If you like these lessons, definitely check out www.zombieguitar.com/ It is a one-of-a-kind site dedicated to helping guitarists to understand the fretboard and create their own music. You will love it!!
It's a ton of great amazing guitar 🎸 players on social media and real life billions but there's very very few people who can play amazing and be a great guitar teacher my brother you do both simply short lessons that are easy to apply ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾🕊️🕊️🕊️
Agreed. The most underrated channel on improv. He has a video in figuring out the key through pentatonic scale. That blew my mind. Then he has a video on using looper pedal AFTER modelling amp's effects. Nobody talks about it. This guy is a really good teacher. Heavily underrated.
Ditto! That goes for me too! I also save it. The next thing I do is hit the "full frame" thingy and turn my phone to landscape orientation, so I can see his hands better. Then I know I can watch the whole video without worrying if I saved it in my "Lessons" folder!
Another stellar lesson Brian, you explain things so clearly and articulately, every time. Great tips in this video, thanks for posting and keep ‘em coming 👍🏼
It's the rhythm that did it for me omg , you made me discover one of my biggest weaknesses , i always accent the one , now i know i have so many other options and i'm loving what i'm discovering atm , thank you so much once again !
Nice job bro. I have been following you for like 2 years maybe? Your lessons are always on point, also, I can see and hear you getting so much better at guitar yourself. You are tearing it up man. Keep up the great work.
Breaking your solo into small rhythmic components is something my guitar teacher thought me 15 years ago. I did take a hiatus because life happened meanwhile. Your channel is now brushing up my memory and is the best guitar content on UA-cam. I know because I've been browsing through all of them since getting back to playing. Best regards.
Thanks Brian first time commenting on your page. Really enjoying your tips and lessons. Its really helped my playing. Neatly getting the hang of solo theory🎸🎶🎸
thanks Brian,I needed this, love the way you transposed the D ,C,and Bmaj across the fretboard both vertically and horizontally to, amazing, and funny enough Sultans of swing is a song that I worked on and gave up with the song this gave me a head start, again thank you Brian, from a very happy Scotsman
This lesson was excellent. I’m fairly new to the caged system and keep coming across different ways to utilize it. When you started outlining the chord tones in the same pentatonic box I was like “that’s brilliant and why haven’t I thought of that.” That’s just one of multiple things I picked up from this lesson. Thank you!
I’d like to personally thank you for these instructions. I’ve struggled through my first 500 hours of my guitar playing, but these instructions are well thought out and has suddenly put a spark in my playing. I’m not only motivated, but I have a target. Another 500 hours of meaningful practice in the next 5-6 months. I’m suddenly improving daily and I have these well designed instructional videos to thank for it! THANK YOU. I realize the commitment to get really good, to be able to play accurately will take thousands of hours, but I needed a good foundation in order to start building on what I know. Thanks for that foundation.
I've been watching this channel for, I don't know, maybe a couple years now. I've never commented here before but just wanted to let you know you have by far the best guitar/theory channel on youtube. There are some other good channels, Signals Music Studio immediately comes to mind, but you consistently knock it out of the park with your videos. You're absolutely killing it. The Sultans breakdown in this video was particularly brilliant, IMO. You really have a tremendous skill of breaking down the music theory aspect of whatever you're talking about. I consistently see this in your videos. Consistently...This is what sets your channel apart from anyone else I've found on youtube. I have one suggestion for your channel: Make a playlist of your videos. A playlist in chronological order of what you think people should learn and, most importantly, in what order people should learn the topics in your videos. Revisit the playlist once or twice a year by adding to the playlist in the appropriate order, new videos you've added to your channel. I think that is what is really missing from your channel - give people a proper path to study.
Never knew this, and no one on UA-cam ever explained it like this,no wonder I was just playing and couldn't understand where the strong beat was supposed to be thanks man.
Thanks a lot Bryan the way you explain it is easy to understand and you know I laugh because with a few strings and frets you make it sound incredible,me on the other hand I still sound like scales every time I play; again thank you for this great lesson!
