I finally pulled the trigger on joining the Dojo just after Sammy's last video. I've only watched the first lesson so and I've already gone "Oh! Damn, that's fun!" While practicing on my own. I intend to follow his lessons one week at a time, giving myself time to get comfortable with what I learned from the previous lesson. The Dojo doesn't teach you how to play music, it teaches you how to MAKE music and I see that now. Based on my experience with the first lesson alone, I do highly recommend getting in while it's cheap if you're feeling kinda stuck or listless with your playing. Great work, Sammy G!
@AshleyBeby no, actually. I just genuinely recommend joining his Dojo. He's made a good thing and I wanna see him continue making good things. Sorry for sounding too much like a bot tho
@@Mullewarp Every genre. Classic radio makes the mistake of playing an artist's charting song rather than the music that brought the fans in the first place (I'm looking at you, Armageddon soundtrack). Labels made the mistake of taking an artist and convincing them that riding a musical trend is a good thing (with notable exceptions; Blur's "There's No Other Way" is far more interesting than anything by the Stone Roses). Or the Kirschner/Outfield gambit where the goal is to write a "hit song" instead of just a song by focusing on the "algorithm" rather than the music. And genre is not a style. Styles have rules, genres, like "alternative" or "indie" can include artists like the Indigo Girls and the early Beastie Boys, two wildly different styles but lumped in the same genre.
About second deadly sin: Adam Neely once proposed to analyze why do you don't like certain genre/song and really dig deep into it to understand where your disgust comes from. Worked very well for me - i've opened my head for some genres i never really liked, and for once very specific (region specific) genre i couldn't work it out, but at least now i know perfectly what's wrong with it, i know that it is just backkground for something else and now it bothers me slightly less.
Totally agree especially with shutting your ears off to entire genres of music. You don't need to enjoy everything but there's almost always something to learn or appreciate in even the bubble-gummiest of pop songs. Could be a structure thing, a production thing or a small melodic fragment. I started appreciating songs that use one chord progression for a whole song the last couple of years, and how interest and variety across sections can be created through arrangement and rhythm instead.
There was something in Joe Jackson's autobiography I liked about musical space. He compared writing and playing music to being a sculptor who starts with a big block of marble and begins chipping away. The block is perfect and be made into any shape. The sculptor has to stop at some point or there is no sculpture -- just a pile of marble bits. He stops when there is nothing more he needs to take away without detracting from the creation. For the musician, your perfect block of stone is silence. You begin chipping away at it by adding sounds. But you have to stop or else you are left with a meaningless wall of sound.
that does not make sense because everyone is different, I would say that music is something that has always been there, which is true because sound has always existed, its just that your lens makes you see it in different ways. its the lens that you make that affect how you see everything. its just the long way of saying perspective
Practice listening to a random radio station... A big part of my practice routine is trying to play with songs you don't know or don't really like ... really helps you with expanding your musical abilities to play with others in a group with more confidence..
1:55 THANK YOU i have respect for every genre as i have used parts of every genre in my art ive been trying to tell people if you really want to get into music you NEED that respect
The confidence thing is so true, being overconfident and flashy actually got me some places i wanted to reach even though my rhythm was complete nightmare.
With intonation, I saw a video where a guy placed his guitar flat on the table with the bridge to the right. Behind it, he put a guitar tuner with a needle. When he played a note on the 12th fret, the needle indicated which direction the saddle needed to move. (i.e. sharp note makes the needle point right - so you move the saddle "to the right" or toward the bridge).
paid for your course, thanks for the offering. Haven't taken a lesson in well over 20 years, but figured that your pricing couldn't be passed up for the chance to broaden my skill set. Much appreciated my dude!
Thank you Sammy G! Another one of the videos that I appreciate the most: The "meta-layer of learning how to make music". Great value in easy tips - why didn't I ever think of setting the metronome to half the speed? (Seems kinda obvious) Here's a German Musician's saying for you (instant translation by yours truly): "One and three is the hay-barn, two and four is Rock'n'Roll..." (not too serious, I know) And this is how I try (with varying success) to keep myself from "overplaying": Play as I would speak - pause while breathing in - play some more (and make a point) while breathing out... (That may or may not work for anybody but me - but I think that's going into the same direction...) Keep it up! And thank you again for all the good stuff you do in the love of music!
