at age 79 just getting started. Taking lessons privately, but am using your site as a strong supplement to move me forward faster. Trying to beat the "time clock", my daughter and her daughters are all musicians, but I have been so buy providing and ministering I let others do music. But, I need to have some talent to play the "harp" some day. Thanks for sharing you talent and blessings. Old Navy John
You inspire me John . I am 72 and was beginning to think I was to old to learn. I am going full steam ahead now and push it to the limit. No more pussy footing around with 10 minutes every other day.
Funny! A friend of mine just bought a Martin "back-packer's" guitar. It sounds great...even though it's very small. It would be a good campfire guitar.
When I was a kid my guitar playing brother had just led us through the Beatles White Album, side one, in a sibling sing along one night around a Red River New Mexico campfire. We had taken a break when, from up canyon, we heard a lone voice echo through the forest "play the flip side!!!!"
Thank you for recognizing that everyone has different styles & preferencesthat and not everyone wants to be a lead rock guitarist - I appreciate your teaching!
Thank you so very much for your videos, very helpful. I use too play when I was younger, then I had 2 devastating strokes and I had to relearn just about everything in life. I was not very good at that time playing guitar. I was 42 , I am 61 now, I have been playing again for about 15 years and it was like something in my brain woke up I was able to do things I never knew how to do, like read music! Anyways, the lord Jesus blessed me indeed. I am still learning new things I could never do before, I am truly blessed and thankful for videos like yours that teach me every day! Thank you so very much, I am a better player than ever before and still learning! To those out there having problems with playing guitar, don’t quit keep praying and watching videos like this video here. GOD BLESS all
Thanks Erich! So many guitar instructors/teachers seem to assume that the student automatically knows certain things about music, when in all actuality, we don't. So far, that's not the case with you. Thanks a million! Keep it up!!!
I inherited my fathers guitar which is loaded with years of fond memories and I am determined to learn to play it. Have been looking on TH-cam for a teach, I think I've found you, really like your style. Wish me luck!
3:34 How to strum 7:50 9 essential chords: G C D Dm Em E Am A B7 9:32 Capo: How to use and why 10:51 Repertoire: songs you can do at any time, that you know well. 12:17 Signature licks: What makes people recognise your song immediately 13:42 Basic finger picking
@@yourguitarsage I'm into the Udemy course :Complete Guitar Lessons System - Beginner to Advanced. For that, i need to complete The Core and Solid Foundation modules ?
Other than fiddling around with the instruments, I’ve parented 2 children while working 3rd shift for most of those years. I did manage to produce 2 wonderful children that have grown to become excellent parents themselves. Family First! 😃
People have no idea how lucky they are to have the internet full of guitar teacher and lessons, I’d of given anything for this information 45 years ago. Lol might not of gone to school.
This is me exactly. I'm 43, had my Johnson for 15 years but got overwhelmed the first year or so I had it and just recently started back. I love youtube and have come so far in just a little bit of time. I got my 9 chords down pretty good and know I'll never have the time to devote to becoming a lead guitarist but I love to play the songs that I love, at least where I can hear them. Thanks for all you and everyone else teaching on youtube do. You have no idea the difference it makes.
This is a video that I wish I would have seen when I started playing guitar back in the 70's. I just recently picked up the guitar again recently (now 62) and having the basics down instead of getting into theory and all that stuff just starting looking for songs I know and love to listen to. Wow, what a difference it has made in the enjoyment of playing. I literally played blisters on my fingers. I do plan on taking the guitar on our next camping trip with the family and having sing alongs by the campfire. Great advice in this video. Thanks for getting the word out there.
One of my favorite songs to play around a campfire is "Don't Pass Me By" by the Beatles. Not really a tune you'd expect round a fire, but fit the mood quite nicely.
Good instructions for beginners, and it’s all true! When grandma says play that one I like and U freeze up...not fun. Practice practice practice! 😜👍🎸🇺🇸
Thank you great video. I’m a 55 year old man who just started playing about 6yrs ago. And yes I wanted to be the campfire hero and not interested in lead guitar. I just want to be able to entertain people and have fun. Considering I just started playing I am pretty good and do play a lot of songs. Thank you again looking forward to more videos.
I don’t understand all the negative comments on this post. You’re putting this out there for free and trying to give some context for beginners. I thought it was very useful good advice, thank you.
Still binging on your videos at 4 in the morning! I have a younger brother who loves to play guitar, BUT...he has terrible rhythm...bless his heart. It drives me nuts. He also has a hard time singing a harmony part. We used to sing and play together and he always jumped onto MY singing part. I would switch parts with him...and he STILL jumped onto my part. He plays much better than I do, but his sense of rhythm...ugh. This video was VERY helpful...thanks so much!
