Playing Guitar With Intensity

[Twanger73]

This is one of the best guitar lessons on YouTube.

[donottawaguitar]

rip the tone from its throat and stomp your vibrato with your work boats nice!

[donsolo00]

@donottawaguitar He's a jazz player bro. He's a tremendous guitarist.

[nartrock]

I took this course and it has been one of the best learning experiences in my life. Rick is a great instructor and he does a great job in putting the berklee curriculum and experience right in your hands thru your computer. Great stuff!!!

"The beat is in your heart" thanks for that Rick!!

[Mynamesbob8]

Good stuff. When my band goes to make music we do it a little differently, Our music usually starts with a cool rhythm riff and then our drummer makes a drum line off it, but he's an incredible drummer so It's probably an exception to this lesson. Once the Rhythm and Drum lines are down we add Bass and then Lead and Vox to finish it. It really comes down to what way works best for you and your band mates.

[srvgravesdime]

@Mynamesbob8 True, but he's not telling you how to make music. He's just telling you how to use intensity. Chances are you guys do it without even noticing it.

[haimcito]

very goog lesson

[slowhand633]

ya keep 'playing in the center of the drum.'

[teamhex]

Iv got a friend that cant do this yet. Not everyone has the feel for it when they start.

[RonVermillion]

The time is in your heart.

True

Ron

[loucatuu]

nice! thankyou

[jameroni]

i also have a massive understanding of the piano and the drums. i mean you have to speak their language to work with them you know. there is tons of lingo that a seasoned musicion would understand

[hbjon]

Your a musical genius dude.

[Bdwag]

i always image how all of us guitarist automaticly understand how the metnodrome works.

and we all somehow have a understanding of the piano and every skilled at drumming

[willmer88]

but apparantly not a natural ability to speak.

[CarlJohnDavison]

Ok, ya so I learned this stuff when I was 13, you dont really need a lesson for something so basic. But Im sure this guy is an awesome musician and this is apparently a very very basic lesson for beginners. So if your like me just go on to something that you dont know instead of nocking the video

[gbrown4x4]

That's amazing cause I consider myself a decent player and i would jam with friends all the time. There was a guy on bass that was a beginner but he had NO sense of timing. NONE !!!! And i would think how can you not have a feel for timing?? Just 2 notes and he couldn't play in time. I wanted to shoot him.

I wish he could see this vid. Just like i knew some friends that are "Tone Deaf" They can't even hum in key. I know i can't sing but i will be in key. Somethings we take for granted.

[willmer88]

i like that you mentioned that we take it for granted. it's very true. i can sing and had sort of a natural nack for guitar, bass, drums, and piano. growing up i thought everyone was the same. people should really cut other people who have a harder time some slack.

i sound like mr. rogers.

[LedKenji666]

@willmer88 if youre that good show it to us

[g99se9]

This guy has the patience of Job to teach people who actually struggle at that level.

[teamhex]

Where can I get some of these drum beats? Id like to practice and do a bit of improve with em.

[bluescanfly1981]

You can see why this guy is a teacher at Berkley.. he understands the feel. It's like B.B king playing a single note. The note is right where it needs to be. Nathan East, Tommy Emmanuel, Ian Anderson and all the other greats know that the most important building block in music is time. This lesson is only simple on the surface. Getting and internalizing the underlying principle is a life long quest :)

[kickcableguyinnuts]

just like a major scale was natural to me, i didnt know what i was doing when i did it first but i used it. some people dont pick up on certain things that seem obvious though and i think this is geared more toward a beginner. a lot of people need to be told some of this stuff so they actually pay attention. i know so many guitar players that dont really listen, even ones that are decent. listen through the stuff that is obvious and sometimes its worded in ways that make you think different

[whtsavai]

Ya..any natural born musician all this timing stuff and chord changes usually just comes natural..

[Vortigon]

I am amazed people need to be taught this stuff. Seems obvious and natural to me.

