Young lady you are an exceptionally good guitar teacher. Simple is always easier and you make things sound a lot less complicated. I've been playing, (trying to play😂) since I was 7 years old. I learn something from almost everyone I watch play guitar, but you are the easiest to understand that I have encountered. Excellent job! Keep'em coming!
i know all of this and still sat here for 18 minutes quietly and couldnt take my eyes off the screen, how can anyone dislike this person? i wish i had a teacher like this i would play for 8 hours a day :D
@@dannyspitzer1267 haha, i am a beginner on guitar and bass still but i play 2 hours per day and trying to learn as much as possible so during covid no option for a teacher so online has to do, but this lady has such a personality and charisma i could watch her for days regardless of topic
Lady Thanks. You are a true genius without going do expensive lessons to play Worship music in Church. You gave me all I need to understand . I'm playing 40 years folk music and turn to Worship music in Church now on age 60 ❤
Burt Weedon's Play In A Day was all we had 50 years ago, or pay a small fortune for pro lessons. Students are very fortunate today having so many great teachers for free.
The best way to start learning is to select a favorite simple song a Folk, Country, with just 3 Major Chordss like C, D, G.. then strum "down down" and sing along.
Coming back to playing guitar after a long hiatus and ran into this. You rule. Calm, clear, collected, and efficient lesson. Not muddled with trying to show off. Very self confident, humble and knowledgeable. Great job and thank you.
I am 61 and just bought my 1st guitar, an acoustic electric. I do not know the first thing about playing, but you explain things in a way I can understand.
Ayla, you are not only a talented guitarist, you are also a talented teacher. Too often, teachers go too fast, assume too much, and/or they use their teaching time to show off more than teach. You, on the other hand, are a warm and personable teacher, whose sincerity is as clear as the notes you play. This was a great video for beginners AND for people who needed a good introduction to the keyboard no matter how many years they may have been playing. Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge and experience with us. Kindly do some more of these videos for us. Thanks!
Been playing 40 yrs. Learned during the 80's the Decade of the Guitarist in my humble Opinion . I'm self taught and I was able to learn something New for me from this . Thank You very well done !!
I had two teachers who demanded I know every note on every string. One wouldn't even go any further with lessons till I could pass this test. I believe it really helped to open up the fretboard. Helped me understand the major scale and how chords are made and their relation to scales.
I just watched this video ... Thank you, you opened up something for me I was troubling over. Being 63 and trying to learn guitar is more of a challenge than I had thought.
I took guitar lessons in college. I'd been in band throughout school, even achieved national honors on my instrument. Loved music, loved learning new instruments, could play several, including percussion. But I always wanted to play guitar. So in college, we were in a class of about 20 people with a teacher who obviously was there simply doing his job. There was nothing of him in the sound he produced. I don't think I ever saw him smile or respond to what he played. Oh, he showed us how to play chords and notes, but he never explained any of what you shared. You made things more clear in the first five minutes than he did in an entire semester. THANK YOU. I'm 50 years old now and am trying again.
LEARN 👏 ROOT 👏 NOTES 👏 At least for me, they were the key to it all. Root notes anchored everything for me and lessons that were very abstract and hard to wrap my head around before, made sense immediately.
@@TimlegoStudios ehm, i could be slightly inaccurate, but i'm pretty sure its the most dominant note that forms it into a chord, if that makes sense? It's basically the starting ground for a chord. from my little lack of piano knowledge, a C chord for example would be *C* E G, moving up, and then you'd just get rid of E and G, and have the root note of C left.
A lot of tutorials started with cool licks or shreads showboating the tutors' skills. Her opening just straight to the point, the content is straight to the point and with clear instructions. Learning so much from her videos.
i used to play keyboard then piano and then i started on guitar, it's like i have all the basics and note values and some music theory already there but the guitar really confused me at first and it was off putting where you strum a chord and it didn't ring right or a solo part wasn't smooth and more picky, but looking back i think im getting better and starting to get the gist of it. i feel it's safe to say guitar is harder at the beginning but gets easier as you go.
I heard her voice for literally a minute and I already fell in love😅 to be honest I wasn’t even paying attention to the lesson, I was just mesmerized by her vibe and couldn’t stop watching lol.
Ive learned more in this video than I’ve learned in 10 years and thats the truth she’s amazing how she teaches and I don’t even play guitar anymore I’ve switch to the keyboards just couldn’t get the hang of the guitar wish I would have found her earlier in my life great tutorial.
It's a wild thing about guitar how you can muck about on it for 10 years and someone like Ayla shows a pattern / association you hadn't seen up to that point and you go "I *never* made that connection before..." Happens more than I care to admit... Thanks for the new insights !