I have 21 siblings and none of them want to learn how to play guitar or any instrument so we can play to together. I had a dream we form a 22 piece band, but I guess it wasn't meant to be. Hope you and your brother are still going strong👍🏾
I also would suggest once you have some of these techniques down is to find a pickers circle in your area. We have one every Sunday night at a local pub and my repertoire has expanded 10 fold since playing along with that group. If there isn't a pickers circle near you maybe start one up. Our picker circle consists of 20 - 30 people depending on who shows up. Instruments range from piccolo, 6 string and 12 string guitars, fiddles, cajones, harmonicas, tub bass, mandolins, ukes and the occassional auto harp.
I have been playing bass (mainly blues) for quite a while but I utterly love 50s / 60s folk songs. I was (when I can afford it) going to buy an electric guitar, but having seen this video I think I really need an acoustic guitar. I know all of those chords, and I know a few folk songs from a time when I played tenor ukulele, I do have a basic repetoire. Thank you for inspiring me as to my next direction (I am 74)....
Great tips. I'm 73 years old and just starting to learn basic simple guitar playing. I don't want to know or learn all the music theory at my age. Looking forward to watching more of your video's. Thanks.
Great video. Nice explanation of strumming. Ive been playing for 30 yrs or so but sometimes like to go back to the basics. I always pick up something new when I do. Largely self taught so a lot of this stuff is new to me. Thank you
Thanks for another excellent video. It's nice to see how often you mention Cash and his music. It is amazing to me that back in the 1950's an inexperienced guitarist like Luther Perkins could come up with so many signature licks.
Glen Campbell asked Luther Perkins how come some players play all over ther the fingerboard and he (Luther) stuck with Dum--chicka-dum chick. Luther replied "They're lookin' for it, I found it ". Genius.
I have a tendency to use the same strumming pattern on everything--but I'm working on it. This helps . I have an Ibanez AC240 parlor guitar for camping and travel, and a Martin D-15 and Taylor 12 string when I am playing with the 2 groups I am in--they get together once a month each--those are great. Most importantly, they are non-judgemental. I have a few "go-to" songs--but learning the "signature Licks" makes it all better. Interestingly, at Chaco Canyon in NE New Mexico last summer, a group of us were playing (all strangers-met that day), and I started the intro to Ian Tyson's "Summer Wages". A voice from out of the darkness hollered "Are you Canadian, too?"--and we added a 6th to the 5 guys playing...
I have to say to all just starting out on guitar take advantage of Erichs first 30 beginner lessons without them you will be lost...if you dont it will be like building a house on sand with no foundation. I didnt even know which way to hold th guitar when I started..the free 30 lessons helped me so much .thanks Erich
I have played guitar for 50 years on and off. I use a capo to adjust for my voice pitch in combination with the chords I like to play for that song! Never cared what key I was actually playing in! If playing campfire alone, it didn't matter! You have my guitar by the way! I have a 70's Cortez copy of my Gibson that I take outside!
Very interesting video! Thank you! My favorite guitar playing is by the campfire. You can make small mistakes and maybe not know all the words. As long as you are entertaining and people are singing and have a good time, no body really cares. My memory is bad. I try to sing and play one song all the way through, 3 times a week. Everytime it is a different song. Eventually the song becomes muscle memory. That to me is a song you can play without thinking about it.Also I have found, if you pretend to not remember some words, someone in the crowd will start singing them. That's a way to get people singing with you.
Absolutely love these tips. I’ve played since my first year I the Navy (1989) but practical tips like you offered really help me focus on being a better musician and more comfortable sharing my love of music with others openly. Also, if you don’t mind sharing, what type of jacket are you wearing? I’ve been looking for one like it! Thank you!
Laughed to myself when you mentioned about playing a songs signature riff, we didn't know they were called riffs, my sister used to call them the twidley bits, oh play the twidley bit for pretty woman lol.
I quit playing rock and blues, sold my amp and Strat because I wanted to return to acoustic guitar and just play for my own fun! This kind of playing is more in my alley now so I'm tuning in. I like the sound of that J200!
WOW. What a find. EXCEPTIONAL RESOURCE YOU ARE. MY GOSH. I'm really stoked to have found your everything here, and will get to look'n around all your site now. THANK YOU! THANKS for taking all the time 'n effort to provide such an immeasurable benefit to countless folks, myself happily now being one of them. :D Man, you make learn'n FUN 'n EASY! BIG help. WOW. Also, I CAN'T BELIEVE HOW SIMPLE YOU INTRODUCED FINGERSTYLE PICKING. I MEAN W-O-W! MAN, THAT ROCKS! Really made my day and guitar play'n life VERY fun! :D Thanks a BIG BUNCH!
