The SongBike Guitar Q&A Livestream #47 with Jonathan Kehew

[Music] all right everybody Welcome hey you guys I hope you had a great week you are watching the song bike YouTube guitar Q&A weekly live stream hey you guys lots to talk about I'm so excited uh here we are the live stream where everything's made up the points don't matter that's right just like d Jango reinhardt's ring and pinky fingers what am I talking about well I put a I just put a link in the chat if you know what I'm talking about you know what I'm talking about if you don't know what I'm talking about check out that YouTube link in the chat Django Reinhardt did what he did he didn't need any ring or pinky fingers anyways hey everybody uh I'm here for your questions in between your questions I got a few things to throw your away including a poll the poll has begun if you have the ability to check out our weekly poll then I want to tell you about the poll question I have for you this week uh do you want to make your own original music is that why you play the guitar maybe it is uh the poll has already begun uh there's plenty of time for you to vote we have 14 votes in already uh your options are yes definitely I want to make my own original music option two maybe maybe we'll see and option three nah nah you want to play the classics you want to play all the great stuff that came before and that's why you picked up the guitar and I'm sure you could imagine many other answers uh but those are your three choices yes no maybe do you want to make your own original music is that why you play your guitar and maybe it is okay uh I'm going to say some hellos in a minute but your questions are the number one reason we're even gathered here today dearly beloved we are gathered here today for your questions uh so if you have a guitar related question for me me and my Telecaster today uh then go ahead and put it in the chat with a few question marks in advance of your question uh in between your questions I have in my hands here I have a list uh here's some of the things that I hope we have time to talk about today I want to do a followup uh last week someone brought up a good point about um walk ups and walk downs you know the whole [Music] that whole sound and I want to do a followup on on that someone else asked about um exercises for Speed and accuracy and when I was uh timestamping the uh live stream Sunday morning uh I couldn't believe that I didn't think of an an additional answer to that question how do you work on your speed and accuracy what's the trick to getting better picking speed and accuracy actually both hands so want to talk about that uh I want to talk about an ear training app that I it's right there on my phone I really intended to use it every day and I want to show it to you guys and show you some of the things it can do as I was having a coffee sitting outside of the cafe got a little sun today I'm you know I'm looking at the app and exploring it which I never really did deeply and I'm realizing oh my God there's so much of this app that I'm going to share like 10% of it with you today and encourage you guys to check it out um but there's a lot more to it I realize that is awesome so um I want to share with you as I try to do all the time some of my current favorite guitar players who are out there who are so cool and so talented and so inspirational but you might not have heard of them before because some of them are relatively new to me and so I'm guessing that they might be relatively new to you but if you know these people already fantastic otherwise stay tuned because I can't wait to share some of these names and uh and uh YouTube links with you we're going to explode a chord today boom we're going to explode it if you're curious as to what that means stick around we're going to explode a chord uh I don't have a dumb question for you this week so I need you guys to come up with a dumb question okay if you're asking a question and you have a feeling it's a dumb question put a big DQ in advance okay DQ like Dairy Queen DQ and then ask your question I need you guys to come up with a dumb question this week remember dumb questions are there to uh to remind us that there's no such thing as a dumb question and uh you know by calling it a dumb question um you're off the hook no one can say hey man that's a dumb question you can say look of course it's a dumb question that's all good um we have a playalong song this week that I'm excited about and that's going to tie in with oh my gosh that's going to tie in with a Looper you guys I got a new Looper and I can't wait to show you the new Looper um before I forget I'm going to put a link in the chat in case you you can't stand it you want to know wait what's this Looper he's talking about um I have an old Looper it works great I did not need a new Looper so why did I get one stay tuned okay there's the link in the chat that I'll send you to Sweetwater where I got the Looper from so I want to share that with you uh I'm on Tik Tok and I've been cranking out some Tik Tok videos so I want to let you know about that uh yeah so that's I think that's basically that's my agenda so far so does that work for you guys stick around um we are oh my gosh how could I forget why am I drinking such a big iced coffee here uh because I thought I'd have a special beverage today is our one-year anniversary happy birthday some of you have been here since last May I bet right and some of you who maybe have not been here last May May since last May maybe some of you have uh reviewed these live streams you've gone back remember there's a playlist of all these YouTube live streams maybe you've seen all of them today is number 47 so here's to you here's to what we do here uh our oneye anniversary uh of live streams so it's number 47 so clearly we missed a few here and there that's okay because that'll give us a chance to celebrate um like a number 50 live stream that' be fun and so this iced coffee is for you little something special uh to uh hydrate during the show okay so um oh and before I forget at some point I'll play you a little chord Melody you guys might have heard me doing that a minute ago as the show opened I'm going to play you a little chord Melody to wet your appe Tye for the chord Melody book that I'm in the process of creating and and hope to have out by the end of the month that I plan to have plan to have out by the end of the month okay so Stephen Stephen says congratulations on 200,000 subscribers I appreciate that Stephen G to say a few hellos Thunder Ace hello uh Stephen Jeff Scott uh Christian hello Chris crates hello uh let's hear it for our uh moderator beginner guitar lessons hello thanks for being here beginner guitar lessons Chris Lloyd Randy Pua John live to fly have I got you all so far yeah just about thank you for being here everybody okay I see a question uh bum okay uh Jeff thank you for your question um yeah Jeff says I have a weak sounding first string on my electric guitar I've adjusted the pickup closer to the string yeah had no effect the string has output considerably weaker than the other five strings ideas um well number one yeah that must make you crazy right because that's not how it should be right that's not how it should be uh it my guess is that it is electronics related and that's not my specialty but um the you know it must be a pickup issue and it's probably not a big deal but that's my guess um do you have only one pickup on your guitar um and if you have more than one pickup is it the same effect with with each pickup I wonder about that uh but you're right that's not how it should be and it's definitely addressable um I'm I'm guessing it's got to be a pickup related thing um pickups are interchangeable and they're fixable um you guys know that I'm a big fan of a live stream podcast called know your gear uh where um fil mcnight talks about knowing your gear being familiar with with your gear and uh Jeff says it's the same on both pickups okay yeah interesting so it's un my opinion is it's unlikely that both pickups are um compromised in some way so it's probably not the pickups so what does that leave it leaves the other guts of the electric guitar the the pots right the control the volume and and the control um tone control so I haven't had experience of that problem but that's my guess that it's unlikely that it's each pickup and it's got to be uh it's got to be the the remaining controls um for kicks you could swap out the cable I'm just shooting in the dark here I can't imagine why the cable would make a difference but you know you're connecting cable right like that one right there uh you know if you have an extra cable swap it out just in case cables aren't they don't last forever um yeah that's that's my um that's my guess so you want to bring it to a guitar tech that um that is comfortable with electronic stuff now you'd assume everyone is every guitar tech is and and they probably are but it'd be nice to know that it's someone who has tweaked Electronics before as opposed to someone who works purely on acoustic guitars and and doesn't really have an understanding of electric stuff but yeah frustrating issue what I would I yeah POA John is suggesting new strings it it never hurts to put on new strings um uh so you know it's sometimes new strings solve certain issues for sure um one thing that I heard Phil MC Knight say that I took to heart was you know pickups have you know tons and tons of windings of very thin wire around them right and in theory that wire can break somewhere in the middle and that would compromise the pickup right and he said one time that he had it was incred rare that he had seen that be the problem um uh so hey for what it's worth it's it's probably not something like internal to the pickup but I'm going to plead a little bit of ignorance and uh and wish you luck but yeah call around and and pretty quickly just speaking to any Tech on the phone um you'd be you get a sense for if they're comfortable working on pickup kind of issues I bet it's no big deal I really do good luck that hey Rudolph Rudolph says thank you for the live streams and the video lessons you Rudolph you're very welcome Debbie oh yeah Debbie um you got the books okay excellent Debbie ordered a bunch of books from my website ww I'll put that in the chat song- bike.com Debbie I appreciate your uh your purchase um you guys I have a website and the website is where you can buy stuff and what's the website called check it out yo it has arrived the first there we go there we go the first song bike merch has arrived see that t-shirt right there they call this color uh uh antique Sapphire and I I wanted to get a t-shirt that would kind of pop on on this this live you know black background hip poops right um so I'm in the process of uh setting up um merch so that you guys can get some uh and uh this is going to wet your appetite a little bit um I I found a company I think we're going to get along just fine and um probably what I'll do at first is uh finally finish setting up my patreon account um and maybe the the first way to get some merch is to become a patreon member and support what we're doing here that way and then the merch would be part of your patreon membership um and and and then maybe at some point I'll make stuff available for everyone to just buy yourself a selling B t-shirt um but my family we got ourselves some shirts and some baseball hats with a song Bic logo and I'm pretty happy with the quality so um so this all this stuff will be coming will be available for you guys ASAP uh okay [Music] um Scott thanks for being here Scott says I might have to leave early tonight um Scott I understand uh all this stuff is being recorded um okay Stephen Smith says I'm working on finger style guitar but my fingernails are thin and they wear down have have I ever tried glued on nails I never have I haven't taken that step but um I I know there people who do that you know who uh who you know fake nails and um they swear by it I've heard people going as far as uh buying pingpong balls and slicing them up and using the ping-pong ball materialized fake nails that's pretty intense uh don't forget those of you who do finger style guitar or want to do finger style guitar um you can always put a little um uh clear nail polish on your nails um and see if that strength strengthens them just enough to get that nice sound you don't need fingernails necessarily to play finger style guitar you don't you know you can you can use your flesh I have to admit though that a slightly longer fingernail you know um and you know combined with a little bit of your your skin the combination it gets a really nice tone I mean it really is in general my fingernails break too fast so I just use my bare fingers um so yeah try it all why not try it all the you know another option is um a plastic thumb pick and metal finger picks which you know all this stuff takes getting used to but um once you get used to it it's such a there's so much Clarity to using a thumb pick and finger pick Pi um that you just might get that that might you might love that sound so much uh so yeah try it all with the understanding that nothing is as intimate as your skin on the fingers on the strings so as soon as you put on anything such as like a thumb pick and and finger picks you're going to feel distant you're going to feel separated from the instrument and um it's going to feel weird for a while uh the sound is pretty cool it has this crisp you know that you just cannot get from your your your skin um but then You' just solved your problem though