Hey friends, it’s a little crazy the next few days here at the Guitar Woodshed clinic with Andy Wood and many others. So sorry if I don’t respond to each message right away. Please know I read them all and I truly appreciate you guys! This has already been a fun day here teaching with the likes of Brent Mason, Greg Koch, Mark Lattieri, Tosin Abasi, Mark Miller, Nick Johnston, Tom Quayle. I’m always flattered to be on the short list!!
I had a lesson with Guthrie on Monday and it was so worth it! Highly encourage you all to do it at least once. He is a great guy and so inspirational! Thanks GT!
I couldn't agree more. I spent a weekend with him and it completely changed my view and relationship with the guitar in the most amazing way. Once it clicks... MAN!!
Learn arpeggios everyone. Just learn the arpeggio shapes for A major, D major and E7 and you will understand what Guthrie means about playing out of the chord. Thanks Guthrie, really enjoying these lessons. Keep ‘em coming!
@@southisaac all the arpeggios are contained in all the CAGED shapes. So learn what the CAGED shapes are. But CAGED itself is just the 1,3,5 of the major chords. If you're doing minor chords, the 3 is flatted thus it changes the shapes slightly. Then when you do dominant seventh chords, you also throw in the flattened 7th note. It all makes sense once u take the time to study it. The next step is then to get it into your muscle memory. The best way to do that is soloing over looped chord progressions.
It’s an ah ha moment. I recently had it. So much of learning guitar revolves around these ah ha moments. You don’t see it, then you do. Magic. This is the magic that keeps me playing. Thanks Guthrie for helping us find the magic.
Buddy…i can say for sure you have helped me to open up the fretboard and bust me out of my pentatonic rut of over 20 years. Im not a CAGED master yet, but i get it now! I will say you had me sitting on frustrated for a while because you continuously say the same thing and play stuff over and over and i was just not grasping it. And than, like you said, it all made sense and i could see it. You got me excited about guitar again. I cant thank you enough
I still can’t believe you get to jam with the guy who created the song “Rich Girl”. That just blows my mind. But truly it couldn’t happen to a nicer guy or more talented guy than you.
Fantastic stuff here GT. And please, seriously, no need to apologize for getting the word out for your business. You are giving us incredible amounts of knowledge and skills. I've always been a good player, but now because of your generosity, I'm playing the best I've ever played. And I'd like to personally thank everyone that is filling that tip jar. Every one of you guys are making it possible for folks like me to glean some of the amazing talent that is Guthrie Trapp. It's like Boaz and Ruth!! (If you know, you know.) 🙏✌😉 Cheers Fellas!!
Man, You and Michael Palmisano are literally the reason I picked up a guitar 3 years ago. I stumbled on a guitargate reacts video and he was talking theory stuff and I had no idea what he was talking about but just liked watching cause of how much you could see he loved music. Then I guess through watching him the algorithm lead me to one of your videos and you were breaking down triads and some pentatonic stuff in such a no bull shit way that for the first time I thought I could totally get this if I go for it. No fancy school needed. 3 years later I cant put this guitar down man. I am obsessed. I LOVE it like nothing before. You are a legit hero to me man. Changed my life. Wish I was a little more financially stable for artistworks and to just repay you for the priceless gift you gave me. One day. For now just want you to know how much just these youtube videos have impacted me. Thank you brother. For everything you do.
You are connecting the fretboard in a way I think those before want to do but can't clearly explain what's happening. Your presentation and explanation and demonstration create a whirlwind of possibilities, inspiration, clarity, and so much more. It's like literally blowing the dust off something with a hurricane but you allow the possibility to the viewer to be the eye of the storm and move along with all this "unlocked" and mysterious and powerful information. You're the Fretboard Whisperer...
Good stuff. I'm starting to get better at seeing the chord shapes as I move about but what slows me down is keeping in mind which chords are available. In something like Amaj, which comes up all the time, I know immediately that the other major chords available are D and E. It's when I'm in a key I don't know so well that I have to think harder. Spending more time in keys I don't know so well will obviously help, and when playing with jam tracks I should spend a bit more time before playing to understand the chord progression so that I'm anticipating, rather than playing catch-up.
