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  • sorry anybody.. maybe syn use the D AEOLIAN SCALES ??

  • Speaking of scales, what scale is the solo in?

  • and all this shit about chords and scales is completely irrelevant to the fact that this is synyster fucking gates! i want him to go back to the bandana and fedora look before i see them in december

  • chords are nothing but a group of notes put together and a scale is just the correct order of notes to correlate with the starting note and the scale type. you dont need to know your basic chords and scales to play. chords and scales existed before the guitar. people didnt figure them out, they just played it on the guitar once the guitar was designed the right way. but knowing your basic chords and scales doesnt mean shit. play and be creative. and learning music lets you figure out patterns

  • Hey, jackass in front, move your FUCKING hand out of the camera shot!

  • Synyster looks awesome in this video. This is in the City of Evil saga where they all look badass hahah

  • this is supposed to be a video of him playing the solo, i can barely see his guitar

  • yeah! this was posted on my birthday!

    rock on syn

    R.I.P Jimmy

  • ha it looks like he could play that in his sleep

  • I remember when i used to go on videos and talk shit on a video because their guitarist "sucks" then a grew the fuck up.

  • u dont play guitar with your neck bro you play itt with your bum bum, haha go syn!

  • lol, the theatre name is burton CUMMING's?

  • DUDE!!!!U had to miss the pinch harmonic!

  • it reminds me of aerosmith for some reason

  • u filmed Synyster Gates solo but u didnt film his guitar or his fingers. only thing u took is his face. hahahaha

  • Mto bom....o Synyster toca muito...PHODA

  • i never really paid any attention to how big syns arms are!!!

  • Shads: i wana hear ya all now

    syn: god damn it man >:(

  • @stefanthepuppyslayer Sometimes I think Matt is just a tiny bit jealous of Syn's popularity. XD He's always singing or screaming over his solos to get the attention to himself. :P

  • @XelaSteele Disagree. Very many vocalists do this. Tbh it sounds awesome if the singer knows what he's doing and doesn't wail in the middle of the solo, wrecking the main part.

  • you forgot the end note. but thats fine

  • @gunguy009 lol i know, now i have to play the song to hear the full solo lol

  • lol i dont know shit about chords i just play and thats whats fucking me off cause i cant play stuff like eruption (had a surgery on my right hand some nerves are gone) so my hand eye combi is gone and my left right hand combi is gone but solos like seize the day sound awesome and are easy to play thats why i love avenged sevenfold they gave me a way out of my disability ^^

    Hail A7x xD may god have your soul jimmy

  • m.shadows DO NOT TALK WHEN SYN IS PLAYING THE FREAKIN SOLO

  • roflmao he did look kinda tic'd when matt started talking

  • Lol, he jumped when M. Shadows shouted :P

  • Actually he didn't really jump, he was just like "god damn, not during my solo."

  • enough with the damn argument and listen to synsyter gates' solo

  • there's a flaw in your argument. if everyone needed prior knowledge of how scales and chords work, then that means someone had to have written them down and taught them beforehand. SOMEONE figured them out on their own. they put them together and made them cohesive and melodic. if someone could do it by themself, then someone else can as well. different people create different styles depending on where they're from and the sounds they recreate with their instruments, not what they've learned.

  • @KL2789 know? you are quite right about the harvest of previous education, but look, close your eyes and do not know this guy, anyone with common sense will say that this musical which he is a fucking shit and JS Bach will be rolling in his tomb and giving thanks to God who died before hearing this shit in his life.

  • @KL2789 I only know power chords and one blues scale. I'm doing just fine.

  • that is so fckin awesome!!!

  • amazing solo, i dont know what it is about it but its just amazing! dont improvise this, if your gonna post a vid learn the real thing

  • Syn actually did improvise it, if you would like to see his other version, you can check out my solo cover of it. I guarantee you won't be disappointed. Yea it's different, but I actually thought it had more emotion :)

  • you should all stop trying to cover this solo and write your own

    that's what playing guitar is all about, finding your shit out by yourself by making shit up

  • Who are you to declare what guitar is all about? How about you stop making shit up, and learn guitar by who you admire?

    Mirror neurons. I'll leave it at that.

  • i learn from myself, and that's all i need

  • You can't "learn from yourself". You can learn from your mistakes, you can learn about yourself, but you can't learn from yourself, that would make you learn about what you already know. So NO, that's not all you need. What you need is to learn to back up the nonsense that you speak of.

  • of course you can, here let me explain.

    don't listen to any music for how ever long it takes you to do this, it varies with each person. every day sit down and try to play something from yourself, and if it doesn't work you've been covering way too many songs. eventually, the real you will start to come out, and there ya go.

