Mikey, I severely damaged the middle finger on my fretting hand in an accident and have had nerve damage pain in it for a few years. I went from playing daily for 15 years, to giving up on it entirely. Working through some of these exercises you have shown is finally getting me back into it and playing through the pain. It's been really helpful, so thank you.
Hey just want to say that youre doing an amazing job and probably the best guitar player on youtube right now, your videos never fail to educate and entertain. As a beginner guitar player this is perfect insight to how other guitar players approach learning. Thanks!
First instrument I “learned” was piano, I say “learned” cause I’m self taught and never actually learned how anything works, like key signatures and stuff. But, I did learn scales; I actually like learning scales as it’s just memorizing a certain order of notes. Once I started playing guitar, I just thought of the fret board as a weirdly laid out keyboard.
From personal experience, I've only recently found an urge to seriously practice. I'm 14 years old, and I picked up the guitar shortly after my 12th birthday about two and a half years ago. Since then, I've never actually taken "guitar lessons" nor have I ever really strictly practiced. Mostly I just learn songs by ear when I feel like it or see a video of someone playing something and figure it out. Watching this channel has brought me a bit of an inspiration to up my game, restring an electric and start practicing some scales little by little.
The biggest thing that most legends did that us normies don't was that they played on stage as often as humanly possible while doing studio work and being in exchange with some of the best musicians they could get their hands on - on top of practicing. I was sort of hoping that this was what this video was :D
You didn’t do the vai exercises right. It’s meant to practice finger independence, not use fingers 1-2-3-4 and jump down. It helps if you have the actual book with the fingerings and explanations. He isn’t doing just those 6 exercises for 2 hours of the day, he has permutations to practice with. It’s like Hanon (Classical Piano Pedagogue) for guitar. Basically practicing every finger combination until everything is properly trained. The thing you struggle with at 8:55 should be fingered 1-2-3-4, 2-3-4-1, 3-4-1-2,4-1-2-3. It’s impossible the way you played it, but my beginning guitar students can handle it when they’re told what to do. You should give it another try. The other hours are more musical. An hour on chords, trills, jamming, etc. TLDR: Mikey only played the first, not musical exercises. You should be able to hear in Vai’s playing that he’s practicing more basic finger exercises.
That Vai exercise can also be done with different picking techniques to help hammer out things like alternate picking/economy and going for an even tone with staccato/legato.
@AWMail-uw3hb I think most people have the same mentality as him when they start doing the more 'grindy' parts of music, I know I and many others did at music school. Playing scales over and over seems boring as hell, but those foundations allow you to do the cool shit everyone loves to do. I know i was bored as hell sitting for hours in a practice room just hammering out scales and arpeggios until my brain went numb, but I could see the results when I was playing the things I liked. An exercise isn't just something you do over and over until you get the notes right, it's a framework for you to improve all aspects of your playing.
I'm glad I started playing & learning 🎸 2023 and also that I come across Guitarist/ #youtubeguitarist like you and many other's that inspired me to do so 🫡🤘🏻 + on November 22nd I officially launched my own RUclips channel here too ...😅 Well, ...after 8-9 Months no one and definitely not a realistic type of character that I am... would expect etc a professional Level from me right off the bat ...like you & many other Guitar RUclipsr/ Content Creator I follow (and get a lot of inspiration from), do have in those Videos 🤔 At least I hope that the Idea to share my experience, the trail & error procedure too sometimes maybe... and similar angles I get to know on my journey...will be helpful and interesting for others so they will learn an instrument or anything creative like that too in their life😤😸🤘🏻🎸 *Keep doing what you love if you are able to... as long as you are able to.... because you'll never know when it's too late... * 🤗 (that's a Lesson I got to learn in and out... the hard way this year haha 😂) Happy new year if you'll read/ see this tomorrow and a great and fun 2024 to you 🤘🏻🎉 (and of course the same goes for everyone else reading this 😁) ~Det . . www.youtube.com/@Det3rnate . #det3rnate #guitaryoutuber #happynewyear #2024 #letsrock ❤
I have literally holes and a lot of cuts in my fingers because of playing with rusty strings and sometimes i have to play with tape surrounding my fingers... I'll try some of these stuff. Really good vid, keep it up!
You might consider buying new strings, or you will 1) hurt your fingers 2) wear your frets very quickly 3) probably lose tuning stability and sound bad. No need to buy expensive string sets in my humble opinion, nowadays after trying a lot of brands and fancy stuffs, I stick to ernie ball "regular" 10-46, they last quite a long time (at least a few monthes) just by cleaning them often after playing with a simple piece of cloth.
