PRO Guitar Tricks AMATEURS Need To Know

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Resumo

TLDRThis guitar lesson focuses on mastering the E minor pentatonic scale and its various positions, developing improvisational skills, and techniques for creating jazzier sounds. The instructor demonstrates how to play each box of the scale, transition between them, and incorporate extended notes to form a seven-note scale. Tips for overcoming stage fright, remembering songs, and collaborating with other musicians are also shared, emphasizing the importance of preparation and consistent practice. Finally, the video mentions the use of specific gear and effects to enhance the sound.

Conclusões

  • 🎸 Master the five minor pentatonic boxes for improvisation.
  • 📈 Use one finger to transition between box positions smoothly.
  • 🔄 Incorporate ninth and sixth notes for a seven-note scale.
  • 💡 Regularly practice songs to improve memory retention.
  • 🤝 Find reliable musicians through social media and local events.
  • ⚠️ Prepare extensively to manage stage fright effectively.
  • ✨ Stacking overdrives can enhance your guitar tone.
  • 📚 Check out 'Chord Chemistry' for comprehensive chord resources.
  • 🌀 Experiment with outside notes but resolve back to the key.
  • 🎵 Focus on playing melodies over one string for effective improvisation.

Linha do tempo

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    The presenter aims to equip viewers with essential guitar tools to navigate the fretboard effortlessly, starting with playing over a jam track while using the five boxes of the minor pentatonic scale in E minor. This introduction focuses on establishing a foundation for subsequent lessons.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    The discussion shifts to utilizing E minor triads scattered across the fretboard and connecting these triads to soloing over a jam track. The presenter introduces a technique of playing across one string using the five pentatonic boxes, simplifying transitions while creating melodies.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    After exploring single-string transitions, the presenter adds complexity by introducing a seven-note E minor Dorian scale, incorporating the ninth and sixth notes. The focus here is on how to adapt scales based on chord changes, particularly when transitioning to an A minor section of the jam track.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    The presenter emphasizes the importance of understanding chord relationships and how to easily replace certain scale notes when the music shifts. The discussion includes practical suggestions for remembering songs and playing styles, with references to live performances and the impact of preparation on reducing stage fright.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:29:30

    Finally, the session wraps up with additional techniques for enhancing chord sound by adding extensions. A strong emphasis is placed on practice and collaboration with other musicians, along with personal anecdotes about navigating performance challenges and the importance of memorable compositions in music.

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Vídeo de perguntas e respostas

  • How can I access the Jam track mentioned in the video?

    You can access the Jam track by signing up for the 30 free guitar lessons provided in the video.

  • What are the five boxes of the minor pentatonic scale?

    The five boxes refer to the five shapes or patterns that represent the minor pentatonic scale on the guitar fretboard.

  • What is the difference between E minor and E minor Dorian?

    E minor Dorian adds a♭6 and a 9th to the scale, creating a more complex sound compared to the basic E minor scale.

  • How can I remember songs better?

    Regularly play the songs you want to remember, touching on them throughout the week to keep them fresh in your mind.

  • How do you manage stage fright?

    Preparation is key. Practicing your parts extensively can help reduce nerves when performing live.

  • What is the significance of adding extensions to chords?

    Adding extensions like 7ths and 9ths to basic chords makes them sound jazzier and more sophisticated.

  • What should I focus on when improvising?

    Focus on staying in key while also experimenting with outside notes, but ensure you resolve back to the key center.

  • What is stacking overdrives?

    Stacking overdrives involves using multiple overdrive pedals simultaneously, each set to a low gain to create a richer tone without altering your sweet spot.

  • Where can I find resources for learning guitar chords?

    Books like Ted Greene's 'Chord Chemistry' are excellent resources, as well as various apps available for guitar players.

  • How can I find musicians to collaborate with?

    Reach out through social media or local music events, and clearly describe what you're looking for in a band or project.

