Dude stop. Just stop lying, you are hurting music and I don't even play guitar. You are a piece of shit. Ps you're not even a good guitarist, I wouldn't put you in my band. Because you are a lier. Period. You just ruined yourself as a guitarist.
In terms of his current skill at the end this is achievable for a year even at 6 months just practice a everyday.. i once practice two 5 string sweep picking arpeggio shape for 3 days straight and slow and then connecting across fretboards and later I can now sweep pick with ease but getting sloppy at times of course.. its just about how you practice and dedication
@@somedude2594совсем наоборот. акустика - та же электрогитара по конфигурации грифа, хз чем там сложнее. на классике сложнее играть только аккорды, т.к. гриф широкий и не имеет радиуса, из за этого бэнды делать намного проще. акустика и классика проще тем, что звук не перегружен, можно не глушить лишние струны
I used to take guitar lesson when i was 14 or 15 but abruptly stopped after months of practicing. now, i'm 27 and back to learn guitar more professionally and set realistic goal.
THIS VIDEO IS OUTDATED!!! A new and updated version, that includes up to the 2nd year of playing is out now!!! Here it is: ruclips.net/video/aULSsmv3ElQ/видео.html 0:00 BEST intro Ever 0:27 First Day (Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water) 0:47 1 Month (Open chords) 1:11 1 And a Half Months (Scales) 1:43 2 Months (Barre chords) 2:32 4 And a Half Months (Improv) 3:30 6 Months (Fytch - Blinded) 4:23 7 Months (Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train) 5:01 9 And a Half Months (Steve Vai - For The Love Of God) 7:22 11 Months (Naruto Main Theme) 7:50 11 Months (Improv) 9:39 1 Year (Van Halen - Eruption??) 9:57 1 Year (Van Halen - Eruption!!!) 11:31 Whammy Bar FAIL 12:31 Outro I wanted to include youtube chapters, but for some reason they dont show up, sry. IMPORTANT INFO: I actually started recording myself from the 4th month, so the first 4 clips (first day, 1 month, 1 and a half month, 2 months) are just a decent approximation of what I rememember I could do back then. Everything else is a completely real progression. My initial goal whas to practice 4 hours each day for the whole year, but due to my first year in college I couldnt practice that much, so some days I would practice up to 5 hours, but others i would do it for just 1h. Because of this, the total average was reduced to 2 hours/day.
Great progress, I can't say I have ever seen a whammy bar break, now I can. I would say it's an excuse for a upgrade/new guitar. Keep at, you're doing good!
You're welcome, where's the fun in no whammy bar dives on Eruption though? Seen you got a new guitar after I wrote my reply. I blame cheap hardware on the Squier for the breakage.(Not trying to knock the guitar either, it's just the nature of the beast). good luck on your guitar journey.
@@rogslayer I know that now i cant do crazy whammy noises, but i REALLY wanted a les paul, and I couldnt resist myself of buying one when I saw that white epiphone, I just love how it looks and sounds. My next guitar is probably gonna be a superstrat, so i got the problem covered.
Thanks man!! Don't worry that much about fast playing. Just make sure that your technique is correct, and after time, If you slowly increase the metronome tempo, you will see some great progress on your speed.
Dude this progress is disgustingly insane. Doing all of this in your first year of college is super impressive. As a fellow college student, I feel the pain of not being able to practice due to its demands. What did you do to practice shredding so cleanly? I’ve got a lot of dead notes whenever I try to shred and it sounds like I’m trying to do a Walmart version of shedding funk with no clean audiable notes lol. I find that my hands are usually not in sync and most of the time I just can’t them to play together. Also, what did you do to get that tone? Sounds amazing with all of those pinches. Nice touch on the Naruto theme. Everything from it slaps. Keep on killing it!
Thank you for the kind words!! I'll do my best asking your questions: For the shredding i basically practice playing up and down 3nps patterns with a metronome (using either alternate picking or legato). It took me a long time to be able to shred at high bpm. In order to develop good syncronization between both hands, it is important to start practicing it at lower bpm, low enough so you can play through the whole scale with clean technique. When you find a bmp that you are confortable at, slowly start rising it, without losing the clean technique. At some point you will end up playing at around 120 bpm (even higher if you want to), which already can be considered shredding. And for the tone, i just use bias fx 2 with an audio interface. For the shredding tone I specifically use the default preset called "Angry Goddess" Hope that helped!!
@@excellent_approximation I see. What about finger/hand tension? Usually my hand hurts quite a bit after a crazy run, though this is mostly apparent when I play chords. I’ve got my truss rod pretty much straight and action as low as comfortably possible and still feel as if I am fighting just to move around the fretboard. Then again, I haven’t been doing what you’ve suggested by slowing down. I’ll need to trust the process and move slow I suppose. Thank you for the response! If anything, I suppose I’m just neglecting what I should be focusing on which is not rushing everything. In terms of your tone, what do you have it running through? Is it through a bigger computer or one that is portable enough to fit in your bag? I’m aware an audio interface is needed (from looks of it you picked up a scarlet) to use this stuff, though it would be unfortunate if a big desktop computer is needed just to run it. I’ll be living in college dorms soon so only having access to an amp within my dorm exclusively would be a bummer since it would be difficult to transport everything. Thanks!
@@kintokigintoki9923 Finger and hand tension is something im still struggling with. Im getting better at it, though. Basically, in order to diminish the tension you need to use as little force as possible when practicing your scales. The force has to be low enough so you can play for a long time without experiencing hand pain and strong enough so every note gets audible. With all this technical things you just gotta take your time. If you practice them correctly without rushing, someday you end up playing them with no effort, actually feels like magic when you get them right. So good luck with your journey!! And about the tone, I'm using a big computer, but I dont really think thats really important, I think a laptop should do the work. Probably, if the computer is too slow, you will get some input lag, but i dont think it will be that noticeable.
