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Even just using the chord progressions to practice different voicings or use to improvise over can be informative!

@@mattfranceschini Absolutely! I was just doing that.

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So glad you enjoyed it! Like you, Julian is one of my absolute favourites!

Essentially each pickup can be coil split individually, and the red button allows for various pickup combinations that aren't possible with the traditional 5 way switch. If you want an in depth rundown I have a video of it here: ua-cam.com/video/EIZyPXJTy78/v-deo.html

Took a look at your channel and am assuming this is Tobias? Much love to you brother <3

Glad it gave you some inspiration, its a really fun way of practicing!

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Well I mean SOMEONE has to walk all over our keyboards while we're editing videos...

Glad you enjoyed it!

@@chrispage2782 what a tag line!

Hey Ted! Your description is a great starting point and theres hours of discover to be had there but I'd say the biggest take away is trying to find anywhere where you can put in the interval of a second. What you've described above is one of four common ways to do so (putting the interval of a second between the root and the 2). The other options you have are: - Between the third and the fourth (natural 4 for minor, #4 for major). - Between the fifth and sixth (Major 6th for both major or minor chords) - Between the Sixth (same as above) and the major or minor seventh. When voicing chords with this tension it's common to omit the fifth Hopefully this made some sense!

@@jazzed2b glad you agree!

Hey! Glad you found the video helpful. The good news is you’re not alone! I hear the same thing from all of my students and I have felt similarly throughout my playing journey as well. Whenever you’re feeling overwhelmed by all of the stuff you’d like to practice I always recommend setting three things that you want to practice and work on and working on those every day. I recommend doing these three things for half of your total practice time, so if you usually play for an hour every day you would practice each of your three things for 10 minutes each and then move on to learning songs or other material you want to learn. Keep doing this every day for a month and then see how comfortable you feel with the three things you were practicing. You may be able to change them all or you may only want to change one and keep working a little more on the other two and this is ok! This stuff is hard and takes a lot of time but, by committing to 3 things every single day you will make huge progress in those areas and then be able to move into them. This helps you avoid getting distracted between 10 different things and not making any meaningful progress on any of them! I really hope this helps and best wishes to you in your practice!

Yes!

Glad you enjoyed it!

It's funny that you should mention this as I just filmed a "5 levels of scale practice" video that will be coming out next month! Have you practiced them playing arpeggios in position? You can do it with either triads or seventh chords, but my recent video on cascading arpeggios outlines the process of this! If you're already comfortable with that, I would recommend working on some new modes/scales to explore some new sounds and to have to come to grips with new fingerings!

@@mattfranceschini thanks I'll be looking forward to your upcoming practice tips. thanks a lot for the videos

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Certainly not for the faint of heart!

Interesting approach!

Pretty similar to my reaction first hearing him say it! "Well that doesn't seem very practical" to "Ooooooooooooooooh"!

Haha!

Happy to be of help!

Short explanation: each pickup can be coil split and the red button allows for unique pickup combinations outside of the typical 5 way strat switch. Long explanation: ua-cam.com/video/EIZyPXJTy78/v-deo.htmlsi=_przR7f1Esd5HhSe

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@@quantumvox8424 thank you!

​@@mattfranceschiniDid you make it?

Great question! My mental process is definitely closest to number 4 on your list. I'm basically thinking ahead to whatever kind of shape of line Im looking for (do i want a note a little higher, a little lower, a lot higher, a lot lower or something in between these extremes) and then guessing where that note is. I've practiced the major scale enough that I know where all of the correct notes are and then I'm using the line I'm hearing in my head to get as close as possible to that sound.

@@wendellraulerson6547 haha, thanks for the sub!

@@zinc1024 it can come out very Bach like for sure!

Personally I use Daddario XL’s on all of my guitars. I’ve tried all kinds of coated strings and other brands and to me the daddarios last the longest and are super widely available which is also a plus. Currently I have the 12-52 set on all of my electrics!

So glad you found it helpful!

Glad you enjoyed the video and found it useful! This video is me running through and HX Stomp modelling a fender deluxe reverb with a touch of spring reverb. I just run it into a small 8” pa speaker and then picked up by a condenser on my desk, no traditional amplifier to be found!

ua-cam.com/video/EIZyPXJTy78/v-deo.html all the nitty gritty details!

