Thanks I’m a beginner I’m 64 years old and retired started 10 months ago. Learning on my owe. With the virus and cost to take classes is expensive. I’m not gonna be a Jimi Hendrix. I just always was interested in playing the guitar as part of my hobby being retired. Hopefully you’ll have more videos for beginners, especially my age. Thank you.
I've been doing the same thing. Except I'm 68. Since retiring, I try to play guitar every day. For at least an hour. I've learned a lot from active melody. Most lessons are over my ability, but I am getting a little better.
@@darrylroberts2697 hello I have a routine before I go to the gym I practice every day at least 20 minutes I purchased a book from Hal Leonard for beginners. I like how he does step by step in learning. My goal by end of this year to finish the book and at least have an understanding how to play the guitar. I also like to challenge myself. I’ve been retired as you probably know you need hobbies and Guitar was on my list. Be safe.
@@darrylroberts2697 PS God bless you 68 🙏😊your never to old too learn new things . And to challenge yourself and I am the kind of person that likes to challenge myself. Be safe.
@@Red23165 thank you so much. I got bored being retired with nothing to do and I always loved the guitar when someone would break out with a cool solo. I know I'll never be able to play a fancy lead like Eric Clapton, my guitar hero, but if I can just get to where I can play sounding good, and then put in a cool sounding solo, I'll be a happy camper! Active Melody has helped me quite a lot but I still don't quite sound good. Anyway, thank you for your blessings and God bless you. PS. I'd like to get some of us to do a recording together. If one of us could record a song, put it on Active Melody, and then someone add to it and post it, then someone else add to it, and so on. Make a song with a bunch of solos. I don't know if it's even possible. I'll try to ask. Would you try?
I too will never be a rock star, but figured anything I learned today I didn’t know yesterday, I’m 61 and love practicing, if I learn a new scale sure enough I will see those patterns show up here and in songs I love hearing, I know my hands will never be as fast as a 20 year old too many years of wrenching. My older brother has far more natural talent loves playing blues with the slide guitar. I got him started playing when he was late 50’s, due to back injuries not able to work anymore but full of energy and no no place to go. Get your family and friends engaged it really helped me find a peaceful place in my guitar room, I was told by a musician no matter what I play just have fun and then he handed me a blues scale book no matter what you play your not wrong. Go to active Melody circle of fifths lessons this opened a new chapter for me I now practice cords every day and follow/ use a 12 bar blues pattern can’t go wrong. No way to ever thank active melody for all the information he brings to us.
Y'know, Brian...I hope you're spending some time as a "session musician." You're certainly good enough, and creative enough, and after all, since you're living in Nashville (I think).... I think you'd have a great time doing it. Just don't stop teaching!
DAMN That little country lead work at the beginning sure brought back memories for me. Back in the early 70's, in a band, Glen Snow and the Ranch Hands... except his last name was actually Snowdenlowski!!! Three of us played to earn extra money... but not the lead guitarist. He played for the pleasure. An engineer for a glass company, he didn't need the extra 25 bucks a Friday or Saturday night gig would bring. He played a Fender Jaguar through, of course, a leaned back Twin Reverb. And, almost all of his lead work... was three note chords like you just played, finger picked. He would even bend one or two of the strings, so it sounded like a pedal steel. It was just so musical... so melodic. I miss those times of good music. Oh and 25 a night... and all the drinks you could drink at VFW's and Eagles and Elk's and dives. Just two mics... me on a SM57 (bass vocals) and Snow on a SM58... through, again of course, a Shure VocalMaster PA. Ah yeah... the "good old days".........................
Thanks Brian cheers from Ireland as a premium member I always learn something new which is the whole point here to keep getting better !! It’s hard to beat the Nashville number system well worth the time to figure it out !! Thanks Brian take care !! Brian Ireland 🇮🇪🎸🎸🎸
I'm playing this through a Mac Studio with an Apollo Solo interface into Logic Pro X. I have the Tape Delay plugin running with a delay time of 480 ms. I set the feedback to give me 4 echoes and set the output to 37% wet. Are you guys finding the 480 ms to be about right?
