So true!!! I was reminding myself of this half n hour ago as i was practicing!!! 😂 Its what keeps me going to finally learn the fretboard, and again.. and again.. and again.. haha. Great to know to push as well its ok to make mistakes.. or it just becomes a finger exercise rather than learning 👍 Thank you for the share!! 😎🙏🕊️✨

Well… this guy actually gave away free material that is actually useful! I’m so glad I stumbled across this KZbin channel.

Great lesson and very practical. As a beginner player I was wondering how your getting your sound? Is it the guitar and the amp or settings on your amp? Pedals? Thanks again for this video.

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Thank you for the great lesson!

I own a standard RG and a Japanese made Prestige RG. I play the Indonesian one a lot more than I do the Japanese one. I do admit it's more of a spec preference than anything else, but if my standard wasn't just as good as the Prestige, I would definitely gravitate towards the Japanese made one more.

Why does everybody try to teach music lessons in fast playing and nobody explains beautiful blues solos anymore, like B.B. King, Gary Moore, Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Guns&Roses, etc.? Is it because repeated picking is easier to come up with, than beautiful blues solos? You get tired of it, all these guitarists who only show how fast they can play.

Sounds great man. I dig your lights too

Great technique! Thank you for the share!!! 🙏🕊️✨

If you love it, great! But Indonesian Ibanez guitars have NO RE-SALE VALUE. If you got it for $750, you will be lucky to get $500 for it-that's just the way the Ibanez market is :/

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awesome lesson, for improvising what notes do I target to sound the most melodic? Minor pentatonic 1, b3, 4, 5, b7. Minor scale 1, 2, b3, 4,5, b6, b7.

Hi Paul, you are one of my favorite guitar teachers on YT. You're doing an excellent job. Thank you. Greetings from Poland. Krzysztof 54 yo

Awesome video - would love a series extended to other scales (eg c major scale), and particularly when to use them! Did you have a link to the backing track used in this video? If not can you give an indication of what it is. Thankyou - great content!!

This sounds like music, not scales. It's very helpful. Thanks

Thank you Paul. To all this really works. We did a live lesson in person and even this 73 year old guy got it!

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They are probably made under wage slave labor conditions.

Do what you want. If you are not hurting anyone, screw whatever people say 😊 it’s a beautiful looking guitar and if you enjoy playing it, what else matters? This guitar is about fashion not music. Don’t understand why you would make a video about fashion and not music 🤷🏽 if you enjoy playing a $2 guitar made of plastic and built in Burkina Faso 🇧🇫…just play ❤

What does that have to do with anything

Who cares if people don’t like your guitar?

I just received a ibanez js140m. It was made 5 months ago and came not only with no flaws it’s set up was still right on. I played it for 2 hours straight. Indonesia. I looove it.

first tried this today - ourrun passing breeze does it

Did you have a band called Paul Warren and Explorer a while back ago?

I don't care where a guitar is made. Among all those guitars that Ibanez AZ242F looks great and sounds amazing. My best playing and sounding guitar is a Squier Tele CV.

I have a LTD made in Indonesia and it’s awesome!!!!!! Plays just as well as my made in Japan ESP!

So when you do your bends in this video are you palm or pick muting them or are you just letting the bent string come to rest on the next fretted note?

Do you recommend focusing on the root note in each position or just memorizing the shape?

I have two Indonesian made Ibby’s. Both are premium. One of them had horrible “fret sprout”, which had to be professionally fixed. Plays good now. The other premium has no problems and plays amazing. BTW, Paul, it was cool to find you on here. You were my guitar teacher more than 20 years ago when Guitar Center on Capital Blvd. was still the Music Loft! You were a great teacher.

Anyone who says they hear their maple top is kidding themselves. Love your guitar. I have several Korean ( world music) made guitars that are amazing.

I like 3 nps ones especially using string skipping, depending how my hand feels sometimes 4nps ones are fun too, gotta skip more strings to reduce doubled notes though, although sometimes not skipping strings at all and playing lots of doubled up notes is fun too. Think Shawn Lane and Allan Holdsworth.

