When I need inspiration I think “what would Chris Sherland do..?” well maybe not quite like that but... I have to say that in the short time that I’ve discovered this channel you’ve made a huge difference in how I play up & down the neck...the great thing about your videos is that the lessons stick (can’t say that about everyone else I watch...well not Marty anyway lol) and I’m really able to use the information in songs/progressions I already know...so once again many Thanks 🙏 ...please know that you’re making a difference... 🎸🔊🎶🤘
Marty sent me here. I subscribed after watching your circle of 5ths lessons. THANK YOU for making it a tool, instead of a mystery known only to guitar elites. Cheers!
Thank you ,,, finally someone who explains to novices, as novices not guitar wizard"s I found this very informative and, for once crystal clear as Fuji Water..... not clear as Mud. From Canada ,,, thx.
Your lessons are so helpful and insightful, I've learned a lot so far! I'm really glad I found your channel! This is probably the most "undervalued" guitar channel on here, I'm sure it'll grow very fast. Please keep it up!
Just found you. GREAT lessons! I have been looking for a teacher that explains theory and how to practice so I understand why the music works instead of just memorizing songs or licks. These lessons are focused enough so I don’t get overwhelmed. Really appreciate what you are doing.
@@curiousguitarist Hi Chris. Found your channel via Marty and glad I did. Just what I need in my guitar journey. There were several lightbulb moments for me yesterday as I watched your videos. Headed over to Patreon as a result.
I'm watching this video again much later on in my guitar journey and I finally get it! I really was stuck in a box but now I'm gonna practice this. I'm almost coming up on a year since I started playing tho and I've made a tone of progress.
Delightful insight. When I learned 3nps in a heptatonic scale, besides helping with speed and knowing the neck, it made me see how obvious the 2nps pentatonic scale was just repeating over and over. I always say that the obvious isn't always obvious until someone points out how obvious it is!
I've been watching lessons on youtube for several years now, non of them have brought up this super simple but SO important "thing". Wish you had started making videos years ago, then I would have saved hundreds of hours.... This is what I need to progress....Thank you!
Yet another video in the simple, but necessary, process of thinking outside scale "position" playing. Practicing your ideas not only solidify my knowledge of where notes are on the neck, but push me to think differently about playing lead. I can feel my creativity expanding as I break out of the prison of positions. Thank you once again!
Gadzooks! When I look back at the camera and editing I thought was "ok" it makes me want to cry!!! The concept is outstanding though isn't it!? Glad you're here Joseph!
@@curiousguitarist like many self taught guitarists, I've not been methodical in my education so far. Jumping from site to site, link to link, video to video. I've wasted a lot of precious time. Your way of conveying these ideas fits my learning style. Wish I had stopped here years ago. I'm probably going to purchase Lead Guitar from the Inside Out, but I have a question. Where should I be in terms of theoretical knowledge and actual playing to start the course? Thanks for your time, and again, please keep up the great work.
@@josepheberhardt2976 try the WATCH THESE FIRST playlist here on my channel. I think that will help you focus on getting all this stuff integrated. And if you want more guided lesson material you should check out the Patreon. Best! -Chris
Thanks Chris, I'm still a new guitar player and just found your channel through Marty. I really appreciate the logical/actionable approach you take. I've subscribed and looking forward to more lessons.
Im currently going through Paul Davids next level playing course which is really good. And using videos like this to further my knowledge. This example has really opened up fresh ideas in my playing in terms of linking a lot of the new ideas i'm learning. Thanks Chris.
Good information, as always. Nice, simple ideas to get out of the box. Thanks C. That surf green and the pearloid pickguard is a killer. But I gotta ask. And no offense intended. That maple fretboard looks pretty grimy. It is some special kind of maple stain or does it just need a really, really good cleaning? Looks pretty funky.
There is a playlist here called "WATCH THESE FIRST" that represents a good start on theory. You can search my Patreon page for any of the TABs for just about every video on the channel. And on my teaching platform called The Studio (also available through my patreon page) you can sign up for live sessions I teach. www.patreon.com/chrissherland Finally I teach live 1 on 1 sessions through zoom. Sign up for those is here: calendly.com/curiousguitarist/private-guitar-lesson
It would be so extremely helpful if you could have graphics that show where your fingers are it’s so difficult to pause the video and your fingers are so fluid in how you play that I have to literally watch it frame by frame which for a new be like me I love learning from you, but it’s so frustrating the hard
Chris, first thanks so much for sharing your content. I hope that in next 6 months I'll be ready to absorb more of it as my fluency catches up. Question: As you move from say a minor Pentatonic box 2NPS shape to a 3NPS execution are you still working with a memorized "shape", just now in 3NPS format? OR are you always thinking about the interval and thinking I can grab a flat 3 here, a 4 there as you play through the scale, or is that just too much for the brain to handle in the moment?!?!
