Thanks so much, guys! Happy to share these little glimpses. There’s SOOO much more I can open up for you. If you really want to take this seriously, check out Artist Works and my private lessons to dig deeper into what really works. There’s only one shortcut and that’s learning what changed my life as a kid on the guitar. Taught by a professional not a professor. Check out the links! GT
GT is back and its my birthday 48 yo 3 years ago i pick up dusty old guitar knowing only open chords .. and start learning caged ,scales , Triads .. and boom i see it it all the same .i wanna say big thanks to GT i learned tons.i never thought in my life this is possible.with daily practice..my fingers are stronger more confidente.Big thanks to GT .
I gotta thank you, Guthrie, this lesson gave me a real breakthrough moment. I'm still scrambling to grasp it, but I just spent about 90 minutes only playing C major chord tones all over the neck and it was glorious. I tried to throw in a Dmin (ii) change, and it slowly began to connect but I'm not seeing the minor "constellations" as clearly yet. This has been the missing puzzle-piece for so long, and it finally made sense tonight how to break out of boxes and really "play the changes", so thank you.
Great video, as always! I've been playing guitar for over 50 years, most of them as a professional player. I never could get into lessons. But every time I get into one of your videos I'M LEARNING! Your lessons always seem focused on the meat and potatoes of great playing, accentuating the chord tones that are happening at the time, keeping it rhythmical, keeping it musical, keeping it soulful. As one of my favorite players ever, you're now also my favorite teacher. I've got to get up to Nashville and see you with your trio. Thanks so much for what you do!
This is the best one yet for me. I like how you went in C from super simple and made it slowly become advanced. Gonna get a lot out of this one thank you! The color of that telecaster matches the pallet wood background perfectly too
For those of us who are starting to get a grasp of CAGED and how CAGED and the modes of the major scale are the same dang thing: he's playing in B Dorian, which is just a fancy way of saying he is emphasizing chord 2 (B minor) of the A major chord scale. This causes our ear to hear it (B minor) as the root instead of A major (chord 1 of the harmonized A major scale). It's still all the same chords and associated scale patterns as A major, just tricking our ear in to thinking chord 2 is home and not chord 1 through emphasis alone. Cool stuff! So, now you can correct your friends and tell them Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game" is in B Dorian, not B minor ;)
Absolutely awesome stuff. So clear and articulate. Not to mention the crazy musicianship. I love the way you bring us back and forth from simple to more complicated to something way complicated but then back to simple. Makes it much easier to digest and see how the stuff in its basic form is quite simple.
Hot dog Guthrie! This is great. Over major chords I love your slides down from b7 to 6, b3 to 2 and up from b3 to 3. These things controlled well and pitched against a back drop of CAGED you really make the instrument sing. I’ll be back rewatching this one a few times yet. Love it. Thanks a bunch!
I really dig your videos. You have a way of explanation that really works for me. Always like to check in and see if I can pick up something new. Been using your 'spanish jam' around here in New Mexico and folks love when I just break into it in the middle of any song.
Tell us about the axe brother. U are a treasure of a human being and a legendary guitar player. Your one of the all time greats dude and your still in your prime.
One of my favorite intro playings of yours. You do everything I wish I could do! Thanks for all of the info you provide in these videos. They help more than you know
Man, you're picking is so smooth and soulful. I gotta start sitting down and try to emulate some of your style. You're becoming one of my favorite guitar players, and there's so many good ones. Thanks for the inspiration cat.
Guthrie your playing is soulful & beautiful . Plus , the Telecaster sounds great .... Cool exercise , Keith Richards type riffing is tougher than it seems .
One of these days, and it won't be long i hope, I'm going to take a lesson with Mr. Trapp. I think i need to practice some more beforehand. I just showed this video to my son as an introduction just now. (just defended his PhD thesis in Epidimiology at Hopkins 3 days ago, I'm very proud), also a guitar player. Wish me luck!
Great content as usual. I'm wondering when merch is gonna be available. I'd totally rock a "no extra charge for mistakes" tee. Or maybe a "howdy friends" coffee mug. Anyhow, keep doing what you're doing.
@@JasonGinsbergRKC2 yeah, what's going on with WEST Nashville (I live in Spain btw so I'm clueless but it's always in there and I love it - cue t-shirt) Btw, thku Guthrie for keeping me in the game. You're looking well.