@@excellent_approximation thank you for the advice! Yeah I have been trying to Monitor in my hand tension and there are definitely days where my fingers fly across the fretboard without any pain. It sucks when that feeling goes away because then I gotta try and find out how I did that lol. I’ll take your word and keep on going at a steady pace. Thanks for the input on the computer stuff. I was definitely worried about how my computer would react if I were to hook up an interface to it. I’ll look into it and see what else I can find. It’s definitely useful to know what I may be dealing with and I appreciate you telling me to be aware of it. Thanks!
Start slow. Practice. Practice. Practice. And more practice. And also check out Robert Bakers lesson on it. ruclips.net/video/OiQybxgx270/видео.htmlsi=axhggbhyG62UAMGh
R.I.P. Whammy bar. Gone, but not forgotten. Wonderful progress. I can only hope that I'll achieve half as you did in my first year. I'm two months in, still struggling with open chord changes. I might have bit off more than I can chew, though, since I decided to learn the acoustic bit of "Nutshell" by Alice in Chains almost immediately.
Huge respect for trying to learn Blinded by Fytch, one of the songs on NCS with an amazing guitar solo in it. But regardless of my bias, this has to be the most impressive guitar progress video i've seen, great job man!
Thanks a lot!! It's awesome to find someone that knows blinded. It isnt very known, but its solo is by far one of my favorites. The cover in this video is pretty old and has lots of mistakes, I have a more recent cover of the same solo uploaded on the channel, in case you wanna check it out.
this is an example on also why knowing your fret board is rlly important when playing guitar, i wish i had knew that when i started playing it rlly wouldve helped me alot
Don't worry man, just take that as an advantage. If you practice a lot on acoustic, your hands will get very strong, so when you get an electric it will be way easier to play. Thanks for watching!!
Something that has helped my shredding and improvisation is setting a metronome and practice switching between different subdivisions. Go like 8ths, 8th triplets(3 notes per beat), 16ths, then 16th note triplets(6 per beat). Do different sequences so like 1-2-3 for triplets and 1-2-3-2 for 16ths. When you can feel how they relate to eachother and instantly switch your shredding will clean up alot.
Thats crazy..ik all the comments are mostly putting you down but you playing self taught for a year and you are better then me having played for two years with a teacher...keep the good work up brother. Maybe youll be famous one day!
in terms of his current skill at the end this is achievable for a year even at 6 months just practice a everyday.. i once practice two 5 string sweep picking arpeggio shape for 3 days straight and slow and then connecting across fretboards and later i can now sweep pick with ease but getting sloppy at times of course.. its just about how you practice and dedication!
after 2,5 month of playing (self-taught same :DD) i can play sleepwalk by Santo & Johnny (Melody of course) and i will play it with my band. Keep going bro, greetings from Poland :DD
I've learnt everything online. For the first two months or so I followed Justin guitar course, but after that I started learning just by myself, by applying my theory knowledge (intervals, chords, arpeggios, scales) to the instrument. I only rarely watch technique tutorials when I feel im stuck on some technique. Anyways, Im starting to write a free comprehensive roadmap that teaches everything I have learnt until now about theory/technique. It will probably be ready in a few months in case you are interested, I'll post a video when its done. Thanks for watching!!
@@excellent_approximation Super excited for the roadmap! If you don’t mind me asking, how did you learn music theory? I’m just starting out and wanting to learn theory first, but don’t know the best way to do so. thank you and great video!
dude thats fucking awsome!! Im like 2 or so months in and want to try to put more time in more so so i can do improve stuff and just vibe but seeing stuff like this is some good inspiration to keep going!
hey, i was wondering how do you learn to translate what you hear in your head onto the fretboard? is it just as simple as knowing where the notes are on the fretboard and having the pitch of the notes memorized? also, rip self esteem, just as i thought i was doing good progress for a year
The reason you broke you Wammy bar is because you were pulling back on it, those squire strat tremolos arnt made for that. Since you’ve gotten this good I would recommend to you a new guitar with a Floyd rose on it but or you could install a Floyd rose onto that guitar but you would need to rout things out and it’s kind of a pain in the butt.
This video overrall made me more motivated I learnt eruption in 7 months and u also played a couple licks wrong and missed a lot of notes. Not saying it’s cos of skill more because u learnt it from the wrong person or tab etc. awesome progress video finally someone with good taste!!
I like the in memoriam of the whammy bar at he end. Was real emotional after watch it grow up since just 4 months old. 😭😭 But a bit of crazy glue and it should be fine. 😅
This is very cool dude I dream of this I'm 3 months and I've made formidable progress like you but I'm stuck on the soloing so please any tips even what to practice would help
Generally, for that kind of speed I just practice the 3nps major scale patterns with a metronome up and down doing either alternate picking or legato. You can do the same thing with pentatonics too. Thanks for watching!!
Great job! Impressive growth in 1 year. Way more than most male in 1 year. I’d love to know specifically what you studied, like if I wanted to study the exact same stuff, which online lessons or info did you watch or learn from?
Thank you!! I didnt really take too much lessons. First month i did the justin guitar free beginner course, where i learnt some basic chord changes, but after the first month i started learning by myself. What I did was, first of all, before even buying my guitar, learn music theory. And then, after getting the instrument I just started to apply all the theory i learnt before. So I learnt how to find intervals, scales and chords around the fretboard and practiced them a lot in order to get a good technique. A good way to do this is to improvise, because when improvising you first need to be able to find the scale/chord on the fretboard, and then you have to play it on time. So I improvised a LOT, and this helped me (and is still helping me) to improve my visualization, technique and overall musicality. Also, for developing technique, I sometimes learn solos by ear (as you can see in the video), and if i dont know how to use a new technique (for example tapping), i just search for a quick youtube tutorial. Hope this helped!! Edit: If you have any more specific questions, feel free to ask.
@@darkdank1341 I basically grinded 3nps scales really hard with a metronome. I learnt the 7 3nps major scale patterns and just played them under a metronome up and down. Just start with a low bpm and slowly increase it over time. In a few months, you will be able to play the scales pretty fast if you practice this daily. You can do this either with legato or alternate picking. I recommend doing it with both techniques, as the two of them are very useful when playing.
