How I Would Relearn The Guitar From Scratch

Summary

In a casual and informative video, Rick Beato shares his approach to relearning the guitar from scratch. He reflects on the methods he uses to teach his son Dylan, which include foundational exercises and techniques he wishes he had learned earlier in his musical journey. The key points cover scale exercises, guitar neck familiarity, effective fingering techniques, and the importance of ear training and muting strings. Additionally, Beato discusses the significance of arpeggios, the Caged system, and shares insights from his video courses that aim to enhance musical proficiency.

Highlights

• Rick discusses his son's journey in guitar learning, paralleling it with his own relearning process. 👨‍👦
• He emphasizes the significance of starting with basic G chords and mastering scale exercises. 🌀
• Rick underscores the importance of understanding the guitar neck layout for proficient playing. 🎸
• He sheds light on various techniques like hammer-ons, pull-offs, and the Caged system. 💡
• The discussion also touches upon intertwining scales with arpeggios and effective fingerings. 💪
• Rick advocates for developing your ear to better understand and transcribe music. 👂
• The video concludes with his encouragement to have fun while learning and improving your skills. 🎉

Key Takeaways

• Relearning guitar can be a refreshing journey that improves foundational knowledge. 🎸
• Start with basic chords and scale exercises to build a strong foundation. 🔄
• Understanding the guitar neck and hand positioning is crucial for effective playing. 🤔
• Incorporating ear training enhances musicality and performance. 🎧
• Muting strings is an essential technique for clean sound production. 🎶

Overview

Rick Beato, an accomplished musician and educator, shares his insights on relearning the guitar from scratch. In this enlightening video, Rick talks about how he is teaching his son Dylan with techniques he wishes were available to him at the start of his guitar journey. His approach focuses on building a robust foundation through essential exercises and understanding the musical landscape of the guitar.

A major focus is placed on developing important fundamentals such as basic chord progressions, mastering scales, and understanding the guitar neck's structure. Rick details various techniques, including hammer-ons and pull-offs, that enhance playing fluency. He also advises integrating ear training to elevate musicianship, intertwining it with practical playing methods for a comprehensive learning experience.

Lastly, Rick encourages a fun and rewarding approach to learning the guitar, emphasizing the importance of practice and exploration. He highlights the significance of mastering the basics while keeping the process enjoyable and motivating. With shared knowledge from his video courses, Rick aims to equip aspiring musicians with the tools necessary for growth and mastery.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 00:30: Introduction and Greetings The chapter begins with a friendly greeting to the audience, acknowledging the Labor Day holiday for U.S. viewers, and a regular Monday for those outside the U.S. The speaker notes that this time marks the end of summer, especially as it coincides with children returning to school. While some northern regions start school post-Labor Day, others like in Atlanta have been in session for about three weeks. This live stream serves as a way to connect with the audience during this transitional period.
• 00:30 - 01:00: Teaching Dylan Guitar from Scratch The narrator discusses their experience of teaching their son Dylan how to play guitar from scratch. They reflect on how they would relearn the guitar if they were starting over, sharing the lessons and insights they wish they had received from their first guitar teacher. The chapter also mentions the narrator's 'Biato Bundle,' which contains resources related to the lessons discussed.
• 01:00 - 01:30: Biato Bundle and Course Offerings This chapter discusses the Biato Bundle and various course offerings. It mentions the theory presented in the Biato book, which includes aspects of ear training crucial for musical development. The chapter also highlights the availability of a video course. Additionally, a beginner guitar course is introduced, starting with fundamental techniques and gradually incorporating more advanced lessons to enhance guitar-playing skills.
• 01:30 - 02:00: Advanced Guitar Techniques for Beginners The chapter discusses the evolution of guitar teaching techniques over the years, particularly focusing on advanced techniques that are now available to beginners. The narrator reflects on how their first teachers lacked this knowledge, not out of negligence, but because such information wasn't readily accessible back in the 1970s. The narrator emphasizes the importance of following innovative guitarists and transcribing their techniques to truly understand and teach them effectively. The chapter also notes upcoming live shows scheduled by the narrator in Atlanta.
