Just want to thank you. I started on your pentatonic scales video over a year ago. Followed your lessons on scales, chords, caged system, and cord tone targeting. Fast forward to now, It is a really cool feeling to just sit back, let my emotions flow through the guitar to make music. Don't even waste my time trying to learn other people's music, it all just flows naturally now. You opened a world I could only dream about before, can't thank you enough for that.
This is exactly where I want to be. Don't want to cover music - just want to sit on my sofa and let music come out. Any tip or more details to how you got there. Or you literally just followed stitch's youtube videos?
@@AcidicDelusion Lots of practice. I have my guitar in a stand next to my chair and pick it up several times a day. I had spent a year previously watching any video I could, practicing the basics, cords and scales until I could play them without thinking. But it wasn't until stitches video on pentatonic scales that the light went off, something about how he explained it. I became a Patrion member on his site. He has pdf files you can download and print out that has chords and matching scales on the same page. A picture is worth a thousand words and this in when it all started to make sense. Also, practice your 'mood' to get your emotions in sync with your playing. If having a bad day, practice minor scales and chords. Having a good day, practice majors. This helped me to forget all the technicals and just let it flow with emotions. And don't be scared to mess up, some of my best riffs came from screw-ups. Oh well, hope this helps. Wish you the best on your path.
@@jnorfleet3292 Thank you for the reply. As a late starter it's been a hard road. I'm gonna head over to his patreon page and pay my dues - onwards and upwards.
These videos always come out as I wake up here in New Zealand. Love your work every time Ian. Your videos in the last year have taken me from Rythym player in a rut, to confident lead playing, improved technique and finally in the last few weeks an understanding of using modes and chord tones properly. Thank you truly for all your time you put into this. I can't tell you the joy this has brought into my life during lockdown. You're the man!
Thank you so much sir ..this free master class is worth more than thousands of paid courses I have ever done..but still couldn't play a single song or lick...but stich method..BOOM.. opened all the lead guitar playing secrets and the Mysterious CAGE system..I can now apply it by knowing it not memorising it 🙏🙏 thank you so much ❤️❤️
Your lessons have always been fantastic but this one is absolutely enlightening and nothing short of remarkable. Time I finally head over to your Patreon. 👌
Really happy with your classes, Stitch. I review a bunch of your videos as I practice for my concerts. I’ve been playing as a lead guitarist for the first time the last few months and lessons help me a lot with improvisation. You’re making a difference in the lives of musicians!
Just recently stumbled upon the masterclasses and I can't believe how much they have helped me and in so many different ways. The greatest benefit overall is the motivation that comes from the little breakthroughs. Thanks for making it fun again.
man,, 20 mins in and I've already gotten so much out of this! I've always had a decent grasp of my chord shapes around the neck, as well as a few of the pentatonic boxes. My mind would always think about one or the other while trying to move around.. now 'seeing' the chord in relation to each box, wow... I jammed over a loop for about 45 mins just baking in all these positions and it feels incredible!! I'm moving so much more freely around, and by being able to connect these boxes and accentuate the chord tones, I'm so much more 'musical' than before!! Thank you so much!!!
The fact that you put so much care and work into this content and put it out to the world for free is a serious gift. I always recommend your channel. Much respect for what you do.
thanks a lot for putting so much effort and explaining in details with graphics etc. it has just blown my mind , other explain in bits and pieces but your masterclass is what makes sense to me and help me stitch back the music fabric altogether. i have learned more than in this one hour session which i couldn't learn even in months.
Stich, I just want to thank you for the pentatonic series. I have never had so much pleasure from playing before or moved so freely across the fretboard. You are awesome THANK YOU
I have really got into guitar seriously after fifty years in a band. At the time all I knew was open and a few barred chords. Now after watching your channel , I have come a long way in just over one year. Thank you very much for making it very easy explaining wise. I subscribe to your channel but like to donate. Thank you Man for best ways of teaching Oliver
I watch all the guitar instructors channels. Yours is easily in my top 3, thank you for sharing. Without people like you, I'd probably be dead. And that's not an exaggeration.
