John Mayer’s Advice for Musicians
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- Опубліковано 16 чер 2024
- Get an inside look into John Mayer's songwriting and creative process. In this video, Mayer shares his advice for upcoming artists, tips for writing better songs, and ways musicians can break through.
Let us know your thoughts on these tips and best practices in the comments.
- Glo
0:01 - Mayer's songwriting process
1:06 - Avoiding writer's block
1:39 - Forget what's "cool"
3:00 - The idea behind Sob Rock
4:12 - Create for yourself
4:48 - The audience journey
5:28 - The role of time
5:59 - Breaking barriers
John Mayer: "There is no more reason to have to adhere to any given idea of cool (1:39)." Love him! As spoken by A Creative Genius, A Master, The Man and THE KING ❣💡🌟💎👑
King?? Nah that was Hendrix.
@@Orieus Peace!! I love Hendrix too. Art and artistes are 'always' in the eyes of the beholder. That's the creative license granted to us all. It's what makes your choosing King Hendrix, over my choosing King John Mayer all perfectly fine and we're both correct. Love you to peaces!!
@@kimberlykairo I respect that , peace to you!
It's so true. Every song I write or begin to create, has to stand alone on an acoustic guitar, piano, or my uke. In fact, I am doing a ton of ideas on my acoustic for YT shorts. People really dig them and it's such a great way to showcase how a song comes into existence. My channel is new, but the whole channel is dedicated to teaching more people to become musicians. John is a smart dude and makes some great points.
he's such a good lyricist tbh, i'm not surprised he's able to provide this advice so eloquently
so true, hes extremely talented. def one of my favourite artists ever and I think sometimes his lyrics are overlooked bc of how good the guitar is but literally everything he creates is so genius
I remember when I first heard "Why You No Love Me", I thought it sounded awfully familiar, but my research to find what made it sound so familiar was fruitless. A few months later I saw the Apple music interview and he said the exact same thing about that song, that is, it sounding very familiar, but when you look for it you'll come up empty handed. I've never experienced that type of a connection with an artist before!
This song is basically Stevie Wonder’s “I Just Call to Say I Love You” in the the chorus and George Michael’s “Last Christmas” in the verse. Do you agree?
@@sevchyk honestly, not at all.
@@jessebout3093 Then listen to the chorus of I Just Call and this chorus. The same chord progression, the same mood, the word “care” in the same ending position of these choruses. Can’t you hear it?
@@sevchyk I can see where you're coming from but no, I do not really hear the connection between these.
@@robotomo4249 It is a very common chord progression in the European pop music of the eighties…You may as well check Chris Norman and Suzi Quatro - Stumbling in. The same chord progression, the same mood, but I still think that I Just Call will be closer because of the word “care” in the similar closing position. When he sings “why you no will be there”, I subconsciously recall the “and I mean it from the bottom of my heart” from Wonder’s chorus. There were a lot of music like this, he just rehashed the classic hits…
04:40 first time I’ve seen him reference his unique use of metaphors/analogies
If you look at the videos from the Sob Rock album, they could easily have been made in the 80s or 90s. They seem to follow a formula at a time when people put time and money into music videos.
Post Sub-Rock John mayer is great! Watched this 3 times and everytime wished it wouldn't have finished!
🙌🙌🙌
@@glo.creative hey do you get paid even if you took this video from another ?
Thank you! Puts the Fun back in Music!
We need more of this
When he talks about how “it mightve been something that happened but when you go looking its not” my drummer played me a guitar riff and I was dead positive it was a rob zombie song or something similar and he literally wrote it himself
Amazing. John has inspired me since 2003 and still inspiring me today.
This is amazing. Thank you so much for this
🙏🙏🙏
So much truth here🙏
John Mayer pointing out that writer’s block is simply the reader not enjoying what the writer is putting out is spot on.
That’s it…
What if the reader is wrong?
That’s the elephant in the room of your mind when that’s going on.
Spot on.
Hey Glo this content is rad keep it up
🙏🙏🙏
@@glo.creative as a graphic designer it’s really cool to draw creative wisdom from other artists. Even though he’s a musician the creative advice translates over to what I do too. Love it
Welcome to Mayer world - a few very good life lessons here outside the music world
"To be responsible for the magic 🎩 carpet ✨ ride is more interesting to me than to be the carpet." 🤔
LOVE IT 💞🙏💗🎸🌟🌠
excellent
Not John calling his last album a shitpost (I’m loving every minute of it)
This bloke will be (very soon, if not already has become) the best crooning guitarist /singer ever. In my opinion he already is.