Happened to me but in drumming. After years of playing the drums I stumbled upon a Jojo Mayer instructional video and I was like 🤯. 😂😂 I realized that all this time I had been trying to reinvent the wheel. 🤦♂️
Love love love her. Keep her around. Wish I had her when I was younger and first learning . She makes it easy to understand and non-intimidating. Cuts through the bs. Also fun to watch cause of her uniqueness and personality. Sweet guitar💚
I've been playing guitar for almost 20 years now and have been wanting to expand my knowledge and learn more about the fretboard (I am self-taught, but want to KNOW more by learning, being taught the "proper" way) and the way you just explained how to remember the name of each string AND how the open E moves to F on the first fret and then continuing on down felt like a massive flood being released from my mind! All the confusion and frustration I've felt for SO LONG has finally eased! And it's because of you!!! Thank you so much for sharing this! Thank you for your help! You made playing the guitar fun for me again!! Bless your heart!! ☺👏🙏
Ok, I know I'm not the best guitar student, always focused on shapes and tabs rather than musical concepts, but this is the first time that I've actually understood what intervals are all about. You made me cry, Ayla, you wonderful teacher you :')
Thanks, Ayla! I’ve literally been trying to learn guitar for over ten years, and I haven’t learned a single song, although I’ve tried. There’s something about your patience, friendliness, and approach to teaching, that really helps me to grasp the concepts. I feel like I’ve learned more from you in a day than I have in years, from anyone else
I've been playing since I was 12 I'm now 38 and still enjoy watching guitar lesson type videos I know all of what she taught and she did a great job explaining. The reason I still watch guitar lesson videos is you may suprise yourself and find a new trick or approach you may have missed when first learning or though had no importance to you when first attempting the guitar. Learning how to play never ends, their is so many different styles and techniques it could take a lifetime to learn and master, but as long as you are having fun and expanding your ability you are on the right path. Props to her showing this lesson I always tell people that are first learning learn the notes and it will open highways of possibilities in the future when playing and jamming with others.
Ayla’s teaching method is exceptional ‘cause it unlocks the hurdles many beginners face when they are caught up in a rut. I personally recommend to beginners to learn from the experience of this brilliant young lady. Bravo Ayla.
I've been playing for 15 years and never had a lesson. Recently realized I never learned any basics so I built my skills off of a crumbling foundation. Y'all it's so crucial to get this right, this video makes it so clear. Great job.
yes by far one of the best teacher, I am someone who plays, the keys, drums and also engineer sound, this guitar lesson gave me a new hope. Thank you so much.
I’m 55 years old and I’ve been trying to play for 30 years If I had your videos 30 years ago I would be a super star Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge
Best video I've seen on this topic so far. My 1st guitar hopefully arrives on Tuesday so I'm doing some research as an absolute beginner beforehand. I already understand intervals, building chords and scales from playing piano but couldn't quite grasp how to translate that knowledge onto the guitar. This video is so clear and well presented. It answers all of the nooby questions I've had in a few minutes! - Love your guitar by the way! Thanks for the help
literally i know everything u said in the video. but for the first time i saw some video till end without increasing playback speed. u r just a melting ice cream, ur way to teaching, smiling just stolen heart ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
This is such an awesome lesson. I am super thankful for finding this gem you created. I have been studying music theory using the keyboard for about a year now, and decided to investigate the guitar. This was so helpful in instantly relating what I have learned so far on the keyboard to the fretboard. I can totally see the keyboard laid out on the fretboard after this. One other thing I found very helpful was discovering that, in addition to knowing that each string progresses up the fretboard chromatically, it also generally follows the circle of fifths moving up and down on a fret, except for that pesky transition between the G and B string, lol. Thanks again.
Excellent lesson and excellent way of teaching. Some other youtube teachers seem to hold information, unfortunately. Not the case here, I just learned a few new things about navigating the fretboard. Will watch all her videos now
This is one of the most helpful and informative videos I've found in my quest to transition from a beginner guitarist to an intermediate guitarist. Thanks Ayla and Guitareo!
