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And please guys no more thumbs down 😒 these guys know what they're talking about if you don't understand and I know this personally you're probably not paying attention or you learned music theory out of order go back start from scratch and pay attention and plus practice your scales 🎼🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎸🤘🎸
Two things my sax teacher (!) drummed into me were, always practice with a metronome & don't just leave it in the same 4/4 rhythm at the same rate, change it around a bit. Try a bossa nova rhythm or a waltz. And remember, it's harder to play slow than fast, so slow down the tempo sometimes, don't just speed it up. The three things... Great video.
I've been playing, campfire acoustic strumming for around 40 years. Over the last years or so, I am now advancing my skills and learning electric, and focusing on Blues. This is amazing information, I am absolutely going to apply this to my practice. Thanks Eddie, you are amazing!
Honestly think this might be one of the most impactful videos you've put up. It might seem like a small change to make but the results can be game changing, and not just for guitar players. This is important for any instrument you play and can take away the monotony that many feel in the early to mid stages of learning, when there is so much repetition trying to get things under your fingers. Great lesson clearly explained.
Saw this 3 months ago when I started. Didn't know any scales back then. After learning w RUclips videos for 3 months, I purchased Eddie's Country Guitar Courses 2 weeks ago, thrilled about it. Chords, rhythms, scales all start to come together for me. Looking at this video again today by chance, and by luck. I will definitely practice now. Thank you!
Great tip, stumbled upon this just “noodling” and decided to try with pentatonic scales. Didn’t necessarily play whole scales, just picked out some of the notes. Threw in some bends, pull offs, hammer-ons. ✌🏼
Eddie, I took 10 weeks to master the fretboard back in June of 2022. After 10 weeks I was amazed at how much I had learned in 10 short weeks. You're so right about needing to learn to play rythem! 7 months after playing my first pentatonic scale, I still find myself playing the scale and wishing I was playing more musically. This video has opened my eyes to what I was slowly discovering, don't play the scales straight through, mix it up, have fun hold notes and have rests, stop playing the scales and make music instead. THANKS!
Gentlemen don't give these lessons for themselves they're trying to help you absorb and appreciate the beautiful structure and sound mechanisms of the guitar thank them! Thank you guys
This is very well explained. As we learn hammer-ons, pull-offs, bends, picking and tapping techniques etc., this opens up a whole new world of fun for player and listener. Nicely done! 😎👍🏻
Just got my first guitar, fulfilling one of many life goals. Searching for tips and exercises, I found this channel! Short, straight to the point, no over selling videos got you a sub! Thanks.
@@guardianobserver6593 yes, I recommend that you give it at minimum two to three hours a day. Find songs that you actually like and want to have fun with! Don't be hard on your self. Good luck!
I began playing in about March of 2020 when covid hit. I play pretty much every day still. I tried this method for a while. This advice is the best advice I've ever gotten from anyone regarding guitar. I've been struggling trying to figure out how to play melody to a backing track and this simple exercise REALLY HELPS! Thank you so much for this!
I have a pretty decent amount of knowledge when it comes to music. However, when I came across guitar I was pretty intimidated. In a couple weeks I start freshman year and I'm taking guitar class to hopefully gain more knowledge on the instrument. This rhythm thing may seem pretty small and insignificant, but it really helped me practice. Subscribed
Striking coincidence :I started playing triplets, 1/4, note, 16th notes whilst playing the scale. A lot of focus and discipline needed to maintain rhythmic structure. No pain, no gain. Thank you for validating my practice routine. PS : SWINGING 8ths in blues came naturally to me. It's the other rhythms that have me in a knot when soloing /lead.
Ok Eddie, I am hooked . I’ve listened to about 4 of your videos. Each one was very good and I’ve made those riffs my own. I am 62 years old have been playing guitar since about 1967. So its been a few years. Ive never taken a lesson and cant read music. I can play almost any music if I want. Still I am not a true guitarist, just a player, mostly for my own enjoyment. I’ve learned a lot from you in just a few videos I’ve wached. This is another great one. Thank You!
Are you a VIP member of Guitar Mastery Method? I'm right there with you. I'm 48 and have been playing since 1987. Never learned to read music. Just tablature. Ive taken may 3 guitar lessons in my life. If you arent a VIP member, you should be. I have learned so much from the program. You have access to every course GMM has. I think its $20+/month. I dont get paid for saying this. I say this because the program is great. I've been a VIP member for 2+ years. The free videos they put here are nothing compared to what the course offers. Heres a page showing all their courses: www.guitarmasterymethod.com/courses/ They also do a live lesson once a month that VIP members have access to. Enjoy!
