This was such a clearly explained tutorial - thank you very much.
@phili7993 күн бұрын
Thanks you i really enjoyed how you explained that it helps me a great deal.
@SecretGuitarTeacher3 күн бұрын
Thanks for the feedback - glad you enjoyed it 🙂
@RenzoTocador4 күн бұрын
I haven't found the link to the backing track on the description. What mode is that backing track?? Dorian?, mixolidian? 12 bars?
@SecretGuitarTeacher4 күн бұрын
Please use link in the description to access the backing track. This can be done by signing up for a free trial of the website (no credit card required). If you have any difficulties finding the lesson on the site, please contact me using the messaging system. The backing tracks are not modal. They are simply me playing the drill at different tempos and with each of the three rhythmic feels described in the video. The idea is that you play opposite me - ie. you play the repeated first note of each position while I play ascending/descending run for one bar then we switch. This makes more sense when you hear the tracks!!
@stanleyredman76126 күн бұрын
Thanks for your lesson,sir! So clear and perfect for beginners with blues!
@BustedSills8 күн бұрын
Ugh, so boring…next
@richellmcknight44614 күн бұрын
I play piano and rhythm guitar- can you please explain why c flat would be useful as opposed to b major, since most of us are going to recognize the b note as a B not a C flat, so it seems C flat is unnecessary confusing! I'm sure there's a reason for it, I just don't know what it is!❤
@SecretGuitarTeacher14 күн бұрын
Great question. There are very few guitar players who would be able to answer this question, because it is not until you have delved quite a way through the process of understanding music theory before the reason emerges. The main issue is this: Beginner and intermediate musicians learn to think in different keys. But the advanced musician has realised that all keys share common ground. The trick is to think of any major scale as being numbered 1 to 8. Then you can appreciate a whole bunch of common rules like, for example, how chord formulas work (notes 1+3+5 make up a Major chord, 1+3+5+6 make up a major sixth chord ... etc...) . Then there are rules about how chords are formed in each key (by harmonising the scale, the chords always come out in the same sequence of chord types: I = Maj(7) II = Min(7) III = Min (7) IV= Maj(7) V=Major or Dominant 7th vi = Min (7) vii = diminished or min7b5 (aka half-diminished). These ruiles hold good no matter what key you are in. So advanced musicians learn to think (and talk) in numbers, whether discussing notes in a scale or chords in a key. Now this is all well-covered elsewhere, but the point that is so rarely taught is that LETTER NAMES ALWAYS COINCIDE with NUMBERS. So in the key of F# Major the 4th note is called B (FGAB) but, in the key of Gb the same note is called Cb (GABC). In the key of Gb the fourth note cannot be called 'B' because we have already used that letter for the third note of the scale (Bb). The integrity of the system relies on two golden rules that should never be broken: 1: All major scales must contain all the letter names (ABCDEF&G) and 2. no letter names can ever be duplicated (thus you can't have B and Bb in the same key as note names even though, in the case of the key of Gb both those notes are present as sounds. Long explanation, but hope it gives you a glimpse.
@YouSuck202415 күн бұрын
Oh wow I’m so freaking mesmerized. I’m relearning guitar and this just touched my soul and gave me the inspiration not to give up. Thank you and thank you John Lee Hooker RIP!!!!!!❤
@leefowler435116 күн бұрын
Best explanation Ive seen it’s helped me a lot
@SecretGuitarTeacher16 күн бұрын
Thanks for your feedback. Good to know this helped 🙂
@user-we2vb4vs2g17 күн бұрын
As I'm waiting for my guitar, I'll have to go back thru all your underrated precious lessons for reviews. Thanks a lot!
@SecretGuitarTeacher16 күн бұрын
Thanks for your kind comment. Hope your guitar gets to you soon 🙂
@user-we2vb4vs2g15 күн бұрын
@@SecretGuitarTeacher I hope so, thank you
@lucydayLucida26 күн бұрын
Helpful, thank you.