right whether it's broken fingernails or just some sort of callous or something happening on your fingers I in theory you can go faster with uh finger picks and a thumb pick because there's no friction right you use your bare skin it's squishy and there's that little bit of friction and you know you potentially you go faster with a very smooth plastic and metal picks uh then again you know you guys know I'm a big fan of of watching and being inspired by classical guitar players and they don't use any artificial picks I mean they don't use a thumb pick or or plastic finger picks and they sure play fast so you know you take it with a great ass salt one of the drawbacks to getting accustomed to using finger picks and using them all the time you have to keep track of them you have to know where they are at all times you want to get extras you want to you know all of a sudden it becomes a thing right that you have to be aware of um you know that's not not everybody wants to have to keep track of something like that I'll say this um I worked in a music shop for a lot of years and um I became aware of some quirks in the industry so to speak and here's one of them in general plastic thumb picks stick out they extend farther than you really need them want them to extend uh and it's extremely common to to somehow file or shape um or you know shorten the end of the plastic thumbpick okay that's that's pretty much understood that a lot of people are going to want to do that so if you invest in some plastic thumb picks uh don't be surprised if they really keep your thumb you know at first if your thumb feels really distant from the strings just whether it's a file or um unhal you do it with a without a file you know but however you choose to shape and shorten the tip of that fuming just understand that they the industry expects you to do that and that's where they make it kind of long yeah uh finger style guitar is a beautiful thing and if you watch enough YouTube videos and live performers you'll see some people be fingers some people use pic um finger picks uh and I'm sure there's plenty information out there on you know people's stories and advice about how to make your fingernails stronger or stick on you know a variety of you know fake nails and stuff yeah yeah how we doing with our Paul question here uh so far the question was do you want to make your own original music 47% says yeah definitely 40% maybe we'll see 133% nah nah not right right love it uh we got 30 votes we got 33 viewers and 30 votes nice nice love to see stuff like that uh so my friends Blair hello um oh Blair's bringing up an interesting po p Point Blair says um sometimes stores don't have enough choice of thumb picks yeah yeah it can be tricky um that's true of a lot of things um how about slides right you might go into a store to buy a slide and in best case scenario they have a few I mean that mean I mean worst case scenario they only have a few uh but um uh slides piics I mean all that stuff there's so many options out there I know not every store can have every option um having said that though uh it's it can be frustrating if you know the size alone right um what I found was uh what the industry calls a large is definitely too small for my finger I had to shop around for extra large picks I forget where I finally got them from um and my hands aren't that crazy big you know uh so uh hey you know in general the world we live in where so much is purchased online in general it's pretty easy to return stuff right so you know whether it's thumb picks or slides or any of this stuff I I you know you can buy you know four different types and send three of them back and I I somehow the somehow the industry Will Survive you know uh but yeah BL I know that feel you walk into a store and like they just have a few choices you know not enough lifter fly says I can't adapt to a thumbpick no matter how I try yeah that's okay but then don't do it that that's I mean good for you and again all those amazing classical guitar players out there they don't use thumb picks you know um okay yeah now Chris Lor is talking about steel guitar and steel guitar is you know right where where the guitar you know is is let's call that um horizontal right and someone sitting behind the steel guitar uh whether it's lap steel or pedal steel and very very very few um uh lap Steeler petal steel guitar players don't use a b in fact Freddy roulette how could you forget that name right Freddy roulette I have a very cool book um about the lap steel guitar lap steel six strings typically no levers pedals like just it's like you take a guitar you put it like this right lap steel guitar and Freddy roulette um is the only one interviewed in that book and the interview I forget the name of the book I think it might just be called lap steel guitar he didn't use any pics on his fingers just bare skined uh everybody else everybody else uh used it used um metal finger picks and thumbpick uh and that that helps get that very classic trebly steel guitar kind of sound whether it's lap steel or or uh petal steel um so yeah Chris you're right they all use they all use finger picks except Freddy roulette how could I remember that name you'd be surprised at the things I don't remember but uh okay um I see your question uh Dandy 611 I see your question hi Jonathan can you recommend any alternative warm-up techniques I'm bored of the spider exercises definitely definitely uh you know scales in our pedos those are two of your best friends scales and AR pedos um and let's um and and you can you can buy books that are literally called you know scales and arpeggios uh for guitar um but let's let's throw one your way and speaking of best friends I got my Sharpies or technically this one is not offici the Sharpie brand okay let's do let's do an arpeggio let's do a major arpeggio and am I the only one who uses their guitars at table I've never not used my guitars at table uh and yes the permanent marker bleeds through and shows up on the back of my guitar what are you going to do man what are you going to do uh major arpeggio um the reason I am encouraging you all of you to practice arpeggios um typically they involve all four fingers of your fedding hand you can't you know get by with only three other fingers you yeah yeah I got to use your ring and Pinky um our pedos are sound good they don't sound random they don't sound majored um they they sound like you're making musical statement you know and I'm going to write this down two ways I'm going to write down with Tab and with a diagram here we go so how about okay I'm going know we're going to Crank It Up way up to the 12th fret why why not um but if playing over the 12th fret is awkward for any of you because maybe you're playing acoustic guitar believe me I get that but all the more reason to memorize the pattern and move the whole pattern down the neck okay the tab is done stand by stand by for the diagram 9 10 11 12 12 that's nine that's 10 okay all right my friend there you go let's get it in the shot there we go a major a major arpeggio okay you see that okay Pinky a string 12 fifth string right a string fif not a shock that we're begining an a major arpeggio on the Note a [Music] right okay so I you guys for months now I I you I've been saying that I'm just addicted to arpeggios I love them okay uh 12 on the a string with the pinky 11 on the D stringing here's where it gets fun 9 10 n on the third second and first strings we'll talk about that more in a second finally 12 on the first string put it all [Music] together of course you want to go in both directions right asending and D sending so uh number one see how I'm using all four fingers [Music] down up picking with your picking hand down up down up down up down up down okay uh I want to point out see that 9 10 n in the chord diagram doesn't that look like a d chord yeah 919 it's a deformation just instead of down here where the D chord goes you're way up 9 109 but it's an a chord so it has to be an a chord right it must be because guess what an arpeggio is just a chord with a notes played one at a time right that's a definition of a major arpeggio in terms of um music theory an arpeggio is a chord with the tones played one at a time and for the record every note we're all playing here is one of these three sounds or pitches a c Shar and E those are the three notes of an a major AR pedo a C sharp and E it happens that not coincidentally we're doing them in order 12 on the a string that's no a that 11 is a C sharp nine is an E 10 on the second string that's back to a again nine on the first string is a c and 12 on the first string is an e so we just did a c e a c e right so not a total shock that if you grabbed several of those at once you'd end up with an a chord and there it is at 9 109 right there how's the volume of that the electric guitars not sounds a little bit loud in here right back it off just a little bit okay so um getting back to your very good question I think arpeggios are a great are great warm-up but see the thing is they're not just a warm-up exercise because you can use arpeggios lots of things oh speaking of an a major pedo at 919 name this [Music] tune okay what is that you guys know that tun I love [Music] that yes begin a guitar lessons you know that right right beginning guitar lessons pointed out that is indeed Jessica right the late Dicky bets MH there you go so here's Dicky bets first three notes of Jessica literally it's that it's that chord it's nine on the third string 10 on the second string nine on the first in fact by by playing all three I should say by fretting all three at the same time and then playing them right in a row obviously you get that nice Harmony right it sounds so pretty to have all three notes ringing right from the start and then I'm assuming thicky bets and me and the rest of us all of us you have to then let go of that chord so you can go on to the next part of the song you know but yeah um okay so final challenge as you get better and better at this you're doing down up picking with picking hand right alternating back and forth your left hand is is using all four fingers right just be clear this would be called playing in ninth position meaning your index is going to play all the nine notes uh there's two of them two notes at the ninth fret your middle is going to play that 10 on the second string ring is going to play the 11 on the fourth string and Pinky is going to play the two 12s there okay ninth position the final challenge is moving it around the neck of the guitar and that's what I meant earlier when I said if some of you feel feel kind of awkward about cranking way up high at the 12th fret maybe your guitar just doesn't make that comfortable good good you guys are the most motivated to memorize this pattern and move it lower down the neck more to your comfort zone right okay last thing I want to say about this is um for sure for sure you do not have to keep one finger down when you go on to the next note right it you definitely let go of a note when you go on to the next note I guess one exception would be um when you play that nine on the first string and you're going on to that 12 but you intend to come back to that nine on the first string right after yeah then you could keep that nine down but my point is do not um do not worry about keeping fingers down because remember this is not a chord in fact this is you could say this is um the opposite of a chord uh and here's what I mean by that us guitar players we think of chords in a in such a physical sense you know someone says this is an a chord this is a G chord and and that's how we learn chords most of us right as a grip that we do it if you were playing a saxophone you wouldn't think of chords that way You' think of chords in a in a more musical sense you think of chords as oh a chord is these three notes that and you can do whatever you want with those three notes but that's the definition of a chord whereas a lot of us think oh an a chord that's when you three fingers squeeze in like that but that's a guitar player thing you know so so what this arpo exercise is doing it's getting our brain away from that way of looking at a chord um and I'm more we're thinking of it more as in a pure musical sense a chord is three notes it could be a four note chord it could be a five note chord six note chord anything think is possible um and you find those chord notes on your instrument this is how we find those notes you know on the guitar at least it's one way I find okay so um uh uh hold on uh I see lots of questions coming next so uh Dy 611 I hope I hope that answered your question and you're making a actually your second part of your question um in is as significant as the first part you said you're bored of the spider exercises yeah when you're bored of something you got to move on you've got to move on right um no matter how beneficial it is put it aside refresh reset you know find some new things to practice and you can always come back to those when the time is right um and you know as soon as I hear someone saying they're bored um I I I I it's my my personal duty to at least suggest some other options because you know music is not boring um and so playing your instrument should not be boring um and as soon as that word comes up we got to address it because it's understandable right especially if you're paying your du and you're playing on a regular basis and you're working hard yeah yeah um Brian says what's the best way to change chords when learning finger picking excellent question the best way to change