I love your explanation & demo. Foe those of us who are pictorial learners it would be really helpful to see tabs or a "chord" chart for what you are playing, especially since it's not always easy to see what strings the fingers are actually fretting. Thanks & please keep up the great videos.
At 7:26 when you play the floating G sus 2 chord, my ear really wants it to land on D. Is it the same as a D sus 4? I'm not very good at theory (I've always played by ear) which is why I'm enjoying your lessons :-) Edit: Just watched the rest of the video and I'm pleasantly surprised to see it is lol
Yes, there's any way that someone can explain to me. Step-by-step, how to really. Get these classes down so I can learn from them. I got to hook up to my fire. Stick to where I'm able to see on TV. So I'll have the phone in my face all day
this might be elementary to most, but I would like to hear you name the chord as the lead enters it. It would make more sense as a learner, to see how the notes fit into the chords as you follow them. A rolling graphic would be super helpful on the play through. Did I make any sense? tnx
I love how you constantly refer back to the CAGED system because for me that’s my constant reference of which scale you’re dealing with. So much easier than pattern 1-5.
Good lightbulb lesson, I do this without thinking tbh, chord tones really unlocked my playing, great lesson. Tele with P90, love that sound, my last Guitar purchase was the same, love the middle pup position with it.
First time to your channel, surprised youtube hasn't recommended your channel to me before this. Great simple lesson where a beginner can actually play some simple music. A way you could extend this lesson further is to add a really simple solo so beginners could literally play music based on these sus chords and a scale or two. Then take all the concepts to a different key, so instead of just playing in the key of G, show them how they can apply all this to the key of Eb (or some other key).
I’ve watched quite a few of your lessons but this was the one that convinced me to sign up as a premium member on your website. I know have a much better understanding of sus chords, thanks to you. And they sound awesome.
This really is the right stuff for me. Had epiphanies all throughout the clip.I'd stopped being a premium member because it became a bit too country orientated for my taste. I'm coming back to the fold for this one alone. A lot to digest here. Thank you!
Yeah, I suspected that. Thanks for confirming --- The song "Here I Am to Worship" popped immediately into my head when Brian went down to the A position.
Brian, I know you wanted to avoid too much scale talk / theory in this one, but you turned on a theory light bulb for me nonetheless, I think. So, I'm wondering whether you might simply please confirm for me the additional scale insight I got from your awesome lesson (in addition to many of your past lessons): So, the sus 2 (A note) of the G works over the D and C chords because it's the 5th of the D and the 6th (relative minor chord) of the C, right? Likewise, the sus 4 (C) also works over both because it's obviously the root of the C chord (the 4th of the G progression) and the dominant 7th of D (D7 chord). And, basically, it all works over Em because that is the relative minor of G anyway. Does that all sound right, more or less? Brian, I know you've been told this many times, but you are a truly brilliant teacher, man. You have my heartfelt gratitude for all you do.
You are a true monk.Sharing your amazing skill for almost free.A small request if you allow:can we have a lesson series on how to connect the entire fretboard on major scale and natural minor or melodic minor .Thank you so much.Sorry if I distracted the artist's own path of teaching.
This one shows the major scale all over the fretboard ( which is the same as the natural minor - explained in the video) : www.activemelody.com/lesson/how-to-use-modes-part-1-of-2-the-major-scale-in-5-caged-positions-guitar-lesson-ep374/
Thank you. Another great lesson. I have learned more from you as a premium member in a month than I had learned the previous year on just TH-cam. One thing I have been searching for is a quality lesson on how to get different sounds from an amp or a recording device like you are using. Do you have one or is that something you would consider creating? I have a Fender mustang micro and a vox amp both with very many variations of effects and sounds and i find it very hard to find a tone a like by just guessing. You did a quick explanation at the beginning of this video which explains a lot bit had me thinking I want more 😁
Well, I'm really glad I at least checked this out. Because I think that It might be my new home. Really like in the teaching a lot? I need to learn how to set up myself here I don't know how to do the computers. Totally illiterate when it comes to this. I don't even know how to Subscribe to TH-cam. I signed up for part of this so I should be able to go to the home thing and get on into the school part. I would need somebody to definitely explain step-by-step in order to start enjoying these classes.
