10 Things to Instantly Improve your Guitar Playing 

Some of your tips I already do,but standing isn't one them. Worth a look.

I would add only one topic, which is related to rhythm: tap your foot while you play as much as you can!

Practicing with a mirror is not mentioned enough! It seriously helps so much. I'm glad you mentioned that.

Fantastic I do most of that Will look into the ones I’m lacking Except documenting my practice 😤😉

These are all great tips. I've been playing for over fifty years. There are a lot of things here that I had never considered. This was time very well spent thanks.

Always keep your documentation organized. Once I mistakenly grabbed my bowl movement log book...

Excellent video, as a self taught guitarist finding tips that can help me improve is excellent. Thank you.

I think most guitarists need to put in more focus on rhythm early on than they often do. Not just being able to put a note on the beat, but also when does that note stop? What is the ratio of swing? Also the ability to play right on the beat, or on the front or back edge of that same beat. I think this is some of the most important stuff in music, but also the stuff that took me a long time to really get into.

These are great tips and you're completely correct that they aren't talked about enough nor implemented enough. I don't agree with you one instrument philosophy however. If I were to do it all over, I would have spent 25% of my practice on a different instrument, and preferably different every time. I've experienced (and seen plenty of other people) going into a gig with a different instrument because of a repair issue on my main guitar, and play way under my skill level because acclimating to a new instrument while under performance pressure is a really bad combination. I'd much rather be like Bettencourt and Vai, who can pick up almost anything with strings and play it like it's the only instrument they've ever handled. I love your content and just started playing with the rounded edge of my pick because of you. Thanks for all of this.

Fantastic advice. Thanks!

I used to tell guitar students to sleep with a metronome on all night.... even a bad guitar player that made mistakes in time was better for the band than a shedder that couldn't keep rhythm. I did this and would alternate to playing Miles Davis "Kind of Blue" album on infinite repeat while I slept. I am still not a Jazz guitarist, by any means, but that kind of immersion sinks groove and cool into your bones. LoL

The one thing you missed is for the player to ask themselves what their objectives are. Some want to play gigs, others want to record their own stuff and others want to just play for fun. Each path adds or subtracts from your list.

I noticed that you Play mostly with just 3 fingers on the finger board. By keeping your knuckles parallel with the bottom of your fingerboard will pull your little finger in a better position to use it more. Thumb is over the neck not behind but habits are hard to break.

I’m so sorry to be this guy, but I think F# dim is pretty reasonable in the key of B flat. Especially as a fully dim7, i would consider it a pretty widely used substitute (going back to Bach, even) that is only one note away from both the V7 and III7 (aka V7 of vi) and can be used as-is to imply the dominant seventh flat 9th of both the tonic and relative minor of B flat. Again, sorry to be that guy but you DID say know your theory and since you went to Berklee I’m sure you would be aware of secondary dominants, substitutions, and the mutable properties of diminished chords. Great video though, especially the tip about practicing on your feet. Fees better on the whole body to stand with a strap at the correct height. Since doing this I’ve noticed how much more tense my neck and picking shoulder are when I do sit.

Great and useful video. Q: what guitar do you play ? Thank you

By the way…How did Stevie Ray get so good?

I should of went to Berkeley right out of high school. I was already gigging full time and had to pay my way through “life”. But I kick myself in the butt for not making it happen.

This sounds great are you just recording thru an I phone ?

What to do if you can't stand. I have a prosthetic leg and standing for any length of time gets painful. I currently play on a drummers chair - always the same height - with a strap and in classical guitar position. Any thoughts?

You’re telling me my Mel Bay Guitar Method 2 book is no good! ?!?!?

Any thoughts on posture when standing, i have horrible back in the upper right side, usually dying by end of 3rd set. I think its posture related

"Instant"? 🤔