Wow such an amazing video. As a self taught guitarist of 5 years, I can see how all of the progress I’ve made and have yet to make relates to all of this. CAGED definitely unlocked the fretboard for me and paved the way for true connection to my instrument
We as people hate to take the time to learn. We want instant results. Being disciplined in practice is important, but don't forget why we play. We play because we love music, so be sure to have fun, and enjoy the music you are creating as you practice. All work, and no play is never fun, and music is for fun, so just jam out and have fun. When I started playing guitar over 50 years ago, we didn't have TH-cam with endless lessons, so ever in of gain was hard fought for. Today we can learn very fast from TH-cam and other tools available to help teach. Use these tools and you will get better much faster.
I've played guitar for around 30 plus years. My advice is - play often, and often play at the edge of your abilities. Push your playing and make sure you're stretching your ability each time. Never ever be afraid to make mistakes.
Grammar/spelling -> short story writing = scales -> playing music is probably a better analogy than typing ->short story writing but very helpful video nonetheless.
‘Play every day…’ yes yes yes a thousand times yes! Even though I’m a high schooler who has homework, activities and a job that take up a lot of time outside of school, I still make a precedence to play everyday, even if it’s just playing all the Toad the Wet Sprocket riffs I can play off the top of my head, or playing an acoustic rhythm pattern in DADGAD or something like that. Thanks Eric!!!
Toad the Wet Sprocket! Haven't listened to them in years... Awesome that you even know them (are they popular with high schoolers?) And this video has reminded me that I need to get back to daily practice!!
@@DeFiSiYT my parents were pretty big Toad fans, and I happened to come across their old copy of Fear, and it kinda blew my mind. Most of my friends my age don’t have a clue who they are though
My usual practice routine: 1. Free jam warmup with whatever musical gibberish flows from my heart. I have a little chart of chords taped onto the side of my amp. I try to pick a different key each day. I typically use a looper with a drum beat going. I don't love how fiddly the Boss RC-10R is, but it does have a heck of a lot of different styles of drum loops. 2. Calm down, pull up whatever book or course I'm working through, and work through a chunk. I just finished up a great course called "CAGED Edition of Guitar Zen" ;) Now I'm digging into an Ariel Posen course on rhythm triads. Some days, I can crush a couple pages. Some days, I immediately get stuck and spend the whole session learning one new weird shape or rhythm. 3. Take whatever techniques I just learned from my lesson and incorporate them into whatever idea I stumbled into during my initial free jam. This is when I also let myself tweak all the effects on my board to get weird sounds. Three days ago, it was three delays chained together! Yesterday, I just cranked up a phaser until the wavering made me dizzy! 4. Take 5 minutes to scribble down some notes in my comp book about the day so I (sort of) retain whatever I worked on. The challenge of taking on one course at a time and planning to mesh those lessons with my next deep dive into a weird effect are huge motivators for me. I also try to listen to two albums on repeat each week - something old and something new - and try to jam live at least once a week with somebody. ...man, I am not good at music relative to the amount of brain space I give it each week. Oh well. Just have fun trying stuff.
@rogueoperative Gr8 varied, detailed, innovative & inspiring practice routine. AWESOME, It looks like a Winner! It’s got me PUMPED! I’ll try to use a similar path to further my musical Guitar Journey! Thanks so much! 🙏🏼🤘🏼🎸💜
This reminds me of a quote from Bruce Lee: “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”
Im so glad I have found your channel. I’ve been playing 2.5 years and in the intermediate phase but been getting over excited with learning so much as I am in the guitar phase of finally figuring out how everything works but it can be super overwhelming cause I just want to apply everything at once but watching your videos reminds me to just slow down and be patient. Also you remind me to actually focus on my playing too as you mentioned about creating the story first before typing which is a great analogy and sums up my mistake 😂 being at this level I find it’s hard getting teachers on TH-cam like you cause most don’t explain sth or just say “don’t use the pentatonic, it’s a waste of time” even though I disagree with this cause it has helped me so much to understand the fretboard even though I can see why seeing it as chords is great too but we all need the caged system.
Ya know, I'm really NOT a Beatles fan, but my oh my is that a beautiful little piece! What an inspiring video/topic. Today I'm going to make a weekly schedule and dedicate a fresh notebook to my practice time. No new gear this year-- it's going to be all about learning my instrument ;)
Long ago, my buddy gave me an old beater nylon string. I was like "What is this for?" He said, "Leave it laying around the house and pick it up any time you got a minute. You don't need to fire up all your shit to practice!" I think leaving something always at arms length is a great way to stop procrastinating and start practicing. I really like my Ibanez 175 copy for this, but a nylon string (which I think you talked about before) is a great choice too.
i only have my epiphone ls but i leave it at arms length from me at all times. that way i play multiple 15min sessions a day extra on top of my practice, and it really does make a difference. but nothing tops playing every day imo!