I think that my progress very similiar right now, but mine took just a half year longer because of long breaks, holidays, pure laziness, so the amount of hours played would be very close to each other. Just doing the eruption, need like few hours more to master it, so IT is totally achieveable, BUT there is talent involved, if you are not manually talented , you wont progress so fast.
@@royghosn18 thanks for youtrsupport. actually i retake it cause 3 or 4 years ago i start to play but i left it. now im relearning some concepts and start playing using yusician.
@@andresgonzalezfernandez5153 Yousician is okay… the first time I tried learning I used it but honestly RUclips is way better. Also Justin guitar is really good.
Like man so cool how fast u progressed ur 7 and even 9 months look so awkward and painful still. Unlocking that door to mastering and feeling ur technique is the best thing ever I feel bad for people who don’t get like this in there first year I love seeing more passionate players! Cool u learnt some Steve Vai and Randy’s crazy train solo early on tho! I also love how u found out early there is good reason to own a Floyd 😂❤
Hey man thats bonkers that you can play like that after a year!!! Ive been trying to learn how to play guitar for a while now, so my question is where did you learn how to play like that, were you self taught? if so do you remember what stuff you used to learn? If you still remember it would be awesome if you could tell me about it, have a great day! (Also R.I.P whammy, gone but never forgotten)
I've learnt everything online. For the first two months or so I followed Justin guitar course, but after that I started learning just by myself, by applying my theory knowledge (intervals, chords, arpeggios, scales) to the instrument. I only rarely watch technique tutorials when I feel im stuck on some technique. Anyways, since I get this question asked a lot, Im starting to write a free comprehensive roadmap that teaches everything I have learnt until now about theory/technique. It will probably be ready in a few months in case you are interested, I'll post a video when its done. Thanks for watching!!
@@excellent_approximation I CANT FUCKING WAIT FOR THAT ROADMAP. ive been going about 3 months off/on learning. not really focusing on anything, just find tabs and have fun with it. learnt a few basic major chords and can transition pretty easily (with a few mistakes) but its just fun and thats all i really care about, But a roadmap would give me direction to go in. definately subbed and waiting for it :D
I need to be able to learn to solo I'm trying so hard to figure out what to practice please help a brother out I saw this inspirational video and I don't doubt your progress one bit because I'm the same way I practice every single day
Hi!! To figure out what to practice, first of all you should know what your final objective is. Do you want to play groovy, rhythm based solos, slow emotional solos, fast and shred solos or maybe a combination of all of those? Also, are you interested in just learning solos by memory, or are you interested in writing and improvising your own solos?
@@excellent_approximation improvising and basically being able to do all those kinds of styles because being able to understand how to play other styles is important to your groove.
@@savvy1246 If you are interested in all those things, then I think I can be of help, since my goal is too to master all styles and be able to improvise them. I'm actually working on a free roadmap that teaches everything I know so far, which includes all my theory and fretboard knowledge and also my methods on practicing technique, so I think it will be pretty handy for you if that's what you want to learn. Hopefully it will be released around the end of summer. In the meantime, I can give you some basic guidelines so you can start practicing this right away. Since you have only been playing for 3 months, I would recommend you to start by building your soloing technique, you can leave the fretboard visualization and music theory for a bit later on. So when it comes to soloing, which usually involves playing just one note at a time, I identify three main blocks of technique one should practice. These are: picking technique, legato technique and articulation. I'll briefly go through the three of this and will give you some exercises to practice. Picking technique: This refers to any technique in which you use your pick to play each individual note, this includes alternate picking, economy picking, sweep picking... I could write 9999999999 words about picking, but for now I'll just give you a basic exercise for you to start familiarizing yourself with the movement. Just pick any scale shape (major, minor, pentatonic...) and play it up and down, picking every note trying to alternate pick, wich means playing both downstrokes and upstrokes. You may notice that sometimes is more comfortable doing two consecutive downstrokes or maybe two consecutive upstrokes when changing to the next string, which is totally fine, that is called economy picking, and is the way I pick. I actually find strict alternate picking not practical at all. And that is it, just play the scale up and down with a metronome and keep increasing the bpm each day. When you feel comfortable with it, try applying variations to the order of the notes, and also try creating melodies that sound good to your ear. Legato technique: Legato is basically playing notes without your right hand, and you do so by doing hammer-ons and pull-offs. If you are unfamiliar with this terms, I recommend you to search for some tutorial since is very difficult to explain with a yt comment. After you understand what legato is, then you can start practicing it for example by playing the pentatonic scale with it: pick the first note of each string and play the second one with a hammer-on if you are ascending or a pull-off if you are descending. And like with the picking technique, use a metronome and slowly increase the bpm, and once you are comfortable with the technique, you can start noodling a bit and figuring out some melodies. Articulation: This is actually the best part of a soloing guitar, the articulation, which means in what way do you play each note. The electric guitar brings you a wide variety of ways you can articulate your notes: vibrato, slides, bends, bends with vibrato, palm muting, pinch harmonics, whammy bar in case you have one... Mastering articulation will bring a lot of life to your solos, this is where the "feel" of a solo comes from. I would suggest you to start with slides and vibrato, since they are easier and then go into bending. For now I recommend you to search for tutorials for each one of this techniques, specially for bending, It is VERY important to bend the right way, unlike me on more of a half of this video hahah. Well that's all for now at least, I wish you luck with your guitar journey, and feel free to ask any other question.
@@excellent_approximation thanks for the information and we use with whatever you gave me to my advantage but let me tell you that I actually have gained lots of speed and I use metronome and practice at a slower beat per minute which actually help me gain speed and it just cleaned up my technique overall and I already have the picking down for the most part it’s very smooth and it goes whichever way it wants to I don’t really even have to think about it but it’s just having trouble from trying to switch scales like a good example is pride and Joy by Stevie Ray Vaughan you can hear the scale switch but I am most likely like blues but I love so many other genres it’s just very hard trying to connect other keys in notes because sometimes The next note isnt wrong or right it’s just a note that you’re looking for. And another good example is riviera paradise. oh my God you have to hear it he does so many things and I love blues and I think I might be learning my augmented or diminished scale next I’m not sure but have a listen to the song I put a link the solo is at 7 minutes but the whole song is brain melting. ruclips.net/video/KfGBQHM1EzI/видео.html&feature=share8
Amazing progress but I thing you should switch to other type of guitar than Strat probably Ibanez Superstrat would be best option for that kind of music Anyway Very talented
Yeah, i've done lots of interval and chord recognition exercises, I've also transcribed solos by ear, and i think it definitely helps with improvising. Thanks to ear training, I feel like I dont have much trouble finding the sounds I hear in my head.