Hi Ian, this is the first time that I see one of your videos and I have to say: this video is gold. I searched for this kind of information, because as a piano player and a rookie guitar player I thought: "is this really how they play? Jumping from box to box?" Thank you for your good explanations and demonstration.
This is amazing!!! You really explain it to where it makes sense and is actually useable and rememberable. I haven't even got through the entire video yet and I've already learned so much and I've been playing for 30 years!! Love the Voltron reference.
I realize this is how the guitar is visual when I see you look up at the "sky" I feel the same but now you have shown me a map with diagrams for things my mind could quite visualize...amazing stuff...and soo much to work on Holly crap, I am very thankful to you for your dedication to guitarist starting out and who have maybe been looking at things from a different angle even though they have been playing for years. Awesome!!!! Rock on brother!
Thanks Stitch! You are a great Teacher! I love your lessons… A lesson that comes to mind is a lesson you had about ‘chord tones’ and how many people see them as the same as arpeggios… But you show how Jerry Garcia took Chord tones as being part of an arpeggio and play it and then blend it (slide it),into arpeggios to get that specific and beautiful sound that Jerry had… These are the types of things that sets you apart from other teachers! THANK YOU!
Thank you so much, your classes have opened my mind to how this instrument actually works. Can’t thank you enough. Your neverlost changed my life, have recently been practicing exactly what you described in this class and seeing the major scale over it as well, you had some great insights here. Thanks again, you the man. 👊🏻🤟🏻❤️
Man I sware this is by far the most helpful thing I've ran across especially for US stuck in the pentatonic box! I mean I know the extensions and what not but to expand on that and my melodic use this is awesome. Thank you! I plan on subscribing now for sure! 👍
You are making me fall in love with my guitar guitar sir thank you so much for sharing your knowledge to all of us in different part of the world thank you so much lots of thanks 😊
I'm hearing Marshall Tucker and all the great Toy Caldwell leads as well as dicey betts too. Love this one it has really opened up my mind. Now to jist keep practicing this stuff and put it together. Maybe then I won't be so hit and miss and on target with a purpose. Thank you 🎸❤🎸
Great lesson for me as I have been watching Theory YT vids for about ,5 ys. George Benson is self taught. He plays linear and he explained in interviews that it is easier to play up and down the neck. Now I found this lesson to learn the details..... Just in Time. Your a very fun likeable type friendly teacher. .Really I'm a singer. But learning guitar for secondary reasons. Your so .happy when you teach...turning out ...I am now having fun. Thank you 🎶🎵🎶
thank you so much for this fascinating lesson on scales and chordal tones !!!! lol :) I am a begginer at guitar and have been playing for about 1 year and a half but i am still trying to grasp the idea of scales and arpeggios and chordal tones etc and i am still yet to memorise my scales and my arpegios and i am also yet to play these scales and arpegios in my songs for solos and riffs, and i need to understand the musical relationship between all these different factors and how they work together to not only produce music theory, from a technical perspective but also see how these things actually apply to songs aswell.
Thanks Ian! This is great! Since I learned diatonic shapes first, my mind always wraps it around these smaller shapes. As I move up and down the neck I'll switch from diatonic to pentatonic and throwing in some extra notes.
You did it again! First your Masterclass on Caged Arpeggios and now this?! Thank you for the phenomenal guitar knowledge and instruction you have given us and for the time investment you made to bring this to us.
What a great class! Just three of your classes have changed my guitar playing life! Finally, someone covers playing pentatonics over the chords instead of just the key. Now I just have to get to the point where my fingers can go where my mind goes. Thank you so much for doing this.
RUclips is actually picking out amazing lessons from you, I'm learning so much and it's in a great order. Either that or everything you put out is gold.
Another triumph of a lesson. I realise I've got some work to do, to get this knowledge flowing through my fingers. But you make it look doable and enjoyable
Love this. The line insight isn't the cure. Must have stuck in my head.. itbis a lyrics Ina song a wrote that is titled practice. So above and beyond your ability to teach guitar in a way that connects with me, your dad's colloquialisms have also planted seeds. Keep sowing. Peace.
