I don’t know how good Jimi would be at explaining and teaching guitar. From interviews I’ve read he may have had synesthesia and spoke more in colours rather than notes and scales.
A place to start is to go from the seventh of the last chord to the third of the next chord. Every jazz musician starts this way. Its a pain in the ass but your ears will eventually start hearing the direction and it will become more and more natural.
In fact, many of the best bass players also select notes that accentuate and complement the chord changes. Many is the time I'm listening to something, thinking "MAN, the chord sounds rich!", only realizing afterwards that it was a note played by the bass that made the chord sound so huge.
@@emanndaman8315 Not necessarily, although that is one of the possibilities. Sometimes a well-selected bass note transforms a chord into something different than a mere triad.
Exactly, i remeber Larry Carlton giving his review of some 80's shredder,and,saying how "tecnically" impressive he was,but, wondered if he could "play over changes" thats why the guitar playing on the Steely Dan albums is so great!
Beautiful playing in this one John. Really drives home the 'play like a vocalist' point you were trying to make in one of the other clips. Keep it singin' man!
Thank you for your wisdom and insight. I love that you’re giving back to the guitar world in this way. On the of chance you have time to answer, could you advise what you did to elevate learning the full fret board and getting out of the box?
I watched this on lock down and just watched again. Very helpful series of videos, John. May I suggest a song called “In the Custody of Stars” by my brothers band which is called beekeeper spaceman. Think you would dig it. I play in a blues band aroune Little Rock, AR. I was trying to copy our version of cross cut saw to this comment but it wouldn’t let me. I’d love to hear your feedback. Peace.
Been doing this for awhile. And it sounds good but a bit cotton candy. I think I need to try to accentuate alternate notes that would make the chord a 9 or 11 or a sus... but I have no clue how to do that well. I am experimenting but advice on that would be great. In other words, which are the sweet notes that give your listener the stank face?
@@hanskung3278 played it for hours once. In my case, the neck was a tad bit big for my taste. Fretboard was fine, sound was fine. Pretty much plays like a strat, but its features kinda distinguish the guitar from the rest (of strat).
I have been using guitars with 12 inch radius thin U necks and jumbo frets ever since i started playing guitar about 10 years ago and i was a firm believer back then that it is the only way to go. Then i have tried 7.25 radius with a thick V shape neck and vintage frets and its the most comfortable guitar i have ever played so i left the store with it :). Sometimes you just need to give it a try and see for yourself.
That is why musicians mean more to me than actors. Because someone as great as john can elaborate and give us fundamentals of all those favorite licks and compositions. But an actor can just act and most on an interview express their preparation but not provide any basis for the listener to work and emulate further upon.
Imagine having someone like Jimi hendrix doing a CZcams tutorial on guitar solos. The Internet is a jewel.
I can only imagine a guitarist as good as Hendrix doing a tutorial on CZcams.
John is better than Hendrix in a technical sense, Jimmy gave us the building blocks to that style of playing
"You just got to feel it man."
I'm fucking trying bro! I suck...
I don’t know how good Jimi would be at explaining and teaching guitar. From interviews I’ve read he may have had synesthesia and spoke more in colours rather than notes and scales.
Great Point!!
A place to start is to go from the seventh of the last chord to the third of the next chord. Every jazz musician starts this way. Its a pain in the ass but your ears will eventually start hearing the direction and it will become more and more natural.
I think you just imagine your guitar is bb king singing… you play the imaginary bb in your mind…
In fact, many of the best bass players also select notes that accentuate and complement the chord changes. Many is the time I'm listening to something, thinking "MAN, the chord sounds rich!", only realizing afterwards that it was a note played by the bass that made the chord sound so huge.
Accentuate do you mean going by the triad of the chord?
@@emanndaman8315 Not necessarily, although that is one of the possibilities. Sometimes a well-selected bass note transforms a chord into something different than a mere triad.
@@markhammer643 ah okay. New chords more ear training for me
The bass actually dictates what the chords are, intentionally or not. You play Em on guitar and the bassist plays C and now we hear a Cmaj7.
