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I couldn't agree more that's why I personally don't use words like mastering or even expert in relation to guitar (I used it in the video title because It's what the author used that popularized the idea) Thanks for watching & commenting

It was a lot of work but most classes didn't meet everyday (most of it was homework) so about 3 classes a day, plus a private lesson each week & you could attend as many open counseling sessions as you wanted but they were optional. The classes & open counseling sessions were during the day but you could go into the school to study/practice till late at night (which I often did). What made it harder for me was I had intended to just focus on school but unexpected financial issues happened & I ended up having to work about 20 hours a week also for most of the year which made it tougher, but it was still a great year 👍

@@ericnaylorguitar Thank you!

Yeah playing in front of people is good whatever level you're at it only makes you better (even if what you learn from it is you need more practice😊) thanks for commenting & watching👍

that's what matters in the end 👍Thanks for watching & commenting 😊

I completely agree clearing your mind is best if you're trying to improvise, perform be creative or even just sound good. I did a video on this topic actually called playing vs practicing ua-cam.com/video/VubVDUtYgG8/v-deo.html But to progress quickly I believe you also need focused practice time in which you work on things you struggle with paying attention to your technique, timing, Etc. & also where you learn new things. It's like athletes they don't just go out & play their sport everyday (at least not at professional or Olympic levels) they have focused practice sessions then on gameday they clear their minds, relax & let the good practice that they've ingrained into their subconscious take over anyways thanks for watching & commenting 👍

@@ericnaylorguitar Thank you , so kind .

thanks glad you liked it 👍

thanks like always happy to of helped 🙂& yeah I agree with your other statements like the saying goes "actions speak louder than words" 🤘

Thanks I appreciate it 🤘👍

@@ericnaylorguitar appreciate all your hard work.! Loyal subscriber here.!

Thanks for subscribing & don't forget you can download all of my Tab from my other videos on my patreon page (free you don't have to be a member) 👍

1st let me say congrats on how well your band is doing🤘& I agree, as you know I don't push reading notes on the staff, in my teaching it's optional. I think it's more important students learn notes on the neck & what I consider the more valuable half of reading standard notation which is learning to read or at least understand rhythms & rhythmic notation (8th notes, 16th notes Etc.) as I think that can benefit just about every player as it can be used with notes on the staff, Tab, chord charts, or when practicing especially with drums or a metronome. (of course I talk about all this in the video) anyways thanks for commenting 👍

Thanks, always happy to know when a video is helping people 🙂🤘

thanks, yeah it feels like it's close but also far, because unless I get a video that takes off (which would be nice) I've been adding subscribers on average about 1 per day so at that rate it's another 5 to 6 months. anyways thanks for the support 👍😊

You're honestly doing God's work, so to speak. Thank you so much dude.

something like that would of been nice, I wonder if that's something they added because I know never got or saw any handout like that, what kind of stuff did it cover?

Always cool to hear from other alumni👍If you watch any of the other videos in this series (I just added a link to the playlist in pinned comment ) I would be curious if the curriculum still looked the same when you went.🤘

@@ericnaylorguitarawesome thank you for posting and sharing the link to the playlist. I will definitely watch them all.

sounds good & thanks for subbing 👍

🤣 okay thanks on the playing comment, & you're the 1st person to comment on having kissy lips so I guess I didn't notice (though I know a lot of my thumbnails are from when I'm talking so I often have funny expressions in those) thanks for watching 👍

Why do U want to kiss him

Yeah teaching is what I do for a living (I'm not monetized on you tube so right now I don't make any money off of videos). ideally if you live near me (Minneapolis MN area) we could do private lessons in person otherwise we could do over zoom (but it really isn't as good on zoom) cost is $30 a half hour (& most people come once a week but that's not required) if you can't afford lessons or just want to check out more of my stuff first. I have about 145 instructional videos on my channel covering all different topics & you can download free Tab for any of them on my Patreon page you don't have to be a member www.patreon.com/EricNaylorGuitar if you do want lessons just let me know & thanks for watching

not that I know of but about 40% of the book is just text with no standard music either, so I think it's a worthwhile book even if you can't read the music part which is usually just showing examples of the concepts. & honestly it would not be as effective in Tab because the concepts are the main part & they are shown fairly bare bones intentionally so that you can interpret them your own way. Tab would just give you one fingering example but many times there are dozens of ways you could finger the same idea. I probably at some point will do another video that covers more of the concepts from the book (& I have covered some of the same ideas in other videos of mine already) thanks for watching 👍

thanks, this was the 1st video of a 3 video series where I used the same arpeggios from this video & recombined them in different ways to also make either 13th or 9th arpeggios (you already watched the 13th video if interested here is the link to the one on 9th arpeggios 🙂 ua-cam.com/video/X87s8o38lEo/v-deo.html

that's cool, he's an amazing player thanks for watching & commenting 👍

glad you liked it, if looking for more arpeggio videos (licks, fingerings, exercises, arpeggios combined with scales, Etc.) here is a link to my arpeggio playlist I currently have 36 videos on it ua-cam.com/play/PLB5zOX-8bVd1ankjbXm9UXyDJjWthZQPo.html or check out some of my other playlists on advanced or fundamental techniques. Thanks for watching 👍

