I'm glad you are going this route Chris. I get calls daily on troubleshooting steps for equipment from people i don't know. I spent my entire adult life learning this industry and i didn't get here for free. Pay up people. This man deserves it.
I know that pain, I've dabbled in auto, celluar, and computer repair and people give my number out willy-nilly to all their friends assuming I'm gonna fix thier shit for free. And for some reason they always assume I have parts on hand to give them for free as well.
You are absolutely right...! Thank you for your continued passion with guitar instruction. You have a life , just like the rest of us! Enjoy it my friend...!!! No gripes here.... Rock on brother...!!!
Totally understand your point (and agree with it)! I sent you a friend request about 5-6 years ago. You accepted and asked me if I needed lessons, I said no (couldn't afford it). I was a teen back then, it was a crazy feeling just to be talking to one of my idols. Anyway, appreciate your teaching! Thanks!
How dare you have a life outside of TH-cam, teaching, and authoring rad shred books Chris. On an unrelated subject, can I get you to check out this mole on my back and give me your honest opinion as my guitar teacher? Bahaha
Really appreciate all the videos and advice you give. Your videos have already helped my playing tremendously. It would be great if TH-camrs like yourself who teach through your videos had a donations page so people like me could show our appreciation!
i might have actually been one of those performers on the donations page.i've had individuals tell me i should start my own channel.y'know,put my chops on display?run it up the flagpole,see who salutes it?now i'm not so sure.
That kind of stuff can also happen to you as a instrumental teacher irl. I had some crossed borders there too. I also had some strange messages on facebook already due to my youtube activities. Some very friendly and thankful, others more demanding.Thanks for sharing!
Sir, I am from Turkey too. And I want to say you are the only youtuber I know who talks to his followers this politely. Even that's a reason to subscribe you keep up your good work ! Greetings from Turkey.
I have never had a facebook account and im glad of it from what ive seen and heard its not worth the trouble. It may be ok for family and friends sharing stuff but there are a lot of strange folks in this world and you dont need that kind of stress. Raising a family and providing is stress enough. Keep up the good work and enjoy your profession because not many people love their jobs.
Problem with the internet in general is that when using it people lose their sense of having boundaries with other people online. They think they can say and do what they want as the consequences are perceived to not exist as they do in the physical world.
This video has really spoken to me and I couldn’t agree more. By the way I absolutely love all that you do with your TH-cam lessons ! Take care Chris ✌️🤟
Chris, I’ve learned a lot of what I know about guitar from you, Marty Schwartz, and abusing the play speed function on youtube. We really do appreciate you man, you don’t have to do this for free but you still do. It speaks of a good man who shares his passion. Stay sharp 🤘
It's weird, i work in retail and that "takers" mentality is rampant there as well. I even had an older lady call up the store and demand I drive her husband home because he had too much to drink like i was a family friend or some shit. People are strange creatures.
I always imagine in the music industry if people want shit for free, they've never jumped into it. Its pride swallowing sometimes and pays just absolute shit for the time you put into it. And if you do it for a living, expecting them to do shit for free is just stupid! Pay people for their time. I don't work for free, neither should someone else. I always think you doing these solo lessons is just A. A gift. B. Great marketing and C. A great way to showcase your talent. Anyways, Thank you, Chris. You owe nobody nothing.
Very important video dude and very well said. I think unfortunately this kind of stuff comes not just to guitar teachers, but really any kind of "TH-cam personality" from he toxicness the perception of intimacy between fans and creators TH-cam establishes. Alot of either very young people or older people with poor social skills end up latching on to this person on the screen who seems to be talking directly to them and bring friendly with them....even though it's entirely 1 sided they get it into their head that this TH-camr is a close personal friend of theirs and thus they can say and ask all this horrendously personal stuff of them. My girlfriend had a relatively large youtube channel for a while and received exactly the same kind of behavior as described here. It's an issue with the TH-cam layout as a whole, the fan interaction and commenting side leads to a perception of intimacy with some people that absolutely does not match up to the reality, they then latch on and get very creepy.
I can imagine that is very difficult to deal with. Keep doing what you’re doing. People should be grateful for the awesome content your giving us already without pestering you for more.