Your exactly right Guthrie. I’m self taught, so it took me forever to put it together but once I stopped thinking about these names “CAGED technique” and realized it’s just how the instrument is laid out/tuned it clicked. Now I fully think/approach everything by the chords and can almost without thinking play chords/notes/scales whatever you call it all over the neck. Thanks Guthrie!!
Dude! I'm pushing 60 and been playing since 12. Been subbed only a few weeks and I've noticed quite an improvement. Thanks again for connecting the dots brother 🙏
The longer I play the more the basics actually help me and still come out of my playing… when I was 6 I had a piano class, and the teacher would have us sing and play “Do Mi So, Do Mi So, Ti Fa So, Ti Fa So.” Over and over and over, it was so boring.. and now I find it always coming out in my playing and arrangements in some way.. thanks for the motivation to keep learning, Guthrie :) #MotivationOutOfTheSpeaker 🤗
These ideas have totally opened up the guitar for me. Both new ideas, and actually understanding what I was playing in the first place! I'm not terrified when someone asks me to play a song I don't know anymore!
Hey there I love your lessons I love this channel you make things very easy to understand. this is the blind guy commenting again and I just want you to know that you make things very clear to understand even if you can’t see the screen. Thank you so much for what you do.
Guthrie, great stuff, my father was a self taught classical guitar player, this 2 note harmonies you are playing remind me of some of the things he played on classical guitar, some of the exercises and some of the pieces he played, it's always a learning experience watching your videos, your E pentatonic lick in your other A video is now incorporated into my stuff, thanks
I've been hearing Tim Pierce talking about this for a while now. Although I've learned so many things from watching his videos, I never quite understood what he meant about playing the chord shapes. Your last 4 video's have been really great for my fretboard fundamentals. I get it now. Big confidence boost in my playing. Thanks for this. Amazing lessons.
I get more excited about new videos on this channel than any other one on RUclips/ I think I like your channel better than anything on T.V. haha. Everyone has different taste but for me just trying to improve on my playing this cant be beat.
This was one I could handle and grasp pretty quickly, Thanks for that. If some of you other watchers have trouble hanging on for the ride, and find yourself watching the video at half speed, well this one is easier to grasp and a LOT of fun..
Thank you Guthrie, you have really improved my playing. Your down to earth approach and understanding is a true gift. You have freed me from the purgatory of pentatonic and music theory. Using my hears and making music again, I am truly grateful.
Really appreciate the added encouragement of “stick with it and the aha moment will happen”. There are some practice days where it feel like it’s on the cusp and other days it’s just not there. Keep up the great videos! Thank you.
A little off topic here regarding pedals. For me, one of the most important pedals in the arsenal is a distortion box. I don't play with a lot of distortion, just a little breakup and boost, beyond what the amp provides. I've tried a bunch. Most recently JHS Charlie Brown and Brown Amplification Protien. Close, but not quite it. Then, on Reverb, I saw the Guthrie Trapp distortion pedal. I got it, and it's exactly right for me. Creamy, with some bite, but not in your face. There's a beautiful subtlety to it. Guthrie, I think I saw they are not being made anymore. I'm sure there's a good reason for that, but, if you can say there is beauty in distortion, this pedal has it.
Love the videos , been learning guitar for 40 years, you are an inspiration for playing melodically, so many things making sense, I sometimes stumble on things accidentally but you explain the puzzle in a great way.All the best from Australia.
I appreciate your EFFORT!!!! I love your improv and techinque. It's so effortless and breezy! You just make me want to learn and play, EXPLORE! Thank you Trapp!
I can't tell you how much I appreciate you taking the time out of your life to share these concepts with us all. Thank you for the stories, tips, and advice! Incredible playing as always.
