Why 99% of Intermediate Guitarists STOP Making Progress...
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- Опубликовано: 5 июл 2024
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Many guitarists reach an intermediate level after a few years of playing but only a select few ever manage to break free from the 'lost intermediate plateau' that they often end up stuck in for a number of years.
In today's video, I'm sharing with you 6 things that I WISH I had understood soon after reaching an intermediate level that would have enabled me to smash through that intermediate rut and bypass YEARS of not making progress.
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As a full-time theory/guitar teacher, this video is damm near perfect. I really enjoy your channel. Cheers
Thank you Scott
Any suggestions on a great course for an intermediate player to start understanding theory?
@@calebchristopher9283 on RUclips the best intermediate teachers are Active Melody, Marco Cirillo, and Chris Sherland
@@calebchristopher9283 Bulletproof Guitar Course on his website is helping me out tons!
I was heading here to the comments section to say this ...perfect!
25 years of “intermediate” playing…just started in on music theory, chord/triad construction, and fretboard memorization. After 9 months of working at it, I’m blown away at my growth!! Kicking myself for not figuring this out earlier! Unfortunately, RUclips wasn’t around in the 90’s, and getting good info was a matter of being around the right musicians/teachers. However, I could have memorized my fretboard and never did until last year (and still working on it). Great video with extremely good tips! I believe I’ve hammered down on all of these tips the past 9 months without realizing that it was these 6 simple things that were contributing to my improvement the most.
Same man, I was just going through my CAGED pentas and I finally decided I needed to get serious after 20 years of goofing off. You can never skip the fundamentals. I didn't pay attention but I am now.
The same. Been playing the guitar since 17...shoot, I collect them and yet Im a intermediate guitar player who cant even finish a song...Whats wrong with me!
Same here! I was a 90's kids and "played" but never took the time to care about theory, scales or fretboard memorization. After about 1 year now of going all in with it I have made so much progress!
@Guitar Bobby hell yeah! I'm working my way though the bulletproof course. 75 bucks for both books and I'm already satisfied learning the Triads the proper way.
@@sm1tty031yea but think about it this way. There are so many people in the world that wish they could even pick the instrument up that are jealous that you can play even a little!
This is absolute gold. And in this era of information access, there's no excuse for not pursuing theory at the minimums described. Well done, Ross.
Thanks Chad!
Wonderful video! I'll just add a point:
People love to talk about how their favorite guitarists or musician didn't need theory. It's not true. Some untrained musicians were so obsessive that they just built their own language for music. "Music theory", as we commonly refer to it, is usually just the most common terminology.
As an example, there's a great video of Allan Holdsworth explaining how he sees and notates scales on the guitar. He heard things differently and just started creating his own way of writing it all down. Hendrix, SRV, the Beatles, etc. are similar.
TLDR: there's no escaping music theory, you might just notate it differently
What I don’t see enough of is emphasis on rhythm when it comes to phrasing and soloing. Targeting strong beats and thinking rhythmically when improvising.
I'm on the same boat
Learn the Melody too
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@@EdwardKowalski Me neither
@@EdwardKowalski That's strange. The google drive folder is set to allow anyone with the link to access and download
@@philipwray9734 That's strange. The google drive folder is set to allow anyone with the link to access and download
Same. Downloads exceeded. You have a limit on it.
Ross, I'm so glad you popped up in my feed! I've been wanting to find someone to help me break through for decades, and at 50yo I had honestly come to the conclusion that my learning days were over. I've been stuck on the intermediate plateau for decades, but you, sir, have inspired me to stretch again, and I can't thank you enough.
I am right there with you Robert. Keep up the good work! (see my reply in Comments)
Started the journey maybe five years ago and couldn't recommend more! Understanding the 1,3,5 notes in chords and how they are in chord shapes was where it started to open for me. I was counting up and down the scale and verifying that open G chord actually has just three notes in it. Triads and CAGED was really usefull as well!
Me to very nice, you have a new SUB.
That’s me too
Thanks Ross. I appreciate the truth in this video.
There is absolutely NO excuse for NOT learning ALL the notes on the guitar. It really is simple. Ross's circle of 4ths in his "Bullet Proof Guitar" course works great (and it's a great warmup activity), but there are so many other ways to learn. I didn't commit to doing so until I was in my sixties and it only took me a few days to memorize locations, and then a month or so to get them under my fingers without much thought. It will supercharge your creativity by giving you more freedom over and command of the fretboard. Even if you're a mere hobbyist, do yourself a favor and commit to learning all the notes on the fretboard. I guarantee you'll kick yourself when you discover how damn easy it is and wonder why the hell it took you so long to do it. I know I did.
