Hey guys! Hope you're all well? Here's the first in a new series of monthly videos I've decided to put together outlining some of the practice methods I've used in my own playing. From month to month they will cover theory, technique, visualisation and improvisational concepts that I like to practice in order to improve my ability as a guitarist. If you enjoy the content and want to support my work, please feel free to check out the exclusive lessons on my website and my app Solo using the links in the video description! Thanks for watching and let me know what you'd like to see in future videos below! Happy practicing, Tom.
Been playing guitar for almost 70 years now focussed on improvisation, recently changed to all 4ths tuning, using the “intervallic function” naming in place of note names, and now find this brilliant, logical practice method! Thank you much, Tom, for all the help. Of course, I’ve got to go sit down and do it, but I’m finding it fun! Bless you, man! 👏
This I think is the best Guitar Practice App to master soloing chord tones/chord changes in a very logical and easiest way! Thank you much Tom and the team who made this app possible
This is one of the most efficient approaches to playing arpeggios I've come across. This will help me to play the changes to standards and pretty well any chord progressions I come across. I'm sure the app will benefit many players, however I prefer to use my own brain to work on this. Been playing and teaching for over 40 years and I don't know why I haven’t seen this approach before. Anyhow, I've got it now and it's a great springboard to a whole lot of other variations and extended approaches to playing with chord tones. Thanks so much Tom. I think your new approach to videos about what, how and why to practice different ideas and concepts to playing guitar will be a great success!!! 👍 Best regards from Montréal Québec, Canada ✌😉🎼🎶
So rewarding to start hitting some of the changes right. Chord tones, knowimg the intervals... Spent so much time, years, noodling scales, without properly being able to use them. This approach feels good and makes so much more sense
Can't thank you enough. Bought your course "learn the fretboard" or something to that effect. Using your approach of visualising harmony has changed the way I look at the guitar. It also makes me look less of a noob Infront of others when I can just pick out the 4th or the major 7th at will
Seeing you explain this framework has me very excited. Just bought the app and I'm going to do this daily. I always loved melodic practice anyway so this has great potential for me. My biggest issue has always been staying focused and not wandering off into an hour long improvisation. Hopefully I can avoid it now haha.
Thank you very much, Tom! This is as good as it gets when it comes to high end instructional stuff on the guitar. This video alone is worth the price of the app, being such a valuable lesson. And this structured approach is right up my alley. Appreciate it! Despite the flood of backing tracks on the web It‘s not easy to find good tracks for chord tone practice. There‘s either too many changes or they‘re too fast. A set of backing tracks organized in the same spirit as the Solo app would be a perfect addition to this product. Ranging from one chord tracks to two and three chord changes in various speeds.
One idea Sir Tom, instead of thinking "limitation by finger" which works in the literal playing, it might be easier on the mind to think as "reference point"=root and "left" and "right" from the root, then u can memorize and practice intervals by direction, not finger, left is only one but fingerings are more, for me at least its way more productive like that, Thank u again!! your videos helped me the past 6 months to finally start to improv and make better music
This is very helpful! I've got Solo, and it's great, but I'm all over the fretboard, not even in the same octave. Starting with the first finger, second finger, etc is a great tip!
Will this be like when Danielson was painting fences and washing cars. At first he didn’t realize the benefits of the repetition but it was teaching him something far bigger
Thanks for posting this. I have had the Solo app for a quite a while, haven’t used it a lot. I am sure I will be using it more often now. I also tuned my 7 string acoustic guitar to 4ths recently. I mainly wanted to visualize the circle of 5ths better on the guitar, was surprised to see so many other advantages. I think maybe the biggest reason more people are not using this tuning is just because of tradition. Thanks again for posting this video.
Great lesson, you sold me on solo! I've tried cataloguing myself, and it's a PAIN. Started even writing code for it, but this is better. I might even use this for KB.
Really enjoy all of your lessons and teaching style Tom. Only big negative for me is playing a lesson in non-standard tuning which can be confusing, particularly when most students (guitarists?) play in standard tuning..