I think "rant" isn't quite accurate, You make really good points about the takers mentality which also seems to pervade the creative industries as a whole. Creative people are often not sufficiently rewarded for the work they do and think payment in "exposure" should be enough! So true the bit about the dentist lol Keep up the good work fella
Totally agree with this. We’re all lucky to have this easy of access to your genius brain, in that youtube is 100% free. Anybody who wants anything more is just trying to take advantage of you and thats fucked up as far as im concerned. #yourenotaterribleperson
Yep I know exactly what you're talking about it's not only in guitar I was doing drywall I had my own business took a few years to get there and then people started calling me out to take a look at their place and then not even give me the job and do it themselves so I just wasted 2 hours of my fucking time measuring everything out and telling them what materials needed. everybody thinks shit in this world is for free, Fuck that!! we got to make a living!! anyways you Rock man!! Can you do any King Diamond or Mercyful Fate songs? Thank's
Makes me think about some of my comments when i asked for a solo... Hehe, for that i apologize, although you probabbly wouldn't even remember, since it happens a lot. 😅 you're completely right, and sometimes we step out of line without even thinking about it.
I've had a couple of people ask me to teach them enough so they can go on their way... I've been playing for 10 years now and I'm still learning myself, but they assured me that they would keep going. I even made some sheets for them. They gave up after 1 lesson and just wasted my time... I also made a whole score for a friend and nothing came of it which also sucked.. Time to put my foot down i guess.
The worst part about the "takers" is the sheer level of laziness. In today's world, there is nearly limitless information on TH-cam alone about guitar and music. Instead of hassling you for free and personal advice, they could have typed "increasing speed guitar" in the search bar and found out what they wanted to know. It's the absolutely inconsiderate and slightly narcissistic to push you to go out of your way. You already cover so much, and so do many other people, I'm sure someone else will have publicly provided the relevant info! Fans help provide the means for creators to create content, but without the creators, there would be no content to begin with. Mutual respect is important!
Oh, I know. It simply wasn't worth giving you an actual reply, considering the unconstructive, dismissive and rude comments you've been providing. My point still stands though, continuing to lash out in each reply is a sign of insecurity.
Maybe if you get a lot of requests for playing reviews you start charging 25 bucks per someone’s solo review or something? Could turn an annoying question into a new revenue stream?
As a graphic designer I know this aaall too well :T Here's what I wonder: I'm going to start uploading to my music channel more seriously soon and somewhere down the line I'm thinking about asking some musical youtubers to collab, nobody super big, and legit for the sake of just doing a song, but I worry if it'll come off just as scummy as if I'm trying to piggyback off of them and waste their time?
I think the issue is youtube content is free for anyone to view so immediately there is no sense of monetary value associated with what your providing. Some people just expect it for free and don’t consider the time and effort running a channel involves.
When i get inboxes saying 'love ur videos' i say thanks but if its a question i leave them on seen... and we instituted a system where if people email james or me asking advice it goes to this spam folder that our PA sifts through. we get 2000 emails a month sometimes! so yeah, good call on drawing a hard boundary. that time is much better spent with ur bub
Well Chris while what you say is completely understandable it is unreasonable and in my opinion kinda stupid to go with the mentality that everyone who writes to you has this malicious plan to drain everything they can from you for free. Perhaps some people just send messages that are actually in a way irrelevant only to get some kind of acknowledgement from a guitar teacher that they've learned a lot from. There are weirdos out there and you of course have a right to your own privacy. But I think to throw out that you think in such a way is kinda rude to people who support you, actually want to learn from you and respect you as a guitar teacher. Much respect! Cheers!
Nah, I think it is unreasonable to expect someone (who isn't your friend or family) to give up their spare time to help them with anything, especially if it is work related. Chris is a guitar teacher, so if you want something from him (a tab, advice, or a evaluation), pay him. Then he will help you. I am a guitar teacher as well, and I get a lot students who keep asking me for things outside of the lessons (in my free time). If you go down that road too much, you will end up with very little pay for a lot of work. But it is hard to draw the line sometimes, so I definitely get the message that Chris is sending here. It isn't rude from Chris imo, he is just protecting his valuable time.
I think this takers mentality is especially present in music, referring to the Napster days and Metallica. Why would you expect a band to give out their work for free? People don’t understand that making music is a job like everything else and if you work hard you should get money out of it. That is reasonable in every other job, but as soon as a musician wants to make money he/she gets shit for it.