@@excellent_approximation could I ask what methods you used i’m self taught and I’ve already begun it but I’m tryna make sure I get the best bang for my buck if you get what I’m saying
@@Beloved-ji5jx I mean, Im not really that good at ear training, so i dont think I'm the one you should ask. I can kinda play melodies by ear, but when it comes to identifying chord progressions, Im usually unable to guess them at the first tries. Even so, if you are interested, I can give you my methods. When it comes to melody, I think the best you can practice are call and response exercises. They consist on hearing a simple melodic phrase and then trying to replicate it on your instrument. Aditionally, you can also do intervallic recognision exercises. There are plenty of apps out there for this purpose. And for chord progressions, what I do is just use this website: www.hooktheory.com/theorytab/difficulties The site has lot of songs, and it sorts them by chord progression difficulty. Just pick a level in which you feel confortable and try to guess the progression of the songs. After you do your guess, you can check if you were right or wrong.
I'm not saying you're lying you might actually be a natural talent, but it's not normal to be able to play Eruption without many mistakes in a year I'm just saying.
There isn't much I can tell you to prove that this is true, Its up to you if you believe it or not. All I can tell you is that i dont have any kind of "natural talent", In fact I dont belive that thing even exists. The only thing I did my first year of playing was practicing A LOT. I practiced at least 2 hours each day without skipping a single day (this is not an estimation, I count the hours I play), and did lots of technical exercises under a metronome. Also, I didnt just play eruption like that on one take, I had to do probably over 50 takes in order to get the one you can see on the video (which still has mistakes).
i’m at the point where i’m pretty comfortable with power chords and open chords, should i learn barre cords? i’m just kind of stuck on what i should learn (edit) i also know pentatonic minor
If you are already comfortable with power and open chords, barre chords are the next step. They can be a bit difficult at the beginning, but when you get them right, the whole fretboard will open up to you, which is awesome. So yeah, go for it!! I suggest you to start with the E and A shape barre chords (major and minor) Also, about the pentatonic scale, i would recommend you to try using it for improvisation if you havent already. Just pick any backing track here on youtube and try playing some licks over it using the scale. This will expand not only your technique, but also your musicality and timing. After gaining some experience using the first position of the pentatonic, you could learn the other 4 CAGED positions one by one and learn to connect them, which will give you lots of freedom on the fretboard. There are lots of tutorials on how to do this on youtube, but if you still have doubts just ask me. Thanks for watching and good luck with your journey!!
2hours a day after 6 months and youre nailing ste vai solos....no way thats years off practice there brilliant playing by the way but 6 months impossible
Now that you know how to play very fast and loud you need to learn to play slow and with little sound and great feeling. Ever seen great blues acoustic players play fast ? Almost never.
Dude stop. Just stop lying, you are hurting music and I don't even play guitar. You are a piece of shit. Ps you're not even a good guitarist, I wouldn't put you in my band. Because you are a lier. Period. You just ruined yourself as a guitarist.
Pin of shame lmao
In terms of his current skill at the end this is achievable for a year even at 6 months just practice a everyday.. i once practice two 5 string sweep picking arpeggio shape for 3 days straight and slow and then connecting across fretboards and later I can now sweep pick with ease but getting sloppy at times of course.. its just about how you practice and dedication
chill out bro you might pop a vein
He pinned you XD lmaooooooooooo
Oh and btw 'liar'*
I’ve never seen anyone progress that fast ever . Impressive.
На электрогитаре это легко, не то что на акустике и классике.
I may have learnt eruption and Mr Crowley in 7 months
@@somedude2594 Not easy to do what he’s doing at all.
@@somedude2594 braindead statement
@@somedude2594совсем наоборот. акустика - та же электрогитара по конфигурации грифа, хз чем там сложнее.
на классике сложнее играть только аккорды, т.к. гриф широкий и не имеет радиуса,
из за этого бэнды делать намного проще.
акустика и классика проще тем, что звук не перегружен, можно не глушить лишние струны
I used to take guitar lesson when i was 14 or 15 but abruptly stopped after months of practicing. now, i'm 27 and back to learn guitar more professionally and set realistic goal.
Honestly you're 4 month progress was incredible you inspired me to learn electric guitar
THIS VIDEO IS OUTDATED!!! A new and updated version, that includes up to the 2nd year of playing is out now!!! Here it is: ruclips.net/video/aULSsmv3ElQ/видео.html
0:00 BEST intro Ever
0:27 First Day (Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water)
0:47 1 Month (Open chords)
1:11 1 And a Half Months (Scales)
1:43 2 Months (Barre chords)
2:32 4 And a Half Months (Improv)
3:30 6 Months (Fytch - Blinded)
4:23 7 Months (Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train)
5:01 9 And a Half Months (Steve Vai - For The Love Of God)
7:22 11 Months (Naruto Main Theme)
7:50 11 Months (Improv)
9:39 1 Year (Van Halen - Eruption??)
9:57 1 Year (Van Halen - Eruption!!!)
11:31 Whammy Bar FAIL
12:31 Outro
I wanted to include youtube chapters, but for some reason they dont show up, sry.
IMPORTANT INFO:
I actually started recording myself from the 4th month, so the first 4 clips (first day, 1 month, 1 and a half month, 2 months) are just a decent approximation of what I rememember I could do back then. Everything else is a completely real progression.
My initial goal whas to practice 4 hours each day for the whole year, but due to my first year in college I couldnt practice that much, so some days I would practice up to 5 hours, but others i would do it for just 1h. Because of this, the total average was reduced to 2 hours/day.
