This is with regards to your chunking video. You mentioned you were gonna make a video about holding the pick. I would love it if you could add any insight of the type of guitar construction that is suitable for playing fast.... Like fretboard radius, neck type/shape, fretwire size, string gauges. It might not be a controlling factor but it does have an effect on ease of playing fast. This would help immensely for those wanting to buy a guitar. Thanks
I'm having a challenge remembering the fretboard, coming from a first instrument: Piano. Is it just play, practice, play, etc. ? Or is there a simpler way ? Thank you , DK.
dude i’m not even joking, this genuinely the most helpful video on phrasing i’ve ever seen. The whole language analogy was way more helpful than i thought. Thanks man!
Thanks for this lesson. After ages of pratting about trying to copy others note for note, or just rambling, this has given me a real lightbulb moment. Again thanks.
In awe of how much I’ve absorbed from this video. I’m in the process of learning my third language and memorizing all the notes on the fretboard so you just set off some fireworks in my brain. Thanks for taking the time to make this!
As others have said, you just helped me understand a huge part of my problem with soloing. I think I’ll be advancing more than I’ve ever been able to. And it’s all because of the way you described this.
Yes, my old band partner and I used to always play one acoustic set per night, and we used to do a similar thing that we called 'yes or no'. We pick a key and one of us would start with a phrase and if the other person liked it it repeat it for usually about eight bars and then in enhance it or completely change it. Sometimes we do it with a cover, Paul Simon's 'Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard' worked well! Thank you for stirring a fun old memory for me!
First of, u r a fantastic guitarist! U make it look easy! Your explanation was very lucid and gives a logical base or discipline to playing. Thank u so much.
Lots of great tips in this to keep in mind. Another one would be emphasising a certain note or note within a phrase - just as people use emphasis in their speech patterns. Also just playing the melody lines from songs - and think the words when sounding the notes.
It is a good analogy and great advice. Folks are so fortunate these days, with internet, and especially you tube. Decades before PCs and all of that, when I first started, you would pay some jazz guy that knew theory, so you figured "this person will teach me, not only the hows, but, the whys". But, after you would be a few hundred dollars lighter in the wallet, all you would have is, "here, go practice these scales, then over chord changes, you just mix them all up, that's how you do it!" One would walk away feeling you squandered a lot of your hard earned money, for nothing. Can you imagine sending you kindergartener to school, and they give them a paper with the alphabet on it, sending them home with the advice "just mix all those letters together, and you'll find you've learned words and sentences magically on your own"??? Such a foolish approach. Yep, great advice by this presenter, and now those who clicked on this page, are years richer in their own guitar journey.
@@slimbuttermilkI feel like through this video I may have finally found the missing link to understanding why great guitarists' solos always sound so impactful. And it is just as you said. The internet is truly an invaluable tool for any musician and im a thoroughly convinced that anyone can learn music now.
There's a video on Tom papa's channel where he has kirk fletcher on and if you just study the first 3 minutes of kirk jamming over what tom is playing, you'll learn so so much about phrasing, feel and everything. It all happens before the talking starts and he breaks some of it down throughout the video but if you want to learn soul/blues phrasing and some classic Hendrix stuff, can't recommend it enough. It's only 3 minutes and yet there is 3 months worth of teaching in those 3 minutes.
Thank you for this video! I am new to electric guitar playing and your explanation in this video greatly help me understand how to better play electric guitar parts in a meaningful way. Thanks!!!
Man I wish someone broke that down for me 40 years ago. I do a bunch of that stuff, with articulations, rhythmic modulations, repetitive call and response themes, and such but a bunch of that has really only come together in the last 10 years or so. (A career and 3 marriages will inhibit your growth, but does give a wealth of lyric material…lol) I definitely learnt a thing or two here, thanks. Adding double stops to a motif is a good modulation, and depending on tempo and style adding Octaves can bring an airy flavor to a theme. I will also go back and forth between holding my pick parallel and perpendicular to the strings for dynamic attack change and I will repeat a motif over the sound hole or pickup and over the neck/body joint. The same theme picked lightly, then pinched out with my fingers. It’s ok to be able to only play one thing I figure, if you can play it 20 different ways…lol Cheers!
