John Mayer struggles to find the right key, then goes full BB King mode on a Jump Blues jam track
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2019
- Okay so I noticed the awful quality of the first video, so I'm posting it again in better resolution, but this time each jam individually. This Instagram Live is definitely one of my all time favorites from him!
Here's a 1-hour compilation of all of John Mayer's guitar tips over the years:
ua-cam.com/video/SlQjk5VfuFY/v-deo.html
legendary
My man!👍
@Jazmin Teddick nah
Looks like the C# major scale notes are written on the ceiling
There's a TV screen on the ceiling with BB King tabs
Emilio Bazan i believe its called the minor pentatonic blues scale
@@YMSHE No shit sherlock..he refers to his head movement 🤦♂️
@@YMSHE Technically just the blues scale as blues and minor pentatonic are two different (albeit very similiar) scales.
😂
"Okay dude we get it." - jealous guitar store employee
hahaha spot on
"Jealous"
More like sick of hearing the same 5 blues licks played all fuckin day everyday
MrKerfuffle96 we found the jealous guitar store employee
I like your user name
Look I've got a lot of respect for you guitarists, it's nowhere near my main instrument but I recognise my musician brothers - but come on, surely you know going crazy in a music store doesn't make you look like hot shit? What would you think of you saw someone pick up a violin and bust out some concerto, that they're awesome? No, you'd think they're an asshole tryna show off.
I'm better at struggling than John Mayer. He can't do it nearly as long as I can. It's my lifes work.
Fr1endlyf1re I bet John Mayer can’t linearly stumble around his fretboard looking for notes that sound good like I can
True art
Yeah, suck it john
Gold!
I applaud you for your lifes work
John Mayer jammin over ed, edd n eddy intro for 4 minutes and 14 seconds
Hilarious
Bro this one made me laugh hard
And playing the same lick 355 times
Alex loooool
goddammit hahahahaha
If anyone actually watched the entire stream, he struggles quite a bit hitting certain licks that he's hearing in his head and just keep trying until he gets it. That's why this stream in particular was so endearing
Where does he stream? Here on UA-cam?
Tauli Taulington I think Instagram
@@qwertpoiuy430 Nice, thank you, I will check that out.
Tauli Taulington periscope and instagram!
@@jessestumpf190 I didn't even know about periscope. Thanks, brother. ^^
“Struggling”... lmao for like 3 seconds and then literally legendary
Read the title bro, if he falls off of key twice in 12 bars I would say it would be struggling. He did kill it after the reset though. Which the title says... its supposed to be funny like he couldn't find the key then just kills it but you just have to murder the joke and get all but hurt the title says struggling.
Lmfaoo “bro”
Kyle B imagine watching a john mayer video while also thinking the word bro is cringe
TuxKat Hahahaha your comment is underrated
For a player like John, not finding C# can be considered struggling imo
"one string solo" *hits wrong note*
me: HE CAN EVEN PLAY JAZZ
Made my day
Hahaha. Best comment here
wrong
Duderino yes
@@matthewnewton2753 is joke
This kid might make it big. He has the talent
Rutvik is this a joke?
Carmine Martino He's complimenting him. Do you think that's a joke?
Carmine Martino it’s a joke
Kolby A. r/whoosh
Magnus Maximus I hope it is, but who knows? Maybe he actually didn’t know him
2:25 - That face.
Even John Mayer, the legend he is, smiles like a child when he plays something right.
Testament to a man who has fame and money yet still loves nothing more than perfecting his craft.
I'd struggle my whole life if that's what struggling is.
Not really :) Keep practicing!
That’s what years of struggling looks like. If it ever stops being a struggle, you’re not getting better anymore.
To say it in the style of howlin‘ wolf:
When you struggled your whole live, Then you got what the blues is ;)
It's always a struggle. Gotta just feel the love and the pain.
The only thing he is struggling with is to keep breathing. He keeps gasping for air when he stops playing for a second. lol
He should learn C++ or even C if he likes C# that much!
I appreciate the attempt here.
Incidentally, C# was based on Java, not C++. Put another way, C++ was the successor to C but C# was not the successor to C++.
@@razzendahcuben you get the joke bud
@@razzendahcuben C++ got drunk one night. Java was hanging around and said wassup. Noone remembers or is willing to admit what happened that night. 9 months later, c# was born.
@@razzendahcuben C# was not based on Java. They had similar goals, but it was very much based on C/C++, the same family that Java came from and was very much seen as a potential successor to C++.
The original post joke did make me chuckle though.....
John: *starts concentrating*
John's face: :-l
Underrated com lmao
Struggled for 3 sec untill he said c sharp
That ceiling must be pretty
The tabs must be pasted there
He’s actually communicating with the blues and music gods in the spirit realm as he plays. They live up there. They like the attention.
