Target Notes the Easy Way (guitar solos to the next level) 

This video references another one called "Stop Playing This Lick" which you can find here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-esspW0YcfUY.html New video every Saturday!

The mark of a great teacher is someone who can make complicated concepts easily understood. Good job!

20+ years of noodling and your videos are helping it all finally make sense, thank you! 🙏🏼

Blue, again awesome! I've been playing guitar on and off for 50 years, for the last 10 I've been trying to understand improvising. Of all the online instructors I've given time to, you are the first to have a simple presentation to pull it all together. Keep them coming!!!!

I am 73 years old and regularly search RU-vid to increase my bank of licks and understanding. I can honestly say I have learned more in a fortnight on your site than years on other sites. Thank you.

Love all your videos, I'm 68yrs young I can hold a tune down. But never stop learning. Your videos are great keep it up.

Not surprised your channel's gaining interest. I've learned more from you in the last few weeks than I have in the past year. Thank you and please keep them coming.

YES THESE RECENT LESSONS THAT ARE LINKED TOGETHER ARE GOLD. Incredible lessons Blue. It's finally all making sense to me. Looking forward to more! This is amazing.

My eyes are opening...I appreciate that!

I feel the result immediatly after watching this video. Cheers from Indonesia.

this is the most practical, honest, and very very helpful approach on approaching target notes. Kudos, Blue!

The youtube algorithm (the dark, unseen overlord) got me here! This video is pure gold! I am honestly baffled that nobody has approached the pentatonic scale and tone targeting this way. Thank you for making this video, I've gotten more out of this video than ALOT of videos on the same topic put together!

Hey...you are a great teacher! Easy to understand and not boring or too technical.

Finally, someone who "simplified" lead! I just never made the connection to merely find the 1/3/5 by the already apparent chord form! DUH! Thanx. Great job.

where were you 30 years ago? (never mind 😂) but seriously Blue, your on to something other youtube guru's don't do., clear, precise instructions. I've been playing for a while, yet I still got so much from your lessons! Thanks

I love the Larrivée acoustics in the background😱😱They are truly amazing instruments…

I love your relaxed presentation that allows me to ruminate your words while you speak.

Thank you for the great Lesson! I always knew that chord tone was a common method to soloing but your explanation of how to implement it is outstanding. Thanks again,

Excellent lesson on chord tone targeting. Thank you.

DAMN!!! You are a great teacher! I found you about two weeks ago. I just got your books! Thanks

Brilliant teacher. Well explained. Thank you.

Thank you teacher. God bless you.

You really blew my mind. With using bar chord to find target notes.

After watching tens of youtube guitar instruction videos about solo guitar, this is only the second to mention what targeting a chord tone actually means, and how to do it. Thank you, you've made me a better guitar player.

I wish I’m one of your student. You are the best guitar tutorial that I watch on u tube.

I know so many guitar resources and there are some very good ones. But your videos are on top of it all. I play 45 years on a more or less intermediate level, and now you explain me things that i thought i knew, in such a transparent style. The picture with comma and point/end of sentence will never go out of my head. I never thought of it in this way, i was more thinking of fretting the right note, not the function in a speech. Also the "enclosure" in another video, you explain it very much better than other YT guitar teachers. Why there are only 2 books and no patreon Content or video course. I think you would have a similar success like Paul Davids, Tom Bukovac or Jeff McErlain on Truefire ( with a little need of networking to get clicks). I hope you become teacher of the year at Truefire and get 3 Millions subscribers... I am so happy, that i have found your channel last week!

Im in Quebec, and man i wish i could one on one lessons with you ive been playing for years and legit learned so much from wayching your videos on youtube its crazy ! My soloing is becoming next level thanks to you! Thank you 🙏🙏🙏🙌

Wow, you've grown fast. Great job!

Very well taught. I will share this lesson with some my students , thanks !

Super useful video, probably the best of hundreds of the same video.

After being so infected with your Teaching-Style i just bought the kindle book. It comes 45 years too late... Perfect with the audio examples, backing tracks and with your explanations, that make me understand things, that i thought i knew, in a much better way. I found, that there are a lot of extremely positive comments from especially longtime players, saying, that they now understand their guitar playing much better.

great hook. hits right between the eyes.

Most interesting lesson i've seen on YT in YEARS Sir ! So thanks a lot for simply explaining what is so obvious for performers like you and so difficult to catch for begginers like me, in the same time 👍 🙏

This bloke makes everything link together. Great teacher.

Love your stuff. You're gonna make me a rock star. Thanks!

For someone who has been struggling with soloing over the chord changes, your lesson (s) are very good. You explain things simply and informatively. Excellent teaching ..

It is somewhat funny that I have been using this stuff and didn't even know what I was doing. After you explain it, it's like oh! yea, now it all makes sense why didn't I see that? There is difference in doing something that sounds right and understanding why it sounds right. Knowledge is golden!!

Hey, man. This video is really good. Just gave me a really big breakthrough.

Thens of thousends of views my friend. Your wish came true. Thank you for sharing :)

Great tutorial. You are the most interesting and informative guitar teacher I've come across. A truly valuable source of knowledge and application. Much appreciated.

Just brilliant, made a whole difference to my views on the pentatonic on how to navigate it and make sense. Superior to other tutorials.👍👍👍🤣

Hi. I must say that this is the very best way to teach and learn. I have seen many channels but this is by far the best of them. I could listen to your lessons nonstop. I wish you millions of viewers!