yeah I've done that also, mostly I will mark all the position shifts though if it's very complex I will usually just Tab it out (traditionally roman numerals are used to mark position but I usually I just write a number) thanks for watching/commenting 👍

yeah you're not late on the comment you tube just finally got around to showing my video to more people. Same thing for me when I got to G.I.T. I didn't know who any of the instructors were (& just took a random private instructor). funny you brought up Varney the reason I decided to go there was I kept seeing players from G.I.T. appearing in Mike Varney's Spotlight column (way more then any other music school) so I figured if that many good players are coming out of G.I.T. they most be doing something right. So if it wasn't for Varney I would of probably never gone P.S. never saw Jennifer do the 2 hand version that's cool 🤘👍

@@ericnaylorguitar I remember him talking about it to. I still have the Guitar Player issue that had both Paul Hanson and Jennifer Batten featured in the Spotlight column. Ha, I even still have the issue that featured Yngwie and Paul Gilbert in it. Obviously I didn't know him from a bag of Jazz III's at the time. One of my reasons for going was to hopefully see a Steve Morse clinic there. Didn't see him, but I got to stand next to T. Lavitz at the Rod Morgenstein clinic. Wasn't expecting that!

I don't think I saw that clinic, 2 of my favorite clinics were I saw Joe Pass which was very cool & Terry Bozzio (who played a collab drum solo with one of the drum instructors from P.I.T. that blew me away)

@@ericnaylorguitar Yeah Joe Pass was great! One memorable moment was when he walked with Pat Hicks into Jennifer's open counciling and asked her to play her two handed version of Giant Steps. If I remember correctly, he shook his head with a smile and walked out say "Crazy!" Lol!

that's a cool story I didn't see that 👍

Thanks I appreciate it 👍

Thanks for watching 👍if interested here's a link to a playlist of my other videos from when I was at G.I.T. ua-cam.com/play/PLB5zOX-8bVd1tajDA3SaaIN5aCBEzLKDK.html

@@ericnaylorguitar I'm an Alum..Nice Work here brother

Thanks especially coming from another alum I appreciate it

My guitar teacher growing up was a grad and that curriculum and information is invaluable for learning to practice and learn

Yeah I think I improved 100% in the first few months that I attended. though now I would say most of the knowledge can be found online the hardest part for students isn't the lack of information (like when I was young) but too much info with not all of it being good

yeah that creates a cool lick 🤘between the 2 shapes you end up with a full diminished scale but by leaving 2 notes out of each shape it's got more of a diminished arpeggio feel (with 2 notes added so it's halfway between scale & arpeggio which is something I do a lot) & while you can play this on any string set by doing it with the B string it makes it easier with less shifting 🙂(also when doing it over the Gb7 the 1st shape uses the notes of a Gb13b9 (without 11) so creates some tension while 2nd one creates way more with b9, #9, b5 & #5 so yeah cool sound 👍) Thanks for posting

see if my answer on your other question helps

So trying to get a clear idea what you're trying to do when you say whole half scale this usually just is specifying a diminished scale starting on the whole step instead of half step (they can be the same notes a G# half whole is the same notes as a A whole half it's just how you think of it) So if you're using a diminished scale this is often used to create tension & then return to a major or minor scale/key (in jazz you might use the dim scale over the 5 chord then resolve back to the 1) keep in mind dim scales are symmetrical with only 3 different sets of note groupings. So any of them can be used to create tension for any key but you can choose ones that are more or less similar to the key you're going back to by finding more similar ones for less tension for example if using A harmonic minor a A whole half scale would only be 2 notes different. Maybe I totally misunderstood the question 😕 if I did just let me know 🙂👍

yeah of course always inject your own ideas and the things I show in other videos It's all just pieces of the same puzzle & you're right you could treat it as a pedal idea & of course try different orders around the circle do counterclockwise or just mix it up. I'm glad you liked it 👍

Thanks 🤘👍

yeah being more musical is the point that's why I was encouraging people to move away from chromatic type exercises. But if an exercise you feel is improving a technique then there is benefit to doing it but you can also find exercises that are like you said more musical. To be able to play those horn like lines when improvising any of the interval, arpeggio or sequence patterns will help you build the technique & vocabulary you need to do that. so at the timestamp you mentioned I was just finishing 3rds then did a small piece of the arpeggio exercise. If you haven't tried that arpeggio exercise in full, check out that video it's definitely a challenge to get up to speed but gets you changing & playing different arpeggios in a musical order across the neck which can then be broken up into licks & you can add a metronome to any exercise. 👍🤘

Thanks I appreciate it 🤘

Thanks 👍P.S. I clicked your profile & I noticed you're in the Twin Cities (same as me) if you ever want to take a private lesson just let me know (just google Eric Naylor guitar lessons and that's me)

Nothing wrong with other tunings, but I'm with you I only leave standard tuning when a student really wants to learn a song in another tuning, but never for my own stuff 👍