"The ONE THING I should've known sooner when learning guitar"
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What is the ONE THING you would do differently if you could could do it all over?
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The one tip that I wish I got was “learn your triads”. I’ve been playing for around 30 years and have been stuck in the open position. I focused on learning chords, scales, and music theory. I’ve always wanted to play alot better than I do but always just kept going back to singing and playing the open chords. About 2 weeks ago I started teaching myself triads all over the neck and once it clicked it blew my mind how it’s all connected. I still have alot of practicing and learning to do but if I would have learned this whenever I first started I know that I would be a much better player right now.
I follow Eric Haugen on YT and he says, learn the caged system because the triads are all in there and pretty soon you will know the fretboard....
For a 30 year guitar player that was like Moses coming to the promised land.
I love how Jens Larsen's answer (5:51) is the exact opposite of Kirk Fletcher's (7:27). This goes to show there is not a single path, everyone has their context, history and personality.
Robert Chapman at 6:31 encapsulates a lot of the other advice: it's not about how to get better but about why you are in it. And even the why is different for every single person.
"gear doesn't really matter" in the absolute winner in the context of a gear event👍
yeah he should say it in front of anderton or chappers. or tyler.
It's possible to be in the business of selling gear while still acknowledging that gear is not what makes a good musician. I'm confident all 3 you mentioned would (and probably already have) subscribe to that. We all have to make a living, this does not a hypocrite make.
*as long as you get properly tuned gear
You don't need a 5000€ guitar to get good, but properly tuned guitar is fundamental to avoid pain while playing or just be comfortable.
@@alexcerien2032 In contrast to 20 years ago you get properly tuned gear for under 300 euro today. Manufacturers upped their game.
@@balambgarden1349 Very true, although going to a shop can help great lengths. I ordered a cheap guitar on the internet struggled for a few months but a little tuning at the shop worked changed so many things for me. Neck was bent.
0:54 Is always the best advice that every musician needs to have tattooed on their forehead backwards so they see it in the mirror every day. Music doesn't have to be complicated or difficult to be good, and some of the best music is simple. Complex and difficult can obviously be good music too, but so many people (myself included) get caught up stressing about if something is good enough if it's not complex or flashy enough when writing. Even though I KNOW it doesn't need to be. Even though I KNOW that some of my favorite songs are easy and very simple. It can feel impossible to shake that pressure you're putting on yourself though, even when you know it's unnecessary. And it's not to say that you shouldn't practice or strive to be better and improve. It's more about the fact that sometimes I stress and waste so much time trying to "improve" a song or riff or solo just because I feel like it needs to be more technically impressive, when in reality it would have probably been better if I had just left it alone when it was simpler how I originally wrote it.
I agree 100%. I wanted to write this, then read your comment. Thanks for it!
Totally. Keep It Simple Stupid is definitely something musicians need to remind themselves. Some of the best songs I've heard are either super simple, or super complicated but made to sound simple because of the way it interacts with the sounds around it.
Think outside the box, I mean outside the guitar. If you wanna learn to understand chords learn to play piano, if you wanna learn melodic thinking and break out of the pentatonic scales and learn to listen to your self: learn to play the violin. It improves your guitar skills and shapes your musicality.
Funny enough I started with violin and drums and it definitely helped my guitar playing. Also nowadays I play piano more and it's easier to learn theory on.
Things are laid out so nice and visually and linearly on piano, it's great for visualizing theory concepts and for discovering things by just playing around -- e.g. starting with a chord and just moving a finger up or down a note at a time to discover inversions and voice-leading.
@@victorwilburn8588 Exactly! I love holding a bass note like Bb and playing through the modes with my right hand. Easier to try different colors.
@@HenritheHorse I started on electric guitar when I was 15, with already 6 years of experience on the violin. The switch to playing solo-guitar was very natural and easy. It was rhythm guitar that was hard working for me to learn.
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When learning pieces note for note, take the concept and apply it to your own music
Nobody cares how good you are
Lean arpeggios and chords, then learn to solo
Listen to music
Have patience - the gigs that you want will come
Being yourself is the ultimate goal - learn others styles then turn it into your own
Play with a metronome
Sleep helps you learn - leave time to learn things more slowly and consistently
Play songs by ear as much as possible
Play bass
It doesn't matter what people think - music should be for the love of it
Creativity > Gear
Learn the notes on the fretboard
Learn music theory and harmony
Learn slowly, play easy songs perfectly before you play harder songs
Learn scales
Was great to finally meet you face to face Paul. A lot of great advice that I’ll be taking onboard myself! Thanks for having me, until next time 🤟🏻
Great to see you, @GuitarZero2Hero, go all the way from Australia. I still cherish your Nashville number system PDF like the secret recipe for grandma's cookies. That has helped me a lot in my playing. I'm still a beginner, but that table was a revelation to me.
