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thanks!

we all make mistakes. 2025 is your year!

totally. always good to start each practice with technique exercises!

Man I love to hear this. So stoked it's motivating you. 2025 is your year! Don't beat yourself up though, we all do it. It's just a good reminder to get on track. No one likes sounding bad, so it's easy to play the things you already know as your "go to". I still have to remind myself too. And it's fine to jam stuff you know, experiment, write, noodle, etc. I learn a lot by just messing around and exploring the instrument. But the real growth comes with that super intentional practice towards the things you suck at. Anyway, stoked this helped you. Let me know how it's working out for you once you implement this

I’ve been doing the same

Spot on, brother, you've just saved me saying it all myself. And, like you say, we know all this, really, but need to hear it anyway. There must be millions of us... And, indeed, stoked am I now, too. We can ask each other half way through the year how we're progressing without the excuses. 2025, it is!

Yes dude this is it. Your dad is a smart dude

"All athletes train to win. True champions train to eliminate the possibility of losing." - Olympic champion oarsman Matthew Pinsent

Thanks! Oh yeah those are good too I prob need to do a video on those. Appreciate ya!

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Man that’s very nice. Thanks Joel! I’m experimenting with some different lengths & formats, but I’m super glad these are helping!

That's what I like. I can't stand vids that go on and on but never get to the point.

Haha just start with the 1st exercise for now. Try just going up - 1, 2, 3, 4 on each string. If that’s too much of a stretch, try pulling your thumb down to about the middle Of the back of the neck. or you can just start it up higher on the neck for now, like on the 5th or 7th fret.

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Thank you so much for the nice comment! I’m stoked to hear these videos are helping!

Glad to hear it!

Thank you!

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lol That’s ok just mess around with it

You must be deaf then

that's a 90s american fender strat

haha thanks brotha

aw man. thanks!

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great question actually. when i go to the next string, i mute the previous string (the one above the one im playing) with the tips of my fingers. so if for example im playing that 1st exercise and go to the first fret of the A string, i'm playing the first fret of the A string wile the tip of my index finger is also muting the E string. depending on what i'm doing, sometimes i'll use the palm or side of my right hand to mute the strings i'm not playing also make sure you're not yanking off the string too hard let me know if this helps

@ yes this does help actually I’ll have to try this a couple times though before it sinks in haha. Thanks so much! I’ve played a lot of instruments that don’t require a ton of finger coordination and reaching so the guitar is definitely a new challenge.

@@robynhenry430 yeah muting strings can be a bit awkward at first so don't beat yourself up if you dont get it right away. eventually you'll be able to do it without even thinking about it. just chip away at it little by little. good luck!

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for an extreme beginner this is for getting fingers loose. you would follow this exercise up by mixing up the order of fingers so 4-1-3-2, 1-3-2-4 and then could speed up as well (easiest fingering possible here since the notes don't matter) etc but I agree in two birds with one stone and just make it a scale run.

haha i feel ya. i just use it as a warmup. just like any other technique exercise to help build independence, finger strength, dexterity, etc. it's cool to switch up with patterns with different combinations too. but i get your point lol.

@@libraalbert91 yeah literally any other lick or phrase would accomplish this and give practical application while also being melodic and something a beginner would actually *want* to play. Just doing chromatic runs like this is good for… building chromatic runs like this. Which is cool if you’re Dillinger Escape Plan or Cave In, but practically useless for like 95% of guitarists. The video creator has said that they use this as a “cool” way to warm-up, and I can’t argue whether something is or isn’t cool, because that’s completely subjective, and it certainly makes you move each finger and touch every string, so I guess it works as a “warm up” too. But the title isn’t “cool little warm up” or whatever, it’s “on steroids” like it’s some magic training tool.

@@frottery yeah like I said, I’m all for practicing, but this feels like one of those boring things you learn by rote that never actually translates to anything useful. Yeah, changing the fingerings and speed and stuff would be more beneficial, and might actually constitute the “on steroids” remark. As is, it’s just boring chromatic runs without purpose for *extreme* beginners. Like I could see someone doing this in an early lesson where they’re learning how to play to a metronome or something, but as-is, it serves little to no purpose for nearly all guitarists…

thanks! i guess there are different variations. normally i start beginners on a simple spider going up 1, 2, 3, 4 then back down 4, 3, 2, 1. but once they get that down i like to have them go all the way up the neck like this (on steroids lol). or you can even try different patterns (1, 3, 2, 4 for example). but i guess there are a lot of diff ways you can approach this exercise

aw thank you! i'm glad these are helping!

Thanks! Yeah I agree!

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Yeah i love letting strings drone out

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Aw man. Thanks Patrick! Miss you dude

Because the G major scale has an F# in it: G, a, b, c, d, e, f#, g

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yeah? how's it coming? and you're welcome!

thank you! I don't have anything to say specifically to a left handed player because I teach them the exact same way as my right handed students!

@thetalenthousetx Great, good to know. Complete novice to guitar playing, but everyone seemsvto be right handed

@@jankraan1 my dad is left handed but he plays guitar right handed. it just felt more natural for him. it's debatable whether you should play right or left handed, but I say try both and see what feels more comfortable. maybe try a simple finger exercise and a couple easy chords both ways and see what feels best. if they feel equally awkward, I say go with a right handed guitar just because you have more to choose from when you're buying. but if you feel more comfortable left handed (or you've already started like that) just stick with that and all the other info will be the same

@@thetalenthousetx Thanks for the follow-up and tips, much appreciated!

thank you so much!

Hmm and I’m assuming the intonation on your gtr is fine?

It’s based on the string coming in contact with the fret from what I understand not about your finger placement within the fret it just helps if it’s closer. I don’t have any issues

Yep you can also do a major barre chord shape on the 5th fret of the low E string 👌🏼