My 4 BEST tips for self-taught guitar players 

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Make sure you know what you’re practicing and playing! Even if it’s just keeping a coherent idea of what it is you’re doing, or jamming over! That said, do whatever keeps it fun and exciting for you as well! :)

15 mins a day is great. Just drill something and then go to sleep and The next day it’s like it becomes carved in your mind a little more. Gets easier out of no where

I just had a euphoric moment. It feels like a door in my brain was just unlocked.

I first picked up a guitar 15 years old but couldn't afford one. I used to borrow my friend's guitar for days, used to my church just to play guitar. Finally bought an electric guitar at 22 years old. Now I'm 24 and I'm completely self taught

Im glad he doesn’t out right tell self taught guitarists that we are doing it wrong or bad at playing, but rather there’s things we might not be doing the most efficient way. Shows he actually cares about helping us learn guitar rather than show how superior he is to all of us. Great job man!

The first step can be taken as advice loosely. There's some guitarists out there with the most weird looking techniques but it works great for them.

Coming from someone who is completely self-taught, it really is just about muscle memory and passion. If you just want to learn a couple songs to pickup chicks or something like that, then I'd say just take some lessons and set aside time to practice consistently until you get to where you want to be, but I digress. You can't expect to become a great guitarist if you are only trying to play perfect notes or sound like your favorite artist. You have to become one with the instrument, even if it's just for the duration of the session. Whether you play for 10 minutes or 2 hours, you have to completely set aside your ego and forget about trying to sound like anyone else besides you. Not the you that everyone else sees, but the real you. The inside you. The you that comes out when no one else is around. The key to becoming a great guitarist is basically being able to directly translate your thoughts and feelings into the instrument. You gotta let go and just flow. Unfortunately, it is hard to do that if you don't have enough memorization of the fretboard. Music theory is not necessary, but it can help. Just not without the soul. Without feeling it sounds like a robot wrote it. It is always good to learn more songs, and you can absolutely incorporate others' techniques into your own playing, but try phrasing it differently or putting your own spin on it. Who knows, you may invent a unique playing style or discover a brand new sound.

15-30 minutes a day is literally the best way to learn

Today was my one year mark of practicing songs riffs and practice routines truly grateful of your videos man ty

I'll just continue to play Smoke on the Water for 6 hours a day until something happens, thank you

I just pick up the guitar and play what sounds good to me people say I'm good but I literally have no idea what I'm doing lmao I want to learn more

Sometimes doing the most basic ascending and descending exercises on the same frets everyday can help build technique. That’s something I’ve figured out but I got a LOOOOOOOONG way to go!

You can always teach yourself how to play guitar, and you can get quite good that way as long as you are consistent with it. However, it’s always a good idea to eventually get a teacher or someone experienced in guitar to help you improve or fix some things

Finally someone has summed it all up so well!!

Great advice! Thanks 👍🏽

Thank You!

Great tips man!

Great tips! I definitely need to practice more consistently. Thank you.

Great stuff and love that song Waterworks man. Appreciate you

Ich liebe deine Videos. Du hast es echt drauf, bist bodenständig, und man kann eine Menge von dir lernen!

This guy is a good teacher and an excellent musician

Yes...working hard constantly , on that picking techniques , Legato, speed and much more ...love it ...I want to earn better degree myself🔥❤ thx Bernth 🙏👍

Just practicing at night, trying to get good enough to play nirvana, havent a clue just doing chords, have to figure out how to tune it and get a teacher 😅 great tips.

I'm skipping #4, because I'm already a subscriber :) Thanks for the tips, they're really helping me catch up to 15 years of just goofing around on guitar.

I like this guy’s vibe

i find that pull offs help alot when playing thunderstruck

these are definitely great tips and I've been implementing them, studying players more advanced than me. but one thing that you gotta remember is that if you never go outside the box, you'll creatively stagnate yourself. one easy way to do this is learning about modes, and learning a few different scales like diminished scale and implementing them into your improv or jamming. I feel like there's gotta be a balance between practicing what you know vs what you don't know. basically I come from the side of "too much experimentation" which I honestly don't think that really exists but nevertheless it is pretty easy to go from that mindset to practicing what I already know while going back and forth between experimenting.

Amazing teacher

My right hand is light speed and accurate, but my left hasn't caught up. Been playing for about 19 years, but I'm going to go hard at learning new techniques. Subbed!

Consistency is a *huge* one, and very underrated. It doesn't make mathematical or intuitive sense, but you can learn more in 15-20 minutes a day, 5-6 days a week, than you could in a solid two-hour block on the weekend. Spreading the reps out and doing it every day gives your brain time to digest and process things in a different and better way than a huge block of stuff you do infrequently.

