playing blink 182 songs has helped me learn pretty fast during my first year of playing. obviously you don’t want to only play that but i found it to be good to learn
Can i modify this to: "Spending 2 years playing metallica main riffs and anime songs while you wanna be able to do joe satriani and dragonforce doesn't work out"?
Especially since there are Dream Theater songs whose rhythm guitar parts are not much more difficult than Blink-182. You don't have to learn all the solos and crazy lead parts to every song you learn, when you're starting out you can just learn the easiest parts all the way through.
Alex Jones that’s another really good point I wish I knew when I started, not a lot of people realise they can just learn the chorus/ melody to the songs out of their reach without having to learn bad technique through intricate solos
Great video. But 2 things. 1. There's definitely tips to quickly improve let's not lie. Especially the f bar chord. I struggled so much with it then watched a Marty video and saw I had to turn my finger more. My 15 minute struggle solved in 1 quick tip. 2. People run from music theory because usually the people that teach music theory get carried away while teaching it and say something that makes literally 0 sense and confuses the student to the point that they think they're not smart enough. Like 90% of music theory teachers I've seen on youtube do that and it's aggravating. Then I watched someone more chill and realized it's actually very basic and not complicated at all because the teacher wasn't puffing their ego.
@@levihallock5549 Scott Paul Johnson has really good on screen things that help visualize the fret board. Sean Daniels lesson on Hendrix chords/playing helped me see how I could use theory easy too. Just avoid GuitarSage. He makes really long videos with basic information that he calls special. I spent hours watching his videos that could all be summed up in like 10 minutes.
You said it bro. Younger people these days barely think critically. It's because they have UA-cam at their fingertips to give them the answers. Those are all some great pieces of advice. I'm seriously considering your course.
But it really is easy. So is math, i mean math is only hard if you don't know how to do it, right? And if you really want to learn it, you can. Some need more time, some less. But you always can, you just need a good learning technique that fits you.
Great tips here. Biggest thing that helped me was practicing string muting being able to effectively play the exact notes I want with extreme confidence. And always playing with a drum track, not a metronome. Just feels like a more natural setting to practice.
When you say learning songs doesn't make you a better musician (ie guitar player) i don't entirely agree because i've learned alot of things from songs that i use in other things, such as improvisation. I also think that learning just arpeggios and scales and the "science behind it" will make you great at playing those things, but won't necessarily teach you in a specific style/styles. Granted, you're a better musician than me, and this video would be useful if my unmotivated ass would listen to you lol
I think a more correct rule is dont learn songs that are at your skill level, learn songs that are hard for you to play (within reason dont go from playing hot cross buns to attempting Thunderstruck) know your limits and challenge them
I agree. Also, from my experience it can get really boring and unmotivating to only practice technical shit. It's really important to still have fun when playing. After all that's why we all started and without it there's not much hope for progress. At least that's what I've learned
@@GriffinsTale1142 so true. I started learning a month ago. I knew only basic chords (A, D, E) then I was like fuck it let's try a song. I tried wish you were here. It was above my skill level but I got to learn so many other chords in the process and I was actually having fun!
Yooo thank you for the tips and advice! I really appreciate your two cents and I appreciate the vibes and brutal honesty, it's comedic and comforting lol
The intro jam was great man. Would love to see those every now and again! Of course don’t forget about the awkward switching positions in random places tho, that’s the juice man
I love your sarcasm and vibe around music and guitar!!! This video is loaded with 100% truth and if you felt offended by the way Brandon tells you you need to practice, I can assure you it's better than a whole audience screaming it at you. XD
You have a point sir as a musician and an instrumentalist. However, I believe learning music in any aspect is a matter of self discovery plus efforts as well.