Great progress, I can't say I have ever seen a whammy bar break, now I can. I would say it's an excuse for a upgrade/new guitar. Keep at, you're doing good!
Thanks!! Yeah, as you can see in my last videos i already upgraded my guitar. This one doesnt even have a whammy so now it cant break anymore xd.
You're welcome, where's the fun in no whammy bar dives on Eruption though?
Seen you got a new guitar after I wrote my reply. I blame cheap hardware on the Squier for the breakage.(Not trying to knock the guitar either, it's just the nature of the beast).
good luck on your guitar journey.
@@rogslayer I know that now i cant do crazy whammy noises, but i REALLY wanted a les paul, and I couldnt resist myself of buying one when I saw that white epiphone, I just love how it looks and sounds. My next guitar is probably gonna be a superstrat, so i got the problem covered.
Shit man, mine almost did and now it won’t even fit into my bridge :/
Realistic progress for 1 year if you practice real hard.Can’t wait to see your progress in a year!
Thank you , you've not only showed you're wonderful progress but also what you've learnt along the way in order , which is super duper helpful
Great progress for 1 year bro I can’t play as fast as you yet been 11 months for me. Working on it slowly but surely!
Thanks man!! Don't worry that much about fast playing. Just make sure that your technique is correct, and after time, If you slowly increase the metronome tempo, you will see some great progress on your speed.
@@excellent_approximation yo what did you use to learn?
2 years in and i'm in your 2 months. Thank you
Dude this progress is disgustingly insane. Doing all of this in your first year of college is super impressive. As a fellow college student, I feel the pain of not being able to practice due to its demands.
What did you do to practice shredding so cleanly? I’ve got a lot of dead notes whenever I try to shred and it sounds like I’m trying to do a Walmart version of shedding funk with no clean audiable notes lol. I find that my hands are usually not in sync and most of the time I just can’t them to play together.
Also, what did you do to get that tone? Sounds amazing with all of those pinches.
Nice touch on the Naruto theme. Everything from it slaps.
Keep on killing it!
Thank you for the kind words!! I'll do my best asking your questions:
For the shredding i basically practice playing up and down 3nps patterns with a metronome (using either alternate picking or legato). It took me a long time to be able to shred at high bpm. In order to develop good syncronization between both hands, it is important to start practicing it at lower bpm, low enough so you can play through the whole scale with clean technique. When you find a bmp that you are confortable at, slowly start rising it, without losing the clean technique. At some point you will end up playing at around 120 bpm (even higher if you want to), which already can be considered shredding.
And for the tone, i just use bias fx 2 with an audio interface. For the shredding tone I specifically use the default preset called "Angry Goddess"
Hope that helped!!
@@excellent_approximation I see. What about finger/hand tension? Usually my hand hurts quite a bit after a crazy run, though this is mostly apparent when I play chords. I’ve got my truss rod pretty much straight and action as low as comfortably possible and still feel as if I am fighting just to move around the fretboard.
Then again, I haven’t been doing what you’ve suggested by slowing down. I’ll need to trust the process and move slow I suppose.
Thank you for the response! If anything, I suppose I’m just neglecting what I should be focusing on which is not rushing everything.
In terms of your tone, what do you have it running through? Is it through a bigger computer or one that is portable enough to fit in your bag? I’m aware an audio interface is needed (from looks of it you picked up a scarlet) to use this stuff, though it would be unfortunate if a big desktop computer is needed just to run it. I’ll be living in college dorms soon so only having access to an amp within my dorm exclusively would be a bummer since it would be difficult to transport everything.
Thanks!
@@kintokigintoki9923 Finger and hand tension is something im still struggling with. Im getting better at it, though. Basically, in order to diminish the tension you need to use as little force as possible when practicing your scales. The force has to be low enough so you can play for a long time without experiencing hand pain and strong enough so every note gets audible. With all this technical things you just gotta take your time. If you practice them correctly without rushing, someday you end up playing them with no effort, actually feels like magic when you get them right. So good luck with your journey!!
And about the tone, I'm using a big computer, but I dont really think thats really important, I think a laptop should do the work. Probably, if the computer is too slow, you will get some input lag, but i dont think it will be that noticeable.
@@excellent_approximation thank you for the advice! Yeah I have been trying to Monitor in my hand tension and there are definitely days where my fingers fly across the fretboard without any pain. It sucks when that feeling goes away because then I gotta try and find out how I did that lol. I’ll take your word and keep on going at a steady pace.
Thanks for the input on the computer stuff. I was definitely worried about how my computer would react if I were to hook up an interface to it. I’ll look into it and see what else I can find. It’s definitely useful to know what I may be dealing with and I appreciate you telling me to be aware of it.
Thanks!
Start slow. Practice. Practice. Practice. And more practice. And also check out Robert Bakers lesson on it. ruclips.net/video/OiQybxgx270/видео.htmlsi=axhggbhyG62UAMGh
R.I.P. Whammy bar. Gone, but not forgotten.
Wonderful progress. I can only hope that I'll achieve half as you did in my first year. I'm two months in, still struggling with open chord changes. I might have bit off more than I can chew, though, since I decided to learn the acoustic bit of "Nutshell" by Alice in Chains almost immediately.
Yeah you can do it mate, just keep practicing and after a while you will notice how much you have improved. Thanks for watching!!
Well done! Enjoy and have fun!
Huge respect for trying to learn Blinded by Fytch, one of the songs on NCS with an amazing guitar solo in it.
But regardless of my bias, this has to be the most impressive guitar progress video i've seen, great job man!
Thanks a lot!! It's awesome to find someone that knows blinded. It isnt very known, but its solo is by far one of my favorites. The cover in this video is pretty old and has lots of mistakes, I have a more recent cover of the same solo uploaded on the channel, in case you wanna check it out.
@@excellent_approximation Will do! Thanks for letting me know
this is an example on also why knowing your fret board is rlly important when playing guitar, i wish i had knew that when i started playing it rlly wouldve helped me alot
You’re so lucky to have an electric guitar from the get go 😭 I was a beginner trying to do barre chords on acoustic wondering why they’re so hard
Don't worry man, just take that as an advantage. If you practice a lot on acoustic, your hands will get very strong, so when you get an electric it will be way easier to play.