Ok, I am a die-hard fan. I would just like to say that at times I do get a bit worn on all the explanation of what you're doing. I would suggest ignoring all the crazy questions you get, and do your lessons without all the explaining, and I think people will love to learn what you're playing, and surely the thoery will naturally reveal itself. You dont ask your spanish teacher where every word is derived from. you just learn the words. Just a bit of friendly advice. I have learned so much from your videos, and I really enjoy your taste. Be well. High Five.
that's what the on-screen tab portion is for on the activemelody website. It's just me playing it, and the tab on the screen at the same time - no explanation.
I appreciate your comment and opinion but I gotta disagree. For most of us, having the theory “naturally reveal itself” would be a dream come true. Unfortunately it doesn’t, at least not for me. Theory takes instruction/explanation and application to really learn. This in my opinion is the unique value in Brian’s lessons. Explanation, demonstration, and application all in a musical context of learning a cool musical composition. Each of the lessons is a self contained package. You don’t really need to watch some other vid to learn what’s being presented in the one being watched. But as I’m sure you know if you’ve watched many of his vids, there are common themes that are repeated over and over again which is another great and overall painless way to cement important concepts into your brain. I really appreciate this repetitive emphasis on things like CAGED shapes, scale intervals/numbering, and scales and modes related to CAGED chord shapes. In the time I’ve been watching Brian’s lessons I’ve learned so much without hardly realizing it! Previous attempts for me with other teachers seemed way overwhelming and frankly discouraging. The bite sized bits and repetitive emphasis works for me and I’m loving it. Keep up the excellent work Brian, your teaching methods are genius!👏👏👏
I think he strikes a good balance. I think he already understands what you said. Whether we like it or not we do have to think about a little bit of theory. I tried for a long time to get it by osmosis that doesn't work.
Thanks I’m a beginner I’m 64 years old and retired started 10 months ago. Learning on my owe. With the virus and cost to take classes is expensive. I’m not gonna be a Jimi Hendrix. I just always was interested in playing the guitar as part of my hobby being retired. Hopefully you’ll have more videos for beginners, especially my age. Thank you.
I've been doing the same thing. Except I'm 68. Since retiring, I try to play guitar every day. For at least an hour. I've learned a lot from active melody. Most lessons are over my ability, but I am getting a little better.
@@darrylroberts2697 hello I have a routine before I go to the gym I practice every day at least 20 minutes I purchased a book from Hal Leonard for beginners. I like how he does step by step in learning. My goal by end of this year to finish the book and at least have an understanding how to play the guitar. I also like to challenge myself. I’ve been retired as you probably know you need hobbies and Guitar was on my list. Be safe.
@@darrylroberts2697 PS
God bless you 68 🙏😊your never to old too learn new things . And to challenge yourself and I am the kind of person that likes to challenge myself. Be safe.
@@Red23165 thank you so much. I got bored being retired with nothing to do and I always loved the guitar when someone would break out with a cool solo. I know I'll never be able to play a fancy lead like Eric Clapton, my guitar hero, but if I can just get to where I can play sounding good, and then put in a cool sounding solo, I'll be a happy camper! Active Melody has helped me quite a lot but I still don't quite sound good. Anyway, thank you for your blessings and God bless you.
PS. I'd like to get some of us to do a recording together. If one of us could record a song, put it on Active Melody, and then someone add to it and post it, then someone else add to it, and so on. Make a song with a bunch of solos. I don't know if it's even possible. I'll try to ask. Would you try?