Hey man, thank you, thank you, thank you. You’ve helped my picking like never before. When you sAid all your students mess it up, I just kept practicing. Instead of blaming my accident putting my arm through glass, I said well all his students mess it up. I kept at it and I’ve gotten much better. Not perfect but a vast improvement. Thank you so much🙏😎
There is a saying maybe your mom's taught you "if you don't have something nice to say say nothing at all" !!!! Sick of all you geeks with negative comments, move on! Love the knowledge Steve brings to us
Good video and good advice. One thing I tell people who want to start playing is to get music books of the style they like. When you know how a song goes and have the lyrics and chords right in front of you it makes it easier and more rewarding. Find some people to play with, but be aware a lot of people who are good players think they can teach. They might be able to show you their style but that's as far as it goes. Every song you've ever heard has music available on the internet, Google it up and go with it. A quality guitar makes it easier and more enjoyable. But nothing anyone tells you means doodley if you don't PRACTICE- Practice- Practice!!!!!!
15:09 Nothing Else Matters. This is legitimately what made me want to look up how to play the song, because I was mucking around with fingerpicking while my fretting hand was busy with other things, i.e. turning pages, looking up songs, etc.
There are people who want to learn guitar so they can play screamin solos..or play like their fav guitar god and so on..But, for many they want to learn just to play at home for themselves, a sing-a-long with the kids etc. And to be honest that's probably the best way to start..Maybe a bit of theory so you know why that A..D..and E chord work together..You have a chord to learn..then another and a third one, your strumming gets better..you learn to change chords and keep them co-ordinated with your strumming. You start to learn rhythm..and some struggle with that..but there is a really good way of teaching rhythm...(Or..Top tip..BEFORE you start with the guitar..take some drumming lessons..!!)...then keeping time..near enough...and a song or two. Add a lick or so to fill between chords..And let's face it that's gonna take some time for most. But you're practising the same things, making progress (teaching people HOW to practise is important as well as What to practise) .. And give them time to get used to the feel of holding the thing..and controlling the pick..that thing can end up all over the shop..Christ i drop mine sometimes... What you don't need is someone telling you to learn that Major scale..learn this Pentatonic scale..all positions..! 79 sheets of music theory...Learn the circle of fourths and fifths..learn the modes..gotta know that..and so on and so on.....and so on..Unless you want to put them off... Above all else..make it FUN.....Coz if it ain't fun..then it's boring..and if it's boring you go do something else.. There are a lot of good guitar teachers around..but there are some who don't seem to have a step by step lesson plan for the beginner..And the worse thing you can do if you're teaching guitar..? Knock out an awesome mini solo on your 2 grand axe through your top of the range sound system and amp....And then ask.."ok..how have you got on with last weeks lesson.".? Grrrrrr..!!
Been playing for years, but still got some useful tips from this lesson especially regarding the strumming pattern. I laughed at your calling the capo the "little clippy thing" because that's exactly what my girlfriend calls it.
Your guitar sage drinking game every time Erich says "my friends" you have to drink... I've watched a few videos back to back and the videos are getting better and better...
James Carter ... Haha 😆.. Hey James I don’t normally respond to replies unless the person is replying something positive, or uplifting. I am on u-tube quite often and you are the first person I have seen make a drinking game out of a persons videos.. The weirdest thing about it is that your name is James.. My best friend and roommate passed away not quite 3weeks ago and I never made it through a entire day without laughing my ass off over his comments and crazy 😜 ideas.. Thank you James I needed a good laugh 😂
Lindsay Lewis I must not be really listening to him that well cause I haven’t heard it yet HAHAHAHA OHHH HAHA Wait scratch that. While I was replying to your comment I heard it 4x’s.. Good thing I don’t drink 🍹 anymore or I think I would be pretty tipsy 🥴 right now.. It is so great to see people having fun with a persons videos instead of posting nasty negative comments.. To this day I can’t wrap my head around the idea that people feel good about themselves knowing that they just stripped a little bit of self esteem from that person. Sorry for babbling on and on..
Just watched this preparing for Christmas as you said and it turns out this was a year ago exactly. But great video it was the perfect lesson for me. Thanks man
Great information and great instruction! I struggle with strumming patterns. I might not be the only one! LOL! I can play your "5 Strumming Patterns" up to 120bpm, but try and put it in a song and I flounder! More on musicality in all regards!
Wow! What a great teacher. I just started at the age of 52 but I'm catching on. I've been watching Party Marty on TH-cam and have learned a lot. I have a full size Johnson and an acoustic electric Ibanez. Love them both. I can play about 10 songs so far and everyone loves to sing along which is always a good time. I just subscribed to your channel hoping to learn something different. Happing strumming!
