great tips elmo. hand synchronization like timing picking for 3 note per string patterns helps alot. play something cool way faster than you really can and then slow it down to practice cleaning it up. proper muting techniques helps alot for sounding better. economy of movement was i huge one i taught people . the faster you go, the closer your fingers need to be to the string and the shorter your pick needs to travel.
@@MrPolevaulter my teacher used a shock collar on me, if I hit a chromatic dissonant note or misplaced a,16th note group of 4 with a 24,,th note section of, triplets I went home with nerve damage and jaw hanging down from the shock collar. Oh?? Wait a second im sorry that is what my ex-wife did when I would sneak in with a new piece of gear .. I can still remember the harsh word's she would utter to me often. It's either me or the guitar she would say..🤔 to this day I still wonder if one of my guitars chased her off while I was out buying more gear..😂😁🤣 .. probably the red tele with hot rails..
Great advice for a guitarist at any level. I’m in the middle of moving and my practice routine has been completely stopped because all my instruments are packed up. As soon as possible I’m unpacking one of them right away! Thank you for the motivation and the messages here!
You have to have passion!! I self taught guitar after I first heard Yngwie, and practiced hours every day, but loved it! And just as important, you must have innate ability or you will get discouraged. Guitar came easy to me, but many years later when I first heard Vitalij Kupri I was so enchanted, I thought I'll try keyboards! I simply didn't have the innate ability and after practicing endless hours with finger building exercises, I couldn't get the hands to work independently, I didn't improve at the rate I did when I first started guitar, so I gave up on it. No wonder the Finns have the best education system in the world, I love your teaching style!
This is one of the best advices you can get, if you want to improve as a player. For me, I do believe in perfect practise makes perfect. And for that, I do find shorter practise sessions more effective. At least for me, I find it easier to stay focus on being consistent with my technique, clear notes, how it feels. Even though it can be nice to play and works on things for hours ;)
Best video yet. More videos on your journey would be very helpful, and reminders that simple concepts such as consistent work are the key- it’s helpful to hear that when you are in the middle of working and sometimes lose hope that you are progressing.
Having a good teacher makes such a difference, I had the worst local teacher and nearly 30 years later my friends who also went to him still talk about it. It was like a cult, he basically psy ops us all into thinking he was a guitar god and no other could touch his level of genius lol He used to diss all music that he didn’t like and he would turn the lessons into sessions talking about him. The worst though, was that if you did show any progress or skill, he would just change the rules or put what you did down or try and catch you out with theory or technique he hadn’t even shown you. At the age of 14 it is very difficult to challenge anyone in authority. I still regret what a waste of years those lessons were. Enjoyed your thoughts on this topic mate 👍
regular practice is a great piece of advise and is something all great musicians of all types and all instruments say is most important. I find when I practice regularly things start to progress . as soon as I get in the habit of practicing every other day or 3 time a week, there is a noticeable slow down in progress.
Honesty is best cause to practice. What area of playing I suck most? Every player something comes natural as bending on pitch some struggle more. Some are slow players like Clapton, he never shreds. It is personal choices and your limitations what you can do. Some kind of philosophy is good to know playing any instrument why how when😂.
Great advice Elmo. When you were talking about building up shred skills and alternating between speed and accuracy, it reminded me of how a body builder might work on his arms and chest one day, and legs and back another day... or something like that (I don't work out lol). The point is to always be working on something. Sometimes you might not even have time to pick up a guitar... but you can listen to songs and try to pick out melodies or chords, or work on theory or scales on paper and try to put it in your mind, at least so that later you can get it under your fingers with practice and muscle memory. I also like listening to genres that I wouldn't normally listen to to try to broaden my ideas and get new chops.
@@MrPolevaulter Oh another weird thing I do... I listen to backing tracks in the shower sometimes and try to just "sing" what I would be playing along with it. LOL. A wise old redneck once said, "If it's dumb and works, it ain't dumb."
I remember when i started practising sweep picking on 3 strings. I had a real heard time to get the motion and syncing of the fingers down so i stopped practice it. A few weeks later while messing around a gave it another shot and i finally got it and then moved on to more strings. Sometimes you can’t force it, might be a good idea to put the guitar down and try again later.
