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  • Gates can not play this

  • The only thing i can play here is the fucking video :\

  • after watching the vdo i put my shecter in my ass hole and promised nt to play that shit!!

  • tabs?

  • Forever untalented :'(

  • the part at 0:38 is so good, just very catchy, sounds a lot like A7X, very cool!

  • what is the scale?

  • @icemanistheword Mostly minor, harmonic minor. With chromatic work and diminished work.. the likes. The arranging is what brings it to life.

  • where are the tabs for this?!

    

  • 0:14 to 0:20 is scary much sounding like syn.

  • fuck life :(

  • Still waiting for the video: Lil Wayne Style - Quick Licks - Guitar Solo Performance by Andy James. I think I'll be laughing my ass off.

  • Fuck, Synyster Gates wishes he could play that well.... and so do I :(

  • I can hear some inspiration from bat country and not ready to die =P

  • Make a slash style solo

  • It's hard see in the video, but Andy is also playing the drums.

  • Thumbs up if your jaw droped at 1:16 - 1:21 :D

  • syn sucks balls. hes sloppy as hell and does shitty vibrato and half ass scales. just my opinion. andy recks his ass. this is making syn look to good. the only reason hes known is because hes in a mainstream band.

  • @Sk8ingGuitarplayer probably way better than you xD. also anyone asshole who compares guitarists is an idiot, no one is better than the other its just preference, and i wish a7x was mainstream where i live. because mainstream over here is nothing but shit rap i swear.

  • @salikali2 compare him to satch, satriani is alot better of a musician than syn, thats just one example. compared to the legendary guiatrist like satriani, vai, malmsteen, MAB ecx. he is nothing. and a7x is very mainstream by me, i like a7x but not gates. u can compare guitarists up to a certain point is what it think. he is over rated is all i am saying. if its a reference then saying satriani and some kid that plays for a year is just as good as satriani..

  • @Sk8ingGuitarplayer Can you play better than Syn? It sure sounds like you can based on your attitude, so I'd like to make a request for you to put up a video of yourself playing something half as good as Syn.

  • @MonsterMetalMusic hahaaha, i will sometime put a recent video of me playing, but i dont like to view playing guitar as a competition. im just saying that he is a very overrated guitar player,

  • @Sk8ingGuitarplayer i think satriani is over rated. i never liked his music and who gives a fuck who is better. i play guitar and i like syns music and dont consider him over rated, you either like a persons music or dont and then if you dont like it just STFU. its fucking stupid to say hey this person is over rated because i have superior taste and what i like isnt over rated.

  • @salikali2 satch isnt over rated, and its because people say synyester is a god at guitar, compared to the instrumental guitarists, hes nothing. ur right its all personal taste, but he is overated big time.

  • @Sk8ingGuitarplayer no one is god of guitar and no one will ever be. anyone who thinks they know who the best guitarist is a fool. i say fuck what people think, people should like what they like and be happy and not have to hate other people or think what they like is the best. ignore any asshole who says syn is the god of guitar because no one is and they know jack shit. these people are just talking out of their asses because people who actually play guitar, most likely wont say that shit.

  • @salikali2 exactly, very good point!

  • @Sk8ingGuitarplayer Yeah, I agree that Syn is a bit overrated because he's in A7X, but he's far from a bad guitarist. Sure, Andy is better than him along with hundreds of others but Synyster Gates is still a respectable guitarist.

  • @MonsterMetalMusic i see what ur saying. good point also.

  • The tone is way to good to be like Syn's. Well good is relative but I've always found Syn's to be too brittle or thin.

  • How ' ??

  • wow hoe, you play the guitar very good.

  • I bet synyster Gates won't be able to play this !

  • @meloanaxx  syn made up most of these licks...

  • @meloanaxx lol this is "Synyster Gates Style" ... Syn wrote most of these, but the performer has modified them with his own flavor and changed the key so it all fit. and remember, it takes MUCH more skill to write a solo, than to simply play one.

  • 1st. Watches video

    2nd. Puts down guitar.

    3rd. Walks away.

    4th. Cries in corner.

  • @LoganMartinCovers i feel your pain. im about to do the same thing.

  • Earjaculation

  • This guy is like the Chuck Norris of guitar

  • andy james > synyster gates

  • sombody knows what scale is that he use??

