I'm Charlie Long, a guitarist and teacher based in the United States. I help advanced beginner and intermediate guitarists develop the tools to make sense of playing solos and improvising.
Hi Charlie, I have started following your videos and getting massively benefited from them, especially the "triad + 1" concept. Over the past few years I have been practicing pentatonics all positions and CAGED arpeggios but always struggling to sound good.. do you provide online face to face lessons?
@rexchristian30672 күн бұрын
Good job on teaching all of class ty young man ❤
@davidbachy56272 күн бұрын
Great stuff here!
@kevinmaher25473 күн бұрын
You're the man Charlie thank you!
@CharlieLongGuitar3 күн бұрын
Thank you!!! 🎸🎶🔥🎶🎸
@earthling-fh2mg3 күн бұрын
Once more, fantastic Charlie. You’re a goldmine. Thank you.
@CharlieLongGuitar3 күн бұрын
So glad you liked it! 🎸🎶🔥🎶🎸
@johnletitia3 күн бұрын
Really good lesson, but I don't have that knowledge of the fret board to follow it completely
@CharlieLongGuitar3 күн бұрын
You’ll get there!!! Thanks for the comment! 🎸🎶🤣🎶🎸
@ray_maestro_3 күн бұрын
Two chord tones plus 1 none chord tone is my favorite. I feel it makes this same argument in a more musical and simple way. Meaning I’d play it in a song. This is practice I wouldn’t play in a song. Show us what you play in a song.
@ThisIsJoeRice3 күн бұрын
When discussing the left hand during the scale exercise( R, 3rd, 5th notes of the Triad) Do you focus on using your middle finger or ring finger to target the 5th?
@kenlelon3693 күн бұрын
Very intriguing perspective, food for thought. Thanks for your videos Charlie.
@CharlieLongGuitar3 күн бұрын
@@kenlelon369 triad stuff next week! Thanks for the support! 🎸🎶🔥
@gtrdoc9114 күн бұрын
Great lesson! This one will stick with me. I’m very shape oriented so I think for me a good way to go is to get into muscle memory where all the 2, 4, 6 and major 7’s notes are around all the CAGED shapes. That way you don’t really memorize individual notes but patterns that are readily moveable.
@CharlieLongGuitar2 күн бұрын
Great way to think about it - and a practical way to play!! 🎸🎶🔥🎶🎸
@samsonjpedroza4 күн бұрын
GOOD STUFF CHARLIE ! MY BANDS THIRD CD RELEASE BACK IN THE DAY WAS TITLED ..."LIBERATION OF DISSONANCE" ... THE GOOD OL DAYS ! LOL
@CharlieLongGuitar4 күн бұрын
@@samsonjpedroza that’s awesome! Thanks for the comment!! 🎸🎶❤️🎶🎸
@Bflat-fu3wb4 күн бұрын
Wow Charlie, I really feel that I'm on a guitar improvement journey with you! For me this lesson really pulls together so many of your previous videos into an level of understanding that I could never quite grasp. The path you have described in your videos from major scale to triads, to 7th arpeggios, to melodic cells and now this lesson is truly like the master plan that has brought clarity and purpose to the individual components of my practice. Once again I really can't thank you enough for sharing your skill and knowledge.
@CharlieLongGuitar4 күн бұрын
@@Bflat-fu3wb that’s so awesome!!! Makes me feel really good to hear that. 🎸🎶🔥🎶🎸
@masterbuilder31664 күн бұрын
Excellent lesson Charlie. Thank you fren 💯
@CharlieLongGuitar4 күн бұрын
@@masterbuilder3166 thanks for the comment and all the best with your playing!!! 🎸🎶🔥🎶🎸
@crashdaddy2614 күн бұрын
I'm glad things worked out for Bill and Mary, but I got some excellent soloing advice out of their ordeal, so that sounds like a win for everybody!
@CharlieLongGuitar4 күн бұрын
@@crashdaddy261 hilarious comment - and I’m glad you liked the lesson!!!
