John Mayer | Guitar Musings with the PRS Silver Sky 

literally just gives some of the best advice I've ever heard lol...

“Look, I suck at guitar”

humble

For real great advice. Bouts' to apply it

Great Advice!!!

Quincy Bleu 😂😂😂😂😂

@@user-cm2ky4uh9y 닉네임 무엇 Lol

Sea?

Entendí esa referencia 😉

so many layers

LOL

JM: Listen to my Song. 😀

I’m a physics student... I came to the comment section looking for this😂

Physicists hate him!

Gotta ask Sigma.

5 times better?

@@PetraKann if you do it 5 times then maybe

Im not a big advice guy

That’s sound advice for most things in life; not just the guitar.

@@Sanmiguel801 yeah i dont like anything in school

Yeah, and then: "I don't know Ionian".

Ole Behnam-Esmailian he does. It’s just “cool” not to sound like a complete nerd. Never go full nerd.

appreciate for the speech machine learning

@@olebehnam-esmailian5765 "I don't know major"

@@azhaz578 hehe I know ;) it just made the whole joke more ironic for me

Citysin Angels fax

@@jake_runs_the_world yep

Same

CAGED system has seemed to be the "building block" for alot of this stuff! If you haven't, give it a look

Citysin Angels I couldn’t agree more.

Si!

Outstanding advice!

Literaly saying.. theory isent everything the craft is the outcome. Theory and playing should play hand in hand.

That’s why I take lottery ticket, because all the money comes from there anyway😎😂😂😂 trace the roots, practice the gains

Yes, identifying fundamentals. Fundamental rules and connections. School.

Yeah but it was small advice :-)

Fr i was expecting like a "try to play with feel" kind of advice and he killed

Did you? 🤣

Bahahahaha

The hard part is the beginning I remember my beginning I could barely get my thumb over the neck to play the bass string but after many many years I can do it now

*wise choiiiiiice...*

omg I audibly laughed

That's the singers syndrome. When you can sing, every other skill you have, that may or may not be better than the singing, will be overlooked. I hate that this happens to John. Most of my friends that listen to John Mayer, don't even know he can play a a guitar. All they know is that he sings on songs.

or at music actually - plays piano too. Would understand all the theory of voicing of chords. He can do all the Tony Hawk tricks. The code is strong. I'm just entering the zone of deeper awareness of the whole language and playing of guitar. It's like opening up the tap. More stuff comes out!

our how really good he is as a musician: theory, feel and voice.

He is. He's so educational on the guitar, its pissing me off sometimes haha

I sometimes think he forgets how knowledgeable he is at the guitar... when he’s writing music and putting out the stuff he does.

Iceberg lol

AHHAHAH

thanks man

What the fuck does any of this mean

@@thesystem4025 it’s mean you need to learn more about the guitar than just playing the song

and Hendrix standing on the shoulders of muddy waters

And everyone else on the shoulders of Robert Johnson

@@JaggedRecordsVa And Robert Johnson on the shoulders of the devil himself

@@ianbugayong8620 the devil himself on the shoulders of Tenacious D

Ian Bugayong so does that make us all Blues lovers the devil? 😮

Yosuto *crickets chirping*

the guitar meme lord himself

John mayer is painfully talented

it's kind of good advice for anything you are doing in life, doing anything blindly is kind of scary and limiting, Peace !

is it tho?to me he's a great guitarist and have his own distinctive sound....he's more like morello,could shred but choose not to

As a musician I used to have kinda of an ugly attitude towards John because I used to think his songs didn't sound "sincere", ya know? Like "I guess I gotta bang out 10 songs for this album, might as well do this shit" But as I got to listen more of his stuff I actually grew a lot into him and started to see the beauty in the art behind the music I MEAN, HE'S A GREAT PLAYER No one really debates that But as someone who learned to enjoy his music, I think people hate him because they don't really know him and see him as the "pretty boy with the acoustic at the party that plays to get girls" That's my opinion, at least

He can do anything on the guitar. Now he's trying to fill in for Jerry Garcia, in the current Dead touring band (and doing it excellently!). He has so many talents (sings, writes) that it's not possible to pigeon hole him. And talking about music is a foreign language vs. PLAYING.