  • Haha, what you just explained was learning about yourself, not from yourself. When you're trying to explore the potential that you have, your learning ABOUT yourself. First, to compose your own music, you need to review all the guitar scales and chords, which is learning from "outside sources". Without that, you can't play anything but nonsense. Then "from within", you can take that knowledge (not from yourself, but from what you learned) and create your own melodic piece.

  • What you are explaining is learning about yourself, not from. Without learning other stuff first like chords and scales, anything that would come out of that guitar is trash. If someone never played a guitar, picked it up and played random notes that he "felt inside him", it's not music. No one can play anything "from within" without prior knowledge, like HellBlaze says. There is no such thing as learning from yourself, sorry dude, just learning about yourself and from your mistakes.

  • You don't need to know chords and scales before you play guitar.

  • True, you don't need to know that to "play guitar." But I didn't say that. I said that you do need them to create your own music consisting of melodies and chords. For example, you can create a song using power chords, but you need to know what power chords are and how to do them, no one can do them out of the blue without prior knowledge.

  • actually the Rev makes up random chords and shit for zacky and syn to play all the time, if you need proof look at the making of brompton cocktail 2:53. thats just how A7X rolls

  • Unless you're Pete Townshend, who did just that. Like a king.

  • You don't need to know alot TRUE. But you need to have a basic training to know how to play.

  • @FredrickVonDinkles Its really helpful to know though if you want to succeed and compose your own music :)

  • @FredrickVonDinkles But they sure as hell help.

  • @FredrickVonDinkles oh.. so.. someone will be horrible as hammett..

  • Well yourself isn't earning the respect of audiences like those that learn through emulating those who they admired. Were it not for Slash, Synyster Gates probably wouldn't have the uniqueness he has today. Your method is inefficient is what I'm saying.

  • why dont you pick up a guitar and learn urself fucktard

  • Haha what? Playing guitar is NOT just about making "shit" up. Playing guitar is different for all people, it can take them to a world apart from everyone else, people might play just to hear that beautiful sound that a guitar makes, people might want to play stuff from their favorite artists because they idolize them. Imitation is the greatest form of flattery and there is nothing wrong with trying to cover songs and solos. Try to play, you might like it.

  • everyday

  • amen bro keep rockin!!!!

  • clearly i do, but you don't have to be a little queen and announce emotion out to the rest of the world.... do you also want to share how many times you went to the bathroom or how much you love your dog??? fact of the matter is noone that knows you cares, hence keep personal comments like that to yourself. are we clear?

  • bambarby you are gay, keep comments like that to yourself

  • you obviously don't play the guitar

  • I always close my eyes when i play this song. Not because i wanna show off, but because of the emotion it gives me.

  • same. a bit of both though. i always wanna see how great i can play the song with my eyes closed. but not just that. is i feel the solo. even the pinch harmonic i hit with eyes closed. a lot of vids i watch with people and the pinch harmonic they do it wrong.

    its on the last string on 13th.. just in case no one knows or has troubles with it.. but awesome song

  • Yeah, when I listen to this song it just does something, makes me feel good =P I love it lots. Also, Synyster Gates can play the guitar like a king! =D

  • I wouldn't call this heavy Metal, more like Shiny Metal

  • ok i understand girls like syn alot, but if ur gonna post a vid of one of his solos, get the actual guitar in it too please... thats what most people r actually looking for

  • ha. i am one of those girls but i totally agree! you can't even see his hands!!

  • ure rite..! when it comes to solos people usually focus on his hands..

  • this solo is amazing

  • That was hilarious. I was curious who this dude was. My 10yr niece with just her Hannah Montana custom/Valvetronixs rips this clown up.

  • lol yeah right syn would kick her shit

  • i wish i was there that day cause it would be my birthday

  • holy shit me 2 man

  • zacky v dose help write the solos but its mostly rev n syn , but id give credit to zacky for sum shit , hes the one who has to harmonise in between all the notes

  • em rev is drums you know?

  • yeah im not stupid , if you watched their interveiws and the all access dvd youd relise im right

  • it doesn't really matter who is a better guitarist they entertain us so sit back and let them fucking entertain you for christ's sake

  • Slash and Gates have completely different styles.. How can you compare them? Slash is amazing, yes, probably the biggest reason I started playing guitar, and Syn is amazing too. By the way, Gates wrote the !! -rhythm- !! of songs like Beast and the Harlot and Unholy Confessions, how can you say that Zacky writes everything, especially the lead??

  • ugh, its ok. vai, batio, p.gilbert, satriani FTW. listen to them if u really want to hear good guitar playing

  • Listen to Vai if you want to hear someone use the tremolo bar way too much, listen to batio if you want to absoloutley no melody what so ever. I like paul gilbert. Listen to Satriani if you want to hear one of the worst guitar tones ever (voted on at guitar one magazine).