@crashdaddy2614 күн бұрын
@@CharlieLongGuitar Liked it? I LOVED it! I'm doing it right now, and have just discovered I might be the missing Allman brother. 🤘🎸
@Tom-dg1ex4 күн бұрын
Great lesson but this concept is really difficult .😮
@CharlieLongGuitar4 күн бұрын
@@Tom-dg1ex just give it a little time! You’ll crush it!!!
@RobertToto-b1o4 күн бұрын
I love your videos Charlie, not just your teaching skills and guitar expertise but your commentary. You are so right about the fact there are so many KZread videos that make it sound like it is so simple to play some cool trick. Instead you emphasize the importance of understanding the fretboard, relationship between arpeggios and chords, etc. You have to practice the scales to help learn the fretboard but knowing fretboard is not enough. What you teach is so important: Teaching us how to find configurations (arpeggios, chords,etc) all of the neck. Thank you.
@CharlieLongGuitar4 күн бұрын
@@RobertToto-b1o it’s my pleasure!! Thanks for the great comment!!
@PauMang-tc7fb4 күн бұрын
Thank you LONG ❤❤❤❤
@CharlieLongGuitar4 күн бұрын
@@PauMang-tc7fb thank you for the comment!! 🎸🎸🎶🎶
@donkiddick35625 күн бұрын
Great advice, Charlie. Can I ask, at 2.27, you play that run, what type of pedal do I need to get that tone? Apart from your skill, obviously, I get confused whether I should be looking at sustain, overdrive or something else.
@The_chymera5 күн бұрын
Why doesn’t anyone actually do this in half step!?!?!
@Larrymh076 күн бұрын
The eighties may have been an exciting time for Rock guitarists, but it was the Dark Ages for Rock Bass guitar!
@bobbdobb28767 күн бұрын
Right on Thanx Charlie.
@CharlieLongGuitar7 күн бұрын
@@bobbdobb2876 my pleasure!! Thanks for commenting! 🎸🎶🔥🎶🎸
@kenkelly3827 күн бұрын
This lesson really spoke to me. Hope I listen. Thanks for pointing the way Charlie.
@CharlieLongGuitar7 күн бұрын
@@kenkelly382 you’ve got this!!! Thanks for commenting. 🎸🎶🎸🎶🎸
@jonathankreusch93267 күн бұрын
That first example was a GREAT solo!
@CharlieLongGuitar7 күн бұрын
@@jonathankreusch9326 thanks 🙏
@DoctorMcFarlandStudios7 күн бұрын
Nice Carvin :)
@CharlieLongGuitar7 күн бұрын
@@DoctorMcFarlandStudios it’s been a GREAT guitar 🎸 🎸🎸
@Owl-qh2rh7 күн бұрын
Great vid!!! Learning "how to learn" is one of the most important skills in life, in this vid you give us a way of learning for ourselves and we can then make of it what we will.. its lessons like this why i stay subscribed to this channel Charlie! Keep up the good stuff and keep on rockin!!! Love it! Thank you 🙏🕊️
@CharlieLongGuitar7 күн бұрын
@@Owl-qh2rh love this comment! Thank you and best wishes for your playing!!! 🎸🔥🎸🔥🎸
@Owl-qh2rh7 күн бұрын
Thank you Charlie! Really appreciate it 👍🌋🎸💥✨@@CharlieLongGuitar
@marLamaDeo8 күн бұрын
Fantastic lesson as usual. Can I ask for a VERY specific request? Raking into long held notes or big bends is insanely important for emotional and passionate playing but I’m really struggling with it. I can see most people do it with picking hand palm muting but I’m just not getting it!
@CharlieLongGuitar8 күн бұрын
I’ll do a video on phrasing soon…in the meantime try muting the strings you want to rake with your Fretting hand - not the picking hand. 🎸🔥🎸
@marLamaDeo8 күн бұрын
@@CharlieLongGuitar 🙏
@GerryBlue9 күн бұрын
Very useful video, thanks!
@CharlieLongGuitar9 күн бұрын
@@GerryBlue my pleasure! Glad you can use it!!! 🎸🔥🎶🔥🎸
@painter089 күн бұрын
Thanks! Great lesson, getting light bulb shining thru...