  • @farcan4000 Its probably lydian or mixolydian

  • @Taydawson You're way off buddy.. This includes chromatics and raised sevenths.. AKA Harmonic minor. Maybe some other exotic scales (diminished, ect) overall a well constructed solo. Sounds nothing like a mixolydian scale, and especially not lydian..

  • @farcan4000 Syn usually uses the Harmonic minor scale and this sounds like it a lot so go for that. It looks like it is in the scale of D also

  • Way better than Synyster Gates

  • Dude, you gotta do a Muhammed (From Necrophagist) Style video.

  • sounds exacly like syn ^^

  • XD WHO IS THIS GUY

  • @stei667 andy james

  • @beasty1ize ...I'm aware.

  • @stei667 haha me too:)

  • I was pleasantly surprised by how much like Gates this actually does sound. I was expecting just someone shredding in D minor, but he honestly takes into account a lot of the little nuances of Gates' style.

  • Hahah other guitarists must hate Andy James so much all of these "Insert guitarist of shitty metalcore/rock band" style video's end up sounding far better than the original guitarists can actually play.

  • @ChegzGT1EB Er..not always.

  • holy shit.

  • syn is an amazing guitarist and a pro lol if syn couldnt play this as good this guy. this guy wouldnt be doing a syn style lol . but this is sweet i am going to learn it.

  • really wish syn came up wit this solo...:/ still pretty kick ass

  • This guy got syn essence just fine :)

  • Yes, Andy James is better than Syn but saying Syn can't play this is bs.

  • I love how people who can't play a Synyster Gates solo talk SO MUCH shit, but can't play any of his stuff. On the other hand, Andy James, (who in my opinion is better than Syn anyway), play's his style of music to educate people, and not to say "I'm better than Synyster Gates". So face it haters, you'll never be as good as Syn, and you'll NEVER be better than Andy James.

  • Syn's a great guitarist but i have to be honest, i dont think he could play this as clean as Andy did.

  • @RazorBackShreader You'd be surprised.

  • Annnnnd....fuck you for being that good. I can only wish. LOL. Good shit man.

  • This guy is better than Synyster Gates.

  • anyone else notice the overlay at 2:53 ....so much for continuity. Bad ass solo otherwise

  • It is pretty fucking funny how he just picked apart 'Synysters' 'insane' tech lolololololol

  • My names Andy James and i play other guitarists styles better than them just for fun.

  • @UAiiTaLeNTz haha i know. this guy is better than other players at their own damn techniques.

  • @UAiiTaLeNTz and thats true O_O

  • @UAiiTaLeNTz Hahahaha So Truue!!

  • Andy knows other guitarists better than they know themselves.

  • Jesus Christ O_O

  • wow!!!!!

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    Best fucking advertisment I've ever seen on YouTube!

  • I'm Andy James Bitch!!!

  • uhhh can i steal this?

  • This is better than anything ive ever heard on an A7X song

  • omg this dude...

  • What amp/pedal did u use to get this sound? Or was it mostly from the pickups?

  • I'd like to request a Synyster Gates cover of this solo.

  • @jtspecialties Go to a live concert then!

  • @jtspecialties listen to songs like not ready to die, afterlife, scream, second heartbeat and save me and i think you will find he could do it easy

  • my grandma can do this with the guitar behind her head while playing through the fire and flames with her tounge

  • why is this guy so fucking good

  • anyone contesting that Synyster can play or write this just a fanboy. Hes really not this good.

  • Well basically this guy (or whoever did wrote these pieces) just used the same scale that Syn uses to write his solos (which if I remember correctly, is often a pentatonic scale). To say that Syn doesn't write stuff as complex as this is absurd...I can name a bunch of solos that are either fast with a ton of notes, slower with a lot of feel, or both.

    He doesn't always write the riffs but the solos are all made by Syn. To think that he couldn't write something like the stuff in this video is i

  • A lot of the intro stuff was ripped off of Michael Angelo Batio's double neck guitar solo...

  • This sounds like Syn, alright......if Syn got a masterclass from Andy!!!

  • OMG! :0 I wanna play this good someday :/

  • It looks like Bach OMG

  • @kaiquestumpf1 really?? can u give me examples bro cuz thts funny =)

    

  • synyster gates should be doing andy james style solo's not the other way around

  • 3:26 I CAN DO THIS!!!

  • very talented guy!!!

