Thanks!

No. The answer to your video's title question is no.

Watched a couple of your videos. Just subscribed. Liked the positive vibe and instructional focus. You have a great way of framing things; I can tell you have sat with a lot of guitar students!

I was on the fence on a telecaster

Congratulations. Sweet guitar. Sounds awesome.

Noodling is more than welcome! Congrats on the new guitar(s).

As a struggling intermediate, just learning that if you start the scale on the root note puts the scale in that key. Why dont people just come out and tell you that ?

Great advice… when I found out there was 5 positions and learned the all the notes on the neck it really opened everything up and reduced confusion to nearly elimination. Now I just need to recall the info faster

I have the same one. I agree great guitar. I upgraded the pups to Seymour Duncans le Brea. I changed the neck to a american ultra rosewood. A 4 way switch. Locking tuners. Oaks grigsby pots with a bleed circuit.

Was waiting for a video on this new guitar! I think I can speak for everyone when I say we’d love to hear more of ur playing in ur videos, always so awesome to hear, and 400-500 sounded like a great deal. Iv been gravitating towards that Tele and P90 sound recently and am saving up for a Telecaster in the future as well!

Really enjoyed hearing you play in the intro!

Sounds great

Great lesson, Matt!

Where I live, for USD350 I could only get a Squier Custom 72 Telecaster (a Fender T Player costs USD +1k). I changed the barrel saddles for some compensated ones but I wasn't happy with these either. Finally, a guitar tech replaced those for the single ones. Then, a new slim bone nut was added and some 0.12 flat wounds. It became perfect for jazz. More details about this sort of idea may be found over here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oZ2oeKiEn86DY9U. Saludos! Kudos on such a great purchase, btw!!!

Noodling? If that was noodling then everybody on you tube noodles.

Just yesterday I thought, "When is he gonna tell us about the tele?"

Looks and sounds great! Did not see that thrasher lick coming. 😊

You got a great deal! Dings just add character. When I bought my last guitar I was thinking about a Tele-style and ended up getting my hands on a Sire T7. I played it for a few minutes and it just felt right-I wish I could put that neck on everything. The price is pretty comparable to a new Fender Player series, but a lot more than the price you paid for that one. And no matter what the guitar costs, when you know it's the one, it's the one. Would love to hear you noodling some more!

Tasteful fresh noodles are always welcome to me! I feel like you played enough to be enjoyable without the noodles overstaying their welcome in the video.

Definitely want to see more clips of you playing/noodling! 🙏🏽😃👍🏽 $350 USD for that guitar is a steal! I may have to say to heck with that $2000 Hamer I’m eyeing. The number thing holding me back from buying an expensive USA made guitar is that I’m going to be disappointed that it’s not that much better, or any better, than an import model, no name brand, or partscaster that I could build for less than half the price of a USA guitar.

A Hamer T-51 popped up on eBay about a month ago right before you got your new tele. The Hamer is Butterscotch blonde, same as yours and looks like pretty much the same guitar. I’ve been wanting one for a while now and I think I’ve only seen two for sale, counting this one, the past few years online. Made in the 1990s, It’s $2000 USD which is a bit more than I want to spend but I don’t think I can find one in the $1000-$1200 range considering how rare they seem to be. A lot more Hamer Strat/Daytona models around that can be bought in the $1000 range but I feel like the Tele is a WAY BETTER guitar, for me personally. Both strats and teles are ergonomically incredibly comfortable playing guitars with just the right amount of electronics and functional switch button layouts but the strat is just a little too much for me. It’s like cruise control in a car. It’s a neat feature but I never use it like the two extra switch positions and third pickup 😆. Awesome guitar Matt! I’m stuck on Hamers and have never owned a Fender but I think I may have to go try one out after watching your video. ✌🏽

I recently bought a Player II Tele and have been loving it. I thought I’d want to change the pickups but I’m content at the moment. This guitar is on par with my 2004 MIA Strat

I recently bought a Player II Tele and have been loving it. I thought I’d want to change the pickups but I’m content at the moment. This guitar is on par with my 2004 MIA Strat

Great lesson 👏. Im gonna practice this with all my licks I wanna internalize

Explaining your thought process is helpful 🎉

If you ever gig in Vancouver please announce!

