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That voice inside my head I call the critic. Not only does it show up when I’m playing but everywhere in my daily life. It’s taken me some time to recognize it and learn how to silence it. Once I learned the meditation technique to quiet it down self judgement and all the baggage that comes with shows up less. Jeff, you’re AWESOME!
Thanks Chuck. Yeah the meditation helps a lot. Thanks for being here!
This is such a timely and important video. I'm going through this situation myself as we speak, trying to turn lemons into lemonade, as a result of severe chronic tendonitis in my right (picking) hand, which limits my playing ability to no more than 15 minutes. Any more and my hand feels like it's falling off. I've found that the only way to enjoy myself again is to do what you recommend in the video and reset my goals. Now, my goals have nothing to do with chops, or scales, or sweeping or any of the currently worshipped skills; they have everything to do with how much much I've gotten inside the music and expressing myself, given my now limited facility.
I remember watching a video of one of my two major heroes, Lee Ritenour, where he said that no matter what stage you think you're at, focus on making music. The other hero, Larry Carlton, once said that style is a combination of what you can do and what you cannot do. I've tried to keep those comments in mind, and your video exemplifies both of them.
You’re speaking right at me, man! I’ll soon be taking an extended break from playing to recover from hand surgery. I’ve been angry at myself for physically not being able to do certain things on the guitar anymore. I know I need to rethink my approach and I appreciate your wisdom.
Know thyself" (Greek: Γνῶθι σαυτόν, gnōthi sauton).. “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” Aristotle.. "Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is good, just and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but nevertheless dazzling, passionate, and eternal form (Attributed to Plato. Wordsworth Dictionary of Musical Quotations, 1991, p. 45).... Cheers Jeff! 🖖
Love this one Jeff! Put the play back in playing!
Makes great sense what your saying, I always watch Jeff Berlin videos, and he always expresses
the mistakes he makes. he says it's a good thing, and that guy is a genius, and i don't use that word very often.
“stinkin thinkin”…it can hold you back in a lot of ways in life!!!
story of my life
True. Overthinking can really screw you up in your playing.
@@soofitnsexy …. I get it brother…it is so hard to overcome!!
Thank you for this! I highly recommend Kenny Werner’s book Effortless Mastery on this topic- a lot of us (at one time or another) lose that spark in comparing ourselves with others, or obsessively “needing to sound good”. His section early in the book about a mentor forcing him to abstain entirely from playing for a month (if I remember correctly), in lieu of just going out to listen and enjoy music, and his subsequent breaking out of his self-imposed judgmental chains, is especially poignant. Great playing as always!
You are welcome and I also recommend that book! I should look at it again!
If Billy Gibbons and Larry Carlton had a baby it would play like Jeff. Thanks for the advice. It's nice to hear great players share their ideas instead of just teaching technique. It helps my growth as a player to get your thoughts and perspective on guitar playing.
Well that made my day!!
This video could not have come at a better time as I am in a bit of a guitar funk as I type this. I'm reminded of my voice teacher (I wanted to learn to sing a little) and when we were in the studio he would say that the studio space was like a lab, made for experimentation, not judging. Thank you Jeff, you're a great teacher and motivator. Ok, it's time to practice and play now...
Great advice. After getting back into guitar playing (after a 14 year hiatus) I had a rough time and tried to fill the void with gear. Happy to say that I have been employing this method for a while now and it really helps.
Thx Jeff...I'm in the process of trying to get myself 'out there' again after a long period at home after a fall on a concrete floor years ago...playing guitar has always meant soooo much to me. Slowly but surely...or unsure...I am beginning to feel the power of trying. Cheers, thank you for sharing and caring....💚☮️🎸
Great for you! Sounds like a nasty fall. Best wishes !
@jmack619 cheers...yes it's been rough...is rough...but it's music that connects me to everything
Sorry to hear this Brent. I hope you continue in the positive direction and get better. Pulling for you man. 🙌🏻🙌🏻
Comparison [can be] the thief of joy.
Yup
Play what you play and it's ok.
Oh poop I commented and messed up posting it never mind, the essence of it was I love Jeff’s topics, as a no hopper 64 year old that enjoys playing and is not likely to achieve that much I find watching and listening to these words of wisdom helps to re enforce to keep going. Thank you
Love that you do videos about the core values of why we do things and the things about what that affects us all at all different ages. I know I can’t play like I’d like too now I am 64 and missed that boat ! But I still enjoy playing whatever. So advice Jeff gives is great life lessons and he always includes us all. Great job ❤️
Can listen to you play all day man. Amazing instructor taboot!
