ADVICE to a LATE BLOOMER (GUITARIST)
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I love guitar tips! Even if I knew everything about guitar I'd still love hearing people talk music
I began playing in 1971, folk, blues, rock and I discovered jazz much, much later, I am still learning, always learning, no end to it, I am 60 these days.
man, it's not often you see an ES 330 even more rare to see the single P90 version ... & I always love your tips & videos
I have been learning standards through an online resource - the instructor provides lead sheets and he posts video of himself playing the chords and then the melody, which allows me to play along (I play the melody while he plays the chords, and vice versa). I can’t really improvise but at least I’m playing music.
Playing music -- that's great!
Love this tip, thanks Adam!
Thanks a lot for the great advice. I really enjoyed it!
Hi Adam, thanks for all the great posts..
Found you through Jens Larson & interview with P. Bernstein.
Your style of playing is a wakeup call. Thank you
Always said, I don't like Jazz organ,
Now I can't get enough, depends on who's playing..
Welcome, Mark!
Chris thank you for asking this question and Adam for answering it. I'm also a late bloomer and I find myself the same space as Chris. I'm close to 50 and I just picked up the guitar at the end of 2017. Thank you for these tips. It would be cool so see more tips with the late bloomer in mind. Thx.
Welcome aboard and enjoy the ride. 😎
Greetings from Utah What a terrific video! THANK YOU.
Wonderful! Thanks Adam. I was watching Ted Greene vids and, as the result of various clicking permutations, I found your channel. I am 55 yrs old this year. I have been playing WITH guitar (as opposed to playing the guitar) since 2007. I want to devote myself to learning jazz well enough to please my friends and family, and maybe sit in with a few friends who are musicians when the opportunity presents itself. These 7 tips are now hanging in my practice space.
Three years have gone by since you posted this comment. How’s it going for you now? I’m a late bloomer, or maybe a never bloomer.
Fantastic ideas, thank you!
Right on, Erik!
I like to many genres.Rock Jazz Funk Blues..some pop…classical
Love that 330!
Great tips thanks Adam. BTW, I've been using Martin's Retros for 6 weeks on your recommendation and they are pretty awesome (not to mention they last twice as long as phosphor bronze!) so thanks for that as well.
Dude, you are pretty damn inspiring 🤸♀️🤾♀️🏄♀️
great tip!
Thanks, Gabriel.
Thanks!
Aw, man. Thank you!
Hello Adam, thanks for your advice. I am 61 and started guitar 5 years ago, got few hours of teacher, practiced as much as work and family allowed. After blues and some rock, I am starting Jazz. I do practice scales to warm up fingers and get them more flexible. Would you say 8th advice is to practice at least 2 hours a day , 5 days a week ? About playing with people, difficult when little bit shy.
Hi Adam..found you recently...really enjoying your channel. Over 50 years in now..feel like I'm starting to get it..at least today LOL..used to live in your area. Thanks!
Welcome, Robert!
I am a "Late Bloomer" to Guitar (roughly the same age as this writer-in). In my case I do have professional music experience (mainly play Organ) had some exposure to Autoharp as a small child.
On Guitar I have most proficiency as a "Rhythm" (as opposed to "Lead") Player. I force myself to go to Jazz/Blues/R&B/some Rock Jams and keep up with the ensemble.
In some ways I like dealing with my "Learning Curve" on guitar as opposed to "Giving Away" my keyboard skills in a situation where I am not getting paid.
I am involved with in group guitar lessons with a Jazz Guitarist who puts an emphasis on "Opening One's Hand" which I find risky. It involves forcing one's hands (especially fingers) in directions they can't easily go.
As you get older, forcing one's self physically can lead to connective tissue problems (Tendonitis, Carpel Tunnel, Etc.).
I do what I can to simplify tasks. Play mostly in the middle of the fingerboard (my first task in playing was finding Middle C on the Low E String and practice scales starting between the Third and Tenth frets (the High Open E pitch can also be found on the Fifth fret of the B String). in addition to First Position "Open" scales to mainly get the lowest Four notes in all 12 keys.and find ways to Simplify Chord Voicings as possible.
My First Hurdle as I see it is getting a 45-60 minute set down of Chorded Solos (mostly Standard tunes many of them fairly slow) and being able to follow others comping and being able to play a single note solo.
