Marshall Silver Jubilee - MXR M250 - PRS McCarty - Metal Tony Iommi style.

[@mellodaniel4]

Came for the tone, but impressed by the picking technique

[@TheEngarn]

Thank you, I try to keep in shape on that front, not always easy.

[@AAAA-lt9hq]

Great riff and overall playing. I'm not a PRS guy and it isn't that ugly. It looks a lot like an Ibanez Satriani or vaguely like an ESP/LTD F-Type. I'd check your tuning or watch the bends/plan the location of the bends. They sounded a little flat compared to the backing track. Generally, bends are done up to the octave, fifth, 3rd, and other strong chord tones. Bending up from a b3 to a 4th sounds a little out of tune and flat, but bending between b3 and 3 can be very bluesy because you're going between major and minor. Bending up to a 7th can either sound bland (b7) or out of tune if you hang out on it (major 7th). In this case, the chord progression generally goes, E5, Emin, then what looks like a C7, C (open note), B (open note). So basically a I, bVI, V. E minor, E harmonic minor, and Phrygian mode would fit well here and you're using parts of them. The Eb at 0:31 and E at 0:33 bending up to the F can be a little off. The Eb would be from E harmonic minor (maj 7th) and the F (minor 2nd) should be from Phrygian, so both should work here, but if the note doesn't land on pitch it will sound bluesy, to put it mildly. :) I wouldn't linger a long time on tension notes like the maj 7, min 2nd, and diminished 5th (blue note). Maj 7 wants to go to the octave. b2 wants to go to 1. b5 wants to go up to 5 or down to 4. Passing over these notes quickly for color is called passing tones. You can combine harmonic minor and Phrygian for what is called Neapolitan minor (1, b2, b3 4, 5, b6, 7). I use it all the time because you get 7, 1, and b2 in a straight chromatic line. Overall, good job. :)

[@TheEngarn]

Thanks for the feedback! Impressive analysis, cheers!

[@I-HAVE-A-BOMB]

Never ceases to amaze me, PRS has such a talent for making Ugly as sin guitars lmao. Sounds great though, nothing like Tony. 99% of tone is your fingers. Please do not cut yours off.

[@KM-zv8zi]

It’s ok you can’t afford one anyway😊

[@I-HAVE-A-BOMB]

@KM-zv8zi Definitely, too busy buying ESP and snatching up every 90s mij jackson I find. I'd honestly not pay 400 bucks for any PRS. it's the apple of the guitar world, rock bottom quality, ugly as sin, 15-20 years behind and no one can give you any real reason why they like them. I love ESP because they have the best necks/fretboards and QC on the planet. They've also pushed the craft foward into the future with their luthier academy's.

[@TheEngarn]

Thanks!! Well, given the neck dive of the SG, which really bothers me, this was the closest I could find without that problem. It is mahogany and has roughly the SG scale length. Not too convinced with the PRS radius though. As for the PRS beauty, that's in the eye of the beholder..