I'm finding that going through on your own (with GT's suggestions as a starting point) and just playing through all of these patterns is a great rut-buster. I've been playing a plenty long time (not that it's obvious, LOL) and sometimes when I pick up a guitar I play the same old blues riffage and think, "damn, my playing so stale!" but when I do something like this, just bopping around the fretboard, getting my ear locked into those implied chords, THEN maybe getting a little adventurous and finding those cool minor-to-major 3rd walk-ups and blue notes I feel alive again! :)
Hi Guthrie. Really new to the channel and following Uncle Larry. This approach you show has really started to open up my playing. I was playing just scales and then having a hard time remembering where I was on the neck. This method visually opens that up and I'm coming out with lots more interesting and melodic ideas etc. Thank you so much.
Thanks for this lesson GT! I've already put about 3hrs in shedding this concept you're showing. Starting really tight with the changes like you're doing then slowly expanding the fretboard and shapes and more strings. Great stuff!
Whoa boy, now that would be a camp to attend. Heaven for a guitar fly on the wall. Can't wait to hear your tales from the weekend. Mr GT this is such a good example of how to learn to hear intervals. And when you see them as really just part of the chords, well, another door unlocked. Yep, the "Guthrie Trapp Schordale Method"....chords and scales are really just one thing. Brilliant. And thanks for sharing the everyday things of your life, makes you even more real inspite of it being over the "interwebs".
Really appreciating you cranking out videos super fast these days, they are always inspiring and get me practicing triad changes in different ways every day to help fill in my knowledge gaps. I've also been recommending you to everyone who will listen to me 🤣
Great video and awesome lesson as usual Guthrie. Thanks so much....I need to get these shapes down (haven't even started looking at the 7th ones yet!)😀
These videos are fucking awesome. If you learn the caged you basically learn to play any chord you’ll ever need anywhere on the fretboard… so cool to hear Guthries train of thought on all of this. Keep ‘em coming dude
Love what you do man. Its inspiring and refreshing. I've followed you for quite a while now and always look forward to hearing you. Take good care of yourself. Love to all the Nashville cats too!
I'd really like to go to Andy Woods' camp one of these years...I worry a bit about doing something in Tennessee in August, though. Sounds like really hot and humid is something to expect. Continuing to love your content, glad you're keeping it going even after live gigging has fully come back!
Thanks! I’m taking your Artists Works class and it is wonderful. I am just starting to see the chord shapes - practice and work paying off. I sit down with these lessons and learn more each time.
Hey man, another killer. Wow. Need to keep learning those triads, pents and scales! Really been focusing on Major but must add Minor and Dom. Hope to be online virtually for the gig. Oh and signed up for your Electric Country course. So pumped. Slowly making sense and making progress just needs time to get the scales etc embedded I guess. Keep up the good work and nice to see you hanging out with Brett and Cory, great guys/players too. ❤️
Another great video! just want to say thank you for sharing your guitar wisdom ,much appreciated. I have been following you since your first video with Brett Papa. I am finally seeing the chord scale /caged connection. opened the guitar door for me . For those that don't see it yet keep showing up every day rain or shine and it will happen little by little . thanks again Trapp your the best!
Hoi Guthrie, the off the cuff style, with eyes shooting from side to side, in which you perform your videos brings a smile to my face everytime..... composing on the spot. Great stuff, but i still miss an aspect that seems vital to my guitarplaying. Guitarplayers seem to be notorious fretboard gazers, this is (imho) a pretty heavy handicap, for me anyway. Someone once said to me the eyes are the whore of the senses. It cracked me up.... Somethings i practice, if in a very good mood, with eyes closed. I play the low A, D and E string as a rudimentary accompaniment. Hit the A string and than plant a finger somewhere on the fretboard and listen....... to what the tone has to say and resolve it to a chordtone if neccesary. Imo a great way to be confronted with just the sound without disturbance of eyes-brain fog. After finding a suitable restingplace/chordtone play the corresponding arpeggio up and down the neck using as many and long slides as you dare. And than ....... (drumrrrrrroll) playing doublestops, in 1 chord (say G6 or G7) with slides on 2 strings (or 3 or more) also with eyes closed. Sliding over longer stretches is also a nice way to play with rythm: when is the touchdown on the target note? Right on time seems gloriously impossible. Another advantage of longer slides is that the inner ear is faster than the fingers, so the dominating fingers are put in the backseat. I would love to hear you do a lesson on how to play rythmically with sliding doublestops! Groeten uut Almen, Netherlands! Arjen
More good stuff, as always! I think there might be a little of it starting to seep in! And forget the negative comments, you do you. Talk, dance, whistle, whatever. It’s your channel and we look forward to them all.