Hello, this is the most common sense approach to improvising I’ve ever heard. Great job! I’m going to surely benefit from this, as well as my younger brother who has some trepidation about playing “lead”. Thanks! JJZ…(°¿.°`)
Wow, awesome job with the analogy! I think the (alphabet) (words)-language relationship was next level deep thinking! I think this might solve my years of problems having aimless solos and not knowing why.
i quite like ending on a dissonant note. even the lick you played i quite like that ending. it is just really nice to play kinda like shine on you crazy diamond by pink floyd. the song is in Gm but occasionally Gilmour ends his licks on Gb
I bought a Fender Squier FSR Telecaster today. Butterscotch Blonde. Very cool to see you playing a Squier as well. The first thing I tell anyone is "An expensive guitar doesn't make you a better guitar player." Anyway, doing a bang up job mate 🎸
Brilliant. I've heard the language is music before, but you've put this into a form I really understand. So, A Big Thank you for your perceptive approach and no nonsense instruction- from a beginner. -DK.
This is a great video. This guy is awesome. One thing I would like to point out is that when speaking words in conversation, we pretty much do it chromatically. There isn’t a big variance in pitch. It’s more like done in micro pitches. When people speak using a high variance in pitch, it’s called “singing”. So, basically I’m just saying that emulating a singer on your guitar would be more beneficial than emulations of conversation. Just a small point, really. I loved the way this guy uses analogies to connect ideas.
Thanks so much Olicana. I called, and you responded! This is a very good lesson. You helped me to get a better understanding of how the really good guitar players become so. I've yet to find a lesson this valuable at any point in my journey. It makes SO much sense.
Great lesson! These are the kind of concepts that level us up as musicians. Thanks for this. (Subscribed!) Since you asked..... As far as lesson requests go: You mentioned the term "grace note" during the 'mods' segment of this lesson, can you explain what those are and how to use them? Also, It'd be great if you could do a lesson for rhythm guitarists, specifically on how to spice up a 12 bar blues. I, for instance, will always defer to lead style when playing a 12 bar, especially if its a jam/ improvised... and I do so because if I attempt to lay down the rhythm instead, just after a few bars it sounds so bland it hurts! Thanks again, look forward to your content!
At 3:13, he explains how Jimmy Page plays live. You demo very much is rooted into electric blues and rockabilly How do you translate your approach to metal? to Reggae? to Ska?
Thank you very much for reminding us that when we play guitar we should generate musical melody. Not just dumping bunch of non enjoyable notes. Series of notes that make sense. Cheers from Indonesia.
Thanks man. I'm an old player, but your lesson pointed out I've gotten a bit lazy with my phrasing. I think I'll make a list of your suggestions and keep it in view while I'm practicing. Much appreciated. - Jstn
Cool video but I've yet to find a lesson or video that makes the light bulb go off in regards to making music. Nobody can really explain it down to a science. The only way to learn how to make music if it doesn't come to you naturally is to learn covers and do nothing but covers for a few years at minimum. Music is indeed a language but it's much harder to learn than English if you aren't a creative natural. Again, the only way is putting in ridiculous work for several years learning nothing but other people's material. Buckling down and evading the laziness is the hardest part.
I have a speech impediment I’ve gotten better with it. Still have trouble though. When I sing or cuss I’m fluent. Thanks 🙏 BB King says he plays the way he talks/sings.
