How I Would Relearn The Guitar From Scratch
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- Опубліковано 12 січ 2024
- My reaction video to ... let's just say there is some bad advice out there from some very high profile guitar UA-camrs. The thing is, I don't want you to waste your time.
So let me say this, I truly believe that you should definitely NOT start your guitar journey by memorizing the full major scale up and down the fretboard.
Most people want to learn guitar because they like rock, blues, pop, folk, country, and similar genres. But those genres use almost exclusively pentatonic scales. So why start your journey on guitar spending time memorizing and practicing scales that are rarely used?
So, if I was to re-learn guitar from scratch again, what would I do? ... I would do exactly what I've been teaching all my students here for 14 years.
Download the FREE Guitar Journey Checklist from my website. This is a complete TO-DO list for your guitar study -- or use it to check how far you've already come, and what are some good next steps
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I am youtube taught & I love the way you teach. It's a breath of fresh air. You have given me some "lightbulb" moments & I have picked up more from about 4 of your lessons than I have in the last couple of years from all the others. Thanks for reinvigorating my desire to play.
Thank you! Much appreciated! Lots more coming this year on YT and Patreon 👍😎
With the amazing, quality lessons you do, I think you are going to become the ultimate authority for guitar lessons across UA-cam. I know some names of the respected UA-cam guitar teachers, but you are quickly standing out as the best UA-cam has to offer!
There will never be an ultimate authority for anything in the world - and that's a good thing in my opinion :)
Thank you! Much appreciated. Lots more lessons coming this year to YT and my Patreon 👍😎
Thanks for the road map. Ive been wandering without as much progress as I could have enjoyed. Time for a reset. Bought your guitar strumming lesson to head out in right direction. Cheers
Awesome thank you! Don't forget you can download audio and watch the video samples for the book. The link is near the beginning of the book.
Best beginner advice I’ve heard on UA-cam👍🏽
Awesome! Lots more on the channel. Thanks for watching.
I actually went to sub to your channel because of this vid and realized I was already subbed 😂
@@valdon116 haha nice! 😊
Great job....thank you ! This is like a " Table of contents" for learning guitar. Every book needs one and so do we.
Thank you! Glad it helped 😎
That´s so true, I have wasted a lot of time too. But I have made so, so much progress since I´m watching your lessons. Thank you Blue!
Thank you! Glad to hear that!
another amazing video, Blue!!! love your teaching style!
Thank you very much :)
Great pep talk Blue! I started playing guitar just before Christmas and I've come a long way but I'm certainly still just a beginner. I kinda got caught up in a lot of intermediate stuff which I think is bogging me down. Time to re-assess! PS: I recently spent a week in Vancouver on business. You certainly live in a beautiful corner of the world.
Thank you! I'm definitely aiming my videos at intermediate level, but you can get there!
Came across your Gilmour video…then popped through a few-love it! Thanks.
Awesome! Thank you! Lots more coming.
Thanks for sharing your perspective on this! I think it’s a very valuable insight into what to actually learn in relation to the type of player the student wants to be!
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching 🎸
Well said my friend. Excellent!!🎸🎸👍🏻
Thank you!!!
Thanks for the download, exactly what I need as an intermediate player. 👍🏻
Glad it helped! Thanks for watching and commenting. Lots more coming :)
Nice overview. Been playing a long time, know most of the material pretty well but I have some gaps. I'll check out some of your more advanced lessons. I like your teaching style.
Thank you! Much appreciated.
For me personally I have watched over 1500 U -tube Lessons and you one of the best Thank you so much Greetings from Africa
What a GREAT overview!!!!!!!
Thanks! Lots of lessons on our channel here and our Patreon www.patreon.com/guitarlessonsvancouver
I took guitar lessons briefly when I was 15. Amazing teacher however. If he would've tried to explain the cage system to me I think I would've been a far better guitar player today. Thank you sir
Thank you! Glad it's helping 😀
Thank you again and again.
Thank you!!
Blue knows😊 Listen to this man!