Your explanation has been the most clear one I have come across. I play piano and was struggling to make sense of guitar, but now it's extremely well cleared in my mind. Thank you.
the fretboard is literally just a piano except the black keys are white too. You just have to know where the black keys are. Each string is a section of piano keys. They overlap a ton. Each string only has like 4 or so piano keys that's not on the string above it. The treble clef (the thing notes are written on in sheet music) can be played entirely with the first 4 frets of all the strings. If you go up each open string to the fourth fret, then to the next open string, you are playing a chromatic scale. Which is the same as just playing up every fret on a string. Try it, go up every fret on the 6th string, then do 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, switch to 5th string, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 etc. It's very easy to understand, once you know what's going on
Okay now I see it. That is a gorgeous duo sonic. The color is incredible and that pickguard is crazy, it looks well made also.. a mustang with humbuckers would be cool. When I was 17 I had a candy apple red competition stripe mustang and installed two Seymour Duncan single coil sized humbuckers in it!! And then pawned it over in South Africa - huge regret.. they want up in value massively the Japanese competition stripe ones. Said crafted in Japan.. so cool. I’ve a fender Jaguar and a fender Stratocaster now.
Hi Ayla Thank you for your insightful instructions. I like the way you stand out from other numerous teachers on TH-cam, with your own take and style of teaching. Please remain true to yourself and keep the videos coming. Thank you 👍🏼👌👏
I so appreciate your concise and well-articulated teaching style. I am 78 and trying to actually learn how to play without guesswork, so this lesson was somewhat of a revelation. Thank you so much for posting your excellent video. I might offer one tiny suggestion. If you rotate your diagrams of the Major scale fingering (90 degrees to the right), they would reflect the same orientation of the fretboard that you are displaying in your video.
I am 67 years old and just watched your Navigating the fretboard video. Bravo! Had you been around a few decades ago, Eddie Van Halen may have had a a real competitor!
Ayla, you are such a welcome addition to the guitar teaching world. There’s a revolution of sorts with all sorts of women rocking out and making those electrics sing, and I’m one of many enjoying and feeling energized by the parade. Keep up the posts and warm smiles. ROCK ON! 👍
Well you are a breath of fresh air as guitar teachers go! I think you could teach anyone to play guitar even if they have a tin ear. You are able to transmit your knowledge to others in an understandable way. Not all guitar teachers know how to do that. I'll go as far as to say most don't know how. I've played for 60 years but you taught me about Intervals. Never considered them before. I'll recommend you to anyone wanting to start out right on the guitar.
I'll be honest, you lost me at the intervals. Learning what the little dots are on the fretboard? Super fun! I can do that no problem. I'm basically a pro at finding dots. Learning about the notes and how they move up the fretboard? Ok, not bad, just take it slow so I can find them. Hop-skipping into intervals and talking about changing chords between keys? Sounded like this to me: "Ok, guys, so this is called a spoon, and with the spoon you can stir the flour and eggs we learned about earlier. Now, if you know how to stir the eggs, you'll find it easy to transmogrify the nebular catechism by flambéing the encroaching onomatopoeia. Awesome! You're a pro."
That was an excellent lesson. A great story and I love the way you tell it. When I was a kid we got lessons that went like this. Go like that, then go like this, then go like that again, then move up here. Then go like this. Then go like that again. Rinse and repeat.
Hey Ayla, thanks! I've been playing open chords on the acoustic guitar with strumming and finger-picking for over 25 years now (I taught myself from a beginner's book in the days before youtube), but work and family kept me from progressing beyond that. Now I've decided that I need to spend some time learning new skills on the guitar. Though I have a solid foundation in music theory, I realized that I need to learn to navigate the fretboard in order to apply what I know to my playing. I think you do a good job of explaining these basics in a way that is easily understood. There is so much material out there, that it is hard to seperate the wheat from the chaff. Plus lot of other sites/youtubers don't do as good a job at simplifying things. Your video helped me figure out why knowing my scales and root notes is essential for moving around on the fretboard. So, thanks again, and keep up the good work!
When I learned the piano, the first thing that made such a difference was learning the keyboard alphebet and the basic patterns of the scales. Everything else made sense to me from their. Now I'm waiting for my first guitar to come out the shop and I been looking 2 days for a video just like this. Too many guitar beginner videos skip this part. Thank you. I'm a new subscriber.
I was today years old when I learned the note is called a sharp when your going up the scale, and a flat when you're moving down. And I've only been playing for the last 48 years. SMH>
Just stumbled across this video. Trying to 'learn' again for the 5th time 😂. Started over 50 years ago when we had to put on an album to try and learn a song. People got it easy nowadays. Never got around to learning scales or theory. Realizing now that I have to know some of it to progress. Thanks for the lessons, I'll be subbing your videos..
I'm one of those musicians who learned the open chords and just took off rockin. Now I want to expand my abilities, and this channel really facilitates easy learning. Thanks GuitarLessons!!