Brian thank you so much for a lesson that 1) makes sense and 2) that ties together theory with actual real live use. I’ve seen so many u tube vids that just cover a music topic (CAGE theory for instance) but don’t provide any idea on how to use it - basically useless…. btw - I really like ur guitar. All Les Paul without the unnecessary flash.. real nice. Well done 👍
As many others before me have said [hopefully?..], "right on the money bro". Through many [many!] years of playing, and through ignorance and pig-headedness [on my part], finally, someone has accurately described how I figure out playing live without knowing a song. At least I can now say, "Well Brian says so....". Top instruction man - and a big thanks for all your vids
I like lots of UA-cam vids, but normally only click 'Like' when I want to bookmark vid for referring back to when I practice. I watch all sorts of guitar vids (I'm sure I'm not the only one), but the most 'Like'd vids I have are Brian's, such a great resource to keep going back to, thanks for posting another great video!
Hi. Amazing lesson of always! Just one question, when you target chord tones do you hear the chords in the background and "react" to them or do you know the chord progression before? Any tips for trying to hear them while playing? Thanks a lot
Great vid Brian. Chord tones and interval targeting is essential (as you mentioned) - create fills (chromatic, pentatonic-based etc) to get you from one chord tone to another. Also, may I suggest one item - I would go one step further in borrowing a modified riff / lick from an established rock/jazz/ etc. group. I strongly suggest to also decipher / break down what makes it great - what chord tone / intervals were being hit? What were the fills they used between theses notes? What key , mode and out-of-key notes were used and at what times .... AND identifying the underlying rhythm atm etc etc etc. It would vastly improve learning imho. Keep up the grrrr8 work! Love it
I believe the lesson already as a shortest path for a learner to get on the strong reference to get to pro guitarist with time. It just as simple as it.
I've always been curious on how other's learn songs... especially people who play by ear. I play by ear and I follow a structure that I think works best. I am curious of how you would go about learning a song you don't know yet and I think many other people would enjoy a video/lesson of that idea, too. I know you have a video up about figuring a song out by ear, but I mean the steps you take, how you master them, when parts give you a problem, and how your mind goes about it in general. Kinda like this video, except learning songs! I appreciate every lesson, thanks a ton.
That video that you are referring to "How to Easily Learn Songs by Ear" is EXACTLY how I learn songs by ear. That is how I did it for 15 years while playing in a cover band!! It's all about just finding the key and knowing which chords are in the key!
"How can less be more? More is more" - Ynwgie Malmsteen. Seriously though, great advice here. Im trying to break away from the mindless shred thing and become more melodic myself
You are clear and intelligent in the way you teach...so intelligent. You don t treat us like children like other youtuber who thinks that every single guitarsit just know one pattern of the pentatonic lol
Oh Frenchie what about guitar players who do only know one pattern, maybe they still haven't learned anything else yet,respect your fellow guitarholics,not make a fool of them
@@warriorhawk2064 sorry i have forgotten that when you post a comment their is always someone who wants to comment a comment or interpret normal thing into bad thing. You want me to tell you that you are right probably. Well you are right. sleep well now baby.
@@warriorhawk2064 you are just experimenting what it is to call people with irrespectfull adjective (remind you that it is you who started with your "frenchie"). I bet you are the target of a lot of desagrement with a lot of people that you must piss off every day. Be positive man and positivness will come to you, be negative like with your first comment, and you will continue (because i assume it happens to you often) to live a life of target instead of a life of peace. Without knowing you and just with your first comment, i am sure you are a really frustrated person, with a lot of anger, a lot of feelings that life is unfaire and a lot of crap like that. It is what happen to negative people. It is easy to make them angry. That is the weekness of angry people. We can continue like that all day if you want...at the end, if i could make you reflect on you own life and change your behaviour i would be glad. I needed years and years to learn that kind of things. Thanks god i learnt them before becoming to old for them to be useless in life. Read you first comment, think about it, think about our argument, then think about the last argument you had with someone else, then with someone else, then with someone else. I never have argument with anyone in life for the mere raison i never reply to people when they say shitty things like in your fisrt comment. But we are on the internet so for one time i decided i won't let go. Moreover, in real life you would have shoutted and then we would have fighted probably because people like you react in violent way. That is another reason i never argue with anyone, because i don't care and i know they would not understand what is laking in them to leave the peacfull life i live. Nice day
Thanks dude, great lesson as always. What scale are you playing at 4:20? I love that sound, can you give me any basic tips or exercises on how I can learn those licks?