Thanks for the insight in choosing particular notes in the pentatonic scale and playing it with rhythm. It really helps me to understand how to make music in different ways but in the same scale.
Oh yeah I forgot to tell y'all I know my fretboard and my scales now all I need is technique and speed and I wouldn't have got there without some of your help I greatly appreciate this channel thank you for the great content 🎸🤘🎸😊
You have the wonderful ability to make basic music theory and actually practicing it - fun !! Thanks for everything you do for those of us who admit we need some help !!
wow. you just helped me out of a long learning plateau. not a rut but a very long plateau. Now if i could learn to sing ang keep a steady rhythm without feeling like i might have a stroke.
That’s the secret, it also took me years to figure out, it’s very rear that I could find any RUclips video that teaches guitar 🎸 that actually teaches you how to count the lick. IE Rhythm 🎵. And the proper use of counting and using the metronome to keep you right. If you can’t count a lick, how do you know it’s going to work with the rest of the band. To me Rhythm is the most important element in music. This aspect is strongly overlooked.
Where was e-tablature and computers back in the 80s? I had to buy books and there werent a ton of books from bands that I liked. I bought about everyone I could find.
I've started experimenting with scales in similar manner like this few weeks ago (I have a guitar not more than three months now) on my own and it changed the game for me completely. So thanks for posting this! Looks like my practice wasn't useless.
I may have pulled a homer. I started learning the guitar 4 months ago...and on THAT same scale, I did play with the notes so it would sound like -something . Just because I was curious what it would sound like.
Eddie, a little suggestion to make this lesson even more fun, interesting and a "teaching" moment. Why not sing as you go along. What I mean by sing is name each note as you play. You'll not only learn rhythm, you'll also learn where each note is on the upper frets. When I was studing classical guitar scales from a 300 page book. I was instructed to name each note.
When I started guitar, I took my chance of never learning the pentatonic scale actually, of course I knew it but I never played solos in the scale. It really helped me with really creative solos if anybody wants to try that by chance too
I’m looking to “join” one of these online guitar schools. I’ve been playing music for 35 years. Started off on guitar, but was going nowhere. So I switched to drums and went HEAVY FULL BORE practicing everyday. I slept, ate, and drank drums for about 2-3 years. But drums are loud and you can only play them so much, but my dads acoustic was always there. I basically taught myself
I thought that's what you were supposed to do anyway... I never just played scales straight, I always mix them up & make different rhythms. I guess I'm on the right track then. 👍🤟 I just need to start memorizing full fret scale patterns.
🚩I Love Your Videos!! I Learn more then many others! Thank u SO Much for Always giving Us something to Print!!!!👍⭐ I Have a Folder Just For Your lessons. Please don't Stop. Can't afford to Join. Maybe soon??? It's tough$ Just don't give up on Us. TKS
Merry Christmas and a happy new year Eddie to you and your family. Thanks for all your insight and valuable experience that you share throughout the year
🚩I totally agree! Wish I was shown How to Use it! When trying to learn the overwhelming amount of scales, ur mind goes Mechanical, instead of Creative=Sad. Thanks, for all these 1 Page Excercizes.. Helps more than you think. APPRECIATE !
Love this lesson, Eddie, and it is very helpful as I am just now starting my journey as a guitar player trying to learn to do more than just strum my guitar. Thanks for the lesson.
Great video. Thanks Eddie! As a side note, instead of holding the last note, I occasionally will practice a bend. Nice practice session to add that in. Thanks again.
If we knew everything up front it would take the fun out of the journey of playing guitar, ik you first pick up a guitar this is probably over someones head, but a nice lesson.
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And please guys no more thumbs down 😒 these guys know what they're talking about if you don't understand and I know this personally you're probably not paying attention or you learned music theory out of order go back start from scratch and pay attention and plus practice your scales 🎼🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎸🤘🎸
After fifty years i have to start from scratch to eliminate all my wrong playing. They offer sound advice and knowledge.
Two things my sax teacher (!) drummed into me were, always practice with a metronome & don't just leave it in the same 4/4 rhythm at the same rate, change it around a bit. Try a bossa nova rhythm or a waltz. And remember, it's harder to play slow than fast, so slow down the tempo sometimes, don't just speed it up.