Just discovered your channel. I’ve seen several videos on phrasing. This is among the best. You are a great communicator and your method was very interesting. Thanks
Good stuff. I liken space in music to appropriate punctuation in good writing, and vice-versa. Good writing has a distinct rhythm that grabs you, an ebb amd flow that gives it real life. (Read some Moby Dick by Herman Melville.) The same with space in music, it creates an anticipation that wants you to hear more and a distinct authenticity to phrasing. Something that is uniquely you. (Peter Green. Nobody does it better.) And it takes more discipline than people realize. I also find just putting the guitar down and doing something else for a few days, or so, actually improves my playing when I come back to it. Go out and mow the lawn, take some nature walks. Give yourself some space, some time to think. I know that sounds sacrilegeous, but it actually works for me. I play better when I don't play all. Ironic. 😂😂❤
Wow I’ve been kind of depressed due to hitting a wall /plateau with my playing but your video has helped to educate me on my outlook on improvising vs just playing random notes on scales
Just stumbled upon your channel and am quite impressed. You have a great way of presenting material that a lot of video hosts lack. Very, very nice, and quite informative. I kind of wish you were around when I started playing 30+ years ago. Best wishes, sir!
Phrasing is the only way to sound original. Copying to use a lick,is just that,copy, but if you can put it together in your language on guitar,its a part of you, l like the way you think,you must be gold to beginners!
Thanks very much. I put in practice right away. I was aware of the call and response but you made me more aware , and it makes sense. Precious advice for me as a busker and session clarinet player that has to improvise playing with other musicians
I've noticed some guitarists use some of the methods you described. Dickie Betts and Eric Clapton immediately come to mind. Others like David Gilmour seem to be more free in terms of constantly building on a solo rather than returning to familiar phrases or a home base.
There are now so many good musicians on RUclips who gives 'good' lessons that helped normal players all over the World. Players like myself who'd benefitted massively , learning new things and also correcting our mistakes or flaws. God bless all you amazing people for helping us. Also, this video could be shortened to just 5 - 7 minutes minus the unnecessary examples, telling personal experiences or off topic jokes and short stories !!! THANK YOU.
What a great metaphor - copy the "words" that speak to you. As you master the language, you end up using the words you once blatantly copied, but now they reflect your own take on the story. I can't tell you how inspiring it is to have someone so young take the central pillar of my own approach and "phrases" it so perfectly that I now better understand my own methods. I've told students for 30 years to steal EVERYTHING, and the more they steal from different sources, the easier it is to find their own voice. They way you explain it works on so many levels. BRAVO!!
I'll be honest with you: RUclips is always showing me these kind of videos and I always watch them... But... I'll admit I really enjoyed yours. The way you explained the subject really made me wish I had my guitar with me right now. I can't wait to go home and practice everything you spoke about in this video. I guess I'm suscribing right now!
I've always 'got' this idea. My problem is I live alone and generally don't like other random people very much so I speak as little as possible unless I'm with friends. You'd think that's a benefit but when I pick up my guitar it translates into shreddies.
Mind == Blown ! I think this is the best secret of music language given to us so easily. No one has evr put it like this...This is how one should train and think about training !!
This here is the meat and potatoes of playing guitar and the way you explained it was excellent! Guitar scales are important but just going up and down a scale all the time leads to boredom. Knowing how to apply them like he’s doing here is the key to breaking out of a redundant scale pattern boxes and actually making music.
Thanks so much for the lesson,I am really helped!!!Nice explaination. I have a question sir How can i apply a call and response phrasing technique in my soloing when there is a vocal?
I would let the vocal take the spotlight. If the vocalist is leaving you space to play between their lines then you can repeat their phrase (by ear) or come up with a response phrase to fill the gap. Try to mimic the vocalist if you can, this will be the most organic way to use call and response with a vocalist.
Cheers Mate for helping a 30 year intermediate player with a passion to learn improvisation and have the ability to play solos without thinking and struggling to do so. Great job being plain and thorough teaching this skill we all strive to learn. 👍🏻🙂
I've just found out that my Les Paul is speaking in an utterance....And that is a Sin.... AIN'T IT JUST AIN'T IT 😜 lols..... Very good stuff,,,Thank you Sir.
