Neon intro (extremely slowly/tutorial one)

[ATEGD]

nice but I can't see the left hand

[JoeyNE14]

I totally remember watching this video and getting SO frustrated with it. Playing it with ease now. Even learned a lot of the solo variations by ear.

[maxiumums]

2 months ago i was looking at this saying its impossible... but a bit of practice and i can play it :D

[X6Guitar]

lovely



[area859]

That was awesome!! Thanks!

[edwebo]

and now all I have to do is play that perfectly and sing at the same time... wtf John

[floridagator1722]

This video is fantastic in terms of showing the technique, thanks a lot man I've made tons of progress :)

[flyingchicken33]

thumb looks huge



[WideAngleDan]

John Mayer is a mutant.

[TiffanyLabarre]

0:51 my mind is full of fuck

[JYLEDH]

wut the freak!!!!!!!!!!!!

sooooooooooo hard

[frozencokes]

haha i play bass and guitar so i can slap and double thumb like diss

[MrWoa90210]

Excellent tutorial....*picks up guitar*

[theappleelppa]

@fall0utboy actually its standard tuning with a C bass =)

[richardwright651]

great, well played. But this is not the intro is it? The intro is the hard bit....

[ElvemoSkare]

@richardwright651 That is the real intro. The other stuff is just for gags on live shows

[TheClemllk]

OMGAWWWWWWWWWSSSHHHHH I CANT LEARRN THISSSS WHYYYYY GOD WHYYYY I WANNA BE ABLE TO PLAY THIS SONG SOOO BADDD WHYYYYYYYY WHYYY IS IT SOOO HARD

[1001juanma]

@TheClemllk it is not hard, alll is in your mind.

[MusicIsTheOutlet]

really good man

[herbstava]

0:50 - 0:56 = sex

[c3t201]

i didnt think this would help

my god it did

[scroobular]

Thank you! So helpful :)

[dammm12323]

OMG I FUCKING LOVE YOU MAN THIS HELPED ME SO MUCH AND IM VERY EXCITED BECAUSE THIS IS THE BEST TUTORIAL EVER AHHHH :D

[YaroslavtheWise]

Badass, dude. Any more footage with your left hand, and/or both at the same time to get a better understanding?

[peterespinal]

the different sound is the point. also the showmanship, john performs for thousands of people

[bboyxchristian]

what's the point of using two fingers on the right hand when you could use four?

[lmbonapart]

@bboyxchristian At a certain speed the two-finger technique gives the song specific sound.

[Aburame]

@bboyxchristian I can't play with the two-finger technique at the right speed yet so I can't say for sure, but I think it helps you get the rhythm in case you want to sing along too. I had a lot of problems with singing while playing with four fingers.

[Rockforever9517]

@bboyxchristian It's also the way that John does it, so it's just a closer copy of him. I believe it helps him make transitions between the notes smoother, because it's harder with the slap to get that smooth connectedness with four fingers.

[Lensaccount]

thats fcking sick good well done

[LOLfiLmz]

just figure it out on your own, it takes like 3 days for a beginner to learn.. true

[packmayer]

Best vid on youtube of how to do it, explains how great John Mayer must be,  somehow he fucking created this?!

[LUISxKILLA]

Nice tutorial, It helped me a lot to ge the rythm and picking pattern.

[contentwithlosing]

THANK YOU!! do you know the rest of the song?

[purplelove08]

this dude is a duch for saying (realy slow when it is not)

[Marky0Nott]

amazing!!!

[lmbonapart]

very usefull, thx

[Dylmizter]

thnx this rele helped

[Matthewteeetonkin]

even slower????????????? please for us nooobs

[A7X514]

@Matthewteeetonkin if this is too fast for you you dont have a chance at this song

[Matthewteeetonkin]

@A7X514 haha i meant for learning it purposes not that i cant play it fast i mean loke gettting the right order

[togor]

you r good!

[0M0O0F0]

Just posted a video response, don't post it just tell me what I'm doing wrong, it sounds weird.

[Simon199292]

only thumb and 1st finger??

[NickKlotz04]

holy. shit. that's just silly.

[laughingmandude]

Look at his hand twitching at the end lol, just couldn't resist playin it fast could ya?

[RubberPigs]

THANKS YOU!

[dangen123]

cheerrs man you made this song way easier to learn. :)

[tmot25]

0:50 to end PURE AWESOMENESS>>>>

[natedogg1026]

Nailed it.

[de4dr4bbit]

thumb and index finger is exactly correct dude.the same way he plays georgia and stop this train as well.

[Blaqrosse]

Mother flippenss like I'm a year new on guitar but that's a real hard song to play honestly

[tonyvo3]

great plucking tutorial of neon. thanks!

[ieatchicken133]

thank god. i learned this intro 3 ways and somethin always felt wrong till i watched this and i figured it out. thanx so much haha

[ooooters]

dude what model is this guitar?! i think i have the exact one you're using.. =D

[soad7172]

it takes a while but u'll get it tho..

[maxismx]

as hard as drinkin 3 vodka bottles by yourself and pretending to say reasonable things . .

[pissballs]

You do it good enough its hard to play slow anyhow. If anything its helpful to someone learning to get a jist of how to play it. After that anyone can edit their own playing to suit and find a way that works. Peace :D

[jnano31]

you have big hands

[kon48823]

you cant be too positve about that, u can only see one of them. his other one could be tiny hahaha. im jk lol

[TheKeyWordS1]

i cant figure this shit out for my life...its not only u

[bluefireindustries]

Anyone else finding this extremely damn hard? or is it just me?

