I usually don’t care about guitar teachers, they usually talk in an echo chamber or bring nothing new to the table. On a whim I clicked on your video and I instantly knew - “THIS GUY GETS IT!”. Subscribed! So true about the high strap or playing vertical!
Thanks .Pebber Brown .I'm an old dog trying to learn guitar. Not knowing nothing about music. I've watched tons of things on TH-cam ,slow going but I stumbled on your channel and learned more in 30 minutes than thought possible. Thanks really appreciate it. I'm sure you will be hearing from me again. Take care
I discovered this on my own using alternate tunings. My main tuning these days is DADDAD. I play mostly on one string. Two strings if I'm feeling jazzy. The other strings are there to provide a drone for a fuller sound. The style of music I play is a mix of bluesy roots and celtic folk with some Indian and Persian influences. Understanding interval patterns on a single string is the secret to unlocking every type of melody from around the world.
Hey! Another DADDAD player! Cheers. I also added some microtonal frets to my guitar to match my baglama. Gives some more sonic range on a linear scale as well.
I'm a total beginner and I found this approach to practicing really really useful. Going per string makes you think more about the notes rather than shapes. Its really enjoyable, in an odd way.
Great you bringing this to peoples attention. Mick Goodrick is spot on by saying this approach is way more logical to learn and understand scales. Putting it on all the other strings is just a matter of knowing the notes on the fretboard.
This just popped up in my recommendation list , finally someone I actually want to watch other than the vapid Kardashians and their spawn !!!!! Subbed immediately sir 👍👍👍👍👍👍
I was trying to play on one string and couldn't feel it. That was a few hours ago while watching this video. Well I just sat back down to unwind for the day, I grabbed my guitar and clicked on some backing tracks, you know, like we do. And I said, Oh yeah, one string. It just flowed more and more, the longer I played. It was AWESOME. Thanks man, for a great video. Just subbed.
What is learning ? MEMORY function. What is practice - application and repetition of what is learned. Fingering is subjective. Memorization of the fingerboard and memorization of scales and phrases and chords is all we have. Practice is memorization. Now here is a guy who made a video saying you dont need to memorize anything! And yet peopel actually BUY into this horrible shit! TH-cam is FULL of guys like this!!!! /watch?v=hznaLM2kVxo
Not sure when you went to Berklee, but I'm here currently. Mick just retired this past month. I studied with him for three years. Absolute genius, and one of the funniest guys I've met.
What a great video! I have "never" heard from anyone.. ever.. talk about the way that I have "always" played electric guitar! I usually stay on one string, and then, switch to another but mainly go up and down more than across. I have what they call great "relative pitch", and I play many instruments.. but the electric guitar for solo's or melody lines, always up and down one string. I write both music for retail sale and commercially licensed music under BMI, Inc as a composer. Thanks again for posting this video.
Sounds like licks from Carlos too man...cool! Verbalizing the notes as you go would probably help in identifying all the notes on the neck also Pebber? Thanks again for endless badass instruction man!
Pebber, You're cracking me up again with the "guy down the hall" thing. I tell myself to stfu sometimes when I've been doing an exercise over and over for an hour.
Wow this scary YT algorithm. The last couple of weeks I've been gradually working on exercises with smaller string sets until ending up on single string exercises and today your video appears :) Thank you for sharing your thoughts on the matter!
How cool! "Inner Mounting Flame". The snippet you played is from the opening track, "Meeting Of the Spirits". It's what turned me on to them. Actually was played on Toronto radio in the early seventies.
In the past number of years, I've developed the single string approach into a whole method basically for learning the entire fingerboard by going through all major scales and their modes in all keys while also working on dexterity with basic finger patterns. It's time consuming and takes daily consistent practice to get through the whole shebang though. 1 scale a day on 1 string through 15 different scales over 6 strings. So that comes out to 90 days. But once you get to the 2nd string you start adding the next string to the previous string, slowly building up your 3nps scales. So ultimately, if you went through 1 scale a day without fail, you could get through the whole thing in 165 days. And you'll have a huge foundation not just with the intellectual knowledge of how the western notation system works and how the major scale and its modes work on guitar but you will have the sounds trained into your ear. It's heavy stuff. Very useful.