Hi Tom, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. Would it be possible to have you sharing a step further and sharing your point of view on improvisation? Because impro is not only playing the right notes. How do you construct your improvisation? How do you incorporate licks? What is your approach? Again, thanks a lot.
Totally agreed. Thanks for describing the exercise in depth (even the permutations) but as I was investing time watching the video, realizing of course it'll take some time and effort to get good at these exercises, the question in my head was "ok, say i get good at these, HOW would i use this skill for playing nice solos?" hoping that the video will answer this question. But, alas, after showing all the permutations of the exercise with the app you are advertising, you just play a nice solo with no explanation how one makes that leap. Don't mean to sound ungrateful - but it felt a bit anti-climatic at the end.
@@ababkin I don't know anything but perhaps I'll try to explain my take. The leap is where this exercise is applied within a musical context.. vs... the mechanical practice of training when most everything is on a downbeat and starts at the root and progresses in linear way. This seems mechanical and boring and slow but we must walk before we run.The goal is to play with intention. if one is improvising a solo like he does at the end of the lesson, You recognize and say thats nice. What makes it nice? One does not typically play a phrase starting on the 1 of the beat and the root note of the scale like when we do exercises..With much practice,with intention, one can at will, mix and randomize the timing and phrasing and sequence of notes ..It's a practice of 2 very separate disciplines and the art or what makes it musical or not is how the 2 combine by the player(you) 1. The timing...where one starts and ends a phrase within a bar. 2. The choice of notes within the scale or phrase. If you listen to tabla players play a solo within a raga, they change the start position and end positions of their phrases. They go over and around the bar like a conversation. If you want a nice solo, You can play one note but it's the timing and the phrasing that make it "nice" or not. Knowing what's available on the fretboard seems to be what this exercise is about. What to play when comes with practicing with intention
Thanks to your prior and current videos on fretboard visualization through intervallic functions and interval position relative to the root note of the chords, I'm starting to be able to see and recognize intervals of the chords I see others use or the ones I explored on the fretboard, so thank you again, Tom. Will definitely purchase the app to support you and utilize it to become a better musician, hopefully in the near future when I'm capable of purchasing it.
Great app and practice method. I bought it, thanks! Wondering if an update could allow note names to be displayed under the chord intervals? UPDATE: Disregard, I saw your explanation on another video. However, I do feel it would be a valuable asset to those of us who don't have chord notes and inversions memorized quite yet. Thanks.
just bought the app. ill reply to this with my progress. right now im a dumb metal hell or only knows minor modes and plays basically just power chords.
This guy is amazing! I'm a classical guitarist and i was very dependant on the sheet music. When i started improvising i got stuck on the pentatonic and the patterns. I am definitely gonna download this app. It's soooo well-structured. By the way, does anyone knows what string gauges he uses? Τhe e-b-g strings are like "Ι'm gonna hit you in the face".
Thanks Tom, your intervallic approach has been revolutionary as I re-learn guitar. This in conjunction with the “Better Guitar Scale” overview, have really helped liberate me on the fretboard. I’m keen to get into more jazz stuff so can I ask 1) do you have any particular tips for integrating the more outside tones (#9s, b5s etc) or do you just continue the intervallic approach, I.e. know where those tones are as well as the chord tones, and use them precisely when you want to? And 2) do you still think in “shapes” at all, and if so, what shapes do you prefer?
This tool seems like it would help me learn the intervals/chord tones on the fret board. I know them on keys, but wasn't sure how to learn them for guitar. My question is that I practice on my PC. Is there a PC version? I will buy it.
I already know all the notes of the fretboard, so it seems impossible to me to think about intervalic shapes without thinking about note names. Any advice?
Is there Any video of yours , where you teach how to comp this chord/melody playing from @29:59 until 30:14 ? this is the playing i want to achieve to be a support for my saxophon playing brother :)
secrets to be a guitarist- Revealed!!! spoiler- It kicks ass, and needs you to put in a lot of hard work. Everything thats makes you good must kick your ass 🙂. Thanks Tom ❤️
When the chord changes a lets say you land on the 3rd of the chord you are changing to, do you visualise from the new chord root or are you still visualising from the parent scale.
