“Korey demonstrated in short time why he is considered one of the best young players on the scene.” - Blues on Stage online Review
“...Jaw dropping, absolutely stellar guitar playing.” Blue Monday Monthly
Korey is a professional guitarist with over 25 years of live experience. In that time he has played over 4000 gigs and has opened for Willie Nelson, Dwight Yoakam, Martina McBride, Tracy Byrd, REO Speedwagon, Restless Heart, Wade Bowen, Randy Rogers Band, Chris Duarte, Thompson Square, Whitey Morgan, Charlie Robison, Jason Boland, Indigenous, Willie ‘Big Eyes’ Smith, Joe Nichols, Turnpike Troubadours, Little Texas, Two Tons of Steel, Dale Watson, and many more.
Korey is the head of both the Guitar Division and the Music Theory Division at Visible Music College, and is a in-demand guitar and theory instructor at The Guitar Sanctuary in McKinney, Texas.
This is great, Korey... now, do this all over again showing your picking hand!! (jk). Although, it would be nice to know how you are getting the fluidity between strings, etc. Economy Picking? Hybrid? It looked like it was all pick? Maybe Up/down?? Nevertheless, it's wonderful how you show how each shape builds or falls into another pretty easily. Great work!!
@@Sammywhat I use economy picking pretty exclusively, which is essentially alternate picking but continuing the picking motion to the next string. There’s a lot of hybrid picking as well, especially for country and jazz
You are great player😊so less is more😊I am bedroom player😅and was buying gear like crazy😅but i stopped.Now i own boss gt 1000 and bose s1speaker,its small and great rig plus i can play outside with powerbank😊.Have a great day Sir.
I’ll do the same. I just don’t tell anyone, but I have a way of adding a hair and backing down without touching the amp once we’re done with the sound check. Keeps everyone happy. That was a great question.
Another fantastic lesson! After getting the patterns down solid, do you vary the rhythm like playing in triplets? My first goal is to get to the 15 min straight, which will be challenging enough. Thank you!
@KoreyHickGuitar Hello. Thanks for the video. Where can I find a copy of the "diagram" discussing the point / corner | lead / rhythm details for the 351? Thanks
One of the advantages of the Strat design is you can create "Loaded Pickguards" with different Pickups and Electronics which can be easily swapped out with a single solderless "Quick Connect" in the Jack location. So with one Strat, you can have the equivalent of many guitars. 😎
@@MarlonG527 there’s a difference in the mid range that is hard to explain, I think it has to do with the pickups in a Strat being mounted on the plastic pick guard and not in the body. I think that is a huge effect. Both pickups have the copper base plate, but only the tele is mounted to the actual wood.
The big tele bridge with all that extra metal and then there not being anything cut for a tremolo is the diff I always thought. Prob many reasons. This pickup does sound great. U ever heard a lollar special in Bridge of a Strat ?? I think it’s very similar to this
@@bigtsshackfestival9563 I will say this 59 Strat has the trem blocked with a piece of maple. So the trem is completely decked and doesn’t move and that does add to the sustain. And I do think that the bridge plate has a lot to do with the tele sound, but both of these pick ups have a copper bass plate under them and that helps.
This is perhaps the best explanation of modes I have ever heard. It's still not entirely intuitive, but it's getting close. Thinking of the chord as the mode rather than the scale is a big change in perspective that really helps. Note: After spending so much time memorizing cycle 4 for your other lessons, I am finding it also useful in particular with thinking Lydian and Mixolydian. So Mixolydian over C7 you could think of the next note in Cycle 4, which is F, and play F major. And Lydian over C maj7 you could think of one to the right in the circle of 5ths, which is G and play G major. I'm not sure if that makes sense, but it seems to work for me to think quickly at least for those two modes. Am I thinking about that right or is that just another way to get stuck always thinking of the parent scale rather than the mode? 🙂 Thank you for an awesome lesson on Modes!
The Advancing Guitarist is excellent. The others are just OK. Greene‘s Chord Chemistry is outdated as it shows things in grid form rather than standard notation. George Van Epp‘s Harmonic Mechanisms for guitar is much more advisable. Most books involving pick style guitar are not very good because there’s not an accepted and unified technique yet. There are scores of other excellent books in the classical and flamenco realm. Guitarists should read other music books involving other instruments, such as horn, violin, cello, and snare drum. Nicolas Slonimsky’s Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns is epic. Patterns for Jazz is also very important.
I’ve been studying these types of books my entire playing career, which includes music school, where I studied classical guitar and some jazz. There is a wealth of information out there, but the problem with guitar sometimes is that guitarists spend too much time with idiosyncratic stuff instead of studying more general stuff that applies to all instruments. Books on guitar are wonderful if they solve guitar-specific problems. But when things involve general music, there are usually far better alternatives out there. Such a general book is from the Berkeley library: McGrain‘s Music Notation: Theory and Practice, etc. It’s not just for learning how to hand, write music, which may or may not be necessary in these days and times, but just the understanding of musical notation is so important.
I learned the Segovia scales and that really helped my playing tremendously. This lesson is essential to moving ahead in anyones playing. Great lesson. I learned so much from this and can’t thank you enough!! 💯
This feels, to me, to be the site for people who wish they had a masters degree in music theory for guitar. You are a remarkable instructor Korey. I will be joining your patreon in September when I return home to the Philippines with my new guitar. for now I am concentrating on the C F Bb Eb Ab Db F# B E A D G on all strings. Currently on D string. I will share everything on a few guitar fb pages and with FF. I Love this!
I'm getting Advancing Guitarist and Effortless Mastery. I bought Chord Chemistry years ago when I was just starting out and I was quickly overwhelmed as a beginner. Now I need to go find it and look at it with a new perspective.
Me either - that’s why I ask the question 😆 I play a BlueChip TP40 or Fender 354 most days. I tried for months - I don’t have double jointed thumbs, and they barely can stand straight up and I think that flexibility is needed for this type of method.
Please, does anyone know if the Modern Method book starts easy? Meaning, can a fairly sucky, lacking fundamentals kind of guy get on board, or is it designed for players who are already decent with chords, notes, and basic scales?
Advancing Guitarist is such a deep well that I doubt I will ever get through it in my lifetime. Many of the exercises have turned my head inside out (in a good way) in terms of how I see the guitar or more broadly music. I also have effortless mastery as an audiobook and it too is filled with so many good ideas I doubt I will ever master all its concepts. I have heard of the other books and I am sure they are all well worth the money and time. Tyvm
