@@shredgod6394there’s a way to convert videos to mp3 and the uploading to a website where you’re able to slow it down from 10% to 200%, jts what i use to practice stuff
Coming up on 2 years back playing after about 14 years of no playing. I started watching Andrew and learned things nobody else was teaching. I look forward to my evening sessions. I am better in these 2 years than I was back playing on stage, church and traveling band. The real life job took hold of career and put it on the back burner for too long. I have to thank Andrew for making these videos and teaching us clearly-very easy to follow. Thanks, keep it up
I agree. I go to a friend's house who has jam night once a month, mostly for the kids and all they do is show off all the songs they learned on guitar note for note. They have no idea what they are even playing and people think they are doing good. It's pointless unless you know the chords or notes or why you're playing it. And if you can't play with others it's not as fun
This is really good stuff. I'm also a church player, and it's so easy to get handicapped by SongSelect Chord sheets, playing the same 4 chords on repeat.... Add a capo, rinse, and repeat. What's helped me in the last few years, in addition to what you've stated is: 1. Buying a Boss RC5 looper, and creating loops with drums. 2. Using a Mustang Micro Headphone amp to play along with whatever songs I can do on my phone. YT has a ton of backing tracks, but it's also really fun to play along with whatever songs are on my regular playlist. It's like I'm part of the band!
Great video! I’m a 57 yr old professional guitarist/songwriter/teacher. All of your points (in my experience) are extremely valid. And they all take time. I started playing at 9 (It’s a great story if you’d like to hear it sometime) and went through a rapid musical growth spurt from 12 to 14. Suddenly, I was catapulted from my garage to playing with 20 somethings in nightclubs and parties. Playing with other musicians was paramount. The countless hours I spent playing along with records and just exploring the instrument on my own was groundbreaking for me. The greatest joy I can experience in this life is “making something up” and sharing that with whosoever will listen. ❤️. P.S. I love looping and use it often in practice as well as live shows. Looping didn’t exist when I was young, so I found a way to record myself as often as I could. So…. Record yourself all the time! Listen back and track your progress over time. This helped me get better exponentially.
i used to drag my feet but in lock down i got mad at it, i really believe it's what you practice not how often you practice, i am old and wish i knew what i know now, then! i checked in on the two latest studies into it too and was pleased, they basically said what i have come to learn and how i practice to a t, recently i am taking it easier atm (and that is good too, other things:D) but i made myself learn and play everyday for 3-4 years? till real recently where i may have missed an odd one, then i think, do i actually ever have a complete day off?, ten minute bursts man, practice all aspects! i use my opposites theory too, if i play slow i then play fast, if its busy i usually learn something simple at the same time, i remember i used to wake and think everyday 'what makes good music? why do i like this, why does this leave me cold, does it sound EXACTLY the same? you have to be hard to get serious but also, it is primarily fun and we can't forget this part or it's futile!
Definitely subbed once i saw you had what look like to be good thorough course, and your not charging me hundreds of $$$ for it. Thank you it means alot for us learning guitar.
Rocksmith 2014 is pretty good for play alongs, that’s how I’ve been slowing down tracks and learning the notes well enough not to hesitate. I’ve been learning the Mjolnir mix like that
Wow this is all resonating so hard! Very validating to hear all of this as I was slowly doing a lot of these things and figuring these out and thought “maybe I’m doing things the hard way” but no, it’s all a great way to approach the instrument and progress over time. Thank you for another amazing video as always 🤘🏼
Great video. These are the types of tips players need to write down on a whiteboard when they need guidance. I played bass for years and hit a wall because I never learned to be creative. Now playing guitar as an adult, that's all I'm focusing on. Take stuff from the pros and try to play it over chord changes I looped on my pedal. Rinse, repeat.
Thank you so much for how you're helping us all! You and your channel have really been a great help for me with improving my guitar playing. And I just had to come back to this video to give mad props for how great Guitareo is; I'm actually having fun doing the workouts, you all really did a great job with making them fun, engaging, and not burdensome. Thanks again! 🙂
All I have to say about your videos is that you have helped me a lot in having confidence in my own abilities and to keep taking my time and do practice slowly, I wish you success in your life 🙏
Cakewalk is an excellent program. I think it is free online now but you have to maintain an internet connection. I have the program from way back when, it is for XP though so I would have to partition a drive and emulate XP to get it to work but it is for recording, all kinds of stuff. You can upload songs into it, add effects, splice in your own solo or rhythm track or slow it down to play along like Andrew said.
