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@Questtangy

11 ай бұрын

Bro hearted his own comment 💀

@guitarandotherthings6090

Ай бұрын

I cant take a guitarist seriously who thinks a Telecaster Ultra sounds good.

"they're just playing shapes they've already memorized" well excuse me and my beloved pentatonic scales 😤

@jarnovanderzee2469

Жыл бұрын

Nothing wrong with pentatonic, just dont play it up and down but experiment by skipping and repeating notes (Maybe youre already doing that but im just saying it in case your not)

@oliverj.8266

Жыл бұрын

@@jarnovanderzee2469 i agree 100%. I've only been playing for circa 3 months (learned pentatonics fast, to give myself small victories haha), but its easy to digest the fact it isn't very impressive to just slay them. So as you say, i try to skip notes and repeat others - i also try to hammer on a note a few times, before i bend it. Just to spice it up a little. Should you have any suggestions or tips for someone like me, feel free to drop 'em down below 😂

@jarnovanderzee2469

Жыл бұрын

@@oliverj.8266 Sounds like good progress honestly, it just takes some time before it feels natural.

@McWizard420

Жыл бұрын

@@oliverj.8266sounds like awesome progress bro!! I’ve been playin for circa year and a half, and I learned pentatonic scale probably before anything, and I really feel it has helped me progress tremendously, call me Kirk Wahmett cause I love that pentatonic scale

@bryanespinoza7171

11 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂

Tim Henson once said: "A good guitar solo is a guitar solo that you can sing"

@kovacskolos8477

Жыл бұрын

Ironic lol

@Childofbhaal

Жыл бұрын

Honestly you can kind of sing almost any solo there is

@MasonUrBuddy

Жыл бұрын

Ace Frehley says that too :)

@youztuber5000

Жыл бұрын

Don't think Tim Henson came up with that idea 🙄

@cotopaximusic

Жыл бұрын

People were saying that way before Tim came around making arcade machine noises

“Play shapes that they’ve already memorized” man’s describing me right there

Brandon, so glad you speaked on Mayer. As a mayer fan and someone who keeps up with you, this was surprising. More Mayer content please.

John Mayer is a genius, the way he finds the notes and uses them In the right place is truly impressive

Not just playing lines a singer would sing but you can literally play the melody of the song. Adding extra notes and embellishments each time you do it through so by the end of the solo there’s hits on the melody but still has the epic solo vibe

@TheLuke...

4 ай бұрын

No, guitar is an instrument, and though sounds probably closer to vocals than other instruments, still has things that sound good and don’t sound good, just like how if the sweet child o mine riff was on a piano, it wouldn’t sound that good.

@gunnarmarks5754

4 ай бұрын

@@TheLuke... a melody is a string of notes, it doesn’t exists to only (or to not be) played on certain instruments. The vocal melody in modern commercial music is the typically the most identifiable part of a song. If you play the vocal hook during your guitar solo, you are playing something that the audience has in their ear. Any ballad this works amazingly with

Amazing

The dead and company Althea playing in the sands version is a great example of John’s soling

That performance in the background at the beginning is one of my faves, John and Keith Urban are brilliant

These are good advices

Great video, useful and stuff

A singer wouldn’t belt out everything out the gate….. insert Bowser’s classic Peaches here

@talentedbat7323

11 ай бұрын

he doesnt?

@TheLuke...

4 ай бұрын

Also, sure u can slowly build up, or you can shock the listener which is also cool

Great short. Def something I have caught onto over my years of playing and trying to get better at lead.

“A singer won’t suddenly scream when the song starts” idk man slipknot kinda do

@ronjhayespeleta4164

7 ай бұрын

he said "typically"

Whoa.When you showed Mayer playing the lick, then singing it, that was a aha!, moment for me. Thank you.

Me, I'm sending this to myself

So the guitar was needed for this video

There you are! I forgot to subscribe when I discovered you ages ago, but yay the algorithm has reunited us lol

One of the things that made Jerry Garcia so great was his vocabulary was so large that he could shoot out of a rocket even before the first bar of the solo and sustain that energy through the whole solo without repeating himself and still maintaining the melody

I don’t have the patience to sit through a John Mayer solo

@albertwilson5028

6 ай бұрын

Well clearly u dumb

Good 👍

For me personally playing a guitar is like having a conversation. Reminds me of the element of playing called call and response.

Whenever I write a guitar solo, I like to write it out as sheet music first. And yea "ohh what da hell why are you using sheet music just use MIDI" well using sheet music means that if you do put a note out of key that it has to be intentional, and it lets you see the relationships between notes better which leads to better writing in my opinion. Anyway the point is that by writing out the solo long before ever playing it or noodling over the solo section, you completely break away from all limitations you have as a player, be it your memorized shapes, your comfort zone, etc. it means you can write something you cannot play yet, or it means you can write something so easy to play yet so catchy that you never would've played that by writing on your guitar.