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    I want to give you all the tools you
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    need to understand and play over the
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    whole fretboard to be able to know all
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    the positions and move between them
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    seamlessly and I'm going to try and do
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    it in about 10 minutes so I'm going to
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    start in a practical place and I'm going
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    to play over a Jam track that's
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    available if you just click the link
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    below and sign up for the 30 free guitar
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    lessons you can get this Jam track for
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    free I'm going to play minor pentatonic
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    I'm going to play the five boxes and
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    this is how we'll start then in the next
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    few minutes we'll ramp it up and I'll
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    show you a lot more
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    [Music]
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    [Applause]
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    [Music]
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    so that's it the five boxes
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    [Music]
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    so those are the five minor pentatonic
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    boxes in the key of E minor now let's
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    look at a couple of other tools I want
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    you to see e chords E minor chords
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    everywhere they exist here's one here's
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    one here's one here's one here's one
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    right
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    here these E minor Triads exist
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    everywhere and once you start to learn
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    them you have another great tool while
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    you're solo check out here
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    here's another
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    one here's another one up
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    here okay so then next I'd like you to
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    look at the boxes but just stay on one
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    string so if we stay on the high E
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    string box one box two three four and
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    five now if I do it
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    [Music]
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    smoothly that's another great tool for
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    soloing and another great tool for
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    transitioning from box to box because if
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    you use the in finger on one string then
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    you can go from one box to another very
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    easily and The Listener doesn't even
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    [Music]
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    know anyway let me jump in the track and
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    I'll try all these new tools while I'm
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    [Music]
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    improvising okay there I'm going through
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    the boxes but I'm playing on one string
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    and using one finger creates an easy
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    strong Melody every time you do that but
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    here's box five box four box three and
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    box two used them all on one string now
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    I'm going just play the
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    blues okay now let's try some cord
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    shapes
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    [Music]
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    okay that was the E minor here E minor
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    here E minor here E minor here and then
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    the full traditional six note E minor in
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    the first position now I'm going to go
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    from box one to box two simply by
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    lifting my little finger up to the fifth
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    threet let me show you here's box
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    one here's
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    two back to
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    one to
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    [Music]
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    two now I want to show you changing
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    position box to box just by Leading with
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    one
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    finger so I transitioned upward from box
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    to box just by Leading with my third
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    finger and I played exactly the same
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    phrase each time and transfer that from
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    box to box I'll show you
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    [Music]
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    again now I can also do a similar Thing
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    by going this way and descending using
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    my index finger to lead
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    but always remember and never forget
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    just that you can simply hang out in one
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    or two boxes and play the
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    [Music]
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    blue so now let's add a little more
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    complexity and make it a seven note
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    scale and in this case it's going to be
