Thank you. Had a previous video editor do them this way and unfortunately don't have the raw footage. A couple like this, but did 12 in all and they don't have this type of captions.
Turn the screen to the horizontal view, zoom in to cut off the captions and move the screen down so the heads are in the view. But yeah, when I saw the rapid fire captions I said this is gonna drive me nuts, I won't be able to watch the whole thing...so I did the above.
Dizzy Gillespie said that rhythm was far more important than note choices. He said (paraphrasing): "Throw a rhythm out there and hang some notes on it."
Not only is this guy a criminally underrated guitarist and a personal inspiration of mine, he sounds like a humble and down to earth person. Could listen to him talking for hours! Really top advice right there from a true master of his craft!
@@DigitalMirrorComputing most top players are humble. I remember Randy Rhoads saying something like (I'm paraphrasing) when I was younger I thought really good players are arrogant. But then I realized it's the opposite. Because eventually you realize how much work you have to put in to become really good and the harder you work, the more humble you become.
Lots of good stuff in here! The luck/talent discussion is an interesting one, and while there is truth to it, it's worth considering what effect your belief in it itself can have. If you get too caught up in it, you could just be creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. A tricky subject for sure, especially in the current age of social media where supertalents are presented to us constantly.
Priceless advices from an incredible guitarist. Tom is so humble, honest, and pragmatic. My only regret is that he don't publish more of his music on UA-cam. Thank you so much, guys !
The warm water technique I stole from Petrucci a good 25 years ago or more. You'd be surprised how much better your hands feel if you wash your hands in hot soapy water for a good 45 seconds. So many of my guitar playing buddies use this warm water thing & it works wonders.
I can hardly believe what I just heard Tom saying. I am very encouraged to get back to playing. Thank you, Daniel, for this presentation/inquiry with Tom.
Hi Daniel, thank you for the interview! It's so great to see and hear Tom's view on many guitar and improvisation topics. Tom Quayle is a legend and criminally underrated. When I first saw him online around 2008/2009, I was blown away by his fluid lines. He's so unique!! Also, his gear demos are the best and tell you what you need to know about a piece of gear in the best way possible.
Great video edit, Tom is an amazing musician. Wish I had a guy like him around when I was younger and learning to play. And I can bet most Tom Quayle fans went to search for his Jazz 3 picks too 😂. Thanks for sharing this interview, so insightful and to the point.
Im only a few minutes in and already this is a really high quality interview bro. Can tell Tom is really intentional about his skill development and its super helpful to hear about his process.
Excellent interview with an extraordinary guitarist. Thank you Tom for mentioning the much underrated Brett Garsed who is a fabulous Aussie guitarist. Love your work.
I agree 100% with the point of going to see live music. I feel like when I go and watch a live performance and the players are killing it there is some connection that happens in the brain that goes "oh that's possible to do in real life" and my chops improve afterwards...
This is amazing, Tom's wisdom is so encouraging for people like me who are using Daniel's course material and trying to relearn guitar the right way after being stuck in one place for so long. This is the one UA-cam channel that made me believe I can be amazing.
Thanks so much, brother! Tom was one of the biggest influences on me as a teacher. Literally so articulate and clear in his teaching. A huge inspiration for me.
Great interview! Great questions! You touch on all the most important aspects of a guitar player's journey! And the answers are just as great, they serve as a light that shines our way through the maze, showing our paths in this amazing journey! Thanks!
Tom has became an influence of mine specially in the "find a way to make it work" sense, i have a similar problem with Alt picking, so i practiced economy picking and got obsessed with making it work with pentatonics, which clicked a bit after listening to Josh Meader. Also Tom is the main player who got me interested in legato + hybrid picking and intervalic thinking
My whole life has been a plateau, I've learned to thrive on discouragement so that any advancement has been gravy. This is to say there are no plateaus: there is ALWAYS something else to do. And it begins to show itself as more connections are made from the fingers through the mind/ears to the theoretical. Music is infinite, so what does a plateau signify but something to laugh at like a barrier made of balloons.
Thanks Tom for your advice in the practice of the guitar and your mindset. Daniel, you asked the good questions and i have my answers, thank you so much.
I’m 67 and I find that it’s harder to find the motivation to practice and play everyday. But then again, I’m not a Tom Quayle level musician. Great video.
