When the Hobby Becomes an Obsession (guitar progression) 

man, watching you grow from you popping up on my shorts page when i first started playing guitar to watching you branch out into different genres and even types of content was so awesome and inspiring for me to grow. not just as a guitarist, but as a musician. thank you for sharing mikey ❤

i think the best thing to have when learning an instrument is passion because without passion its hard to find the motivation to actually practice. passion drives you to practice, it makes you want to pick up the guitar and play, it gives you inspiration. its clear that you have a crazy amount of passion and i admire you for that bro

its not called practicing, its called enjoying playing some dope stuff

This is a cool look back at your progress! Keep at it, and thanks for inspiring people!

I started string bass in orchestra in 5th grade in 1985 .. got a guitar in 8th grade and have been playing. 36 years … you are sooooo good .. your progression is amazing .. I’m inspired to keep learning

Mikey, i want to thank you for bringing me another perspective to guitar. I'm most of the times stuck on playing the same licks and riffs, but your playing has changed me over the last few months. Learning from you, i now try to play other genres than my preferred ones, this has lead me to alter the way i see guitar.. You are a great inspiration of mine, thank you

I'm around 4 months into learning guitar and this was really motivational to keep practicing. Thanks

I think one of the interesting things I've learned over the years is that being good at anything means lots of sucking, repetition and more sucking. It's easy to see someone who's been at it for a few years and say "wow, they're amazing, I wish I could play like that!" What I've learned is you gotta be willing to put in a lot of time and putting small achievable goals to hit. I love playing guitar, it's a journey for sure, but no better feeling then trying to learn a riff or song, you're terrible at first and then you keep at it and then it clicks!

great job man took years of practice and it shows - obsession is an understatement. keep it up bro

The fact that you could do this with your dad is nice. Some can't get that. God Bless you bud.

Thx for inspiring me to don’t quit and keep learning because of you I kept playing and learning the solo of in bloom

Thanks Mikey this just gave me more motivation to keep on practicing, this video was amazing

I've been playing 18 years. Time flies. I really made the most progress as a guitarist in those first 3-5 years. I'm no EVH but I'm comfortable with my skill level for a guy with severe arthritis. For anyone out there getting frustrated in the first year or so, keep at it. It'll pay off. But how Mikey is finding other live musicians to gig with is honestly beyond me, even at my age. I'm convinced drummers and bassists just don't exist in real life.

Very inspiring journey. Thanks for sharing it with us.

Dude you gave me a lot of confidence about my playing, but I'm still in my comfort zone playing just for me. But this video make me mor comfortable to get out and play, and practice and everything. You became one of my guitar heros.

this kinda lit an ignition inside me again as to what it was like to play guitar for the first time. these days I haven't been picking up the guitar because I'm so caught up with everything else in my life, but I realized that I'm still the same kid who had decided to play the guitar and wanted to play for hours on end every single day that I could. and for that I want to pick up my guitar once more and try to finish the hard songs that I once wanted to complete in order to fulfill not just my self esteem, but for the kid that wanted to rock out the entire world. thank you mikey 💛

Mate you are slaying it ! Covid was actually pretty well timed for your guitar progress

Awesome video man, thanks for sharing. love it!

I’m over a year into playing and I feel like I can learn anything I want to now it’s just not having the time to do so is a huge problem for me.. but I will never stop playing.. I absolutely love it

Loved the video. Really opened my eyes to practice with ups and downs

This was an awesome video. Thanks so much

Great stuff dude and your dads a legend

One of the best vídeos of yt, I hope that some day I can play like you bro.

bro youre one of my inspirations

Nice! I like it! That's progress right there!

Wish I had someone to teach me every day. You’re so lucky

Just wanted to say man that fact that you started at 17 and are this good is insane. I started at that age too I’m 19 now and sometimes it can feel daunting or that I’m like behind the curve compared to all other my age who played guitar. So just want to say I find you really inspiring that you started at that age and not that good I guess it really really just is about practice.

The prom proposal was pretty cool

me genuinely tripping when he said “just play what you feel-you don’t have to learn scales if you don’t want to” this is a great video bro and also really inspiring for me to just keep going ❤

so sick that you started so recently mate

you are my guitar hero with the growing studies and my course i get less time but i still love my strat and wont let it go (its name is phoenix) i am self taught and now playing for more than an year now

I started guitar about 9 months ago, and I’d say I’m getting pretty good, but this made me not wanna just play for hobby, I love blues and I’ll probably stick to blues/rock so thx for saying we don’t have to do what everyone is doing just do what you like and that’s that ❤

Wow Mikey, you're a real rock star

BRO U ARE MY IDOL LOLLLL

I've been playing for 5 years, and I still don't know any scales. It gives me inspiration to see you learn them in less than 2 years

This video actually inspired me to try to play different genres than my usual music taste (especcially the time when you tried out polyphia)

Sweeet progress ❤💯

I miss having this passion

Idk if this is a dumb question or not but what was your method of practice like what were you doing to progress and learn so well 😭😭

Brilliant ❤

İ wanna be like this guy someday

this video honestly made me a lot more confident and determined to get better at guitar. i’m the kinda person to kinda quit if i’m not automatically good at whatever i’m doing and i’ve been trying to change that recently. i started playing guitar around 2 months ago, so far i absolutely love it and it’s something i would love to pursue, but i get burnt out quickly bcuz of not making crazy progress immediately. seeing someone who, in my opinion, is absolutely amazing at guitar show how they were at the beginning and that you were once at a similar skill level as me made me way more confident, basically showed me that with time, i will get better :)

Whats your best advice for someone losing confidence in learning?

