I finally found you! The only guitar teacher on TH-cam so far that I can listen to longer than 5 seconds. Wonderfully unagitated, humorous, calm and authentic. What a gift, what a pleasure to learn from you. Thank you!
That spider exercise hits me right in the heart of my own measlyness. Usually taking off most of the rest of my hand to avoid accidently muting the current note. Paul, of course, makes even that exercise sound like Rock'n Roll.
The last exercise is so awesome in particular. Developing that internal clock is so important and most non-drummers kind of neglect this. Thanks for the video!
Jim C you’re supposed to keep the time going by yourself when there’s no track playing. The only way you can do this is if you can hear/feel the time properly. Even though practicing with a metronome is good, it’s kind of like training wheels on a bike. Your brain can subtlety adjust to the metronome and you could be getting away with bad time and not even notice it. With this exercise though, the longer the drums/timekeeping source are gone, the longer you have to depend on your own time. If you slow down or speed up, it will be extremely obvious that you did so because you won’t come back in on the downbeat properly. Does that make sense?
I love how your warm up exercises involve musical creativity. That first one, I've been teaching my students for over a decade - I got it from an old jazz teacher I had many years ago...
Thanks for the vids Paul! I've been watching you over the past year after an 8 year break from music to work. You have been the biggest help, I couldn't do it without you. Thank you for what you do.
Thank you. A bunch was over my head because I am a new player, but your ability to communicate gave me some understanding of new areas and didn't scare me. I'm in my 60s... and learning to count on my fingers.
Loved the demonstration of the final challenge. On the thee-bar silence, you sped up a bit, but found a musical way to compensate and stay on beat. Rubato is a difficult, but important concept in being expressive and musical.
Thank you for such a variety of exercise types. That's what it's all about: stick to the basics. The Spider exercise is not that easy if you really want to make it accurately. Thank you for your good teaching advises and courses. Can't wait to see the studio tour when the room is finalized!
Paul, I have to tell you, that was the most unique and useful video. You address commonly taught issues (theory, phrasing, technique), with a perspective that is engaging, challenging and fun. I’m looking forward to making them a part of my routine. Thanks.
Unless you go straight to work when you get up. Then, it’s “get home and pick up the guitar instead of taking a shower and laying down.” If you haven’t guessed already, yes, I’m an American.🤠
Hello! I'm Brazilian and I'm using the translator, I hope you can understand ... lol ... Paul, I didn't find any video of you talking about Peter Green, I leave here my request / suggestion. A video about this great guitarist. Big hug to all!
I’ve been wracking my brain, even holding it down, trying to keep that wild and crazy pinky of mine from lifting up! Oh thanks so much. Also, thanks Paul for offering a little something for all levels. I’m no where near ready to think about looping, but I sure did enjoy your playing!
Yes please, do the tour! BTW: I recently started learning theory and I was able to get to the triads (the first three) myself.. woohoo. Achievement unlocked!
came across this old video, below average guitar player learning to play again. The spider drill is been helping me out a lot with finger control. Thanks.
Love all of the content. I’m going have to get Next Level Playing so I can get good enough to post anything to instagram with confidence. I appreciate you, congrats on the new studio.
Paul, these videos are absolutely amazing. The 5th exercise blew my mind. After, making my way through your LearnPracticePlay course I am convinced that timing is the main reason why people stay stuck at the beginner level for decades. This really clicked on your "Highway to Hell" video. It sounds like such a simple chord progression but even experienced guitar players get it wrong. These are really great insights. Also, love the new studio. I'm glad that your hard work is paying off.
Your much appreciated, even in small portions. Thank you. Youve blessed above from below. So good to hear ya. May your road lead to many strings and strains. Smooth and enlightening.
Hey there Paul. I just want to thank you for the first exercise. It really helped me out and it changed a lot the position of my whole hand. Greetings from Argentina!
that spider literally killed my ring finger, I just dont understand how you make it seems so easy! great exercise, just love how you are teaching us, thank you!
Tommy Emmanuel is who inspired me to buy a guitar. Pual Davids is who inspires to me to actual learn and play the guitar. Wish I found your channel back when I bought my guitar 5 years ago. Please keep up the awesome videos.
