I've been playing 20 years this year. First teacher right here to ever get me to understand some theory and something to take away from the lesson. Incredible teaching!
Just wanted to thank you for this video, I've been playing for 2.5 years and was starting to feel lost in my practicing direction. This really opened up a new path for me. Going really in-depth on small things you like seems like a very effective learning method.
I'm a mid-beginner with some theory knowledge and this video helped me create a great exercise - playing inversions up and down, trying like hell to keep it in time. I enjoy Jared's very approachable, thorough delivery. Kudos!
Mate let me tell you right now that you are the best guitar teacher on youtube and its not even close. Thank you so much for this very detailed lesson!
As an older guy (67 now) that has spent his whole life playing fingerpicking acoustic ragtime and blues and has lost his right hand fluency over time due to adolescent injuries coming back to haunt him. I've been searching for a source where I can continue to play and learn. I'm pretty much pick and learning pick and fingers now with both electric and acoustic. I'm totally jibing with your lessons. The internet can be a dark hole of info. Good to focus. I check in with Active Melody too just for motivation but I'm going to hang in there with you. I wish you success. Excellent lesson.
Incredible lesson. I love this song and was struggling to play it from a tab and a book that I have. The embellishment of hammering the third from the second and then pulling off was what I was missing. I knew the triads so now I can work on this logically, rather than memorize a ton of stuff. I just made a donation on your web site. Your teaching style really connected some dots for me. Thank you!
Great lesson ... finally I have an interesting way to learn and practice triads ... and your comment about testing yourself so you know that you have it under your fingers is what makes a musician
thank you very much for this. I love how you broke down the different positions and the 1-3-5s across different shapes. Can you please cover belief? I can't get enough of it especially the bridge...
Amazing lesson, I don’t even listen to John Mayer but this lesson is so helpful for me to get my guitar playing to the next level! Hope to learn more about how to mix chords in soloing if you ever do a lesson on that!
Glad you found it helpful! Yeah, this approach can apply to ANYTHING, and really is a game changer. Just using this one song as an example. And thanks for the lesson topic request! Cheers, -Jared
Been getting the get your triads down message coming to me over recent days and this is really helping a lot, especially the last practice you show which puts it a rhythmic, musical context.Thank you!
New subscriber! Thanks so much Jared, I'm a recreational guitar player who loves J. Mayer songs. I see what you did here & love it. There's a niche of people who not only wants to know HOW to play a song on the guitar, but WHY they play it that way. Keep up the good work man! I'm also a new RU-vidr teaching Business Management content in my local Indonesian language. All the best for your channel dude!
I just found this channel. It is so refreshing to find somebody to have a unique take on teaching guitar related subtleties. Keep up the good work, I really hope your channel will get the attention it deserves. Thank you for the lesson!
So cool! I have learnt this song not so long ago, so having some knowledge already and new insights from you Jared has made this lesson so fun and enrichning
Super cool lesson! I really like the idea of taking an exercise and turning it into an actual piece of music because it makes practicing fun. I was practicing the riff to White Winter Hymnal by Fleet Foxes and started to try it in different places on the neck. I will definitely try your more systematic approach.
Once again, Fantastic lesson. I have watched so many teachers. Very, very few are any good. Either they are stupid basic, or they are jazz aficionados who go right into the deep end without 1 minute. You occupy the beautiful middle ground. Furthermore your video production is outstanding. I can not congratulate you enough. Something I I would like to go super deep on? I would love to play Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622, II. Adagio. There is one guy on RU-vid you plays it on guitar, and he butchers it. Putting that aside, I would love to be able to play Pink Floyd's, "Comfortably numb". Cheers!
Thank you for the support and kind words, Vince! That means a lot and I'm so glad that you're appreciating the videos I'm putting out. And awesome goals! I love both of those pieces/songs. ~~ Jared
Great lesson. Mayer and Paisley have taught me so much on rhythm guitar with chord voicing, embellishments and just innovative ways to use the guitar. Songs like Bigger than My Body or Heartbreak Warefare are brilliant uses of the instrument.