Hey Brian! Great lesson. Just wondering if you’re from the Chicago area as I saw your hoodie with a modified Chicago flag! Anyway keep rockin’ brother!
Great video, although I was a BIT surprised the 5 tips weren't 1) Target Chord Tones 2) Target Chord Tones 3) Target Chord Tones 4) Target Chord Tones 5) did I mention Target Chord Tones 😂😂😂 Learned a lot from that video Brian, thanks. And I always tip my non-existent hat to anyone knocking out the Sultans solo. And you played it good. Who cares it was with a pick? Not me for sure.
This video was actually going to be "10 phrasing tips" with 6 thru 10 all being "target chord tones", but it was getting a little long so I cut it off at 5 🤷🏻♂️
Your an amazing teacher!! Just about every guitar teacher I've had ( and I've had several growing up) never explained this as well as you do. When I first started learning scales I learned the c major scale. Well teacher assumed i knew that you could move the shape around but i didnt, i thought well if theres a shape for a c scale then each chord must be completely different. Gimme a break I was 7!! Lol anyway thanks for explaining things as well as you do and taking the time to make the video examples. They do help a bunch!!!
My biggest obstacle is that I don't understand how you keep track of the beats. Like I can follow the strong beat and technically stay in rhythm, but I couldn't tell you if it lands on 1, 2, 3, or 4. Which, leads me to not being exactly in time. So if the strong beat lands on a 3 but I think it's 4 then I'm one beat fast and Ill change chords early, or vice versa too slow, and thus not changing chords in time. This is irritating because I've been trying to practice but I've been kinda fruitless in my attempts to understand fully why I can't keep time unless I just straight up count in my head.
When you give the 4 examples in a row around tha 4.50 mark.. is that your own music... I'm sure others have probably asked before .. but just very curious if you have your own music out n available
@@zombieguitar wow dude color me impressed.. it's kinda hard to say but.. the beginning was like a new age . Ghost riders in the sky . Meets n like 80s hair band ballad I dunno can't place tha influence or exact style on the rest of tha song.. but I would say that's a a really good thing cause it's easy 2 say that's because it's an original zombie creation.. .. you n tomo. Fujita should go down n history as tha greatest teachers n musicians to to date..
Picking up these little bits of info you do need. But the reality is you HAVE to know the entire fretboard inside and out. That’s really the end of it. If you do that and you don’t feel a massive shift then you may not be a guitarist lol.
I wish I could get good at guitar I’ve had my guitar for 2 years and I use it all the time everyday I only had teacher for 2 months now but still I feel so much like a beginner it’s so demoralizing it really is I honestly don’t think I have it in me to learn to get good I don’t understand anything so much information to take in and I’m lost phrasing chord tones caged I know I must learn those to get good at soloing but there’s no way for me to learn there all too complicated maybe I’m the problem
You probably just need a clearly defined path of what to practice, in what specific order. I have spent 7 years building and perfecting a website that does exactly that! Sorry, I'm not one to give sales pitches in my response to comments...but seriously, that would most likely help immensely 😀
I see that you closely monitor the comments to your lessons. My weakness has always been not having a good ear. That has stopped me from making real long term progress. This may be a common problem with people who want to learn to play guitar, and I think that in regard to learning the guitar a good ear may be more critical than with learning other instruments. Perhaps you could do a lesson providing suggestions on how to best compensate for not having a good ear. However I do realize that this may not be possible. I would like to hear what you think about it.