  • Horrible quality!

  • BTW Syn is better. also what the hell did Shadows say there?

    5/5

  • When the fuck did they come to Winnipeg? I was prob out of town then, other wise I would have gone. :(

    anyone have any videos of them playing in Winnipeg?

  • gates rockZ!!!

  • G0 G0 SYNYSTER!!L0L

  • Did you see him? He wasn't even looking at the guitar half the bloody time! Thats pro right there

  • my opinion is that Syn is better than slash

  • I agree, slash is still good but, syn is better.

  • different styles.. syn just plays picking exercises and sweepings maybe some legatos..

    slash play a lot more stuff. but syn is still young so I think he will improve his playing.

  • you mean, you like synyster's music more than slash's.

    you could compare their guitar skills only if they were playing the same song.

    anyway, my opinion is synyster's better :D

  • we can actually compare them..well your right i cant cause i dont really listen to slashs songs much but i listen to synester gates more so thats y i choose him

  • the hell, i just randomly watch this vid and find you posting here constantine, slash is more melodic and can shred pretty good but syn has a way more metal shred and is most likely more accurate with the speed

  • Syn is sloppy with his sweep picking. He's still young and plus they play two different kinds of music so you can't compare them.

    And where the fuck where you in Math 2day?

  • then why the fuck did you compare then dumb ass..and theres no way slash is better than syn slash is ok but syn is just insane.

  • You dont know who Kirk Hammett is? Damn. Yes, Slash and Kirk are better than Syn but wait until Syn reaches his 30s, he will be way improved most likely.

  • oh my god have you listened to like any of their solos like afterlife for example. ur fucking stupid if zacky did write it why wouldnt he be lead? u probably dont even play guitar but just watch videos and bag on them

  • @Wrinkely233 :| dont diss on zacky man a good rhythm is hard to come by, its easier for some people to play lead than rhythm

  • @Wrinkely233 its not about who writes the solo, zacky does help write some lead parts, syn just writes most of them and is comfortable playing them live

  • @Wrinkely233 actually rev wrote most of the stuff from those cds. guitar riffs some solos some lyrics and of coarse drums.

  • @BoNFiRe1988 Syn writes all of the solos. Watch "making of the album". I forget which part, but they VERY specifically say he does.

  • @Wrinkely233 Actually Zacky and Syn are pretty equal at guitar skill. Soloing and writing awesome solos doesn't mean you have more skill than somebody who plays back up. Syn is good at soloing, Zacky is good at laying down some fucking awesome fills, licks, and back ups. Zacky said it himself that he is proud to be the backup for Syn, so there shouldn't even be a problem. I bet you don't play guitar either, I've been playing for 7 years so I know what the fuck I'm talking about. Shut the fuck up

  • zack and syn work together on writing guitar licks lol dont be jealous slash is good nothing compared to syn you cant compare them because they play 2 completly different styles of music

  • ur mom has won.........at my pants

  • your mom has won....at my dick

  • emm no.... prob ur confused bcus u saw the video where i fucked ur mom and ur just jealous

  • dude nothing makes me more horny than watchin your mom getting fucked i keep watchin that vid over i'm just too jealous that you were the one doing her and not me

  • u mean me fucking ur mom? oh yeah i know, btw did u know im your step dad? u were born of my sperm

  • you dont have sperm, you have a big fat vajj sonnnn

  • kthx? the last person I saw do that was a total and complete faggot. Zacky is the rythm guitarist. He writes the harmonies,ect. The Rev And Syn, write most of the guitar parts. And if knew this, they are all really good friends, and if youhave listened to side winder or M.I.A, the solos are by Syn's father, Brian Haner Senior.

  • you said slash is better but you said you can't compare.

    you JUST compared them

  • @reelhumantorch21 Syn is much, MUCH better than Slash!

  • @reelhumantorch21 slash was pretty beast but there's no doubt that syn is better

  • @reelhumantorch21 Dude you are trippen balls. I know all you guys are gonna hate on this comment since you guys are all syn fans, but. really, i think slash has more theorem and technique down than syn.

  • @takumanishiya23 I'm guessin by theorem you mean theory?

    I'm not a massive Slash fan, so I don't know much about him. But Syn knows quite a bit of theory, there are a lot of interesting things goin on in A7X songs theory wise, as the only kinda interesting thing i've heard from Slash is the occasional use of the Harmonic minor scale. And technique wise, they are both different kinds of players.

    It's all preference anyways! :)

  • @YMRGUITAR I agrree

  • @YMRGUITAR amen dude!