I too will never be a rock star, but figured anything I learned today I didn’t know yesterday, I’m 61 and love practicing, if I learn a new scale sure enough I will see those patterns show up here and in songs I love hearing, I know my hands will never be as fast as a 20 year old too many years of wrenching. My older brother has far more natural talent loves playing blues with the slide guitar. I got him started playing when he was late 50’s, due to back injuries not able to work anymore but full of energy and no no place to go. Get your family and friends engaged it really helped me find a peaceful place in my guitar room, I was told by a musician no matter what I play just have fun and then he handed me a blues scale book no matter what you play your not wrong. Go to active Melody circle of fifths lessons this opened a new chapter for me I now practice cords every day and follow/ use a 12 bar blues pattern can’t go wrong. No way to ever thank active melody for all the information he brings to us.
I like it already
GREAT Lesson , thanks for being the best guitar teacher
Y'know, Brian...I hope you're spending some time as a "session musician." You're certainly good enough, and creative enough, and after all, since you're living in Nashville (I think)....
I think you'd have a great time doing it.
Just don't stop teaching!
DAMN That little country lead work at the beginning sure brought back memories for me. Back in the early 70's, in a band, Glen Snow and the Ranch Hands... except his last name was actually Snowdenlowski!!! Three of us played to earn extra money... but not the lead guitarist. He played for the pleasure. An engineer for a glass company, he didn't need the extra 25 bucks a Friday or Saturday night gig would bring. He played a Fender Jaguar through, of course, a leaned back Twin Reverb. And, almost all of his lead work... was three note chords like you just played, finger picked. He would even bend one or two of the strings, so it sounded like a pedal steel. It was just so musical... so melodic. I miss those times of good music. Oh and 25 a night... and all the drinks you could drink at VFW's and Eagles and Elk's and dives. Just two mics... me on a SM57 (bass vocals) and Snow on a SM58... through, again of course, a Shure VocalMaster PA. Ah yeah... the "good old days".........................
I love this, it's fun and useable musically!! Thank you!
Great to know these SUS embellishments to add into 🎸playing. I like the 🤠version in the Premium video😃.
Yes, the 🤠version is very you
Thanks Brian cheers from Ireland as a premium member I always learn something new which is the whole point here to keep getting better !! It’s hard to beat the Nashville number system well worth the time to figure it out !! Thanks Brian take care !! Brian Ireland 🇮🇪🎸🎸🎸
I like the G sus chord . There isn’t anything greater than G Sus 🙌
Main takeaway, Dsus4 = Gsus2 😆 Don't really know why that's true, but I can't unsee it! Love little things like that haha
I'm playing this through a Mac Studio with an Apollo Solo interface into Logic Pro X. I have the Tape Delay plugin running with a delay time of 480 ms. I set the feedback to give me 4 echoes and set the output to 37% wet. Are you guys finding the 480 ms to be about right?
Thank you Brian another lightbulb moment in my learning curve,great lesson.
Thanks 👍 sounds Of Tom Petty ☺️
I love your explanation & demo.
Foe those of us who are pictorial learners it would be really helpful to see tabs or a "chord" chart for what you are playing, especially since it's not always easy to see what strings the fingers are actually fretting.
Thanks & please keep up the great videos.
Great lesson Brian!! Hope you do more ambient stuff. The way you teach helps us know what is happening musically.