Hahaha! Max the jazz cat indeed! Yes, I am picking notes at random. Patterns may emerge and that's totally ok. The priority in this exercise is paying less attention to the absolute specifics of what notes you are playing. SO rather than super deliberately hunting down arpeggios and scale patterns and just letting the waves of the scale ebb and flow as they will. It might take a little bit of work to turn the analytical part of your brain off while doing it but once you can it's seriously enjoyable!

Personally, I don't like thinking of the relevant major scale to the modes when I actually use them. Yes it's great to know where the modes come from but for me as an improviser I think it adds unnecessary mental hurdles. For example, if I want to play G lydian, I would much rather have my thought process be "play G lydian" rather than think "G lydian is the fourth mode of D major therefore I should play D major starting from the 4th". As for your second point, yes, it is important to know that major and lydian are major. Dorian, Phrygian and Aeolian are minor. Mixolydian is dominant and Locrian is half diminished (the b7 doesn't allow it to be a fully diminished scale). That wasn't necessarily the point of this video though, this was mostly just to show a great way to practice them so that you can hear the modes!

Haha! You were getting in your reps but missing some of the connections, imagine the break throughs you'll have putting them overlapping!

Sounds like a good plan to me! Hybrid picking the variants that have the string skip is a fantastic option!

So glad you enjoyed it, thanks for the sub!

@@jeronimoosuna5204 you’re welcome!

Glad you dug it!

Fantastic question! It can definitely be a struggle to balance stuff that you've already practiced and stuff that you already "have". Awhile ago I did a video that goes over a way of consolidating this practice that you can see here ua-cam.com/video/rqL3ooVq8YI/v-deo.html If you do this with familiar material for 10 minutes or so a day, it'll allow you to brush up on it while freeing up time to keep working on new material like the modes and sevenths arpeggios. The other good news is that the modes and 7th arpeggios are related to the major scale and their triad counterparts so it's not like the practice is completely separate or nonconnected! Hope this helps!

@@mattfranceschini thanks very much, makes a lot of sense :)

Glad you enjoyed it!

An interesting and balanced approach!

Fair enough!

This is certainly a fair point if a little bit limiting. Guthrie Govan is a fine example of a rock player who has a ton of jazz vocabulary and knows all of his scales and arpeggios and most rock guitarists would kill to play like him!

You are spot on. I like too many styles. I like to blend them and write my own songs. I came to terms with not being exceptional. If I'm not shredding yet a 54, it isn't going to happen. Most hit songs, however, do not require a genius to write, just a good progression, melody, and a decent hook.

@@mattfranceschini He's a great player...but again, I have no desire to play like him really as it's not my cup of tea.I like earlyish Santana, Clapton in Cream, Kossoff, Neils Lofgren etc on electric guitar, not shredders or fusion guitar. The way I keep things interesting is by learning fingerpicking tunes on an acoustic. Challenging enough and at the end of the day, once mastered , something you can entertain people with if they ask you to play something...( unlike say, shredding on the lydian flat 5 scale endlessly etc)

Glad it was useful for you!

Glad you found it helpful!

Haha! I see it all the time with my students so I figured it would ring true for many in the youtube crowd as well!

Not long winded at all and it's a fantastic question! I could not disagree with this youtuber more. If you want to learn to play like one of your favourite guitarists, the easiest way to learn the techniques that they're using is by learning and studying their music as it will have all of that information baked into it from the start! I think what they might be trying to get at is that dedicated technique practice (running scales and arpeggios with a metronome etc) can lead to quicker progress in the technical realm of playing but at the end of the day I couldn't care less about the technique that's being played if it's not musical and enjoyable to my ear! That's what this video was hopefully about. Improve your technique to your hearts content but don't forget about playing actual music! I've played tooooons of gigs all across Canada and not once did I get paid to play scales in 8th notes at 300bpm, I got paid to use my techniques to create enjoyable music! I completely agree with your ideas outlined above!

You have explained why you are presenting this material. Explained it clearly and concisely. Thank you. Why do commenters feel the need to try and put their own opinions in the comments? They should do their own UA-cam vids! Matt, I enjoyed you video, appreciate you sharing it, and will apply your advice to what I do!

Glad you enjoyed the video! People can comment whatever they like if they have questions. I’m always happy to answer anything that I didn’t explain well enough in the video! If they just want to hear the sound of their own voice they’re welcome to it as well, it helps the algorithm!