@@zombieguitar In regard to hearing sour notes, for example, I like to improvise using youtube backing tracks; I have learned the blues and the pentatonic scales up and down the fretboard, so if I am jamming using the blues scale in the key of "A" and I hit a note that does not belong to the scale, I can hear it. For me, the most frustrating aspects to not having a good ear is that, while tuning the guitar and tuning from one string to another, e.g., I play the low "E" at the fifth fret, the "A," the "A" string is supposed to sound the same, but I can never tell when they do. So I can sit there for an hour trying to match them and not be able to tell when they sound the same. After more than forty years it is still the same; every once in a while I will test myself to see if my ear has been "trained" so I will test myself using a tuner and when I think they sound the same, I will check the tuning with the tuner and I am always wrong. Sometimes I get close, but NEVER on the first try. The other thing that I can't do is listen to a song and then play it. All of this is very frustrating; I have known people who can tune all six strings in less than ten seconds without having to use a tuning fork or a pitch pipe to tune the first string; those guys can also listen to songs such as "Elizabeth Reed," Cream's "Crossroads," and Blind Faith's "Sea of Joy" and then play them note-for-note. I cannot do any of that. I have concluded that being able to do these things is an essential part of having "talent" for playing the guitar, and I have accepted that I don't have any. One final note: about five years ago I did a DNA test with 23andMe; they give you an ancestry report, but they also give you reports, which they occasionally supplement, informing you of genetic predispositions to certain physical and psychological traits; a couple of years ago I received a supplemental report informing me that I am genetically predisposed to be "less likely to be able to MATCH PITCH." So there you have it, if there was ever any doubt, the "talent" for making music is genetic! What do you think?
If you like these lessons, definitely check out www.zombieguitar.com/
It is a one-of-a-kind site dedicated to helping guitarists to understand the fretboard and create their own music. You will love it!!
It's a ton of great amazing guitar 🎸 players on social media and real life billions but there's very very few people who can play amazing and be a great guitar teacher my brother you do both simply short lessons that are easy to apply ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾🕊️🕊️🕊️
This dude is so fucking underrated for his lesson it helped me out in 2 days. I can write and solos over my own work
Absolutely true !!
Agreed. The most underrated channel on improv. He has a video in figuring out the key through pentatonic scale. That blew my mind. Then he has a video on using looper pedal AFTER modelling amp's effects. Nobody talks about it. This guy is a really good teacher. Heavily underrated.
The best phrasing tutorial ever for a student
I just click the like button before the Zombie Guitar Intro even finishes. I know it's going to be a good lesson as always....Thanks Brian
I appreciate that. Thank you! 😁
Good to know I'm not the only one!
Ditto! That goes for me too! I also save it. The next thing I do is hit the "full frame" thingy and turn my phone to landscape orientation, so I can see his hands better. Then I know I can watch the whole video without worrying if I saved it in my "Lessons" folder!
Same
Another stellar lesson Brian, you explain things so clearly and articulately, every time. Great tips in this video, thanks for posting and keep ‘em coming 👍🏼
It's the rhythm that did it for me omg , you made me discover one of my biggest weaknesses , i always accent the one , now i know i have so many other options and i'm loving what i'm discovering atm , thank you so much once again !
Always useful info! Thanks, Brian!
Awesome. Dissecting familiar licks and showing how they use chord tones is very helpful. Thanks.
Thanks so much for that fantastic tips!
Another great video! Thanks Brian
I never fail to grab each lesson you put out there
Thanks a ton
That was an excellent lesson. Thanks!
This is so awesome!!! Wow!!
Awesome breakdown!!!!
Happy Thanksgiving. You my favorite teacher and I get something every time and I have played a long time. Thanks.
Appreciate the new music to the intro, much more inviting, thanks as always.
Brian's gotta way of simplifying complex musical concepts into easy ways to understand.
Great videos man. Really appreciate it.
Just bang on as always, thanks for sharing your years of experience.
..another beautiful lesson from a sage guru ..thanks Brian , I follow all your videos and have learnt a lot !
Thank you so much. Lots of information in 15 minutes. I will start using these tips now.
Great lesson. I like it when you break down a song to show real life example of these concepts!
Nice job bro. I have been following you for like 2 years maybe? Your lessons are always on point, also, I can see and hear you getting so much better at guitar yourself. You are tearing it up man. Keep up the great work.
