Profoundly grateful to you Justin. I am convinced you were born with this talent of teaching. So easy to 'digest' what you impart. You exude humility always and are never presumptuous while tutoring. Warm regards from a seasoned, retired educator. Once again I am profoundly grateful for what you so selflessly share.
He does have an incredible instinct for how people learn guitar. I’ve been playing for decades and I still love watching his content. That detail of chasing the muse if a musical idea comes while practicing an exercise... only Justin teaches this stuff!
No he just studied and practiced and developed the SKILLS! Throw the word talent away. Even if someone has "talent" they must develop skills, with tons of practice and study
This helped me so much. it is so much easier to memorize and apply the one pattern and unlock all the other patterns from it. It was a bit tricky at first, but in a couple hours it wasn’t hard to move around the whole fretboard. i find it much easier to also go in and out of patterns along other string. Great lesson
Your playing beginning at 10:40 is so melodic and beautiful. Thanks for your consistent, informational and helpful content. Your teaching skills rise to the top of the you tube guitar education community. Of course you were and continue to be a a pioneer and trailblazer in this crowded space.
It really excites me how much determined justin is to teach he never skips uploading video I finished the beginner course around 2-3 weeks ago and can't wait to start the intermediate course. As of now I'm learning some fingerstyle songs and other things. Thanks for keeping the course free for people like me who can't afford to buy guitar courses you're the best Justin.
This major scale pattern course is awesome and so helpful. I was always wondering, how lead guitarists are able to improvise, because I didn't know, which notes I could play. Now I understand the patterns and I'm starting to play my own little solos and that's an incredible feeling, thank you Justin
This totally changed my approach to playing. I can now play melodies all over the neck using the same pattern instead of a different pattern at each position.
Highly encouraging lessons and with great techniques only from Justin. I will be able to incorporate lead guitar skills with singing in few months and gain lost years studying and getting wrong and confusing techniques from other sources. Thank you bro.
Hey Justin - for those of us who are just now learning how to play the ukulele, could we requested a guided practice video on the chords most popular and well loved - that would be amazing!! Start out with a simple strum pattern for each chord and transition to the next chord (I think I would do the circle of fifths so it's at least musical sounding and pleasing to the ear to play). While we could easily practice this way on our own here at home, (Classically trained pianist here so I know how to practice on my own but I will tell you...) playing your videos and trying to play along is so much more fun for me these days. It's not only nice to hear the little reminders, but it's super fun to just play along with someone else and try to keep up rather than playing all by myself (total flashbacks of having to sit at the piano for hours and practice monotonous Hanon Virtuoso Pianist exercises out of my beloved yellow Schirmer book). LOL! Admittedly, I really did actually enjoy playing through that book but it just about killed me before I conquered it. Don't tell my piano teacher I ever said that... Also... think about it, if you put together a video like that, it is likely to get played numerous times over by thousands who are trying to practice and learn all their chords just like I am. That's an awful lot of extra passive income from one video alone... ;)
Did you check the Ukulele course? It covers the main chords etc. www.justinguitar.com/modules/ukulele-beginner-course | LievenDV | JustinGuitar Official Assistant
Hello Justin. Thanks for the fine tutorials you've made over the years. You are an awesome teacher and a great inspiration. 😊 The song you play from 10:40 on, is it your own composition or just improvised? If it's just an improvisation then work it out man. It's so beautiful. 😍 Greetings from Germany. 😊
I think it is the Partick Eggle trop Top | More info on Justin's guitars: www.justinguitar.com/modules/justins-guitars | LievenDV | JustinGuitar Official Assistant
Justin you are very great at teaching guitar and its free too thanks man i learned guitar for free. do you know any free lessons for learning keyboard too?
I think it is the Patrick Eggle Drop Top | More info on Justin's guitars: www.justinguitar.com/modules/justins-guitars | LievenDV | JustinGuitar Official Assistant
Hi Justin, Thanks so much for this excellent series. Should we expect a Shapes 4 & 5 lesson in this series or should we just refer to your older videos? Best regards.