5:58 nice to hear this - I've never stuck with a routine more than a few days (unless I have a major time crunch, which is rare these days). There's too much fun and fulfillment to be had following the golden thread of curiosity.
Been playing for about 30 years. Thousands of hours of practice, 4 years of private guitarlessons with two different teachers. This is what I learned : I still suck. Talent is real. I cannot play fast licks, my hands won't do it...not even after thousands of hours of practice. I cannot remember a single song I have learned. I cannot remember any of the theory I studied hard to understand. When I learned a song, it took so long I got sick of the song and didn't want to play it anymore. I have wanted to play well for most of my life, spent (wasted?) an incredible amount of time and money, without much result. Sometimes you want something you just suck at. It's just what it is. Practice will only bring you so far.
Sorry to read that but don’t be so tough on yourself. I have been playing for over 40 years at a semi pro level and got frustrated like you, but the biggest growth has been in the last 10 years. All the things that drove me to despair about my playing is all good now and that is through sheer perseverance 😅
@@bodd66 : I guess so. But it's probably also good to realize I'll never be another Guthrie Govan, no matter the effort. It's just a hobby for me, so it's not a problem. But I think you have to take the whole "there is no talent, only effort" talk with a grain of salt. If you don't have it, you don't. Not everyone can be an Olympic level sprinter or a basketball player, no matter how hard they work for it. There's also such a thing as physical and mental ability you just cannot change.
Cuz you are following the crowd, man who knows you might even have your own way of playing the guitar totally different from the traditional way of playing a different approach. A different kind of spectrum. I meself am on a journey to make a different approach to how guitars.sound like (playing wise not as a hardware wise).
On the question of talent vs work ethic, his answer didn't mention the key thing that he said in the beginning: obsession. People that we admire are as good as they are because they were obsessed with playing the instrument and did as much as the life allowed and put playing the instrument ahead of anything else in their life. At least in the early years when you didn't have to deal with the stuff you do as an adult.
You need talent but rest is about obsessive work ethic. In my opinion forcing yourself works too, starting is often the hardest part. Just like in running (which I also do) I almost never want go out for a run. But once I've done the first mile or so, I think "this is not so bad" and by the end of then run I'm extatic. Guitar playing and lot of things work the same way. You have to break the initial resistance of your immobile state, get moving. There's always friction at that point, in all walks of life. Starting a session of practice is the hardest part. Starting to read a book is the hardest part etc.
@@DanielSeriffMusic I've heard it so many times from some of best players during workshops, festivals etc...: "that's all I wanted to do, all I cared about"
I like at the end he says it’s all down to chance. It really is. Most musicians that ‘make it’ only do so because they had the luxury of time/resources/networks etc Just play and have fun
Thanks for commenting. I agree "just play and have fun." But, he's actually not talking about making it whatsoever. He's just talking about becoming great. "Making it" is an entirely different can of worms!
hahaha, that t-shirt he is wearing, Strum, I live right down the street from it. It is half restaurant/bar half guitar store. They have amazing vintage amps, and very nice modern ones also, as well as great guitars. I wonder why everyone says work on time/timing, when I ask my musician friends they say don't worry about that. Why is that? is it just taken for granted? Or something that you gain with experience? Or is just very important for pro's that make a living playing? I am an intermediate guitarist and am starting to plateau with some things.
Very cool!! The people you are asking have no idea what they are talking about. Sorry to be brash but timing, by far, is the most important thing you could possibly work on.
I want to learn sweep and economy picking so so badly. I’ve watched a few hours of videos now. Tried to do it slow as hell, and any tiny speed increase it just becomes shit. It’s truly getting to me. I feel like I’m gonna have to practice nothing but these two specific things for decades to break through the barrier.
I think there are a lot of factors here. I remember thinking that everything was going to take forever. I'd recommend learning how to work smarter, not harder. take your time. Patience is so important. The physical aspect of those things is hard at first.
The determinist answer at the end was very interesting and disturbing. I'm quite according to him, but i will add that choosing activities that fits with our personality is probably the first key. Next, there's obviously a piece of free will in the fact of strongly decide to cut the noise and distractions, to focus on our goals. At least, according to his statements, stopping struggling, to let our profound nature be.