@@johnsmothermon6856 Wow , I bet it's hot in Alabama . I would like to tour America one day when the world is hopefully a better more peaceful place . I love the way Guthrie shares his musical knowledge , It's healing Mother Earth .
Dear Guthrie, could you, please, explain intro of this video moving through melodic line of the chords you play and transmission notes between chords in solo the same time
I needed to hear this, I’ve been really hitting it hard but have fallen into several hours at a time running scales. I’m tying caged chords and using arpeggios so it’s not a waste but I need to practice being musical more. I think if I can run scales fast enough then it will allow me to play what I want to play but unfortunately that doesn’t seem to be the way it works 🤣
Enrolled in the artist works series with ya and into the intermediate sections .... Thinking .... The A, E and D shape triads are built the same 3 1 5 .... Suggestion.... Playing exercises around those chord shapes may us newbies ..... Thanks much for your efforts and real world instruction
Great stuff. How much do you think your bluegrass background lended toward your dexterity, that’s also melodic? I had a teacher early on who made me learn fiddler tunes, and Dan Crary stuff. His idea was that rather you like bluegrass or not, they bring up your dexterity, and your ability to sound musical at the same time. I still play sailors hornpipe, ladies fancy, etc., as warmup exercises. Also, I ended up loving bluegrass, where I started wanting to just play classic rock, and blues. I think anyone who learns a little bluegrass benefits by learning that “bounce”, and it influences all their playing by making it groove harder. Look at Jerry García, Dickie Betts, and of course yourself.
Don't know whether the not drinking is still a thing...but your playing seems really sharp right now. Not sharp tonally haha ...but just seems on the money. Your lessons are real clear too man...good on you. I don't recall seeing that guitar before...sounds really good..neck pickup is beautiful and it seems like the guitar really suits you and your style. Sounds like a keeper.
Dude! Thoses double stops are so freaking sweeeet Very soulful as usual whilst sweeping pretty much the whole neck haha 😅 One day I hope to see you in Nashville Greetings from Sheffield, uk 🙏
@@simpsimpson5175 But gee whillikers, he said amid his fluster, I've a '68 PRRI, But it sure ain't sounding like that (!) (Actually, w/ me best Tele, via Twisted Tele neck pup, I can get pretty close, even though Master Trapp's Princeton is an historic with the 12" speaker mod (?) and allowing for web induced compression)... come back 😝
One good book to get started is chord tone soloing, you have everything there, then you have to learn some melodic moves and licks, transcribe some music and then you will be free on guitar :)
I can imagine that even the atmosphere in the music city ...has gotten um. sketchy?lol I dont know I'm just guessin Suddenly the entire nation is strung out ... and it ain't the covid that's killin people... I thank everyday I can play my guitar.. thanks for gettin me there guthrie .. I'm hearing major and minor 3rds better all the time
Guthrie my boy, i know your busy and probably cant answer this..but it doesnt hurt to try....I been a man on a mission, practicing deeper into chord tones....Im a straight up bluez/soul/ singer/player/writer...From b.b. to classic Clapton, muscle shoals, to Al Green, to peter green love all that 60s heavy blues and soul....Ive been getting carried away playing all the chords over some slow heavy minor blues im recording on my record....And my ears are telling me, its wrong....i feel that theres a thin line playing the changes on a slow minor blues, tin pan alley, for example.......I know the chords have to be outlined and referenced....But i realize it can get a little Jazzy, if im not careful...Listening to all the greats, the pentatonic is the dominant force of that sound, Then just touching on the chord tones just enough, which are in or around the scale...I think classic blues is meant to be raw and dissonant, thats what gives it that feeling...Am i right? ...Im just talking about slow minor 12/8 type stuff....Just playing the chords or just arpeggiating on that stuff,doesnt seem to work to my ears, it sounds beautiful, but its not the blues anymore. am i making sense? lol
Thanks so much, guys! Happy to share these little glimpses. There’s SOOO much more I can open up for you. If you really want to take this seriously, check out Artist Works and my private lessons to dig deeper into what really works. There’s only one shortcut and that’s learning what changed my life as a kid on the guitar. Taught by a professional not a professor. Check out the links! GT
GT is back and its my birthday 48 yo 3 years ago i pick up dusty old guitar knowing only open chords .. and start learning caged ,scales , Triads .. and boom i see it it all the same .i wanna say big thanks to GT i learned tons.i never thought in my life this is possible.with daily practice..my fingers are stronger more confidente.Big thanks to GT .