Available resources these days is crazy, i am a kid in a sweet shop but people should not neglect the old ways too.. i copy pianists videos for this reason, ear training is crucial! i am a guitarist mostly but i watch lessons for various instruments, it's interesting say how a sax player views it and plays, so theres two more aspects, stuff that's written on your instrument and stuff that isn't, which is usually tricky but opens things up for you..
Definitely second the point on being creative. For me that means when I learn a song it doesn't end there, but after practicing I see what kind of techniques that song used (doublestops? Fingerstyle? Etc.), then see if I can come up with something using the same techniques. Also, one of the most important things I think is to just pick upnthe guitar and play, with no tabs, no songs or backing tracks, maybe a metronome, and just see where your fingers take you. At first you'll probably play the same old boring pentatonic licks you always play, but just be patient, maybe you'll make a mistake and find that that note you didn't intend actually creates a cool chord you haven't used before, then you explore that chord, come up with a nice rhythm, and now your playing goes into a totally new direction. At the end of the day, you just gotta consistently pick up the guitar and play though. Sometimes you just don't have the energy to do anything fancy, but once the guitar is in your hand and you start to play without judgment, 90% of the time you'll eventually find yourself doing something interesting.
Thanks! I recently pulled my guitar out again after ages of sitting on my hands and doing other stuff, and knowing exactly what and how I should be practicing is a great motivator. I appreciate it!!
BlueNote --> game changer. Another wonderfully done video! I always know that when things get tedious I can watch your videos and find another great idea to nudge me forward. Thank you sir.
There is a great google extension for slowing down songs, changing the pitch, transposing and even looping a specific segment of your wishes. Its called Transpose and its free and extremely easy to use, its helped me through tons of songs and i highly recommend it!!
you done well to realise all these finer points at a young age mate, you stopped and thought about it first, so many guitarists don't do this first crucial step lol.
A lot of teachers don't recommend it. And I can understand why if ALL your time is spent noodling. But I think it can have massive benefits as long as you're doing it in combination with more focused work as well.
Andrew, LOVE this advice for helping me realize why I’m in a rut. I mostly play acoustic finger picking songs and some are “tricky” to remember (they’re not simple repeating patterns.) When playing these I quite often have to stop after a few measures when I can’t recall the next pattern Any suggestions for getting myself to play through these longer pieces?
This doesn’t contradict what he said in any way, but I think the far more foundational answer to “How do I get better at the guitar” has the answer: 1. Increase the volume of practice. Practice is different from playing. Practice means focused specific activity designed to learn new skills and/or to improve existing skills. People can easily get into the potential trap of unconsciously searching for ‘secrets’ or shortcuts to get better. Its volume. People can also waste precious time trying to analyze and trouble-shoot how to do certain techniques (almost in a reverse order process) before they even attempt to put in the hours of practice This may be like people who oobsessively disect their pick slanting angle etc etc and haven’t actually put in the practice time A common mistake is doing inefficient practice as well- SO MANY people say to get good alternate picking technique you practice it slowly and increase the BPM gradually Maybe that has worked with some people, but I think empirically and research is starting to show to people that playing slow and fast are not the same thing in terms of technique or mentally Perhaps a more efficient way of learning alternate picking is to start by learning how to tremolo pick Then alternate pick FAST in small ‘chunks’- literally two notes. Practice that. Then increase the chunks. Eventually you get larger and larger chunks, you use different finger combinations, and mentally you start to incorporate the concepts into easy to digest large groupings. This frees up your mind from having to almost literally ‘think’ of what notes to play- chunking in patterns is the only realistic way to ‘think’ as it is impossible otherwise
Where do you find the scales when your guitar is drop tuned? Or maybe scales don't apply at that point? A video or advice on that would be so helpful, unless someone on here knows!