Breaking your solo into small rhythmic components is something my guitar teacher thought me 15 years ago. I did take a hiatus because life happened meanwhile. Your channel is now brushing up my memory and is the best guitar content on UA-cam. I know because I've been browsing through all of them since getting back to playing. Best regards.
I found every part of that useful. Thank you.
Great video lesson!!!
Thx Brian. Good stuff!👍😊🎸
Great video, love this channel
Thanks Brian first time commenting on your page. Really enjoying your tips and lessons. Its really helped my playing. Neatly getting the hang of solo theory🎸🎶🎸
thanks Brian,I needed this, love the way you transposed the D ,C,and Bmaj across the fretboard both vertically and horizontally to, amazing, and funny enough Sultans of swing is a song that I worked on and gave up with the song this gave me a head start, again thank you Brian, from a very happy Scotsman
This lesson was excellent. I’m fairly new to the caged system and keep coming across different ways to utilize it. When you started outlining the chord tones in the same pentatonic box I was like “that’s brilliant and why haven’t I thought of that.” That’s just one of multiple things I picked up from this lesson. Thank you!
Mr. Kelly's lessons are always helpful.
Great tips, especially the rhythm one.
I need this, thank you good sir 👍
Awesome tutorial. Subscribed👍🏻
Thank you for this lesson 👍❤️
Many thanks!
Brian really deserves way more subs! Every lesson is 🔥
Thanks for the great tips.
One of the best instructors on the internet. There’s powerful information in these videos. Great teacher. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🎸
I’d like to personally thank you for these instructions. I’ve struggled through my first 500 hours of my guitar playing, but these instructions are well thought out and has suddenly put a spark in my playing. I’m not only motivated, but I have a target. Another 500 hours of meaningful practice in the next 5-6 months. I’m suddenly improving daily and I have these well designed instructional videos to thank for it!
THANK YOU.
I realize the commitment to get really good, to be able to play accurately will take thousands of hours, but I needed a good foundation in order to start building on what I know. Thanks for that foundation.
Nice work brother 👏
amazing stuff
Thank u sir...vvv good lesson
Thank you!
Great 5 tips, thanks, your not only a great player but also a very talented teacher, I like your teaching approach, cause understand! Good work..
Superb!
Makes sense to me, ty
Tip 4 was the best one , you are a great teacher
Ciao Brian, clear as always
Damn, i now understand chord tone soloing a lot more than when I started.
I've been watching this channel for, I don't know, maybe a couple years now. I've never commented here before but just wanted to let you know you have by far the best guitar/theory channel on youtube. There are some other good channels, Signals Music Studio immediately comes to mind, but you consistently knock it out of the park with your videos. You're absolutely killing it.
The Sultans breakdown in this video was particularly brilliant, IMO. You really have a tremendous skill of breaking down the music theory aspect of whatever you're talking about. I consistently see this in your videos. Consistently...This is what sets your channel apart from anyone else I've found on youtube.
I have one suggestion for your channel: Make a playlist of your videos. A playlist in chronological order of what you think people should learn and, most importantly, in what order people should learn the topics in your videos. Revisit the playlist once or twice a year by adding to the playlist in the appropriate order, new videos you've added to your channel.
I think that is what is really missing from your channel - give people a proper path to study.
Totally agree
Thank you, I really appreciate that!!
Solid...again!👍👍
Never knew this, and no one on UA-cam ever explained it like this,no wonder I was just playing and couldn't understand where the strong beat was supposed to be thanks man.
Thanks a lot Bryan the way you explain it is easy to understand and you know I laugh because with a few strings and frets you make it sound incredible,me on the other hand I still sound like scales every time I play; again thank you for this great lesson!
Thanks Brian, for this and teaching me Hotel California over lockdown.
love you bro family health love and wealth and wisdom and ambundance to you brother your the best teacher in guitar history on utube
Brian thank you so much for a lesson that 1) makes sense and 2) that ties together theory with actual real live use. I’ve seen so many u tube vids that just cover a music topic (CAGE theory for instance) but don’t provide any idea on how to use it - basically useless…. btw - I really like ur guitar. All Les Paul without the unnecessary flash.. real nice. Well done 👍
Love that tune. I play it.
