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Genre: Education
Date of upload: Jan 22, 2024 ^^
Rating : 4.971 (3/418 LTDR)
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Stich, thx so much for this. I have been playing for 3 years and primarily listen to blues music. I play a hour or two per day but have hit the rut. I hit the pitfall u mention of buying the blues licks books and can play them well but they don’t translate into real playing. This video helps immensely and will be checking out the blues matrix immediately. You have a real gift as a teacher and as a player. You are hands down my favorite instructor on YouTube. Thx again 👍👊
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Thanks for another nice video. I appreciate the encouragement and your reasoning. I've dabbled in and out of some different blues styles for 40 years. Been helpful, and enjoyable but I get drawn towards other types of music and don't feel I "nail" the blues consistently. I will say your video has me thinking that I should watch your blues videos and explore even more. I can definitely hear and feel the blues in my playing when I play other genres. Thanks again!
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Validation! It sounds crazy but I don't learn full songs or licks or tabs and have tried to zero in on the instrument, blues and just study, play and have fun right there. It seems to work for me. Pretty sure I can learn and play what I want to at this point and maybe sound half decent doing it. Many thanks to you for your great tutorials.
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Great information there. Music works when it creates an emotional response in a human listening to it. Play music to your dog or cat and it couldn't care less. That simple clash of the minor third against the major third creates that response in an awful lot of human brains and it's the blues players privilege to provide it.
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Myth #2 is indeed controversial. I don't see an issue with ‘studying’ lots of licks rather than learning them parrot fashion. That’s what transcribing is for. Analysing how licks get created is a fine thing to do as long as you have a firm grasp of all the underlying theory - scales, chord tones, triads, landing notes, enclosures etc.. After all, we are told (by every teacher) that we must listen to the blues as much as possible to get familiar with the vocabulary. Those 100 licks guitar videos cut out everything that isn’t immediately relevant for the task e.g. vocals and song structure.
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@KevinIlsen
3 months ago
Your takedown of Myth #2 is actually the underlying philosophy of your entire approach to guitar education — and why I personally consider your content and your approach to be the most worthwhile. So many other YouTube guitar channels teach specific licks and riffs. Memorizing hundreds if not thousands of riffs is not the way to ”make” music — it’s a way to regurgitate what you’ve memorized. It makes so much more sense to invest your time as a student in learning the “why” behind the “how.” With that approach, even if I want to “faithfully” play a cover song in a band setting, I don’t need to memorize a solo note for note; instead, by understanding where the original guitarist switched from minor pentatonic to major, or targeted a particular chord tone, or whatever, I can play my OWN solo in the style of the original, and I’ll actually end up quoting some of the original phrases because I’m playing “in the mind of . . . .”
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