How to Play Guitar - The Fastest Way to Learn
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- Опубліковано 28 жов 2022
- These are three tips that I've learned to laser focus on progress. This is a simple plan for maximum improvement over a short period of time.
And of course, it includes a list of most popular guitarists over the past year. The revised list is below.
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Okay, I give up. Everybody keeps asking me, "Doug, your course is so fabulous, where can I find it." Well... I try to keep it a secret but since you insist, you can find it here - store.metalmethod.com/doug-marks/
You Sir are a legend. Without you no one would be playing Metal. Thank you for all the inspiration the past years.
Carl, that is so nice. All of you have made my Saturday morning! Thanks. You should see me when I get ready to look at comments. I mutter, "Here we go." But honestly, I can't believe how positive they are. I'm always surprised that so many people "get it."
You are an excellent teacher Doug. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience with us.
You're welcome Joe. Thanks for commenting.
I took the Metal Method course back in the 80's, and i am still learning from you. THANK YOU DOUG !!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for creating a structured program to learn metal guitar. This has helped so many of us. I greatly appreciate all the lessons that you and your entire crew (Sarah, Dan M, Dan F, Dee, etc.) have created. Keep making them, keep it metal.
You're welcome Michael. I appreciate that you comment on my videos.
what a likeable dude
That got a huge laugh out of me. Thank you though, I'm honored. I try to present the most likeable side of me in these videos. There is a darker side... ask my golf buddies. lol
Thank you, Doug. For doing what you've done all these years. Better than anyone else.
Thank you Rev
You’re the only one selling the knowledge back in the day!! I lived blocks from GIT but I couldn’t go and at 15-16 you taught me harmonics pinch harmonics pentatonic scales barre chords a ton of things I coped from you!! Thanks Dough!
Thanks Doug, This video is exactly what I needed. I’ve made a lot of progress this year with Metal Method courses but I have been zigzagging a little bit lately. Thanks for being a great teacher and keep the weekly videos coming!
You're welcome Timothy. We all need to get focused from time to time. Glad that I was able to help.
Great video Doug, and spot on (especially on the public speaking part)! Friends, I bought Doug's DVD-based lessons 10 or so years ago, and had the pleasure of getting some personal coaching from Doug. He's absolutely right - having an experienced guide getting you to a goal is so much faster than slogging through on your own. Thanks Doug!
Thanks Jeff and great hearing from you again. When I was giving Skype lessons back then I believe that you were my first student. Always a pleasure!
Thank You Doug Marks.. ❤
In 1983 I bought one of your lessons, it was in Guitar World magazine. You had a character you created who i believe you called Zibby Wibby, to illustrate the do's and don't''s of trying to make it as a successful musician. Great stuff.
Zibby Wibby, that brings back memories. That was in our Metal Message newsletter. And a newsletter back then was published through snail mail. The times they are a changin'.
guitar player mag is where I found you Doug back in 85 or 86 bought your Metal Method lessons ,still have them on cassette a treasure dude thanxs....
You're welcome Maro. Always great to hear from my 80s students.
A job well done for your lessons!!!! I started with your original Metal Method lessons on cassettes from the 80's.
Hey David, thanks for commenting. I love hearing from "early adapters."
Doug, as a guitarist who started in the early 80s, my friend had your course, as you know we guitarist can be kinda prideful, from time to time, I'd sneak his cassettes away and use them 😊 40 years later I still use some of the stuff I learned. thanks Doug, much love and success to you and your family.
Thanks Doug, you've sold me! I'm going to check out your website this evening
Thanks Joe, I appreciate it.
5:10 Composing using a stepwise sequence of chords (of any scale type) in advanced music theory is called 'planing' (like a carpenter planes a surface of wood) . Late 1800's composers like Debussy popularized the sound of this in scored music (along with chromaticism and pentatonic playing). So the technique of moving horizontally along the neck and playing chords sequentially within each position could be called pentatonic planing or diatonic planing or even modal planing for a sequence within a mode. Or maybe not because music doesn't have good terminology overall.
