with improvisational playing through church and other similar gigs.

The problem is, I want to apply a lot of the cool stuff I've learned from Syn over the years (such as some diminished stuff, some cool shred patterns, interesting note choices, etc.). The problem is, all of the music I'm playing is simple chord progressions (1,4,5,6 type stuff). I can shred all through the major and minor scales, and I understand enough about modes to apply them sparingly, but I've gotten so bored with my note choices. I would love to implement more diminished/dominant jazzier stuff, and I have tried Youtube and other sources, but I can't find anything that applies this interesting playing to the boring chord progressions that I am stuck playing. Nothing I am playing over has any dominant 7's or diminshed flat 5's and what not, making it seemingly impossible to mix what I've learned from Syn with the type of music I am playing multiple times a week.

Sorry for the essay, but I'm hoping that you guys can help me where nothing else has.

Yo guys, I had my synyster custom s set up for drop D quite a time, and I want to change to drop C#.
I tried when I've change stings but the floyed rose has changed its position so I've revert back to drop D.
Does it's because the intonation the Floyd rose have(and then I could tune to standard D# tuning), ot do I have to set up it?
Thanks for the help

Anyone going to the Tampa show?? A pit meetup would be sweet!

Okay, so my mom’s friend gave her a guitar and it had been in the garage for about ten years and recently I talked to her about it and she had taken it to guitar center to get it restrung and they said they couldn’t do it because something (we don’t remember what it was) was in upside down or backwards and so I said we could figure out what’s wrong and just buy the parts and learn it. So please help me out with this I really want to learn and figure it out. I will send pictures and I will answer any of y’all’s questions and all.

Any plans on getting it rolled out in Canada? I tried downloading it from the app store(IOS) and saw that it wasn't available in Canada

I'm doing fine going up the Scale (CDEFGABC),but coming back down the Scale it just sounds off?

If it is a scale.
Excuse the bad drawing. I often play the top part of it, and I decided to expand it by adding the bottom and notes on the right. Actually just repeating the pattern. I'm sure it already exists though.

i have just ordered the dark night guitar and im wondering how long it takes to ship to the uk

Honestly I'm not understanding any of it

When PG says 135 is he referring to the frets?

I live in India and want to play a song at a wedding in a week.
What song should i go for, for an acoustic guitar bucause Alter Bridge music which I normally play won't work at all.
Please also send a tutorial because things i can play with tabs are not things i can play infront of people without them



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