3 Things I Wish My Guitar Teacher Taught Me on the first Lesson
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- Here's 3 things I wish my teacher would have taught me right away. Guitar is hard and every little tip helps. I want to help you too. Tell us things you would have loved to learn in the beginning of your guitar journey. Keep going!
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With you as a teacher, there will be many more people inspired to play guitar for life!
I know growing social media can be a grind, but your down to earth and easy to understand style deserves a lot more views and followers. I know they will come with time!
Just know I am always working through your videos and you are helping us live our dreams! Cheers!
Thanks so much for that. I am trying, and in the end, helping you in any way I can is what matters the most. Lots more to come and keep going. One day at a time. I'm just trying to get better too. Guitar is the best instrument in the world. I might be a bit biased. haha
He`s playing a Yamaha FG5. I bought the FG3 (Chinese made), also a great guitar, but slightly cheaper. I just got the FS 5, OM -model. Now that`s bang for the buck, I highly recommend it. Great tutorial, Thanks !
Thanks so much, yes the Yamaha red label guitars are amazing. I really need to do a video on them because I think they go under the radar. Keep going.
Not everyone is cut out to teach, many good musicians but who don’t at all make good teachers are out there charging for lessons instead of getting a day job!
Each student is different but it seems many curricula don’t emphasize triads and from what I’ve seen in books and the net most don’t teach them at all.
It was Jody Fisher’s Beginning Jazz Guitar with its page on triad string sets that blew my mind and really taught me how music works in the guitar.
F Major triad and watching my finger move a fret lower to make it a minor…that’s all she wrote! 😂
I believe triads should be studied even before the open chords.
I totally agree with you. Keep going!
I never comment on internet stuff, but this lesson is like a great white of internet guitar lessons so I figured I would comment. Echoing other comments, your down to earth style and easy demeanor really go down easily. Thanks for these videos.
One of my favorite "aha!" moments learning guitar was realizing that if I moved bar chords up the next I COULD PLAY EVERY SINGLE chord! I can still remember figuring this out while riding in the back of a pickup. It blew my mind, and allowed me to play along with so much popular music.
Thanks so much for the kind words. Yes, I love hearing about your 'aha' moments and progress. That's what I love so much about teaching. I'm starting to figure out this YT thing, so lots more to come.
Funny you mentioned "great white" I usually do these vids in my music room and there's a Jaws pic in the background. I'm pretty obsessed with sharks and anything ocean related.
Keep going and stoked to have you around here. :)
Another great video
Thanks my friend. I will get some livestreams going so that we can all meet up and do some of these things live. Keep going.
To keep playing i feel people have to develop improv or the ability to noodle, seeing basic connections of how chords progress, the mini movable shapes as you develop chord playing, and how to poke around a bit around them. I think people give up because playing basic scale and hot cross buns get dull very quickly. Improv makes 10,000 songs pour out of the guitar.
Yes! Those are some great thoughts you shared. In the end, you want Guitar to be fun first and foremost. Keep going.
Thanks 🙏 for sharing love ❤️ it stay connected cheers 🥂
Thanks, my friend, keep going and have a wonderful day today.
This is a great video and you talk right at my level. I just found your RUclips channel this morning and will consider you my new online guitar teacher moving forward. Thanks for making these, I hope you can at least afford a few lattes for your trouble
You rock my friend! Super Stoked to have you and there's a lot more to come. I have quite a bit on here already, but I think I am starting to figure out this YT thing. ha. Keep going and try to get a little bit better each day. Hit me back at anytime you have questions. Helping you all out is my number one goal. :)
Great White
Thanks for the video’s
Thanks for watching. Yes....Great White for the win. I'm obsessed and terrified of them at the same time. haha. Keep going.
Sometimes you totally look like Jon Stewart. Which is a compliment. Thank you for your videos! Appreciate your time and energy. 🖤✨🤙🏽
haha. Yep, heard that one a few times now. Keep jamming.
@@mrelmoresmusiclab oh man…lol I’m usually the person who doesn’t state that kind of stuff bc I never want to be another person saying the obvious.. and totally didn’t even think about it this time 😂 Derr lol Thanks again for the awesome content man. Picking up the geetar right after I hit send on this comment. Lol
@Gothgalactica have fun jamming the night away.😀
Great white was in Jaws.
Nailed it. I'm obsessed with sharks and ocean life in general.
Love Shark week too!
@dougbennett7881 yes. Shark week rules
I agree with you 100%. I've been trying to play for 40 years and I'm just learning this stuff know. I've gotten a thousand percent better in the last year from this. And I say it all the time why didn't they teach me this stuff lol. Before the internet lol
So glad that you shared this. Yes, I agree with you there seems to be a huge disconnect. lol. Once you start tying it together in small chunks your playing will grow by leaps and bounds. Have fun and keep going. :)
Mr E , thank u. U are opening so many doors that are not overwhelming. Making me play more.
Can you recommend a good acoustic guitar under $1000 Australian dollars ?
I have great Matons which have great pups and sound.
However I want a cheaper travelling guitar , I can throw in the car and it has great sound ?
Thanks so much and stoked you are playing a lot. Keep going and let me hit you back soon about the guitar. I will ask my guy at Sweetwater and see what he thinks. So many good ones now a days. I'm playing a Yamaha Red Label in this video and it's amazing. Keep going and will hit you back soon. :)
Great white
cool,,,,
The shark in the movie Jaws was a fake shark made by the movie company.
Yep, done mostly at Universal Studios I believe. Such a classic movie though. I got to see it at Universal as a kid on one of those tours. :)
Great video thanks
Thank you so much, lots more to come and keep going.