  • Sounds much better than any Synynster Gates solo.

  • @XxboVodxX you obviously have never listened to any Syn solos then, because this replicates a lot of his solos. I hear parts similar to the solos of Nightmare, Not Ready To Die, Afterlife, and a lot of it sounds similar to The Wicked End. Seriously listen to the solo to The Wicked End, it will blow you away. or any other A7X song

  • nao é ele o synys tem tatuagem no braço

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  • Solo starts at 1:45.

    Oh... wait...

  • This guy is insanely good! He's better than most of the guitarist he's copying!

  • @bstockwellc thats what im sayin lol

  • Well, let's see if Synyster Gates can play this :)

  • he was sent from the gods to pl........... fuck hes way to insane he was sent from hell

  • @Mattwisest

    Its in D minor but theres an anus load of accidentals and chromaticisms. Like theres an E major arpeggio in there but thats not in the d minor scale. If ur looking to transcribe this, i hope u have a good ear hahaha

  • @ProvokingYoVillian Thats the only way i learned any solos from AX7 for the most part. haha Its to much trouble to break it down.

  • @ProvokingYoVillian The E Major arpeggio might come from A7X's use of the E/G# chord, which is just an inverted E Major shape, with the 3rd in the bass. Tabbed out: D - 6 A - 7  D - 6. They use that chord in "Not Ready To Die" in the verses. Usually, A7X use the G# power chord. But, usually, it's just used for how it sounds.

  • @1995Prime my favorite songs by them are As I Am, Panic Attack, The Glass Prison, and Constant Motion. IMO As I Am has the best guitar solo

  • too bad synester wouldnt even be able to play this

  • @ThiefRiverFallsTV would you be able to stop trolling ?

  • @Tibal4444 uhhhhhh why would that sentence seem like trolling, have you ever herd synyster live, or ever actually? this may be "in the style of" synyster, but gates would not be able to play this cleanly and efficiently like this guy can. Synyster is only popular because he is in a mainstream band, it happens with guitarists all the time.

  • @ThiefRiverFallsTV Some of Synyster Gate's playing was sloppy maybe 10 years ago, have you not seen how much he's improved?

  • @krnlxndrr SHow me a video of him playing like this and i will agree with you

  • @ThiefRiverFallsTV i've been to the paris live and got the live from lbc , how can you know that he couldn't play that ? , i think that syn can play it without any problem.

  • @ThiefRiverFallsTV Syn is as good live as he is in studio.. so what man? every guitarist fucks up live. it happens all the time Syn isnt popular because of a mainstream band, i knew of Syn even before fucking Pinkly smooth. and even then he was one of the best guitarist i have heard play.

  • @linkfreak1694 Im not saying he isnt good, and yes i know, guitar players mess up, i am one. But the solos he creates and the the patterns he knows are not nearly as complex as these. I have learned almost all of A7x's solos. They are generally not very difficult and reuse alot of the same techniques. This is 3.5 min of awesome, brilliant technique. So i will revise my statement. There is a good POSSIBILITY he could play this, but he could NEVER write something this good. and im done.

  • @ThiefRiverFallsTV well good thing he doesnt write all of his lics, some yes, but the majority were written by the rev and shadows. and cool that you know their solos and techniques. and i can guarantee that he could play at the same level as this guy. and he CAN write something as good as this.

  • @ThiefRiverFallsTV he could NEVER write something this good..???? lol

  • @ashcoop17 never, any solo of his sounds like shit compared to this one. and everyone please stop tryin to say if i listen to this solo or tht solo that i will understand differently. I have heard EVERY A7x song and EVERY solo and i have learn AT LEAST 3/4 of them. They are not what everyone thinks them to be. and i learned them about 1.5 years in to my playing so that should say how easy they are.

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  • @ThiefRiverFallsTV @ThiefRiverFallsTV dude stop hating, i just wondering why a lot of people always says this guitarist sound like shit, this one better, he shit compared to this...shut up!!

    this guy do a guitar solo, gates and a7x make song, learn the difference

  • @ashcoop17 but they use a basic STANDARD way of writing songs. Its not that difficult to do that. But im not dissing on their songs, i like A7x, i just dont think synyster gates is that awesome at guitar, and i dont think hes as good as this guy.

  • @ashcoop17 also as far as videos go, i will, eventually, but i wont be covering A7x solos because i want to cover challenging songs.