Will, I love this comment! The answer is "both" really. If I'm headed somewhere (a target, maybe the 12th or a high root note that I can see I want to get to) the scale shapes are like highways, I'm not concerned with the exits I'm passing by, or how the camber of the road is working for me, I'm moving. But, when I get to that target, I'm now seeing the relationship of the notes to each other and I'm fully conscious. When I'm playing slowly, and thoughtfully, and hopefully with a lot of feel, I'm fully focused on the "what", but when I'm traveling somehewre, it's all about the "how". Helpful? Does that make sense?
@@curiousguitarist Yes! thanks. That makes sense. Even to my beginner brain. If I'm messing around in minor pentatonic scale over a jam track sometimes I'm just kind of mindlessly finding notes in the pattern that I fell should about this much higher or that much lower than the note I just played, but when I'm thinking about resolving to a root, I'm trying to find a 4th to bend because it just sounds so good just before landing home on the root. I need to work on making the interval shapes automatic I think. I need to work on a LOT actually... 59 year old playing for a year now at least an hour a day, but man it's endless. I'm gonna come find you when I make the leap that I know is coming in the next 6-12 months. So fun. Thanks for hitting me back.
Hey Don, Yeah I custom ordered that number sticker (it's not paint). I was going for this look... cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2784/4966/products/FJ4WXL_A_800x533_crop_center.jpg
Just a cool thought. What if someone made a RUclips series of "starting out" as a new beginner guitar player and how, from an instructors view, they would become a fluid guitarist.
wow.... perhaps i shouldn't watch vid's that are way above my skill level! lol i need to let my brain cool down from all the mental friction lol it all makes total sense and is just so logical. let's see if my fingers feel the same way when i get home and can try this! haha
Thanks Saltysteele...really appreciate the views and comments! This is a great concept, and is really as much for your brain as it is for your fingers. Let me know how you do.
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When I need inspiration I think “what would Chris Sherland do..?” well maybe not quite like that but...
I have to say that in the short time that I’ve discovered this channel you’ve made a huge difference in how I play up & down the neck...the great thing about your videos is that the lessons stick (can’t say that about everyone else I watch...well not Marty anyway lol) and I’m really able to use the information in songs/progressions I already know...so once again many Thanks 🙏 ...please know that you’re making a difference...
🎸🔊🎶🤘
Marty sent me here. I subscribed after watching your circle of 5ths lessons. THANK YOU for making it a tool, instead of a mystery known only to guitar elites. Cheers!
You bet Brayden! Welcome to the channel!
This simplifies moving around the neck so much. Never understood what other were talking about.
So glad this helped Thomas!
Thank you ,,, finally someone who explains to novices, as novices not guitar wizard"s
I found this very informative and, for once crystal clear as Fuji Water..... not clear as Mud.
From Canada ,,, thx.
You bet, Daryl, thanks for being here!
Your lessons are so helpful and insightful, I've learned a lot so far! I'm really glad I found your channel! This is probably the most "undervalued" guitar channel on here, I'm sure it'll grow very fast. Please keep it up!
You got it Mario. Thanks for the kind words!
In every video of yours I ended learning something. You are amazing Mr. Sherland!
Thanks for this comment, it means a lot to me!
Greatest guitar player I've seen❤
Just found you. GREAT lessons! I have been looking for a teacher that explains theory and how to practice so I understand why the music works instead of just memorizing songs or licks. These lessons are focused enough so I don’t get overwhelmed. Really appreciate what you are doing.
That’s great to hear Lord Byron! Welcome to the channel!
Wow...a lightbulb moment!!! Thanks for sharing!!!
Light bulb moments are the best! Thanks for checking out the channel!
@@curiousguitarist Hi Chris. Found your channel via Marty and glad I did. Just what I need in my guitar journey. There were several lightbulb moments for me yesterday as I watched your videos. Headed over to Patreon as a result.
@@760Piper Can't thank you enough for that, and any time I provide a light bulb moment for anyone it makes the whole thing feel right for me!
This is great I look forward to using when I fully memorize where every note is instantly on the fretboard, thanks!
Hey @bill Check out the octave video here. That might help! ruclips.net/video/j3Zrm1Af0Jk/видео.html
Ha! Yes I spoke too soon, fantastic Im watching it now, many thanks!