Great instructions on such important topics or techniques !!! But please stop talking about things that's unnecessary for viewers like personal experience stories, unfunny jokes and so many other things that makes the video longer than its needs to be !! Talk Less and SHOW US OR DO MORE ON THE GUITAR. VISUAL and PRACTICAL TEACHING IS MORE EFFECTIVE THAN saying or talking about a bunch of stuffs !!!
Great information. But tell me did you mod that Squire? Has a great sound hence, my asking of whether it was modified. What year model is it? Keep it up.
Thanks! It's a 2004 affinity model. The Squire wasn't modded at the time, I think the Marshal JVM I play through contributes a lot the sound. That being said I've recently swapped the pickups out for Tex Mex's, sounds even better now in my opinion!
Already new that at 8 years old now 64. Generation these days way behind . That's right I let my fingers do the talking 🤣😂🎸 anything else I already don't know about.🎸. Thankyou for sharing... 😂😂. nothing wrong with a suiqer .I have my first suiqer still have today 1976. Kudos swing.🎸
I had heard these things on Rocksmith 2014, but as random comments NOT as propper lessions that I could go back and re hear. it would say blah blah, play chord phrasing in A minor. and I am thinking do what the who... Liked and subscribed
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Got any topics that you would like me teach? Let me know!
In the video you mentioned leaning licks by ear, some techniques on how to go about this would be helpful.
@@MashO356 I've actually got a video on playing by ear coming out in a couple of weeks, you should subscribe so you don't miss it 🙂
This is with regards to your chunking video. You mentioned you were gonna make a video about holding the pick. I would love it if you could add any insight of the type of guitar construction that is suitable for playing fast.... Like fretboard radius, neck type/shape, fretwire size, string gauges. It might not be a controlling factor but it does have an effect on ease of playing fast. This would help immensely for those wanting to buy a guitar. Thanks
I would love some guidance on songwriting. Particularly verse to chorus chord progressions
I'm having a challenge remembering the fretboard, coming from a first instrument: Piano. Is it just play, practice, play, etc. ? Or is there a simpler way ? Thank you , DK.
John Mayer; "It’s my failure to sound like my heroes that’s allowed me to sound like myself.” :)
Wise words!
Damn that’s one of the best quotes ever
dude i’m not even joking, this genuinely the most helpful video on phrasing i’ve ever seen. The whole language analogy was way more helpful than i thought. Thanks man!
Thanks for this lesson. After ages of pratting about trying to copy others note for note, or just rambling, this has given me a real lightbulb moment. Again thanks.
Glad it helped!
It has to me, too-I’ve been looking for this for a long time.
In awe of how much I’ve absorbed from this video. I’m in the process of learning my third language and memorizing all the notes on the fretboard so you just set off some fireworks in my brain. Thanks for taking the time to make this!
Any advice on how you schedule language learning around musical practice. I'm looking to do a similar thing
As others have said, you just helped me understand a huge part of my problem with soloing. I think I’ll be advancing more than I’ve ever been able to. And it’s all because of the way you described this.
I’m 60+, and just learning. I think you’re explanation of phrases and everything in this video is helpful and inspiring. Thank you.
This was a great video. I learned so much very quickly. I had no idea what phrasing was. Now I think I can actually do it.
Yes, my old band partner and I used to always play one acoustic set per night, and we used to do a similar thing that we called 'yes or no'.
We pick a key and one of us would start with a phrase and if the other person liked it it repeat it for usually about eight bars and then in enhance it or completely change it. Sometimes we do it with a cover, Paul Simon's 'Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard' worked well!
Thank you for stirring a fun old memory for me!
Yes! Learn melodies from vocal lines, and also horn parts, like saxophone and trumpet.
One of the best analogies and teaching I've heard! ~ It works.
The concept will revolutionize one's playing!
Satisfying ENJOYMENT of expression
Excellent lesson. Very useful, accessible, achievable concepts.