Good Advice "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" - Chinese Proverb "There another old Chinese proverb, The journey is just as important as the destination. " I've really strayed from the guitar journey thing in the past few months. I guess it's time to get back on that horse and ride. Enjoy the Spring sunshine.
Interestingly if you think about it, long hours of work/practice also consist of diverse segments of objectives. I think John Petrucci talked about cataloguing certain techniques to practice at certain times in his Rock Discipline DVD. I dont practice as much these days due to my corporate job but im in a band and I find that sitting down to focus on certain objectives for a 15-30 mins to meet smaller target goals helps, even if it means revisiting basics like how i angle my pick to do runs, or learning a certain song for instance. Great advice, thanks man :)
I remember first video i saw. Some budget guitar review. Same as most other videos but then suddenly the this guy shreds so fast I thought the guitar would ignite 😅🤘
"A lot of people, they just play what they already know and that's not practice." I wish someone had explained this to me when I was a teenager, playing guitar several hours every day. I didn't understand this until well into my twenties, when I didn't have nearly as much time available anymore.
Hear hear. I spent so many years just dicking off with a guitar. It was useful for just getting a solid feel and comfortableness with the instrument, but I really didn't learn much.
This. I've spent countless of hours noodling over blues backing tracks using the same exact licks over and over again. It sure is fun but it's not gonna get you anywhere.
I've never had lessons and i regret that, i also am self taught, only "lessons" i had was me and a mate would learn a chord and share our different chords, and all was the main chords you would find on the first page of a guitar lesson book. I never used a guitar book but i would imagine that they are the first chords any player learns at the top of the neck. Then me my kid moved and i didn't play for years, i was around 19, 20. At late 30s i got an esquire my brother gave me which i still have, so messed around and learned you can do bar chords, so messed around with that. Then stopped playing again until i was 50, I'm now 52, i learned scales by the pattern they look, and working out what run sounds good. A few don't believe I've never had 1 lesson, not by tabs or by anyone teaching me. I'm not sure if that in itself makes me a gifted player because i just learn stuff by ear, and somehow work it out. I don't even know what chords I'm playing, what scales I'm doing but that's just me. At school i could pick up any instrument and just have a nack of playing it, I.e drums, i learned the basics very fast by myself, same with piano and flute. I have a couple of videos on this channel, and shows how i play. My problem now is i don't play every day and know i should. So I've got to a point where i pretty much play the same stuff but sometimes mix them up to produce something else. I've learned a couple of things from youtubers on certain scale variations and i transfer that in my head as patterns, everything for me is a pattern, thus i couldn't tell you what I'm playing. I enjoy the guitar a lot, but at 52 I'm never going to be in a band, I'm not strict enough on myself too play every day. So at times i get very frustrated with myself because i know i could play way better than i do. I'm pretty much a lone wolf, as in i don't feel the need to have friends, i have a handful of good friends but not one plays guitar, so I've got no one to bounce off. I just sit at home gaming and sometimes pick up one of my guitar's, and just improvise, that's all i do is impro, I've learned a couple of songs just by figuring it out, and not sure if I'm playing it as its supposed to be played but it sounds pretty much the same to me. I also have no real goal in who i want to play like, i love Black Sabbath and that kind of Doom metal, but also like melodic stuff. So I'm not even trying to replicate any guitarists, my "style" is my own for good or bad it is what it is. I can't take time back but wish i took guitar more seriously when i was younger, because now threw a misspent youth my memory is shot. It's frustrating but i know by not putting in the work I'll never achieve to play any way near as good as you.
Brilliant advice Elmo, as older learner I find time is my greatest enemy, am I was interested in being a shredder when I was teen in the 80's I wanted to play like Randy and Eddie back then when I don't think I would of had the patience, I've seen many great players live Eddie Van Halen Blackmore Gilmour May Angus Young , list could on but it was seeing David Gilmour live in 2016 that blew me away, he's not a fast player but he is amazing sounding player how he bends and all that good stuff, I was really drawn to that as a older learner, the problem with learning guitar is RUclips you can get off course very easily, you watch a guitar learning video on RUclips with the way their algorithms work it will pull up other instruction videos you can get really mixed up, few one or so stick with them , thanks for the tips cheers
I brought your methods to my neighbor and he is practicing now even thougn he is 67 yrs old! I made the video just havent posted it yet, my internet upload speed is trash and takes all night lol. If I dont remember b4 bed it doesnt get uploaded!