You name it and Brian's got it thanks brother.
Really smoking Brian🎸🇺🇲
just what I was looking for :)
Nice new intro Brian 😉
Great as always, Brian! I don’t understand why you don’t have millions of subscribers, cause you well deserve it.
Thank you! Hopefully one day! 😀
Thank brian 🤘
You got a new subscriber
As many others before me have said [hopefully?..], "right on the money bro". Through many [many!] years of playing, and through ignorance and pig-headedness [on my part], finally, someone has accurately described how I figure out playing live without knowing a song. At least I can now say, "Well Brian says so....". Top instruction man - and a big thanks for all your vids
Thank you so much from Thai guitarist.I just begin.
awesome explaining this it's hard to get this figured out lol
I'm so f'ing close to buying a membership after this lesson... This is genius.
Thanks man! Much appreciated 😁
I like lots of UA-cam vids, but normally only click 'Like' when I want to bookmark vid for referring back to when I practice. I watch all sorts of guitar vids (I'm sure I'm not the only one), but the most 'Like'd vids I have are Brian's, such a great resource to keep going back to, thanks for posting another great video!
Thank you, much appreciated!
A shiny day thanks to u🇫🇷👍🏼🍒
Nice Sir
Hi. Amazing lesson of always! Just one question, when you target chord tones do you hear the chords in the background and "react" to them or do you know the chord progression before?
Any tips for trying to hear them while playing? Thanks a lot
Great vid Brian. Chord tones and interval targeting is essential (as you mentioned) - create fills (chromatic, pentatonic-based etc) to get you from one chord tone to another. Also, may I suggest one item - I would go one step further in borrowing a modified riff / lick from an established rock/jazz/ etc. group. I strongly suggest to also decipher / break down what makes it great - what chord tone / intervals were being hit? What were the fills they used between theses notes? What key , mode and out-of-key notes were used and at what times .... AND identifying the underlying rhythm atm etc etc etc. It would vastly improve learning imho. Keep up the grrrr8 work! Love it
I agree with that approach 100%!! I have a bunch of solo analysis videos where I do exactly that 😀
@@zombieguitar yesssssss true. Nice work
Hey Brian, enjoy your videos. I’d like to see the fretboard graphic at top turned 180 degrees to align with the guitar in the video. Thanks!
Nice breakdown Brian, borrowing phrases has gone on for as long as I can remember.
I believe the lesson already as a shortest path for a learner to get on the strong reference to get to pro guitarist with time. It just as simple as it.
I've always been curious on how other's learn songs... especially people who play by ear. I play by ear and I follow a structure that I think works best. I am curious of how you would go about learning a song you don't know yet and I think many other people would enjoy a video/lesson of that idea, too. I know you have a video up about figuring a song out by ear, but I mean the steps you take, how you master them, when parts give you a problem, and how your mind goes about it in general. Kinda like this video, except learning songs! I appreciate every lesson, thanks a ton.
That video that you are referring to "How to Easily Learn Songs by Ear" is EXACTLY how I learn songs by ear. That is how I did it for 15 years while playing in a cover band!! It's all about just finding the key and knowing which chords are in the key!
@@zombieguitar I'll have to watch it again. Thanks for the reply.
I can definitely hear a David Glimour influence in your improvisation
"How can less be more? More is more" - Ynwgie Malmsteen.
Seriously though, great advice here. Im trying to break away from the mindless shred thing and become more melodic myself
I agree, it is the melody that you generate that counts not how much you know.
You are clear and intelligent in the way you teach...so intelligent. You don t treat us like children like other youtuber who thinks that every single guitarsit just know one pattern of the pentatonic lol
Oh Frenchie what about guitar players who do only know one pattern, maybe they still haven't learned anything else yet,respect your fellow guitarholics,not make a fool of them
@@warriorhawk2064 sorry i have forgotten that when you post a comment their is always someone who wants to comment a comment or interpret normal thing into bad thing. You want me to tell you that you are right probably. Well you are right. sleep well now baby.