Great lesson ! Man!! I saw lost of videos about improvisation.. and you tell our language, you could communicate perfectly!!
the first video I’ve watched on how to modify your solos, great info thanks man😎🤘
Excellent video! One of the best guides to soloing that I have seen.
Awesome explanation, even though I'm not good enough yet to pull all of this off! Keep up the good videos! :)
Great lesson....very well articulated...thank you👍
Thank you! 😃
Thanks for posting learning stuff with AFFORDABLE gear 👍🏼
The easiest way to understand how and why you got my vote !🎉
This was really helpful - thanks a lot🥰!
First of, u r a fantastic guitarist! U make it look easy! Your explanation was very lucid and gives a logical base or discipline to playing. Thank u so much.
Glad it was helpful!
Humble enough to use a Squirer, kudos mate
😂 Thanks! They're great guitars!
Howeher. In Argentine is expensive even a Squire lol
Squiers aren’t as they were in the past
@@OlicanaMusicGuitar is it a bullet one? 🙆🏻 i am considering one just because of the lighter body
Whats the neck pickup?🙉 sounds killer!
and what’s wrong with squirer
Lots of great tips in this to keep in mind. Another one would be emphasising a certain note or note within a phrase - just as people use emphasis in their speech patterns. Also just playing the melody lines from songs - and think the words when sounding the notes.
This is great advice!
It is a good analogy and great advice. Folks are so fortunate these days, with internet, and especially you tube. Decades before PCs and all of that, when I first started, you would pay some jazz guy that knew theory, so you figured "this person will teach me, not only the hows, but, the whys". But, after you would be a few hundred dollars lighter in the wallet, all you would have is, "here, go practice these scales, then over chord changes, you just mix them all up, that's how you do it!" One would walk away feeling you squandered a lot of your hard earned money, for nothing. Can you imagine sending you kindergartener to school, and they give them a paper with the alphabet on it, sending them home with the advice "just mix all those letters together, and you'll find you've learned words and sentences magically on your own"??? Such a foolish approach. Yep, great advice by this presenter, and now those who clicked on this page, are years richer in their own guitar journey.
@@slimbuttermilkI feel like through this video I may have finally found the missing link to understanding why great guitarists' solos always sound so impactful. And it is just as you said. The internet is truly an invaluable tool for any musician and im a thoroughly convinced that anyone can learn music now.
There's a video on Tom papa's channel where he has kirk fletcher on and if you just study the first 3 minutes of kirk jamming over what tom is playing, you'll learn so so much about phrasing, feel and everything. It all happens before the talking starts and he breaks some of it down throughout the video but if you want to learn soul/blues phrasing and some classic Hendrix stuff, can't recommend it enough. It's only 3 minutes and yet there is 3 months worth of teaching in those 3 minutes.
Thank you for this video! I am new to electric guitar playing and your explanation in this video greatly help me understand how to better play electric guitar parts in a meaningful way. Thanks!!!
Great video! Very informative and explained really well
Man I wish someone broke that down for me 40 years ago. I do a bunch of that stuff, with articulations, rhythmic modulations, repetitive call and response themes, and such but a bunch of that has really only come together in the last 10 years or so. (A career and 3 marriages will inhibit your growth, but does give a wealth of lyric material…lol) I definitely learnt a thing or two here, thanks.
Adding double stops to a motif is a good modulation, and depending on tempo and style adding Octaves can bring an airy flavor to a theme. I will also go back and forth between holding my pick parallel and perpendicular to the strings for dynamic attack change and I will repeat a motif over the sound hole or pickup and over the neck/body joint. The same theme picked lightly, then pinched out with my fingers.
It’s ok to be able to only play one thing I figure, if you can play it 20 different ways…lol
Cheers!
Hello, this is the most common sense approach to improvising I’ve ever heard. Great job! I’m going to surely benefit from this, as well as my younger brother who has some trepidation about playing “lead”. Thanks!
JJZ…(°¿.°`)
Great video. I'm guilty of solos all sounding a bit scaley. Thanks for the tips.
