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  • A lot of people are writing negative comments about John and I can't see the reason why. I gave him a chance and listened to his work and he really is a great guitarist, he keeps the blues guitar playing alive. His influences are the greatest guitarists ever and he knows what they're about and you can see that in his music. I rather listen to a bluesy guitarist with a more pop style than to Lady Gaga and non-musical shit like that. Damn this era and the lack of original musicians.

  • HAHHAHAHA John Mayer trolling like a king :D :D

  • Hi im John Mayer and this is a Gibson Les Paul.

    Best line of the video.

  • wow what a bunch of douchebags here in the comments. i'm not at all a mayer fan, but this intro thing is fuckin hillarious. wish i had the chance to diss all the tapping fags and GnR retards

  • I don´t understand why the surprise that there is no lesson here, in clearly says "teaser" on the title. John Mayer is an excellent guitar player and it appears from this teaser that he has a great sense o humor as well.

  • This really sucks, terrible sound, no real lesson. Who's gona pay for that?

    I'm really disapointed. I've heard some good stuff with John Mayer before,

    but this ..............?????

  • just because he gets all the chicks doesnt mean he sucks LOL dont be jealous

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  • Is that Guitar a Jeff Beck Signature Strat - think it is.

  • @DaveGuitarify I was going to tell you it was his own signature model, but then I looked closer and the nut is just like the one on the Beck signature and not the Mayer. This could be (most likely is) one of his many modified guitars that were made special for him.

  • what dickhead.besides he cant handle to clapton or bonamassa

  • God I hate John Gayer...

  • @geezusize now you know how the Gibson Les Paul REALLY likes...  XD

  • it was so funny how he said " Hi " and blinked his eye the other way :P

  • look at his eye it looking funny.

  • hes one great musican!

  • wtf? nice! :)

  • that's a funny looking les paul

  • 90210 ftw

  • WTF, lmao

  • 0:43 absolutly true

  • He looks a bit like johnny Depp lol

  • where can I get this song? not any live version or cover. just the studio version, which is played in this video at 1:12 until 1:26

  • @EredLuin87 the song is called 'crossroads', by john mayer

  • @TheJanWillemGuy yeah i know but where can I get this song? i can only find live versions

  • @TheJanWillemGuy crossroads is NOT by Mayer

  • lolz

    

  • this has been said over and over for ages now.. speed is not the standard of good guitar playing. please let's get over this and enjoy music because it's supposed to be enjoyed.

  • what's the name of the song he starts playing at @0:18

  • @RockNRollFire96 got it: Beverly Hills 90210 :D

  • Enjoyed the guitar lesson , Guitar World .. John is a very impressive guitar instructor .

    Thank you for sharing

  • nice tone. 

  • "Hi (akward smile)...I'm John Mayer and welcome to...how to shred."

    lol

  • Baked as usual.

  • check out my channel..lots of john mayer influence

  • Anyone who plays guitar can learn to "shread". Granted, maybe not like Paul Gilbert, but they can learn to play SUPER fast. Speed doesnt make anyone good. Its just something you automatically pick up. Soul, however, isn't something everyone has and thats what makes great players. By the way, speed demons dont got crap on Nashville's chicken pickers. Thats talented speed! Id like to see how Gilbert and Vai fair against Gill, Paisley, Mason, and Wariner.

  • He's pretty funny :P

  • Fender Les Paul

  • If you want speed check out Michael Angelo

    If you want shit guitar that sounds like puge check out Michael Angelo xD

  • Ahhhhhh John.. You crack me up!

  • check out EXPLIZIT "LIFE IN THE FASTLANE"

  • everybody calm the fuck down, this was meant to be funny. someone please pass around some sense of humor.

  • great guitar playing doesn't mean a guitarist has to shred.. BB king has slow hands yet he among many others are considered one of the best. and also, everyone else copied from somebody.. everyone's a rip off of someone. who's your favorite guitar player, tell me he never ripped someone off.

  • @micllave Jeff Beck is also a prime example of everything you just said. I wish people would get it through their heads that you don't have to play 11,000 notes to make a song beautiful. In fact I can't think of one that does. The idea is to make the guitar sing, not rap.