@CharlieLongGuitar9 күн бұрын
Thanks so much for the support!!
@trusarmor49579 күн бұрын
amazing ideas here
@CharlieLongGuitar9 күн бұрын
@@trusarmor4957 wow thank you!!!! All the best with your playing! 🎸🔥🎶
@MrCarlos133510 күн бұрын
GOOD JOB, WELL DONE, YOUR LESSON IS A WAKE UP MOMENT,THANK YOU.
@CharlieLongGuitar10 күн бұрын
@@MrCarlos1335 thanks and glad you liked it!!! 🎸🎶🔥🎶🎸
@wagonet10 күн бұрын
GREAT lesson.
@CharlieLongGuitar10 күн бұрын
Thanks so much!! All the best with your playing!! 🎸🔥🎶🔥🎸
@_LoneWoulfe10 күн бұрын
Great lesson Charlie! Thanks. What are your thoughts on call and response?
@CharlieLongGuitar10 күн бұрын
Call and response is a wonderful way to keep solos melodic. Love it!! 🎸🔥🎶🔥🎸
@user-ko4iy1pp9j10 күн бұрын
Thanks Charlie! Great video 💯💯👏👏🎸🎸💙🤍💜❤
@CharlieLongGuitar10 күн бұрын
@@user-ko4iy1pp9j thank you as always!!! 🎸🔥🎶🔥🎸
@kenlelon36910 күн бұрын
Homerun, Charlie. Now you're starting to break through to the other side where there is little available information. This is where the other teachers leave you on your own. I think many of us who are solid intermediates, but not quite advanced fretboard scholars, need guidance here more than ever. The only thing left is to plug in arpeggios and triads, I suppose. (another lesson idea?) You answered Many questions with this one BUT feel free to expand in this area at will!
@CharlieLongGuitar10 күн бұрын
@@kenlelon369 this one is for you! Keep the suggestions coming - very helpful!!! 🎸🔥🙏🔥🎸
@kenlelon36910 күн бұрын
@@CharlieLongGuitar I guess it's right in front of me and I can't see it.
@kenlelon3698 күн бұрын
And I almost forgot to say - Thank You, Sensei
@billwhite970110 күн бұрын
Great Video Thank you
@CharlieLongGuitar10 күн бұрын
@@billwhite9701 thanks for the comment!!! 🎸🔥🎶🔥🎸
@patrickr.582111 күн бұрын
Cool stuff, and well demonstrated. 🙏
@CharlieLongGuitar11 күн бұрын
Thanks for the nice comment! Hope things are going well with your playing! 🎸❤🔥🎶
@wscott-ly4rt11 күн бұрын
Hi Charlie, perhaps folks of "the shut up and play" brigade learn by mimicking, which we all do to some extent, But I would never forego the "aha" moments you regularly give us from applied theory that have broad applications to song writing/playing and musical appreciation. However, some good came from that rude comment- I got to see "Charlie unleashed! " Wow.
@NotBenCoultry11 күн бұрын
I'm realizing I just wrote a field report here like I'm on reconnaissance... Something I just discovered on speed practice that I reeeally wish I knew long ago both for me and for teaching: switch picks. Once the swing width is adjusted it's easier to play fast with a thick pick, so I started working on the Am7 arpeggio with a metronome at 80 and playing 16ths, using a fender medium. Unless you really choke up on that it flexes too much for high speeds. Once I got 4 clean, unhurried up-down repeats I bumped it up a few bpm and repeated the thing. Every time I struggled I came at it with a thicker pick and got it clean, then notched it into more difficulty in steps with progressively thinner picks til I was doing it with the fender medium cleanly again and kept speeding up. You can set your own bpm by only picking 16ths without fretting anything til the speed feels natural, then add the fretting. Over the last two days I took it from my struggle point, which began around 106bpm 16ths all the way up to reliable 128bpm with a stretch to 130 if I use a 1.5 to 2mm pick. Kinda forces you to examine the details of your picking mechanics which is becoming extremely beneficial. Also, achieving high speed in one position doesn't guarantee it elsewhere bc of the changing forearm angle
@NotBenCoultry11 күн бұрын
OH I kept meaning to ask if you've messed with this - a 12457 arpeggio. It's basically a sus2sus4 or maj 9, 11, but it's also all the notes in common between Major, Melodic minor(b3), and Harmonic minor(b3 b6). Makes for some really interesting tonal shifts.