@yogimarkmac26 күн бұрын
Obviously a few thousand people liked this, but I'm not a fan of this type of lesson that doesn't teach you anything but a sequence of almost correct mechanical movements. You may be learning a song, but not how to PLAY on the guitar. At no point do we get to see the sequence played through for a whole verse. Picking direction is shown, but we don't get taught about up-down picking technique. The bass part shown around 2:20 is incorrect: it should be alternating between a fretted G and the open E, not a fretted F#. How about talking about how it's all minor pentatonic based and uses the first position blues scale with a little extension on the high strings? The use of the flat 5 (Bb) on the second phrase as a "blue" note for dissonance. A hammer on for the B in the last lick is the correct way to play it, and sounds a lot better than picking each note. Just to be clear: this is not a criticism of Billy (he honestly seems like a nice guy), it's just a commentary on this lesson. I've been playing for over 45 years and now I'm a stodgy old fart.
@SecretGuitarTeacher16 күн бұрын
Thanks for the quality control. You are of course right about the bass line and the hammer on at the end. It may be worth noting though that this video was not primarily made for KZbin, but rather in response to a specific request from my site members. As such, it is pitched with a minimum of theory-based explanation and quite deliberately mechanistic. In general I prefer, like you, to look deeper into what lies behind the choice of notes in a song. We are probably both stodgy old farts ;-)
@SumnlsАй бұрын
I watched this video ten years ago and have been using this every day since I learned it. I have since passed this lesson on to anyone learning guitar and when I was doing that today, I thought I’d look for this video and was happy to see it still here and helping others. Thank you so much.
@SecretGuitarTeacherАй бұрын
Thanks for this lovely comment! Great to know this had the same effect on you as it originally did on me 🙂
@douggauzy6258Ай бұрын
Great video ! You really have taken a Fantastic approach to teaching . Up close fret work plus tabulators . Truly Great !
@julianeubauer3416Ай бұрын
Where can I find part 2?
@SecretGuitarTeacherАй бұрын
Go to www.secretguitarteacher.com and sign up for the FREE thirty-day trial (no credit card details required). Navigate to the SGT Classic section of the site and find the course called: SGT Classic: From Blues to Jazz. These videos are part of that course.
@Flash_AtomsАй бұрын
Will you be my dad???? I CANT TELL YOU HOW EXCITED I AM TO FINALLY UNDERSTAND AND PLAY THIS!!! sir, I first heard Mr. Johnson and my first intro into blues when I was 13 by pure accident. I was like “OMG What is THIS!?” Two years later I got my first guitar, and now 35 yrs later, I can finally play what started it all. My god.. first video/lesson that makes sense! from the bottom of my heart THANK YOU.
@SecretGuitarTeacherАй бұрын
Great to hear your guitar playing has come full circle in this way! Thanks for the comment 🙂
@FretlinerАй бұрын
Great lesson, clear and inspiring. Thank you very much
@user-py4ey7zm8xАй бұрын
Cool.
@user-py4ey7zm8xАй бұрын
Cool.
@mogtbaguitar5779Ай бұрын
Thanks❤
@lucasgoncalvespereira577Ай бұрын
thank you very much sir!
@Tomek9669Ай бұрын
thank you!
@peterbridge7940Ай бұрын
I know the very well presented in interesting lesson, but as a tone deaf bass player who is actually hard of hearing, I'll just let somebody say we're playing this in A or whatever and I'm away if I can remember the next chord so I always assume that meant it was in A. also with the power of the internet, unlike when I was a teenager I look online and it might give the chords or I'll look at play along tracks. and I just assumed that the first chord represented the cat was in maybe small complicated than that, but I've been living in a wonderful falls paradise 😁😊
@peterbridge7940Ай бұрын
Another very well presented. interesting video and to repeat what I said in an earlier post. I play bass and I've never played lead, but there are different ways to improve and this is a very watchable, informative series of videos I was in the impression the blues songs were offering in meineke not in a 7.Dominant 7th chords ...have I got this wrong or is it only part of the story And blues is often in minor or in seven dominant seventh. The second question is that if somebody was playing a blues in C major then I could play C E G E As a pattern and if necessary, go beyond it to make it two bars walking bass style but if it was in C minor i guess I should play C Eb G Eb And beyond. is this correct? and quite often they don't tell me whether it's made a reminder at the blues jams. they just stsrt playing and it sounds okay anyway😂 I don't really collect anybody ever saying this is in c7 but if they did would I play something different? thanks
@peterbridge7940Ай бұрын