Hi Brian, another killing lesson! That sounds really nice! Tks
At 7:26 when you play the floating G sus 2 chord, my ear really wants it to land on D. Is it the same as a D sus 4? I'm not very good at theory (I've always played by ear) which is why I'm enjoying your lessons :-)
Edit: Just watched the rest of the video and I'm pleasantly surprised to see it is lol
Yes, there's any way that someone can explain to me. Step-by-step, how to really. Get these classes down so I can learn from them. I got to hook up to my fire. Stick to where I'm able to see on TV. So I'll have the phone in my face all day
Fantastic.....you make a great job....thank you very much....greatings from Germany....😎
Thanks Brian went back to this lesson more lightbulbs now than Blackpool illuminations your the man
this might be elementary to most, but I would like to hear you name the chord as the lead enters it. It would make more sense as a learner, to see how the notes fit into the chords as you follow them. A rolling graphic would be super helpful on the play through. Did I make any sense? tnx
Thank you very much. Not only does this style sound beautiful, the info. in this lesson very helpful. Thanks.
Brian u were right bout music bein 4 th dimension,,modern physic is balooney
The premium members lesson on just this one is worth the membership.
Playing in the 4th dimension. Good one, Brian
Very nice lesson Brian...i gotta get used to those finger stretches though.
Why do I not want to understand and utilize scales ?
Thanks Brian great lesson can't wait to use in the different inversions playing up and down the neck
great sound and lesson. thank you.
8:05 Free Falling by Tom Petty
I agree that "sus chords" when combined with the "normal chords" give nuance like magic!
Thank you very much Cheif!
Super ❤️🙏🎶🎼🎸👌🍀✌️
Great stuff
Thank You Again!
Another great lesson…👏
I love how you constantly refer back to the CAGED system because for me that’s my constant reference of which scale you’re dealing with. So much easier than pattern 1-5.
Good lightbulb lesson, I do this without thinking tbh, chord tones really unlocked my playing, great lesson. Tele with P90, love that sound, my last Guitar purchase was the same, love the middle pup position with it.
First time to your channel, surprised youtube hasn't recommended your channel to me before this. Great simple lesson where a beginner can actually play some simple music. A way you could extend this lesson further is to add a really simple solo so beginners could literally play music based on these sus chords and a scale or two. Then take all the concepts to a different key, so instead of just playing in the key of G, show them how they can apply all this to the key of Eb (or some other key).
15:50 isnt a Gsus2?
Use these all the time at church. Very effective with some grit, reverb, and delay. Gives you the amphitheater sound. Big and bold.. Thanks Brian!
Great lesson!
❤️🎸😎👍 absolutely beautiful. Thank ya BRIAN 🙏
I’ve watched quite a few of your lessons but this was the one that convinced me to sign up as a premium member on your website. I know have a much better understanding of sus chords, thanks to you. And they sound awesome.
Amazing intro. Can’t wait to get this under my fingers. What kemper profile are you using ?
This really is the right stuff for me. Had epiphanies all throughout the clip.I'd stopped being a premium member because it became a bit too country orientated for my taste. I'm coming back to the fold for this one alone. A lot to digest here. Thank you!
There you go reading my mind again! I was just asking my teacher about sus chords this week. Great explanation of the sus chords!
Brilliant, these sus chords are just hiding in plain sight and tie together the major and minor triads, perfect for improvising, thanks again
Playing the same piece in various styles is the true take away here. Thank you.
Quite simply the best, most thorough guitar teacher I have ever learned from. Thank you so much for sharing your talents. Godspeed.
That was nice, thanks Brian!
Huge part in worship music! Great video and explaining to help people grow in the talent!
Yeah, I suspected that. Thanks for confirming --- The song "Here I Am to Worship" popped immediately into my head when Brian went down to the A position.
Brian, I know you wanted to avoid too much scale talk / theory in this one, but you turned on a theory light bulb for me nonetheless, I think. So, I'm wondering whether you might simply please confirm for me the additional scale insight I got from your awesome lesson (in addition to many of your past lessons): So, the sus 2 (A note) of the G works over the D and C chords because it's the 5th of the D and the 6th (relative minor chord) of the C, right? Likewise, the sus 4 (C) also works over both because it's obviously the root of the C chord (the 4th of the G progression) and the dominant 7th of D (D7 chord). And, basically, it all works over Em because that is the relative minor of G anyway. Does that all sound right, more or less? Brian, I know you've been told this many times, but you are a truly brilliant teacher, man. You have my heartfelt gratitude for all you do.