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    E minor Dorian because it works over
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    these
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    [Music]
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    chords what we'll be adding is a
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    ninth which you can hang on you can land
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    on that and stay there I love doing that
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    and it's basically because the the
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    chords are kind of n minor ninth chords
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    and then a sixth which you kind of have
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    to use in
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    passing which I'll show you in a sec now
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    we do have to change this when it goes
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    to the a minor section
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    what we have to do there is make it a
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    flat six so we play e natural minor then
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    which is G major very simple and it's
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    nice I love making slight changes when
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    the chords change it's nice for the
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    brain not too demanding but really nice
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    so these things that we're changing the
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    seven note scale makes it a little quote
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    Jazzy unquote at times and that's a
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    great foil and relief from the
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    pentatonic Blues work so let's dive in
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    and I'll show you how this works
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    [Music]
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    so that's me using the sixth in passing
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    you can hang on the ninth it's pretty
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    [Music]
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    fun now we go to the four chord the
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    minor chord come back and I'm going to
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    hang on the knin
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    [Music]
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    again playing some octaves always works
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    nice if you guys remember West
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    Montgomery but that was its thing
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    [Music]
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    so it does get a little Jazzy with that
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    seven notes
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    [Music]
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    scale that was just pure look that I
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    landed on that note on the beat so I
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    just want to play a blues lck to get
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    away from the complexity for a second
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    [Music]
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    okay remember if you want this Jam track
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    just sign up for the 30 free lessons and
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    you'll have it if you already have the
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    30 free lessons it's been added to your
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    access so let's review for a second we
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    had the five pentatonic boxes just go
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    back through the video look at the
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    diagrams and freeze frame it if you need
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    if you want to study this we had the
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    five boxes on one string then we added
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    these extra notes the ninth and the
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    sixth made it a seven note scale which
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    is basically e natural minor and G major
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    exactly the same very simple and then if
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    you want to change that seven note scale
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    out for the simpler blue scale it's a
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    good thing to do because it gives you
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    and The Listener some different flavors
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    to play with lastly when it goes to the
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    a minor the four
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    chord you have to drop this C Shar to
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    C you have to drop the sixth to a flat
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    six and it's very easy to see when you
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    start looking at that scale in that
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    particular spot as just plain old G
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    major or plain old E minor then lastly
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    again there's two cours I didn't even
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    talk about the C to D at the end of the
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    second turnaround that requires the same
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    Formula E natural minor or G major
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    pretty easy you can kind of trace the
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    chords too if you want to for today's
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    video This Is My Tom Anderson Raven I've
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    had it for a long time Tom's guitars are
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    Exquisite all the models uh this is a
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    marshall that Paul Reed Smith got for me
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    I think Eric Johnson owned it for a
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    while it's a PA head 100 Watts from 1968
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    channel 3 sounds really good the
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    Distortion you're hearing is purely from
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    the amp if I want to cleaner I just turn
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    it down a little bit no pedals on this