That happened a long time ago
A lot of things that time has taken care of that I didn’t have to do.
Here's the best quote I've ever heard: "There's no such thing as the real world."
I hear you
I'm into this, J obviously is the real deal in an era of tribute, where RNR (now ended after 50 years) will now be treated like the 'classics' - i.e.really good musicians in tux, playing Whole Lotta Love at yr local bandstand, Sunday afternoon, deckchairs...I'm about to release my debut solo album on Cargo, got 'previous'...I'd like you guys to talk about making it in the new world - the new biz model - and can you get me worldwide distribution John please? Thanks 😇 M.E. x
what ?
Can you please send the link for the first interview?
1:19 exactly!!!!!!!
Whenever I see John Mayer I just think “Man I need to get better at guitar.”
Hey im not sure if he got inspiration from ozzy but if you listen to ozzy osbournes shot in the dark and john's you can hear the similarities. Just something I found interesting
Kinda disturbing to see how some of the interviewers always cut and laugh at John Mayer when he is explaining..
Man I was totally thinking the same thing and how aggravating it is to see that and then I saw your comment.
Same, I hate that. When the interviewer is either trying to steal the show or brown nose so bad trying to make the person like them in this case he was doing both & it's so annoying
I think the guy is enjoying what JM is conveying. Notice that he continues to say what he’s saying without getting upset or asking the guy to stop interrupting because the interviewer is amused.
I think you’re too critical.
What are you talking about? This is what two people talking sounds like. He was being funny. Is everyone supposed to just sit there in awe of him as if he’s a god?
Tyler, he was in awe, that's what all the pathetic giggling was about.
im from an alt timeline where sob rock actually came out in 1983
Mdfs, Let the man talk!!!
So SOB Rock was him trying to get out of his record deal or it was going to be his last album unless it sold x amount so he said f*ck it cuz he knew at this point in his career he wasn’t going to sell x amount and said f*ck it…
2:20 needs more camera shake.
:50-1:00 what song is this!? Can’t seem to find it
Did you ever find it?
@@kevinescobar2361 Nah man, those lyrics hit deep tho (as an alleged ‘know it all’)
Oh FUCK yes.
Wonder what strain brought that out? SOB rock. Memories of stuff I’ve never experienced.
Ikr? Or hanging out with a certain tiedyed maverick of a friend and his 🍄🍄🍄🍄
what is the song he s playing at 0:48 pls ?
Liam, he’s making it up on the spot. That was the whole point of what he was talking about.
@@twosnakse ah thank you I had not understood I do not speak English.
Can someone pls tell me what song he used to explain songwrithing proces?
I’m not positive, but that may have been a complete freestyle.
@@JonnyKemp Wild he can do that right? Out of thin air making chord progressions and rimes.
@@vukasinbauer8268 I love it! Yes.
@@vukasinbauer8268 that’s what happens when you write hundreds of songs. Dude can probably dream any chord progression by now.
Also making up chord progressions on the spot isn’t really that difficult if you know music theory (1-4-5 progression for example) and you can basically transpose that to any key.
Still impressive though don’t get me wrong, especially if you factor in lyrics.
Magical carpet ride, the magic comes from nowhere the ride is like sailing. 😂
What does he say/mean at 1:00 ?
He says, “If your not ouija boarding immediatly your wasting time”. Look up a “ouija board”, he means that in songwriting it is important to just start singing and throwing ideas out there without hesitation. To go by instinct (kinda how the ouija board works).
The beatles wrote their best stuff with two guitars.
When Juice Wrlds “Lean Wit Me” came out I swore the guitar was sampled and it wasn’t
Sob rock is 80s nostalgia
Me upset cause I wanted to hear what John had to say after “when you’re 24” but the dude interrupted him to just tell him what he’s saying. 4:26
0:49 does this song exist?
no
Please somebody tell me it does
It's probably improvised on the spot... he's a beast
I'm confused... John had a goatee in the last video on this channel
"why you no love me" is liek late 80s early 90s beach boys hahaha
I think he is a misunderstood musical genius!
I wonder how many times John has done psychadelics?
yes
He says he hasnt but thats not what it seems like
@@NERDOFUNK He has done them YES times.
Greg from Camp High infamy 🍄🍄🍄 is one of his best friends. Enough said 🌠🌟🍄
I don’t think he have . Psychedelics kills your ego and makes you more humble. He doesn’t seem like that
So ..What’s the goal …and is there one ..because if you reach it ..the fun is over ..
john mayer is married to metaphor .