Well said Bill!
There is no circle of fourths
@@standbyme6395 circle of fifths counter clockwise
I’m going to check it out. I know shapes, I have a decent ear, I have like 3 decades of relentless listening to all the guitar heroes, but man, I can’t figure out how to play this thing beyond “Crossroads” and “Heartbreaker” and believe me, my takes on those are pretty sketchy.
@@edjankovsky4810 circle of sevenths
Ross,
I've watched you for a while now. Straight talk to an intermediate is just what I needed. I went so long in chasing equipment instead of learning what I needed too. Thanks for the encouragement. I took advantage of the free lesson. We'll see what happens.
Thanks Nathan
Great advice Ross. Learning the notes of the guitar and knowing that there are no shortcuts is what made a huge difference for me too.
Thanks Ross. Been listening to your wisdom for 10 years now. Hope things are going well for you.
Thanks man, so many need this including myself, it is very difficult to find material to really start grasping and understanding things past that intermediate level so again Thanks.
Great honest video.. No shortcuts. Hardwork. Thank you Ross
Been at exactly what you speak for 40 years or so and just want to say your advice is spot on point young man... well done.
Thanks for this one Ross. You have a very simple and direct way of pointing out key issues. Great educator.
You are so right about theory basics, and point #5 is absolutely essential. Every guitar player should listen and follow this advice. Thanks, Ross.
Great advice, especially about learning the whole fretboard…I’ve been an intermediate player for DECADES…it was easier to become a gear head than to learn the basics…now will dive into your triads course - it was your triads video from a couple years back that really changed my thinking and finally, slowly, I’ve been exploring again. Thanks!
Thanks Ross for putting together such thoughtful videos, the way you outline and share your knowledge in bullet points that cut right to the content. Very helpful to understand how you’ve used music theory and what options we have to grow musically. Looking forward to diving into what you shared in this lesson, thanks for the resources
Thanks so much Mark! Appreciate the Super Chat
Thanx Ross,You have been more help to me than any other has,I really appreciate your time and passion for this, Thanx again.. NO SHORTCUTS !
Like Robert elsewhere here. I'm 60 and frankly been stuck for probably 30 years or more. You and a few others on RUclips have helped me push a little further on.
DITTO....I"m 61.
I am 67 this year. Still learning
Nice 1 cheers for the free triad lesson. Keep up the good content,🤟😎🎸
Wow! Words of wisdom here! I absolutely love this video Ross✌️
Brilliant advice! THANK YOU.
This the most important and relevant videos out there for me, thanks Ross! I'm absolutely in the group of players your talking about so please know how helpful and inspiring this particular video is.😊🙏
Thank you Suzy!
Excellent video. I can appreciate the straight talk approach. Tell it like it is. Thanks. Subscribed.
Excellent Video! And thanks a lot for that Triad Lesson 👍. Will get right to it 🎸💪😁
Probably the most factual and honest assessment of the utility of the modes of the major scale that I have heard in 40 years of playing guitar. Outstanding! Automatically propels your content to the top of the RUclips heap. 👏👏
Thank you🙏🙏
This is one of the best videos out there right now. No crazy promises or gimmicks. Learning the notes on all 6 strings was single-handedly the best thing I ever did for my playing. Years ago I decided to finally learn them after avoiding it for a long time. Over the course of a couple months I nailed it down. My personal belief is that before you even try to master the major scale you need to learn all of the notes on the fretboard. Otherwise you will always think in terms of shapes and what fret number that shape starts on.
You cannot become an advanced player without knowing the fretboard like the back of your hand. I don't care what anyone says, it's impossible. You may become really good at a technique, but if you can't walk into a jam session and communicate efficiently with the other musicians, and hang with them while playing, you are not advanced. Most players I've encountered that consider themselves advanced cannot even run the major scale up the neck using only the G, B and E strings without thinking about what pattern they are in based off of the low E, or change keys without having to change where they are currently playing on the fretboard. If you are in the 5 - 8 fret range, you should be able to change keys fluidly, without having to leave that area of the fretboard. If you have to pause to think about what note you're currently playing you don't know the fretboard, and you are not an advanced musician.
Man I was nodding my head in agreement with every single sentence... You get it. Well said 👏👏👏
@@RossCampbellGuitarist I wish you a very successful 2023! Your content is they type of information that beginner and intermediate musicians need to see. It's like that one diamond floating in a sea of BS.
You woke me up, just turned 20, see you around in the internet!
This helps a lot thanks!