• 02:00 - 02:30: Live Show Announcements In the chapter titled 'Live Show Announcements', the speaker announces several upcoming live performances. They will be performing at the Variety Playhouse on September 28th, followed by a show in New York City at The Gramercy Theater on October 17th. Additionally, they have a performance scheduled in Berlin at Passion Church on October 28th, where despite being initially sold out, more tickets became available after opening the balcony. The speaker expresses enthusiasm and a desire to see attendees at these events.
• 02:30 - 03:00: Chords, Scales, and Arpeggios The chapter begins with a focus on chords, particularly a basic G chord, and delves into their applications. The speaker reflects on their own journey in mastering chords and relates it to the cello, implying a cross-instrumental understanding.
• 03:00 - 03:30: Efficient Picking and Hammer-ons/Pull-offs The chapter discusses the speaker's early challenges in learning guitar scales and riffs, mentioning that they could replicate music from bands like Queen but lacked comprehensive knowledge of the instrument's neck and theoretical understanding. This chapter introduces exercises focused on efficient picking techniques and mastering hammer-ons and pull-offs. These exercises are aimed at bridging the gap between basic mimicry and deep understanding of guitar playing. By practicing these techniques, an aspiring guitarist could expedite the learning process and enhance their skill set significantly.
• 03:30 - 04:00: Neck Positioning and Smooth Transitions Chapter Title: Neck Positioning and Smooth Transitions This chapter discusses a G Major scale exercise demonstrated through a musical performance, focusing on highlighting key positions on the neck of a musical instrument. The instructor advises not to worry about intermediary positions at this stage as they will be addressed later. The session emphasizes mastering smooth transitions between noted positions for better fluency in playing.
• 04:00 - 04:30: Connecting Arpeggios and Scales The chapter titled 'Connecting Arpeggios and Scales' provides insights into enhancing your musical technique by connecting arpeggios with scales. The instructor suggests re-watching the video at a slower speed (0.75x) for better understanding. The fingerings mentioned are available in the 'Biato Book Interactive' video course, where similar topics are covered in greater detail. The instructor also demonstrates positional changes for seamless transitions, linking theoretical learning with practical execution.
• 04:30 - 05:00: Exploring the CAGED System The chapter titled 'Exploring the CAGED System' discusses the integration of scales and arpeggios in musical learning. It emphasizes the importance of learning these techniques together rather than separately. The chapter appears to highlight practical exercises, possibly illustrated with music (noted by '[Music]'), to better understand the relationship between different scales, arpeggios, and the CAGED system—a method used by guitarists to navigate the fretboard. Special note is given to techniques the speaker wishes they had learned earlier, suggesting valuable insights and tips for effective practice.
• 05:00 - 05:30: Piano Fingerings and Repeatable Patterns This chapter discusses techniques for piano playing, specifically focusing on finger placements, hammer-ons, and pull-offs. It explains how these techniques can enhance speed and efficiency in playing. The chapter suggests using specific patterns, such as alternating between picking and hammering, to improve musical performance right from the start. These methods provide a more fluid and less strenuous way to play music, especially in complex pieces.
• 05:30 - 06:00: Spread Triads and Sound Recognition This chapter delves into the technique of spread triads and how they can aid in sound recognition for musicians. It covers the inefficiencies of alternate picking, especially for beginners, highlighting that although alternate picking may be part of advanced techniques, it isn't efficient initially. Additionally, the chapter discusses a particular G major scale and the chosen fingerings, emphasizing that they naturally fit under the hand within a four-fret spread.
• 06:00 - 06:30: Jazz Chords and Arpeggio Exercises The chapter focuses on jazz chords and arpeggio exercises, specifically using techniques such as picking and pulling off across guitar strings. The narrator describes a specific exercise pattern where they pick the first note on a string, then pull off the next two notes. This technique is repeated and varies slightly depending on the number of notes on a string. The goal is to produce a smooth sound, as demonstrated by the accompanying guitar music.
• 06:30 - 07:00: Muting Techniques and Clean Playing The chapter focuses on muting techniques and mastering clean playing. It highlights the critical role of learning to slide between positions effectively. The author shares an example with a G Major scale, emphasizing the importance of sliding from G to A for improved playing.
• 07:00 - 07:30: Practice Strategies and Reliability The chapter 'Practice Strategies and Reliability' delves into the techniques used for enhancing one's proficiency in playing musical pieces, particularly focusing on the guitar. The example provided discusses a practice routine involving picking and pull-off techniques, as well as sliding, to navigate through musical positions. The practice strategy emphasizes repetition and positional shifts, as demonstrated by moving up to a high G note and retracing to earlier positions, suggesting a methodical approach to mastering musical sections.