I realize this is isn’t a “practice” tip, but: Take every opportunity to play with other people. It’s fantastic to play with people that are better than you. But it’s even useful to play with people that can learn from you (if you have the right attitude). In any of those situations, try to be MUSICAL (it’s not a contest, or a chance to show off) An hour playing with musicians is worth MANY hours practicing. And have a guitar that you leave out…so you pick it up a lot.
I was never musical until I was past 65. I joked that I was born with two left ears. And just like my Mom, I bought a piano at 65 and started geeking out, and yes, I'm learning music theory. My daughter loaned me her tenor ukulele, and I bought a baritone now and so I'm crashing guitar videos for ideas. I want to learn the fretboard and master major triads first. But there are no black keys on the fretboard. So I did the next best thing. I put postit notes on my piano keyboard and now I have strings on my piano. I had to move my bench way to the left and my left hand is practicing learning chords and inversions. That really helped things click. Next are minor shapes, the Circle of Fifths progression, and it'll be time for lunch.
Want your playing to improve? That new/vintage guitar will help. Definitely that all singing all dancing valve/solid state/modelling/hybrid amp has ALL the answers. Why not add a seventh drive pedal in a wonder 'stack' to sound like all the greats but on a budget? So what if that extra hour on Reverb ate into your practice time, you're passionate about this right? Or Listen to Eric, use your noggin. Let common sense and purpose prevail.
It's been 4 years that i went back to guitar lessons with a teacher, he never made me practice a scale. Not once. All about playing slow, in the pocket. I am really convinced this is it.
That chord from "Wrapped Around Your Finger" is gorgeous, with your chorus pedal on top of the already awesome tone you have is *chef's kiss* perfection. I'll be applying this mantra "slow, clean, and musical" to my evening playing session. Cheers!
Love this. Daniel Spree - the bassist for Phile X & the Drils - also talks about the importance of slowing down, not speeding up, when practicing. Creates a much more profound connection to the music and understanding of what you're doing. Thanks for the insights, Eric!
Your content just keeps getting better, it's been an honor watching your channel grow like this. I love watching you play and listening to your ideas. Thankfully most everything from this list are already things that I do on a regular basis (especially finding any minute during the day possible to just PLAY something). What I do is play a certain list of arpeggios and other phrases to warm my hands up. From there I print off 5-6 exercises or challenging riffs/licks that I want to master for the week. Once I have mastered those exercises I move them around on the neck and really familiarize myself with what notes are being played. Then I refresh the exercises! :D Thanks for the video Eric you're awesome!
That's very smart to move those challenging licks around - too often we work really hard on some finger buster in Am, but don't do the extra work to move it to other chords/keys - that's where the fretboard knowledge really grows!
Nice Bird! Great Channel from a new fan of your work. Cheers! From mtw in L.A. Epi LP player these days. A 1998 Trad Pro- Pelham Blue through old Peaveys. Monster cables, Levy straps. Fab Pedals for fun. Jam nights, bands, etc. Cheers!
Thanks Eric! Find time to practice/play everyday even if it’s just 5 minutes. Thanks for the advice about learning to type. This has been where I have been stuck. Must get back to your TrueFire course. 👍🙏
I would say the biggest hugest lesson I got from Eric was waaaay back on the video where he covered One More Cup of Coffee for the road, and the Andulusian cadence. The big eureka was that there is a pentatonic scale behind every chord! Once I absorbed that, and started practicing it every day (over a year now), the fretboard makes sense and my playing is way more cohesive.
So I've just now hit this aha moment in my own playing and trying to get it down. Takes time but holy crap was it a rewarding moment getting that understanding and now implementing.
I love your ever so gentle campaign against the widdly-widdly fretboard diarrhoea brigade. To paraphrase John Wayne: play low, play slow & don’t say too much. ✅ 2:00 sounds like the theme to a very excellent dark British sitcom called Black Books.
That's a bit Marc Ribot's intro solo to "Jockey Full of Bourbon" (Tom Waits). It's been metioned before that whoever did the Black Books music was likely a fan!
One thing I do is if there's something I try to play and can't for the simple reason that I ain't good enough yet is put a note in the calendar on my phone to try it again in 6 weeks' time. Usually I find in that time I have improved a bit.
The story writing analogy is just so true. The notes are there are on the guitar fingerboard already. When playing single string lead lines you just need to hear what you want to play in your head and then translate it to the guitar, even if it’s just note by note.