Thank you, Ross! I began learning to play at 7 years of age. This video has, well presented, valuable and necessary content. Thank you, Ross!💯
This is one of the most inspiring videos I’ve seen in a long time, Ross you are really awesome and your way of teaching is so easy to understand and listen to. I’m a bass player who does some guitar playing on the side but I find your explanations of theory and approach very practical and inspiring, thank you and keep up the great work, I’ll be subscribing very soon
Great advice and fantastic channel! Subbed!
Great video! I'm into my fourth year as a guitarist and this is great advice. Thank you!
YES YES YES!! Agree with all of this 100%, particularly the importance of learning the notes and the over-importance of modes 👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks. Very true. Very motivating. I subscribed.
This is very helpful. I'm an intermediate player and found my self at plateu stage. Guess I will learning the next level soon.
Love your confidence, comes with knowing your stuff!
This level of honesty is much needed in the guitar community, I find it quite refreshing.
Also that Scottish accent is really cool! Subscribed!
Absolutely to the point...everytime we try to "skip" and 'cheat" on learning basic rules of music theory it always comes back to us...even though i made it becoming a full time gigging guitarist music theory "gaps" struck me really hard when the need of it arose...
Great advices Ross, thank you!
This has to one of the best tutorial videos on RUclips to help guitarists progress - straight to the point and well explained well done Ross.
Just got the link to the lessons. Can't wait to get started.
I have been playing for nearly 26 years and have generally been stuck at decent intermediate level for most of that time. Have started trying to learn some of the theory (Circle of Fifths) and I wholeheartedly agree that disdaining theory is for the foolish or those lucky enough to be immensely talented naturally. I play in a band at the school I teach in and my co-guitarist is considerably better. One reason, he knows the theory and it shows!
Great video, and thanks for the free lesson.
Thank you so much for this. Cheers
Great lesson, Ross! Thanks for the constant inspiration.
Thank you Daniel 🙏
Hi Ross. I signed up for Bulletproof about a year ago and tried to get my head around the content. I was more a frustrated beginner and although I understood some of the content, I clearly wasn't ready. Well twelve months later, I'm up for trying again.
I love your approach to teaching, especially your honesty. The first video I saw of yours was Lenny. Awesome!
Great to hear!
Bro all you did is motivated me i was tired of learning theory modes and all now i understand i will become better of me for sure but it will take time patience is the key thanks
The content and presentation of the content is stellar!
Solid, useful advice!
Excellent advice. I never fully committed to learning all the notes on the fretboard. I skipped the D, B, and G strings. I’m going to work on it.
I always learn a lot from you ❤️🙏🏻. Such Great content Ross ❤️👌
This channel should cross 1M subscribers soon 🙏🏻
As usual, fantastic video. Thank you Ross. All the best, Mordi
Dude...Some how you stumbled into my feed AND...DAMN I'm glad you did. Ive gotten more out of your videos in two weeks than I have in months of watching other peoples videos. Thank you for the new found INSPIRATION!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘
good advice, honest thoughts, thanks
Subscribed. Really good video mate!
This is wonderful as always!
truer words have never been said!!! I'm glad you made this video :D
Cheers Ross, free advice of this caliber is a god send.
Awesome! Thanks Ross,
This video gave me some tough love. I appreciate that
Thanks Ross. I have found that there's no improvement unless I'm working on the guitar. Playing it and looking for different sounds. Thanks for telling it like it is. And I love theory because it helps me learn what others are playing so much faster.
Thank you, Ross! Good show, brother.
So glad you foned your soned!
Thanks for the great content!
Thank you Ross for saying it how it is. Great advice!
Thank You for all advice 👍
Thank You so much Ross, man you were right #5 Memorizing the Notes on the fretboard using the Circle of Forths was a huge “Ah ha!” Lightbulb moment! Just fantastic, Thank You Thank You!!
#6 earned you a thumbs up 👍
Don't be afraid of the work they call it playing for a reason. Even the hard stuff can be fun once you get bitten by the guitar bug.
Great video Ross, loving your work. Hope to see you at Namm in April. 🎸👍🏻
THank you! Won't be there this year. Forgot it was even on to be honest! Hopefully Jan 2024
As a guitarist/music teacher I'm completely agree with this video! Thanks!
Very solid advice Ross. Good video. I do have a question though: why do you have music in the background when you’re talking? It was distracting after I realized it was there and then it was hard for me to concentrate on your message.
I find that when I myself am watching a RUclips video of someone else that's talking, a little bit of background music helps to keep me engaged. It's not the case for everyone clearly but each to their own
#2 is so true! The major scale, for instance, is so much more important than trying to figure out the modes inside it. Most of the time you will be playing the scale itself in its diatonic context anyway and not using modes over non-diatonic chords to add the flavor of a certain mod. Again, most of the time, that is. (Edit: After writing this I realized what I wrote is basically point #3)
I love this video. It felt like a 30-minute vid with all of the information it contains
Ross, great video! Many instructors recommend learning the notes on all six strings up the 12th fret only, beyond that it's only repeating itself. However, I found it extremely important to learn the notes all over the fretboard without the 12th fret split. Otherwise you'll find yourself doing the maths with reference to the 12th fret when playing in higher registers. That really slows you down.