Awesome! You may have just helped me more than anyone else to understand how to link chords and scales together. My only criticism is- you're too self-deprecating- you sound great and are an excellent teacher. Don't beat yourself up for hitting an occasional bad note. You made me realize how Duane Allman used the pentatonic pretty much exclusively. And remember what he said about bad notes - "if you play a bad note, play it again" 😄 Thanks, Stitch!!
Hey Stitch, love the channel, been with you just a couple months and have learned a lot, I think I'm ready for practice lessons though so I can speed up applying it, still feel like a beginner, at least my hands do lol. Any tips on training the right hand where the strings are so you can skip strings without looking?
Following you and learning my ass off.....the rest of the band has given me big props....and I credit you with the inspiration and confidence you have given me though the learning process. Thanks!!!!!
Thanks so much for sharing your teaching technique is AWESOME! And has really changed my thinking of the fretboard, keep up the wonderful work ! I'm now a BIG FAN!
Thank you very much for explaining Everything in such a simple way with clear instructions some of these guys on utube start explaining and then going crazy up and down the neck while talking like they are on speed 😵💫😵💫😀anyway love your info u are helping me immensely, have you a course I can purchase I’m a beginner intermediate!! Thanks bro !! Brian Ireland 🇮🇪
Just want to thank you. I started on your pentatonic scales video over a year ago. Followed your lessons on scales, chords, caged system, and cord tone targeting. Fast forward to now, It is a really cool feeling to just sit back, let my emotions flow through the guitar to make music. Don't even waste my time trying to learn other people's music, it all just flows naturally now. You opened a world I could only dream about before, can't thank you enough for that.
This is exactly where I want to be. Don't want to cover music - just want to sit on my sofa and let music come out.
Any tip or more details to how you got there. Or you literally just followed stitch's youtube videos?
Your comment is a Thank You Enough!
@@AcidicDelusion Lots of practice. I have my guitar in a stand next to my chair and pick it up several times a day.
I had spent a year previously watching any video I could, practicing the basics, cords and scales until I could play them without thinking. But it wasn't until stitches video on pentatonic scales that the light went off, something about how he explained it. I became a Patrion member on his site. He has pdf files you can download and print out that has chords and matching scales on the same page. A picture is worth a thousand words and this in when it all started to make sense.
Also, practice your 'mood' to get your emotions in sync with your playing. If having a bad day, practice minor scales and chords. Having a good day, practice majors. This helped me to forget all the technicals and just let it flow with emotions.
And don't be scared to mess up, some of my best riffs came from screw-ups. Oh well, hope this helps. Wish you the best on your path.
@@jnorfleet3292 Thank you for the reply. As a late starter it's been a hard road. I'm gonna head over to his patreon page and pay my dues - onwards and upwards.
Congratulations, I am stuck in the BB Box, can't get out, and a couple other boxes.
These videos always come out as I wake up here in New Zealand. Love your work every time Ian. Your videos in the last year have taken me from Rythym player in a rut, to confident lead playing, improved technique and finally in the last few weeks an understanding of using modes and chord tones properly. Thank you truly for all your time you put into this. I can't tell you the joy this has brought into my life during lockdown. You're the man!
You just answered 20 years of questions about the guitar that I've been wanting to learn.
Thank you.
Thank you so much sir ..this free master class is worth more than thousands of paid courses I have ever done..but still couldn't play a single song or lick...but stich method..BOOM.. opened all the lead guitar playing secrets and the Mysterious CAGE system..I can now apply it by knowing it not memorising it 🙏🙏 thank you so much ❤️❤️
Your lessons have always been fantastic but this one is absolutely enlightening and nothing short of remarkable. Time I finally head over to your Patreon. 👌
Really happy with your classes, Stitch. I review a bunch of your videos as I practice for my concerts. I’ve been playing as a lead guitarist for the first time the last few months and lessons help me a lot with improvisation. You’re making a difference in the lives of musicians!