@topherbarrow463111 күн бұрын
I really love your videos. You explain in depth. I've been playing 30 plus years and self taught but can read. It's easy to get lost in theory but when you understand that they are just tools in the box, it comes together. We never stop learning.
@CharlieLongGuitar11 күн бұрын
@@topherbarrow4631 cool comment - thanks 🎸🔥🎶🔥🎸
@jaynawilliams892311 күн бұрын
Learning the scales and always using them is necessary but, after a while makes it so boring you will be desparate to try something else, anything else. Oh no, not again, not the same notes in the same place over and over again. That is why learning scales is so important. It will force you to start developing, trying different things, as you learn to hate the scales, the better you will become. And that is how you improve. At least I did.
@peteperico881411 күн бұрын
Hello again charlie 😇! A very precise tutorial on how playing scales is a big help to improving a beginner's or even intermidiate's finger and picking dexterity or agility's guitar playing 👍! I started playing pentatonic scale and riffs, so i mostly played with 3 fingers and most of the time disregarded playing with my 4th finger ( pinky ) because i felt it's very weak 😳! I would cheat and sometines resort to playing legato just to sound faster. Until i started playing scales and proper positioning using 4 fingers 😇! It helped my guitar playing alot 👍! Thank you charlie 🎸👍!
Charlie your doing great! You have one of the most informative guitar channels on KZread. As far as I'm concerned it's you & Stitch Method. So ignore the trolls.
@danbronk968511 күн бұрын
Here is an Idea for ya ... Play the guitar EXACTLY like a beginner would (maybe several different ways you have heard them play) Then show us where we were wrong - and the steps on how to achieve the propersound > all youtube teachers show either the very basics or a completed aspect - what people need to see is something SIMILAR to where they are (sounding poor) and tips to go from where they are to where they should be.
@CharlieLongGuitar11 күн бұрын
@@danbronk9685 heckuva good idea! 🎸🔥🎶
@zingleraster91249 күн бұрын
Great suggestion!!!!
@jimwing.21788 күн бұрын
I think that spending any time dwelling on bad is not only a waste of time, it actually makes improvement more difficult. Concentrate on doing the right thing. If you go off the rails, acknowledge it and get right back into doing what you want to do. A student can easily understand how to go wrong - just do something opposite of what the exercise prescribes. For example, the object of Drill #3 is to play short phrases of scale tones ending with a chord tone. If you want to hear how beginners do it, just ascend the scale in sequential order, all eighth notes, and end on a non-chord tone. Why would you want to do that? Instead, put in the reps on doing it right.
@Handle-q6x12 күн бұрын
Very helpful. Thanks for the video.
@CharlieLongGuitar12 күн бұрын
@@Handle-q6x my pleasure! Thanks for the comment!!🎸🔥🎶
@Larrymh0712 күн бұрын
My metronome sat on my end table for 30 years, hideously grinning at me like one of those haunted, evil dolls on Night Gallery. Finally, one summer I made friends with it, in spite of my initial ineptitude.
@CharlieLongGuitar12 күн бұрын
@@Larrymh07 better late than never!!! Metronomes ARE scary 😱
@PauMang-tc7fb12 күн бұрын
Thanks you ❤❤❤❤
@CharlieLongGuitar12 күн бұрын
@@PauMang-tc7fb thanks for watching and commenting! 🎸🔥🎶🔥🎸
@karlbolundstedt13 күн бұрын
ABSOLUT THE BEST!!! ❤🎶🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸👍
@CharlieLongGuitar13 күн бұрын
@@karlbolundstedt thanks and all the best with your playing 🎸🔥🎶🔥🎸
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Lost me, to technical lol great video though 😂
Hi Charlie, I have started following your videos and getting massively benefited from them, especially the "triad + 1" concept. Over the past few years I have been practicing pentatonics all positions and CAGED arpeggios but always struggling to sound good.. do you provide online face to face lessons?
