The Hidden Secret Of Top Guitar Players

[Music] thank you [Music] in this video I'm going to give you a key Insight that I derived from the playing of Top guitar players out there and it's going to save you thousands of hours and give you instant results uh go from vertical playing to absolutely moving horizontally and vertically at the same time in a day how's that for a promise so stick with me when I came across any new player that I wanted to emulate I was always looking for lessons for videos you know and back in the 80s you had to order VHS tapes from from foreign countries in order to to to to to really get these lessons but all that was in them was a couple of ideas and some licks and some sequences and it didn't really explain anything right because once you saw them play it was like but how do you do that though right and so I had to study their solos I had to look into you know come across any video of them playing solos and I had to really take it note for note and try to decipher what they were playing and from that I could then derive lessons and one of them is this that what you just saw me do was not playing across the neck effortlessly through a lot of vertical shapes in in in in minor and pentatonic scales you saw me use what I have adopt a power path and that is really what happens anyway instead of learning you know we have the across the neck notes you know a bunch of notes in the pentatonic scale we chop it up because that makes sense right we can't learn to just that major shape so we we divide it up into five different shapes when it comes to the pentatonic for instance and then we try to learn every vertical shape and then we learn to combine them from go to one position to another so we play vertically and then we move positions along the neck and then we practice that we can practice like two notes per string you know shapes in a to try and see if we can break out of that vertical playing or even on one string we go right but nothing really seems to work we still stay in a in a kind of a vertical Plank and then move from compartment to compartment but when it happens what happens then in our brain the brain loves what it's comfortable with so it creates power paths so if you practice you know thousands of hours doing that going back and forth and one string and two strings and really trying to break out of your vertical playing in the end what you end up with and what every single player ends up with you know is power Parts is a definite [Music] it's a definite shape that we're used to moving in and then we might you know stop halfways you know here I'm working through C C minor [Music] right but I might stop halfway in my power path and go up and down but this is the way that you end up doing it anyway even it doesn't matter how many thousands of hours you practice going horizontally on one or two strings or combining going from position to position the end result is that like in a forest right you always walk the same distance or the same path and then you might have another path if you want to find the berries over here right but you end up with paths you don't have a complete map of the whole Forest right the animals do this everybody does this it's the natural inclination of the brain to do this so why not practice it right away instead of waiting instead of going around and doing all kinds of things that doesn't work anyway then do this and I've just mocked out a power path for you we're in the key of C minor and we got our C minor uh pentatonic scales let me show you what this really means in a practical sense but you can create your own but so uh we're in the QFC mind now let me just give you this uh one here and then you can practice that for a week every every single day you can put on a day I'm trying to have fun moving across the fretboard like it was easy so third fret we have our fourth position minor pentatonic shape here if you practice those [Music] but you can relate all of this to the shapes afterwards so I start here with the third fret a string sixth fret a string and we can add notes to the afterwards and then we have my chromatic notes from the C blue scale in the third and then the fourth and then the fifth on the D string [Music] I'm gonna go to the third and the fifth on the G and that ends this position if you want to call it that [Music] because then I go to the fifth and um the eighth fret on the two middle strings on the D in and G string and you might want to practice that right now just that little thing because this is a small power path as it is and you do sliding when you go from position and you go [Music] all right [Music] right then you go to the eighth and the tenth on the two middle strings again right so we got the eighth on the D string the tenth and the eighth and the tenth on the G string then I take the three chromatic notes Here Again from the 10th to the 11th to the 12th on the G string then I go to the 11th and the 13th on the B string and on the high Eastern and then I can add the three chromatic nodes again up here in the 13 14th and 15th on the high E string [Music] now what if you've learned this shape instead of the first position minor pentatonic blue scale shape what if this was what your teacher showed you or what you found on the internet or the YouTube video then you said okay cool enough and then you know you have every every Championship Keys you just have to position your finger on another node then you would be playing horizontally and vertically right away instead of having to be bogged down by a system of learning vertical a horse or vertical shapes yes and then you then move through it's a fine thing to cut up things so you can learn chunks of it and then put it together there's nothing wrong with that but you have to always look at what are the consequences the negative consequences consequences of the strategy that I'm using and what what do I need to struggle with in the future because I use this strategy well that's obvious right because everybody struggles with that so any new student to me I would teach this instead right because then you know after one week yeah I just I learned the blues scale and all the other beginners over there would go what what did you how do you you know right so this is what the brain does anyway so how do we practice this well we put on a Jam track and then we practice soloing right we stay within the time frame and we play the rhythm of the Jam track and in the beginning you could just play the scale because now you're not just playing it up and down anymore you have to [Music] if you have to touch all the notes you know I have to play something that isn't just up and down so now the shape even gives you or forces you to play something that is closer to soloing them [Music] right which also messes this up right playing up and down a scale well that's cool to learn how it looks and learn where the notes are but what are the secondary uh negative benefits you could say or the negative consequences of doing something like that well it is that once you start so long you go [Music] all right that doesn't work really well does it right so if we use this we get two we get across and vertical and horizontal at the same time and we force ourselves to play something a little bit more interesting than just up and down right so you put on a Jam track and you start uh practicing but I'm just gonna give you kind of a lick or just a suggestion of a way you could you could use to go from one to the other so I could go yeah let's do that so you go so I go up the scale third and sixth on the a string and then uh three four and five on the D then hit the third fret on the G and go right back to the fifth fret on the D string all right and then right back to the third so slowly foreign foreign on the G string and slide it up to the eighth and go and you know slide it up and stop the Note with my hand over here and getting ready to do an upstroke on the same string so I position my pick and that mutes the string as well and then I'm going to hit the eighth and the fifth on the D string do a pull off step all right [Music] and after that I'm gonna hit the eighth fret on the G string and slide it up maybe to the 11th fret to get that blue note down and then hit the eighth fret again maybe bend it up to the all right so uh so and then hit the eighth fret on the G string and bend that as well then hit the 10th fret uh pull off down to the eighth and hit the 10th fret on the G string and slide it up again from the 10th to the 12th so foreign [Music] from here I just go up my scale again my 11th and 13th fret on the B string and uh I can do a little from chromatic system there I can go 11 12 and 13. [Music] yeah and a little sequence up there [Applause] so I hit the uh the 11th and hammer on to 12 and the 13th on the B string then hit the 11th fret on the high E string hammer on to the 14th pull off down to the same note the 11th again [Music] and then go up and down 14 15 14 and 11. so so it goes like this foreign [Music] and you might think that this doesn't have the right Rhythm this isn't 16 notes or triplets but that's the whole point you simply come up with a random combination of notes that you can then use to improvise with so you come up with the notes and you practice going back and forth then you put on the Jam track and then you start having fun with it [Music] all right of course you want to go in the other direction as well but keep being playful with it instead of going up and down and up and down like an exercise come up with a set of random notes or a way to go from one to the other and then put on a Jam track and have fun with it start improvising keep the timing keep playing eighth notes and 16th notes and triplets and um instead of just rambling along right across the uh the the the Jam track so this is the key this is what you end up doing anyway by practicing all the scale shapes there's nothing wrong with practicing the scale shapes there's nothing wrong when practicing going back and forth on two strings to kind of strengthen that skill as well but what's going to happen anyway is that your brain is going to build these power paths it happens for everyone so go straight to what you want to learn that's what I got that's one of the things I got from from top players don't forget to subscribe and hit the Bell icon if you don't want to miss any of these lessons in the next next video I'm going to give you another key Insight that I derived from Top guitar players out there foreign [Music]

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Length: 14min 31sec (871 seconds)

Published: Wed May 10 2023