Lead Motifs: KEEP working on them AFTER you get them! 

Man, I love Erics normal take on stuff, he understands we're not John Mayer's and musical prodigy's but we're not complete beginners either. The only guitar channel we need.

YAY MORE TELEVISION ON THIS CHANNEL!

Thanks for helping this old dog down the stairs! Great stuff, Eric.

Very good points, Eric. I am certainly guilty of learning something, being happy with it - and then completely forgetting how to play it...

Yet another helping of "info-tainment" . Thanks Eric 👍

This is such great advice, I am the lazy guitarist....stop after learning something half arsed and then have to look up the tab a month later... thank you Eric, and what an incredible television solo

I should have been doing this all along. Thank you, Eric.

Eric, great stuff. I tend to brain dump things I’ve slaved over, shorty after learning them. Watching your videos has helped me give licks “context” and hold on to them in my practice regimen. This puts them in a subconscious “licktionary,” and has improved my musicality substantially. Rock on!

That's exactly what happened to me with a Doc Watson take on "Victory Rag". Tried to play it his way, totally out of my league, spent hours just to get a couple of bars, finally understood i will never be able to get his feel (who could have thought of that), and turned the whole thing (well, those bars, actually) into a mid-tempo weird ballad with loads of hammers and ghost notes. Anyway, now i got this 30 seconds laid back acoustic solo which i usually do as a warmup. Speaking of which, that leads us to something quite overlooked : play some acoustic solos, they are the best for intonation and phrasing in my opinion.

The intro lead from "Friction" has been one of my go-to warmups since the 80s!

I knew this must have been one big setup. F.R.I.C.T.I.O.N!

As a music teacher, I want to thank you a lot! Great video, great tips!!

Thank you, Eric! ✌️😌🎸

Can we just take moment to appreciate Eric's fine tone here!? 🤌🏻

This is all really good advice. I have learned these same things on my own over the years and it’s great to hear another player reinforce those ideas.

I'm sure the 'old dog' metaphor is excellent. Did anyone notice the 'nutty shaggy puppy' in the video at around 10 minutes onwards? Grreat fun and good to see you enjoying this yourself Eric. Happy holidays to those of you in the USA. Cheers.

You made me smile with that wee bit of Carlos ;) That said much of this applies to folk like me who have only got so far (after years and years and years at it)

Very helpful Eric, thank you.

Dude, I love the dog analogy.

I liked how you said when you work for a while on something while talking about the song something. Good video thank you 🙏

Wow , thank oh my gawd this is the lesson I can't wait to practice.

That Harrison solo is excellent. Hard to nail all those reverse bends correctly. And a great exercise in dynamic feeling.

Hope your Thanksgiving was groovyful brother 👍😎 Your playing all of my warm-ups! Gilmour isn't fast, but makes the most of every note and phrase. Gotta respect that👍😎 Touch is all👍😎 👍😎❤🖖 Love brother

Jimmy Porridge is such a great guitar player. Great piece of advice once again it's the most frequent question I got from my students: "Why can't I play the solos I learned?"

Eric helps be to be a more mindful player.Warming up with scales, and practicing and paying attention to those unique Ribot solos he teaches. That's why I'm a Patreon.

You are great man. Keep it up!

love your videos, a hug from brazil!

Thank you for sharing your thoughts on learning the guitar!

Morning Eric. Happy Thanksgiving! Thanks as always for the lesson.

Great lesson Eric, good reminders. I think I’m going to mess with learning the lead on “Whole Lotta Love” today....the phrasing seems like it would be beneficial to learn. Thx again my friend!

Lots of wisdom here pal and I totally agree. For me personally if I learn something like the solo on Its good to be king, I will put a lot of time into the phrasing. I will put a lot of time into little things like trying different bends or slides. I really want that feel and vibrato and the important stuff. HOWEVER, that last fast lick at the end of the solo ? I’m just gunna so some semi cool descending pentatonic riff haha. I feel licks like that make little difference so just make it your own. You need to spend all the time you can though working on Mike’s stern vibrato though !! Another cool thing is you having fun with your tone and not letting it stop you from playing what you want. Like just because someone doesn’t have a phaser pedal shouldn’t stop them from learning Have a Cigar. Learn the cool riffs and play it if that’s what you wanna do ! Don't let gear discourage.

This was a timely reminder. I learned Joe Pass´s Django solo this summer but haven't really touched it since. It's now a great warmup. Also, Friction tutorial please!

