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Even looking up 'simple jazz chords' could land you in Bullshitsville, TN.
I always recommend posting on this very forum: you get multiple valid responses and we're all generally positive and keep each other in check.
I am pretty resistant to nonsense, but I did wonder if I was missing a trick somewhere.
I agree about modes - I have watched a few videos that seek to explain them and learnt nothing.
In that you can play the same chord at different positions around the neck based on shapes used for open position chords.
Hence the whole "unlocking the fretboard" phrase you mention above.
There's also the trick of moving the position box 1 minor pentatonic down 3 frets and you suddenly have the major pentatonic scale using the same shape.
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Regarding modes. If it explains it by saying move the C major scale up 2 frets... or something similar then ignore it. You can't understand it like that.
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All notes have sharps except B and E, bacon and eggs is a good way to remember that.
You know the note names of the open strings, so ascending upwards the next fret is either the sharp of the previous note or if following a B or E the next letter in the alphabet.
You know the 12th fret is the octave so from then on you can treat the frets like a small street with 12 houses on it. You don't go looking for house no.10 near no.1 ... you know it's gonna be the other end of the street so you know the D note on an E string is going to be near the 12th fret.
Apply that logic to the notes nearer the open string note and in the middle. Now you have learnt half you need to and can fill in the missing bits quite easy. Use the fret markers as handy tools to help you. That's what they are there for.
Now, when it comes to learning theory put down the guitar. Music Theory is just maths and very easy to understand with just a pen a piece of paper. Because you want to understand music, not just the guitar. It's better to be able to see in your mind how this stuff works without the guitar.
So you learn to build a major scale
Then a minor.
Then you learn to build chords using the root, third and 5th notes of a scale
Then you learn to build more advanced chords with added 9th or diminished 5th for example.
Then you look at the modes and realise they are just slight adjustments of the major and minor scales you already know.
That's about all you really need to know theory wise although learning more is interesting. Then you apply that theory to the guitar or a keyboard or a banjo.
What you don't want to do is watch a load of YT videos teaching licks by tab, leaving their viewers with no clue about what notes they are playing or even what key they are in.
This is how I have been teaching anyway, as I find it's the fastest way for students to learn. It teaches them to see the notes they are playing in their head rather than relying on tired old pentatonic licks.
There are a few bad ones but the vast majority are pretty fair and some are very good (whether you look at them as players or teachers).
The "one simple trick" thing is You-tube marketing bullshit at its worst and the really good teachers don't resort to it, but plenty of half-decent ones do. It's a harsh world on You-tube and getting enough clicks to make a quid is very difficult.
The worst part of the "one simple trick" videos is that they nearly always take 10 minutes to show you something which actually needs no more than 30 seconds. They are massive time-wasters, as a rule. Oh, and the "simple trick" is usually something you already know, but you have to sit through 5 minutes of yammer-yammer to discover that.
I make a habit of ignoring the teachers who advertise "one simple trick" as they mostly aren't from the top drawer. There are plenty of really, really good ones after all, so why watch second and third-best? But fair is fair: most do have something useful to impart (once you sit through all the bullshit) and most of them can play a bit.
Who does that type of marketing shit and has a decent resume, education, and can really play? I'll wait.... from your statement of 'most of them can play a bit' I'm expecting a raft of quality recommendations to come from you, there's a whole world out there so I'm expecting at least, say 20 names.
I also don't think it's an ok way to make to living unless you really are good and have actually good material to sell, otherwise it's just snake oil salesmen punting into the void because they aren't good enough to actually do anything with music, either in local teaching or via gigs. It's bordering on fraudulent in 100% of the cases I've seen, and as I said, preys on beginners who can't recognise how poor these guys are as well as diluting the pool of students for actual professional teachers who do things properly and are at an excellent level, such as Martin Goulding.
And I am not going to waste half my evening trawling back through years of You-tube history looking for examples of half-decent click-bait tuition clips. You are the one making outrageous claims that they can't play. You make te claim, you back it up. Don't expect me to do your work for you.
Now I could easily tell you my four or five favourite channels - players who even you would have to admit are good as it happens, and brilliant teachers - but th realy good ones don't need to do click-bait to get noticed. Well, not much.
It is a free market. Deal with it.
Just before I do I'll address your post becauase I can't resist.....
You're the one who challenged me you berk, so you provide evidence to back it up or piss off. You've already said you won't, not even one, because you don't want to waste time actually doing any research to actually find anything to back up what you said, and also because your fave top channels who are all really good don't do the thing we're talking about....that's literally what I'm saying....that the good ones don't do that.
This is what you did:
Me: All those 'one amazing trick' guys are shit and can't play and I've seen tonnes of them, they are a disgrace.
You: No they aren't loads are good and you can learn loads from them.
Me: Ok, prove it, send me some.
You: No (insert multiple excuses)
It's also not elitest to say that people who actually know what they are doing should be teaching, not clowns who just run an advertising enterprise and have never done a gig in their lives. Do you think I should be teaching Chemistry at school to kids because I once put some potassium in water and it whizzed around?
You're espousing the recent 'we don't need experts' nonsense that's been around since Gove coined it, but it's vapid nonsense, of course we need experts. There's also a place for people who aren't very good, but it's not becoming a millionaire on the internet selling bullshit to people who don't know any better.
As for most people not being complete fools, no they aren't, but you don't know what you don't know, and beginners can't distinguish the level of difference between Mr. I've been playing 5 years watch me play pentatonics really fast with terrible vibrato, copletely disrespecting the chord changes, vs Mr. 20 years veteran carefully outlining the changes and playing nice melodic, musical, lines. They may realise there is SOME difference, but not what that is and how it's a gulf as wide as the ocean.
Jazz legend Mike Walker said this on this topic...
"There's a vast musical ocean and I've spent my life getting across it to the other side. You're on the original side waving at me asking me how to get to you.....you don't know all the shit I had to go through to get here, you don't know how deep it is, the sharks and shit that are in the way. You don't know how to navigate to get to me, you're clueless about that entire ocean, so shutup and listen to me guide you because I've gone through it all already."
^^ That came about because some guy was challenging Mike on the best way to do something. It's illustrating nicely my point that people don't know what they don't know. The problem is that most of these internet 'one amazing trick' clowns aren't on Mike's side of the ocean, they are just past paddling point on the beginner side but attracting beach goers attention with big noises and arm waving while yelling about how great they are at swimming.
"It is a free market. Deal with it." << Jeez. How old are you....late teens?
Last point....many of these guys charge like 70-200 dollars for a 121 lesson with them. I've seen one notable guy who charges 10k for a private lesson with him and he's f*cking terrible as a player, he has no clue at all. I still take lessons and I pay 55 dollars for an hour with an absolutely top guy in his area. I mean I've had lessons with Greg Howe that cost less than what some of these tossers charge!
End of debate, not bothering to return to the thread. You're not providing any evidence and I'm not reading any replies so we're done here. Please consider your interactions with people going forwards.
I agree, there are a lot of hacks out there. I went through a few tutors before settling on a tutor who's playing I genuinely admired. I think that's important to look for because it gives a sense of purpose and direction. You could practice for years to sound like someone you don't like listening to, but why would you
no wonder they’re millionaires
Also I get annoyed by ads that urge you not to learn music theory. Sure it’s a long road but I’ve found it massively useful over the years. Of course that’s a whole other debate…
The best teaching channels on YT tend to be the ones with the least production gloss. The ones with older guys who really have the knowledge and experience of being out there year after year doing it ... not just being a bedroom superstar.
Check this gem out
I learned so much watching that, things I wouldn't have thought of. This is YT teaching at it's best.