If you needed to introduce Mayer to your guitar teacher, you need a new teacher.

@RSpracticalshooting

7 ай бұрын

my thought exactly.

@krazykristian98

7 ай бұрын

i know right 😂

@lashashapira3406

4 ай бұрын

@@krazykristian98

@srv2217

18 күн бұрын

Right??

@petron495

7 күн бұрын

😂😂😂

David Ryan Harris said: "I'm a singer who plays guitar, John (Mayer) is a GUITAR PLAYER who sings." Nailed it in my opinion.

Hello Jack Jennings here from the video. As I said in the first minute of the video I do know who John Mayer is😂. I have even taught some of his songs to students but I have not fully explored or examined his playing. So we thought it would be good for Sam to guide me to one of his favourite performances by John. If you didn't pick up on that and you're simply here to comment and complain about the title of the video...... well, that's KZread for you. Thank you all for watching and boosting the video anyway with your hilarious comments 😊.

I introduced my gardener to plants

He is hands down the greatest guitar player alive. I don't care what anyone says. From his tone, his use of timing, technique, and note utilization.. His blues stuff is amazing, Dead and Company really elevated his guitar playing ability as well.

@andyj845

8 ай бұрын

Hands down the greatest guitar player alive? That's a bold statement. He's an incredible player, but he's not Derek Trucks. In reality, it's very subjective. In terms of technical skill, he's nowhere close to guys like Mancuso, Govan, Vai, or Gilbert. Not really into that kind of playing, but even if you exclude the technical players, there's quite a few guys who could battle for that title. It's all what you like. Based on tone, timing, technique, and note utilization...I like Trucks more in every category.

@anthonyflores3137

8 ай бұрын

@@andyj845 A slide guitarist? Not even remotely close to JM.

@sheldonfields732

8 ай бұрын

Julian Lage is the best alive hands down. As much as I enjoy John Mayer, he’s not even close

@AstroSully

8 ай бұрын

Arguing about subjective things 🤣

@shitlaryclinton9775

8 ай бұрын

Idk man. Have you heard Machine Gun Kelly play?

John Mayer is at that level of skill where you’re just a conduit between your physical skill and the abstract form of music itself.

@samwestguitar

8 ай бұрын

Absolutely! Thank you so much for watching!

his live at the nokia where the light is album is his masterpiece. sure slow dancing and gravity, but also belief, bold as love, the acoustic songs in the first part, its soo good

@samwestguitar

8 ай бұрын

Yes yes and yes! Thanks for watching!

I would really love to see both of you react to his "Covered in Rain" live in Birmingham. My favorite solo of all time, absolutely epic and powerful.

@77bovi

8 ай бұрын

❤

John plays guitar in pure flow state.

how could a guitar teacher not know John Mayer

@GMS8201

3 ай бұрын

Exactly

Loved this reaction! Would love to see your teacher react to "I'm Gonna Find Another You" from WTLI - his phrasing in the intro solo is ridiculous

@samwestguitar

8 ай бұрын

I absolutely agree! I’ll stick it in the list of contenders! Thanks so much for watching! 😁

Awesome reaction! I'd love to see more of these!

The pauses between the solo phrases are the most important thing in this rendition. Channeling some Freddie King vibes.

Being a vocalist helps his phrasing and musical choices when soloing. Puts musicality ahead of technique. He could sing most of his guitar licks and phrases and they would sound great.

@pawelzabicki7785

3 ай бұрын

He is phrasing in his singing the same way as he is playing guitar.

Loved the video and Jack's reaction! Excited to see more of this series☺️

@samwestguitar

8 ай бұрын

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed! :)

Nice work, good to see the legendary guitarist that is Mr Jennings getting involved 😎

Thanks for sharing this reaction. JM is just amazing!

@samwestguitar

8 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching ! He absolutely is! 😁

I really enjoyed his talk analyzing johns playing. Can’t wait for more.

@samwestguitar

8 ай бұрын

Yeah absolutely! Jacks an incredibly knowledgeable chap, and his guitar playing is out of this world! Thanks for watching!

There is a fluency and complete literacy in playing like this.

@samwestguitar

2 ай бұрын

Absolutely, thanks for watching !

This is my all time favorite video of him. The way John can take on other songs and artists is amazing.

@samwestguitar

8 ай бұрын

Couldn’t agree more! Thanks for watching !

