I know I'm late to this but it popped up in my feed recently. I just wanted to say thank you in the most efussive way possible. Initially, my musical sensibility went, "What???" But I've been practicing this chordal approach in combination with limiting my scale approach to dominant pentatonics. Suddenly, it all just clicked: I found my style. I dont have the words. Thanks for sharing a completely fresh approach. I genuinely appreciate you and your channel.
I’m so happy to read this. Thanks for sharing, Bernie. I was worried that this video was not detailed enough and didn’t provide enough diagrams/tabs to be helpful. I’m thrilled that wasn’t the case! Cheers and happy playing!
I've loved playing parallel 6ths over the years. This is such good stuff! I'm really enjoying these technique videos and seeing how you apply this. You do a great job of explaining it clearly and showing the basic ideas as well as next iterations to advance the concept further. Super clear and easy to understand! Well done! I can't wait to imitate some of this and open up more ideas! Something I "think" I'm observing you doing at times is some "hybrid" picking... I can fingerpick well, and played enough bluegrass back in the day to flat pick well also, but I've struggled to see how to mix those together fluidly. I get the "idea" of hybrid picking, but would love to hear a bit about how you approach right hand technique. Love your style!!
Thumb over technique is really cool. Makes me think of Hendrix and Frusciante. Only problem for me is my hands aren't very big, so I have trouble with it.
Nice video. It's funny, there are a lot of systems out there but actually never made sense to me until I stumbled on my own insights. CAGED (or anything else) etc starts to become intuitive once you go "wait a minute, so that's why that's a A even though it uses the C I know? It can't be that simple can it? Let me check the notes...woah, so the intervals are the same" For me that's the only way I learned the stuff and then the "systems" just became mnemonics, reminders, and easy cheats for stuff I stumbled upon myself.
You’re exactly right! These are just names for sounds we can make. Whatever we call it we’re trying to do the same thing, playing in an interesting and pleasing manner to us and the listener. It’s crazy once your mind just opens up and says, hey, you’re making this harder than it needs to be. lol. Cheers!
I know I'm late to this but it popped up in my feed recently. I just wanted to say thank you in the most efussive way possible. Initially, my musical sensibility went, "What???" But I've been practicing this chordal approach in combination with limiting my scale approach to dominant pentatonics. Suddenly, it all just clicked: I found my style. I dont have the words. Thanks for sharing a completely fresh approach. I genuinely appreciate you and your channel.
I’m so happy to read this. Thanks for sharing, Bernie. I was worried that this video was not detailed enough and didn’t provide enough diagrams/tabs to be helpful. I’m thrilled that wasn’t the case! Cheers and happy playing!
Thanks, this was more useful to me than lessons ive paid good money for. Hope this enough for a coffee where you are.
Wow! So generous of you, Daniel. Really appreciate it. One coffee incoming!
I love your rhythm guitar playing, if you do a course I'll buy it for sure!
Wow thanks UC! I’d love to build that and a ear training course. So many videos on lead guitar but not a ton on rhythm playing.
I 2nd the motion
Thanks!
Wow thanks for the SuperThanks, Yannick!
Very interesting! I’ve yet to break that plateau but seeing how you did it is very enlightening. Thank you
Hope it helped a little bit!
I've loved playing parallel 6ths over the years. This is such good stuff! I'm really enjoying these technique videos and seeing how you apply this. You do a great job of explaining it clearly and showing the basic ideas as well as next iterations to advance the concept further. Super clear and easy to understand! Well done! I can't wait to imitate some of this and open up more ideas! Something I "think" I'm observing you doing at times is some "hybrid" picking... I can fingerpick well, and played enough bluegrass back in the day to flat pick well also, but I've struggled to see how to mix those together fluidly. I get the "idea" of hybrid picking, but would love to hear a bit about how you approach right hand technique. Love your style!!
That's a great idea! I'll do a basic hybrid picking method and some drills I do to keep sharp! Cheers
Thumb over technique is really cool. Makes me think of Hendrix and Frusciante. Only problem for me is my hands aren't very big, so I have trouble with it.
Ah yeah. Maybe it’s something you can try on a rickenbacker. My g&l has a really narrow neck too.
Nice video. It's funny, there are a lot of systems out there but actually never made sense to me until I stumbled on my own insights. CAGED (or anything else) etc starts to become intuitive once you go "wait a minute, so that's why that's a A even though it uses the C I know? It can't be that simple can it? Let me check the notes...woah, so the intervals are the same" For me that's the only way I learned the stuff and then the "systems" just became mnemonics, reminders, and easy cheats for stuff I stumbled upon myself.
You’re exactly right! These are just names for sounds we can make. Whatever we call it we’re trying to do the same thing, playing in an interesting and pleasing manner to us and the listener. It’s crazy once your mind just opens up and says, hey, you’re making this harder than it needs to be. lol. Cheers!
Wow, thank you! Got subscribe
Thanks for the sub! Glad this could help!
love the channel
thank you
Thank you TT! Appreciate the sopport!