This Is The Most Important Guitar Skill You Can Have and NOBODY TALKS ABOUT IT!!
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If you want to become a more versatile guitar player, you should spend a little bit of time on the exercise I'm sharing with you today. Trust me, it's probably the most important skill you can acquire.
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I have played guitar 43 years, never had a lesson, You are absolutely correct, I donât usually have a plan, it is spontaneous usually, and the more I think of the music, and not the guitar, is when Iâm playing best, you have to have a clear mind to really get into playing guitar!
True, but the emotion your having at the time helps.
This is why he's probably my favorite teacher so far. Music, to me, is supposed to be soulful and expressive than anything. Being technical, I personally believe, falls by the wayside when thinking about the whole thing, but can also be useful. Music (not to be cheesy) is life, in a way.
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I almost passed over this. So glad i didn't. A breakthrough in a few minutes for me. Thanks so much David
I passed over it, to much talking for 5mins, lost my attention
@@11calman You probably shouldnât be trying to learn an instrument then. It requires a lot of patience.
This is so valuable. The basic truth is that music comes from a person-not an instrument or a book or a sequencer or-or-or. It comes THROUGH these but is originated by the person.
Every single backing track you put out is simply beautiful and filled with EMOTION
This is good. I have always felt disconnected because of my finger would just autopilot on the fret instead of the mind expressing on the guitar.
Simple and effective. Thank you David. You make guitar fun.
Beautifull lesson David! It really opened up a new guitar 'mental' process for me đ
Merci David, c'est la lesson yt la plus pertinente que j'ai visionné depuis longtemps, merci de nous ramener à l'essentiel.
Wow this simple concept is remarkable in its application. Thanks!
Definitely the most important skill. Once you get good at it, music theory and guitar knowledge kinda go out the window and you just put the music in your soul on the fretboard. No need to even know what key you're in.
Fabulous concept. I haven'really started guitar yet. I was following and doing the exercis on my Uke. Very cool.
Something left out of most guitar lessons, congrats. This is the introduction of really playing head and hands together. đ
Really good stuff. Iâve watched way too many Satch videos and he talks about this in almost every one. His high school music teacher taught him to sing the Ionian scale to himself. I started doing it everyday for 5 mins. Then skipping intervals. Backwards. Forwards. Adding minors. I thought I knew it. I donât know it. But Iâm starting to now.
Thank you very much for bringing things back to what really matter; which is expressing melody from our mind through the instrument.
You mention southern France, I used to stay couple of months in Pau (when I was working for Schlumberger) and spent week ends on Pyrene or in Biaritz.
Cheers from Indonesia.
I like the fact your teaching me to play by ear. This is what I want and need thanks.
David, I totally agree with you in pointing out what is the most important skill for a musician (not only for guitar but any instrument). There are some guitarists who pointed that out (like Joe Pass did), but only very few help you to get on this path (like Chris Standring). You do it from the bottom in an easy way. Thatâs really precious!đđ»
Yea, pretty much this.
It also highlights that singing jazzy scales is something I totally should practice.
Nice. Going to use this. Thanks.
Thatâs the best way Iâve heard âvisualisationâ explained... thanks đđœ
I love your teaching style David, keep it up!
Awesome channel. Congrats !
That was a pretty interesting exercise. Thank you.
Beautiful. I itâs so much more impactful when riffs are melodic like this. Great lesson!
Really enjoyed this,man! Thanks!
David, your are a very good teacher. You're always teaching something eternal about music...the things that go beyond style, and even technique, to the heart, or core of music. That is mans fundamental desire to know and to be known, and the reminisce of echoing Gods own creation, and in the end, to worship Him. Soli Deo gloria
well said!
It's being in the moment, not thinking and letting it flow. I can't read music and I don't play very well either but I can right songs somewhat. Visualize and blend cords and notes together, I find it very relaxing.
I couldnt agree more,it is indeed the most important skill that ll skyrocket your musicianship....just to add to it..that is also the best method to transcribe and learn songs by other artists.....hear it...sing it and internalise it...play it....
Thank you for that gift
Thanks! Great lesson.
Nice video.
Great approach to playing technique.
Heya Dave! Been a while :) Love the way you articulate your passion. Especially great once the musician realizes their own expression is beyond competition!
I've always said "sing it and play it."
Numbers, solfeggio, fingers.
Concept, relations spoken/sung, physical manifestation.
All 3. Added bonus: instant backing harmony.
Thank you for putting into words what I've been doing for decades. I thought it was laziness because I never practiced scales as often as I was told to. I spent time learning how to phrase notes to sound unique. The attack , vibrato and release of notes gives them character.