For some reason, I know these concepts already, but I still like to watch it. Maybe it's just that Ayla is such an awesome teacher that I never have enough
You are the coolest teacher lady... I love how you explain things and your approach... Thank you so much I am going to show my seven-year-old friend.. your videos.. she will be inspired!!! Thank you so much
As a beginner i don't know a fretboard and don't actually know how the scales work. Yep, as many of us i can play something with progression of 4 chords and use fantasy to make it more stylish. But after a while the progress just stopped, it became too hard for me because of lack of practice. After a couple of days i found this video, now i want to try it again. We all should find motivation in something, then try again and again, even if we fail sometimes, practice and time only things that show us a result. This lesson is so warming
The best lesson I've had to understand the fretboard and learn scale shapes. Thank you Ayla. You're an excellent teacher.. and everything is said with a smile on your face.. 😊🙏
Every other ‘beginner’ scale video I’ve seen uses jargon that is way too incomprehensible, but you broke it all down very cleanly and helped me to understand a whole lot in a very short amount of time, thank you so much!
Omg! I’m 54 years old and I just got this. I thought it was so much more complicated than that. Ok ok I know that’s the basics. Thank you thank you for making it simple. I think some people over complicate this lesson. I will subscribe and see what else I can learn. 👍
We hope you enjoy this lesson and that it helps you understand the guitar fretboard a little more! 🙂
Hii hope you could teach us also on how to break the pentatonic scale sounds and definition of the time signatures. Thank you!
Young lady you are an exceptionally good guitar teacher. Simple is always easier and you make things sound a lot less complicated. I've been playing, (trying to play😂) since I was 7 years old. I learn something from almost everyone I watch play guitar, but you are the easiest to understand that I have encountered.
Excellent job!
Keep'em coming!
Young lady please teach me how to hit the note precisely in fingerstiling. Tanx
Huge thanks from Tokyo, Japan. You are marvelous in teaching exactly what I wanted to. I will be following your terrific lessons.
love it...very helpful as im a 62 year old beginner
i know all of this and still sat here for 18 minutes quietly and couldnt take my eyes off the screen, how can anyone dislike this person? i wish i had a teacher like this i would play for 8 hours a day :D
Same bro. Shes one of a kind
Yes i knew too but her way is different
I wish she was my first teacher too. I went through a lot of duds....
@@dannyspitzer1267 haha, i am a beginner on guitar and bass still but i play 2 hours per day and trying to learn as much as possible so during covid no option for a teacher so online has to do, but this lady has such a personality and charisma i could watch her for days regardless of topic
@@dannyspitzer1267 Former ANTHRAX guitarist?
Nope!
I’m 72 years of age and your tutorial is helping me learn at this late age! Thanks❤
Get it man. Do you post anywhere? I'd like to see
Keep up with practice and try to pick up your guitar everyday. You'll be amazed how much it helps to put in some daily time.
You're still young 🌱
She has such a nice easygoing vibe
Lady Thanks. You are a true genius without going do expensive lessons to play Worship music in Church. You gave me all I need to understand . I'm playing 40 years folk music and turn to Worship music in Church now on age 60 ❤
I wish I had a video like this right when I started. This explains a lot of things very clearly and logically for just 18 minutes.
Incredible time to be a beginner. I had nothing except what I could pick up from listening to records. Eventually I got a chord dictionary.
@@jigsaw9618 I have TH-cam and I STILL went to the bookstore and bought music theory and guitar chord books 😃
I'm so new when i ordered a guitar book thru Amazon, they sent me two. 😂😂
Where do you get your background a minor track from?
Exactly. I am from the pre-PC & pre-Internet / TH-cam era.
Burt Weedon's Play In A Day was all we had 50 years ago, or pay a small fortune for pro lessons. Students are very fortunate today having so many great teachers for free.
Just what I needed since I'm about to try to learn the guitar for the 3rd time.
Wish me luck. 😁
Good luck, you can do it!! Third time's the charm 😁
The best way to start learning is to select a favorite simple song a Folk, Country, with just 3 Major Chordss like C, D, G.. then strum "down down" and sing along.
@@WorldEngineersOnline I started on back in black and i got super good in a couple weeks
updatre?
Coming back to playing guitar after a long hiatus and ran into this. You rule. Calm, clear, collected, and efficient lesson. Not muddled with trying to show off. Very self confident, humble and knowledgeable. Great job and thank you.
Agree with what you said. My hiatus has been a few decades. 😂😂
Her teaching is like a cup of hot chocolate on a cold rainy day.
with donut on one hand.....
@@edvergara9748 and using the donut as a pick
You only say that because of the green guitar 🎸
She has the Julia Chiles style lol she's great 👍
wtf does that mean
I have been playing guitar for about 24 years, you have just managed to make me understand notes and scales for the first time 🤯
I am 61 and just bought my 1st guitar, an acoustic electric. I do not know the first thing about playing, but you explain things in a way I can understand.
