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Pacific Myth, because my favorite songs are Cold Water and Caravan. Drumhead Trial, Without Prejudice and Yellow Teeth are all insanely hard. Volition was a pain in the ass in general.

I use a simple Axe-FX patch with the 5150. I can get more details if you want (or post the patch if you happen to have the Axe-FX II). I do all delay and reverb in post using the stock ReaDelay in Reaper and Dragonfly reverb. With rare exception, that was pretty much it. Used the same patch and Reaper templates on all of my videos. Yes, I'm that lazy.

@@spiritcrusher5708 Thank you! I have a Fender TM Pro and have yet to play with the 5150s

They released a two track EP with B-sides from Palimpsest. It was called Fabula & Syuzhet. You can get them on SheetHappens I think.

That's what I'm saying

God watching/listening to this is taking me down memory lane. Those tap slides are something I stole for my own playing, they sound so dope

Oh man, right there with you. Tap slides are fun as hell!

I think Scurrilous is the easiest album to play, minus the occasional insane part like on this one. I'd definitely call it the most fun album to play.

@@spiritcrusher5708 I always found Kezia much easier personally in comparison to the other records I’ve gone for (Fortress, Volition, Pacific Myth)

I sampled that straight from my CD. The original release had the cat and they removed it from later releases for some reason. But for me, that cat is forever part of the song lol. Didn't sound right at all without it.

Yeah, I transposed it to guitar, then tweaked what I ended up with to be playable at that speed. The tabs for those are in the video description if you are interested.

Wretch should probably be out in a week or two. Then I'll just have 4 songs from Scurrilous left!

@@spiritcrusher5708 siiiick, look forward to em!

For real lol. I played the solo section of the song on a loop for several hours a day before I even attempted the full song.

@@spiritcrusher5708 so you do really play this in one take and dont just play the video of an accurate performance and cut some audio parts together? man your musik will be awesome whatever you do. how fit are you in musik theory?

@@spiritcrusher5708 funny thing is after listening to every cover of yours at least once (and this one srsly at least 7 times now, I can assure you yt doesnt count that) Im kind of interested in your life story as much as i am in tim's and lukes. I kind of consider you as a celebrity haha. this is weird man. youll receive the weirdest comment after completing this jouney since I cant pm you

Oh, no. I absolutely make a franken-song out of my recordings. I just make sure I get a take where my fingers are in the right spot for every note so people can learn from them properly. It would probably take an extra month on each song and that would suck the fun out of it for me. That and trying to hit all the right pinch harmonics would probably make me rip my hair out. Missing a pinch harmonic at the end of one of the longer songs would probably make me chuck my guitar through a window lol.

@@spiritcrusher5708 thank god you're human. Much appreciated

I wish I could play as clean as those guys. My hands still don't always agree on what speed they wanna go so I end up with lots of clicky/twangy sounding notes.

This is my 3rd time learning Fortress, so I'm pretty comfortable with these song already. But just follow the time tested method of 1) using a metronome 2) don't bump up the BPM unless you are nailing every note every time at the current speed. I'm considering doing a video on how to set a click track to any track with Reaper when I'm done with this. Also, record yourself playing. I can't even explain the gains I've made doing these videos and watching myself ham-fist hard sections.

@@spiritcrusher5708 great tips dude, thanks, keep shredding

Can't stress adding a click track enough. If you want to try to figure it out on your own. Here's a quick guide for the easy method. 1. Export MIDI from GP tabs. 2. Drag them into Reaper (or DAW of choice). It will automatically build the time signature markers and you'll have a click track. 3. Line up the song with the click track and you're all set. I then like to set up regions around each song part for making things easy to find. Now you can easily loop any part, slow it down, pan to get just Luke or Tim, do whatever. This was the single most important thing to improving my playing when I started doing these videos. There's some catches and things that can go wrong with the import that have to be fixed. I recommend Scurrilous or later albums to do this easy. They all seem to have been recorded to a click. Some of Fortress was but not all of it.

Those songs will give you a good foundation for any of them. If you want to take a step up from those, anything from Pacific Myth. Cold Water is probably one of the most demanding tapping sections they have. Caravan is a workout too. If you want to rip out hair, go for Volition. Drumhead Trial, Yellow Teeth and Without Prejudice are ridiculous and will definitely give you a level-up.

@@spiritcrusher5708 I started working on cold water and the tab arrangement is really odd for the tapping part, I am gonna most likely just re arrange the different notes to make it a tad easier. Thank you!

Yeah, don't know what happened in the books on that one but the tapping part isn't playable imo the way they have it. Just took some minor tweaks to get it to work.

They're only one-takes if you ignore the hundred or more takes I screwed up before I got there lol

In all my recent videos I've been using my Yamaha RGX guitars that were made in the late 80s to early 90s.

Ha, it's tough to not anchor when that's how you start of learning, but around 180-190 BPM, my picking goes to crap unless I pull my fingers in. So a few of the songs have forced me to learn the "proper" method.

That's wild. With my view counts I wouldn't have guessed anybody other than hardcore PTH fan/guitar nerds were stumbling across my channel. But it's cool the algorithm helped someone new find PTH.