• 07:30 - 08:00: Recap and Encouragement The chapter titled "Recap and Encouragement" involves a review of a week's activities and introduces a musical element. The speaker describes showing variations of some actions or projects with a mention of covering an entire area but highlights an existing ambiguity that will be resolved in the future. The chapter aims to conclude with a positive note, likely to motivate and inspire the audience despite unresolved issues.
• 08:00 - 08:30: Closing Remarks and Upcoming Events In this chapter, the importance of understanding and practicing arpeggios and scales is highlighted, especially in the context of playing the guitar. It explains that while a guitar might have six strings, the chords played on it often consist of fewer distinct notes, as exemplified by the G major chord, which includes only the notes G, B, and D. This realization is presented as a later understanding in the narrator's musical journey.

How I Would Relearn The Guitar From Scratch Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 hey everybody happy Labor Day for those of you in the U.S happy Monday for those of you not in the U.S I guess it's just a normal work day but but uh most people go back to school kids uh in the north here go back after Labor Day my kids have been in school down in Atlanta for about three weeks already so anyways it's kind of like the end of the summer today so I thought I'd come on do a live stream I've been uh
• 00:30 - 01:00 working with my son Dylan he started playing guitar a few weeks ago and and I thought okay how would I relearn the guitar from scratch which is basically how I'm teaching Dylan the things that I wish that my first guitar teacher had taught me before we start um I have my biato bundle on sale a lot of the stuff I talk about is in the bundle no everything that I talk about in today's lesson this is kind of a lesson
• 01:00 - 01:30 um is in my biato book I talk about it the theory of it in my video course it might be out a book I talk about the ear training part of it because you always want to be developing your ear in my ear training course and have a beginner guitar course right which actually starts with the really basic Bare Bones beginner I'm going to show you kind of how I would take the Bare Bones beginner guitar and what I would add to that to start learning how to play the guitar because I would be way further ahead as a
• 01:30 - 02:00 guitarist if my first teachers knew to teach this stuff but they really didn't it's not their fault they're just people didn't know these things that I'm going to talk about today I mean some people did but you'd had to actually follow them and transcribe what they did to actually know what they were doing and be able to teach it to people and it just wasn't a thing in 1976. um and I have three shows coming up I have a show on the 28th here in Atlanta there's still tickets available at the
• 02:00 - 02:30 Variety Playhouse uh September 28th October 17th in New York City if you're anywhere in New York I'll be playing at The Gramercy theater and then in uh Berlin on October 28th at the passion church that that was sold out and then they opened up the balcony for it and it still has some tickets left so would love to see you um so so what would I learn again from this
• 02:30 - 03:00 um how would I start this okay so um I'm going to start with just playing basic chords but like what do you do with these things because it took a long time to get to these as a player to get to learn these things let's say we take a basic G chord here okay that sounds really good nice and in tune okay now one of the things since I played the cello first I actually had
• 03:00 - 03:30 some facility to play scales and to learn riffs okay but I didn't know what to learn I mean I could figure out [Music] I could learn that I could learn boss and I could learn Queen I could learn stuff like that but I really didn't know I didn't know understand the neck I didn't know what I was playing and it took a long time to figure out what I was playing and one of the things that would have been helpful is to learn uh if I had an exercise like this like a
• 03:30 - 04:00 simple G Major scale exercise I'm gonna talk about would be something like this and then I go up here [Music] okay so those two is right here really outline a lot of G major on the neck we don't necessarily need to worry about these positions in between those will come later but if I just had learned
• 04:00 - 04:30 [Music] now don't forget when you re-watch this you can slow down YouTube to 0.75 and I would suggest that you can just follow right along these fingerings are all in my biato book interactive the video course I go through the I go through things like this right but it goes it's way way more in in detail but then I would take this position and when I move
• 04:30 - 05:00 up to the next one and connect it like this [Music] okay and then I'd come down this way [Music] a little arpeggio in there at the end um disconnecting scales and arpeggios is actually a bad thing to do they should actually be learned together and there's techniques that I wish that I'd learned