Sheesh. Incredible lesson. Broken down masterfully. I’m a proud new sub. Thanks to Marty for the referral.
Welcome aboard. Thanks for the sub, glad you're here.
I'm watching this video again much later on in my guitar journey and I finally get it! I really was stuck in a box but now I'm gonna practice this. I'm almost coming up on a year since I started playing tho and I've made a tone of progress.
Rock on, John! Thanks for the update. I'm so glad this one was helpful
Going back through every video. Wow, this is a gem. Going forward I found this doable. Backwards (descending) is giving me a work out!
Delightful insight.
When I learned 3nps in a heptatonic scale, besides helping with speed and knowing the neck, it made me see how obvious the 2nps pentatonic scale was just repeating over and over.
I always say that the obvious isn't always obvious until someone points out how obvious it is!
I love that saying Timmy, thanks for the comment and your insights!
I've been watching lessons on youtube for several years now, non of them have brought up this super simple but SO important "thing". Wish you had started making videos years ago, then I would have saved hundreds of hours.... This is what I need to progress....Thank you!
It is my absolute pleasure Goltzhar! Thanks for the views
Definitely I need this pointers
Yet another video in the simple, but necessary, process of thinking outside scale "position" playing. Practicing your ideas not only solidify my knowledge of where notes are on the neck, but push me to think differently about playing lead. I can feel my creativity expanding as I break out of the prison of positions. Thank you once again!
Allan, that is a great comment, thank you so much. I'd like to use that as a testimonial sometime with your permission of course.
@@curiousguitarist It would be my pleasure.
Such a basic and helpful idea, yet it never occurred to me. This really helps, thank you.
You bet, John!
Very cool how we can apply different constraints to the same scale to move us down, across, or up the neck. Super useful!
Yeah, this kind of investigation really helps unlock how the fretboard works, thus making ANY new information much easier to attach.
Thanks so much Chris... I'm starting to look at the guitar in a whole new light because of this lesson.
That’s great to hear Chuck! Thanks for being here!
Hey Chris. Nice to see you at it again :)
This is outstanding. I'm seeing things in a whole new way. TYFYS and please, keep up the great work.
Gadzooks! When I look back at the camera and editing I thought was "ok" it makes me want to cry!!!
The concept is outstanding though isn't it!? Glad you're here Joseph!
@@curiousguitarist like many self taught guitarists, I've not been methodical in my education so far. Jumping from site to site, link to link, video to video. I've wasted a lot of precious time. Your way of conveying these ideas fits my learning style. Wish I had stopped here years ago. I'm probably going to purchase Lead Guitar from the Inside Out, but I have a question. Where should I be in terms of theoretical knowledge and actual playing to start the course? Thanks for your time, and again, please keep up the great work.
@@josepheberhardt2976 try the WATCH THESE FIRST playlist here on my channel. I think that will help you focus on getting all this stuff integrated. And if you want more guided lesson material you should check out the Patreon.
Best!
-Chris
@@curiousguitarist that's precisely what I'll do. Thank you
Another great concept to try. Takes me some time to get it smooth but cool.
Yeah I love this one!
I just discovered your channel. Amazing content - a lightbulb went on in my head. I can’t thank you enough. I’ll support the channel any way I can.
Thanks Andrew!
Thanks Chris, I'm still a new guitar player and just found your channel through Marty. I really appreciate the logical/actionable approach you take. I've subscribed and looking forward to more lessons.
Thanks for the sub! Welcome to the channel.
Loving the series.
I like when you use that guitar you can see the wear - where you add vibrato
Thanks Chris. Loving your lessons. I'm going to go away and experiment with this some more. Thanks.
You bet Paul, glad you’re here!
These videos are consistently great, well done sir !
Thanks, Jonathan.
Im currently going through Paul Davids next level playing course which is really good. And using videos like this to further my knowledge. This example has really opened up fresh ideas in my playing in terms of linking a lot of the new ideas i'm learning. Thanks Chris.
That’s so great to hear Alexander! Good to have you here!
Thank you for opening my mind and hands to new ways to get around the fretboard! Good stuff!!!
You bet!
Once again awesome lesson. 😃👍
Thanks Danny!
Man, this made sense!
Sweet! Glad you liked this one!
Cool idea. Thanks
Your gold brother!