Haha I heard joe is up there
Martin 1 who is joe lol
Landon Truong joe mama
How I find the right key... play in all 12 different keys until one of them works... I usually figure it out by the time the song ends 😂
😂😂😂
same lol
What?
Why does everyone over think keys just listen to it and shush, use your ears. Jfc..
There are way more than 12 keys
People like to hate on John Mayer, but musically, the man is amazing.
I don't really like a lot of his material but he is a good guitar player
His improvisational skills alone speaks for itself. Anyone who says he's overrated is either new to guitar or is hating for the sake of hating.
@john doe he's an amazing guitarist actually
@@mcbill7352 not as much as "amazing"
@@andrewandrew4970 Yeah, I'm with Andrew on this one...John Mayer is a legendary guitar player and any legendary guitar player would say the same. He isn't "average" by any means when it comes to guitar playing.
He hardly struggled he heard his mistakes right away
Patrick Mehr He struggled by John Mayer standards 😆
@@bennyjones1502 He Mayer may not have struggled :-p
Ikr! I would of been a good minute in before wondering why it sounds off
Hearing your mistakes is only the beginning of struggle
I heard the full stream was much more struggling before jamming
No one:
John: 🙄
@ oh well
Mark Russ no one cares mate lol
Michael Canning I love this comment 😂😂
@ imagine thinking commenters need to adapt to your preference lmao
@ Lmfao.
Find someone who looks at you like john mayer is looking at the celing. Goodday sir.
Lmao
He HAS to look up everytime to deliver an intensive bend!
Shubham Narayankar I think he gets that from Stevie ray vaughn
It's called "pretending"
@@PHELCAN Do you play guitar?
TAB is gaffer taped to the ceiling 🤪
Shubham Narayankar remember his contorted faces he'd make when he was younger ? It was funny !
If you’re just learning guitar and want to know how to solo like this, LEARN SOME SCALES!!! Pentatonic is the basic one, then just find a good backing track and mess around with it. Add some bends, slides, and you’ll be going places.
Tyler Reddick this is valid for almost any instrument you can improvise jazz or blues on. learn the pentatonic scales and some licks specific to the instrument. and off you go.
Learning the pattern 4 blues scale would be a great start. It’s just a minor pentatonic with an added flat 5.
I’d recommend playing major scales in all 12 keys. Everything is based around it. Pentatonic itself is based around the major scale.
I’d also recommend spending some free time on music theory.net, great website
Coderedpirate Sure, that goes without saying. Knowing scales and modes is an integral part of playing, and can be learned over time, no doubt. My comment was more geared towards being able to jump in and jam on a basic blues progression immediately.
saucy risi if you try to play a blues scale in a jazz jam we may end up looking like your profile picture
What normal people see: John Mayer playing guitar
What I see: LICK FACTORY THAT I SHALL STEAL FROM
Its why i love that every dead and co show is professionally filmed and available to watch live. Nothing has improved my playing more then watching and rewinding Dead and Co shows with close up shots of Johns solos.
Dylan Wager Music yeah buddy. Up close and personal how I like it.... I’m stealin this shit
Dylan Wager Music john stole from EC
This joke to normies: hahahhehehehehe lololololoooool
This joke irl: not funny, unoriginal af
Yep
My guitar teacher taught me, numer one: let the solo "breathe" (don't just keep playing and playing, make little pauses), number two: follow the beat, number three: solos go like this, _ask a question, answer it and then create a new controversy_
Nice tips:)
For number one, practicing singing along your guitar lines works quite well. My teacher told me horn players all solo with natural spacing between phrases because they literally have to breathe, which can be transferred to guitar playing that way.
@@Gluodin damn, that's a good one
Paul davids made a video of this, call and response. Pretty interesting!
omg i cant believe that John Mayer struggles to find the right key, then goes full BB King mode on a Jump Blues jam track
Cool , keep practicing, you might get somewhere some day!
How dumb are you?!?! This is THE John Mayer.
Nate Crossland r/woooosh
@@natecrossland371 How dumb are you?!?! This is THE joke.
@@natecrossland371 oh my... You just made a fool of yourself...
@@jacobsmith9117 plot twist: hes using sarcasm
He deserves all the success he's gotten.
so this is what benny is doing after escaping caesar's fort
Benny would later go to sell millions with his hit record, New Vegas Blues. With songs like: I shot the Mailman, Checkerboard Tux, Ain't that a Kick in the Head and many more.
Love to see a FNV reference in the wild
@@RRRRobbbb wrong Bennie
The Real Kim Jung hahahaha
What about Caesar’s fort?
See the reason John keeps looking up when he plays a tasty lick is because the god himself is showing him the tabs.
