THIS Is Where YOUTUBE LACKS In Guitar Lessons. HOW DO I MAKE MY GUITAR SOLO ACTUALLY SOUND GOOD?

we know our pentatonics we know our diatonics we know our chord tones but when we when we play it kind of feels like we hit the gas too hard and we just crash into a wall uh you know improvising is not just about what scale we put on this chord progression it's about feeling and making sure you understand this you are a human being who is learning how to play the guitar and there's a human side of you your mind and your heart that need to control itself in performing on this instrument and all this all this leads to not playing mindlessly and playing with control there are several rules that you really have to fight yourself on if you can't do this naturally it is your brain and your fingers fighting and your brain has to win here all right welcome back to another episode of stitch method today i want to take the time to talk to you about something that's really important that i see in a lot of guitar students everywhere all right and so if you um if this resonates with you watch this because i'm trying to teach you um the spaces between the stuff we know and how to make your guitar playing just sound better especially your improvisation whether you're playing the blues or jamming uh like jam band stuff or just rock um there's an element that the knowledge and theory cannot give you and that's what we're gonna be talking about today is how to work around well i i know what to do you know i know the scales i know the chord tones if you do or don't that's fine but there are plenty of people that i work with i see who know a lot of the ingredients but their soloing still doesn't sound the way they want to sound so how do we start to make your guitar playing sound better um i will show you first at the dress i slice my thumb so you're gonna see a little band-aid there i apologize you know but that's gonna be there all right so um i'm gonna tell you a story um in in stitch method fashion to help kind of like seal this analogy uh about 20 years ago maybe or maybe so something like that i was in a reggae band all right i was i was playing bass in a band and the drummer of that band was phenomenal he had such um like spicy rhythm and it was incredible and him and i were good friends and i you know i asked him how did you get your chops developed so well and he explained to me that when he was growing up the fa his family didn't have a ton of money and so he couldn't get um a huge drum kit all at one time and he started like he got a base drum and he got a snare and a hi-hat and he said you know he would listen to all the great drummers but he had to just sit and try to get all the sounds in his head out in just three pieces and so instead of having all the toms and all the symbols and everything he really tried to make his sticks hit the hi-hat differently and the snare differently and his foot kind of touched the uh the bass drum just to get all the sounds he heard from these drummers that were using full kits and then when he had enough money he bought a tom and then he would do the same thing with tom he wouldn't just treat the thomas and this is my tom note he would really sit and work with the sticks and try to get as much sound out of his ingredients and it's that analogy that we're going to use to make you a better guitar player and what we're going to do is we're going to shed down our footprint i know that you know that we know that you know that guitar players um have a massive amount of scale frameworks and chord frameworks and what happens is we learn all these frameworks and we kind of just run wild and what happens it's kind of like us i'm sure you've seen the videos if somebody gets a brand new car like a really cool sports car and it's too much power for them and we've seen it and they get in they hit the gas and they spin out and they crash into um you know the wall on the side of the road and that's kind of what it feels like when we have you know we know our pentatonics we know our diatonics we know our chord tones but when we when we play it kind of feels like we hit the gas too hard and we just crash into a wall so let me show you the spaces between on how we can get through that and how you can really develop your sense of improv and what we're going to do is we're going to use a really cool backing track and we're going to use only three notes just like that drummer i mentioned who only had a bass drum a high hat and a snare we're going to use only three notes to get the most out of this instrument so that you can translate that into whatever you're doing alright so first the backing track we're going to do is going to be ophelia by the band it's a great backing track and i will be doing it in the mind of uh for how to really solo on top of this but i'm going to show you this is the backing track i'm going to play with with the loop and it sounds like this it's c e7 a7 d7 f [Music] g7 c a d g and you're probably probably like whoa and yeah whoa that's a crazy chord progression to try and solo over but it just so happens to work out that right now the a minor pentatonic really can play over this entire thing and what we're going to do is we're going to pick three notes so let me show you an a minor pentatonic at five eight five seven five seven five seven five eight five eight and now this is really a truly a guitar lesson if you're playing another instrument i'm gonna name the notes but really the string instrument vibe here is really going to go for guitar players i know i have some flautists and piano players that watch the channel but here we have we have our c and then here we have our d and we're going to use just these two notes c d and our third note is we're allowed to take this d and bend it up to the e [Music] there it is all right and so let's just talk about what we're going to do here let me give you an example of what we're going to sound like