Hey Paul, thank you so much for this exercise. Especially the Spider I love. I took lessons as a little boy and stopped playing for about 15 years. But now I love the guitar again and am so sad that my coordination and dexterity has gone almost to zero, compared to my childhood days. I truly appreciate your work and wish you all the best to get through this time. And maybe when I move back to Germany I can take some lessons from you. Keep up the good work. Cheers, Daniel
Not that this matters a lot but I have all my students do the triads and similar exercises through the circle of 4ths. C, F, Bb, etc. I do this because chord progressions often move in this way - especially in jazz. Thoughts, Paul?
I'm a percussionist going to university, and my professor had me doing this on marimba. He had me doing it with major scales, major, minor, and augmented triads, fully diminished chords, and finally, major and dominant seventh chords (the dom7 resolves counter-clockwise into the next key, as you were saying). It's a great exercise, although quite tedious. It helped me learn to get around the instrument more efficiently, but also helped me relate that theory to the instrument, which in turn helped me internalize it.
I play mostly at the office 'cause it's where I spend most of my day. I know I'm lucky in a way, but I'd prefer to be free to pursue my interests in peace without having to have a job. A girl can dream, right?
You can make the spider exercise even harder by moving the fingers in the opposite order, starting with the pinky, then the ring finger...and so on. Thank you Paul for all your advices!
Will try to learn the vanilla version first though. Looks so easy when Paul does it. Btw. : You bring an awesome one to this channel of beard lovers! :-)
I just saw you had 2.2m subs and it all makes sense. I've started watching your channel almost daily and it's reinvigorated my playing. I was literally just thinking how you've got the best guitar channel on TH-cam. Keep em coming - thanks!
thank you for the exercises. On the first one, i can barely move the ring finger while having the pinky finger pressing the upper string......it looks like a long process to get there. The backing track available has your guitar on it btw.(edit:: thanks for the change)
Terrific stuff! What made this even more enjoyable was your guitar tone. Such a wonderful clean & full tone. Thanks Paul, for all your help and hard work bringing us these videos. Best! ✌🏼
Congrats on the new studio. Of course we want a tour. And thanks for the awesome reminders on warm ups techniques. love the spider. learned it as an alternating picking exercise but with a variation moving one finger down and then replaying the fingers left on the previous string at a time. Tough at first but very good for improving dexterity and great for moving from ⬇️ to ⬆️ picking in alternating finger situations. Great stuff as always. Cheers.
@@paulmartins9291 Oh dude you should ! You can find a good one used or go for Harlen Benton from Thomann, best guitars for the price ! Yamaha THR10 are incredible amps for practicing, the C model you can find for not a lot of money new or used. The electric guitar feels easier to play because the strings are thin and doesn't hurt as much as the acoustic ones do. Caution : playing very clean is difficult since the amp reacts to every little vibration. I play the guitar for 10 years now and have several guitars of each type and MAN. The electric is the thing ! I really feel free to express myself through the whole neck. Clean mellow sound to powerfull overdrive. The acoustic guitar as a very pleasant sound and you should train at it, but I always felt frustrated because it is way more difficult to play
Hi Paul, I tried "your" spider exercise several times. I have trouble moving my ring finger to the next higher string without moving my pinky finger with it (feels impossible). Any solutions or recommendations to help my ring finger move independently from pinky finger during that exercise? Is that important to develop? Thanks.
I've also been practicing the spider exercise and have the exact same problem. I was looking online for this same solution but nothing specific fixing this. Most just say practice and it'll come together, but I also don't want to practice wrong and build bad habits. Hopefully this gets answered somewhere.
Finger independence does take time to develop (for most except the lucky ones who developed it at a young age, when it is a lot faster to rewire the brain). The ring finger and pinkie naturally want to move together. The trick to lifting the ring finger independently is to counteract the effect on your pinkie. Feel the muscle in your palm that tenses when you push your pinkie down. When I lift my ring finger, that muscle tenses just a little more to keep the pinkie in place. Try some exercises that don't involve the guitar, so that you can do them any time, and get into the habit of doing them whenever you can: - If you are at a desk or table, place your hands on the table as if it were a keyboard, and one by one lift each individual finger off the table without any of the others leaving the surface (you can do both hands simultaneously). - Or, just arch your fingers together as if you are hatching an evil plan, and one by one move each pair of fingers apart while the others all still touch.
For my birthday I was gonna go to an open Mic in Brooklyn and play my heart out. Well... everything's closed thanks to COVID-19. So instead ill be at home watching these videos and practicing the damn spider. Thank you for these videos. Maybe I can become a better guitarist now so I won't suck too much when things open back up.