Totally agree with don't shut yourself of for other kinds of genres. I play every VR rythm game there is for the last 2 years It made me appreciate and like so much more music styles and genres that I normally would never ever have listened to. And it does help with musical freedom in playing an instrument.
Work on being empathetic, truly listening and vibing with others not only in music but in life , and this will help in all avenues in life , and also very much in playing music with others just feeling what needs to be done not thinking about it .
6:07 Rythm is the most important part in music. My first instrument was the drums and I played that throughout my childhood before I ever touched a guitar and imo it gave me a huge advantage when I picked up guitar later on.
Yeah it is all to easy to hide when you miss that note. I was playing last weekend and completely botched something. Another guy in the band also botched it but in a different way (we were supposed to be playing a synchronized passage) I talked to folks in the audience and they wondered why I seemed down about that tune. They didn't even notice.... it was only the musicians who heard the mistakes. I did commit the sin of pulling back and losing confidence and realized that I shouldn't... I just went back and practiced even more to get the part right.
A big old fat wrong note in time with the rhythm is *far* less noticeable than the right note played at the wrong time. Even when you're soloing, surprisingly. People are extremely sensitive to rhythm and time, and far less sensitive to pitch. Hence the reason why you can usually get away with playing open strings during chord changes, so long as you never interrupt the rhythm.
*cough* alt/prog/avante garde rock has entered the chat *cough* The same way dissonance can be used in a musical way, arrythmia can be used in a musical way too, as long as you are very careful and know what you are doing. The golden rule is: Consistency Is Key If you sound like crap (either because of dissonant/sour notes OR out-of-time playing), make sure to CONSISTENTLY sound like crap, because as long as you are consistent, you will sound good.
@@LMacNeill just remeber the golden rule of rock n' roll: It's OK to sound like crap as long as you CONSISTENTLY sound like crap, because if you are CONSISTENT, you will sound good.
I’ve played guitar for almost two decades and have always hated practicing to a metronome, it’s just too easy for my brain to tune out. It is vitally necessary to practice to a rhythm track though, so I recommend practicing to drum tracks or backing tracks in general. You can even use GarageBand, or another DAW, to create basic rhythm tracks. Doing this has always worked better for me.
I just wish my students would stop coming up with excuses when i give them constructive critism. Being a good musician is about having a personality that is condusive for learning in the first place.
It's not just music, it's everything! Young Americans can never be wrong. They cannot accept it, and that includes constructive criticism. This is already a huge problem in our society with the generations before them that are already in the work force. They don't want to learn from their elders and believe that their ways are best BUT they don't actually know what they're doing because they never did the work, and never learned from their mistakes.
“serving the song” depends on what “the song” is. If you’re trying to do a chaotic, thrashy, ‘ruined’ cover of Octopus’s Garden, then slam that whammy (just not if you’re trying to capture the same feel as the original)
Tip the pros use: in-ear monitors with a click-track. If the whole band is hearing the same thing, it's much easier to stay in the groove together. But, do run through a practice with this a few times, as it does have a learning curve.
I believe a STRONG rhythm guitarist is just as important as a lead guitarist. Look at Hendrix, EVH and Gilmour. GREAT lead players, but also knew how to play GREAT rhythm.
A big mistake when it comes to gear is listening with your eyes (assuming beautiful gear sounds better) or with your wallet (assuming expensive gear sounds better). For example, I wouldn't say my "Glarry" bass that my friend found for free in the trash sounds better than an American made Fender bass, but it does sound about as good as my vintage Japanese "Electra" bass
I find for any genre there is a type I like. I hate 'Bro Country' but I like old folk style I don't generally like hip hop but I loved Public Enemy when they first came out and like Childish Gambino because he's so eccentric. I'm not into modern fusion jazz but I like the older instrumental style.
Those sins don't just apply to guitar players. They apply to all musicians. I played keyboards with a drummer who refused to listen or play certain genres of music. As i trombone player, I have to make sure my rhythm, timing, and intonation match the group. I sometimes listen to other sections to make sure I am in sync. And I've made my share of bad entrances.
Agree on all points…but caution with “serve the song”….often I see people trying to use that line as a version of “I’m right, you’re wrong” to get their way in a difference of opinion in a collaboration. Which is weak sauce…. Listening while playing can be difficult at first, it gets easier but often new players are trying so hard to avoid mistakes and play well, that they have no room left to listen to the rest of the band. It’s well worth the effort to work on it.