Because, he’s a pretentious douche in most interviews and some of his songs are really rape-y He’s also really good at guitar.

@@stevebean1234 He seems like he's matured as a person, was always a great player.

Chances are it is just as likely to be someone who knows nothing.

@@O0Salmon0O those who know nothing are rarely self aware of the fact that's the point!

Eclectic is Good :-)

Clapton sucks by comparison. Massively overrated.

UGH BECK ❤❤

It's literally just a major scale.

He damn know what it is, he just doesn't want to sound like "yo i know this and that". Probably thought it was boring.

John went to Berklee. He definitely knows what Ionian is. He was just trying to make the point that you don't have to know formal theory in order to do what he's talking about in this video.

He just said that you had to learn what is the building foundation behind what you play.. and was playing in Major... of course he knows the Major scale haha.. it was a joke!

It's literally THE major scale haha

@Optic Flow lmaoo

Really...says a lot about our generation.

NN S be a better musician than him then, show us why it’s so bad for him to be one of the best

@@HearMeLearn .... maybe I am.... you would never know . sorry.

Una polla como una olla.

JAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJA... ...No.

You taught me!

nice prs

​@Sky Star You can see my instruction at GuitarMusicTheory.com

Adam Beaumont But truly I say, this is one of the funniest Comments I’ve ever read. I could just see the comic strip.

I just imagined this with John and Chandler Bing

😂😂😂😂😂

Kieran Scanlon could do it better mate

I have no clue how I found this tbf

In other words, learn MUSIC.

I learned that from Tomo fujita😂😂😂

Shut the fuck up with the triads

Music is Win yes Tyler Gwon lad

nobody: tyler: LEARN TRIADS DUDE

Bruce Bruce felt the same way😭

me too

Classic Mayer!

Being a "self-taught" guitar player for several years now if I wanted anyone to destroy/deconstruct my confidence I've gained learning this instrument, I'd have it be John Mayer.

That’s hilarious, Ionian is the major scale. He’s full of crap learning a major or minor pentatonic scale won’t give you that. He’s an insanely talented guy who hears on a whole other level and he’s trying to intellectualize the fact that he’s ripped off everyone from BB King to Jimmy Page. Trust me he doesn’t know the theory side of what he’s doing. And who cares he hears it just not buying his line.

same here, put a smile on my face

hes got a peralta guitar you can see in his Instagram live lessons, theyre on youtube

Oh snap...same here! I feel like skating now...from a guitar video! Yeeeew John!

Yeah he is definitely doing Jimi style chords and lead combined hes just making it his own.

@@tjthegreat7 HAHA! I actually thought about that after posting this. Needing to take a deeper dive into the "why" behind his style of playing.

Ill give you a head start as I've already done all that..Muddy waters/Albert King/Lee Moses /Guitarist who shot himself from the group Chicago/R&B chitlin circuit/most old blues players from the 40-50s all influenced jimi>>jimi hendrix/albert king influenced SRV>>SRV/eric clapton/bb king/jimi hendrix influenced John Mayer..obviously it goes way deeper than this but its a good head start 😎

Jimi Hendrix doesnt play guitar.. he gives orgasm to it.. Bluesy, psychedelic orgasm

By chords up and down the neck do you mean triads? They’ve helped me

WARD hasn’t sold his soul yet.

WARD cause he's not a total sellout

Because he gives free advice on his ig lives every week

This guy is overrated as a guitar player IMO. I don’t see what others see. He is basic

@@uchennasunday7037 check out live at the nokia theatre: neon, in your atmosphere, gravity, and vultures (and others just to name a few) he isnt a technical guy when it comes to playing, but his songwriting ability is pretty great.

Dude same especially when you add triad shapes

@@andrewcruz7595 mix up the minor and major pentatonic like how stevie does it and you'll get to ur promised land in no time

Similar shit happened to me, only it was Slow Dancing in A Burning Room, not Gravity.

