*Stanley Jordan* is an unfortunately overlooked jazz legend and was the big proponent of his Touch Guitar style *he coined the term in that sector* and he tunes in 4ths (just tune the b and high e strings up one semi-tone. all shapes are now symmetric!! no more stupid shape changes because of the g to b to e tuning) you should definitely check him out. His idea of making the songs of his generation jazz standards... I hope his vision comes true, as that's what Coltrane did. Definitely please check his stuff out Shawn, it changed my life as a bassist, pianist, and guitarist. Chapman, not to be mistaken for the the despicable kid with the same last name, Sticks are the best for the style when having more than 6 strings. Good luck brother. Love your musical creations and your educational uploads I appreciate you for that. For fun, check out Behold! The Arctopus' "Nanonucleonic Cyborg" for the Avant garde metal side ;P Edit: Chris Broderick is a phenomenal classically trained guitarist who plays metal and does the touch style of guitar on a standard tuned 7 string.
I respect you a lot for making this series. As shown in your other videos you’re clearly a borderline virtuoso at drums and the fact your comfortable making this honest demonstration of how learning an instrument is like rather than just showing the jealousy inducing end result of an amazing performance, shows what a genuine person you are. It really is education and accurate documentation of what learning music is like over pride and ego for you. Mad respect bro 👏👏👏
I was thinking the exact same thing. It's not like he started playing here comes the Sun or something super recognisable. It was just plucking through a chord?
I remember adam neely uploaded a video a while back, and he acidentally listed you as the second guitarist instead of drummer, now it feels funny looking back at it now lol
Advice that I would give anyone to help them avoid the pitfall of 98% of guitarists: Learn by construction and not by muscle memory because a C Major chord is not a shape you make with your hand, it is the combination of the notes C, E and G. You can approach learning most topics this way and it will help build expressiveness and flexibility into your playing from the beginning.
Hey man I'm a drummer who's just started learning guitar and it's really hard not to just stick to the few shapes I've learned so far, would you recommend just playing around with each triad for a while and seeing how many different versions can be created with different shapes / open strings etc?
@@drewdavidson6976 I'll try and give an answer that doesn't take you out of that rut and stick you into another. Learn how a major scale is constructed. (plenty of info on youtube) Pick any note from any string (but let's keep all our playing below the 5th fret for simplicity). Learn the notes of the major scale with the note that you picked serving as the root. Find all those notes from that scale on every string. (if you get lost refer back to the notes of your open strings as a guide) Learn how triads are constructed. Using all the notes you found, play all the triads you can find. You can play CEG (which is C Major for example), with C, E or G as it's lowest note and you can double any of the notes that you like. It still sounds as C Major just with very slightly different colour. Try and think about what notes and therefore chords you are playing as you go or at least if you find something you like, try and understand why using these tools. If you want some more challenge or expressive possibilities then start again with a completely different root note, so you're exploring a different key. If you still want to do more take this concept of finding notes and chords to the entire fretboard.
@@drewdavidson6976 Try and not think about shapes at all. Try instead to think of note names. This will be difficult at first but it has many various huuuuge mid-long term benefit.
I’ve been watching your videos for a few months now, and Adams for a little longer. I’m a massive fan of music, but have no formal training and very limited experience or time to devote to music. Having people as talented and experienced as you two taking the time to make such high quality content has allowed me to explore so much more of music than I ever could by myself. I’m always blown away by the level of skill and knowledge you both display in your videos, and that just made it all the more beautiful to see the mix of concentration and delight on your face as you pulled off some incredibly basic guitar chords 😂
*Stanley Jordan* is an unfortunately overlooked jazz legend and was the big proponent of his Touch Guitar style *he coined the term in that sector* and he tunes in 4ths (just tune the b and high e strings up one semi-tone. all shapes are now symmetric!! no more stupid shape changes because of the g to b to e tuning) you should definitely check him out. His idea of making the songs of his generation jazz standards... I hope his vision comes true, as that's what Coltrane did. Definitely please check his stuff out Shawn, it changed my life as a bassist, pianist, and guitarist. Chapman, not to be mistaken for the the despicable kid with the same last name, Sticks are the best for the style when having more than 6 strings. Good luck brother. For fun, check out Behold! The Arctopus' "Nanonucleonic Cyborg" for the Avant garde metal side ;P Edit: Chris Broderick is a phenomenal classically trained guitarist who plays metal and does the touch style of guitar on a standard tuned 7 string.
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This is so cool man. I’m a drummer who took classical piano as well and I’m gonna learn bass this year. Won’t be able to afford lessons after buying the bass but I can’t wait to get going. Good luck to you !
Good luck on your guitar journey! Also, when you showed you playing the piano, all I could think was, “That’s a horrible place to put a baby grand piano.”