Always Helpful & Always Awesome! Great video on simple foundation guitar playing. Thanks you for putting this together. Even a guitar player that has been "around awhile" always picks something up from your videos!!! 🙂
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Thanks! I appreciate you making this particular video. I've been working for about a year now and feel like such a dunce. I don't aspire to the stage - just amusing myself around my campfire. This video helped me immensely. Thanks again. Merry Christmas, Erich.
Hey Erich, just saw your "6 Things to Play Campfire Guitar" video. Your intro hit the nail on the head for me! Someone finally described my objectives to tee, rather than trying to lead me to become an "everything" guitar player. Thanks for that. Now do you have a lesson plan to accompany this? That would also be great. I'd feel I'm on a road that exactly suits me. And I'm sure I'm not alone feeling this way.
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at age 79 just getting started. Taking lessons privately, but am using your site as a strong supplement to move me forward faster. Trying to beat the "time clock", my daughter and her daughters are all musicians, but I have been so buy providing and ministering I let others do music. But, I need to have some talent to play the "harp" some day. Thanks for sharing you talent and blessings. Old Navy John
Thank you so much John 🙌
Best wishes for your continued enjoyment and improvement, Sir.
You inspire me John . I am 72 and was beginning to think I was to old to learn. I am going full steam ahead now and push it to the limit. No more pussy footing around with 10 minutes every other day.
Hello John
John Null you should check out TH-cam channel guitar lessons 365
7 things. #1 Don't take your $5000 Gibson anywhere near a campfire.
😂 👍
if you pay
$5000 for a guitar, you got raked over the campfire.
Or get it a little bit burned by the campfire then sell to me for $500!
Yeah I don’t want a well done Les Paul
Funny! A friend of mine just bought a Martin "back-packer's" guitar. It sounds great...even though it's very small. It would be a good campfire guitar.
When I was a kid my guitar playing brother had just led us through the Beatles White Album, side one, in a sibling sing along one night around a Red River New Mexico campfire. We had taken a break when, from up canyon, we heard a lone voice echo through the forest "play the flip side!!!!"
Cool and scary at the same time lol
Brilliant
I like playing "Don't Pass Me By" as a sing a long campfire song.
My first rule in campfires, get them all drunk so I sound good.
Holup-
Thank you for recognizing that everyone has different styles & preferencesthat and not everyone wants to be a lead rock guitarist - I appreciate your teaching!
Thank you so very much for your videos, very helpful. I use too play when I was younger, then I had 2 devastating strokes and I had to relearn just about everything in life. I was not very good at that time playing guitar. I was 42 , I am 61 now, I have been playing again for about 15 years and it was like something in my brain woke up I was able to do things I never knew how to do, like read music! Anyways, the lord Jesus blessed me indeed. I am still learning new things I could never do before, I am truly blessed and thankful for videos like yours that teach me every day! Thank you so very much, I am a better player than ever before and still learning! To those out there having problems with playing guitar, don’t quit keep praying and watching videos like this video here. GOD BLESS all
Great testimony...thanks so much for sharing!
Thanks Erich! So many guitar instructors/teachers seem to assume that the student automatically knows certain things about music, when in all actuality, we don't. So far, that's not the case with you. Thanks a million! Keep it up!!!
Thank you Robert!
A bottle of Jim Beam, a bag of homegrown, and a capo and my old Epi-- I can stay busy all night.
Realest comment ive ever seen
We all like to have fun I do however if one wishes to reach the prize it helps to be somewhat sober.
Agreed never go camping without it. Lol
Homegrown?
Hell ya I have two epiphones one acoustic one electric they just have the best sound.
I inherited my fathers guitar which is loaded with years of fond memories and I am determined to learn to play it. Have been looking on TH-cam for a teach, I think I've found you, really like your style. Wish me luck!
3:34 How to strum
7:50 9 essential chords: G C D Dm Em E Am A B7
9:32 Capo: How to use and why
10:51 Repertoire: songs you can do at any time, that you know well.
12:17 Signature licks: What makes people recognise your song immediately
13:42 Basic finger picking
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@@yourguitarsage I'm into the Udemy course :Complete Guitar Lessons System - Beginner to Advanced. For that, i need to complete The Core and Solid Foundation modules ?
That’s a beautiful J 200. That and the Hummingbird are my dream acoustic guitars.
I’ve been fiddling around with the guitar and bass since 1968 and I learned quite a bit here. Thank you.
Seriously? Half a century and you don't know this stuff? What have you been doing for all those years?
Other than fiddling around with the instruments, I’ve parented 2 children while working 3rd shift for most of those years.
I did manage to produce 2 wonderful children that have grown to become excellent parents themselves. Family First! 😃
ron matthews he’s been going through something called life you should try it sometime
People have no idea how lucky they are to have the internet full of guitar teacher and lessons, I’d of given anything for this information 45 years ago. Lol might not of gone to school.
