10 Things To Improve Your Playing 

Jeff and Tim Pierce, world class guitarists🙏🏼

Not only an incredible guitarist but also an incredible teacher that keeps on giving! Thanks Jeff🤘🎸🤘

Thanks for sharing your knowledge! This is a superb list which all musicians should take to heart

One more thing ,a dive into 9ths 11ths and 13s would be super helpful to me

Jeff, such an amazing teacher. Thanks for all you do.

That’s gold, Jeff! Gold!

Excellent advice as always, Jeff!

Great advice Jeff from a beginner to advanced shredder ! Thank you, & Keep a Rockin.

What a fantastic video have a wonderful weekend jeff also happy first weekend of summer ❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊😊

I think I have about 90 percent of Jeff’s courses they’re really great .

Hi Jeff, Great video, thank you. Gives a sort of road map for learning which we all appreciate. Could you do a video on how to go about learning songs? Maybe a course on it incl some open mic night staples to work on?

Thanks a lot for Fantastic video.

Great advice, really honest . It all takes time and investment in the instrument.

To your point of learning the note names forwards AND backwards, it messed me up going back until i realized the word BAGFED C was the reverse order. It helped me to always know where I was going up and down.

Hey Jeff! This list was wonderful honselty. Especially the last part talking about practice things and making it musical. It's the main reason we learn, to make music. To be able to communicate with other artists and hopefully have our own voice. And practicing scales and arpeggios up and down just make you sound like...your practicing, like it's an exercise. Music is not an exercise. It's meant to bring joy and express yourself in many many ways. Beautiful stuff Jeff.

I liked and subscribed because you asked me so nicely. Also, I like your Truefire courses!

The easiest way to memorize the fretboard, that I discovered by chance was . . . taking the basic cowboy chord shapes (F, D, A, E, etc) and realizing that the root note of F is on the 1st string and the 4th string, so the same shape slid two frets up is G, two more frets up is A, two more frets up is B, one more fret up is C . . . !! Now I can see the notes on the 1st (high E) and 4th (D) strings! The notes on the 3rd (G) string are also easy . . . just realize that the root of the A-shape chord is on that string . . . so the A shape slid up to the 4th fret is B, slid up to the 5th fret is C, up to the 7th fret is D . . . and so on! For the notes on the 2nd (B) string, just use the D-shape little triangle chord. Now you have a guide for the B-string notes. Worked for me anyway.

Even though I'm not much of a guitar player, one of the best things I did when getting back into it a few years ago was struggling through the changes of a handful of jazz standards, including Autumn Leaves. Learning those basic 7th chord voicings (5th and 6th string root) has been so helpful to me for learning the notes on the fretboard, and understanding the intervals that make up those chords.

really upping your video editing game here Jeff ;)

cheers Jeff.....yep...i go with you on those TWO things........creativity 1st...and then keep the "inspiration" up and work your butt off to get to the next level....sort of "out of ones comofort zone".....cheers and thx....enjoy your weekend....and next some time i'll watch your pink floyd upload from recently....

Love this. Definitely great advice. One of the biggest things that really helped me advance my playing was playing with a backing track, ultimately with no tablature and no matching guitar track. This is the ultimate end goal when you play live in a band. You have to play in rhythm, know the music by heart and play it correctly, and be able to improvise to the track. Your courses on TrueFire really helped me with that.

you spoke a bit about knowing what your right hand is doing. I have been fortunate that I have been able to do that and not worry about it while I struggle with my left. LOL. But just watching this video it is amazing how little effort or movement there seems to be coming from your right hand while the music is incredible.

Aloha Sensei Jeff! A day late is better than no show in this case. Mahalo Nui Loa. I need to find the time to really put your teachings to practice. Thanks again

Great teaching. I learned that I’m not really an intermediate player after all, I have work to do.

you have a great tone.

I'm in total agreement with your opinion about knowing music theory. I'm no expert, but I do enjoy knowing some theory. I understand Paul McCartney and Wes Montgomery couldn't read music or understand theory, but last time I checked, I wasn't either one of those gents. It's like saying "Gee, I'd love to be a great artist, but I don't really want to study drawing, color theory or composition."

