My strap came loose just before I started to play a song and it completely threw me off for the whole set. That’s when I learnt about a thing call strap locks and a guitar strap that’s not twenty years old.
played in an expensive gig completely drunk (I didn't consider the fact that absinthe would hit you hard) i only remember playin a solo half step higher than the tune played by the band, the day after my friend said I litetarally ran away from their tune; while they transposed to catch me i transposed to half step higher or lower. We couldn't get our money that night and they never called us again...
the dj khaled clip made me smile. there's something really wholesome about seeing someone have no idea what they're doing but still having a blast doing it.
In DJing, they can sample something that has no musical value but if played in a certain timing/rhythm, it can work... that's what he was doing, he may not know how to make a chord, but he was making a rhythm
My band teacher taught me "Your best performance will NEVER be as good as your best rehearsal", and I've taken that to heart with EVERYTHING music related since in my life. Much love Sammy G!
I love how supportive and positive you are to anyone struggling or wanting to improve. I’ve been playing for 17 years and I still get moments where I lose motivation when I’m stuck, Ol Sammy G always has a positive take on it to make me try again and enjoy what I’m doing.
One of the most valuable pieces of advice I got as a young kid learning the drums was, "you can learn something from every player, even the least advanced does something you didn’t know/think about yet". It’s a good lesson for music and for live. PS: I really like your manner of looking at and conveying things.
What a cool teacher you must have had...Finding you a place in the show rather than saying "No"...People like that are pure platinum in the lives they touch...
I’ve always agreed with the “take this chunk and slow it down” practice method. However, with my band practice, my drummer and I would always start back from the top, or if we got a little frustrated, the part before the mistakes, and then to the end. What are some of your experiences when practicing in a band setting?
Never been in that situation, but in a band/performance setting, it makes a kind of sense. If you're playing live to an audience, sure, you don't want to fuck up, but you also need to get used to finishing the song even if you fuck up. You can't stop the show and start the song over.
@@TheDarkMessiah - well you _can_, sorta. as long as it’s only a few seconds into the song. for instance, take Eric Clapton during his MTV Unplugged appearance. he launches into a tune and discovers he’s in the wrong tuning. he sez, “‘Ang on, ‘ang on!”, quickly retunes, and goes right back into it.
One more note to those live/audition aspects: DO NOT start with a difficult song, no matter how tempting it feels to open with something spectacular and badass. The beginning is always the toughest. Open with something easy to give yourself time to get comfortable. It works!
10:37 Spot-on, SG. Love that bit of wisdom and advice. P. S. Given DJ K’s approach and technique, he’d likely benefit from a friendly open-tuning, such as Open-G.
Great video, as always. The Angry Guitarist advice is spot on, but I’d also add what one of my best teachers ever pointed out: that a lot of the time, preparation is the problem. So you should not only practice the exact spot where things fall apart, but a little bit of what leads up to it, as well.
I like your new chords thing at the beginning. It taught me a really Nice chord. As for my biggest guitar fail, when I bought a guitar for the first time, I quickly learned how to tune a guitar using the octave/7th fret method. My ears are good enough to tune by ear pretty accurately in terms of relative string pitches. Yay. Unfortunately, they aren't good enough to tell when I've tuned my entire guitar up an entire fifth. I destroyed the stock tuners on my epiphone les paul special II as a result and had to get new tuners as well as have the local guitar shop guys - who were like grizzled blue collar punks - read me the riot act about being stupid and tuning wrong. And I bought a digital tuner.
I blew the solo to my senior song at our school graduation in front of the whole school. It was the first time I ever played in front of a crowd and there was about 1500 people there and I was nervous as hell! I redeemed myself a few days later at the bigger commencement ceremony at the community pavillion which had about 2500 people there. But that wrong sour note still haunts me 30 years later😂. My buddy, who was there that day, still ribs me about it by making this loud "baownt" noise whenever I get back home to visit.
I once read an interview with Rusty Young, pedal steel player of the '70s band, Poco. He told of a time he was playing a particularly energetic solo, when the slide slipped out of his hand and flew across the stage. He said that after that, he made throwing his slide across the stage one of his "moves." It was a mistake once, then became part of his performance--pretty cool way to deal with it.
There's stories out there about professional musicians who made a genuine mistake on the recording and then spend years trying to figure out how to recreate it because that's just part of the song now
finally a video of someone talking about fails and not just using it as an opportunity to take jabs at people but to educate people about how to recover.