Thank you Dave 🙏
“I’d of”?
Derek Lees i would of
I would’ve or would have. There is no such thing as would of.
Thanks for the English lesson, you get to move to the front of the class
Love your teaching dude! Professional vocalist playing guitar fir the first time seriously at age 65.
at 55 I just started to learn guitar with the intention of campfire music. This was great, thanks
Drinking game: Take a shot everytime he says "my friends"
Tanner Agpoon I’m pissed.
Good observation, my friend!
@@philc1402 DRINK!
@@northcountryhermit5057 OK!
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A lot of songs are played in the key of C , you’re going to need to add the dreaded F chord in there!
A Cappo is part of the tool kit
ARKLE Egan
So when you need to play in the key of C you’re going to capo5?
Practice the dreaded F chord. Bar it. It's easier
g major, c major, d major, d minor, e minor, e major, ea minor, a major, b7
ea minor? A minor maybe
Chord abbreviations are with capital letters.... G, C, D, Dm, Em, E, Am, A, B7... lower case "m" stands for minor 🙂
@@barrettbrown9405 Those don't apply to campfire guitarists! :P
Should have evened it out at 10 with Cadd9
F major is a must. Open not a barre chord 😃
just daydreamin over his guitar, so beautiful
Thank you for a great lesson. My goal is to be a campfire guitarist. I’m 58 and learning to play. :)
This is me exactly. I'm 43, had my Johnson for 15 years but got overwhelmed the first year or so I had it and just recently started back. I love youtube and have come so far in just a little bit of time. I got my 9 chords down pretty good and know I'll never have the time to devote to becoming a lead guitarist but I love to play the songs that I love, at least where I can hear them. Thanks for all you and everyone else teaching on youtube do. You have no idea the difference it makes.
Thank you my friend 🙌
This is a video that I wish I would have seen when I started playing guitar back in the 70's. I just recently picked up the guitar again recently (now 62) and having the basics down instead of getting into theory and all that stuff just starting looking for songs I know and love to listen to. Wow, what a difference it has made in the enjoyment of playing. I literally played blisters on my fingers. I do plan on taking the guitar on our next camping trip with the family and having sing alongs by the campfire. Great advice in this video. Thanks for getting the word out there.
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15:12 *beginner practicing fingerpicking* ..... *accidentally plays intro to Nothing Else Matters*
Yeah! Noticed that too.
Speaking as an entertainer, not a musician, you are spot on with your advice. Nice work.
Video starts at 8:21
omg thank you
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For me,
You were too late
The hero that everybody needed, thank you very much
Lesson really never starts in regards to 6 campfire songs...
One of my favorite songs to play around a campfire is "Don't Pass Me By" by the Beatles. Not really a tune you'd expect round a fire, but fit the mood quite nicely.
Good instructions for beginners, and it’s all true! When grandma says play that one I like and U freeze up...not fun. Practice practice practice! 😜👍🎸🇺🇸
Thank you great video. I’m a 55 year old man who just started playing about 6yrs ago. And yes I wanted to be the campfire hero and not interested in lead guitar. I just want to be able to entertain people and have fun. Considering I just started playing I am pretty good and do play a lot of songs. Thank you again looking forward to more videos.
I don’t understand all the negative comments on this post. You’re putting this out there for free and trying to give some context for beginners. I thought it was very useful good advice, thank you.
Thank you my friend 🙌
Still binging on your videos at 4 in the morning! I have a younger brother who loves to play guitar, BUT...he has terrible rhythm...bless his heart. It drives me nuts. He also has a hard time singing a harmony part. We used to sing and play together and he always jumped onto MY singing part. I would switch parts with him...and he STILL jumped onto my part. He plays much better than I do, but his sense of rhythm...ugh. This video was VERY helpful...thanks so much!
I have 21 siblings and none of them want to learn how to play guitar or any instrument so we can play to together. I had a dream we form a 22 piece band, but I guess it wasn't meant to be. Hope you and your brother are still going strong👍🏾
Dude, love the transition from Folsom Prison Blues to Back in Black!
Folsom Prison Blues by the Man in Back in Black!
I also would suggest once you have some of these techniques down is to find a pickers circle in your area. We have one every Sunday night at a local pub and my repertoire has expanded 10 fold since playing along with that group. If there isn't a pickers circle near you maybe start one up. Our picker circle consists of 20 - 30 people depending on who shows up. Instruments range from piccolo, 6 string and 12 string guitars, fiddles, cajones, harmonicas, tub bass, mandolins, ukes and the occassional auto harp.