Thanks for watching!!
@@excellent_approximation yes, I did get an electric 1 month ago, I couldent believe how easy it was to press in the strings. And ty
dude same. I just started practicing a lot more on electric about 6 months ago. I probably practice for about an hour or two a day.
Now I'm not alone🔥
It could be worse if it were an old Soviet acoustic with the strings mile away from the fretboard
Something that has helped my shredding and improvisation is setting a metronome and practice switching between different subdivisions. Go like 8ths, 8th triplets(3 notes per beat), 16ths, then 16th note triplets(6 per beat). Do different sequences so like 1-2-3 for triplets and 1-2-3-2 for 16ths. When you can feel how they relate to eachother and instantly switch your shredding will clean up alot.
Hope your proud of urself man this was a well made vid with dope playing and progress keep rocking!!
Congratulations, impressive progress!
Very talented playing left-handed and the right-handed
Thank you!!
Thats crazy..ik all the comments are mostly putting you down but you playing self taught for a year and you are better then me having played for two years with a teacher...keep the good work up brother. Maybe youll be famous one day!
2:23 - I love how you made an achievement tune! XD
in terms of his current skill at the end this is achievable for a year even at 6 months just practice a everyday.. i once practice two 5 string sweep picking arpeggio shape for 3 days straight and slow and then connecting across fretboards and later i can now sweep pick with ease but getting sloppy at times of course.. its just about how you practice and dedication!
Damn this video gives me motivation and a clear path to self teach guitar lol
being able to play crazy train after 7 month progress is WILD, also congrats for your achievement
after 2,5 month of playing (self-taught same :DD) i can play sleepwalk by Santo & Johnny (Melody of course) and i will play it with my band. Keep going bro, greetings from Poland :DD
how did you learn online or in person teacher if online what source did you use thanks
I've learnt everything online. For the first two months or so I followed Justin guitar course, but after that I started learning just by myself, by applying my theory knowledge (intervals, chords, arpeggios, scales) to the instrument. I only rarely watch technique tutorials when I feel im stuck on some technique.
Anyways, Im starting to write a free comprehensive roadmap that teaches everything I have learnt until now about theory/technique. It will probably be ready in a few months in case you are interested, I'll post a video when its done.
Thanks for watching!!
@@excellent_approximation Super excited for the roadmap! If you don’t mind me asking, how did you learn music theory? I’m just starting out and wanting to learn theory first, but don’t know the best way to do so. thank you and great video!
Anyone got that road map?
Very nice progress. I wish I could get as half as you got!
this is actually insane like what the fuck
Haha, thanks a lot!!
i absolutely love watching this! Im like, he has the PERFECT fingers! lol
dude thats fucking awsome!! Im like 2 or so months in and want to try to put more time in more so so i can do improve stuff and just vibe but seeing stuff like this is some good inspiration to keep going!
This is very interesting to see 😁
hey, i was wondering how do you learn to translate what you hear in your head onto the fretboard? is it just as simple as knowing where the notes are on the fretboard and having the pitch of the notes memorized?
also, rip self esteem, just as i thought i was doing good progress for a year
The reason you broke you Wammy bar is because you were pulling back on it, those squire strat tremolos arnt made for that. Since you’ve gotten this good I would recommend to you a new guitar with a Floyd rose on it but or you could install a Floyd rose onto that guitar but you would need to rout things out and it’s kind of a pain in the butt.
The editing is the best part
This video overrall made me more motivated I learnt eruption in 7 months and u also played a couple licks wrong and missed a lot of notes. Not saying it’s cos of skill more because u learnt it from the wrong person or tab etc. awesome progress video finally someone with good taste!!
I like the in memoriam of the whammy bar at he end. Was real emotional after watch it grow up since just 4 months old. 😭😭 But a bit of crazy glue and it should be fine. 😅
This is very cool dude I dream of this I'm 3 months and I've made formidable progress like you but I'm stuck on the soloing so please any tips even what to practice would help
Very impressive. Would love to know your exercises/videos you follow to achieve speed like in 9:03? Thanks a lot
Generally, for that kind of speed I just practice the 3nps major scale patterns with a metronome up and down doing either alternate picking or legato. You can do the same thing with pentatonics too. Thanks for watching!!
Great job! Impressive growth in 1 year. Way more than most male in 1 year. I’d love to know specifically what you studied, like if I wanted to study the exact same stuff, which online lessons or info did you watch or learn from?
Thank you!!
I didnt really take too much lessons. First month i did the justin guitar free beginner course, where i learnt some basic chord changes, but after the first month i started learning by myself.
What I did was, first of all, before even buying my guitar, learn music theory. And then, after getting the instrument I just started to apply all the theory i learnt before. So I learnt how to find intervals, scales and chords around the fretboard and practiced them a lot in order to get a good technique. A good way to do this is to improvise, because when improvising you first need to be able to find the scale/chord on the fretboard, and then you have to play it on time. So I improvised a LOT, and this helped me (and is still helping me) to improve my visualization, technique and overall musicality.
Also, for developing technique, I sometimes learn solos by ear (as you can see in the video), and if i dont know how to use a new technique (for example tapping), i just search for a quick youtube tutorial.
Hope this helped!!
Edit: If you have any more specific questions, feel free to ask.
@@excellent_approximation How did you learn to shred after 9 1/2 months?
@@darkdank1341 I basically grinded 3nps scales really hard with a metronome. I learnt the 7 3nps major scale patterns and just played them under a metronome up and down. Just start with a low bpm and slowly increase it over time. In a few months, you will be able to play the scales pretty fast if you practice this daily.
You can do this either with legato or alternate picking. I recommend doing it with both techniques, as the two of them are very useful when playing.
Brilliant progression 👌.. Time to trade the beginner squier in for either a Jackson or Ibanez 🤘
Insane progress mate! Well hoe did you understand the roadmap and what module did you follow?