As a pianist before learning guitar, when I would record something, usually the first take was the best one. Often I would play it first and then record, and the second take usually had numerous mistakes. This "first take" challenge just reinforces the idea of "committing" when you're on stage, great idea!
Love all of the ideas but especially the first take one! Been practising for years but only just started recording myself and have noticed that when practising I'm always doing stuff like this, or making mistakes throughout and writing them off because 'i know that part' so find it really hard now to play something through, even if I know it really well, without a mistake
Another fantastic exercise us drummers use is playing in between the metronome beats. We get used to relying on the click to keep us steady instead of our own internal pulse, and playing between the clicks is a great way to teach yourself to keep tempo without relying on the click for the downbeat. It’s a completely different way of using a metronome for practice, and it’s something I wish someone had told me much earlier in my education
I'm trying to learn how to play guitar properly after years of playing the bass and it's frustrating trying to do the spiderwalk the correct way because when i switch to the higher string, my pinky keeps muting that string because it's angled and not perpendicular to the strings. I have the ability to use the pinky but not in a way that it's not touching the other strings.
thanks for bringing back the bad memories from music school classical guitar education :) especially the "spider" except it was called something more boring - "a warm up". Looping is making it more fun... wish I had a looper and electric gear back then.
@@colins9559 nah I feel him. I've been playing 23 years. Done tours and albums, played the likes of Steve Vai in my younger year and I can't do it 😂 I sold all my gear and haven't touched one for 2 years though so I have an excuse haha. It will come back.
Haha, I thought only I have problem with a spider 😂 I took me half an hour to go through one, as my ring finger refused to move when others were on fretboard 😂
@@colins9559 not true :) I can blaze up and down the neck no problem (been playing for 30 years) but never practiced the spider before and yes it's challenging simply because I've never done the spider before. That is the whole point of the exercise - to refine technique.
I hate the spider exercise because it's so difficult to do without cheating but naming and playing the triads is fun to do. Don't plan on doing any looping anytime soon but now I know what not to do just in case.
Looping is the single most useful new resource for guitar practice. If you don’t use a looper extensively in your practices you aren’t making best use of your time. IMHO of course.
@@reitairue2073 I’ve been using loopers for about 8-9 years, so I haven’t ignored them. 10 years is new in guitar practice history, irrespective of my age. Why are you being such a dick over this?
i totally agree with your way of thinking about the things and how to explain, first mentally prepared and as natural as possible the right way to approach playing, thanks, appreciate
The C# chord doesent have a e double sharp
Ah, dang it. It even felt wrong saying it haha, it's C# - E# - G#, of course.
god, im such a noob
@@PaulDavids I feel like there's something I'm not getting here hmmmmmmmm..
@@PaulDavids Nice E# minor chord you got there Paul :)
@@PaulDavids C# triad: C - E# - G#? I'd rather say C# - E# - G#?
@@PaulDavids omg you replyed hahahahah i am not trying to be a smartass i just wanted to corect you in a not mean way
Exercises:
0:28 : The Spider
2:23 : Triads
5:18 : Looping
8:00 : First Take
9:01 : Missing the Beat
bless up
Arigato gozaimsu
You're a legend
Thanks!
Thank you tryna be good
I finally found you! The only guitar teacher on TH-cam so far that I can listen to longer than 5 seconds. Wonderfully unagitated, humorous, calm and authentic. What a gift, what a pleasure to learn from you. Thank you!
Obi wan teaching music!
@@exult1on true haha
Shut Up And Play is great too.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 Soooo true!!!
Bob Ross of music
Are you kidding?! Of course we want a full and extensive tour of the new studio! Thanks for all your videos!
Haha, THIS! Are you even asking? We're all waiting to see the new crib pimp daddy!
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That spider exercise hits me right in the heart of my own measlyness. Usually taking off most of the rest of my hand to avoid accidently muting the current note. Paul, of course, makes even that exercise sound like Rock'n Roll.
The last exercise is so awesome in particular. Developing that internal clock is so important and most non-drummers kind of neglect this. Thanks for the video!
Jamsville I didn’t understand what the the concept of that exercise was? What was he trying to do?
Jim C you’re supposed to keep the time going by yourself when there’s no track playing. The only way you can do this is if you can hear/feel the time properly.