Loved this reaction! John Mayer is such an inspiration... I just read that comment and i agree too, do Out of my mind WTLI and Wait until tomorrow next please!!

@samwestguitar

8 ай бұрын

Ahh yes, both excellent suggestions! Thanks so much for watching, really appreciate it! 😁

Yeah..John was inspired by B.B King..he said that in interviews

Lovely! I also show this to a lot of people to demonstrate his guitar mastery. The use of phrasing and timing, the drop offs and bend hikes, the rake, the screaming his double bend, the tap harmonics, the quick shredding into the “I know” breakdown, transitioning that back into the main riff. As you said, “understated” greatness. This is a guitar solo master class. My favourite solo of his is from “wheel”, an under the radar track. His live version is awesome, check it out.

@GeordLord7

8 ай бұрын

This version kzread.info/dash/bejne/dGuClqR_mZTTpaQ.htmlsi=uL8qzDjYmF_1lw0r

@samwestguitar

8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for watching, I agree with everything you’ve said! He’s a class act! And I’ll have to check that out, didn’t think I’ve heard it! 😊

I didn't see that coming! Check the work of jack on classical Indian music on guitar, just amazing !!

This is my second fav performance of John's, the other being Covered In Rain from a super old live album. He's so good at leaving meaningful spaces between the phrases of his solos, and at getting a killer tone and feel from the guitar thats right on the edge of precision and dirty. This performance in perticular he gets so many amazing tones from that 335, which he almost never plays live. It's almost always a strat of some kind

My school highlight was performing a cover of this song at the Bath jazz is festival. Attempting to convey a glimmer of the performance that JM (& crew) managed to pull off was a feat in itself. Was also the reason I bought a cheap 335 copy. Great video! Great JM performance choice 👍

@samwestguitar

8 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching man! I bet it was the highlight of everyone else’s school days too if you managed to capture even a glimmer of the original performance(which I’m certain you did) ;) ❤

@Andy-rp5up

8 ай бұрын

please upload video would love to watch

Pino in the background on bass... Nice👍

Brother! Eager so see more of you! How did John Mayer get this good? I want to stay on stage and bring da fun too to myself and the crowd!

@samwestguitar

8 ай бұрын

Lots and lots and lots and lots of practice along with a god given gift I guess😆 Thanks for watching man!

"like if BB King went to berklee" might be the most apt description of john mayer's playing i have ever heard

@samwestguitar

6 ай бұрын

😆😆 Thanks for watching man!

Show him the live version of Neon. Most guitar players I know really respect that performance.

City love, crossroads live 2004 is another one worth reacting too

Having Pino on stage with him is JMs biggest flex

Great video mate!

@samwestguitar

8 ай бұрын

Thanks man!

A perfect example of playing the guitar with your whole body.

I think your trying to say, Not play less, let it breath

If you introduced your guitar teacher to John Mayer, you need to change your guitar teacher. That's it.

MAN WE NEED AN OUT OF MY MIND WTLI REACTION!!!

@samwestguitar

8 ай бұрын

Yes yes yes, a million times yes! Thanks for watching! 😀

@ultimateuygur4419

8 ай бұрын

Dude I hardly ever hear people, even John Mayer fans, bring this song up… I mean it’s phenomenal, isn’t it?

@maxzapom

8 ай бұрын

@@ultimateuygur4419 I still find it insane how he manhandles the guitar in the video

@maxzapom

8 ай бұрын

eagerly waiting!@@samwestguitar

In this performance john mayer played more into the albert king realm and it was just few prhases he played like bb king but it was more into albert king.. you ought to check john's live performance of ain't no sunshine from Red Rocks, Colorado, 9/1/2010 and then check your teacher's reaction, believe me it was john mayer's best take on ain't no sunshine, He delivered an unprecedented solo....

really enjoyed the vid

@samwestguitar

8 ай бұрын

Glad to hear that, Thank you for watching! 😃

Nice video Sam!

@samwestguitar

8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

Time to get a new teacher. 😅

He makes music of substance accessible

@samwestguitar

2 ай бұрын

Absolutely, he’s certainly introduced blues to the younger generations! Thanks for watching !

You should let him see John Mayer in colloberation with Keith Urban.

Doesn't suck that you have Pino holding down the groove.

STV is his idol need I say anymore ❤❤❤

Will there be more vids of these reactions?

He makes it like a small Club.

Yeah he had a conversation with Steve Jordan. And he told him something like “why play 20 notes, when you only need the 3 right notes”. And to me that’s when he really started playing less when it was called for.