I think the most important lesson to take from the Sammy G Fail is that "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" Whether you're shown the door, or taken under someone's wing, you'll learn something.
So good. Very well done. This could have easily been a slam-fest with low-hanging fruit to make fun of. Your approach was inlightening and fair, not to mention, creative. I want to see more of this in the world today. Thank you Sammy G!
My biggest guitar fail was actually my second guitar class in high school (moved schools, first teacher seemed good and non problematic). I was an awful student with an equally bad if not worse teacher. I wish I applied myself better, but then again maybe timing wasn't right.
I'm pretty sure if DJ Khaled put a beat over that and proclaimed that it was the best music, another one of his bangers, that many many people would believe him. And this explains DJ Khaled's confidence.
honestly as much as you talk about having reached your limit, i feel it may escape you sometimes how high that limit is. you may not be able to compare to virtuoso-level playing, but you're a damn good player with a strong theory base and you can make whatever the fuck you feel like making.
Making lemonade! My daddy always said you can learn something from everyone, even a fool will teach you not what to do. Well sir you took that to a whole notha level! Great lessons Sammy! Thank you 🤍☯️🖤
I once had a keyboard solo which I totally bombed. Life on stage. It didn't kill me. This experience taught me even if the worst happen it won't kill me.
When I'm learning a song, I make the song into parts. I practice part A until I can play it comfortably without thinking about it. Then I get to part B. I practice part B until I can 'just' play it. Now my approach is this: If I want to keep practicing part B I first have to play through part A. It takes a bit more time than just practicing part B, but with this approach, I play the first part so many times, that it gets boring and I start adding stuff. And when it comes to part C of the song, it all starts again. You wanna play part C? Well, you gotta play the first two parts first. I don't know if it's efficient, but it works for me pretty good.
What I really like about this vid, instead of going the “lol fail route” he looks at where the guitarist went wrong and what we , and by extension they, can learn from it to improve.
My biggest guitar fail happened when I was a teenager too. Some friends of mine had rented a community centre and invited a few local amateur bands to play. Ended up being pretty successful and a lot of people showed up. Our band did a cover of Basketcase by Green Day, however I was still pretty inexperienced and didn’t know about palm muting and just played all the power chords open... needless to say it did not sound good and many people were very confused 😄
J. Mascis of Dinosaur Jr. said in some interview I saw that he didn't figure out how to do palm muting until some years ago. And he's done alright for himself!
Of all of the RUclips guitar guys I follow, you are the most innovative. I enjoy your work. My biggest fail is thinking I could play Crossroads (Eric Clapton) without really working out what I was going to do when I ran out of stock licks. I ran out pretty quickly, too.
Discovered the lil Wayne exercise by myself when I first started writing music, I used to challenge myself to try and write good riffs using only two notes and bends
Another lesson to be learned from the Angriest Guitar Player (to go along with your advice): when you're practicing something and still struggling to throw it all together, DO NOT STOP PLAYING just because you got a few notes wrong! Playing THROUGH your mistake may be exactly what you need to get a feel for how the notes are strung together! Starting over at every mistake is... 1. Preventing you from practicing the REST of the riff/song and... 2. Is committing the WRONG kind of muscle-memory to your brain! No matter how much time goes into rehearsal, when playing live, mistakes WILL happen! If you play THROUGH your mistakes people will either not notice or not care about a few bad notes BUT... The absolute WORST thing you can do in that situation is to completely STOP playing! You DO NOT want your brain to be trained to want to stop and start over because of a mistake!!
The “know who you are and go with it” message is way deeper than it seems because it’s sitting on top of that DJ Khaled video. I wrote complicated, twiddly leads for years at Ramones bpm over crazy, idiosyncratic chord changes, key changes, etc., and sometimes it went ok. I achieved far more once I got down to singing and playing over three open chords (sometimes another in the bridge). If I ever play lead anymore, it’s to improv a simple melodic pattern in the studio. Just my thing, of course, but yeah, that’s just what I’ve got. Another way to put it: Imagine Hound Dog Taylor (if you don’t know who he was, look him up-spectacular!) trying to play “White Cliffs of Dover.”
You just made me feel so much better about where I am with my guitar skills. I had started playing years ago, got frustrated and didn’t touch my guitar for a long, long time. Just picked it back up about 4 months ago. With a bit of determination I have improved. I know I’ll never shred, but that’s ok. I really just want to be able to solo outside of pentatonics and be more melodic. I got the major cowboy chords down. But your advice to kinda find my niche and “stay in my lane” when it comes to guitar is great advice. Thanks Sammy G!
