Increase Your Acoustic Guitar Prowess
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Guitarist/Songwriter/Samurai Born in the Manitoba prefecture of Canada, samuraiguitarist, honed his discipline under the study of the country's most powerful musical sensei. Bred on rock, raised on the blues, trained in jazz, samuraiguitarist creates incredibly innovative videos that showcase his talents on the guitar.
That pick is lost forever. Another meal for the pick monster.
All hail the pick monster
1. play softer
2. Incorporate finger picking
3. Maintain a pendulum with the strumming arm
4. Learn to transpose
5. Learn the open chord embellishment spots
6. Incorporate base lines
7. Move around open chords
Bass players rise up
Use the tips to increase your acoustic guitar prowess; bring your acoustic guitar to parties, to decrease your number of friends prowess.
dont even need these tips for that. just play sweet o child of mine
@@gapehorn2917 "Anyway, here's wonderwall."
This hits way too close to home for me. I have this one friend who is pretty fun to be around, but whenever I try to talk about guitar stuff, he just tells me that he doesn't care and that guitar is a shitty instrument.
@@lt-yx1hx lol then he’s NOT fun to be around 😂
@@canofpaint2336 "Aw I'm so tired of that song! Can't you play Harvest Moon?"
2:05
That was the last time this pick had been ever seen
ahh, rest in peace my brother..
can you do video like that about Electric guitar, please
Yess please
I'm sure he will
Just saw you hit 400k subs, congrats man. Very well deserved.
2:05 i cant stop laughing at how the pick went the other way than where you threw it and you look confused
they do that! i find them in some odd places years later
He sacrificed a perfectly good pick for us boys, now this is true love
Holy cow, you squeezed SO much tips into this video. Great stuff amigo! :)
So many*
Everything seems so simple when you explain it, thanks!
How tf did you comment 4 hours ago?
@@sheckdagh627 ikr wtf
W h a t t h e f u c k
Philippe Boissonneault how did you comment 4 hours ago
@@sheckdagh627 probably patreon
Wait...is watching Samurai Guitarist one of the 7 or a bonus way?
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That part about embellishments blew my mind, thanks!
For embellishing the open chords, the embellishment is the third of the scale. Hope that helps a few people
I already knew everything about this but I can't stop watching, it's so well explained and still entertaining. That probably why this might be my fav channel, no matter how big or "small" of a video it's always entertaining and you get into it!
Dude, your videos are fantastic, not only are you a great guitarist, but a natural teacher as well. Keep it up man!
Fingerpicking intimidating? Personally, I've always found playing with a pick more difficult since with fingerpicking, the fingers often rest on or near the strings. And so it's much easier for me to "find" the strings when playing.
Same
That pick just entered into an eternal void. Great video!
For me as a player there really wasn't anything new in this video, but I'm so impressed how well you have broken it down. I will definitely borrow some of that when teaching my own students - and I will of course recommend your channel to everyone 😁👍
Cool guitar ;)
I would definitely say that the Acoustic, any variant of it, is a little more technical and harder than electric, but at the same time a whole lot more simpler due to their being nothing more than a sound hole, for the most part that is. You'd need to be a lot more strategic with acoustic because things you do on an electric are a lot more weird to do on acoustic! Great video as always!
I just got an acoustic guitar again after selling off all of them (stupid I know). This video came just in time! Thanks for the content. 🤘🏻
5:40 'in the aErOplAnE ovEr the SEAA'
carpetcandle I was waiting for someone to say
I really liked the tips on pendulum motion, embellishing, and walking the bass line. It makes me feel almost bad that I'm focusing on bass now.
Same here!
*screams like a madman in thumbnail \m/*
*plays maj7 chord \m/ \m/ \m/*
I'll be playing an acoustic set in 2 days for what hopefully will be a regular gig.
This video couldn't have come at a better time. *Thanks, Sensei!*
This video is incredible, the way you explain things if so precise, but understandable, and everything is laid out so well, the embellishments really blew my mind, I'm gonna have to try those out, along with the bass lines. Thanks for the killer vid!
Oh man so many questions answered by this video, you're a legend man.
Great video, Samurai!
I've been playing guitar for almost 15 years, where for the first 10 I played electric almost exclusively, but I gradually branched out to play a classical guitar more and more (but approaching it as if I played modern acoustic guitar-style). I wrote a couple of songs that included tapping and what not and they required a certain degree of intensity that I could get out of a Spanish-style guitar only when I banged her up really well, lol. So, when I finally got an acoustic guitar and recorded myself a couple of times I was SHOCKED how... crappy the song sounded. I realized myself that the issue was with my, ehm, overzealous right hand technique and left hand tapping, but it'd have been way easier to get it from your video, but unfortunately that was a couple of months back, ha ha. Great points, my man.
I've the same Masterbilt! I put flatwounds on and I love it for dropped tunings on 13-52
Always great to watch your helpful videos. You're a great, down to earth guy.
That C shape on the 10th fret is an Em inversion I use quite often. Great video, as usual!
THANKS ! so much value in this video
Dude, the embellishment and bass line tips are gold. Good work!
more acoustic! there is very little acoustic specific technique described on yt
Point 1 depends very much on the guitar though, I would say. Some acoustics seem to naturally lend themselves really well to being dug into a bit (for example, I’ve found most Lowden’s sound great when dug into because they develop a kind of fuzzy twang that sounds really nice). Great video as usual though.
I second that: a superb acoustic takes very hard picking, as well as whispers with flesh picking…and everything in between. Sub-par acoustics might only like medium-strength strums.
Nothing makes me feel like I've been taken down a peg like trying to play an acoustic.
I'm gonna assume step one is to learn how to play guitar so I'm just gonna go now.