Ayla, you are not only a talented guitarist, you are also a talented teacher. Too often, teachers go too fast, assume too much, and/or they use their teaching time to show off more than teach. You, on the other hand, are a warm and personable teacher, whose sincerity is as clear as the notes you play. This was a great video for beginners AND for people who needed a good introduction to the keyboard no matter how many years they may have been playing. Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge and experience with us. Kindly do some more of these videos for us. Thanks!
I’m an absolute beginner and this was my first introduction to the fretboard - I’ve got a lot to learn 😄 but you sure make it clear. Thank you!
Been playing 40 yrs. Learned during the 80's the Decade of the Guitarist in my humble Opinion . I'm self taught and I was able to learn something New for me from this . Thank You very well done !!
I had two teachers who demanded I know every note on every string. One wouldn't even go any further with lessons till I could pass this test. I believe it really helped to open up the fretboard. Helped me understand the major scale and how chords are made and their relation to scales.
I just watched this video ... Thank you, you opened up something for me I was troubling over. Being 63 and trying to learn guitar is more of a challenge than I had thought.
You've broken this topic down really well here. There's so much information and its so concise
I took guitar lessons in college. I'd been in band throughout school, even achieved national honors on my instrument. Loved music, loved learning new instruments, could play several, including percussion. But I always wanted to play guitar. So in college, we were in a class of about 20 people with a teacher who obviously was there simply doing his job. There was nothing of him in the sound he produced. I don't think I ever saw him smile or respond to what he played. Oh, he showed us how to play chords and notes, but he never explained any of what you shared. You made things more clear in the first five minutes than he did in an entire semester. THANK YOU. I'm 50 years old now and am trying again.
LEARN 👏 ROOT 👏 NOTES 👏
At least for me, they were the key to it all. Root notes anchored everything for me and lessons that were very abstract and hard to wrap my head around before, made sense immediately.
SO 👏 TRUE 👏
When you mean learn , do you mean memorizing them?? Or is there something else to it?
what root notes_??😭😭
@@TimlegoStudios ehm, i could be slightly inaccurate, but i'm pretty sure its the most dominant note that forms it into a chord, if that makes sense?
It's basically the starting ground for a chord. from my little lack of piano knowledge, a C chord for example would be *C* E G, moving up, and then you'd just get rid of E and G, and have the root note of C left.
A lot of tutorials started with cool licks or shreads showboating the tutors' skills. Her opening just straight to the point, the content is straight to the point and with clear instructions. Learning so much from her videos.
most confusing thing i ever watched in my life
These videos of Ayla teaching us guitar are so amazing, please keep them coming 🥺🥺💖
Will do!
@@MusoraOfficial Thank you! :)
i used to play keyboard then piano and then i started on guitar, it's like i have all the basics and note values and some music theory already there but the guitar really confused me at first and it was off putting where you strum a chord and it didn't ring right or a solo part wasn't smooth and more picky, but looking back i think im getting better and starting to get the gist of it. i feel it's safe to say guitar is harder at the beginning but gets easier as you go.
I heard her voice for literally a minute and I already fell in love😅 to be honest I wasn’t even paying attention to the lesson, I was just mesmerized by her vibe and couldn’t stop watching lol.
Ive learned more in this video than I’ve learned in 10 years and thats the truth she’s amazing how she teaches and I don’t even play guitar anymore I’ve switch to the keyboards just couldn’t get the hang of the guitar wish I would have found her earlier in my life great tutorial.
It's a wild thing about guitar how you can muck about on it for 10 years and someone like Ayla shows a pattern / association you hadn't seen up to that point and you go "I *never* made that connection before..." Happens more than I care to admit... Thanks for the new insights !
Yeah it's crazy how you can keep learning your whole life
Happened to me but in drumming. After years of playing the drums I stumbled upon a Jojo Mayer instructional video and I was like 🤯.
😂😂
I realized that all this time I had been trying to reinvent the wheel. 🤦♂️
@@jessevarela p
I love watching your channel. I'm a 54 year old Metal Head learning to play guitar and your such a help and inspiration. Thank you so much!!!!!
