Guitar 30 Day Challenge : Complete Beginner
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
- In one month you can get very good at just about anything. In this video, I show how I went from knowing nothing about the guitar to being able to play very well in just 1 month. These techniques can be applied to master anything and not just musical instruments.
I Learned All of the Following :
✳️ Find Notes Blind (Memorized Fretboard)
✳️ Find Cowboy, Power, Sus & Other Chords Blind
✳️ Learned Numerous Scales
✳️ Play with Pick or Fingers
✳️ Learned Numerous Strumming Patterns
✳️ 12 Bar Blues
✳️ Percussion Techniques
✳️ Can Play Most Intermediate Songs with Practice
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❓ Ask me any questions you have about how I learned all of the above
🧠 If you’d like me to take on another challenge, leave your request in the comments section.
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✳️ Traveler Guitar : amzn.to/3NXoJkr (Got Used for $132)
✳️ Orange Crush 20W : amzn.to/3OZ5l88 (Got Used for $75)
❓ Ask me any questions you have about how I learned all of the above
🧠 If you’d like me to take on another challenge, leave your request in the comments section.
Can't believe it. You are an invaluable resource in my profession (software engineering), and now one of my favourite hobbies (guitar). Absolute legend. Thanks! 👍
Thank you for the nice message :) I appreciate it and I’m very happy that I could help
One way to play faster on the guitar is to play a song as slow as you can without missing a note, then speed up your playing a little bit to where you don't miss a note, keep pushing the speed to where you can play without mistakes and you are golden. You can even try it with the justin guitar track you showed us on guitar pro, turn up the speed (tempo) on guitar pro each time you nail it down. Hope it helps! since you have helped me a lot of times!
Thank you and your advice is great! I have found that is the best way to improve on the guitar for most everything
@@derekbanas Learning master of puppets also helps ;) you'll have so much fun
Been watching you for a few years buddy, found you when i was studying comp sci at university and you were an invaluable resource, much better than my lectures. Your programming knowledge astounds me to this day but I admire it nonetheless and hope to achieve the same. But the main reason i've been watching is because of your cheery attitude and amazing soul always having an uplifting tone, these videos of you are little gems. Hope to see more of you and keep up the great work bud!
Thank you for taking the time to write such a nice message :) I greatly appreciate it!!!
Derek, you are so inspiring. I was trying to learn the piano and got frustrated. I am motivated again. I also heard that learning a musical instrument activates a different part of your brain.
You can do it! I had zero experience. The only goal is to fit in 2 hours of practice every day. It will be frustrating in the beginning, but if you just focus on achieving 30 days of practice you'll be so happy by the end. Yes it puts you in Follow State, which is magical. You just play without thinking after a while. It is amazing!
Great idea! The time in my life when I decided to self-teach myself guitar was one of the happiest ever. Playing music is amazing, a meditation that keeps one's mind in the right place. I wish that there was more emphasis put on real music nowadays...
I agree 100%! We moved to a specific school district that focused a lot on music for this reason.
Thank you mr.Derek your tutorial help me a lot during my college days and now I landed a job. One tip study the fret board theory it will be easy to you to play chords from minor to major and bar chords
That's awesome!!! Congratulations! Yes I have found that the best way to memorize the fretboard is to actually just be forced to play the right notes and then rinse and repeat until my fingers just go to the right place naturally. Yes I have started applying that knowledge to chords and scales also which helps a ton
thanks and thanks with hands and hands 감사 또 감사 손잡고 감사합니다.~~~~~
You got this Derek!
I'm still doing it. I hope to upload a video in the next few months called Guitar : Zero to Metallica :)
hi Derek, for my CSS review, watched a 1h yt vid from this code dude, at the end what I retained the most was "smash that button" and "prayer" whuu,. so I checked my favorite yt learning resource and yeap found a CSS vid and indeed was as expected, numero uno. After was glad to watch this one vid. too. I myself am into music a bit, play various inst. also built an electric guitar and bass from scratch with no specific tools, did pretty decent job. was building also a violin but never finished really, maybe I will continue. Derek keep making these n1 vids of yours (verilog ?) , Cheers .
Hi Alessio, I'm very happy that you found my CSS video useful. That's very cool that you can build instruments! I always wanted to learn how to play an instrument and I have really enjoyed myself
For your next challenge maybe try Hip Hop dancing or something a bit more physical that you can learn at home. Whatever is next we love you🙏.
Thank you :) I’m pretty terrible at dancing though
Amazing man!! keep playing and having fun!!
Thanks :) I definitely will. I'll make another video when I can play a few Metallica songs
Nice!
It has been a fun month :)
Justin is Awesome...
Derek, how is your guitar playing going?, its been a few months since you uploaded this, just curious if you kept on playing!
I was just thinking the other day that it'd be great if Derek did something like that with a guitar and here it is.