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    one and it's going to a 412 cabinet with
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    1968 they're called 127
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    celestian and uh that's the story it's
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    miked up with a Royer and a 57 now I'm
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    going to turn the delay back on do a
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    little more playing and then we'll we'll
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    talk some more
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    oh
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    [Music]
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    w
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    [Music]
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    so yesterday we did this live stream for
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    masterclass members only and the version
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    of that uh is more casual and uh it's
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    about an hour long and a really good
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    thing happened a member reminded me that
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    a really great way to look at the a
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    minor section of this is just to call it
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    a minor Dorian I had completely
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    overthought not overthought because
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    there are two or three explanations for
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    anything in music at least and there's
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    so many ways to look you know if if
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    something is right in the center the
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    bullseye in music there's like four or
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    five ways to get to it and three or four
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    ways to Define it so I was talking about
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    the a minor in terms of e natural minor
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    and G major but he said isn't it just a
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    minor Dorian and he was right I thought
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    about it for a second so what that means
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    is if you're playing an e minor Dorian
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    over this Jam
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    track all you have to do is take that
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    template and do the exact same thing
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    thing uh on the fifth fret at a
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    minor so I thought that was really cool
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    now somebody asked about memorization
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    skill I was able to do professionally is
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    anytime I was composing something for a
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    song coming up with a riff or a part or
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    a solo I was able to capture the imprint
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    of that in my mind and hold it and alter
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    it so if I was playing a solo and they
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    said yeah I like this part of it but
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    changed this I was always able to hold
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    that event in my mind now long-term
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    memory has never been great for me there
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    are people we all know who have
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    photographic memories who remember
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    everything
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    forever the best musicians I've ever
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    worked with have had photographic
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    memories because if they learn let's say
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    the Rain Song by Led Zeppelin they know
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    it forever I've learned the Rain Song by
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    Led Zeppelin three times in my life you
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    have to do his custom tuning you learn
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    it's the most beautiful thing you've
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    ever played on Aus guitar and it doesn't
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    stay in my memory bags uh you know so
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    but there are other musicians who learn
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    and they know it forever and you know
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    it's kind of
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    annoying just becomes this giant
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    Encyclopedia of knowledge and I think
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    the greatest you know the people who
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    excel in any profession or domain are
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    people with photographic memories so
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    don't give yourself a hard time if you
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    don't have
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    that uh it relates to another question
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    somebody asked which is how do I
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    remember songs well you don't have to
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    remember songs uh if you have the
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    photographic memory you'll remember so
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    you won't ask the question but if you're
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    asking how to remember songs the only
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    way to do that is to play them regularly
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    have a repertoire of songs that you want
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    to remember and you could you like do
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    three in one another three and another
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    day another three and another day and if
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    throughout the week if you're touching
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    on this repertoire of songs that you
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    want to keep in your memory banks let's