#3 helps a lot wih #1. Slowly build up your tempo on a song until your reach then songs tempo.... THEN play it faster than that. That was when you play it in a show it's feels slow to you and you breeze right through it. So, for example, if the song I'm learning is 120bpm, I'll learn my parts until I can play them really well at 150bpm. Once I have that down, 120 is child play
The way to go at practicing a small part of anything is to not charge at it forever. I was trying to do trails in street fighter 5 and was doing a combo over and over. I was at it for a half hour and was starting to get worse. I was even starting to restart at spots that I was making mistakes at despite doing it right. Sometimes you just have to take a step away for a bit before you try it again. Maybe even ten minutes away can make a difference.
About the Angry Guitarists' practice method: Something that works very well for me is that, when I am stuck at a speed limit and I don't get past it, I just try to play it way quickier. So, I can play at 100bpm, I can't play at 110bpm. Ok, I put my metronome at 140bpm, and I practice it (poorly obviously) for some times. Then when I go back to 110bpm my brain say "ok, this is more manageable, let's work it from here". And most of the time, I can play it right after that.... it's like a fear of speed that need to be broken or something like that.
Its a pretty good way to get your fingers moving at the right speed but you have to be careful with it... playing substantially faster than you're comfortable with will make you play the part sloppily and when you slow it back down you might find that you're not playing quite as accurately as you'd like, since youre used to playing it at a tempo where thats not so important. At least that was my experience when i had only been playing a year or two and tried this. But everyones different and if it works for you, then keep doing it :p
Henry Rollins had a comedy bit about playing a new song with his band at a huge outdoor show in Australia, and how the song had a change that his guitarist forgot about and that one little off note just threw Henry off “the little screen in my head with the lyrics just went blank.” He had the way of thinking that “nothing can go wrong” or it will turn off the audience, so he “started rocking out with the guys in the band” for 3 minutes straight. The guys in the band were VERY weirded out… and he mumbled to the guitarist “shut up, this is your fault.” He then did the “big rock ending”. He was telling the joke in Australia and he apologized to anyone in the audience that was wondering, “what was that weird song with one verse, half a bridge and then Henry acting like an idiot for 3 minutes?” I think the little screen in that Jonas brother’s head with the solo tab went blank.
I started practicing in my garage with the door open which is off a main road right off the highway so playing to rush hour traffic makes the issue of practice vs performance pretty much non existent
I was playing a show in a band of mine years ago and we were rockin an epic, 10 minute long song I had written (and that I was really excited about and proud of) and when it came time to shred my David Gilmour style solo, I had absolutely no sound coming out of my guitar. I mostly played the solo anyway and we finished the song but then I had to borrow someone's guitar from another band for the rest of our set. Turns out, when I switched to the neck pick up for this particular solo, the pot on my Dot Deluxe was turned down. Whoops! At least it was a cheap fix!
Great vids! But bro, 20 years are not enough to make a good guitarist give up! Instagram phenomenons are usually easy songs with specific technique. 20 years in is still just the beggining. Trust me, Jim Hall, Pat Metheny, SRV, Jimi, all of them invested a lot more time in 10 years into the guitar, than most people n theirs 20 years studying. Thats why their good. Go on Sammy. Keep practicing, you have a great taste and you are an awesome guy. Dont accept your limitations ever my man. Keep pushing them, like I've seen yu do for years. Ive played guitar since im 5. Im 27 now. Play classical guitar, jazz and fusion. And I love your channel. Its really fun, chill and you have loads of style! Good luck my bro. Keep practicing like we all do. Until we die.
Sammy’s third lesson from his own audition is very true. If you’re an ok player who is easy to work with and dependable (show up to rehearsals on time and prepared, etc) that will take you farther than you might think
I had not seen any of those clips but you definitely made the most of them! Funny how different people can learn guitar - I didn't know anything besides bar chords for a couple years but was only playing rhythm so that worked for my situation.
Thank you so much for this- that part about isolating the problem and using a metronome might be just what I need. I've been trying to play the lead guitar part for the song "stuk", by the band Kino, and it's mostly fine, except for the solo in the middle. There's a part at the very end of the solo where you have to play some scale really quickly, I've been trying to get it for a month and my hands just seem to refuse to move quickly and accurately enough. I've been isolating the point I'm having trouble with, and found slanting the pick helps as it makes the attack smoother on the strings so I can pick faster, but that tip about the metronome might well be the last piece of the puzzle I need here.