Awesome. Have you done a Marquee Moon break down?

Oh snap how did I miss this! Love it Eric

You are the best guitar teacher on RU-vid.

I am guilty of this a thousand times over Eric. I stopped purchasing "courses" because of everything your talking about. Now I got myself a little stuck. I know a little about a lot of things but I haven't really mastered any of the info that I purchased. Oh and I have an old dog also but I am patient with her! Kevin O'Rourke

George Harrison...a true master of phrasing and musicality. An example of tasteful playing over virtuosity. I would play Harrison, Knopfler, or Gilmour over someone like Steve Vai any day.

Television!! sick playing Eric

Eric, have you ever heard Trad by Kikagaku Moyo? The lead break/jam at just before the 5:00 mark is my favorite guitar moment in any song. Ever. I’ve been watching and digging your stuff for a while and think you’d really like it, too. All improv!

Haha, I'm an old dog; thanks for the assistance, Eric! 😊

Thankyou Eric once again for your tremendous insight & advice, its greatly appreciated

Great advice. I have been guilty of exactly that. Moving forward too soon. Thanks man

I incorporate every little lick or thing I am learning into an extended, increasingly abstract version of Ball and Biscuit. Returning to that Em chord from anywhere is either simple or easy to make sound scronchy and dirty and I don't think I can stop at this point.

My my, the VOX and Mustang seem to be getting along great. What a tone again!! Rushing the gilmour solo though Eric, no old dog stairs pacing there :P

Eric, have you ever heard the Church's cover of Friction? Willson-Piper played the leads when I saw them tour for Box of Birds, the all-covers LP that was on, and he was clearly having a lot of fun doing it...

I love your style Eric 🤌

wonderful as always sir! a general lesson on "since iv been lovin you" live version of course would be neat. personally i find jimmy page to be a sloppy guitar player, but "since iv been lovin you" and "no quarter" are formidable.

Great lessons as typical Eric! Thanks

On the 7th note I “thumbed up”! Keep rockin’

I’ve wasted too many practice sessions working on playing note for note for intricate solos. Metallica comes to mind. What you said really makes sense. I don’t like wasting time on things that ultimately don’t matter. I’ll only choose my favorite solos like comfortably numb to master

Wait, so I should or shouldn’t learn the intro solo from “Since I’ve Been Lovin’ You?” Because now that you’ve put it in my mind it’s all I can think about! So tasty. Great advice, as always. That first Sultans of Swing solo is a go-to warmup for me and, yes, as a result I find I can actually work some of the motifs in that solo into my own playing. The things I “learn” and then forget? Not so much.

Friction!!! Hell Yeah!!!

Mm, you know a video will be good when it opens with Television, and is made by eric Haugen

Thanks!

I'm a champion forgetter! P.S. I'll be your intern!

This reminds me of Ivan Graziani's Monnalisa... Check that out! Great job as always anyway, thank you for your hard work.

Thanks Eric. I'm a bit confused with minor scales. Is your warm up scale the natural minor scale? A friend told me there was a harmonic and a melodic minor scale....I got lost and then....it was beer o'clock....

Hey Eric. A thing I've really noticed and would love to take away from your guitar playing is how deliberate your movements are, I'm not a particularly precise player (to be fair I've been playing for 8 ish months). What is a good way to practice deliberate, precise picking and proper economy of motion?

killer!

Time to help the old dog down the stairs. Thanks, man.

well said!👍

Hahahahaha.... dang, more sweetness. Cheers!

I think that opening lick is Verlaine, actually.

In a few videos now you've mentioned not having "fast fingers" something I relate with. Do you really believe some people just have a natural born ability for speed (nurtured by practice, of course)? Or can anyone become fast, provided they work at it long enough? Certain abilities come easier to some, of course, but do you think that can overcome by the rest of us if we work hard enough? Or do we each have our own distinct 'cosmic speed/talent limit' that we can't break no matter how hard we try?

MY EYES ARE LIKE TELESCOPES

Man Eric I do that all the time then I forget what the hell I played and can’t find it again. Lol

Thank you, this was meant for me 😉

Friday mornings mean Eric Haugen and Chris Buck. You two should get together.

Perfect practice makes perfect. BTW, I pick up my old dog and take her down the stairs because she's old. And I still give her a treat anyway ;-)

Hi. Do you record de audio of your videos with the Beyerdynamic m160 Ribbon Mic connected to the Tascam Dr-40 Field Recorder?

Television!

television

Where do you store all your amps?

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