I’m only 2:13 minutes through but I came to say thanks for bringing up Ribot. -- 7:53 minutes through, I noticed that the guitar is cooler than it should be
Eric, don't call us out like that 😂 too true about cramming may have worked before but not with something like guitar. Attention to detail is so important like you mention, you could learn so much by playing one note differently.
@@EricHaugenGuitar I am so impressed that no matter what you play, you have precision and great tone. I am currently trying to perfect that, learn blues theory, and building finger strength and accuracy for solos- I love playing guitar- just need clarity with so much to do!
Beautiful tone in intro...beautiful tune😎👍 Stripping down all the fx pedals, etc... Really keeps practicing easier... Less set up time..ie; dialing in each effect and amp fiddling. Pick a guitar. Pick an amp. Grab a groove. Play. 😎👍❤🖖 Love Brother
not gonna lie, man... when I saw during the week you posting some pedal steel over something I thought we`d have some `hendrix doublestop something`. but this is even better. From experience, what I use the most from your CAGED course on TrueFire is practicing my strumming hand. I didnt realize I knew so few rythm types, and that a few notes would colour so much between my chords. Now everything I already know I try to Bo Diddley it for a few minutes when I pick up the guitar in some different chord shapes. The confidence man, it`s already there!
Really nice, thank you! Do you have a specific set of videos about the CAGED system? I tried to learn it from different TH-cam channels, but I have never been really able to fully understand how it works. Thanks a lot for your hard work, I really appreciate it!
As a late adult learner for 3 years now, I can only emphasise to stick to something till you can talk while you’re doing it. I’ve been so many times through certain exercises but moved on too fast, resulting in having to revisit. Same for songs. I’m now focusing on one song for a month and playing it 10x a day. It still doesn’t feel like I own it. Be very critical for yourself.
This is how I think about guitar as well. I have never found a teacher who expressed it as clearly and concisely as you did. I will definitely check out more of your lessons. (Started your Truefire stuff....It's great!) Thank you.
I'm probably going to be anoying asking this because I do feel like I''m trying to ask a person if they can describe how a colour tastes. But. . . . Do you have any advice on style? The problem I have and I'm 100% sure I am not unique in thiss trying to find my own voice / style. I like a LOT of different bands and genres but I have no real compulsion on what I am suposed to play like when it comes to writing original music. It's a real pain though because the musicians I look up to most all sound individually unique from each other and yet I don''t have a style of my own that I can comfortably say I'm not just trying to sound like someone else. Does that make any sense ? ? ?
Yes this is a common problem - you are not alone! Here's the deal: LET THAT GO. If you are criticizing yourself before you even finish a creation, you are in for a world of misery and paralysis. Just do stuff that sounds nice to you and don't worry about if it sounds like something else because IT'S ALL BEEN DONE BEFORE ANYWAY!
I’ve watched this a few times now. So helpful! Clear and flexible ways to focus! So reassuring too. Thinking about practice this way makes practice so inviting and mentally healthy 🙂🎸
Hi Eric, I need amp buying advice!! I’m tossing up between the Vibro champ in this vid or a blonde Tonemaster deluxe reverb. I understand the TM is more flexible but I only play at home and i’m not sure I’ll ever use it to it’s full capacity. I also understand the VC gets loud if you want breakup, what would you suggest? Cheers
I feel seen. I have been working on the things we talked about last week, and I think it's sinking in! And the benefit of having a thick skull means that once things get in there, it's hard for them to come back out.
Brilliant lesson as always Eric thankyou. My problem is sticking to things. When I've been in covers bands in the past, the set list was everything, now I dont gig at present so I'm jumping from one thing to another & I never know how long to stick with something & so the dog chasing his tail situation never ends for me & I'm getting soooo frustrated. At least your lessons are an inspiration so thankyou🙏🏻
So I happened to look at Hendrix strat and they suggest that the reversed headstock also changes the length for high strings, so they are easier to bend. Hmmmm interesting. Must explore!
During Covid, I learned how to master the fretboard from Guitar Mastery Method. It opened up my world of guitar playing. How do I use it? Improvising to backing tracks. I don't spend time doing Page, Hendricks, Gilmour, Clapton, SRV, etc etc etc. I spend time improvising and creating and experimenting and it's amazing where it takes me. So much fun playing in major and minor using pentatonic and diatonic, experimenting with all the modes, and of course I love the blues. Love the clarity of you guitar, Eric.
Hey Eric - you always seem to bring to light guitars solo's I used to just whistle along to on the radio, flying down the highway. What do you get on your pizza?