Thats crazy ! :) My first amp was a little gorilla like that 1992;)

Dude if I could choose the song of my life, it would be Lenny. My Dad would play it on a stereo when I was a baby to help me fall asleep and it worked every time, and playing it on guitar is even better.

I started electric only 6 months ago and you have inspired me to give it my best. also where's the gear collection vid? How important is music theory to you and learning players?

nice!

I love playing Lenny

Ayyy long form video let's go

dude kept learning new things. Aah, that feels familiar.

Just out of pure curiosity, how did you learn Hey Joe, especially the part where you play with the guitar on your back. Could not find the tabs to make it sound quite like your part does

Finally going to give you a sub because I made an account finally thanks for all you man!

I never realized that band mate walk off vid was you lol

1:38 the blurred feet lmao

I had the same thing. It was weird, since the first three years i did not really do anything. Like the hardest songs i could play were jellybelly by the smashing pumpkins and my own summer by deftones. After 3 years, something suddenly clicked whereas before i liked the concept of guitar but dis not like putting in the work, now i needed to play guitar and began to experience withdrawl symptoms if i didn’t play guitar for long enough. I could play for an entire day with no breaks for a weekend without even stopping to eat. And i would love every second of it. Now of course sometimes i don’t want to play as much, but there are also times like those. And man, I made like so much progress. After three years: Could play single note riffs and power chords Did not know one chord or one scale Played like only easy metal like deftones Basically no progress, just screwing around Knew nothing about music theory After 3 months with my newfound obsession: Venturing into jazz chords and weird chords, tritones, all that jazz Still was a metalhead Knows a lot about music theory Can sing and play at the same time Can play jack johnsons “Constellations” Can play classical guitar songs like “Capricjo arabe” Basically could just play anything pretty well, an all rounder I found all guitar fascinating and wanted to explore all of it, and so I did not focus on speciallizing. Just remember, if you want it enough, work and all, you can do it, and I am a prime example ( i do find it important to note that I was a music lover since out of the womb, my literal first word was guitar no joke. I had played like a bit of piano and drums beforehand but no instrument stuck with me. I can now play various percussion instruments including drums, bass, piano, and most of all guitar)

7:50 2018 was an edgy year. i felt that

Songs that you play in this video?

This was fun!!! Would recommend checking out Seasons End by Weapons has great riffs and Daisy Chain's album Oh my, Satan. Thanks for the recommendation RU-vid.

What is the name of the group you were in? I wanna listen to that album

tomo fujita the goat

I’m in

I go back and forth on playing guitar. I can at least say that I have only not played for one day so far. I've at least picked something or strummed aomething or tried to learn a new chord every so often

Hey I play since 1 month can you tell me what to learn cause the internet is really messy

Can we have the full video of 1:44 plsss?

Been obsessed with guitar… Played for 3-6 hours every day for like 3 weeks until my wrist started hurting. Sadly im on a break rn it sucks so bad i just want to play and improve maaan

tried playing guitar 5 minutes ago, im ass, gonna be a long journey

So much good progress.. but still has not found the Telecaster 😮😅

RELEASE THE ALBUM KING

whats the song at the end of year one

So cool man. I started with a bass guitar but recently been trying guitar lots of fun. love your hippie taste in music. Keep on rocking dude.

I'm only subscribing bcuz ur last name sounds Italian And Italians are dope

The fact so many talk about his feet is exactly why he censored them 😂

I’ve obsessed so much that I got a wrist cyst and now I have to wait weeks to remove it and can’t play 😭

whats the solo at 8:18 ??

What's your favorite Hendrix story?

Im so cooked I gotta practice more

what is he playing at 8:30 its a walking bass jazz thingy

Show us your parts-caster

Can you pleas mske a vid abt all your guitars

Not him censoring his feet 😭

room tour please

song at 1:18??

7:51 Smoke?

Nepo baby

song at 8:19 ????

dude, you're my favourite guitarist on RU-vid

Bro lives inside an guitar pedal 💀

Tbh polyphia is the reason i bought a guitar, i always wanted to play as a kid my cousin played guitar but now I'm an adult and when i listened to polyphia for the first time i decided to buy one for Christmas 2023, I'm still very early on but it's really fun i mainly got it to ease my brain away from my main hobby and because i aspire to one day make something that sounds cool 🤷‍♂

pense q hablaba de los hobbits xdxddxxdjaskhsadjas

does he reply

I dance and play flute

How old is he?

Was not a beginner from the beginning haha 🤣

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are you 27 yet?

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Man I suck so bad lol

Lucky mf😭😭😭 how’d you get a stage peformance with such a big audience and so little experience

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