Good job on teaching all of class ty young man ❤
Great stuff here!
You're the man Charlie thank you!
Thank you!!! 🎸🎶🔥🎶🎸
Once more, fantastic Charlie. You’re a goldmine. Thank you.
So glad you liked it! 🎸🎶🔥🎶🎸
Really good lesson, but I don't have that knowledge of the fret board to follow it completely
You’ll get there!!! Thanks for the comment! 🎸🎶🤣🎶🎸
Two chord tones plus 1 none chord tone is my favorite. I feel it makes this same argument in a more musical and simple way. Meaning I’d play it in a song. This is practice I wouldn’t play in a song. Show us what you play in a song.
When discussing the left hand during the scale exercise( R, 3rd, 5th notes of the Triad) Do you focus on using your middle finger or ring finger to target the 5th?
Very intriguing perspective, food for thought. Thanks for your videos Charlie.
@@kenlelon369 triad stuff next week! Thanks for the support! 🎸🎶🔥
Great lesson! This one will stick with me. I’m very shape oriented so I think for me a good way to go is to get into muscle memory where all the 2, 4, 6 and major 7’s notes are around all the CAGED shapes. That way you don’t really memorize individual notes but patterns that are readily moveable.
Great way to think about it - and a practical way to play!! 🎸🎶🔥🎶🎸
GOOD STUFF CHARLIE ! MY BANDS THIRD CD RELEASE BACK IN THE DAY WAS TITLED ..."LIBERATION OF DISSONANCE" ... THE GOOD OL DAYS ! LOL
@@samsonjpedroza that’s awesome! Thanks for the comment!! 🎸🎶❤️🎶🎸
Wow Charlie, I really feel that I'm on a guitar improvement journey with you! For me this lesson really pulls together so many of your previous videos into an level of understanding that I could never quite grasp. The path you have described in your videos from major scale to triads, to 7th arpeggios, to melodic cells and now this lesson is truly like the master plan that has brought clarity and purpose to the individual components of my practice. Once again I really can't thank you enough for sharing your skill and knowledge.
@@Bflat-fu3wb that’s so awesome!!! Makes me feel really good to hear that. 🎸🎶🔥🎶🎸
Excellent lesson Charlie. Thank you fren 💯
@@masterbuilder3166 thanks for the comment and all the best with your playing!!! 🎸🎶🔥🎶🎸
I'm glad things worked out for Bill and Mary, but I got some excellent soloing advice out of their ordeal, so that sounds like a win for everybody!
@@crashdaddy261 hilarious comment - and I’m glad you liked the lesson!!!
@@CharlieLongGuitar Liked it? I LOVED it! I'm doing it right now, and have just discovered I might be the missing Allman brother. 🤘🎸
Great lesson but this concept is really difficult .😮
@@Tom-dg1ex just give it a little time! You’ll crush it!!!
I love your videos Charlie, not just your teaching skills and guitar expertise but your commentary. You are so right about the fact there are so many KZread videos that make it sound like it is so simple to play some cool trick. Instead you emphasize the importance of understanding the fretboard, relationship between arpeggios and chords, etc. You have to practice the scales to help learn the fretboard but knowing fretboard is not enough. What you teach is so important: Teaching us how to find configurations (arpeggios, chords,etc) all of the neck. Thank you.
@@RobertToto-b1o it’s my pleasure!! Thanks for the great comment!!
Thank you LONG ❤❤❤❤
@@PauMang-tc7fb thank you for the comment!! 🎸🎸🎶🎶
Great advice, Charlie. Can I ask, at 2.27, you play that run, what type of pedal do I need to get that tone? Apart from your skill, obviously, I get confused whether I should be looking at sustain, overdrive or something else.
Why doesn’t anyone actually do this in half step!?!?!