What I'm referring to is actually quite different. It's not just the "chord scale" within a progression (my terminology akin to what you call planing). I'm referring to picking out each chord and checking out the physical relationship of the chord pattern to the surrounding scales.
@@DougMarks "fretboard geometry" ? "positional awareness"? anyway, as a bragging point, you probably remember when sweep picking wasn't called sweep picking. In the early shrapnel era wasnt it called "raking"? Other terms in rock guitar weren't invented yet too.. maybe it takes the guitar world 40 years to popularize new terms. On the topic of guitar terms.. the jazz guitar "drop2", "drop3", etc names for chords, are very awkward terms and are musically confusing, so maybe heroin was involved in naming them.
Wow, I didn't realise you had a UA-cam channel Doug. Great to see. Like one or two others in the comment section here; I too started with your Metal Method six cassette course in probably about 1990. It was an excellent thorough foundation course and set me up for many years to come. I played in bands at different points but now I mainly just play for my own enjoyment. Great to see you still have the fire and passion to teach! Cheers.
I assume that Mark Douglas is really your name. That's wild. My name is Douglass Marks and people call me Mark more often than Doug. I thought that we had stopped selling audio cassettes by 1990. I had to check by looking at old ads. Yep, we were still selling cassettes in 1990 but stopped selling them soon after. Regardless, I'm glad that I was able to help you with my course. Thanks very much for the comments.
@@DougMarks Absolutely it's my name Doug! I didn't even tweak that we had the same name in reverse order! Yeah I remember that it was 1990 I ordered. We moved around a lot when I was a teen and I remember where I was that year when I ordered them; and then started to make some rapid improvement! So I specifically remember it was early 1990. I was almost 16! I also ordered the Metal Method vocal power cassette course at the time and it helped me become reasonable background vocalist in bands I was later in. But the Metal Method guitar course was outstanding! Nice to talk to you; all the best!
You launched seizable armadas of plectrums.
Solid fundamentals and practical knowledge.
Affordably.
We are in your debt.
All my best
Another great piece of advice from the “Father of learning to play guitar, the metal method way” thanks for the video Doug, My fundamentals are metal method🤘🏻
Thanks John. Great hearing from you. Comments are (usually) appreciated.
UA-cam is great but courses and books are great too.Its good to have diffrent kinds of info avalable.
Totally agree!
I remember you back then. However, i took formal lessons, Mel Bay book 1 and 2, and 2 courses @ LACC, books by Koala Publishing. I remember your bank HAWK. Plus, i got a good ear.
I ordered Metal Method early 90's, changed my life ! Still playing in a band today !
Steve, that's awesome. Thanks for sharing that.
My dad had the cassette lessons back in the 1980's in 2006 my brother used the 1992 lessons on DVD lessons and now I use the revised 2017 DVD lessons!
Wow, I've taught generations! That's my new slogan. Thanks for commenting.
I believe that properly learning the caged system, with the triads/arpeggios/pentatonics and diatonic scale associated with each shape covers what you are asking
Great video Doug! Very insightful and you are so funny! That bit about zig zagging through the next two decades is the absolute truth.
It is. I've certainly done my share of zig zagging. Trust me on that one. I'm always afraid when I throw in a sales pitch for my lessons it will seem like the whole thing is self serving. But obviously, I'm trying to spare my friends some of the crap that I've been through.
Doug is a rock star!
Thank you James. I never remotely consider myself a Rock Star but I always aspired to that.
you have a right to brag Doug us old schoolers owe a lot to your instruction many thanks,, and many more years of teaching
Thanks Mario. Yeah, once in awhile ya gotta blow your own horn or nobody knows.
Hey! I'd love a video on mixing and mastering the guitar!!
I like the slash punctuation theory. For a moment I got nervous 😅.
Doug. I finally pulled the trigger on the new Course. I had the VHS and DVD earlier versions. I learned alot and watched the lessons endlessly. Let’s do this again. I play pretty decent Songs and can solo a bit. Need my techniques and picking speed better.