@@deltadaz I was actually referring to the 15 major scale spellings. Going in each direction around the circle of 5ths until you have all 7 flats and all 7 sharps. From there you can apply the same method to any scale really. I gotta make some videos going through it all.
@@spacevspitch4028 now i get you, yea i think there is a bit in the book that talks about going back and doing it in every key. Yea a series of videos on that would be awesome.
I actually think that linear practicing is the most natural thing to do when you pick up a guitar, and kids are often derailed from it right away. With linear practice and a metronome you're already training your rhythm, your coordination between both hands, your dexterity, your ear and memorizing the step sequence of a scale. Pebber also mentioned some good examples of solos with one string, Santana also has a few, but Prince used to do it a lot, specially the open string and hammer-on technique. I think it gives a more singing like sound to the solo, than going the box route.
No no no no! Show me even ONE single solitary video where Prince solos on one string. Not happening. Prince is a PENTATONIC Position scale player. There is only ONE instance of less than one half a second of open string playing on while my guitar gently weeps. Doesnt qualify as a linear string solo.
@@Harp_and_Guitar_Moving_Forward Why do you have to be a DICK about it? Did you have trouble working out what he was saying? BTW, Are you done? Hard to tell without any punctuation.
Videos of Goodrick don’t show him playing exclusively on one string. I believe he wanted students not to limit themselves to soloing out of one or two positions using 2 or 3 notes per string.
A real guru...he saw (at that distance while making this video) that my wrist was proper and that I (in an entirely different state on a different date) applied his lesson!!!!!✌🏾 🎸
I'm by no means a beginner. I just feel that my practice and playing have become repetitive and unproductive. I needed something. This video has some very simple, but creative practice techniques in it. I approve.
@@emcg.9655 Harsh to people who BRAG about being "by no means a beginner." I sincerley DOUBT that you could pass the beginner guitar sightreading test at Berklee College of music and I also doubt that you know all your scales and arpeggios in all 12 keys and you have timing down and are able to play triplets, 5/8 and 7'8 time.
@@pebberbrown I'm not sure exactly how to reply. You seem like a difficult guy. How the fuck would you know how good I might be. You arrogant bastard. I've literally no idea how you have any followers whatsoever. Try and imagine one of your Berkeley superiors, someone who REALLY made it and gets what it's all about spreading negative vibes like you..Steve Vai comes to mind. I'm not sure if I could pass That test this second. That guy you dissed could be a fucking monster player who simply isn't as cocky as you. Could jimi hendrix pass the sight reading test... Shawn lane... Your a wanker.
Nice approach , actually musical !! 👍 Ps. John goodsall is a great player. I got tendonitis when i was 15 , having taken up cello for a short while. Do not play if you get it , i had to not touch an instrument for six weeks.
Sir can you make a video about how to slide notes while maintaing the classical finger curled position. I am leaning Indian raga based songs which has a lot of slides in it. It's very rare to see some one playing that way here, almost everyone are playing in the casual way even the pros.
What do you think of Carol Kaye’s approach....chord tones , chordal scales instead of focusing on scales in the beginning...she says this is the way they taught it when she was growing up? One of her comments...”Remember to practice chordal materials -- note-scales ruin your ears and train your fingers only to play those awful things.”
In relation to JERRY GARCIA - many people have left message about how the linear system is the "same thing that Jerry Garcia" used. Not even close. JERRY GARCIA in the 40 something years he played guitar - BARELY KNEW the FRETBOARD. What little he did figure out was never any planned or even slightly organized method, He learned by randomly fishing for notes and putting them into short, compact POSITIONS - to which he could barely remember from week to week. He played chromatically mostly because he didnt know where he was going and just faked it most of the time. It all sounds great when you are on LSD.
If you listen to Garcia, he is actually great at finding the root of each chord throughout the chord progression. Best example to my ears would be "Althea". Still love your lessons, but I wanted to throw that in there!!
Funny thing is, all these guys he name drops- Beck, Gilmour, McLaughlin even, dont spend their time going over scales," form 1, form 2..." etc whatever the fuck that is. They spend time CREATING and just playing.