I think that my progress very similiar right now, but mine took just a half year longer because of long breaks, holidays, pure laziness, so the amount of hours played would be very close to each other. Just doing the eruption, need like few hours more to master it, so IT is totally achieveable, BUT there is talent involved, if you are not manually talented , you wont progress so fast.
How old are you? im 27 and starting but im feel a little old.
not old at all just do it. its fun
@@royghosn18 thanks for youtrsupport. actually i retake it cause 3 or 4 years ago i start to play but i left it. now im relearning some concepts and start playing using yusician.
@@andresgonzalezfernandez5153 Yousician is okay… the first time I tried learning I used it but honestly RUclips is way better. Also Justin guitar is really good.
Like man so cool how fast u progressed ur 7 and even 9 months look so awkward and painful still. Unlocking that door to mastering and feeling ur technique is the best thing ever I feel bad for people who don’t get like this in there first year I love seeing more passionate players! Cool u learnt some Steve Vai and Randy’s crazy train solo early on tho! I also love how u found out early there is good reason to own a Floyd 😂❤
Bro is doing that shit like me after 5 years
Cara, Parabéns!
Dude, and i thought playing guitar was hard
Now i see it's only practice and study.
Now that i'm learning cello everything looks a bit easier :)
When i have condition i'll buy my own guitar and practice.
For me, the more instruments i learn to play the better.
I’m gonna start using “upgraded” I love it
Sounds great, only thing that seemed lacking was the muting but everything else was perfect
Bro im palying guitar like for 3 years and still cant play the mop solo
Very good but your intro needs more explosions and fire
You are right... I will fix that for the 3 year montage. Thx for watching!!
Yo. That progress is so fast😭😭😭😭 may I know where do you learn those stuffs? Sources plsss
Hey man thats bonkers that you can play like that after a year!!! Ive been trying to learn how to play guitar for a while now, so my question is where did you learn how to play like that, were you self taught? if so do you remember what stuff you used to learn? If you still remember it would be awesome if you could tell me about it, have a great day!
(Also R.I.P whammy, gone but never forgotten)
I've learnt everything online. For the first two months or so I followed Justin guitar course, but after that I started learning just by myself, by applying my theory knowledge (intervals, chords, arpeggios, scales) to the instrument. I only rarely watch technique tutorials when I feel im stuck on some technique.
Anyways, since I get this question asked a lot, Im starting to write a free comprehensive roadmap that teaches everything I have learnt until now about theory/technique. It will probably be ready in a few months in case you are interested, I'll post a video when its done.
Thanks for watching!!
@@excellent_approximation I CANT FUCKING WAIT FOR THAT ROADMAP. ive been going about 3 months off/on learning. not really focusing on anything, just find tabs and have fun with it. learnt a few basic major chords and can transition pretty easily (with a few mistakes) but its just fun and thats all i really care about, But a roadmap would give me direction to go in. definately subbed and waiting for it :D
did you play any music instruments before this?
This is wayy faster than me for 1 year i got to learn only is one metallica and master of puppets
beginning made me laugh with sotw
krl aprendeu mt em cachorro !!!!!!
Did you use tabs for some if this?
yo how did you finds songs to practise. im kinda in a corner and cant find even tough im trying to practise. its hard without knowing songs
This kind of progress is not legal. It is insane, actually
Wow so impressive. Same to you 1 yr of playing electric guitar but not like that how you playing to fast...
bro destroyed my pc before i could get to the progress :(
How did you go about learning to solo
Might just have to upgrade from my acoustic guitar
I need to be able to learn to solo I'm trying so hard to figure out what to practice please help a brother out I saw this inspirational video and I don't doubt your progress one bit because I'm the same way I practice every single day
Hi!! To figure out what to practice, first of all you should know what your final objective is. Do you want to play groovy, rhythm based solos, slow emotional solos, fast and shred solos or maybe a combination of all of those? Also, are you interested in just learning solos by memory, or are you interested in writing and improvising your own solos?
@@excellent_approximation improvising and basically being able to do all those kinds of styles because being able to understand how to play other styles is important to your groove.
@@excellent_approximation basically a combination
@@savvy1246 If you are interested in all those things, then I think I can be of help, since my goal is too to master all styles and be able to improvise them. I'm actually working on a free roadmap that teaches everything I know so far, which includes all my theory and fretboard knowledge and also my methods on practicing technique, so I think it will be pretty handy for you if that's what you want to learn. Hopefully it will be released around the end of summer.
In the meantime, I can give you some basic guidelines so you can start practicing this right away. Since you have only been playing for 3 months, I would recommend you to start by building your soloing technique, you can leave the fretboard visualization and music theory for a bit later on. So when it comes to soloing, which usually involves playing just one note at a time, I identify three main blocks of technique one should practice. These are: picking technique, legato technique and articulation. I'll briefly go through the three of this and will give you some exercises to practice.
Picking technique: This refers to any technique in which you use your pick to play each individual note, this includes alternate picking, economy picking, sweep picking... I could write 9999999999 words about picking, but for now I'll just give you a basic exercise for you to start familiarizing yourself with the movement. Just pick any scale shape (major, minor, pentatonic...) and play it up and down, picking every note trying to alternate pick, wich means playing both downstrokes and upstrokes. You may notice that sometimes is more comfortable doing two consecutive downstrokes or maybe two consecutive upstrokes when changing to the next string, which is totally fine, that is called economy picking, and is the way I pick. I actually find strict alternate picking not practical at all. And that is it, just play the scale up and down with a metronome and keep increasing the bpm each day. When you feel comfortable with it, try applying variations to the order of the notes, and also try creating melodies that sound good to your ear.
Legato technique: Legato is basically playing notes without your right hand, and you do so by doing hammer-ons and pull-offs. If you are unfamiliar with this terms, I recommend you to search for some tutorial since is very difficult to explain with a yt comment. After you understand what legato is, then you can start practicing it for example by playing the pentatonic scale with it: pick the first note of each string and play the second one with a hammer-on if you are ascending or a pull-off if you are descending. And like with the picking technique, use a metronome and slowly increase the bpm, and once you are comfortable with the technique, you can start noodling a bit and figuring out some melodies.