420th like omg I’m so cool.. good video though thank you for the tips! I just started guitar about 3 years ago and while I’m happy with how far I have come, I feel like the most important thing is realizing how far I need to go. I have a question for everybody, unless you are a noob LOL. I have been studying music theory for around 6 months pretty intensively and have gotten a lot of enjoyment of connecting the dots and learning how everything comes together. It is really fulfilling figuring something out that has been stumping me for a while. Right now my practice regime consists of playing a chord or two and following it up playing the major scales starting on the root note of the chord and trying to make a smooth transition to the next chord. I change up the chords and where I’m playing it on the fretboard, when I get comfortable playing it, to better familiarize myself with not just the fretboard but getting the muscle memory down on a few different guitars I own ( classical, acoustic and electric due to the different widths between the ones I own ) I guess my question is if this is good or if there is something else I should be focusing on? For reference I have also been learning the ins and outs of the caged system and how it progresses up the fretboard playing the same chord with different shapes. I always play with a metronome and create a lot of my own music, some of which I’m really proud of. I don’t have a problem playing barre chords or switching between them even when I’m doing a bit of improvisation but that is where it gets a little bit crunchy so I’m working on my legato on changes still but it’s not too bad. I can name any note on the fretboard relatively quickly but there is always about a second of hesitation, so I know I need to improve there. I have a classical guitar with no fret indicators ( dots on 3,5,7,12 so on, I don’t know the exact term ) and I’m sometimes finding myself a half step higher or lower than where I’m trying to go. I can fix it pretty well and cover it up like it’s not a mistake but it bugs me even though no one seems to notice when I do except friends I play with who are better than I am. I am not trying to make this too long so I’m going to end it here with another question, is it a good idea to play in the dark a lot or with my eyes closed? I always thought so but I have a buddy who says it’s not the best idea and he is technically better than I am with what he can play but will admit my technique is superior in terms of songwriting and understanding theory. Main thing is he can tap a lot better, play faster and most importantly to me he can sweep pick and that’s one of my biggest struggles at the moment. Thank you if anyone is actually reading this or cares to answer
Tip 9 was totally me. 19 was the best though. I usually learn through UA-cam tutorials. I will watch a few moments, play that, get it 70% there, and try to improvise the next phrase from memory of the song until I get stuck.
This is a gold mine! Thank you for these advices ❤ I'll write here about some of my struggles to focus on something and be consistent with it because maybe I can think clearer So when I started, it was so fun and easy to just focus on practicing a chord until I could actually make it sound like the chord 😂 And I remember that I realized that this was the formula to learn anything, I just needed to practice the thing every day until I could do it naturally, and because I was thinking like this, I wasn't scared of making a mistake, because the mistake was part of the process of getting good, but what's the problem now? I think I just got really confused because there's so many things to learn and I started to focus on things that I shouldn't be focusing yet, and when I realized that, I didn't wanted to go back to learning the chords I was learning, so when I was trying to learn all the notes on the fretboard, I remembered that I hadn't learned all the chords yet, and this kind of confusion breaks my consistency because I don't know what to focus on, and I'm scared of wasting time focusing on only one thing for too long because I don't know when to move to the next thing, and because of that I started to use Yusician I think that now I understand a little more about the problem, the confusion of not knowing what to focus on is the easiest part of the problem to solve, maybe I just need to focus on something like learning all chords, but then comes thr questions: How to practice? Do I use a song to practice a chord? When do I know I'm ready Well, maybe I just need to practice the chord until I can make it sound good, then start to practice transitioning from this chord to another.. And about when I know when I'm ready? When you can do it naturally, that's obvious, why was I thinking about that? Maybe because I was practicing mindlessly without an actual objective, idk So the answer to the problems is: Focus on the particular thing you wanna learn, and practice it, exercise it until you can do it naturally. If you're practicing chords, you'll practice to make the chord sound good and clean just by trying a lot until it's natural, and then move to transitioning from this chord to other chords. There should be always a goal, you wanna make transition better, you wanna make it sound better, and you'll need to exercise it in someway to get there And even when you have the goal andthe exercise, you need to be aways trying to see what you're doing wrong and work on top of it. An example is when I was trying to make a chord and I realized tha I was touching another string, and to solve this I needed to get used to put my finger in another position, so I practiced it until I could do thr G chord 😂 Sorry if this whole comment sound yoo weird because I'm literally talking to myself here, I'm just weird..
Learn easy songs. Learn songs that you like. Learn to play melody of the song. Learn to hold chords of the song. Learn to play rhythm holding the chord. Learn to transition from one chord to another. Learn to sing playing the rhythm. Start at a very slow tempo and work your way up. Learn lots of songs. And thank me later. Learning songs is the best method, actually only method. All other things are supporting props.
I love you're videos man, it's like tough love lol! I would tell my younger self to not let a relationship dictate how much you get to play. I lost 2 years to an overly controlling girlfriend. Never again!