Thank you!!
Love the backing track! I spent 10 minutes just noodling over it and sure enough - some funky new riffs came out and it got me out of a rut!!
Excellent!!
What a fantastic video have a wonderful weekend jeff also my oldest sister birthday was Thursday also my stomach feels better ❤😊😊
This was such a great reminder! Thank you!
Such a humble and good dude and approach. Fan
Thank you.
I’m the same now as I was in 1984 when I was playing the Crazy Train riff and Dokken Riffs over and over mindlessly. My Spark was Piney Bud apparently! But I like what you’re doing! My Foot pedal went dead in the middle of the Electric Eye solo at a huge event center. I unplugged and just plugged into the amp and picked right back up .
Fabulous, Jeff! I use similar concepts for making drawings and design.
Most (adult) people work, few people play. We've been conditioned on our way into and through adulthood. Remember wanting to be a grown-up?
And yeah, that inner critic can be a beast.
Thanks, Jeff 🙏🏻🤍
Happy Saturday
Thanks Scott!!
I don't need an inner voice in my head. My own drummer told me I stink. I wasn't sufficiently melodic...in a power blues trio. When a drummer tells you you're not melodic enough, it's time to find a new line of work.
Ha! Get a different drummer…😂
Jeff! I can't thank you enough for the timing of this video. I had rehearsal last night and it was rough, not just because of me, but I was just WAY too inside my head. I'm not a great player but I am decent, I'm working to become more melodic in my soloing (I may grab your pentatonic course for that) and develop more. We have a backyard "show" tonight, but following your advice in this video I am going to do my best to "Just Play" (I may write that on my Pedalboard!) LOL. Thanks for all you do bro! Love the channel.
Oh cool! I think we can all relate to this. Best of luck today!!
Jeff, Thank you. I'm a bass player who has been wanting play blues guitar for myself for a long time. I've taken lessons. I've practiced my scales. But I have never been able to get to the point that I could solo without it falling into what sounds like a baseline but 2 octaves higher. I bought a couple of your beginner blues courses at Truefire and whatever teaching method you have plus the technology to slow the examples down and stay in pitch as well as the ability to see the tab and what what you are doing on the fretboard has brought me forward in my guitar playing more in the last 3 months than in the 25 years previously. Again, Thank you.
Great advice!
The older I get ,the more I play. When you're not doing a band and feeling obliged to write a song whenever you pick it up you're free to just lose yourself in it
Great topic, any more lessons on phrasing and expanding upon ideas would be awesome!
A few things here. Man, these feelings we all have are so universal among us. Comparison IS the death of joy, not a new saying to me, yet it walks in the shadows of our minds, always happy to take the stage. And it’s best friend, practically its conjoined twin, is fear of failure, of not measuring up if you were to go public. Doesn’t seem like we can just end the two, instead we have to learn to cope with them, sort make our peace with them. “Fine, you make my insides turn butterflies and hornets when I have to play, but I’ll be playing anyway.” Make our mistakes, freeze up, fumble around… but survive the experience, and count the triumph better than the stings.
I started a nightly practice that I end my day with. I make a backing track with unlikely combinations of chords, and just play whatever comes without analyzing the musical structure. I’ve named this endeavor “In Search of The Wrong Note”. And when I find one, I try and find a new way to introduce it that sounds/feels musical. And when I do, a door opens and some new way opens up.
Kudos to all of us for trying, for persevering, and for still being in the search for learning and growing.
And of course, big kudos to Jeff for putting this out there. Thanks!
Excellent post!!
Peers or friends can be as bad as your own "inner voice" when it comes to jamming other with other players or bands. Our band would do gigs with other bands or festivals, and friends or my bass player would say "Oh, you can totally smoke him - you're way better than him." Maybe they were trying give me a boost, maybe not. My bass player wasn't, and he admitted it. Either way, I just looked at it as opportunity to play with people I respected, and I always thanked them if they invited me to play with them. I also tried not to "over play" to show that I wasn't there to show off. To, it was never a competition - just a lot of fun.
My bass player never got invited up to jam, by the way lol. A wise person once told me "You catch more flies with honey than vinegar." Thanks, mom :)
Yup. It’s music not sports!!