Dude jams like a gangster.

Check out guthrie Govan please.

aboot aboot aboot aboot

Yea but what if I wanna play a line in my head but I don't know which notes to play on the spot? 😭😭

@asuryan

Жыл бұрын

Ear training

Totally. You gotta think of the guitar as a voice or group of voices

It’s kinda funny how I hated this dude when I first saw his videos years ago but now he’s one of my favorite teachers on the internet lol

What a hot take

Ya know buddy, that’s not good advice. That’s fucking great advice! Thank you.

Am moving up holy Sh*t

Learned from the great B.B. King

Sure okay ,,B.B .King lifts

Why did i just see this now,-,

I want one of your guitar but signed

CHEERS BVRO CHEERS CHEERS

I would rush out of the gate and play a fast, dissonant lick to grab the audience’s attention then play a blusey, home base nice resolution lick, because I am not a singer I am a guitarist…however, John Mayer’s approach to improvisation and soloing is a very valid and great place to start to learn how to solo..

this is good advice becos leads are leads, thats why its good to have your guitar sound like a singer especially during the solo, a good example is Hysteria, the solo almost sounds like the chorus vocals,

Bro why’s this guy always so mad

@goosetoo1997

6 ай бұрын

its intentional, i think its funny

Yo Brandon Boss. Do a video about Frusciante solos!!!

look up john mayer crayola box quote

John Mayer is the truth 🙌

lol, a boat 😂

I think like that but my technical ability cant keep up yet😢😢

make your own.

Ngl as a bass player I don’t love guitar. But that guitar is beautiful.

Meanwhile deathcore singers take everything out as soon as the song starts

shoutout to theo katzman, who consistently sings what he solos when he plays live

What are rests?

Jazz guitar players like George Benson do that, singing the lines then playing or while playing them. Jazz singers sing lines and it amazes me because they're are more than just a singer. With their voice they are a true musician.

Nice Ultra Tele

If you can sing something you can play it even better

This makes me think of Zakks solo in “I Dont Wanna Stop” its sort of the opposite to this mentality. Starts and finishes at 100, starts and ends pretty high.. as opposed to something like “No More Tears” which is just great in every way

Singing and playing after. Sounds like my man mark knopfler

i’m a john mayer fan so do i send this to myself?

Ppl think be bas bedhead hes actually a super Saiyan he does the transformation before every video it makes his playing 10x better

You hear that polyphia

Well, it's about realizing that melodical instrumental lines are similiar to vocal lines

Mayer the goat

Musicians under promise and over deliver, it’s how you keep people coming back for more. If you start with your lost impressive stuff what’s stopping people from leaving once you’ve run out?

@TakeHit0

Жыл бұрын

"Why don't we start up here, go down there and go up even higher over there." -Kirk hammet

Alternative title, but still yelled at the camera: “HOW ANY MUSICIAN WORTH THEIR SALT THINKS ABOUT A NORMAL SOLO WHERE THEY ARENT TRYING TO SPECIFICALLY DO FACE MELTERS”

i diagree

How about Send a John Mayer to video fan instead?

How to play like John petrucci

No

Why does bruh own a Tele-Strat. 💀

Yeah never "play shapes" that will make you listen to shapes, "play SOUNDS" and listen to the sound coming out of the speaker.

Canadian ey?

“Send this to a John Mayer fan” So nobody is getting sent this.

@victoriapearce6006

Жыл бұрын

Incorrect

@azzystillborne9125

Жыл бұрын

@@victoriapearce6006 incorrect 🤓

@jecht3

5 ай бұрын

Wish I could see the dislikes on this comment 😅😂

Steve Perry. Oh Sherri. GOAT. This means all singers should come in hot. John Mayer is wrong!

So... play up the neck, up the scale, build to a crescendo , then play back down. Sounds like standard music.

Dude... Jerry brah... same shit 50 years earlier...

Hey man, phish?

Yeah John is lovely, and always will be nr1 in my heart but the authority musically on guitar playing solos would be mr Derek Trucks. John has soul and theoretically gets it, but Trucks just transcends the boundaries John Mayer and many other guitarists are bound by😮

I'm sure through pop osmosis and store soundtracks I've listened to some Mayer but all I remember is a line about fathers being good to daughters and absolutely nothing from his guitar work. I don't consider any of his quitar work memorable

First

I'm a john mayer fan

You should check out Rory Gallagher shadow play live I think it’s in German not sure you’ll know when you know

Because I’m not a singer 😎

Ppl think be bas bedhead hes actually a super Saiyan he does the transformation before every video it makes his playing 10x better