Thank you for your tips, i had a cheap guitar sitting for a few months and started learning in January this year. I watched a ton of videos on tuning first (strings, string height, inntonation, truss rod etc) and it made that cheap guitar just a ton of fun to play (amazing how tuning correctly makes a night and day difference). I am maybe a very early beginner, but my biggest challange is finger stretching, especially the ring finger. I am doing as many excercises as possible, but i find it to be the most challenging part of learning to play the guitar (can not even stretch for bar chords yet). If you have any tips for us beginners to stretch out those stubby fingers, it would be greatly appreciated.
Maybe your thumb position is a bit off? That sometimes leads to people having trouble with reach. I've been planning on a whole beginner series. Not sure when I'll get around to it.
honestly just googled finger stretches and finger independence excercises and do those as much as you can when you're away from your guitar. Also something I do is always do some quick stretches before I start playing
I got question about SPEAKERS. If you do not mind answer. I want buy cabinet for my DSL 1CR and what would be the best choice? Greenback , V30 or something else? I am happy with violin tone , i do not want to kill it, but the 8" lack of bass on lower E string. I would like to play YJM style mostly but sometimes is nice to go into SLAYER region :).
"This guy" made an earlier video which was a key moment in my getting much faster. In it he said playing faster FEELS different to playing at moderate speed.
@@MrPolevaulter totally. You helped me so much. I was searching RUclips relentlessly looking for the secret to push to the next level of speed. And your video said it feels different to play fast, like shifting into over drive. You set me on the road to achieving my guitar goals. Thank you so much Elmo.
@MrPolevaulter Elmo do you have a favorite mode or mode's to write in I know the whole thing regarding mode's might sound generic but kinda gives a generalization of things so to speak. I kinda like the tonality or harmonic flavor of lydian and aeolian, and harmonic minor in the chromatic realm of things circle of, 4ths for key change or momentary key change (,,more spacey sounding) 4 ,= creation of celestial events so no surprise I reckon...
love the video- im a lazy practice person but i record everything and hate my playing when i watch it- i have no idea how to use a metronome- i dont get it seriously- at all- i set it at 120 bpm and am i supposed to pick each note on each click? or have the entire note / scale sequence done before the next click? playing all my life and zero explanation on this stuff lol
Did you or do you have "bad days" where your playing is just kinda off? What's your advice for those times where you're just not feeling it; when you'r picking is bad, etc.. Should you put the guitar down or stick with it on days like that when you're frustrated?
Absolutely. What I do is maybe just shout obscenities and the wall, and then go on. I might also take a break. If it's really bad I might call it a day, and do something else that's productive. I think the key is to keep going despite being frustrated.
Being very technical and fast does not mean being a good musician and having a good feeling; some are very technical and incredibly quick but have no hear, no feeling and transmit no emotion. Anyway, nice skills.
If you enjoy that type of music, yes shredding tapping it is very skilful I do admire the amount of practice required to do. It’s all personal taste like music. For me it’s too fast high gain blur & all sounds the same losing expression on note definition. Faster is not better just because you can. Go practice jazz?
Guthrie Govan. The absolute best guitarist alive today. Can play anything, flawlessly. Can improvise like he's in a stream of pure consciousness. And can shred above all.
Now if you only could be as good in recording your videos. Its a good syntheziser- keyboard players would love your Channel but I want to hear a real guitar amp And not hooked up with 59 different mics. Its so compressed that sherinan just phoned me and asked if he can buy your keyboard.
So, my 2 cents. The two most important factors are taste, and style. Hell yes, you need very good technique, but I just read a Fripp quote that really summed it up, imo. He said (paraphrasing) "If you can play 1000 notes in a measure, and you play 1, that makes you sound more skillful, because you're capable of choosing the RIGHT note". Said another way, my mom (jazz singer) used to describe it as the thousand notes per square inch theory. We agreed that Joe Pass was better than an early Al DiMeola, because Al used to play as many notes as he possibly could in a measure, and Joe played all the right ones (DiMeola has progressed like all of us, he's as good as anybody on the planet these days). Thanks Elmo, great tips, and an interesting discussion.