The first band I ever had we practiced in cinder block building with not heater. We had one toaster to warm our fingers up between songs. It was brutal. It’s very hard to play guitar when ur hands r about frozen 🤪
Definitely. If you’re looking to get a Lydian sound over a major 7 chord. You can take a minor pentatonic scale and play it from the 7th scale degree. For example. You’re playing over a Cmajor7 chord and want to apply some Lydian sounds. The 7th is B. Play a B minor pentatonic scale and you get some great Lydian sounds because you get the 7, 9 3 #11 and 13.
The auto translate made me laugh “go out organs blazing” instead of all guns blazing 😂. It’s a great QandA session .. no waffle and direct .. but the auto generated captions will turn people off .. or just make them laugh at the mistakes and detract from the messages trying to be conveyed in my opinion.
Hahahaha. Thanks. Unfortunately these were done by a former video editor whose first language wasn’t English. Can’t go back now. There were 3-4 of these done this way. Another 8 that weren’t. Appreciate your feedback.
I love Tom’s attitude, technique, choice of gear, (as long as their are a minimal use of modelers, lol) and I hear everything he’s saying at 62 years old I would agree at every point, I can not practice the 6 hours a day as I did in my 30s-40s or the 4 hours a day in my 40s-50s I’m lucky to manage 2 hours of straight practice without back, shoulder, elbow discomfort while standing, and so one needs to sit at some Point if they wish to continue to entertain using the sounds of the soul as opposed to the sounds of a aging sore body
Very interesting. But I don't think this subtitle style works for this long video. Not that I would need subtitles, but the eye naturally starts to follow them and they are not easy for the eye in long stints (because of the strobe like effect it creates)
Hahaha. A real whoopsies moment but I think more people are commenting because of it, so I'll take it. I had my new editor re-edit the captions on the other videos that were done by the former editor.
Study as much online as you can. Fundamentals mainly. Learn about how to play the essential parts of rhythm. Then record yourself (film and audio) as much as possible. Listen to the greats and figure out what your guitar playing is missing. Learn to teach yourself and use video to help.
Four notes on the right beat sell more tunes than a Brandenburg concerto. Rhythm is paramount, it's the thing, it's basically everything. Nonetheless, I keep listening to the Brandenburg concertos, and I'm not paying for any four notes on the beat. Because musical taste develops
@@DanielSeriffMusic I was in a vehicle knocked over 1/10 of a mile from the point of impact years ago. Those moist heated 140-160 degrees weighted pads feel great, use a couple of towels to keep them from burning you. Physical Therapy years ago would charge around $80.00 - $120.00 U.S. You can buy the items and do the same treatment at home saving you big money. There are some that are microwaveable you can take on the road. 👍
interview what interview this is not a live conversation there is no useless chat and preamble ramblings this is a Q+A tape = Tom then Q then Tom then Q ...x amount of times then outro for Q to jam an end statement... fin'
Please stop the one word subs. It is annoying AF! Almost clicked away just because of this. There are YT Subs you can switch on an off, you know. Which is a shame because you ask alle the right questions ;)
I agree with him on free will and luck. We humans are so easily manipulated and misled. My theory is, everyone’s brain is wired differently. That’s where luck with genetics comes in. You may want to be a great musician but your brain just can’t make the connections. Its nothing personal, it is what it is. There may be someone who struggles to play a simple 3 chord rythm but can frame a 5000 square foot house in two weeks with no blueprints. It’s lifes joke on you. You may be an all time genius at something you hate to do but couldn’t do what you wanted to do if your life depended on it. A sort of “unnatural” selection. Yeah, you can try to retrain your brain, but it’s gonna take a monumental mental effort and a monstrous amount of repetition. I’ve always struggled with guitar, but very recently I started playing around with piano. For some reason it seems easier to me, it seems to come “naturally”. Ive made more progress in 6 weeks on the keyboard than I have in more than 30 years on the guitar. Bizarre. I think the number 1 skill for any instrument is to learn how to separate your left hand from your right hand then make them work with each other in their own separate bubbles. For drummers it’s worse, you’ve got to separate 4 appendages, perfect them independently, then make them cooperate with each other. If you’re brain isn’t naturally wired for this kind of activity it’s gonna be a struggle.