Eric, you are a fantastic teacher! All your advices are exactly how I feel about dealing with that wonderful, inspiring, satisfying - I could go on...- instrument. Playing guitar and having music around me, as often as I can, is the best way to stay happy and get through my life! Each morning, before I catch the metro for work, I play for about ten minutes. That sets me off perfectly! I start my day in a relaxed, sometimes inspired and satisfied way. That's the wonderful thing about electric guitars: You can play them unplugged at 6 o clock in the morning, without disturbing your wife (who thinks I'm a nerd) and your neighbours (who probably think the same)! :-)
Incorporating your ideas here. Thank you. I needed some tweaks and direction to my practice regimen. This has been a welcome change to scales, sequences, ear training, songs…rinse repeat. Slowing down has been so beneficial instead of just robotically moving through my routine. Thanks Eric.
When you think "1564 in Bb" do you think of the names of all of the chords in that progression like "okay 5 is F, 6 is G, 4 is Eb" or do you just look for all of your Bbs and find the roots of the other chords in relation to the key?
Not Eric but - I do not think of note or chord names past the tonic. I've learned every chords relation to the one and even their inversions, so I just need to know where the 1 is. this is a helpful way to look at things because it makes circling fifths really easy, as the patter just gets moved a fifth up and that becomes the root. I'll be jamming with people and they'll ask what I just played, it takes me a sec to back track thru what I played to get a key and notes lol
I'm going through depression and honestly this video uplifted me. Thank you!
That makes me so happy to hear!
Wow such an amazing video. As a self taught guitarist of 5 years, I can see how all of the progress I’ve made and have yet to make relates to all of this. CAGED definitely unlocked the fretboard for me and paved the way for true connection to my instrument
We as people hate to take the time to learn. We want instant results. Being disciplined in practice is important, but don't forget why we play. We play because we love music, so be sure to have fun, and enjoy the music you are creating as you practice. All work, and no play is never fun, and music is for fun, so just jam out and have fun. When I started playing guitar over 50 years ago, we didn't have TH-cam with endless lessons, so ever in of gain was hard fought for. Today we can learn very fast from TH-cam and other tools available to help teach. Use these tools and you will get better much faster.
Just what I needed on a Friday! Thank you so much! Pizza later to round out the day!
This is the way!
I've played guitar for around 30 plus years. My advice is - play often, and often play at the edge of your abilities. Push your playing and make sure you're stretching your ability each time. Never ever be afraid to make mistakes.
Gentle genius
So great! Thanks. Happy Friday!
Great stuff as always Eric, thank you!
Extremly useful, thanks.
Good stuff 🤠
Grammar/spelling -> short story writing = scales -> playing music is probably a better analogy than typing ->short story writing but very helpful video nonetheless.
Jockey Full of Bourbon at 2:00 ?
Yeah!
‘Play every day…’ yes yes yes a thousand times yes! Even though I’m a high schooler who has homework, activities and a job that take up a lot of time outside of school, I still make a precedence to play everyday, even if it’s just playing all the Toad the Wet Sprocket riffs I can play off the top of my head, or playing an acoustic rhythm pattern in DADGAD or something like that. Thanks Eric!!!
Hey man how/what do you practice? Im in your same situation.
Toad the Wet Sprocket! Haven't listened to them in years... Awesome that you even know them (are they popular with high schoolers?)
And this video has reminded me that I need to get back to daily practice!!
@@DeFiSiYT my parents were pretty big Toad fans, and I happened to come across their old copy of Fear, and it kinda blew my mind. Most of my friends my age don’t have a clue who they are though
Trust me you have more time than you'll ever have
@@maJastoL I came here to say that..!
My usual practice routine:
1. Free jam warmup with whatever musical gibberish flows from my heart. I have a little chart of chords taped onto the side of my amp. I try to pick a different key each day. I typically use a looper with a drum beat going. I don't love how fiddly the Boss RC-10R is, but it does have a heck of a lot of different styles of drum loops.
2. Calm down, pull up whatever book or course I'm working through, and work through a chunk. I just finished up a great course called "CAGED Edition of Guitar Zen" ;) Now I'm digging into an Ariel Posen course on rhythm triads. Some days, I can crush a couple pages. Some days, I immediately get stuck and spend the whole session learning one new weird shape or rhythm.
3. Take whatever techniques I just learned from my lesson and incorporate them into whatever idea I stumbled into during my initial free jam. This is when I also let myself tweak all the effects on my board to get weird sounds. Three days ago, it was three delays chained together! Yesterday, I just cranked up a phaser until the wavering made me dizzy!
4. Take 5 minutes to scribble down some notes in my comp book about the day so I (sort of) retain whatever I worked on.
The challenge of taking on one course at a time and planning to mesh those lessons with my next deep dive into a weird effect are huge motivators for me.
I also try to listen to two albums on repeat each week - something old and something new - and try to jam live at least once a week with somebody.