Check out more lessons: www.youtube.com/@ElmoKarjalainensGuitarLe-rd5tb
Even though I am never trying to be in a band I still play and practice sometimes even 6 hrs a day
great tips elmo. hand synchronization like timing picking for 3 note per string patterns helps alot. play something cool way faster than you really can and then slow it down to practice cleaning it up. proper muting techniques helps alot for sounding better. economy of movement was i huge one i taught people . the faster you go, the closer your fingers need to be to the string and the shorter your pick needs to travel.
Spot on.
Elmo channels the spirit of Yngwie. He can do that because Finland is next to Sweden.
:D
Yes, it’s next doors. He probably heard Yngwie through the wall.
Elmo is way cooler than Yahway Mousemeat
@@billhannum4117 Yngwie has become a prima donna.
@@MrPolevaulter my teacher used a shock collar on me, if I hit a chromatic dissonant note or misplaced a,16th note group of 4 with a 24,,th note section of, triplets I went home with nerve damage and jaw hanging down from the shock collar. Oh?? Wait a second im sorry that is what my ex-wife did when I would sneak in with a new piece of gear .. I can still remember the harsh word's she would utter to me often. It's either me or the guitar she would say..🤔 to this day I still wonder if one of my guitars chased her off while I was out buying more gear..😂😁🤣 .. probably the red tele with hot rails..
A short daily practice brings more results than a long weekend session - you are spot on with that 👌
Indeed.
You ROCK Elmo Welmo Malmsteen Karjalainen ❤
♥️
100% approve. Solid advice, could not have said it better. Thanks Elmo👏
Also killer intro shredding !!!
Thanks :)
Good advices, thanks. Always good to remind us those tips.
Glad you liked it :)
Great advice for a guitarist at any level. I’m in the middle of moving and my practice routine has been completely stopped because all my instruments are packed up. As soon as possible I’m unpacking one of them right away! Thank you for the motivation and the messages here!
Thanks 👍
You have to have passion!! I self taught guitar after I first heard Yngwie, and practiced hours every day, but loved it! And just as important, you must have innate ability or you will get discouraged. Guitar came easy to me, but many years later when I first heard Vitalij Kupri I was so enchanted, I thought I'll try keyboards! I simply didn't have the innate ability and after practicing endless hours with finger building exercises, I couldn't get the hands to work independently, I didn't improve at the rate I did when I first started guitar, so I gave up on it.
No wonder the Finns have the best education system in the world, I love your teaching style!
Thank you :)
This is one of the best advices you can get, if you want to improve as a player. For me, I do believe in perfect practise makes perfect. And for that, I do find shorter practise sessions more effective. At least for me, I find it easier to stay focus on being consistent with my technique, clear notes, how it feels. Even though it can be nice to play and works on things for hours ;)
Best video yet. More videos on your journey would be very helpful, and reminders that simple concepts such as consistent work are the key- it’s helpful to hear that when you are in the middle of working and sometimes lose hope that you are progressing.
Glad you like it :)
Excellent choice of topic and tips, Elmo The läraropettaJateacher Karjalainen
Tackar :)
Having a good teacher makes such a difference, I had the worst local teacher and nearly 30 years later my friends who also went to him still talk about it. It was like a cult, he basically psy ops us all into thinking he was a guitar god and no other could touch his level of genius lol
He used to diss all music that he didn’t like and he would turn the lessons into sessions talking about him.
The worst though, was that if you did show any progress or skill, he would just change the rules or put what you did down or try and catch you out with theory or technique he hadn’t even shown you.
At the age of 14 it is very difficult to challenge anyone in authority. I still regret what a waste of years those lessons were.
Enjoyed your thoughts on this topic mate 👍
Sorry to hear. That really sucks. But thank you for the kind words :)
regular practice is a great piece of advise and is something all great musicians of all types and all instruments say is most important. I find when I practice regularly things start to progress . as soon as I get in the habit of practicing every other day or 3 time a week, there is a noticeable slow down in progress.
Spot on.
Thanks for the video Elmo.👍👍😎✌️
And thank you :)
Such a great video! Knowing how to practice is make or break. It's easy to get lost. Keep it up!
Cheers :)
Kiitos. It sounds like great advice no matter what one wants to practice at.
True.