One of the most outstanding and HELPFUL educational guitar videos i've ever seen!!!! thank you!
Very valuable lesson. Thanks
Wow, awesome job with the analogy! I think the (alphabet) (words)-language relationship was next level deep thinking! I think this might solve my years of problems having aimless solos and not knowing why.
Thanks, great to hear that it resonated with you!
i quite like ending on a dissonant note. even the lick you played i quite like that ending. it is just really nice to play
kinda like shine on you crazy diamond by pink floyd. the song is in Gm but occasionally Gilmour ends his licks on Gb
Great comparrison to speech, very cleaver!!
Great job explaining phrasing
Thanks!
Thanks makes a lot of sense
well done - you're onto something here, I haven't heard it put like this before,... natural teacher. thanks
Glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent! Merci beaucoup
Had to subscribe . This guy is a good teacher 👍🎸🎼🎶😎
A fantastic video, sell done.
Have you read the mussic lesson by victor wooten? Great video!👌 Cheers
I bought a Fender Squier FSR Telecaster today. Butterscotch Blonde. Very cool to see you playing a Squier as well. The first thing I tell anyone is "An expensive guitar doesn't make you a better guitar player." Anyway, doing a bang up job mate 🎸
That sounds like a really weird way to start conversations.
That was well explained. Thank you.
Brilliant. I've heard the language is music before, but you've put this into a form I really understand. So, A Big Thank you for your perceptive approach and no nonsense instruction- from a beginner. -DK.
Glad it was helpful!
thanks for this
You're welcome!
Very nice video man. ❤
This is a great video. This guy is awesome.
One thing I would like to point out is that when speaking words in conversation, we pretty much do it chromatically. There isn’t a big variance in pitch. It’s more like done in micro pitches. When people speak using a high variance in pitch, it’s called “singing”.
So, basically I’m just saying that emulating a singer on your guitar would be more beneficial than emulations of conversation.
Just a small point, really.
I loved the way this guy uses analogies to connect ideas.
great lesson
Very nice work
Thanks so much Olicana. I called, and you responded! This is a very
good lesson. You helped me to get a better understanding of how
the really good guitar players become so. I've yet to find a lesson
this valuable at any point in my journey. It makes SO much sense.
Same here (o:
Well done !
Thanks!
nice1 bro. thankyou👍
Great lesson! These are the kind of concepts that level us up as musicians. Thanks for this. (Subscribed!)
Since you asked..... As far as lesson requests go:
You mentioned the term "grace note" during the 'mods' segment of this lesson, can you explain what those are and how to use them? Also, It'd be great if you could do a lesson for rhythm guitarists, specifically on how to spice up a 12 bar blues. I, for instance, will always defer to lead style when playing a 12 bar, especially if its a jam/ improvised... and I do so because if I attempt to lay down the rhythm instead, just after a few bars it sounds so bland it hurts!
Thanks again, look forward to your content!
Thanks! I'll add your suggestions to my list!
At 3:13, he explains how Jimmy Page plays live.
You demo very much is rooted into electric blues and rockabilly How do you translate your approach to metal? to Reggae? to Ska?
Thank you very much for reminding us that when we play guitar we should generate musical melody. Not just dumping bunch of non enjoyable notes. Series of notes that make sense. Cheers from Indonesia.
Thanks man. I'm an old player, but your lesson pointed out I've gotten a bit lazy with my phrasing. I think I'll make a list of your suggestions and keep it in view while I'm practicing. Much appreciated. - Jstn
Cool video but I've yet to find a lesson or video that makes the light bulb go off in regards to making music. Nobody can really explain it down to a science. The only way to learn how to make music if it doesn't come to you naturally is to learn covers and do nothing but covers for a few years at minimum. Music is indeed a language but it's much harder to learn than English if you aren't a creative natural. Again, the only way is putting in ridiculous work for several years learning nothing but other people's material. Buckling down and evading the laziness is the hardest part.
