I've been playing guitar for more than 20 years and I have to say this young lady gave the best tips for a beginner ever! Straight to the point, clean and easy. Great videos, keep rocking! =)
As someone who’s taken many guitar lessons over the past 40 years, the advice for beginners in this video NAILED IT better than it had ever been presented to me, and I’ve had a few famous teachers.
I also noticed she doesn't say "easy" when talking about basics you need to learn. It's small but a nice gesture because some of this basic stuff can be hard for real beginners.
You can play major or the minor of power chords .power 5ths heavy metal. Say in key of E. CAN PLAY MINOR AND MAJOR KEY OF E. Because power chords are not major or minor. A big help also is play licks mix a few licks together and chase chords. Play the notes in each chord. Lilke full barr G play them notes in licks over g.. When the progression changes like say next is A play the notes in that chord of A. Just use licks in them chord notes. Called chord chasing. Works great as as long as the changes arent too fast. But i preffer it over playing scales. Scales sound planned with no emotions or feelings.
Learned more about guitar playing in half-an-hour watching a few of Ayla's excellent videos than I have in 30 years of struggling to play. Best teacher EVER!
You are an excellent communicator. I started playing guitar when I was 15. I’m 52 now. I can play a decent rhythm and take a lead, but felt like I hit a roadblock a long, long time ago. Your videos inspire me to practice and improve. You are the best guitar teacher I ever had. Thank you.
Me too, I started to play long before the internet was around, it was learning from books, listening to records and lucky if you lived somewhere that there was access to a guitar teacher, I wish I had been able to see this video back then, it would have moved me forward in light years.
3:35 Okay now I'm never forgetting this scale ever 😂😂. Also besides that, this has to be one of the most informative yet simple beginner guitar videos I've ever watched and having Ayla's warm energy is a plus.
Yes, you can learn what she's teaching from the get-go... I started during the surf guitar era by watcing guitarists in bands and trying to copy their playing. Essentially, they were doing what she, Ayla, 17??? Is teaching and exploring ways to make those easy scales, "their ideas and sound". You just have to practice and have fun.....
@@angeshbasnet1320 I think it's okay to have an idea even if you don't want to get into it fully yet, just watching the video, hearing the terms ..etc. That's what I do. But learning chords first, can't go wrong. Since you just got it (well 2 months too late to this reply sorry😂) I'd say just have fun for now. You can make your own pace. It's up to you :)
I really like how calm you are and the fact that you take your time showing everything. So many teachers on here start off slow then all of a sudden take off leaving you wondering “what did he just do? What? Wait, let me rewind.” I like your style, thank you!
Thank you, you are very gentle. I feel comfortable sharing your video with my granddaughter. I just bought her a guitar she is learning. God Bless You.
Ayla is such a great human being. I've been watching her since the first guitar covers, then Calpurnia, then Ludic and now she's on her solo career and I wish the best of luck for her in the music scene. But she's a natural teacher, I hope she never stops enlightening us! ❤
I just wanted to thank you for this video. I am 66, took up guitar again after 40 years. I have most of the basics down but never really learned the pentatonic scales. After watching this and how easy you explained it, I am getting better every day and have started to play lead . Thank you.
Start with Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. Write it out . Play it and name the notes. Write a C scale. Play it and name the notes. Move up the neck . Play your scale and song in a different position. Once you learn it,..write out Mary Had a Little Lamb. Learn it. Write a C scale on staff paper in a random order. Play it and name the notes. This will force you to look at the page and not the neck or pick or string. Write out chords and arpeggios. Play them and name the notes. At first its difficult but we learn it. And we remember it. Then do it in key of G and F,..D and Bb,..ect.
Star Spangled Banner for me by ear, "Hendrix" style.. I'm still a novice & can't read a single note. Listen to what sounds right, cool & blends well. Still don't know theory but know a couple scales, power chords, hybrid chords, bends, pinch hormonics...
