Note to self: watch Rotem Sivan more often..... your approach to teaching guitar really resonates with me more than most youtube teachers. You have a more easy going Zen like approach with not much ego involved. I teach guitar for 35 years myself and I really think you are pushing all the right buttons.
Love your lesson's Rotem and your effortless approach to guitar and teaching! Since discovering you a few weeks ago my motivation to explore guitar has gone through the roof. Thank you for your generosity in sharing your wisdom!
It's weird to think about how the better you get at an instrument, the less you think about specifics and the more you think about bigger ideas. In the beginning you're thinking about each note in a scale while you're playing it and the idea of playing fast is terrifying, but eventually you get to a point where you just think 'G altered scale' or whatever, and your muscle memory does the rest of the work. I think that's a big thing that people miss when learning this kind of stuff. So much of it is just putting in the work to build muscle memory.
Dude, this is what I've been working on for years and been telling my students to give 100% attention to. Been busy with yourself, caring about what and how it feels while playing/practicing and studying yourself when it comes to picking notes (or syncing both hands to work together) make AT LEAST 70% of your playing progress. Very nice video helping ourselves to keep the attention to what it matters a lot on guitar playing. Chops are great but they'll come (or go depending on how consistent you are), but THIS here is not only muscle memory but BODY & SOUL memory and this stays for almost a lifetime! 👌👏
I love what you said about the degrees of freedom problem/reaching out for a cup of tea. Very Heideggarian. I'm not a jazz player, but I'm trying to grow my toolkit as far as weird scales and chord transitions to deploy. Not a huge fan of chromatic stuff. If I practiced like this, my girlfriend would probably kill me in my sleep.
My advice to myself 20 years younger: practice more while you have free time for it! Also, great vid. What do all these switches on a guitar do? I see some kind of midi pickup, but it doesn't require so many controls, afaik.
This might be your best video Rotem. I've seen others touch on this but its often a mashup of left hand AND right hand that assumes much of the novice audience. Seems like you are asking us to do one thing with the right hand - simple alternate pick - down up - then all right hand exercises. There are so many songs out there that I can muddy through but the clarity is never there because I really cannot do the fast runs that truly define the song and why I want to try to play it. Maybe there is hope ...
If "I were me?" Hmmm.... to get out of the way of the information. Be always open. Sometimes after playing for as long as I have it is difficult to not look at things from a fixed perspective. Especially in my case as I never took any lessons and learned mostly "by ear." Ie. Trial and error.
No, it doesn't have to be done. Just enjoy playing, and find your groove, whatever speed that ends up being. Sure, it's nice to see flashy players playing at lightning speed, but they soon become boring. I'd rather listen to Hank Marvin than Yngwie Malmsteen.
@@simonduncan3738 Been playing long? Remember if you play a wrong note, you're only ever one semitone from a right note, so a quick bend or slide puts things right. Also, if you play an obvious wrong note in a solo, repeat it at an appropriate point later on (e.g. 1 bar later), but only _once._ As if by magic, that turns the wrong note into the right note. I've been playing guitar for forty+ years, and I still play loads of wrong notes!
I used to record A LOT. I can easily put 100 hours or thousands of take into writing Im left handed and play RIGHT.So my dominant hand is on the fretboard. I have speed to beginning with. Recording with sets of chords I choose.. The beat/riff/feel makes a difference...becuase I know what the chords/arpeggios are...so I can harmonize better...and the drumming/feel/swing Speed isnt everything ( it's becuase I have speed) My playing became more balance..It'll let notes ring or scream. Alot of it is was becuase alot of my guitar heros play the entire fretboard. I couldnt do it at first...It is what it is..Lots of practice... SLOWLY on section of the fretboard I struggle with..so I could make smooth transitions. There's NO SHORT CUTS..Short cuts are retarded..that's why I couldn't play the entire fretboard to begin with..Doing stupid short cuts.lol
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