The eighties may have been an exciting time for Rock guitarists, but it was the Dark Ages for Rock Bass guitar!
Right on Thanx Charlie.
@@bobbdobb2876 my pleasure!! Thanks for commenting! 🎸🎶🔥🎶🎸
This lesson really spoke to me. Hope I listen. Thanks for pointing the way Charlie.
@@kenkelly382 you’ve got this!!! Thanks for commenting. 🎸🎶🎸🎶🎸
That first example was a GREAT solo!
@@jonathankreusch9326 thanks 🙏
Nice Carvin :)
@@DoctorMcFarlandStudios it’s been a GREAT guitar 🎸 🎸🎸
Great vid!!! Learning "how to learn" is one of the most important skills in life, in this vid you give us a way of learning for ourselves and we can then make of it what we will.. its lessons like this why i stay subscribed to this channel Charlie! Keep up the good stuff and keep on rockin!!! Love it! Thank you 🙏🕊️
@@Owl-qh2rh love this comment! Thank you and best wishes for your playing!!! 🎸🔥🎸🔥🎸
Thank you Charlie! Really appreciate it 👍🌋🎸💥✨@@CharlieLongGuitar
Fantastic lesson as usual. Can I ask for a VERY specific request? Raking into long held notes or big bends is insanely important for emotional and passionate playing but I’m really struggling with it. I can see most people do it with picking hand palm muting but I’m just not getting it!
I’ll do a video on phrasing soon…in the meantime try muting the strings you want to rake with your Fretting hand - not the picking hand. 🎸🔥🎸
@@CharlieLongGuitar 🙏
Very useful video, thanks!
@@GerryBlue my pleasure! Glad you can use it!!! 🎸🔥🎶🔥🎸
Thanks! Great lesson, getting light bulb shining thru...
Thanks so much for the support!!
amazing ideas here
@@trusarmor4957 wow thank you!!!! All the best with your playing! 🎸🔥🎶
GOOD JOB, WELL DONE, YOUR LESSON IS A WAKE UP MOMENT,THANK YOU.
@@MrCarlos1335 thanks and glad you liked it!!! 🎸🎶🔥🎶🎸
GREAT lesson.
Thanks so much!! All the best with your playing!! 🎸🔥🎶🔥🎸
Great lesson Charlie! Thanks. What are your thoughts on call and response?
Call and response is a wonderful way to keep solos melodic. Love it!! 🎸🔥🎶🔥🎸
Thanks Charlie! Great video 💯💯👏👏🎸🎸💙🤍💜❤
@@user-ko4iy1pp9j thank you as always!!! 🎸🔥🎶🔥🎸
Homerun, Charlie. Now you're starting to break through to the other side where there is little available information. This is where the other teachers leave you on your own. I think many of us who are solid intermediates, but not quite advanced fretboard scholars, need guidance here more than ever. The only thing left is to plug in arpeggios and triads, I suppose. (another lesson idea?) You answered Many questions with this one BUT feel free to expand in this area at will!
@@kenlelon369 this one is for you! Keep the suggestions coming - very helpful!!! 🎸🔥🙏🔥🎸
@@CharlieLongGuitar I guess it's right in front of me and I can't see it.
And I almost forgot to say - Thank You, Sensei
Great Video Thank you
@@billwhite9701 thanks for the comment!!! 🎸🔥🎶🔥🎸
Cool stuff, and well demonstrated. 🙏
Thanks for the nice comment! Hope things are going well with your playing! 🎸❤🔥🎶
Hi Charlie, perhaps folks of "the shut up and play" brigade learn by mimicking, which we all do to some extent, But I would never forego the "aha" moments you regularly give us from applied theory that have broad applications to song writing/playing and musical appreciation. However, some good came from that rude comment- I got to see "Charlie unleashed! " Wow.