I played for like 15 years. Since I was 7 or 8. I hit a plateau and could never get better. I thought some people just can't get past their own natural talent. Then I started watching RU-vid tutorials and completely changed everything. I can play shit I never would've imagined before. I'm convinced now that anyone can get better.

Thank you. I should look at my technique

Cannot afford that kind of guitar, but thank you for inspire , thumps up

Very true. I show my students how to play just as much as what. Technique's are king. Great lesson.

thx man, im currentl learning it myself

Love your stuff dude!

Thank you! Needed this! Skal!

Bernth’s exercises are making me a guitar player. I was wasting tons of energy and getting injuries before I started practicing Bernth’s technique lessons.

THANK YOU!!! ur videos helped me out so much!!

Thank you this helped me

Your amazing!!!!!

Your amazing😊

Very honest helpful advise, thanks guy

That moment where it cuts to a top/bottom split screen with the top half saying "old tenique" and the bottom saying "new tenique"... ...the guitar being shown on the top half; THAT is a badass looking guitar.

You are a great teacher~

Muss ehrlich gestehen, ich bin eigl Linkshänder der eine Rechtshänder Gitarre spielt, sprich ich hatte nie wirklich Probleme mit meiner linken Hand, eher mit der rechten, jetzt hab ich mal das Plektrum so gehalten wie du’s in einem Video gezeigt hast und wolla, Handgelenk is offen 😱 nicht nur das, die synchro zwischen beiden Händen ist besser geworden 🙏

Hey there! Thank you so much for the tips I still have to claim my gift that I was picked last week Big Thanks to you that you picked me I am so humbled. I have a mini acoustic guitar and try to learn as much I can my dream is to get a electric hope soon. You have a good Christmas 🎄

You should do a video, where people are learning and you review and show them on technicues aaa

Well said. I just started learning guitar by watching RU-vid

You seem to have an analytical learning style which is what I am looking for

Thank you!

Thanks Burnth 🤘

Everyone on the internet to help : work hard

Cheers sensai. You're an inspiration. Wan lv

You are a best teacher thankyou so much in advance 💯✨

Subscribed!!!

jam = practice. theres not a better way of putting your endless scales to actuall use and to improvise with them

Thank you

Thank you.

thank you

good advice thank you

Haha! U got yourself a subscriber on the 4th technique!😊

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This man plays the guitar like he’s boutta cast some spells holy shit

The 4th is the best tip 😋👌🏼

That guitar is gorgeous

I plan to practice like 30 minutes a day. But I ended up playing for 3 hours cause I had so much fun

Great guitar stuff. I just gotta ask, how do you get those dreads and what did you put in your hair to get them?

I actually feel for technique it shouldnt be what other or doing but what feels most comfortable for you. Every guitar player ive watched is different on the picking hand.

I rest my wrist on the bridge and I heard it’s bad and I’ve tried to get out of doing it but I simply can’t play without it

We didn't have video options in the 70's, you just winged it.

Im taking a guitar course for my final year of highschool next year

Okay, thankyou

2023 was strict alternate picking, and another year on focusing on chords and not having to drop a note when changing... learned a lot of songs. 2024, im going to focus upon at first saying/visualizing the actual note letters when I play... f,e,d, c,b,a,g#,a,b,a,g#.... And if it's a picked line for a chord, visualize said notes... and if a big chord visualize DFA or BGD, already noticed I can name chords for like the little fills while playing paint it black dm9 dm, dm4, dm, dm9, dm

been playing for 30 years and i'm still a disgrace

Ur guitar is fire 🔥, how is it called?

I need a lesson too

I started playing over 10 years ago, but I've lost quite a bit of practice over the last year or so (been focusing on other instruments). I should pick it back up some time

Best useful youtube channel

❤ u thanks!!

Wow useful amazing talented so useful

Ay your very inspiring, new here

Love this shit

Thx youu :)

I understood 63.7% of this video. Then I heard scales and blanked.

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I leave my guitar plugged into the amp and sitting in my gaming chair, tuned. That way I have to pick up and physically move a ready to play guitar just to sit there, and I play a 5 or 10 minutes like 5 times a day on the weekends

Just got my first fender yesterday, I’m here 🫡

I want to see you guitar battle Jacky Vincent

Me who is self taught for 2 years: Interval? That a new kind of chords?

You said not only.scale but inversion or etc.. hmmm how to do that?? Please make the tutor ❤ i like the way you teach

buen consejo

what do you practice? I got power chords down and can play a couple of songs plus wrote some of my own. what do I practice?

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How do scales and stuff like that work when tuning low? Can I learn technique and theory while staying in Drop B? I’ve been playing for 2 years and haven’t learned any of the theory.

Question, do electric guitars specifically have to be played by playing one string at a time and is a rocketeer rouge guitar meant for rock

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