This Is The Most Important Guitar Skill You Can Have and NOBODY TALKS ABOUT IT!!

I'm struggling with playing solos. One of the exercises I've been doing is playing thru each of the five pentatonic positions with their corresponding scale (mode). Maybe this will help another guitarist.
Keep playing, everyone!

You've got a Donner. Cool. I love their guitars

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Nonsense

frasing that is it !

All lies. Don't even waste your time

Click bait. If you hit the link it just plays a 3 and a half minute video over and over with little changes to trick you. Just long enough to be monetized... Scum bag..

Excellent tip, thank you David. Les français, d'habitude, sont nul en anglais mais le tien est impeccable! Sûrement un indice d'intelligence.

Beautiful. I it’s so much more impactful when riffs are melodic like this. Great lesson!

Victor Wooten's whole schtick is based around the "conversation" concept and he's amazing. He's a bassist though. So lead and rhythm players may never hear his name. Great video David

Hey, you play you, and always have a feedback with your bandmates. BTW David, speak with Donner to make leftyz options.

what are intermediate electric guitar skills, including effects, tone, muting, playing on stage, getting good live tone???

I play by ear. Love music but when I play I want to express myself not learn other people's emotions. This channel helps me more than any other guitar show I have ever seen since the invention of the internet. I'm 52. Yes, I am having to go back and learn a ton but I'm having a blast because I am improving quickly and becoming more able to play what I feel as I feel it.

I couldnt agree more,it is indeed the most important skill that ll skyrocket your musicianship....just to add to it..that is also the best method to transcribe and learn songs by other artists.....hear it...sing it and internalise it...play it....

Absolutely awesome 👍💙💙🔥

Un francais!
Bet you played Un Autre Monde a thousand times ☺

I guessed it must be 'palm muting' .

It's being in the moment, not thinking and letting it flow. I can't read music and I don't play very well either but I can right songs somewhat. Visualize and blend cords and notes together, I find it very relaxing.

How to get the backing tracks

This is why he's probably my favorite teacher so far. Music, to me, is supposed to be soulful and expressive than anything. Being technical, I personally believe, falls by the wayside when thinking about the whole thing, but can also be useful. Music (not to be cheesy) is life, in a way.

Listening to a lot of music, also very important indeed

Excellent work, man. Thanks for the video. Miles Davis said "a great musician can play what he thinks. The difference between a great musician and a genius is 'what' he thinks. Yes, you've got to learn that fret board, but that is just like learning to type. Writing great solos is about imagining them first, thinking them first, then playing them.

5 min be4 hye even plays a guitar, then frickin just noodles. bleh

Best instructor..

Please make a video about pitching and the touch for all kind of notes manipulation like plain notes vibrato and bending with and with out vibrato, the bar and the high and low notes
Thank you

Amazing

Thanks David for all you do..this ones a game changer,,hear and create it in our mind..then tranfer it to the fretboard.....

Eric Clapton said to sing your leads. After that I noticed lead players lips moving occasionally on video's. I just started learning the minor pentatonic about 1 year ago. I've been playing at playing guitar for over 40 years. A bit slow but I love how you exsplain doing it.
Thanx !

WOW !!! Simple applicable advice on learning to play INTENTIONAL and CREATIVE lead (as opposed to "muscle memory gone wild" lead, which I'm usually stuck in)...

1. Start w/ a fixed zone on the fretboard (e.g. pentatonic in A)
2. Subset that to a small fixed set of notes (e.g. a 1-4 box on the high E+B strings)
3. Sing a short "melody" to yourself using only the small fixed set of notes you selected
4. Playback the short melody on your guitar

Repeat steps 3 and 4 for a while, singing different "melodies" each time. Next level, go back to step 2, change or expand your "fixed set of notes" and challenge yourself with longer "melodies." Keep doing this, moving to longer and longer note sequences, different fretboard zones (or scale types), etc.

So it's kinda like playing one of those "Simon" games from the 80's - lol - except WE are the Simon game.

Did I miss anything critical to your method ???

Again, great advice !!!

I love your teaching style David, keep it up!

I've played guitar since I was 12. Almost all by ear. And still get lost with some teaching systems. I started learning more since the internet came around. I depend more on muscle memory than anything.

There's a great scene in US's "Rattle and Hum" film where BB King is getting bready to rehearse "When Love Come's to Town" with the band prior to a live show. King turns to Bono and says "I hope they don't want me to play chords. I'm terrible with chords..." Bono laughs and says "Don't worry, Edge will play the chords..."