Listening inward. "Noodling away oblivious of the rest" So, só true... We all know at least one bassplayer like that 🤣🤣🤣🤣 All jokes aside: Excellent tips!! 🙏😎
This was an instructional and philosophical video so I honored your wisdom and culture by watching while kneeling in the Seiza pose. My ankles are killing me. AAAAh pins and needles. I agree with everything except the metronome. Yes, the metronome will make you faster. Yes it will make your playing tighter. Used consistently the metronome will make you the fastest, most accurate player you can be and it is the only way to make it to your highest ability. But I honestly feel that the metronome can kill your unique touch, feel and sound if you overuse it. Metronome players just all sound too much alike to me. When I listen to a Nirvana song played to perfection I don't hear Kurt Cobains' deliberately rough style and I don't even hear the Guitarists' own interpretation of the music in the inherent looseness given to them by the grunge style. I hear a metronome. The Rock Band games just do not click with me because of things like this. I think metronomes are a trade off. Car analogy: Do you want to be a race car, or do you want to go off road? You can be the Ferrari or you can be the F-150 or somewhere in between. Choose between speed and accuracy or touch and style. There are also so many ways to develop timing in a way similar to a metronome my favorite is to use a chorus, flanger, rotary or phaser pedal and try to play into the natural loop of the pedal, but really anything that runs in a loop you can listen to or look at, you can make it into what you could call a "cyclonome." I always worry about a guitarist not discovering their own sound, and I put it like this: Thousands of guitarists listen to a player like Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Steve Vai or Eddie Van Halen and they tell tell themselves "I want to sound just like that." Then they practice for hours and hours over the course of years until something terrible happens to them. They succeed.
Regarding the first sin, I've seen on youtube some pianoplayers that almost seem bored in some parts of existing songs and need to add from gracenotes to straight up delaying the song with a bar to do... unnescessary stuff, often to just show off. It drives me insane.
Its best to start yelling at the drummer to speed up, then yell, "too fast slow down!" Then rock the guitar neck up and down to show him but at a different tempo. It really helps to piss him off mid song. Be sure to change to a stank face when doing it. Then apologize to the audience that it was the first time the drummer played it. It helps with bonding.
@3:39 man, i wish the mainstream news networks would learn this. They think the only way to communicate is to have 5 people talking over each other until commercial break.
@xTheDeerLordx mainstream *media, then. Obviously those are opinion shows, but that's what most people consider to be News. Not everyone can be Ken Klippenstein, lol.
I have a problem with intonating the low E string. I'm floating the bridge, and I have the saddle all the way back(I even took out the spring) and the 12th fret is still sharp. I had a professional set up on my other strat which had the same problem, and somehow he fix it. Any clues before I get a pro setup?
I make my songs for me. So that i can listen them when out jogging, in gym etc.. Cause i havent found any new bands that has perfect songs for years. And the songs from my favourite bands that ive listened 20+ years are getting kinda old. And those bands had like average 2 "perfect songs" per album. The rest of the songs i coulndt care less. So i make my own music (somekind of mixture of instrumental prog metal and the soul crushing sad guitar solos of stratovarius guitarist timo tolkkis ballads and then the very aggressive metal parts. All feelings in one back. But never ever any happiness. Hope yes, but not the major scale Beatles "yellow submarine" shiet). I love every part of my ~10 minute songs. (Cause if there was a bad riff, part, solo, anything i didnt like... I would replace it with something i love) Thats my opinion how to make good music. Make it for your self!!! I could make spotify top 100 shit too. 5 songs per day and kill myself after few months cause i coulndt handle the torture😉
Nah. I am the songwriter. The song should serve me. And I'm saying this unironically. There is literally no point for me to write a song if playing it will bore me to tears.
Half a turn anticlockwise on the truss rod nut (inside the soundhole), leave it overnight, retune and see how you are. If that doesn't work then you'll probably need to go see a luthier, classical guitars are a bit more complicated than acoustic and certainly a lot more complicated than electric guitars so need to be adjusted ideally by professionals.
Definitely see a luthier, but it's probably a cheap guitar and if your serious about playing guitar (if your a beginner, which I'm assuming you are) just practice until you feel comfortable buying a new guitar.