The legacy continues, your contribution to guitar education and mastery are invaluable.
Peace and Love Stitch ✌️
Just recently stumbled upon the masterclasses and I can't believe how much they have helped me and in so many different ways. The greatest benefit overall is the motivation that comes from the little breakthroughs. Thanks for making it fun again.
a catalyst really for all self taught guitarist to not give up. Great content once more! Thanks!
man,, 20 mins in and I've already gotten so much out of this! I've always had a decent grasp of my chord shapes around the neck, as well as a few of the pentatonic boxes. My mind would always think about one or the other while trying to move around.. now 'seeing' the chord in relation to each box, wow... I jammed over a loop for about 45 mins just baking in all these positions and it feels incredible!! I'm moving so much more freely around, and by being able to connect these boxes and accentuate the chord tones, I'm so much more 'musical' than before!!
Thank you so much!!!
Awesome to hear! Just spread the word!
Thank You Ian for your generosity and kindness and being such a wonderful Teacher 🎸
Ian, All of your work is just great, but, this piece was simply exceptional!! Thank you!
Another great lesson and I love that sound you're getting , thanks.
The fact that you put so much care and work into this content and put it out to the world for free is a serious gift. I always recommend your channel. Much respect for what you do.
Thank you Matthew
thanks a lot for putting so much effort and explaining in details with graphics etc. it has just blown my mind , other explain in bits and pieces but your masterclass is what makes sense to me and help me stitch back the music fabric altogether. i have learned more than in this one hour session which i couldn't learn even in months.
Stich, I just want to thank you for the pentatonic series. I have never had so much pleasure from playing before or moved so freely across the fretboard. You are awesome THANK YOU
I have really got into guitar seriously after fifty years in a band. At the time all I knew was open and a few barred chords. Now after watching your channel , I have come a long way in just over one year. Thank you very much for making it very easy explaining wise. I subscribe to your channel but like to donate.
Thank you Man for best ways of teaching
Oliver
I watch all the guitar instructors channels. Yours is easily in my top 3, thank you for sharing. Without people like you, I'd probably be dead. And that's not an exaggeration.
Hi Ian, this is the first time that I see one of your videos and I have to say: this video is gold. I searched for this kind of information, because as a piano player and a rookie guitar player I thought: "is this really how they play? Jumping from box to box?" Thank you for your good explanations and demonstration.
Always worth it Ian. You are such a great teacher. Thanks for loving what you do and sharing. Peace, Just Sam
This is amazing!!! You really explain it to where it makes sense and is actually useable and rememberable. I haven't even got through the entire video yet and I've already learned so much and I've been playing for 30 years!! Love the Voltron reference.
I realize this is how the guitar is visual when I see you look up at the "sky" I feel the same but now you have shown me a map with diagrams for things my mind could quite visualize...amazing stuff...and soo much to work on Holly crap, I am very thankful to you for your dedication to guitarist starting out and who have maybe been looking at things from a different angle even though they have been playing for years. Awesome!!!! Rock on brother!
Fantastic graphics for the chord/arpeggio/pentatonic relationships. No one has presented this material better. Thanks
Thanks Stitch! You are a great Teacher! I love your lessons… A lesson that comes to mind is a lesson you had about ‘chord tones’ and how many people see them as the same as arpeggios… But you show how Jerry Garcia took Chord tones as being part of an arpeggio and play it and then blend it (slide it),into arpeggios to get that specific and beautiful sound that Jerry had… These are the types of things that sets you apart from other teachers! THANK YOU!
nice sharing!! well done ! love your stuff
Love your style man, there's lots of gold to be found in these videos
Thanks Stitch! You are turning me into the player I have wanted to be for the past 10-15 years! Thank you! Love your teachings (and your snoring dog!)
Thank you so much, your classes have opened my mind to how this instrument actually works. Can’t thank you enough. Your neverlost changed my life, have recently been practicing exactly what you described in this class and seeing the major scale over it as well, you had some great insights here. Thanks again, you the man. 👊🏻🤟🏻❤️
So nice to hear! It warms my heart to be a part of your journey.