chords when you're learning finger picking is to be very clear I'm G to take away this page now um by the way you guys this major Pedro thing I'll put this in the in the description of the video when I uh time stamp it okay the best way to change chords when you're fingerpicking is to identify which finger absolutely has to be the first finger down on the next chord and this is so so so super important but also not hard exactly if I'm uh say I'm doing a finger ping song where I'm going from C to G I'm on my C chord I got my C chord and life is good okay I'm finger picking finger picking next chord is G um and I'm going to take [Music] a there we go um in this this scenario I'm doing some pattern picking here's my right hand don't you don't need to see my left hand for a [Music] second doing some nice pattern picking the next chord is G right in this pattern that I'm doing and in tons of stuff that we all do with finger picking the thumb stroke on one of the bass strings is going to be the very first thing you do as soon as you change chords right it's extremely common so okay here's the answer to your question you prioritize the finger that's touching the string that you need first you know so changing from C to G I'm going to get my ring finger which is on the fifth string third fret at the moment for the C chord I'm going to bang get it over there on the sixth string third fret immediately um and then I can finish off the rest of the G chord you know momentarily but you got to prioritize whatever the very first finger is that you need but what if I was going C to um a minor that's a beautiful thing because as you guys know C to a minor is a great it's a very forgiving chord change right C to a minor there's my C chord my ring finger is going to abandon that fifth string so open a string now right it's going to tuck in you guys know there a tuck in third string second fret for the aim minor right it's essentially it's a one finger cord change right okay so in this case I have no excuse assuming that the first thing my picking hand is going to do is the open a on the fifth string well then I have no excuse for slowing down my picking to for that chord change because you know it's the open string so my point is if your the the finger picking that you're doing if the very first thing on the new chord is an open string then train yourself to to get that open string right away even while your Fring hand is you know in motion you know Back Field in motion like in football this is this is multitasking this is like the the literally the one of the best examples of multitasking I can think of your left hand has to get to the next chord but your right hand cannot stop playing assuming you doing some sort of finger picking pattern or even if it's not just a pure routine pattern realistically you know you're doing some sort of finger picking it's extremely likely that your thumb is hitting a bass note first right yeah so that's my that's my answer um make sure you know which you know which is the most important note to prioritize and if it's open string great uh but it's you know it's really likely that it's going to be something that you're going to have to grab quick L and just grab that first now it's going to take a certain amount of faith that I'm going to go back to this C to Gar here it takes a certain amount of Faith to say okay I'm on C here comes a g cord my ring finger is going to hop over there nice and fast you got to have faith that your other fingers are going to come down where they need to come down um in the nick of time uh so this this is one of those times where practicing something painfully slowly um is super helpful and I always say practicing slowly that is the shortcut that's the fast way to get good at something is to practice it slowly let your brain process all these little details um remember our quote from last live stream uh you know give your muscle memory a chance right don't judge yourself while your muscle memory is still in process you know so I hope that I hope that helps briad um Scott R says he had a drum uh Looper drum SL Looper pedal for a while haven't figured it out yet oh well today is the day we will get to that Looper uh shortly um Chris crates ask do you have an opinion about the premium picks like Blue Chip one pick $35 oh man I yeah I I can't no I can't wrap my head around that I can't I can't um no I I I would I I don't I have no I have no I've never tried those p so let's be clear I've never tried those pcks um but no I can't imagine spending that much money I mean that's that's pizza money $35 that's that's some pretty good pizza so no I uh I can't say I would advise anybody to try that um the now having said that the little pics that I like are these little Dunlop stubby little red cute little red stubby one millimeter picks they're small some people call the size Jazz picks or mandolin picks made by Dunlop Dunlop stubby 1 millimeter I love these picks passionately I buy bags of them out of time I have you know so I I definitely get that you find a pick and you like and like picks are important they're super important mine are not $35 and I don't want to I don't want to try a $35 pick because what if I like it ouch um no want to discourage anybody you know try you got to try stuff out but that's not in my budget sorry not in my budget yeah and I I I like investing in in my musical self believe me I like that that's you know that's that's where I tend to put my money in my in my musical Necessities more than other necessities you know uh so litify says that um litify tried some thumb picks from Sweetwater the hero flat thumb picks medium gauge okay the players pack filed them but they still felt weird weird yeah yeah okay hopefully they weren't $35 you know hey share them with a friend you know if if you're truly not going to use them yeah give them give them to some kid I don't know you might start something who knows who knows uh Joseph thanks for joining us Rock Lobster wants to know how do you get one of these fine song bike t-shirts we're getting there we're getting there hang in there I I'll get it I'll get it set up oh our beginner guitar lessons is mentioning that the arpegio thing that we just did you could do that as a sweeping exercise yeah um now I I'm not a master of sweep picking um but uh I'm going to be especially if I say it to 48 people I'm going to be I'm going to get there just got to put your mind to it but yes you could use that arpo is a sweet picking exercise sweet picking is when you move across the strings deliberately enough that you can hear each note D but not so fast that it becomes a strum pring right you want to hear the individual notes um It's a combination of having just the right touch with your picking hand but also uh making sure your fretting hand [Music] um let's let's go or sort of relaxes their touch um so that none of the notes blur into other notes there there's there's a trick to it and uh someday I'm going to get awesome at it and then I'll here's a funny thing I amum I it occurred to me the other day that um some skills I want to get good at just so I can teach it you know that's my motivation uh uh okay Pat Pat says Pat likes Jazz pick as well yeah like Pat uses the Dava brand daava holes in a rubber grip yeah why not why I mean you know um try out all that stuff you know whatever's in your budget um the I I believe the fender you know tortoise shell medium pick is it's certainly the most common pick I don't know if I'm qualified to say it's the most the best selling pick of all time but you know your basic Fender medium pick you know if if you find that works just fine for you great you know um that you saved yourself a lot of hunting around and you know Willie SN says hey Jonathan I have you to blame for some of my sweet original music oh that's awesome awesome yeah this you know why not hey look why not invent to pick why why can't you be the person you know promoting hold on here promoting a uh promoting a $35 pick that you invented go for it man go for it you know um do it everyone else seems to be inventing pics and stuff all right um let us uh let's get to um some of our fun stuff we got some time let's talk about exploding a chord you ready to explode a chord okay here's what I'm talking about uh instead of thinking of a cord as something that you grab and then you strum it or you pick the individual notes I want you to think of it as a starting point a headquarters and that whatever chord we're talking about and we're going to talk about the one finger major chord there are all these notes around that chord that are available to you whether you're thinking in terms of a rhythm guitar player you know strumming a chord but you want to put in a little EXT notes that's little embellishments to the chord great or you're thinking like a lead guitar player and you're not strumming the chord but you're you know it's there and you know that by by visualizing it you can not only play the notes that you're touching but you can play the notes that I call them satellite notes that are around the chord um so what we're about to do would apply to those of you who are looking to improve your lead guitar skills as well okay exploding Accord look at that is that Hightech or what in fact we're going to go one better and now we're really Hightech baby look at that my snack clip you guys have snack clips from you know potato chip you know Clips I I should do a song bike uh clip like that man that's what I should do because you got to have them right for for a variety of reason reasons maybe have a book that won't stay uh open or might have a breeze maybe you're practicing outside you got a breeze going on yeah you got to have a clip in fact I've used clips without a doubt I've used clips far more often for this purpose than I've ever used them for snacks who has man if you can't finish a bag of chips you're not trying you know okay so so so so um what do we have here a one finger major cord for our purposes we can we can take this at face value see that's the second fret literally it's an a major chord although as soon as possible I want you guys to think of this as a portable thing that can go up and down the neck um and not just as a major cord so okay if you're a rhythm guitar player for the moment it's mentally you're thinking of yourself as a rhythm guitar player and it's time for you to a chord well there you go your one finger a chord now I know we could do it with three fingers why am I doing it with one finger partly because it says to right that little cute little rainbow thing that's how you know you're supposed to be doing with one finger also because ah my other three fingers are available to put in all this other stuff right whether you put it in temporarily um or or it actually becomes part of the Riff for the song um these are all notes that are available to you and depending on the context you might love the effect that adding one of these notes gives you or you might not it's all right it's all good you know uh for those of you who are writing your own songs this is how you have fun with a good old boring a major chord right nothing against a major chords um but it's nice to know how you can dress it up right how you can embellish on an a major chord whether it's a temporary thing or if that actually comes the Riff of the song you know uh it's nice to know what your options are okay so uh these are all notes that I think of as Like Satellites right they're floating there around that chord by the way I didn't put um I didn't put any notes behind the chord doesn't mean they they're not there I just figured look you got to stop somewhere I'm going to add one I'm going to put a number two right there okay so I bet some of you have already guessed what all those numbers represent two flat 3 3 642 hi um how about eight see that eight with a star next to it okay those are the scale degrees and if I just lost a couple of you like what what's I don't know that's okay that's okay um the main thing is visually you know oh I can when I do a one finger a chord I can put a finger down right there I can put a finger down right there and and dress up the cord embellish the cord a little bit that's the number one takeaway okay all those notes are fair game just a matter of your taste um but I figured instead of just putting like a little X you know I thought I'd show you like the the degree of the scale that each one of those notes represents so just then I added on that four right there there's my one finger a and I put my middle finger the second string uh third [Music] fret okay now whatever you want to how what however that sounds to your ear that's the sound you get when you add the fourth note to the [Music] chord and by the way some of you might say well what about that for yeah one octave lower that's also the fourth note of an a major scale happens to be the note D is in Delta you know a little bit harder to get that four my piy is cranked up you know for the record I'm doing a one finger a chord and my picky is on the fifth fret of the fifth string little bit harder anyways okay get the idea so we're exploding the cord that's I know that's my my image like all of a sudden it's not just an acord you got all the this other stuff just exploded you know okay um someone tell me why did I put a star next to that eight right there I mean I didn't put a star anywhere else why did I put a star next to that eight there must be some reason there must be some reason why I put a star next to that eight someone uh someone out there Pat says it's the root note you