I would like to find an Alexander Technique experienced Guitar Instructor to find out the best way of going about dealing with "Forcing" hands to do positions that feel unnatural.
A tip for Sinatra fans. There's a book published by Hal Leonard called the Frank Sinatra Fakebook. It has 242 songs. Best thing is they're presented in the key he sang, and they're the original arrangements. After You've Gone shows the Quincy Jones chords. His Old Man River is based on the orchestral 1940's recording. Best thing is, being a Nelson Riddle fan, I get to see things written out, like the string intro to It Happened In Monterey. I wasn't up to speed playing wise when I got the book 4 years ago, but it's good to have something that stretches you. I now find I'm comfortable playing in Db, which is one of his favorite keys. Also, I play a Taylor acoustic and they really push Elixir. Even the lights have a .13 E string. Do you recommend the Martin retro .12 over Elixir?
Great advice. I would also add learn basic 8 bar and 12 bar blues tunes. Learn how to swing notes and chords using blues structures. All the great jazz players started with the blues and expanded upon these chords.
(from Tom), Adam, at 6:54 what do you think of a D#9b5 (no 3rd) for a substitute chord? I confuse myself all the time with these chords as it is also an F7#5, or whatever augmented, or on and on, LOL!
Interesting!
Eb9(b5, no 3) sounds-to my ear-like a specialized voicing of Ebmin9(b5). If you don't play either 3 (major or minor), I think most listeners would assume the unheard 3 is minor, because that note (Gb) is naturally in the key of the song (Db major).
The suggested scale at that point is, arguably, Gb Melodic Minor. [Alternately, it could be a Db Major Scale with a b6-Bbb (A).] As such, most players play some sort of Gbmin6 or Cb7 there. Yes, from Gb Mel. Min., you could extrapolate other harmonies-such as F7(#9#5)-which would alter the voice-leading in the bass.
There are always choices to be made, and big- and small-picture stuff to consider.
A F#m6, B7 or D#m7b5 should work also.
Good advice as always, I like the part about hanging with actual musicians, something none of us do as much as we should anymore! As far as jazz chops, I have used them on EVERY gig since, jazz or not and those skills cross over readily too. I started out hardcore on jazz and play much more jump blues as I get older, the more simple the better - I love a good groove more than a million notes like I did when I was 20!!
Boozoo Chavis
Any relation to the late Zydeco Boozoo Chavis?
Wouldn't learning chord inversions for min7 Maj7 min7b5 and 7s on the top middle and bottom 4 along with drop 3 s on 6 4 3 2 as warmups be worth learning? Dont get me wrong you just gave great tips
That's useful material, of course. My point was: Get to playing real music in real time ASAP. Knowing all of your inversions all over the neck is important for understanding harmony and seeing the guitar in a big-picture way. But it takes a lot of time to get all that together. For a late bloomer, I wouldn't prioritize tackling *all* possible inversions over playing tunes. Shell chords can get a player into tunes -- and they can build up their chord vocabulary over time.
Anychance you have a guitar tip on key changes/the use of key changes, and the approach to key changes - maybe like a key change 101 type thing?? Would really dig it
+Anthony Ziomek Do you mean how to transpose one song to different keys? Or do you mean how to modulate from one key to another within one song? I think you're onto something interesting-I just want to be sure I understand what you're asking.
+Adam Levy Guitar Tips Well my problem lately has been thinking too diatonically, I come up with cool ways to add notes within a key, but then always drift back to that key center. like for example in the key of A major I might add a F major7/9 and resolve it to Edom7- but that seems to always feel like I'm in the same key center.... Not sure if that clears things up, sorry if my music language is a bit off- nurse by trade musician by passion
+Adam Levy Guitar Tips it's almost as if I'm comfortable tip toeing out of the key for a second but seem to drift back in
+Anthony Ziomek and just to make sure I communicate everything- with the whole adding the F major chord in the key (or in other words adding a sharp 5 to the key and playing a major chord over it) I usually start on the 6 of the key- so together in A it would be f# minor - Fmajor7/9 - E dom7
Guessing it feels like the original key center because of that 5 chord but is there a way to get into a whole new one?
+Anthony Ziomek I'll be addressing this soon. Thanks for the idea, Anthony.
Community College Music departments can be a resource for finding players.
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67 and still blooming
God bless.
just the Tip huh🤔
Still enough to get pregnant