Just wanna throw a bit of support and encouragement your way. Love your playing, love your videos. Hope to sign up for your lessons in the near future. Keep up the great work. Thanks 🙏💛👍🏼 🎸
This is really great, Guthrie. Thanks. Your melodic playing and enthusiasm for how this works, and what that feels like is really helping me get it. Thanks, Man!
Guthrie, one thing I discovered tonight is how the relative major and relative minor pentatonic shape and scale are the same! Just different shape numbers so to speak. Where the major root is three frets higher than the minor root note. Might be a good lesson for RUclips. Plus a lessons on technique for chicken picking would be good - not too sure if it’s in the country course as still on the beginners part. Thanks
Man, I've been trying to figure out how to "see" these two string scale harmonies (double stops?) for a few months now. I CAN NOT figure out an easy way to see these. I've diagramed the entire Am scale all over the neck and gone two strings at a time. I'm just not seeing anything that works for all strings. I'm sure it's related to the CAGED system, and to the chords of the scale. I see parts of it, but that's it. Guthrie, what are you visualizing when you run those two string notes up/down the neck?????
Hey friends, it’s a little crazy the next few days here at the Guitar Woodshed clinic with Andy Wood and many others. So sorry if I don’t respond to each message right away. Please know I read them all and I truly appreciate you guys! This has already been a fun day here teaching with the likes of Brent Mason, Greg Koch, Mark Lattieri, Tosin Abasi, Mark Miller, Nick Johnston, Tom Quayle. I’m always flattered to be on the short list!!
"Fancy way of changing chords, that's all we're doing with lead guitar." -GT. Boom! Love it
I had a lesson with Guthrie on Monday and it was so worth it! Highly encourage you all to do it at least once. He is a great guy and so inspirational! Thanks GT!
I couldn't agree more. I spent a weekend with him and it completely changed my view and relationship with the guitar in the most amazing way. Once it clicks... MAN!!
Hey cool man I just subscribed to your channel I love the Georgia on my mind chord melody video I think I’m gonna learn that tomorrow
Learn arpeggios everyone. Just learn the arpeggio shapes for A major, D major and E7 and you will understand what Guthrie means about playing out of the chord. Thanks Guthrie, really enjoying these lessons. Keep ‘em coming!
Is there a resource online anywhere that shows all the arpeggios?
Yea, it’s called Google
@@southisaac all the arpeggios are contained in all the CAGED shapes. So learn what the CAGED shapes are. But CAGED itself is just the 1,3,5 of the major chords. If you're doing minor chords, the 3 is flatted thus it changes the shapes slightly. Then when you do dominant seventh chords, you also throw in the flattened 7th note. It all makes sense once u take the time to study it. The next step is then to get it into your muscle memory. The best way to do that is soloing over looped chord progressions.
@@gtrdoc911 preach.
It’s an ah ha moment. I recently had it. So much of learning guitar revolves around these ah ha moments. You don’t see it, then you do. Magic. This is the magic that keeps me playing. Thanks Guthrie for helping us find the magic.
Buddy…i can say for sure you have helped me to open up the fretboard and bust me out of my pentatonic rut of over 20 years. Im not a CAGED master yet, but i get it now!
I will say you had me sitting on frustrated for a while because you continuously say the same thing and play stuff over and over and i was just not grasping it. And than, like you said, it all made sense and i could see it. You got me excited about guitar again. I cant thank you enough
It clicked with me about a year ago. If you haven't got it yet keep pushing. He definitely knows what he's talking about.