• 05:00 - 05:30 right off the bat like where to put hammer-ons and pull-offs in so that you're not just alternate picking all the way through because it will increase your speed right off the bat [Music] a pattern like that pick Hammer uh hammer on pick Hammer pick Hammer Hammer Hammer oh a simple thing like that as opposed to
• 05:30 - 06:00 for someone that's just beginning that's about as fast that they'd be able to alternate pick that alternate picking is very inefficient yes you should be able to do that later on but this then [Music] now on the way down on this Gmail scale the reason I picked these fingerings is because they really lay naturally under your hand okay in a forefret spread okay
• 06:00 - 06:30 so I'm going pick pull off pick pull off pull off and I may have three notes on the string I picked the first one I pull off the next two where I pick and I hammer the next two pick pull off pick pull off pull off when I have two nuts on the string and do a pull off pick pull off pick pull off pick pull off [Music] and you notice it sounds nice and smooth
• 06:30 - 07:00 right but here's the important thing the next thing that I would do and this would have really helped my playing is actually learn how to slide between positions so I did this I slid on this G Major scale starting MB um I'd slide from the G to the A and I would I would be going into this
• 07:00 - 07:30 next position [Music] and I get up to this high G here and once I got here pick pull off pick pull off pick pull off pick pull off then I would go back down in this position so I put the a slide right there [Music]
• 07:30 - 08:00 this one week [Music] and then the other thing I do [Music] I would show those two different variations there now um uh so essentially I've covered this entire area with a little bit of ambiguity right here okay but that ambiguity is going to be fixed when I
• 08:00 - 08:30 start working on the arpeggios okay so connecting arpeggios and scales are very important because it shows you what the notes of the chord are and this wasn't something that I learned to way later on a G major chord when I played on the guitar there's six strings you think oh there's six notes in it well there's only three notes in this chord gbd g d G there's just g b and d and then some
• 08:30 - 09:00 doubling so you got gbd right there and then you have the double of a g another G another D so it's root third fifth root fifth fifth a root okay so it's like okay so where are these arpeggios the and this kind of goes along with this thing that people call the Caged system and the cage system is basically learning out of chord shapes but I don't
• 09:00 - 09:30 I'm not uh I have the cage system in my book I talk a little bit about it but I prefer to learn these arpeggio shapes a few different ways okay okay [Music] I wish somebody taught me that simple fingering okay also you can then move to this one
• 09:30 - 10:00 this starts to cover this part of the neck right here okay [Music] this is what I call a piano fingering and it's very handy in the guitar guitar players don't think like piano players piano fingerings if I play a C major arpeggio on the piano I play c-e-g-c-e-g-c-e-g and I play one I'm sorry one is the thumb in this case two four one two four one two four one two four one two four right uh and then at the top I'll hit my pinky
• 10:00 - 10:30 on the heist on the high C and then I'll come down with the same fingering those are called repeated finger patterns so this particular arpeggio I'm using one four one one four one and here I go into this position because it's you can't repeat the same fingering here because you'd have this awkward jump of a fourth here so I I complete the arpeggio but then I would carpeggio
• 10:30 - 11:00 okay so right there there's three different fingerings and I've covered most of the neck there's really just a couple more right and then so you got this fingering [Music] so once I get here I would go and I'd finish off the fingery there one three four one one one one
• 11:00 - 11:30 uh three four so that would be this fingering that covers this entire area and I would then I would teach my student to come down [Music] like this and that really completes that so foreign [Music]
• 11:30 - 12:00 okay and the very last thing so that would just be an exercise that I would write out in Tab and the very last thing would be this piano fingering here [Music] which is a great fingery too so it's one one four so it's fifth of the chord to the root third
• 12:00 - 12:30 fifth root third fifth root third that makes it so easy to remember these things because they're just repeated shapes in the hand and your ear will pick these things out really easy right [Music] so e if you were just to show somebody this a beginning student you know [Music]
• 12:30 - 13:00 okay it would take a little bit a practice to do but I'm experimenting when showing Dylan these things and it's really been very easy for him to learn this right um and this is something that like I said there were no books that really taught this they had books but they didn't have tab they just had notes and if you couldn't read notes you were out of luck you were just learning off records and uh and if you're learning off