got it and it's called Eight because it's the eighth note of the scale notice I start on do and ended on do yeah you're back where you started so that's the note a right there um pay for what it's worth don't go anywhere I'm going to put a circle right there that's the root note and then that's the root note one octave higher hey not a coincidence that the word octave is being used OCT means eight right there you go in case you never saw that connection before um in this case that's the a third string second fret and then one octave higher first skinny E string fifth fret okay so uh as a as a songwriter um these are all waiting there for you or what if your buddy wrote the song and um and they're hoping that you can do a cool that you can put in cool stuff you know there's a whole bunch of options for you you know uh [Music] how about um well check it out that two right there it's the second degree of an a major scale happens to be the fourth fret on the third [Music] string Ry B it's kind of a Keith Richards kind of move there to include that note during the major chord what if we what if we I just went I used the two and then I went up to the flatted third a little bit of a bluesy sound and then back to the [Music] two right all of a sudden we have this riff what used to be just an a chord all of a sudden it's an a chord with some action right there's some stuff going on you know okay so there you go um what I would encourage you to do is it's going to sound funny just mess around with it just mess around but every time you add one of those satellite notes listen closely right and say okay what what effect am I getting does it sound familiar have I heard someone do that before does it ring a about all you adults out there and I know many of you are adults you've heard a lifetime of music so when someone does a little riff chances are these bells start going off in your head like wait I've heard that that sounds like whatever and um that's a huge Advantage because all of a sudden the sound has value right it has value it has meaning it's it's something uh and if your memory is halfway decent you sooner or later recognize oh yeah wait that was that's Brown Sugar by The Rolling Stone so that's whatever um so that's a that's a huge advantage all y'all adults have um that no one would expect a young kid to have because they just haven't heard that music and they haven't been listening that critically you know because they're 11 you know that's fine they have other advantages to being 11 uh so so mess around with this stuff some some things um uh on the guitar are are meant for you to explore there's plenty of things that are you know this is how you do it and you do it 20 times a day and you know that you know that's cool there are other things that are Concepts that you have fun with and you mess around with I would encourage you to write your own riffs with this right that's how you really uh digest something internalize it um by making up a song that uses this kind of [Music] thing okay check out this and and this you've heard this before for sure there's my one finger a my pinkest St stretching up to the high a and the fifth fret it's okay if this is too big a stretch for some of you I get that don't worry by the way if there's any trick to this other than practice practice practice is where my thumb is my thumb is pointing straight up towards the ceiling um I would say my thumb is pretty close to the third fret okay but here's my point I'm going to strum my a chord my pinky on the high a there it is right now my ring finger is GNA play the skinny string fourth fret do that little change I was on the fifth fret with my pink and then the fourth fret with my ring and then the third fret with my middle finger I'm down to the flatted seven here that youve heard that kind of that kind of you know melodic thing we're still in the world of rhythm guitar here right rhythm guitar not only does rhythm guitar not have to be boring rhythm guitar is never boring you know um I just went down to that six you know how I'm getting that six I'm just making sure I have enough pressure with my bar to put pressure on the skinny first E string as well okay so you get the idea right have fun with this stuff I guarantee you the more familiar you are with this the sooner you start seeing this in guitar riffs you say wait a minute that that person is just is doing that thing they're they're adding some satellite notes um and as always as you explore this whatever you do as soon as possible move up the neck get away from that one finger acord go up two Frets and I've got a one finger B chord right and do it all that way here's an incentive to move up the neck and do it higher and higher up the neck um the Fret spacing is closer right so it's a lot easier to reach up to some of the higher notes because because physics right um so so yeah whatever you do move it around the neck you guys know in general I'm a big fan of the one finger a chord such a Punchy Great Sound um and moves up the neck very conveniently and so here's yet another another plus as to getting um know another another reason to get totally comfortable playing that one finger a major chord um last thing I'm going to say for the record of course my index finger is touching the skinny string I'm trying not to put too much pressure on the skinny string and when I strum I'm definitely not strumming that high E [Music] string okay fun right fun why not okay um oh yeah Harrison is making a good point um it it helps you learn the scale in the sense that you see where everything lines up yeah totally totally I hadn't even thought of that it's a good point it's a good point wherever you wherever you put this one finger major chord that's always the second note of the scale that's always the fourth note of the scale and so on yeah definitely definitely um and even if some of those even if the number Stuff doesn't work for your brain totally okay just know that you you can learn it as a visual thing and these notes are all right there waiting for you you know cool cool uh uh I saw someone made a comment beginner guitar lesson says that I should copyright that idea satellite notes yeah why not satellite notes uhuh um yeah Brian getting back to that thing about changing chords yes I I like speaking of terminology that is good terminology um Brian says uh like when you're using a pick and you do a phantom strum when changing chords can you do a phantom strum while fingerpicking yes but what do you mean I think I know what you mean a phantom strum do you mean like you're strumming but you're on open strings for a split second before you get to the next chord because if that's what you mean I might steal that phrase from your Phantom strum um but yeah yeah that's it's so common no matter how you're you're picking or struming or what however you're making the sound with your picking hand um to let the you know pluck open strings as your Fring hand changes to the next cord or whatever it it's so common I almost would just call that playing the guitar you know you you can't stop you can't stop the rhythm of the tune you got to keep going with the struming the picking or whatever um but you need a split second to get to the next chord and so what are you going to do you're going to have a few open strings which technically might even be quote wrong notes technically potentially um but everyone does it and especially as you get faster and faster those those open strings go by so fast The Listener doesn't have time to even process them because you're on the correct chord the next chord so quickly uh it's it's lost slight of hand right it's it's it happened too fast our audience right we're magicians and our audience they can't keep up with what we're doing right you know I hate to break it to you there might not be such a thing as magic right it might be people doing things just really tricky really fast tricky things and our eyes can't keep up with it right same thing with music in fact as music fans we're all music fans here right we've all watched a whole bunch of guitar players raise your hand raise your hand if you ever watched someone play the guitar and you can't figure out what they're doing just anybody the destroy my life right you know what I'm talking about it's too fast or even if even if one hand's going relatively slowly you're looking at one hand well you miss what they're doing with the other hand right it's you can't win so so believe it or not it's extremely likely that people have watched you and and they just can't figure out what you're doing because it's it's all going by too fast they don't know what to look for they're looking at your picking hand waiting what you know why the sound is changing but they don't know that's because the chord is changing or vice versa you know right is is that interesting that it interests me that we are all impressive to somebody we really are you might you might not believe it but oh yeah we're all impressive to somebody you know don't forget most of the World wishes they could play a musical instrument at any level right and and we're that person let's check in with our poll results do you want to make your own music 51% says yes definitely good on you I love that 30% says maybe we'll see and 20% say nah nope nope it's all right respect um but I'm curious uh you guys it's it's very interesting to me um whenever we do these poll questions um I really I'm glad you guys are voting look at that we have 48 viewers at the moment and 47 votes someone's abstaining it's all right uh so um you know it's it even though I I know a handful of you out there personally and um I feel like I know many of the rest of you that these kind of questions tell me a little bit about where you're coming from um I know this it's totally Anonymous poll hey speaking of anonymous I'm going to out somebody but I won't say your name was someone out there I just found out because he he let me know he is a tap dancing instructor I won't say Who You Are you're welcome to identify yourself if you're if you're in the the chat how cool is that a tap dancing instructor I mean that is like oh man I mean dance is a beautiful thing period period uh but a tap dancing instructor oh man that that just sounds like an incredibly fun interesting job which um I I think that's awesome so um I respect everyone's privacy nothing to be shy about I just figure it was it's not my place to to talk about you know to name names um but just so you know I think that is such a cool I mean any anyone with a skill uh you've earned that skill you paid your dues you've you've got a skill and then if you're also sharing that skill in any capacity well obviously I can relate to that right like that's that's uh you're you're singing my sing my song LIF to fly LIF to fly has made our first uh uh Super Chat donation of the night livify thank you very much uh a Super Chat is when you uh donate you make a donation to the cause here and um and I appreciate that uh oh so and you guys anyone is welcome to do that it's that dollar sign at the bottom of the chat and um I thank you in advance uh so uh let's let's do the Looper and then let's do our playalong song of the night because two things are uh connected okay so we don't need this but we do need the white paper to stay there okay okay uh the Looper so here's a deal you guys I'm going to put did I already put this in the chat I did um and it will be in the description of this video I have uh a Looper that I got man 15 years ago maybe and it's great it's a boss Loop it's two pedals it's one big box with two two um different pedals to step on Love It great a little bit expensive uh way higher technology than I needed I'm sure I only used 20% of what it can do I got a second one for this live stream for our live stream and here's why um I I uh wanted to have something that was not as expensive as my original one um and that was much simpler to use so what did I get let me see how I can do this I got a classic can you see that of course you can it's a little bitty Looper called a ditto um this is made by TC Electronics out of uh Denmark the ditto um typically they're around a 100 bucks uh Sweetwater had a demo quote quote for about 80 bucks with warranty and all that kind of stuff so I thought oh well I'll save 20 bucks I'll get a used one totally fine and it works great um so that's what we're going to be using and uh I've used it a little bit I like it and I'm going to recommend it to you guys and you can use that Sweet Water link that I put in the top of the live stream um and uh I'll put it in the description um I'll tell you what is not is bugging me about it and it's going to bug me until I can find the solution because there's got to be a solution to this thing that's Bugg me about it okay I just put the link in the uh in the chat again um you know what I do like about it for sure one button oh one button and then one knob to control the ultimate volume of of uh of what you create okay so the reason I'm doing this first hey Randy thank you for your uh Super Chat and Stephen Rock Lobster thank you for your Super Chat I'm throwing you guys some hearts I appreciate that okay so because the song we're going to do tonight our playalong song we're going to do momentarily um is so repetitive uh like many of our play along songs are um I thought hey great I'll get the Looper to do it for me um so and then I can do stuff on top of that okay so another thing that's kind of adorable is there's the instructions one piece of paper there's the picture on on one side with the names of stuff and