One of the best videos I’ve seen in a while, brother keep up the great work Jeff thanks for being so open and honest. Definitely refreshing in today’s age and recently been doing just this. Hope we can catch up soon. Cheers.
Thanks man!! Hope you are well!
Jeff...Thanks for the reminder ! I know I beat up on myself plenty and I also know it's not helpful !
We all do!
Such great points, Jeff. Thanks for putting them all in one place - appreciated. 🙏🏻
Nice words of encouragement. Mahalo Jeff!
Thank you very much Jeff. After a joint replacement on my left wrist and a long recovery it is still hard to play again. I felt I lost so much. However, listening to your advice to just play again and stop comparing my current self to my former self, will help me to change my attitude. Practicing mindset is just as important as practicing the rest!
Oh man, I’m really happy this resonated with you. That’s a tough one and I hope you continue to recover and rediscover your voice, or new voice, which may be better than the old one. 🙌🏻
This video came at a time that I really needed it! Thanks Jeff! 🙏
So glad my friend!!
It’s in the name…. “Playing guitar” “Maaaam, I’m going outside to play.” There was never any construct to that, there was only freedom waiting.
Exactly!!
You set a great example and nice guitar!
Thank you!!
Thank you Maestro !!!
You’re welcome!
I think it was Les Paul who said “you play the guitar, you don’t work it”.
Hey Jeff , are you playing with Matt at his upcoming Iridium gig ?
I can’t say for sure but Matt usually invites me to to play. But most likely!
The intrusion of ego. Observing yourself doing the thing rather than just doing the thing.
Yup sir.
I do defenetly ned to watch your Chanel more
😊
Ha! Yes. Yes you do. 😂
Strat sound with PRS?? good job man
That’s the Studio model. I’m really digging it!
Great video, good tips. I find setting up a loop on my looper and just working with a scale or arpeggios is a great way to learn to play with this info. Out of curiosity what do you use to play your backing tracks. I’m still trying to figure out an easy way to run backing tracks. Again thanks for all the videos.
I play them in iTunes through my studio monitors. This is my FM9 so it all comes out the same speakers.
@@JeffMcErlain Thanks. I wasn’t sure what an FM9 was at first.
Jeff' messing up is different than me messing up!
It’s all relative!
I am your truefire student cool that you replied.
Good video, but the bad paint job on your backdrop drives me nuts. I'll come over and repaint it for you.
Will you come and re-plaster that an original wall from 1892? The whole room actually because it’s not some BS drywall. Because the estimates run over $10k to do that job. You’ll have to be skilled at old home renovations as it’ll have to be super smooth to paint to your standards. Then I’ll need you figure out how to properly 3 point light that said wall room and me so there are no shadows, or reflections, cuz as you clearly know, the professional 3 point lighting I use to make free CZcams instructional videos in 4K is needed extremely unforgiving and show up every blemish, nose hair, or paint swipe.
The lighting is 5600k as I said in 4K at 30fps. I usually set the iso at 200. I then shoot to the hd card and record the audio in logic.
I then export those files and import them into Finalcut pro. Then I begin editing the video. A few hours later I have to make the thumbnail and come up with a catchy title.
I’m glad you enjoyed the video but please before you post such things in such a flippant way understand what goes behind it. If the paint on my wall bothers you, don’t watch. But don’t comment on it. I’m a musician putting out free instructional material on playing the guitar. If I were talking about house paint or plastering or This Old House l, fair play. But from me and every other CZcamsr please don’t post stuff like this.
Just did a video like that and was ….well horrible playing. But as I stated in my video title ‘who cares’? Our guitar heroes screw it up. We just don’t get to hear it. If you don’t have fun playing your guitar then what was the point in picking it up in the first place? Great video and example. Although most of us wish we could copy your mistakes and sound that good Jeff. Lol. Cheers.
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Have you ever lost your mojo because there's no one to play with? I thrive off playing with others who want to play not off playing with backing tracks. Yet... Here I am.
Man if jimmy cared. He would have killed himself lol. I love page for his boldness in the moment. He has so many fails in a tune, but you know what he tried and then you go OMG. That’s all I do is noddle and improvise… I get off on that. If I make a huge noticeable mistake? I just do it again the same ten get back to home base ✌️❤️
“Comparison is the thief of joy”
Nobody on the planet has vibrato just like you.
Now practice and play.