That would be amazing.... it's just me and youtube lol, none of my friends play
I have been playing bass (mainly blues) for quite a while but I utterly love 50s / 60s folk songs. I was (when I can afford it) going to buy an electric guitar, but having seen this video I think I really need an acoustic guitar. I know all of those chords, and I know a few folk songs from a time when I played tenor ukulele, I do have a basic repetoire. Thank you for inspiring me as to my next direction (I am 74)....
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Haven't heard a note yet but I'm already in love with that J200 what a stunner
Great tips. I'm 73 years old and just starting to learn basic simple guitar playing. I don't want to know or learn all the music theory at my age. Looking forward to watching more of your video's. Thanks.
Great video. Nice explanation of strumming. Ive been playing for 30 yrs or so but sometimes like to go back to the basics. I always pick up something new when I do. Largely self taught so a lot of this stuff is new to me. Thank you
Always glad to see your kipper on TH-cam, your tips are boss, from liverpool uk
Learned a lot. As the lead singer of the band, I just play rhythm guitar. Good to learn more stuff. Thanks
Thanks for another excellent video. It's nice to see how often you mention Cash and his music. It is amazing to me that back in the 1950's an inexperienced guitarist like Luther Perkins could come up with so many signature licks.
Thank you my friend 🙌
Glen Campbell asked Luther Perkins how come some players play all over ther the fingerboard and he (Luther) stuck with Dum--chicka-dum chick. Luther replied "They're lookin' for it, I found it ". Genius.
I have a tendency to use the same strumming pattern on everything--but I'm working on it. This helps
. I have an Ibanez AC240 parlor guitar for camping and travel, and a Martin D-15 and Taylor 12 string when I am playing with the 2 groups I am in--they get together once a month each--those are great. Most importantly, they are non-judgemental.
I have a few "go-to" songs--but learning the "signature Licks" makes it all better. Interestingly, at Chaco Canyon in NE New Mexico last summer, a group of us were playing (all strangers-met that day), and I started the intro to Ian Tyson's "Summer Wages". A voice from out of the darkness hollered "Are you Canadian, too?"--and we added a 6th to the 5 guys playing...
Right off the bat...What a beautiful Gibson!
👍🙏
Thanks for the refreshing the memories about the guitar playing. I have been playing for over over 20 years now
I have to say to all just starting out on guitar take advantage of Erichs first 30 beginner lessons without them you will be lost...if you dont it will be like building a house on sand with no foundation. I didnt even know which way to hold th guitar when I started..the free 30 lessons helped me so much .thanks Erich
Thank you Bob 🙌 I appreciate that!
This video helped me to know to quit being so hard on myself because I'm not getting the guitar fast enough... thank you
Practice x Time = 💪
I’m a Brit and I’ve decided to call it a little clippy thing 😂
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Coming from a 14 y/o, guitar and all kinds of music are more fun than video games, which are very fun.
I have played guitar for 50 years on and off. I use a capo to adjust for my voice pitch in combination with the chords I like to play for that song! Never cared what key I was actually playing in! If playing campfire alone, it didn't matter! You have my guitar by the way! I have a 70's Cortez copy of my Gibson that I take outside!
Very interesting video! Thank you! My favorite guitar playing is by the campfire. You can make small mistakes and maybe not know all the words. As long as you are entertaining and people are singing and have a good time, no body really cares. My memory is bad. I try to sing and play one song all the way through, 3 times a week. Everytime it is a different song. Eventually the song becomes muscle memory. That to me is a song you can play without thinking about it.Also I have found, if you pretend to not remember some words, someone in the crowd will start singing them. That's a way to get people singing with you.
Absolutely love these tips. I’ve played since my first year I the Navy (1989) but practical tips like you offered really help me focus on being a better musician and more comfortable sharing my love of music with others openly. Also, if you don’t mind sharing, what type of jacket are you wearing? I’ve been looking for one like it! Thank you!
Thanks Erich, just starting my guitar journey and playing for youth group or campfire with my kids is exactly what I want to do.
Laughed to myself when you mentioned about playing a songs signature riff, we didn't know they were called riffs, my sister used to call them the twidley bits, oh play the twidley bit for pretty woman lol.
Your video's are great. I have played for 26 yrs and only play a couple songs. This is great help.
I quit playing rock and blues, sold my amp and Strat because I wanted to return to acoustic guitar and just play for my own fun! This kind of playing is more in my alley now so I'm tuning in. I like the sound of that J200!
"I'm stuck in Folsom Prison, but I'm back in black!" That actually works for me. lol. Another great lesson Erich. : )
Thanks!
I don't know why this got so many thumbs down. It was pretty basic, sound and fundamental advice. I thought it was solid.
Love your videos. I like the short one's because of time. I try to listen to all of them every chance I can. Thank you.