Good luck with the course. If you have any questions, I'm here.
The original DM! Haha I really appreciate you man. You are my go to for guitar.
Thanks Chuck. And thanks for commenting... I can always count on you my friend.
@@DougMarks always brudda
I'm really surprised that there have been few (if any) comments on my list of most popular guitarists. I know most people only watch a fraction of these videos so I'm guessing that not that many have actually seen that part of the video. If you didn't watch it check it out: ua-cam.com/video/hySrG0ybNAQ/v-deo.html I have made the list more accurate and complete. A link is in the video description.
umm how come george harrison is not #1 ? after all he is a Beatle.. and certainly should beat clapton, omg for sure. i'll place another bet: Prince.
@@superblondeDotOrg I assume that you've checked George Harrison in Google Trends by now. Clapton has been searched more often over the past year. Prince, I'm not even going there. Prince is many things and one of them is guitarist so yes, when you search on Prince he dwarfs all other guitarists but people aren't just searching for "Prince the Guitarist." That phrase is a flat line at the bottom.
SB if you really want to game the system, enter the top four guitarists into Google Trends along with Taylor Swift. She ranks so high that the other guitarists are a flat line at the bottom of the graph.
His course is legit.
I still have 2 of the 3 VHS tapes I got from you in the late 80s but I don't have a VHS player to watch them. Learning to set the intonation on a Floyd Rose paid for the lessons. I still have the booklets and dig them out. There was so much info in those lessons, I'm not sure that I didn't miss some things. Even though I didn't make it as a rock star, I still played in a cover band and a lot of people think I'm pretty good. Did I get what I wanted out of those lessons? I did.These licks have lasted me over 30 years and are more relevant today than they were back then.
Thanks Bro!
Such an awesome message. Thank you. Yeah, that stuff is as relevant today as it was then. Glad I was able to give you a hand.
Pentatonic/ diatonic relation scales or jumping or scale crossover is what I would search and am going to look up and learn diatonic scales now
On a side note, would be cool to see a lesson on sweet home to seen it played correctly
I believe Ed King, co-writer of Sweet Home Alabama has a UA-cam lesson on the correct way to play the song. Don't think I could actually compete with that. On the other hand, if someone listened to me play it I don't think it would be difficult to recognize the tune.
@@DougMarks you got me to learn diatonic scales now tho, I knew what they were through pentatonic but now I can really shred them, will always be watching your videos, you are a good teacher for me
I will subscribe. Pretty good video.
Thanks John. I bet you'll be a pretty good subscriber. lol
i remember the old Mel Bay books my brothers had and then along came 1985 when i saw your ad in Hit Parader and it was alot easier to learn..basic stuff. Thanks.
My guitar journey has been like you said, a zig-zag pattern…am I the best, no…am I the worst, no…am I where I want to be, no…but, it’s my journey, I have to own it for better or worse !!
Time well spent!! Doug's 80's hair ruled the wastelands!
Thanks Ed!
Rock & Roll
I would think that 'Phrasing' would be a top search
First, it would have to be "Guitar Phrasing" and that's not really what I'm talking about. What I'm referring to isn't phrasing, it's the relationship of scale patterns to chords in a given chord progression. In other words, if you're playing Am, G, and F a very common chord progression, what is the relationship between those chords and the scale patterns that surround them. It allows you to know "in key" choices.
Good
Thanks Joseph.
Your old Jackson V deseves to be more prominently displayed! The guitar that spawned millions guitar players!
Thank you for this. My must learn turns out to be country music. I like some of it depends on who the artist is. Overall I can’t say of now I am becoming a fan or newborn fan. However how do you keep yourself organized when you rack up a lot of skills to remember? I don’t know if everything can be written down especially in the spur of the moment all the time.
If you find out how to organize everything in your brain let me know. I constantly need to run through things that I learned even recently. I've written music that has never been recorded. Some of it I need to slowly relearn every time I play it. I think the best way to approach the guitar every time you play is with curiosity. Have a mindset of, "What if I try this..."
