Unlock the fretboard! Learn how to solo musically. "Swinging Doors"
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- Опубліковано 24 бер 2022
- Ready to ditch the pentatonic box pattern? Here's a chord-based approach to help unlock the fretboard while playing some of the most iconic country songs of the 60's. I play a bit of "Swinging Doors" and demonstrate (in a rambling sort of way) how the simple chord structure and common voicings provide a natural, understandable, visible structure for the melody, riffs and solos. Here's a link to the backing track: • Swinging Doors backing... Here's a Spotify playlist with a bunch of other songs that are great for this approach: open.spotify.com/playlist/59p...
This could well be the most instructive guitar tutorial on UA-cam. This man's a genius.
April 2/2024. First time to see your vids. I’ve been telecasting for 35 years. Love your style and your knowledge. I never learned the fret board and cord patterns as you have. You have opened my eyes a bit today. I’m turning 70 next month. I better start working harder at it if I want to get even a little closer to your level. Thank you. Steve b
Thanks so much for that. It's truly inspiring - not just to me but probably to anyone who reads it. I started playing in the 80's, and I've noticed that players who started learning back then - with no internet, no streaming services, no ability to play any song at any moment... those players really had to listen. As a result, I think you're hardwired to learn this stuff pretty fast, no matter your age. As for "working harder" - I'm guessing your idea of hard work is a hell of lot tougher than what passes for hard work these days. Keep going.
I never would have imagined George Clooney would be such a great guitar teacher!
Seriously though, thank you for this. I was trying to learn this very song and feeling the exact experience you explained at the beginning.
Very nicely put together and demonstrated. It's more than helpful to have it broken down into basis foundation blocks. It's made me realize I need to focus on common patterns. Opens up the fretboard.
Great pedal steel bends!
What a great addition to the instructional videos on YT. We're beyond rhythm and licks, looking for exactly this more advanced instruction! Congrats on a great help to "US."
That was excellent. Seeing the shapes and patterns takes time and slowing everything down. Seeing the shapes through triads I found helpful as well. I really enjoyed your playing as well. Thanks for the insights and advice!
Very well explained, there needs to be more videos like this. Caged country soloing
Thanks. That's actually a way better title. I'll use it for the next one (and credit you, of course).
Really needed this. Thank you so much.
I'm so grateful I stumbled on your site. This was exactly what I was looking for to help me glue together everything I had been learning in bits and pieces here and there and everywhere for ... frankly years. What a great approach to help those of us stuck on the plateau climb above it (leap off it?) ...
Thank you so much for putting this out there. As a teacher myself (English Professor) I really appreciate someone who understands what their audience needs and can present it to them in a way that they can get what they need out of the lesson.
Do you (or anyone else reading here) know of this exact kind of lesson out there being done for the minor pentatonic shapes? I feel like once you get into the "blues" world on UA-cam it becomes even more about riffs and licks ... I love this approach of just finding the shapes of some classic songs and letting us "see" what's happening. I'm realizing I'm going to need the exact same thing with the minor shapes, too.
Thanks again, man!
Wow - thanks for that; it's nice to know I'm contributing something helpful. I do cover some other chord progressions and talk a bit more about theory in a few other videos. The one with Walking the Floor Over You might be worth watching. But honestly, I don't make many videos because most of what I'd want to share has already been shown (better) by Guthrie Trapp (and others, of course, but he's big into chord shapes and triads). Again, thanks for the kind words.
Thanks very much for a great video 👏
Excellent!
Yes! So true!.............
What Guage strings on the Tele?
Always Ernie Ball Super Slinky 9's. I started using them in the late 80's - everything from Anthrax to ABBA, Ventures to Van Halen, Metallica to Merle, Primus to Porter Wagoner.
Are you using a mod amp? Compressor pedal?
I played through a Yamaha THR30ii for this one. I've got a video for the settings. No pedals, just kicking cables out of the way. Recorded with my phone and its built-in mic, so audio isn't that great.
@@antiprise It sounded great to me.Those were excellent tones and some one like me would never notice the difference with a tune amp and pedal board. I have a Fender Mustang LT25 with a “chicken pickin” preset. Yours sound a lot better. I appreciate your video! Thanks for your reply.🤙😎
Piano is much easier than guitar.
Maybe in 50 years you will know Wat you're talking about