This channel is dedicated to the liberation from suffering of all living beings. That is the core of my life work. The major way I aim to help folks is through connecting with their own creativity through music. Bluegrass is a wonderful vehicle for learning how music works. What one can discover artistically and technically through bluegrass provides a major foundation for exploring one's own music. Noya Mountain Music provides opportunities for folks to learn music all by-ear without any written material, tablature, or notation. This enables a student to be able to start learning how to hear music and be able to pick it out by-ear, ultimately teaching themselves what they want to learn and channeling their own creativity.
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I been teaching myself. For 3 years. Im learning disabled so I have to see someone play but I'm starting to recognize songs but I dont know I can honestly say I dont even know what all strings are even. It sucks not having name i can identify. I dont know anyone who plays anything. Wish I knew anyone who plays anything.
I’m learning mandolin and this is such a great routine. I really appreciate it! I got to where I felt I was getting better at it but after some more research I’ve found my picking approach is not correct. I’m trying to adjust to a more correct pick hold and keeping my grip loose to avoid tension. Which was happening especially doing 85 bpm downstrokes. Keeping that tempo without tensing up is a new challenge. Do you have any advice or videos related to this? Thanks a million Chris!
glad you are connecting here! that's really one of the big reasons to do this kind of work, to hack through those challenges and find ways that work on an individual basis. for me, there's just no avoiding how much physical force and intent is required to get it all to happen well at higher speeds. connecting with the element of fire motivated me to achieve higher speeds with all of this and definitely jamming with folks who could play fast that were supportive of my early stages of development. so I could try to keep up!
I began learning guitar 64 years ago when there was no tab available, no video instruction, no tapes, not even many instructional LPs. We had to listen to recorded music or swap songs with friends. That was all there was. Today, I can create tabs to share with others but I almost never look at tabs to learn a tune or technique. Tabs may tell you where to put your fingers but it can’t make your playing sound like music. If the music isn’t in your ear, it isn’t going to come out of your instrument either. The Henry method had this idea down early on.
It will work best if you learn the Nashville Number System and learn the chords by the sound in the numbers. When they write a chart listening to a Demo. They don't care the Key . They want to recognize the 1 the 6- 4 5 2-.... Often times you will not be able to tell what a guitar player is playing just by looking Capo, No Capo , How do they finger their chords. Big hands might just look like they are just laying all four fingers on the fret board. but if you learn the sound of the 1 vs 4 vs 6-... You will always know whats going on. Even chart some songs listening to them and writing 1's 4's 5's.... get where you are thinking in #'s The Chord Names can change the #'s never will. Alway's in Arabic ! Never Roman !
One of my all time faves and i really like your demo version. Matter of fact, it got me thinking I haven't listened to any of your music other than a few performances that have been posted on RU-vid.That situation will be corrected this evening. Thanks for this. This somg is on my August to-do list.
Excellent! Such a great song - glad you connected here David! There is a good bit of performance video on the channel and some music videos from recordings too - hope you find some things you like!
Ive been listening to this video everyday at work and practicing like this for a month or more. To all you beginners out there, do as much of this routine as you can for 30 days and I guarantee you will make great leaps in your musical abilities that you may not have been expecting for many months or even years. Especially do the parts that sound terrible when you attempt them. In a week or two you'll be jumping up and down celebrating your graduation from terrible to "Hey, I think my ears just stopped bleeding."
I love to know you are feeling the good growth here! Great advice to share with others - yes! try it for 30 days and I would guarantee folks will see and hear good results!! :D thanks for the comments David!
Great tips. Excellent advice. And I just want to say from experience that watching what you eat and ingest or _if_ you eat was one of the best tips in this video. We need to be able to focus and you just can't if you're totally bonked from low quality nourishment.
yay! glad you connected with this bro - it feels good in the hands doesn't it? :D thanks for sharing that! and yeah the sneaky suspicion for bonus points!
Chris, i was listening to Mike Compton's "Wood butchers Walkabout." I have a beginner ear and was wondering if it is staggered 16ths im hearing fearured throughout this song.
The sixes, man!! I started doing the sixes one day and spontaneously broke out into my first really freakin' okay tremolo! Since then I've tremoloooooed all the way to Italy and back three times.
Hey ! I’ve been working on Monroe’s Blues. I practiced it yesterday and sounds like I’m getting it. This has similar sound. Thank you Chris. You do the good and I appreciate. I’ll work on this . Hope you and family are doing well. Return to add ,I thought you were going to show how to play Right On Right On through different tunes. A lot to learn there . I’ve been noticing those arpeggios from some Kenny Baker tunes. Thanks
so glad to hear that! this does have a similar thing happening - good connection there - and you are so welcome! I appreciate your kindness and support down through the years and glad we are both still workin' on the building! Cheers! :D
Thanks Andy!! t can really help with the total flow, to do some paint by numbers device-work so to speak. I feel this one in particular feels really good in the fingers. Cheers!
Thanks for the lesson. A little out of my reach yet, but I think I've got the first two phrases. Very good exercise and a very cool device. Thanks for sharing.
What a beautiful song and important song Chris. I absolutely love it and can’t believe I hadn’t heard it before now. Everything about this song is just perfect and beautifully done. Of course the singing is beyond exceptional. But of course I especially loved Jason’s fiddle work. I love it and look forward to more of the same!’❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
People that are angry about a political song within the bluegrass space miss the context of the music in the first place. This was working man music, men that got off the line, went to church, and picked up an instrument in between. This was the music of unions, picketers, and protestors. Politics has always been here. How is this song anything other than appropriate?
I would love to hear your ideas on this applied to other instruments. ie. fiddle, guitar, banjo and talk about what you'd change from one instrument to the next.
That’s a good idea for a video! Thanks to the suggestion 😀🎶 might be mostly the same on mandolin, guitar, and fiddle (although not being an expert on bowing wouldn’t know how to negotiate that wisely) but banjo would be much different because of the roll. 🤔