Another thing to help with strumming is practicing with an egg shaker, if you’re playing it in time and it sounds smooth you’re carrying that smooth pendulum movement
I'm saving up to buy your guitar lessons, and this is such a nice kind of "dipping of toes in the water" thing
I like a verry particular sound: combining your tip about the finger picking with open chords further up the neck. There are even some spots where just holding like a two-note upside down power chord shape on strimgs 4 and 5 and finger picking gives a really melancholy and somber sound.
definitely the best music youtuber, love all your videos :)
2:05 You can almost see the regret in his eyes
This is really great advice and another awesome addition to the sensei serious. Kick ass man
obviously just buy one of those acoustic electric fenders
I did and I love it. Feels great, sounds great.
Not the telecoustic, the Sonoran, acoustic with a bridge transducer.
This was great. Please make more videos like this.
Lots of good stuff! Thanks for the demos.
The JamStack ad that keeps playing on this cannel; the opening riff.
I grit my teeth until I can hit "skip ad". 5 seconds of agony.
Man those masterbuilt epis are worth every fuckin dime sweet guitar
Go Sammy G! I'm gonna implement this into my electric guitar playing as well! Mainly because it's all I have atm...
There’s always somebody whos keep giving an enormous monster that feeds on guitar picks~
Im surprised you didn't talk a bit about dynamics when talking about strumming softer, I was hoping for a bit of am explanation from a music theory point of view on as to what switching between hard and fast and soft and slow strumming can do
This is really gonna take me playing Wonderwall all day to the next level.
I'm glad to know I'm at least on the right track
2:05 not gonna see that one again...
Thank you for educating us!
You're one of the main reasons I still play guitar and love playing music, so thanks for that, please keep doing what you do.
Well done Sammy G
congrats on 400k subscribers, and thank you for this video
great info mang and spot on!
This is amazing! Thank you!
2:04 *WELL THAT'S GONE*
Fantastic stuff.
2:04 He never saw the pick again
Not a guitar expert here, but trying different guitar picks are also nice. Sometime you just use the pick you have on your pocket, but maybe a softer/harder picks works better with the songs you are playing, especially on acoustic
Bro,,,, I love your videos. Keep it up.
Thanks the last 3 were really helpful.
as a only acoustic guitar player
you did a great job
Congrats on 400k my dude.
Love you videos man keep up the good work
kinda cool how i figured these out on my own just watching people better than me play guitar
It took a while before I realized that big black dot between the 2nd and 3rd frets was a fret inlay marker...
Sensei series the best tutorials on youtube!
Question about fingerpicking:
I’m working through a whole series of awesome sound arpeggios but have no clue of when to play them, other than in songs that I’ve specifically learned that way.
Obviously the ultimate answer is to keep experimenting till I figure out something I like, but is there any kind helpful starter suggestions for beginners?
Any suggestions for mixing strumming, arpeggios and the melody line too?
I know sings like this, and can do it a bit in my own, but it’s so hit and miss.
I would strum a chord, and then add embelishments while fingerpicking. The end result is a chord that rings out followed by some accompanied arpeggios. You don’t have to do too much fingerpicking to sound convincing, just enough to fill the space between each chord change :)
Nice, thank you!
I like to do walking bassline into a strum and then arpeggio, back into walking bassline, for fun.
Zen in the art of Guitar Playing.
This was awesome man, it translates very easily to ukulele. I’ve been finding myself embellishing some chords, C is the easiest for uke. This makes me want to go find more haha
Very useful, thank you!
Electric guitar version 🤘🙌
A bit off topic, but the best thing I ever did as an electric guitar player was learn to fingerpick on an acoustic and then learn classical guitar. I can honestly recommend learning finger picking to every guitar player, no matter what style you play. You'll definitely take something from it and you'll see the guitar as a whole new instrument.
beautiful acoustic guitar man
Congrats on 400k man
This video make me glad he has his own course available, I want to know more 😁👍
Never thought about hitting it lighter... Good!
well played Samurai!
Brilliant Information , thanks a lot sensei
I like your channel so don't get me wrong. I'm not saying your first tip is off but in my experience as long as you maintain the proper control one can play acoustic aggressively (even more so than electric) and sound good,even great. Richie Havens, Moody Blues and The Alarm are a few that immediately come to mind for that and I'm sure many others. I play softly to aggressive depending on the song/situation. The control and technique comes with practice and time.
For tip #2, you can also use your your index, middle and ring finger rather than moving the thumb each time. It will become an hindrance when doing complicated fingerpicking patterns. Otherwise, great vid!
I still see you on that unicycle haha, love your videos man🤘😂
First rule depends on the song... it's never one-sided. I would however practice quietly.
Si with transposing... St elmo's fire. Plays gm7, am7, dm7, d7sus4.
If I added a capo to the 4th fret does gm7 become cm7 phrasing / shape to sound the same?
Very nice! Thanks ^^
Amazing video thanks a lot!
What type of bag do you carry all of your stuff in for a gig? Like your guitar kit. A backpack?
My brain started melting and my arm fell off after I tried playing a 23/32 rhythm in a 4/4 pendulum motion...Thanks Sammy G!
Great vid. Thanks :)
That was extremely useful
I don't want to be a complainer but your thumbnail led me to believe there would be a moderate amount of solo face in the video.
Happy 400k!
so basically, do all the things I'm doing, but actually realize there's a method to the madness...
may i suggest a video? most influential bands of all time?
Good stuff Sammy G!
Niice guitar :) And congrats on -400-k!! Thanx for the great lesson. Got inspired!
Per S Straumsheim what’s the model of this guitar? Couldn’t read the name on the headstock
@@PedroLacerdaGuitar It's an Epiphone Masterbilt Deluxe. Mine is a classic (Vintage sunburst with the f-holes)