Justin is working to improve and complete overhauling the intermediate courses this year. Expect more new and better videos. In the meantime there are older ones to use. Cheers 😊 | close2u | JustinGuitar Official Guide [ www.justinguitar.com/ ] & Moderator on JustinGuitar Forum
There are scale lessons all over the website. www.justinguitar.com/guitar-lessons Cheers 😊 | Richard_close2u | JustinGuitar Official Guide & Approved Teacher
Hi Justin, I'd love to see a lesson for Ain't no grave - Johnny Cash. Been playing with finger picking for the song but the solo completely eludes me! Love your videos, keep up the good work. I've learned so much from you. :)
I think it is the Patric Eggle Drop Top 96 | More info on Justin's guitars: www.justinguitar.com/modules/justins-guitars | LievenDV | JustinGuitar Official Assistant
Im not knocking you justi, but ive been playing for three years now and the biggest light bulb moment for me was when I went through guitar grid mastery from Johnathon boyd. He teaches to think of the scales as numbers and feelings. Also the major scale has seven notes and seven patterns not five unless you’re using caged which you failed to mention. All the modes can be played buy using the same umbers system, just depends on which pattern of the three notes per string major scale you start with, ie natural minor is pattern six or starting from the six interval of the major scale. The most important thing I learned though was remembering that there ate seven notes in music within any key and that is all! If you play the major scale 3,4 and 1,7 are always a half step and the rest are whole steps. If you know what number your on on any particular string then you can move freely all over the place without needing to know every shape. I wish more people taught this. At the end of the day pianists for instance don’t need shapes or patterns to play music do they!
@@Add_Account485 hello I didn’t just blurt out my feelings. I also respect justin as a teacher. Like I said, I wasn’t having a go i am just frustrated with how complicated some and most tutors make learning guitar seem. Trust me ive watched them all and also payed for private tutors who i felt where just happy taking my money. I can honestly tell you hand on heart, as someone who prefers improvising instead of copying others, guitar grid mastery from jonathon boyds guitar freedom formula course along with what I already new is by far the best thing I have learned since I learned my chords and the usual minor pentatonic etc. My theory was almost there but now I feel I fully understand music. Weather its keys,modes,intervals, the guitar doesn’t seem as complicated as I thought. I appreciate your comment and opinion but i am just trying to help others see that music doesn’t need to be so difficult to understand. 👍🏻🎸 by the way i have no affiliation to anyone. Im just a guy trying to learn guitar.
@@Add_Account485 just re read your reply mate. And if what you say is true as I wouldn’t know as ive not purchased a course from justin but when I first picked up a guitar, he was the first person I watched. Anyway yes he’s showing you the right way. But what I have come to realise is that there are caged system teachers and three notes per string teachers neither are wrong. But the way i see it is that the three notes per string is the big brother of the caged system id say both are necessary but the caged system is just a way to lay the scale over the chord to make it easier on the fingers. But thats just my opinion, ive only been playing for three years but i have a brain and an opinion. There the same notes at the end of the day. If you lay the caged system over the three notes per string major scale. They are exactly the same but you will see that the caged is formed from the three notes per string in order to make things easier for chords etc. Just my opinion of course. And im sorry if you thought i was touting something, i assure you I wasn’t, i was just relating my own findings. Stick with justin mate 👍🏻👌🏻🎸
I think some teachers methods will suit some people and not others. That's natural. The key is to find the teacher who you click with, so if you found one, great 👍 they all say the same things but in a different way.
@@everythingbobbywolfe im not bull shitting anyone pal. I am not affiliated to anyone. Ive followed all the main tutors on UA-cam and their all good but i sometimes feel when watching some of them that their holding things back hence the comments, i am entitled to an opinion and if you disagree then that’s fair enough but to disregard information from someone because your emotionally attached to one particular tutor, is pure ignorance!! 👌🏻🎸
Hey Justin pls make a video on tips to like changing a A chord to a C sharp minor chord its on the 4th fret it takes time to me to change but when i make it need to hurry back to the A any tips ??
Have you tried chanign form A to Bb minor and back, than A to B minor and back, then A to C minor to A? It's less distance and you train changign th shape first. Gradually altering the distance will work. | LievenDV | JustinGuitar Official Assistant
Hi Justin great content as always.. video production is looking 🔥. Would you mind sharing your gear ,camera ? How you get the background lighting in different colours ..