I'm 18 turning nineteen on monday the 11th I picked up a Squire Jaguar bc A i didn't know what was good or what wasn't The jag caught my eye due to price and sunburst she does the job and it's been around 2-3 months and im relatively still new and your videos help a lot so thank you very much:b
Nice! Congrats. It’s such a great guitar. I didn’t have string buzz after setting it up, but I did replace the bridge with the Fender Johnny Marr bridge recently. Just to help with the strings moving off the saddles.
I love your guitar, I dont know what it is about it, but it looks like you stole it from me, haha. Its like a feeling of seeing someone for the first time but also feeling like you've known them your whole life.
Hey :) After transcribing solos and songs with basic chords how to level up for Tommy Emmanuel? What would be a good transcribing speed? I heard 1 minute of audio is 30 minutes for professional transcribers.
your channel would be so X-fold more authentic, if you could upload some videos here and there featuring you in live settings. Give us some proof of old work. Might be you already did. In that case I'm sorry for posting this, we content consumers just have to be really picky. I mean "REALLY".
32 year old watching how to get better at guitar after just starting. Within one minute "I played in a band in front live audiences when I was 12". Thanks for the advice
@@andrewclarkeguitar its very hard for me to find the drive for anything on life. But when I get some I get better at guitar fast. But I unfortunately only have the drive maybe 2 months out of the year so it's a slow progression all in all.
@@Steve-si8hx think about what makes you happy and set some goals around it. Whether it’s guitar or anything else. Drive comes and goes. But discipline is such an important part of getting good at anything.
Thanks for watching! Check out the Workouts I did with Guitareo with your 30-day Free Trial: lp.musora.com/andrew-clarke?oid=45&affid=64
App Store says it isn’t available in the U.S
@@nativestrong7253 The Musora app? Musora is a Canadian company but I know the majority of their users are from the US.
I am 74 years old and got a late start. Your video is great!
How old were you when you started playing guitar?
15
You can slow down, RUclips backtracks without altering the pitch. ANOTHER GREAT VID.
Yes! RUclips by itself is an outstanding tool. Thanks!
It is nice. Sadly, there are tons of things I can play at 75% speed not 100.
I wish I there were more options
@@shredgod6394 Go back to my days starting in 1977 there was only the album and an 8 track to work from, you have more options than you need today.
You can get an extension to allow yt to slow down in incremets of 5 up to 300%, has been super useful for me@@shredgod6394
@@shredgod6394there’s a way to convert videos to mp3 and the uploading to a website where you’re able to slow it down from 10% to 200%, jts what i use to practice stuff
Coming up on 2 years back playing after about 14 years of no playing. I started watching Andrew and learned things nobody else was teaching. I look forward to my evening sessions. I am better in these 2 years than I was back playing on stage, church and traveling band. The real life job took hold of career and put it on the back burner for too long. I have to thank Andrew for making these videos and teaching us clearly-very easy to follow. Thanks, keep it up
calling out spending your time learning songs is the thing everyone needs to hear, thanks for the reminder
I agree. I go to a friend's house who has jam night once a month, mostly for the kids and all they do is show off all the songs they learned on guitar note for note. They have no idea what they are even playing and people think they are doing good. It's pointless unless you know the chords or notes or why you're playing it. And if you can't play with others it's not as fun
This is really good stuff. I'm also a church player, and it's so easy to get handicapped by SongSelect Chord sheets, playing the same 4 chords on repeat.... Add a capo, rinse, and repeat.
What's helped me in the last few years, in addition to what you've stated is:
1. Buying a Boss RC5 looper, and creating loops with drums.
2. Using a Mustang Micro Headphone amp to play along with whatever songs I can do on my phone. YT has a ton of backing tracks, but it's also really fun to play along with whatever songs are on my regular playlist. It's like I'm part of the band!
0:56 ohhhhh so thats how you ACTUALLY got good at guitar. got it
Great video! I’m a 57 yr old professional guitarist/songwriter/teacher. All of your points (in my experience) are extremely valid. And they all take time. I started playing at 9 (It’s a great story if you’d like to hear it sometime) and went through a rapid musical growth spurt from 12 to 14. Suddenly, I was catapulted from my garage to playing with 20 somethings in nightclubs and parties. Playing with other musicians was paramount. The countless hours I spent playing along with records and just exploring the instrument on my own was groundbreaking for me. The greatest joy I can experience in this life is “making something up” and sharing that with whosoever will listen. ❤️.
