Eyup! I'm Ricky Comiskey, founder of Ricky's School of Rock Music School and RickysGuitar.
I've been a guitar teacher for over 30 years and I have lots of cool guitar lessons for you. I like to keep the lessons waffle and pitch free and straight to the point.
Check out my playlists as I like to build mini guitar courses that target specific aspects of learning guitar like fretboard memorization, pentatonic scales, practicing guitar, and lots of cool stuff for beginner guitar players.
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So, how do I get to join up with the live streams? I'd like to contribute to you and your efforts, Ricky. I'm assuming I can pay something to join you live like the other?
So good! Fully explained, methodical and great visuals. I'm all about patterns and shapes as they relate to intervals on the guitar. This works so well for the way I think, it's like it goes right into my brain!!!
Go and check "Ricky's Ultimate RU-vid Guitar Lesson Compilation' out. It's the perfect companion to his videos and definitely worth it. Warm greetings from Italy 👍
This is probably the most intuitive note layout I've ever seen. I learned something today and I've been playing guitar off and on for 35 years. Cheers!
Question,, you said use the Scout finger. So how about if you make a minor barre chord,, do you put on the scout finger set up everything then take off the scout finger
No for an em shaped barre chord fingers 3 and 4 (ring and pinky) land together as the scout, then the barre is applied. If it was an am shaped chord the sequence would be finger 2 (middle), shape then barre.
This video will help Music Theory For Guitar Triads (Major - minor - Augmented - diminished Triad Families) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4LtM7WCZ0uQ.html
Ricky, I've been agonizing over this shite for a long time and am finally seeing the walls come down with your videos. Thank you very much. You are like my college algebra professor who showed me shortcuts that helped me ace the course.
Hope someone can help me! I understand how Ricky got to identify the new interval when he inverted the notes, BUT.... I don't understand yet how it helps me as a player to know what that inverted interval is called. Can't I simply invert the notes and play them without going through the process of figuring that out? I'm pretty sure there is something I'm missing, because Ricky always gives us very useful information! I just don't see the application of this one. Anyone got this?
That is true, but, he is not talking about the D major scale, in this lesson he uses the C major scale. If you want to talk about the D major scale than you need to take in account the accidentals F# and C# - and with that in mind you get the same pattern as in the lesson.
Brilliant Ricky, I've been playing (badly) for 50 years. Now finally have the time and motivation to put some work into it. After stumbling on to a few on line lessons I have found you. As per the other comments you teach it so well, looking forward to increasing my ability. Yes I have ordered your book spiral bound. Thanks a million
You also have if you are on the low E .then the E is on the 7th fret below,, if on the A string then any note on the A string is on 5th low E and 7th fret on D string. Hope I explained it
Love your lessons Ricky, the PDF link was NOT the one for this lesson it ended up being Major Pentatonic rectangle. Would really like this PDF if possible.
This is one of the most enlightening lessons in pentatonic scales/shapes I've ever seen! My mind works best on shapes, and this kind if thinking is so helpful! Thank you, Ricky!
I notice a lot that your fingers “push” the the strings around all the time (like when you play your pentatonics), but when I play (total newbie of 3 mo, in high gear, acoustic), my fingers have strictly vertical movement onto and off from the board. Should I be working more toward your style for “secretive reasoning?” Your style looks “serpenty”, mine more like 2 finger typer.
4 … yrs … later 😅… why are they all A minor pentatonics, not Em, G, Am, C, Dm? That’s a little confusing. I see you aging like fine wine, Mr. C. Maybe the salt sea air? Cornish tea? I’m envious. Thanks much for all your efforts.
My message is that hacks like Ricky shows in this video can also be very handy for those with discrepancies in their fingers, as this is exactly how I play....with a slight adjustment. Due to damaged nerves in my left ring and pinky finger they very easily cramp up in certain angles, specifically the the barre chord position. So I never thought I would ever be able to learn to play. But when I turned 50 11 years ago I saw a documentary about Django Reinhardt and how he tought himself to play with 2 fingers after having severe damage to his ring and pinky due to burn injury. So I decided to give it a try and see if I could find a way to figure out how to play with my handicap as it isn't as bad as Django's was. Especially my pinky is sensitive to cramping, the ring finger a bit less but I have to try and use it as less as possible because it will start acting up when I play longer than 10 minutes like at gigs and use it too much. So as lead guitarist in my Santana tribute band I'm basically riffing away 90% of Carlos's solo's Django Reinhardt style with 2 fingers and a bit of assistance of my ring finger here and there. But for chords I found out that I actually can fret 2 strings with my ring finger namely A and D without it acting up. And I apply that to the E and Am shape method Ricky explains here and it works GREAT. Using 9- 42 and very low action helps a lot too. I know it sounds weird because many would say they could never do that but don't have trouble playing barre chords. I have no explanation other than most likely the angle in the ring finger joints and or tendons is slightly different. If necessary I can play the low E string with my thumb but with a bass player in the band hardly ever need to. Playing acoustic alone, which I seldom do, without the low E however sounds too thin so then the thumb comes in handy.
Wow! I’ve been using your videos to augment my guitar classes, since I started my journey a few short years ago. I’ve come back to videos I watched before, and continue to pick up concepts I didn’t fully understand. These videos truly are the gift that keeps on giving!
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