...man, I am not good at music relative to the amount of brain space I give it each week. Oh well. Just have fun trying stuff.
I like this method!
@rogueoperative Gr8 varied, detailed, innovative & inspiring practice routine. AWESOME, It looks like a Winner! It’s got me PUMPED! I’ll try to use a similar path to further my musical Guitar Journey! Thanks so much! 🙏🏼🤘🏼🎸💜
Yeh I reckon I'm about to get off TH-cam and do this rn tbh
Thx for sharing
Dude thanks
This reminds me of a quote from Bruce Lee: “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”
Oh yeah I've heard that one too!
Im so glad I have found your channel. I’ve been playing 2.5 years and in the intermediate phase but been getting over excited with learning so much as I am in the guitar phase of finally figuring out how everything works but it can be super overwhelming cause I just want to apply everything at once but watching your videos reminds me to just slow down and be patient. Also you remind me to actually focus on my playing too as you mentioned about creating the story first before typing which is a great analogy and sums up my mistake 😂 being at this level I find it’s hard getting teachers on TH-cam like you cause most don’t explain sth or just say “don’t use the pentatonic, it’s a waste of time” even though I disagree with this cause it has helped me so much to understand the fretboard even though I can see why seeing it as chords is great too but we all need the caged system.
Eric, you're the most nice, symphatic and calm guy in "the business".
Love your work! Keep on with your great stuff!!!
Thanks Vincent - I try to keep it chill here!
Ya know, I'm really NOT a Beatles fan, but my oh my is that a beautiful little piece! What an inspiring video/topic. Today I'm going to make a weekly schedule and dedicate a fresh notebook to my practice time. No new gear this year-- it's going to be all about learning my instrument ;)
I'm not a big Beatles fan, rather a huge George fan.
I also am not a huge Beatles, fan. Nontheless, that solo was the shiznills.😋😋@@charliedillon1400
Long ago, my buddy gave me an old beater nylon string. I was like "What is this for?" He said, "Leave it laying around the house and pick it up any time you got a minute. You don't need to fire up all your shit to practice!" I think leaving something always at arms length is a great way to stop procrastinating and start practicing. I really like my Ibanez 175 copy for this, but a nylon string (which I think you talked about before) is a great choice too.
i only have my epiphone ls but i leave it at arms length from me at all times. that way i play multiple 15min sessions a day extra on top of my practice, and it really does make a difference. but nothing tops playing every day imo!
I realize this is isn’t a “practice” tip, but:
Take every opportunity to play with other people. It’s fantastic to play with people that are better than you. But it’s even useful to play with people that can learn from you (if you have the right attitude). In any of those situations, try to be MUSICAL (it’s not a contest, or a chance to show off)
An hour playing with musicians is worth MANY hours practicing.
And have a guitar that you leave out…so you pick it up a lot.
You can be really good at scales but not really good at musicality.
I was never musical until I was past 65. I joked that I was born with two left ears.
And just like my Mom, I bought a piano at 65 and started geeking out, and yes, I'm learning music theory. My daughter loaned me her tenor ukulele, and I bought a baritone now and so I'm crashing guitar videos for ideas.
I want to learn the fretboard and master major triads first. But there are no black keys on the fretboard. So I did the next best thing. I put postit notes on my piano keyboard and now I have strings on my piano. I had to move my bench way to the left and my left hand is practicing learning chords and inversions. That really helped things click. Next are minor shapes, the Circle of Fifths progression, and it'll be time for lunch.
Want your playing to improve? That new/vintage guitar will help. Definitely that all singing all dancing valve/solid state/modelling/hybrid amp has ALL the answers. Why not add a seventh drive pedal in a wonder 'stack' to sound like all the greats but on a budget? So what if that extra hour on Reverb ate into your practice time, you're passionate about this right?
Or
Listen to Eric, use your noggin. Let common sense and purpose prevail.
hehehehe I never stack overdrives either :-)
"Jockey Full of Bourbon" -- that's what I'm talkin' about!
More valuable wisdom from The Haug! Still working away on your excellent TrueFire course. Still having a great time with it! All the best man!
Everything is those 5 CAGED shapes - it really is!
so funny i learned the something solo like actually just an hour before watching this video
Good one. As someone once said, "Amateurs practice until they get it right, Pros practice until they can't get it wrong."
Ooooh I like that!
Looked up your new music. Kinda reminds me of the Allah las
Ooooh thanks Ben! I dig those guys!
Buddy, did you just play the intro to Jockey Full of Bourbon?
Yeah! I have a whole playlist of Tom Waits/Marc Ribot lessons!
th-cam.com/play/PLnWUjmH5ZikF-bY6IVdvCoNqwL-MxgIt2.html
It's been 4 years that i went back to guitar lessons with a teacher, he never made me practice a scale. Not once. All about playing slow, in the pocket. I am really convinced this is it.
yes!
