1 Month of Touch Guitar Progress
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- Опубликовано: 3 июл 2024
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This video documents my first month learning to play the Touch Guitar. I've committed to learning for the rest of the year, and documenting my progress here on RUclips. The full lessons with Markus Reuter are available on his channel (linked above).
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Be sure to check out Markus' channel! We only covered a tiny fraction of what I've learned here. Much more knowledge in his videos (and he gives lessons): ruclips.net/user/markusreuter
ty, videos like this of other creative people learning things always help a ton with motivation
So should be assume there will be touch guitar on the Sungazer album?....
I think they already recorded it, so probably not on the upcoming release
@@lhffl Who knows how old this video really is... ^^
@@mr_torle Didn't he say he was starting with touch guitar on 2021?
@@dagonzalez1757 A man can say anything on the internet.
(I'm joking btw)
Loving this series Shawn. I'm really interested in touch guitar and would love to learn to play but right now I don't want to give up the focus on my regular guitar playing, so it's cool to just vicariously watch you develop. Lots of good practice tips here too, I'm definitely guilty of at times taking on too many new things to learn and then feeling overwhelmed. How much time per day / week are you putting into studying touch guitar right now?
In the first month I averaged around 2 hours a day, most days (~12 hours / week).
@@ShawnCrowder is it bad that I read this as 12 hours a day and for a split sec I believed it lmao
You are the first person to explain modes so my dumb brain finally gets it! Thank you so much!
That was very short, maybe check out this list of the intervals in each mode from Wikipedia if you want to memorize or practice more en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_(music)#Analysis
So cool to see your progress! keep it up, can’t wait to hear you shred on that thing.
This was so inspiring…Thank you!
Truly inspiring. If even to me, a guitar player with 15+ years of experience, this instrument seems to be way out of my comfort zone, I can't even imagine how frustating it can be to a drummer to learn it from scratch. Your progress is outstanding.
By the way, given the music examples you showed us, I think you'd like the soundscapes that Chihei Hatakeyama and Hakobune create with guitars. That is, if you're not already familiar with their music.
I'm excited to see how learning this instrument will influence your music making, by adding harmonic vocabulary to your vast knowledge of the rythmic world :D
Sharing your learning experience takes balls. Cool series.
Great job buddy, love you
One thing at a time. Such great advice, still challenging to execute but really important!
Richtig gut was du geschafft hast. Weiter so. Ich komme Euch bald mal in Berlin besuchen :)
Dude your so talented I can see you've put so much into music I watched your Virgil video and that alone is enough to prove your a master musician but to be so good on multiple instruments is amazing, keep striving and keep producing content my friend
The pentachords also explain a lot of what goes on on a Harpejji.
Super valuable insight man. And props to you for using this downtime to learn a new instrument. You'll be a killer player before you know it with that super-focused approach. Best of luck!
Gordian Knot has a song called Grace that i think uses touch guitar. Very cool sound
I too am practicing a LOT of the MOTHER exercise, even working my hands back and forth across the fret board. Thank you for sharing your experience! Also, you came up with some interesting musical ideas towards the end of this presentation that warrant further exploration!
Time to comment before I see the video.
great success
This is SO much more inspiring than I thought. It makes me want to do better at practicing my own instrument
I play an 8 string tapping instrument tuned in 4ths. I am really enjoying seeing the different fingering techniques used with an instrument tuned in 5ths. Thanks for making and sharing these videos.
Hey Shawn, very interesting for me! I'm a bassplayer from Germany (since 1980, Pro since 1987) on Jan 1 this year i started learning the chapman stick. My approach is to divide the practice time in many small parts daily. sometimes 2 minutes or up to 40, but 5 or 6 times a day when i'm at home. I find i'm always "warmed up" that way and I'm never cold because the last time practicing is never more than 10 hours ago. That was the method i prepared for my music college audition for 4 month and it was the most progress i had in almost 50 years of playing.
Go Shawn!! 🤯👏👏👏👏
that was beautiful
good one.
I've been playing guitar for over 15 years now and honestly, I think I'd suck pretty bad at learning this instrument since I would just fall into the trap of trying to apply "normal guitar" playing techniques and patterns. It's really interesting to watch you learn how to handle this thing.
This instrument looks sick..
Practice motivation for me, Yeah!
The last major triad got me smiling haha
This is really interesting Shawn, especially the bit about breaking the two octave major scale into "sections" of multiple modes. Usually when you learn guitar you're just given the major scale pattern (or e.g. the pentatonic minor blues) and commit it to muscle memory before anyone even tells you what a "mode" is ... as a keyboard & bass player (not a real one) I got a bit annoyed at the online guitar lesson stuff I had been following when it was ten minutes of explaining what a major scale was (all that "tone tone semitone tone tone tone semitone" YES I KNOW THAT thanks lmao).
To see the major scale taught as a series of partial modes was interesting. Was that because you're a fully-trained real musician and assumed to know all that stuff already or something peculiar to this instrument?
LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I am trying to learn, fingertapping style guitar, I would learn touch if I could afford a touch guitar like that. But I can't imagine learning touch guitar, without also knowing how to play "regular" guitar. Knowing regular and fingertapping, I could play touch on that guitar pretty quickly.
It's really interesting watching your progress (and by my standards, it's incredible - you seem happy, but much less impressed with yourself than I would be if it were me -- but I suppose that's all just a matter of standards/ expectations).