Even though practicing with a metronome is good, it’s kind of like training wheels on a bike. Your brain can subtlety adjust to the metronome and you could be getting away with bad time and not even notice it. With this exercise though, the longer the drums/timekeeping source are gone, the longer you have to depend on your own time. If you slow down or speed up, it will be extremely obvious that you did so because you won’t come back in on the downbeat properly.
Does that make sense?
Best guitar playing tip I've ever got was tap your feet.
I love how your warm up exercises involve musical creativity. That first one, I've been teaching my students for over a decade - I got it from an old jazz teacher I had many years ago...
A studio tour man !!
Yeah
The "bars of silence" exercise is the absolute best. It is amazing at improving you internal rhythm really quickly!
Thanks Paul.
Can we take a moment to talk about how good his hair looks? Seriously, my mans looking slick
The beard is trimmed crisply, the socks too, mans is fashionable
Everything about this man is sharp.
No
My bald ass is in awe every time lol
He is Chad irl
Thanks for the vids Paul! I've been watching you over the past year after an 8 year break from music to work. You have been the biggest help, I couldn't do it without you. Thank you for what you do.
Digging the studio, looks like a pleasant place to play.
The spider is a personal favorite exercise. I'm still trying to wrap my fingers around the triad one. Fun stuff!
The last one is incredible, its a good trainning for live situations.
Thank you. A bunch was over my head because I am a new player, but your ability to communicate gave me some understanding of new areas and didn't scare me. I'm in my 60s... and learning to count on my fingers.
Studio looks great! Good job! ✌🏼
Loved the demonstration of the final challenge. On the thee-bar silence, you sped up a bit, but found a musical way to compensate and stay on beat. Rubato is a difficult, but important concept in being expressive and musical.
Perfect timing. Thanks for the advice. Now i got something to do while I'm on quarantine. Stay safe everyone.
Great stuff to do at home , the timing and the patience to lay it down gracefully is the beauty of music!!!
A quick studio tour would be amazing. Great content as always.!!
Thank you for such a variety of exercise types. That's what it's all about: stick to the basics. The Spider exercise is not that easy if you really want to make it accurately. Thank you for your good teaching advises and courses. Can't wait to see the studio tour when the room is finalized!
Stay safe, Paul! You rock, and thank you for your work amidst this isolation period!
Paul, I have to tell you, that was the most unique and useful video. You address commonly taught issues (theory, phrasing, technique), with a perspective that is engaging, challenging and fun. I’m looking forward to making them a part of my routine. Thanks.
A tour would be amazing! Thanks for the lesson!
I love how you are actually teaching like a music teacher and not dumbing it down. It reminds me of piano or percussion.
first challenge is to get out of bed and pick up the guitar
for me it's get off that home office desk and pick up the guitar atm. 😣
@@gitarald-neu i feel you man.. been there in that position for so long
@@gitarald-neu I wish I could work at home you lucky bastard xP
… then you go to play…. and first thing, you do, is break a string.😭
Unless you go straight to work when you get up. Then, it’s “get home and pick up the guitar instead of taking a shower and laying down.”
If you haven’t guessed already, yes, I’m an American.🤠
Paul you are a great teacher
Hello! I'm Brazilian and I'm using the translator, I hope you can understand ... lol ... Paul, I didn't find any video of you talking about Peter Green, I leave here my request / suggestion. A video about this great guitarist. Big hug to all!
I’ve been wracking my brain, even holding it down, trying to keep that wild and crazy pinky of mine from lifting up! Oh thanks so much. Also, thanks Paul for offering a little something for all levels. I’m no where near ready to think about looping, but I sure did enjoy your playing!
Thank you for that, I thought I was the only one with the crazy pinky 🤣
I feel like when i have my other 3 fingers down i cant move my pinky anywhere. It also stay up and i cant press it down
Everytime I watch one of your videos I just want to spend the whole day playing.
Killer lesson, can't wait to see the new studio.. We're all stoked for you.
Yes, I would love to get a tour of your new studio and how you've built it. Thanks!
Paul you are a gift to all of us
Yes please, do the tour! BTW: I recently started learning theory and I was able to get to the triads (the first three) myself.. woohoo. Achievement unlocked!
came across this old video, below average guitar player learning to play again. The spider drill is been helping me out a lot with finger control. Thanks.
Me seeing the spider: WTF why is that a warm up thats going to be so easy
My fingers trying to do the spider: WRONG lol
Doesn't help that my pinkie finger bends inwards towards my ring finger, it's a struggle for sure.