Thank you 😁👍
Another great video! I have a question, in your book #2, page 10 “Common Bends in the Easy Shape”, you show the root note C on the high e string, 8th fret as being a bendable note. I thought you shouldn’t bend root notes? 🤷🏽♂️
You can bend the root a whole step up. It becomes the 2nd. That might sound a bit harmonically rich on the I chord, it would make it sound like an add9 chord -- but still cool for the right song. But more importantly consider the chord that the song is on at the moment. If the song is on the V chord, the note will resolve as the fifth of the V chord. Or just bend it up and right back down again. No need to hold onto the raised pitch :)
@@GuitarLessonsVancouver thx Blue for the explanation, the mini lesson! Love your books and videos.
Hey Blue, how about writing a book for us full of "must know" useful guitar licks, if you do I'll buy it too. Thanks for another great video today.
Thank you. Good suggestion. I'll think about that. I have a couple more books in mind 😎
Great advice
Thank you! And thanks for commenting :)
It only works if they can apply it….. yes open chords first…. Most of my students are girls… and they love Taylor! Her riffs are very short and they use the major scale..
Mel Bay baby all the way. Can't forget "The Happy Farmer!"
Do you have a video on learning the picking techniques?
I dont have a video on basic picking technique yet sorry. I could put that on the list. I do have this one that covers some tips on pick direction, among other things ua-cam.com/video/x-c6dbn_flI/v-deo.htmlsi=2DfVYoocOURGLDND
I've been following your UA-cam channel lessons for a while now. I am an older acoustic guitar player. I've been learning off and on for years, kind of catch as catch can. Sometimes with an instructor for a few years then taking time off and so on so that I can do a little of this a little of that and not too great on anything and with a lot of gaps. I love finger picking style and can do a little bit but my basic techniques are meh. I have been thinking about signing up with your lessons. But I have two questions for you. Would your lessons give me the structure to fill in the gaps of my training? I know you demonstrate and essentially are teaching electric guitar. But would this be a good fit for an acoustic guy (I do have a pickup installed)? I've plateaued on a lower level and would like to in an organized way, fill in the gaps, re-learn the basics better and have a plan rather than just root around for stuff. What do you suggest?
Mike Brooks, Park Ridge Illinois.
P.S. I'm a teacher and love your style of teaching!
Thanks! Glad you are enjoying the videos. The lessons on my Patreon are at a similar level to my UA-cam videos but they go much deeper into each subject. Everything could be played on acoustic-- the only things that will be more challenging are bends. The lessons do focus on soloing, with a pick, at least for now. You can actually try the Patreon free for 7 days and see if you like it. There's an index of all the lessons here: www.patreon.com/posts/my-recommended-96493793
Thanks, I will give it a try...Keep up the great work@@GuitarLessonsVancouver
Thank you for sharing. Would your "Guitar Lessons" UA-cam playlist roughly follow the Guitar Journey Checklist? Or does your patreon have structured resources to follow along with the checklist?
The Patreon group is structured. The UA-cam is not sorry. Unfortunately it's difficult to do that on UA-cam. You Can see the Patreon structure here: www.patreon.com/posts/96493793
Hey blue do you have a video on blues double stops?
I don't have one for blues double stops yet, sorry. I do have this one on double stops in a Hendrix style: ua-cam.com/video/hCD8ObXejWU/v-deo.html and this one is on sixes double stops: ua-cam.com/video/oBfNa02bH44/v-deo.html
What a godsend!
Thank you! Lots more on the channel.
Soloing is the most difficult skill for me to learn - too easy to noodle in the pentatonic and playing the changes requires thinking ahead to the next chord - a tough skill to master. Do you address these topics on your patreon lessons? Thanks
We sure do, lots of lessons on Patreon on playing over the changes including switching from the I to the IV chord, and targeting chord tones. You can see a list of the lessons by topic currently on there from this page: www.patreon.com/posts/96493793
And you can get 7 days for free if you want to just try it out. You can message me on Patreon and I can give you some recommendations of places to start.
thanks - just signed up@@GuitarLessonsVancouver
@@ecojot Cool, you can message me on Patreon if you have any questions :)
Do your patreon lessons go through the different chords and things for us beginners?