• 13:00 - 13:30 records yeah you're developing your ear what you need to do that's why I made an ear training course because it's important to be able to develop your ear to be able to hear things before you play them and be able to pick things off once you hear them you know if when I do these top 10 Spotify things I saw somebody uh made a video and it's like Rick does these things because they it makes money for his channel it's like no it doesn't and videos get demonetized immediately and I I uh
• 13:30 - 14:00 and um I uh I make them so that people can actually hear what's on the charts and I do it every four months because it takes four months to go uh for a song typically for all the songs to cycle off the charts and to see what new is happening and I pretty much do it to see what the Styles I like to see if there if the drum styles are changing if there's guitar in there if there's any real drumming going on things like that now these fingerings here are in my
• 14:00 - 14:30 biato book interactive and it's a video course so my video course explains the concepts behind all these right but in addition to that that supports the channel you get everything for 99 bucks the sales going through this weekend uh in addition to doing that I can keep traveling and doing these interviews which I which I love doing but uh but today I'm getting back to actual music videos and how to learn okay so uh
• 14:30 - 15:00 the next thing that I would do is to um learn spread Triads okay and this wasn't something that anybody talked about before Eric Johnson there was Pat Metheny and Pat Metheny did spread Triads uh on bright side's life he has songs that are only spread Triads uh and I knew the sound of them because I had uh Tom Rizzo that was a guitar teacher I took two lessons from Tommy I mowed his lawn that's how I got into taking lessons at his store and he was a huge Pat Metheny fan
• 15:00 - 15:30 Tom knew this stuff but he never got around to teaching me it okay so what are spread Triads a spread Triad let's say we stay in the key of G B one one five three I love these sounds of these things you'll hear me play them [Music] so this is a G major spreadshead so basically a spread try it is you take one three five and you take the middle note that would be the note B and move
• 15:30 - 16:00 it up the octave so one five three then I go to the third of the chord I go three uh one five and then I go five three one and then I go one three I'm one five three so those are spread tries you can do them like this man I wish somebody showed me that that ah it would have made when I heard
• 16:00 - 16:30 Eric Johnson in 1985 or whatever I mean I heard Eric Johnson on actually on Christopher cross's record when I heard him well actually when I heard him I knew what he was doing because I knew what spread Triads were there uh but but I knew what spread Triads were then because I was already in in grad school and I had figured that out long before but was at me no I wouldn't have said that I would have recognized it by ear that people like that and Alan Holdsworth would have played voicings
• 16:30 - 17:00 like this foreign over B flat beautiful augmented Major Seventh chord love that right so the spread tragedy [Music] it's really really great and I would teach the major and minor spread Triads okay so I so in addition to the major
• 17:00 - 17:30 fingerings I would do it I would do the spread Triads too so you want it because that really solidifies knowing the notes of the scale and and where are the notes of the arpeggio are so you got the scale right and then you have the arpeggios right out of the scale my God
• 17:30 - 18:00 I I'd be 10 times further ahead than I am than I would be now if I had known that I mean it took years to learn this stuff right and I can come on here on a Monday afternoon and just show you guys and you can watch the replay of this you can buy my Beatle bundle too and learn it from there but you can slow it down to half speed or 0.25 I don't know how to eat just use the wheel on here repeat view it and look at where
• 18:00 - 18:30 I'm playing this stuff right you can just slow it right down you can see the guitar nice and clearly um and and do that right so the idea of playing the scales and [Music]
• 18:30 - 19:00 sounds beautiful right do the same thing with minor chords I would learn my minor arpeggios here now you can learn this this is G minor it's out of this minor shape so I did something a little differently here um I did I didn't do this [Music] um I don't like I don't like all these bars
• 19:00 - 19:30 like I don't like to do three consecutive notes with one finger unless I'm doing to me that's way way cleaner it's more reli it's a reliable fingering you should think about these things as what is the reliable fingering one that you can count on to be more accurate more of the time this is a thing that teachers I think don't teach enough of especially on guitar because guitar technique and
• 19:30 - 20:00 pedagogy it's pretty developed but these are things like figuring out reliable uh fingerings that you teach on piano you teach it on the violin you teach it on the cello in the bass but uh on the guitar this fingering for G minor I put the fifth here and I skipped the B string because it's way more of a reliable fingering and I can go [Music]
• 20:00 - 20:30 minor here [Music] so [Music] then I go you could do that too [Music] and you can do that so I have this fingering the piano fingery of G minor fifth root third fifth third fifth third