  • @ThiefRiverFallsTV Damn... you're just a fucking hater dude. I'm not saying syn's solo's sound exactly like this but they have the same type of feel. and i guarantee he could come up with this. And your talking about how syn isn't as good at guitar as everybody says?? well i have news. playing guitar isn't all about technical stuff but it's also about creativity and syn is probably the most creative metal guitarist i know. He doesn't play solo's that sound like any other metal guitarists.

  • @jayda101MNE TIIIIIIIIIITS COOOOOOOOOOOOOOCK SCRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROTUM

  • @jayda101MNE If you really believe Brian Haner(not going to call him by his retarded stage name) is the most creative metal guitarist you know, I think you really need to expand your taste in music

  • @NorthernComfort you don't tell me what i need to fucking do. i listen all types of music from southern rock to classic rock to death metal. and trust me i know a ton of metal guitarists. and syn might not be great technique wise but his creativity makes up for it. i don't want to sound like one of those fags who think there better than everybody but i have played guitar for 7 years and studied music so i know a little something about it. and syn might not be a better shredder but he is creative

  • @jayda101MNE Haha 'I know a ton of metal guitarists' too as I've been playing close to 10 years and been listening to metal/rock for longer. I think tecnically he's not bad really, except for that wristband shit he uses, but I know good players that have used that for certain stuff. I just find his phrasing unbearable now(they were my favourite band for a few years until city of evil), you might think it's creative, I think it sounds like shit.

  • Sounds like Dream Theater

  • @SunnyvaleRaider71 really?

    can you give me a link of them ?

    I don't know any good solos from then, but I know that petrucci is a good guitar player :D

  • @SunnyvaleRaider71 well petrucci was one of syn's favourite guitarists

  • That is insane dude. do you have tabs?

  • I wud give both my nuts to play like him

  • sick...

  • its so crazy cause all of it works so well

  • Andy James's third finger is the only force able to stop a Chuck Norris round house kick!

  • What are the main scales this is built around?

  • i hate when top comments are responses cause they dont make sense

  • what is the name of the song? is spectacular

  • @huesoman4444 Is no song. It is the mixture of style "Synister" avenged sevenfold guitarist. They are amazing :)

  • @MetalKOF02 I was telling the background song

    sorry my english is bad

  • wow this guy is a guitar god

  • hey dudes anyone know what guitar he is playin? reply plz

  • @MDWTrandomvidz ESP ltd

  • @MDWTrandomvidz ESP mh-1000 deluxe

  • his ring finger was sent from the guitar gods

  • @WikkedJester420 the ring gives him power o.o

  • @WikkedJester420 his 2 hands are a gift from god ! :P

  • @WikkedJester420 Andy was sent by the guitar gods!

  • i want that ring finger

  • Hey! How many years playing guitar? Because it's.. amazing.

  • @WSynyster apparently 30 years? o.o

  • @101poketrainer I know people with more than 30 years of guitar playing worst than him xD

  • @WSynyster yeah :/ haha and the unfortunate thing is that his pinky is like double jointed or something so when he was learning he could hardly use it to its full potential (reason why he prefers his third finger)

  • @101poketrainer Sure, but he shouldn't matter, he plays like he have 6 fingers x)

  • asfjkl;askdjfalksdjf;kljasldkf­jal;skdjf Andy makes this sound good. Normally i'd hate something that was anyway involving gAy7seX

  • 4 people dont have ears, 

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  • Syn doesn't really string skip, and a lot of licks sound like Jeff Loomis more than Mr. Gates.

  • Synyster Gates is the least clean, famous guitar player I've ever heard. Andy James is one of the cleanest and most amazing players I've ever heard.

  • Except Andy James plays 10x better then Gates.... So much better it's not even funny.

  • Could you put up a tutorial for 1:17 - 1:22 part?

  • @Hubimistrzu It will take him like 25 videos for explaining this step by step

  • what a model guitar it is?

  • You can tell which a7x album (if any) a person owns by what they think of gates, city of evil - he's a god for his age Any other album- he sucks haha

  • @matt37075 you're retarded and a hater.

  • Synyster Gates is way fucking better and writes much better pieces.

  • i like this melody

  • synester gay is NOWHERE near this good!,but i love rewatching this 1000 times!

  • @WeedMeadn420 Yeah !!

    

  • what guitar are you using?