  • @micllave bb king is over rated and you are right people gather influence and hopefully will take that and create something different.. john mayer just copies blues licks but he is a pop star .. srv was asked to be a pop star and said fck you , i'm a blues guitarist .. john mayer said , yeah i'll write stupid ass pop songs because i'm a pussy and now he wants to be a blues artist and expect the real blues world to think he has soul.. nope not going to fly

  • @rjgeigersmusic oh thank goodness at last someone says what i've been thinking since the first moment i hear mayer. this guy has got no "blues feeling" whatsoever. he should join superheavy or sth

  • stop quoted lines from the movie we all watched the fucking thing.. damn

  • ahaha, you guys need to chill the fuck out, get a sense of humor, etc. it's supposed to be satirical, and he's the fucking man. plus, just because someone plays bluesy music doesnt mean that they're "copying" anyone.

  • douche bag as usual .. you don't see any "real" guitarist acting like a condescending ass. he makes fun of shredding because he can't do it and is super jealous of the greats like paul gilbert and so on.. all of his solos pretty much copy srv .. every time he does that stupid shit with his mouth i just want to slap the hell out of him.. give him a reason to have a fucked up face...

  • @rjgeigersmusic Ok here we go. Why can't you assholes just accept John? Condescending ass? No. Amazing musician with a sense of humor. Can't shred? All I can say is Fuck You. I say this because if you are so incredibly immature and close-minded that you can't admit he's an amazing guitarist, then you don't deserve another response. And really good job resorting to "Fucked up face." That really makes you sound intelligent. Go be in denial somewhere else asshole.

  • @swscheiblein haha why don't you blow him if you loooove him so much. "amazing" ? are you serious. you need to listen to other guitarists before having an opinion and even more you need to play the guitar to get a better understanding of what you are saying. and i'm saying "fucked up face" because he makes the most ridiculous stupid ass faces when he places and sings.

  • @rjgeigersmusic sooo opinionated, shut the fuck up. John has more soul than you'll probably ever have. Why don't you post a video of you playing guitar and we can judge? Fag

  • @TheJeffryButnic isn't your comment an "OPINION" yourself.. you dumb ass and you call me opinionated , you are damn right i'm opinionated so is all the other 600 plus comments. just as playing fast does not mean you are a tasteful player so as making stupid ass faces makes john a "soulful" player.. just watch the movie crossroads the black guy tells the real story .. you have to live it.. and john mayer hasn't lived the blues.. he is a pompous pop artist blues wanna be

  • @rjgeigersmusic I think you'll find that he's lived an awful lot more than you give him credit for. He's got bags of soul, and if you think that his soul is his "faces" then you obviously have no idea. He sounds like his own player, with influences of other artists. And hey lets face it, Srv was a bit of a hendrix clone himself and yet he was one of the most influential and respected guitarists who ever lived.

  • @TheJeffryButnic srv was not a hendrix clone.. you need to study up on it. he actually sounds , and got a lot of his licks from another guitarist from texas.. everyone thinks he is a hendrix clone because nobody knows what the fuck they are talking about.. and what do you mean "bags" of soul.. are you serious, do you know him personally or something? am i missing something here?? john mayer is ripping off someone who ripped off someone else.. he is a pop start trying to be blues and it sucks

  • @rjgeigersmusic I've got about 5 SRV albums you douche. And I can definetely say that he's a bit of a hendrix clone. He isn't a popstar trying to be a blues musician. Look at his life story, he played in blues bars until he got picked up by the record company who told him to make his music more popular to the masses, in 2006 he went back to blues, making it a big boom with the concert live in LA

  • @TheJeffryButnic i have all of srv albums and dvd's and some vhs before dvd's came out, sht i'm old.. srv did get some stuff from hendrix sure.. and did a couple of covers.. but the real bread and butter was lonnie mack .. srv was 90 percent lonnie mack.. its what started it al for him.. owning 5 albums don't mean you know shit.. another thing to point out is john mayer can't sing blues worth a damn and in my opinion sings like a puss bag

  • @TheJeffryButnic

    perception is a bitch

  • @swscheiblein we can't except him because he is a "pop" artist that is trying to be something else. He is trying to get into blues but just robs basic licks from the greats like SRV . and people think he is "amazing" when he is just a copy cat. its really not him i dislike as much as his stupid ass followers that don't know shit about the guitar and what amazing really means.. paul gilbert is amazing john mayer is mediocre at best

  • @rjgeigersmusic Ok, first, I've been playing guitar for quite a few years, and I understand what I'm talking about just fine. Pop doesn't mean all the Justin Beiber shit. It means Popular. SRV, Hendrix, Clapton, they all were pop stars at one time. You can't just group all of John Mayer's followers into one kind of person. That's stereotyping. Basing your judgement of Mayer just off of this video is ridiculous. He has some of the most tasteful, original guitar work I've ever seen.