Love love love her. Keep her around. Wish I had her when I was younger and first learning . She makes it easy to understand and non-intimidating. Cuts through the bs. Also fun to watch cause of her uniqueness and personality. Sweet guitar💚
I've been playing guitar for almost 20 years now and have been wanting to expand my knowledge and learn more about the fretboard (I am self-taught, but want to KNOW more by learning, being taught the "proper" way) and the way you just explained how to remember the name of each string AND how the open E moves to F on the first fret and then continuing on down felt like a massive flood being released from my mind! All the confusion and frustration I've felt for SO LONG has finally eased! And it's because of you!!! Thank you so much for sharing this! Thank you for your help! You made playing the guitar fun for me again!! Bless your heart!! ☺👏🙏
Ok, I know I'm not the best guitar student, always focused on shapes and tabs rather than musical concepts, but this is the first time that I've actually understood what intervals are all about.
You made me cry, Ayla, you wonderful teacher you :')
I can't wait to watch these lessons on binge in my new apartment and finally get fluent on guitar!
Literally the best teacher I’ve come across. Love her personality and she seems to really enjoy teaching almost as much as playing.
This young lady is a ray of sunshine. What a great teacher. She makes you feel so comfortable and encouraged. I've learned a lot from her videos.
Thanks, Ayla! I’ve literally been trying to learn guitar for over ten years, and I haven’t learned a single song, although I’ve tried. There’s something about your patience, friendliness, and approach to teaching, that really helps me to grasp the concepts. I feel like I’ve learned more from you in a day than I have in years, from anyone else
I've been playing since I was 12 I'm now 38 and still enjoy watching guitar lesson type videos I know all of what she taught and she did a great job explaining. The reason I still watch guitar lesson videos is you may suprise yourself and find a new trick or approach you may have missed when first learning or though had no importance to you when first attempting the guitar. Learning how to play never ends, their is so many different styles and techniques it could take a lifetime to learn and master, but as long as you are having fun and expanding your ability you are on the right path.
Props to her showing this lesson I always tell people that are first learning learn the notes and it will open highways of possibilities in the future when playing and jamming with others.
Practice, practice, practice is the way to learn from Ayla or any teacher. Thank you for this lesson.
No,no,no!! It's pratise,practise,practiSe !!!
Wow! Of ALL the guitar lessons that I've seen here on TH-cam. This is by far the best.
Ayla’s teaching method is exceptional ‘cause it unlocks the hurdles many beginners face when they are caught up in a rut. I personally recommend to beginners to learn from the experience of this brilliant young lady. Bravo Ayla.
I've been playing for 15 years and never had a lesson. Recently realized I never learned any basics so I built my skills off of a crumbling foundation. Y'all it's so crucial to get this right, this video makes it so clear. Great job.
Not even my guitar teacher explained that clear to me. She is the best ❤️
yes by far one of the best teacher, I am someone who plays, the keys, drums and also engineer sound, this guitar lesson gave me a new hope. Thank you so much.
That was an excellent lesson, I will certainly be implementing the steps outlined expertly in it. I wish I had a teacher like her. Many thanks to her
I’m 55 years old and I’ve been trying to play for 30 years
If I had your videos 30 years ago I would be a super star
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge
Shine on, Ayla. Shine on with the light of a thousand billion stars. The universe is yours and music is its language.
I heard she got a DUI yesterday
@@kingfisher7960 proof?
I have been searching for ages for a good video as a complete beginner, I literally know nothing about making music, but this video is perfect.
Best video I've seen on this topic so far. My 1st guitar hopefully arrives on Tuesday so I'm doing some research as an absolute beginner beforehand. I already understand intervals, building chords and scales from playing piano but couldn't quite grasp how to translate that knowledge onto the guitar. This video is so clear and well presented. It answers all of the nooby questions I've had in a few minutes! - Love your guitar by the way! Thanks for the help
She just makes you happy...& you learn a few things! Thanks
I love how she explains things so that anyone of any age can understand what she's saying
literally i know everything u said in the video.
but for the first time i saw some video till end without increasing playback speed.
u r just a melting ice cream, ur way to teaching, smiling just stolen heart ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
This is such an awesome lesson. I am super thankful for finding this gem you created. I have been studying music theory using the keyboard for about a year now, and decided to investigate the guitar. This was so helpful in instantly relating what I have learned so far on the keyboard to the fretboard. I can totally see the keyboard laid out on the fretboard after this. One other thing I found very helpful was discovering that, in addition to knowing that each string progresses up the fretboard chromatically, it also generally follows the circle of fifths moving up and down on a fret, except for that pesky transition between the G and B string, lol. Thanks again.
Excellent lesson and excellent way of teaching. Some other youtube teachers seem to hold information, unfortunately.
Not the case here, I just learned a few new things about navigating the fretboard.
Will watch all her videos now
This is one of the most helpful and informative videos I've found in my quest to transition from a beginner guitarist to an intermediate guitarist. Thanks Ayla and Guitareo!