I still read his textbook. It’s been 3 years since I started to play guitars and now I understand a lot better what was in his booklet.
Thanks for having me in the video, Paul! So much great advice in here. Sleep is always my answer 😅 … also, sorry I missed your high five at the end of my answer hahaha I don’t think I knew that’s what you were doing
Collab video when?!? Love you guys!
I'm a beginner so I don't know much about guitar playing, but I found your advice to be SO SOLID!
As a pianist and a singer, this has proved so true so many times! My singing teacher would explicitly ask me to NOT practise some pieces if we had been working on them a lot, to let them "brew". Oh my, was she right.
It also helps with morale: if you keep playing and playing and failing, you end up hating a piece (at least for some time..!).
@@xtinaroma exactly! nothing feels worse than trying to learn something for hours and just not making any progress. just go to sleep and try it again tomorrow and chances are your brain will do some magic brewing while you sleep!
Nothing can be better than being in a Paul Davids video! Thanks for having me Paul!
Thanks for having me Paul! It was great meeting you at NAMM :)
Was great seeing you in a Paul David’s video you one of my favorites CZcamsr 🙌🏾
Great to see you in Paul's video. Your music is beautiful. Amazing how you play.
Learned a lot from your channel Marco, best wishes from UK
Marco ❤❤❤❤
Man Jake Lizzio is such a genuine dude. Best advice.
I've learned a lot from him. Great channel!
I agree. This was one of the better pieces of advice in the video. So many people quit guitar because they see the skills of virtuosic players and feel that they will never be that good and become discouraged. The fact is, even with fairly basic / intermediate level skills, you can play music, jam with friends, be in a band, write your own music, etc.
yeah, I thought that was the best advice on this, too
I find that the 'one thing' that led to a breakthrough tends to overshadow the context in which it happened. Yeah it's usually an important thing, but often the degree to which it is profound is a function of how many other things have been learned to a higher degree/mastery already. That 'one thing' is the last piece to fall into place, but it is not inherently more profound than the other necessary pieces, only contextually so.
Great comment.
Jake Lizzio is the best theory teacher on CZcams by a long way. Huge fan of the man! Great to see him included
I agree with Rhett Shull. Playing bass helped me so much because that pesky B string wasn't in there messing everything up.
Paul Davids and Marco Cirrilo, two of my favourites in the same video 🎸😍🤘🏽
I love that advice about easy guitar songs played very well versus difficult songs played poorly.
I love that. I love all of your videos, but I love that advice. All of this is excellent advice.
I agree with the guy who said to go to open tunings. The fretboard starts to make sense.
these would be great to write out on 3x5 cards. Shuffle the deck and read one randomly whenever you're feeling stale in your playing. I pretty much like all of these but my favorite is "use your ears/listen". It's always about listening to what you're doing (and those around you) no matter how much knowledge and/or technique you do or don't have. Great video!!
Always an honor to be in front of Paul's lens! Loads of great advice here!
Wise words from Danish Pete. I am still waiting for that time to come when it’s ready
I love to watch (and hear) how wonderfully natural Pete plays in all genres and whether lead or rhythm.
His advice makes sense. Patience and become the player you are meant to be.
Just remember; This is Paul's channel! 😂
i play drums. understanding subdivisions puts me head and shoulders on bass and rhythm guitar over the lead in terms of groove and transitions, despite having less fretting dexterity and years and years less experience. also, i mostly just use dadgad tuning with a capo on the second fret, because sounding locked up with the rhythm is more important to the listener than flashy chord shapes and runs that few people really care about
Thank you for all the great encouragement in this short video. All the advise is so inspiring.
As always thanks so much Paul, you inspire me a lot everytime i watch your videos. Love ya!
A fantastic episode. So many well known and respected personalities giving valuable tips, useful advice. Great topic. Great job Paul. i want more. Best regards.
This video feels real special and warms my heart. The amount of collective knowledge and love for the art of guitar and the community is super awesome. Thanks for this!
This is your best video yet thanks man you just beat yourself because you had all my other favorites well done
Many wonderful words of wisdom in there. Thanks Paul 🎸
A CZcamsr guitar all star team. Lots of great advice that is helpful to many, at different levels.
Nice photobomb by mateus asato.
Great video. Wish all music youtubers would ask this question of all of their talented guests. Really valuable information.
Seems like you had a blast, thanks for sharing everyone's tips Paul! It was really enjoyable.
Idk why, but the way you guys are all super chill and giving advice here, makes me feel good to be a guitarist in this world. Everybody just trying to make/play cool tunes and make the best out of our lives. Cheers to you Paul🤘
Agree 100% with Rhett... wishing I had started learning bass from the beginning.
I've recently started recording myself. Not just to hear what I sound like after practice, but to actually make a recording of my progress as well.