Sure, we need to know scales *enough,* but then get onto playing phrases!
The short-story analogy was perfect 👍🏻
Listened to Bundle Up, I really enjoyed it. Some shades of Floyd and Richard Thompson in there which I appreciate.
Thanks Jacob! Tons of Tom Petty influence in there too - something about the directness of the way he wrote always stuck with me 🤙
Something.... Couldn't hit that like quick enough!
That chord from "Wrapped Around Your Finger" is gorgeous, with your chorus pedal on top of the already awesome tone you have is *chef's kiss* perfection.
I'll be applying this mantra "slow, clean, and musical" to my evening playing session. Cheers!
That guitar is so sweet!
I'm just here to thank you and congratulate you for using the correct word. Not regime, not regiment, but regimen. Bravo!
Thanks - I try to speak goodly!
Applying a groove , now that’s clever.
A great way to teach students.
Yeah right.. practice.. Let's talk about the fact that you bring your guitars from the Paradise of guitars! XD
Stopped at „play every day“. Playing now
Love this. Daniel Spree - the bassist for Phile X & the Drils - also talks about the importance of slowing down, not speeding up, when practicing. Creates a much more profound connection to the music and understanding of what you're doing. Thanks for the insights, Eric!
Yeah! It's hard to do - to keep putting air between the notes!
Your content just keeps getting better, it's been an honor watching your channel grow like this. I love watching you play and listening to your ideas. Thankfully most everything from this list are already things that I do on a regular basis (especially finding any minute during the day possible to just PLAY something). What I do is play a certain list of arpeggios and other phrases to warm my hands up. From there I print off 5-6 exercises or challenging riffs/licks that I want to master for the week. Once I have mastered those exercises I move them around on the neck and really familiarize myself with what notes are being played. Then I refresh the exercises! :D Thanks for the video Eric you're awesome!
That's very smart to move those challenging licks around - too often we work really hard on some finger buster in Am, but don't do the extra work to move it to other chords/keys - that's where the fretboard knowledge really grows!
WHAT IS THIS GUITAR?? Pls someone advise 🙏🏻
Nice Bird! Great Channel from a new fan of your work. Cheers! From mtw in L.A. Epi LP player these days. A 1998 Trad Pro- Pelham Blue through old Peaveys. Monster cables, Levy straps. Fab Pedals for fun. Jam nights, bands, etc. Cheers!
I feel like I would compare scales to memorizing where the letters on the keyboard are rather than typing speed
Great looking guitar, what is it?
Epiphone!
Firebird VII from the early 2000s
Thanks Eric! Find time to practice/play everyday even if it’s just 5 minutes. Thanks for the advice about learning to type. This has been where I have been stuck. Must get back to your TrueFire course. 👍🙏
But if you experience pain take a couple of days a week off. Tendonitis will end your career.
I have to play everyday for at least an hour or I get the junkie itch.
Eric what kind of guitar is that? Looks like a Jazz master..
I would say the biggest hugest lesson I got from Eric was waaaay back on the video where he covered One More Cup of Coffee for the road, and the Andulusian cadence. The big eureka was that there is a pentatonic scale behind every chord! Once I absorbed that, and started practicing it every day (over a year now), the fretboard makes sense and my playing is way more cohesive.
So I've just now hit this aha moment in my own playing and trying to get it down. Takes time but holy crap was it a rewarding moment getting that understanding and now implementing.
Yay! The pentatonics really are the root of everything!
Do you somehow remember the title of that video? I’d really appreciate it.
Lead Strategies: When to Switch From Pentatonic to Harmonic Minor@@falconserek
@@darthstrings1thank you! ❤
I can't quite get my fingers wrapped around that chord.
I love your ever so gentle campaign against the widdly-widdly fretboard diarrhoea brigade. To paraphrase John Wayne: play low, play slow & don’t say too much. ✅
2:00 sounds like the theme to a very excellent dark British sitcom called Black Books.
That's a bit Marc Ribot's intro solo to "Jockey Full of Bourbon" (Tom Waits). It's been metioned before that whoever did the Black Books music was likely a fan!
I start my day with the Satellite riff which I believe Dave Matthews wrote as a warm-up riff that became a song.
That’s a great riff!
One thing I do is if there's something I try to play and can't for the simple reason that I ain't good enough yet is put a note in the calendar on my phone to try it again in 6 weeks' time. Usually I find in that time I have improved a bit.
That's an extremely cool guitar😁
The story writing analogy is just so true. The notes are there are on the guitar fingerboard already. When playing single string lead lines you just need to hear what you want to play in your head and then translate it to the guitar, even if it’s just note by note.