@@georgechristiansen6785 cool idea. Are there any song examples that you might know?
“I’m hoping that what I’m doing is in the key… (remembers he’s John Mayer) and it is….”
Got a good laugh outta that.
Exactly, i remeber Larry Carlton giving his review of some 80's shredder,and,saying how "tecnically" impressive he was,but, wondered if he could "play over changes" thats why the guitar playing on the Steely Dan albums is so great!
Beautiful playing in this one John. Really drives home the 'play like a vocalist' point you were trying to make in one of the other clips. Keep it singin' man!
no amount of money and fame can Kill the Real, John Mayor giving us guitar lessons is proof... thank you John Mayor
John going to be a wise old philosopher in his 70's lol
John thanks so much for sharing this stuff with everybody….so awesome to to hear your perspective!!!
Superb John , many thanks , been covering this with my guitar students ! I’ll direct them to your channel , so many gems 💎! Rock on 🤘 Gary
I wanna get the point where I can play that first riff and say, "yeah, that's o.k."
Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
It is so cool that you have the same style and approach of phrase as Tomo, your teacher. The bending phrases especially.
Ya, you can really tell he's a student of Tomo
John you have played my fav solo. I mean It was the best...................... Amazing ....With Leon Russle
Great advice 👍
Dude…freaking thank you…
Masterclass
Good advice
JM is the best online teacher IMO
Wait til you learn about Tomo Fujita lol
@@jambajoby32 good stuff here but Tom Bukovac is my favorite
Thank you for your wisdom and insight. I love that you’re giving back to the guitar world in this way. On the of chance you have time to answer, could you advise what you did to elevate learning the full fret board and getting out of the box?
this is just a fanpage, to get out of the box, learn all the shapes of the pentatonic scales and then learn the major embellishments to those shapes
@@aayandadan9340 Cheers for the heads up. Thanks
Here's a video where he talks about how to break out of the pentatonic box using the major pentatonic shape. czcams.com/video/ad2hRRpUnsw/video.html
I watched this on lock down and just watched again. Very helpful series of videos, John. May I suggest a song called “In the Custody of Stars” by my brothers band which is called beekeeper spaceman. Think you would dig it.
I play in a blues band aroune Little Rock, AR. I was trying to copy our version of cross cut saw to this comment but it wouldn’t let me. I’d love to hear your feedback. Peace.
Been doing this for awhile. And it sounds good but a bit cotton candy. I think I need to try to accentuate alternate notes that would make the chord a 9 or 11 or a sus... but I have no clue how to do that well. I am experimenting but advice on that would be great.
In other words, which are the sweet notes that give your listener the stank face?
🧡GD🧡
So does John use separate scales for each chord or just one scale that shares all of the notes?
John who do you think plays around the chords the best What artist ?
What form of C chord is he plying at the very beginning (0:22)?? thanks!
Urine C?
Nice looking guitar but I don't get the whole vintage 7.25 radius, small fret thing.
Most likely easier to have control of the fretboard. Bending is still there, plus is comfortable.
@@iamtorrego You have one?
@@hanskung3278 played it for hours once. In my case, the neck was a tad bit big for my taste. Fretboard was fine, sound was fine. Pretty much plays like a strat, but its features kinda distinguish the guitar from the rest (of strat).
I have been using guitars with 12 inch radius thin U necks and jumbo frets ever since i started playing guitar about 10 years ago and i was a firm believer back then that it is the only way to go. Then i have tried 7.25 radius with a thick V shape neck and vintage frets and its the most comfortable guitar i have ever played so i left the store with it :). Sometimes you just need to give it a try and see for yourself.
@@chiiX13 I understand, but there is a very limited amount of choices where I live.
Funny how the "final" frontier is how most of the old jazz guys started before 'modal' (It not really modal) stuff became the fetish.
That is why musicians mean more to me than actors. Because someone as great as john can elaborate and give us fundamentals of all those favorite licks and compositions. But an actor can just act and most on an interview express their preparation but not provide any basis for the listener to work and emulate further upon.
Then you have to know where the notes are.
you combing minor and major pentatonics