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    say over the course of whenever you can
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    get to it over the course of a week and
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    you have 20 songs you want to keep fresh
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    keep in your memory banks just touch on
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    them once during that week and that's
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    the way to do it and and like Andy Wood
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    talks about that like when he's getting
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    ready to do a performance he goes back
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    and he plays the songs and gets them up
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    to speed and in his case it's not just a
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    matter of remembering them it's a matter
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    of getting them up to that high level of
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    technical ability that he is sitting on
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    that he is riding on the edge now I
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    don't have that problem so much because
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    I play in kind of a comfort zone of you
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    know slower stuff easier stuff but
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    somebody like Andy he does it for two
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    reasons one is to get his memory back of
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    the repertoire but also to get back on
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    that upper top edge of performance so
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    I'm just G to play one more time through
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    and then we'll uh keep talking thank you
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    everybody from all over the world we are
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    good here uh it it was life-changing and
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    intense uh but everybody's okay now and
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    we're rebuilding I was very lucky anyway
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    guys here we go
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    [Music]
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    I love landing on the ninth and staying
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    [Music]
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    there there's the ninth again
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    leave
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    spaces double
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    [Music]
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    stops
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    [Music]
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    vibr one thing I always do and you
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    should do two I recommend is stack
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    overdrives and all that means and I
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    first really learned this from Tom bukak
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    when he came out here to do a Rob Thomas
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    record I did with him in the early 2000s
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    um and he would take his overdrives his
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    favorite ones at that time and it's it's
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    changed over the last
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    decade and he would have like like his
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    one boss distortion on like one so it
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    barely
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    cranked the gain and then he would have
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    his odr-1 Nobles on three so barely
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    cranked it so and then he would do
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    different combinations of these stacked
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    overdrives and I would say three in a
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    row is fine and the other benefit to
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    that is that you never have to change
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    your sweet spot let's say if you have
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    your clone of the odr-1 which might be
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    the key uh one or the karma which I you
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    know I use Greg Drummond's Karma pedal
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    uh as an an O od1 clone and I have odr
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    1es so I know that it's the same you
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    know he did it um
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    when you find The Sweet Spot and it's
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    the best
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    spot rather than change that for a
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    different tone just stack another tone
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    with an overdrive that might be just on
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    one and and then you can uh experiment
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    with which one sounds better in front in
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    back and this is what guitar players do
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    this is exactly what all professional
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    guitar players do they take their their
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    overdrive pedals they said oh this one
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    sounds better in front of that one but
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    the great thing about it is you can find
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    The Sweet Spot on your favorite
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    overdrive leave it there never touch it
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    so it's always there for you and then if
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    you need more you just add another pedal
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    you just to chain another one in before
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    I forget Paul Rivera uh I did a really
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    nice video that I really enjoyed with a
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    50-year-old Rivera Fender Deluxe that I
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    was able to get and we interviewed Paul
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    that was a couple of weeks