Thank you for your lessons Elmo! Also appreciate the amount of work you do in each video. Learn new stuff is particularly helpful
Thanks!
Honesty is best cause to practice. What area of playing I suck most? Every player something comes natural as bending on pitch some struggle more. Some are slow players like Clapton, he never shreds. It is personal choices and your limitations what you can do. Some kind of philosophy is good to know playing any instrument why how when😂.
Great video, Elmo
Cheers!
Great advice Elmo. When you were talking about building up shred skills and alternating between speed and accuracy, it reminded me of how a body builder might work on his arms and chest one day, and legs and back another day... or something like that (I don't work out lol). The point is to always be working on something. Sometimes you might not even have time to pick up a guitar... but you can listen to songs and try to pick out melodies or chords, or work on theory or scales on paper and try to put it in your mind, at least so that later you can get it under your fingers with practice and muscle memory. I also like listening to genres that I wouldn't normally listen to to try to broaden my ideas and get new chops.
Spot on. I get the feeling that some people underestimate the good that comes from listening to music.
@@MrPolevaulter Oh another weird thing I do... I listen to backing tracks in the shower sometimes and try to just "sing" what I would be playing along with it. LOL. A wise old redneck once said, "If it's dumb and works, it ain't dumb."
I remember when i started practising sweep picking on 3 strings. I had a real heard time to get the motion and syncing of the fingers down so i stopped practice it. A few weeks later while messing around a gave it another shot and i finally got it and then moved on to more strings. Sometimes you can’t force it, might be a good idea to put the guitar down and try again later.
That can help.
great advice and great playing ,thanks for the vids
Thanks!
Practice scales , like for hours and hours a day , do it on the couch watching TV unplugged until it becomes boring , then the muscle memory kicks in
Awesome advice Elmo! I just subbed
Thanks!
I really enjoyed your video and videos,very informative.
Glad you liked it.
Amazing! You make it look so easy. It really gets on my nerves when I try to speed up but my picking technique sucks. Any tips on that? Cheers Elmo.
I have a video on the topic. Look it up. Search my name, plus speed picking.
Good Advice "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" - Chinese Proverb "There another old Chinese proverb, The journey is just as important as the destination. " I've really strayed from the guitar journey thing in the past few months. I guess it's time to get back on that horse and ride. Enjoy the Spring sunshine.
The spring sunshine is pretty nice :)
Interestingly if you think about it, long hours of work/practice also consist of diverse segments of objectives. I think John Petrucci talked about cataloguing certain techniques to practice at certain times in his Rock Discipline DVD.
I dont practice as much these days due to my corporate job but im in a band and I find that sitting down to focus on certain objectives for a 15-30 mins to meet smaller target goals helps, even if it means revisiting basics like how i angle my pick to do runs, or learning a certain song for instance.
Great advice, thanks man :)
Cheers!
I remember first video i saw. Some budget guitar review. Same as most other videos but then suddenly the this guy shreds so fast I thought the guitar would ignite 😅🤘
Haha :D Cheers!
Solid advice!
Cheers!
"A lot of people, they just play what they already know and that's not practice."
I wish someone had explained this to me when I was a teenager, playing guitar several hours every day. I didn't understand this until well into my twenties, when I didn't have nearly as much time available anymore.
Better late than never I guess, but I understand.
Hear hear. I spent so many years just dicking off with a guitar. It was useful for just getting a solid feel and comfortableness with the instrument, but I really didn't learn much.
This. I've spent countless of hours noodling over blues backing tracks using the same exact licks over and over again. It sure is fun but it's not gonna get you anywhere.