When i see B/F# I believe that means it's the chord of B, but F# is the lowest note and it seems to be a dominant note. I've been led to believe that as a bass player, I should play the F sharp and indeed why not experimented in this instance and play the B it doesn't sound good. in fact, it sounds wrong but If I played B on bass it would still sound okay but just not sound as good or as interesting is it my lack of music clear or or am I correct? and in this instance B would actually sound wrong rather than not sound appropriate
@peterbridge7940Ай бұрын
that was a very pleasant and well presented lesson. you speak very clearly and you don't say hey you guys... And there's nothing wrong with that but it does irritate me so thank you for not doing it. I found it remarkable that you say some bass players responded in a negative way. I haven't heard this other video but you don't say anything in the slightest bit arrogantly and it's clearly obvious you're just giving ideas out. I play bass but no more. am I a musician than as an English speaker. I am a poet or an author. I simply play bass but I am absolutely not a musician. personally, I find it quite difficult to believe that any lead or even rhythm guitars can't simply pick up a bass and play it whether they play it well is a different matter, but to me one is To a certain degree a subset of the other ( in terms of the notes) even though they need a approavh different feel. I have heard many many lead guitarists play bass and they've played bass for a variety of reasons and they generally don't make mistakes, but some of them play such tedious bass lines and others don't provide much for foundation for the music and seem to spend 99% of the time playing a lead bass which for me doesn't work. unless that is what the song was designed for. Many leaf guitarist have started on bass. And usually they play the bass with the feeling and drive of a bass player with the extra knowledge and experience of a lead guitarist and it's wonderful to listen to. such a specific riffettes as in a whole lot of love. paranoid we got to get out of this place. etc I never try to learn what a bass player has played. I wouldn't be able to learn it and I would forget it. I simply do not have a good musical ear or memory for sounds so I cannot learn / remember these. very clever bass lines people have played I have little or no music theory or training but I am looking at that nowadays and what I look for is the chord, progressions and structure of a song. once I know the chord progressions and that can take me a while to learn I just mive between The chords and yes, I'll sometimes get it wrong and I'll often play something that isn't in the appropriate scale, but on balance it works and that's simply how I play I've played many blues numbers quite well without having any idea which song im playing, but I think there's a lot for me to learn So I'm going to look at your video on the Blues.
@SecretGuitarTeacherАй бұрын
Thanks for your kind feedback. There are of course, many approaches to playing bass. I see them as being on a sort of spectrum from 'purely lead' all the way to 'purely functional' . Personally I like to make sure my bass playing makes the rest of the band sound as good as possible, so I probably lean in the direction of functional rather than 'interesting' ! But i don't preach that as being 'right' or 'wrong' - it just feels the best approach for me in the particular context I play most of the time. Also, you can have zero understanding of music theory and still play excellent bass just by listening well, experimenting and trusting your own musical feel. Likewise, you can have a degree level grasp of theory, play all the 'right' notes and sound completely dead if you don't have the feel!
@quinnwilliams5163Ай бұрын
Great lesson. Love the singing too
@SecretGuitarTeacherАй бұрын
Thanks, that is very kind of you 🙂
@ElIngLopezАй бұрын
it looks to me like playing over e penta...
@gopilotmusic2 ай бұрын
Aces! TY!
@rayoncheddesingh79052 ай бұрын
good day please try a down bit only I am from Jamaica
@Handd4u2 ай бұрын
Love your videos. As a guitarist, your instruction makes the transition to a bassist much easier. K.I.S.S - Keep it simple stupid. The foundation of success. Thank you.
@edi88502 ай бұрын
Bellissimo
@ThomasGarySr2 ай бұрын
Hi Im a super beginner, Im finding your lessons to be super comfortable. I like how you take your time in showing the fingers to frat, showing over and over again. I can get comfortable with your lessons, please keep the slow paste for super beginners.. Much Respect
@SecretGuitarTeacher2 ай бұрын
Good to know you appreciate the teaching style. Thanks for commenting 🙂
@Nuraghead2 ай бұрын
This is so accurate.. Thank u
@SecretGuitarTeacher2 ай бұрын
Thanks for your kind comment - really nice to know you appreciate it 🙂
@JTPMcC2 ай бұрын
Great lesson Nick, I always learn new things when watching your videos
@SecretGuitarTeacher2 ай бұрын
Thanks for commenting 🙂Good to know.