I always hated the pentatonic scale. If I visualize the pentatonic scale on the neck, I'm already sunk. My playing sounds pentatonic. I can't get out of my own head. While playing to a backing track, If I use the G string to slide into a note and bend if necessary to get a note that sounds good, I am gold. I'm starting to see where the notes on the neck are, but it no longer rules me because I can pick up any major progression fairly easily. The G major scale mapped on the G string allows me to find other major scales and many minor scales by intervals. I don't know modes, so those progressions are usually a fail. But, using backing tracks, I find it hard to put my guitar down now. My melodic, lilting (slow)😝solos with very short less slow speed bursts are personally rewarding to listen to and play. I would like longer and faster bursts of speed, but I'm ok as I am right now. My goal is Neal Schon or Steve Lukather type melodic solos. I was a drummer and a singer, so I like my solos to sing as well.😍🤩

I love the way you teach you remind me of Paul Rudd. I am sure you get that a lot. You're just chilling in your chair making learning fun .

Man you have nailed it, that is the best way by far to find target notes. With this and your other lessons I have stopped noodling and working on all those techniques. Sounds so much better. Cheers . Martyn

Wow man , I think I could get use to your way.tank you.

A real gem! Thx

I’ve been watching other lessons about targeting the chord notes when soloing to be more melodic. I understand that but this lesson really helped me connect the dots, thank you!

Thanks it is a very good lesson need more lessons like that one

Where have you been dude this is what I needed many doors opened for me thanks in many ways

Excellently explained. Thanks.

That tele looks so clean and spotless😊

Enjoying your lessons all the way from Vancouver Island!

Thanks for sharing your joy of music Tasty phrasing too Much gratitude

Another great video. Great guitar teacher

Great lesson... Very helpful! I will put it into practice. Thanks!

wow very eye opening thanks a lot!

Great lesson! So helpful. Thank you! Looking forward to your channel!

Excellent info and presentation-you are on to something.

Love this video! Thank you

The chord shapes thing is exactly what makes this possible for me. I can ‘hear the changes’, as you put it, but I find it very difficult to think in sounds and think in notes at the same time. For instance, if I’m working around the scale, I’m not able to follow the chord progression and know where the ‘targets’ are, as you put it. But I have good instincts. So when I improvise, if I’m trying to follow the progression, I usually start with variants of arpeggios and branch out from the harmonic tones to decorate. But the more I do it, and also the more I practice my moveable scales WITH the related arpeggios of the I, IV, V, and iv, the more it all comes together in my head. Your video is super helpful to me because I can see that a guy like you who’s ‘already there’ is getting there by a path not dissimilar from the path I’m exploring. I’m actually working on a video that covers similar ground, but not nearly as comprehensive as yours. Should be released Tuesday or Wednesday. Thanks so much this is SO HELPFUL!

Excellent stuff again!

Great video - happy to see this channel growing - well deserved.

Great found thia lesson at exactly the right time, cheers,,🤟😎🎸

Loving this content! Keep up the good work!

I do like the idea of the insights that you give, and then you play them to demonstrate the idea. Love it Great.

Excellent video thanks so much !

Great lesson. I feel like you're coming out with these concepts right when I need to be discovering them.

Nothing new but seen in a different light. With clarity. Great work. See you next week.

Very helpful. Thank you

Very good teaching.

Great lesson! Thank you.

I recently found your channel here in England and you really are a brilliant teacher. Being new to guitar I'm trying to understand Blues scales and riffs. Getting the target 7th and understanding when to use the 'blue' notes is still a mystery. Maybe you'll cover that sometime. Thanks.

Really helpful lesson!

I say keep doing what you’re doing. Loving your channel so far.

What a great way to visualize/know where the notes/triads are on the fret board. Knowing they’re inside the chord shape will make it far easier until I’ve got the whole board memorized but until then, thanks for the note hack!

Such a good video!!

Fantastic lesson.

You're doing great! Thanks.

Thanks for the lesson

Excellent tutorial. Thank you.

another great simple lesson...just what i'm needing

Great Lesson ,,am intentionally creating licks with Target notes over changes. B4 I played with just feel ,did not know the WHY.

Another awesome lesson! Thank you!

Love the easy way! Thank you for opening my eyes!

Thanks again blue, awesome knowledge and great results

Super Cool & Useful Information !!! 😎

So smart and simple ! - Thank You !!

Another great video. I think you're hitting a sweet spot with a lot of guitarists (myself included) who can play to a reasonable level but have hit a plateau. You're certainly helping to climb up to that next peak we can see in the distance. Keep up the great work.

You have a way of making sense of things to me that I haven't found with anyone else. Thank you! Keep up the great work. You were born to teach.

This is helping to find my way forward , Thank you , I have subscribe !

Very good!

Great information that opens up the fretboard for easy improvisation

You're doing Great! I totally enjoy your lessons.. they're sensible, and logical. I like, and I'm subscribed! Like your hair, too!

The Holy Grail has been shared with the Guitar World. Without A Doubt the Most Informative lesson I have seen. Simply Genius , Well Done and many Thanks

Excellent video and some great ideas. Your a good teacher. Thanks for the lesson.

I just found your videos a couple days ago, your way of teaching is great! I've been watching a lot of lesson videos for the past 4 years and yours has become my favorite, thanks for these lessons. I'll be buying your books from Amazon for sure!

Thank you for this video man!!!! Really made me look at the board in a whole new way

Good job my friend -Very useful lesson- awesome Blue🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

Brilliant! Thanks man!