Not the most recent video (and Justin constantly upgrades his material) but this give you an idea: www.justinguitar.com/guitar-lessons/sneak-peak-at-justin-s-studio-bl-003 | LievenDV | JustinGuitar Official Assistant
@@justinguitar hi there, thank you for the guidance . What I was Really keen to know was.. how do you get the blue background effect .. that would be greatful .. many thanks
Hi FM. Go to the main site: www.justinguitar.com/guitar-lessons Cheers 😊 | close2u | JustinGuitar Official Guide [ www.justinguitar.com/ ] & Moderator on JustinGuitar Forum
Are these considered pentatonic scales or are you basically just going through the major scale patterns in full across the neck and different octaves? And are the patterns the major scale but you're starting the scale on different intervals?
Try learning a second pattern of the Minor Pentatnic shape, learn how to combine it with the first one and most of all, find a good use for it. Jam over a backing track while you improvise solo's. You're better off knowing only 2 pattern being "speaking them fluently" than spending your time memorizing stuff you don't use. Why don't you slow down and read up on scales in general? www.justinguitar.com/classes/scales-modes | LievenDV | JustinGuitar Official Assistant
It is a waste of valuable time not calling out the NOTES under your fingers as you execute the move!! One does not travel down a thoroughfare and not be able to READ the street names... your guitar is out of tune!! never play with distortion !!
Profoundly grateful to you Justin. I am convinced you were born with this talent of teaching. So easy to 'digest' what you impart. You exude humility always and are never presumptuous while tutoring. Warm regards from a seasoned, retired educator. Once again I am profoundly grateful for what you so selflessly share.
He does have an incredible instinct for how people learn guitar. I’ve been playing for decades and I still love watching his content. That detail of chasing the muse if a musical idea comes while practicing an exercise... only Justin teaches this stuff!
Hunting down some big arpeggios lines that can help shape more interesting chord modulations
No he just studied and practiced and developed the SKILLS! Throw the word talent away. Even if someone has "talent" they must develop skills, with tons of practice and study
Noted Craig.
This helped me so much. it is so much easier to memorize and apply the one pattern and unlock all the other patterns from it. It was a bit tricky at first, but in a couple hours it wasn’t hard to move around the whole fretboard. i find it much easier to also go in and out of patterns along other string. Great lesson
Your playing beginning at 10:40 is so melodic and beautiful. Thanks for your consistent, informational and helpful content. Your teaching skills rise to the top of the you tube guitar education community. Of course you were and continue to be a a pioneer and trailblazer in this crowded space.
Thank you for your tutorials 👍🏻 hello from Mexico 🇲🇽
Gracias :)
@@justinguitar 你好Ni hao
You are and always have been my fav guitar instructor on UA-cam.
It really excites me how much determined justin is to teach he never skips uploading video I finished the beginner course around 2-3 weeks ago and can't wait to start the intermediate course. As of now I'm learning some fingerstyle songs and other things. Thanks for keeping the course free for people like me who can't afford to buy guitar courses you're the best Justin.
He's just Beautiful ..
100% Agree with you mate!! Playing guitar makes us Happy. Its Excellent for your mental health too! Cheers from Australia
This major scale pattern course is awesome and so helpful. I was always wondering, how lead guitarists are able to improvise, because I didn't know, which notes I could play. Now I understand the patterns and I'm starting to play my own little solos and that's an incredible feeling, thank you Justin
That's a very beautiful guitar!
This totally changed my approach to playing. I can now play melodies all over the neck using the same pattern instead of a different pattern at each position.
Thanks for the lesson. keep helping us
One of the best guitar channels on yt.
Thanks for your vids Justin!
Thanks!
Thank you!
Inspirational lesson, thanks Justin!
I like all the videos before watching, he deserves it. I am not upto intermediate level yet, but could not skip the notification.
I've been playing 20 years now and wish I'd started here with the major scale course. How much better would my understanding and playing have been!