there's the instructions uh at their website there's a what they call a full manual and I I will check that out because of the thing that's bugging me I want to see if there's a solution to that but um I haven't done that yet but anyways that's you know that's my kind of instructions man right there okay all right so let's get right down to using [Music] it okay so what we have going on here is a three chord chord progression which is this is going to be our playalong song in a minute um what I'm going to do is in real time I'm going to step on the looping uh uh pedal button uh at the moment of my choosing I'll explain in a moment and then I'm I'm going to play through the core progression I'm going to step on it again at the exact same time in the core progression that I stepped on it in the first place and that creates the loop that's it that's it now there's there's more you can do but that's what I'm going to do right now you know so the core progression is just so you know G A minor C twice okay so you're going to hear me go like this oh I lied G A minor C back to G again okay so uh the G's act as bookends meaning when you're doing that final g it leads back to the first g g a minor C back to G and then it starts again so the G ends up being twice as long right book ends get the idea book hands okay so one thing I learned uh you learn a lot from working with a Looper I'm going to be talking about this a lot I can tell already because um it's I'm going to be incorporating these live streams it's like having a friend here who can keep doing something while I I illustrate something to you guys it's a beautiful thing a toz me is taking a very educated guest some of you already know what song we're going to do today excellent um Okay so oops sorry I booted the mic there okay uh I got a mic on the amp and that's down at my feet and I just booted it okay so one thing I've learned about myself as a rhythm guitar player from working with a Looper is I speed up and you can't do that because I'm creating a loop that by definition is going to repeat whatever I do well I can't go slow medium fast slow medium fast nobody wants to hear that so what I'm going to do is I'm going to get a little Groove going by the way I am going to show you the strum pattern in a minut don't worry about that I'm going to get that strum pattern going I'm going to try to lock in and not speed [Music] up the first thing I got to say is what I'm not digging about this Looper is as soon as I turn it on it boosts the sound so it's going to get a little bit louder as I do this and I I I got to figure out how to not make that happen so you're going to know when I step on it because it's going to sound a little bit louder okay here I [Music] go yeah was a little bit louder right okay there's good old Jonathan okay so that's going to go on and on and on right until uh until I don't know till the Earth crashes into the Sun or the sun crashed into the Earth or whatever okay pretty steady I don't think I sped up now the sound is now coming out of my guitar amplifier but I can control the overall volume of that Loop turning that louder softer does not change how louder soft I guitar is my my live guitar what I'm about to do so that means that you know if I'm going to play some lead guitar along with that I want it to be a little bit louder than the backing track right than the loop [Music] so okay so I think it's pretty clear that little Le thing I just played was definitely louder than the loop that's great could I make the loop a little bit louder sure but isn't it nice it's very cool that's what that one little volume knob does okay now I'm going to press on it twice to stop it I'm going to do two clicks and this shows you how rudimentary this technology is two clicks I fo tap tap done now it's still there it's still there I'm going to start up again a second okay so I've created a loop life is good now here's where it gets fun I can um we're in the key of G by the way G A minor C G we're in the key of G I could use this to just solo on top of it using a G major pentatonic scale for example great I could use this to practice up the neck versions of G A minor and C right um in fact I can create another loop with with uh with those maybe I should do that okay so here's what I'm going to do I'm going to press it one time yeah I'm going to press it one time it's going to begin going okay when I feel ready I'm going to press it a second time and that's going to begin the overdub when it's time to do the overdub that's going to be me playing up the neck chords I'm going to play G uh a minor and C up the neck I might do G with the D formation a minor how about five55 the a minor how about C the way I would do an F chord 889 and back to G now I'm not going to do all the same strumming strumming strumming because I've already got that covered so I might just do light little like two 3 4 no less is more 2 3 4 okay so one tap get the loop [Music] going got my G chord ready here I go [Music] and top again little soft right yeah it's there but it's not loud enough if I press and hold it it undo what I just did I'm not STIs it's too soft right so I'm going to press and hold it [Music] so in the that erase that kind of weak sound I just had there I know why it was so soft okay I'm going to do it [Music] again oh that was loud right and now I'm hearing [Music] it okay hold that okay two Taps and it's going to pause and just wait for me okay so Charlie BG says what is the song uh well check out the chat Charlie don't ask me ask A to Z me um made famous by the birds uh but written by Bob Dyan you ain't going nowhere okay so yeah did I want it to be that loud no no I got to figure out what's going on right um but uh you can see we have layers going on so my point though my point was I just then I was using the Looper to practice my up the neck chords you know giving my Fring hand a chance to figure out okay I know the song is G A minor and C what how can I play those chords up the neck you know [Music] uh now I'm going to undo that cuz I don't like how loud that was I'm going to press it uh and hold it one time because basically those are your two options tapping it quickly like once or twice [Music] quickly or holding it down hard okay thank you all right get the idea looping now that's that's um the tip of the iceberg right there's so much you can do you know okay so I'm going to erase what I just did press twice no press and hold to clear the whole so I just erased it okay so let's talk about what I don't love about this so far so far admittedly all I've read about it is that little teeny piece of paper okay what I don't love about it so far uh you have to plug it into the wall it's not powered by a 9volt battery kind of a pain uh if you're going to be moving all over the place because you got to find an outl you have to buy it doesn't come with an adapter you have to somehow scr up a n91 adapter or buy one separately no big deal um if you have your practice space in your house in your apartment and you're in one place no big deal just you have your setup you have your Looper life is good you plug it in life is good um some of the things I want to figure out are those volume things I want to figure that out there has to be a solution for that um when you go to clear it you know you press it down and just hold it and wait for it to clear it plays the whatever you just did it plays it for like 2 seconds before it clears it well I don't I know I don't want to hear that you know so I wonder if there's some solution there okay anyways um to be continued but I'm going to be using it a lot during our live streams because it's a chance for me to um to have both parts going at the same time all right now I have the chart we're going to do this in a second I just realized that oh I'm down to my last piece of white paper dare I use it what if I need more paper I dare okay you eight going nowhere here's a beautiful thing there's no F chords you don't need a capo you uh there's no Bridge there's no weird part there's no keychains you ain't going nowhere Bob Dyan what we're going to do is in the same key as the birds did it in the key of G because why not okay so what I'm going to do here is you know the overall chord progression G to a minor to C back to G I'll say it one more time that g is different than that G right book ends you have do that g you go back to the beginning G so G is happens twice as often I know a certain percentage of you like oh my God I get it and some of you are going to mess up you're GNA play that last G and you're gonna go right to that a minor don't do it rookie mistake okay here is the strum pattern that I recommend the booma cha strum booma cha right why do I call it that because that's what it sounds like okay so here's the bua chrum I'm going to illustrate this on the G chord but you will understand very quickly how to adapt it to the C and the a minor okay if this ever gets too high tech for any of you just let me know just uh send me a postcard let me know uh nothing like a white paper piece of white paper and a Sharpie okay boa cha down on the base note the six string third this is for a G chord right so sixth string third fret with a downstroke fourth string happens open that's an upstroke and then a nice little chicka on the two treble on the three treble strings down up there too I'm going to get my right hand in the shot here because you guys know my left hand is just doing a G chord okay pretty good I'm going to back off the volume a little bit it's plenty loud enough uh that's [Music] better de con is a fan of I ain't going nowhere a great song right um boaa booma cha okay now I no one taught me this I just found myself doing it um and when I say I found myself doing I found myself inserting that note the second note the the P of the booma you know and then I realized that no I had not invented that and that it's a common thing how common is it well funny you should ask if I had to point to an example of uh famous song that uses this check it out I would open my strum pattern Bible and the reason Maggie May by Rod Stewart made it into the strum pattern Bible see that you can come back and do a screenshot of that someday I'm Maggie May is an example of a famous song that includes this boa chicka sound um full disclosure it's it's almost exactly the booma chicka boom chick booma chick boom chick booma chick um close enough the important thing is that Maggie May has that it has the upstroke on something other than the root note right after you do the downstroke on the root note okay I'm getting really technical here but anyways yeah this works great with songs that are slowish or medium a super fast Blu grassy kind of tune there's not there's not time to do that let's say um like I Walk the Line Johnny Cash or for some prison booes there's not time and there's not a need to fill up space with that upstroke right there um but slower Tunes or medium it keeps the momentum flowing okay now we're going to do our play along single WR in really just a minute what I want to point out is two quick things see how I have this this down up brush you know combination on the three treble strings take it with a grain of salt if you hit four strings with a downstroke that's great if you only hit one or two with the upstroke great took me a long time as a teacher to realize that my students especially attentive smart students would take whatever I wrote literally you know and they would work really hard to do it whatever the paper said um even though I was not doing that um and I realized oh wait a minute you actually to tell you the truth it almost certainly there was a student who pointed out to me hey when you go up you're only hitting one string or two strings why why did you write three or four strings or whatever the case might have been and I was like oh oops good point so uh the first two notes are kind of non-negotiable you want to be very clear about [Music] that sixth string fourth string down up but the brushing is is more [Music] casual okay um so here's what we're going to do everyone ready to rock and roll I know you are we're going to do this and you know one thing that's beautiful about this song is it's perfect for harmonies so don't let me stop you if there's some of you out there that you know are ready to some harmonies uh you know what I say go for it um and uh Hey pull up the lyrics that's what I just did pull up the lyrics on your computer um so uh last thing I'm going to say before we start on the a minor and the C chord exact same strumming with one exception for those two chords the root note is not on the six string in fact technically we're not supposed to play the six string during an A Minor and a c chord just change the the G pattern so that you hit the fifth string note first so on the a minor you can see my right hand too well there in the fifth string first everything else is the exact same and same on the C right that's all okay you ready to rock and roll of course you are I'm G to move this up um now oh I always think of one more thing you don't have to do this strum right you don't have to an alternative especially if if this is just too much at the moment oh yeah just do two downums on G in fact maybe I'll start off I I try to do this simple strumming uh clouds so sweet rain won't lift two strums and two strums right G twice a minor twice C twice G twice the two G's at the end flow right into the two G's at the beginning right okay let's simplify this I'm going to bypass all this special effect stuff okay get a a more pure kind of toone here