And here I've been banging my head against the wall of trying to memorize the notes... Intervals seem a lot more useful in the moment. Certainly a whole lot easier to remember. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!
Holy smokes man I think I just had a friggin epiphany with this🤘😦brilliant my friend, and you play absolutely beautifully🥹🎸you have a brand new fan in me dude!😁👍
As a person who plays both guitar and piano I think it's really interesting to see the fact that while the guitar is clearly a chromatic instrument, I (we?) always always think about being in a key, and then, I ask myself, about changing keys. But if instead I was to say, what intervals might sound good in this piece, sometimes those intervals will include notes that aren't in my chosen "key". And when I figure out what it is I'm doing (oh look, I've re-discovered the harmonic minor scale), I think to myself, maybe us guitar nerds should be reviewing the piano nerd teaching system and stealing from it. I think when it comes to scales and modes, the keyboard/piano people have been teaching this more effectively than the guitar community. I love the idea of minimizing workload. To offload work from my brain, I just need to do a thing without thinking about it. Muscle memory. Habit. Ingrained skill. Better than playing scales, for me, is improvising over chords. For hours. Hundreds of hours. Eventually thousands of hours. But before I could do that, thousands of hours of scales and exercises and licks. So much work, all to minimize workload and make me able to do effortlessly now what I couldn't even do with a maximal effort at first. I like the idea of working in degrees of a scale. I think we should work with the names also. Tonic being the root note, and supertonic, and so on. This lets us think functionally.
A lesson that could have been by Derek Trucks. Not the same as Derek but I really hear Derek in Andy's playing...it's a singer's approach as much as a guitarists.
Andy wood Is a phenomenal player. Great lesson.
Listen to everything Andy has to say. He’s the real deal!
And here I've been banging my head against the wall of trying to memorize the notes... Intervals seem a lot more useful in the moment. Certainly a whole lot easier to remember. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!
Three and four...... Seven and eight. always hugging each other. Friends for life.
Holy smokes man I think I just had a friggin epiphany with this🤘😦brilliant my friend, and you play absolutely beautifully🥹🎸you have a brand new fan in me dude!😁👍
one of the best today, plus a tremendous teacher!
Congratulations Andy on the Guitar World column and the new album! Rock on! 🤘😎
Nobody explains music theory as it applies to guitar better than Andy. Thanks for your contributions my friend!
Beautiful stuff!
This is a fantastic lesson. It clears up a lot of confusion for me. Thanks Andy!
Absolutely beautiful. Thank you Andy
Excited for where this is going! Good stuff that's often overlooked.
Strong foundations are the key to hot playing!
Excellent teacher as well!
Guitar World, you've been sleeping on Andy!! You should try and get Dan Sugarman as well, incredible player/teacher.
As a person who plays both guitar and piano I think it's really interesting to see the fact that while the guitar is clearly a chromatic instrument, I (we?) always always think about being in a key, and then, I ask myself, about changing keys. But if instead I was to say, what intervals might sound good in this piece, sometimes those intervals will include notes that aren't in my chosen "key". And when I figure out what it is I'm doing (oh look, I've re-discovered the harmonic minor scale), I think to myself, maybe us guitar nerds should be reviewing the piano nerd teaching system and stealing from it. I think when it comes to scales and modes, the keyboard/piano people have been teaching this more effectively than the guitar community.
I love the idea of minimizing workload. To offload work from my brain, I just need to do a thing without thinking about it. Muscle memory. Habit. Ingrained skill. Better than playing scales, for me, is improvising over chords. For hours. Hundreds of hours. Eventually thousands of hours. But before I could do that, thousands of hours of scales and exercises and licks. So much work, all to minimize workload and make me able to do effortlessly now what I couldn't even do with a maximal effort at first.
I like the idea of working in degrees of a scale. I think we should work with the names also. Tonic being the root note, and supertonic, and so on. This lets us think functionally.
Hi rock on dude
Impressive stuff imho
A lesson that could have been by Derek Trucks. Not the same as Derek but I really hear Derek in Andy's playing...it's a singer's approach as much as a guitarists.
Can you add more distortion
You can always add more distortion 😂