Your explanation has been the most clear one I have come across. I play piano and was struggling to make sense of guitar, but now it's extremely well cleared in my mind. Thank you.
Thanks Ayla, I like your laid back style. It's easy to learn from.
the fretboard is literally just a piano except the black keys are white too. You just have to know where the black keys are. Each string is a section of piano keys. They overlap a ton. Each string only has like 4 or so piano keys that's not on the string above it. The treble clef (the thing notes are written on in sheet music) can be played entirely with the first 4 frets of all the strings. If you go up each open string to the fourth fret, then to the next open string, you are playing a chromatic scale. Which is the same as just playing up every fret on a string. Try it, go up every fret on the 6th string, then do 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, switch to 5th string, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 etc. It's very easy to understand, once you know what's going on
She has such a chill stoner vibe, which I really appreciate. Thanks for the lesson. Very well articulated 🤘
Okay now I see it. That is a gorgeous duo sonic. The color is incredible and that pickguard is crazy, it looks well made also.. a mustang with humbuckers would be cool. When I was 17 I had a candy apple red competition stripe mustang and installed two Seymour Duncan single coil sized humbuckers in it!! And then pawned it over in South Africa - huge regret.. they want up in value massively the Japanese competition stripe ones. Said crafted in Japan.. so cool. I’ve a fender Jaguar and a fender Stratocaster now.
So clear and to the point. I wish I'd had this lesson when I first tried to learn the guitar many years ago. Thank you Ayla!
One of the best videos... I'm a self-taught guitar Player....You cleared lot of my doubts... Love'from India 🇮🇳...🙏🙏🙏...
Hi Ayla
Thank you for your insightful instructions.
I like the way you stand out from other numerous teachers on TH-cam, with your own take and style of teaching.
Please remain true to yourself and keep the videos coming.
Thank you 👍🏼👌👏
I so appreciate your concise and well-articulated teaching style. I am 78 and trying to actually learn how to play without guesswork, so this lesson was somewhat of a revelation. Thank you so much for posting your excellent video.
I might offer one tiny suggestion. If you rotate your diagrams of the Major scale fingering (90 degrees to the right), they would reflect the same orientation of the fretboard that you are displaying in your video.
that guitar is gorgeous!
The girl is also gorgeous
@@simon-di7xt - y - inside & out - the older you get the more valuable the inner beauty becomes. So many broken & mean old gals out there…
@@simon-di7xt nah
I have never smiled from how well someone explained something to me over a video i didn’t specify how to make. Thank you so much i love u
I LOVE your channel. You just gave me the break thru I needed. Everything is starting to make sense. Thanks a million!!
I am 67 years old and just watched your Navigating the fretboard video. Bravo! Had you been around a few decades ago, Eddie Van Halen may have had a a real competitor!
Wow. Very well explained & edited; Very clear & concise. Had a serious light bulb moment.
Makes sense. Still trying to figure how to go up with the fingers making the scale.
I never understood the terminology in a lot of tutorials and while I will have to memorize this, this is the first thing that ever made sense. SO GOOD
you always manage to make my fridays even better!
Ayla, you are such a welcome addition to the guitar teaching world. There’s a revolution of sorts with all sorts of women rocking out and making those electrics sing, and I’m one of many enjoying and feeling energized by the parade. Keep up the posts and warm smiles. ROCK ON! 👍
You are an amazing gifted instructor....
She explained it better than anyone I've seen bbn on TH-cam so far. Well done!
This is a lovely lesson thank you very much
I’ve been playing on and off for 15 years. THIS is the exact explanation I was looking for this whole time. Just take my money.
The open E, A and D chords are actually the same shape, twisted to fit around the B-string.
Well you are a breath of fresh air as guitar teachers go! I think you could teach anyone to play guitar even if they have a tin ear. You are able to transmit your knowledge to others in an understandable way. Not all guitar teachers know how to do that. I'll go as far as to say most don't know how. I've played for 60 years but you taught me about Intervals. Never considered them before. I'll recommend you to anyone wanting to start out right on the guitar.
I'll be honest, you lost me at the intervals. Learning what the little dots are on the fretboard? Super fun! I can do that no problem. I'm basically a pro at finding dots. Learning about the notes and how they move up the fretboard? Ok, not bad, just take it slow so I can find them. Hop-skipping into intervals and talking about changing chords between keys? Sounded like this to me: "Ok, guys, so this is called a spoon, and with the spoon you can stir the flour and eggs we learned about earlier. Now, if you know how to stir the eggs, you'll find it easy to transmogrify the nebular catechism by flambéing the encroaching onomatopoeia. Awesome! You're a pro."
