Avenged Sevenfold Songs

[Willow Clapham]

Hey, has anyone got any tips for the Buried Alive intro?

 

[idssdi]

I’ve been playing it for about 3 years now. What are you struggling with exactly?

 

[Willow Clapham]

I’m struggling with the harmonics

 

[idssdi]

I think you can do those with natural harmonics on the 5th fret on the high e and b string

 

[Willow Clapham]

Thankyou so much for your help

 

[idssdi]

No problem!

 

[Tory Capman]

Those harmonics at the end, idk if I’m imagining seeing Syn do this live or if I made it up myself, but I fingerpick a natural harmonic on the high E string at the 12th fret by placing my pick hand pointer finger on the note and plucking the string with my thumb. Then the same thing on 15 (I think) of the B string.

 

[Chris Robertson]

Thats Syn playing it live, those harmonics are damn hard! Tory is right he does use the pick hand to do them, hard to tell in this video if the harmonic was done or not. Also remember most tutorials on the song says its dropped D, this is clearly Syn playing in Standard tuning.

 

[Chris Robertson]

actually looking back at it, the harmonics are ok, its just really the monster stretch he does on 1st to 5th fret while holding the 2nd on the G with the slide. that is the really hard part!

 

[idssdi]

I was actually wrong with my natural harmonic on the 5th fret of the b string(I did it by memory and apparently my memory does not serve me well) it is actually a natural harmonic on the 3rd fret of the d string(you want to hit the not of the 17th fret of the high e string so an A)
Another way to do it is by first fretting the 12th fret on the high e string and doing a tapped harmonic on the 24th fret of the high e string and frettig the 10th fret of the b strig and doing a tap harmonic on the 22nd fret of the b string
Hope this helps

 

[idssdi]

I replaced that 5th fret on the b by an open high e. It is actually the same not it just saves doing that monster stretch which really screwed me over every time

 

[Willow Clapham]

Thankyou so much for your help!!