Timing. If you don’t have it, don’t even try playing an instrument. How many jams have I had with people who have big personalities, play loud, do all these licks, but have no timing. Lots. Highly annoying , very common.
@@DanielSeriffMusic I don’t know man, if you’re not timing naturally - an elementary test, just being able to tap on a table 4 even crotchets and then 8ths - you’re not ever going to get it. Not sure that can be learned. I have mates who have been playing camp fire songs for 40 years, but if you play drums to it, they just can not change chords when they should, all they can do is play solo (and badly) and not listen to anyone else. No instinctual timing.
UA-cam needs more guitar content like this
Thanks so much. More interviews coming.
The interview is great. The captions distract you from hearing what’s going on. It would be better as paragraphs. The captions dominate the screen.
Thank you. Had a previous video editor do them this way and unfortunately don't have the raw footage. A couple like this, but did 12 in all and they don't have this type of captions.
Also there are quite a few typos. 🫣
@@RyanMcQuenyes. He was polish. Won’t happen in the next videos but seemed people looked past it!
@@DanielSeriffMusic the content is great!
Turn the screen to the horizontal view, zoom in to cut off the captions and move the screen down so the heads are in the view.
But yeah, when I saw the rapid fire captions I said this is gonna drive me nuts, I won't be able to watch the whole thing...so I did the above.
Dizzy Gillespie said that rhythm was far more important than note choices. He said (paraphrasing): "Throw a rhythm out there and hang some notes on it."
Absolutely!!
Great quote!
Not only is this guy a criminally underrated guitarist and a personal inspiration of mine, he sounds like a humble and down to earth person. Could listen to him talking for hours! Really top advice right there from a true master of his craft!
Truth!
@@DigitalMirrorComputing most top players are humble. I remember Randy Rhoads saying something like (I'm paraphrasing) when I was younger I thought really good players are arrogant. But then I realized it's the opposite. Because eventually you realize how much work you have to put in to become really good and the harder you work, the more humble you become.
Super interview ! Not cliches but real questions for musicians... thank you.
So glad you enjoyed it.
Lots of good stuff in here!
The luck/talent discussion is an interesting one, and while there is truth to it, it's worth considering what effect your belief in it itself can have. If you get too caught up in it, you could just be creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. A tricky subject for sure, especially in the current age of social media where supertalents are presented to us constantly.
Totally! Appreciate the comment.
Wow, Tom Quayle is such a humble person. He's so honest and transparent!
He’s the best!
Priceless advices from an incredible guitarist.
Tom is so humble, honest, and pragmatic.
My only regret is that he don't publish more of his music on UA-cam.
Thank you so much, guys !
He truly is.
The warm water technique I stole from Petrucci a good 25 years ago or more. You'd be surprised how much better your hands feel if you wash your hands in hot soapy water for a good 45 seconds. So many of my guitar playing buddies use this warm water thing & it works wonders.
It really helps
Doesn’t it soften your finger tips?
@@officialWWMja ja , I go for two runs around the block.
I drink 2 shots of tequila 😂😂
@@officialWWM tried soaking your hands in tequila and salt?
I can hardly believe what I just heard Tom saying. I am very encouraged to get back to playing. Thank you, Daniel, for this presentation/inquiry with Tom.
You’ve got this!! Thank you.
Hi Daniel, thank you for the interview! It's so great to see and hear Tom's view on many guitar and improvisation topics. Tom Quayle is a legend and criminally underrated. When I first saw him online around 2008/2009, I was blown away by his fluid lines. He's so unique!! Also, his gear demos are the best and tell you what you need to know about a piece of gear in the best way possible.
He’s incredible!
Great video edit, Tom is an amazing musician. Wish I had a guy like him around when I was younger and learning to play. And I can bet most Tom Quayle fans went to search for his Jazz 3 picks too 😂. Thanks for sharing this interview, so insightful and to the point.
Haha! Thanks so much, Gary. Tom was a huge influence on my playing and teaching.
Im only a few minutes in and already this is a really high quality interview bro. Can tell Tom is really intentional about his skill development and its super helpful to hear about his process.
Thanks brother! Literally the best teacher I was able to study with. He's incredibly articulate!