What guitar player worth their salt isn't subscribed to this channel 😮another great lesson tyvm

Thanks for a great video! For a guy pushing 70 (me!), I'm trying to work less and enjoy playing more, but for some reason, your presentation does make all this exploration a lot of fun. As an adjunct to your point #10, one thing I find to be helpful - as well as truly frustrating - is to sit back and listen to a line (or a set of chord changes) in your head, then try to reproduce it on the guitar. I find this to be a particularly difficult thing to do. I just subscribed.😁

Beautiful Amps Jeff.Is this your dream Strat cause it sounds phenomenal.

When I started playing back in the 80s one of the first things I did was draw out the fingerboard and label the notes on every string. After I’d been playing for a year or so I approached an accomplished guitarist at the local music store and asked if he gave lessons. He said “no” at first, then something like “play a D note on the A string,” which I did without hesitation. He said if I hadn’t answered correctly he wouldn’t have agreed to teach me!

OMG! CCR.Exactly what I would suggest. Especially for simple, locked in rhythm, you can't beat it.

World's most dangerous guitarist.

11 - Play EVERY day. Excellent list.

Exactly man. My favorite is Hendrix and for some reason ppl get the stupid notion that he didn’t know theory. Yea, he may not have been as versed as Pat Metheney or someone like that but c’mon.. you don’t get that good without knowing the theory behind some things

Explore, create, learn, have fun. All at once.

Playing covers is my weakness. Improv and jamming is where I shine.

lol NBC Peacock. "The More You Know"

I cannot find any flash card options out there to learn the chord notes (the whole ACE thing Jeff was mentioning) - does anyone know of any?

Most of the people I've known who take the "I don't want to know anything about how music works, so don't try to teach me any of it or try to show me anything about it because I don't want to learn it because I'll lose all my soul and I won't have any feeling if I know what I'm doing" attitude are the same ones who will stubbornly insist on playing things that don't work or sound horrible, and then authoritatively state in no uncertain terms: "well, that's just the way I play it." These are usually the same ones who either play so softly so as not to be heard at all, or they're hitting hard enough to break all of the strings or tear the neck off of the guitar.

What if you want to learn the notes on one string and you are the type that you have to memorize all the natural and sharps and flat on that one string? I am a very beginner and as long as I have been trying to learn things are just not clicking!!!

Thanks. Good advice. I’ve been playing for about thirty years, practice a lot, but still only a mediocre guitarist. Not a bad entertainer though. Anyway, I liked your video.

How do you drill the notes on the neck? Any tips? Anyone?

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Some I do well; some not so well. Great reminders - thank you, Jeff! (Rule 11: don't be Bluto?)

Jeff I have an answer to your tricky question about when does knowing less make you better at something. "Talking shit" my man! the less I know about a subject the greater I am talking shit about things. This answer is a prime example. I have no idea what I am talking about, so I have confidence to express a load of crap pretending I know how to answer the question. Paradoxical I know, but then is it really? I know absolutely nothing about talking paradoxically and yet here I am spouting shit about it as if I do! I have no idea if I proved my point or disproved it and that's about the only honest thing I can say about it.... I like guitar theory by the way, I think it's exciting as there is always more to learn, it's a fallacy to believe it is dull and boring. It just highlights a lack of understanding, which can be remedied by study.... kinda simple really. and simple I know a huge amount about!

This was great, but did I miss number 8?

I would have loved to hear that John Cleese impersonation 😂

I scored pretty high on that list. Ur sure I have to know where ALL of the notes are on the neck tho?!

Why, do people play a really slow tempo when demanstraiting melodic playing? I am not a sherdder, but you can meldicly at any tempo. I don't understand , why so slow?

He’s got the worst student…..Me! I own tons of his DVDs, plus two of his “Teachable” lessons (including the current “Melodic Soloing” one he mentioned here. But I’m a miserable student.

Only one 'number 9'?!? 😢😂😂😂😂

Thanks for bringing attention to the ridiculous notion that knowledge stifles creativity..! I think that notion was started by a lazy person..🙏🏻

Are you sure just buying a new guitar or amp won’t do the trick?

What if your 54 and your memorization skills suck?