John Mayer’s Advice for Musicians 

King?? Nah that was Hendrix.

@@Orieus Peace!! I love Hendrix too. Art and artistes are 'always' in the eyes of the beholder. That's the creative license granted to us all. It's what makes your choosing King Hendrix, over my choosing King John Mayer all perfectly fine and we're both correct. Love you to peaces!!

@@kimberlykairo I respect that , peace to you!

It's so true. Every song I write or begin to create, has to stand alone on an acoustic guitar, piano, or my uke. In fact, I am doing a ton of ideas on my acoustic for YT shorts. People really dig them and it's such a great way to showcase how a song comes into existence. My channel is new, but the whole channel is dedicated to teaching more people to become musicians. John is a smart dude and makes some great points.

so true, hes extremely talented. def one of my favourite artists ever and I think sometimes his lyrics are overlooked bc of how good the guitar is but literally everything he creates is so genius

This song is basically Stevie Wonder’s “I Just Call to Say I Love You” in the the chorus and George Michael’s “Last Christmas” in the verse. Do you agree?

@@sevchyk honestly, not at all.

@@jessebout3093 Then listen to the chorus of I Just Call and this chorus. The same chord progression, the same mood, the word “care” in the same ending position of these choruses. Can’t you hear it?

@@sevchyk I can see where you're coming from but no, I do not really hear the connection between these.

@@robotomo4249 It is a very common chord progression in the European pop music of the eighties…You may as well check Chris Norman and Suzi Quatro - Stumbling in. The same chord progression, the same mood, but I still think that I Just Call will be closer because of the word “care” in the similar closing position. When he sings “why you no will be there”, I subconsciously recall the “and I mean it from the bottom of my heart” from Wonder’s chorus. There were a lot of music like this, he just rehashed the classic hits…

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@@glo.creative hey do you get paid even if you took this video from another ?

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@@glo.creative as a graphic designer it’s really cool to draw creative wisdom from other artists. Even though he’s a musician the creative advice translates over to what I do too. Love it

Man I was totally thinking the same thing and how aggravating it is to see that and then I saw your comment.

Same, I hate that. When the interviewer is either trying to steal the show or brown nose so bad trying to make the person like them in this case he was doing both & it's so annoying

I think the guy is enjoying what JM is conveying. Notice that he continues to say what he’s saying without getting upset or asking the guy to stop interrupting because the interviewer is amused. I think you’re too critical.

What are you talking about? This is what two people talking sounds like. He was being funny. Is everyone supposed to just sit there in awe of him as if he’s a god?

Tyler, he was in awe, that's what all the pathetic giggling was about.

Liam, he’s making it up on the spot. That was the whole point of what he was talking about.

@@twosnakse ah thank you I had not understood I do not speak English.

Did you ever find it?

@@kevinescobar2361 Nah man, those lyrics hit deep tho (as an alleged ‘know it all’)

I’m not positive, but that may have been a complete freestyle.

@@JonnyKemp Wild he can do that right? Out of thin air making chord progressions and rimes.

@@vukasinbauer8268 I love it! Yes.

@@vukasinbauer8268 that’s what happens when you write hundreds of songs. Dude can probably dream any chord progression by now. Also making up chord progressions on the spot isn’t really that difficult if you know music theory (1-4-5 progression for example) and you can basically transpose that to any key. Still impressive though don’t get me wrong, especially if you factor in lyrics.

That happened a long time ago

He says, “If your not ouija boarding immediatly your wasting time”. Look up a “ouija board”, he means that in songwriting it is important to just start singing and throwing ideas out there without hesitation. To go by instinct (kinda how the ouija board works).

what ?

no

Please somebody tell me it does

It's probably improvised on the spot... he's a beast

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He says he hasnt but thats not what it seems like

@@NERDOFUNK He has done them YES times.

Greg from Camp High infamy 🍄🍄🍄 is one of his best friends. Enough said 🌠🌟🍄

I don’t think he have . Psychedelics kills your ego and makes you more humble. He doesn’t seem like that

Ikr? Or hanging out with a certain tiedyed maverick of a friend and his 🍄🍄🍄🍄

That's actually how most people write songs!

years of experience and just doing it

Literally 😂

Tf you talking about? he has 0 songs dedicated to one specific person. He’s not like Taylor Swift writing songs about specific exes where it’s obvious who it is about. He said it himself, that for example even your body is a wonderland is not about a special person but about the nostalgia of loving someone like that when he was 16. He has lots of love songs but his dating list has nothing to do with that

he's got a whole album that's not about any particular relationship and when does write love songs it's about settling down and having kids lol , update your inner Wikipedia on him 😉

Step 3... date and sleep with a child, then pretend it never happened

@@niekvanwensen Paper Doll is about Taylor (and terrible and misogynistic too)

@@Anna_Crossing it's not about her ,lmao y'all acting as if he wrote it in front of,like it's 2023 get over it

That would be true if we weren't talking about John Mayer. It's John Mayer.

Yeah cuz an attack like that on a specific person is pretty cheap, especially with that many fans supporting her who will believe anything she says (that’s actually fucking dangerous, John has had death threats… you can’t say you support that right?!). Besides, you probably haven’t heard a single song of John (next to paper doll probably, and maybe some hit like your body is a wonderland or new light), who are you to judge who can or can’t give songwriting advice? This guy has won multiple Grammys!!

@@niekvanwensen So has Taylor. also she was 19 and he was 32 when they dated. fuck John Mayer

@@Anna_Crossing that’s still no reason to cancel him and send him death threats?!!!💀 you know how often that happens when there’s a larger age gap? Get the fuck over it, it has been 13 years. Swifties are absolutely insane for her

He's a beast at songwriting though? What are you on about? Definitely one of the top active musicians. Dude comes up with crazy licks and solos like it's nothing

It was cheap songwriting, have another listen to this man’s music and you’ll find that he knows ex-fuckin-actly what he’s talking about

Not all musicians can become plumbers or electricians. They actually take skill and handy work lol

@@dylanphelan3010 🤣 There's more than a little truth there. However, unless you leap out of the womb as a famous rock star with wealthy supportive parents, becoming a good professional musician requires not only both skill and handiwork, but also dedication and sincere study, and when you've finally reached a professional level of skill and handiwork, unlike plumbing and electrical work (which require some study and only a minimal level of customer satisfaction), as a musician, you will have to beg door-to-door for work, and you'll find scant opportunity, and even less monetary reward for the time spent learning your craft. And employers will always be trying to scam you or cheat you. The other two professions I mentioned just sit by the phone and take as many orders as they can handle, set the fees and screw the customers. Do I sound cynical?

Why would he be “lucky” to have great succes? he definitely worked hard for it

That’s stupid. He’s arguably the greatest guitar player+song writer of our generation.

Loser take. Obviously these videos become non-constructive if that’s all you do and don’t actually write or practice. I’m sure luck pops up here and there for him, but “lucky” is absolutely not the term to describe his career. Not sure if you were pissed off about something else when you wrote your post, but it’s a loser take.