You’ve got it
@@activemelody Thanks, Brian! For this and everything else. Best,
You are a true monk.Sharing your amazing skill for almost free.A small request if you allow:can we have a lesson series on how to connect the entire fretboard on major scale and natural minor or melodic minor .Thank you so much.Sorry if I distracted the artist's own path of teaching.
This one shows the major scale all over the fretboard ( which is the same as the natural minor - explained in the video) : www.activemelody.com/lesson/how-to-use-modes-part-1-of-2-the-major-scale-in-5-caged-positions-guitar-lesson-ep374/
@Active Melody thank you so much.
A Beautiful, Informative and Inspiring lesson- as always! Sus chords are awesome! 👌💕
Great one! 🤠
Thank you. Another great lesson. I have learned more from you as a premium member in a month than I had learned the previous year on just TH-cam. One thing I have been searching for is a quality lesson on how to get different sounds from an amp or a recording device like you are using. Do you have one or is that something you would consider creating? I have a Fender mustang micro and a vox amp both with very many variations of effects and sounds and i find it very hard to find a tone a like by just guessing. You did a quick explanation at the beginning of this video which explains a lot bit had me thinking I want more 😁
Have a look at this one: th-cam.com/video/MOf0RZwD0nA/w-d-xo.html
Off course you have it 😊 thank you.
Pinball Wizard is a master class on sus chords
Thanks, I’ll check that out. It made me think of Free Falling.
Well, I'm really glad I at least checked this out. Because I think that It might be my new home. Really like in the teaching a lot? I need to learn how to set up myself here I don't know how to do the computers. Totally illiterate when it comes to this. I don't even know how to Subscribe to TH-cam. I signed up for part of this so I should be able to go to the home thing and get on into the school part. I would need somebody to definitely explain step-by-step in order to start enjoying these classes.
Ok, I am a die-hard fan. I would just like to say that at times I do get a bit worn on all the explanation of what you're doing. I would suggest ignoring all the crazy questions you get, and do your lessons without all the explaining, and I think people will love to learn what you're playing, and surely the thoery will naturally reveal itself. You dont ask your spanish teacher where every word is derived from. you just learn the words. Just a bit of friendly advice. I have learned so much from your videos, and I really enjoy your taste. Be well. High Five.
that's what the on-screen tab portion is for on the activemelody website. It's just me playing it, and the tab on the screen at the same time - no explanation.
@@activemelody Fantastic, I wasn't aware. Thank You so much for what you do. It actually is a pretty big deal. Thank You.
I appreciate your comment and opinion but I gotta disagree. For most of us, having the theory “naturally reveal itself” would be a dream come true. Unfortunately it doesn’t, at least not for me. Theory takes instruction/explanation and application to really learn. This in my opinion is the unique value in Brian’s lessons. Explanation, demonstration, and application all in a musical context of learning a cool musical composition. Each of the lessons is a self contained package. You don’t really need to watch some other vid to learn what’s being presented in the one being watched. But as I’m sure you know if you’ve watched many of his vids, there are common themes that are repeated over and over again which is another great and overall painless way to cement important concepts into your brain. I really appreciate this repetitive emphasis on things like CAGED shapes, scale intervals/numbering, and scales and modes related to CAGED chord shapes. In the time I’ve been watching Brian’s lessons I’ve learned so much without hardly realizing it! Previous attempts for me with other teachers seemed way overwhelming and frankly discouraging. The bite sized bits and repetitive emphasis works for me and I’m loving it. Keep up the excellent work Brian, your teaching methods are genius!👏👏👏
In my opinion it's all those explanations that make these videos the most valuable.
I think he strikes a good balance. I think he already understands what you said. Whether we like it or not we do have to think about a little bit of theory. I tried for a long time to get it by osmosis that doesn't work.