I thought your lessons couldn't get any better. But you've taken the channel and site to a whole new level. I can't imagine how much blood, sweat and tears this would take. Great work! Champion!!
I just have to say that your new lessons are absolutely fenomenal. I recently found myself stuck in my playing, doing the same boring stuff over and over. Just as I was about to take a break from the guitar these videos came out and inspired me to keep pushing. With that said, thank you so much for your time and effort 🙏
Thanks again to the by far best and most inspiring guitar teacher on the internet. With your help really everybody can learn to play guitar to enjoy music with singing and playing actively. And the basics (and these are the really important things if you are going to learn an instrument...) are for free!!! Thank you so much for everything, and keep up your really great work.
Thanks Justin, just restarted my guitar journey again at 63 thanks to you. Cannot recommend your lessons highly enough, coupled with your App brilliant stuff 👍
There's so much to learn and these are things that can be absorbed while we're still at a very basic level.. there's no need to wait until you become much better to incorporate these little tricks into your playing arsenal!! Tks for sharing all this knowledge!! You're great, Justin!
Love your app and how you have continued to develop it. Being somewhere between beginner and intermediate (picked up the guitar again after 20 years) there are some really good stuff there and it gives me sort of a lesson plan. Been a great thing to use to forget covid for a bit every day. Keep up the good work!
Sort-of totally off-topic. But I've really been loving. Hey Justin maybe you could teach people good stuff to play in the bebebe tuning. Really fun with the octaves and drone notes
Finally Justin you got the dollar heart donation thing. But you need a step between 10 and 50. Now it's going to take me forever to give you another $10 I have to wait for the first 1 to process. I've never given you money until now
I started doing that hammer on and hammer off with the low E string and B string , with the D chord.. and go into the C add 9 chord. ... Sounds good to me...
These embellishments are great! I struggle with baring the b and e strings. My finger just won’t cooperate. 🤷🏼♀️🙄. Thanks for great lessons you provide !!!
Great lesson. You explain everything so well. Especially about what you hear and feel within what you are playing. Quick question what was the c bluesy type chord. Sounds very similar to what Wilko Johnson might play
I love the instructions. Mostly the part about not caring about the theory so much. I've been playing for 50 years and sometimes I still go back to the earliest songs I ever wrote. It was back in the day when I knew zilch about theory and would just make chord deviations and hear how they sounded. I've since gone back to figure out what I was doing and I will be mystified as to how I knew to to that. Now I realize, it doesn't matter! If you pick it and it sounds the way you want it to, go for it! I've had very limited instruction but honestly, one of the worst tips I ever got was, "Always know EXACTLY what you're doing and why." This came from a guy who was an amazing jazz player. Looking back, I think that stifled my creativity. My more interesting songs were the ones where I had no idea! I'm going to watch more of your videos and also get my daughter to try some!
Really glad I came across you and your video instruction. Opens things up for me and I've been wanting to expand my style. The way that you instruct and explain techniques leaves all kinds of things for me to experiment with so that I can find my own way, rather than someone saying "Do this, that way's wrong" you demonstrate and then leave it to the watcher/listener to make their own decisions. And every video of yours that I watch i learn something. Perhaps a chord progression or something theoretical that I never thought of before. Kind of helps me to look at guitar from different angles and perspectives.. Thanks so much, this stuff is GREAT!!
Just wanted to say a big thank you Justin, I've been messing around with guitars for far too many years and getting nowhere, but having recently found you on utube your infectious style of playing has made me focus, I will be watching ech video and not moving on til I have mastered the content.
These chord explorations are fantastic. I’m curious a few videos where you are going over things you talk about maximizing your hand position, so you trade out your pinky say for another finger, curious if you’d create an explanation for it. I find myself trapped when trying to play certain things and I’m thinking this is my problem. I figure if anyone can explain. It you’re the one who’d make it make sense to me and loads of others I’m sure.
Hi Justin. Noob question: What scale are you playing under that C chord? I love your lessons and approach to it for beginners like me. I've been trying to wrap my head around melody lines in chords and your recent lessons are bang on timed perfectly for me. Thank you!
I've always thought of all the basic chord shapes, that good-old "C" chord is the most "natural" when it comes to your finger shapes. For example, without a guitar in your hands, just swing your left-hand up in front of your eyes (in at totally relaxed way) until your palm is facing your eyes. ... Notice the "drape" of your left-hand fingers. They quite naturally form a "C-chord shape" (ignoring that pesky little finger). Just slip a guitar neck in there and voilà!... You are fingering a basic C-Chord.😇
"Natural" 🥲 I'll let you know as a beginner I'm struggling more with the C chord than the F chord. Curse my fat fingers. Putting that ring finger down without muting something is stupid hard for me.
I don't understand the caged 'system'. Isn't the 'D' just a 'C' moved up a whole tone? Other than open strings, what's the difference between what you're showing here and the D chord?
you use 5 shapes that resemble the open chords. Just remember that the open strings are the nut shifting up. A lot to explain in this tine box; go to www.justinguitar.com/guitar-lessons/the-caged-system-introduction-tb-031 | LievenDV | JustinGuitar Official Assistant for more info!