Hey mikey! I appriciate your work and enjoy it. I Wonder if you know Ichika Nito. I know you'd like to try new things and Ichika has a different style. I'd like to watch you struggle. (just jokin)
You had me at Plethora... Counterterrorism: "Where did you learnt English...? Into some Subversive Song Speaking of Subversive things I bet... Are you Familiar with Louie Louie of some Certain Richard Berry...? Who was this Louie... Was she the Sister of Louis...? What about Rudy...? What Was this Message you had for Rudy...? Do you have any Contact with Albanian Intelligence...? No? What about Albanian Mafia... Did you watch movies... You liked ' Eastern Promise '? What was this Promise the East have Made to you...? Do you think Viggo Mortensen being from Aragonese Family...? Tell me about this connection of yours with NY 5 Families... So you Knew Gotti? We had a man so much close to him that he is more intimate with him than his own Wife...we cutted him up pretty well... You know Lebanon? ... You'll be not knowing it for long... We planning to Erase it from Maps... We'll call it : The United States of Israel. Too much...? Well Imagine if someone randomly entered in your Union, pretended you to Give Up your Slaves (For Free) and Decided your Land is not your Land Anymore...it is your Land and the Land of the State...!!!‽‽‽ Now this ain't Cool... With Sugar and all."
It's jimi hendrix album cover, its called bold as love, it was very controversial cover because of the hindu gods. jimi didn't like or approve of it either.
What are you addressing? That he's trying too hard to learn the riffs, in which case, no. That's stupid, you should always try your hardest to learn anything, and I'd like to see you play as well as he does. Or that he's trying too hard with his videos, which again, is baseless. This video was great! And it doesn't give off "attention grabbing" vibes at all. Just because he's a smaller youtuber but still manages to make quality content doesn't mean he's "trying too hard" he's just good
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mikey never fails to make me giggle while laying on a bed with my legs wiggling in the air
Drake when he watches videos
@@user-lp7tx1fe6t thank you mr doge pfp
Weird flex but okay
DOOOD...YOU TOO???
Oh, yes. I knew it, as soon as i saw your profile pic and name.
Mikey, I severely damaged the middle finger on my fretting hand in an accident and have had nerve damage pain in it for a few years. I went from playing daily for 15 years, to giving up on it entirely. Working through some of these exercises you have shown is finally getting me back into it and playing through the pain. It's been really helpful, so thank you.
Best of luck to you! Just keep pushing forward! :)
@@jacksterling9258 Thanks Jack. I appreciate the encouragement.
Mikey never disappoints us with his long form videos. thank you
These long form videos are great! Hope you keep making them :)
Hey just want to say that youre doing an amazing job and probably the best guitar player on youtube right now, your videos never fail to educate and entertain. As a beginner guitar player this is perfect insight to how other guitar players approach learning. Thanks!
Definetly gonna try this
First instrument I “learned” was piano, I say “learned” cause I’m self taught and never actually learned how anything works, like key signatures and stuff. But, I did learn scales; I actually like learning scales as it’s just memorizing a certain order of notes. Once I started playing guitar, I just thought of the fret board as a weirdly laid out keyboard.
From personal experience, I've only recently found an urge to seriously practice. I'm 14 years old, and I picked up the guitar shortly after my 12th birthday about two and a half years ago. Since then, I've never actually taken "guitar lessons" nor have I ever really strictly practiced. Mostly I just learn songs by ear when I feel like it or see a video of someone playing something and figure it out. Watching this channel has brought me a bit of an inspiration to up my game, restring an electric and start practicing some scales little by little.
Your vids are awesome dude! Hope you would post more frequently! Keep it up cat!
you're videos are awesome man, super fun to watch
love the long form videos!
So young,,so fortunate,,,so gifted,,,
SO..?........ 👍great!!!
The beginning of the blues scale being in the same key as Texas flood is awesome, I keep thinking you’re gonna play the song lol
Yeah a new Video from you right in the New Year! Happy 2024🎉
I would be genuinely interested in listening to an album from you
0:19 THE SFX’S I CAN’T 🤣🤣
Happy new year y'all 🎉🎉
Awesome
The biggest thing that most legends did that us normies don't was that they played on stage as often as humanly possible while doing studio work and being in exchange with some of the best musicians they could get their hands on - on top of practicing. I was sort of hoping that this was what this video was :D
7:15 and don’t forget it hee yaw 🕺
It woulda been fun to see you do the thing SRV did where he watched tv with the sound off and then just played over top of it.
srv:practice for 12 hours
steve vai:practice for 24 hours
jimi:J A M S
Let's get him to A MILLION SUBSCRIBERS
mikey you rock my dude!!!!! i recently find out i wasnt subscribed xd
New video?YESSS
You didn’t do the vai exercises right. It’s meant to practice finger independence, not use fingers 1-2-3-4 and jump down. It helps if you have the actual book with the fingerings and explanations. He isn’t doing just those 6 exercises for 2 hours of the day, he has permutations to practice with. It’s like Hanon (Classical Piano Pedagogue) for guitar. Basically practicing every finger combination until everything is properly trained.