My best advice and the way ive approached the instrument is simple: learn what you need to make the instrumemt do what you want it to do. The ultimate goal is control
Kinda glad that after 3 years of being absolutely addicted to it, i've overcome a lot of mistakes your tips fix. But Music theory is hard for me to understand. Maybe it's my ADHD, but it just wont click.
Tip 9) I don't know about the wording or the percentage, but this was a huge mistake I made early on as a musician, "I'll brush it up latter" just learning a piece is so little of the work. Playing it over and over until it's second nature and sounds smooth is 98 percent of the process. Just getting it memorized and thinking I'll polish it up later is a trap.
I am 25 yo, and actually had some guitar lessons when I was younger (around 16 or 17 yo), but I didn't continue them and stop practicing for about 8 years, more or less. About a month ago I find myself willing to get my guitar out of the dust, send it to a luthier, and start playing it again, because I never got bored with music, I just spent a lot of time doing other things (school, college and playing video games), and now I'm putting music back to the tasks I want to improve. Sure, I remember somethings from my younger ages when I first played the guitar, but I'm rusted. Is it possible for me to actually improve and be better and smooth after all these years, or have I lost the golden ages to develop these abilities? I have a fear that the years passing by made me physically incapable of playing the guitar in a good way
Learning the entire song and playing with a metronome and tuning up with a tuner and trying to play stuff you can't play is how you get better. Playing stuff you can play you don't learn as much. Putting mileage on your guitar you are bound to get better.
Tbh as a sax player (grade 8) who's just started guitar, I think a lot of these apply to most instruments tbh. Like the one abt trying something too hard, I tried to play a piece when I was like grade 4 that I couldn't. 3 years later I can do it. Similar things for the others
9:12 nope it took me like 15 seconds I pause frame for frame for a lot of guitar solos tip 20* you can learn virtually any song if it’s quality will let you see each note at .25 and pausing with that staccato technique 😎
Well someone would need to know your current skill level to be able to help with ideas for goals. Maybe these might help. Make it a point to learn a piece of music from start to finish. If there are multiple guitar parts learn all of them. If you’re learning a piece that doesn’t have guitar learn all the components of that piece. Also work on learning things by ear. I do this while watching vids or tv. As soon as an ad starts I grab my guitar and try to find any notes or chords I can in the ad before it’s done. Or try learning to play phrases that match a verbal phrase you heard someone speak. I’ve seen people do this with drums and it is equally fun with guitar as well. Maybe this will give you some things to think about.
Honestly if you can’t find certain things you need to improve on (that’s sth I’ve struggled with before) then go to a teacher for a few lessons, it’s good to have someone better and more experienced than you to judge and see where you’re going wrong
If you practice enough, maybe you'll get some ideas of what you need to improve even tho you don't know the term yet. If not, then just watch more tutorials for beginner, broaden your knowledge and actually practice them.
As an more experienced guitarist I'd tell this younger man nice playing but I would have spent less time jam tracking (soloing over tracks). It helped me a better lead player also.
What would YOU tell your younger self...
Travel to the future and watch this video. :)
"It Doesn't Happen Overnight So Practice Everyday And Everynight."
"Stop picking your nose bro... that's gross"
,,Listen to that shit" and i would hand im some CDs
Stop playing guitar and cooking study..
8 years later and My only tip would be “spending 4 years playing blink 182 songs while saying you wanna be able to do dream theatre doesn’t work out”
playing blink 182 songs has helped me learn pretty fast during my first year of playing. obviously you don’t want to only play that but i found it to be good to learn
DraftZJ same
Can i modify this to:
"Spending 2 years playing metallica main riffs and anime songs while you wanna be able to do joe satriani and dragonforce doesn't work out"?
Especially since there are Dream Theater songs whose rhythm guitar parts are not much more difficult than Blink-182. You don't have to learn all the solos and crazy lead parts to every song you learn, when you're starting out you can just learn the easiest parts all the way through.
Alex Jones that’s another really good point I wish I knew when I started, not a lot of people realise they can just learn the chorus/ melody to the songs out of their reach without having to learn bad technique through intricate solos
Great video. But 2 things.
1. There's definitely tips to quickly improve let's not lie. Especially the f bar chord. I struggled so much with it then watched a Marty video and saw I had to turn my finger more. My 15 minute struggle solved in 1 quick tip.
2. People run from music theory because usually the people that teach music theory get carried away while teaching it and say something that makes literally 0 sense and confuses the student to the point that they think they're not smart enough.
