I love your guitar Lessons man!!! You break it down so that anyone of any level can understand. I've bought the House of Blues how too book and really enjoyed it, but, you seen to go into greater detail than the video and book did.
This is the most important guitar lesson I think I have ever had. You completely cleared up major and minor pents for me and completed helped me finally understand how to play modes. Just play the major scale that is the root of the modes!!
since i've been learning from this guy i can honestly say my playing as become a lot worse, he makes us play in so many positions it all becomes a mess, now i've given the guitar up all together.
Totally agree with his advice about learning notes and intervals vs. patterns and shapes. I think memorizing hundreds of patterns is so much work, as compared to simply learning the notes.
you jus cleared up a whole world of shit for me...i feel an epiphany comin on...i search youtube for hours, looking for peeps that can explain what is sometimes the simplest way of looking at something... cheers
yea i agree, wen i 22 i bought a book called "Everything about Guitar Scales" with a white gibson standard on the front cover. this book helped out a lot and that's when i started connecting scales. it didnt show me how to connect them but i could see it for myself.
... "WTC7 collapsed exactly like a house of cards. If the fires or damage in one corner had played a decisive role, the building would have fallen in that direction. You don't have to be a woodcutter to grasp this."...
Lol know how u feel. I was given a good tip recently: know the scale shape and how to play it but at the same time learn to play it random so it doesn't sound just like a scale.
but I think in playing guitar, you should memorize shapes. In playing piano you really don't need to memorize shapes but playing guitar is different. first he said: don't memorize shapes, then he starts with the pentatonic scale, which is probably the 1st shape any guitarist starts to memorize :)
well and how the hell are you going to play what he is sayin, thats why this is a video not a tack imagine how difficult would it be for a person to teach you how to play a scale by ear if that person learned by shape(like most of us?, what he was trying to explain to you but you didnt get was to learn te shape so you have a refernce, then learn the sound of it and spread it on the neck without looking if possible, thats how people learn, little by little, so you end up enjoying what you played.
with me, it is like that: i've learned the shapes, and of course i know how to use them - it's not like i just play them up and down. I played them up and down until i heard how they sound... now when i look at a shape i know how it will sound - so i still use the visual aspect of it combined with the knowledge how it will sound.
actually mine was almost as yours with the diference that first i learned only one patern by scale, then with a lot of effort at the beggining i get used to transpose the scales by ear.
Can't fault the playing too much, after all it is a technical lesson. I will say that if a player can't sound great on a basic rock scale then modes etc..are not going to improve matters. String bending and phrasing is the key to emotive guitar work, vocabulary is secondary. I doubt Hendrix knew guitar modes.
Yeah, I should have had the jam track a bit louder - will have it dialed in better next time - one arpeggio I used was a minor9 arpeggio - I love that arpeggio -root,b3,5,b7,9 - I use it a lot of minor, minor7, and minor9 chords - rock on -DT
hi - thanks for the kind words - much appreciated. We have 2 beginner dvd sets for sale through our main website and many more DVD titles coming soon - check them out and rock on! -DT
I have had no issues with hanging a few guitars on the wall - but I have read posts in our forum that some say it prematurely wears finish off the neck where the hangar grabs it rock on -DT
Thanks for reply, i realy don't care so much about finish on the end of the neck, i was thinking about all the guitar body weight hangin on neck, its wood after all, isn't it stretching or something ? Maybe i'm too sensitive, you got couple of them and its ok so it should be good for me too :D
Great lesson Dave! Very helpful, as always! That was a great lesson by the way! Can you guys teach songs on guitar and bass again like you did before? Or maybe just riffs?
That bass lesson was awesome too! I hope they keep coming!
Loving that guitar, sweet color.
Anyhoo thanks for all the great lessons, Dave and all of the other people at the nextlevelguitar team! Keep up the awesome work.
I love your guitar Lessons man!!! You break it down so that anyone of any level can understand. I've bought the House of Blues how too book and really enjoyed it, but, you seen to go into greater detail than the video and book did.
Thank you again
Rock On!
Boo8414 3 months ago
you should close the door and not put closer xD
ozzy358 6 months ago
Less fret-wanking and more explanations please, other than that, not a bad lesson.