I love how John, this famous and extremely talented touring musician, is chilling with his IG viewers and giving free lessons. One of many reasons I love this guy
I swear this guy hears everything perfectly, and everything he hears he plays immediately without hesitation and without error. Every guitar players dream to play like this. Even when he struggles it's like it was meant to be
This is kinda where you can see what Eric Clapton meant when he said, “John doesn’t know how good he actually is.”
This guy on a dime just made album quality material
The whole 30 minute livestream is up on my channel!
(Update) Here's the link:
ua-cam.com/video/05X8X8RdQ2I/v-deo.html
no it isnt
@@zekechap oh yes it is
Nackboooorn
I feel no emotion from this one jack.
Simon Nackborn Johns loosing his hearing a little now. A lot later, just a natural thing that lots of players have happen! It's medical name is ( can't fukkin hear anymore disease) and it sucks!
for people wondering why he's looking up at the ceiling:
he's looking into a void that opens up a portal beneath his guitar, so therefore, in essence, he's looking at the bottom of his guitar
like, come on man, it's pretty obvious that he's doing that. if you couldnt figure that out, then there's something wrong with you
This man's mistakes sound better than anything I've ever played.
Love how authentic this guy is. Not afraid to screw up.
his enthusiasm is cute and endearing, you can tell he deeply loves what he's doing
and he looks a little like johnny knoxville
You can see the way he purses his lips as he plays like he’s basically singing through his fingertips. Brilliant.
Tone is always on point! How!? It’s got a certain quality I can’t express in words. Amazing.
Nah...he's just such a perfectionist that he wants to be completely satisfied with whatever he comes up with. He's a legend no matter what he plays.
Damn 1:40 ish to 1:47ish is just an amazingly smooth lick, little different than how bb would ever play it in perfect style of BB. Thank you sir I’ll be learning that tonight haha
Albert Collins extravaganza sliding into BB territory with Mayer gymnastics on a single string, Gate coming along for the ride.
The very beginning was the best Iv'e ever heard John John play. What a master!
this has been in my recommended all week. ok fine, ill finally watch it.
That turnaround at 3:47 is awesome!
Loved that he referenced Gatemouth who was much more than just a blues player.
Get someone who looks at you like John looks at his ceiling 😌
Damn. Watching this man playing the blues is really hypnotizing
Thanks for showing us Mayer struggling with something. I thought he was some government made super groove bot from the future sent back to school us on soul.
struggling for 1sec? i feel bad
First time I've seen/heard him play . Damn he's amazing
I remember him reminiscing about spending years in his room alone playing guitar as a youth; assuming he could be lying on a beach in the tropics for the rest of his life, guitar or not... aspiring guitar players are fortunate to have this. Thank you John!
Keep practicing, Johnny, you’ll get it and go right to the top! I got that feeling
He is the closest thing to a Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan of this time than anyone else I believe. He’s a real fascinating guitarist.
frusciante exists too
Keep in mind there are numerous blues players many with near-living legend status who are better and who play with rock influences to boot. Mayer is a good pop song writer and is a surprisingly competent blues player but he is definitely not the best of this era. Not even close.
@@asegal4677 "suprisingly competent". Mayer learned guitar by mimicking blues legends. He's been playing blues since he first picked up the guitar. Your ridiculous comment shows me you know nothing at all about Mayer's skills.
@@TheRageCommenter What's ridiculous about it? I like Mayer but are you arguing he is the best blues player of this era?
@@asegal4677 I'm not arguing he's the best because that's too subjective to even begin to debate about. I am arguing, however, that he's definitely better than "not even close".
Jesus , I have always been at least a casual fan of John Mayer . Who knew he was such a student of the game?
He’s the total real deal and you’d never know since he’s so humble . Deep musical knowledge , and here he’s playing nothing like the music he creates
This dude has unreal talent. I hope he makes it big someday
John, you pretty much nailed Derek Trucks’ playing style in your one string solo approach!
🙌🏻🙌🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
He's like a blues soul with with the precision of a classical musician just absurdly good.
Austin Hartt, if you think this accurate then listen to joscho Stefan
One of the most underrated talents out there. His guitar playing is up there with some of the greats
DUDE THIS LIVE STREAM WAS AMAZING THE RUMBA ESPECIALLY
He should record these things professionally and upload them. Would love to listen to something like this while driving.
Put on an Albert Collins record, and you're there
google jump blues man, theres a good 50+ years of music waiting for you
Wound Up - Watch Reviews Stevie Ray Vaughan much?
Listen to the blues songs he does with dead and co. He has a lot of songs he will just rip on
Of course he ist the first one to ever play the Blues, he invented it and noone ever before him had any kind of inspiration for pieces of music like, say, THIS BACKING TRACK YOU MORON! For real, come on! There has been so much Blues, you got to be kidding. Except you mean he should start a band, write his own music, sell tickets for his shows, record and sell his albums a million times and... oh wait.