No no - they respectively have their own systems - and McLaughlin in particular spends/has spent thousands of hours practicing scales. In one of the very first interviews in Guitar Player magazine back in 1974, Mclaughlin states "I practice ALL the scales." This is the key that opened the door to my entire journey so dont start talking shit that you know NOTHING about. Form1 and form 2 are part of the scaletone form system for guitar and it you EVER pull your arrogant ASS out of your head maybe you might spend some time in the way distant future checking it out. When learning things you know nothing about try not to say "whatever the fuck that is." Anyone with a brain can see you are so limited in your thinking to the point where you feel like you have to attack someone presenting something new.
The singer from American hard rock band Kix (Steve Whiteman). This is what Lizzy Hale had to say. www.blabbermouth.net/news/halestorm-singer-on-getting-vocal-lessons-from-kixs-steve-whiteman-he-taught-me-literally-everything-he-knows/
Some of the WORST F--ING ADVICE YOU CAN POSSIBLY TAKE from this joker! If you can't play HORIZONTALLY, YOU CAN'T PLAY! iF YOU CAN'T PLAY NOTES IN ISOLATION, BUT CAN ONLY FOLLOW THIS FAT TURD'S VERTICAL PLAYING, THEN YOU'LL NEVER LEARN THE GUITAR. What he's telling you - & let me translate this into the keyboard, is that similar to a piano teacher telling you NEVER to pay any sharps or flats (Horizontal note equivalents). If you follow his warped logic you would never learn to read at all. Fat, Potty Mouthed turd!
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RIP Peb, your work will always be used and loved.
Pebber, you have helped me so much. RIP.
I usually don’t care about guitar teachers, they usually talk in an echo chamber or bring nothing new to the table. On a whim I clicked on your video and I instantly knew - “THIS GUY GETS IT!”. Subscribed! So true about the high strap or playing vertical!
Thanks my friend. Explore my website and the online forums as well.
Take ALL of this man's music-related advice. No way you can go wrong. Thanks Pebber, you are the best!
You are literally the teacher that made me the guitarist I am today. So thankful for you brother!!
best teacher on planet. I have learnt so much from you. Always enjoy your videos.
the super across the way... the guy down the hall... revisiting, still thankful for all the knowledge bestowed, rest in peace
Thanks .Pebber Brown .I'm an old dog trying to learn guitar. Not knowing nothing about music. I've watched tons of things on TH-cam ,slow going but I stumbled on your channel and learned more in 30 minutes than thought possible. Thanks really appreciate it. I'm sure you will be hearing from me again. Take care
Pebber is the only one for me that explains in a way that you can absorb and then actually understand his lessons ......... Brilliant
when i started to play slide guitar, i realized how more important this practice is and it gave me so much more understanding of the neck.
Luther Dickinson has encouraged slide playing for a while now with the blues one string instrument being the diddly bow.
You're amazing dude
I've been watching your channel for a few years now and have benefited greatly from your knowledge Pebber, much appreciated.,
You just got a new sub. Might be the best guitar tutorial video I’ve ever seen.
I discovered this on my own using alternate tunings. My main tuning these days is DADDAD. I play mostly on one string. Two strings if I'm feeling jazzy. The other strings are there to provide a drone for a fuller sound. The style of music I play is a mix of bluesy roots and celtic folk with some Indian and Persian influences. Understanding interval patterns on a single string is the secret to unlocking every type of melody from around the world.
Hey! Another DADDAD player! Cheers. I also added some microtonal frets to my guitar to match my baglama. Gives some more sonic range on a linear scale as well.
THis is JUST the video I have been looking for. Fabulous.
Great lesson about a terrific book, thank you. Mike Stern turned me onto single string exercises, invaluable.
You actually got to study with Mike Stern?
I'm a total beginner and I found this approach to practicing really really useful. Going per string makes you think more about the notes rather than shapes. Its really enjoyable, in an odd way.
Great you bringing this to peoples attention. Mick Goodrick is spot on by saying this approach is way more logical to learn and understand scales. Putting it on all the other strings is just a matter of knowing the notes on the fretboard.
I'm looking forward to the book. I hope it comes out soon.
17:48 thank you! Can't wait for your book, thanks for your time, I have so much to learn, thanks again!
This just popped up in my recommendation list , finally someone I actually want to watch other than the vapid Kardashians and their spawn !!!!! Subbed immediately sir 👍👍👍👍👍👍
I have a student and he was wearing a t shirt that said "Death to the Kardashians" priceless!