This is the best. Thank you so much. Is there a follow-up lesson to learn more about triads on snares 2-3-4 and how to practical use triads in your playing?
1000% Right ! Thank you!!!
Wonderful video, and it couldn't have come at a better time. I've been playing guitar for 40 years, but have never invested the time to learn the fretboard, or to really study how theory is applied in a musical context. I'm working on that now (its hard work!), but I feel like I'm starting to understand guitar in a new light. Your advice is spot on! I'll be watching this channel regularly!
Awesome Michael, thank you for the kind words
Thanks a lot mate!!!
Very motivating video. Guitar leadership.
The best advice I’ve heard on RUclips! Thanks for giving us tough love!🙌🏾💕
Excellent video!!👍👍
I totally agree with you!!
Thanks Anthony
Thank you for bringing back things in perspective. Yes, I agree that knowing the theory will help us to study and memorize. Though sometime there is some exception but mostly in line with the theory and knowing the theory willl surely help us to jump to the next level. Cheers from Indonesia.
Thank you
Superb. The problem of theory seems to arise in all the arts. Part of the problem is encountering theory before you’ve formed a sense of the difficulties it helps remove. This video, coming from someone who plays with delicacy and passion, has exactly the right kind of authority. Many thanks.
Ross… from one Scotsman to another,your a good honest lad. Great advice folks!
Great advice,instantly subscribed.
Hard truths. Excellent video and advice!
Thank you!
Damn right. There is no shortcut. Im subbed to your BPGP1&2. Its brought me around 100%. I know the notes now! As a beginner theres no where to go but up. Everything you learn makes you better. But as intermediate its much easier to get lost and sidetracked and just stop playing due to frustration. A course designed for intermediates is genius!
Thank you Ross. You popped up on my feed and I’m so grateful . I’m into my guitar journey for three years and as an educator myself,intuitively know that without basic knowledge of guitar and Music theory one can never reach the next level. Your presentation was ex excellent highlighting areas that need to be mastered. I am well beyond the beginner stage but I’m stuck getting into a comfortable intermediary stage. Like you said when I looked down at the front board I see patterns emerging, but I’m definitely lost. it’s like going on a road trip and most of the roads on your journey I’ve been washed out. Very hard to get to your destination. Thanks again.
Thank you! Glad the video was useful
Awesome.... thanks a ton!
Good solid sound advice in my opinion, quite a novel idea as a video too, many thanks !
This is absolutely true. When I learned the notes of the fretboard my playing took a huge leap
Great video - it's so intuitive that it seems like common sense when you say it!
You also made me laugh out a mouthful of tea at around 9.45 in the video. 😂
Top class video Ross cheers for the triad course take care Brian Ireland 🇮🇪🎸🎸🎸
Glad you enjoyed it!
You've earned yourself a new subscriber! Nice video
Excellent advice.
Great video and very legitimate information.
Great video man, always awesome content. Keep uploading often, you have missed some days :D
Thanks! Yeah I've been putting more effort into my short form content on IG and TikTok. Still doing RUclips too but figuring out what type of content will work best for my channel moving forward
Great Video! 🎸
Thanks a lot!
Love this guy! I’m the definition of an intermediate guitarist that’s stuck. Cowboy chords, power chords, a little CAGED method, pentatonic scales, pretty good blues rock feel that sounds cool sometimes, and PRAY 🙏😅! I’m going to follow up with this dude’s videos
You sound like you're exactly where I am, everything you said is how I feel. I'm ready to break out into the next level. Ive been to jam nights and watch some older guys just play these simple but tasteful licks and I want to be there.
@@davebarajas5308 I play pentatonic blues stuff that sometimes sounds cool but then I hear guys play on these RUclips teaching videos and I realize that I’m missing something. I don’t sound smooth. I’m kind of fast but clunky. I don’t know if my picking is uneven or if my timing is poor or both. I need a teacher.
Dude, great video! Content of this quality...for free! Awesome! Wish you all the best.
Thanks!
Great video. Thank you. It’s extremely useful to focus on the intermediate level and not be all things to all people. Works great for me.
Thank you 🙏 helping intermediates break out of the ruts the commonly fall into is definitely what inspires me most to teach online
Great advice. Only discovered you today but subscribed after listening to your 6 points.