[GULRUDJ]

Some people don't have skills/rythm/are tone deaf. Oh well.

[Redsox07rbeast]

lol i agree with you 100%

Until now, i never really thought of this kind of stuff at all... just sort of did it...

[Samablama]

i agree.

[foah201]

yeah same here haha it seems like so natural

[RodneySTR]

5* great video :)

[RodneySTR]

anyone making fun of this video doesnt understand they are getting a great "FREE" lesson!!!!!!!!! and are idiots that dont even wanna learn guitar... just here for the fact they themselves have no life to view something they arent interested in.

[raimond01]

this video is just one video out of a series. actually Rick gives an award winning course at Berklee just about chords. challenging course with lots of great stuff that most people don't even know about its existence!

[DEATHbyRAZORBACK]

that guitar sounds so goooood!!

[Pholtron]

Good lesson

I have a friend who can put his fret fingers on the right spots. But, his picking hand He plays the wrong strings.

never really listening, just fingering the notes.

The result is ,It sounds horrid.

Another friend can only play one song

"smoke on the water", He knows one chord, the three note "A", and plays it at various fret levels. He is precise in picking only the proper strings, and he sounds real good, because he listens to his sound.

Make every riff count

[DecrepitPluto]

common sense video

[damnadults]

i thought 'intensity" meant

that playing a guitar

real fast.. xD

[karp47]

so true

[razertung]

Overall I like this, but I'm not completely down with the muting comments - YOU HAVE TO PLAY LIKE THIS TO GET A CLEAN SOUND - I don't worry quite so much about muting, it just happens.. but the pinky technique, I know I don't play like that and I have no problems.  I've never had a lesson in my life - it comes quite naturally. I know that teaching muting notes like this is common.

[azimuth457]

you sound just like me haha

i just watched this cause i didn't know what he meant by "intensity"

i taught myself, and within a couple months i could play like this..

just naturally like you

[JeKaBmusic]

You know, if you record this on Pro Tools and have a look at it, you'll see round balls of sound with clean, clear gaps of silence, like a good vocal (well, depending on the style) where each word is given weight and presence.

It also reminds me of what a former arranger for the US Marine Corps band used to tell us when he was our HS music teacher: Half of music is silence. What just occurred to me is: You have to get the time when you're not making sound right, too...just as precise.

[JeFfIsLiKeSoHXC]

Finally, someone who actually understands why this video is so important.

I don't really understand why this video has such a low rating... This is a great video. People just don't realize that this is important, because people don't have any experience playing with bands. Newer guitarists are all about tabs nowadays =/

[azimuth457]

yeah

thats why all those kids who post band stuff on youtube don't have anything good..haha.

plus tabs aren't that accurate usually.

after all, they're free.

i write them sometimes though.

well..i used to.

[BillyC15]

exactly

[vaiman777]

It's all about the feel.

[FloBlues]

thats right!

[Bodom115]

very true about the band thing

[anthoneycrunch]

proper level depends on what sound you want to develop

[Mitchzizzle]

Amazing video. Very important stuff.

[kickassbigass]

finaly i see the light..

[SammyJD85]

A lot of people... i mean a lot... Need to see this... Nothing better than the basics from Beethoven..

[13makio]

waht is Fuzz?

[meddelhed]

it's the first type of distortion, i think. like the one, jimi hendrix used

[autoicon123]

Like Overdrive, distortion....FUZZ;-)

[monkeylander321]

What are the cords?

[JamesD555]

he says them during the video. A C and G.

[monkeylander321]

I just started guitar......what cords are you playing???

[Geertje1965]

yeah, so much focus on what notes are being played usually, but it's vital to attend to the basics. Good video!

[tweetingbird]

Great to hear someone talk about how guitarists can (and should) play with sensitivity within a band. I think these types of players are the one's who get hired again..

[Criplejuice]

ausome

[bassrockerr]

cool video !!