@@pebberbrown I salute him 🤘
I was trying to play on one string and couldn't feel it. That was a few hours ago while watching this video. Well I just sat back down to unwind for the day, I grabbed my guitar and clicked on some backing tracks, you know, like we do. And I said, Oh yeah, one string. It just flowed more and more, the longer I played. It was AWESOME. Thanks man, for a great video. Just subbed.
I was fortunate to study with Mick. His 3 volume almanac of voice leading books are extremely valuable. As well as his book Factorial Rhythms.
Pebber, you are the best.
What is learning ? MEMORY function. What is practice - application and repetition of what is learned. Fingering is subjective. Memorization of the fingerboard and memorization of scales and phrases and chords is all we have. Practice is memorization. Now here is a guy who made a video saying you dont need to memorize anything! And yet peopel actually BUY into this horrible shit! TH-cam is FULL of guys like this!!!! /watch?v=hznaLM2kVxo
Love pebber brown. You helped me progress so much in the 9 years of my playing
Not sure when you went to Berklee, but I'm here currently. Mick just retired this past month. I studied with him for three years. Absolute genius, and one of the funniest guys I've met.
I went in the 1970's.
@@pebberbrown ahh yeah, he went NEC for most of the 70's.
@@cameronmee7634 What does that mean
@@pebberbrown He worked at the New England Conservatory, down on Huntington Avenue
What a great video! I have "never" heard from anyone.. ever.. talk about the way that I have "always" played electric guitar! I usually stay on one string, and then, switch to another but mainly go up and down more than across. I have what they call great "relative pitch", and I play many instruments.. but the electric guitar for solo's or melody lines, always up and down one string. I write both music for retail sale and commercially licensed music under BMI, Inc as a composer. Thanks again for posting this video.
Good to see you still on here doing your thing, man. Hope all is well.
Hi Mr. Brown, good to see u have started uploading more often.
A great book.. His approach to using space, is very clear.
That was the same thing I was thinking as in...
"Inner Mounting Flame"!
😂🤣😂🤣😂
This is so great....ty for your tome and effort...
17:44 "You know, everyday I say to myself - what fucking asshole invented that system? Why did he do that?" I feel you man, I feel you 😂😂😂😂
Sounds like licks from Carlos too man...cool! Verbalizing the notes as you go would probably help in identifying all the notes on the neck also Pebber? Thanks again for endless badass instruction man!
Pebber, You're cracking me up again with the "guy down the hall" thing. I tell myself to stfu sometimes when I've been doing an exercise over and over for an hour.
Wow this scary YT algorithm. The last couple of weeks I've been gradually working on exercises with smaller string sets until ending up on single string exercises and today your video appears :) Thank you for sharing your thoughts on the matter!
You had me after the first sentence in the book you're truly a guitar guru ✌️
How cool! "Inner Mounting Flame". The snippet you played is from the opening track, "Meeting Of the Spirits". It's what turned me on to them. Actually was played on Toronto radio in the early seventies.
Shawn Lane.. Up and down❤
In the past number of years, I've developed the single string approach into a whole method basically for learning the entire fingerboard by going through all major scales and their modes in all keys while also working on dexterity with basic finger patterns. It's time consuming and takes daily consistent practice to get through the whole shebang though. 1 scale a day on 1 string through 15 different scales over 6 strings. So that comes out to 90 days. But once you get to the 2nd string you start adding the next string to the previous string, slowly building up your 3nps scales. So ultimately, if you went through 1 scale a day without fail, you could get through the whole thing in 165 days. And you'll have a huge foundation not just with the intellectual knowledge of how the western notation system works and how the major scale and its modes work on guitar but you will have the sounds trained into your ear. It's heavy stuff. Very useful.
Thats some great info there. What 15 scales would you be learning there, obviously Major and all its modes. Melodic and harmonic minor,
@@deltadaz I was actually referring to the 15 major scale spellings. Going in each direction around the circle of 5ths until you have all 7 flats and all 7 sharps.
From there you can apply the same method to any scale really.
I gotta make some videos going through it all.
@@spacevspitch4028 now i get you, yea i think there is a bit in the book that talks about going back and doing it in every key. Yea a series of videos on that would be awesome.
This taught me a lot! You the man. Subscribed.