Fresh noodles are always appreciated

That's a great price for a Fender Tele. I'm considering buying one but I play mostly high gain heavy stuff. I'd love to see a video where you show how to get more metal tones out of a tele.

Awesome guitar. I purchased a Tease guitar that would be a telecaster. Just a side note. My wife is Canadian. She's from Red Deer Alberta.

I liked hearing you play. The picture in picture was nice and helpful to see the chords/rhythm that goes with your lead part. Keep up the great content.

man this video is just amazing and super useful, thank you so much matt

I just found your channel and am a new subscriber. I am a struggling intermediate trying to learn how to improvise. I am thinking about changing the way I learn licks and wondered what you thought. Like most people, I have learned licks by memorizing a series of notes on certain frets and strings but then if I change keys I am lost and can't use them. I recently decided to learn the licks by memorizing the order of the notes in a lick by where they are in the major or minor scale. This is similar to how everyone memorizes the major /minor scale in the CAGED system, triads, etc. I can move the scale around or find a triad because I know where the root notes are. If I'm thinking of starting a lick by sliding from the 4th to the 5th note in a scale on the B string , I will know where that is regardless of the key. This seems like it would work better in moving the lick around as you are suggesting. What do you think of this ?

Excellent lesson Matt.....do you have any lessons for building solos and improvisation. I have watched your video on 5 things intermediate guitarist should learn

Great channel 👍

Doing the lords work, thanks for the advice!!

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Melodically the B target reminds of Amy Winehouses Fade to Black, and the F# maybe Careless Whisper, George Michael. Interesting.

Absolutely top notch content

Oh my GOD! You are an amazing guitarist.

hey quick question. would travis picking be considered an arpeggiation, even though it sometimes relies on harmonization of two notes?

I’m definitely still a beginner, but one thing that helped me a lot was taking time after I learn anything new to try to make something musical out of it, and try to find a song where I can use it. Both of these really tell me where I’m at with whatever I’m learning and what my weaknesses still are with it.

The reason I learned A minor pentatonic over 30 years ago was because of Jimmy's Pages heartbreaker solo

Agaïn very bad lesson like all other ,i play for 8years guitar everyday bc i dont have to work my legd are disabled.dont listen to this idiot pls learn jimmy hendrix lesson so you learn guitar

I get confused when people say you should know both your major and minor pentatonic scales. Aren’t they the same shape? The only thing that changes is the root note or how it’s resolved?

Fantastic video! You managed to get rid of all the fluff which plagues KZbin guitar videos and pack a lot of information in less than 9 minutes! Thanks!!

I’ve played off and on for 50 some odd years. Now I play a standard non cutaway classical guitar, great for playing alone. Thanks for your advice. I’ve got some other suggestions that I use, but yours are comprehensive. Thanks for posting!!

Thanks for posting. I’ll always be an aspiring intermediate, now 81 years old, usually playing alone. I did play clarinet in grade school and Danelectro bass in high school and college. Then I quit to focus on my job/career. Then I heard Jeremy Steig/Denny Zeitlin “Flute Fever” and decided I had to play something. Not having much money, I bought a cheap acoustic guitar.

I play 8's, and tuned down to Eb. Bends and vibrato are so effortless. Also helped my technique cause it forces me to play with an extremely light touch. Both with my fretting and picking hand... Because of this I can now play for hours with no fatigue whatsoever... It all comes down to personal preferences...

I think part of my problem is that I actually like the jagged, snapping sound I get (and you were getting) from playing too hard. Need to let go for the sake of my body

lmao im actually such a scale zombie, thanks for the wake up call