• 20:30 - 21:00 okay or right out of this chord shape this is how the cage system is related to these things and once again the stuff is all in my biato book Interactive you can get my beginner guitar chords and my quick lessons course all for 99 bucks okay and uh for those of you that just joined September 28th in Atlanta I'll be at the Variety Playhouse
• 21:00 - 21:30 I'm only going to do probably three more shows ever if you ever want to see me do a live gig you got there October 17th next month in New York City at The Gramercy theater or in Berlin at the passion Church on October 28th and then I'm gonna pretty much call it quits from there I love doing the shows I love doing them but but um The Traveling is difficult when you have three kids that are in school all the time you know maybe a few years from now
• 21:30 - 22:00 if I'm if I'm youtubing you know uh when the kids are out of school I mean Dylan's in 10th Grade now Lenin's in what eighth Layla's in fifth it's tough it's tough okay so I like playing out of these chord shapes right [Music] one thing I don't like art like this I only do it one one four three three two one four
• 22:00 - 22:30 but I prefer to go or one one one two three two one to me if leaving out as many bars as you can makes the fingerings more reliable when I say this reliability I I liken it kind of to somebody said Rick do you
• 22:30 - 23:00 have perfect pitch somebody emailed me today and says how do you how do you hear these things um and and I was like and I always talk about this you've heard me talk about this in live streams if you watch this channel a long time a vocabulary of recognized sounds like what did they what did these chords sound like right uh what is a Major Seventh chord was a minor seventh chord sound like what does a minor seven flat five chord if you're figuring out a song it makes it um a lot easier if you can recognize the
• 23:00 - 23:30 the chord quality by ear instantly and then you just relate the what the bass motion is right which brings me to my next thing uh so this is um um these are the the essentially 14 chords that I would learn jazz chords you really reduce it down to about 10 um or eight Jazz chords so I would I would uh and these are things that I learned in my first lesson so but this is something I would still learn uh
• 23:30 - 24:00 let's say we take uh we'll do it in C here C Major seven I'm sorry C Major seven C dominant seven or C7 uh C minor seven C minor seven flat five and C diminished seven okay and in that position I would learn the arpeggios of each chord I go right through this in the beginning of my Beatle book interactive [Music]
• 24:00 - 24:30 and I like to play the chord first then play the arpeggio then play the chord then I go the dominant seven or you can go up to the third too [Music] then you do minor seven then you do a minor simplify five [Music]
• 24:30 - 25:00 a beautiful sound right then diminished seven there's a lot of different [Music] a lot of different fingerings you can use a lot of different fingerings that you can use for this it's a repeatable pattern [Music] if somebody had showed me those things actually my teacher did show me those um and then do the same thing off the fifth string so we call it root root six
• 25:00 - 25:30 and root five root six means the root is off the sixth string root fives the root is off the fifth string the a string I'd stay in this position let's say we do an F major seven F7 um F minor seven F minor seven flat five and F diminished seventh okay F major seven F dominant seven foreign
• 25:30 - 26:00 [Music] [Applause] I like putting that root in it at the top just see it so you're not just you could do that but I like to see actually no I like to to have my arpeggios that move positions to to so that you just don't um uh
• 26:00 - 26:30 so so you're not locked into any one area and you don't think in a box don't think in these boxes like that then you got F minor seven flat five or add the root in it [Music] so if I'm playing this chord here and I'm playing a d flat seven chord
• 26:30 - 27:00 [Music] that actually is part of that's a first inversion of that of a d flat dominant chord and then you do obviously F diminished foreign [Music] now these things I have a very unforgiving tone here super clean uh everybody's like Rick don't play with
• 27:00 - 27:30 distortion [Music] so that F diminished chord [Music] you play it everywhere it moves every four frets [Music] right
• 27:30 - 28:00 so I would learn those two that's that is very important right to to um to connect these chords scales and arpeggios right off the bat okay the other things that I would work on would be things like uh how to mute strings that you're not playing I've made episodes on this but I can't [Music] um I can't stress enough of how important
• 28:00 - 28:30 it is to do that right it's like um muting I talk about muting in my um my quick lessons course um I talk about muting it might be auto book interactive but I can't talk enough about muting muting the strings that you're not playing it's not just for playing power chords if I play a power chord here just a d power chord so it's d a d