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    ago and he is auctioning on eBay a
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    really cool amp that's uh in the style
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    of Rick neelon and it's got a custom
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    world kitchen that link is below if you
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    want to take a look at this amp and bid
  • 00:17:07
    on it for charity another really good
  • 00:17:10
    question that I got is how to put a band
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    together and play nice with other
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    musicians and this would have been
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    easier back when I was a teenager in my
  • 00:17:22
    20s because there were no computers and
  • 00:17:25
    people didn't people had to check this
  • 00:17:28
    out when I moved to LA there were no
  • 00:17:31
    cell phones and no computers okay there
  • 00:17:33
    was no digital recording in studios and
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    there were no programmed tracks this was
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    even you know that happened in the 80s
  • 00:17:40
    but it happened just after I got here so
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    when I got here in LA and when I was in
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    Albuquerque working but when I got here
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    in LA and I I I touched the music
  • 00:17:49
    business I started to open doors the
  • 00:17:51
    only way you could make music was like
  • 00:17:53
    getting together with other people okay
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    so those kind of things got solved I
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    mean you would just get together with a
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    group of musicians and try something but
  • 00:18:02
    it would be somebody's living room and
  • 00:18:03
    Blasting away or in a studio or they had
  • 00:18:05
    like rehearsal rooms that you would pay
  • 00:18:07
    an hourly rate for now we are at the
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    point where pretty much everybody does
  • 00:18:12
    their work alone in any profession and
  • 00:18:15
    so you have to create uh you have to
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    force the issue you have to go and find
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    people to work with if you want that and
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    then uh what I would say is you describe
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    your yourself as who you are and what
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    you're looking for and then you reach
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    out to people through social media in
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    your area or you know at the University
  • 00:18:36
    nearby or when you go see music and
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    there are other musicians there you know
  • 00:18:40
    there are lots of particularly with
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    social media lots of ways to reach
  • 00:18:43
    people but describe who you are and
  • 00:18:45
    exactly what you want and if it's you
  • 00:18:47
    want to play Blues every weekend if you
  • 00:18:49
    want to play classic rock once a month
  • 00:18:52
    whatever it is that you want to do
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    describe it and then be patient and
  • 00:18:56
    don't settle for
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    people who are not reliable I mean
  • 00:19:02
    somebody who's limited on an instrument
  • 00:19:04
    that's okay it can actually be a great
  • 00:19:07
    feature because they play simply and
  • 00:19:10
    they have a lane they stay in but you
  • 00:19:12
    want them to be reliable and trustworthy
  • 00:19:14
    and supportive and then the best case
  • 00:19:17
    scenario if you end up with a ringer you
  • 00:19:19
    know somebody some piano player who can
  • 00:19:21
    just play anything and has a day job and
  • 00:19:25
    they're out there they are out there so
  • 00:19:27
    you know there's this the this old adage
  • 00:19:30
    where you know you don't want to be the
  • 00:19:31
    best musician in the room or in your
  • 00:19:33
    band and that's really true because
  • 00:19:34
    you'll get better so that's my advice on
  • 00:19:39
    that uh so yeah I'll play one more Jam
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    here and which will last exactly I think
  • 00:19:47
    I think this one cycle through this Jam
  • 00:19:49
    track lasts about a minute and just to
  • 00:19:51
    describe this if you take the 30 free
  • 00:19:53
    guitar
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    lessons this Jam track is attached to it
  • 00:19:57
    if you already have access to the 33
  • 00:19:59
    guitar lessons this Jam track is
  • 00:20:01
    attached to it so you've already got it
  • 00:20:02
    it's there for you and the master class
  • 00:20:05
    live stream we did yesterday we attach
  • 00:20:06
    it to that too for all you masterclass
  • 00:20:08
    members who took my advice and showed up
  • 00:20:11
    for this one today uh the longer one is
  • 00:20:14
    casual it's fun it's uh really lowkey uh
  • 00:20:18
    so if you do want to try the master
  • 00:20:20
    class you can experience those okay here
  • 00:20:23
    we go
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    play the blues now play
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    [Music]
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    jazzy a minor
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    [Music]
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    doorian open
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    strings chord tone on the B it's the
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    fifth of the B minor
  • 00:20:51
    core back to the
  • 00:20:54
    blues leaving
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    space and it's the most effective thing
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    because as guitar players we just want
  • 00:21:01
    to do a constant runon sentence and I'm
  • 00:21:04
    more guilty of that than
  • 00:21:06
    [Music]
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    anybody case in point that riff was way
  • 00:21:18
    way too long I could just go forever and
  • 00:21:22
    then you go why am I doing that much
  • 00:21:24
    more expressive to treat improvisation
  • 00:21:27
    like you're a
  • 00:21:29
    [Music]
  • 00:21:30
    [Applause]
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    [Music]
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    that was just a straight A minor chord
  • 00:21:40
    these E minor Triads are very useful
  • 00:21:43
    too there's one here's one
  • 00:21:46
    uh cord
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    [Music]
  • 00:21:56
    tone the ninth that's Jazzy there was a
  • 00:22:00
    question about how to make chords more
  • 00:22:02
    Jazzy and that's when you just start
  • 00:22:03
    adding extensions you know you you do E
  • 00:22:06
    minor
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    7 E minor
  • 00:22:11
    9 there was a gentleman who was a legend
  • 00:22:15
    a living legend in the 80s that was a
