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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.

Absolutely! Let me know if you post something.

@@spiritcrusher5708 i will! i post my covers on this YT page as well as my IG. as soon as it's up you'll be the first to know! thank you!!! :)

@@spiritcrusher5708 it’s up on my page! :)

Did it get blocked? I can't find it. All my videos get flagged but allowed, so I assumed it would work ok.

Please do this

I've never been able to get into them, but it might be fun to do a song by them. Is there a particular one you'd want to see? I can't imagine I'd end up doing a whole album. Honestly I'm kind of itching to do originals, so that might be the direction my channel takes after my PTH stuff.

@@spiritcrusher5708 ⁠would love to hear originals! From that THA album, in no particular order, Mea Culpa Vela Together We Await The Storm Crossing The Rubicon All are pretty popular covers on YT but the whole album has some amazing guitar parts. Thought I’d recommend because that album was around the same time as Kezia and the technical riffs are on par with PTH-although a little more classical inspired

@@jordanlastnik5823 haha also exactly my favorites. yea man would be great to cover If you dig them. I still see this guy with the nocturne shirt in my head when i think of the bst mea culpa cover on youtube

@@spiritcrusher5708 to get into songwriting just after learning every single pth song sounds like the best idea ever actually

Goddess Bound and Goddess Gagged are both among my favorites to play and they aren't too insane to learn either.

Still my favorite song from them. I just wish it wasn't so hard to play...

@@spiritcrusher5708 It has become my favourite as well so far.

Definitely drop a comment if you post a vid. Glad to know others are leaning from my videos.

Lol, that's what my non-metalhead friends say when they watch my videos. "How the hell do you sing to this?"

I use a pretty basic 5150 patch on my Axe-FX.

Doesn't exist unfortunately. I use programmed drums and bass and record everything else.

@@spiritcrusher5708 is there a possiblity i could buy these done tracks? like the album recorded from you in wavefiles for 10bucks or so? what guitarsound do you use?

Definitely don't want to be selling copyrighted material that isn't mine lol. There's plenty of ways to rip mp3s from youtube though.

@@spiritcrusher5708 oh right it's still copyright infringement haha sorry about that

Tongue-splitter is far from the easiest song. I'm in the downhill side of my 40s lol.

@@spiritcrusher5708 yes just saw the sex tapes video, so maybe ill start over with that song. god thing i love EVERY single pth song. did you play all you life?

You''ll probably notice that I moved it up a string (to G and B) to avoid having to make a huge jump. After the previous part, your fingers will already be where they need to be for the way I did it. Also, rather than sliding down to the last note, I play it on the lower string with my pinky. And you can honestly get away with doing a hammer-on for the last note. Cause yeah, I'm with you on this. That series of slides make me feel like I'm just flailing everywhere. So for me, it was: B 6 6\5 5/6 6 G 7 6 7 9 And make sure you hit all the B string notes with down strokes and up strokes on the G string One last tip, as I was learning it, I actually picked all the notes. It helped a lot burning the rhythm into my head cause the picking pattern is confusing and off beat.

@@spiritcrusher5708 thanks for the feedback! as you said in the description this is a beginner friendly PTH song and the only one I've grasped at full speed. always appreciate your commentary on nailing these songs down keep up the good work

Good to hear! Hope you have a good time learning it. It's a fun song.

It's extra rude because when you're learning the song, you think "oh, a nice easy power chord part". Then you try to play it up to speed and immediately think "what the hell is going on!?"