Alright, Steve makes a good point I don't like any country music However, i AM impressed by (insert any country artist here) being able to sleep with every single one of his cousins AND his own sister. I also don't like rap But i AM impressed by (insert every rapper here) ability to glorify drugs, crime, murder, sexual assault, excessive alcoholism, and other assorted debauchery all within the same rap. Very impressive! 👍🏻 5th deadly music sin: Playing out of tune Honest question, was Jimi Hendrix ever "IN" tune ever in his life? - We don't get enough samuraiguitarist videos
Why do you keep changing the thumbnail and title for so many of your vids? I think this one I've seen go through three different thumbnails by this point?
There are two schools of thinking. - rules and structure matter and you should learn according to official sources, conforming to classical tradition -rules never mattered, music was made from chaos the math is just a byproduct of the energy The second one is the correct thinking. Sure, techniques can help. But classical musicians are angry angry people and i dont like them. Is it really worth it to be angry all the time just because youre obsessed with rules and making everyone follow them? Yet people arent impressed by people doing things by th'book, theyre impressed by ingenuity and creativity and lateral thinking.
I disagree with your view on keeping your ears closed. What you input becomes your output after being filtered through you. So whatever you put in will probably come out of you eventually. If it’s a genre that you don’t particularly like, you probably wouldn’t want that represented in your art
I finally pulled the trigger on joining the Dojo just after Sammy's last video. I've only watched the first lesson so and I've already gone "Oh! Damn, that's fun!" While practicing on my own.
I intend to follow his lessons one week at a time, giving myself time to get comfortable with what I learned from the previous lesson. The Dojo doesn't teach you how to play music, it teaches you how to MAKE music and I see that now. Based on my experience with the first lesson alone, I do highly recommend getting in while it's cheap if you're feeling kinda stuck or listless with your playing. Great work, Sammy G!
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@AshleyBeby no, actually. I just genuinely recommend joining his Dojo. He's made a good thing and I wanna see him continue making good things. Sorry for sounding too much like a bot tho
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"When I do a mistake playing, i'll do the mistake again, just so people think i meant it" (EVH)
There’s the old (half-)joke: jazz is the art of being able to repeat your mistakes
"Repetition legitimizes." Adam Neely
Ed's dad was a jazz musician so.........
That’s the trick
“What mistake I meant to do that …” 🤷♂️
Repetition legitimizes
I personally have a huge problem with playing confidently. You really hit home mentioning timid entrances! Thank you for pushing me to improve.
"Closing your Ears"
When I was younger this was a major problem. Now that I'm older, I don't care what genre of music it is, good music is good music.
Yes, good music is good music, but there are genres out there where the bad music (to my taste) is prevalent.
@@Mullewarp Every genre.
Classic radio makes the mistake of playing an artist's charting song rather than the music that brought the fans in the first place (I'm looking at you, Armageddon soundtrack). Labels made the mistake of taking an artist and convincing them that riding a musical trend is a good thing (with notable exceptions; Blur's "There's No Other Way" is far more interesting than anything by the Stone Roses). Or the Kirschner/Outfield gambit where the goal is to write a "hit song" instead of just a song by focusing on the "algorithm" rather than the music.
And genre is not a style. Styles have rules, genres, like "alternative" or "indie" can include artists like the Indigo Girls and the early Beastie Boys, two wildly different styles but lumped in the same genre.
I like the one about "make mistakes boldly" It is true for sure. Confidence in your playing (even the mistakes) is important.
Just have to learn to cover mistakes
About second deadly sin: Adam Neely once proposed to analyze why do you don't like certain genre/song and really dig deep into it to understand where your disgust comes from. Worked very well for me - i've opened my head for some genres i never really liked, and for once very specific (region specific) genre i couldn't work it out, but at least now i know perfectly what's wrong with it, i know that it is just backkground for something else and now it bothers me slightly less.
Totally agree especially with shutting your ears off to entire genres of music. You don't need to enjoy everything but there's almost always something to learn or appreciate in even the bubble-gummiest of pop songs. Could be a structure thing, a production thing or a small melodic fragment. I started appreciating songs that use one chord progression for a whole song the last couple of years, and how interest and variety across sections can be created through arrangement and rhythm instead.