Chris FB can get to be a real pain in the ass and I know it must kinda suck at times when you get people that go "overboard" with the friendship thing..... with ALL your subscribers you should expect a few to be somewhat over friendly.....the dude that you talked about sounded like he needs a friend....although it surely creeped you it be nice to have some compassion.....
forget the online clingers,try out on the street. as in UP CLOSE & PERSONAL?unfortunately,i've had to resort to "busking" lately just to get by.without reservation,without compunction,folks feel free to impose themselves at any given time.they wanna have 3 hour,4 hour convos.ya think i'm makin' $ standing there bullshitting?i can't fuckin' get rid of 'em!even when i drop hint after hint!now if i lose my cool and chase them away,i'm a son of a bitch.that last part's actually true.i am an SOB for entirely seperate reasons.heh.and that's been MY rant.thanks for reading.signing off.
I think the issue is youtube content is free for anyone to view so immediately there is no sense of monetary value associated with what your providing. Some people just expect it for free and don’t consider the time and effort running a channel involves.
Exactly. However It's free to go to the library... I don't ask the librarian to come home with me and alphabetize my son's book collection... For free. It's just rudeness and obliviousness to me
I'm glad you are going this route Chris. I get calls daily on troubleshooting steps for equipment from people i don't know. I spent my entire adult life learning this industry and i didn't get here for free. Pay up people. This man deserves it.
@gamesandguitars003 boo hoo? Fuck you? Get a life troll
I know that pain, I've dabbled in auto, celluar, and computer repair and people give my number out willy-nilly to all their friends assuming I'm gonna fix thier shit for free. And for some reason they always assume I have parts on hand to give them for free as well.
You are absolutely right...! Thank you for your continued passion with guitar instruction. You have a life , just like the rest of us! Enjoy it my friend...!!! No gripes here....
Rock on brother...!!!
I'm very appreciative of all the lessons and what you do, thank you man
Totally understand your point (and agree with it)! I sent you a friend request about 5-6 years ago. You accepted and asked me if I needed lessons, I said no (couldn't afford it). I was a teen back then, it was a crazy feeling just to be talking to one of my idols.
Anyway, appreciate your teaching! Thanks!
How dare you have a life outside of TH-cam, teaching, and authoring rad shred books Chris. On an unrelated subject, can I get you to check out this mole on my back and give me your honest opinion as my guitar teacher? Bahaha
Greatly appreciate your videos. I’m not a very good guitar player, but enjoy your teaching style. Thanks for all that you do!
Really appreciate all the videos and advice you give. Your videos have already helped my playing tremendously. It would be great if TH-camrs like yourself who teach through your videos had a donations page so people like me could show our appreciation!
i might have actually been one of those performers on the donations page.i've had individuals tell me i should start my own channel.y'know,put my chops on display?run it up the flagpole,see who salutes it?now i'm not so sure.
People over sharing is just frustrating as hell. I think you are bang on the money with what you are doing.
That kind of stuff can also happen to you as a instrumental teacher irl. I had some crossed borders there too. I also had some strange messages on facebook already due to my youtube activities. Some very friendly and thankful, others more demanding.Thanks for sharing!
Sir, I am from Turkey too. And I want to say you are the only youtuber I know who talks to his followers this politely. Even that's a reason to subscribe you keep up your good work ! Greetings from Turkey.
100% agree with you. Hope you’re doing okay! :)
I have never had a facebook account and im glad of it from what ive seen and heard its not worth the trouble. It may be ok for family and friends sharing stuff but there are a lot of strange folks in this world and you dont need that kind of stress. Raising a family and providing is stress enough. Keep up the good work and enjoy your profession because not many people love their jobs.
Problem with the internet in general is that when using it people lose their sense of having boundaries with other people online. They think they can say and do what they want as the consequences are perceived to not exist as they do in the physical world.
This video has really spoken to me and I couldn’t agree more. By the way I absolutely love all that you do with your TH-cam lessons ! Take care Chris ✌️🤟
Dude you made my day. Thanks Jason
You’re welcome. Have a great rest of your day.
I agree with you completely mate! Keep your personal and professional life separate
Takers will never stop taking,so Givers have to stop giving,REAL TALK man :) Rock on!
exactly.and also 'cuz i like saying "FUCK YOU,PAY ME!" whenever possible.heh.
Chris, I’ve learned a lot of what I know about guitar from you, Marty Schwartz, and abusing the play speed function on youtube. We really do appreciate you man, you don’t have to do this for free but you still do. It speaks of a good man who shares his passion. Stay sharp 🤘
It's weird, i work in retail and that "takers" mentality is rampant there as well. I even had an older lady call up the store and demand I drive her husband home because he had too much to drink like i was a family friend or some shit. People are strange creatures.