Exactly my situation, Melon
Trust me, one you get the hang of it, it's a very fun exercise to do :)
@@mrplut0 I really hope so, 'cause I just tried for the first time and my fingers feel like they're someone else's
I can do it!!!! With 25 BPM :D :D I think I will improve to 35 in about a year or so...
Love all of the content. I’m going have to get Next Level Playing so I can get good enough to post anything to instagram with confidence. I appreciate you, congrats on the new studio.
i want studio tour, not gon lie
Feeling u enjoying playing guitar contaminates me. We'll start playing right now. Just wanna say thank u
Paul, these videos are absolutely amazing. The 5th exercise blew my mind. After, making my way through your LearnPracticePlay course I am convinced that timing is the main reason why people stay stuck at the beginner level for decades. This really clicked on your "Highway to Hell" video. It sounds like such a simple chord progression but even experienced guitar players get it wrong. These are really great insights.
Also, love the new studio. I'm glad that your hard work is paying off.
Man I can't thank you enough for your ability to teach and explain what others couldn't. I love your style and appreciate the pointers.
Your much appreciated, even in small portions. Thank you. Youve blessed above from below. So good to hear ya. May your road lead to many strings and strains. Smooth and enlightening.
Hell yeah Paul Davids renovations! Great exercises man!
Hey there Paul. I just want to thank you for the first exercise. It really helped me out and it changed a lot the position of my whole hand. Greetings from Argentina!
that spider literally killed my ring finger, I just dont understand how you make it seems so easy! great exercise, just love how you are teaching us, thank you!
I can kind of relate. My pinky on the 6th string keeps muting the fingers on the 5th string
It is hard to do but .....
Tommy Emmanuel is who inspired me to buy a guitar. Pual Davids is who inspires to me to actual learn and play the guitar. Wish I found your channel back when I bought my guitar 5 years ago. Please keep up the awesome videos.
Você está de parabéns !! A sua performance é única e você é minha inspiração aqui no Brasil
This video have been on my recommend page every time I open YT in recent days. Great motivation to tell me to start practice guitar.
Hey Paul, thank you so much for this exercise. Especially the Spider I love. I took lessons as a little boy and stopped playing for about 15 years. But now I love the guitar again and am so sad that my coordination and dexterity has gone almost to zero, compared to my childhood days. I truly appreciate your work and wish you all the best to get through this time. And maybe when I move back to Germany I can take some lessons from you. Keep up the good work. Cheers, Daniel
I really really really love your teachings sir paul
Not that this matters a lot but I have all my students do the triads and similar exercises through the circle of 4ths. C, F, Bb, etc. I do this because chord progressions often move in this way - especially in jazz. Thoughts, Paul?
I'm a percussionist going to university, and my professor had me doing this on marimba. He had me doing it with major scales, major, minor, and augmented triads, fully diminished chords, and finally, major and dominant seventh chords (the dom7 resolves counter-clockwise into the next key, as you were saying). It's a great exercise, although quite tedious. It helped me learn to get around the instrument more efficiently, but also helped me relate that theory to the instrument, which in turn helped me internalize it.
Your voice is everything!
Most people don’t play their guitar anywhere except home lol
I am my number one fan!!!
Tell me about it. I play the guitar for my desk and closet
I like your picture lmao iTS PAUL
I play mostly at the office 'cause it's where I spend most of my day. I know I'm lucky in a way, but I'd prefer to be free to pursue my interests in peace without having to have a job. A girl can dream, right?
@@charlesduzzie9811 I think the point was that the TH-cam comments isn’t generally full of “the greats” lol
Thank You Sir for your Time!!!
I learned the first challenge from kiko's channel, hands down one of the best exercises I know... haven't gone back since 💯
Who is Kiko?
Megadeth's lead guitarist
Christopher Wilson
can you give us link?
@@mhitc.4975 I think he's talking about the guitarist from Megadeth. No idea which video though but possibly the one from 2 weeks ago. 🤔
@@mhitc.4975 here's the specific vid its actually from 2 years ago
th-cam.com/video/qtLjNh__KSo/w-d-xo.html
Yes, please. I'd love to see a tour video of your studio and the work that went into it.
Thanks for your great videos. Your videos help me grow my channel.
Thanks Paul that 2nd exercise is a mind blown moment for me. You da man Davids.
