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lol idk if I’ve ever seen someone look so self impressed. I bet you think the reason jazz doesn’t have lyrics is cuz the musicians intended for YOU to fill that space with trite ass explanations of derivative, lifeless riffs.

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Well, for those arpeggios I must first invest in bigger hands :)

Yeah, you can run the audio through Audacity to get rid of the buzz for that video and repost it. I would definitely eliminate that immediately though. It is really distracting to your absolutely beautiful guitar playing.

Hi, hate to be “that guy” but suggestions, could you put your name somewhere in the post, be nice to know who you are…. And more importantly you need to sort out the buzzing problem ( either an earth problem, 50 cycle hum, or something in your rig has the gain set incredibly high ) cheers Kudos for the vid 👏👏👏

"... everything that comes through you, inevitably will sound like you ..." very true, and goes way beyond jazz

subscribed ... will unsubscribe one other channel ... here it is really worthy

Thanks for outlining this. I’ve been hearing (mostly jazz guitarists?) talk about “Segovia scales” for years without really knowing what they are. These seem similar to the fingerings taught on the UK ABRSM (Classical) guitar syllabus.

Excellent

Why Segovia scales. Important guitar dude but Not the greatest player. Not even close

Great info,thanks.

Segovia is now a blacklisted name in guitar history. No guitar player today should play Segovia scales. If they do they are ignoring history. Segovia was a Fascist supporter of Franco during the Spanish Civl War, and afterwards. Franco's Fascists, with the support of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, murdered hundreds of thousands of Republican Spaniards who fought for their freedom from evil Fascist dictatorship. Segovia threw away his reputation forever by supporting the Fascists.

First encountered Segovia fingerings studying classical guitar with Brian Johns around 45 years ago. Those, and later Bobby Ferrazza's scalar approach, heavily influenced my FordScales II system. Nice to see them covered. Cheers, Daniel

Great! Sir, which two fingers to use in fingerstyle? Once you suddenly played chords while playing scales. How to practice that?

Metronome. After being a musician for twenty years and absolutely hating metronomes my perspective was reversed by Carol Kaye. Theres a long interview with her here on YT. She says that you know you're doing it right when "that thing (the metronome) syarts to swing". As soon as i heard that i dug out a dusty metronome and started playing. She's was absolutely correct. 100%. If the metronome sounds bad it's your playing. Once you're wanting the next click of the metronome because it sounds as good as your favourite snare teack, budda-bing. You're in the pocket. Yearn for the click. Dance around it.

How about a pdf ?

Didnt know about Segovia scales but i use C to A shape and the major scale to connect. Imo the A shape is the most useful one as a flat first finger covers the 3 notes which leaves lots of space f the others..

James Chirillo had me practice these Segovia Scales, as well as the George Van Eps Guitar Method (the smaller book before all the Harmonic Mechanisms) back when I was living in NYC. The scale fingerings worked with Johnny Smith's extended arpeggio fingerings as well. Each note played slowly--ensuring that the notes sounded connected and sustained (easier said than done--especially with those shifts involved). Even though there are MANY naysayers to using the fingerings for both classical and jazz guitar, I still learned A LOT--more than if I restricted my scale studies to strictly in position. Learning how to navigate multiple octaves helped me play lines with leaps and feel the distance between the octaves. The strictness of the fingering wasn't as important as learning how to shift on single strings. Cool to see more people using Segovia Scales for jazz application. Btw, you look like a young Larry Koonse--another amazing jazz musician and improviser.

Not bad, a little technical for my liking, but i follow

Worth watching. Good approach. Thanks

First time watching your channel. Please, do more videos like this!

improviser’s OS seems really interesting so far! thanks for these

There´s some great words of advice here. Thanks for the video

I love this video! Some of your ideas reminded me of some things I’ve heard cj the x talk about except you said them at an audible speed. (cj the x speaks very fast lol) I can relate so much as an artist it’s always really cool to hear what other artist are doing and how they feel about it in such a good format like this.

I like that although these advises are not particularly new for me, as I struggle on this topic a lot, the way you elaborate and bring your personal context in makes me believe and commit more

Thanks for sharing your insights on the creative process. You reminded me that I need to record myself more. I'm not a professional muso nor have I studied music, just had private lessons as an adult. I remember finding a recording on my phone of this one piece I'd been learning on the piano. I never consider myself to be very good at the piano, but this recording of me playing and singing was pretty decent when listening back. Sometimes we need some objectivity outside the stories we keep telling ourselves. As much as I dislike AI, the keyboard and bass player tools added to Logic in the past year have really helped my demos. I can write the chord progression and have Logic create those instrument parts to capture the overall vibe of the song. Those demos are then translated by session musos and recorded.

Panning for gold is a great way to think of things. Thanks for the video, beautifully made :)

Beautiful playing man

Beautiful

Cool sounds! They work for you and that's the most important thing. I do gravitate between stompboxes and a Helix modeller or a combination. At the moment I have an EP booster. A fuzz overdrive. A tape type delay and a looper. Thinline Strat into a clean El844 15w amp. EQ pedals are really useful. Get one and throw it in the bag.

Really great video Ronan. I've dealt with a lot of playing related tension and pain over the past decade. I find that it can often be difficult to talk about with other musicians. There seems to be a superstition around pain, like talking about it will cause it to manifest. However, discussions like these are so important and validating. As you said, everyone has a story with this and it's important to remind people that they aren't alone in dealing with these issues. Thank you for making this! You list a lot of suggestions that I haven't tried and I'm looking forward to incorporating them into my wellness routine.

Thank you so much for doing this video. Will look into the Alexander technique and those book recomendations. Health is an important aspect of any human and we can be so driven & obsessed with the craft that we end up hurting and limiting ourselves. Thank you for taking the time to share all this. Really enjoyed the topics.

Hey! Nice lesson. Thanks for that G7 voicing. I like that you take the time to talk about the harmony, the intervals or notes you are playing, the chord substitutions, and the ideas & references you are using...

Such a good tone.

This very important for Hand Health and longevity as a musician. This is excellent advice but I would recommend a professional set-up for intonation and string height. Learning to feel what's the minimum pressure or effort needed for clear notes. It is also important to learn the discipline of warming up, cool down and massaging your hands in between sessions.

Could you do a video about your thoughts on your picking hand?

Sounds like walking chords not walking bass. I'm Missing something.

Dropping out of Berklee for TH-cam University. Thank you for sharing. Please keep it up.

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❤beautiful! Could you show your favorite shapes for Harp Harmonics. Some kind of etude would be cool.

Love you bro ❤

what song is this?

subversive guitarist is just a bad music book.

string theories is a series of blog posts with no actual musical information.

Great content! Serious students are missing valuable ideas.

So Good!

Thanks for the Advice! ❤

Thank you!

Ted Greene is the GOAT!!!