I'm a 58 years old man Scottish to boot so don't call me a baby you turd !!
@@warriorhawk2064 you are just experimenting what it is to call people with irrespectfull adjective (remind you that it is you who started with your "frenchie"). I bet you are the target of a lot of desagrement with a lot of people that you must piss off every day. Be positive man and positivness will come to you, be negative like with your first comment, and you will continue (because i assume it happens to you often) to live a life of target instead of a life of peace. Without knowing you and just with your first comment, i am sure you are a really frustrated person, with a lot of anger, a lot of feelings that life is unfaire and a lot of crap like that. It is what happen to negative people. It is easy to make them angry. That is the weekness of angry people. We can continue like that all day if you want...at the end, if i could make you reflect on you own life and change your behaviour i would be glad. I needed years and years to learn that kind of things. Thanks god i learnt them before becoming to old for them to be useless in life. Read you first comment, think about it, think about our argument, then think about the last argument you had with someone else, then with someone else, then with someone else. I never have argument with anyone in life for the mere raison i never reply to people when they say shitty things like in your fisrt comment. But we are on the internet so for one time i decided i won't let go. Moreover, in real life you would have shoutted and then we would have fighted probably because people like you react in violent way. That is another reason i never argue with anyone, because i don't care and i know they would not understand what is laking in them to leave the peacfull life i live. Nice day
the best
Great lesson Brian thank you another door has just been opened!
1:48 For my own edification. As you were ladies and gents.
Thanks dude, great lesson as always. What scale are you playing at 4:20? I love that sound, can you give me any basic tips or exercises on how I can learn those licks?
Lol my bad you literally went over the scales in the second half of the video 😄 should have watched the whole thing before asking
@@njubran Yup, just the D natural minor scale, with an emphasis on chord tones!
I have the same strap heh.
Too little for my Les Paul.
Great for a strat/tele
Hey Brian! Great lesson. Just wondering if you’re from the Chicago area as I saw your hoodie with a modified Chicago flag! Anyway keep rockin’ brother!
Great video, although I was a BIT surprised the 5 tips weren't
1) Target Chord Tones
2) Target Chord Tones
3) Target Chord Tones
4) Target Chord Tones
5) did I mention Target Chord Tones
😂😂😂
Learned a lot from that video Brian, thanks. And I always tip my non-existent hat to anyone knocking out the Sultans solo. And you played it good. Who cares it was with a pick? Not me for sure.
This video was actually going to be "10 phrasing tips" with 6 thru 10 all being "target chord tones", but it was getting a little long so I cut it off at 5 🤷🏻♂️
@@zombieguitar Shame. That would have been funny 😂😂
Your an amazing teacher!! Just about every guitar teacher I've had ( and I've had several growing up) never explained this as well as you do. When I first started learning scales I learned the c major scale. Well teacher assumed i knew that you could move the shape around but i didnt, i thought well if theres a shape for a c scale then each chord must be completely different. Gimme a break I was 7!! Lol anyway thanks for explaining things as well as you do and taking the time to make the video examples. They do help a bunch!!!
How do you get this tone
My biggest obstacle is that I don't understand how you keep track of the beats. Like I can follow the strong beat and technically stay in rhythm, but I couldn't tell you if it lands on 1, 2, 3, or 4. Which, leads me to not being exactly in time. So if the strong beat lands on a 3 but I think it's 4 then I'm one beat fast and Ill change chords early, or vice versa too slow, and thus not changing chords in time. This is irritating because I've been trying to practice but I've been kinda fruitless in my attempts to understand fully why I can't keep time unless I just straight up count in my head.
Sir pls make a vedio about. How to find the chords to any song 💓
Hey have you seen this one yet? This will definitely help 😀
www.zombieguitar.com/how-to-easily-learn-songs-by-ear/
Brian another question may be stupid but is their a right way or wrong way to learn a song🎸🇺🇲
No, I don't think there is a right or wrong way. I do know that if you learn songs by ear, it helps you to learn much quicker than anything else!
