Im missing most of my index finger on my fingering hand..do to accident..any help?

Tom, from playing open D or open G, which one do you prefer? I have a mess in my head!! Thank you! :-)

Molt bé! I molt simpàtic com ho expliques! Thanks!!

61 1/2 got an acoustic and waiting on an electric to arrive. I will learn to play now. Always wanted to play.

Hi, in a band, can the folk guitar play in DADGAD while others are in EADGBE ?

.... and mind you, I'm 84...

I use alcohol on the tips of my lets hand after practicing. This works for me.

What a Lovely honest Man..Giving it all away. bless Ya !

58-year-old gal here, disabled and sidelined from work. I was a classical pianist but I messed up my left thumb and can't extend it anymore. My 15-year-old nephew looked at me like I was silly. "You spent the last five years griping you can't play the piano anymore? No way. Here, hold my guitar". I did, and said "Oh". 😆 I am having to unlearn a lot but my guitar teacher (half my age) thinks I'm a genius. And I may be smart, OK, but ugh, being busted back down to beginner sucks. Thank you so much for helping make it more bearable! 🩵

I’m 58, have been playing for fun all my life. My son asked me to teach him and I don’t know where to start with. They always want me to teach them so they can play tomorrow. It took me many years to be able to play with ease. Good luck with the practice. Love your guitar. It will eventually sound great.

Love your Tips ! You have a wonderful ability to teach . Thanks Start with easy songs and the guitar Always in Reach , Sight and the 5 mins , I play for hours ! Cheers

I found a harmonica on the sidewalk in 1975 and it has been my friend for 50 years. Maybe I suck, but I don't care and my friend don't care either.

I will be 77 this April & started playing acoustic blues guitar since 12 in 1960, when I hocked my clarinet (I played classical clarinet from first grade) for an acoustic Harmony flattop. I later found out that the school owned the clarinet & have been paying off new guitars ever since. I got my first GOOD electric in early 64. It was a 64 sunburst Fender Stratocaster (along with a 64 Twin Reverb amp!!!) with my early professional earnings. I still have the guitar, case & all the trimmings down to the allen wrench for the truss rod & the strap & cleaning cloth - I'll only sell it if I live long enough to run out of retirement money, since I just saw one like mine auctioned off for $40,000 ;). It cost me about $300 + $50 for the case! Look up KZbin videos on open G as well, since you just have to transpose every chord & riff down one string, and it plays the same forms. Keith Richards plays most of his Rolling Stones riffs in open G (D-G-D-G-B-D). Since he doesn't think he needs the bass D, as his root note is the G on the 5th string (x-G-D-G-B-D), he has cut the 6th (bass E) string off his 53 Tele instead of detuning it to D. I like to keep my lower D so I can walk the bass of my V chord (D or some variant like D7) back up to G to resolve it. Many of Richards' signature flourishes & chord variants are surprisingly easy to learn & you can learn to play many of his songs easily in G, where they would be neigh onto impossible to play in standard. Note, Richards does not use a pick on many of his open songs. Most open chord tuning songs are MUCH more interesting & flexible for fingerpicking, not flatpicking on both acoustics AND electrics. It also makes "relative modal" playing easier by picking something other than the first note of the scale as your root (relative modal keeps the same key, but alters the root note. In "relative modal", the key stays the same, but the root note changes, so in the C scale, Dorian mode would start with a D. Only intervals change as you use a different root note for your scale, but you stay in the same key. In "parallel modal." the root note stays the same, but the KEY is the one that changes. So that, using the root C in Ionian (C major) becomes Dorian if you use the C root in the key in parallel Dorian, your E becomes Eb and your B becomes Bb. Same root, different key (Bb major key with a C root). If you learn enough open tunings (there are minor versions - flatted 6th note in diatonic makes it minor, for example - modal, aug, sus, pentatonic, Celtic DADGAD and endless other tunings) it is an excellent excuse to placate your spouse who questions why you think you need so many guitars. "But, honey, it's a pain to keep retuning - and weakening on the strings, nut, & bridge. I NEED separate guitars for my open tunings!" It even works sometimes.

That guitar sound ilegally stunning!