I have to watch this later on when I have time. Every lesson for this song is taught by playing it the way he plays: that Hendrix/SRV thumb over triads. I just can't do them. Well I CAN, I just can't using my current Strat because my fingers aren't long enough. I had been playing a '59 AVRI Thin skin Strat for a while. If people aren't familiar with that year, the '59s have a very un-Strat like neck profile: it's a VERY slim and flat D- shape. And the ",Thin Skin" has a thinner, ALL lacquer finish as opposed to the normal nitro over a polyester base coat, but the biggest difference is that it comes with a 9.5" radius and Med jumbo frets. It's actually much more like a Gibson slim 60s than anything else Fender has done (and I've repaired guitars for 20 years so I've played them all). It was a great Start to use if you want something that looks and sounds vintage, but plays more modern. I liked it when using overdrive and gain, but didn't like it for clean as much, I find it sounds too thin. So I'm playing an Eric Johnson that has a chunky soft V. Besides it being a chunky neck (it's 1" @ first fret), it also has a 12" radius which results in it being thicker at the fret edges. While I have ZERO problem playing this guitar (the soft Vs are great because while they're fat, you can still kind of shred on them because of the shape), but it's just too thick to play thumb over the low E. There aren't many lessons that deviate from the way he fingers the chords, which is a shame. I can figure the song out but I've honestly only heard Mayer's version 1 or 2 times, the rest I've heard (including my favorite version) are cover versions.
Wow, sounds like an awesome guitar you’re playing there, Tim. Thanks for sharing. Glad you mentioned the thumb technique. I never play with my left hand thumb wrapped around the neck. There are only two thing’s that I’ve ever come across that actually required that technique, one was from Hendrix and the other was from Bob Dylan. Everything else I’ve ever encountered where that technique is used is playable without the thumb, which I prefer personally just because of my training and background, but not because I think it’s better. Thanks for watching, -Cheers -Jared
@@soundguitar thanks for the response. Yes every once in a while there'll be some inversion that is played (for example) on the 5th fret, where I would normally barr it, but it'll call for a note to be played on the 4th fret. There's always another way to play it though. Yeah the 59 was great (it was a reissue, I drive write that, not an actual vintage one). It's definitely great for people used to more modern guitars if they want to go with a traditional Strat. The first time I saw one, it was a custom shop "heavy relic." I was so ignorant of guitars at that point that I know most Fenders had fatter necks, so I thought "damn, he must have played this A LOT to wear it down that thin." 😅 When I first started playing guitar, I was at my uncle's house and knew he had a couple. I remember seeing his Gibson case, opening it up and seeing an cherry burst Les Paul. I just started playing, so my guitar had mile high action, and this had the lowest action I'd ever seen (to this day it may be the lowest). What I remember was 1) the weight! I was around 12, and I could hardly lift it. The second thing was the frets: they were so worn down that they almost didn't even rise above the fretboard. I remember thinking then "Jesus, how long do you need to play to wear the frets down that low? And ALL of them." Even for years after I couldn't figure out what it was. I later found out about the 70s Custom "fretless wonders", but the specs didn't make sense. First it had the truss rod cover for a Studio, second it had an ebony fretboard and the split diamond headstock. Third, at that point I had only seen Ebony and White Customs. I know they did a wine red and occasional Goldtop, but but bursts. Now I know that they indeed did make other colors, and this was a Custom with a Studio cover. Rambling posts, I know. Great lesson though. I'm not s big John Mayer fan but this something I should know anyway. It and the other videos I've perusing your content we're enough to earn a subscriber.
Yeah, this is the kind of thing I practice with any material, the John Mayer source was just an example so I'm glad you're seeing how it can apply to other music. cheers
New to guitar paying and trying to reconcile the tabs on the video numbering to the chords being played. Example at 2:32 we see 5, 1, 3. What do those numbers mean? It's not finger numbers. Otherwise I would expect to see 1 on the G string 4th fret, 2 on the B string 5th fret and 3 on the D String 6th fret. Thanks
Good question! C#min and E major are relative major and minor of each other. They have all the same notes. This portion especially can be thought of in E major, but if we changed the labels to III and bVI instead of I and IV for the E to A chords it would functionally be the exact same thing just thinking of it in the key of C#min. So because we're zeroed in on the E and A chords for this portion, it's much more clear to call them I and IV. Hope that helps! Thanks for asking. :) ** -Jared
Very frustrated - Min 11:38 you highlight A triad on 5th fret but in video you are elsewhere and I can't tell no matter how much I watch where you fingers are and in the hammer on fret board .
Sorry about that! You can slow down the video and/or rewatch parts. That's why I included the detailed fretboard diagrams so you can pause and study it if you want. Hopefully that helps some.
