How To Play "What You Feel" On Guitar When You Can't Feel Anything Yet

RANT ALERT - I let the comments section get to me today and I'm sorry for the lack of a "lesson" today...
That being said, if you take this to heart and start paying attention to counting and timing and subdividing in the future, it will change your guitar playing more than anything else you can possibly do.
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[@leroybarnard6325]

Grif, I don't at all consider that a "rant". You've given me the most clear and concise concept of a very valuable basic principle: what the feel of the music is. Thanks much.

[@stevec9972]

2 huge concepts I got from your channel,
Counting, Feeling all the sub divisions
& where in the groove to start, ie not always on the 1beat👍
Rhythm, not easy to spell harder to master

[@blase.tattoos]

I was one of those con can only feel 8th notes haha! Until I work on your Speed Building blocks. Been on BGU for about 7 month, I can’t even explain how my playing evolved!
I honestly don’t understand why you don’t have millions of subscribers.

[@theredguitar212]

💡!!! And the Dino’s Bar and Grill shirt did not go unnoticed!

[@raybartell9807]

You seem to be the only one talking about this Griff something I always have a hard time with thank you much,needed

[@ArtDonna84]

This was a wonderful explanation and teaching video. Thank you Griff for taking the time to give us this: "the keys to the kingdom" ! :)

[@noahtenshen]

Not Sexy? Not fun? Not easy? Relativity. Foundations matter--perspective is personal. My years with you have made me better and that is primo. Many thanks for leading me down that path.

[@ronlight7013]

As a "long-term" beginning guitarist, I've struggled to understand the intricacies of timing and technique in Love's Signed DC. So, I asked Johnny Echols how best to play it. He responded, "with feeling." Ha, ha.

[@darrylteneti9596]

Greetings and well wishes from Queensland Australia

[@Panthan]

Thanks Griff. True guitar discipline. I have been examining my timing and it needs to be tightened up, for sure. This will help.

[@Mervenhouser]

Great lesson thanks!

[@dcoakley11]

That was a great concrete explanation on a totally abstract concept that was great stuff

[@Expedient_Mensch]

This was a good one.

[@ElioSpinello]

I hope you keep talking about this because no one else really seems to.

[@vicpnut1]

Back when i was taking lessons my teacher wanted me to always be playing with metronome 1/8 notes (2 notes per beat )…being a horrible student i struggled to get up to a some what sloppy 120 bpm …anyways, i would occasionally try different subdivision like 1/16 or triplets now and then , and the 16th was always the hardest for me ..either i was behind the beat ,so i slow it down and i get ahead of the beat .. i know i shouldve just kept at it ,and i did for quite awhile (daily for idk maybe a month or two )till my self diagnosed musical ADD would kick in after an hr or so everytime …but counting 4 notes per beat to a metronome (badly)while not sounding musical in the slightest playing chromatic scale up and down the neck got old …., i do know this is why (or a good part of the why ) i never got beyond the advanced beginner stage ….kept wanting to run before i could walk like i was able to do with almost anything else i ever tried in life ..guitar is fricken hard to do well ,….and i , no matter how many people told me how many times to “just play through the shittiness “, couldnt do it! Lol muffling a note or two in a chord is acceptable when its fixed by the next down strum , but when youre flubbing notes in a scale and out of time every so often its like ice picks to my ears … yes i know i have issues 🤷🏼‍♂️😬✌️

[@lesternielson9280]

More rants!

[@650thunderbird5]

👍🏻👍🏻

[@MikeSantarcangelo]

Hmmm, you emailed that very message just yesterday. Coincidence? Maybe not?

[@bluesguitarunleashed]

It's been on my mind all weekend :)

[@stevenmccarthy112]

Not everybody can be an artist. Let's not kid ourselves.

[@bluesguitarunleashed]

Depends on your definition of an artist, I guess. My goal is to help people have fun playing guitar and if they don't improve, they don't have fun, and if they don't count and pay attention to rhythm and timing, they don't improve.