Highly encouraging lessons and with great techniques only from Justin. I will be able to incorporate lead guitar skills with singing in few months and gain lost years studying and getting wrong and confusing techniques from other sources. Thank you bro.
Great lesson, thanks Justin!
Incidentally, that guitar looks stunning!
Fantastic video Justin. Really appreciate these videos
Thank you Justin...thanks to you i can actullay play a song now. I even wrote a song . I cant really sing but i dont care... Greetings from Holland.
Its on my channel now.... 😬
Thanks again for your Excellent hard work you do making these lessons Justin!! From a fello Aussie. Australia
That guitar is so beautiful it's almost distracting 😍 Anyway, thank you for this and all of your videos. The App and website are also gems.
I needed this video. Thank you so much ❤
I think having a video on cultivating the musical imagination would be awesome. That little snippet felt extremely motivational.
The Free Improv or being able to play music in my musical imagination is my ultimate goal😁. Thank you Justin for explaining this concept.
Hey Justin - for those of us who are just now learning how to play the ukulele, could we requested a guided practice video on the chords most popular and well loved - that would be amazing!! Start out with a simple strum pattern for each chord and transition to the next chord (I think I would do the circle of fifths so it's at least musical sounding and pleasing to the ear to play). While we could easily practice this way on our own here at home, (Classically trained pianist here so I know how to practice on my own but I will tell you...) playing your videos and trying to play along is so much more fun for me these days. It's not only nice to hear the little reminders, but it's super fun to just play along with someone else and try to keep up rather than playing all by myself (total flashbacks of having to sit at the piano for hours and practice monotonous Hanon Virtuoso Pianist exercises out of my beloved yellow Schirmer book). LOL! Admittedly, I really did actually enjoy playing through that book but it just about killed me before I conquered it. Don't tell my piano teacher I ever said that... Also... think about it, if you put together a video like that, it is likely to get played numerous times over by thousands who are trying to practice and learn all their chords just like I am. That's an awful lot of extra passive income from one video alone... ;)
Did you check the Ukulele course? It covers the main chords etc. www.justinguitar.com/modules/ukulele-beginner-course | LievenDV | JustinGuitar Official Assistant
Amazing!! Thank you for this lesson Justin. Things are more clearer now :)
Best best best .....thanks a ton justin
This is one hell of a tip ❤️❤️
Hail from Egypt.
Very helpful thank you!
Great stuff- thanks Justin. Brian from San Diego 👍🏻😊
incredible course
Really enjoyed this lesson. Thank you. Big help!
Thanks from England.
Best lesson the internet
God bless you, sir. Thanks.
*Very interesting sharing!👍🛎 Wish you health and success!*
I've been working on the (major?) G-scale, for the past week, so I am really looking forward to this one! Thanks for all your terrific work!
Enjoy!
Cheers 😊
| close2u | JustinGuitar Official Guide [ www.justinguitar.com/ ] & Moderator on JustinGuitar Forum
Thank you, Justin !
Hello Justin. Thanks for the fine tutorials you've made over the years. You are an awesome teacher and a great inspiration. 😊
The song you play from 10:40 on, is it your own composition or just improvised? If it's just an improvisation then work it out man. It's so beautiful. 😍
Greetings from Germany. 😊
That's one gorgeous guitar. Can't recall seeing it in a lesson before. Is it new Justin?
I was thinking this too, would love to see him do a video about it :-)
I think it is the Partick Eggle trop Top | More info on Justin's guitars: www.justinguitar.com/modules/justins-guitars | LievenDV | JustinGuitar Official Assistant
@@justinguitar I forgot this list existed. nice one ;-)
Great advice Justin!👍🤘👏❤😸
10:40 Silence. The Guru is playing... 🎵🎶🎵
Justin you are very great at teaching guitar and its free too thanks man i learned guitar for free. do you know any free lessons for learning keyboard too?
Brilliant.Thanks.
Dude, production quality is off the roof here 😃
That is a gorgeous guitar!
Does anyone know what it is?
I think it is the Patrick Eggle Drop Top | More info on Justin's guitars: www.justinguitar.com/modules/justins-guitars | LievenDV | JustinGuitar Official Assistant
Hi Justin,
Thanks so much for this excellent series. Should we expect a Shapes 4 & 5 lesson in this series or should we just refer to your older videos?