The more I play, the more I realize that lead playing is the easiest skill to master. It's rhythm playing and chords that are the most challenging. Changing between chords in time and correctly while fingering all the notes and following the key and changes like bridges and stops and picking / strumming and muting cords is incredibly hard to master. Lead playing requires less mastery because there are two basic scale patterns that cover 99% of what you'll ever need as a rock player - and just one scale (with some minor variations and position shifts) for blues. Those are of course the major scale (shift the root position of the scale and the same pattern of whole and half steps becomes the minor scale) and the pentatonic scale - again, shift the scale's root note and it becomes major or minor relative to the key you are playing in. Add a note here and there, and it becomes the blues scale / grace notes / chromatic scale. The thing is, the exact same skills it takes to play the major scale translate to every other scale. Bends, hammer-ons, tremolo picking, alternate picking, harmonics, pull-offs, tapping, slides, whatever.....

It aint like that with chords. At all. Each shape is unique, and there are endless variations and possible fingerings and combinations. True, some are more common than others in various genres, like power chords in rock, 7th in blues and 9ths, 11ths, and diminished, augmented etc in Jazz, but as you move around the neck they change. A LOT. These are called "inversions" and they can get pretty crazy. Barre chords are a fundamental part of rhythm playing in most genres and they are physically very demanding to play well technically without muted or buzzing notes. Actually painful if you don't practice them frequently with proper technique. Why learn them? Because when you play with other guitarists, it's important to not play the exact same OPEN chords THEY are (probably) playing if you want the band to sound good. Doubling up muddies the rhythm and tends to blur and diminish the groove - and it's all about the groove.

If you REALLY want a challenge, try doing lead fills between barre chord changes, or picking out individual notes occasionally instead of just strumming. Try singing while playing lead lines and rhythm. The worst part is that rhythm playing gets very little respect - just abuse by the singer when you make mistakes. The best part is, good rhythm playing skills are the best foundation you can lay for truly great lead playing, and I guarantee you, BB King started out playing chords and rhythm and got good at that before he became one of the greatest soloists history.

I think I've found my favorite on-line guitar instructor. Great stuff!

That was a pretty interesting exercise. Thank you.

WHY do these guys have to talk for 10 min without actually covering the topic...

WHere's this backing track?

Great vid

That was Good... Thank You

I've always played spontaneously, off the top of my head, "singing" through my guitar, but I'm just an amateur home player, and know little about music theory, or many chords. I have Mickey Baker book, which some of my favorite guitar players learned from, but haven't spent much time with it. It's fun to just improvise melodic leads, but I want to learn how to be a rhythm guitar player too. Some guitar players are so amazing with chords, like Chris Cain - I've never seen anybody slide chords around like he does, or play chord medley stuff like Chris can - he's a guitar players guitar player. I enjoyed the video, but your guitar tone would sound better to me if it wasn't processed. Of course somebody else might like it, but I've always been into the sound of guitars plugged straight into an amp, being from the old school (really old in my case - ha ha).
Cheers!

Awesome channel. Congrats !

might be a little easier if the guitar was played clean

Thanks for this lesson! I need to be reminded of this often. I have heard Steve Vai & Joe Satriani mention this in the late 80s/early 90s but only in print articles. They never did a video lesson on this. Joe Satriani even had a lesson in Guitar for the Practicing Musician titled something like "atonal scat phrasing" but I was still trying to memorize the names of the modes and the lesson reminded me of Jazz scat singing & I had no clue how to put it in action. Thank you for making my overactive brain to stop over complicating things especially music theory. It usually isn't as complex as my brain tries to make it out to be so thanks for reminding me & thanks for an example to watch & follow.

Wow this simple concept is remarkable in its application. Thanks!

I have played guitar 43 years, never had a lesson, You are absolutely correct, I don’t usually have a plan, it is spontaneous usually, and the more I think of the music, and not the guitar, is when I’m playing best, you have to have a clear mind to really get into playing guitar!

This is so valuable. The basic truth is that music comes from a person—not an instrument or a book or a sequencer or-or-or. It comes THROUGH these but is originated by the person.

Why are not play keyA in rythim with key A in Lead?

That’s the best way I’ve heard ‘visualisation’ explained... thanks 🙏🏽