There's no getting around the time commitment sadly, i've been playing for more than 20 years now and i'm still working on it!
@@OlicanaMusicGuitar I hear that, for sure!
That's a savage reply at 7:41
I have a speech impediment I’ve gotten better with it. Still have trouble though. When I sing or cuss I’m fluent. Thanks 🙏 BB King says he plays the way he talks/sings.
You're welcome!
Just discovered your channel. I’ve seen several videos on phrasing. This is among the best. You are a great communicator and your method was very interesting. Thanks
Good stuff. I liken space in music to appropriate punctuation in good writing, and vice-versa. Good writing has a distinct rhythm that grabs you, an ebb amd flow that gives it real life. (Read some Moby Dick by Herman Melville.) The same with space in music, it creates an anticipation that wants you to hear more and a distinct authenticity to phrasing. Something that is uniquely you. (Peter Green. Nobody does it better.) And it takes more discipline than people realize. I also find just putting the guitar down and doing something else for a few days, or so, actually improves my playing when I come back to it. Go out and mow the lawn, take some nature walks. Give yourself some space, some time to think. I know that sounds sacrilegeous, but it actually works for me. I play better when I don't play all. Ironic. 😂😂❤
Wow I’ve been kind of depressed due to hitting a wall /plateau with my playing but your video has helped to educate me on my outlook on improvising vs just playing random notes on scales
Glad to hear you found the lesson helpful. Keep playing and you'll definitely bust through that plateau!
I've been watching guitar instruction videos since RUclips was invented and this is my favorite
Just stumbled upon your channel and am quite impressed. You have a great way of presenting material that a lot of video hosts lack. Very, very nice, and quite informative. I kind of wish you were around when I started playing 30+ years ago. Best wishes, sir!
Phrasing is the only way to sound original. Copying to use a lick,is just that,copy, but if you can put it together in your language on guitar,its a part of you, l like the way you think,you must be gold to beginners!
Awesome, you covered ALOT in this one video, very well explained 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Thanks very much. I put in practice right away. I was aware of the call and response but you made me more aware , and it makes sense. Precious advice for me as a busker and session clarinet player that has to improvise playing with other musicians
Glad it helped!
I've noticed some guitarists use some of the methods you described. Dickie Betts and Eric Clapton immediately come to mind.
Others like David Gilmour seem to be more free in terms of constantly building on a solo rather than returning to familiar phrases or a home base.
It's definitely not a hard and fast rule, motivic development is another fantastic phrasing tool!
There are now so many good musicians on RUclips who gives 'good' lessons that helped normal players all over the World. Players like myself who'd benefitted massively , learning new things and also correcting our mistakes or flaws. God bless all you amazing people for helping us. Also, this video could be shortened to just 5 - 7 minutes minus the unnecessary examples, telling personal experiences or off topic jokes and short stories !!! THANK YOU.
Great lesson.
Love the guitar; it sounds great!
Thanks for taking the time to make this video.
My pleasure!
What a great metaphor - copy the "words" that speak to you. As you master the language, you end up using the words you once blatantly copied, but now they reflect your own take on the story.
I can't tell you how inspiring it is to have someone so young take the central pillar of my own approach and "phrases" it so perfectly that I now better understand my own methods. I've told students for 30 years to steal EVERYTHING, and the more they steal from different sources, the easier it is to find their own voice.
They way you explain it works on so many levels. BRAVO!!
I'll be honest with you: RUclips is always showing me these kind of videos and I always watch them... But... I'll admit I really enjoyed yours. The way you explained the subject really made me wish I had my guitar with me right now. I can't wait to go home and practice everything you spoke about in this video. I guess I'm suscribing right now!
I really liked how you demonstrated the question and response tactic and the pauses...Very elegant.
I've always 'got' this idea. My problem is I live alone and generally don't like other random people very much so I speak as little as possible unless I'm with friends. You'd think that's a benefit but when I pick up my guitar it translates into shreddies.