Thanks for your work and for sharing your insights! You really do make me wanna try this myself. What do you think is it better to do with electric guitar or acoustic?
I'm happy it helped. The only reason I did this was to show that anyone can acquire just about any skill in a month if they practice every day. I think an electric or acoustic would work great. I just went to the music shop and looked at their used guitars. The only reason I picked electric is because I want to be able to play heavy metal :)
Holly Molly , I have just sent a message to a friend talking about I missed playing guitar and then I get a notification from your channel about this 🤯 maybe I should get back to it
I've had so much fun! I've always wanted to learn a musical instrument. I would have never thought I could get this far in one month. You should definitely do it!!!
hey Derek, nice to see you taking your time to learn i hope youve learned a lot by now, so i was wandering if you know by any chance on what type of framework or library does this guitar pro app use for audio processing, im guessing c++ is there main tool but i would love to hear from you. thanks in advance
you are a great person
Drums next!
Definitely possible and my daughter has a drum set she'd let me borrow :)
Hello Derek, as you can see from my profile photo I am a musician (and now a Software Development student... haha... I'm atending a course of Object Oriented Design this year). I don't consider myself an expert musician (it all begun like a hobby) but from my experience, the best way to play faster (whatever it is what you are wanting to play) is repetition... exhaustive and boring repetition... haha... and your muscle memory will build up the speed for you. If you try (or force yourself) to play faster you run the risk of getting innecesary tension on your fingers and that could prevent you from getting the speed you wish.
I don't know if somebody else had comented to you on the same topic, but I feel lazy to read all the coments :-).
I hope is of utility to you as your software courses are to me!... your courses are really great!!!
Cheers!
Thank you very much for the help :) I'm happy you have found my videos useful. Yes I'm doing just that for all my chords actually right now. (I took a break because my hands were cramping) I'm also trying to find a trick for instantly finding every note on the fretboard. I know a lot of them, but of course I want them to be 100% subconscious. I started using mnemonics and then just subconsciously learning through songs. I'm now considering memorizing 5 numbers for every note like A is 5, 210, 32, 47, and 50 if that makes sense? Any way if you have any tips they are greatly welcomed.
@@derekbanas There's no trick to finding the notes on the fretboard. You just have to practice everyday. Then one day you'll wake up and it will be easy.
How I learned the notes:
Step 1: Write down all notes around the circle of 5ths. You will learn this eventually, but for now just put the piece of paper in front of you [C G D A E B Gb Db Ab Eb Bb F]
Step 2: Find all the clusters of [F G A B] and [C D E] on the fretboard. Memorize where the F and C notes are on the low E string and you will be able to find the clusters as well. The clusters are now your linear framework.
Step 3: Spend maximum 5 minutes per day locating the notes of the circle of 5ths while referencing your clusters. The 5 minute maximum gives you a gauge of how good you're getting. If you can't get through the cycle of 5ths in the 5 minute time limit, it's ok, just try again the next day. Your brain needs days and weeks to store this data. Rushing the process won't work.
Step 4: When you can find the notes on the low E string relatively easily (under 5 minutes), you'll notice that you don't really need the clusters as much (you're now going directly to the note). At this point add a second string to your daily practice (A string). You should not add a 3rd string until you can find all notes on strings E and A under the 5 minute time limit. When you can can finish the exercise under 5 minutes you know you're ready to add another string.
Step 5: Don't rush, don't get frustrated. I promise if you take your time and do this everyday you'll know the notes in less than a month. And you'll only get better the more you do it. 20 years of playing guitar and I do some variation of this exercise before each practice session.
Great timing, the world needs another eddy!! p.s. my fingertips hurt just watching this!!😅
He is dearly missed :( Yes I wasn’t kidding. All my fingers are numb and I pulled muscles in 2 of my fingers but I’m getting stronger which is needed for bar chords
Congrats on becoming a Rock God... For many years now I have known I am an absolute guitar legend, I just need to learn how to play.
You can do it if I can. Now I just need to master my Metallica songs :)
@@derekbanas I know I can do it. I can do it extremely well, I just need to learn how to play. I had the exact same feeling half way through my first karate lesson. I just unshakably knew one day I would be a black belt, I don't know why I felt that considering how few people that start actually do, but I felt it strongly deep inside. I have that exact same feeling with playing a guitar. Weird I know but I just know I would be very good if I ever put the time aside to learn. Maybe I will leave it for retirement.
That is a great attitude to have! I'm similar. I figure that if some other human can do something and I'm a human I can as well if I work as hard as they did to achieve anything.
@@derekbanas that's a great way to look at things. I like the simplicity of it.
Right on Derek! I should pick up my guitar and give it another shot. I love the app recommendations I will check them out. If you are looking for other apps to try the Rocksmith game was really fun and helped gameify the learning. It's a shame they stopped developing it after the 2014 release.
You definitely should. Yes I looked into Rocksmith and was sad they stopped supporting it
Hey Derek, awesome video an soo inspiring as always. One note, there was some crackling noise on the background when you spoke.
