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Thank you!!!

Thank you very much!!! The sustainiac on the Schecter is in my opinion what really makes the tone on this one shine, creating that touch of feed back at the end of the phrases... But aside of that, the signal chain on this one is : (gtr) Schecter C1 - FRS (Sustainiac on) / (pedals) - Ibanez Tube Screamer Mini - Diezel VH4 2 - Rowin Noise Gate - Line 6 Delay - EH Holy Grail verb / (amp) Fender Blues Jr. / (mic) Shure Beta 57 / (pre) ART Pro MPAII / (interface) Focusrite 18i8 / (daw) Cubase 10.5 / (plugins on gtr track) Waves CLA2A - Nomad Oilcan Echo

Thank you so much Yusif! That means a lot to me and I appreciate you. Be well and see ya back here soon!

Aw thank you, my friend! You rule! Sending much love to you and your fam!

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@@adamhowemusic :)

Thank you, Ilah!!! Sending good vibes and much appreciation to you!

Thank you Ted! That means so much to me! Much appreciated!

To have you even slightly enjoying a song that you hate is one of the most rewarding aspects of this series for me :)

Thank you so much man!!!

Hi Yusif, thank you!!! I am going to take a little break from weekly uploads, while I catch up on some other things in life, and also start working on some of the other series I want to launch on this channel. I have a short video coming out next week talking a little bit about some of that. I will keep doing melodies, hopefully for a long long time, just won't be every week for a while (I will get back to that asap), but I will have some new and different stuff coming soon... Thank you so much for your support thus far with this series! It is so rewarding to think that there are people out there in the world appreciating what I am doing. I am grateful. Have an excellent week, and thanks again!

@@adamhowemusic hey man you deserve the break great work. I hope that it all goes well for you mate

Thank you!!! <3 Your support means everything to me. As for what's coming next, I had a dream about being a C movie comedy actor, I think I might give it a try? ;)

Thank you again so much, my friend! Your encouragement and enthusiasm and support is a true honor to receive, and I am extremely grateful!!!

Thank you so much! I have always wanted to turn this into a real song of some sort. I appreciate it!

Thank you very much!!!

Thank you!!!

Wow thank you so much! That means a lot to me, and your comment made my day! Have a good one!

Thank you!!!

No, thank YOU!!! Sending love to you, my friend.

In the evolution of humanity, I think at this point Bach is embedded directly into human DNA haha. It feels like home for sure. Thanks and have a great week, Yusif!

Thank you very much!!!

Thank you so much! That means a lot to me and I appreciate it!

Thank you so much Jonathan! You have no idea how much I appreciate you!

Thank you!

Thank you Steve! I appreciate that very much!

Thank you so much Melvin! I appreciate that. Have a good one!

Haha thank you, sir! I do feel lucky to have all of these guitars. Every time I take one out of the case I get this giddy feeling like omg I get to play this amazing piece of art right now?!?! As for memorizing, that's so funny you said that, because I was just wondering the other day if I actually still remember the sings from early in the series. I spend countless hours on each one before I record it, then move on, and rarely go back. I have been wanting to revisit all the songs an see if they stuck, and to prepare to possibly play these live somewhere sometime too. Crossing my fingers that I remember most of it... I'll let you know how that goes... haha. Have a great week Yusif!

@@adamhowemusic its kind of weird to get called sir for me cause im like 17 lol. Apreciate all the content and work you put in. You deserve all the instruments you got absoulute champion

Haha I was just using sir out of respect and appreciation. I feel like sometimes I overuse greetings like bro and man and my friend, etc. and I guess I was feeling proper that day haha. Thank you so much for your kind words, Yusif! You rule

I love that question! I would like to make a whole video on that someday, but in the meantime the gist is that I have been playing guitar my whole life, but it had been many years since I played much. I got inspired and wanted to do this series, and when I started learning melodies I sucked real bad haha. I couldn't get through even one part of one song without clunky lame mistakes. I have done tons of finger exercises, etc. throughout my life, but this time I didn't do any of that at all. Literally all I did for an entire year was learn melodies (mostly by ear) and play along to the actual songs and to the backing tracks of the songs, trying to come up with interesting ways to arrange the melodies, and trying to get through the songs without mistakes. I just played them over and over and over. If anyone could hear me do it, I'm sure it would have been quite annoying haha. It took a long long time to get to where I was performance ready, and I still work on the melodies to the upcoming songs constantly, so that I can get through a video recording/performance without tooo many takes (but there are always too many takes anyway haha). That said, I am itching to get back to other forms or practice like scales and stuff and learning how to shred better and stuff. But for the past 2 years its literally just been all about melodies. Thank you for asking, and for listening to the covers! Have a great week!

@@adamhowemusic Can you show me how you figured them out and practiced? I want to do it too!

That is also an excellent question, but much harder to answer. How I personally learned these songs was a process of listening and playing along and finding the notes, then figuring out how to try and make it musical and fun. That sometimes takes days, but usually weeks or months for each song. But how I did that part is basically just a lifetime of studying and playing music at music colleges and in lots of bands, etc. and is hard to bottle into a quick answer. Have you tried doing any ear training? It helps you learn how to identify notes when you hear them, and coupled with a tiny bit of knowledge of music theory, things start to make more sense and get easier. Do you have a music/guitar teacher of any sort that you could ask for help with that? Or perhaps look up online courses on ear training. That is basically the key to how I did this series. My best advice would be start with one song, something you are excited about, and see if you can try and hear what the notes are. If not, try and find videos of people doing an instrumental version and see if you can tell what they are playing, even if it is just part of a a song at first. Then have fun playing it and trying to make it sound good, and get inspired to learn the next part, even if it takes w while. All the time you invest into learning something builds up and makes the next thing easier. I wish I had a better answer than that. Thank you for the question and for your support! Have fun jamming!