[dreamquarter]

@bluefireindustries practice, and then you'll get there when you're meant to

[apocatie34]

u cant be serious dude....

[Marselyezo]

Thanks

[STmarks626]

what the hell?

[82carson]

will you show the left hand

[inlovewith13guys]

wait a sec what chords are you actually playing to do it :S

[themanroyceman]

You doing exactly what I catch myself doing sometimes when I play that song which is tapping too much. Listen to john play, the listen to your video. John doesn't do a tap tap tap throughout the song it's just a 1 2 1 2, tap rest tap rest all through out the whole thing. don't get mad just listen and you'll see what I'm talking about

[ethteck]

Exactly. No offence to the video creator, but the real talent comes in when the player can tap that intro on the right beats and not tap it on the wrong ones.

[johannseiller]

tab?

[McKreepa]

this is sweet, helped a lot of people i rekon

[vperez0811]

Bro Im frustrated I cant seem to get this struming patern

[crwpwns]

Props.

I would never even think to write something vclose to this on guitar.

Did john mayer come up with that strumming technique?

[chaarlietheunicorn]

It's a bass guitar technique,

The slaps.

[Exit108]

Haha yea if john mayer has bad technique, then by all means.. give me the bad technique. Great vid! helps a ton!

[Standy08]

wtf are you all talking about?? its 0% lag.. excellent vid!

[spirogrinder2]

Nailed! thanks mate ur a farkin legend!

[RobSchneeberger]

right hand for this song is just bad technique to practice i think

[nowthendanny]

I know what you mean. but learning a new style is part of the song, it's interesting to try out different ones ^^

Anyway, if you're good enough to play this song, you're good enough to switch between styles of playing ;)

Good video, it helped a lot with the rhythm! :)

[robinmitra1]

wat does that mean?

[Gimjee]

The song is basically in standard tuning except for the low E string is tuned down to a C.

[kevlar1818]

well it doesnt help that your audio is off...

[ZioZambe]

add &fmt=18 to the url

[galacticox4]

it's you playing but not teaching

[dribbel9]

Yeah, and he sucks at playing so...

[IhateJohnMayer]

thanks for making this video, although it's laggy as *******.... thanks anyways!

[squiddy112]

download "virtualdub" its free software, i use it all the time its very simple to use..

just open your video, and click on the "audio" dropbox, then click the first thing which is "interleaving"......... then where it says "audio skew correction" ..

read under it for instructions.

then you can put this video back up.

use like -700 for example and it will get closer. good luck and i hope i helped!

[strawberEfieldz4ever]

IS IT IN DROP D?

[fall0utboy]

drop C :)

[Nap2n]

Yeah but f.e. C-D-C-F-A-D is also a drop c tuning.

For this song u just need to tune down the E two full steps,

so you get C-A-D-G-H-E

[DeathMagnetic90]

@fall0utboy No, it's C A D G B E

[anyphali]

what happened to the synchronization!!!

[GeezerKids]

ignore the idiots, yeah the vid is lagging but you have the technique down... cheers man, it helped alot. thanks

[bennyman11]

even if you had listened to the end you would have realized he's not playing poorly he's playing slow.. and it can't be fake listen to the tempo change its just a laggy vid

[Vomitorator]

lmfao nice name

[damaband41]

you guys give him a break. I doubt you could do better or else you would have your own video. Anyways aren't you looking at this video because you can't play it? yeah he may accidentally mute out a few strings but besides that he has the rhythm down pretty solid.

[tylerpoole14]

learn how how to play it first.

[epwwjd]

yo im sorry but u suck...

[DumbAzz0429]

wtf the sound it way behind ur gutiar playing!!!!

[WKR4UA]

i saw that too, fake! no wait it cant be fake cuz he blew

[BlckDahliaMurder]

wow what you kids don't understand is that this is supposed to be a tutorial..

its played like that just so people can see exactly how to pluck.

[costaricangeneral]

lol cmon computers and cameras are never perfect they messup all time especially with audio syncing

[musicphan1]

Can you do it?

[AcousticBruce]

???

[atavismnocturn]

DELETE AND RE UPLOAD PLEASE

[sablay31]

what strings r u going to pluck in order...please help...

[TheFlipE]

thats whats the video's for man

[zanarkandpr]

theres sound lag on this vid

[jamesrphone]

Great idea. The audio is out of sync. Is it possible to sync up those and post again? Nice work.

[stefanslide]

THANK U A LOOOT! now i got it ;)

[AZNGoSu]

can you send the mpg to kpxxbladexx415@yahoo.com??? thanks!

[raginazn69]

great stuff, can you send the mpg to me at james.milsk@gmail.com? thanks!

[blitzy]

wow awesome! thnx

[toxicab23]

the video is out of sync. i really want to learn how to play this right. could you please send me the video in mpg format? e-mail - toxicab23@yahoo.com thanks a lot!!

[BalancedMan]

Yeah, the audio is out of sync for me as well.

[drevshorteh]

you're really good - may I ask which tab you used to learn this?

[lito88]

Nice.

[crushme41dmb]

impressive- Good thing that song is played upbeat because it sounds crappy slow. I was a little skeptical till you picked it up and then I was like "ohhhh yeahhhhhhh"

[guildrzeznik]

i see, got it. i'm gonna try to fix that. thanx.

[guildrzeznik]

i dont get it.. why is it always laggy... it's fine on my computer but when i upload it - lag/sync effect appears. how can i fix it?

[drewpogs]

hi! sometimes it depends on the format you upload it in. someone told me that .mpg or .mp4 is good