Such good advice and motivation…thank you
And thank you :)
I've never had lessons and i regret that, i also am self taught, only "lessons" i had was me and a mate would learn a chord and share our different chords, and all was the main chords you would find on the first page of a guitar lesson book. I never used a guitar book but i would imagine that they are the first chords any player learns at the top of the neck. Then me my kid moved and i didn't play for years, i was around 19, 20. At late 30s i got an esquire my brother gave me which i still have, so messed around and learned you can do bar chords, so messed around with that. Then stopped playing again until i was 50, I'm now 52, i learned scales by the pattern they look, and working out what run sounds good. A few don't believe I've never had 1 lesson, not by tabs or by anyone teaching me. I'm not sure if that in itself makes me a gifted player because i just learn stuff by ear, and somehow work it out. I don't even know what chords I'm playing, what scales I'm doing but that's just me. At school i could pick up any instrument and just have a nack of playing it, I.e drums, i learned the basics very fast by myself, same with piano and flute. I have a couple of videos on this channel, and shows how i play. My problem now is i don't play every day and know i should. So I've got to a point where i pretty much play the same stuff but sometimes mix them up to produce something else. I've learned a couple of things from youtubers on certain scale variations and i transfer that in my head as patterns, everything for me is a pattern, thus i couldn't tell you what I'm playing. I enjoy the guitar a lot, but at 52 I'm never going to be in a band, I'm not strict enough on myself too play every day. So at times i get very frustrated with myself because i know i could play way better than i do. I'm pretty much a lone wolf, as in i don't feel the need to have friends, i have a handful of good friends but not one plays guitar, so I've got no one to bounce off. I just sit at home gaming and sometimes pick up one of my guitar's, and just improvise, that's all i do is impro, I've learned a couple of songs just by figuring it out, and not sure if I'm playing it as its supposed to be played but it sounds pretty much the same to me. I also have no real goal in who i want to play like, i love Black Sabbath and that kind of Doom metal, but also like melodic stuff. So I'm not even trying to replicate any guitarists, my "style" is my own for good or bad it is what it is. I can't take time back but wish i took guitar more seriously when i was younger, because now threw a misspent youth my memory is shot. It's frustrating but i know by not putting in the work I'll never achieve to play any way near as good as you.
Some people have a knack for picking up stuff faster. I guess that's what could be called talent. The rest is hard (but fun) work.
Crazy good video. Hyvä advice suomi on top🇫🇮
Kiitos :)
Brilliant advice Elmo, as older learner I find time is my greatest enemy, am I was interested in being a shredder when I was teen in the 80's I wanted to play like Randy and Eddie back then when I don't think I would of had the patience, I've seen many great players live Eddie Van Halen Blackmore Gilmour May Angus Young , list could on but it was seeing David Gilmour live in 2016 that blew me away, he's not a fast player but he is amazing sounding player how he bends and all that good stuff, I was really drawn to that as a older learner, the problem with learning guitar is RUclips you can get off course very easily, you watch a guitar learning video on RUclips with the way their algorithms work it will pull up other instruction videos you can get really mixed up, few one or so stick with them , thanks for the tips cheers
True that. RUclips can make you lose focus.
In America we call it Noodling when no boundaries are broken or tested. Just playing the same old crap! Still fun though lol just no progress
Indeed :)
I brought your methods to my neighbor and he is practicing now even thougn he is 67 yrs old! I made the video just havent posted it yet, my internet upload speed is trash and takes all night lol. If I dont remember b4 bed it doesnt get uploaded!
Cool bananas :)
Thank you for your tips, i had a cheap guitar sitting for a few months and started learning in January this year. I watched a ton of videos on tuning first (strings, string height, inntonation, truss rod etc) and it made that cheap guitar just a ton of fun to play (amazing how tuning correctly makes a night and day difference). I am maybe a very early beginner, but my biggest challange is finger stretching, especially the ring finger. I am doing as many excercises as possible, but i find it to be the most challenging part of learning to play the guitar (can not even stretch for bar chords yet). If you have any tips for us beginners to stretch out those stubby fingers, it would be greatly appreciated.
Maybe your thumb position is a bit off? That sometimes leads to people having trouble with reach. I've been planning on a whole beginner series. Not sure when I'll get around to it.
honestly just googled finger stretches and finger independence excercises and do those as much as you can when you're away from your guitar. Also something I do is always do some quick stretches before I start playing
I got question about SPEAKERS. If you do not mind answer. I want buy cabinet for my DSL 1CR and what would be the best choice? Greenback , V30 or something else? I am happy with violin tone , i do not want to kill it, but the 8" lack of bass on lower E string. I would like to play YJM style mostly but sometimes is nice to go into SLAYER region :).
I'm actually not sure. Haven't really done much research on speakers.
"This guy" made an earlier video which was a key moment in my getting much faster. In it he said playing faster FEELS different to playing at moderate speed.
Glad to be of help.