Like 90% of music theory teachers I've seen on youtube do that and it's aggravating. Then I watched someone more chill and realized it's actually very basic and not complicated at all because the teacher wasn't puffing their ego.
For the music theory ive seen the same thing, whod you find thats a bit better?
@@levihallock5549 Scott Paul Johnson has really good on screen things that help visualize the fret board. Sean Daniels lesson on Hendrix chords/playing helped me see how I could use theory easy too. Just avoid GuitarSage. He makes really long videos with basic information that he calls special. I spent hours watching his videos that could all be summed up in like 10 minutes.
@@str8harry Thank you
@@levihallock5549 Steve Stine's instructional and theory videos are excellent. He's been teaching for quite a few years and it really shows.
@@levihallock5549 Forgot to include a link in my original replay, here's a video on basic chord theory: ua-cam.com/video/VksFM8fSfNc/v-deo.html
You said it bro. Younger people these days barely think critically. It's because they have UA-cam at their fingertips to give them the answers. Those are all some great pieces of advice. I'm seriously considering your course.
Nothing worth having is ever easy.
Caleb Davis and nothing easy is worth having... except Candy. Candy was easy AND she was worth having...
Jho is
Guitar playing isnt easy
Exactly, and I'll never knew why this is true in everything in life
except your mom
"theory is actually really easy" coming from a guy with a music degree is like a maths teacher telling you how easy calculus is when you know it
But it really is easy.
So is math, i mean math is only hard if you don't know how to do it, right? And if you really want to learn it, you can. Some need more time, some less. But you always can, you just need a good learning technique that fits you.
It actually is tho, this is coming from some stupid 13 year old
@@nickspencer2207 be positive man
@@sorian_delorean3348
I don’t understand?
@@nickspencer2207 have some self-confidence man. Stop calling yourself stupid.
"Pick a goal, and take ruthless action until you achieve it." This is one of the most inspirational quotes I've ever heard.
did hitler say that?
@@dacian2856 Brandon said that, in this video. Idk if Hitler ever said that, but it's still a great motto.
@@prashantsarkar821 I know hitler probably didn't say that and I know Brandon said that, It was a joke my friend
That solo at the start soooo nice
His guitar face 😍😍
No homo?
veritasastro his bends give me immense confidence
He was screwing around. He was deliberately all over the place and playing bad bends on purpose.
I like how all the closeted guitar players watching davie504 found refuge in this channel
Lmaooo
Oh
I'm a guitarist and bassist... I walk the margins between the two lol
@@delvinmallory3427 same lol
Ok, that beginning solo was fooking amazing, and the tips are great thanks.
Kirk WAHmett 89 I see you everywhere
@@airconditioningunit9777 I see you a lot too.
Like, we see you in like 3 rooms of our house, jesus.
6:11 - my man spits the truth!
Legend says he's still on tip 7
The honesty in this video is refreshing.
Brandon: “Don’t just learn songs they don’t make you a better musician”
Also Brandon: “Learn the entire song”
thank you very much. I started the guitar with my 37 now:-) your tipps help me
Great tips here. Biggest thing that helped me was practicing string muting being able to effectively play the exact notes I want with extreme confidence. And always playing with a drum track, not a metronome. Just feels like a more natural setting to practice.
9:11 I wasted exactly 1 second more. The art of pausing for extra fast text is within me.
what did it say
@@ianroach8119 "U wasted a lot of time to read this" Something like that.
Asuryan ok thx
*Hehe* 9:11 *hehe*
9:12 “you wasted a lot of time trying to read this” in the corner... dAMN why u call me out like this
When you say learning songs doesn't make you a better musician (ie guitar player) i don't entirely agree because i've learned alot of things from songs that i use in other things, such as improvisation. I also think that learning just arpeggios and scales and the "science behind it" will make you great at playing those things, but won't necessarily teach you in a specific style/styles. Granted, you're a better musician than me, and this video would be useful if my unmotivated ass would listen to you lol
I think a more correct rule is dont learn songs that are at your skill level, learn songs that are hard for you to play (within reason dont go from playing hot cross buns to attempting Thunderstruck) know your limits and challenge them
@@GriffinsTale1142 Exactly, that's why recently i've strayed abit away from the blues i normally play in favour of jazz.