just with these three notes i'm going to show you what we're capable of [Music] keep going but you can hear that these three notes can cover everything that we need and so let's get to it there are several rules that you really have to fight yourself on if you can't do this naturally it is your brain and your fingers fighting and your brain has to win here all right so put on the concentration face get yourself into that mindset where you can ignore the world around you and really dive in deep so the first rule is you need to listen that's the most important thing think about getting into your um your drivers testing for your driver's license the first thing that the person is going to make you do is check your mirrors and it's the same thing here you want to make sure your ears are opening and that you are listening all right so no distractions you know really listen that's rule number one number two is learn how to break first it's just like getting your driver's license what do i mean by that well um a lot of people i see they play and they kind of come off the guitar here and coming off the guitar here is your number one enemy you always want to stay attached so you kind of want to use your right hand the little fatty part here okay i've got a good amount of that right and you just want to be able to kill your notes when you want to so first thing you want to do is practice breaking play any note and test your breaks like that just touch don't chop just touch lightly tap the brakes all i'm doing is touching the string i'm playing to this little fatty part right here all right and it helps break that's the most important piece of the puzzle well number one is listening number two is learning how to break just like driving a car it's the same exact thing you gotta learn how to brake right and so the first thing you want to practice right now is just breaking bend this note and break it then keep it up here and pre-bend and then pluck pluck and release and bend it play this note bend it slide you know and stop it break break break break you get the idea practice breaking this right here is really important to improvising because when you hear a note in your head that should die off you know how to stop instead of coming off here if you come off here you really develop a sound that's choppy and we don't want to be choppy so the first thing you want to do is break so first thing i'm going to practice right now is just breaking i'm going to play these notes in any order i want but i'm going to practice deliberately stopping my notes [Music] all right just like that all right and so you want to do that and if you want to practice this stuff with me and you really want to see how it's done of course you can look on my patreon account i'm going to make tons of videos about how to really delve in here but let's let's move forward because there's a lot to do okay so listening breaking the next thing you want to do is learn how to bend really well and this all involves listening here these two notes can do so much good damage in a guitar solo and prove that all you need to do is listen and so bending this d to an e my fingers are getting stuck there bending this d to an e is paramount here's your e and you got to listen there it is all right so we really want to get that note and so now you want to practice breaking and bending [Music] all right there it was bending up to the e and breaking and listening all right fourth thing that we're going to talk about is rhythm i know i'm going fast i'll put all this stuff together rhythm i'm going to reference that drummer okay his name is mike and and he had such a good sense of rhythm and rhythm sells your guitar solos rhythm sells it not no choice i don't care what anyone says it's the rhythm of things that really sells things so you have to learn how to you know get in touch and with your rhythm you know center and really trust your rhythm output on your fingers and so you have two notes three notes to do it with so don't be afraid to experiment what i'm going to do right now is i'm going to really kind of listen to the backing track listen to my intent and i'm going to try and just play some rhythms very simply now this is a great exercise because you're on one string and if we're practicing rhythm kind of going through the whole pentatonic it's easy for us to get caught up in things and i totally get that so that's why practicing on one string with two slash three notes is really going to help you practice your rhythm so getting as spicy as you can with your rhythm is the next step okay like this [Music] [Applause] all right and don't i'm showing these little tiny snippets but sit for a half hour and really practice those two slash three notes are gonna sound good but you need to be practicing your rhythm the worst thing that i see in in all guitar students i'm not trying to sound mean i'm really trying to help you is that we have like runaway fingers kind of like a runaway car where our brakes are cut and we just we keep on going and it's like well we're trying to fill the sound no you have to think about your rhythm and your braking your rhythm and your braking just like in in a car on the highway you're going to cruise control everything stops you got to slow down you speed up you just don't have you don't want to have a runaway fingers all right so i'm trying to help you you know learn all this stuff again i know i'm going fast but i'll give you the whole picture and then at the end of the video we'll put everything together okay next thing you want to practice with this stuff is sliding listening to what it slides listen to what it sounds like when you slide don't listen to me ever i got to say before we do this all these ingredients are viable like uh independent of what song you're doing all these are real techniques that you want to listen for and understand how they feel and what they sound like this is what is going