P.S. I love looping and use it often in practice as well as live shows. Looping didn’t exist when I was young, so I found a way to record myself as often as I could. So…. Record yourself all the time! Listen back and track your progress over time. This helped me get better exponentially.
Please share some of your recordings, would love to hear some of your work. :-)
When you say looking back at your recordings would help, how would it help?
@@kmoore42knowing where you made mistakes that you probably didn’t hear in the moment. We also tend to think we’re playing better than we really are
i used to drag my feet but in lock down i got mad at it, i really believe it's what you practice not how often you practice, i am old and wish i knew what i know now, then! i checked in on the two latest studies into it too and was pleased, they basically said what i have come to learn and how i practice to a t, recently i am taking it easier atm (and that is good too, other things:D) but i made myself learn and play everyday for 3-4 years? till real recently where i may have missed an odd one, then i think, do i actually ever have a complete day off?, ten minute bursts man, practice all aspects! i use my opposites theory too, if i play slow i then play fast, if its busy i usually learn something simple at the same time, i remember i used to wake and think everyday 'what makes good music? why do i like this, why does this leave me cold, does it sound EXACTLY the same? you have to be hard to get serious but also, it is primarily fun and we can't forget this part or it's futile!
Definitely subbed once i saw you had what look like to be good thorough course, and your not charging me hundreds of $$$ for it. Thank you it means alot for us learning guitar.
I really appreciate that!
@@andrewclarkeguitarI’m impressed that you actually respond to comments even if they’re sent this long after the video was made
@Toastincereal-hk1cd I do my best! I can’t respond to them all. But I try ☺️
Rocksmith 2014 is pretty good for play alongs, that’s how I’ve been slowing down tracks and learning the notes well enough not to hesitate. I’ve been learning the Mjolnir mix like that
Wow this is all resonating so hard! Very validating to hear all of this as I was slowly doing a lot of these things and figuring these out and thought “maybe I’m doing things the hard way” but no, it’s all a great way to approach the instrument and progress over time. Thank you for another amazing video as always 🤘🏼
That's great to hear! Thanks for watching :)
Thanks Andrew you're an amazing teacher please continue making videos like this
Thanks for watching!!
Great video. These are the types of tips players need to write down on a whiteboard when they need guidance. I played bass for years and hit a wall because I never learned to be creative. Now playing guitar as an adult, that's all I'm focusing on. Take stuff from the pros and try to play it over chord changes I looped on my pedal. Rinse, repeat.
Thank you so much for how you're helping us all! You and your channel have really been a great help for me with improving my guitar playing. And I just had to come back to this video to give mad props for how great Guitareo is; I'm actually having fun doing the workouts, you all really did a great job with making them fun, engaging, and not burdensome. Thanks again! 🙂
That's so great to hear! They're awesome over there. I'm glad you're having a good time with the workouts :)
All I have to say about your videos is that you have helped me a lot in having confidence in my own abilities and to keep taking my time and do practice slowly, I wish you success in your life 🙏
bro cant stop releasing bangers
🫡
Great video and that guitar is stunning!
Thank you so much! And yes, I love it!
Cakewalk is an excellent program. I think it is free online now but you have to maintain an internet connection. I have the program from way back when, it is for XP though so I would have to partition a drive and emulate XP to get it to work but it is for recording, all kinds of stuff. You can upload songs into it, add effects, splice in your own solo or rhythm track or slow it down to play along like Andrew said.
Available resources these days is crazy, i am a kid in a sweet shop but people should not neglect the old ways too.. i copy pianists videos for this reason, ear training is crucial! i am a guitarist mostly but i watch lessons for various instruments, it's interesting say how a sax player views it and plays, so theres two more aspects, stuff that's written on your instrument and stuff that isn't, which is usually tricky but opens things up for you..