WOW. What a find. EXCEPTIONAL RESOURCE YOU ARE. MY GOSH. I'm really stoked to have found your everything here, and will get to look'n around all your site now. THANK YOU! THANKS for taking all the time 'n effort to provide such an immeasurable benefit to countless folks, myself happily now being one of them. :D Man, you make learn'n FUN 'n EASY! BIG help. WOW.
Also, I CAN'T BELIEVE HOW SIMPLE YOU INTRODUCED FINGERSTYLE PICKING. I MEAN W-O-W! MAN, THAT ROCKS! Really made my day and guitar play'n life VERY fun! :D Thanks a BIG BUNCH!
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Hey man, thank you, thank you, thank you. You’ve helped my picking like never before. When you sAid all your students mess it up, I just kept practicing. Instead of blaming my accident putting my arm through glass, I said well all his students mess it up. I kept at it and I’ve gotten much better. Not perfect but a vast improvement. Thank you so much🙏😎
There is a saying maybe your mom's taught you "if you don't have something nice to say say nothing at all" !!!! Sick of all you geeks with negative comments, move on! Love the knowledge Steve brings to us
Good video and good advice. One thing I tell people who want to start playing is to get music books of the style they like. When you know how a song goes and have the lyrics and chords right in front of you it makes it easier and more rewarding. Find some people to play with, but be aware a lot of people who are good players think they can teach. They might be able to show you their style but that's as far as it goes. Every song you've ever heard has music available on the internet, Google it up and go with it. A quality guitar makes it easier and more enjoyable. But nothing anyone tells you means doodley if you don't PRACTICE- Practice- Practice!!!!!!
WELL SAID.....
That is a beautiful gibson. Great videos! You're really helping me kick my playing to the next level.
Simple is better. I forgot that. Thanks for getting me back on track! 😊
My top tip for playing around a campfire is to leave my Collings at home and take my Rainsong camping.
OW. I bet there's a story there that would make me cringe.
You got that right, my Gibson Dove doesn't go camping anymore. I bought an old Epiphone for that.
Tell us the story!!!! Can't just bail on us like that
just well done!!! I am gonna pursue your teaching - BTW that guitar is beautiful!!!!!
15:09 Nothing Else Matters. This is legitimately what made me want to look up how to play the song, because I was mucking around with fingerpicking while my fretting hand was busy with other things, i.e. turning pages, looking up songs, etc.
There are people who want to learn guitar so they can play screamin solos..or play like their fav guitar god and so on..But, for many they want to learn just to play at home for themselves, a sing-a-long with the kids etc.
And to be honest that's probably the best way to start..Maybe a bit of theory so you know why that A..D..and E chord work together..You have a chord to learn..then another and a third one, your strumming gets better..you learn to change chords and keep them co-ordinated with your strumming. You start to learn rhythm..and some struggle with that..but there is a really good way of teaching rhythm...(Or..Top tip..BEFORE you start with the guitar..take some drumming lessons..!!)...then keeping time..near enough...and a song or two. Add a lick or so to fill between chords..And let's face it that's gonna take some time for most. But you're practising the same things, making progress (teaching people HOW to practise is important as well as What to practise) .. And give them time to get used to the feel of holding the thing..and controlling the pick..that thing can end up all over the shop..Christ i drop mine sometimes...
What you don't need is someone telling you to learn that Major scale..learn this Pentatonic scale..all positions..! 79 sheets of music theory...Learn the circle of fourths and fifths..learn the modes..gotta know that..and so on and so on.....and so on..Unless you want to put them off...
Above all else..make it FUN.....Coz if it ain't fun..then it's boring..and if it's boring you go do something else..
There are a lot of good guitar teachers around..but there are some who don't seem to have a step by step lesson plan for the beginner..And the worse thing you can do if you're teaching guitar..? Knock out an awesome mini solo on your 2 grand axe through your top of the range sound system and amp....And then ask.."ok..how have you got on with last weeks lesson.".? Grrrrrr..!!
We have an open Mike every Friday in our pub in the UK ✌
Its a gas after a few beers
Great strumming advice, thanks for that! 🎉
You bet!
Been playing for years, but still got some useful tips from this lesson especially regarding the strumming pattern. I laughed at your calling the capo the "little clippy thing" because that's exactly what my girlfriend calls it.
Your guitar sage drinking game every time Erich says "my friends" you have to drink... I've watched a few videos back to back and the videos are getting better and better...
Now I can't stop noticing it. Haha. He's said it at least 3x in the first 90 seconds.
James Carter ... Haha 😆..
Hey James I don’t normally respond to replies unless the person is replying something positive, or uplifting.
I am on u-tube quite often and you are the first person I have seen make a drinking game out of a persons videos..
The weirdest thing about it is that your name is James.. My best friend and roommate passed away not quite 3weeks ago and I never made it through a entire day without laughing my ass off over his comments and crazy 😜 ideas..