Same here. It's more fun, too. Really what motivates me to pick up the instrument. Being in a band really helps with the other stuff.
B.B King would agree !
Great lesson đ
Just found your videos awesome now I'm going to watch thank you you make it simple to follow brilliant tres bon
Thanks Dave, great stuff! The other thing that this helps with is developing your own style. I think that is something that can be overlooked as well.
Wow
Going to come back to this in the morning
Excellent way to unlock the musical sense the easy way David. High E and B with 5,7 and 8 and with myriad combinations can be the gateway to a wonderful musical journey for the beginner. Hope to hear from you soon. đđ
Thanks David for all you do..this ones a game changer,,hear and create it in our mind..then tranfer it to the fretboard.....
Thanks for this lesson! I need to be reminded of this often. I have heard Steve Vai & Joe Satriani mention this in the late 80s/early 90s but only in print articles. They never did a video lesson on this. Joe Satriani even had a lesson in Guitar for the Practicing Musician titled something like "atonal scat phrasing" but I was still trying to memorize the names of the modes and the lesson reminded me of Jazz scat singing & I had no clue how to put it in action. Thank you for making my overactive brain to stop over complicating things especially music theory. It usually isn't as complex as my brain tries to make it out to be so thanks for reminding me & thanks for an example to watch & follow.
A very insightful lesson my friend. Useful and simple. Just like me. Stay well. I'll practice it.
I do not recall anyone ever mentioning singing their solos (scat) to put in their head what their fingers are doing in the box pattern so that one can improv variation without hitting a poor note soloing. Pretty slick subject to bring up. Nice.
Listen Davud Gilmour ...
Jazz guitar players have done for decades! George Benson would scat during parts of his live and studio recordings.
Oh, yeah. Jimi Hendrix and Buddy Miles would scat sing their favorite R&B solos when they were just hanging out and screwing around. Lots of scat singing (like, maybe too much) on the various Band of Gypsies LPs/CDs. Also check out Sarah Vaughan and other jazz vocalists here on youtube for things like scat singing in jazz, jazz scat singers, and the like.
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Wow, David, this is a fantastic video. That whole bit about thinking of guitar playing as just another way of speaking - EXPLICITLY - that's inspired. Very, VERY nice lesson.
Thank you so much!!
Eric Clapton said to sing your leads. After that I noticed lead players lips moving occasionally on video's. I just started learning the minor pentatonic about 1 year ago. I've been playing at playing guitar for over 40 years. A bit slow but I love how you exsplain doing it.
Thanx !
I remember seeing a video with Barney Kessel saying this is how he composed his licks. he sang it then played it. It seemed like such an amazing, magical, and possibly unattainable skill at the time, but I can see improvements all the time. Practise, practise, practise.
I think I've found my favorite on-line guitar instructor. Great stuff!
That was Good... Thank You
Hi, after fifty years of playing guitar it is interesting to hear you describe the way I have managed to survive but was unable to explain to others! Thank you , gary. 100% đ
This will help me immensely because my improvisations to soundtracks are so mechanical and boring sounding scales. The great guitarists like Neal Schon have solos that are so vocal and mind blowing!
When you spend a lifetime playing the notes in your head, it makes it a lot harder to play very fast but does stop you becoming a riff machine. Add feel and contect playing over the changes and you play music. One of the most important things to learn is this conection. Sing every note you play, at least in your mind.
Brilliant lesson...simple but effective. It's the same in visual arts. It's not about comparing with others but expressing your ideas/feelings through the paint brush and using a simple paint palette
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Absolutely awesome đđđđ„
So great to see you with a low budget guitar.
Best instructor..
Excellent work, man. Thanks for the video. Miles Davis said "a great musician can play what he thinks. The difference between a great musician and a genius is 'what' he thinks. Yes, you've got to learn that fret board, but that is just like learning to type. Writing great solos is about imagining them first, thinking them first, then playing them.
Great vid
Excellent!
Good idea.
Excellent!!!
Thanks
thanks
3:30 "it put me on a path of non-competition, because . . . I just had to express myself, and that's it." đŻđđđ
Victor Wooten's whole schtick is based around the "conversation" concept and he's amazing. He's a bassist though. So lead and rhythm players may never hear his name. Great video David
Great ideas
Hello I appreciate your effort u try to spread among the guitar community and by the way I'm from Marseille
Merci!! Allez les bleus!
You've got a Donner. Cool. I love their guitars
These simple Melodie hums using 4 notes of pentatonic scale sounds killer adding duel guitar harmony 3rds.