• 28:30 - 29:00 when I strum this the that note's muted that's I'm sorry that and that are muted so I I'm only getting the notes that I'm that I'm uh that I want to get but if I play one note in the middle of this let's say I take turn off my delay here so I don't annoy you guys here [Music] I can strum I'm only playing this one note G [Music]
• 29:00 - 29:30 great practice [Music] so there's a lot of muting going on my index fingers muting the a string my thumb's meaning the E string and my index fingers meeting all these strings and sometimes my right hand's muting but it starts with just how to play a clean power chord and that's a thing that I show um how to play a clean power chord on the sixth string and get these other notes muted
• 29:30 - 30:00 [Music] when I go to the when I go to this power cord here my middle finger is muting these other two notes this is the thing when I was a producer this is uh when I was a producer muting was everything I told people it's like no you got to mute that don't you hear those open strings ringing and a
• 30:00 - 30:30 lot of times it's there are certain fingerings like um if I take took that G major Triad [Music] play or anything [Music] I'm muting with this hand I don't know if you guys can see this here let me see if I stand up a little bit [Music] do you notice that this hand the palm of
• 30:30 - 31:00 my hand is actually muting the other strings that I'm not playing I wish that I'd learned this at the beginning and it's simple to do it's just like learning how to play power chords with no other notes ringing and you know I kind of learned these things when I learned started learning Hendrix right when I you know [Music] because I I would learn to
• 31:00 - 31:30 [Music] I would learn how to how to I try to I would always practice trying to isolate one [Music] try to isolate just the one string so if you have a lot of distortion on you don't want when I'm if I'm breaking across the strings I don't want any other string it's hard to do especially when you got
• 31:30 - 32:00 eared that open string with my thumb right there you go [Music] you gotta get it to where you've practiced it so many times that there are that there are no other notes ringing right I'm playing notes on the inside of the guitar the G string the the D string got to make sure there's no harmonics ringing and that's a great
• 32:00 - 32:30 thing for teachers to go over and to get your playing clean right these things are are so so um important now sometimes you want to have two notes ringing together right but you want to be able to control when you're doing that right so you want you want to be able to play the things that you're meaning to play that's always the idea of of being
• 32:30 - 33:00 a great musician play the things that you mean to play right mean it when you play it hear it and play it that's kind of the whole uh the whole idea of all this so so if I was uh relearning the guitar from scratch I would take these basic ideas that I talked about today and I would make up some exercises I practice them over a couple the course
• 33:00 - 33:30 of a couple months practice them every day until they became fluid in them and you know to be able to accurately you know let's say I could play six times through without uh each thing without making a mistake to me that's the if you can play something six times six times in a row without a mistake you pretty much have it under your fingers there's people like Vladimir Horowitz that I heard would practice 120 times without making a mistake and then he felt like he had the fingering down
• 33:30 - 34:00 uh you don't have to be that um you know somebody just Cindy just asked is it the Palm or the base of the thumb I don't know what you're asking about but when I'm muting and stuff with the right hand [Music] i'm muting with this part of my thumb of my hand the palm of my hand typically um so you want to be able to do this stuff though with without thinking
• 34:00 - 34:30 um like I said all this is in my courses here I saw all four of my courses for 99 bucks that's how I support the channel uh that's how I'm able to um go and make these interviews and I you know really appreciate you guys uh uh get something for yourself a gift for yourself that will make you become a better musician that's what we're trying to do here on this channel so I've been trying to do for the last seven years improve myself and improve the people watching this as musicians and uh and
• 34:30 - 35:00 also have fun because that's the other important part of music is having fun anyhow you guys are great for those of you that it's Labor Day and you're in the United States we we kind of consider this the end of the summer so I hope you had a great summer even though the 21st is really the end of December uh for those of you that are in the Atlanta area come on out on the 28th of this month I think my band billionaire is going to do a short set we're supposed to rehearse next week
• 35:00 - 35:30 um it's gonna be a fun show it'll be different than any of the other shows Gramercy theater in New York City October 17th and at the passion Church uh on October 28th in Berlin can't wait never been to Berlin uh will I ever get Jerry Cantrell on Charlie I will get Jerry Cantrell on I hope uh you guys are great have a wonderful wonderful end of your holiday we'll see you later