okay so I'm going to do those nice simple down strums uh as we start off and then I'm going to move into the hole there we go better then I'm going to move into the whole on CH cha okay let's do this uh how about if we go through the chord progression uh once or twice and then start up with the [Music] lyrics okay I'll see you on the other side one two three 4 [Music] clouds so Swift rain won't live the gate won't close and the railings froze get your mind off of winter time you ain't going nowhere oh ride me high tomorrow's the day my bride's gone come oh are we going to fight down in the easy ja I don't care how many letters they s morning came morning pack up your money pick up your you ain't going nowhere oh right behind tomorrow is the day my pride going to come oh we going to fly down in the [Music] easy buy me a FL the G that shoots tell GES and substitutes strap yourself to tree with roots you ain't going nowhere ohde tomorrow the day my bride's going to come oh we going to fight down in the EAS CH get couldn't keep all his King Supply with we'll climb that Hill no matter when we up to [Music] it R tomorrow the day my bride's going to come oh we going to fight down in the e [Music] all right uh G major pentatonic scale to answer the question that some of you are thinking we're in the key of G major the G major pentatonic scale is what you want to se along I I put in a couple of um interludes right in there so in the hopes that some of you are already doing that or that some of you come back to this live stream uh when it's over and solo on top of that G major pentatonic scale that's the easy one I I'll put this in the in the description of the video as well but from heavy bass string to skinny string 03 02 02 02 03 03 the G major pentatonic scale at least the the easiest way to play it what do I mean by the easiest uh lots of open strings we are getting some sunshine here in Connecticut and I will drink to that celebrating our Oney year anniversary of these live streams h not half bad that Dunkin Donuts they're on to something can I tell you a story many years ago my dad was an accountant for Price Waterhouse this is a lot lot of years ago maybe I was I was a we lad and uh we we were living in Massachusetts and my dad um this would have been 1970s and my dad got sent to uh help out a local business with their books and it was a business with u only three locations I think the headquarters was quinsey Massachusetts and uh and he got sent there to help them you know to audit their books and to help them out with their accounting and the name of that business Duncan Donuts with three locations that's right you got to start somewhere right yeah now my dad also my dad um I don't know if he invented this but he would make himself iced coffee again this is going back to the 70s and he would make coffee and you know the rest right and you're can figure it out from the name we all know it right so my dad was on a business trip to Seattle true story and he orders an iced coffee and they they they couldn't deliver there was whatever wherever he was they didn't make iced coffee in Seattle at that location whatever it was a restaurant or whatever in the 1970s oh Dad so I'm not saying Starbucks was invented by my dad or that iced coffee was invented by my dad but he came home from his business trip he goes you know they've never even heard of iced coffee in Seattle he was frustrated there you go let's check in with our poll results do you want to make your own original music oh we're up to 53% of you say yes definitely I want to make my own music 28% say maybe we'll see 19% say nah enough there's enough beautiful music out there already I'm not going to complain about getting sunshine on my face I'm not going to because since you know as you guys know we've been doing this for a year and uh this is our second location doing the live stream the first location had no windows it was like the the back room of my music studio basically the back room of my music shop here I am at an Elm Street location different location and what can you say we got windows and when when the sun shines it shines uh okay so I you know you guys have been indulging me with the variety of things I've been throwing your way I'm going to look at what you all have been saying because we're you know we're uh on the downward slope here of tonight's live stream we're not it's not over don't go anywhere don't go anywhere we got plenty to talk about but it's time for me to start paying attention here Scott rhods has to go Scott wish all the best thanks for being here Scott uh let me see I'm looking for any questions that I might have missed Blair noticed that yes when I played just then and the vast majority of the time I do my G chord with my middle ring and Pinky and my ring finger is over there on uh the sixth string the fat E string why do I do it that way cuz someone told me to um that that is actually the true story I worked in a guitar store while I was in college and there a bunch of more experienced guitar players than me who were teachers there and uh and they saw me strumming a G chord with my index middle and ring and they said you know you really should also learn it the other way and uh and I thought I better do that um and in case any of you are wondering you know in case some of you need proof like why why do I have to do it that way why is it so important it frees up your index finger why is that important so many C that sound good with G require your index finger to be hovering right there right around the first fret and you ain't going no a great example G and a minor that's a common combination G and C G and G7 G and uh F right um in fact almost every chord that sounds good with G you need the index finger to be you know right there at the first fret or maybe it's a chord that precedes the G so learn G both ways of course is the Third Way the four finger G right that's a good one to know for lots of reasons including there's some songs where that's how you play uh yesterday yesterday by Paul mcartney in the Beatles if you want to play it and sound exactly like PA McCartney you got to play the four finger G okay uh Joseph says Randy Travis sings again a new AI song called where did that come from I have not heard that but yeah it begins it begins a very interesting very interesting I I uh no I don't know um good time to wish all of you mothers out there happy Mother's Day hope you have a great day every day but an especially great day tomorrow hi to my mom hi to my wife uh and I hope uh you guys all have a chance to have a great day tomorrow with the mother in your life um Dandy 611 thank you for your Super Chat I'm throwing a heart your way I appreciate that five pounds uh I appreciate that I'm guessing that you are in the UK and uh I I would I'm dying a visit I went to um I went to England and Wales as a very young kid and um and it's time for me to go again I got a I got a uh head over there someday um Rick G is talking about his Looper he says my Looper has a drum machine it sounds terrible with the drums yeah um but it sounds okay using an acoustic amp yeah lots of lots of Loopers out there Scott saying he has a Looper called the flama flma fs21 um with yeah so some Loopers have built-in drum stuff my my first Looper the boss that I have um called The Loop Station from at least at least 10 years ago that has a built-in drum thing um POA John says can you change guitars to add to the loop yes definitely definitely so so yeah you can just put that guitar down plug in a different guitar and use that guitar to add it on to the loop for sure for sure um you could even do the loop um get the loop going create the loop right then uh insert like a distortion pedal say or any kind of pedal um right before the Looper so that say you're seing on top of the loop um you're seing with a a whole new tone like a you know distorted tone because you don't necessarily want the the rhythm guitar Loop track to be distorted not necessarily right um or you know bottom lines you can add effects um afterwards Blair has the boss rc1 uh uh Looper y AZ me is mentioning that um when Bob Dylan had the 30th 35th year anniversary concert special thing that um uh there was a great version of you ain't going nowhere by Roseanne Cash Mary chapen Carpenter and Sean koven uh yeah what a great thing I mean here's the thing I was going to say if you're a Bob Dylan fan that that uh big TV special from the early 90s um is a great thing but here's the thing even if you're not a bob Dyan fan um because if you're not a Bob Dylan fan you might feel the same way lots of people do remember my big brother for example said I'd rather hear anybody sing Bob Dyan songs than Bob Dylan like they they like the Bob Dyan material they just like it better than other people seeing it I get that so so that obviously the vast majority of material that night at that concert is done by his peers and his uh and know other other great musicians very fun uh okay so so Randy okay Randy Randy is Randy you know I just I didn't I figured it was your information you shared it with me I didn't want to but Randy is our top dancing instructor and uh and I you know respect that's all I can say respect um I I'm as a fellow teacher I know teaching has its ups and downs and uh but what a cool thing of all things to teach tap what to Co in the teach um okay so I'm going back to my agenda because I do have an agenda here uh let's talk about cool guitar players I'm going to make this fast because these are people that I am learning about as well I don't I don't have tons of information about these people I just know that they're super cool and I have enjoyed hearing them and learning more about them it's possible that I have mentioned this first guy um previously I hope I have but whether I have or have not you guys should join me in learning more about FATZ Kaplan love him FATZ Kaplan I just in the chat I put his name and uh and a link to a YouTube video of fats Kaplan man what a cool guy I uh the particular video that I I'm putting a link to for fat kapl he's he's um he's a multi-instrumentalist instrumentalist and he's playing an instrument from turkey that is uh it's called a combus at least that's the way it it's spelled c m Buu s but if you watch the video he tells you the proper pronunciation but it's not just the video that I want to share with you he just seems like he's my kind of musician and I just dig fats Kaplan I want to meet fats Kaplan someday a multi-instrumentalist who who has done his homework and knows stuff and that's that's what I want to be when I grow up so definitely check out fats Kaplan in general and uh and you can start at that video that I posted okay who's another guitar player that we all should know more about oh man this guy I'm gonna see okay I'm going to put his name I want to make these links as easy for you I'll put all the stuff in the description of the video um okay from the Congo and I know I'm not going to say his name correctly but I'm going to say it with respect and there we go uh um nwell suo n i w l NL and his last name is spelled TS u m Buu and he's from the Congo and I put a link to his let's see a link to his YouTube channel and now I'm going to put another link man I like watching him play I'm going to put another link to uh a cool thing he does um teaching how to play like him basically me see if I can get this right um so I recommend both of these links in again I'll put all these links in the description of this video when I time stamp it copy paste so here's another link to nyol Artistry okay one more while I have you uh a very interesting band and I also am not going to say their name correctly but I'm going to say it with respect okay and this is a link to one of their videos okay the band I'm going to pronounce MDU moar m d oou m o c t a r MDU moar very interesting stuff so if you guys haven't figured it out already um I am hungry for alternative stuff you know uh I like hearing music from all over the world and that includes guitar playing from all over the world um like you I've heard a lot of rocking roll love rock and roll uh it's just that when I hear stuff that I haven't heard before I find it very inspiring so I want to share it with you guys um and uh these the people I put in the chat just now are relatively new to me they may not be new to you um but I hope they are new to some of you because uh oh man there's so much good music in the world and um and and social media and YouTube has only made it easier easier to find out about these folks and um oh man love it love it so I hope you enjoy some of that stuff ATZ me says Billy strings is the only quote new guitarist that I know and he's not that new anymore yeah but Billy strings not everybody knows Billy strings so some of you are like Billy strings who's Billy strings yeah check out Billy strings man um hey some people maybe aren't familiar with the good old Tommy Emanuel you know why that chicken crossed crossed the road the chicken crossed the road to get away from Tommy Emanuel because he's everywhere um but hey you know I I realized a long time ago that I don't know everything so uh I'm I'm I'm no longer surprised I try not to I try to be honest with myself I'm no longer particularly surprised when there's a fantastic musician who might not even be a young or or not might not even be a newcomer I just never heard of them before you know um so that's just that's just life Randy Downing says tap dancing is fun and musicians learn it fast oh I like that I like that musicians learn tap dancing fast excellent that's