  • @swscheiblein

    agreed. very well said man.

  • Godam

    hasent anyone seen a real les paul before

    john's is a 1956 gold top.

    he traded some serious drugs from mexico for that guitar !

  • My Les Paul looks different. lmao

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  • slash is pisses....

  • Good guitarist when he plays his stuff... but he's a bit of tit...

  • This of course is a LES PAUL HAHAHAHA

  • Lol its completely true though about the sweet child o mine thing... i hate when people do that, whether it be at school, a party, wherever. haha

  • John Mayer is a good guitarist, but his sense of humor is really weak. He tries to be funny in the movies but did not succeed ever.

  • @ddpawel whaaaaat?

  • @petravanessa 1. Read my comment again.

    2. Repeat step 1 until you understand.

    3. End ;-)

  • @ddpawel 1.what movies? :))

    his humor is not weak, it is hard to understand. case and point: you.

  • @petravanessa His humor is not hard to understand, it's just primitive. And I have the right to another opinion. Bear with it.

  • @petravanessa :-j

  • @ddpawel The type of musicians like John Mayer usually have a very special sense of humor. It is based on a lot of irony and sarcasm. Musicians think this is a blast. I do not know why but that kind of humor can be hard to appreciate unless you are a musician yourself.

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  • Why does everyone hate this dude? I think he's really good.

  • 0:18 - 0:27 CUTE FACE

  • i dont like that guy

  • hes just wicked stoned, dont hate on him

  • This guy is such a douche!

  • he really can play the blues so well...

  • he is very good.. he can use complex jazzy chords in songs such as saint patrick's day.. but he is kinda getting cocky, sarcastic, show-off, and racist since he is very famous now. i dont really like how he jokes about the les paul and not being able to play sweet child o mine, i think it mocks slash indirectly a bit. that's what i think don't hate me for this.

  • @setalaka ohh shut up i guess people cant have fun anymore

  • @setalaka He's not mocking Slash at all he's mocking people who say that they can play the guitar but then only know the riff to Sweet Child of mine (and don't know it very well). And him joking about His guitar being a Les Paul has nothing to do with Slash he said that because he Never uses a Les Paul.

    If you follow John Mayer instead of listening to press releases of his screw ups you would realize that that the cocky nature that you are referring to is not what he is really like.

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  • 86 people don't know music good

  • im not that big of a fan of his tone

  • what do you mean with I'm autistic?

  • hahaha 0:04 0:09 lol

  • hi im john mayer, and today im going to show you how to turn everyone off at parties.. *starts playing sweet child o mine * LOL

  • @lionelkzhe wow thanks for posting that comment, i must have missed that part in the video...

  • Did he just say Gibson les Paul ? haha

  • Winning.

  • what song at 0:49?

  • @MeloAppletree ARE YOU FO REAL HOLMES?! Sweet child o'Mine by GNR!

  • O shit its time for mayors comeback lol

  • Hi, I'm John Mayer, and I'm a twat.

  • @CGLmusic nah dude, john mayer's the one in the video.. but im sure the description of yourself was pretty accurate

  • @bjhMus1C - Nice schoolyard comeback.

  • @CGLmusic ..?

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  • Such a shame when someone with this much talent tries too hard to be cute...

  • This, my friend, is a beautiful Les Paul!

  • I watched this at least 100 times in a row! Not only my fave musician but also my fave comedian haha

  • HAHA I understand the Les Paul joke!!!! So i'll post it in a comment to let everyone know!

  • Absolutely hilarious lol :)

    from 0:00 - 1:17

    such a sarcastic but yet funny guy lol

  • Musica nova

    watch?v=m-ta2V2PUMw

  • Fuck, that guitar tone is savage

  • He has a good sense of humor

  • "This of course is a Gibson Les Paul" LOL!