My Patreon group is focused on everything in the Intermediate category. So the second half of this YT video. It's not for total beginners, in other words. You can actually get 7 days for free just to check it out and see if it's right for you www.patreon.com/guitarlessonsvancouver
Would you still advise this checklist if a student is primarily interested in Metal?
Wouldn't hurt as a start. But probably focus on minor pentatonic. Prob don't need major pentatonic much. And you might need full 7-note scales eventually. Speed... power chords 🎸 and a flying-V guitar.
Learning the Major Pentatonic scale was really a light bulb moment for me
It allowed me to connect a scale to CAGED chord shapes. Learning minor first is confusing IMO.
That's a good point. I have talked in previous videos about learning major pentatonic first. It does make sense. But it's not used as much in classic rock and blues.
@@GuitarLessonsVancouver I guess the first song I asked to learn was "Albatross" by Fleetwood Mac, so maybe that was why my guitar teacher started me on learning Major Pentatonic.
How about a video on the Dorian mode?
Definitely I am planning a video on Dorian, but I want to make sure I cover more of those intermediate lessons before I get to that.
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Thank you!
Yeah - this video is like the distillation of what works and is needed, from dozens of other lesson sources. It's "jam" packed. Get it? Haha.
Thank you! Lots more lesson videos on the channel and our Patreon :)
Nah, say it. You’re a guru.
Yes, I did that. Spent hours on the major scale up and down the fretboard. Exactly that. Because I bought a book by some idiot who suggested how far doing so would take me.
Nowhere.
Thank you 😎🎸
I’m very sorry, but I totally disagree with your opinion. The Major Scale is the bedrock of Western Music, therefore it absolutely should be taught! I should mention that I’ve been playing the guitar 22 yrs., so I think it’s quite reasonable of me to say I know my way around the fretboard. I took private tuition from the very outset, the early months involved learning the five CAGED shapes of said scale, listening to how each note sounded in relation to the root, that in itself formed part of my ear training.
It’s interesting that you intend at some point to teach the Dorian Mode, how on earth on you going to achieve that without first teaching the Major Scale!
Have a great day.
No need to be sorry. I often teach Dorian to students who don't have the major scale. Dorian is just another scale, key, tonality. But more importantly, I don't tend to teach any of that until students are quite proficient at pentatonic scales, since the genres that almost 100% of my students over all these years want to learn are rock, folk, pop, country, funk etc, and therefore it's all pentatonic until they get good at it. Then expand from there. Thanks for watching and commenting.
You talk about not wasting time by learning the scales that you'll likely never use. Yet you also talk about 3rds, 5ths, 6ths, 7ths etc which all refer back to the scales. Moreover, basic cord structure reguires knowledge of the core 3 notes of the scale that make up any major or minor chord. Most of what you say makes sense but, I recommend you learn scales. Everything derives from them--modes, pentatonic scales, major and minor chords of a key...
Absolutely agree
Interval shapes can be memorized without learning and practicing the full major scale shapes.
Intervals are in the chord shapes students already know. No need to memorize more. And the advantage is we can visualize whatever chord shape the song is on at that moment and aim for an interval in that chord. Very useful and fast.
ooo, throw shade, throw shade,
start wars, Any star wars. 🤣
Hahaha, not yet, but if it comes to that one day....
Major scale is literally all I use in rock jazz pop blues whatever very weird post. 💩
That would be unusual. Having played and taught thousands of songs over these years, the full 7-note major scale is in very very few of them. Major pentatonic, sure, but not the full Do Re Mi.
Don't know about jazz or pop, but been playing rock 50+ years, and Blue is right, diatonic major scale rarely used. Major and minor pentatonic, minor diatonics (aeolian, dorian), major with b7th (mixolydian) -- but straight up major, with the natural (not flat) 7th? Can you point to some famous songs where you're hearing this? Been trying to think of some for the past minute while I type this, Bohemian Rhapsody is about the only thing that's come to mind so far 😄
ok, I invested a few more minutes, here's a few more I could think of: Comfortably Numb (first solo), More Than A Feeling, November Rain (first solo)... I'm sure there's probably more. But not nearly as many as use those other scales.