Nick, 62 year old here picking up the guitar again as a New Year's thing. Started around age 16 but had a bad experience with an instructor and never picked it up again. Found me a local instructor who also teaches out of Mel Bay's instruction and then you here on TH-cam. Your videos are awesome and I very grateful to have found you. Subscribed!!!
@@johnlindsay6039 yea mine was about the same and the instructor was kind of an acquaintance, but he was a real bastard the way he condemned my mistakes and literally had no patience for anything, so I quit for a year and no go to a real certified instructor who is like night and day. The first instructor I think, thought I was better than I really was and expected things out of me that were really unreasonable and out of the realms of my skill set at that time.
Hi Nick, love these videos, thanks for play-listing them. I went to college for vocal music, and I’m just now starting to pick up guitar at 30. These videos are really helping me with the mechanical aspects that the book expects you to be getting in lessons. I saw that you’re going to release videos for the later books under membership-I’ll certainly be signing up. From the standpoint of someone with theory knowledge, the depth of the Mel Bay books is what sold me on using them to pick up the instrument. When I tried to get lessons locally, it seemed like every teacher was disinterested in teaching from them and would rather just start with dissecting covers - but college experience has me fully rooted in method-style learning. Your content is greatly appreciated.
4 - harmonic Major :> ionian b6 and its modes :> why nobody talks about it, nobody teaches it, why it's so hard to find songs in harmonic Major? E.g. functional harmony for ionian b6 modal harmony for each of harm.Major modes modal progressions etc etc Are you familiar with the harmonic Major and could you discuss it one day from the tonal and modal side? Some musical exercises and examples :) Could You share with us?
5 - Do you think that musical and non-musical exercises are equally good? Most people who want to learn a foreign language, e.g. learns the alphabet (when these languages are, e.g. Japanese, Chinese or Thai) then they learn vocabulary, then sentences, grammar and that's how they learn to speak the language, right? Analogous to music lessons: our alphabet are notes within the octave :) our vocabulary and sentences are motives and licks :) our grammar is functional harmony,tonal or modal rules etc and of course all this stuff which determine that our music is in the chosen genre :) Victor Wooten once inspired me to think about scales He said that Ionian scale is the same scale in all musical genres Ionian scale is exactly the same but the genres are different, so how to make the same scale sound different every time, in a different style how to play ionian death metal,ionian jazz,ionian bluegrass,ionian flamenco etc etc Can you do it?Do You know how? (returning to the topic) So why in 99% of cases the teaching process goes like this as if we gave children scattered letters and told them to compose / discover a new alphabet and their own language that no one except them will understand? Instead of teaching them music the way we learn foreign languages that is, instead of teaching them music by practice music we teach them to recite the alphabet from beginning to end, from end to beginning, or in random order (scales up and down or thirds) and they are counting on that one day poetry will out of it :D People who want to learn music learn exercises in this way they get into the habit of mindlessly playing scales instead of music all their compositions are similar like twins because they learned how to play exercises instead of music instead of composing music. They are in the situation of a foreigner who knows some random words they go out into the street in a foreign country and...have stage fright before the show :D they are not sure what they are saying or they are talking well :) You know what I mean. Summarizing, what is your opinion on this topic, about musical and non-musical exercises, how to solve this problem.
1 - What is the beast ("the best" mean "most difficult") exercises you know which allow to use fingers on both hands independent of each other not symmetrically for example left hand fingers are going 1,2,3,4 but left hand figners strokes 4,3,2,1, (if You know what I mean saying "not symmetrically" english is not my native language,I use google translator haha) Generally, it's about the exercises developing the technique of the right hand like Rasgueado in flamenco etc etc let me clarify Basically the point is that our limbs have a natural tendency for symmetrical movement. That is, if the fingers of the left hand move in the order 1,2,3,4 (from pointing to little) fingers of the right hand that want to strokes according to the same pattern. The problem arises when we want to move the fingers of both hands at the same time but in different configurations, e.g. fingers 1,2,3,4 of the left hand together with fingers 4,3,2,1of the right hand. even 1,2,3,4 is ok and non symetrical, if we combine it with fingers 2,3,4,1 in second hand because problem is not what we do in one hand, but when we want to do different moves both hands together :) Someone could ask "what for"? it's about breaking barriers :) the point is to subduing/taming your own body,keeping fit this particular issue could be helpful for polyrhythms or for playing two melodies at the same time
2 - How to deal with this picking problem: We have two strings for example E and B and now we want play E string down /\ and B string up \/ or E string up \/ and B string down /\ Alternate picking right? How to get maximum speed with tremolo in this patern: one note per string? What we should avoid, what will stop our progress? How to achieve the level of Shawn Lane ? ;D Fingerpicking is ideal for it,but plectrum picking is a challenge.