Best regards.
Justin is working to improve and complete overhauling the intermediate courses this year. Expect more new and better videos. In the meantime there are older ones to use. Cheers 😊
| close2u | JustinGuitar Official Guide [ www.justinguitar.com/ ] & Moderator on JustinGuitar Forum
Thanks
Is there a 2nd learning unit for the major scale and or general improv available?
There are scale lessons all over the website. www.justinguitar.com/guitar-lessons
Cheers 😊
| Richard_close2u | JustinGuitar Official Guide & Approved Teacher
Hi Justin, I'd love to see a lesson for Ain't no grave - Johnny Cash.
Been playing with finger picking for the song but the solo completely eludes me!
Love your videos, keep up the good work. I've learned so much from you. :)
Thanks for all your help.
Hello from Canada. Great lesson....thank you. I also noticed you're playing a guitar I haven't seen before. Is it new?
I think it is the Patric Eggle Drop Top 96 | More info on Justin's guitars: www.justinguitar.com/modules/justins-guitars | LievenDV | JustinGuitar Official Assistant
Im not knocking you justi, but ive been playing for three years now and the biggest light bulb moment for me was when I went through guitar grid mastery from Johnathon boyd. He teaches to think of the scales as numbers and feelings. Also the major scale has seven notes and seven patterns not five unless you’re using caged which you failed to mention. All the modes can be played buy using the same umbers system, just depends on which pattern of the three notes per string major scale you start with, ie natural minor is pattern six or starting from the six interval of the major scale. The most important thing I learned though was remembering that there ate seven notes in music within any key and that is all! If you play the major scale 3,4 and 1,7 are always a half step and the rest are whole steps. If you know what number your on on any particular string then you can move freely all over the place without needing to know every shape. I wish more people taught this. At the end of the day pianists for instance don’t need shapes or patterns to play music do they!
@@Add_Account485 hello
I didn’t just blurt out my feelings. I also respect justin as a teacher. Like I said, I wasn’t having a go i am just frustrated with how complicated some and most tutors make learning guitar seem. Trust me ive watched them all and also payed for private tutors who i felt where just happy taking my money. I can honestly tell you hand on heart, as someone who prefers improvising instead of copying others, guitar grid mastery from jonathon boyds guitar freedom formula course along with what I already new is by far the best thing I have learned since I learned my chords and the usual minor pentatonic etc. My theory was almost there but now I feel I fully understand music. Weather its keys,modes,intervals, the guitar doesn’t seem as complicated as I thought. I appreciate your comment and opinion but i am just trying to help others see that music doesn’t need to be so difficult to understand. 👍🏻🎸 by the way i have no affiliation to anyone. Im just a guy trying to learn guitar.
@@Add_Account485 just re read your reply mate. And if what you say is true as I wouldn’t know as ive not purchased a course from justin but when I first picked up a guitar, he was the first person I watched. Anyway yes he’s showing you the right way. But what I have come to realise is that there are caged system teachers and three notes per string teachers neither are wrong. But the way i see it is that the three notes per string is the big brother of the caged system id say both are necessary but the caged system is just a way to lay the scale over the chord to make it easier on the fingers. But thats just my opinion, ive only been playing for three years but i have a brain and an opinion. There the same notes at the end of the day. If you lay the caged system over the three notes per string major scale. They are exactly the same but you will see that the caged is formed from the three notes per string in order to make things easier for chords etc. Just my opinion of course. And im sorry if you thought i was touting something, i assure you I wasn’t, i was just relating my own findings. Stick with justin mate 👍🏻👌🏻🎸
I think some teachers methods will suit some people and not others. That's natural. The key is to find the teacher who you click with, so if you found one, great 👍 they all say the same things but in a different way.