Keep on rocking!
Thank you :) Sorry about the crackling. I think my amp was causing that
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Sorry Derek , I thought you no longer care about view which is rare for influencer but I will wait hope you can make calculus vid in one video next two years .
I have no expectations that I'll make money from my videos, which I don't. It is just that calculus is extremely complex. If I wanted to create and solve one of most of the problems that you'd ever come across in calculus it would take me at least one and a half or 2 months worth of work to make that tutorial. To then see nobody watch it would make me feel like I was wasting my life. It is very hard to devote months to working on something to just have nobody care about the results.
Good job. Are we supposed to hear the guitar or not?
Hey Stan. I was just talking over it to make the video shorter. You can see that I'm getting the notes right when they turn green and red when I miss them. I could actually make a free version of Yousician and I actually did for Ukulele a few years ago czcams.com/video/xI7BI30rpRw/video.html
I see league of legends in your taskbar haha. maybe you can hit challenger too
Yes I used to play a while ago. It is a very fun game
@@derekbanas it can be addicting sometimes. you are probably on NA servers
Yes North America I guess because that is where I live. It was very fun, but I knew I could really get into it and stopped doing it.
Any other tips or strategies that you used to learn guitar that can apply to coding?
This was basically a demonstration of what you can achieve at any skill if you do it every day with all your free time. If you constantly work at any skill constantly you'll improve dramatically. I basically got to an intermediate level at all the core skills in a month. If you tell me your programming goal I can give you a list of things to learn and in which order.
@@derekbanas Thanks for the response. Just trying to get the basics down by focusing on html and css. Will eventually move on to JavaScript. Currently experiencing the common struggle of taking info from tutorials and applying it to creating projects from scratch.
Work on all of the below 2 hours every day and you'll master HTML, CSS and JS in a month easy
Start with basic HTML and get a cheat sheet from my site (It's free) czcams.com/video/kDyJN7qQETA/video.html
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well done,
Thank you :)
Can you do this with drums?
Sure and my daughter has a drum set! As per if you can do it? Definitely!
Guitar at last..yee
I love it :)
Are you freaking kidding me? I decided to learn electric guitar yesterday!!
You can do it if I did. Justin Guitar is free, but I also recommend Yousician because it forces you to play the correct notes. It also breaks up the monotony of just watching someone teach and turns it into a game. Have fun :)
@@derekbanas Thank you!
Hey Derek! Love the videos, have you ever read the book, "Psycho-Cybernetics?" I have had a lot of emotional trauma in my life and that book is so fascinating. It's old school psychology that has practical actionable steps. I highly recommend it
I have not but thanks for referring to it. I'll take a look. I have suffered from many issues over the years as well. I think I get a lot done only because I was able to channel my ADHD. I'm extremely hyper all of the time. I went to a psychiatrist when I was young and he told me to run or exercise any time I get hyper and that helped a lot.
I recently got to find out what anxiety feels like, which has been interesting to deal with. I caught Long Covid which requires me to take a pill that gives me anxiety. Yeah! What people don't understand about anxiety is that it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with feeling bad and that the solution is just cheering up. No anxiety just happens, at least for me. I was lucky to discover a tea though that makes it go away very quickly. It is called Stress Supress, but of course just because it worked for me doesn't mean it will work for everyone. I wish you the best of health. Take care :)
@@derekbanas Thank you for the in-depth reply. I think you'll love that book and hope you get the chance to read it. Anxiety sucks and I hope things get easier. That tea sounds cool I'll definitely check it out!
Guess no hope for math video anytime soon ?
I wish I could make the calculus video and would, but sadly nobody watches those videos after I invest over 20 hours into making them. To cover all of calculus in one video would take about 1.5 months of my free time and to then see just a few hundred people watch it would be very sad for me. I hope you understand.
Where was the demo of progress after 30 days?
I played different clips as I went through the video. The funny thing is that I played for about 3 hours every day for 1.5 months and developed tendonitis!!! So be careful. Either way I'm almost completely healed now and I'm ready to continue hopefully with much stronger fingers :)
@@derekbanas Piano is likely a better choice.
Bar chords are super hard to learn
I know. I was playing about 3 hours a day for over a month and I got tendonitis from playing them. Now my pointer finger is stronger though and they are easier. I don't recommend doing that though :)
I heard 15 notes ... so, when video of you playing a guitar?
When I can play a few Metallica songs I’ll make another video
if it's "punk rock" you don't need how to learn.
Just for constructive criticism, i would've liked if you'd have captured your guitar in the webcam not your face 😂
Thanks for the tip. I'll do that when I make another video
don't change subjects, keep doing guitar for a few more months
I'm definitely not going to stop studying guitar. I'm having to much fun :)
thanks and thanks with hands and hands 감사 또 감사 손잡고 감사합니다.~~~~~