Metronomes are super important yeah, they force you to be exact (and you can tell when you can't quite make it) and also give you a clear benchmark for how well you're doing, so you can see that progress and resume where you left off! One trick I like is to do little bursts of double speed, like if you're playing a pattern with 8th notes, play it with 16th notes for a bar or whatever. It's hard to play that fast the whole time, but you can often manage it for a moment! As you get used to it, you can start to extend the bursts to push yourself, and if you're already playing it slower (so the 16ths are close to the actual tempo you wanna play) you might be able to just build up to playing the whole thing at the right speed. Might be worth a try to get some trickier phrases under your fingers!
Great job. You must to see and learn from master harmonic, master tempo, master instrument, master slide etc his Alip-ba-ta the great fingerstyle one man band on guitar instrument .... Thx
I actually like to do that Lil Wayne thing where you play only a couple notes repeatedly to create some kind of rhythm and then add some notes in between and hopefully make something interesting
Great video. My comment on DJ Khaled would be that he has some of the foundations of playing guitar down already just for being in the world of music. He kept time and a good tempo, which was only inhibited by his technique. He has everything he needs to find enjoyment in playing the guitar to a reasonable level, and only has to spend the time to learn and practice it. I hope that his gift of a guitar, and a love for the music of Marley drives him to spend that time, so he can learn those songs he loves.
Re: DJ Khalid and "Embrace your limitations". I used to get really bummed out about my fluffed notes, or that I couldn;t shred as fast as the legends. Then I discovered CW Stoneking, and realised that I could actually incorporate these "fluffed notes" into my playing, if I just kept the confidence to power through it. Ok - I have been playing for more than 25 years - so I think I'm at that point where I can truly embrace this mind set. And it has been very liberating.
I never really understood the hate for Lil Wayne's "solo". Sure, it's only two notes and played very sloppily, but I think it fits the backing track and the overall vibe just fine. If the recording quality was better it could sound pretty good.
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not having a guitar
Playing the harmony part of master of puppets by Metallica
My strap came loose just before I started to play a song and it completely threw me off for the whole set. That’s when I learnt about a thing call strap locks and a guitar strap that’s not twenty years old.
Not practising enough
played in an expensive gig completely drunk (I didn't consider the fact that absinthe would hit you hard) i only remember playin a solo half step higher than the tune played by the band, the day after my friend said I litetarally ran away from their tune; while they transposed to catch me i transposed to half step higher or lower. We couldn't get our money that night and they never called us again...
the dj khaled clip made me smile. there's something really wholesome about seeing someone have no idea what they're doing but still having a blast doing it.
Right!?
In DJing, they can sample something that has no musical value but if played in a certain timing/rhythm, it can work... that's what he was doing, he may not know how to make a chord, but he was making a rhythm
@@MedalionDS9 very true. also would make sense given he's mostly a producer now as well.
@@MedalionDS9 Very interesting, Just like DJing has no musical value! Lol
@@MrMetalhorse Spinning vinyl is serious business
You’re one of the best and most respected players on RUclips…don’t judge yourself on shredding alone.
Thank you sir!
I think that's a lesson we could all take to heart.
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Like a true Canadian, Mr. G provided a compliment to one of the most God awful things I have seen in a long time...
After the war over Hans island, I’m not surprised.
True Canadian good neighbor approach.that's what it's all a-boot
Like a good person
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My band teacher taught me "Your best performance will NEVER be as good as your best rehearsal", and I've taken that to heart with EVERYTHING music related since in my life. Much love Sammy G!
The lil Wayne solo is legendary guitar work, the synchopation he used was unbelievable.
I love how supportive and positive you are to anyone struggling or wanting to improve. I’ve been playing for 17 years and I still get moments where I lose motivation when I’m stuck, Ol Sammy G always has a positive take on it to make me try again and enjoy what I’m doing.
One of the most valuable pieces of advice I got as a young kid learning the drums was, "you can learn something from every player, even the least advanced does something you didn’t know/think about yet".
It’s a good lesson for music and for live.
PS: I really like your manner of looking at and conveying things.
What a cool teacher you must have had...Finding you a place in the show rather than saying "No"...People like that are pure platinum in the lives they touch...
I’ve always agreed with the “take this chunk and slow it down” practice method.
However, with my band practice, my drummer and I would always start back from the top, or if we got a little frustrated, the part before the mistakes, and then to the end.