In my experience whatever you find that feels good to play is what should work. Yes I have expensive guitars. And I also have a Behringer that I bought used for $50 that feels better to play than those other guitars. The extra frills you're getting on a more expensive axe are just upgrades you wouldn't have on something less expensive. You gotta start withbthe bare bones. The body and the neck. Then just go from there.

I buy kits off AMAZON & E-BAY for less then $200.00 and their are made over seas , with just a little tender loving care i can have a top price guitar for lees then $150.00 with new pick ups , good strings and good wiring . to me the high price guitars are just high because of 3 things only that you pay high price for and those are the ( PICKUPS ) the ( WIRING ) & the ( COLOR ) that's all .

I was just playing an Indonesian EVH Wolfgang Standard earlier today...😁

it looks coolio

I don't care where it was made. If it looks good to you, sounds good to you, and plays good to you, then it IS good!

9:30 You have to mention G&L (George Fullerton & Leo Fender), pretty much most inexpensive American made guitars, made by a small team with attention to detail. Even when you order a pickguard from them, they don't just have them made, they make them as you order so even the pickguards are custom made.

If anyone wants a made in the USA custom shop quality guitar made by a small team, just buy a G&L guitar. For those that also care about history there is the added bonus of G&L being Leo Fender's final company and final say on a lot of his guitars over the years. You can often get a USA made custom shop quality guitar made by them for between 1200 and 2400. I really do not think there is a better company when it comes to price to quality comparison. Then there is also the fact that their Tribute models made in Indonesia are well priced and if you are opting for their MFD pickups, you are getting the same pickups that are made in America.

I have an AZ2404 prestige. Feels amazing, plays amazingly, but I am selling it because I have a USA made custom G&L Comanche which cost me only 1250 brand new and I much prefer the sound and also heritage of the instrument. I also have an Indonesian made Tribute comanche, and it is also super well made, only thing I didn't like was the more glossed neck but I can just sand that up real quick. I also have a PRS se model that feels great, not spending 4000 to 5000 on that. For Japanese RG guitars the difference is the centre part of the neck is quartersawn, though you can get a quartersawn neck from G&L and it only cost $100 to $150 extra.

What sort of crazy person has a problem with an Ibanez AZ!?!?

What do diminished 7 arpeggios make you think of? Jazz? Blues? Neoclassical? Regardless which genre, let's get them under your fingers today!

Great lesson. Love the on-screen tabs and great camera angles. You are doing a great job sharing this fun info! Have a great weekend.

I recently bought a Fender Professional II and it didn’t have stainless steel frets. It’s a great guitar but other brands have great specs too. Many great guitars coming out of the far east. Offering things that American companies don’t. Great choice.

The moral of the story is - expensive guitars are much, much better.

I have a bunch of great guitars made in indo

I was in New Orleans years ago, walking around seeing the sights and a old black man was playing a just as old Telstar guitar as old as he was, the steel strings were at least a inch and a quarter off the fret board and he played the blue so well I just stood there in total astonishment at the music coming out of that old piece of junk! I may not of been born with talent, but I sure can hear it.

The comical irony is that PRS can put out a made in Indonesia or China SE, of lesser quality & features, make it a ‘signature’ model …& all the fan boyz will praise & swear that its the game changing next best thing, since …eternity. I’m 54, have traveled the 🌎 & owned a number of both 🇺🇸 & Mexican made strats & Asian guitars. Honest ‘eval’? Every (made in China/Indonesia) Yamaha, Ibanez (& more recently, LTD) that I’ve owned, with the exception of one (which was defective), outclassed just about all my 🇺🇸 axes …in terms of consistent build quality, stability, dependability, reliability, playability & value for 💰 What you observed is a similar reaction to what Western luxury auto makers & automotive journalist shills had, when Lexus, Acura & Infiniti threw their vastly better, yet much less expensive ‘hat’ in the ring: Shock, anger, insecurity …& 🍑-hurt ‘supremacist’ feelings. Enjoy your AZ. It’s beautiful. Recommended one for my friend, who bought it brand new, sight unseen …& can’t seem to stop playing it.

all guitars sound different. play ten Squiers youll find a usa strat in there. why is the usa standard no longer a thing?