The three things...
Great video.
I've been playing, campfire acoustic strumming for around 40 years. Over the last years or so, I am now advancing my skills and learning electric, and focusing on Blues. This is amazing information, I am absolutely going to apply this to my practice. Thanks Eddie, you are amazing!
Yeah, this is pretty important.
I've my Guitar Instructor Dwight Baker to thank for pointing this out to me back in 1974.
Thank You Dwight.
Honestly think this might be one of the most impactful videos you've put up. It might seem like a small change to make but the results can be game changing, and not just for guitar players. This is important for any instrument you play and can take away the monotony that many feel in the early to mid stages of learning, when there is so much repetition trying to get things under your fingers. Great lesson clearly explained.
Thanks Matt, much appreciated :)
Saw this 3 months ago when I started. Didn't know any scales back then.
After learning w RUclips videos for 3 months, I purchased Eddie's Country Guitar Courses 2 weeks ago, thrilled about it. Chords, rhythms, scales all start to come together for me.
Looking at this video again today by chance, and by luck. I will definitely practice now. Thank you!
Great tip, stumbled upon this just “noodling” and decided to try with pentatonic scales. Didn’t necessarily play whole scales, just picked out some of the notes. Threw in some bends, pull offs, hammer-ons. ✌🏼
I love you tube instructors. And this guy is exceptional!
Eddie, I took 10 weeks to master the fretboard back in June of 2022. After 10 weeks I was amazed at how much I had learned in 10 short weeks.
You're so right about needing to learn to play rythem! 7 months after playing my first pentatonic scale, I still find myself playing the scale and wishing I was playing more musically. This video has opened my eyes to what I was slowly discovering, don't play the scales straight through, mix it up, have fun hold notes and have rests, stop playing the scales and make music instead. THANKS!
Gentlemen don't give these lessons for themselves they're trying to help you absorb and appreciate the beautiful structure and sound mechanisms of the guitar thank them! Thank you guys
My first scale i learn is E major Blues scale. I think its more accurate than the to learn the Am Pentatonic. Thats my only experience.
This is very well explained. As we learn hammer-ons, pull-offs, bends, picking and tapping techniques etc., this opens up a whole new world of fun for player and listener. Nicely done! 😎👍🏻
Love the tele in the background. Can't wait to hear you play it.
Just got my first guitar, fulfilling one of many life goals. Searching for tips and exercises, I found this channel! Short, straight to the point, no over selling videos got you a sub! Thanks.
Are you still playing guitar? What are your first you recommend learning?
@@guardianobserver6593 yes, I recommend that you give it at minimum two to three hours a day. Find songs that you actually like and want to have fun with! Don't be hard on your self. Good luck!
@@Look_At_My_Name do a course or two with Charlie Wallace's GPR SYSTEM. You will learn plenty about the guitar neck and how to play etc.
The most important lesson ever. All other lessons that beginners see must have this appended.
I began playing in about March of 2020 when covid hit. I play pretty much every day still. I tried this method for a while. This advice is the best advice I've ever gotten from anyone regarding guitar. I've been struggling trying to figure out how to play melody to a backing track and this simple exercise REALLY HELPS! Thank you so much for this!
You are so right! This is so important if you want people to continue enjoying what you play. Thank you!
I find these videos very helpful to me as an older player who is only now beginning to understand where I’ve been going wrong.
Great advice....as usual. Thanks, teach! Thanks, GMM.
Thank you Eddie for "The Great Power" rhythm lesson! I am just learning the A Minor Pentatonic Scale and will now add rhythm to my practice.
I have a pretty decent amount of knowledge when it comes to music. However, when I came across guitar I was pretty intimidated. In a couple weeks I start freshman year and I'm taking guitar class to hopefully gain more knowledge on the instrument. This rhythm thing may seem pretty small and insignificant, but it really helped me practice. Subscribed
One of my favoutite that acually teach for real.. keep going boss do not stop !
Striking coincidence :I started playing triplets, 1/4, note, 16th notes whilst playing the scale. A lot of focus and discipline needed to maintain rhythmic structure. No pain, no gain. Thank you for validating my practice routine. PS : SWINGING 8ths in blues came naturally to me. It's the other rhythms that have me in a knot when soloing /lead.