When he looks up like that he's actually just looking straight into his brain so he can understand what he's thinking
Great watching you noodle John!!! Love your playing!!!
I could watch and listen all day! Booya!
I really relate to the “one string solo” part 😂
C# is overrated and underused nowadays, I personally swear by Python but that's just my two cents
Underrated comment
Hitting it just right
Alex O'Boyle your joke has certainly fallen 2 cents flat
MG Stevens yeah I do :(
I LOVE c#. The runtime allows it to be much more performance than python
Love the one string solo ! Pretty sick !!
This mans a guitar genius seriously.. i used to hate john Mayer and over the past 5yrs grew too love him hes so versatile and expressive in his guitar playing i love when he plays the blues he goes where no man has gone before and i say to myself how is that possible not sure but he does it everytime im glad hes doing these videos and interacting with his fans. All i can say is god bless john mayer keep on playing that guitar.
I don’t think John Mayer struggles with anything Guitar related! The dude is a straight up monster
He is not. Tosi Abasi is a monster. John Petrucci is a monster. Guthrie Govan is a monster. John Mayer is a pussy slayer who plays guitar well. If you insist, very well.
@@hanswurst9120 dude, mayer is blues/blues rock player. you have to pit him against guitarists of the same style. but i agree, he's competent for sure, but no stevie ray vaughan.
Vincent Lema he is a beast !
quickstep THERE WILL NEVER EVER BE ANOTHER SRV !
@@quickstep2408 ok. BB King. Michael Schenker. Joe Bonamassa. What now? Come on guys, Mayer is good, but he is no legend like Clapton. Oh, Clapton btw!
At 2.10 he plays note for note a BB.King V chord lick from BB's 'Please love me' live at the regal. On that record you can hear the lick around 0.12 seconds in.
They call me Lazer Ears Smith.
I love that John is doing these, while aware that social media is critical to his longevity. But man, he still rips.
Great upbeat rhythm and I have started solos in the wrong key many times. Sometimes the brain doesn't work right. Love the BB stuff.
Watching JM missing those notes on "1 string solo" made me like him even more. Don't know why.
No one:
That one guy at guitar center:
This dude has a pure talent maybe he can become a music artist. Keep up and mark my words!
There’s so much to learn from John! I never tried the one string solo thing! Gotta practice that.
watch bonamassa play one note and tug at my emotions in the thrill is gone.
John Mayer gets confused for a second then nails the hell out of the shuffle.*
There, I fixed your title.
I used to be extremely insecure about doing weird things with my mouth while playing, but after seeing John do it here, I don't think I'll be concerned about it anymore 😂😂
John's the man. Seen him three times. Great all three times.
That one string solo is really amazing!
People sleep on John Mayer like he’s not slick af 😏
More licks to steal for my arsenal.
He's very good. Seen him live many times. Tone forever
Yep. Great musicians are always "sharpening their skills". Salute to you JM.!! Peace, Carl & Leann.
2:15 the last bend and the last note of that lick sound sooo good
Little Wing I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING.
I think this cat is so cool!
Master at work. Beautiful
Just what I needed before bed. Goodnight everyone
Not often you get to see major players working through and experimenting with chords and scales and offering commentary. I've filed this in favorites.
I can play like this. Then I woke from my dream and realized not even with many many hours of practice. 😆
For real, it's not even that hard. He has some tasty licks though
It takes months of practicing the blues to nail this stuff
@@hanswurst9120 Seems like a lot of pentatonic scales
that makes no sense. with many, many hours of practice you should be able to be at least competent with blues. self-defeat is nothing to be proud of.
blues is about expression, and that is something you can't really teach as it's individual-based. also hearing the value of a single note, like in the bb king style, which is why his style is really important to be exposed to if you want to pursue blues. you don't need to shred, let it breathe, it's soul music.
quickstep I find it amusing when folks act like players like Mayer are just like any other average Blues player. My point is, that even with many hours of practice I’m not nor would be the equivalent. Their are limits to what practice can do.
This guy do got some real talent! One day he will be famous I think.
Thank goodness this man is on the planet.
Prolly one of the best underrated guitarist of our time right now
lol good one
Are you joking?
youd think he's playing the guitar, but he's actually playing an invisible saxophone
That would utterly explain my dislike for sure.
You can almost see his brain thinking of the riffs before his fingers catch up. Insane.
I've said this on another video of his, but John Mayer inspires me to not only pick up my guitar and learn, but also to sell it and never look back at the same time.
It’s like he was getting them notes from God in heaven *wow*
no struggeling at all this guy is sick.. Love you John
Yep. John Mayer struggling all the way to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. We should all be so fortunate as to struggle playing the guitar like him. Nicely done.
I enjoy watching pro's playing. Because it is as if they are playing with their favorite toy! I can relate to the love of playing an instrument. Love the clean view of his hands! Robbing a few ideas from this one.