Great White Shark Keep up the great work. Also,nice hat Harry. Team 🪼
Thanks my friend. If I ever saw a Whitey in the water while surfing I would be half terrified and half mesmerized. ha. Thank you and Team Jellyfish marches on.
It was a mechanical shark called Bruce.
Yes! One of the best movies ever made.
I wish I had learned/known triads, the major scale and how to connect from one triad to another in a chord progression using the various scales.
Yes, I hear you on that one. That would have helped so much.
It was a great white shark
Yes, one of my favorites. :)
Nice! Yeah no. 2 is so right. When you just learn scales but not how to use them you have no context which makes them harder to remember (for me at least)
Lindsey Buckingham is why one of the reasons I started fingerpicking! One of my absolute faves is ‘never going back again’!
Yes, I was like what the heck do I do with all of these things now. haha. And Lindsey is a legend. We do Landslide in my acoustic duo and it's a workout fingerpicking that and signing. Keep going McNoodle. :)
Great lesson. I hate putting my pick down, but my favorite players don't use one, like Lindsey Buckingham or Mark Knopfler
I hear you. Just try to use your fingers from time to time an work that in. And yeah, Lindsey and Mark are ridiculous finger style players. Keep going.
I wish I had known that I don't have to play all the strings when learning chords.
No worries at all, we all have different paths to learning on guitar. Keep going and most of all have fun doing. Lots more to come.
In terms of playing acoustic vs electric, I know that in theory chords can be played in the exact same way on both guitars. But in the real world, are they? Can you think of triads that you often play on one guitar and not necessarily on the other?
That is a really good question. I will say that when I play acoustic my duo I never play the chords the same way. I want different voicings on the acoustic to empahsize different sounds. I will say though, the triad shapes I am using here in this video, I do use both of those shapes on acoustic and electric. I think you gave me a really great idea for a video. Great question and I hope that makes sense.
I wonder if there's any tricks to understand what chords will match the scale you're playing. It's quite obvious with power chords, because it's litterally just you making the note you're playing more powerful despite of the key you're in (the laziest kind of chords to me) but whenever I try to combine scales with major and minor chords, it gets a bit trickier, since you somehow need to calculate whether the third falls within the range of you scale and what's even more confusing, there are songs where chord arrangment doesn't make sense to me, but still sounds good, like let's say the song is in A minor, and suddenly there's E major which is sort of not supposed to be there judging from my natural scale knowelege. Music theory is truely a wonder haha
What's up my friend. Yes, you are sharing some great thoughts here. I think the theory part is awesome, but in the end you always have to use your ears. I definitely need to start making more music theory videos.
I think one thing that might be helpful is to take a song we all know and tear is down and analyze it. I think that would make for a cool video idea and topic. Keep going and keep learning. You already know more than most. :)
@@mrelmoresmusiclab Yeah, that sounds like a cool idea, I should try to break down a couple of songs that way. And also probably take up the quinta circle of tonalities, as I understand that's the situation were that thing comes in handy. I've read somewhere, that according to music theory sometimes one key can kind of "turn into another", but that sounds totally like rocket science to me so far haha
@@GMByteJavaTM Ha. Yeah, just use the circle of 5ths and that is a great foundation for basic understanding. In the end, there are no rules in music and just use your ears and if it sounds good to you, then it is good. What you mentioned earlier about an E in the key of A minor, that would just be the parallel major chord. Nirvana wrote so many tunes with borrowed chords from different keys. Kurt had no idea he was just a brilliant song writer with a brilliant ear.
@@mrelmoresmusiclab Yeah, it always amazes me how some of the greatest musicians barely knew any music theory. And at the same time there are lots of people with great music theory knowledge who cannot make a buck of it. Nor become famous either. So yeah, music theory is good, but it doesn't guarantee anyone being a good musician
Very true, I will also say that timing and luck come into play as well. You might get lucky and end up creating music with the right group of people and magic happens. In the end, create music for yourself and your happiness. That is always the most important.
Naw, Jellyfish man, Jellyfish!! Just kidding... 24-26ft great white (est in the movie). Another great lesson. Just a side comment. I was watching a vid on beginning finger picking and the guy said he was filming in the sunlight because it made the strings "look" like they were vibrating more (a shadow effect) which would make it easier for us (the viewer) to see which string he was hitting. I don't know enough about lighting to advise how to match that effect indoors. My problem is you are still covering your index finger and most of your middle finger with your thumb, so it's difficult to figure out what you're string you're striking (and with what finger). It doesn't look like you are religiously striking G w/ I, B w/ M, and e w/ A:R. I also can't tell if you are hitting two fingers / strings at the same time (or thumb and one finger at the same time). I don't have a printer, so I copy the attachments by hand, and I'm not seeing an indication of the fingerings. I haven't done them all, so if you are showing that on some, I guess I've just missed it. ...Anyway, like I said, another valuable lesson.
haha. That's one massive Whitey. ha. I will see if I can do a livestream possibly tomorrow and I will go through all of this in great detail. I can tell you that I am doing a lot of the stuff consistently, but there is probably some nuances happening too. Kind of just how I developed my own playing style. I will see if I can actually tab out a bunch of these ideas this work for you and everybody else. Just try to be as musical as you can and focus on keeping the groove at all costs. That will always sound good. Keep going Jellyfish.
@@mrelmoresmusiclab I guess the "best" advice is to just keep practicing... I started with a pic and have been trying to learn fingerpicking. I can kind of get it, but I can't quite get the fingers to pick / release the strings consistently. Again, I'm just putting it down to more practice requited.
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I wish your teachers would have taught you how to cut your strings at at the headstock. Ridiculous.
That is something they missed and I am pretty angry about it.