3 Things To Get Right For Great Guitar Technique 

Ok, I'll have a look

Glad it was helpful!🙂

Interesting! I never checked that out 🙂

Name of that exercise book please sir ?

@@EastmanD just Google Metheny exercise book, you will find it

Great! They are really nice 👍

I have a way to do that on my PC which is fine, I was talking about a phone app 🙂

Great to hear 🙂

Glad I could help

Makes my day that they are useful for you!

@JensLarsen I play worship guitar and I try to use things I learn from u to enhance my playing. Especially 7th chords and playing over chords and chord changes. I really appreciate ur videos 🤘🤘🤘🤘💯💯💯

Great ideas!

Thanks, and thanks for your great ideas! At the moment I really like checking out warm up exercises and material intended for sax. Doing any of the warm ups from this video from Chad LB but on guitar with legato is a nice technical challenge: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hOQL9grV7Lw.htmlsi=UpWaXijq_pjk66n6@@JensLarsen

Glad you like it!

Glad you like the video!

Thank you Tom!

Thanks James!

Glad you liked it!

Thanks Christian🤗

Did you miss these: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3SupjtzAUVA.html

Thank you Jens

@@chrissguitarshow206 glad you like them!

I made this which is the story of why I don't use an amp: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZiXE4SDMz50.html but I think I only made Patreon stuff about my Fractal patches.

@@JensLarsen takk for svar og takk for den bra og lærerike kanalen 👍

I am playing open strings with different kinds of picking 🙂

Moeller stroke- unless there's a multiple bounce stroke technique using the teeth that I need to learn...😁

@gapted moellar (thanks for clarifying, it was taught to me so ive never read it.) Afaik it isn't for multiple bounces so much as coordinating your whole arm for a single stroke, so for instance, introducing a downstroke from a string change, getting the next upstroke from forearm rotation, rotating back for the third (down)stroke, and then (economy picking) changing strings from the wrist or forearm. The weird short of me looking like an angel is an example of this and can be done ascending and descending

I do that sometimes too. Another thing I do is visualise something without the guitar in my hands - then pick it up and play it to see if my thoughts translate to something that works. 🙂

@@kevindonnelly761 yep when it's something new I look, listen and mentally tag it. But once it's in that next phase it helps to take one of the senses away.

