Why I Didn’t Play Guitar for 25 Years

[Music] hey everybody you see me play guitar keyboards everything on this channel but what you might not know is that i went for 25 years without practicing the guitar this is a picture of me playing my gibson les paul when i was 15 years old and then here's a video of me from my instagram that i posted just the other day in this video i'm going to tell you why i didn't practice for 25 years and then show you the things that when i did start back up that i practiced to actually not only improve my playing beyond what it was when i stopped playing but how i continue to improve my playing and learn new things there was a period from the time i was 13 till 23 where i practiced every single day without missing a day as a matter of fact i probably practiced at least four hours a day and when i was in college in the summer time i would practice 10 hours a day now i was obsessed with the guitar i was obsessed with music in general and really learning everything i could but the guitar in particular once i started playing that i just couldn't stop doing it and and i wanted to just keep learning learning learning learning so i went and finished my undergrad degree classical base music ed but then got my master's degree in jazz guitar and right when i finished my master's degree i got a teaching gig teaching college back at ithaca college where i had done my undergraduate degree here's a video of me back in my 20s 1987 when i was teaching at ithaca college i'm 25 in this video and you can see the students there range anywhere between 18 and 22. so i'm just a couple years older than the students were anyways during this time that i was a college professor i also played five nights a week straight ahead jazz gigs like in this video [Music] it was also during that time period that i wrote my biato book which is now in version four so 1991 happened to be a really pivotal year in my life there's a recession here in the states all of my jazz gigs that i depended on for the extra income because being college professor didn't pay anything really and i needed to play those five nights a week to make the extra money to make a living so because of that i started playing other types of gigs and i ended up doing a demo with a buddy of mine that got a demo deal with electric records then started writing songs and stop practicing one of the reasons was i got assigned to a publishing deal with polygram publishing in 92 i ended up taking a leave of absence from teaching in 1993 and ended up never going back but i stopped practicing in 1991 and i never practiced the guitar again until 2016 when i started this channel so when i started making videos here not only was this information all the stuff that i used to teach that was just second nature so far in the distance 25 years before all the stuff i talked about modes scales chord progressions all the music theory when i talk about film scoring or ear training all of that stuff i had done none of it when i was a record producer if you play guitar you play guitar for a couple minutes and you're playing some basic chords and you're adding things maybe some sound effects or you're playing keyboards or bass or whatever always adding to the songs with extra production elements not playing you know anything fancy and certainly never practicing so i start my channel up here all of a sudden i'm trying to make these videos and i've got no chops so i start thinking okay this is a great chance for me to reinvent my playing because i'm essentially starting from scratch i don't have any old habits to fall into i had my biato book i went back and i started looking at ideas that i had in there and learning things that i used to play back in you know 1988 some of the ideas that i that i play are things that i started developing back then probably the most important thing that made me start working on my guitar playing is my instagram channel where i go every day and i do an improvisation first thing in the morning or i do a thing called quick lessons where i just present a concept maybe something that i'm just working on that day when i'm practicing in the morning and i teach a little 30 second lesson if you don't follow me on instagram it's at rickbiota1 and here's an example of one of my instagram videos [Music] these instagram videos have actually taken my guitar playing beyond where it was when i was in my 20s which is really pretty incredible because typically most people's playing stagnates when they hit about 30 or so i mean that's not everybody but it tends to happen because people stop working on new ideas and incorporating them into your playing mainly because it's hard to find the time to practice one of the latest things that i've been working on really is holding the guitar like this because it allows me to play fourth intervals really easily right if i'm playing here this b flat to f it's funny the change in my playing holding the guitar like this really happened not so i could play fourth intervals easier but it was so the guitar would fit in the frame on instagram if it's up like this it's easier to fit in a square frame right and without the guitar headstock going out of the going out of the video then i realized wait a minute it's actually way easier to play like that now let me teach you a couple of the ideas that i've been working on from instagram this first idea is from my instagram channel yesterday where i talk about playing over an e7 altered chord meaning e7 sharp five sharp nine let's check it out quick lesson on altered chords let's say e altered instead of using stock third base sounds like that or even that use some triads and suspensions right from the scale [Music] [Applause] now let me talk more in depth about what i'm doing here so i have the e and the bass and i explain how you can play triads that's a c triad to a b flat triad both of those are in this e altered in that scale both those triads then i play this c sus to c major and then b flat lydian the b flat major all those triads are in there the c sus4 triad the b flat lydian if you have my beato book you know these things and then i end on this chord which would be an f sus2 over e which i think is really beautiful so those aren't your typical third based voicings like this e7 sharp 9 that are just very stock i mean you can play voicings like this that are a little bit hipper but there's still pretty stock voicings that people have been playing for 40 years or so so i like to try and i like to go for those kind of sounds because they just sound more modern to my ears well i start the first idea i start out with uh i'm just playing these notes of the e altered scale on the sharp nine to the third to the sharp five to the flat seven but i play this pattern and then i move into here up to this flat nine and i play that would be this really a cool sun and then i drop back one scale step and play the same shape but using the notes one step down each scale note one step down so this would be would be from a b flat lydian triad b flat lydian major but i'm thinking so when i put those two ideas together really cool and then i play uh something like uh all from e-alter but this shape is he altered in that position then i just shift back here i kind of slide back i'm leaving out some notes in some of the ideas i'm doing just because it sounds more interesting and it's more intervallic then i go into this c add9 so that is just you've seen me play these kind of things before that's all still in that e alter it's actually b flat adnan would work too so i just incorporated c major add9 with a string skipping b flat major add9 with a string skipping and then this back into that the tab for this improv is in my instagram youtube transcription bundle that is on my website or you can get it as part of the biato book instagram transcription bundle here's another one of my quick lessons that i did recently where i talk about using flat nine intervals in your playing check it out quick lesson try to use some unexpected intervals to make your lines more interesting let's say i have c minor right there d e flat flat nine you're not used to hearing that like that once again the transcription for that is in my instagram youtube transcription bundle it's on my website but the idea with this is to use a flat knight interval within the scale not the flat nine of the chord c minor it's not the note d flat but it's a note d to e-flat so the second of the scale and the third on the scale and i start out with a like a blues line with this uh spread trout i think i got you could go and then i go into this flat 9 sequence it goes like this now the flat 9 is not directly going from that to there i have but your ear here's that d there and here's that e flat then i do the same sequence up a fifth right then i do first pattern again do a similar sequence it's not exactly the same as that you always have to change things up a little bit and then i play which is the same same as that one so you've got this interval from a to b flat there that flat nine and that just sounds great over the c minor drone right i did a little different then i come down use these suspended arpeggios which i love like that that's all for now please subscribe here to my everything music youtube channel if you're interested in the biato book go to my website at www.rickbeater.com the new biato book 4.0 is out check it out check out the new biato ear training program if you go to beautifuleartraining.com watch the introduction video if you want to support the channel even more think about becoming a member of the biato club thank you so much for watching [Music] you

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Length: 14min 42sec (882 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 17 2020