Every other instrument is a requirement to learn the notes. Guitar should be no different. Tabs are okay... especially when they are accurate and for learning complex things quickly But as far as music theory and becoming a real guitar player...you're gonna want to learn the note names. It will do wonders for you when it all starts clicking and you're starting to understand intervals and inversions and all that goodness. Learn em. There is some really clever tricks that exist in video format to help. It might seem daunting at first, but it's all patterns and gets easier the further you go.
@@sergedenovo2389 staff paper is a sheet of paper with lines so you can write out your own music. we used to have to buy it but now you can print off of computer. hope that helps !
I've 'owned' a guitar since I was a child...now in my 60's...always played chords...recently learned my Am pentatonic...and play along with backing tracks...whole new world opened up. Never thought I could play lead. That's what guitar is...learn...plateau...learn...plateau. Great video...thanks
I stopped having formal electric guitar lessons back in 1996 and had just got to learning the A minor pentatonic scale and trying to improvise over a 12 bar blues progression. I wasn't very good at improv. Since youtube I have just learnt songs I like by wrote from many various amazing online guitar teachers. I wish I could have learnt to be more creative in my playing and I can now see how the standard scale shapes can help big time. Better late than never- these 4 tips will get me deeper into my guitar journey and unlock my creativity. One can only hope...☮💙🎸🎶
Wow this girl is a great teacher. Most of the guitar teachers on RU-vid make everything too complicated. She explained everything so clearly and gave me some more ideas for my playing too. This is the way to teach!
I just love how she anticipates questions that beginners have concerning different skills and takes the time to explain “in plain words” what’s needed. So articulate and incredibly helpful to me. Thank you for your work! I learned something today that no one has ever taught me about 3rds, 5ths, etc., intervals. Every other “teacher” just assumes you know already.
she’s my favorite teacher on youtube. she’s got such a great way of keeping me at ease and paying attention. i took a lot away from this and i feel like it’s really giving me direction and goals to work towards.
Point four is actually the most important point for me as a guitar teacher right now. Finding songs for all kinds of things I want to teach. Chords, scales, strumming patterns, what have you. Everything should be connected to actual music imo. But that is a lot of work. Also, Ayla, thanks for the tipp of saying the degrees out loud while playing a scale. That feels like a very valuable thing!
Ayla, you are so much wiser and thoughtful beyond your age! You have a unique gift in your ability to teach and communicate. Thank you so much for sharing your true appreciation and love of music. Stay well and continue to enjoy your passion!
I've been playing for over 10 years and am technically beyond these scales, but I never had the theory background. That interval exercise is a paradigm shift for me lol
I've written this before. She was an amazing musician as a 14 year old and now she's also a fantastic, humble teacher just barely in her 20s. What a mitzvah it is that she has chosen to do this for us 😊❤🎼🎵🎶🎵🎸
I'm two weeks into Justin Guitar's Beginner's course. I watched this video a few days ago and started practicing the Minor Pentatonic scale. Well, tonight I tried improving over a backing track. It was horrible. Every other note I either strummed the incorrect string or had a finger in the wrong place. HOWEVER, it was an amazing feeling! I've tried picking up the guitar 4-5 times over the years with the goal of playing the Blues. It wasn't until I watched this video, that I truly thought I could do it one day. After tonight, I KNOW I CAN!
a 10/10 from me - The way you calmly explain things, puts you leaps and bounds ahead of the pack..... I'm staggered that someone so young can be this good ....
Hi Ayla. I just wanted to say I really love your videos. I am a beginner, 3 years now. I must admit I have not been very enthused about practicing scales. My idea has been to learn a song and eventually I will know the scales. Lately I have been learning "No More Tears". The solo is in 3 parts; a pre-solo and the main solo which is in two distinct parts. The pre-solo and the last part of the main solo were easy to learn as they followed a pattern. The first part of the main solo gave me a lot of trouble as I could not perceive a pattern. Then I watched this video and realized that part of the solo was in D minor pentatonic. Once I realized that, then I could remember how the solo went, and even adlib a little as long as I stayed in that scale.
