Hi Matt. How awesome of you to do this. Cancer affects us all. I truly know that your Mom and Dad and all of your beautiful family will be so proud of your generous efforts. I do hope your kitties are doing well. Luv Bella

Hey Matt! I get that by using G mixolydian we're still in C major territory and it preserves the cadential sound, but is there a reason why you choose F major over F lydian?

Bravo man!!! Proud of you.

One of my biggest problems (as a struggling intermediate guitarist) is knowing where notes are and how to construct chords. This way of thinking means that I can find a chord on the neck using the CAGED system, and then just look for those other notes to pile on in a way simpler way than I would normally go about it. Thank you and great video!

Nice one Matt. I hope you’re going to film it!!!

That’s awesome! Not just a good musician, also a good human being.

Cool guitar

You might as well be searching for the holy Grail. The journey never ends. Part of the fun!

Much love from Vancouver Canada

I already liked you based on your videos. Now I respect you deeply as well. You are an excellent human. I’m also a bald dude…you’ll save a lot on shampoo etc🤣

It will do you good 😂🎉 nice gesture for charity.

Doing God's work. Thanks to kind people like you, the world becomes a slightly better place

Nicely explained and played ❤

The Julian Lage scale practice of randomising notes within a position would help/apply here? I havnt actually tried that but remembered your video on it when I saw and heard what you just did in your first example

I like your approach. I’m not an even an intermediate guitar player anymore but there’s a reason I still clicked on the video. I always look for a fresh perspective on things and sometimes with I had a good teacher in the beginning.

Wow I was just getting used to caged and pentatonics. And you show up with full diatonics with modes over progressions! And yet this will likely become my ULTIMATE daily practice! Thank you!!!

Great video man 👍🎸 thanks!

Thank you Matt!

I am subscribing because this video is extremeeeeely useful!! :) thank you so much! This reminds me of chord progressions in Japanese rock and metal music . They are much more comfortable using minor 7, major 7, add 9 , jazz chords and more. Thank you so much for this video

Not a great guitar player, but i don't even use pick anymore. I got sick of losing them and there's no music store anywhere near me. I use my index fingernail held in a position you would hold a pick for playing faster stuff. I'm sure that would make any professional cringe, but I feel I can still play reasonably fast without a pick.

My mate nagged me to teach him guitar for over a year. When i finally relented, i refused to let him use open chords. I wanted him to learn where the notes are, how to construct triads, how to spot them within caged exercises and so see some inversions, look at how it relates to scales etc

Bob Weir style. Triads with shifting harmony on top!

That strat... Is gorgeous. Fuck I love that matte finish with the blue and gold hardware.

I love the method of exploring. the complication for me is using hybrid picking. taking it for granted that the guitarist is comfortable with that might be a mistake. I like at the end where you strummed the chords but you have the ability to mute the other strings. Again, I love the concept but implementing it would take other skills.

I've been using 6mm Gravity Stealth picks for couple of years and will never go back to anything else. These play and sound like a dream. Literally made me a better player.

Lovely lesson. U do private video lessons? Cheers

The biggest clickbait of this video is a thumbnail with short haired dude and a video with a perfect metalhead haircut

The amount you taught me tonight hella player so easy Idk what to say thank you take all my money😂

Huh real nigga like that

I send a few buck for the minor version

Damn this word word for chord for chord what i wanted to learn

So nuanced

Ive been playing for 15 years. The most dramatic increase in my playing and creativity and sounding like a musician and not like a “guitar player” has been playing with a good pianist and just literally imitating and downright copying what he’s playing. All of a sudden even the most basic music becomes interesting.

Matt, thanks for the lesson...like your layed back style. I also love the reference to keys...Good to break out of the pattern approach and make the guitar sound more musical...I get it. Appreciate the insights.

Purple Dunlop 🤟😎🤟

Love my jazztone 205s. They're basically 2mm jazz 3s that last at least thrice as long. Same material as the red John Petrucci signatures.

I do agree that thick picks are more versatile for the reasons you said, but it's worth noting that strumming with a thick pick held lightly makes a *different* pick sound than a thin one, a harsher pick sound in my opinion. That's not a significant issue with an electric, but acoustically it does matter. I tend to use a .78mm Dunlop, not super thick but definitely not too thin. I like to hit single strings *really* hard sometimes, and in those instances I find a truly inflexible pick is just murder; it hurts my fingers more, it makes too much harsh pick noise, it's harder for me to get consistent dynamics, and it'll break strings. I'm a bit of an edge case tho, most people don't want to get that percussive. I also sometimes use my pick for some rough staccato muting, and a truly thick pick is a totally useless mute because it acts like a tiny slide, making notes as it makes contact. If my comment sounds contrarian, that's not my intention. I think you're making a very good point, and I want to flesh out a few details about it.

Big alice 1.5 enjoyer here

Cool vid, Matt! I am self taught and i immediately took a dislike to standard tuning because it's difficult for beginners to experiment with chord voicings. I learned with open D, Open Csus2 and other cool sounding open tunings!

I love that you are not overproducing. Just a guy playing guitar, doing what he discovered. One take, not every not 100% perfect, but good teaching

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You are a great guitar teacher, buddy! Subbed!

I gravitate to a 'Prime Tone Sculpted Plectra' from Dunlop. At .96 mm, is pretty dang stiff and has great texture. When I put on lighter-gauge strings, thin picks got put away essentially, but I always liked them for strumming on acoustic at times. I have a trey with a wide assortment of picks and I like trying out different kinds. Maybe I'd use one on electric if I was aiming for a thin tone. The thinnest I have is a .46mm Martin L pick.

Jazz III carbon fiber (471P3C)

1.0mm snarling dog brains are my fav. the nylon is a little flexible still and it has a texture that is almost like velcro for your fingers

whatever vibe youre giving off I love it.

I’ll swear by the John petrucci signature pick😀

So, essentially you need a good understanding of chords and scales. Perhaps a bit of creativity as well.

I started using 1mm Dunlop Flow picks a year ago after using various Jazz 3s for over 10 years. As soon as I played with one, my Jazz 3 phase was over lol

really really good lesson !! helped switch my guitar playing mentality a lot, thank you