Really fantastic lesson, many thanks!
Glad you liked it!
Mind == Blown ! I think this is the best secret of music language given to us so easily. No one has evr put it like this...This is how one should train and think about training !!
Thank you, I see music as a launguage, you make so much sense,
Thanks Peter!
This here is the meat and potatoes of playing guitar and the way you explained it was excellent! Guitar scales are important but just going up and down a scale all the time leads to boredom. Knowing how to apply them like he’s doing here is the key to breaking out of a redundant scale pattern boxes and actually making music.
Hard work pays off!! The algorithm has led us pentatonic players to the perfect video. Finally. Respect from the North!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
You hit the nail here!! Excellent perspective and practice.
Pure GOLD! Thanks for sharing, very helpful
Thanks so much for the lesson,I am really helped!!!Nice explaination.
I have a question sir
How can i apply a call and response phrasing technique in my soloing when there is a vocal?
I would let the vocal take the spotlight. If the vocalist is leaving you space to play between their lines then you can repeat their phrase (by ear) or come up with a response phrase to fill the gap. Try to mimic the vocalist if you can, this will be the most organic way to use call and response with a vocalist.
Not a player. Often hear about how great Duane Allman’s phrasing was. Needed to know what it is. Thank you…
It's never too late to start playing! 😂 Duane had only been playing slide guitar for a few short years when he recorded his iconic solo on "Layla"
I've always noticed that it's the basics that I always come back to when I get stuck or find myself noodling endlessly thanks great lesson
Just came across your channel and subscribed. Such a well put together video with visual queues, interactivity and great explanations. Thank you!
You look like the early days Mark Knopfler, both from the perception of look-gesture, and expertise on guitar!
Really like your explanation of letters to notes, and language to phrasing; the clearest video I've seen on the topic :)
Awesome! Glad you liked it!
Cheers Mate for helping a 30 year intermediate player with a passion to learn improvisation and have the ability to play solos without thinking and struggling to do so.
Great job being plain and thorough teaching this skill we all strive to learn. 👍🏻🙂
I've just found out that my Les Paul is speaking in an utterance....And that is a Sin.... AIN'T IT JUST AIN'T IT 😜 lols..... Very good stuff,,,Thank you Sir.
Great instructions on such important topics or techniques !!! But please stop talking about things that's unnecessary for viewers like personal experience stories, unfunny jokes and so many other things that makes the video longer than its needs to be !! Talk Less and SHOW US OR DO MORE ON THE GUITAR. VISUAL and PRACTICAL TEACHING IS MORE EFFECTIVE THAN saying or talking about a bunch of stuffs !!!
Nice job. You have a great and effective teaching style! Thank you!
He's a bad man!
Great information. But tell me did you mod that Squire? Has a great sound hence, my asking of whether it was modified. What year model is it? Keep it up.
Yes
Thanks! It's a 2004 affinity model. The Squire wasn't modded at the time, I think the Marshal JVM I play through contributes a lot the sound. That being said I've recently swapped the pickups out for Tex Mex's, sounds even better now in my opinion!
@@OlicanaMusicGuitar changing pickups is definitely a “mod”… and the one that will change the sound of the guitar the most, by far
Already new that at 8 years old now 64. Generation these days way behind . That's right I let my fingers do the talking 🤣😂🎸 anything else I already don't know about.🎸. Thankyou for sharing... 😂😂. nothing wrong with a suiqer .I have my first suiqer still have today 1976. Kudos swing.🎸
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Thank you so much mate
you’re great!
Great explanation video. Definitely one of the best I’ve heard with this topic
Fantastic, finally a simple explanation. Cheers
2:50 i know what you did there 😆
Better not.. I would play everything in F... Mayor 🧐
There's definitely some risks that come with this approach 😂
I had heard these things on Rocksmith 2014, but as random comments NOT as propper lessions that I could go back and re hear. it would say blah blah, play chord phrasing in A minor. and I am thinking do what the who... Liked and subscribed