Ok Eddie, I am hooked . I’ve listened to about 4 of your videos. Each one was very good and I’ve made those riffs my own. I am 62 years old have been playing guitar since about 1967. So its been a few years. Ive never taken a lesson and cant read music. I can play almost any music if I want. Still I am not a true guitarist, just a player, mostly for my own enjoyment. I’ve learned a lot from you in just a few videos I’ve wached. This is another great one. Thank You!
Are you a VIP member of Guitar Mastery Method? I'm right there with you. I'm 48 and have been playing since 1987. Never learned to read music. Just tablature. Ive taken may 3 guitar lessons in my life. If you arent a VIP member, you should be. I have learned so much from the program. You have access to every course GMM has. I think its $20+/month. I dont get paid for saying this. I say this because the program is great. I've been a VIP member for 2+ years. The free videos they put here are nothing compared to what the course offers. Heres a page showing all their courses: www.guitarmasterymethod.com/courses/ They also do a live lesson once a month that VIP members have access to. Enjoy!
Thanks for the insight in choosing particular notes in the pentatonic scale and playing it with rhythm. It really helps me to understand how to make music in different ways but in the same scale.
Oh yeah I forgot to tell y'all I know my fretboard and my scales now all I need is technique and speed and I wouldn't have got there without some of your help I greatly appreciate this channel thank you for the great content 🎸🤘🎸😊
You have the wonderful ability to make basic music theory and actually practicing it - fun !! Thanks for everything you do for those of us who admit we need some help !!
Thanks for this video. I have been playing the heck out of this pentatonic scale up and down. Can't wait to try this when I got home. Subscribed!
Great tip here Eddie! Gotta love these quick little mentor's moments.
wow. you just helped me out of a long learning plateau. not a rut but a very long plateau. Now if i could learn to sing ang keep a steady rhythm without feeling like i might have a stroke.
Oh man, I'm so glad I saw this vid at this very early stage to my guitar learning. Thank you!
🚩Can't Get enough of these Print out lessons. I Learn, and always have something to practice, when I need to shirt gears. Thanks so much ⭐
That’s the secret, it also took me years to figure out, it’s very rear that I could find any RUclips video that teaches guitar 🎸 that actually teaches you how to count the lick. IE Rhythm 🎵. And the proper use of counting and using the metronome to keep you right. If you can’t count a lick, how do you know it’s going to work with the rest of the band. To me Rhythm is the most important element in music. This aspect is strongly overlooked.
Thanks heaps for this amazing tip! Cheers.
Eddie you make all your lessons fun entertaining and educational thank you
Hey buddy where were you and RUclips when I was 13? Lol, great lesson gave me some food for thought.
Where was e-tablature and computers back in the 80s? I had to buy books and there werent a ton of books from bands that I liked. I bought about everyone I could find.
@@GuitarMasteryMethod Eddie do u have channel and or book
I've started experimenting with scales in similar manner like this few weeks ago (I have a guitar not more than three months now) on my own and it changed the game for me completely. So thanks for posting this! Looks like my practice wasn't useless.
I may have pulled a homer. I started learning the guitar 4 months ago...and on THAT same scale, I did play with the notes so it would sound like -something . Just because I was curious what it would sound like.
excellent advice. I will defiantly be playing the pentatonic scale in a melodic way from now on.
Eddie, a little suggestion to make this lesson even more fun, interesting and a "teaching" moment. Why not sing as you go along. What I mean by sing is name each note as you play. You'll not only learn rhythm, you'll also learn where each note is on the upper frets. When I was studing classical guitar scales from a 300 page book. I was instructed to name each note.
Thank you for bestowing the POWER. Another good lesson to fly away on!
Great lesson, if you are a new guitarist STOP ✋ This is your answer. Brilliant.
I like your simple rhythm lick on the bottom of your video... Makes it easy for people like me to learn...
thans for this... now i have to cordinate my pick hand with my notes. thanks, this was great
Glad it was helpful!
When I started guitar, I took my chance of never learning the pentatonic scale actually, of course I knew it but I never played solos in the scale. It really helped me with really creative solos if anybody wants to try that by chance too
Just woke me up too!...Thanks Eddie.
Thanks for showing me that!!! I just got a guitar and I’m just learning and I will subscribe and watch all your other videos!
My god, this is brilliant! Thanks so much. I’m a new subscriber and astounded by your continent!
Looking forward to the next one!