Your body is a wonderland wasnt really a good way to introduce himself to the male population ages 1-Dead. His flongs and romps also dont matter to most if not ALL men. But yeah this guy has insane talent

​@@saints3824yeah but that song sells a lot. And music is also a job. That song is even better than a lot of things we listen nowadays 😔

@@marcospennachini393 and he also wrote it about his highschool girlfriend when he was like 17 or 18...and wrote neon when he was 19. It may be a "cheesy love song" but I think peopl forget that entire record was written by a teenager. "don't leave me 98 and 6 degrees of separation from you" is not exactly a standard bubblegum pop lyric, yet it's one of mayer's. Plus he pretty much shut everyone up when he played wonderland solo acoustic at his first grammy's. Look it up - solo acoustic, insane solo in the middle. He made sure people knew he played guitar pretty quickly, and he's said in interviews he knew he wouldn't be able to find mainstream success playing straight blues so he made his first record to hook people, got a little more bluesy on heavier strings to get them interested, and you saw his complete vision on continuum. by then he had introduced an entire generation to the likes of SRV etc because they did exactly as he suggests in this video - they saw what he was doing and traced back his influences.

Not under rated/appreciated at all! He's been top of the game for over 10 years

Wow i Know and understand all these things! And I can’t even afford a decent guitar

You guys should definitely hang out

Rob DeLeon lessons? From a good teacher. It’s really hard to understand online stuff. You need a person to ask questions to. If it’s affordable that’s how some of us learned.

Rick Feith underrated comment 😂😂

It's been 7 months Rob, are you a god yet?

Just imagine, Hendrix or SRV goes on Instragram live, so here is the tip to little wing... Rip me off...

Agreed - altho I grew up with this gem ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-p4vxOoSS5RY.html

I think he was being sarcastic

he knows the major scale.. for whatever reason John likes to lie about his theory knowledge even though he was formally educated in it.

i’m sure he is joking. He went to berklee there’s no way he doesn’t know that

Well that's good news!

And I Like.

I see pussy. I lick

Me too! What a great player!! Living legend really!!!

Then you describe seeing and clicking. You post comment.

We simple AF

Paul Tiplea I really hope that’s the riff on the next song he releases

Lool you're right

That's his magic 😁

@Tony Luo thats him just messing around with scales

IT's essentially Something like Olivia, classic I IV V in the key of G :)

@Agothos "the boring part of theory" is very subjective. a lot of people find complex music theory way more interesting than the fundementals he's talking about. and a lot of people find the entire concept of music theory boring as hell so I must say this is not a good point.

Noah Schuh I second that, I was always intimidated by the thought of learning music theory. Therefore, I can see how some might think it’s boring. However, I started learning basic theory at the beginning of this year and the abstract thought process that goes into it is so interesting. Every music theory concept leaves me very curious for the next lesson.

@@devinsobay I have felt the same way for the longest time, now I'm trying to learn but for some reason It's really hard for me to even understand the basics of what the hell sound is.

it's BARELY theory. Lol

@@noahschuh9221 stop overcomplicating it. start small. learn scales. learn your intervals. it's simpler than it seems, try not to let it intimidate you.

I think the Surgery, The Dead, and the Hoffman righted that ship.

I want to Specially appreciate you for being a big fan. I want you to send me a direct message via hangouts using my personal email or you can as well add me up on WhatsApp through my mobile number that will be indicated below. Also endeavor to add your name to the text so I can know you are the one texting because I don’t reply unnecessary messages. Hangouts mail: johnmayeractive@gmail.com WhatsApp number: +1(325) 221-5738

I'm not a good commentator, but I like your comment

@Tim Kealey I'm pretty sure it had to do with Fender wanting him to only play Fender gear. Even as far as sticking Fender badges on his non-Fender amps. Top 10 Anime Betrayal: *Fender against John Mayer*

And I always thought he had the perfect guitar🤔 ...but I will say prs makes some beautiful looking guitars.

PRS is better so

The amp still is fender

Better ending than season 8 got

underrated comment :D

I think that ia scale defferent scale

AdinRock Gaming Ionian is the major scale. John knows the Ionian mode he was just messing with us. He probably knows a lot more than he gives off

@@nigel5634 ahh now i know waaaa

@@nigel5634 dude studied at Berklee .