Hi! Pebber that was really awesome so much great information are you writing a book it would be great, Thanks 🎸
I actually think that linear practicing is the most natural thing to do when you pick up a guitar, and kids are often derailed from it right away. With linear practice and a metronome you're already training your rhythm, your coordination between both hands, your dexterity, your ear and memorizing the step sequence of a scale. Pebber also mentioned some good examples of solos with one string, Santana also has a few, but Prince used to do it a lot, specially the open string and hammer-on technique. I think it gives a more singing like sound to the solo, than going the box route.
Prince?
No no no no! Show me even ONE single solitary video where Prince solos on one string. Not happening. Prince is a PENTATONIC Position scale player. There is only ONE instance of less than one half a second of open string playing on while my guitar gently weeps. Doesnt qualify as a linear string solo.
The best guitar book ever, I started playing entirly diferent from page 1.
Next you can learn to spell
@@Harp_and_Guitar_Moving_Forward
Why do you have to be a DICK about it? Did you have trouble working out what he was saying? BTW, Are you done? Hard to tell without any punctuation.
This guy taught me a ton, set my foundation for guitar technique wise , picking legato, everything,.
Videos of Goodrick don’t show him playing exclusively on one string. I believe he wanted students not to limit themselves to soloing out of one or two positions using 2 or 3 notes per string.
Good stuff. Jimmy Bruno's approach with his 5 fingerings is a similar and very useful approach as well.
No it is NOT. You have NO CLUE what you are talking about. Jimmy Bruno's system is position playing not linear.
@@pebberbrown Thank you for taking time to reply. I will continue with my studies.
I've always seen that book on amazon and never got it but I am going to have to get it now.
Great lesson all make sense
That 3 note/4 note pattern is genius. How have I never heard of that?
I learned so much from this book. Great vid👍
Mick Goodrick was one of John Scofields teachers!
Dont believe everything you see in Wikipedia.
okay thank you for this sir. Makes so much sense. a lot of what you explained shows up naturally in my playing so it’s great to hear it’s true power
Man you have just unlocked the rubics cube of musical knowledge!
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#WOW!!!
Thanks Virgil
@@pebberbrown
#Naw...
Thank You Sir!
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What model ibanez is that? Artcore Expressionist ?
A real guru...he saw (at that distance while making this video) that my wrist was proper and that I (in an entirely different state on a different date) applied his lesson!!!!!✌🏾 🎸
First 2 minutes I already learned more than in 2 months
I'd watch a video of you swearing about standard tuning for at least an hour
SupairDup 3 hours!
amen to this concept, it is key to learning the guitar
Subbed. Excellent stuff.
I love you man! Professor Brown, Please be the way you are!
Thanks again !
I'm by no means a beginner. I just feel that my practice and playing have become repetitive and unproductive. I needed something. This video has some very simple, but creative practice techniques in it. I approve.
NO. You are a BEGINNER.
@@pebberbrown I suppose we all are in a sense. There's always something new to explore.
@@pebberbrown lol harsh😂..
@@emcg.9655 Harsh to people who BRAG about being "by no means a beginner." I sincerley DOUBT that you could pass the beginner guitar sightreading test at Berklee College of music and I also doubt that you know all your scales and arpeggios in all 12 keys and you have timing down and are able to play triplets, 5/8 and 7'8 time.
@@pebberbrown I'm not sure exactly how to reply. You seem like a difficult guy. How the fuck would you know how good I might be. You arrogant bastard. I've literally no idea how you have any followers whatsoever. Try and imagine one of your Berkeley superiors, someone who REALLY made it and gets what it's all about spreading negative vibes like you..Steve Vai comes to mind.
I'm not sure if I could pass That test this second. That guy you dissed could be a fucking monster player who simply isn't as cocky as you. Could jimi hendrix pass the sight reading test... Shawn lane... Your a wanker.
Anyone who helped form Bucketheads style is a pro in my book. I see where he got all his techniques.
Good one, sir!
God dam he cracks me up...funny as shit...
Nice approach , actually musical !! 👍
Ps. John goodsall is a great player.
I got tendonitis when i was 15 , having taken up cello for a short while.
Do not play if you get it , i had to not touch an instrument for six weeks.
Sir can you make a video about how to slide notes while maintaing the classical finger curled position. I am leaning Indian raga based songs which has a lot of slides in it. It's very rare to see some one playing that way here, almost everyone are playing in the casual way even the pros.