Him saying the shit posting thing had me cracking up
There are countless successful song writers that lay down a riff, a loop or music, and add lyrics after the fact.
So I dissagree. STING is the best example. How many hits does Sting have??
That's actually how most people write songs!
anemoia..
How to get depressed in less than a minute 💀 man that facility he has to write a song and lyrics in less time than a wink get me disturbed
years of experience and just doing it
0:55 what a bs. Most of my best ideas come out of improv and playing around
increase john meyer xD
Stay away from Dave Chappelle?
i mean seeing new light mv, sob rock is clearly a shitpost lmaooo
john mayer writing process: pentatonic
Literally 😂
Way too much self confidence
That would be true if we weren't talking about John Mayer. It's John Mayer.
John is Jesus. That's all there is to it. lol jk but he sure is a funny dude, love him to death :)
Forget the music, this man should be directing movies....
Ladies and gentleman the second coming of Christ but in music form
the interviewers are cringe.
Will John Mayer ever stop looking like a 33 years old?
Step 1... sleep with as many hot models and actresses as possible.
Step 2... write songs about all the crazy models and actresses you slept with.
Done!
Tf you talking about? he has 0 songs dedicated to one specific person. He’s not like Taylor Swift writing songs about specific exes where it’s obvious who it is about. He said it himself, that for example even your body is a wonderland is not about a special person but about the nostalgia of loving someone like that when he was 16. He has lots of love songs but his dating list has nothing to do with that
he's got a whole album that's not about any particular relationship and when does write love songs it's about settling down and having kids lol , update your inner Wikipedia on him 😉
Step 3... date and sleep with a child, then pretend it never happened
@@niekvanwensen Paper Doll is about Taylor (and terrible and misogynistic too)
@@Anna_Crossing it's not about her ,lmao y'all acting as if he wrote it in front of,like it's 2023 get over it
Music is good but Jesus Christ is everything.
Worst inter viewer
I love John's music and all of his acoustic stuff, But im trying to fig. out why he speaks in parables.does he read the bible alot ?
No way the man who said Dear John was cheap songwriting is now GIVING songwriting advice...
Yeah cuz an attack like that on a specific person is pretty cheap, especially with that many fans supporting her who will believe anything she says (that’s actually fucking dangerous, John has had death threats… you can’t say you support that right?!). Besides, you probably haven’t heard a single song of John (next to paper doll probably, and maybe some hit like your body is a wonderland or new light), who are you to judge who can or can’t give songwriting advice? This guy has won multiple Grammys!!
@@niekvanwensen So has Taylor. also she was 19 and he was 32 when they dated. fuck John Mayer
@@Anna_Crossing that’s still no reason to cancel him and send him death threats?!!!💀 you know how often that happens when there’s a larger age gap? Get the fuck over it, it has been 13 years. Swifties are absolutely insane for her
He's a beast at songwriting though? What are you on about? Definitely one of the top active musicians. Dude comes up with crazy licks and solos like it's nothing
It was cheap songwriting, have another listen to this man’s music and you’ll find that he knows ex-fuckin-actly what he’s talking about
For what it's worth, here's my advice for musicians: "Become a plumber or an electrician!"
Not all musicians can become plumbers or electricians. They actually take skill and handy work lol
@@dylanphelan3010 🤣 There's more than a little truth there. However, unless you leap out of the womb as a famous rock star with wealthy supportive parents, becoming a good professional musician requires not only both skill and handiwork, but also dedication and sincere study, and when you've finally reached a professional level of skill and handiwork, unlike plumbing and electrical work (which require some study and only a minimal level of customer satisfaction), as a musician, you will have to beg door-to-door for work, and you'll find scant opportunity, and even less monetary reward for the time spent learning your craft. And employers will always be trying to scam you or cheat you. The other two professions I mentioned just sit by the phone and take as many orders as they can handle, set the fees and screw the customers. Do I sound cynical?
The guy in the first interview talking over John is annoying
Who cares about john generic mayer
He is a great player, not a great song writer
john mayer is so cringe
Here's some good advice for musicians: Don't listen to John Mayer. It's a waste of time. Feel free to make music however you want, and stop watching interviews of people who have been lucky enough to have great success.
Why would he be “lucky” to have great succes? he definitely worked hard for it
That’s stupid. He’s arguably the greatest guitar player+song writer of our generation.
Loser take. Obviously these videos become non-constructive if that’s all you do and don’t actually write or practice. I’m sure luck pops up here and there for him, but “lucky” is absolutely not the term to describe his career. Not sure if you were pissed off about something else when you wrote your post, but it’s a loser take.