You can make the spider exercise even harder by moving the fingers in the opposite order, starting with the pinky, then the ring finger...and so on.
Thank you Paul for all your advices!
Will try to learn the vanilla version first though. Looks so easy when Paul does it. Btw. : You bring an awesome one to this channel of beard lovers! :-)
I just saw you had 2.2m subs and it all makes sense. I've started watching your channel almost daily and it's reinvigorated my playing. I was literally just thinking how you've got the best guitar channel on TH-cam. Keep em coming - thanks!
thank you for the exercises. On the first one, i can barely move the ring finger while having the pinky finger pressing the upper string......it looks like a long process to get there.
The backing track available has your guitar on it btw.(edit:: thanks for the change)
Terrific stuff!
What made this even more enjoyable was your guitar tone. Such a wonderful clean & full tone.
Thanks Paul, for all your help and hard work bringing us these videos.
Best! ✌🏼
The old looking fretboard is SO sexy
Agree. I wonder if it left the factory looking like this or if it's a relic kind of thing
@@jayhoffman8168 It's relic. I.e. it's like that from the factory.
Jay Hoffman relic means it did leave the factory like that though
It's lame because it's not real wear and just hipster bullshit
Mike Justice just like pre ripped jeans
Congrats on the new studio. Of course we want a tour. And thanks for the awesome reminders on warm ups techniques. love the spider. learned it as an alternating picking exercise but with a variation moving one finger down and then replaying the fingers left on the previous string at a time. Tough at first but very good for improving dexterity and great for moving from ⬇️ to ⬆️ picking in alternating finger situations. Great stuff as always. Cheers.
Leaving a big like before the video begins because, oh come on you and I know this will be a sick one as usual ❤️
Youre videos are amazing man, your helping me get past a learning plateau. Feels sooo good. Youre a very plesant teacher.
I see a thinline tele and challenge myself not to spend the rent money on one
I bought a acoustic Guitar and an Affordable beginner Keyboard, now I'm wondering if I should get a Electric Guitar
@@paulmartins9291 Oh dude you should ! You can find a good one used or go for Harlen Benton from Thomann, best guitars for the price ! Yamaha THR10 are incredible amps for practicing, the C model you can find for not a lot of money new or used.
The electric guitar feels easier to play because the strings are thin and doesn't hurt as much as the acoustic ones do. Caution : playing very clean is difficult since the amp reacts to every little vibration.
I play the guitar for 10 years now and have several guitars of each type and MAN. The electric is the thing ! I really feel free to express myself through the whole neck. Clean mellow sound to powerfull overdrive.
The acoustic guitar as a very pleasant sound and you should train at it, but I always felt frustrated because it is way more difficult to play
Paul you are legit SO GOOD at guitar. I look up to you.
Man that triad exercise got my head hurting to understand lmao
Yes Paul, a tour of the new studio please.😊
Hi Paul, I tried "your" spider exercise several times. I have trouble moving my ring finger to the next higher string without moving my pinky finger with it (feels impossible). Any solutions or recommendations to help my ring finger move independently from pinky finger during that exercise? Is that important to develop? Thanks.
I've also been practicing the spider exercise and have the exact same problem. I was looking online for this same solution but nothing specific fixing this. Most just say practice and it'll come together, but I also don't want to practice wrong and build bad habits. Hopefully this gets answered somewhere.
Finger independence does take time to develop (for most except the lucky ones who developed it at a young age, when it is a lot faster to rewire the brain).
The ring finger and pinkie naturally want to move together. The trick to lifting the ring finger independently is to counteract the effect on your pinkie. Feel the muscle in your palm that tenses when you push your pinkie down. When I lift my ring finger, that muscle tenses just a little more to keep the pinkie in place.
Try some exercises that don't involve the guitar, so that you can do them any time, and get into the habit of doing them whenever you can:
- If you are at a desk or table, place your hands on the table as if it were a keyboard, and one by one lift each individual finger off the table without any of the others leaving the surface (you can do both hands simultaneously).
- Or, just arch your fingers together as if you are hatching an evil plan, and one by one move each pair of fingers apart while the others all still touch.
I’ve been playing a version of the spider from day one but your version made me feel as if I had never played before. Thank you
8:32 blink-182 - what's my age again
Thanks for this post! Grateful for TH-cam!