Incredible tone on this cover
I’m only 2:13 minutes through but I came to say thanks for bringing up Ribot.
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7:53 minutes through, I noticed that the guitar is cooler than it should be
Ribot, Harrison, Hendrix, Knopfler, Campbell, Summers, Rawlings - those are my guys!
you can always find time to play while you're waiting for the bacon to cook or just play while youre watching movies
100%!
The amount of couch/movie practice I do is EPIC
Eric, don't call us out like that 😂 too true about cramming may have worked before but not with something like guitar. Attention to detail is so important like you mention, you could learn so much by playing one note differently.
Yeah - the hyperfocus is such a thing!
I will always be here for the simplification when things get too be too much on this guitar journey. Thank you Eric!
There's so much information screaming at us all the time!
@@EricHaugenGuitar I am so impressed that no matter what you play, you have precision and great tone. I am currently trying to perfect that, learn blues theory, and building finger strength and accuracy for solos- I love playing guitar- just need clarity with so much to do!
Beautiful tone in intro...beautiful tune😎👍
Stripping down all the fx pedals, etc...
Really keeps practicing easier...
Less set up time..ie; dialing in each effect and amp fiddling.
Pick a guitar. Pick an amp. Grab a groove.
Play.
😎👍❤🖖
Love Brother
not gonna lie, man... when I saw during the week you posting some pedal steel over something I thought we`d have some `hendrix doublestop something`. but this is even better. From experience, what I use the most from your CAGED course on TrueFire is practicing my strumming hand. I didnt realize I knew so few rythm types, and that a few notes would colour so much between my chords. Now everything I already know I try to Bo Diddley it for a few minutes when I pick up the guitar in some different chord shapes. The confidence man, it`s already there!
Yeah! The Diddley pattern is so adaptive!
(I apply it to everything too)
Really nice, thank you! Do you have a specific set of videos about the CAGED system? I tried to learn it from different TH-cam channels, but I have never been really able to fully understand how it works. Thanks a lot for your hard work, I really appreciate it!
It actually all starts with Hendrix!
Like 4 years ago I did this one and it went kinda viral:
th-cam.com/video/AzF4SDdeEV0/w-d-xo.html
@@EricHaugenGuitar thanks a lot, I'll be watching it! :)
As a late adult learner for 3 years now, I can only emphasise to stick to something till you can talk while you’re doing it. I’ve been so many times through certain exercises but moved on too fast, resulting in having to revisit. Same for songs. I’m now focusing on one song for a month and playing it 10x a day. It still doesn’t feel like I own it. Be very critical for yourself.
In short: play, record, listen, analyse, focus on an issue, repeat sequence.
Great video, Eric - really helpful! Question - how do you practice when on holiday, and you don’t have access to a guitar? Any tips? Thanks!
I don’t! Practicing in your head is sometimes just as good as with a real guitar!
This is how I think about guitar as well. I have never found a teacher who expressed it as clearly and concisely as you did. I will definitely check out more of your lessons. (Started your Truefire stuff....It's great!) Thank you.
Thanks so much my dude!
I really believe that a simple repertoire, combined with the CAGED stuff is the way!
Thank you Eric great advise, off to the pizza...
Hey Eric Great lesson!! By the way love the FB, what kinda guitar stand do you use? My FB almost kissed the floor the other day 🫨😧
Just a regular stand - but I watch closely to make sure it stays!
I'm probably going to be anoying asking this because I do feel like I''m trying to ask a person if they can describe how a colour tastes.
But. . . . Do you have any advice on style? The problem I have and I'm 100% sure I am not unique in thiss trying to find my own voice / style. I like a LOT of different bands and genres but I have no real compulsion on what I am suposed to play like when it comes to writing original music. It's a real pain though because the musicians I look up to most all sound individually unique from each other and yet I don''t have a style of my own that I can comfortably say I'm not just trying to sound like someone else.
Does that make any sense ? ? ?
Yes this is a common problem - you are not alone!
Here's the deal:
LET THAT GO.
If you are criticizing yourself before you even finish a creation, you are in for a world of misery and paralysis. Just do stuff that sounds nice to you and don't worry about if it sounds like something else because IT'S ALL BEEN DONE BEFORE ANYWAY!
I need Eric as my neighbour .🏠🎸🏠
The more years I play, the more songs I forget. That makes revisiting my repertoire all the more fun.
Me too!
I’ve watched this a few times now. So helpful! Clear and flexible ways to focus! So reassuring too. Thinking about practice this way makes practice so inviting and mentally healthy 🙂🎸
I try to make it sensible and approachable!