Awesome stuff Stitch! Thanks a bunch
Fantastic Class as always . thank you for all your videos. You simply the best 🙏
Thank you, I find your lessons approachable and motivating.
Man I sware this is by far the most helpful thing I've ran across especially for US stuck in the pentatonic box! I mean I know the extensions and what not but to expand on that and my melodic use this is awesome. Thank you! I plan on subscribing now for sure! 👍
One of the best lesson videos ive watched. And ive been watching for a looooong time. Bravo. 💚🙌
You are making me fall in love with my guitar guitar sir thank you so much for sharing your knowledge to all of us in different part of the world thank you so much lots of thanks 😊
Been watching a few others and watched stop noodling and start melodys and you make so much sense man . Great leasons
I'm hearing Marshall Tucker and all the great Toy Caldwell leads as well as dicey betts too. Love this one it has really opened up my mind. Now to jist keep practicing this stuff and put it together. Maybe then I won't be so hit and miss and on target with a purpose. Thank you 🎸❤🎸
You’re a gent Stitch, this is superb. Thank you.
No, thank you Justin! Please share this vid with someone
Great lesson for me as I have been watching Theory YT vids for about ,5 ys. George Benson is self taught. He plays linear and he explained in interviews that it is easier to play up and down the neck. Now I found this lesson to learn the details..... Just in Time. Your a very fun likeable type friendly teacher. .Really I'm a singer. But learning guitar for secondary reasons. Your so .happy when you teach...turning out ...I am now having fun. Thank you 🎶🎵🎶
Very happy to see u. Thanks.
Great video IAN!!! Thank you very much.
This is so good, and helpful, thank you.
thank you so much for this fascinating lesson on scales and chordal tones !!!! lol :) I am a begginer at guitar and have been playing for about 1 year and a half but i am still trying to grasp the idea of scales and arpeggios and chordal tones etc and i am still yet to memorise my scales and my arpegios and i am also yet to play these scales and arpegios in my songs for solos and riffs, and i need to understand the musical relationship between all these different factors and how they work together to not only produce music theory, from a technical perspective but also see how these things actually apply to songs aswell.
This channel is a GOLD nugget! As close as it gets to having your own personal guitar teacher irl. Thank you from a 58-year old guy in Sweden!
Thanks Ian! This is great! Since I learned diatonic shapes first, my mind always wraps it around these smaller shapes. As I move up and down the neck I'll switch from diatonic to pentatonic and throwing in some extra notes.
Go get it! As long as this helps in the navigation, you are golden!
Awesome brother. I'm getting it in my head
You did it again! First your Masterclass on Caged Arpeggios and now this?! Thank you for the phenomenal guitar knowledge and instruction you have given us and for the time investment you made to bring this to us.
What a great class! Just three of your classes have changed my guitar playing life! Finally, someone covers playing pentatonics over the chords instead of just the key. Now I just have to get to the point where my fingers can go where my mind goes. Thank you so much for doing this.
My Man Stich, Love your teaching ❤️
Thank you for sharing. Great teacher.
RUclips is actually picking out amazing lessons from you, I'm learning so much and it's in a great order. Either that or everything you put out is gold.
The latter is definitely true.
Finding your channel for me was like finding a gem. Thank you for making these videos
This is just what I needed thank you so much !!!!!
Brilliant as always. Thanks
thanks, this is what I was looking for!
You are a legend. Great teacher. Thank you for this lesson.
Thank you for your lessons 🙏. God bless you always
Love your in depth lessons, and all your bad ass guitars
This is a gem! Thank you!
You are such a great teacher. If i had your vids before. I would have been a star by now.
Just a great video - thanks.
Awesome lesson....one of the best on You Tube.
This is amazing and of great value to me, thank you
So glad you are enjoying it!
Brilliant as always! Hardly played my guitar in the last year or more for various reasons but watching this has got me wanting to so thank you.