@@adamhowemusic How did you learn ear training?

I started trying to learn stuff by ear pretty early on in my playing, and at first it seems daunting. But the more you do it the easier it gets. In music school ear training is a huge part of the curriculum, and I was one of those nerds who loved it haha. I also taught guitar lessons for may years, and back then students would often bring in cd's of songs they wanted to learn, and I had 30 mins to try and figure it out and teach them, so I was forced to get better at it from that as well. It''s one of those things that seems like magic, but can totally be developed by just doing it a lot. As for getting started, I would recommend looking up videos on ear training for beginners, and just jump in and see what happens. Let me know how it goes if you give it a try. Have fun!

You are the best, thank you my friend! Have an excellent week!

Thank you!!!

Thank you immensely, my friend!

Thank you Yusif! You got me inspired to learn some Imagine Dragons after our convo about their concert that you went to. This one's for you :)

@@adamhowemusic ah man thanks it actually means a lot. You gotta be a fast learner tho lol.

You're welcome! Haha some songs do take months to work on and some come quicker. When I get excited about a song I can usually learn it pretty fast. Thanks again and have an excellent week!

Haha you are the best! I appreciate you so much! Have an excellent week, my friend!

Thank yoooouuuu! <3 Hehe you noticed the kitty tail! ;)

Thank you very much!

Thank you so much! I really appreciate that. I always admire players who can really shine with their clean sounds, and am definitely guilty of using gain/distortion as a crutch. I am super inspired by players like Andy Timmons and Mateus Asato, who emote so deeply with their cleanish sounds. Thank you for saying that, it is definitely something I want to work on more. Have a good one!

Thank you for noticing! I got lucky with that one. I found it used on Reverb, and it already had some nice upgrades done to it (new knobs, pickup covers, tuners, etc.), and the veneer top is stellar. Being semi hollow, it's also super light, which I really enjoy. Every time I pick up this guitar I feel lucky to play it!

@@adamhowemusic I really like indonesian made guitars. I had to sell a lot of my american ones (all of them in fact) because I have no more use for them anymore.

@@HunnysPlaylists right on, good to hear! I am fond of Indonesian guitars as well. The quality is excellent! Admission: I have never played an American PRS before (can't afford one) so I can't even speak to the differences... but that said, I want for nothing with my import guitars and love them immensely!

@@adamhowemusic I wonder what they would do with better materials.

Thank you Yusif! Yeah, I completely know what you mean. In fact I can think of a few things that when I first heard it I actually disliked it a lot, and then after listening more it became some of my favorites. Weird how things work like that. Musical/artistic taste is an evolving process, and I guess we are only ready for certain things when the time is right. Have a great week, and thank you very much for your support. It means a lot to me.

That is awesome! Hopefully we can jam it together someday. Have a great week, my friend!

Thank you very much!

Thank you so much!!!

I love that! My goal is to mimic the melodies closely enough for that to happen. I'm so glad it did!

Thank you Yusif!!!

@@adamhowemusic btw you know the song Microphone fiend by rage against the machine. That thing hits hard ngl

@@yusifedits07 love Rage! they have so many great songs. I have heard that one, and agree it hits hard! I have tried to incorporate some hip hoppy vocal songs into this cover series, but its tough because the vocals usually lean so heavily on the lyrical content and attitude/vibe of the performer, and musically although the rhythms and syncopations are always amazing, the melodies tend to be one or 2 notes, which doesn't seem to come across on guitar so well. I do have something in the works coming soon though that perhaps you might dig... Have a good one!

@@adamhowemusic i do agree on that that that song especially is repatitive without lyrics. I love how much pation you have for your work it really shows. I have finished music school like 5 years of playing tar my countries national instrument ngl i forgot everything i wanna pick up the guitar soon maby in summer when i dont have studies. You are an insparation

@@yusifedits07 wow thank you so much, that means a lot to me! I just looked up tar, that is very cool that you studied that, it sounds so awesome! Do you have any recordings or videos of you playing anywhere? I hope you get to pick up guitar when you are ready! I really appreciate your kind words. Thank you!

Thank you so much!!!

Right on, thank you! I appreciate the recommendation, and am always looking for songs/melodies that are fun to play... Have a good one!

Thank you so much, my friend!!! Yeah, when I put in the weather order for 2 rainy days then a sunny day culminating on Monday, I got an automated response saying something like due to the last minute nature of the request, we cannot guarantee fulfillment of said request at this time, so needless to say I was pleasantly surprised when the order came through after all!... ;)

Thank you!!!

Thank you so much!!!

Thank you Yusif! What are your other favs aside of Muse? Thank you for the kind words, always appreciated! Hope you are having a good Monday!

@@adamhowemusic Imagine dragons fall out boys thousand foot krutch coldplay. Imagine dragons is the only one that ive been to a concert. Last summer mercury tour was awesome honestly it was a lifetime experience

​@@yusifedits07 that is awesome! All great bands! I totally know what you mean about seeing a band you love performing their hearts out right on front of you with the huge sound and lights and everything being a life changing experience, so glad you got to experience that! Cheers to many more...

@@adamhowemusic we were all singing along and gotta say looking back at the recordings my voice is beyond terrible but its kind of magical how when everyone sings along it kinda automaticly tunes to the right notes. Beauty of concerts is that nobody can hear someones elses voice like that lol

Thank you! Much appreciated!

Thank you yet again, my friend. I appreciate you! You Rule!