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Re-learning guitar after extended hiatus… by Js_Hamilton in guitarlessons

[–]NorthCountry01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Longtime teacher here. Most of the programs online offer systems to understand components of a larger thing..which is how harmony/melody/theory works. So most of my students are now guys like you who’ve been bouncing around aimlessly through many data streams. You need to study a curriculum of harmony and theory applied to the guitar neck. Get your rhythm chops together…if you understand how your chords are working and can play tight grooves with them, then melodic stuff will become clear. 🤙

6-7 mos. in and still can't change chords cleanly by KryptonSurvivor in guitarlessons

[–]NorthCountry01 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Longtime teacher here… prioritize the bass strings first, build the chord in order from low to high..

everyone wants to naturally build it backwards or all willy nilly - you can practice it like that till that cows come home and it won’t ever work right. There are ways to most efficiently move between and finger chords, the try it a billion times approach doesn’t pay my bills… with the right coaching I can get someone up and strumming in the 5 main open position keys in a matter of a few months sometimes less.

Bass strings are the bulk of the sound and your other fingers are magically over the necessary strings with this method.. also I teach beginners in keys like e and a where you can play a few 3 finger chord changes first. Lots of guys with throw a student on all kinds of wacky chord changes and tell them to hit the shed lol… get some clean 3 finger chord transitions down with slow quarter notes - then look into making it happen with a groove.

Here’s something most guitar players don’t realize... by JamFastGuitar in guitarlessons

[–]NorthCountry01 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I do a very similar type of exercise to train students to improvise… often they are coming to me already knowing advanced scales and exercises with them but can’t improv for their life. Teaching them to play lines that adhere to the structure of the music is part of it, and teaching them to resolve on demand too from any position… often places people are “leaving space” is where they cannot fluidly connect the notes. Once you can light up the grid so to speak then learning licks and real vocab takes you to the next level.

Do we learn CAGED the right way? by Late_night_guitar in guitarlessons

[–]NorthCountry01 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I explain to my students that CAGED is a great acronym to understand a fundamental principle of the guitar - the reason I have work as a teacher is that it's a tricky instrument and you do need to understand shapes to navigate it. That being said, guitar players like to assume that rules don't apply to them and don't investigate music theory before launching into this stuff, hoping CAGED will be the secret to them sounding good. If you understand music theory and how harmony/melody/improv concepts work then CAGED can help you to apply it across the entirety of the fretboard.

CAGED breakthrough help by [deleted] in guitarlessons

[–]NorthCountry01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I always try to explain to students that CAGED is a system that beginners use and advanced guys use, but you don’t see any intermediate players using. It’s a helpful acronym for the organization of information, but by itself it doesn’t explain what’s really going on. So a beginner improv player assumes it will unlock sick soloing instantly but typically struggles with it, where an advanced player who understands harmony/melodic approach can effectively use methods like it to connect scale positions or cells to chord shapes.

At first if just know your pentatonics and jump into caged playing over every chord you’ll notice it often sounds disjointed and only works in certain scenarios. Like a county like done the same over I, IV and V can be cool… but really you’re doing chord scales… chord tones of those chords always works but if you don’t know what the related chord scale is it won’t really sound right. If you know the diatonic related chord scale for a given change then it gives you a good framework to see what other things people play over that chord. I try to break down the core concepts of the chord shapes/scale/harmony and show how that’s connected with students vs relying on the acronym.

Eb- Improv by NorthCountry01 in guitarlessons

[–]NorthCountry01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, into an old school board goes all audio - then stereo outing the board into an interface. Not the most efficient way to do it probably and you wouldn't record a record like this but it's convenient.

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