my covid guitar teacher is back! how I missed these sessions! I like you have improved your video editing/animation skills too! in the meantime I improved my guitar skills too, but always remembered your sessions working on my guitar skills, it helped a lot since then all the time, thanks so much! first time I saw your videos were very complex and lot of information to process, since then it made so much sense, now this video was very clear and not really new anymore to me, because what foundations you gave couple of years back and its consolidation and practice over time it made it easy to follow along!

@RichardsGuitarshop

3 ай бұрын

That is totally wonderful to hear! Your experience epitomises what I always used to try and achieve as a teacher many years ago. I had a belief that after 10 lesssons a pupil should never NEED to come back - hopefully they may CHOOSE to but not need - there is a big difference ! You understand this now - that’s amazing!!!! You’ve made my day :)

If you like the video - please like it!

Thank you for taking the time and trouble to load this wonderful video. It's so great to go down the rabbit hole to Richards wonderland of happy guitar playing!! One day I hope the technical content will crystalise and become clearer to my addled brain.

@RichardsGuitarshop

3 ай бұрын

If you don’t think you understood - please join me tomorrow at 7pm and I can answer your questions

Solid lesson and information, an exercise that works well to build on this is to play through the major scale adding each coresponding third to each degree (MmmMMmm) then progress to fully harmonising by adding the fifths (flat 5th for the 7th degree) but changing the sequence to Root fifth third. Takes a little while to learn it up and down across 2 octaves but it helps build dexterity in your fingers, you identify triad shapes and it's so good for ear training.

Great lesson Rich, very clearly explained.

Very cool Rich, like all your videos, ties the tech stuff into something visual and encourages us to use our ears. 👍

Great stuff helped a lot.

This is great Richard! Thanks very much

This was great, thanks. Will have to rewatch and play along to have it sink in properly.

@RichardsGuitarshop

3 ай бұрын

Thats awesome! So glad. The way to get the most of it is NOT to think of the video in isolation but to think about it every time you play a chord or want to play a solo or play a scale etc. Noticing these "shapes" or relationships as shown will really make it easier and easier for you to develop your own understanding of everything - Like I say its a building block for whatever monument you are building (ok - so I didnt use that analogy but hey ho!)

Confession, I mainly watched because I love the Bona Vida, then I learnt a couple of things i thought I already knew, then I laughed quite a lot during the trippy interlude 🖖

@RichardsGuitarshop

3 ай бұрын

Sounds like you had a great time then❤!! Do remember that actually understanding what I’m saying isn’t necessarily the end game - it’s how to then apply it to everything you already know - like seeing relationships between chords and scales - relationships between the notes of chords you are playing within the same chord so you can flavour the chords or improvise around them - it’s relatively simple if you know the theory so the real beauty is in the application which is why it would have been so nice to have mark here to show you within his jazz repertoire. I’ll do my best through to to attempt to help through my videos. I’ll be doing some follow up videos based around this exact principle so people who understand it like you do can see some practical uses - basically it should just pop into your mind every time you play. Thanks so much for watching and supporting the channel!!! ❤

Ok as I said I'll give it a watch, I don't want to lie, you may as well have been speaking Cantonese! Didn't understand any of it or actual applications of it. But I'll give it a like nonethless! I'm sure plenty of people will find value in the lessons 👍

@RichardsGuitarshop

3 ай бұрын

😂. Ok so first thing. If you didn’t understand a word of it - you won’t find any application for it. My style of teaching was always (always) about helping people understand what they play - not giving them short cuts to immediate dopamine! That may sound boring but hand on heart - finding an interest in why stuff sounds cool is the most rewarding experience you can ever imagine and dopamine levels through the roof! What you see in the video are the core of guitar playing and opens every door to every musical expression. Let me put it this way. When I used to teach guitar I ended up with a 10 lesson promise: this promise was that after 10 lessons the pupil (let’s call them) would never NEED to return. They may want to - develop techniques etc but they would never NEED to. Why? After 10 lessons they know everything that they could possibly need to play chords, improvise - understand the fretboard but more importantly have the understanding to teach themselves whatever they needed moving forward. I could have spent 10 lessons teaching them the intro to the latest oasis tracks - but that’s why nobody has a clue what they are playing. They get the instant fix - once your addicted it’s hard to take the medicine that will help you 😊. With all that said - the instant fix is awesome and many people spend their entire life having no clue of why what they play sounds cool - many many ways to enjoy expression and it’s not right or wrong to learn or enjoy guitar in whatever way you personally enjoy. If you fancy spending some time on this - you may learn to enjoy it - you may not. 😊.

