synyster gates inspired licks- (Beginner to advanced)

[JohnValentine13]

Does anyone have any access or self composed licks that help with practicing A7X solos?
I'm practicing Shepherd of fire, Lost, Beast and the harlot at the moment but damn these are hard to play. I memorized the solos within a couple tens of minutes because these songs are stuck and jammed in my head, but as far as playing it (shepherd and beast is in 1 month progress) i can't follow 100% speed though i can with 75% speed but I just can't break through this barrier.

 

[idssdi]

I know that on hail to the king he used a couple of gypsy jazz licks so maybe take a look at those.

Take lick 4 in this one for example

 

[Ezequiel Romanko]

Well actually what can be better for you to do is play them slow and increase 1 or 2 bpm per day. It will take some time, but if you do this you are going to have a great technique, also i think the syn etudes are really good to practice, i mean it's his style haha. Other than that is just hours and hours of practice.

 

[The Trash God]

Pretty much what everyone else said, practice to a slow BPM and then work your way up. Now I know I am a bit of a hypocrite because I forget to do this sometimes, but say the song is set at 130 BPM, set it to a slower BPM like 65 or so and just practice it slowly until it sounds clean, speed it up to 66 and do the same thing. Thats how I try to tackle solos at least. Hope that was helpful!

 

[Awex Came]

Andy James (shredder dude, now plays for Five Finger Death Punch) put out a DVD back in the day that's comprised of "Synyster Gates style riffs and leads"

 

[JohnValentine13]

as far as action goes I know it's subjective but I prefer maybe .25mm or .50mm, is anyone having trouble with bends in a between speed bursts? whenever bend the string always goes under the string on top which results in too much unwanted noise

 

[Chris Johnston]

I fee like others have got you covered with the Syn licks, so I'll adress the speed

If you feel like the 75% speed is the furthest you fan go just now I'd continue to really perfect the solo, keeping the speedy picking parts as relaxed & clean as you can. Really make sure that you're not pushing/struggling through any parts of it, no matter how small, all good technique etc. The minute you can go 75% in your sleep, the 100% will feel like a push, but it won't fall apart

If you think about how many decades Syn worked on his technique for the Shepherd Of Fire solo to be something he could just invent and record at that time - it just shows how much time us mere mortals should take to even just get it down be really patient with yourself, even if you have to take it to 50% speed for a month to really make sure it's all clean and relaxed - you'll eventually get it to the point you want and your playing with thank you for the TLC

I know the exact feeling where you get so close to the speed that you become like a 'speed gollum', desperate to hit that final notch, and you always end up pushing too quickly/impatiently into bad technique because your hands aren't ready try and tell yourself, not yet, when you feel that.

The slower you take each part & the more you perfect each part at a really slow speed, the quicker it'll be quick

Best of luck and hope this helps!

 

[William B.]

Andy James (shredder dude, now plays for Five Finger Death Punch) put out a DVD back in the day that's comprised of "Synyster Gates style riffs and leads"

I just saw the forst 3:50, freaking cool. Hour long video I want to watch it all but later.