Make Progress Faster by Putting Your Guitar Down ★ Acoustic Tuesday 304
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- Опубліковано 1 чер 2024
- Put the guitar down and listen up - no, seriously. Put it down in your lap and unlock a new way to approach the acoustic guitar.
On this episode, we're diving into something that has affected all of us guitar players at one point or another: the dreaded guitar rut. You know, that feeling when you're stuck, unmotivated, or just unable to find creativity in your playing? Trust me, I've been there, but fear not, I've got a solution for you!
In this episode, I'm going to take you on a journey into playing your guitar lap style with a slide. Now, this might seem like a peculiar solution, but it's all about gaining perspective and shifting the way you think about playing your guitar. I firmly believe this change can be a lifeline when you're stuck in a rut.
Here are the five incredible benefits of playing lap style that we're going to explore together:
1. Gain New Perspective: By laying the guitar across your lap, you'll approach the instrument in a whole new way, refreshing your creativity.
2. Learn Alternate Tunings: Lap style opens the door to various tunings, allowing you to explore sounds you never thought possible.
3. Finger Style Proficiency: You'll see some exciting advancements in your fingerpicking technique, trust me on this one.
4. Ear Training: Tuning your guitar differently and playing lap style will help you develop a more refined and trained ear.
5. Innovation through Limitation: By limiting yourself to this new style, you'll find innovation in places you least expected.
Whether you're a beginner looking for new challenges or a seasoned player needing a breath of fresh air, this episode is packed with insights and exercises that will surely reignite your passion for playing. So grab your guitar, a slide, and let's break free from that rut together!
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Featured in this episode...
-@will_mcnicol
-@MuleResonatorGuitars
-@YamahaGuitarsOfficial
-@TheBluegrassSituation
-@premierguitar
-@billystrings
#acousticguitar #lapsteel
00:00 - Intro
02:28 - 5 Benefits of Playing Lap Style
11:33 - Acoustic Guitar News pt. 1
16:41 - TAC Guitar Lick Challenge
24:11 - Acoustic Guitar News pt. 2 - Навчання та стиль
Thank you for the kind words, Tony!
Tony, Thank you for the lap style inspiration! Also, enjoyed your summary of the daily challenge.
Hey Tony and friends! Thanks for new information. I didn’t even know you could buy a nut extender to convert a standard guitar like a square neck. I’ve never seen one anywhere before you ever mentioned it. With just a few accessories, you’ve just made it more affordable for people to easily dabble and experiment without having to invest in a whole new guitar. It’s the kind of tool that would just take a few moments to convert between setups, so you don’t even need to own an extra guitar.
One more idea. I don’t know if there are special neck supports for this purpose and whether they are necessary. However, if someone is setting the guitar on a table or stand, I am thinking one could support a round neck with any setup block, like the popular blue one from MusicNomad that so many people have that gets into multiple positions. While laying on its side, that stand can go almost flat instead of pitching the guitar on an angle, which would be very suitable for keeping the round neck balanced. Hope this hack helps some fellow guitar geeks make the round necked guitar they already own a bit more stable - I sure know I’d find a way to smash my headstock without a neck support if I were to set my guitar on it’s side because I’m a klutz like that, lol. 😂
Hope to give this a try sometime!
Hey Tony,
For me when I’m in sort of a ‘rut’, I’ll typically go and learn another song and that seems to help. That being said, hence why I’m digging your new daily challenges man. This week you’re teaching us chords, progressions etc… to ‘Old Man’ aka Neil Young. Here’s a song I probably wouldn’t typically think about learning ( I’m a huge Zeppelin and classic rock fan but heavier than Neil Young ). I started doing your lesson and I was really getting into it, especially with the chords you showed us and even a few different ways to play it and of course improvising and using it into something we’d play on our own in different applications 🤙
Please keep doing what you’ve been doing these past few months man, it’s great. It also gives the beginner as well as more intermediate guitar geeks something new and fresh.
As always, thanks Tony!
Tommy~
PS ~
And this is a big PS ahah! The chord embellishments are also off the hook man, I knew a few of the ones you showed us however I also didn’t know a few either and they sound fantastic. This really spices things up and so useful when you’re playing with someone else rather than just strumming a run of the mill D chord or C chord etc…
It also lets you make changes without actually transitioning into an entirely different chord for something you can just sprinkle in there like a subtle spice in a food you just made 🤙
Great stuff man, love it.
Hey Tony, good point about perspective. I don’t have the nut part or a slide, but looking down at the guitar helped me improve a chord transition I’ve been struggling with 😎
Open tunings taught me about scales in a way that finally made sense to me. Learning Mandolin taught me about reletive minors. learning dobro style playing and mandolin opened up the world of music in a way that excasped me for over 20 years and made me a better guitar player as well.
Hi Toni, as an aside to perspective shifting for new ideas, there's a lot of circling the wagons online when it comes to simple idea capturing. A cool idea can be so fleeting it can evaporate in seconds and then it's gone forever 💥. I was wondering about an episode on how musicians use basic tech on phones especially, but also simple digital recorders and even ways of writing ideas down on paper in a language that still makes sense when you go back to it. I write this as a greying technophobe and frustrated song writer. Cheers
Do an episode on the almighty D. The tenacious kind haha
I often put my guitar down so I can pick up another guitar.
When my grandson was learning ukulele, I bought a couple (and a nice one for him too).I had to relearn where to add bass notes and, as a fingerstyle player, new patterns. I also have a few cigar box guitars (two 3 string and a 4 string) in open tunings. I learned much theory from these adventures.
By the way, my grandson is going into high-school and playing my old Streetmaster now (and piano) and is in the drum line.
I also have an old Harmony that needs a neck reset. I keep it in open D and use a bottleneck.
Nut Extenders aka Nut Risers , and occasionally Nut Converter , are available in a multitude of brand names . It seems there are only two different ones , with multiple brand names .
The one Tony showed with a cast dome shape , and the other is flat piece of metal with a right angle bend at the strategic location .
Either one usually works with most guitars , but sometimes with nut shape or headstock layout , one will fit better . They're both under $10 ( ok , with rampent infation , maybe $12 .)
Not common at local mainstream guitar shops , if a local shop carries a selection of Bluegrass / Folk instruments like Banjos , Mandos , Resos , they probably have Nut Extenders .
For starting out , occasional experementing , any basic * Grooved * ( aka Stevens style ) tone bar will be fine . Avoid the cylindrical " Bullet Bars " . They are specialized for Steel Guitars , using a volume pedal .
If you delve farther into more advanced Lap Style playing , you will develope preferences in subtle differences of angles and edges for extreme slants , complex pull offs , and rapid single stringing , but for basic straight chords
Tony, you nailed it! Lap style with open tunings opened my eyes to the guitar. With some theory and playing slide I can play and feel confident about it. Thanks!
Thanks so much for this Tony , I'm gonna definitely put this into practise, realy enjoyed this vid and the way you easily put things across,, many thanks 🎸
I love this show, thank you Tony
Loved watching Jeff Healy play. No slide bar but actually fretted.
He was unique .
Thank you so much 🥰💓
Hey Tony Teamfast here on my work email. Bugging you again to add a dobro lesson path. come on man! Still have the Bobby Wolfe for you...
Whenever I'm in a rut guitar-wise, I pick up my mandolin.
Thanks
buy a mule, fund three sands .. . ;) ;)
I've tried playing the damn thing, only to break said thing. It's not an instrument for T-rexs.
@will_mcnicol music always inspires me