That's really awesome. I use Solo everyday, and your method to see the neck is perfect for me. Thanks !! I have one question : when you start with the third for example (let's say Dm7), do you see the note F and start from there or do you see the root (D), then find the third and then find the other intervals ? Sorry for my bad english! Thanks again Tom, it really helps me !
He sees everything relative to the root. But what you are saying, i.e. locating chord tones by their relative interval to each other, is also a valid visualization technique. Wayne Krantz uses this.
Practice! 😄 Descending is a little less natural, because we think of chords as having the root as the lowest note. Playing the first and second inversion triads helps a bit with seeing the thirds and fifths lower than the root note.
Hey Tom! Love the app. Wish list item on chord tones... Solo seems to train on 7th chords exclusively? Four voice tonic Maj6 and tonic Min6 chord tones are important to me in my bop practice. I'd love to see them incorporated if they've not been already! Cheers, Daniel, Denver
Tom, had the solo opp for some time now, can I firstly say well done fantastic app. Would it be possible in your next update if we can have a section where we could choose our own chords to work with as opposed to the set songs and workouts in the index this would mean we can work to our own ability choosing easy chords if we want to in any order. Apologies if it is in the app and I haven’t found it yet. Thanx for your hard work with the app, Marc..
Hi Tom, I like your way of explaining things. As a guitar player myself, I feel myself being limited with effortlessly soloing over chord changes. I was going through your guitar courses. Could you please suggest the course/s which might help me achieve that? Thanks in advance.
Hey guys! Hope you're all well? Here's the first in a new series of monthly videos I've decided to put together outlining some of the practice methods I've used in my own playing. From month to month they will cover theory, technique, visualisation and improvisational concepts that I like to practice in order to improve my ability as a guitarist. If you enjoy the content and want to support my work, please feel free to check out the exclusive lessons on my website and my app Solo using the links in the video description! Thanks for watching and let me know what you'd like to see in future videos below! Happy practicing, Tom.
Tom, the page of sølo is offline :(
I’m gonna get this app when I get a new job soon
@@JuanIgnacioSuarezRosario 😕
🎸
Tom, does solo also have a metronome?...would be cool to have it.
I can't believe I get to watch TOM QUAYLE talk about how he practices and all I have to do is have an internet connection and watch a couple of ads
Haha! Glad you like the video - thanks for watching!
Whos tom qualy?
@@the.communistwhere in the world is Tom Quayle
@@the.communistDon’t know
And in a mere 8 minutes he showed me F is the minor 3rd in D-7!
Been playing guitar for almost 70 years now focussed on improvisation, recently changed to all 4ths tuning, using the “intervallic function” naming in place of note names, and now find this brilliant, logical practice method! Thank you much, Tom, for all the help. Of course, I’ve got to go sit down and do it, but I’m finding it fun! Bless you, man! 👏
whoa..... 70 YEARS????????
This I think is the best Guitar Practice App to master soloing chord tones/chord changes in a very logical and easiest way! Thank you much Tom and the team who made this app possible
What is that amp?
One of the most important lessons I have ever seen.
Thank you Maestro. God bless you!
This is one of the most efficient approaches to playing arpeggios I've come across. This will help me to play the changes to standards and pretty well any chord progressions I come across. I'm sure the app will benefit many players, however I prefer to use my own brain to work on this. Been playing and teaching for over 40 years and I don't know why I haven’t seen this approach before. Anyhow, I've got it now and it's a great springboard to a whole lot of other variations and extended approaches to playing with chord tones. Thanks so much Tom. I think your new approach to videos about what, how and why to practice different ideas and concepts to playing guitar will be a great success!!! 👍 Best regards from Montréal Québec, Canada ✌😉🎼🎶
So rewarding to start hitting some of the changes right. Chord tones, knowimg the intervals... Spent so much time, years, noodling scales, without properly being able to use them. This approach feels good and makes so much more sense
Thank you so much Tom!
Cristal clear video, it's good for the improvising skills and for the brain generally.. 🤯
This is Brilliant, Tom! I’ve got the solo app and am so impressed at what a powerful tool you guys have created. Thank you for sharing your wisdom!
tom 很欣赏你的演奏风格和技巧，无奈在中国不太懂英文很多不太明白的东西只能看着视频照着练习
Great vid. Would love to see more of this type of content. Solo has been a great addition to my practice routine!