One thing you might need to look out for, though, is the risk of chasing too much speed, though. Speed comes automatically (well that's what the speedy people I know tell me; I'm still waiting for it to arrive for me on the guitar, so this might be incorrect). Trouble is you end up with some "mumbled notes" when going too fast. I know you're just putting pressure on those fingers to get them working automatically, so there's a point to this that is not about speed per se; and when you succeed in properly applying pressure the sign of this is that something gets lost in exchange for the speed/ pressure - and if all all just goes swimmingly during the "pressure cooking" you're just not trying hard enough, and need to push till there are more mistakes of some kind or another; ... long sentence ... where was I ? ... :-) ... I know there's method in this madness of yours, but if each note counts for something (and I think that's something intrinsically percussive, rather than frequency-related), then you're making music. And not "mumbling".
That said, you're doing great. I'm just nit-picking whatever seems the best target for improvement. (As if I'm some kind of expert or something.)
I don't mean this in a bad way but... Seeing someone of your competence struggling at something is, in a way, reassuring. Reminds us that we're all shitty at stuff before we're good at it. And you're past the shitty stage already.
damn that's such a different technique from regular picking.
You said you concentrated only on one exercice.
As a classical persussion student I have to do practice 10 things at a time. Sometimes I would like to only play one instrument...
But on the other side it will never get boring :)
Hey Shawn .. I have been following your stuff (and Adam's, and Ben's) since the past few months and learning a lot .. happy to see this .. being a guitarist who likes to play persuasively, I was thinking of getting into the Chapman stick .. is there a reason you went for the touch guitar and not the stick ?
So Markus comes to your place? I recognize the shelf from his videos
Shawn, is your house always lit like this?
I'm not too knowledgeable on touch guitars, but can anyone explain why this touch guitar would be preferable to a Chapman Stick? Seems like the Chapman Stick would be better given the additional strings, the huge scale length for comfort and having the bass strings inverted such that you're not having to worry about overlapping when playing two handed. Also what's stopping you from just doing these techniques on a normal 8 string guitar with a fret wrap? And what's the benefit of tuning to 5ths instead of 4ths? No hate here, it's very interesting to me and I've always loved the concept but don't get the difference
12:51 Guitar-face? Bass-face?
Music-face
What’s the difference between a regular guitar and touch guitar
5:21 no one:
Adam Neely:
Learning technique on new instruments is always a struggle being a beginner again and not learning as “fast” as you are used to
"I want to learn more about melody, harmony and composition, and I can do that on any instrument" -
Shawn saying that drums aren't an instrument :D
That sentence doesnt say that
Can someone explain to me what, besides the extended range, is the advantage of using an instrument like this compared to say playing a regular guitar but using two handed tapping as well fingerpicking?
extended range is a big one, but also ergonomics. And the frets on dedicated touch instruments are usually taller and pointier which improves the tone and makes it easier to play.
Fuck yes Peter Kropotkin, so good to see you here
You took lessons with Mangini?
You were doing that one exercise for 90 minutes at a time ?! I’d die from boredom before an hour lol.
At first i thought this channel is just a person pretending he's new to guitar to sell "touch guitar" then i see how the exercises are quite different from regular tapping techniques and can be applied to "normal" guitar playing. Enlightening indeed.
What is the velcro pad on the first fret for? I'm super confused
it mutes the strings so that they dont ring out as much when youre playing it
@@philz_corsia Oh okay! I've never seen anything put under the strings for that. Cool idea
@@morgandavis5401 lots of guitar players that play with high gain use something like that, sometimes a hair tie over the first fret. Some guitars also have a similar dampener right behind the nut to keep the strings back there from resonating.
Is it similar to the piano? I think you said you played it in the past.
The Touch Guitar is actually very different to the piano. The most important difference (in my opinion) is the "release" of the note, that Shawn also talks about here in this video.
But in terms of having all fingers play notes the touch guitar is more "piano-like" than a traditional 6-string guitar.
adam neely wants to know your location and teach you BASS
I read this with Davie504's voice
*A* dam Neely's
Bass
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Chapman stick like thing
Since I am pretty void of any discipline, just getting into practising via instant gratification ("2 bars without fkn up, I AM GOD!") and some mellow flow-like state, the idea of pulling off 90 minutes playing one figure/movement/etude seems mighty bewildering. After about 10 minutes max. I'd turn the piece into some jam, keep the motion, speed, the point of the lesson, but ... beware of feeling boxed in! To mess with David Byrne: *Stop Making Zen!*
Well, you seem to be ahead direction Satori, and astoundingly fine so.
🧸💕🎶
I fix this by turning exercises into riffs or finding riffs that are good exercise like thunderstruck.
12:35 that sight made me feel little uncomfortable:)
If you get good you should upgrade to a Chapman Stick
You look esactly like iann from shameless but 30 years old! Lmao ahaha
You need to play the lick
why not just buy one chapman stick
Mmmm the Tony Levin is strong on this one (yeah yah, I know he play bass)
Why did you say there were only 5 modes, that dosnt make any sense.
He's only playing the first 5 notes of the scales, so there are modes that share 1-5 but only differ in the 6 or 7. They are the same because he's not playing the 6 or 7.
@@kevinpham8693 Oh thanks, I didn't know how I could have over looked that
*calls traveling along the neck "side to side"....
Am I the only one who finds the teacher slightly pretentious? Don’t get me wrong he’s a great musician I just find his lessons seemed a little bit too abstracted and trying to make it seem more complicated than it is?
pentachord sounds like the name of a mediocre melodic death metal band
Why aren’t you starting with music rather than raw technique? Practicing one song from scratch would make more sense to me.