The thing you struggle with at 8:55 should be fingered 1-2-3-4, 2-3-4-1, 3-4-1-2,4-1-2-3. It’s impossible the way you played it, but my beginning guitar students can handle it when they’re told what to do. You should give it another try.
The other hours are more musical. An hour on chords, trills, jamming, etc.
TLDR: Mikey only played the first, not musical exercises. You should be able to hear in Vai’s playing that he’s practicing more basic finger exercises.
That Vai exercise can also be done with different picking techniques to help hammer out things like alternate picking/economy and going for an even tone with staccato/legato.
@@TheGtrman91 Well said! There’s a lot of use there.
@AWMail-uw3hb I think most people have the same mentality as him when they start doing the more 'grindy' parts of music, I know I and many others did at music school. Playing scales over and over seems boring as hell, but those foundations allow you to do the cool shit everyone loves to do. I know i was bored as hell sitting for hours in a practice room just hammering out scales and arpeggios until my brain went numb, but I could see the results when I was playing the things I liked.
An exercise isn't just something you do over and over until you get the notes right, it's a framework for you to improve all aspects of your playing.
Cool video with great ideas.Did you down pick the Vai thing ? Ouch. Ever seen Robert Fripp practicing Fracture, at 77 ? Try it !
the ugg boots made me cackle looofl
Can you do a vid showing how to get tone for any genre on a single coil Strat.
you didnt include the jaguar in the caption
The intro music slaps
Agreed
what song is it?
Mikey you are rookie do all of steve vais practice routine right now!!
OH MY DAYS, THE STEVE VAI JOKE SENT ME AHAHAHA
this guy deserves more views and subs, how only 48 views
5:32 Name song?
That is Rude Mood, my favorite instrumental SRV plays
Your pops must be Joe. My dad showed me who he was when I was a little kid back in the 80's watchin movies. I've always remembered that.
I'm glad I started playing & learning 🎸 2023 and also that I come across Guitarist/ #youtubeguitarist like you and many other's that inspired me to do so 🫡🤘🏻
+ on November 22nd I officially launched my own RUclips channel here too ...😅 Well, ...after 8-9 Months no one and definitely not a realistic type of character that I am... would expect etc a professional Level from me right off the bat ...like you & many other Guitar RUclipsr/ Content Creator I follow (and get a lot of inspiration from), do have in those Videos 🤔
At least I hope that the Idea to share my experience, the trail & error procedure too sometimes maybe... and similar angles I get to know on my journey...will be helpful and interesting for others so they will learn an instrument or anything creative like that too in their life😤😸🤘🏻🎸
*Keep doing what you love if you are able to... as long as you are able to.... because you'll never know when it's too late... * 🤗
(that's a Lesson I got to learn in and out... the hard way this year haha 😂)
Happy new year if you'll read/ see this tomorrow and a great and fun 2024 to you 🤘🏻🎉
(and of course the same goes for everyone else reading this 😁)
~Det
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www.youtube.com/@Det3rnate
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#det3rnate #guitaryoutuber #happynewyear #2024
#letsrock ❤
What type of headphones do you wear
I have literally holes and a lot of cuts in my fingers because of playing with rusty strings and sometimes i have to play with tape surrounding my fingers... I'll try some of these stuff.
Really good vid, keep it up!
So get new strings
You might consider buying new strings, or you will 1) hurt your fingers 2) wear your frets very quickly 3) probably lose tuning stability and sound bad. No need to buy expensive string sets in my humble opinion, nowadays after trying a lot of brands and fancy stuffs, I stick to ernie ball "regular" 10-46, they last quite a long time (at least a few monthes) just by cleaning them often after playing with a simple piece of cloth.
@@arvetemecha yeah, recently I got new strings and there is a really bit difference from what the strings felt like before and now. Thank you
@@rigby6038 yeah, i got them, its muuch better
Do I put regular tuners on a reverse neck???