@paulmackintosh9964

Ай бұрын

@@RichardsGuitarshop a GREAT reply RICHARD and one that I completely agree with😎👍 Your comment ‘Its not right or wrong to learn or enjoy’ is absolute on the button. Keep them coming, you’re an inspiration to so many budding guitarists (whatever level including myself with neck end of 60 years playing and STILL learning). Playing/singing amongst a group of friends is the best medicine and being able to play a guitar gives that in spades.(no matter what level) and gives the person playing so much confidence and motivation to be better.

Dear Richard, please please, play us some different Dowina guitar models to hear differences of their beautiful guitars and have an idea what sort of Dowina model we would like and prefer to buy from your store. Why would someone want to find the minor 7 chord if they don't know what a minor 7 chord is....?

@RichardsGuitarshop

3 ай бұрын

Hi . Is that your way of telling me you don’t know what a minorn7 is ? I repeatedly state in the video that if you don’t understand anything in the video to watch my introductory video on theory that explains exactly what intervals are. I’m not sure if you actually want to know the answer but the minir 7 is one fret below the 7th note of the major scale

Hi Richard, think I’m getting this and have watched several times, but I missed the live show on the 24th, is there anyway I can catch up with this?

@RichardsGuitarshop

3 ай бұрын

😂thank goodness!!! I couldn’t get the camera to work!! Don’t worry - I’m going to do follow up videos when I am able. I was thinking of doing one to one paid tutoring on video for people who have watched the free videos - I’m not pushing it but it’s a thought more than a promotion lol😅

@Richard, what are those 2 guitars hanging on the wall behind you? Particularly the smaller of the two. Thanks

Fascinating but too fast Richard

@RichardsGuitarshop

3 ай бұрын

Give me an example and I will help you! I will be doing follow up videos on this showing examples of it being used in muscial context - but can only help you if I know where you are stuggling. The idea is - as it says at the beginning of the video. Watch - pause - rewind - replay. If you cannot understand anything I say after a couple or three views - think about what it is you dont understand and tell me - I will help

Great stuff but it’s like learning verbs in a foreign language. Fascinating but useless on their own. My point is how can this be converted into music?

@RichardsGuitarshop

3 ай бұрын

Great question! Thats the bit that you have to work out. Now then.... My reply would depend on what you DID understand - IE What was foreign? So for example. Terminology used in this video is not complex. Concepts like a minor 3rd and major 3rd are and a 5th are as simple as it gets when it comes to understanding what you are playing. So if you dont understand that - and that is alien to you - then I would highly recommend looking at the videos on my channel that I mention in the video. Theory basics one and the chord construction videos. In the mean time..... again - Do what I say in the video - LOOK at what you ALREADY DO. What you already know. Find a chord. Just take a look at it. So lets say you know what an "E shap barre chord" looks like. Oooohhhh. look..... whats the first thing that jumps out? The low E string to the A string. If you look at the notes you are holding down? They are a 5th. Ahhhhhhhh now look.... the distance between the 5th and note below!!!! Thats a 4th! Remember what the video said? A 4th can be root to 4th or 5th to root! If you understand these concepts it means when you play your E shape barre chord you INSTANTLY RECOGNISE the chord tones and where they are in the chord. Why is this important? SO many reasons but let me give you ONE example..... The mode of LYDIAN. Super cool mode. Lydian is basically do ray me far so lah tee doh but the FAR is one semitone higher. Its called a #4 (sharp or raised 4). ALL you need to do to create a lydian type tonality in your improvising is play the note 1 fret below the 5 or 2 frets up from the M3 . Clear as mud? If so - a world will open up if you understand this and my videos prior to this one will help you understand the basic music theory discussed. Hope that helps? I will be available at 7pm tomorrow night if you need me - for 1 hour on KZread Live