Hi! My name's Gary. My goal is to help musicians like you to develop your craft, stay inspired, and share your music. It is with that mission in mind that I began Pow Music - a music education company founded in February of 2017!
Aside from being a life-long musician and music lover, I've spent the past seven years combined, serving as the National Training Manager and then the Director of Curriculum for the awesome music ed non-profit, Little Kids Rock, and teaching general music and modern band in NYC public schools. I've had the privilege to teach and train thousands of children and adults all over the world on how to compose, improvise, and play the music they know and love. Pow Music is my medium for sharing all the things that I have learned, and that my guests have learned, with you.
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thank you so much man! the amount of details in animation below is just wow! all the arpeggios and what chords the intervals are related to, looks like it took some time to do and its really useful to figure out what he's actually doing! Thanks man!
i met John's Guitar teacher many years ago he bought my 1956 Gretsch Round up Amp. He told me he was his teacher I had never heard of John Mayer, he told me that he one time played in Helen Reddy's band I believe. He drove from NYC to Hartfod Conn. I drove from Boston and met him We did a swap plus cash for that Class A Gretsch amp the big one
this is the best way ever to learn and memorize (have tried alot but it never worked that well). this is also a more fun way. thanks for this, it will help alot!
I am in the process of improving my singing skills but for the time being I am more accurate/expressive whistling at times. Can anything wrote with whistling the melodies and then playing them on the guitar?
Sometimes i feel like im the only young person who loves blues as much as i do i really hope i meet some people who understand how it blues makes me feel
For sure! Caged is just another way to organize the same information… but caged draws the connection between chord shapes and pentatonic scales and in this lesson, I’m not talking about the cord shapes at all
POW MUSIC, The Minor Pentatonic box#1 has the albert king house of blues box, also the BB king House of blues box. The MAJOR Pentatonic box#5 (which looks just like Minor pentatonic box#1 just 3 frets shifted down ) also has two extension House of Blues Shape Boxes, which you should make a lesson lesson about them because Clapton uses them often in Cream ere and SRV used them in tin pan alley and little wing. The two extension house of blues shape boxes aren't the albert king or BB king house of blues because we are now "shifted 3 frets down" , so the albert king house of blues and BB king house of blues have been "shifted 3 frets down" which SRV used in little wing and Tin pan alley plus Clapton uses them in Cream live concerts.
Hi Gary, great transcription but would you consider making a video suited for left-handed players? And ideally shooting the live video from the player's POV so it matches the tab and fretboard animations (ie. high e string on top). I'd buy the lesson but I can't quite wrap my brain around it, even after decades of trying with these righty perspectives. Thanks.
Ditto to all the compliments below. This is GREAT for targeting those 3rds while soling over "changing' chords rather than making random passes within the pentatonic scales. THANKS so much!
Not so Pro-Tip for reading tabs... I put the video on my phone then I look at it upside down, making the notes sit exactly as they would when looking at the fretboard from where you are playing, behind it and top down.
It astounds me how many know it all’s thinks john just realized the connection of pentatonic shapes …. Everyone interprets the guitar different and builds a bag of tricks on top of the basic music structure …. He is a true humble , real person in my opinion who now loves to inspire players
Nice timing! I happen to be on quite the spree of learning acdc songs lately.. I havent gotten to this one yet, either. Fantastic stuff. Love the vocals too.