Thanks mate!
great video
Damnit man! Jam on 🎸
Good information, as always. Nice, simple ideas to get out of the box. Thanks C. That surf green and the pearloid pickguard is a killer. But I gotta ask. And no offense intended. That maple fretboard looks pretty grimy. It is some special kind of maple stain or does it just need a really, really good cleaning? Looks pretty funky.
It’s immaculate. That’s worn finish, the lacquer is worn off from playing this guitar in clubs for decades.
No dirt.
Extremely useful!
Great to hear Dave!
I think this is the missing link for knowing how to apply your Slides and Bends in normal playing. Great video!
Thanks Jake!! This was my first post seems a long time ago :D
Great! Thanks!
You bet Thiago! Welcome to the channel!
Super!
hey Chris! how would you recommend to study from you? is there an order to the videos, or something organized somewhere? 10x :)
There is a playlist here called "WATCH THESE FIRST" that represents a good start on theory.
You can search my Patreon page for any of the TABs for just about every video on the channel.
And on my teaching platform called The Studio (also available through my patreon page) you can sign up for live sessions I teach.
www.patreon.com/chrissherland
Finally I teach live 1 on 1 sessions through zoom. Sign up for those is here: calendly.com/curiousguitarist/private-guitar-lesson
It would be so extremely helpful if you could have graphics that show where your fingers are it’s so difficult to pause the video and your fingers are so fluid in how you play that I have to literally watch it frame by frame which for a new be like me I love learning from you, but it’s so frustrating the hard
I've published the The TABs are on my Patreon page, here: patreon.com/chrissherland
Hopefully those will help!
Chris, first thanks so much for sharing your content. I hope that in next 6 months I'll be ready to absorb more of it as my fluency catches up. Question: As you move from say a minor Pentatonic box 2NPS shape to a 3NPS execution are you still working with a memorized "shape", just now in 3NPS format? OR are you always thinking about the interval and thinking I can grab a flat 3 here, a 4 there as you play through the scale, or is that just too much for the brain to handle in the moment?!?!
Will,
I love this comment!
The answer is "both" really. If I'm headed somewhere (a target, maybe the 12th or a high root note that I can see I want to get to) the scale shapes are like highways, I'm not concerned with the exits I'm passing by, or how the camber of the road is working for me, I'm moving.
But, when I get to that target, I'm now seeing the relationship of the notes to each other and I'm fully conscious.
When I'm playing slowly, and thoughtfully, and hopefully with a lot of feel, I'm fully focused on the "what", but when I'm traveling somehewre, it's all about the "how".
Helpful? Does that make sense?
@@curiousguitarist Yes! thanks. That makes sense. Even to my beginner brain. If I'm messing around in minor pentatonic scale over a jam track sometimes I'm just kind of mindlessly finding notes in the pattern that I fell should about this much higher or that much lower than the note I just played, but when I'm thinking about resolving to a root, I'm trying to find a 4th to bend because it just sounds so good just before landing home on the root. I need to work on making the interval shapes automatic I think. I need to work on a LOT actually... 59 year old playing for a year now at least an hour a day, but man it's endless. I'm gonna come find you when I make the leap that I know is coming in the next 6-12 months. So fun. Thanks for hitting me back.
@@willregan2639 You bet! I have a new video coming out next week called "Phrasing 101"
That might be interesting for you.
Good to have you here!
Very helpful, thx!
Thanks Jason
What is meaning of 21 on that red Strat on the wall behind you? That's a custom job, right?
Hey Don,
Yeah I custom ordered that number sticker (it's not paint). I was going for this look...
cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2784/4966/products/FJ4WXL_A_800x533_crop_center.jpg
Just a cool thought. What if someone made a RUclips series of "starting out" as a new beginner guitar player and how, from an instructors view, they would become a fluid guitarist.
Cool idea!
Not to forget you don't always have to play your way to another area. You can still jump from one place and land on another.
If that is the sound you want to make, of course! Best to have as many “methods” as possible to express your musical ideas, yes?
wow.... perhaps i shouldn't watch vid's that are way above my skill level! lol
i need to let my brain cool down from all the mental friction lol
it all makes total sense and is just so logical. let's see if my fingers feel the same way when i get home and can try this! haha
Thanks Saltysteele...really appreciate the views and comments!
This is a great concept, and is really as much for your brain as it is for your fingers.
Let me know how you do.
@@curiousguitarist I love it, Chris- thanks!
I also discovered the channel from Marty
Glad you're here!
Ahhh light bulb moment..thanks
Yes, James, we gotta keep the lights on!
get a better mic - its very noisy. do your self a favour and buy something decent
I did, hopefully the later videos are better! Thanks for the tip Glen!!