I'm struggling with playing solos. One of the exercises I've been doing is playing thru each of the five pentatonic positions with their corresponding scale (mode). Maybe this will help another guitarist.
Keep playing, everyone!
I just watched your first video that came up. I don't see the backing track. I signed up on your site too. I have watched sooooo many instructional videos looking for what I just found. Thank you.
I see the potential thanks
Amazing
I play by ear. Love music but when I play I want to express myself not learn other people's emotions. This channel helps me more than any other guitar show I have ever seen since the invention of the internet. I'm 52. Yes, I am having to go back and learn a ton but I'm having a blast because I am improving quickly and becoming more able to play what I feel as I feel it.
Agree with David, make the guitar an extension of your body. Practice makes perfect!.. subscribed! :)
Vraiment important pour jouer avec sa tĂȘte (et son cĆur) au lieu de s'en remettre aux automatismes que les doigts ont tendance Ă nous imposer... Merci
Great!!!
WOW !!! Simple applicable advice on learning to play INTENTIONAL and CREATIVE lead (as opposed to "muscle memory gone wild" lead, which I'm usually stuck in)...
1. Start w/ a fixed zone on the fretboard (e.g. pentatonic in A)
2. Subset that to a small fixed set of notes (e.g. a 1-4 box on the high E+B strings)
3. Sing a short "melody" to yourself using only the small fixed set of notes you selected
4. Playback the short melody on your guitar
Repeat steps 3 and 4 for a while, singing different "melodies" each time. Next level, go back to step 2, change or expand your "fixed set of notes" and challenge yourself with longer "melodies." Keep doing this, moving to longer and longer note sequences, different fretboard zones (or scale types), etc.
So it's kinda like playing one of those "Simon" games from the 80's - lol - except WE are the Simon game.
Did I miss anything critical to your method ???
Again, great advice !!!
Thatâs exactly that man, you got it!
Please make a video about pitching and the touch for all kind of notes manipulation like plain notes vibrato and bending with and with out vibrato, the bar and the high and low notes
Thank you
The unhealthy music competition should be addressed in a video, with a positive and motivational perspective. cant wait for that video Mr.David
Thatâs digging to roots of the truth
I've always played spontaneously, off the top of my head, "singing" through my guitar, but I'm just an amateur home player, and know little about music theory, or many chords. I have Mickey Baker book, which some of my favorite guitar players learned from, but haven't spent much time with it. It's fun to just improvise melodic leads, but I want to learn how to be a rhythm guitar player too. Some guitar players are so amazing with chords, like Chris Cain - I've never seen anybody slide chords around like he does, or play chord medley stuff like Chris can - he's a guitar players guitar player. I enjoyed the video, but your guitar tone would sound better to me if it wasn't processed. Of course somebody else might like it, but I've always been into the sound of guitars plugged straight into an amp, being from the old school (really old in my case - ha ha).
Cheers!
Excellent tip, thank you David. Les français, d'habitude, sont nul en anglais mais le tien est impeccable! Sûrement un indice d'intelligence.
Ear to hand training, I picked it up by singing bits and pieces and then finding them in different places on the fretboard, an ongoing struggle for me.
I've played guitar since I was 12. Almost all by ear. And still get lost with some teaching systems. I started learning more since the internet came around. I depend more on muscle memory than anything.
I like It đ
So So true! This ability ,talent or hard earned, separates true musicians.
Listening to a lot of music, also very important indeed
It's like using the power of mimicry to play what you hear in your mind.
Sing the pitch names: Do La Sol Mi Re Do, Do Si La Sol Mi Re Do
Awesome lesson David! Maybe one day I realy become musician.
You already are!
Excellent ! đ«đ·đđŒđ
Show up on time and prepared! Oh.
what are intermediate electric guitar skills, including effects, tone, muting, playing on stage, getting good live tone???
This is like connecting your brain to the speakers.
Playing melodic is much harder than mechanically fast. Hardest thing to do and most important is being a melodic capable player first. Have to have a good ear also.
Thank you for this lesson, very awesome. Question: where is the link to download this backing track
Thanks! Here is the sign up link: bit.ly/3joZdHv
Hey, you play you, and always have a feedback with your bandmates. BTW David, speak with Donner to make leftyz options.
I love going back to these beginner lessons. Gets me out of my head a little. I'm gonna probably go back to working with major pentatonic with an aeolian accent a little later though. đ
David, you look, and sound and have mannerisms, that remind me SO MUCH of a guy that worked on my team when I was the VP of Engineering for a seismic company. It just keeps weirding me out. :-)
That's funny!
I love your videos.
But I can't find the backing track.