Yes, that was a great lesson, and I have been stuck on that scale for over 30yrs
What great advice! Thank you!
Thx for this lesson. I’ve been trying to figure out how to practice this.
Good evening my best teacher 👍💯🎸 I'm from 🇾🇪
I’m looking to “join” one of these online guitar schools. I’ve been playing music for 35 years. Started off on guitar, but was going nowhere. So I switched to drums and went HEAVY FULL BORE practicing everyday. I slept, ate, and drank drums for about 2-3 years. But drums are loud and you can only play them so much, but my dads acoustic was always there. I basically taught myself
GREAT ADVICE. Thanks.
I thoroughly enjoyed this
What a powerful video. I went to hit the like button and I found out I was wearing a cape.
I thought that's what you were supposed to do anyway... I never just played scales straight, I always mix them up & make different rhythms. I guess I'm on the right track then. 👍🤟 I just need to start memorizing full fret scale patterns.
natural music maker
Ya im with you . Its obvious right.
Thanks for the email, and the light💡 bulb moment... 😉 Have a good weekend.
This video has been extremely helpful and inspirational!
You’re absolutely right Eddie, but you should include the music 🎵 on top of the tab. And explain and count each note out.
Very Helpful, thanks!
These guys are the legends of instructors
Thank you for this great content! Even though I've been playing for many years, I still get a lot from these lessons. 🤘
Hey that was really good lesson about the inner clock. I keep trying to slow my down thank you
Appreciate your time and knowledge. Thx Eddie!
Thanks for sharing. I use to play the A minor pentatonic without melody just like a robot. You have taught me a good lesson today. God bless you
Fabulous video! Thanks for this invaluable tip!
Phrasing is everything
🚩I Love Your Videos!! I Learn more then many others! Thank u SO Much for Always giving Us something to Print!!!!👍⭐ I Have a Folder Just For Your lessons. Please don't Stop. Can't afford to Join. Maybe soon??? It's tough$ Just don't give up on Us. TKS
Merry Christmas and a happy new year Eddie to you and your family. Thanks for all your insight and valuable experience that you share throughout the year
Happy holidays!
A very important lesson! Getting rhythm into your blood!! Great Eddie!
Rhythm makes practice fun, you're making music instead of just playing notes. Great lesson Eddie!!
🚩I totally agree! Wish I was shown How to Use it! When trying to learn the overwhelming amount of scales, ur mind goes Mechanical, instead of Creative=Sad. Thanks, for all these 1 Page Excercizes.. Helps more than you think. APPRECIATE !
Love this lesson, Eddie, and it is very helpful as I am just now starting my journey as a guitar player trying to learn to do more than just strum my guitar. Thanks for the lesson.
Current student here. Exactly!
One can pluck strings all day, but until you put some soul into your plucking, it will be flat.
Great info. I am a lefty and would find it even more helpful if I could print out the TAB for each lesson.
Awesome lesson and thank you for sharing your tips👍👍❤❤
Thank you for the video. Very helpful!!!
"I wish I knew what I know now , when I was younger" . That's a song , seen Ron Wood do it , accompanied by his daughter .
This was amazing thank you
Thank you so much ...
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Great stuff!!!
Point taken. Thank you very much!
Very good advice. 👍👍
Very good point for those who don't know this!
Eddie , Thank you 🙏!! VeRY helpful 🎸🕺🏾🎸
Wow that's pretty cool that is a good way of looking at it. I never looked at it like this, but it is really creative and helpful thank you 👍!!!
Thank you very much!
good lesson thanx
Pls do some warmup exercises for fingerstyle 🌠🌠🌠
😎so simple! But AMAZING 😎👍🏾👍THANK YOU!!!!!
Great Lesson your focus went out. Thank You!
Great advice !!! 👍🏼
You are an awesome teacher! Easy to understand. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for all these videos they are awesome
Great video. Thanks Eddie! As a side note, instead of holding the last note, I occasionally will practice a bend. Nice practice session to add that in. Thanks again.
The first scale I learned was all the natural notes in the first three frets.
I did the same, just don't know what to do with them now. I guess practice is the only answer.
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Excellent insight…..give thanks
Thanks for watching!
If we knew everything up front it would take the fun out of the journey of playing guitar, ik you first pick up a guitar this is probably over someones head, but a nice lesson.
Thank you for all your lessons. I have a question though. In your first riff how did you know to stop at fret 5 in the second measure?