What are some of your experiences when practicing in a band setting?
Never been in that situation, but in a band/performance setting, it makes a kind of sense. If you're playing live to an audience, sure, you don't want to fuck up, but you also need to get used to finishing the song even if you fuck up. You can't stop the show and start the song over.
@@TheDarkMessiah - well you _can_, sorta. as long as it’s only a few seconds into the song. for instance, take Eric Clapton during his MTV Unplugged appearance. he launches into a tune and discovers he’s in the wrong tuning. he sez, “‘Ang on, ‘ang on!”, quickly retunes, and goes right back into it.
As my high school band instructor would always say “rehearsal is different then practice. You shouldn’t be trying to learn the music at rehearsal.”
@@briankuyken9788 I totally agree, this wasn’t rehearsal however, this would be more just him and I in the writing process.
@@TejanoMano that’s what I was going to say would be the exception.
There’s something unbelievably charming about him calling DJ Khaled “DJ” like it’s his first name
omg.... haha I knew a kid named DJ back in high school
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The little Wayne clip is classic 😂
Delusional self confidence.
One more note to those live/audition aspects: DO NOT start with a difficult song, no matter how tempting it feels to open with something spectacular and badass. The beginning is always the toughest. Open with something easy to give yourself time to get comfortable. It works!
your explanation of the threshold of difficulty was so amazing. i’ve never had that articulated to me before, and so eloquently too
10:37 Spot-on, SG. Love that bit of wisdom and advice.
P. S. Given DJ K’s approach and technique, he’d likely benefit from a friendly open-tuning, such as Open-G.
Great video, as always. The Angry Guitarist advice is spot on, but I’d also add what one of my best teachers ever pointed out: that a lot of the time, preparation is the problem. So you should not only practice the exact spot where things fall apart, but a little bit of what leads up to it, as well.
I like your new chords thing at the beginning. It taught me a really Nice chord. As for my biggest guitar fail, when I bought a guitar for the first time, I quickly learned how to tune a guitar using the octave/7th fret method. My ears are good enough to tune by ear pretty accurately in terms of relative string pitches. Yay. Unfortunately, they aren't good enough to tell when I've tuned my entire guitar up an entire fifth. I destroyed the stock tuners on my epiphone les paul special II as a result and had to get new tuners as well as have the local guitar shop guys - who were like grizzled blue collar punks - read me the riot act about being stupid and tuning wrong. And I bought a digital tuner.
Lol I'm also guilty of that. Pretty good at relative tuning... As long as you don't mind the whole thing being slightly sharp or flat.
I blew the solo to my senior song at our school graduation in front of the whole school. It was the first time I ever played in front of a crowd and there was about 1500 people there and I was nervous as hell! I redeemed myself a few days later at the bigger commencement ceremony at the community pavillion which had about 2500 people there. But that wrong sour note still haunts me 30 years later😂. My buddy, who was there that day, still ribs me about it by making this loud "baownt" noise whenever I get back home to visit.
I once read an interview with Rusty Young, pedal steel player of the '70s band, Poco. He told of a time he was playing a particularly energetic solo, when the slide slipped out of his hand and flew across the stage. He said that after that, he made throwing his slide across the stage one of his "moves." It was a mistake once, then became part of his performance--pretty cool way to deal with it.
There's stories out there about professional musicians who made a genuine mistake on the recording and then spend years trying to figure out how to recreate it because that's just part of the song now
I was always told if you f'ck up do it twice to make it nice.
@@dzd2371 "I meant to do that!" (Pee Wee Herman)
finally a video of someone talking about fails and not just using it as an opportunity to take jabs at people but to educate people about how to recover.
Love how respectful this guy is all the way through.
I think the most important lesson to take from the Sammy G Fail is that "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take"
Whether you're shown the door, or taken under someone's wing, you'll learn something.
So good. Very well done. This could have easily been a slam-fest with low-hanging fruit to make fun of. Your approach was inlightening and fair, not to mention, creative. I want to see more of this in the world today. Thank you Sammy G!
My biggest guitar fail was actually my second guitar class in high school (moved schools, first teacher seemed good and non problematic). I was an awful student with an equally bad if not worse teacher. I wish I applied myself better, but then again maybe timing wasn't right.