Thank you Tom!
My pleasure Nicky!
I’m just a rock guitarist trying to sound better. You’re absolutely amazing!
Thank you Tom for sharing your knowledge with us, you are a truly inspiration for me, your app is wonderful, congratulations from Cali Colombia.
Can't thank you enough. Bought your course "learn the fretboard" or something to that effect. Using your approach of visualising harmony has changed the way I look at the guitar. It also makes me look less of a noob Infront of others when I can just pick out the 4th or the major 7th at will
Maaan, I bought you app, and now looking at your routine I have a wider range of things to practice!! I'm anxious to the rest of the series
Thanks!
Awesome series keep it coming
Thanks and will do!
Eureka! This tutorial video is a GEM! Thanks.
Tom, in case you aren’t aware, YOU ROCK, BRO!!!
Hi, I've just purchased the app, and it's very well put together. You're a master of the instrument.
Seeing you explain this framework has me very excited. Just bought the app and I'm going to do this daily. I always loved melodic practice anyway so this has great potential for me. My biggest issue has always been staying focused and not wandering off into an hour long improvisation. Hopefully I can avoid it now haha.
The best teacher on the planet!!
This is one million times better than learning by major scale shapes
Thank you very much, Tom! This is as good as it gets when it comes to high end instructional stuff on the guitar. This video alone is worth the price of the app, being such a valuable lesson. And this structured approach is right up my alley. Appreciate it!
Despite the flood of backing tracks on the web It‘s not easy to find good tracks for chord tone practice. There‘s either too many changes or they‘re too fast.
A set of backing tracks organized in the same spirit as the Solo app would be a perfect addition to this product. Ranging from one chord tracks to two and three chord changes in various speeds.
11:10 Ex2
13:53 That D note descending to the Low F… I play an 8 string, so actually I do have a way to reach it. 😄
One idea Sir Tom, instead of thinking "limitation by finger" which works in the literal playing, it might be easier on the mind to think as "reference point"=root and "left" and "right" from the root, then u can memorize and practice intervals by direction, not finger, left is only one but fingerings are more, for me at least its way more productive like that, Thank u again!! your videos helped me the past 6 months to finally start to improv and make better music
This is very helpful! I've got Solo, and it's great, but I'm all over the fretboard, not even in the same octave. Starting with the first finger, second finger, etc is a great tip!
Tom, you’re a baaaad man 🤟🏼 thank you for the inspiration
you are just a guitar genuis! music theory is my nemesis but you help a bit for sure, I need your knowledge!
Thank you for the lessons/exercises
wow brilliant. now must stay focused for the weeks and months of practice.
It would be very convenient if the second note was shown in the app once the right interval was played…😅 great video, thanks so much!
Will this be like when Danielson was painting fences and washing cars. At first he didn’t realize the benefits of the repetition but it was teaching him something far bigger
This is very helpful Sir Tom Quayle! Thank You So Much for your Guitar Lessons.
Part2 ? Love to see it 👍
This kind of vids are really very useful in combination with solo. Thx!
Thanks for posting this. I have had the Solo app for a quite a while, haven’t used it a lot. I am sure I will be using it more often now. I also tuned my 7 string acoustic guitar to 4ths recently. I mainly wanted to visualize the circle of 5ths better on the guitar, was surprised to see so many other advantages. I think maybe the biggest reason more people are not using this tuning is just because of tradition. Thanks again for posting this video.
Wow this app is powerful! Buying it now!
Great lesson, you sold me on solo! I've tried cataloguing myself, and it's a PAIN. Started even writing code for it, but this is better. I might even use this for KB.
Really enjoy all of your lessons and teaching style Tom. Only big negative for me is playing a lesson in non-standard tuning which can be confusing, particularly when most students (guitarists?) play in standard tuning..
Amazing lesson, amazing teacher
Hi Tom, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. Would it be possible to have you sharing a step further and sharing your point of view on improvisation? Because impro is not only playing the right notes. How do you construct your improvisation? How do you incorporate licks? What is your approach? Again, thanks a lot.