Amazing to hear! Stick with it!
Thanks for the info!!!
I love your videos ❤and your class it is Amazing love it.GodBless 🎉
Another triumph of a lesson. I realise I've got some work to do, to get this knowledge flowing through my fingers. But you make it look doable and enjoyable
Great lesson, your method encourage me to keep learning guitar,
Thank you Ian. Cheers from Indonesia..
Thank you! Your CAGEd videos change the way I play and this is such a gift.
All I ask is you share this video with someone. 👍
I can't believe this is free. THANK YOU!
Love this. The line insight isn't the cure. Must have stuck in my head.. itbis a lyrics Ina song a wrote that is titled practice. So above and beyond your ability to teach guitar in a way that connects with me, your dad's colloquialisms have also planted seeds. Keep sowing. Peace.
Thank you so much for thus info and I will go slow and learn,the correct way to playmm
you are incredible. this is saving the youtube guitar community.
What a nice comment. Thank you for you energy
This video singlehandedly transformed my playing (watched the original cut on Patreon before publication here) -- Absolutely incredible!!
Awesome to hear! And thanks for being a Patron, means a lot.
You're the best! 👍🏻💯
You Sir, are the Man!!!!!!! Nothing but love!!!!!!!!! Thank You!!!!!
Thanks for time stamps!! 😎
Awesome! You may have just helped me more than anyone else to understand how to link chords and scales together. My only criticism is- you're too self-deprecating- you sound great and are an excellent teacher. Don't beat yourself up for hitting an occasional bad note. You made me realize how Duane Allman used the pentatonic pretty much exclusively. And remember what he said about bad notes - "if you play a bad note, play it again" 😄 Thanks, Stitch!!
Dude, these lessons just rock!🎸 Thank you!
Glad you like them!
Excellent thanks so much.
You are certainly one of the best sources for this type of information. Very clear and well structured lessons. Thank you
Very welcome! Please share this with someone. Rock on
Great lesson, thanks
Love your work appreciate the lessons you make it look easy. trucker from Dayton Ohio.
greatest master to teach guitar to ever exist MR. STICH!!!
Stich - genius masterclass - that is what it is. Thank you Sir
Stich, you're an amazing teacher.
Hey Stitch, love the channel, been with you just a couple months and have learned a lot, I think I'm ready for practice lessons though so I can speed up applying it, still feel like a beginner, at least my hands do lol. Any tips on training the right hand where the strings are so you can skip strings without looking?
a Pure platinum Lesson. Thanks
Non in RUclips was able to explain this much clearly , lots of thanks sir
Thank you so much sir !!!
Thanks Stitch 🙌🏾🙌🏾
Following you and learning my ass off.....the rest of the band has given me big props....and I credit you with the inspiration and confidence you have given me though the learning process. Thanks!!!!!
Amazing to hear and I am so glad you are enjoying the channel
thanks so much Ian. you have changed my life. so keen to get stuck into this.
Amazing to hear, so glad to be a part of the journey.
No words.।। You are just awesome.।। 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👌👌❤❤❤
Thanks so much for sharing your teaching technique is AWESOME! And has really changed my thinking of the fretboard, keep up the wonderful work ! I'm now a BIG FAN!
Awesome to hear and nice to have you here!
Great lesson 👍
Ian, your the man! Thanks for making this video.
No, YOU are the man!
Thanks Ian !!!
Awesome, what a gift !!! Thank’s a ton✨🇫🇷👍🏼🍒
So glad you are enjoying!
Thank you so much.
This is exciting! I didn't think I could be pumped for anything after the CAGED arpeggio material, but lo and behold.
Awesome, let me know how it goes.
Thank you very much for explaining Everything in such a simple way with clear instructions some of these guys on utube start explaining and then going crazy up and down the neck while talking like they are on speed 😵💫😵💫😀anyway love your info u are helping me immensely, have you a course I can purchase I’m a beginner intermediate!! Thanks bro !! Brian Ireland 🇮🇪