@@MrPolevaulter totally. You helped me so much. I was searching RUclips relentlessly looking for the secret to push to the next level of speed.
And your video said it feels different to play fast, like shifting into over drive. You set me on the road to achieving my guitar goals. Thank you so much Elmo.
@@globalfatmas Cool bananas 😊
@MrPolevaulter Elmo do you have a favorite mode or mode's to write in I know the whole thing regarding mode's might sound generic but kinda gives a generalization of things so to speak. I kinda like the tonality or harmonic flavor of lydian and aeolian, and harmonic minor in the chromatic realm of things circle of, 4ths for key change or momentary key change (,,more spacey sounding) 4 ,= creation of celestial events so no surprise I reckon...
Not really, no. Some I like more maybe. Depends on the mood.
Nice to see the shout out to Gary Moore.
:)
love the video- im a lazy practice person but i record everything and hate my playing when i watch it-
i have no idea how to use a metronome- i dont get it seriously- at all- i set it at 120 bpm and am i supposed to pick each note on each click? or have the entire note / scale sequence done before the next click? playing all my life and zero explanation on this stuff lol
You can do one note/click, or 2 notes/click, 3/click, 4/click.
Did you or do you have "bad days" where your playing is just kinda off? What's your advice for those times where you're just not feeling it; when you'r picking is bad, etc.. Should you put the guitar down or stick with it on days like that when you're frustrated?
Absolutely. What I do is maybe just shout obscenities and the wall, and then go on. I might also take a break. If it's really bad I might call it a day, and do something else that's productive. I think the key is to keep going despite being frustrated.
I hear ya! Last couple days I feel like my playing has been sh!t. So frustrating.
Leo Fender called and said no shred on red tele, only chicken pickins and install b-bender per the 4th fender commandment.
:D
Is this in Chile?
That's when I really discovered Gary Moore ,when he released that song on record( I was 20yr old)
Is that fender telecaster American original elmo ??
Nope, Harley Benton.
Please elmo. When is my favorite strat critic/ player do a review of the 25th harley benton gold strat?
Not sure. Tons of stuff lined up.
Being very technical and fast does not mean being a good musician and having a good feeling; some are very technical and incredibly quick but have no hear, no feeling and transmit no emotion. Anyway, nice skills.
Is that a JB Jr in bridge?
Yeah.
@@MrPolevaulter love it! Been having it on one of my strats for 13 years now and never wanted to change it
If you enjoy that type of music, yes shredding tapping it is very skilful I do admire the amount of practice required to do. It’s all personal taste like music. For me it’s too fast high gain blur & all sounds the same losing expression on note definition. Faster is not better just because you can. Go practice jazz?
Guthrie Govan. The absolute best guitarist alive today. Can play anything, flawlessly. Can improvise like he's in a stream of pure consciousness. And can shred above all.
Bottom line we have to put the work in.
Pretty much 😊
Goddamn commercials
Now if you only could be as good in recording your videos. Its a good syntheziser- keyboard players would love your Channel but I want to hear a real guitar amp And not hooked up with 59 different mics. Its so compressed that sherinan just phoned me and asked if he can buy your keyboard.
LOL nope
So, my 2 cents. The two most important factors are taste, and style. Hell yes, you need very good technique, but I just read a Fripp quote that really summed it up, imo. He said (paraphrasing) "If you can play 1000 notes in a measure, and you play 1, that makes you sound more skillful, because you're capable of choosing the RIGHT note". Said another way, my mom (jazz singer) used to describe it as the thousand notes per square inch theory. We agreed that Joe Pass was better than an early Al DiMeola, because Al used to play as many notes as he possibly could in a measure, and Joe played all the right ones (DiMeola has progressed like all of us, he's as good as anybody on the planet these days). Thanks Elmo, great tips, and an interesting discussion.
Cheers!
If you allow me to add an essential point... Do not marry or have children
Haha :D
Elmo you rock! 💪 🤟😎
Thanks!
May I please see a video of you playing left-handed going from 60 bpm to 208 bpm?
ruclips.net/video/Ymxsluc_GLc/видео.html
You know 20 years ago if you shredded on a tele you'd get dirty looks, because it's like everyone is expecting country. These days, anything goes.
True.
Grow ya hair ridiculously long