Great lesson! I agree with you, we have to stick to it until it sinks in. One day, we'll wake up and and the light bulb will go off!!
uhh that picture at the end. Holy shite. The collective knowledge at that table is off the charts. Have learned so much from all of you!
I still can’t believe you get to jam with the guy who created the song “Rich Girl”. That just blows my mind. But truly it couldn’t happen to a nicer guy or more talented guy than you.
saw andy and greg for the first time in knoxville Tuesday night... WOW I was blow away
Fantastic stuff here GT. And please, seriously, no need to apologize for getting the word out for your business. You are giving us incredible amounts of knowledge and skills. I've always been a good player, but now because of your generosity, I'm playing the best I've ever played. And I'd like to personally thank everyone that is filling that tip jar. Every one of you guys are making it possible for folks like me to glean some of the amazing talent that is Guthrie Trapp. It's like Boaz and Ruth!! (If you know, you know.) 🙏✌😉 Cheers Fellas!!
Good stuff! You’re right. When you see it you wonder how you missed it before.
I just tuned in from another channel. It wasn't till you started to talk that I realized the speed was still set at 1.75X. Much respect Guthrie...
Man, You and Michael Palmisano are literally the reason I picked up a guitar 3 years ago. I stumbled on a guitargate reacts video and he was talking theory stuff and I had no idea what he was talking about but just liked watching cause of how much you could see he loved music. Then I guess through watching him the algorithm lead me to one of your videos and you were breaking down triads and some pentatonic stuff in such a no bull shit way that for the first time I thought I could totally get this if I go for it. No fancy school needed. 3 years later I cant put this guitar down man. I am obsessed. I LOVE it like nothing before. You are a legit hero to me man. Changed my life. Wish I was a little more financially stable for artistworks and to just repay you for the priceless gift you gave me. One day. For now just want you to know how much just these youtube videos have impacted me. Thank you brother. For everything you do.
This really connected some dots for me. I love it when you get those light bulb moments with music, it's really inspiring... Thank you so much!
Can't wait for the stuff with Uncle Larry!
You are connecting the fretboard in a way I think those before want to do but can't clearly explain what's happening. Your presentation and explanation and demonstration create a whirlwind of possibilities, inspiration, clarity, and so much more. It's like literally blowing the dust off something with a hurricane but you allow the possibility to the viewer to be the eye of the storm and move along with all this "unlocked" and mysterious and powerful information.
You're the Fretboard Whisperer...
Good stuff. I'm starting to get better at seeing the chord shapes as I move about but what slows me down is keeping in mind which chords are available. In something like Amaj, which comes up all the time, I know immediately that the other major chords available are D and E. It's when I'm in a key I don't know so well that I have to think harder. Spending more time in keys I don't know so well will obviously help, and when playing with jam tracks I should spend a bit more time before playing to understand the chord progression so that I'm anticipating, rather than playing catch-up.
Your exactly right Guthrie. I’m self taught, so it took me forever to put it together but once I stopped thinking about these names “CAGED technique” and realized it’s just how the instrument is laid out/tuned it clicked. Now I fully think/approach everything by the chords and can almost without thinking play chords/notes/scales whatever you call it all over the neck. Thanks Guthrie!!
Dude! I'm pushing 60 and been playing since 12. Been subbed only a few weeks and I've noticed quite an improvement. Thanks again for connecting the dots brother 🙏
The longer I play the more the basics actually help me and still come out of my playing… when I was 6 I had a piano class, and the teacher would have us sing and play “Do Mi So, Do Mi So, Ti Fa So, Ti Fa So.” Over and over and over, it was so boring.. and now I find it always coming out in my playing and arrangements in some way.. thanks for the motivation to keep learning, Guthrie :) #MotivationOutOfTheSpeaker 🤗
These ideas have totally opened up the guitar for me. Both new ideas, and actually understanding what I was playing in the first place! I'm not terrified when someone asks me to play a song I don't know anymore!