Very cool. I am a professional drummer as well since 22 years and started Guitar last year during Lockdown because there were no drum gigs anymore. Been playing roughly 7 months now. Good luck on the journey! I actually gained a lot of respect for guitar players because I find it really tough. Maybe I should also start a vlog diary on this...
The first "party trick" is actually something i've discovered by accident while learning the guitar. Moving shapes is a great way to find beautiful chords and unexpected sounds !
It's a guitar expressly built for two handed tapping, with expanded range and fifths tuning. I don't know much about it but I would imagine it sounds and feels more natural than if you took a regular 8 string guitar, tuned it in fifths, and tapped
check out Stanley Jordan. That is the jazz touch guitar innovator. His influence is felt today even in Apple products (watch the interview where he speaks of it).
Some avant garde guitar chops with random stops right there. It’s hard to learn the guitar, just look at all the rockstars smashing guitars onstage from pure frustration.
Pastorius and Hendrix being very obvious counterexamples (for those not in the know of the greats of the electric stringed instruments R.I.P to both. Jaco died after being beaten by an overzealous bouncer in a coma induced because of it). Thanks.
If I expressed it wrongly (which I'm going to), I've got things quite "backward" here - certainly as far as "volume of musical exposure" goes (whatever I figure out I mean by that). I see you're learning "the Chapman Stick" (no, Sicko, it's the *Touch Guitar* - so I know something new, now; and thanks for that). Then I see the guy you're learning from looks familiar ... possibly the source of my initial Chapman Stick Error, because it clicks: "I'm almost sure he's a Stick Man" (which I can assume is enough information for most people who visit here?). Watch a bit more; think this is interesting; subscribe to Markus. And then because of that, the algorithm lets me know he's interviewing *Kavus Torabi* , and this automatically "promotes" all of you (which is, in terms of a normal human being's expected "volume of musical exposure", back to front, I suppose - not that I believe any of that). Anyway, any possible doubt there might have been about what a great Sensei I think he's going to be are now completely erased, and I hope your Lesson 01 takes place last week. OK so not possible, so then tomorrow, or soon anyway. This might be interesting has moved to this might just turn out to be ... I won't find a word for it. It needs to be the run-up to some first Today among a sequence of Todays, without the pressure of too much vision. (Although the idea of trying to envision where the path less travelled will traverse is interesting, too). Who knows? One day you might end up on a cruise ship playing this year's harvest season songs with some new friends one day? Anything is possible.
Check out the second podcast with Markus here: ruclips.net/video/fAFYpmwHPfc/видео.html
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*Stanley Jordan* is an unfortunately overlooked jazz legend and was the big proponent of his Touch Guitar style *he coined the term in that sector* and he tunes in 4ths (just tune the b and high e strings up one semi-tone. all shapes are now symmetric!! no more stupid shape changes because of the g to b to e tuning) you should definitely check him out.
His idea of making the songs of his generation jazz standards... I hope his vision comes true, as that's what Coltrane did. Definitely please check his stuff out Shawn, it changed my life as a bassist, pianist, and guitarist.
Chapman, not to be mistaken for the the despicable kid with the same last name, Sticks are the best for the style when having more than 6 strings.
Good luck brother. Love your musical creations and your educational uploads
I appreciate you for that.
For fun, check out Behold! The Arctopus' "Nanonucleonic Cyborg" for the Avant garde metal side ;P
Edit: Chris Broderick is a phenomenal classically trained guitarist who plays metal and does the touch style of guitar on a standard tuned 7 string.
@@Arycke Yes! Check out my interview with Stanley Jordan here: ruclips.net/video/yTsvvn65y0E/видео.html
I respect you a lot for making this series. As shown in your other videos you’re clearly a borderline virtuoso at drums and the fact your comfortable making this honest demonstration of how learning an instrument is like rather than just showing the jealousy inducing end result of an amazing performance, shows what a genuine person you are. It really is education and accurate documentation of what learning music is like over pride and ego for you. Mad respect bro 👏👏👏
I don't mind showing the mistakes. I really sucked at drums when I first started too, it just takes time.
next video: *Day 1: Playing Technical Death Metal in 32/11 at 320 BPM in Sixty-Fourth Notes With Microtuning Notes*
in 432 hz ofc
On a 10-string guitar tuned at Q♭.
Why do you look like handsome squidward in the thumbnail? Is it just me?
Easily the best comment here.
@@fvrmusicgr uh oh... Did I just have an awakening?
every guitar is a touch guitar if you touch it jk
Well done Sherlock
Get outta here XD
I mean you can tap on any stringed instrument if you try hard enough
any drum is a kick drum if you kick it
You can't touch the music, but the music can touch you.
