On this 19 minute video I must have spent over an hour and a half studying it. The experience was pure joy. I need to view it again. I love the way he explained this. Scale Degrees is the way to go in my opinion. And his "FretMonster" is great for this. What was confusing for a second was, at 10:15, David talked about the G Chord but was still showing the Scale Degree for the C Chord. But I realized where the 1-3-5 for the G Chord were, so I understood. What I've seen out of most all guitar teachers on the web is that they teach what notes to hit for a Bridge for a certain song. You have to use rote memory, going over and over the notes played in order to remember them. You aren't taught the "why" of why you're hitting these notes. So if you want to learn another song, you have to go through the same laborious process. David here appears to teach the "why", so I'm going to dig deeper in his teaching to see if this is the case. The only teacher I've ever found who explains the "why" is the guy who wrote the booklet "Planetalk". And David here in this video appears to do a similar thing, but comes from a different angle which I'm finding helpful so far. I also just found a fella named Brian Kelly, and he appears to take it from yet a different angle, but I'll have to see. Anyway, I think David has what I need. I'm going to Patreon to support him and learn more. I guess I'd better go there since I can't for the life of me find the pdf for this lesson on his website. Ha ha!
David, this is such a GREAT lesson to accompany your last walkup and walkdown lesson! Your FRETMONSTER tool is amazing and I have been sharing the link with my friends and encouraging them to subscribe to your page (many have). Thanks for the amazing content!
David, I am a middle aged (57) y/o beginner. Kind of a new hobby undertaken later in life. Wish I would have started earlier. I have run across quite a few of your lessons, and they are always fantastic material, and well put together. This lesson was no different, but almost created the epiphany moment for me. I am started to get this thing they call acoustic guitar. The only thing I would suggest is getting a sizeable towel, or brown wrapping paper and cover up that Terrapin in the back ground. It is distracting. :) Thanks for the great lesson!
I'm learning a 3 string Cigar Box Guitar, so does it mean that I can use your chart which will tell me what notes I can play as a walk down. I know I don't have your chord shapes, but, if a song is predominantly using D chords, or C chords, or G chords, (the Key), does that mean I can use the predominant root note on your chart for a walk down, or perhaps a walk up. Not probably explaining myself here?
i may have missed it over the first video and this one, but what is the method for walking between, say, the 4 and 5 in a scale? In C this would be G and F but I can't make it sound right.
I've been trying to learn just over a year and it still confuses the heck out of me when someone says "Here's a song in the key of..." before proceeding to list all the other notes. Sorry, Dave, it's obviously me not you.