@@kevlar8632 why the hell would you comment on his video about this other course? It's passive aggressive and you're trying to bs us and yourself
@@everythingbobbywolfe im not bull shitting anyone pal. I am not affiliated to anyone. Ive followed all the main tutors on UA-cam and their all good but i sometimes feel when watching some of them that their holding things back hence the comments, i am entitled to an opinion and if you disagree then that’s fair enough but to disregard information from someone because your emotionally attached to one particular tutor, is pure ignorance!! 👌🏻🎸
Hey one more thing i wanted to ask ... when is grade 8 and 9 coming real exited about that !!
Hey Justin pls make a video on tips to like changing a A chord to a C sharp minor chord its on the 4th fret it takes time to me to change but when i make it need to hurry back to the A any tips ??
Have you tried chanign form A to Bb minor and back, than A to B minor and back, then A to C minor to A? It's less distance and you train changign th shape first. Gradually altering the distance will work. | LievenDV | JustinGuitar Official Assistant
@@justinguitar Ok! Will try thanks
Hi Justin great content as always.. video production is looking 🔥. Would you mind sharing your gear ,camera ? How you get the background lighting in different colours ..
Not the most recent video (and Justin constantly upgrades his material) but this give you an idea: www.justinguitar.com/guitar-lessons/sneak-peak-at-justin-s-studio-bl-003 | LievenDV | JustinGuitar Official Assistant
@@justinguitar hi there, thank you for the guidance . What I was Really keen to know was.. how do you get the blue background effect .. that would be greatful .. many thanks
It’s actually a blue background :) lol. A sheet of blue paper. J
Sorry but where can I find the Grade 5 or whatever the next step is called?
Hi FM. Go to the main site: www.justinguitar.com/guitar-lessons
Cheers 😊
| close2u | JustinGuitar Official Guide [ www.justinguitar.com/ ] & Moderator on JustinGuitar Forum
Are these considered pentatonic scales or are you basically just going through the major scale patterns in full across the neck and different octaves? And are the patterns the major scale but you're starting the scale on different intervals?
Major scales.
Starting on different interval. Also seeing chord shape within that scale shape
Justin can you please 🥺 make a tutorial of
Long night -by Eddie Vedder
Request noted! | LievenDV | JustinGuitar Official Assistant
I can't focus on what are you saying, that guitar is just too beautiful, Jesus in boots. 😄
11:53 - 12:20
Oh
Eek a bit advanced for ol dummy here. Long way to go yet for me damn it!
Two in one.
The grain makes it look like it has an F hole :0
Pattern one is the E shape? I thought it was the G shape CAGED
It's a moveable chord shape rooted on the E string.
It can be confusing. People use different names for same thing.' E shape ' of a G chord
I think this is great but one really needs to learn the notes on the neck
mic sounds a bit off
Ta
Cheers 😊
| Richard - close2u | JustinGuitar Official Guide & Moderator [ www.justinguitar.com/ ]
Should We all be knowing the " MINOR PENTATONIC SCALE(s?) "
The scale 5/8, 5/7...etc is the A Minor Pentatonic 1st pattern. The 5th fret being the Root Note of the scale i.e. A 👍🏻
@@jasonmurkin3364 thankyou . "A MINOR PATTERNS?.
DOes it work in the same kind of way these G MAJOR CAGED 5 patterns?.
@@Add_Account485 yes correct but this pattern is the first that people learn because it's the most straightforward to learn...
Try learning a second pattern of the Minor Pentatnic shape, learn how to combine it with the first one and most of all, find a good use for it. Jam over a backing track while you improvise solo's. You're better off knowing only 2 pattern being "speaking them fluently" than spending your time memorizing stuff you don't use. Why don't you slow down and read up on scales in general? www.justinguitar.com/classes/scales-modes | LievenDV | JustinGuitar Official Assistant
@@justinguitar .ok. Mate thanx . I'll "slow it down
Why do you sound like you're talking over the phone?
Perhaps there is something wrong with your sound? There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the audio? | LievenDV | JustinGuitar Official Assistant
@@justinguitar my sound is working fine, but maybe that's how it's supposed to sound here, dunno.
It is a waste of valuable time not calling out the NOTES under your fingers as you execute the move!!
One does not travel down a thoroughfare and not be able to READ the street names... your guitar is out of tune!! never play with distortion !!
Thanks!
You're welcome. :)