I agree. Also, from my experience it can get really boring and unmotivating to only practice technical shit. It's really important to still have fun when playing. After all that's why we all started and without it there's not much hope for progress. At least that's what I've learned
@@GriffinsTale1142 true. This is why I dont play almost nothing perfectly :p but I can play hard songs after 8 months
@@GriffinsTale1142 so true. I started learning a month ago. I knew only basic chords (A, D, E) then I was like fuck it let's try a song. I tried wish you were here. It was above my skill level but I got to learn so many other chords in the process and I was actually having fun!
He is teaching me how to be a better person!
I adore your chaotical aggressive mood, because you sound like a angry dad, but look like a teenager, which makes it only funnier.
Yooo thank you for the tips and advice! I really appreciate your two cents and I appreciate the vibes and brutal honesty, it's comedic and comforting lol
"but DON'T CALL ME IF YOU'RE POOR"
my sides LOOOL
The intro jam was great man. Would love to see those every now and again! Of course don’t forget about the awkward switching positions in random places tho, that’s the juice man
We all love this guy
I love your sarcasm and vibe around music and guitar!!!
This video is loaded with 100% truth and if you felt offended by the way Brandon tells you you need to practice, I can assure you it's better than a whole audience screaming it at you. XD
This video addresses many important aspects of learning that other videos probably don't even know about. Respect 🙏🏽
You have a point sir as a musician and an instrumentalist. However, I believe learning music in any aspect is a matter of self discovery plus efforts as well.
dude im 21 and been playing sense i was 10.. needed to hear some of this shit
definitely gonna use these, thanks dude
420th like omg I’m so cool.. good video though thank you for the tips! I just started guitar about 3 years ago and while I’m happy with how far I have come, I feel like the most important thing is realizing how far I need to go. I have a question for everybody, unless you are a noob LOL. I have been studying music theory for around 6 months pretty intensively and have gotten a lot of enjoyment of connecting the dots and learning how everything comes together. It is really fulfilling figuring something out that has been stumping me for a while. Right now my practice regime consists of playing a chord or two and following it up playing the major scales starting on the root note of the chord and trying to make a smooth transition to the next chord. I change up the chords and where I’m playing it on the fretboard, when I get comfortable playing it, to better familiarize myself with not just the fretboard but getting the muscle memory down on a few different guitars I own ( classical, acoustic and electric due to the different widths between the ones I own ) I guess my question is if this is good or if there is something else I should be focusing on? For reference I have also been learning the ins and outs of the caged system and how it progresses up the fretboard playing the same chord with different shapes. I always play with a metronome and create a lot of my own music, some of which I’m really proud of. I don’t have a problem playing barre chords or switching between them even when I’m doing a bit of improvisation but that is where it gets a little bit crunchy so I’m working on my legato on changes still but it’s not too bad. I can name any note on the fretboard relatively quickly but there is always about a second of hesitation, so I know I need to improve there. I have a classical guitar with no fret indicators ( dots on 3,5,7,12 so on, I don’t know the exact term ) and I’m sometimes finding myself a half step higher or lower than where I’m trying to go. I can fix it pretty well and cover it up like it’s not a mistake but it bugs me even though no one seems to notice when I do except friends I play with who are better than I am. I am not trying to make this too long so I’m going to end it here with another question, is it a good idea to play in the dark a lot or with my eyes closed? I always thought so but I have a buddy who says it’s not the best idea and he is technically better than I am with what he can play but will admit my technique is superior in terms of songwriting and understanding theory. Main thing is he can tap a lot better, play faster and most importantly to me he can sweep pick and that’s one of my biggest struggles at the moment. Thank you if anyone is actually reading this or cares to answer
Also might be important to know the past two years or so of my playing i have dedicated myself to playing finger style
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The best MOOther FOOKER here. You're great man, can't wait to hear you're 13 when you get 1m subs.
Tip 9 was totally me. 19 was the best though. I usually learn through UA-cam tutorials. I will watch a few moments, play that, get it 70% there, and try to improvise the next phrase from memory of the song until I get stuck.
loved tip 7 at 12 minutes was amazing
12:49 As a piano player, I can confirm that I track my cats.
“Enough f*ck intro bull Sh*t” so amazing
Got called immature for wanting to play fast and my feelings hurt. 5/7 subscribed.
Please do a follow up video about how not to practice tense.
This video ruthlessly forced me to practice. Thank you, you have my subscription.