  • @takumanishiya23 u think that only because a lot of slashes playing is down to basics of the blues and syns is more exstensive u dont hear it only because not a lot of players do that a lot just stick with basic blues techniqes cause its easeir u can just stick with basic 5 note penetonic scales

  • @a7xbfmv23 slash does a lot more than pentatonic. and blues scales are not a part of pentatonic. hes uses phrygian, the more flamenco or spanish style if you will. Dorian and harminic minor are apart of his playing too

  • @stocker812 i know i dint say slash i say a lot of "blues players" 

  • I like this Song

  • slash wears top hats which are fucking awesome, syn wears fedoras which are cool too

  • What? Slash's Hat? But.. can you see the differences to Synyster's hat and Slash's hat?

    GATES ROCKS! All the way!

    Sorry for my bad english, i'm an italian A7X's fan.

  • syn is cool. but slash is classic and baddass.

    slash ftw!!

  • syn is the best fucking guitarist in the world he kicks ass

  • come and see my better video of best of synyster gates and mine has no photos its VIDEO

  • Wow he copied Slash's top hat....but SYN is still cool, and I think the Solo in "Seize the Day" is better than the Solo in "November Rain".

  • thats not a top hat... and it looks cooler on him plus he doesnt show off at his shows...

  • Ummm yes indeed it is a Top Hat.

  • top hats are taller than that o.o

  • :O you're rite

    Too many lead guitarists wear hats.

    If i become a famous guitarist ima wear a bandana with chopsticks on my ear so i look like a japanese bartender at a sushi bar =PPPPP

  • lol good idea

  • Dude, if you really do that I'l be your biggest fan!! :D :D :D

  • Its a Fedora hat.

  • I hope they come back to winnipeg

  • What's shadows saying at the end of the Video?

  • my friend who goes to my school is johns neice

    he sent me a autographed ernie ball music man poster of him and also his pick that he plays with

    but no syn still kicks ass he will always be the guitarist in me

  • Synyster Gates is amazing when he plays this solo live, he puts alot of emotion into it.

  • video is miss leading, its half way through the seize the day solo

  • whats it matter if someones "emo" or not shit its pretty annoying were in every fucking video theres a comment go suck a dick you emo bitch emos should diee blah blah blah shit emo is a fucking style! and cutttters so who gives a fuck let them cut or dress how ever the fuck they want! is it fucking affecting you? oh and syn fucking ROCKS!!!
  • ya rly if someone wants to dress or cut or be different, like ya i may never do it but christ its nto affecting me so i dotn bitch these people are fuckign annoying they only od it cause evryone else ahtes emo cause theyre all coping eachother

  • i feel that soooo much

  • Synyster kick ass dude, stop arguing over who's the best, every guitarist have their own character and playing style..

  • thats all that needs to be said true that

  • perfect ^^

  • fuck you man syn'll kick your ass

  • HA Drackules LIKES THE SOUND OF A CAT GETTING RAPED

  • There is no god, and Synyster is one of the best guitarists ever, so go rape a donkey you retard.

  • yeah i aggree with ryfasol, ive ur going to insult some1 that much then u probly dont have a life, and syn rocks!

  • at the end of the day, drakule is just some non-successful retard and syn is out there livin it

  • Emo's do suck dick, but was that really necessary?

  • Shows how much you know about music, you shouldn't even be allowed to listen to it.

    Elton John(not sure why you used him, he's extremely famous for his music, idiot) and Syn will always be more successful than you will ever be, and will have more money and talent than you ever will.

    Just keep that in mind, try not to cry, I know your a pussy.

  • First of all, you shouldn't insult anyone if you can't spell your insults, dumbass.

    Second off, you seem to be getting pretty pumped up over fighting over youtube, lack of a life maybe? Maybe you're too pussy to speak up to anyone in real life.. that's probably it.

    And lastly, you are not by any means tough, so, stop making yourself look like a douchebag, ahahaha.

    You're pathetic. :)

  • man god dont love you in the first place so dont try to understand him because he doesnt understand your stupid ass

  • me 5

  • nah my fave is second heartbeat solo(i love tho tone)

    or else its clairvoyant disease

  • I really like this solo because its a break from all that fast fast and faster crap and goes into a more melodic side of the metal realm, which it seems like less and less people are taking the time to do anymore. Its just got feeling behind all of the notes. Pretty talented guitarist!

  • only pretty talented? hes freakin AMAZING drvincentgrim i get what your saying tho and i know what you mean...but the song and solo were completely original n thats y its syn =]

  • dam hes pretty big

  • this solo creates such a high amount of emotion when its played live, everyone screams so fucking loud at the end of it. amazing..just amazing