very inspiring um uh yeah Willie Snider is saying I think there's a way to balance the volume between the Looper and your amp he had the same problem with the podcast and input F yeah yeah I mean the you're you're right you're right because the Looper only has one volume knob and one button to press it it there's only so many this particular one um it shouldn't be rocket science getting those balances so I I'll figure it out in terms of our live stream I could always use my fancy schmancy boss Loop Station thing um and maybe I will but I I want you know like I said that's the extent of my research so far into you know how to use this ditto the ditto Looper from TC electronic which is which is um very highly rated and uh and I've have no doubt that it's going to be a useful part of my gear um and and again one reason why I went out and bought it even though I already have the fancer one is I wanted to um demonstrate to you guys what's out there for not so much money with not so many bells and whist whistles not so many buttons uh and um encourage you to to get any Looper um for yourself because as you see me incorporated into these live streams you'll see how useful it can be and how it 100% makes you a better guitar player um as you learn how to use it okay speaking of learning how to use it oh we're getting close to wrapup time here hey did anyone come up with your own dumb question I need a dumb question of the night I I didn't I didn't have uh hey Johnny moaser I um I didn't have a dumb question of my own and I was hoping that you guys uh you guys could come up with a dumb question tonight uh Willie Snider asks when you compose a song what do you start with a drum beat or vocals great question uh um I we're all different right and in fact the same person can have 10 different ways of writing a song um I I like to I to me a bunch of things happen at once like a little a little lyric and a little Melody thing happens at the same time and that's often a a starting point for me um but there's so many ways right in fact I think the more experienced a songwriter is the more dozens of ways they have to write a song so I definitely don't start with a drum beat literally um uh but that's a great idea like why not you know it's a great idea you know I mean I'm a drummer I call myself a recovering drummer um so I'll tell you what if this helps anybody because it made a big difference for me instead of starting with a little lyric idea and coming up with a chord Melody and chord I mean a melody and chord changes and all this stuff and then going back and having to you know think of lyrics um that are profound and beautiful and poetic and how the right Rhythm and the right number of syllables uh I found that exhausting um I've taken to writing lyrics and then when I feel like I'm at a good point where where I've said a lot of things I want to say then begin putting them to any sort of Melody any sort of beat I found it it's like such relief to have a whole bunch of words that are more or less coherent um and turning that into a song rather than having a whole song and then thinking okay now what do I want to say and what's a you know four syllable word or phrase that rhymes with monkey business you know like oh my God you know um that's hypothetical please do not give me suggestions uh you know what I'm saying so for me I found myself being painted into a corner like oh crap you know I I found it difficult to be poetic when the whole structure of the song every melodic note all that stuff was all glued into place and then I would have to um and it gave me a lot of admiration for old school lyricists who you know be working with you know a a composer and they would have to find beautiful poetic interesting humorous whatever poignant things to say that had to fit in like your shoe horning in lyrics and syllables and Rhymes and stuff it gave me a lot of respect it gives me a lot of respect for people who are who are doing that um with with little or no flexibility at least that's what it would seem like uh so if that helps anybody it made a big difference to me to um do lots of writing with Words lyrics right that kind of writing and then say okay now what what Melody could work with this and then of course you have to fudge right you have to fudge like any I imagine it's like any crafts person any any trades person where you know you you know what you want the final result to be and then you got to take a quarter of an inch off here push a little harder against that reinforce this and uh yeah good stuff if I missed any of your questions now is the time to Reas your questions because you know uh Joseph see your question Deborah I see yours okay Willie S I see your dumb question D couple couple dumb questions um okay okay hold on hold on okay so let's start with um Deborah says uh does is the Looper going to replace regular recording and playing back stuff um it it it could um the thing about the Looper is as you notice as you saw it will keep repeating whatever forever until you turn it off as opposed to recording and I've done this too I record myself on my phone you know cord progression I solo over it I do it for like 60 seconds and every 60 seconds I have to go back and do it again so that's that that's kind of a pain a Looper makes that easier a Looper also allows you to layer like making a sandwich right the cord strumming little bite size up the neck cords a little riff you know you can see how these things interact with each other that's so so so fun so if the alternative is just recording yourself on on your phone you can't do all that stuff on your phone although there's probably some sort of app out there maybe a garage band or something um but a Looper makes it easier to uh to layer stuff on and hear it immediately you know uh although no matter what I encourage all 41 of you watching right now to uh record yourselves as much as possible as often as possible um especially if you're pretty sure you're not going to like how it sounds then definitely record yourself for two reasons you you it makes it objectively 100% clear what what doesn't sound great um and and I mean this sincerely it opens up the possibility possibility that some of it is going to sound better than you think that's going to happen if you record yourself often enough even those of you who are pessimistic uh you're going to sooner or later you're going to have to admit that something you did on the recording does sound pretty good and it'll happen it it really will so always record yourself as much as possible especially if you're hesitant to don't be hesitant anymore hey I see another another uh Super Chat came in from holy cow came in from zulia zulia wow that's a big that's a big Super Chat holy cow um pln I'm not sure but I'm going to read your comment you said discover your channel recently as a beginner your videos have been amazing help to get started oh thank you love the methodical approach and slow pace thank you so much you're welcome that makes my day awesome hey if you don't mind let us know where you are from because I'm I see from the currency involved that you might be from outside the US and you guys know me the fact that some of you I love all of you the fact that some of you are outside the US it it blows my mind a little bit it shouldn't I know because it's the world we live in but I reserve the right to be um to be so happy that that some of you guys are are outside for 30s something years I basically taught uh in a community right and people who live in nearby area come and take lessons from me it's great um and then YouTube was invented and everything changed but I taught for you know I started teaching in 1992 and YouTube was just a little twinkle in in our eyes right so the fact that I'm I can do essentially the same thing but um but have a global reach ah I think I'm at I'm at just the right age where I really really appreciate that I don't take it for granted I'm from Poland from Poland is that right oh well thank you all the way from Poland beautiful well don't make this don't make this your last visit stick around and quick reminder uh all these live streams have been recorded and timestamped this is number 47 and this will be in the description of the video but why not I'm going put this in the chat right now there we go come on copy um here is the link pal to the playlist of all the previous 46 live streams that's a lot that's a lot uh um so zulia zombie based in Poland although originally from Argentina ah makes me so happy that's beautiful well thank you you thank you for being here thank you for your super chat I appreciate that okay uh couple things um I mentioned that I just in time for YouTube to be banned in the US maybe I've started posting more I'm sorry uh Tik Tok just in time for Tik Tock to potentially be banned in the US um I have started posting more on YouTube on Tik Tok so I'm pulling up my tick talk Channel and if you want to see what I've been posting on Tik Tok recently okay sorry about that clunk head over to Tik Tok and at song bike I think that's all you have to do when you're on Tik Tok um let me just make sure here at song bike guitar okay if you go to Tik Tok and search for me I'm at song bike guitar just put that in the chat and uh you know by the the nature of Tik Tok being short videos um it it um it serves me well because literally I can I can and I've done this I've taught a student in person you know or an online student and the lesson ends and I can swivel in my seat and film a Tik Tock video and post it in in five minutes less than five minutes um and it's fun uh I have so many things sort of like like you ain't going nowhere like where I can I can teach a whole thing or like the thing about exploding that one finger cord you know I can teach a concept in a couple minutes I've got the the paperwork here and yeah so next time you're on Tik Tok uh that's where you can find me at song talk and you know knock on wood every issue with Tik Tok will be resolved and my efforts will not be in vain um I don't know I don't know uh I see a few more questions don't worry I'm going to get to these questions because I love that these questions are coming in so if you are posting questions right now I'm goingon to get to those questions okay um uh Willie uh LIF LIF to fry Channel lift to FY uh oh Charlie ble okay Charlie begle says does Garage Band have some kind of looping function I don't know does anybody know I assume it does um because Garage Band you know it's about recording and then any recording software you can tell the software to to play that thing again Loop it so I I assume it does but if anybody knows maybe you can answer Charli's question live to fly uh has a dumb question do alternate tunings affect my guitar neck that's a great question um no except um tunings alternate tunings that involve you cranking strings tighter yeah potentially potentially um open E tuning for example open E tuning would involve uh making your third fourth and fifth strings tighter your third string the G string would crank up to G sharp a little bit tighter the fourth string D be cranked up to e definitely Tighter and same thing with a fifth string a would be cranked up to B so that you know would be known as open E tuning from skinny to Fat it would be e b g sharp e b e so three of the strings you know would be tighter for for sure and could that you know stress out your neck and lead to any problems I I wouldn't guess it would lead to any problems but um you know if you left a guitar in that tuning the guitar neck would do what guitar necks do faster than it would otherwise and guitar necks essentially you know get stressed out and need adjustment and almost all of our guitars have a trust rck by the way I'm my fer Telecaster here that little stripe of wood that's known as a skunk stripe you know and that's where the trust R is it's under that dark stripe on the neck of my guitar uh so every guitar over time um the neck gets stressed out and the neck neet needs to be addressed by adjusting the truss rod and I imagine by tightening the strings if your alternate tuning was involved tightening strings um that would would happen um sooner than it would without if you didn't tighten the strings right not every guitar tuning involves tightening the strings um but there's an example so I would not worry about it um you know remember you can always change the strings that you have you go to a lighter or a heavier gauge of strings for instance if I was going to play in open G tuning a lot involves loosening a bunch of the strings not all of them but a bunch of them um I might actually use a heavier string so that the the strings don't feel all loose and floppy does that make sense even though I'm loosening the string the heavier gauge would counteract that a little bit something to think about but that is a great question um Willie Snider has a dumb question um what are my thoughts on AI written lyrics um I I I think it's fascinating I say go for it um the yeah why not language is language um and that might surprise some of you you know what you going to let a computer write a song um well ultimately presumably some human being is going to sign off on it right this goes back to say I'm a rhyming dictionary is it cool to use a rhyming dictionary yes of course it's cool to use it rhy it's language like explore the language have fun you don't want to limit yourself you know um but I get why some people be like oh I don't want to use a rhyming dictionary and AI is just like that taking to the extreme um the the day is going to come and I'm