Dude your facility with this song just blows me away, you know it backwards and forwards and you play it beautifully. Because of your videos I can at least play the entire song with the basic picking pattern.
i just want to say you have inspired me to pick up acoustic guitar again after giving up after university 20 years ago. i'm almost at the intermediate stage of your landslide series. Yes, and it helps if you like Fleetwood Mac, which i love :) . You are a really good teacher, and wish my niece had a teacher like you.
Excellent lesson series, well worth the effort and time to follow and practice the skill building exercises. great teaching technique and beautiful execution. Thank you for the music theory help as well;, really enjoying myself, never played better with thumb and finger picks, after this experience. This series and the Travis got me over the hump. Very grateful.
Jon, thanks, not only for the excellent, clear instruction, but for reinforcing my thought that I can use finger picks on nylon strings. I haven't bought my guitar yet (first one since....well, a long time ago), but I want to get a classical and my fingernails are too short to pick with. :)
Hey Jon, thanks a lot for your work. Your extended lessons are unlike anything else I've found available and you've been key to my development on guitar since I've started 2 years ago. It took me a while to get what you meant by "Snaps". I figured it out the second time through watching, when you said "and that leads us to our next topic", because it's basically combining a dust in the wind pattern with a constant syncopation. Is that a correct understanding? (It's basically filling in the last eighth note of the bar?)
Hey Jon, I have been following you for a while and I'm almost done with your pluck and Chuck series in terms of learning them. I started watching this series now but I was wondering if you would ever do a John Butler ocean tutorial?
I just saw this now. I actually like that song a whole bunch and a barrel of apples. I may at some point, but first I have to learn it. Somebody made a great tab on Songsterr, so it wouldn't be that hard for me to jump off of that idea into tutorial. It's not something that's on my list of short-term goals, but I almost certainly will treat that piece at some point. Not today, maybe tomorrow.
I'm a new guitar player and don't have an ear for pitch.... But my ears refuse to allow my fingers to play the "dust in the wind section" For some reason my ears hear pinch-index-thumb and not pinch-thumb-index. I understand how musically the thumb should be next after the pinch. When you play that section it sounds correct, when I play that section it sounds wrong. Why is that?
So much so much content packed into 1 clear lesson. This is, by a far mile, one of the best guitar tutorials I've come across so far.
Absolutely amazing tutorial. Thanks for sharing
An understated genius for instruction. Appreciated!
Brilliant lesson. Very useful. Really helping me take my finger picking to the cliche next level.
Dude your facility with this song just blows me away, you know it backwards and forwards and you play it beautifully. Because of your videos I can at least play the entire song with the basic picking pattern.
Glad it got you there!
i just want to say you have inspired me to pick up acoustic guitar again after giving up after university 20 years ago. i'm almost at the intermediate stage of your landslide series. Yes, and it helps if you like Fleetwood Mac, which i love :) . You are a really good teacher, and wish my niece had a teacher like you.
+dakzer five she can skype me anytime. Glad to hear it btw. Music gets me up every day, so if it spreads a bit I can feel good about that.
Bro your a legend
Excellent lesson series, well worth the effort and time to follow and practice the skill building exercises. great teaching technique and beautiful execution. Thank you for the music theory help as well;, really enjoying myself, never played better with thumb and finger picks, after this experience. This series and the Travis got me over the hump. Very grateful.
This is just amazing!! Excellent knowledge of throwing in variations at will. Keep it up Jon. A class apart tutorial. God Bless.
Quite helpful, thank you for both of these.
Love this
Hi I have always wanted to finger pick and thought it was too hard but watching you I must give it a go thank you for your help and time Colin uk
Glad to know it!
Jon you're amazing brother , thank you .
Thanks for all of the content. It is extremely useful and has helped me out.
Great lesson thanks a lot for the in depth instruction
Jon, thanks, not only for the excellent, clear instruction, but for reinforcing my thought that I can use finger picks on nylon strings. I haven't bought my guitar yet (first one since....well, a long time ago), but I want to get a classical and my fingernails are too short to pick with. :)
Try Alaskapiks. It makes things much easier.
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Thanks! I'll check them out.
Dude U Rock!!!!! Seriously!
HELLO! Would you please post your Beginning Travis site? Why do you use a pick on your small finger? Do you ever use it? Thanks!
Hey Jon, thanks a lot for your work. Your extended lessons are unlike anything else I've found available and you've been key to my development on guitar since I've started 2 years ago.
It took me a while to get what you meant by "Snaps". I figured it out the second time through watching, when you said "and that leads us to our next topic", because it's basically combining a dust in the wind pattern with a constant syncopation. Is that a correct understanding? (It's basically filling in the last eighth note of the bar?)
Hey Jon, I have been following you for a while and I'm almost done with your pluck and Chuck series in terms of learning them. I started watching this series now but I was wondering if you would ever do a John Butler ocean tutorial?
+Amit Shah ooooh that would be intense
I just saw this now. I actually like that song a whole bunch and a barrel of apples. I may at some point, but first I have to learn it. Somebody made a great tab on Songsterr, so it wouldn't be that hard for me to jump off of that idea into tutorial. It's not something that's on my list of short-term goals, but I almost certainly will treat that piece at some point. Not today, maybe tomorrow.
I'm a new guitar player and don't have an ear for pitch.... But my ears refuse to allow my fingers to play the "dust in the wind section"
For some reason my ears hear pinch-index-thumb and not pinch-thumb-index.
I understand how musically the thumb should be next after the pinch.
When you play that section it sounds correct, when I play that section it sounds wrong. Why is that?
send me a video of you playing it. I might be able to help
Talk a little about your fingerpicks.. they look like alaskan modified?
check out my video called "What are those things on your fingers?" It explains everything!