Not a single clue what that song you tried to play was but I want to know
i was thinking maybe crazy little thing called love by queen? or maybe stairway to heaven although that wouldn’t be for behinners haha
Freefalling is my best guess
I was thinking the exact same thing. It's not like he started playing here comes the Sun or something super recognisable. It was just plucking through a chord?
Sweet home alabama
Era claramente todas las de Sui Generis
I remember adam neely uploaded a video a while back, and he acidentally listed you as the second guitarist instead of drummer, now it feels funny looking back at it now lol
At first i thought it said _"Learning how to touch the guitar"_
Approach the guitar calmly.
Make sure it can see you as you approach.
Try to avoid sudden movements.
consequently, took the guitar gently with both hands and lift it (warning: if you touch the strings, they might produce a sound!).
Advice that I would give anyone to help them avoid the pitfall of 98% of guitarists:
Learn by construction and not by muscle memory because a C Major chord is not a shape you make with your hand, it is the combination of the notes C, E and G.
You can approach learning most topics this way and it will help build expressiveness and flexibility into your playing from the beginning.
Hey man I'm a drummer who's just started learning guitar and it's really hard not to just stick to the few shapes I've learned so far, would you recommend just playing around with each triad for a while and seeing how many different versions can be created with different shapes / open strings etc?
@@drewdavidson6976 I'll try and give an answer that doesn't take you out of that rut and stick you into another.
Learn how a major scale is constructed. (plenty of info on youtube) Pick any note from any string (but let's keep all our playing below the 5th fret for simplicity).
Learn the notes of the major scale with the note that you picked serving as the root. Find all those notes from that scale on every string. (if you get lost refer back to the notes of your open strings as a guide)
Learn how triads are constructed. Using all the notes you found, play all the triads you can find. You can play CEG (which is C Major for example), with C, E or G as it's lowest note and you can double any of the notes that you like. It still sounds as C Major just with very slightly different colour. Try and think about what notes and therefore chords you are playing as you go or at least if you find something you like, try and understand why using these tools.
If you want some more challenge or expressive possibilities then start again with a completely different root note, so you're exploring a different key. If you still want to do more take this concept of finding notes and chords to the entire fretboard.
@@drewdavidson6976 Try and not think about shapes at all. Try instead to think of note names. This will be difficult at first but it has many various huuuuge mid-long term benefit.
So now it becomes "Adam Neely but for drums and touch guitar", huh
jk, love ya
man. i forgot how hard that early phase is when one stars playing!
You’ll be shredding it in a week Shawn, no problem! 👍🎸
Yup, Shawn is a known name for singular guitar skills.
I’ve been watching your videos for a few months now, and Adams for a little longer. I’m a massive fan of music, but have no formal training and very limited experience or time to devote to music. Having people as talented and experienced as you two taking the time to make such high quality content has allowed me to explore so much more of music than I ever could by myself.
I’m always blown away by the level of skill and knowledge you both display in your videos, and that just made it all the more beautiful to see the mix of concentration and delight on your face as you pulled off some incredibly basic guitar chords 😂
*Stanley Jordan* is an unfortunately overlooked jazz legend and was the big proponent of his Touch Guitar style *he coined the term in that sector* and he tunes in 4ths (just tune the b and high e strings up one semi-tone. all shapes are now symmetric!! no more stupid shape changes because of the g to b to e tuning) you should definitely check him out.
His idea of making the songs of his generation jazz standards... I hope his vision comes true, as that's what Coltrane did. Definitely please check his stuff out Shawn, it changed my life as a bassist, pianist, and guitarist.
Chapman, not to be mistaken for the the despicable kid with the same last name, Sticks are the best for the style when having more than 6 strings.
Good luck brother.
For fun, check out Behold! The Arctopus' "Nanonucleonic Cyborg" for the Avant garde metal side ;P
Edit: Chris Broderick is a phenomenal classically trained guitarist who plays metal and does the touch style of guitar on a standard tuned 7 string.
Allan Holdsworth tried all-fourths on his SynthAxe, and said if he could start over again he'd have started learning in all-fourths.
Happy new year, Shawn!
As I said before. I'm so excited! :D
Jesus Christ loves you so much that he died for you on a cross and he died so your sins can be forgiven so you can have eternal life. To be saved trust in Jesus alone, repent of your sins and accept him as your Lord and Savior and believe that Jesus died on a cross and rose again 3 days later.
This is so cool man. I’m a drummer who took classical piano as well and I’m gonna learn bass this year. Won’t be able to afford lessons after buying the bass but I can’t wait to get going. Good luck to you !
Good luck on your guitar journey! Also, when you showed you playing the piano, all I could think was, “That’s a horrible place to put a baby grand piano.”
Do you read the comments shawn?