56blacksanta 7 months ago
YOU ROCK MANNNN
ArsenaultMuzic 9 months ago
This is the most important guitar lesson I think I have ever had. You completely cleared up major and minor pents for me and completed helped me finally understand how to play modes. Just play the major scale that is the root of the modes!!
time4akshun 10 months ago
Excellent playing and excellent lesson man, thanks a lot
ydrohoos7 11 months ago
HOLY SHIT HOW DID YOU DO THAT DOG BARK EFFECT
MASTERMARK360 11 months ago 3
Thank you, you opened the door to a whole new world for me. The video is from 2007, but still helps people!
lolerdylol 1 year ago
Great lessons man. Very helpful.
time4akshun 1 year ago
Your sound is so shite man take the Cotten wool oot your lugs and you ll change it
snakeyaks 1 year ago
goood lessons
MrKILLERMANN 1 year ago
since i've been learning from this guy i can honestly say my playing as become a lot worse, he makes us play in so many positions it all becomes a mess, now i've given the guitar up all together.
thehomefront 1 year ago
this guy sucks at playing lead,he knows his shit.but hes not to good
pimptwob 2 years ago
@pimptwob yah i know my years are bleeding
AyanRafique 2 years ago
Totally agree with his advice about learning notes and intervals vs. patterns and shapes. I think memorizing hundreds of patterns is so much work, as compared to simply learning the notes.
EnterJustice 2 years ago
That's a beautiful Strat, man.
boxingin 2 years ago
you jus cleared up a whole world of shit for me...i feel an epiphany comin on...i search youtube for hours, looking for peeps that can explain what is sometimes the simplest way of looking at something... cheers
MrLennyannox 2 years ago 2
bark dog!! barkk arf arf
jakeizee 2 years ago
nice job samantha haha :D
kenjay 2 years ago
Thanks for the lesson. I'll be seeing you every day from now on:)
heialeks 2 years ago
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this guy is boring -__-
Vann28e 2 years ago
so was your mom
SamTalmadge 2 years ago
At least he's trying to do something positive. Any dummy can take a dump on something... You think about that, son.
slydogtom 2 years ago
Good thing this came up in my recommended tab....Never knew scales could be connected that way
chainy10 2 years ago
yea i agree, wen i 22 i bought a book called "Everything about Guitar Scales" with a white gibson standard on the front cover. this book helped out a lot and that's when i started connecting scales. it didnt show me how to connect them but i could see it for myself.
believin13 2 years ago
nice playing man
42guitars 2 years ago
Holy cow, I didn't know that finding relative majors and minors was so easy! Thanks!!
Dm
Detman101 2 years ago 2
... "WTC7 collapsed exactly like a house of cards. If the fires or damage in one corner had played a decisive role, the building would have fallen in that direction. You don't have to be a woodcutter to grasp this."...
seekYEthetruth 2 years ago
hey there! you're a great teacher!
untitledundefined 3 years ago
lol, dave shoes C SHARP! minor, and goes sharp on the # lol
mikeyFear0n 3 years ago
AAAH God, you're awesome, you can really make this things look easy.. you really helped me out Dave, thanks a lot!
maxyliano 3 years ago
don't memorize shapes... fuck man, I've been doing that for 11 years now :)
vaiserious 3 years ago
Lol know how u feel. I was given a good tip recently: know the scale shape and how to play it but at the same time learn to play it random so it doesn't sound just like a scale.
desy2478 3 years ago
but I think in playing guitar, you should memorize shapes. In playing piano you really don't need to memorize shapes but playing guitar is different. first he said: don't memorize shapes, then he starts with the pentatonic scale, which is probably the 1st shape any guitarist starts to memorize :)
vaiserious 3 years ago
well and how the hell are you going to play what he is sayin, thats why this is a video not a tack imagine how difficult would it be for a person to teach you how to play a scale by ear if that person learned by shape(like most of us?, what he was trying to explain to you but you didnt get was to learn te shape so you have a refernce, then learn the sound of it and spread it on the neck without looking if possible, thats how people learn, little by little, so you end up enjoying what you played.
petelebu 2 years ago
with me, it is like that: i've learned the shapes, and of course i know how to use them - it's not like i just play them up and down. I played them up and down until i heard how they sound... now when i look at a shape i know how it will sound - so i still use the visual aspect of it combined with the knowledge how it will sound.
vaiserious 2 years ago
actually mine was almost as yours with the diference that first i learned only one patern by scale, then with a lot of effort at the beggining i get used to transpose the scales by ear.
petelebu 2 years ago
Good Lesson =]
VAI666 3 years ago
whats this guys name
xBradxBx 3 years ago
tooo cool for school nice job your a good little teacher :)
loutopdrummer 3 years ago
Can't fault the playing too much, after all it is a technical lesson. I will say that if a player can't sound great on a basic rock scale then modes etc..are not going to improve matters. String bending and phrasing is the key to emotive guitar work, vocabulary is secondary. I doubt Hendrix knew guitar modes.
Gonzoidz 3 years ago
good as this video is, i agree with that one.. phrasing is all about THE FEEL, and not the 'think'.
alaric007 3 years ago
Geez that actually helped me so much. Thanks so much :)
Roblikesguitars87 4 years ago
your so gud it nearly makes me cry
iseultodonnell 4 years ago
Yeah, five stars!