Excellent interview with an extraordinary guitarist. Thank you Tom for mentioning the much underrated Brett Garsed who is a fabulous Aussie guitarist. Love your work.
Thanks for watching!
I agree 100% with the point of going to see live music. I feel like when I go and watch a live performance and the players are killing it there is some connection that happens in the brain that goes "oh that's possible to do in real life" and my chops improve afterwards...
It’s incredibly inspiring!
This is amazing, Tom's wisdom is so encouraging for people like me who are using Daniel's course material and trying to relearn guitar the right way after being stuck in one place for so long. This is the one UA-cam channel that made me believe I can be amazing.
Thanks so much, brother! Tom was one of the biggest influences on me as a teacher. Literally so articulate and clear in his teaching. A huge inspiration for me.
Absolutely Brilliant Player and a Brilliant Man.Welcome back Tom! It's been way to long👌
Man, yes! He has been pivotal for my guitar growth!
I went 43 years. Holding off and waiting for it to come really works, Tom.
Thanks for watching
Great interview! Great questions! You touch on all the most important aspects of a guitar player's journey! And the answers are just as great, they serve as a light that shines our way through the maze, showing our paths in this amazing journey! Thanks!
So glad you enjoyed it
This video is packed with fantastic advice. Thanks!
Thanks so much for watching!
Excellent questions, excellent answers
Thanks so much
Been playing for 25 years. This guy's spot on.
Thanks for watching
Best questions, wonderful answers. Thanks for doing this!
So glad you enjoyed it!
Very insightful and I love his philosophy behind his reasons
He’s incredibly articulate!
Great interview with one of the best players around. Thanks again for asking these very insightful set of questions.
Thank you so much!
Tom has became an influence of mine specially in the "find a way to make it work" sense, i have a similar problem with Alt picking, so i practiced economy picking and got obsessed with making it work with pentatonics, which clicked a bit after listening to Josh Meader. Also Tom is the main player who got me interested in legato + hybrid picking and intervalic thinking
Tom is so awesome
My whole life has been a plateau, I've learned to thrive on discouragement so that any advancement has been gravy. This is to say there are no plateaus: there is ALWAYS something else to do. And it begins to show itself as more connections are made from the fingers through the mind/ears to the theoretical. Music is infinite, so what does a plateau signify but something to laugh at like a barrier made of balloons.
Music is infinite! Love that. A life long journey.
That was a really great interview
Thank you!
Thanks Tom for your advice in the practice of the guitar and your mindset. Daniel, you asked the good questions and i have my answers, thank you so much.
Thanks for watching!
Great questions.
Top interview, lads 🇬🇧 🎸
Thanks so much for watching.
Great interview. Tom is a treasure of insights and inspirations.
He’s been an incredible inspiration and teacher for me!
Great interview! Needed to hear this tonight it is much appreciated. Very intelligent player!
Excellent!
I’m 67 and I find that it’s harder to find the motivation to practice and play everyday. But then again, I’m not a Tom Quayle level musician. Great video.
Thanks for the comment! Keep practicing and it gets easier!
5:58 nice to hear this - I've never stuck with a routine more than a few days (unless I have a major time crunch, which is rare these days). There's too much fun and fulfillment to be had following the golden thread of curiosity.
To each their own for sure.
Been playing for about 30 years. Thousands of hours of practice, 4 years of private guitarlessons with two different teachers. This is what I learned : I still suck. Talent is real. I cannot play fast licks, my hands won't do it...not even after thousands of hours of practice. I cannot remember a single song I have learned. I cannot remember any of the theory I studied hard to understand. When I learned a song, it took so long I got sick of the song and didn't want to play it anymore. I have wanted to play well for most of my life, spent (wasted?) an incredible amount of time and money, without much result. Sometimes you want something you just suck at. It's just what it is. Practice will only bring you so far.
Sorry to read that but don’t be so tough on yourself. I have been playing for over 40 years at a semi pro level and got frustrated like you, but the biggest growth has been in the last 10 years. All the things that drove me to despair about my playing is all good now and that is through sheer perseverance 😅
@@bodd66 : I guess so. But it's probably also good to realize I'll never be another Guthrie Govan, no matter the effort. It's just a hobby for me, so it's not a problem. But I think you have to take the whole "there is no talent, only effort" talk with a grain of salt. If you don't have it, you don't. Not everyone can be an Olympic level sprinter or a basketball player, no matter how hard they work for it. There's also such a thing as physical and mental ability you just cannot change.