I look forward to every new video! You are a Master teacher! The white t-shirt was a bit of a shock at first.🙂
Hey there I love your lessons I love this channel you make things very easy to understand. this is the blind guy commenting again and I just want you to know that you make things very clear to understand even if you can’t see the screen. Thank you so much for what you do.
Guthrie, great stuff, my father was a self taught classical guitar player, this 2 note harmonies you are playing remind me of some of the things he played on classical guitar, some of the exercises and some of the pieces he played, it's always a learning experience watching your videos, your E pentatonic lick in your other A video is now incorporated into my stuff, thanks
That made sense for the first time..... just hearing the chords behind what you played. Waiting for the ultimate light bulb moment lol....😎
Driving long and listening to you, sir. I’m learning a lot. I owe you.
I've been hearing Tim Pierce talking about this for a while now. Although I've learned so many things from watching his videos, I never quite understood what he meant about playing the chord shapes. Your last 4 video's have been really great for my fretboard fundamentals. I get it now. Big confidence boost in my playing. Thanks for this. Amazing lessons.
I get more excited about new videos on this channel than any other one on RUclips/ I think I like your channel better than anything on T.V. haha. Everyone has different taste but for me just trying to improve on my playing this cant be beat.
Oh man I can't wait to hear your Trio play again 😊
Guthrie! You the man. Excellent guitar wisdom and creativity you bring here on your channel
Yes ! That’d be great ! Would love to see you here in North Texas !
Thanks for this! It clicked!!
This was one I could handle and grasp pretty quickly, Thanks for that.
If some of you other watchers have trouble hanging on for the ride, and find yourself watching the video at half speed, well this one is easier to grasp and a LOT of fun..
Something clicked for me watching this video. Thanks for your time and patient teaching style!!
Thank you Guthrie, you have really improved my playing. Your down to earth approach and understanding is a true gift. You have freed me from the purgatory of pentatonic and music theory. Using my hears and making music again, I am truly grateful.
Just bought my ticket Guthrie. Looking forward to the show! Glad you're playing that 335 again man. I'm playing mine right now for this lesson. Cheers
Really appreciate the added encouragement of “stick with it and the aha moment will happen”. There are some practice days where it feel like it’s on the cusp and other days it’s just not there.
Keep up the great videos! Thank you.
A little off topic here regarding pedals. For me, one of the most important pedals in the arsenal is a distortion box. I don't play with a lot of distortion, just a little breakup and boost, beyond what the amp provides. I've tried a bunch. Most recently JHS Charlie Brown and Brown Amplification Protien. Close, but not quite it. Then, on Reverb, I saw the Guthrie Trapp distortion pedal. I got it, and it's exactly right for me. Creamy, with some bite, but not in your face. There's a beautiful subtlety to it. Guthrie, I think I saw they are not being made anymore. I'm sure there's a good reason for that, but, if you can say there is beauty in distortion, this pedal has it.
Love the videos , been learning guitar for 40 years, you are an inspiration for playing melodically, so many things making sense, I sometimes stumble on things accidentally but you explain the puzzle in a great way.All the best from Australia.
Fantastic man! This is something I am trying to practice every day, baby steps. Never sounds as good as what you do. 😆
These last 2 lessons are key after you get caged down. Maybe just because thats where im at. Great stuff. Thank you
Orchestral and beautiful! Guthrie, you can play any tune, anywhere, any time. The subject is: Guitar Mastery! Thank you.
G thanks for these. Love to come to one of your shows in Nashville soon! Thanks for the no nonsense lessons
I appreciate your EFFORT!!!! I love your improv and techinque. It's so effortless and breezy! You just make me want to learn and play, EXPLORE! Thank you Trapp!
Thanks man, i just never looked at it like that.....i get it 👍👍
Will be there! Cool.
I can't tell you how much I appreciate you taking the time out of your life to share these concepts with us all. Thank you for the stories, tips, and advice! Incredible playing as always.