I always imagine in the music industry if people want shit for free, they've never jumped into it. Its pride swallowing sometimes and pays just absolute shit for the time you put into it. And if you do it for a living, expecting them to do shit for free is just stupid! Pay people for their time. I don't work for free, neither should someone else. I always think you doing these solo lessons is just A. A gift.
B. Great marketing and C. A great way to showcase your talent. Anyways, Thank you, Chris. You owe nobody nothing.
Good for you Chris. Thank you for the videos. They have helped my guitar playing very much.
who else is always soloing over his background music?
Very important video dude and very well said. I think unfortunately this kind of stuff comes not just to guitar teachers, but really any kind of "TH-cam personality" from he toxicness the perception of intimacy between fans and creators TH-cam establishes.
Alot of either very young people or older people with poor social skills end up latching on to this person on the screen who seems to be talking directly to them and bring friendly with them....even though it's entirely 1 sided they get it into their head that this TH-camr is a close personal friend of theirs and thus they can say and ask all this horrendously personal stuff of them.
My girlfriend had a relatively large youtube channel for a while and received exactly the same kind of behavior as described here. It's an issue with the TH-cam layout as a whole, the fan interaction and commenting side leads to a perception of intimacy with some people that absolutely does not match up to the reality, they then latch on and get very creepy.
thank you.....
If you won the lottery you'd have a whole new set of problems. In our association all I need is your books, lessons, and the time to practice, Chris.
if you REALLY won the lotto,you'd have "cousins" comin' outta the woodwork you never even knew existed.uh-huh.
I can imagine that is very difficult to deal with. Keep doing what you’re doing. People should be grateful for the awesome content your giving us already without pestering you for more.
I think "rant" isn't quite accurate, You make really good points about the takers mentality which also seems to pervade the creative industries as a whole.
Creative people are often not sufficiently rewarded for the work they do and think payment in "exposure" should be enough!
So true the bit about the dentist lol
Keep up the good work fella
Don't worry Chris, I have no plans to quit drugs any time soon and therefore we can focus only on guitar
I love you Nick.
Totally agree with this. We’re all lucky to have this easy of access to your genius brain, in that youtube is 100% free. Anybody who wants anything more is just trying to take advantage of you and thats fucked up as far as im concerned. #yourenotaterribleperson
Nice to a video like this that isn't cut every 5 seconds.
Yep I know exactly what you're talking about it's not only in guitar I was doing drywall I had my own business took a few years to get there and then people started calling me out to take a look at their place and then not even give me the job and do it themselves so I just wasted 2 hours of my fucking time measuring everything out and telling them what materials needed. everybody thinks shit in this world is for free, Fuck that!! we got to make a living!! anyways you Rock man!! Can you do any King Diamond or Mercyful Fate songs? Thank's
Makes me think about some of my comments when i asked for a solo... Hehe, for that i apologize, although you probabbly wouldn't even remember, since it happens a lot. 😅 you're completely right, and sometimes we step out of line without even thinking about it.
I've had a couple of people ask me to teach them enough so they can go on their way... I've been playing for 10 years now and I'm still learning myself, but they assured me that they would keep going. I even made some sheets for them. They gave up after 1 lesson and just wasted my time... I also made a whole score for a friend and nothing came of it which also sucked.. Time to put my foot down i guess.
Hahahaha "im going to quit drugs" reading that must be scary...
this from the same guy who wanted to adopt a family member....LOL crazy stuff
Not ridiculous or a rant, just telling the truth. Glad that situation didn't get worse. Good job on this and all your vids 👍
🤙🤙
Haha, that dude was one annoying sounding straw to break the camel's back. Your view of this is really reasonable
well put
By the way, love the channel.
The worst part about the "takers" is the sheer level of laziness. In today's world, there is nearly limitless information on TH-cam alone about guitar and music. Instead of hassling you for free and personal advice, they could have typed "increasing speed guitar" in the search bar and found out what they wanted to know. It's the absolutely inconsiderate and slightly narcissistic to push you to go out of your way. You already cover so much, and so do many other people, I'm sure someone else will have publicly provided the relevant info!
Fans help provide the means for creators to create content, but without the creators, there would be no content to begin with. Mutual respect is important!
@gamesandguitars003 The fact that you wrote that as a question shows who's actually looking for validation.