2:42 IN MY EYES
INDISPOSED
Very cool. I am a professional drummer as well since 22 years and started Guitar last year during Lockdown because there were no drum gigs anymore. Been playing roughly 7 months now. Good luck on the journey! I actually gained a lot of respect for guitar players because I find it really tough. Maybe I should also start a vlog diary on this...
i cant wait for this guy to get better at guitar in a year than i have my whole life
3:46 why did I expect All Star or Never Gonna Give You Up
what song did he play?
@@shalevtsadok2757 Fly by Night - Rush i think
@@BlueGamesInc I thought it was supposed to be Free Falling by Tom Petty.
@Mason Miller You're correct (first one I think). I thought it was way more obvious haha
@@ShawnCrowder I thought it sounds pretty good. Keep up the good work.
He said he cannot play guitar
He plays Dmaj7, Asus2, Major scale ( NO PENTATONIC! ) You're more advanced than you think.. good luck!
The first "party trick" is actually something i've discovered by accident while learning the guitar. Moving shapes is a great way to find beautiful chords and unexpected sounds !
First lesson: Tuning
after seeing Marco Minnemann shred the guitar better than most guitarists ever will, it's reassuring that not all virtuoso drummers are like that 😆
God I hope that one song you know is Wonderwall 😄😄 Frohes Neues und alles Beste! Viel Erfolg!! ✌
How
I'm guessing smoke on water
@@ege999men8 Like so? ruclips.net/video/RM8_92lgdBE/видео.html
Keep on workin on this good stuff 🔥🔥
is touch guitar basically two handed tapping?
Basically.
It's a guitar expressly built for two handed tapping, with expanded range and fifths tuning. I don't know much about it but I would imagine it sounds and feels more natural than if you took a regular 8 string guitar, tuned it in fifths, and tapped
I'm sad nobody is mentioning the jazz great Stanley Jordan. Check his stuff out first for context. He uses a standard 6 string guitar tuned in 4ths...
Happy new year Shawn and good luck on your journey!
Those party tricks of yours kinda sound like Adam Neely :-)
Pretty sure he taught me most of the chords I know!
Tuner would be awesome for day 1.
Ok, but can you play Wonderwall though?
Playing is fine, I guess... Drummers are officially allowed to stab anyone who dares to sing it with broken drum sticks!
"i dont know how to do a minor"
Lol
Is it like a harpeji?
Dany 1 I think so
Good job!
I dont get "the idea"
check out Stanley Jordan. That is the jazz touch guitar innovator. His influence is felt today even in Apple products (watch the interview where he speaks of it).
0 2 0 2 0 0 is B min 7 and pretty
No, that chord would be E7sus
The chord he played was
X 2 0 2 0 0
That would be Bm7 11 and pretty
X 2 0 2 0 2 would be Bm7 and pretty
@@luviaengrafito yeah, you're right
chapman stick?
I asked about this in another video of his. The tuning system of touch guitar is different and the timbre is closer to that of a normal guitar.
@@joshmartin7725 ah i c i c thanks man
Some avant garde guitar chops with random stops right there. It’s hard to learn the guitar, just look at all the rockstars smashing guitars onstage from pure frustration.
Pastorius and Hendrix being very obvious counterexamples (for those not in the know of the greats of the electric stringed instruments R.I.P
to both. Jaco died after being beaten by an overzealous bouncer in a coma induced because of it). Thanks.
If I expressed it wrongly (which I'm going to), I've got things quite "backward" here - certainly as far as "volume of musical exposure" goes (whatever I figure out I mean by that).
I see you're learning "the Chapman Stick" (no, Sicko, it's the *Touch Guitar* - so I know something new, now; and thanks for that). Then I see the guy you're learning from looks familiar ... possibly the source of my initial Chapman Stick Error, because it clicks: "I'm almost sure he's a Stick Man" (which I can assume is enough information for most people who visit here?). Watch a bit more; think this is interesting; subscribe to Markus.
And then because of that, the algorithm lets me know he's interviewing *Kavus Torabi* , and this automatically "promotes" all of you (which is, in terms of a normal human being's expected "volume of musical exposure", back to front, I suppose - not that I believe any of that). Anyway, any possible doubt there might have been about what a great Sensei I think he's going to be are now completely erased, and I hope your Lesson 01 takes place last week. OK so not possible, so then tomorrow, or soon anyway. This might be interesting has moved to this might just turn out to be ... I won't find a word for it. It needs to be the run-up to some first Today among a sequence of Todays, without the pressure of too much vision. (Although the idea of trying to envision where the path less travelled will traverse is interesting, too).
Who knows? One day you might end up on a cruise ship playing this year's harvest season songs with some new friends one day? Anything is possible.
3:52... that'... wasn't... Wonde-??? lol
was that sweet child o mine?