That was an excellent lesson.
A great story and I love the way you tell it. When I was a kid we got lessons that went like this. Go like that, then go like this, then go like that again, then move up here. Then go like this. Then go like that again.
Rinse and repeat.
Jinkies! Another mystery solved
Zoinks!
Hey Ayla, thanks! I've been playing open chords on the acoustic guitar with strumming and finger-picking for over 25 years now (I taught myself from a beginner's book in the days before youtube), but work and family kept me from progressing beyond that. Now I've decided that I need to spend some time learning new skills on the guitar. Though I have a solid foundation in music theory, I realized that I need to learn to navigate the fretboard in order to apply what I know to my playing.
I think you do a good job of explaining these basics in a way that is easily understood. There is so much material out there, that it is hard to seperate the wheat from the chaff. Plus lot of other sites/youtubers don't do as good a job at simplifying things. Your video helped me figure out why knowing my scales and root notes is essential for moving around on the fretboard. So, thanks again, and keep up the good work!
My music teacher in high school taught me “Easter Bunnies Get Drunk At Easter” haha
LOL. but wait... that isn't standard tuning (EADGBE)? My music teacher taught me Elvis Ate Dynamite Good Bye Elvis. Pneumonics can be so funny!
It is standard tuning he just going 1-6 string rather then 6-1
Everybody Goes Dancing And Eating for me
Chords and scales look the same in every key! Boom mind blown. That just made things make so much more sense. Thank you
I love Fridays
...but whose do you like more 🤔
@@MusoraOfficial Yours, haha.
@@MusoraOfficial haha lol ! both i believe XD
@@duazia9737 Good answer.
@@tanisha9080 Even better answer.
When I learned the piano, the first thing that made such a difference was learning the keyboard alphebet and the basic patterns of the scales. Everything else made sense to me from their. Now I'm waiting for my first guitar to come out the shop and I been looking 2 days for a video just like this. Too many guitar beginner videos skip this part. Thank you. I'm a new subscriber.
I was today years old when I learned the note is called a sharp when your going up the scale, and a flat when you're moving down. And I've only been playing for the last 48 years. SMH>
Been playing guitar for 6 years and still found this helpful. Great video!
I’ve played guitar almost 20 years now. And still don’t know any of this lol.
I've watched this video several times now over the past week or so and just finally caught on to the E-String vs A-String patterns. Light bulb moment!
Just stumbled across this video. Trying to 'learn' again for the 5th time 😂. Started over 50 years ago when we had to put on an album to try and learn a song. People got it easy nowadays. Never got around to learning scales or theory. Realizing now that I have to know some of it to progress.
Thanks for the lessons, I'll be subbing your videos..
I'm one of those musicians who learned the open chords and just took off rockin. Now I want to expand my abilities, and this channel really facilitates easy learning. Thanks GuitarLessons!!
For some reason, I know these concepts already, but I still like to watch it. Maybe it's just that Ayla is such an awesome teacher that I never have enough
You are the coolest teacher lady... I love how you explain things and your approach... Thank you so much I am going to show my seven-year-old friend.. your videos.. she will be inspired!!! Thank you so much
As a beginner i don't know a fretboard and don't actually know how the scales work. Yep, as many of us i can play something with progression of 4 chords and use fantasy to make it more stylish. But after a while the progress just stopped, it became too hard for me because of lack of practice. After a couple of days i found this video, now i want to try it again. We all should find motivation in something, then try again and again, even if we fail sometimes, practice and time only things that show us a result. This lesson is so warming
The best lesson I've had to understand the fretboard and learn scale shapes. Thank you Ayla. You're an excellent teacher.. and everything is said with a smile on your face.. 😊🙏
Every other ‘beginner’ scale video I’ve seen uses jargon that is way too incomprehensible, but you broke it all down very cleanly and helped me to understand a whole lot in a very short amount of time, thank you so much!
I am just learning at 59 years old. I guess I’m going to have to watch this again because I did not grasp it. Thank you for sharing.
She’s not only a good teacher, she’s a great player!
✌️😎🎸🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶
Has the Power to Hold one's attention with out being aggressive or pushy.. Very very Talented..
Been playing by ear for 60 years. Wish I heard her 60 years ago! Thank u!
Omg! I’m 54 years old and I just got this. I thought it was so much more complicated than that. Ok ok I know that’s the basics. Thank you thank you for making it simple. I think some people over complicate this lesson. I will subscribe and see what else I can learn. 👍
You are like a breath of fresh air compaired to other teachers.
Your laid back nature makes it easier to absorb the large amount of information you've provided. Thanks!