  • Lol! This had me laughing. He should've played Saved By The Bell instead though imo haha.

  • Is he stoned?

  • He ain't stoned or drunk, he just has a special interpretation of humor:P But that way of turning everyone of a party is so thru, how many times didn't you hear a bad cover of sweet child o mine on party's or band evenings.

  • the charlie sheen of music

  • @rolloMARTIN You know he's acting, right???+

  • @kevenbelangerharbour of course i do

  • @rolloMARTIN

    JM actually has talent and didn't peak due to a mid life crisis.

  • this, of course a gibson les paul

    haha

  • hahhaa 0:45 "turn everyone of a party" hahahahahha

  • everytime I hear someone refer to mayer as "such an amazing guitar player" I want start pulling their fingernails out one by one

  • @kbcarroll yeah you could do that, or you could stand back and listen to his wide range of amazing guitar playing ;)

  • It's rare to see a total db with a semblance of a sense of humor. Perhaps he's a sociopath...

  • Love it!

    Check out my drum cover of this tune!

  • why the sticker?????

  • everybody must get stoned

  • I wish John would play more funk and blues instead of a lot of the crap he does. he's a great player and has one hell of a good voice. he could really stamp history like Clapton did, and other greats. when I saw him play on the Clapton Fest. it really blew me away. I also seen a you tube video of him playing with Clapton doing Crossroads

    and I felt he out played him. he seems like one hell of a good guy though.

  • @thebluesrockers You're right ! He's an awesome player... why does he play gay stuff?

  • @thebluesrockers Check out his John Mayer Trio stuff

  • @thebluesrockers It's called showbizz. It's not like he has a choice like everyone thinks. Christ he signed a contract at Columbia Records! He has to sell. And he sells when playing popsongs. Let's give him our respect for even putting time and creativity into those songs.

  • Hahah this is pretty funny...i hope everyone that is watching this knows its a joke

  • @vicko267 Its called sarcasm. Google it up young one.

  • He should just play, and not talk.

  • you are an asshole!!!

  • @0llop54 aww, didn't he call you back? :(

  • what song on 0.12 ?

  • @beebee810

    90210 theme song

  • Lol!!

  • dear John Mayer... you're epic.

  • hey im john mayer and im gonna be showing you how to turn everyone off at parties ...hahahaha!

  • This of course is a Gibson Les Paul..

  • Stupid ass video....

  • Stoned, as usual.

  • @DavePerry2012 and? what is your problem with that? you are here to see his playing and learn something. If he smoked something or not is not of your interest. Please.

  • @tritonobionico Did I say it was a problem? I do think it's funny, though. The guy should do a movie with Cheech and Chong. 

  • @DavePerry2012 who says he can't get stoned? 

  • @rgl3ma57 Apparently nobody. 

  • 'this ofcourse is a gibson les paul'' xD +1 indeed!

  • Oh yes! +1 for the Gibson Les Paul!

  • LOL! This of course is a Gibson Les Paul! hahaha

  • READ YOUR COMMENT JOANIE18-

    YOUR 100% CORRECT HERE AND ALL MY CRIAGS LIST BUDDIES KNOW THAT-

    BUT I STILL LOVE THE JEALOUS ONES-**JOE~T*ENGLISHBLUESMAN**

  • to all guitar players-

    go to " englishbluesman" on you tube.

    he is Joe T.

    his crossroads live lesson is the best on the tube.

    he is watched world wide for this lesson.

    john mayer only wishes he was as good as Joe t.

    check out englishbluesman,you will see the best on the tube.

  • @JOANIET18

    FUCK YOU!!!!! GET OUT

  • @Dehuel802 you suck

  • that sound is fuzz??

  • that sound is fuzz??

  • John,Please play the good parts to some of our favorite commercials and TV shows.

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  • he so hilarious

  • What is he playing at 0:17

  • @ed3495 That of course was Beverly Hills 90210, played in the style of Beverly Hills 90210.

  • @sakowihe75 Para tipos como Brad Pitt eso no es un mérito. Para tipos como John, son hazañas.

  • Ooh, a late-90's Jeff Beck signature model Strat:D

    ... Why, yes, I am a nerd:P