Hey mikey! I appriciate your work and enjoy it. I Wonder if you know Ichika Nito. I know you'd like to try new things and Ichika has a different style. I'd like to watch you struggle. (just jokin)
“I don’t recommend this one at home” *guess who was following along..*
always love your content, do you think you'll make video of how you learn playing guitar yourself?
What’s the size of pick did you used?
I think how i practice comes closest to like hendrix did it....just jammin...there you go 😂
can you post the tabs that u used for the scales
He can’t it’s from a book from the 2000s
Mikey, Happy New Year did your dad give you the stocking stuffer I mentioned? Let me know what you think. VL
There is no way your dad is a real person
bro, practice your scales with a backing track, or the very least a metronome. it makes things less daunting
Where are the 13's?
Im sorry, but is Mikey Joe Piscopo's kid or something?
Yes!
could you do some David Gilmour related stuff sometime? That would be really interesting...
2:52
Can you please make a video of which scales best represent an artists like Santana - Dorian, Satriani - Lydian, ACDC - Mixolydian etc.
Thanks
Go - Pearl Jam
Do Buckethead
Ha I have the same birthday as Stevie ray vaughn October 3rd 2004 where he’s the same bday 1954
Play Swan Song led zepplin
It was a very cool video, it was great. In honor of the upcoming Christmas, I have a selection of guitar songs on my channel
Play Paper Cuts by Nirvana please
BUT I LIKE PLAY THE SCALES
1:44 1:44 1:45 1:45 1:45 1:45 1:46 1:46 1:46 1:46 1:46 1:46 1:46 1:47 1:47 1:47 1:47 1:47 1:48 1:48 1:48 1:48 1:48 1:48 1:49 1:49 1:49 1:49 1:49 1:49 1:50 1:50 1:50 1:50 1:51 1:51 1:51 1:51 1:51 1:51 1:52 1:52 1:52 1:52 1:52 1:52 1:53 1:53 1:53 1:53 1:53 1:53 1:54 1:54 1:54 1:54 1:54 1:54 1:55 1:55 1:55 1:55 1:55 1:56 1:56 1:56 1:56 1:56 1:56 1:57 1:57 1:57 1:57 1:57 1:57 1:58 1:58 1:58 1:58 1:58 1:59 1:59 1:59 1:59 1:59 2:00 2:00 2:00 2:00 2:00 2:00 2:01 2:01 2:01 2:01 2:01 2:01 2:02 2:02 2:02 2:02 2:02 2:03 2:03 2:03 2:03 2:03 2:03 2:04 2:04 2:04 2:04 2:04 2:05 2:05 2:05 2:06 2:06 2:06 2:06 2:07 2:07 2:07 2:07 2:07 2:08 2:09 2:14
Isnt your dad a guitarist?
You had me at Plethora...
Counterterrorism:
"Where did you learnt English...?
Into some Subversive Song Speaking of Subversive things I bet...
Are you Familiar with Louie Louie of some Certain Richard Berry...?
Who was this Louie...
Was she the Sister of Louis...?
What about Rudy...?
What Was this Message you had for Rudy...?
Do you have any Contact with Albanian Intelligence...?
No?
What about Albanian Mafia...
Did you watch movies...
You liked ' Eastern Promise '?
What was this Promise the East have Made to you...?
Do you think Viggo Mortensen being from Aragonese Family...?
Tell me about this connection of yours with NY 5 Families...
So you Knew Gotti?
We had a man so much close to him that he is more intimate with him than his own Wife...we cutted him up pretty well...
You know Lebanon?
... You'll be not knowing it for long...
We planning to Erase it from Maps...
We'll call it :
The United States of Israel.
Too much...?
Well Imagine if someone randomly entered in your Union, pretended you to Give Up your Slaves (For Free) and Decided your Land is not your Land Anymore...it is your Land and the Land of the State...!!!‽‽‽
Now this ain't Cool...
With Sugar and all."
First
What is he doing with poster in background of Hindu God?
Cuz he can?
And also it’s not what you think it’s Jimi Hendrix
It's jimi hendrix album cover, its called bold as love, it was very controversial cover because of the hindu gods. jimi didn't like or approve of it either.
Mikey pls collab or im forcing you to marry me
HELP MIKEY A FAKE MIKEY
Bro is trying too hard
If you don’t like his content or just gonna comment something mean then why be here?
What are you addressing? That he's trying too hard to learn the riffs, in which case, no. That's stupid, you should always try your hardest to learn anything, and I'd like to see you play as well as he does. Or that he's trying too hard with his videos, which again, is baseless. This video was great! And it doesn't give off "attention grabbing" vibes at all. Just because he's a smaller youtuber but still manages to make quality content doesn't mean he's "trying too hard" he's just good