Totally agreed. Thanks for describing the exercise in depth (even the permutations) but as I was investing time watching the video, realizing of course it'll take some time and effort to get good at these exercises, the question in my head was "ok, say i get good at these, HOW would i use this skill for playing nice solos?" hoping that the video will answer this question. But, alas, after showing all the permutations of the exercise with the app you are advertising, you just play a nice solo with no explanation how one makes that leap. Don't mean to sound ungrateful - but it felt a bit anti-climatic at the end.
@@ababkin I don't know anything but perhaps I'll try to explain my take. The leap is where this exercise is applied within a musical context.. vs... the mechanical practice of training when most everything is on a downbeat and starts at the root and progresses in linear way. This seems mechanical and boring and slow but we must walk before we run.The goal is to play with intention. if one is improvising a solo like he does at the end of the lesson, You recognize and say thats nice. What makes it nice? One does not typically play a phrase starting on the 1 of the beat and the root note of the scale like when we do exercises..With much practice,with intention, one can at will, mix and randomize the timing and phrasing and sequence of notes ..It's a practice of 2 very separate disciplines and the art or what makes it musical or not is how the 2 combine by the player(you) 1. The timing...where one starts and ends a phrase within a bar. 2. The choice of notes within the scale or phrase. If you listen to tabla players play a solo within a raga, they change the start position and end positions of their phrases. They go over and around the bar like a conversation. If you want a nice solo, You can play one note but it's the timing and the phrasing that make it "nice" or not. Knowing what's available on the fretboard seems to be what this exercise is about. What to play when comes with practicing with intention
Thank You, that's a really great lesson!
thanks tom
Excellent practice approach!!! Thank you very much.
Thanks to your prior and current videos on fretboard visualization through intervallic functions and interval position relative to the root note of the chords, I'm starting to be able to see and recognize intervals of the chords I see others use or the ones I explored on the fretboard, so thank you again, Tom. Will definitely purchase the app to support you and utilize it to become a better musician, hopefully in the near future when I'm capable of purchasing it.
Hey bro
This is very help everyone
Thanks made this app :)
From korea
I liked Sterns latest book Altered Soloing has similar info, yet in a physical book ...lol old school
Awesome video man!
splendid
This is solid gold ! Amazing and efficient practice
Great lesson, thanks Tom!
The App is Great! Just Buy it, you wont regret it. Now for adding sound confirmation and a tuner....
Brilliant!
Thanks!
Awesome lesson. Those descending intervals are trickier for sure. Will have to try the app
3:54 inadvertently played a portion of Final Fantasy Prelude
Amazing dude!
Thank you for amazing apps!
A commercial for an app. Yippee
Great lessons
Great app and practice method. I bought it, thanks! Wondering if an update could allow note names to be displayed under the chord intervals? UPDATE: Disregard, I saw your explanation on another video. However, I do feel it would be a valuable asset to those of us who don't have chord notes and inversions memorized quite yet. Thanks.
just bought the app. ill reply to this with my progress. right now im a dumb metal hell or only knows minor modes and plays basically just power chords.
YES! WE NEED THIS!
Sold!
Complexity is simplicity sped up a bit. Cheers!
Guitar legend/genius/beast
This guy is amazing! I'm a classical guitarist and i was very dependant on the sheet music. When i started improvising i got stuck on the pentatonic and the patterns. I am definitely gonna download this app. It's soooo well-structured. By the way, does anyone knows what string gauges he uses? Τhe e-b-g strings are like "Ι'm gonna hit you in the face".
Ask him, i think he uses 10s or 11s
Also, his guitar is usually tuned in all fourths, to better visualise the fretboard in his fusion playing. EADGcf
Thanks Tom, your intervallic approach has been revolutionary as I re-learn guitar. This in conjunction with the “Better Guitar Scale” overview, have really helped liberate me on the fretboard.
I’m keen to get into more jazz stuff so can I ask 1) do you have any particular tips for integrating the more outside tones (#9s, b5s etc) or do you just continue the intervallic approach, I.e. know where those tones are as well as the chord tones, and use them precisely when you want to?