I found tip 7 really helpful
Thanks for the tips you sound great
Before this video I didn't know where to start but I knew I wanted to improve and this helped me out a lot to better set a plan. Great video
Wow....I did not expect this to be so damn useful. I thought It was gonna be more of a funny video! Perfect mixture of funny and good insight!
at ab 6:20 is hilarious. “ thats why i keep crushing every fucking goal that i have” 😂😂😂
I think tip number 7 really connected with me
Nobody:
*Brandon at:* 9:57
*Also Brandon:* 11:05
BTW: Thank you for the tips, mate! 😁💙🔥✨
This is a gold mine! Thank you for these advices ❤
I'll write here about some of my struggles to focus on something and be consistent with it because maybe I can think clearer
So when I started, it was so fun and easy to just focus on practicing a chord until I could actually make it sound like the chord 😂 And I remember that I realized that this was the formula to learn anything, I just needed to practice the thing every day until I could do it naturally, and because I was thinking like this, I wasn't scared of making a mistake, because the mistake was part of the process of getting good, but what's the problem now? I think I just got really confused because there's so many things to learn and I started to focus on things that I shouldn't be focusing yet, and when I realized that, I didn't wanted to go back to learning the chords I was learning, so when I was trying to learn all the notes on the fretboard, I remembered that I hadn't learned all the chords yet, and this kind of confusion breaks my consistency because I don't know what to focus on, and I'm scared of wasting time focusing on only one thing for too long because I don't know when to move to the next thing, and because of that I started to use Yusician
I think that now I understand a little more about the problem, the confusion of not knowing what to focus on is the easiest part of the problem to solve, maybe I just need to focus on something like learning all chords, but then comes thr questions: How to practice? Do I use a song to practice a chord? When do I know I'm ready
Well, maybe I just need to practice the chord until I can make it sound good, then start to practice transitioning from this chord to another.. And about when I know when I'm ready? When you can do it naturally, that's obvious, why was I thinking about that? Maybe because I was practicing mindlessly without an actual objective, idk
So the answer to the problems is: Focus on the particular thing you wanna learn, and practice it, exercise it until you can do it naturally. If you're practicing chords, you'll practice to make the chord sound good and clean just by trying a lot until it's natural, and then move to transitioning from this chord to other chords. There should be always a goal, you wanna make transition better, you wanna make it sound better, and you'll need to exercise it in someway to get there
And even when you have the goal andthe exercise, you need to be aways trying to see what you're doing wrong and work on top of it. An example is when I was trying to make a chord and I realized tha I was touching another string, and to solve this I needed to get used to put my finger in another position, so I practiced it until I could do thr G chord 😂
Sorry if this whole comment sound yoo weird because I'm literally talking to myself here, I'm just weird..
Learn easy songs. Learn songs that you like. Learn to play melody of the song. Learn to hold chords of the song. Learn to play rhythm holding the chord. Learn to transition from one chord to another. Learn to sing playing the rhythm. Start at a very slow tempo and work your way up. Learn lots of songs. And thank me later. Learning songs is the best method, actually only method. All other things are supporting props.
Brilliant tip on stage fright too!
I love you're videos man, it's like tough love lol! I would tell my younger self to not let a relationship dictate how much you get to play. I lost 2 years to an overly controlling girlfriend. Never again!
LOL The most epic intro i’ve ever seen! Good job dude!
My best advice and the way ive approached the instrument is simple: learn what you need to make the instrumemt do what you want it to do. The ultimate goal is control
Kinda glad that after 3 years of being absolutely addicted to it, i've overcome a lot of mistakes your tips fix. But Music theory is hard for me to understand. Maybe it's my ADHD, but it just wont click.
Tip 9) I don't know about the wording or the percentage, but this was a huge mistake I made early on as a musician, "I'll brush it up latter" just learning a piece is so little of the work. Playing it over and over until it's second nature and sounds smooth is 98 percent of the process. Just getting it memorized and thinking I'll polish it up later is a trap.