Did a private lesson with Guthrie last week. Absolutely tremendous, highly recommended. Now the work begins!
I took a lesson about two years ago and still reference the video all the time!
How do you get the lesson?? I want in!!
The work is constant
Don't ever change setup from this video. Sound is AMAIZING!! Thanks for all you do for us.
I gotta thank you, Guthrie, this lesson gave me a real breakthrough moment. I'm still scrambling to grasp it, but I just spent about 90 minutes only playing C major chord tones all over the neck and it was glorious. I tried to throw in a Dmin (ii) change, and it slowly began to connect but I'm not seeing the minor "constellations" as clearly yet.
This has been the missing puzzle-piece for so long, and it finally made sense tonight how to break out of boxes and really "play the changes", so thank you.
Great video, as always!
I've been playing guitar for over 50 years, most of them as a professional player. I never could get into lessons. But every time I get into one of your videos I'M LEARNING! Your lessons always seem focused on the meat and potatoes of great playing, accentuating the chord tones that are happening at the time, keeping it rhythmical, keeping it musical, keeping it soulful. As one of my favorite players ever, you're now also my favorite teacher. I've got to get up to Nashville and see you with your trio. Thanks so much for what you do!
always great to have Guthrie back for some more pointers !
Thanks a bunch, friends! Means a lot and keeps me positive and motivated. Learning, growing and expanding. Y’all are the best! GT
Guthrie you have got to be one of the
best Guitarist on the planet at the moment!
Absolutely Fantastic Thanks, Love from England.
One of the best players on this Static Plane called Earth .
This is the best one yet for me. I like how you went in C from super simple and made it slowly become advanced. Gonna get a lot out of this one thank you! The color of that telecaster matches the pallet wood background perfectly too
Guthrie looking healthy & fit brother!!! I love that you don’t discriminate against any style. Thank you for the knowledge brother.
For those of us who are starting to get a grasp of CAGED and how CAGED and the modes of the major scale are the same dang thing: he's playing in B Dorian, which is just a fancy way of saying he is emphasizing chord 2 (B minor) of the A major chord scale. This causes our ear to hear it (B minor) as the root instead of A major (chord 1 of the harmonized A major scale). It's still all the same chords and associated scale patterns as A major, just tricking our ear in to thinking chord 2 is home and not chord 1 through emphasis alone. Cool stuff!
So, now you can correct your friends and tell them Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game" is in B Dorian, not B minor ;)
Just got elevated....killer!
It was easy and then it wasn't. Love these things, thanks always, Guthrie.
Thank you! Thank you, soo much!! Fantastic guitarist and teacher!!
Absolutely awesome stuff. So clear and articulate. Not to mention the crazy musicianship. I love the way you bring us back and forth from simple to more complicated to something way complicated but then back to simple. Makes it much easier to digest and see how the stuff in its basic form is quite simple.
THANKS FOR THE VIDEO GUTHRIE
Can’t wait to watch this in the AM. Thanks for your time Guthrie.
Thanks Guthrie, i actually started sounding a little musical applying the ideas in your video tonight.
Few things in life sound sweeter than Guthrie Trapp on the neck pickup of a Tele. Just lovely.
Man so cool. You care so much about helping make music instead of exercises. Appreciate you.
Hot dog Guthrie! This is great. Over major chords I love your slides down from b7 to 6, b3 to 2 and up from b3 to 3. These things controlled well and pitched against a back drop of CAGED you really make the instrument sing.
I’ll be back rewatching this one a few times yet. Love it. Thanks a bunch!
The b3 to 2 over a major chord is one of my favorites too! I totally stole it and use it every day without shame lol
I really dig your videos. You have a way of explanation that really works for me. Always like to check in and see if I can pick up something new. Been using your 'spanish jam' around here in New Mexico and folks love when I just break into it in the middle of any song.
Great video as always!!! Thanks Guthrie
Tell us about the axe brother. U are a treasure of a human being and a legendary guitar player. Your one of the all time greats dude and your still in your prime.
There are a Thousand Songs & Solo's in this one lesson! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Guthrie that's a nice exercise for seeing your 1's 3's and 5's along the fretboard 👍
Guthrie I love your playing counting (123) and all. Great stuff
One of my favorite intro playings of yours. You do everything I wish I could do! Thanks for all of the info you provide in these videos. They help more than you know
Man, you're picking is so smooth and soulful. I gotta start sitting down and try to emulate some of your style. You're becoming one of my favorite guitar players, and there's so many good ones. Thanks for the inspiration cat.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge; Your teaching makes a lot of sense and is easy to follow.