Remember mom said your special
Cuz you are following the crowd, man who knows you might even have your own way of playing the guitar totally different from the traditional way of playing a different approach. A different kind of spectrum. I meself am on a journey to make a different approach to how guitars.sound like (playing wise not as a hardware wise).
why bother playing fast? play the right notes
Brilliant interview, thank you guys
Thanks so much
Awesome interview! Thank you!
Thanks for watching!
Great interview! Feedback: the captions very distracting.
Cool. Thanks for the feedback!
lots of great info and insight into your journey cheers
Tom is awesome!
On the question of talent vs work ethic, his answer didn't mention the key thing that he said in the beginning: obsession. People that we admire are as good as they are because they were obsessed with playing the instrument and did as much as the life allowed and put playing the instrument ahead of anything else in their life. At least in the early years when you didn't have to deal with the stuff you do as an adult.
You need talent but rest is about obsessive work ethic. In my opinion forcing yourself works too, starting is often the hardest part. Just like in running (which I also do) I almost never want go out for a run. But once I've done the first mile or so, I think "this is not so bad" and by the end of then run I'm extatic. Guitar playing and lot of things work the same way. You have to break the initial resistance of your immobile state, get moving. There's always friction at that point, in all walks of life. Starting a session of practice is the hardest part. Starting to read a book is the hardest part etc.
Obsession is a perfect point.
@@DanielSeriffMusic I've heard it so many times from some of best players during workshops, festivals etc...: "that's all I wanted to do, all I cared about"
Great mix of questions, and nice that it wasn't all on gear and tuning in 4ths 😅
Hahaha. Thank you.
21 minutes of great questions too.
Thanks so much!
Great interview
Thanks so much!
Excellent interview and advice.
Thanks so much for watching.
Thanks, the questions were great !
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video man! Love Tom's work~
Thanks for taking the time to watch. He’s awesome!
Excellent questions. Kudos to the interviewer. Thanks to all involved for sharing !
Thanks so much!
I like at the end he says it’s all down to chance. It really is. Most musicians that ‘make it’ only do so because they had the luxury of time/resources/networks etc
Just play and have fun
Thanks for commenting.
I agree "just play and have fun." But, he's actually not talking about making it whatsoever. He's just talking about becoming great. "Making it" is an entirely different can of worms!
Fantastic interview!
Thank you so much
This is so good, thank you
Excellent! Glad you enjoyed.
Thanks for that video 😊
Thanks for watching
Now this is an interview.
Glad you enjoyed it.
Really enjoyed it.
Thanks for watching!
Good questions. Great answers
Thanks for watching!
Very helpful!
Awesome!
Great advice!
Thanks for watching
This is gold
Thank you for watching
excellent video!
Would love to interview you on the next go round!
this was so good
Thanks so much
hahaha, that t-shirt he is wearing, Strum, I live right down the street from it. It is half restaurant/bar half guitar store. They have amazing vintage amps, and very nice modern ones also, as well as great guitars. I wonder why everyone says work on time/timing, when I ask my musician friends they say don't worry about that. Why is that? is it just taken for granted? Or something that you gain with experience? Or is just very important for pro's that make a living playing? I am an intermediate guitarist and am starting to plateau with some things.
Very cool!!
The people you are asking have no idea what they are talking about. Sorry to be brash but timing, by far, is the most important thing you could possibly work on.
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I want to learn sweep and economy picking so so badly. I’ve watched a few hours of videos now. Tried to do it slow as hell, and any tiny speed increase it just becomes shit.
It’s truly getting to me. I feel like I’m gonna have to practice nothing but these two specific things for decades to break through the barrier.
I think there are a lot of factors here. I remember thinking that everything was going to take forever. I'd recommend learning how to work smarter, not harder. take your time. Patience is so important. The physical aspect of those things is hard at first.
I always found the hardest thing about playing guitar, I comming up with something important to say with the instrument.
I would say that’s the higher art form aspect of it, for sure.
The determinist answer at the end was very interesting and disturbing.