Wisdom from the master. When you order Doug's courses the first thing you do is kick yourself and go "Damn WHY didn't I do this years ago?"
Good to see ya Doug....is that a Carvin hanging back there? I have 2 Carvins myself....V220T and DC100
I have two Carvin's behind me. The antique white and red ones.
@@DougMarks ....mine are both from 1985....the DC100 I bought straight from Carvin when I was 15....the V220T I picked up used at a local music store in 92....nice guitars. I bought yer lessons on cassette in 82-83 from Guitar Magazine...one at at time....Thank you for such a great course.
40 years ago, I had a $5/week allowance. No UA-cam. No wheels. Barely a stereo, dammit, Doug, back then was before Hanneman, Hetfield, Mustaine, and I remember the references you made back then. I have a whole new list of influential musicians today, Gilmore, Malcolm, Rudy, Gibbons and you know. Thank you for opening my mind and pushing me. You kill it, Doug.
Thanks for the comment Adam. That takes me back. Glad I was able to get you started.
That's my dog! Guitar wouldn't even be the same world!
I know a guitar player with 4 studio albums and couldn't name or play seven chords.
Playing over chord changes could be great
That's not a bad phrase for what I was referring to in the video. I do cover aspects of that in my CAGED lesson.
Ahh, you still go the Jackson Rhoads.
Absolutely! I've got to of them.
Im an original Marksist
Never heard it put quite like that. But I like it!
I am still waiting for the cat.
Sage, I didn't forget you. She was doing her own thing yesterday. I promise, when you least expect it she'll be in the video.
Slash is not a good player.
Thanks for wasting my time !
What an absolute, total waste of time.....click bait at best...
I have used Dougs chorse in the past ,but could use a bite of a "refresher " . I one point I was doing Eddie van Halen guitar acrobatics . But using "The Metal Method " In conjunction with "Monster Modes & Scales" is the best way to achieve guitar mastery.I am also looking forwards to cheeking out his new course . The weekly step by step lessons are a great way to warm up before playing. After the metal method is completed I am also looking forwards to trying other chouses from Michel Angelo Batio and Sarah Spisak such as the speed kills package and the riffolagy and melodic principles Packages. Why By choosing the Metal Method you will find that you will grasp the basic principles to write riffs and rhythm patters like the Edge and shread like Kirk hammet and K.k Downing in no time . I'm ~Brad and I highly endorse the "Metal Method " and its style of teaching . It gradually educates you on tequegiques , Scales , basic theory and finger strength building exercises . By the time the chorse is completed you will be able to wail Like a "Guitar God" and make small dogs at the park heads explode . I'm just surprise Doug and crew only limit there teaching techniques too Guitar . Why not Keyboards and drums . The one thing I wish is that after completing the "Metal Method " is that you could attain a Hight School music chores credit as I found his basic chorse very thought and a great introduction to music theory and principles .😁
Thanks Brad very much for taking so much time to give me a great testimonial. I'll make one exception... I take great care to make sure that small dog's heads don't explode! Thanks again Brad
@@DougMarks I don't know about the dogs heads not exploding ,I live in Toronto and the city has litterly gone to the dogs. But I have this sweet black start amp and a custom fender of my own design. I almost have all of black sabbath and smashing pumpkins under my finger tips. So I'm thinking after I take your chores by next summer those little doggies at "Bercy Park " on Wellington st are going to meet their maker just like in "Scanners" via Steve via and Joe satrrani stye Electric Guitar guitar assault ! Cheers I love your products thought keep up the great work . ~BRAD
🤘😎🤘
Nice SB.
Douggie.Remember the hot chicks back in 82 ?.. remember the main reason to learn the guitar in 82 ? Remember looking down from the stage at all the bouncy stuff? Have you noticed now when you look down from the stage all the stuff pointing down to the ground and the wear and tear? Me too 😢😢😭🙄🥺!!!😂😂😂😂!!Stay safe !! Love you brother man !!!
Awww. It's all good. Better pointing down than in the ground.