I'm pretty sure if DJ Khaled put a beat over that and proclaimed that it was the best music, another one of his bangers, that many many people would believe him. And this explains DJ Khaled's confidence.
honestly as much as you talk about having reached your limit, i feel it may escape you sometimes how high that limit is. you may not be able to compare to virtuoso-level playing, but you're a damn good player with a strong theory base and you can make whatever the fuck you feel like making.
Making lemonade! My daddy always said you can learn something from everyone, even a fool will teach you not what to do. Well sir you took that to a whole notha level! Great lessons Sammy! Thank you
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Mantapppp" kopi mana kopi"'!!???
Love Lil Wayne's grin while he slays that solo, so self satisfied
Dude, Stevie T's guitar redemption of the Angriest Guitar Player in the World is incredible.
Too bad Stevie is giga cringe
great guitarist tho
@@hunter00143 Yeah he's a big ol' dork but he entertains me so I'll allow it.
@@hunter00143 yeah, not to be a dick but I see him and think "this man has zero friends if he actually acts like this for real"
@@RSpracticalshooting I know it's an act but its still so annoying I don't watch his videos
I once had a keyboard solo which I totally bombed. Life on stage.
It didn't kill me.
This experience taught me even if the worst happen it won't kill me.
When I'm learning a song, I make the song into parts. I practice part A until I can play it comfortably without thinking about it. Then I get to part B. I practice part B until I can 'just' play it. Now my approach is this: If I want to keep practicing part B I first have to play through part A. It takes a bit more time than just practicing part B, but with this approach, I play the first part so many times, that it gets boring and I start adding stuff. And when it comes to part C of the song, it all starts again. You wanna play part C? Well, you gotta play the first two parts first.
I don't know if it's efficient, but it works for me pretty good.
Cex Alip ba ta you can feel his soul in music
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Seen these clips ripped on so many times. I appreciate your kind perspectives. And, your playing is always wonderful.
What I really like about this vid, instead of going the “lol fail route” he looks at where the guitarist went wrong and what we , and by extension they, can learn from it to improve.
My biggest guitar fail happened when I was a teenager too. Some friends of mine had rented a community centre and invited a few local amateur bands to play. Ended up being pretty successful and a lot of people showed up. Our band did a cover of Basketcase by Green Day, however I was still pretty inexperienced and didn’t know about palm muting and just played all the power chords open... needless to say it did not sound good and many people were very confused 😄
J. Mascis of Dinosaur Jr. said in some interview I saw that he didn't figure out how to do palm muting until some years ago. And he's done alright for himself!
Of all of the RUclips guitar guys I follow, you are the most innovative. I enjoy your work.
My biggest fail is thinking I could play Crossroads (Eric Clapton) without really working out what I was going to do when I ran out of stock licks. I ran out pretty quickly, too.
I would add to learn licks and your solos all over the guitar in different positions - that way you never get lost especially if you break a string
Doing that now
Discovered the lil Wayne exercise by myself when I first started writing music, I used to challenge myself to try and write good riffs using only two notes and bends
Another lesson to be learned from the Angriest Guitar Player (to go along with your advice): when you're practicing something and still struggling to throw it all together, DO NOT STOP PLAYING just because you got a few notes wrong!
Playing THROUGH your mistake may be exactly what you need to get a feel for how the notes are strung together! Starting over at every mistake is...
1. Preventing you from practicing the REST of the riff/song and...
2. Is committing the WRONG kind of muscle-memory to your brain!
No matter how much time goes into rehearsal, when playing live, mistakes WILL happen! If you play THROUGH your mistakes people will either not notice or not care about a few bad notes BUT... The absolute WORST thing you can do in that situation is to completely STOP playing! You DO NOT want your brain to be trained to want to stop and start over because of a mistake!!
We were always taught in band to play through our mistakes!
embracing where you are, and stopping there is the first step to the end of your development as a guitarist. Never stop.
The stuff you play is ten times more interesting than what those "social media phenoms" do so just keep doing it.
The “know who you are and go with it” message is way deeper than it seems because it’s sitting on top of that DJ Khaled video. I wrote complicated, twiddly leads for years at Ramones bpm over crazy, idiosyncratic chord changes, key changes, etc., and sometimes it went ok. I achieved far more once I got down to singing and playing over three open chords (sometimes another in the bridge). If I ever play lead anymore, it’s to improv a simple melodic pattern in the studio. Just my thing, of course, but yeah, that’s just what I’ve got.
Another way to put it: Imagine Hound Dog Taylor (if you don’t know who he was, look him up-spectacular!) trying to play “White Cliffs of Dover.”