I'm quite according to him, but i will add that choosing activities that fits with our personality is probably the first key.
Next, there's obviously a piece of free will in the fact of strongly decide to cut the noise and distractions, to focus on our goals.
At least, according to his statements, stopping struggling, to let our profound nature be.
I found his response surprising
Canadian pianist Glenn Gould used the ‘hands in a basin of warm water’ regime extensively in the 1960’s.
Sage advice.
I've been an air guitarists for over 50 years I can play almost every song I've ever heard practice practice practice people you can do it
😂😂
The first band I ever had we practiced in cinder block building with not heater. We had one toaster to warm our fingers up between songs. It was brutal. It’s very hard to play guitar when ur hands r about frozen 🤪
Wow!!! Sounds cold
can anyone elaborate on the minor pentatonic lydian thing he mentioned?
Definitely. If you’re looking to get a Lydian sound over a major 7 chord. You can take a minor pentatonic scale and play it from the 7th scale degree.
For example. You’re playing over a Cmajor7 chord and want to apply some Lydian sounds. The 7th is B. Play a B minor pentatonic scale and you get some great Lydian sounds because you get the 7, 9 3 #11 and 13.
@@DanielSeriffMusicmakes perfect sense, thank you!
The auto translate made me laugh “go out organs blazing” instead of all guns blazing 😂. It’s a great QandA session .. no waffle and direct .. but the auto generated captions will turn people off .. or just make them laugh at the mistakes and detract from the messages trying to be conveyed in my opinion.
Hahahaha. Thanks. Unfortunately these were done by a former video editor whose first language wasn’t English. Can’t go back now. There were 3-4 of these done this way. Another 8 that weren’t. Appreciate your feedback.
I love Tom’s attitude, technique, choice of gear, (as long as their are a minimal use of modelers, lol) and I hear everything he’s saying
at 62 years old I would agree at every point, I can not practice the 6 hours a day as I did in my 30s-40s or the 4 hours a day in my 40s-50s
I’m lucky to manage 2 hours of straight practice without back, shoulder, elbow discomfort while standing, and so one needs to sit at some
Point if they wish to continue to entertain using the sounds of the soul as opposed to the sounds of a aging sore body
Yep. Practice becomes about super efficiency.
Very interesting. But I don't think this subtitle style works for this long video. Not that I would need subtitles, but the eye naturally starts to follow them and they are not easy for the eye in long stints (because of the strobe like effect it creates)
Hilarious. I’ve had 5x as many comments because of the awful subtitles.
@@DanielSeriffMusic Haha well maybe they are working then.. in a way
Strum is faaaaancy af thats where you go when you want to find crazy rare mint vintage guitars
Interesting
I have no idea who this dude is but it’s an interesting interview.
He’s an excellent guitarist and human
I love Tom Quayle and this was a great interview. But wtf are these captions?!?? Incredibly distracting.
Hahaha. A real whoopsies moment but I think more people are commenting because of it, so I'll take it.
I had my new editor re-edit the captions on the other videos that were done by the former editor.
Haha fair point. Great questions, regardless. I still enjoyed the video!
Greeeeeeg howe
Oh yes!
I’m just a lifelong beginner with no money for lessons and no time feel so what can I do about that ?
Study as much online as you can. Fundamentals mainly. Learn about how to play the essential parts of rhythm. Then record yourself (film and audio) as much as possible. Listen to the greats and figure out what your guitar playing is missing. Learn to teach yourself and use video to help.
Four notes on the right beat sell more tunes than a Brandenburg concerto. Rhythm is paramount, it's the thing, it's basically everything. Nonetheless, I keep listening to the Brandenburg concertos, and I'm not paying for any four notes on the beat. Because musical taste develops
Interesting
Stanley Jordan, was warming his hands in hot water back in the late 70's. Not needed if your not a guitar shredder.
Hmm. I think everyone could use to warm their hands.
❤️🎸
Woot woot!
Yeah I ageee we have to wait till we feel the desire to play naturally va forcing it for sure like all things
Definitely
That’s funny I also hardly play guitar other than the clinics and master classes I teach lol
Hah!
Tom sounds sad. I hope he is doing well, he's a tremendous player.
Wonderful human.
Tom, google physical therapy weighted moist heat pads. You can really feel the benefits almost immediately.