I'm finding that going through on your own (with GT's suggestions as a starting point) and just playing through all of these patterns is a great rut-buster. I've been playing a plenty long time (not that it's obvious, LOL) and sometimes when I pick up a guitar I play the same old blues riffage and think, "damn, my playing so stale!" but when I do something like this, just bopping around the fretboard, getting my ear locked into those implied chords, THEN maybe getting a little adventurous and finding those cool minor-to-major 3rd walk-ups and blue notes I feel alive again! :)
YESSSSSSS!!!! Thanks for the great tips and constant inspiration man. Really means more that ya know!
This is a truly a nice sound GUTHRIE. I love listening to everything you play. ❤
Hi Guthrie. Really new to the channel and following Uncle Larry. This approach you show has really started to open up my playing. I was playing just scales and then having a hard time remembering where I was on the neck. This method visually opens that up and I'm coming out with lots more interesting and melodic ideas etc. Thank you so much.
Thanks for this lesson GT! I've already put about 3hrs in shedding this concept you're showing. Starting really tight with the changes like you're doing then slowly expanding the fretboard and shapes and more strings. Great stuff!
Whoa boy, now that would be a camp to attend. Heaven for a guitar fly on the wall. Can't wait to hear your tales from the weekend. Mr GT this is such a good example of how to learn to hear intervals. And when you see them as really just part of the chords, well, another door unlocked. Yep, the "Guthrie Trapp Schordale Method"....chords and scales are really just one thing. Brilliant. And thanks for sharing the everyday things of your life, makes you even more real inspite of it being over the "interwebs".
this lesson make me remember john 5's playing thanks man
Really appreciating you cranking out videos super fast these days, they are always inspiring and get me practicing triad changes in different ways every day to help fill in my knowledge gaps. I've also been recommending you to everyone who will listen to me 🤣
dig it. Another great tip. Thanks Guthrie.😎
These are the best lessons for opening up my mind on unlocking the fretboard. I’m a experienced player too. 😂
You are inspiring. That is all. Thank you!!
Great video and awesome lesson as usual Guthrie. Thanks so much....I need to get these shapes down (haven't even started looking at the 7th ones yet!)😀
thanks for this Guth, and beautiful guitar. I have a 335 style guitar coming my way today so I'll mess around with this
Thanks for all the great lessons! From New Zealand
This is so important! Keep driving it home!
Guthrie, you are truly a gift to humanity and I will meet you some day.
Thanks a lot Guthrie for a brilliant lesson again :-)
content is super motivating. channel rocks.
Great stuff! I'm having lots of breakthroughs with your lesson ideas! Thanks!
Thank you Guthrie! Your videos have propelled me and helped my understanding more than anything! Thanks! 😀👍🙏
Man, another lesson choc-full-o goodness! Some great stuff to take to the woodshed! Much appreciated!👍
Thank you, Guthrie! 🙏
What a crowd you are fortunate to hang with.
Really appreciate and enjoy the lessons and insights.
Be good to you!
These videos are fucking awesome. If you learn the caged you basically learn to play any chord you’ll ever need anywhere on the fretboard… so cool to hear Guthries train of thought on all of this. Keep ‘em coming dude
This is melodic gold, thanks GT!
Love what you do man. Its inspiring and refreshing. I've followed you for quite a while now and always look forward to hearing you. Take good care of yourself.
Love to all the Nashville cats too!
Great content Guthrie!!! But you know what a guy really needs every once in awhile? Some badass mandolin, we’re due for one of those videos. 😉
I'd really like to go to Andy Woods' camp one of these years...I worry a bit about doing something in Tennessee in August, though. Sounds like really hot and humid is something to expect.
Continuing to love your content, glad you're keeping it going even after live gigging has fully come back!
Cheers dude, more really cool stuff for me to run through this evening when I'm practicing.
Thanks! I’m taking your Artists Works class and it is wonderful. I am just starting to see the chord shapes - practice and work paying off. I sit down with these lessons and learn more each time.
Hey man, another killer. Wow. Need to keep learning those triads, pents and scales! Really been focusing on Major but must add Minor and Dom. Hope to be online virtually for the gig. Oh and signed up for your Electric Country course. So pumped. Slowly making sense and making progress just needs time to get the scales etc embedded I guess. Keep up the good work and nice to see you hanging out with Brett and Cory, great guys/players too. ❤️
Please go on teaching in this videos. This is so inspiring. So tasteful playing, I am a total fan!!!