Completely new to playing the guitar here. I find myself constantly looking at my fingers. Is this something I should try not to do or will this disappear once I become more familiar with strumming and playing the string?
6 - How many years we should play slowly to suddenly be able to play fast? ;) It's a trick question ;D Until we start practicing fast, we will never learn to play fast we can waste our whole life practicing slowly the same as if someone told us to learn jumping, but slowly slowly jump up and now slowly fall to the ground and remember to properly position your feet while falling,don't worry you have time :D Complete nonsense :) some bugs only appear when we playing fast therefore the question is what to practice fast and how to practice fast? I mean which mistakes make it impossible to play quickly?
Wait I'm confuse. You said "Your 1st 5 lessons" before this video" why is this video then the first lesson? I wish you label your lessons correctly..I would like to go step by step and get your complete lesson. But you now alone confused me. ALL VIDEO LESSONS FROM ALL WHO TRY TO TEACH ARE NOT THAT GREAT, BECAUSE THE TEACHER DONT NUMBER THEIR LESSONS IN ORDER..
Thanks for the feedback and sorry for the confusion. The "1st 5 lessons" are introductory information like how to hold the guitar, how to tune the guitar, etc... This video is actually the first lesson in the Mel Bay Book which starts on page 7 in the book! Good luck with everything and let me know if you have any other questions!
@@NickTolmanMusic Well its look like I had to do my homework and apparently TH-cam has mixed up your introduction courses within your Lesson courses, so I had to search for those courses..I don't know what it looks like at your end but at this end your introduction courses are mixed up..I do want to say thank you for giving these lessons.
Nick, 62 year old here picking up the guitar again as a New Year's thing. Started around age 16 but had a bad experience with an instructor and never picked it up again. Found me a local instructor who also teaches out of Mel Bay's instruction and then you here on TH-cam. Your videos are awesome and I very grateful to have found you. Subscribed!!!
So glad you're here! Good luck on your new chapter in your musical journey!
What was your bad experience? Cause I’ve had something similar happen
@@jeff7764 I was young and the instructor was condescending, interdating and had no patience.
@@johnlindsay6039 yea mine was about the same and the instructor was kind of an acquaintance, but he was a real bastard the way he condemned my mistakes and literally had no patience for anything, so I quit for a year and no go to a real certified instructor who is like night and day. The first instructor I think, thought I was better than I really was and expected things out of me that were really unreasonable and out of the realms of my skill set at that time.
loved the tip about keeping all 3 fingers on the fret board, thanks for these videos
Hi Nick, love these videos, thanks for play-listing them. I went to college for vocal music, and I’m just now starting to pick up guitar at 30. These videos are really helping me with the mechanical aspects that the book expects you to be getting in lessons. I saw that you’re going to release videos for the later books under membership-I’ll certainly be signing up. From the standpoint of someone with theory knowledge, the depth of the Mel Bay books is what sold me on using them to pick up the instrument. When I tried to get lessons locally, it seemed like every teacher was disinterested in teaching from them and would rather just start with dissecting covers - but college experience has me fully rooted in method-style learning. Your content is greatly appreciated.
So excited to have found you’re TH-cam channel and the Facebook support page!
I'm glad you're here too! Best of luck on your journey learning guitar!
Thank you very much!! I'll try this today!!!!
Thank you for teaching me like this I love you
Nick you are amazing
4 - harmonic Major :> ionian b6 and its modes :>
why nobody talks about it, nobody teaches it,
why it's so hard to find songs in harmonic Major?
E.g. functional harmony for ionian b6
modal harmony for each of harm.Major modes
modal progressions etc etc
Are you familiar with the harmonic Major and could you
discuss it one day from the tonal and modal side?
Some musical exercises and examples :)
Could You share with us?
great lesson sir
Hi , Great video , i,m just learning ,, what is the name of the title music at the begining of your video , thank you .
5 - Do you think that musical and non-musical exercises are equally good?
Most people who want to learn a foreign language, e.g.
learns the alphabet (when these languages are, e.g. Japanese, Chinese or Thai)
then they learn vocabulary, then sentences, grammar
and that's how they learn to speak the language, right?
Analogous to music lessons:
our alphabet are notes within the octave :)
our vocabulary and sentences are motives and licks :)
our grammar is functional harmony,tonal or modal rules etc
and of course all this stuff which determine that our music is in the chosen genre :)
Victor Wooten once inspired me to think about scales
He said that Ionian scale is the same scale in all musical genres
Ionian scale is exactly the same but the genres are different,
so how to make the same scale sound different every time, in a different style
how to play ionian death metal,ionian jazz,ionian bluegrass,ionian flamenco etc etc
Can you do it?Do You know how?
(returning to the topic)
So why in 99% of cases the teaching process goes like this
as if we gave children scattered letters
and told them to compose / discover a new alphabet
and their own language that no one except them will understand?