I'm realizing I just wrote a field report here like I'm on reconnaissance... Something I just discovered on speed practice that I reeeally wish I knew long ago both for me and for teaching: switch picks. Once the swing width is adjusted it's easier to play fast with a thick pick, so I started working on the Am7 arpeggio with a metronome at 80 and playing 16ths, using a fender medium. Unless you really choke up on that it flexes too much for high speeds. Once I got 4 clean, unhurried up-down repeats I bumped it up a few bpm and repeated the thing. Every time I struggled I came at it with a thicker pick and got it clean, then notched it into more difficulty in steps with progressively thinner picks til I was doing it with the fender medium cleanly again and kept speeding up. You can set your own bpm by only picking 16ths without fretting anything til the speed feels natural, then add the fretting. Over the last two days I took it from my struggle point, which began around 106bpm 16ths all the way up to reliable 128bpm with a stretch to 130 if I use a 1.5 to 2mm pick. Kinda forces you to examine the details of your picking mechanics which is becoming extremely beneficial. Also, achieving high speed in one position doesn't guarantee it elsewhere bc of the changing forearm angle
OH I kept meaning to ask if you've messed with this - a 12457 arpeggio. It's basically a sus2sus4 or maj 9, 11, but it's also all the notes in common between Major, Melodic minor(b3), and Harmonic minor(b3 b6). Makes for some really interesting tonal shifts.
I really love your videos. You explain in depth. I've been playing 30 plus years and self taught but can read. It's easy to get lost in theory but when you understand that they are just tools in the box, it comes together. We never stop learning.
@@topherbarrow4631 cool comment - thanks 🎸🔥🎶🔥🎸
Learning the scales and always using them is necessary but, after a while makes it so boring you will be desparate to try something else, anything else. Oh no, not again, not the same notes in the same place over and over again. That is why learning scales is so important. It will force you to start developing, trying different things, as you learn to hate the scales, the better you will become. And that is how you improve. At least I did.
Hello again charlie 😇! A very precise tutorial on how playing scales is a big help to improving a beginner's or even intermidiate's finger and picking dexterity or agility's guitar playing 👍! I started playing pentatonic scale and riffs, so i mostly played with 3 fingers and most of the time disregarded playing with my 4th finger ( pinky ) because i felt it's very weak 😳! I would cheat and sometines resort to playing legato just to sound faster. Until i started playing scales and proper positioning using 4 fingers 😇! It helped my guitar playing alot 👍! Thank you charlie 🎸👍!
@@peteperico8814 awesome!! Keep moving forward!! 🎸🔥🎶🔥🎸
Charlie your doing great! You have one of the most informative guitar channels on KZread. As far as I'm concerned it's you & Stitch Method. So ignore the trolls.
Here is an Idea for ya ... Play the guitar EXACTLY like a beginner would (maybe several different ways you have heard them play) Then show us where we were wrong - and the steps on how to achieve the propersound > all youtube teachers show either the very basics or a completed aspect - what people need to see is something SIMILAR to where they are (sounding poor) and tips to go from where they are to where they should be.
@@danbronk9685 heckuva good idea! 🎸🔥🎶
Great suggestion!!!!
I think that spending any time dwelling on bad is not only a waste of time, it actually makes improvement more difficult. Concentrate on doing the right thing. If you go off the rails, acknowledge it and get right back into doing what you want to do. A student can easily understand how to go wrong - just do something opposite of what the exercise prescribes. For example, the object of Drill #3 is to play short phrases of scale tones ending with a chord tone. If you want to hear how beginners do it, just ascend the scale in sequential order, all eighth notes, and end on a non-chord tone. Why would you want to do that? Instead, put in the reps on doing it right.
Very helpful. Thanks for the video.
@@Handle-q6x my pleasure! Thanks for the comment!!🎸🔥🎶
My metronome sat on my end table for 30 years, hideously grinning at me like one of those haunted, evil dolls on Night Gallery. Finally, one summer I made friends with it, in spite of my initial ineptitude.
@@Larrymh07 better late than never!!! Metronomes ARE scary 😱
Thanks you ❤❤❤❤
@@PauMang-tc7fb thanks for watching and commenting! 🎸🔥🎶🔥🎸
ABSOLUT THE BEST!!! ❤🎶🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸👍
@@karlbolundstedt thanks and all the best with your playing 🎸🔥🎶🔥🎸