So many useful tips. Thanks for a great video man! 🤘
All the advice and thoughts are so great here, thank you, Paul! I particularly love Jake Lizzio’s absolutely spot-on point that the only people who care about our guitar playing are other guitarists. Everyone else-and it’s by far the vast majority-care only about whether they enjoy the music.
Perfect.
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Thanks Paul, a superb video and some great insights in there.
LOVE THIS VIDEO - thanks, Paul!
I started with tenor ukulele and a UBass.. string tension is the beginners worst. then intonation...
learn to arpeggios when playing chords.. and when using ultimate guitar to look at chord voicing alternates to figure out if maybe you should play that Am at the 5th fret instead so you can move to the Dm etc
Even as a performing musician, I still try to learn. I’m not the best player, I can hear the music…but I won’t be able to tell with certainty what key it is. I can tell if I’m playing in sync with my band mates though. I always listen to the drummer, changes and tempo comes from the back beat.😁
This is truly invaluable information. Thank you. 👏🏾
Paul, this was sublime, with plenty of great advice. I still hold *my* guidance to the Men's Room at the Westin on Saturday night as a very minor, yet crucial, bit of information. 😛 Cheers!
Thanks for letting me be a part of the video! What an amazing amount of solid advice in one video! 😎
Love the video, thanks Paul. I just woke up to this, and can't wait to grab the guitar right now🎉
This is a great video...GJ Paul!
Saw you today in Denmark St in London, got to hear you test out a small vintage acoustic. Travelling from Rome so unexpected holiday surprise.
THX for this reminder ... i bout electric elevation - and it helps me so much out of the box. Nice Content by the way - good to see all this amazing people in one shot. 🤩
Great stuff! 👍🏻👏🏻🙋🏼♂️
I was a late starter learning guitar at 48 years old (52 now) but there are 2 bits of advice here that have really helped me. 1. Use a metronome. 2. Learning the notes on the neck.
"Learn to be an humble Canvas for others to paint on". Serve the music.
I thought this was going to be a click bait video, but it was actually a gem of video. 🎉
I'm with Rhett Shull and Gracie. When I play bass I think in leading tones, chord tones and different note lenghts/rhythm all the time. On guitar I tend to noodle until something fits. And as Gracie said: sleep over something. I tend to practice 1h a day max...BUT practicing in my head like 10h per day... and sleep is great for shutting it off. Next day you are way better than the day before.
Great question for that event. The guitar has so much ability to let the individual's emotion come through that you will get so many varied answers to that question.
Thank you Paul. This was awesome. Marco Cirillo's comments stick out to me. He said he wished he had focused more on playing with feel and dynamics. Interesting, because when I listen to him, I think he plays with some of the most amazing feel and dynamics I've ever heard.
after watching until the end and taking notes of everything that was said, it all looked like a whole guitar course! So in summary, if you're starting out, get a great guitar course that will propel your learning forward and you will improve leaps and bounds
Great as always!
Quite possibly my favorite CZcams video! So much inspiration from so many familiar faces.❤
Awesome video! Glad you had a great time at NAMM!!!
Great video! So many insights shared by the greats of our community. I'll ad one. Enjoy the ride!
The guy who said spend less time noodling and learning solos instead of learning chords was right on. As he said, if you spend 90% of your time on solos you won’t be ready for the real truth: 90% of the time you’re playing RHYTHM. Chords. Providing a solid base for your singer or whatever/whoever is the main melodic focus. Learning drums also helps. You immediately learn 1) how to count; 2) what a beat is; 3) that time & tempo = “feel,” the most important thing of all.
That was me! Thanks for the great comment!
All of this is INVALUABLE.
Thank you
Starting on bass was a help and a hindrance. It taught me intervals that directly transfered but enslaved me to building chords with root notes on the bass strings, ie lots of exhausting and limiting barre chords 🤮.
Getting back into guitar now and breaking that habit.
Agree completely with open tuning.
Another great video
Great video, Paul!! I wish you had interviewed Mateus Assato too!
merci pour cette vidéo Paul
5:30 her eyes say are you kidding with that high five? Epic fail 😂 sorry for you Paul 😅
5:24 "Don't try to learn smth on one day. When you sleep you memorize it better".
I was surprised when I realized this myself... I used to pick up the guitar, practice many hours for days, and then abbandon it for months.
TO my surprise, I was able to think clearer and perform better when I went back to it.
Time and rest settles certain concepts in your mind.
I'm sharing this with my music teacher ... this will be good for all his students!! Many thanks!
Good! Hopefully they will debunk this part.. 1:54 Worst guitar advice ever (honestly I think he's drunk).
Anyway, I hope Paul adds a warning.
@@aylbdrmadison1051 you surely don't know who he is
So many life lessons in this video - whether it’s about guitar or not. Great advice all the way around.
Much love to you Paul
A little "Deep River Blues" treat for us! Very nice!