There was something in Joe Jackson's autobiography I liked about musical space. He compared writing and playing music to being a sculptor who starts with a big block of marble and begins chipping away. The block is perfect and be made into any shape. The sculptor has to stop at some point or there is no sculpture -- just a pile of marble bits. He stops when there is nothing more he needs to take away without detracting from the creation. For the musician, your perfect block of stone is silence. You begin chipping away at it by adding sounds. But you have to stop or else you are left with a meaningless wall of sound.
Unless you're making shoegaze then you just keep adding sounds.
Unless you're Phil Spector, then you just add in more carved marble blocks to fill out the wall of sound.
that does not make sense because everyone is different, I would say that music is something that has always been there, which is true because sound has always existed, its just that your lens makes you see it in different ways. its the lens that you make that affect how you see everything. its just the long way of saying perspective
One of the most brilliant, helpful vids on YT. Love how you're so positive and down-to-earth. Thanks!
Practice listening to a random radio station...
A big part of my practice routine is trying to play with songs you don't know or don't really like ... really helps you with expanding your musical abilities to play with others in a group with more confidence..
Love this channel. Hd video with a super chill atmosphere. Much love brother.
1:55 THANK YOU i have respect for every genre as i have used parts of every genre in my art ive been trying to tell people if you really want to get into music you NEED that respect
The confidence thing is so true, being overconfident and flashy actually got me some places i wanted to reach even though my rhythm was complete nightmare.
Great vid. Love how often you remind players to serve the song.
With intonation, I saw a video where a guy placed his guitar flat on the table with the bridge to the right. Behind it, he put a guitar tuner with a needle. When he played a note on the 12th fret, the needle indicated which direction the saddle needed to move. (i.e. sharp note makes the needle point right - so you move the saddle "to the right" or toward the bridge).
paid for your course, thanks for the offering. Haven't taken a lesson in well over 20 years, but figured that your pricing couldn't be passed up for the chance to broaden my skill set. Much appreciated my dude!
i love the way you look at it, and how you put it in to words. actually awesome video 💯
Another great video. You have really made me think about some things and I appreciate it
8 guitars divebombing will work on octopususs garden
Yeah.. that was a very experimental time for the Beatles.. so odd noise would fit well so long as it didn't overpower the rest of the band!
Thank you Sammy G!
Another one of the videos that I appreciate the most: The "meta-layer of learning how to make music".
Great value in easy tips - why didn't I ever think of setting the metronome to half the speed? (Seems kinda obvious)
Here's a German Musician's saying for you (instant translation by yours truly):
"One and three is the hay-barn,
two and four is Rock'n'Roll..." (not too serious, I know)
And this is how I try (with varying success) to keep myself from "overplaying":
Play as I would speak - pause while breathing in - play some more (and make a point) while breathing out... (That may or may not work for anybody but me - but I think that's going into the same direction...)
Keep it up! And thank you again for all the good stuff you do in the love of music!
I am actually 100% behind that pinch harmonic dive bomb, sounded cool!!
It was cool 40 years ago.
I have a lot of questions about a talk box being on the shelf next to a bottle of hot sauce...
Well observed and eloquently presented! Thanks!
Totally agree with don't shut yourself of for other kinds of genres. I play every VR rythm game there is for the last 2 years It made me appreciate and like so much more music styles and genres that I normally would never ever have listened to.
And it does help with musical freedom in playing an instrument.
Work on being empathetic, truly listening and vibing with others not only in music but in life , and this will help in all avenues in life , and also very much in playing music with others just feeling what needs to be done not thinking about it .
Dont be like the employees at guitar center tip #2
6:07 Rythm is the most important part in music. My first instrument was the drums and I played that throughout my childhood before I ever touched a guitar and imo it gave me a huge advantage when I picked up guitar later on.
Yeah it is all to easy to hide when you miss that note. I was playing last weekend and completely botched something. Another guy in the band also botched it but in a different way (we were supposed to be playing a synchronized passage) I talked to folks in the audience and they wondered why I seemed down about that tune. They didn't even notice.... it was only the musicians who heard the mistakes.
I did commit the sin of pulling back and losing confidence and realized that I shouldn't... I just went back and practiced even more to get the part right.
this is probably the most useful information I've ever gotten from one of your videos
A big old fat wrong note in time with the rhythm is *far* less noticeable than the right note played at the wrong time. Even when you're soloing, surprisingly. People are extremely sensitive to rhythm and time, and far less sensitive to pitch. Hence the reason why you can usually get away with playing open strings during chord changes, so long as you never interrupt the rhythm.