@uhoh0072 ай бұрын
The vanilla cadences.....but they become much more with syncopatio, see page 5 compund 5/4 cadence with a prepared dissonance. Acoustic sustain is perhaps a bit weak to demonstate, but it's an overlooked glory for electric guitar: derekremes.com/wp-content/uploads/compendium_english.pdf
@gianlucatrabuio87252 ай бұрын
You have change my life,thanck
@SecretGuitarTeacher2 ай бұрын
Good to know! Thanks for the comment 🙂
@msilv83352 ай бұрын
I haven’t been able to relax my strumming hand until I followed along with this. Well done.
@SecretGuitarTeacher2 ай бұрын
Great to know this helped! Thanks for commenting 🙂
@MrBarrynicholas2 ай бұрын
Sounds like you need a higher action.
@SecretGuitarTeacher2 ай бұрын
Absolutely. I don't do a lot of slide guitar so I haven't got a guitar properly set up for it. If I did, I would probably make a special nut and bridge for it to help raise the strings away from the frets.
@keithskelton22872 ай бұрын
😂🙏🎼
@Michael-dp7tz3 ай бұрын
I have a lot of respect for Robert Johnson I'm a lead and rhythm guitar player in a hard rock band and we are wanting to remake a song by Mr. Johnson to pay our respects to him.
@SecretGuitarTeacher2 ай бұрын
Great idea!
@maxcameo3 ай бұрын
Better than most lessons here on youtube. Well appreciated 🙌🏼
@SecretGuitarTeacher2 ай бұрын
Thanks for your kind appraisal :-) Glad you liked it.
@leegosling3 ай бұрын
Your original videos on the circle of fifths was my launching point, after 30+ years of strumming without understanding, towards a lasting affinity to father charles and his battling and a deep dive into music theory that has expanded my playing, taught me to improvise and brought so much freedom and fun on guitar. Would thoroughly recommend the this fella as the best explainer of the circle of fifths and key signatures on KZbin and beyond. Period. Fact.
@SecretGuitarTeacher3 ай бұрын
Great to know! Thanks for the positive feedback:-)
@brianwarner3083 ай бұрын
great lesson man!! got me playing it much better
@danbronk96853 ай бұрын
dont understand the Plus 5 minus 3 math (when you explained the full tone shift between strings)
@SecretGuitarTeacher3 ай бұрын
Thanks for the question. Let's give you a bit more detail on this: The 6th string is tuned to E and the 5th string to A. A is five steps up the chromatic scale from E ( F F# G G# A). So, if we cross from 6th string to 5th string at any given fret we are gaining Five semitones. In the example on the video I have just played the note B at fret 7 on the 6th string and I want to go up a full tone to the note C#. This is simple if I stay on the same string - I just move up two frets and play C# at fret 9 on the 6th string. BUT the exercise calls for the scale to be played in one position using different fingers rather than on one string. To find the C# on the 5th string I can move straight across at fret 7 to gain 5 semitones (E at fret 7 on the 5th string) so I have 'added 5'. Then I 'subtract 3' by moving down three frets to find C#' at fret 4. So to move two semitones from B to C# I have the choice to move up 2 frets on the 6th string, or I can achieve the same effect by moving straight across to the 5th string (adding five semitones) and then moving down that string 3 frets (subtracting 3 from 5 to give me the 2 fret increase). Hope that helps!
@sweetkittiez3 ай бұрын
Thank you ✌️🤟
@lucydayLucida3 ай бұрын
I know this one is 10 years old, but the channel is still quite active. The links in the description for the site are all broken, which is a shame. Having taken a look, or tried to, it's disappointing that there's no content at all visible unless one signs up first.
@SecretGuitarTeacher3 ай бұрын
Thanks for your interest and thanks too for flagging up the broken link (which I have just fixed). I have recently re-launched the site which is now housed on a responsive platform so that it should be accessible on all device types. I am running it directly rather than using a marketing company, but that means I am still playing catch-up on details like links in the KZbin descriptions! You can currently access all online site content for a thirty-day trial with a simple sign-up (no credit card details required).
@lucydayLucida3 ай бұрын
@@SecretGuitarTeacher Thanks for the response. I will take a look!
@vicmorrison81283 ай бұрын
Look forward to, and enjoy all of your videos! Best of KZbin!