I wonder if part of the Jonas thing was a key change? He practiced it in one key, but the live show was in a different key?
the last one was the most wholesome lesson you could get from that video
Alip_Ba_ta - boheiman rapsody
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You just made me feel so much better about where I am with my guitar skills. I had started playing years ago, got frustrated and didn’t touch my guitar for a long, long time. Just picked it back up about 4 months ago. With a bit of determination I have improved. I know I’ll never shred, but that’s ok. I really just want to be able to solo outside of pentatonics and be more melodic. I got the major cowboy chords down. But your advice to kinda find my niche and “stay in my lane” when it comes to guitar is great advice. Thanks Sammy G!
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Nice to see you playing a Hofner. Very underrated and unfairly overlooked guitars.
Great lesson from you, Bro...
Now, why don't you react a fenonenon fingerstyle currently...? His name is Alip_Ba_Ta.
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Truly finding the silver lining here. Much respect Sammy G
Lil Wayne's face of satisfaction kills me tho
He's feeling It and you gotta respect that in its own way
Very true, non musicians in the audience listen with their eyes
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#3 helps a lot wih #1. Slowly build up your tempo on a song until your reach then songs tempo.... THEN play it faster than that. That was when you play it in a show it's feels slow to you and you breeze right through it.
So, for example, if the song I'm learning is 120bpm, I'll learn my parts until I can play them really well at 150bpm. Once I have that down, 120 is child play
The way to go at practicing a small part of anything is to not charge at it forever.
I was trying to do trails in street fighter 5 and was doing a combo over and over. I was at it for a half hour and was starting to get worse. I was even starting to restart at spots that I was making mistakes at despite doing it right.
Sometimes you just have to take a step away for a bit before you try it again. Maybe even ten minutes away can make a difference.
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About the Angry Guitarists' practice method:
Something that works very well for me is that, when I am stuck at a speed limit and I don't get past it, I just try to play it way quickier. So, I can play at 100bpm, I can't play at 110bpm. Ok, I put my metronome at 140bpm, and I practice it (poorly obviously) for some times. Then when I go back to 110bpm my brain say "ok, this is more manageable, let's work it from here". And most of the time, I can play it right after that.... it's like a fear of speed that need to be broken or something like that.
Its a pretty good way to get your fingers moving at the right speed but you have to be careful with it... playing substantially faster than you're comfortable with will make you play the part sloppily and when you slow it back down you might find that you're not playing quite as accurately as you'd like, since youre used to playing it at a tempo where thats not so important. At least that was my experience when i had only been playing a year or two and tried this. But everyones different and if it works for you, then keep doing it :p
I really laughed out loud at the ol' sammy G taking guesses at Barre Chords. I watched that part a couple times. Really funny!
Henry Rollins had a comedy bit about playing a new song with his band at a huge outdoor show in Australia, and how the song had a change that his guitarist forgot about and that one little off note just threw Henry off “the little screen in my head with the lyrics just went blank.” He had the way of thinking that “nothing can go wrong” or it will turn off the audience, so he “started rocking out with the guys in the band” for 3 minutes straight. The guys in the band were VERY weirded out… and he mumbled to the guitarist “shut up, this is your fault.” He then did the “big rock ending”. He was telling the joke in Australia and he apologized to anyone in the audience that was wondering, “what was that weird song with one verse, half a bridge and then Henry acting like an idiot for 3 minutes?”
I think the little screen in that Jonas brother’s head with the solo tab went blank.
Haha the solo mess up definitely just happened to me at church on Sunday 😅 thankfully the line hits again at the end of the song and I nailed it lol
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I started practicing in my garage with the door open which is off a main road right off the highway so playing to rush hour traffic makes the issue of practice vs performance pretty much non existent
I was playing a show in a band of mine years ago and we were rockin an epic, 10 minute long song I had written (and that I was really excited about and proud of) and when it came time to shred my David Gilmour style solo, I had absolutely no sound coming out of my guitar. I mostly played the solo anyway and we finished the song but then I had to borrow someone's guitar from another band for the rest of our set. Turns out, when I switched to the neck pick up for this particular solo, the pot on my Dot Deluxe was turned down. Whoops! At least it was a cheap fix!
DJ Khalid was strummin that thing like he was tryin to start a fire
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Awesome tips
Speaking of guitar, alip ba ta is the king.. he's a guitarist from another planet who came down to earth..