*cough* alt/prog/avante garde rock has entered the chat *cough*
The same way dissonance can be used in a musical way, arrythmia can be used in a musical way too, as long as you are very careful and know what you are doing.
The golden rule is: Consistency Is Key
If you sound like crap (either because of dissonant/sour notes OR out-of-time playing), make sure to CONSISTENTLY sound like crap, because as long as you are consistent, you will sound good.
@@-jank-willson "...as long as you know what you're doing." Which absolutely *does not* describe me on the guitar at all. 😂😂😂
@@LMacNeill just remeber the golden rule of rock n' roll:
It's OK to sound like crap as long as you CONSISTENTLY sound like crap, because if you are CONSISTENT, you will sound good.
I’ve played guitar for almost two decades and have always hated practicing to a metronome, it’s just too easy for my brain to tune out.
It is vitally necessary to practice to a rhythm track though, so I recommend practicing to drum tracks or backing tracks in general. You can even use GarageBand, or another DAW, to create basic rhythm tracks. Doing this has always worked better for me.
I was told, long ago: "The wrong note, played at the right time (rhythm) sounds better than the right note at the wrong time" italways stuck with me.
I just wish my students would stop coming up with excuses when i give them constructive critism. Being a good musician is about having a personality that is condusive for learning in the first place.
It's not just music, it's everything! Young Americans can never be wrong. They cannot accept it, and that includes constructive criticism. This is already a huge problem in our society with the generations before them that are already in the work force. They don't want to learn from their elders and believe that their ways are best BUT they don't actually know what they're doing because they never did the work, and never learned from their mistakes.
@@jimbrennan1181 That's just a problem with Americans in general. A large portion of them are pampered asshats.
“serving the song” depends on what “the song” is. If you’re trying to do a chaotic, thrashy, ‘ruined’ cover of Octopus’s Garden, then slam that whammy (just not if you’re trying to capture the same feel as the original)
The only thing that makes me nervous to go on stage is not knowing what objects the audience will throw at me this time.
@4:39 not just playing out of tune, but tuning your freakin' guitar at full volume between songs or even live! 😡
That octupus' garden bit had me ROLLING
"It's definitely not the bass player" 💀
And I took that personally
*cough* Peter Steel has entered the chat *cough*
@@eddienothing9610 🤣
I'd recommend every guitarist to learn basic bass.
*Lemmy has entered the chat*
Yoko Ono is screaming at this video right now :)
Tip the pros use: in-ear monitors with a click-track. If the whole band is hearing the same thing, it's much easier to stay in the groove together. But, do run through a practice with this a few times, as it does have a learning curve.
Nice video, thanks!
"The song has started therefore I must be playing"
the over playing reminds me of the scene from Amadeus when hes ripping up Mozarts composition..."too many notes"
I believe a STRONG rhythm guitarist is just as important as a lead guitarist. Look at Hendrix, EVH and Gilmour. GREAT lead players, but also knew how to play GREAT rhythm.
Tommy Emmanuel always says that if you want to be a great lead player you need to be a great rhythm player
I'll add the late Angus Young to that list. He was the machine at the heart of AC/DC. He never overplayed, never lost the rhythm.
@@underwoodvoice9077 I believe you mean his elder brother Malcolm
Angus is still alive
@@oldgoat381 Damn, of course you're right. That's what I get for failing to proofread...
0:45 is the best sh ever
A big mistake when it comes to gear is listening with your eyes (assuming beautiful gear sounds better) or with your wallet (assuming expensive gear sounds better). For example, I wouldn't say my "Glarry" bass that my friend found for free in the trash sounds better than an American made Fender bass, but it does sound about as good as my vintage Japanese "Electra" bass
I find for any genre there is a type I like.
I hate 'Bro Country' but I like old folk style
I don't generally like hip hop but I loved Public Enemy when they first came out and like Childish Gambino because he's so eccentric.
I'm not into modern fusion jazz but I like the older instrumental style.
Good points. On rhythm, forget about the concept of "rhythm section". The whole band is the rhythm section. Yep, singer included.
Hey man, did you work at the Best Buy guitar section in Nashville back in the day?
Those sins don't just apply to guitar players. They apply to all musicians. I played keyboards with a drummer who refused to listen or play certain genres of music. As i trombone player, I have to make sure my rhythm, timing, and intonation match the group. I sometimes listen to other sections to make sure I am in sync. And I've made my share of bad entrances.