Check out the live version of wild blue. Has a great solo

@bed7610

7 ай бұрын

Or his cover of like a rolling stone

@samwestguitar

7 ай бұрын

I’ve seen neither so I’ll definitely have to check them out, thanks so much for watching!

John Mayers best guitar playing are the times he is playing live with Dead and Co. Especially this past ‘23 Summer Tour. Dude is in an absolute league of his own.

@samwestguitar

5 ай бұрын

I need to check out more of his stuff with them! Thanks for watching!

Yeah John mayer was also a big fan of BB King

IMO John Mayer is the best possible ambassador you could have to carry blues music through the 21st century. That dude is extremely well respected by B.B., Buddy, and Slowhand.

Red flag, if you’re guitar teacher doesn’t know who John Mayer is.

You can pull up many videos of John doing this song, and the solos are always different. But one thing holds true... 9 months later, there is a guitar born that looks like John Mayer

@samwestguitar

8 ай бұрын

😂

David Bromberg does that thumb over the top thing

How the fuck does a guitar player need to be introduced to John Mayer?

I hope you try on sob rock tour on new version of belief

This is like showing your math professor Albert Einstein for the first time lol

Next, show John Mayer, actually playing with B.B. King!

Jeff Beck and John Mayer! Amazing! hahahah BB KING went to Berkley for a Bit° Maybe John went to the Crossroads.... to make a Deal^^

@samwestguitar

8 ай бұрын

If he sold his soul then how are his solos so goddamn soulful😆 Thanks for watching, Jeff beck vid will be out in a couple of days !

@darioscomicschool1111

8 ай бұрын

@@samwestguitar i think he keept his soul and just worked really really hard on it....all those years as a square.... He made em count

Guitar teacher: doesn’t know John Mayer…

@mlm5150

8 ай бұрын

Did you not watch the video? he clearly says he knows who he is, and even thought some of his songs. He just never really checked out his music much

Should have shown him Neon.!!!

I look at Mayer's youtube channel a lot just to see what there is, and he is "ALWAYS" playing he will chat with people online and then suddenly stop and just get lost in some lick he is messing around with and then go back to chatting.......... That probably has something to do with why he is so good....

He shouldn’t be a guitar teacher if he hasn’t gotten into Mayer

I hear Jimmy Henfrix blues album influence

more Albert king / srv than BB id say in this clip!

I don’t know him but I’ve had to teach my students neon???

John Mayer loves Albert King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Doyle Bramhall II, Jimi Hendrix and tons of other players, what you're hearing when he pulls those double note bends, is Albert King. Hell, most of John's blues playing is Albert King.

Erkenne Blew the This Teacher, don’t know about John Mayer Butter you Go Home boy

Does he know SRV or Hendrix?

i'm sure your guitar teacher never heard of that nobody "mayer" guy...lol

If your guitar teacher has never heard of the name John Mayer, you maybe should get a new teacher.

Good idea for a video but should’ve showed him neon instead of a cover

@evemaphone

7 ай бұрын

He literally said he has taught many students how to play Neon though

Another Guitar player that is very underrated is Keith Urban he's not just a singer his playing is non to Shabby ,kzread.info/dash/bejne/gJqq07ixn62vkag.html

@samwestguitar

21 күн бұрын

Absolutely! John and Keith’s cover of don’t let me down at crossroads is awesome! Thanks for watching! ☺️

Watch pink pop gravity. Guitar God status

I would say Alex Turner is the only guitar/singer that is crazier than john

Come on a guitar teacher not knowing John Mayer? He must teach classical or somethjng

@samwestguitar

8 ай бұрын

Indian classical guitar actually😆

Your guitar teacher doesn’t know who John Mayer is? 😂

@evemaphone

7 ай бұрын

He said in the first minute that he is very familiar with some of his songs but just hadn’t done a deep dive…

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musically john is the greatest guitar player alive. i know there are greats out there but john's song writing skills and ability to convey so much emotion is crazy, but no matter what i say john is clearly hated

@celinegarcia4158

8 ай бұрын

Envy.

Your guitar teacher …. Doesn’t know Mayer …. It’s been 25 years since John made waves. He has the number one selling guitar on earth. The number one selling used guitar, the greatest guitar album of the last 40 years , I would not take lessons from someone who not only doesn’t know Mayer. But doesn’t worship Mayer.

