Synyster Gates Quotes

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Synyster Gates

Profession : Musician

Birth : July 7, 1981

When we do find someone we trust, like our tour manager, they become an official part of the band. We take our time to make sure whoever we trust has our best interest in mind.

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Our music is being played on MTV and the radio. That's something that still blows us away. And we did it our way.

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Everybody's lost somebody, and I think they all miss them incredibly.

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We're fans of stuff like Maiden, but I think we generally get it from weirder places. For me, the Eagles' 'Hotel California' represents one of the most brilliant harmony approaches to music. Boston did it very well, too.

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Bullet for My Valentine, we're bros. We've been in the trenches with those guys.

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As you get a little older and start drinking a bit more coffee, you start talking about big-boy things a little more.

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Maybe we'll do some fun stuff here and there, but I don't want to record any more songs.

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I'm not a big-effects sort of guy - I like to keep it simple.

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When practicing, it's great to break a part down into its different elements, start slowly, and then try to build up the speed until you're playing as fast as you possibly can.

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I don't like being locked in a cage on the creative scale. I need an outlet.

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I don't really play a lot of slide in general, but it was fun getting into that style and exploring it.

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I am a product of an amalgamation of different teachers. If it was just one teacher, even just my father, I would be half the player that I am today.

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We really wanted to circumvent that online learning curve, where it's virtually impossible to use words to explain music.

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I try to, at least, think very melodically, and my band forces me to think very melodically.

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Lyrically, 'Nightmare' is an absolute masterpiece to me.

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I learned sweep picking from a variety of sources. One was a Frank Gambale instructional video, but he executes his sweeps a little differently.

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My little brother played drums, so we had a drum set over at my house.

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There is no doubt in my mind that I was going to do what my father did, but it wasn't kind of a family-business thing.

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We spend a lot of time with MIDI keyboards and various processors, and we just figure it out. And all those things you hear in our songs work as submelodies and countermelodies, and everything has to fit.

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We have a lot of fun. There are no holds barred when it comes to writing music for us.

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