Just another great lesson, GT! Thanks for all you do!
Thanks GT awesome stuff. Can’t wait for my first pvt lesson and will watch the gig you mentioned
Another great video! just want to say thank you for sharing your guitar wisdom ,much appreciated. I have been following you since your first video with Brett Papa. I am finally seeing the chord scale /caged connection. opened the guitar door for me . For those that don't see it yet keep showing up every day rain or shine and it will happen little by little . thanks again Trapp your the best!
Hoi Guthrie, the off the cuff style, with eyes shooting from side to side, in which you perform your videos brings a smile to my face everytime..... composing on the spot.
Great stuff, but i still miss an aspect that seems vital to my guitarplaying.
Guitarplayers seem to be notorious fretboard gazers, this is (imho) a pretty heavy handicap, for me anyway. Someone once said to me the eyes are the whore of the senses. It cracked me up....
Somethings i practice, if in a very good mood, with eyes closed. I play the low A, D and E string as a rudimentary accompaniment. Hit the A string and than plant a finger somewhere on the fretboard and listen....... to what the tone has to say and resolve it to a chordtone if neccesary. Imo a great way to be confronted with just the sound without disturbance of eyes-brain fog.
After finding a suitable restingplace/chordtone play the corresponding arpeggio up and down the neck using as many and long slides as you dare. And than ....... (drumrrrrrroll) playing doublestops, in 1 chord (say G6 or G7) with slides on 2 strings (or 3 or more) also with eyes closed. Sliding over longer stretches is also a nice way to play with rythm: when is the touchdown on the target note? Right on time seems gloriously impossible. Another advantage of longer slides is that the inner ear is faster than the fingers, so the dominating fingers are put in the backseat.
I would love to hear you do a lesson on how to play rythmically with sliding doublestops!
Groeten uut Almen, Netherlands! Arjen
This is absolute gold level . Can't believe you would get negative comments.
Great lesson. Valuable stuff thanks.
Always inspiring....thanks GT.
Inspiring stuff. Thank you. Hope too see some more videos with such inspiring tips.
This is great, cheers Guthrie!
More good stuff, as always! I think there might be a little of it starting to seep in! And forget the negative comments, you do you. Talk, dance, whistle, whatever. It’s your channel and we look forward to them all.
Just wanna throw a bit of support and encouragement your way. Love your playing, love your videos. Hope to sign up for your lessons in the near future. Keep up the great work. Thanks 🙏💛👍🏼 🎸
This is really great, Guthrie. Thanks. Your melodic playing and enthusiasm for how this works, and what that feels like is really helping me get it. Thanks, Man!
Guthrie, one thing I discovered tonight is how the relative major and relative minor pentatonic shape and scale are the same! Just different shape numbers so to speak. Where the major root is three frets higher than the minor root note. Might be a good lesson for RUclips. Plus a lessons on technique for chicken picking would be good - not too sure if it’s in the country course as still on the beginners part. Thanks
Always so musical. Great new vids on Artist works, too. Got that Uncle Larry tele. Sounds great as always.
Love the lesson and love the 335. I have a 339 and enjoy its tone whenever I pick it up. great stuff Guthrie.
Love when you play this guitar!!!
this is great. i dont follow it all but it gives me ideas on how to progress and what to be looking for when im staring at the neck.
Man, I've been trying to figure out how to "see" these two string scale harmonies (double stops?) for a few months now. I CAN NOT figure out an easy way to see these. I've diagramed the entire Am scale all over the neck and gone two strings at a time. I'm just not seeing anything that works for all strings. I'm sure it's related to the CAGED system, and to the chords of the scale. I see parts of it, but that's it. Guthrie, what are you visualizing when you run those two string notes up/down the neck?????
This is awesome! Thanks a bunch bro.
Dude you are the best! NO negative crap!!! Mahlao!