I am 25 yo, and actually had some guitar lessons when I was younger (around 16 or 17 yo), but I didn't continue them and stop practicing for about 8 years, more or less. About a month ago I find myself willing to get my guitar out of the dust, send it to a luthier, and start playing it again, because I never got bored with music, I just spent a lot of time doing other things (school, college and playing video games), and now I'm putting music back to the tasks I want to improve. Sure, I remember somethings from my younger ages when I first played the guitar, but I'm rusted. Is it possible for me to actually improve and be better and smooth after all these years, or have I lost the golden ages to develop these abilities? I have a fear that the years passing by made me physically incapable of playing the guitar in a good way
Tip 7 is the best,every time
His ad placement killed some the jokes. Like the dude in the closet at 7:52
solid advise,thanx man
You can make Barre chords easier. Squeeze the end of the guitar between your arm and it'll force the neck of the guitar into your fingers more.
Learning the entire song and playing with a metronome and tuning up with a tuner and trying to play stuff you can't play is how you get better. Playing stuff you can play you don't learn as much. Putting mileage on your guitar you are bound to get better.
THANK YOU!!!
I love his tips counting
Tbh as a sax player (grade 8) who's just started guitar, I think a lot of these apply to most instruments tbh. Like the one abt trying something too hard, I tried to play a piece when I was like grade 4 that I couldn't. 3 years later I can do it. Similar things for the others
I have the same headphones!!
How fookin old is this awesome teacher?
I get more and more convinced that the music you hear on the phone while you’re waiting is him playing guitar.
9:12 nope it took me like 15 seconds I pause frame for frame for a lot of guitar solos tip 20* you can learn virtually any song if it’s quality will let you see each note at .25 and pausing with that staccato technique 😎
if you're on pc you can use , and . to go one frame at a time, makes it real easy to see such messages
You sir are the goggins of guitar playing 😆. Great tips, thanks 👍
How do I create goals man? I try to create goals but I don’t know where to start improving.
Well someone would need to know your current skill level to be able to help with ideas for goals.
Maybe these might help.
Make it a point to learn a piece of music from start to finish.
If there are multiple guitar parts learn all of them.
If you’re learning a piece that doesn’t have guitar learn all the components of that piece.
Also work on learning things by ear.
I do this while watching vids or tv. As soon as an ad starts I grab my guitar and try to find any notes or chords I can in the ad before it’s done.
Or try learning to play phrases that match a verbal phrase you heard someone speak.
I’ve seen people do this with drums and it is equally fun with guitar as well.
Maybe this will give you some things to think about.
Honestly if you can’t find certain things you need to improve on (that’s sth I’ve struggled with before) then go to a teacher for a few lessons, it’s good to have someone better and more experienced than you to judge and see where you’re going wrong
You should learn modes
If you practice enough, maybe you'll get some ideas of what you need to improve even tho you don't know the term yet. If not, then just watch more tutorials for beginner, broaden your knowledge and actually practice them.
This maybe the best video on tips of guitar...
I started this year
I'll start by learning songs?
Cracked up at the first "aböut"
Noone thinks critically about anything anymore! Were a rare breed!
These videos are helpful and hilarious
my favorite tip was tip #7
man, you're a breath of fresh air :)
As an more experienced guitarist I'd tell this younger man nice playing but I would have spent less time jam tracking (soloing over tracks). It helped me a better lead player also.
2:11 kind of made me tense XD
At 9:12... you’re correct. I DID waste a lot of time 😂.
Thanks for fooking tips
I feel personally attacked at 11:50
damn bro u got me at 9:11
edit: I also see what you did with the time stamp lol
Remember 9/11?
8:56 Papa Roach - American Dreams photo
9:11 made me think about life
How could you not be tense when a qt like you is teaching 💦😩
SIMP!
Wtf
lol nice
Ikr
That's an interesting F chord
You’re killing me Brandon, you always make me laugh.
Hang out with friends like a psychopath
**shows a picture of himself with 4 other girls**
Wierd flex but okay lol what Happened here xD
Brandon: Don't subscribe to my channel!
Also Brandon: GUITAR COLLECTION REVEAL 250K SUBS!
you are really good!
You gotta make a paid online course, I'd sub.
Is this ironic?
@@hamsteronacomputer6692 No, I'd seriously pay for a course.
... actually surprisingly good advice 😂😂😂
You need to have a collaboration with TheDooo
Intro was lowkey just a deep purple solo with no gain
man the amount of times i burst out laughing, love this
Just a comment saying that Brandon showed wrong amount of fingers at 1:06, don't mind it
The lighting just changed
But what about a puckered tookus during 16note arpeggio runs?
Boss
That intro felt like a personal attack
Canadian much? Great video man, thank you so much for the tips.