Hey, Jake Lizzio really hit the mark! His advice stands out for its emphasis on authenticity when engaging with an audience. We, as guitarists, often judge ourselves too harshly. Anyway, great advises from great people, thanks Paul!
Playing bass and in fact, any other instrument (drums, piano, etc) makes you a better musician. That makes you a better guitarist as you’ll learn how other band members react to you as a guitarist. In the movie Get Back I noticed that all the Beatles played piano. Interesting. Also most people learning guitar focus on the fret hand, understandably, however holding one simple chord and focusing on the subtleties of the strumming hand (muting, rhythm, precision) does wonders for the overall quality of the sound. Finally, I always say to friends starting off guitar to keep in mind the word ‘playing’. You’re learning an instrument but never forget to PLAY, as children do and have fun trying anything on your guitar to see what happens.
Wow, Paul - great advice from a Who's Who of the CZcamsr guitarists that I most follow. I would agree most with Guillaume's statement that one should begin exploring alternative tunings FAR sooner - as they open up an entire world that sounds very different, even when only using some common chord shapes. Also is the comment to not let a lack of theory knowledge hold you back from composing - every time I learn some new chords, I quickly try to see if I can compose some music using them - especially movable shapes.
The dude at 2:26 more time On chords nailed it
That was me! Thanks ever so much
Serious food for thought
Nice video Paul, thank you
Warren’s advice is spot on.
Thanks ever so much!
Yay for Gracie! And she's totally right about sleep! I learnt about optimising learning when I read Why We Sleep, it's a life revelation of a book!
As someone in their second year of learning guitar, these were all great pieces of advice.
I don't believe the bit about gear though. That Jackson Pro Series RR3 *is* going to make me better at playing Crazy Train! /s
I think the one piece of advice that I would love to have heard was how to know you're picking the right thing to focus on first, and how to keep yourself from getting distracted by the infinite expanse of theory and technique there is to learn? I'm on the struggle bus with trying to learn too much at once but I can't stop myself
Pete's tip hit kinda different... amazing video as always, Paul!
So many cool people in one video... amazing!
Great idea for a video! Hope you enjoyed your time at NAMM.
So many great people in a single video!
What a great compilation of guitarists you got here, Paul. Happy to know many of them from their CZcams channels. Glad you didn't have to beep out Brandon's signature "fookin" word, and he wasn't even mad haha. You just forgot to include the advice of another great guitarist: Paul Davids!
Really wish that I'd given up on my career as a jewellery-manufacturer much sooner, as it was always making my hands too sore to play my guitar!
Even though I enjoyed the designing side of my job, the fumes were causing such serious health-problems that I had to quit for good!
After such a long break I've not only picked up the guitar again, but I've also been learning to play my Yamaha M44 keyboard (which has some synthesizer features) even though it had been more than 50yrs since giving up trying to learn piano at school! Turned out that the piano my parents inherited just wouldn't stay in tune for the simple reason that its iron-frame was cracked!
Some really good ones there I will definitely take with me ☺ the one that hits closest to what I would have said is Roomie's, though - I have just recently, at almost 55 years of age & after playing since I was in my late teens, started *actually* practicing (as opposed to more or less stumbling along as best I could) & it's immensely satisfying to feel, just over a single practice session, that I'm actually getting better at that one song or riff I want to play...
Learn as many chords as possible, learn good timing, learn less is more, listen to your fellow musicians and play off of them, get proficient with your little finger because it's amazing how many guitarists neglect the pinkie and it can be the key to a lot of chord work where you're hammering on to other notes and stuff like that.
And maybe then learn lead work - honestly, as a gigging musician, guitar solos are among the least important parts. I'd rather be sitting on the groove with a good chord sequence so people dance, Nile Rodgers style, than pleasing myself with massively self-indulgent fretwankery.
Paul has to be the nicest CZcams guitarist, he’s so relaxed and warm towards people, oh and his playing is amazing, quite possibly the best in fact 👍🏻
Some great tips - thanks.🙃
Best one yet (next to the 2, 50 ways to leave your lover vids)
wow, so many of my guitar heroes! this is a superb episode!
So fun to see all these people back to back in a casual setting.
This was so much fun to watch.
A lot of incredible people.. Fantastic to see.
Beautiful work! Helpful tips from helpful people on CZcams also
Understanding distortion. How it's generated, how to manipulate it, amd its impact on tone, harmonics, clarity, etc. People who understand gain/overdrive have a better sound for [potentially] less money.
1:00 pure gold.
Aww nice to see David Tran (GZ2H) in this clip. I learned from him in his salon my first year playing guitars. It’s a small world.
happy namm paul and my fav tip is play with metronome
Yeps. And stop immediately if you feel any pain. 1:54
@@aylbdrmadison1051 yeah thats silly advice