Put the instruments down and CLAP the Rhythm. Do it S L O W L Y. If you can't clap a rhythm, you won't be able to play it on an instrument. I've seen guys go out and buy new guitars, amps, pedals - you name it - because they didn't know how to play something. Buying a flash car won't make you a better driver. 'Wide appeal' is shooting yourself in the foot. It means 'everyone likes it because it means they don't have to work.' You can have a hundred Gibson Les Pauls but still not know how to play in time. Many drummers are just as guilty. Get a metronome to help you. If you and other instrument players don't know what beat you are on or bar you are in, then none of you will know where anything is. How do you play together ? It's like turning up to work at lunch time and telling the boss: I base my daily time table on a feeling. I just feel it ! I don't need to use the clock like everyone else. I do what suits me. Playing in a band requires a lot of discipline re timing - more than many other pursuits. I am very much a PRO READER too. If I can't read something, then I can't play it ( I can - but reading nails it) - especially Rhythm. I ABSOLUTELY DETEST TAB ! It is the greatest impediment to most guitar owners. No other instruments use tab. Most other instruments are better taught too - largely because of that. NOTATION IS EASIER TO READ AND INFINITELY MORE USEFUL. Mostly, Bars are divided into: 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & If you can clap simple examples of eighth note rhythms (notes and rests), you will be years ahead of most guitar 'owners' I know. This stuff is so easy - but everyone is scared of it. Doing it takes much less time than avoiding it. This is about as close as you'll get to a 'shortcut' - but so many choose not to use it. A lot of people think rhythm is: you 'do' a beat, then another beat, then one after that and repeat. Many people think Music is easy because it may look easy. THERE ARE NO SHORTCUTS. My mother used to say: 'The easiest way is ALWAYS the hardest way.' If you don't put necessary effort into playing, no one will put any effort into listening to you. That includes band mates. In my local area (outside Melbourne Australia) I know HUNDREDS of guitar 'owners' who think they don't need to read or use Berklee Theory. Most of them have 'played' for thirty to forty years - and they ALL play the same things the same way. It's boring. There cannot be any musical satisfaction to be had at all - social satisfaction maybe - but Musical ? They play in bars and rely on the audience being drunk - so they can 'pretend' they like the band. The guitar 'owners' say they have thirty years experience. They don't have thirty years experience. They have six months experience sixty times over. There are no shortcuts. Ironically, they tell me they love the ways I play. They tell me: 'it's quality, exemplary, really good, I've been to gigs all over Melbourne and I've never seen or heard anyone play like you, I videoed you on my phone and I'm gonna pinch your licks - and so on.' I find that entertaining because I'm so used to my own playing I find it a bit droll. When people ask me how I play so well and sound so original, I tell them what I have written in this comment - AND NONE OF THEM WANT TO KNOW !! Why ask ? Everybody wants to go to Heaven but nobody wants to die ! I've played for fifty two years and taught for twenty five. I have a BA(Mus) Degree and a DipEd(Mus). Today I taught a two hour lesson to a great Muso I know. We covered: Fretboard theory and Chord Spelling. At the end of the two hours (don't forget ! It was only two hours ! That's not long), he said he learnt more about playing than he has in the last twenty five years. Over 90% of guitar owners spend six months learning excuses to repeat for the rest of their lives. That's using six months of your life to waste thirty years. Today in my two hour lesson, I taught someone to play every Major and minor Triad in every inversion in every Key. IN TWO HOURS !! I also taught how to apply this knowledge to use in Comping ('Rhythm' playing), soloing, composition, riff / lick creation, et cetera INSTANTLY. Admittedly he had a modest theory background - but all up, two hours is a lot less than six months or thirty years. I'll give him another month and he'll be scaring the life out of guitar 'owners' in his local area. Again, two hours or one month is a lot less time than six months or thirty years. Please believe that I'm writing this reply in good intention. I don't mean it to be personal. I know what works and what doesn't. I wish every guitar student in the World could read this. I hope you find what you're looking for but I can give you a 24 Carat Solid Gold Guarantee of where not to look. Best wishes and good Karma to you. 💚✌☯

That is my Fractal Audio FM3 🙂

@@JensLarsen Thankyou for the information!

If it worked for Coltrane and Wayne Shorter then it seems at least worth trying 🙂

I don’t think that. They were always players. Playing in groups. Just listen. I would not recommend anyone invest years of practicing scales. Play me a song. Listen to Pass or Wes or Martino. Be a player, be a musician not a technician. I know guitar players that practice 3 octave scales , if the guitar allows, and still can’t play Autumn Leaves. Well I guess that’s why there is RU-vid. I discourage my students from using RU-vid. It has nothing to do with developing and ear. Or buy the Beato book on ear training. What, read a book to develop an ear. My students tell me about sites. So that how I got here. Keep on doing what you’re doing. I know it must be hard work. But there is always alternative ways and methods. We will agree to disagree. Just play. Sooner or later time will have to be invested. 8,10,12 hours a days, for years, but play music. And don’t copy guitar players. Copy horn players: Bird, Criss, Getz, Stitt, Rollins, Woods. Much luck to you in your future endeavors. The Beat Goes On.

@@tomhynes2908 Nobody is saying not to learn or play songs. There are Joe Pass and Pat Marino videos where they talk about what scales to learn.

This is true. How do you play like Joe. Get his records. Joe never talked about scales with me. This may be off the subject but the only guitar player he ever mentioned was Wes. I’m trying not to be a polemic but just listen to the Rich Severson video with all the guitar players recorded last week at some guitar camp. This is the state of jazz guitar. It’s sad. And don’t get me going on IPads and fake books. Omg. Maybe I’m wrong and this may be a sensitivity. My college professor wanted us to practice scales 3 hours a day. You’ve got to be kidding. This wasn’t going to happen with me. I was already a professional. My prime goal as a child was to play music and by doing that I got better. Guitar players need to get out of their bedrooms and play.

It's an old Korg metronome

You can write that out with pencil on paper then clap / mute any beats / rhythms you want.

Yes, several. I use Pro Metronome which does that.