to get you over that step of making you know you know your scales but for some reason they don't sound well it's because we have goku graduate fingers and there's kind of running away so sliding practice the whole time around on this backing track while my band-aid comes off uh with sliding just listen to slides and so that you can program yourself as to what they sound like [Music] all right don't be afraid to try it out if you don't know how to do this stuff you have to do it and it might take five minutes 10 minutes a half hour three days the more you stick with this the more you're going to realize oh my gosh these three notes are really capable of making a really good solo and and you just have to break through the barrier of really it's about listening and overcoming that sense of like awkwardness and so right now we're going to recap everything we did so far which is listening breaking bending rhythm and slides okay five things so far so i'm going to try and take a solo one time around listening breaking bending rhythm and slide so check it out here we go i always want to start off on this note i'm not going to let's see [Music] so all right that was everything we talked about and i really you know after you practice one thing at a time you can start to recall what these things feel like and you will be able to take them into bigger scale patterns but right now why you want to focus on you know the nom theory the the non-guitar you know knowledge stuff you just want to work on the attachment to you and this instrument let's keep going um the next thing is the pre-bend i should have put this in the benz but you might notice that every note that you bend can be pre-bent up to what you're bending and then plucked and released and that's a huge thing so just let's listen for those pre-bends so pre-bending i should have mentioned in the in the previous section is huge and so even though i'm moving fast this could be an hour and a half video i want you to write down the ideas i want you to practice these individually again on my patreon account i'll have this backing track i'll be making videos of how to do this in different places and and really connect you and me together that's what that whole thing is about all right so then the last two things are a common thing i want to address and number seven and number eight are all about the word control now this whole entire video is about controlling your instrument and your intent and the human in you to try and and you know get some good sounds out of this guitar neck but it's the hammer on some pull-offs i find that hammer-ons and pull-offs um when i'm working with students are more of a physical like element that their body's used to and the timing and listening is not there i find that no matter what if i ask someone to do a pull-off i'm not saying 100 of the time you're getting a hammer on you're going to get like like just like that you know that's it and the idea is is you want to work on timing okay that was a hammer on [Music] right here's a pull off a lot of times i get hey do a pull off and it's they think it's just a quick little thing so working on the timing all right of your hammer ons and pull offs is huge so you want to work on holding a note before you hammer on and holding a note before you pull off now pull offs [Music] all right you get the idea you really want to play with that first note whether you hold it long or short and then the hammer on now we have we have eight things and i have a list here because i want to make sure i got them all down they are listening breaking bending rhythm sliding pre-bending hammer runs and pull-offs and all this all this leads to not playing mindlessly and playing with control all right it's just like a driving test you have to make sure you know how to do all these things in a very controlled environment before the teacher or the person grading you passes off and lets you drive on the highway and we all have this um feeling that oh well if we know a pentatonic scale if we know a diatomic or if we know chord tones our fingers should be able to do this and it's just like we know we go to driving school we know how to learn how to drive we look at the book okay turn the wheel left it goes left hit the gas and it goes fast but when you get into the car it's a totally different element everything is working at the same time and it's no different so you have to be able to pass your guitar test and you want to use these three notes one two and three and you wanna be able to create as much sound and and especially understand what it feels like and listen to your intent so you know how to get these out so let me show you a solo with all these moves and just this just these three notes here we go [Music] so all right so that was two times around and hopefully uh this is going to help you you know improvising is not just about what scale we put on this chord progression it's about feeling and making sure you understand this you are a human being who is learning how to play the guitar and there's a human side of you your mind and your heart that need to control itself in performing on this instrument and these little eight tips and and you know staying within these two or three notes is is designed to help you get more in touch with that because we all know our scales and if you're playing you just sound like hey i don't i don't feel like what i'm playing it you know sounds good it's because you're not feeling what's happening i'm not trying to sound rude trying to give you some really good advice here so please let me know in the comments if this helps you out share this video with anyone who you think will need to hear it and thank you so much for being here on another episode of stitch method i'll see you very soon take care bye you

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Length: 20min 5sec (1205 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 17 2020