Ayla I love the fact that you don't have any "jump cuts" in your video. When you make an edit you cut to a close up or back to a wide shot. Just like the pros.
Hi Ayla: I just wanted you to know that I really enjoy your lessons and I get something new from them every time I see you in action. I am 77 years old and have always wanted to play. Maybe this is the time and watching you makes it seem so possible. I really love watching you playing Carlos Santana and others so beautifully. You are a total inspiration for me. Thank you so much and Merry Christmas. Bill Goodyear
Hi this is Allen Tyler resident England born in Germany,so many people not hiting like button, what's not to dislike, only just got acoustic guitar not so good at reading music but at the end of your video is exactly how I play by ear thank you for the time to teach others many thanks especially to taste to decoration, peace out.
I have watched her recording of Black Magic Woman when she was 15 (?) several times over the years and love at the end when she’s finished an amazing rendition and she squeals a little! The first reaction to that one I saw was a guy saying he had been playing for 20 years and was going to throw his guitar out in the street since he still wasn’t as good as she was.
I really enjoy listening to the soft spoken down-to-earth way that you present your knowledge... No pretense, just sincere and simple helps and style that gives the beginner hope, that perhaps one day, they will be able to succeed in their attempt to master skills that at first seemed to be unreachable. I have watched many teachers as they try to convey their methods but so far, you have impressed me the most. Thank you!
I really appreciate your very laid back approach to teaching guitar. Also how you are able to breakdown complicated and/or confusing musical concepts and make them much easier to understand. Thank you and keep up the good work!!
Beginning DJs want to learn to scratch first, when they really need to learn to mix beats and transition first, I feel like it's the same with guitar, a lot of beginner want to learn to shred before learning basic chords first. I am learning to play currently, I already play the piano & drums, but I can not over state how important learning the very basics of anything is the very most important part of becoming great at something. You are an amazing guitarist! Keep up the good work, please feature more basic chord videos for beginners who want to truly play all levels of guitar!
i've been a (female) guitar player for a while now, and i've watched many many video lessons, which where always held by men. when i see you, i realize what i was missing all the time. it's so refreshing to see another woman on the guitar, it motivates me much much more to become better and practice more. thank you so much :-)
Super helpful. About the most helpful beginner tips I've found that I'm not already doing. What a unique perspective/ideas. Thank you, will be subscribing 🙌
Ayla is awesome! I have finally found a channel with a mellow teacher that KNOWS what they need to teach! A real "down-to-earth" person! Thanks, Ayla! 😀
Observation from a couple of old guitarist (82 & 64) : Alya's RU-vid instructional videos are some of the very best we have viewed for beginners (& event more seasoned players). We highly recommend Ayla Tesler-Mabe videos for starting your journey to becoming a better guitarist.
I have visited so many teachers but.. honestly saying, this is one of the best lesson i've ever got.. It's just simple, well arranged and the presentation was magnificent. ..
I'm a 60 y.o. player. I just tink every now and then these days. But I learned exactly the way you said. Learning songs to start. I learned theory later. And I realized I had already absorbed a lot from singing and playing the songs I was fond of. Spot on young player...music is mostly a folk tradition...if done right!
Ayla, I have been playing and performing for 57 years. I started teaching at age 19. You are the best of all the online instructors. What you teach is exactly the way I learned. I learned from other players I liked and I used their songs as my practice regimen. The other thing I learned from someone (I cannot remember who) is interval skipping. It made the Minor Pentatonic much more interesting. I would go from the 1 to the 5 or from the 4 to the 7, etc. I also learned that playing vibrato added emotion to the most simple patterns. I then learned that I could bend from the dominant 7th to the Root. For example in Ami Pentatonic, fret 8 (G on 2nd string) and a full bend to A (the same as fretting to 10 on the 2nd string). I realize you know this. What I intend to express is learning how to bend in the normal Minor Pentatonic took my playing to the next level. In other words, interval skipping and bending within the Minor Pentatonic took my playing from boring to interesting.