The advancing guitarist! The best! 😎
It’s a great method book!
Such hidden treasures.
What do you think of Carol Kaye’s approach....chord tones , chordal scales instead of focusing on scales in the beginning...she says this is the way they taught it when she was growing up? One of her comments...”Remember to practice chordal materials -- note-scales ruin your ears and train your fingers only to play those awful things.”
Its how I teach bass mostly.
Pepper Brown will make you a guitar God!!
Pebber
My copy of this book is on it's way.
Thank you very much! :-)
Thanks man!
In relation to JERRY GARCIA - many people have left message about how the linear system is the "same thing that Jerry Garcia" used. Not even close. JERRY GARCIA in the 40 something years he played guitar - BARELY KNEW the FRETBOARD. What little he did figure out was never any planned or even slightly organized method, He learned by randomly fishing for notes and putting them into short, compact POSITIONS - to which he could barely remember from week to week. He played chromatically mostly because he didnt know where he was going and just faked it most of the time. It all sounds great when you are on LSD.
If you listen to Garcia, he is actually great at finding the root of each chord throughout the chord progression. Best example to my ears would be "Althea". Still love your lessons, but I wanted to throw that in there!!
@@BadIcy Oh wow what fantastic talent - he is really great at finding the ROOT of a chord.
@@pebberbrown LOL
Awesome!! Very helpful!!
thanks Mr Brown, nice stuff!
Thanks again Mr.Brown. I looked could not find a sheet with "Linear" in the title?
martyisabeliever Why cant you find it? everyone else can go to it. Its been up for ten years now.
Thanks Peter! Great suff
Peter~! havent heard that one in years!
@@pebberbrownHah! Didn't think you'd reply. Just messing with you Pebber. Thanks for all of the great content you've shared.
Why is there no tabs for that book
This guy is fukin crazy lol but damn good!🤘
BEST OF THE BEST
Thank you Sir!
Funny thing is, all these guys he name drops- Beck, Gilmour, McLaughlin even, dont spend their time going over scales," form 1, form 2..." etc whatever the fuck that is. They spend time CREATING and just playing.
No no - they respectively have their own systems - and McLaughlin in particular spends/has spent thousands of hours practicing scales. In one of the very first interviews in Guitar Player magazine back in 1974, Mclaughlin states "I practice ALL the scales." This is the key that opened the door to my entire journey so dont start talking shit that you know NOTHING about. Form1 and form 2 are part of the scaletone form system for guitar and it you EVER pull your arrogant ASS out of your head maybe you might spend some time in the way distant future checking it out. When learning things you know nothing about try not to say "whatever the fuck that is." Anyone with a brain can see you are so limited in your thinking to the point where you feel like you have to attack someone presenting something new.
Check out Koyunbaba by Carlo Domeniconi
#Excellent Teaching!
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27:05 🙏 Mestre
thanks I benefit from this
I need help singing can you send me to good teacher / information for this, any badass knowdis????
The singer from American hard rock band Kix (Steve Whiteman). This is what Lizzy Hale had to say. www.blabbermouth.net/news/halestorm-singer-on-getting-vocal-lessons-from-kixs-steve-whiteman-he-taught-me-literally-everything-he-knows/
💐💐💐💐👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏
cheers
WOW!!!!!!!!
17:40 is hilarious, 30:00, & 33:25
I am becoming aware that my playing is like dog tricks. Learn the trick...repeat the trick. Why the trick is as it is, I may never grasp.
lindo el gordito y toca chingon eso que ni ke (:
PractiSing PB.
It’s a lot of talking
Hope you didn't expect otherwise
@@oldtimetinfoilhatwearer Another troll complaining about FREE content.!
Some of the WORST F--ING ADVICE YOU CAN POSSIBLY TAKE from this joker! If you can't play HORIZONTALLY, YOU CAN'T PLAY! iF YOU CAN'T PLAY NOTES IN ISOLATION, BUT CAN ONLY FOLLOW THIS FAT TURD'S VERTICAL PLAYING, THEN YOU'LL NEVER LEARN THE GUITAR. What he's telling you - & let me translate this into the keyboard, is that similar to a piano teacher telling you NEVER to pay any sharps or flats (Horizontal note equivalents). If you follow his warped logic you would never learn to read at all. Fat, Potty Mouthed turd!