Nice!
@@DanielSeriffMusic I was in a vehicle knocked over 1/10 of a mile from the point of impact years ago. Those moist heated 140-160 degrees weighted pads feel great, use a couple of towels to keep them from burning you. Physical Therapy years ago would charge around $80.00 - $120.00 U.S. You can buy the items and do the same treatment at home saving you big money. There are some that are microwaveable you can take on the road. 👍
@@VonBluesman Awesome! I will check that out. I've actually been having some issues lately. Thank you!
So what is it ?
He says in the interview that it is luck.
@@DanielSeriffMusic ohhhh ok yea makes sense
does he mean timing? good time...weird way to put it
A lot of people use those words. Yes. He is talking about rhythm.
I've always put my hands in ice-cold water, since it gets the blood flowing and warms them up from the inside.
Interesting! I cannot relate to that.
interview what interview this is not a live conversation there is no useless chat and preamble ramblings
this is a Q+A tape = Tom then Q then Tom then Q ...x amount of times then outro for Q to jam an end
statement... fin'
I can’t tell if you’re pleased or not pleased.
Interesting view about all being down to luck in the end. Don't agree
Heard.
Please stop the one word subs. It is annoying AF! Almost clicked away just because of this. There are YT Subs you can switch on an off, you know. Which is a shame because you ask alle the right questions ;)
Hilarious. I’ve had 5x as many comments because of the awful subtitles.
@@DanielSeriffMusic So you did it on purpose? 😂 just kidding.
@@berndkiltz Haha!
I agree with him on free will and luck. We humans are so easily manipulated and misled.
My theory is, everyone’s brain is wired differently.
That’s where luck with genetics comes in. You may want to be a great musician but your brain just can’t make the connections. Its nothing personal, it is what it is.
There may be someone who struggles to play a simple 3 chord rythm but can frame a 5000 square foot house in two weeks with no blueprints.
It’s lifes joke on you. You may be an all time genius at something you hate to do but couldn’t do what you wanted to do if your life depended on it. A sort of
“unnatural” selection.
Yeah, you can try to retrain your brain, but it’s gonna take a monumental mental effort and a monstrous amount of repetition.
I’ve always struggled with guitar, but very recently I started playing around with piano. For some reason it seems easier to me, it seems to come “naturally”.
Ive made more progress in 6 weeks on the keyboard than I have in more than 30 years on the guitar.
Bizarre.
I think the number 1 skill for any instrument is to learn how to separate your left hand from your right hand then make them work with each other in their own separate bubbles.
For drummers it’s worse, you’ve got to separate 4 appendages, perfect them independently, then make them cooperate with each other.
If you’re brain isn’t naturally wired for this kind of activity it’s gonna be a struggle.
It’s an extremely interesting point of view. Thanks for your comment.
For the love of god, what's the idea of those annoying captions running?
Was an accident but actually caused infinitely more comments on this video and therefore improved engagement and reach.
Timing. If you don’t have it, don’t even try playing an instrument. How many jams have I had with people who have big personalities, play loud, do all these licks, but have no timing. Lots. Highly annoying , very common.
Interesting.
Your comment comes off as is timing can’t be practiced or learned. Which, it absolutely can.
But, in general, yes…timing is everything.
@@DanielSeriffMusic I don’t know man, if you’re not timing naturally - an elementary test, just being able to tap on a table 4 even crotchets and then 8ths - you’re not ever going to get it. Not sure that can be learned. I have mates who have been playing camp fire songs for 40 years, but if you play drums to it, they just can not change chords when they should, all they can do is play solo (and badly) and not listen to anyone else. No instinctual timing.
Lose the captions.
Not only are they annoying asf, they're also incorrect.
Thank you!
The subtitles and chopped editing are really annoying (and unnecessary)
Thanks for the comment! 👍👍
WTF are those annoying captions all about? Ended up not watching what looks like an interesting conversation.
Sorry you missed out
Interesting interview, thank you!
Just avoid those "word by word" subtitles: they are awful, distracting, irritating.
Haha. Was an accident that can’t be undone. Oh well!
The word-by-word transcript sucks. Very distracting.
Hilarious. I’ve had 5x as many comments because of the awful subtitles.
It's alright I still watched the whole thing.