That second go at lil waynes solo was low key sick, reminds me of the guitar wibbling about in rhcp's walkabout
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Great vids! But bro, 20 years are not enough to make a good guitarist give up! Instagram phenomenons are usually easy songs with specific technique. 20 years in is still just the beggining. Trust me, Jim Hall, Pat Metheny, SRV, Jimi, all of them invested a lot more time in 10 years into the guitar, than most people n theirs 20 years studying. Thats why their good.
Go on Sammy. Keep practicing, you have a great taste and you are an awesome guy. Dont accept your limitations ever my man. Keep pushing them, like I've seen yu do for years.
Ive played guitar since im 5. Im 27 now. Play classical guitar, jazz and fusion. And I love your channel. Its really fun, chill and you have loads of style!
Good luck my bro. Keep practicing like we all do. Until we die.
Sammy’s third lesson from his own audition is very true. If you’re an ok player who is easy to work with and dependable (show up to rehearsals on time and prepared, etc) that will take you farther than you might think
Ohh, that's a gorgeous hofner. You don't see many of those on the ol'social media. I'm a big fan of them. They're wonderful instruments.
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I had not seen any of those clips but you definitely made the most of them! Funny how different people can learn guitar - I didn't know anything besides bar chords for a couple years but was only playing rhythm so that worked for my situation.
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Thank you so much for this- that part about isolating the problem and using a metronome might be just what I need. I've been trying to play the lead guitar part for the song "stuk", by the band Kino, and it's mostly fine, except for the solo in the middle. There's a part at the very end of the solo where you have to play some scale really quickly, I've been trying to get it for a month and my hands just seem to refuse to move quickly and accurately enough. I've been isolating the point I'm having trouble with, and found slanting the pick helps as it makes the attack smoother on the strings so I can pick faster, but that tip about the metronome might well be the last piece of the puzzle I need here.
Metronomes are super important yeah, they force you to be exact (and you can tell when you can't quite make it) and also give you a clear benchmark for how well you're doing, so you can see that progress and resume where you left off!
One trick I like is to do little bursts of double speed, like if you're playing a pattern with 8th notes, play it with 16th notes for a bar or whatever. It's hard to play that fast the whole time, but you can often manage it for a moment! As you get used to it, you can start to extend the bursts to push yourself, and if you're already playing it slower (so the 16ths are close to the actual tempo you wanna play) you might be able to just build up to playing the whole thing at the right speed. Might be worth a try to get some trickier phrases under your fingers!
Beautiful lesson bro! Sage advice, thank you.
Great job.
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Lol that last video was hilarious. I saw that one on tic tok and they dubbed it with something else. Fake guitar tic toks are my favorite hahaha
Great video...
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I actually like to do that Lil Wayne thing where you play only a couple notes repeatedly to create some kind of rhythm and then add some notes in between and hopefully make something interesting
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This video is super insightful and still fun! It’s worth the view for any level guitarist
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Wow, "Jay de la cueva" teaching me how to play guitar, im in
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Thank you, Miyamoto Musashi of guitar. This changes my practice routine 🤙🏼
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Beautiful job of teaching - more than simply guitar playing.
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These are some good tips! I enjoyed this video thank you!
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Great video.
My comment on DJ Khaled would be that he has some of the foundations of playing guitar down already just for being in the world of music. He kept time and a good tempo, which was only inhibited by his technique. He has everything he needs to find enjoyment in playing the guitar to a reasonable level, and only has to spend the time to learn and practice it.
I hope that his gift of a guitar, and a love for the music of Marley drives him to spend that time, so he can learn those songs he loves.
great tips! also learned a new word - unefficient :)
Ya I know I caught it when editing. What can ya do
@@samuraiguitarist I like it left in! More realistical :) cheers from Ottawa
Wow, we have a same metronome 😁 That little Korg is just perfect!
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The original video you did of putting chords under the Nick Jonas solo was what made me discover this channel
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Re: DJ Khalid and "Embrace your limitations".
I used to get really bummed out about my fluffed notes, or that I couldn;t shred as fast as the legends.
Then I discovered CW Stoneking, and realised that I could actually incorporate these "fluffed notes" into my playing, if I just kept the confidence to power through it.
Ok - I have been playing for more than 25 years - so I think I'm at that point where I can truly embrace this mind set. And it has been very liberating.
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I never really understood the hate for Lil Wayne's "solo". Sure, it's only two notes and played very sloppily, but I think it fits the backing track and the overall vibe just fine. If the recording quality was better it could sound pretty good.