  • 00:22:18
    play you know he he his name was Ted
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    green and some of you know who he is and
  • 00:22:22
    he was in LA and the best players in
  • 00:22:24
    town would go take a lesson from him and
  • 00:22:27
    regular players would too but he
  • 00:22:28
    demanded he absolutely demanded that you
  • 00:22:32
    practice the lesson before you came back
  • 00:22:33
    the next time and so players were always
  • 00:22:37
    living in fear I didn't practice my Ted
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    lesson I'm going to let it go do do you
  • 00:22:40
    want it actually somebody said that to
  • 00:22:43
    me once and I was too intimidated to go
  • 00:22:45
    but there are books that he wrote one of
  • 00:22:47
    them is called chord chemistry and I
  • 00:22:49
    would recommend it if you want
  • 00:22:52
    to just find every version of guitar
  • 00:22:55
    chords you could possibly think of and
  • 00:22:57
    some of them are just too big of a
  • 00:22:58
    stretch my hands are small so I can't do
  • 00:23:00
    the you know huge stretches uh others we
  • 00:23:04
    see and know and love have bigger hands
  • 00:23:06
    and it's easier you know that's just you
  • 00:23:08
    do do what you can chord chemistry yep
  • 00:23:11
    that's it so Ted was amazing and uh he
  • 00:23:14
    left us that Legacy there are lots of
  • 00:23:15
    other sources too there's probably an
  • 00:23:16
    app you can get that has every cord but
  • 00:23:20
    the Ted greed thing is very Soulful I I
  • 00:23:22
    don't know if they're out of print how
  • 00:23:23
    could they be out of print it's too much
  • 00:23:25
    these are too legendary so that's my
  • 00:23:28
    recommend found
  • 00:23:29
    ation somebody else asked about stage
  • 00:23:33
    fright and this is something everybody
  • 00:23:38
    has to live with um you can bet that
  • 00:23:40
    even our most poised favorite
  • 00:23:43
    people are filled with adrenaline when
  • 00:23:46
    they get on stage you know if you think
  • 00:23:48
    of somebody like Taylor Swift I don't
  • 00:23:50
    really follow her but uh anybody that
  • 00:23:54
    gets on a stage in front of a huge
  • 00:23:55
    audience the 10 minutes beforehand the
  • 00:23:57
    20 minutes warand it gets the adrenaline
  • 00:24:00
    begins to build and even if as a sid man
  • 00:24:02
    when I used to tour in the 80s the the
  • 00:24:04
    adrenaline and nerves would build in the
  • 00:24:07
    minutes before you get on stage then you
  • 00:24:08
    get on stage and you're feeling it uh
  • 00:24:11
    but preparation is the key you know um
  • 00:24:15
    I've told this story before I'll be very
  • 00:24:17
    quick with it I did Glen Campbell's last
  • 00:24:20
    performance at the Grammys and uh there
  • 00:24:22
    was a Jerry Reed lick uh that I had to
  • 00:24:26
    play that was quite demanding and and
  • 00:24:29
    they when I got there I saw that they
  • 00:24:31
    were going to put the camera the red
  • 00:24:32
    light on the camera the close cam the
  • 00:24:34
    guy walking around the stage was going
  • 00:24:35
    to go straight to my hand for that lick
  • 00:24:40
    and it was lucky for me that I had
  • 00:24:43
    practiced it I kid you not 200 times in
  • 00:24:47
    anticipation because it was kind of a
  • 00:24:49
    featured little spot and I just kept
  • 00:24:52
    drilling it for like three weeks before
  • 00:24:55
    uh uh probably four weeks before the
  • 00:24:57
    actual Grammy uh event and I played it
  • 00:25:00
    perfectly and I mean I didn't I don't
  • 00:25:04
    take responsibility for playing it
  • 00:25:05
    perfectly but that just gives you an
  • 00:25:07
    idea with the camera on and you know
  • 00:25:10
    Paul McCartney was sitting in the
  • 00:25:11
    audience during rehearsal it was one of
  • 00:25:13
    those things where maximum uh exposure
  • 00:25:19
    to a mistake you don't want to make so
  • 00:25:23
    uh preparation preparation and and what
  • 00:25:26
    happens I'm sure a lot of you know this
  • 00:25:28
    but but the first three songs you might
  • 00:25:29
    be nervous and then it goes away so you
  • 00:25:32
    just got to be patient and uh and wait
  • 00:25:35
    for it to subside some gigs you're
  • 00:25:38
    nervous the whole time um I did a gig at
  • 00:25:42
    the experience festival at parl Reed
  • 00:25:44
    Smiths and he put me on at the end and
  • 00:25:46
    the problem with that I'll never let him
  • 00:25:48
    do that again the problem with that is I
  • 00:25:50
    had to listen to every great guitar
  • 00:25:51
    player who had been invited all night
  • 00:25:53
    just
  • 00:25:55
    shred before I got up on stage and when
  • 00:25:57
    I got up on St stage to do my simple uh
  • 00:26:00
    style of playing I was so nervous I
  • 00:26:05
    don't know how I even
  • 00:26:06
    played but I looked back at the the film
  • 00:26:09
    of it and it was fine but it wasn't
  • 00:26:13
    comfortable one minute of the time I was
  • 00:26:16
    up there I think I did three songs two
  • 00:26:18
    songs because everybody did just you
  • 00:26:20
    know short
  • 00:26:21
    segments I it was not I never got to the
  • 00:26:27
    place of comfort when I was up there it
  • 00:26:29
    was uh the most nervous I think I've
  • 00:26:31
    ever been and I looked back at the video
  • 00:26:33
    it was like oh that's that's okay it
  • 00:26:37
    worked it was fine
  • 00:26:40
    yeah one more little
  • 00:26:46
    [Music]
  • 00:26:55
    playthrough over to a minor
  • 00:27:00
    first position is always
  • 00:27:03
    [Music]
  • 00:27:04
    good you know Stevie rayon excelled
  • 00:27:14
    [Music]
  • 00:27:16
    there I've always done a lot of that a
  • 00:27:20
    lot of muting and thumping all the
  • 00:27:22
    strings when I play one
  • 00:27:25
    node be careful though you can overuse
  • 00:27:27
    that I actually have rained it back in I
  • 00:27:30
    I used to use it too
  • 00:27:31
    [Music]
  • 00:27:36
    much there's that one string action you
  • 00:27:39
    stay on one string and you're
  • 00:27:41
    automatically playing a Melody it's a
  • 00:27:42
    great
  • 00:27:44
    [Music]
  • 00:27:46
    [Applause]
  • 00:27:49
    [Music]
  • 00:27:52
    trick I had somebody ask me at
  • 00:27:54
    yesterday's Master Class about playing
  • 00:27:55
    outside just
  • 00:27:58
    go up a half step and then make sure you
  • 00:28:00
    land back in
  • 00:28:01
    [Music]
  • 00:28:06
    key and it works a lot a lot better with
  • 00:28:08
    like a very simple song with these
  • 00:28:10
    sophisticated chords going outside not
  • 00:28:13
    quite
  • 00:28:14
    as uh satisfying unless you're alen
  • 00:28:17
    Holdsworth or you know somebody who
  • 00:28:20
    plays so fast if you play at lightning
  • 00:28:22
    fast speed you can completely leave the
  • 00:28:28
    the key Center and as long as you land
  • 00:28:31
    back on the key Center can actually
  • 00:28:33
    pretty cool but that's that's not me
  • 00:28:35
    that's alen holsworth and that's a lot
  • 00:28:36
    of the kids who are you know playing at
  • 00:28:41
    uh ferocious speed okay guys thanks so
  • 00:28:45
    much we will see you on the next one and
  • 00:28:49
    uh stay uh stay happy this weekend stay
  • 00:28:54
    warm and stay safe and uh
  • 00:28:58
    thanks so much all right guys I'll play
  • 00:29:00
    out and we'll see you on the next one
  • 00:29:03
    [Music]
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