Guthrie your playing is soulful & beautiful . Plus , the Telecaster sounds great ....
Cool exercise , Keith Richards type riffing is tougher than it seems .
Sheeeit man! Playing arppegios with a groove. I really dig your approach, wish I had a small measure of your chops
Always genius Mr Guithrie.... yes, practice, but practice musically....some off the best advise one could ask for. Thanks as always
One of these days, and it won't be long i hope, I'm going to take a lesson with Mr. Trapp. I think i need to practice some more beforehand. I just showed this video to my son as an introduction just now. (just defended his PhD thesis in Epidimiology at Hopkins 3 days ago, I'm very proud), also a guitar player. Wish me luck!
Very cool lesson.
Guthrie you are the best !! you never disappoint, i hope to be able to play at least a quarter as good as you someday!
Thanks 🙏 Guthrie . Awesome lesson man ! I’m going to play that sequence all day , superb practice tool …. Greetings from the UK ! Rock on 🤘 Gary
Every time you do a video lightbulbs go off. Thanks for doing what you do.
Thx Guthrie. You absolutely rock, dude! Always a pleasure viewing your videos. 👍😊🎸
Awesome Guthrie.
Love Roberts and Dons show. Yes it’s crazy downtown. But.. fun
Awesome lesson
Thats a great exercise. Thanks for putting these out.
I have to watch this again with sometime. I think I finally saw it.
Nice tone on that one GT!
Absolutely killer playing
This man needs at least 200k subs…amazing musician
So inspiring
Thanks Maestro!
Looking healthy! Monster player ❤️ Guthrie’s playing and lessons.
Go Guthrie
Howdy Guthrie,
Greetings from Tanzania
Brilliant class. Thanks
awesome as usual. Anyone else hearing a little Althea in here?
Thank God for Guthrie!
Excellent instructions
Pretty sure Guthrie just became my new fav electric guitar player
Great content as usual. I'm wondering when merch is gonna be available. I'd totally rock a "no extra charge for mistakes" tee. Or maybe a "howdy friends" coffee mug. Anyhow, keep doing what you're doing.
"Coming to you from EAST Nashville!"
@@JasonGinsbergRKC2 yeah, what's going on with WEST Nashville (I live in Spain btw so I'm clueless but it's always in there and I love it - cue t-shirt) Btw, thku Guthrie for keeping me in the game. You're looking well.
A "T" shirt would be cool
@@-Atmos1 I'm from Alabama.
@@johnsmothermon6856 Wow ,
I bet it's hot in Alabama . I would like to tour America one day when the world is hopefully a better more peaceful place .
I love the way Guthrie shares his musical knowledge , It's healing Mother Earth .
Great stuff Guthrie, as usual! Someday I hope to have 1/4th the fretboard vision you do.
Top notch! As always.
Dear Guthrie, could you, please, explain intro of this video moving through melodic line of the chords you play and transmission notes between chords in solo the same time
I needed to hear this, I’ve been really hitting it hard but have fallen into several hours at a time running scales. I’m tying caged chords and using arpeggios so it’s not a waste but I need to practice being musical more. I think if I can run scales fast enough then it will allow me to play what I want to play but unfortunately that doesn’t seem to be the way it works 🤣
Giving us a framework for our own creativity…That’s what I’m talkin’ bout..! Good job..thanks.👍🏼
Awesome Wicked Game jam 😀
Enrolled in the artist works series with ya and into the intermediate sections .... Thinking .... The A, E and D shape triads are built the same 3 1 5 .... Suggestion.... Playing exercises around those chord shapes may us newbies ..... Thanks much for your efforts and real world instruction
Great lesson! As always :) Very inspiring! By the way, new tele?
Sinna Minna Peeda .I`m also hearing The First Noel .Voices in my head LOL
Great stuff. How much do you think your bluegrass background lended toward your dexterity, that’s also melodic? I had a teacher early on who made me learn fiddler tunes, and Dan Crary stuff. His idea was that rather you like bluegrass or not, they bring up your dexterity, and your ability to sound musical at the same time. I still play sailors hornpipe, ladies fancy, etc., as warmup exercises. Also, I ended up loving bluegrass, where I started wanting to just play classic rock, and blues. I think anyone who learns a little bluegrass benefits by learning that “bounce”, and it influences all their playing by making it groove harder. Look at Jerry García, Dickie Betts, and of course yourself.