What a total waste of time all you do is BS

Fire on the Mountain - Grateful Dead B and A, Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down - Merle Haggard D and A, Iko Iko - Dr John D and A, Snake Farm - Ray Wylie Hubbard E and A. and and and......

How do you play minor chords?

Thanks 😊

Buon natale to everyone!🎄I wish you to spend good time with the people you love and I have rejoin this beautiful community asap!

Great chords, thank you very much and Merry Christmas. Subscribed

It’s really no secret sauce. It’s pretty simple in fact. You simply won’t get better if you don’t pick it up and practice with it. It’s just no getting around paying your dues. It’s not just with the guitar. Any instrument.

Merry Christmas, Tom, to you and your family, and thanks for the lessons. It's always great when I can get here!! 🎄🎄

Merry Christmas!🎄 Beginner with acoustic and found you yesterday.🎸 72 next month, so need all lessons I can get.🙏 Thank you for this Christmas lesson! ✅ Linda💃🎶

Hello!

Good morning Tom - was great seeing you last night. Hope you had fun!

Great to revisit. Many thanks.

Tom, just found this video. Got my 1st guitar, acoustic electric dreadnaught cutaway last week. 72 next month and a beginner! This video already answered some of my questions!! Thank you!

Great advise, I am 67 and beginning the guitar so thanks for the video and hopefully you may do more of these for your senior fans.🎶🙏

Great video, thanks! I really appreciate tip #6, exercise to work on problem chords. When making barre chords, I can’t seem to get my ‘driving finger’ onto the fret board at the same time as the rest of my fingers. I think this exercise will help out.

I’m 29.. lol I feel young in this comment section.

If any DADGAD video could just start without a 5 minute discussion of what DADGAD is and how it’s tuned, that’d be great.

The Coles, all day.

What do you mean 40, 50 60th I did my first attempt way back in the late 1980th to early 1990th and now again, and did only give it up because I did get into Sitar & Indian Classical Music then up to the Pro Level with Public Stage appearances, but never really had the feeling that I missed it until now with 73 years old so YES I will have a go at it and see what I still remember ...

I was trying to find something to lower the volume down so I can practice late at night. You conduct great tests and answered my questions! Thanks! I saw a bunch of people using tennis racket vibration dampeners too and also found this guy teaching how to make something like that out of a mousepad 11 years ago! kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z5LGdWyYgLGmqLMsi=5h-QHxGUYpzoghZL I think this type of silencers sound especially nice with fingerpicking and will try it with nylon strings to play Bossa Nova and MPB

To much talking ugh

literally can't do this with my pointer and pinky on the top string. my ring finger doesn't function :(

Great ideas Tom. . I’m 73 , retired and looking to pick up an acoustic and try again. Tried in my twenties but didn’t get anywhere. Your ideas are excellent and can’t wait to get my piece and get to it. Thank you!

Thanks!

You are awesome!! Great tips!

Butler, huh, that’s about 20 miles north of me. You got ties in Indiana?

I think you could do amazing content in the vein of John Nathan Cordy - love your jam tracks and original music, love to hear your thoughts about instruments music and industry

Thank you for this videos. I’m 54 for and I recently begin to learn. It’s helping me a lot.

Perfect for composing acoustic Tool songs!

Beautiful guitars.

Appreciate your time Gentlemen

I started guitar at 70 after retirement. Now at 76 and having watched this video right after I started, the 2 most helpful hints for me were 1. to keep the guitar out and near by and 2. try for at least 5 minutes a day. 5 minutes usually ends up being 10 or more. Sometimes as much as a half hour, unless my Great Dane decides she has heard enough after just 5 minutes. Other tips have been helpful, so great video. Thanks

I want to tune my 12 string a whole step down. Can you provide instructions and “tones” to accomplish this? Thanks for the help. Cannot seem to find anything legit out here on how to do it.

Thank you for not assuming your viewers are complete noobs

Whatever you do, speak a musical language that means nothing to beginners. An then, go as fast as you can not relating strings played with fret positions.

Thank you for this! It helps more than you know. The ending with 7,000 subs. Now you're at 4.1 MILLION! And one more "ME!"