Definitely second the point on being creative. For me that means when I learn a song it doesn't end there, but after practicing I see what kind of techniques that song used (doublestops? Fingerstyle? Etc.), then see if I can come up with something using the same techniques. Also, one of the most important things I think is to just pick upnthe guitar and play, with no tabs, no songs or backing tracks, maybe a metronome, and just see where your fingers take you. At first you'll probably play the same old boring pentatonic licks you always play, but just be patient, maybe you'll make a mistake and find that that note you didn't intend actually creates a cool chord you haven't used before, then you explore that chord, come up with a nice rhythm, and now your playing goes into a totally new direction. At the end of the day, you just gotta consistently pick up the guitar and play though. Sometimes you just don't have the energy to do anything fancy, but once the guitar is in your hand and you start to play without judgment, 90% of the time you'll eventually find yourself doing something interesting.
thanks for the videos I had a 1965 Mustang wish I had kept!
Oh man, I bet that Mustang was incredible!
Thanks! I recently pulled my guitar out again after ages of sitting on my hands and doing other stuff, and knowing exactly what and how I should be practicing is a great motivator. I appreciate it!!
Thanks for watching :)
Stop doing "the clumsy stranger" and start using your hands to play guitar bro.
BlueNote --> game changer. Another wonderfully done video! I always know that when things get tedious I can watch your videos and find another great idea to nudge me forward. Thank you sir.
I really appreciate that. Thank you!
There is a great google extension for slowing down songs, changing the pitch, transposing and even looping a specific segment of your wishes. Its called Transpose and its free and extremely easy to use, its helped me through tons of songs and i highly recommend it!!
Great advice Thanks for sharing your knowledge Andrew .
outside the box thinking and attacking a thing from all angles, yes, i try to do this too
you done well to realise all these finer points at a young age mate, you stopped and thought about it first, so many guitarists don't do this first crucial step lol.
sweet guitar. love the video
Practice Practice
Learn song's and riff's
Triads, scales,you never stop practicing!
Well said!
I like the idea of noodling. My instructor freaked when I mentioned noodling. But I think it's a great idea.
A lot of teachers don't recommend it. And I can understand why if ALL your time is spent noodling. But I think it can have massive benefits as long as you're doing it in combination with more focused work as well.
Improvising is how I practice.
Bro if I had this like two years ago I’d be a master by now
Haveing plus ideas , as I go along with guitar playing
Andrew, LOVE this advice for helping me realize why I’m in a rut. I mostly play acoustic finger picking songs and some are “tricky” to remember (they’re not simple repeating patterns.) When playing these I quite often have to stop after a few measures when I can’t recall the next pattern Any suggestions for getting myself to play through these longer pieces?
Play a 'wrong' note more than once and peolle think you meant to do it.
-Victor Wooten
This doesn’t contradict what he said in any way, but I think the far more foundational answer to “How do I get better at the guitar” has the answer:
1. Increase the volume of practice.
Practice is different from playing.
Practice means focused specific activity designed to learn new skills and/or to improve existing skills.
People can easily get into the potential trap of unconsciously searching for ‘secrets’ or shortcuts to get better.
Its volume.
People can also waste precious time trying to analyze and trouble-shoot how to do certain techniques (almost in a reverse order process) before they even attempt to put in the hours of practice
This may be like people who oobsessively disect their pick slanting angle etc etc and haven’t actually put in the practice time
A common mistake is doing inefficient practice as well- SO MANY people say to get good alternate picking technique you practice it slowly and increase the BPM gradually
Maybe that has worked with some people, but I think empirically and research is starting to show to people that playing slow and fast are not the same thing in terms of technique or mentally
Perhaps a more efficient way of learning alternate picking is to start by learning how to tremolo pick
Then alternate pick FAST in small ‘chunks’- literally two notes.
Practice that. Then increase the chunks.
Eventually you get larger and larger chunks, you use different finger combinations, and mentally you start to incorporate the concepts into easy to digest large groupings.
This frees up your mind from having to almost literally ‘think’ of what notes to play- chunking in patterns is the only realistic way to ‘think’ as it is impossible otherwise
You're the best!!
🙏🙏
Where do you find the scales when your guitar is drop tuned? Or maybe scales don't apply at that point? A video or advice on that would be so helpful, unless someone on here knows!