My recommendation is to try finger picking, like Mark Knopfler, makes for great compositions and complicated but intricate musical creations.
Great advice.
Agree on all points…but caution with “serve the song”….often I see people trying to use that line as a version of “I’m right, you’re wrong” to get their way in a difference of opinion in a collaboration. Which is weak sauce….
Listening while playing can be difficult at first, it gets easier but often new players are trying so hard to avoid mistakes and play well, that they have no room left to listen to the rest of the band. It’s well worth the effort to work on it.
Does that Frankenstein acoustic guitar on your wall count as a sin
Yes. The disastercaster is an absolute abomination.
You’re the best, SammyG
Listening inward.
"Noodling away oblivious of the rest"
So, só true...
We all know at least one bassplayer like that 🤣🤣🤣🤣
All jokes aside:
Excellent tips!! 🙏😎
This was an instructional and philosophical video so I honored your wisdom and culture by watching while kneeling in the Seiza pose.
My ankles are killing me. AAAAh pins and needles.
I agree with everything except the metronome.
Yes, the metronome will make you faster. Yes it will make your playing tighter. Used consistently the metronome will make you the fastest, most accurate player you can be and it is the only way to make it to your highest ability. But I honestly feel that the metronome can kill your unique touch, feel and sound if you overuse it. Metronome players just all sound too much alike to me. When I listen to a Nirvana song played to perfection I don't hear Kurt Cobains' deliberately rough style and I don't even hear the Guitarists' own interpretation of the music in the inherent looseness given to them by the grunge style. I hear a metronome. The Rock Band games just do not click with me because of things like this.
I think metronomes are a trade off. Car analogy: Do you want to be a race car, or do you want to go off road? You can be the Ferrari or you can be the F-150 or somewhere in between. Choose between speed and accuracy or touch and style.
There are also so many ways to develop timing in a way similar to a metronome my favorite is to use a chorus, flanger, rotary or phaser pedal and try to play into the natural loop of the pedal, but really anything that runs in a loop you can listen to or look at, you can make it into what you could call a "cyclonome."
I always worry about a guitarist not discovering their own sound, and I put it like this: Thousands of guitarists listen to a player like Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Steve Vai or Eddie Van Halen and they tell tell themselves "I want to sound just like that." Then they practice for hours and hours over the course of years until something terrible happens to them. They succeed.
nice setup man
Regarding the first sin, I've seen on youtube some pianoplayers that almost seem bored in some parts of existing songs and need to add from gracenotes to straight up delaying the song with a bar to do... unnescessary stuff, often to just show off. It drives me insane.
Its best to start yelling at the drummer to speed up, then yell, "too fast slow down!" Then rock the guitar neck up and down to show him but at a different tempo. It really helps to piss him off mid song. Be sure to change to a stank face when doing it. Then apologize to the audience that it was the first time the drummer played it. It helps with bonding.
is that a Dano sitar hanging on the wall?
what exactly is this restraint you speak of?
“Dang it man I hate when my drummer tells me to stop doing dive bombs on my jazz gig”-no sense James
Whoa, never noticed SamyG’s eye color before
Playing out of tune works for some things but it really depends on what you're going for musically.
same way with dissonance and arrythmia.
I got my notifs on but it took 4 days for me to see this video??
@3:39 man, i wish the mainstream news networks would learn this. They think the only way to communicate is to have 5 people talking over each other until commercial break.
That's not news. That's opinion panels. I wish consumers of media took responsibility for what they intake.
@xTheDeerLordx mainstream *media, then. Obviously those are opinion shows, but that's what most people consider to be News. Not everyone can be Ken Klippenstein, lol.
Hey Sammy G, a for sin 1 what about if I just bought a new pedal and it needs to be in the song?
I have a problem with intonating the low E string. I'm floating the bridge, and I have the saddle all the way back(I even took out the spring) and the 12th fret is still sharp. I had a professional set up on my other strat which had the same problem, and somehow he fix it. Any clues before I get a pro setup?
Yesterday i watched Mythbusters
Damn you look like Grant Iymahara (RIP)
And the voice in very similar
I serve dog... and the song
sir, I wish I could be given an electric guitar, I just want to learn thank you po❤❤
Overplaying is definitely something I'm guilty of.