Instead of teaching them music the way we learn foreign languages
that is, instead of teaching them music by practice music
we teach them to recite the alphabet from beginning to end,
from end to beginning, or in random order
(scales up and down or thirds)
and they are counting on that one day poetry will out of it :D
People who want to learn music learn exercises
in this way they get into the habit of mindlessly playing scales instead of music
all their compositions are similar like twins
because they learned how to play exercises instead of music instead of composing music.
They are in the situation of a foreigner who knows some random words
they go out into the street in a foreign country and...have stage fright before the show :D
they are not sure what they are saying or they are talking well :) You know what I mean.
Summarizing, what is your opinion on this topic,
about musical and non-musical exercises, how to solve this problem.
1 - What is the beast ("the best" mean "most difficult") exercises you know
which allow to use fingers on both hands independent of each other
not symmetrically
for example left hand fingers are going 1,2,3,4
but left hand figners strokes 4,3,2,1,
(if You know what I mean saying "not symmetrically"
english is not my native language,I use google translator haha)
Generally, it's about the exercises developing the technique of the right hand
like Rasgueado in flamenco etc etc
let me clarify
Basically the point is that our limbs have a natural tendency
for symmetrical movement.
That is, if the fingers of the left hand move in the order 1,2,3,4 (from pointing to little)
fingers of the right hand that want to strokes according to the same pattern.
The problem arises when we want to move the fingers of both hands at the same time
but in different configurations, e.g. fingers 1,2,3,4 of the left hand together with fingers 4,3,2,1of the right hand.
even 1,2,3,4 is ok and non symetrical,
if we combine it with fingers 2,3,4,1 in second hand
because problem is not what we do in one hand,
but when we want to do different moves both hands together :)
Someone could ask "what for"?
it's about breaking barriers :)
the point is to subduing/taming your own body,keeping fit
this particular issue could be helpful for polyrhythms
or for playing two melodies at the same time
Hi sir....where do i get the audio to teach my students.. is there link to download
2 - How to deal with this picking problem:
We have two strings for example E and B
and now we want play E string down /\ and B string up \/
or E string up \/ and B string down /\
Alternate picking right?
How to get maximum speed with tremolo in this patern: one note per string?
What we should avoid, what will stop our progress?
How to achieve the level of Shawn Lane ? ;D
Fingerpicking is ideal for it,but plectrum picking is a challenge.
Completely new to playing the guitar here. I find myself constantly looking at my fingers. Is this something I should try not to do or will this disappear once I become more familiar with strumming and playing the string?
Hi :) may I ask You few questions?My firsts in this year :D
good!
Nice 👌👌
Lo logré...
Same pitch but two octaves apart or no? High E and low E. Anyways it doesn't really matter it's still a good lesson thank you!
Correct!
Hope I'll be lucky this time
🙏
Hello sir. In guitar strings which is the original name's EGBDFE or EADGBE
Standard tuning for the guitar is EADGBE.
@@NickTolmanMusic thanks sir . I like your all the videos and GOOD BLESS YOU sir .
6 - How many years we should play slowly to suddenly be able to play fast? ;)
It's a trick question ;D
Until we start practicing fast, we will never learn to play fast
we can waste our whole life practicing slowly
the same as if someone told us to learn jumping, but slowly
slowly jump up and now slowly fall to the ground
and remember to properly position your feet while falling,don't worry you have time :D
Complete nonsense :) some bugs only appear when we playing fast
therefore the question is what to practice fast and how to practice fast?
I mean which mistakes make it impossible to play quickly?
3 - Hybrid picking development :)
Best exercises/licks which You know,to achieve mastery in this technique :)
Wait I'm confuse. You said "Your 1st 5 lessons" before this video" why is this video then the first lesson? I wish you label your lessons correctly..I would like to go step by step and get your complete lesson. But you now alone confused me. ALL VIDEO LESSONS FROM ALL WHO TRY TO TEACH ARE NOT THAT GREAT, BECAUSE THE TEACHER DONT NUMBER THEIR LESSONS IN ORDER..
Thanks for the feedback and sorry for the confusion. The "1st 5 lessons" are introductory information like how to hold the guitar, how to tune the guitar, etc... This video is actually the first lesson in the Mel Bay Book which starts on page 7 in the book! Good luck with everything and let me know if you have any other questions!
@@NickTolmanMusic Well its look like I had to do my homework and apparently TH-cam has mixed up your introduction courses within your Lesson courses, so I had to search for those courses..I don't know what it looks like at your end but at this end your introduction courses are mixed up..I do want to say thank you for giving these lessons.
What make/model guitar is that?
Hope I'll be lucky this time
Hope I'll be lucky this time
Hope I'll be lucky this time
Hope I'll be lucky this time
Hope I'll be lucky this time