I'm 18 turning nineteen on monday the 11th
I picked up a Squire Jaguar bc A i didn't know what was good or what wasn't
The jag caught my eye due to price and sunburst
she does the job and it's been around 2-3 months and im relatively still new and your videos help a lot so thank you very much:b
Happy almost-Birthday! That sounds like an awesome guitar. Good choice. I'm glad you're enjoying the videos.
I see that Ariel Posen Album in the back ❤️👀
i like your videos
Great video.
I will definately check out your content.
Btw what backing track is playin in the starting at 00:20? cheers
Why does the camera zoom in and out?
To keep the viewers attention
As someone else mentioned, it helps to hold most peoples' attention a little better. I realize that might not be the case for everyone though.
It’s a pretty typical video trope.
Thanks for this video! BTW, I just bought that same JazzMaster! Are you getting some string buzz? Did you replace the bridge?
Nice! Congrats. It’s such a great guitar. I didn’t have string buzz after setting it up, but I did replace the bridge with the Fender Johnny Marr bridge recently. Just to help with the strings moving off the saddles.
I love your guitar, I dont know what it is about it, but it looks like you stole it from me, haha. Its like a feeling of seeing someone for the first time but also feeling like you've known them your whole life.
I love this guitar too! It gets way more play than any of my other ones.
Hey :) After transcribing solos and songs with basic chords how to level up for Tommy Emmanuel? What would be a good transcribing speed? I heard 1 minute of audio is 30 minutes for professional transcribers.
always learn stuff way above your skill level and only practice on the days you eat
I have learned around 2/3 years.. but mine is so slow... And feels like i failed... Please help me..
work on your ear. you will never be better than your ear.
I agree!
Two types of guitar players.
Those that suck less than they think.
Those that suck more than they think.
You’re welcome. 😹
That's exactly why I put "good" in quotations 😂
bro wtf literally i’ve learned to improvise off of slow dancing too.. That was a creepy callout lol
The impact that that one song has had on the guitar community is actually insane 😅
I’m only a month in and I think I’m good for a beginner but I want to be actually good. I know that comes with time
this is unrelated but nice axe!
Thank you! She's a good one for sure.
Key word is practice as with a lot of things in life…
Yup! But there's a lot you can do to make that practice more effective.
your channel would be so X-fold more authentic, if you could upload some videos here and there featuring you in live settings. Give us some proof of old work. Might be you already did. In that case I'm sorry for posting this, we content consumers just have to be really picky. I mean "REALLY".
I barely go out and gig anymore. But I'll try and get some decent quality footage to incorporate into videos the next time I do! Thanks for watching.
I know how you get gud. You practice 😉
Just get good
32 year old watching how to get better at guitar after just starting. Within one minute "I played in a band in front live audiences when I was 12". Thanks for the advice
I'm 32 and been playing for 8 days....i truly feel
Playing with others is good advice. All this is good advice
You’re acting like you didn’t know that most people started before you. Listen to the advice and stop being weird
Git gud!
It's called Yousician.
First 🎉🎉🎉
“How To Actually Get "Good" At Guitar”- Practice…you’re welcome.
The video tells people what and how to practice, smart-ass.
You look like Barry Allen
I think I kinda see it 😂
You need lots of drive to play
I play completely clean 99% of the time.
@@andrewclarkeguitar I mean mental drive 😂
@@Steve-si8hx LMAO sorry 😂 I was so confused for a second. You’re right. You definitely do!
@@andrewclarkeguitar its very hard for me to find the drive for anything on life. But when I get some I get better at guitar fast. But I unfortunately only have the drive maybe 2 months out of the year so it's a slow progression all in all.
@@Steve-si8hx think about what makes you happy and set some goals around it. Whether it’s guitar or anything else. Drive comes and goes. But discipline is such an important part of getting good at anything.
Because I did a video talking about how good I was at guitar ....... and Talking ...... and Talking ........ and Talking
This video is good if youre really old and boring
Considering your videos sound like absolute trash , you could benefit from shutting the fuck up and listening then LMAO
bro eat some protein for the love of the lord Jesus.