sure it's already here when you're not going to know well put it this way many of the most famous most popular songs especially the last bunch of years recently are credited to maybe six songwriters eight songwriters you know all those people it's a committee it might as well be AI right not every song I know but I mean I'm I I see it over and over and over again some really big I'm talking about pop pop hits right pop pop like really top 40 Pop I know music some of you guys might not that might not be your thing I get it um I see five songwriters credited I don't know I'm not saying it's a bad thing but I mean you know I mean if AI was one of those five it's like four people plus AI I mean at a certain point it's like I don't know is it a good song or not a good song so I we're not you know when you listen to a song it may not occur to you whether it was written by one person or six or whatever right unless someone brings it up so why not why not um you're not going to be able to tell you know a few years from now you're not going to be able to tell if if AI contributed in any way to the song so I you know at some point a human being decided it was ready for release and then we as a community decide if we like the song or not um and if down the road you find out that the whole thing was written by AI even even then though some human being had to had to ultimately decide it was good enough it was appropriate so N I don't have a problem with that um now I don't I wouldn't say someone is a genius and think wow man that's so cool you used AI to write your song I don't think it's anything to to be proud of you know the ultimate song I mean if it's a great song it's a great song um personally I wouldn't go around telling people I used AI to to write the lyrics but we're not going to be able to tell so I I I don't think we should all lose sleep over it um if a song gets you right in your heart and you love it that's the most important thing and then if you want to do a deep dive and figure out where the song came from you're welcome too um yeah but it's it's I'm glad you asked that question because yeah fascinating right well you know all the sequencing stuff in the 80s where you have all that and a keyboard riff that's repeating I mean that's that's almost like AI music um and for a lot of us it's what turned us off of a lot of 80s music was how whatever you want to call it how synthesized it sound it sound like it was just done on a computer it sounded like whatever um and and that's for a lot of us our ear picked that up right away and you can just hear how it it it didn't sound like it was being played by a group of musicians having fun it sounded like a computer was playing it um and for some of us it was a big turnoff right away like well I don't you know but the line you know don't forget JJ kale one of my favorites JJ kale would use a drum machine oh um I I love uh I I forget there's there's several great JJ K songs you can clearly hear a drum machine going is a kind of a primitive drum machine you can kind of hear in the background it's clearly not a real drummer it's a great song I love JJ kale what are you gonna do you know so he used a drum machine I don't know so the the waters get pretty muddy you know um so I I if a song means a lot to you from the moment you hear it enjoy that enjoy that you know that never happens often enough right um but so anyways in terms of AI lyrics in a way we've already been hearing AI music if if you consider that computer generated stuff going back to the 80s at least to be sort of like AI music yeah um i i i the little that I've used AI myself I love how AI generates ideas you know all you need is one or two ideas to be really cool ideas um you can dismiss 95% of them but I I personally have had situations where AI has generated enough ideas that a couple of them are really good ideas I'm not talking about creating music more like a marketing kind of thing so I get I get the appeal of it yeah I know those are those are some of my thoughts um but we're not going to be able to tell you know when when you see a movie you know the whole CGI concept I know nothing about film making but the whole CGI concept A Certain scene was it CGI was it not CGI it's it's a great question did you like the movie you know that's also that's also a fair question you know uh Deborah says base strings are usually thicker than treble strings um yeah yep maybe it depends on what kind of tune you're using what kind of guitar well in general you have you know laws of physics to get a lower sound you need a fatter string but there's um Nashville tuning where don't they take off the I hear that siren you're not crazy there's a siren going on there Nashville tuning isn't that where they take off the three fat bass strings and and replace them with three skinnier strings but tuned to the same notes so it's still ed8 dynamite but they're one octave higher so they're skinnier you know Nashville tuning I think that's what Nashville tuning is so yeah there's an alternative where so the three fat strings are EA and D strings are not fat anymore different kind of sound yeah we should do a thing on Nashville tuning sometime because I'm pretty sure I know what I'm talking about but I could be wrong um Joseph says how did musicians write songs before music theory was introduced well you know there's there's plenty of songs that were written by trained composers you know even just like pop music of its day people who knew what they were doing and then there people who was it Irving Berlin who was the composer I think it was Irving Berlin who had a a a regular piano old school piano but he could only play in the key ofc so he literally had a piano Capo where he would press a button flick a switch do something mechanically to the piano so that he wouldn't be in the key of C anymore to the listener but his fingers were still playing the notes in the key of C so in effect like a piano C I think it was Irving Berlin there was some famous composer we've all heard of before who you know yeah is that crazy um but you know you have you have Folk music um and then you have what's the alternative music made by trained professionals um so music theory I mean music theory has always been around in a sense you know people have always know what they're doing but there's always been untrained musicians making beautiful music um when I say untrained people who didn't literally go to music school and and get taught this stuff people like like a lot of us people who you know you learn a few songs and you just learn that GC and D sound good together you pick up on that very quickly just from learning songs you don't know why but you know GC and D sound good together so you go to write a song you're going to use GC and D you might even write a great song doesn't mean you know anything about music theory about composition you just you found out remember that story about The Beatles the uh when they were young young young guys the guys in The Beatles uh knew E and A and they had heard there was a third chord and they hopped on a bus in Liverpool presumably and took the bus to the the other person in town that knew the third cord P McCarney so I love this story so much and they went to find you know the the kid who knew the B7 got it B7 okay thank you so now they could play EA and the and the B7 cord you love it you know so does that mean they were then trained musicians I mean sort of because now they're playing they they had the information they needed they might not have had the theoretical explanation but they they recognized like yeah songs have three chords because maybe they learned some songs that ear was telling them like what's what's that other thing that's happening I love that um oh there's that story I told a million years ago in one of our earlier live streams I almost can't believe it's true but Les Paul go as a Young Man the the Les Paul right um as a young young kid playing the guitar going to see was it Roy Rogers the cowboy singer Roy Rogers if it wasn't Roy Rogers another guy like that going to see him in concert and and watching his hand so he could figure out the third chord you know because a lot of songs are I mean zillions of songs are based on three chords if you only got two of them you got to somehow find that third chord okay so what's my point um the line gets blurry you know an untrained musician who picks up stuff like a lot of you folks have you know you you you pick up stuff that work works and you put it to use even without being told why it works your ear your ear says I don't I don't need to be told that I I hear that it works that's a beautiful thing hey since we're getting close to wrapping up here um let's end the poll if you haven't voted yet you're down to the last few seconds to vote in our poll we got 61 votes the question tonight was do you want to make your own original music 52% yes definitely uh 30% Maybe and 18% nah love it love it um there's no right or wrong obviously although I am there's no right or wrong but uh I think it's great that half of you more than half of you are interested in making your own music because a lot of what I teach um is is geared towards people who want to make their own music or I I present it like hey now that you know this concept make something up with this concept doesn't have to be a hit song or even aspire to be hit song but it's just fun to mess around with something and make your own music because then it doesn't feel like practicing right it just feels like exploring having fun you know creating some cool sounds with your instrument okay hey uh someone mentioned earlier in the chat that little clicking sound yeah it makes me crazy too when I live stream this I have headphones on so I don't wake up my family on Sunday morning and uh I get that clicking in my ear I I I hear I know I know it's not cool and I I want to I want to figure out how to get rid of that Deborah says using AI for lyrics is not using your talents oh 100% like I said it's nothing to be proud of but um it's you know I don't know it's one of those things where like if you don't if if you don't think it's a good idea then just don't do it and hey you can always let the world know hey by the way I didn't use AI but then again how you gonna you know I've used a rhyming dictionary for lyrics and come up with some cool things thanks to the rhyming dictionary I think to myself dang is it like too good you know I me know who cares right either it's a good song or not a good song this little voice in the back of my head saying I don't know if I ever would have come up with that rhyme it were the rhyming dictionary it bugs me so if it's going to bug you avoid it don't do it um but that's the will be living you know I'm sure sooner or later there's going to be an amazing song that we all think oh I love that song and and it's going to be revealed that it's the whole thing was Ai and what are you going to do right are you going to decide you don't like the song Anymore maybe maybe but if it's like that feeling of betrayal because you you made a decision from the heart that you like the song right you love this song You Dance do it whatever you would learn on the guitar um yeah it's It's Tricky It's tricky I'll say it one more time follow your heart you you know what any piece of art enjoy it react to it decide how you feel about it and then it's like an AB test right you know blindfold test I should say say man I love that I love it what is it you know but you know I get it though It's Tricky It's Tricky AI is the new capo says Joseph gasso interesting uh okay Randy thanks for being here Randy you got to run I got to run too you know why because even though I've only finished half of my iced coffee you know what we don't we know how that story ends uh Joseph says the key of G has the B7 chord it actually doesn't it has a B minor chord when the B7 shows up in the key of G that's considered borrowing the chord from another um key signature another key so um it's it's you you you will see songs in the key of G with a B7 chord um but technically it's it's stepping outside the key um uh Charlie says did my dad's experience in Seattle um make him a bitter man no no no but we laughed about it later like Dad what if you invented iced coffee or at least someone out in Seattle was like you know that's a cool idea in the rest is history I don't know I don't know uh okay I think I think we got through all your questions all right you guys look at that we went a little bit overtime tonight uh before I forget get yourself something for free right head over to song db.com songen bike.com there it is right there on the book free I don't know just do it comes with a a free video the information is in the description of uh of this video uh the information guiding you to where you see the video um want to give you guys something why not if you are bound and 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Live to fly nineball slim Charlie Bago Rock Lobster uh live toly Willie Bobby Deborah uh Thunder Ace Thunder Ace you were here for the entire time thank you uh Joseph Willie I know I'm repeating some names here I see 35 of you are watching at the moment thank you for being here see you next Saturday uh plenty of stuff we didn't get to this week if you think of questions during the week write them down otherwise you'll forget them and then uh ask them next week all right you guys thank you I will see you in a week be good be safe and uh hope you play your guitar a lot bye you guys

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