For my birthday I was gonna go to an open Mic in Brooklyn and play my heart out. Well... everything's closed thanks to COVID-19. So instead ill be at home watching these videos and practicing the damn spider. Thank you for these videos. Maybe I can become a better guitarist now so I won't suck too much when things open back up.
As a pianist before learning guitar, when I would record something, usually the first take was the best one. Often I would play it first and then record, and the second take usually had numerous mistakes. This "first take" challenge just reinforces the idea of "committing" when you're on stage, great idea!
Your have such a nice tone with that Tele. Sounds like a harp almost.
Love all of the ideas but especially the first take one! Been practising for years but only just started recording myself and have noticed that when practising I'm always doing stuff like this, or making mistakes throughout and writing them off because 'i know that part' so find it really hard now to play something through, even if I know it really well, without a mistake
Pls do a studio tour, great job Paul keep up the great work and stay safe everyone
Paul, your generosity in sharing your endless wealth of knowledge free of charge is amazing! Thank you!!
Watching this video while lying in bed and my guitar beside me🤣
Paul, keep up your friendly, lovely way of teaching!
Blacksmith:
"How sharp Paul?"
Paul:
*y e s*
Yes! Cannot wait to see the studio tour video!
Another fantastic exercise us drummers use is playing in between the metronome beats. We get used to relying on the click to keep us steady instead of our own internal pulse, and playing between the clicks is a great way to teach yourself to keep tempo without relying on the click for the downbeat. It’s a completely different way of using a metronome for practice, and it’s something I wish someone had told me much earlier in my education
Thank you!!
Killing tone on that Tele ❤️❤️
Wonderful touch and groovin' on the last challenge. 🔝🔝🔝
2 things I learned from this video:
1. How to play a guitar.
2. How to edit videos.
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Congrats for the new studio 🎸🎶
I'm trying to learn how to play guitar properly after years of playing the bass and it's frustrating trying to do the spiderwalk the correct way because when i switch to the higher string, my pinky keeps muting that string because it's angled and not perpendicular to the strings. I have the ability to use the pinky but not in a way that it's not touching the other strings.
Yes, of course we want a full tour of your new studio!!!
the secret of playin' guitar is to step on the pedal with funny socks
Got me laughing nicely 😂
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thanks for bringing back the bad memories from music school classical guitar education :) especially the "spider" except it was called something more boring - "a warm up". Looping is making it more fun... wish I had a looper and electric gear back then.
15 years on a guitar and I can't do the spider. Thanks for making my life miserable again xD
What 15 years of looking at a guitar? 😂 ahah just messing with you but you would be able to do this if you’ve seriously been playing for that long
@@colins9559 nah I feel him. I've been playing 23 years. Done tours and albums, played the likes of Steve Vai in my younger year and I can't do it 😂 I sold all my gear and haven't touched one for 2 years though so I have an excuse haha. It will come back.
Haha, I thought only I have problem with a spider 😂 I took me half an hour to go through one, as my ring finger refused to move when others were on fretboard 😂
As a noob i can say i am playing for a half and one month and i can do it
@@colins9559 not true :) I can blaze up and down the neck no problem (been playing for 30 years) but never practiced the spider before and yes it's challenging simply because I've never done the spider before. That is the whole point of the exercise - to refine technique.
Thanks for the lesson
I hate the spider exercise because it's so difficult to do without cheating but naming and playing the triads is fun to do. Don't plan on doing any looping anytime soon but now I know what not to do just in case.
Looping is the single most useful new resource for guitar practice. If you don’t use a looper extensively in your practices you aren’t making best use of your time. IMHO of course.
@@asarcadyn2414 "new", when loopers have been around for well over a decade at least lol
@@reitairue2073 I’m 72. That’s new.
@@asarcadyn2414 No you missed the technology/ignored it. You being old doesn't make old things new lol.
@@reitairue2073 I’ve been using loopers for about 8-9 years, so I haven’t ignored them. 10 years is new in guitar practice history, irrespective of my age. Why are you being such a dick over this?
So happy to see you in the new studio!, greetigs from Mexico!
I can do this from home?! Never before had I thought playing my guitar at home was possible. 😂
You are the best guitar teacher in the world man.....
"if you want to see a studio tour" ... REALLY ??? reaaaallyyyy???? of courrrrseeeeee !!! PLEEEEASE Paul !
i totally agree with your way of thinking about the things and how to explain, first mentally prepared and as natural as possible the right way to approach playing, thanks, appreciate