Articulation: This is actually the best part of a soloing guitar, the articulation, which means in what way do you play each note. The electric guitar brings you a wide variety of ways you can articulate your notes: vibrato, slides, bends, bends with vibrato, palm muting, pinch harmonics, whammy bar in case you have one... Mastering articulation will bring a lot of life to your solos, this is where the "feel" of a solo comes from. I would suggest you to start with slides and vibrato, since they are easier and then go into bending. For now I recommend you to search for tutorials for each one of this techniques, specially for bending, It is VERY important to bend the right way, unlike me on more of a half of this video hahah.
Well that's all for now at least, I wish you luck with your guitar journey, and feel free to ask any other question.
@@excellent_approximation thanks for the information and we use with whatever you gave me to my advantage but let me tell you that I actually have gained lots of speed and I use metronome and practice at a slower beat per minute which actually help me gain speed and it just cleaned up my technique overall and I already have the picking down for the most part it’s very smooth and it goes whichever way it wants to I don’t really even have to think about it but it’s just having trouble from trying to switch scales like a good example is pride and Joy by Stevie Ray Vaughan you can hear the scale switch but I am most likely like blues but I love so many other genres it’s just very hard trying to connect other keys in notes because sometimes The next note isnt wrong or right it’s just a note that you’re looking for. And another good example is riviera paradise. oh my God you have to hear it he does so many things and I love blues and I think I might be learning my augmented or diminished scale next I’m not sure but have a listen to the song I put a link the solo is at 7 minutes but the whole song is brain melting. ruclips.net/video/KfGBQHM1EzI/видео.html&feature=share8
how did you learn pinch harmonics so fast??
Moment of silence for the broken whammy bar :/
tanto no habrás practicado si te sucedión un hwammy bar break
sucediónm
tengo razón ...
me parece uma falta de repseto
???
que dices flipado
What amp do u use??
I dont use a real amp, I use bias fx 2
Amazing progress but I thing you should switch to other type of guitar than Strat probably Ibanez Superstrat would be best option for that kind of music
Anyway Very talented
wat covid does to a fella (great stuff man, proud of u even tho idk u)
Have you done much ear training did it help with improv?
Yeah, i've done lots of interval and chord recognition exercises, I've also transcribed solos by ear, and i think it definitely helps with improvising. Thanks to ear training, I feel like I dont have much trouble finding the sounds I hear in my head.
@@excellent_approximation could I ask what methods you used i’m self taught and I’ve already begun it but I’m tryna make sure I get the best bang for my buck if you get what I’m saying
@@Beloved-ji5jx I mean, Im not really that good at ear training, so i dont think I'm the one you should ask. I can kinda play melodies by ear, but when it comes to identifying chord progressions, Im usually unable to guess them at the first tries. Even so, if you are interested, I can give you my methods.
When it comes to melody, I think the best you can practice are call and response exercises. They consist on hearing a simple melodic phrase and then trying to replicate it on your instrument. Aditionally, you can also do intervallic recognision exercises. There are plenty of apps out there for this purpose.
And for chord progressions, what I do is just use this website: www.hooktheory.com/theorytab/difficulties
The site has lot of songs, and it sorts them by chord progression difficulty. Just pick a level in which you feel confortable and try to guess the progression of the songs. After you do your guess, you can check if you were right or wrong.
@@excellent_approximation what are the exercises please 🙏
Bro sold his soul
practice routine given by god himself
9and a half and he played Stevie music, what?
I'm not saying you're lying you might actually be a natural talent, but it's not normal to be able to play Eruption without many mistakes in a year I'm just saying.
There isn't much I can tell you to prove that this is true, Its up to you if you believe it or not. All I can tell you is that i dont have any kind of "natural talent", In fact I dont belive that thing even exists.
The only thing I did my first year of playing was practicing A LOT. I practiced at least 2 hours each day without skipping a single day (this is not an estimation, I count the hours I play), and did lots of technical exercises under a metronome. Also, I didnt just play eruption like that on one take, I had to do probably over 50 takes in order to get the one you can see on the video (which still has mistakes).
@@excellent_approximation I think you did it. I've had to do multiple takes to get something right and even then it doesn't sound how I want it.
F for respect for thé whammy
wtf dude are you Japanese? I can see you making success in 2 years ahead.... Go on.
I've never seen anyone who coluld break the whammy bar ,_,
You're left handed?
not bad
i’m at the point where i’m pretty comfortable with power chords and open chords, should i learn barre cords? i’m just kind of stuck on what i should learn (edit) i also know pentatonic minor
If you are already comfortable with power and open chords, barre chords are the next step. They can be a bit difficult at the beginning, but when you get them right, the whole fretboard will open up to you, which is awesome. So yeah, go for it!!
I suggest you to start with the E and A shape barre chords (major and minor)
Also, about the pentatonic scale, i would recommend you to try using it for improvisation if you havent already. Just pick any backing track here on youtube and try playing some licks over it using the scale. This will expand not only your technique, but also your musicality and timing. After gaining some experience using the first position of the pentatonic, you could learn the other 4 CAGED positions one by one and learn to connect them, which will give you lots of freedom on the fretboard. There are lots of tutorials on how to do this on youtube, but if you still have doubts just ask me.
Thanks for watching and good luck with your journey!!
@@excellent_approximation thanks man i appreciate it
Épico 19
:)
Impossible^^
2hours a day after 6 months and youre nailing ste vai solos....no way thats years off practice there brilliant playing by the way but 6 months impossible
Bro’s practice 30 hours a day
damn I stink at guitar
now try arcoustic
Now that you know how to play very fast and loud you need to learn to play slow and with little sound and great feeling. Ever seen great blues acoustic players play fast ? Almost never.
man that pinky lolll
Still never learned how to tune the guitar tho.
Guitar was in tune, but got intonation problems since I didnt change the strings very often :(
could done without the 1 year stuff between segments
rip whammy☹️🙏🏽🙏🏽
RIP