Ayla, thank you so much! I am a 69 year old beginning guitar player, and this is one of the best tutorials I have watched! One request: could you please make a tutorial that goes into more detail regarding vibrato? I still have trouble with that, and I agree with you about its importance. Thanks again! I have subscribed to your channel.
as a drummer trying to learn other instruments and feeling very frustrated, I am SO thankful for this channel. She is an amazing guitar player and an even better teacher
Hello from a 66 year old beginner, I just got my first electric guitar and never thought I would hold any guitar in my hands! But here we go I started and I like to say thank you for you very friendly and helpful tips, I shall try it out tonight, but I just wish my fingers were as flexible as yours ! Many thanks again
I've seen many teachers on line trying to teach basics and can honestly say this one is absolutely the best by far...her style is simple yet comprehensive at the same time...many new players will enjoy what they're playing much sooner thanks to these lessons...keep posting more lessons please! PS: you are beautiful!
Ayla..i just have to say. For the first time since watching millions of videos on youtube over so many years, I've come across someone with so much sincerity and conviction that made me glued to your video through the whole time. Right from beginning till the end I just couldn't take my eyes and ears off of what you had to say and share. As a guitar player who's being playing music for over 25 years, i must say that you have simplified the guitar playing so much so that the beginners will remember you for the rest of thier lives after watching and learning from you. Thank you for sharing. P.S your a beautiful girl and your smile just made my day❤️
She's spot on. To these four I'd add learning triads. You can start by learning them on the three high strings using the C major triad - 1, 3, 5. * I took a music theory class in college. Because I couldn't play the piano, I did my homework by the rules. I could write music, but couldn't hear it. 45 years later, after playing guitar and banjo, I learned triads. This opened up a whole new world for me, by connecting the theory with the guitar. Using Ayla's method you'll learn the theory gradually, but you'll hear it on your own instrument. Way better than taking a disembodied course. Great video, great advice. Thanks, Ayla.
I started learning parts of songs and that helped me later. You will get better if you practice, so stay inspired. If you like rock take some classical lessons. And if you like classical take some rock. Don’t be afraid to be well rounded. It doesn’t hurt to find a fabulous teacher like Ayla. Her point about intervals is huge. I used to play too fast. It’s better to play slow, especially when beginning. Try not to be overwhelmed by all the information out there. Relax and have fun. It’s tough being a beginner but hang in there.
I've been playing guitar since 89 and I didn't get around to doing that until 99. I always played with people showing me, tablature, or sheet music, which is harder than tab but fun
I have owned a guitar for probably 45 years, but never had a teacher, but you make learning easy. I always thought a person needed to go to a top school for the arts to truely learn music, but you either have music in you, or you don't. The first time I ever had the chance to just jam out on a drum set; by the end of the day, I was playing with such speed and accuracy, that I astonished myself, and the two guys who were there playing guitars along with my drumming. They compared my drumming to the drummer for the band tool, but I don't have the energy to play drums anymore. The only drum lessons I had ever taken; were in the 6th grade, but I never forgot the basics I learned then, and I have always been able to identify my favorite genre of music, classic 1970's rock, by only hearing the first two or three notes. Like I said, "You either have the music in you, or you don't". The guitar has been a problem for me; because I have short fingers, and arthritis from working hard construction work, starting at the age of sixteen. I started doing Mason work, and with my short skinny fingers and body, (I weighed 145 lbs. soaking wet). I sometimes had to carry one 16" cinder block in each hand for eight to ten hours a day. I now have severe arthritis at 62 years old. That has not stopped me from continuing to learn to play a skinny necked guitar. Thank you for making it easy after 45 years. Your gentle spirit, and genuinely joyful smile, just help me with the whole learning process. Thank you for the shortcuts. I have improved tenfold.
I've been playing for many years, and I wish I’d had this knowledge you have shared way back then! I’m totally self taught, and it took me years to learn these things.. Excellent videos. And Jimi Hendrix was also a great influence on me too!