And 2) do you still think in “shapes” at all, and if so, what shapes do you prefer?
❤
This tool seems like it would help me learn the intervals/chord tones on the fret board. I know them on keys, but wasn't sure how to learn them for guitar. My question is that I practice on my PC. Is there a PC version? I will buy it.
I already know all the notes of the fretboard, so it seems impossible to me to think about intervalic shapes without thinking about note names. Any advice?
Tom, could you please make solo app for windows?🙏
Is there Any video of yours , where you teach how to comp this chord/melody playing from @29:59 until 30:14 ? this is the playing i want to achieve to be a support for my saxophon playing brother :)
❤️ like this
I really find your lessons super! I would like to download the solo app on my iPhone/ipad and to my laptop. Possible without having to pay more?
secrets to be a guitarist- Revealed!!! spoiler- It kicks ass, and needs you to put in a lot of hard work. Everything thats makes you good must kick your ass 🙂. Thanks Tom ❤️
Amazon TIPS.. isn't the boring exercise Is very good fpor develop Freedom expreshion
I'm usually kind of jaded on apps for learning the guitar but damn if Solo didn't help me really quick
Tom we need shell chords on solo!
This is an infomercial for his app.
You mean he asks for money for teaching you how to become a great guitarist? What a douche he is...
is it available for window
Thank you Tom . . . I cant spread my fingers over 5 frets - please help
When the chord changes a lets say you land on the 3rd of the chord you are changing to, do you visualise from the new chord root or are you still visualising from the parent scale.
That's really awesome. I use Solo everyday, and your method to see the neck is perfect for me. Thanks !!
I have one question : when you start with the third for example (let's say Dm7), do you see the note F and start from there or do you see the root (D), then find the third and then find the other intervals ?
Sorry for my bad english! Thanks again Tom, it really helps me !
He sees everything relative to the root. But what you are saying, i.e. locating chord tones by their relative interval to each other, is also a valid visualization technique. Wayne Krantz uses this.
I got solo ❤️
Does anyone else find it so much harder to do these kind of things descending rather than ascending? My brain doesn't seem to like descending.
Practice! 😄 Descending is a little less natural, because we think of chords as having the root as the lowest note. Playing the first and second inversion triads helps a bit with seeing the thirds and fifths lower than the root note.
@@nedim_guitar That's what I've been doing all day. If it doesn't pay off after a few weeks I'll be back here to shout at you!
@@danspitalnik To me it also helps to imagine the octave below. Sometimes I find 3rd and 5th notes easier like that.
Hey Tom! Love the app. Wish list item on chord tones... Solo seems to train on 7th chords exclusively? Four voice tonic Maj6 and tonic Min6 chord tones are important to me in my bop practice. I'd love to see them incorporated if they've not been already! Cheers, Daniel, Denver
Can you play jazz blues this way?
How do you practice and to get faster and make it musical ?
Brilliant video Tom! Could you tell me what studio desk you have there?
I've been trying to find something similar that's solid and durable.
Do You use 3 Notes Per Strings Arpeggios for playing chances ?
Kinda Ibanez, is that? I'm looking for a left-handed one but can't find anything in my country????
Tom, had the solo opp for some time now, can I firstly say well done fantastic app.
Would it be possible in your next update if we can have a section where we could choose our own chords to work with as opposed to the set songs and workouts in the index this would mean we can work to our own ability choosing easy chords if we want to in any order.
Apologies if it is in the app and I haven’t found it yet.
Thanx for your hard work with the app, Marc..
Hi, I understand using Solo requires an iPhone or IPad but can the course you offer be run on my PC?
Hi Tom, I like your way of explaining things. As a guitar player myself, I feel myself being limited with effortlessly soloing over chord changes. I was going through your guitar courses. Could you please suggest the course/s which might help me achieve that? Thanks in advance.
His Fretboard Visualisation course is what you might want.
@@HussainSaahil Did you get the course and was that helpful for you?
Is there any pentatonic focused training mode in the app?
How far to put the pick in to the strings?