I'm not a native speaker but shouldn't the title be: "I introduced John Mayer to my guitar teacher" ?

He's the epitome of "white". And I'm a white guy.

A guitar teacher who dont know John Mayer 🤔

If you have to introduce your guitar teacher to John Mayer then you need a new teacher. To be that ignorant of one of the greatest guitarists ever is crazy.

JM is a complete artist, others are your everyday guitar player, except vai who is also an artist himself..... the difference you ask , every tom dick and Harry can play a riff, shred , this that and the other...... but very few can compose something that breaks the boundary of genre, age group and gender, and mature like fine wine...... if you don't agree , you are a below average non musician, who can't tell a note from a beat

I dont believe a guitar teacher doesnt know john Mayer lol hes one of most acclaimed guitarist of our time and been on the scene for almost 20 years. Extremely unlikely.

@samwestguitar

8 ай бұрын

Lol yeah, very true. He’s obviously aware of John Mayer but hasn’t explored much of his music as he said in the introduction! (He actually specialises in Indian classical guitar!) but I thought “Showing my guitar teacher who doesn’t really know John Mayer very well but knows him a little a John Mayer song” wouldn’t be quite as effective as a title haha! Anyway, thanks for watching mate!

@choomanji

8 ай бұрын

@@samwestguitar very cool mate, thanks for the clarification & good video

I get that he popularised the guitar in times when the guitar seemed to be forgotten, and therefore we feel to read into his playing things that are simply not there, but there is nothing there. He is a very average guitar player, which just happens to be popular. What he is doing is realistically simple, and stuff that wouldn’t even be level 1 for an average jazz player. I get that people like him and his playing, but this is just pop, and therefore inherently average. Just my two cents.

A advise, stop saying "ahm", just make a pause. Edit: in the first 40 seconds, before your teacher answered, you said it 9 times. It's disorienting and shows your anxiety / uncertainty about the topic you about to speak. Especially in pre recorded videos.

Really ? A teacher who doesnt know John Mayer? Where did he live that last 15 years? Under a stone or what does he listen to only Jazz ?

Why is he even a guitar teacher if he doesn't know who John Mayer is?

How is this dude a guitar teacher and doesn't know or heard of John Mayer in 2023? LOL

@jooohan

8 ай бұрын

He’s heard of a Mayer, never took the deep dive. Says this himself at the start of the video. Mayer is a bit of an odd duck and not all people get in through his poppy stuff right to the core (even if they do, might not like the flavour).

How is he teaching guitar and he doesn't know who John Mayer is?😢

Lol. And this is the vid you wanna introduce John Mayer? I hope this is a joke coz you'll have to throw him back to when he played Neon a decade ago in a small bar with an acoustic guitar. Not to mention the live arrangement of Covered In Rain. Dude find a new teacher.

How are you a guitar teacher and you dont actually know or listen Mayer

Pretty good, but Steve Rayvon was still the king of electric blues I don’t care what anyone says

@samwestguitar

3 ай бұрын

Hard to argue with that! Thanks for watching !

Both of yall corny for this video. There is no guitar teacher- well there is no real guitar teacher who doesn't know about John Mayer. In fact I wouldnt even learn from a teacher who doesnt know about John Mayer.. but i get it.. you gotta put the controversial title to get the views and likes. Now because i actually listen to john mayer and have been since 2009, this video has been in my recommended and i had been avoiding it cuz it just seems very unreal that a GUITAR teacher has been playing long enough and well enough to become a teacher but claims to have never heard of john mayer... bro i love the internet but i hate it just as much because instead of being real and honest people would rather do anything for likes and comments... you couldve just reacted to the video with the teacher and called it a day but instead you rather do it this way lol... aye folks in conclusion get a teacher whos heard of one of the greatest guitar players to grab a guitar before learning to play guitar lol.

@thechewydinosaur

8 ай бұрын

he didn’t say he had never heard of john mayer. the teacher literally said in the video that he had heard many clips of john’s playing and has even taught some of his students neon when they requested it.

This isn't even a good John Mayer performance....

Mayer is average

There’s no “guitar teacher” that shouldn’t at the bare minimum know who John Mayer is. If mine didn’t, I’m out of there.

@samwestguitar

8 ай бұрын

Check out Jacks channel and listen to him play, can’t imagine a better person to teach guitar. Thanks for watching.

@jaredknuckles

8 ай бұрын

That’s what I’m saying. Just lying for clicks.