Learning the bluegrass crosspicking patterns is a game changer in itself. I throw those into almost all of my acoustic playing now.
Yeah man!!!! Sounding great!!!
Don't know whether the not drinking is still a thing...but your playing seems really sharp right now. Not sharp tonally haha ...but just seems on the money. Your lessons are real clear too man...good on you. I don't recall seeing that guitar before...sounds really good..neck pickup is beautiful and it seems like the guitar really suits you and your style. Sounds like a keeper.
Lost some weight looking great man. Thanks for lessons always helpful cheers
Awesome…..Thanks so much..
Dude! Thoses double stops are so freaking sweeeet
Very soulful as usual whilst sweeping pretty much the whole neck haha 😅
One day I hope to see you in Nashville
Greetings from Sheffield, uk
🙏
@15:12 nice pedal point lick
Very good lesson. It would be really empowering if did something like this in a more comprehensive way with examples and tons of études!!!
What thinking when you play over the chord change.
Which Tele is that in the Video? Sounds really nice!
What tone. What is your signal path ?
The best!😎
You still using that same system to stay slim bud - that you mentioned in the other video?
Which amp and where's your volume set at 'cause you sound amazing!
Guthrie uses a Princeton for these apparently...knobs all at mid.. touch of reverb
@@simpsimpson5175 But gee whillikers, he said amid his fluster, I've a '68 PRRI, But it sure ain't sounding like that (!)
(Actually, w/ me best Tele, via Twisted Tele neck pup, I can get pretty close, even though Master Trapp's Princeton is an historic with the 12" speaker mod (?) and allowing for web induced compression)...
come back 😝
@@jonnybeck6723 Tone is in the fingers
@@simpsimpson5175 You speakith the truth my friend...
From our soul through time to our fingers...
Awesome lesson. See you at the Kitchen!
Opening jam was so groovy first song that came to mind was wicked game. Someday I'll be able to play like that don't care if it takes till I'm 60.
One good book to get started is chord tone soloing, you have everything there, then you have to learn some melodic moves and licks, transcribe some music and then you will be free on guitar :)
Same progression as Dire Straits "So Far Away" ?
👍
Hey guys., is there a link on these notes he plays over the chords? Doesn’t sound like a natural minor scale over the Bm
What’s the fender in the background?
Looks like a Mustang with a tele bridge.
I can imagine that even the atmosphere in the music city ...has gotten um. sketchy?lol I dont know I'm just guessin
Suddenly the entire nation is strung out ... and it ain't the covid that's killin people... I thank everyday I can play my guitar.. thanks for gettin me there guthrie .. I'm hearing major and minor 3rds better all the time
um, "sketchy" aint the word.....
Well said !
Damn, let me go practice the C pentatonic scale.
14:46
Woooow
When you’re emphasizing the 3rd, it’s kind of like a drop two voicing.
👍👍👍👍👍
Telecaster is the only guitar on which any colour fits greatly
Guthrie my boy, i know your busy and probably cant answer this..but it doesnt hurt to try....I been a man on a mission, practicing deeper into chord tones....Im a straight up bluez/soul/ singer/player/writer...From b.b. to classic Clapton, muscle shoals, to Al Green, to peter green love all that 60s heavy blues and soul....Ive been getting carried away playing all the chords over some slow heavy minor blues im recording on my record....And my ears are telling me, its wrong....i feel that theres a thin line playing the changes on a slow minor blues, tin pan alley, for example.......I know the chords have to be outlined and referenced....But i realize it can get a little Jazzy, if im not careful...Listening to all the greats, the pentatonic is the dominant force of that sound, Then just touching on the chord tones just enough, which are in or around the scale...I think classic blues is meant to be raw and dissonant, thats what gives it that feeling...Am i right? ...Im just talking about slow minor 12/8 type stuff....Just playing the chords or just arpeggiating on that stuff,doesnt seem to work to my ears, it sounds beautiful, but its not the blues anymore. am i making sense? lol
Got it, my constant musical noodling can be seen as practice then 😁
Hard to lean into that 4 without sounding full on Allman Brothers
I'm more likes your main tele its Georges sound so Blinky..
Stop it!!!