You've made me a happy man soloing over the blues tonight. Now, one question remains: just what should I do with all the girls that dig my playing?!?
Antill
antillmusic 4 years ago
You get really into your playing. I've noticed that when I bob my head or make faces, it improves my playing.
DizzyCGA 4 years ago
So the dorian is the 2nd note on the major.
got that.
Since the major move down 3 to get the relative got that.
all the same notes.
And you emphasized to show the difference just make sure you/me/the player emphasizes the note of the root you want to play.
Is it just that simple that it almost makes it seem confusing??
Thanks dave and thanks for putting together NLG
lookylooky2006 4 years ago
NICE
sumfx 4 years ago
Love the dog sounds...how did you get those
Seriously you should take the delay effects off so beginers can understand your phrasing a bit better
bluesfuze 4 years ago
Nice improvisation and explanation...reminds me of Gary Moore.
pauleuro123 4 years ago
Wow that helped a lot. I was kinda stuck in minor pentatonic. Thanks
cb24ss 4 years ago
Wow that helped me so much. I was kinda stuck in minor pentatonic. Thanks alot
cb24ss 4 years ago
This sounds much more like David Gilmour than Clapton, in my opinion. But good nonetheless.
Albran 4 years ago
r u using a delay pedal?
jorgeslived 4 years ago
Hi - yes, I have a little delay on the guitar - rock on!
-DT
rockongoodpeople 4 years ago
another great lesson, NLG
turn on the jam track,dav, its barely audiable. and what's that arppegio u used in the improvization
TechnoLife120 4 years ago
Yeah, I should have had the jam track a bit louder - will have it dialed in better next time - one arpeggio I used was a minor9 arpeggio - I love that arpeggio -root,b3,5,b7,9 - I use it a lot of minor, minor7, and minor9 chords - rock on -DT
rockongoodpeople 4 years ago
lots of practice - lol - I believe tone is in your hands and in your heart - rock on!
DT
rockongoodpeople 4 years ago
i love your lessons-but this one lost me completely-do you have a video that we can buy that explains all this?
harleymike55 4 years ago
hi - thanks for the kind words - much appreciated. We have 2 beginner dvd sets for sale through our main website and many more DVD titles coming soon - check them out and rock on! -DT
rockongoodpeople 4 years ago
I want to put my guitars on the wall, i see you got them hangin on the wall, my question is, is it totally safe if they hang on the neck ?
Arkanen 4 years ago
I have had no issues with hanging a few guitars on the wall - but I have read posts in our forum that some say it prematurely wears finish off the neck where the hangar grabs it rock on -DT
rockongoodpeople 4 years ago
Thanks for reply, i realy don't care so much about finish on the end of the neck, i was thinking about all the guitar body weight hangin on neck, its wood after all, isn't it stretching or something ? Maybe i'm too sensitive, you got couple of them and its ok so it should be good for me too :D
Arkanen 4 years ago
hey dave when the fretboard is laminated like that what is it called
lespaul3000 4 years ago
you have nice guitars how many does you have i mean do you have lol
tkhill62080 4 years ago
I have about 11 guitars - rock on!
DT
rockongoodpeople 4 years ago
well done!
ssimon64 4 years ago
pls post more acoustic lessons.. i think u lack them.. thks ;) love the motivation
moreirence 4 years ago
can you do an inspired by video about brian may and how he uses a delay pedal when he plays brighton rock
jacob8492 4 years ago
This is gold dust, the secret code that most people never want to teach. Probably the most important lesson ever.....
lebassplayer 4 years ago
screw the rolling stones
takerdust 4 years ago
your a good guitar player!
0x0ii0x0123 4 years ago
Great lesson Dave! Very helpful, as always! That was a great lesson by the way! Can you guys teach songs on guitar and bass again like you did before? Or maybe just riffs?
That bass lesson was awesome too! I hope they keep coming!
Loving that guitar, sweet color.
Anyhoo thanks for all the great lessons, Dave and all of the other people at the nextlevelguitar team! Keep up the awesome work.
slashjr123
slashjr123 4 years ago
"Commingle"? lol Co-mingle, i think he meant.
sundinDT182 4 years ago
excellent and helpful as always thanks
dschu12 4 years ago
Woot
zotde75 4 years ago
Inspiring as always!!
96JUSTIN 4 years ago
First comment!
JilaX 4 years ago
first response?!
well hey, you guys are awesome for spreading your wisdom so far and wide :D
eltrentoro 4 years ago
Great video first comment! :)
poopkid4 4 years ago
Thanks David! great as usual and very helpful.
StratCat1204 4 years ago
WOOO!!! First comment, and good lesson! You guys freaking rock! Keep it up!!!
house198 4 years ago