Proud to say I haven't committed any of them, then again, I haven't made any song either so😅😅
@01:40 yeah, come to Brazil and take a look at our "funk carioca" and tell me about it later 😂
The bugle players at my remembrance day ceremonies were out of tune to each other. i couldn't enjoy it.
I make my songs for me. So that i can listen them when out jogging, in gym etc.. Cause i havent found any new bands that has perfect songs for years. And the songs from my favourite bands that ive listened 20+ years are getting kinda old. And those bands had like average 2 "perfect songs" per album. The rest of the songs i coulndt care less.
So i make my own music (somekind of mixture of instrumental prog metal and the soul crushing sad guitar solos of stratovarius guitarist timo tolkkis ballads and then the very aggressive metal parts. All feelings in one back. But never ever any happiness. Hope yes, but not the major scale Beatles "yellow submarine" shiet).
I love every part of my ~10 minute songs. (Cause if there was a bad riff, part, solo, anything i didnt like... I would replace it with something i love)
Thats my opinion how to make good music. Make it for your self!!!
I could make spotify top 100 shit too. 5 songs per day and kill myself after few months cause i coulndt handle the torture😉
Nah. I am the songwriter. The song should serve me.
And I'm saying this unironically. There is literally no point for me to write a song if playing it will bore me to tears.
How do you fix a classical guitar that has poor intonation above the 10th fret?
Half a turn anticlockwise on the truss rod nut (inside the soundhole), leave it overnight, retune and see how you are. If that doesn't work then you'll probably need to go see a luthier, classical guitars are a bit more complicated than acoustic and certainly a lot more complicated than electric guitars so need to be adjusted ideally by professionals.
@@jawide626 Thanks but classical guitars dont come with a truss rod
Definitely see a luthier, but it's probably a cheap guitar and if your serious about playing guitar (if your a beginner, which I'm assuming you are) just practice until you feel comfortable buying a new guitar.
@@mrglazeddonut4118 I've been playing for 20 years, got a loan of a classical from a friend
Don't play up there
Alright, Steve makes a good point
I don't like any country music
However, i AM impressed by (insert any country artist here) being able to sleep with every single one of his cousins AND his own sister.
I also don't like rap
But i AM impressed by (insert every rapper here) ability to glorify drugs, crime, murder, sexual assault, excessive alcoholism, and other assorted debauchery all within the same rap.
Very impressive! 👍🏻
5th deadly music sin: Playing out of tune
Honest question, was Jimi Hendrix ever "IN" tune ever in his life?
- We don't get enough samuraiguitarist videos
Hey, I resemble that bass player dig! 😝
Biggest music writing sins: using the 1-5-6-4 progression, reggaeton beat, and the millennial whoop.
Autotune
@ wait, are we about to collab on the next big hit?
0:01 I swear this guy just uploaded a music theory video
What happened???
Hell yeah Sammy G in the house
Why do you keep changing the thumbnail and title for so many of your vids? I think this one I've seen go through three different thumbnails by this point?
"always be in tune".....laughs in At The Drive In.
I may not like a genre generally if I've explored a vast amount of it already. Cough* Pop.
...how can we play Octupus' Garden with a whammy dive bomb and have it sound cool. Thats the real challenge...
Hi sammy g
There are two schools of thinking.
- rules and structure matter and you should learn according to official sources, conforming to classical tradition
-rules never mattered, music was made from chaos the math is just a byproduct of the energy
The second one is the correct thinking.
Sure, techniques can help. But classical musicians are angry angry people and i dont like them. Is it really worth it to be angry all the time just because youre obsessed with rules and making everyone follow them?
Yet people arent impressed by people doing things by th'book, theyre impressed by ingenuity and creativity and lateral thinking.
I disagree with your view on keeping your ears closed. What you input becomes your output after being filtered through you. So whatever you put in will probably come out of you eventually. If it’s a genre that you don’t particularly like, you probably wouldn’t want that represented in your art
I thought the point was to create the most face melting solo's not song.
Thou shalt not play only in the minor pentatonic scale, I am guilty of this sin
Wait, there's other scales?
@@weecol1141no
I agree with you on writing off genres… but… ah… Ska-punk does also exist.
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I've closed my ears to country. I'm not missing anything I think its the one genre I get nothing from. It just sucks that much.
I don't like New Country
Farting into a trumpet?
Try listenng to ABBA
Repetition legitimizes
God is good