Thank you James I needed a good laugh 😂
Lindsay Lewis I must not be really listening to him that well cause I haven’t heard it yet
HAHAHAHA OHHH HAHA
Wait scratch that.
While I was replying to your comment I heard it 4x’s..
Good thing I don’t drink 🍹 anymore or I think I would be pretty tipsy 🥴 right now.. It is so great to see people having fun with a persons videos instead of posting nasty negative comments.. To this day I can’t wrap my head around the idea that people feel good about themselves knowing that they just stripped a little bit of self esteem from that person.
Sorry for babbling on and on..
kelly hillyer thanks Kelly and next time I play the game I'll raise a glass for your friend.
Not even 2 minutes in "my friends" has lost all meaning 😂
Just watched this preparing for Christmas as you said and it turns out this was a year ago exactly. But great video it was the perfect lesson for me. Thanks man
Great video! I learned quite a few things. Thanks a bunch.
Thanks for understanding the average Dude
You bet
That’s the most beautiful guitar I’ve ever seen 🥺
🤗🙏 Gibson SJ200
Excellent video for beginners - thanks so much!
Great information and great instruction! I struggle with strumming patterns. I might not be the only one! LOL! I can play your "5 Strumming Patterns" up to 120bpm, but try and put it in a song and I flounder! More on musicality in all regards!
Keep at it! You can do it 💪
Do yourself a favor. Skip to 3:15 time index.
Wow! What a great teacher. I just started at the age of 52 but I'm catching on. I've been watching Party Marty on TH-cam and have learned a lot. I have a full size Johnson and an acoustic electric Ibanez. Love them both. I can play about 10 songs so far and everyone loves to sing along which is always a good time. I just subscribed to your channel hoping to learn something different. Happing strumming!
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Congrats and Welcome to our Guitar Family Theresa G!!! Im a late starter also, i started at 44 and been playing for 9 years..
Heh heh heh... He said, Full sized Johnson."
Nice simple and concise instruction im now subscribed cheers 👌🇦🇺
That's cool and all but can you play the Campfire Song song?
I'm just starting to play guitar and this is perfect. You have taken away some of the apprehension and given me confidence! Thanks! 👋🍺
Your video was very helpful.. thanks a million for your valuable lessons ☺️
Clicked for that guitar. Beauty
Genius. You deserves more credit and appreciation for your work.
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Always Helpful & Always Awesome! Great video on simple foundation guitar playing. Thanks you for putting this together. Even a guitar player that has been "around awhile" always picks something up from your videos!!! 🙂
Awesome video and thanks for sharing your tips 👍
Such a beautiful guitar
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Thank you so much, my friend! So glad you are here. www.yourguitarsage.com/30
Thanks! I appreciate you making this particular video. I've been working for about a year now and feel like such a dunce. I don't aspire to the stage - just amusing myself around my campfire. This video helped me immensely. Thanks again. Merry Christmas, Erich.
Thank you Brian 🙌
Hey Erich, just saw your "6 Things to Play Campfire Guitar" video. Your intro hit the nail on the head for me! Someone finally described my objectives to tee, rather than trying to lead me to become an "everything" guitar player. Thanks for that. Now do you have a lesson plan to accompany this? That would also be great. I'd feel I'm on a road that exactly suits me. And I'm sure I'm not alone feeling this way.
Thank you for the super kind words, my friend! I truly appreciate that. Yes, in fact this weekend we are doing a massive sale, here: yourguitarsage.mykajabi.com/early-black-friday-2021
When you join up, please message me inside the course and let me know if you have any questions.🤗🙏
Got my UGS t-shirt order today - very pleased!
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Hey man! I'm an absolute beginner! I've been watching your videos for a while. Damn you are a great teacher!
Thank you 🙏
Erick and Griff Hamlin really stand out for online guitar teachers for me. The best in imo.
Love these videos ... gives us our UGS fix .... also received our UGS shirts today and are stoked to wear them soon.
Thank you for who you are and all you do !
Thank you Beth!
thanks so much Erich..fabulous lesson..one day il be as good as you 🤣 ..im also a beginner...i live in Ireland...
You can be even better! 👍
not sure about that Erich..you. are fantastic...il keep practising Erich..here in Cork in Ireland 🇮🇪..
I learn to use the pinky on 1irst string, ring finger on 2ª , middle on 3º, index on 4ª and the tumb on 5 and 6 stringers..
You are the best Erich. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. I hope you and your family Have a Happy & Prosperous New Year.
Thank you 🙏 Happy New Year!
I always like to take the grand piano to the campfire.
Only 3 things you need to know about campfire guitar:
1) Woods
2) Darkness
3) Girls
Every girl loves the guitar player.
Every girl but the best one usually.
wo wo wo.. signature licks are beyond campfire guitar