My god, that guitar looks huge!😂
Hi Eric, I need amp buying advice!! I’m tossing up between the Vibro champ in this vid or a blonde Tonemaster deluxe reverb. I understand the TM is more flexible but I only play at home and i’m not sure I’ll ever use it to it’s full capacity. I also understand the VC gets loud if you want breakup, what would you suggest? Cheers
If you don’t own a tube amp, definitely get one first - there’s no substitute for that feel!
I feel seen. I have been working on the things we talked about last week, and I think it's sinking in! And the benefit of having a thick skull means that once things get in there, it's hard for them to come back out.
Perfecting the minutiae!
Brilliant lesson as always Eric thankyou. My problem is sticking to things. When I've been in covers bands in the past, the set list was everything, now I dont gig at present so I'm jumping from one thing to another & I never know how long to stick with something & so the dog chasing his tail situation never ends for me & I'm getting soooo frustrated. At least your lessons are an inspiration so thankyou🙏🏻
Awesome ideas. I've always struggled with figuring out a good practice routine.
damn, that's a beautiful guitar.
You have one of the best guitar instructions series on TH-cam. I always pick up something that is practical to help me get better.
So I've been wondering if the reverse headstock is actually way more ergonomic for your hand to turn the pegs. Thoughts?
I read somewhere that it's better for the string angles and gauges - I can never get used to it though!
So I happened to look at Hendrix strat and they suggest that the reversed headstock also changes the length for high strings, so they are easier to bend. Hmmmm interesting. Must explore!
What is the guitar you playing 12:56 😂
Any user of a tokai firebird is a good friend of mine.
A friend of mine has that guitar.
It's really amazing how your video's just make so much sense. I really appreciate your approach. It's the space between the notes!
I try!
The Marc Ribot lick was a nice example there
Great lesson …such tasteful playing 👍
Thanks Stevie!
Oof, sensational clean tone from that Firebird and diddy little Supro!😊 Good advice Eric, thanks👌
Those stock epiphone pickups too!
I was gonna change them out - but there's really no need!
Love your choice to use the word "play". A spoonful of sugar my friend... I see you. 😁
The words we use are so muchly important!
During Covid, I learned how to master the fretboard from Guitar Mastery Method. It opened up my world of guitar playing. How do I use it? Improvising to backing tracks. I don't spend time doing Page, Hendricks, Gilmour, Clapton, SRV, etc etc etc. I spend time improvising and creating and experimenting and it's amazing where it takes me. So much fun playing in major and minor using pentatonic and diatonic, experimenting with all the modes, and of course I love the blues. Love the clarity of you guitar, Eric.
Thank you so much for this inspiring lesson
I'm happy to help!
Hey Eric - you always seem to bring to light guitars solo's I used to just whistle along to on the radio, flying down the highway. What do you get on your pizza?
Pepperoni Mushroom is my default :-)
I'm gonna check out bundle up today. The album art looks dope and title reminded me of wasting my summer doing bundles
Yay! I'm really happy with how it came out!
Man you’re cool as f*ck
Eric, you are a fantastic teacher! All your advices are exactly how I feel about dealing with that wonderful, inspiring, satisfying - I could go on...- instrument. Playing guitar and having music around me, as often as I can, is the best way to stay happy and get through my life! Each morning, before I catch the metro for work, I play for about ten minutes. That sets me off perfectly! I start my day in a relaxed, sometimes inspired and satisfied way. That's the wonderful thing about electric guitars: You can play them unplugged at 6 o clock in the morning, without disturbing your wife (who thinks I'm a nerd) and your neighbours (who probably think the same)! :-)
Yeah - if we keep the musician part of the brain awake, it's always there ready to play!
Thank you su much for the tips!
Nice. Thanks, Eric. Good advise.
Incorporating your ideas here. Thank you. I needed some tweaks and direction to my practice regimen. This has been a welcome change to scales, sequences, ear training, songs…rinse repeat. Slowing down has been so beneficial instead of just robotically moving through my routine. Thanks Eric.
Yeah - scales and sequences are definitely good to do for a while, but then you can switch and work on phrases!
When you think "1564 in Bb" do you think of the names of all of the chords in that progression like "okay 5 is F, 6 is G, 4 is Eb" or do you just look for all of your Bbs and find the roots of the other chords in relation to the key?
Not Eric but - I do not think of note or chord names past the tonic. I've learned every chords relation to the one and even their inversions, so I just need to know where the 1 is.
this is a helpful way to look at things because it makes circling fifths really easy, as the patter just gets moved a fifth up and that becomes the root. I'll be jamming with people and they'll ask what I just played, it takes me a sec to back track thru what I played to get a key and notes lol
I think in terms of the key and have all the chords memorized for the keys that I like to play in. It's like sports teams!
Good advice bro