I started playing the guitar a year a ago and I found many different videos that have help me in my journey. One thing that was a major eye opener for me was seeing bar chord scales and how they relate to the pentatonic scales that were shown here. If you are a beginner like me, don’t shy away from bar scales just because they are hard to play - just keep trying. I still struggle moving in and out of bar chords but it is amazing to see how they relate to the whole fret board. Another thing that has help me was to use the pentatonic shape to find the key of a song. I figured out the basic chords to Daniel ( by Elton John) by just listening to the song and and moving the pentatonic shape up and down the scale. So I want thank Guitareo and many other talented guitar players for sharing their expertise on the internet - there is so much to learn!
@@natinaeltalks64.5k8 Honestly, that's such a good point! But it's important to find what inspires you to keep on playing guitar so you can enjoy it every step of the way.
Lovely warm sympathetic young Lady with a voice that came straight out of Heaven I suppose and above all , very talented and a sublime guitar teacher!! deep respect greetings love and admiration from the Netherlands Europe.
I LOVE your lessons. It's like having a friend show you the ropes in your living room..no talking down, nothing too pedantic..sharing wisdom learned from mistakes. I'm trying to learn guitar as an an old geezer. Had piano lessons as a kid, but it was straight classical...What had inspired me to want to learn was hearing my dad bash out 'In the Mood' on our old piano, making the whole house vibrate! I almost got bored out of music... hardly learned anything by ear ( learned more on harmonica that way..). Big 👍 Please keep doing what you're doing! 🙏🌞 PS. Love the green guitar! I suppose many of us have a favourite colour! Lol
Four a young woman you know a lot that took me years to understand!135 is cord 145 is Grove &236 miner 7th demenisht,pentatonic with blues notes that's a layover of a major scale! I will still watch after Cancer you would forget so much! Good clean tones like a tube screamer with a little delay😎🎸🎶👍🇱🇷
The perfect guitar for the month of Saint Patrick's Day! Why does it seem that these "kids" are often the best teachers? Ayla is a great talent as a player and as a teacher as well. Those two abilities do not always seem to go together with everyone who attempts to do both.
Oh my gosh girl T H A N K Y O U for making this so easy to comprehend! I've been playing rhythm for over a decade and have always been intimidated by the idea of playing solos. of all the people who've tried to teach me no one has come close to making it this accessible. hands down the best teacher I've ever watched.
Hey, Girlfriend! …That’s how comfortable you make me feel, it’s as though we’re already besties 😂 I’ve watched a few of your videos now and it has UNLOCKED my playing! I’ve tried to play guitar on and off for 10 years and last night it finally happened 🥲 My notes Jumped off the guitar for the first time, girl, I wish you could’ve heard it, you would’ve been So darn Proud! There are no word for the amount of gratitude I feel 🙏 a thousand times, thank you! Please keep making videos and God Bless you on your beautiful journey! I feel the Lord’s presence so strongly, you’re Certainly doing God’s work! Keep going! All the Love, Addie 🙂
I practiced the pentatonic daily for like 10 minutes a day for 5-6 days straight and it straight up clicked and made my playing way better. So sick. Thanks a ton!
I must say... you tube us full of so many guitar experts but they don't know how to teach like you. I'm playing since twenty year but you taught me a great lesson. You may not be a great guitarist but yoy a great guitar teacher . Thank you so much 🙏.
Hey thanks for the tips. I´m 67 and have been playing guitar most of my life, I´m not very good but I get by. I did not know about the drop down three frets and you can play the same pattern but it becomes major instead. I feel I should have known that lol. Supercool and thanks again gonna try it when i play and record tonight. (Hmm I´m doing a cover of the Boxer with electric guitar, bas and drums and vocal. It starts out in C major but do have an a minor in it, wonder if it will work with that chord progression too. Well guess I´ll find out.)
Such a kind and wonderful young lady. The way you teach is amazing. Very clear, informative, and you give great advice that’s actually very useful. I love learning through your videos, you’re the BEST teacher 🥰