Oh, I know. It simply wasn't worth giving you an actual reply, considering the unconstructive, dismissive and rude comments you've been providing. My point still stands though, continuing to lash out in each reply is a sign of insecurity.
@gamesandguitars003 Ahhh, the sweet smell of jealousy and insecurity.
@gamesandguitars003 just replying to you in the same way you've replied to me, consistently :)
@@KarzGuitar i see you've made the aquaintance of officer murphy as well.good luck with that.heh.
I think anyone in the tech industry knows exactly what you're talking about
Nice vid
Maybe if you get a lot of requests for playing reviews you start charging 25 bucks per someone’s solo review or something? Could turn an annoying question into a new revenue stream?
As a graphic designer I know this aaall too well :T
Here's what I wonder: I'm going to start uploading to my music channel more seriously soon and somewhere down the line I'm thinking about asking some musical youtubers to collab, nobody super big, and legit for the sake of just doing a song, but I worry if it'll come off just as scummy as if I'm trying to piggyback off of them and waste their time?
I was lucky enough to have chat with chris on Facebook
I think the issue is youtube content is free for anyone to view so immediately there is no sense of monetary value associated with what your providing. Some people just expect it for free and don’t consider the time and effort running a channel involves.
When i get inboxes saying 'love ur videos' i say thanks but if its a question i leave them on seen... and we instituted a system where if people email james or me asking advice it goes to this spam folder that our PA sifts through. we get 2000 emails a month sometimes! so yeah, good call on drawing a hard boundary. that time is much better spent with ur bub
Well Chris while what you say is completely understandable it is unreasonable and in my opinion kinda stupid to go with the mentality that everyone who writes to you has this malicious plan to drain everything they can from you for free. Perhaps some people just send messages that are actually in a way irrelevant only to get some kind of acknowledgement from a guitar teacher that they've learned a lot from. There are weirdos out there and you of course have a right to your own privacy. But I think to throw out that you think in such a way is kinda rude to people who support you, actually want to learn from you and respect you as a guitar teacher. Much respect! Cheers!
Nah, I think it is unreasonable to expect someone (who isn't your friend or family) to give up their spare time to help them with anything, especially if it is work related. Chris is a guitar teacher, so if you want something from him (a tab, advice, or a evaluation), pay him. Then he will help you.
I am a guitar teacher as well, and I get a lot students who keep asking me for things outside of the lessons (in my free time). If you go down that road too much, you will end up with very little pay for a lot of work. But it is hard to draw the line sometimes, so I definitely get the message that Chris is sending here. It isn't rude from Chris imo, he is just protecting his valuable time.
Gotta smash that dragon age as well as the other hobbies!!!
I think this takers mentality is especially present in music, referring to the Napster days and Metallica. Why would you expect a band to give out their work for free? People don’t understand that making music is a job like everything else and if you work hard you should get money out of it. That is reasonable in every other job, but as soon as a musician wants to make money he/she gets shit for it.
Society has developed a misguided sense of entitlement
This is a good video
Chris FB can get to be a real pain in the ass and I know it must kinda suck at times when you get people that go "overboard" with the friendship thing.....
with ALL your subscribers you should expect a few to be somewhat over friendly.....the dude that you talked about sounded like he needs a friend....although it surely creeped you
it be nice to have some compassion.....
forget the online clingers,try out on the street. as in UP CLOSE & PERSONAL?unfortunately,i've had to resort to "busking" lately just to get by.without reservation,without compunction,folks feel free to impose themselves at any given time.they wanna have 3 hour,4 hour convos.ya think i'm makin' $ standing there bullshitting?i can't fuckin' get rid of 'em!even when i drop hint after hint!now if i lose my cool and chase them away,i'm a son of a bitch.that last part's actually true.i am an SOB for entirely seperate reasons.heh.and that's been MY rant.thanks for reading.signing off.
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Please do a lesson for ashes of the wake by lamb of god mate
I am the 1st
I think the issue is youtube content is free for anyone to view so immediately there is no sense of monetary value associated with what your providing. Some people just expect it for free and don’t consider the time and effort running a channel involves.
Exactly. However It's free to go to the library... I don't ask the librarian to come home with me and alphabetize my son's book collection... For free. It's just rudeness and obliviousness to me
@@chriszoupa7898 right. an artist should get PAID for their services. my new policy for EVERYTHING.'nuff said.