Steal licks!! Love it! We all inspire each other.
Around 7:05 the hammer on with your pinky are so in time with the metrenome it sounds like your finger is making the click
That is an awesome compliment. Thank you!
When you give the 4 examples in a row around tha 4.50 mark.. is that your own music... I'm sure others have probably asked before .. but just very curious if you have your own music out n available
Hey I appreciate that. I do have some original songs here on my UA-cam channel. Here's one of them: ua-cam.com/video/snB4YRCl0UI/v-deo.html
Thank u.. goin to listen now .. and again thank u for time n patience n dedication to help other musicians try n grasp everything..
@@zombieguitar wow dude color me impressed.. it's kinda hard to say but.. the beginning was like a new age . Ghost riders in the sky . Meets n like 80s hair band ballad I dunno can't place tha influence or exact style on the rest of tha song.. but I would say that's a a really good thing cause it's easy 2 say that's because it's an original zombie creation.. .. you n tomo. Fujita should go down n history as tha greatest teachers n musicians to to date..
Picking up these little bits of info you do need. But the reality is you HAVE to know the entire fretboard inside and out. That’s really the end of it. If you do that and you don’t feel a massive shift then you may not be a guitarist lol.
I wish I could get good at guitar I’ve had my guitar for 2 years and I use it all the time everyday I only had teacher for 2 months now but still I feel so much like a beginner it’s so demoralizing it really is I honestly don’t think I have it in me to learn to get good I don’t understand anything so much information to take in and I’m lost phrasing chord tones caged I know I must learn those to get good at soloing but there’s no way for me to learn there all too complicated maybe I’m the problem
You probably just need a clearly defined path of what to practice, in what specific order. I have spent 7 years building and perfecting a website that does exactly that! Sorry, I'm not one to give sales pitches in my response to comments...but seriously, that would most likely help immensely 😀
Play like a drummer you are right
I see that you closely monitor the comments to your lessons. My weakness has always been not having a good ear. That has stopped me from making real long term progress. This may be a common problem with people who want to learn to play guitar, and I think that in regard to learning the guitar a good ear may be more critical than with learning other instruments. Perhaps you could do a lesson providing suggestions on how to best compensate for not having a good ear. However I do realize that this may not be possible. I would like to hear what you think about it.
Your ear may not be as bad as you think it is. Can you "hear" a sour note when one is played? Can you tell if a singer is singing "in key" or not?
@@zombieguitar In regard to hearing sour notes, for example, I like to improvise using youtube backing tracks; I have learned the blues and the pentatonic scales up and down the fretboard, so if I am jamming using the blues scale in the key of "A" and I hit a note that does not belong to the scale, I can hear it. For me, the most frustrating aspects to not having a good ear is that, while tuning the guitar and tuning from one string to another, e.g., I play the low "E" at the fifth fret, the "A," the "A" string is supposed to sound the same, but I can never tell when they do. So I can sit there for an hour trying to match them and not be able to tell when they sound the same. After more than forty years it is still the same; every once in a while I will test myself to see if my ear has been "trained" so I will test myself using a tuner and when I think they sound the same, I will check the tuning with the tuner and I am always wrong. Sometimes I get close, but NEVER on the first try. The other thing that I can't do is listen to a song and then play it. All of this is very frustrating; I have known people who can tune all six strings in less than ten seconds without having to use a tuning fork or a pitch pipe to tune the first string; those guys can also listen to songs such as "Elizabeth Reed," Cream's "Crossroads," and Blind Faith's "Sea of Joy" and then play them note-for-note. I cannot do any of that. I have concluded that being able to do these things is an essential part of having "talent" for playing the guitar, and I have accepted that I don't have any. One final note: about five years ago I did a DNA test with 23andMe; they give you an ancestry report, but they also give you reports, which they occasionally supplement, informing you of genetic predispositions to certain physical and psychological traits; a couple of years ago I received a supplemental report informing me that I am genetically predisposed to be "less likely to be able to MATCH PITCH." So there you have it, if there was ever any doubt, the "talent" for making music is genetic! What do you think?