A Beginner/Intermediate Guitar Lesson that Everyone Should See

[@waldenmathews8059]

Really good, and such a departure from the pervasive and monotonous "pentatonic shapes" you find on so many channels. You got thru to my instinct to discover and invent. So easy to lose that. Bravo.

[@seandaniel23]

Thanks so much!

[@cocu161]

Beautiful guitar Sean🎸

[@Morning404]

Hey! I remember seeing your videos when i was just starting out with guitar back in 2019! Your videos helped a lot great to see you still here doing your thing! Rock on brother from London England! ❤

[@coloaten6682]

And 5 years later another guy from London is also just starting out on guitar, watching 1 of Sean's vids!

[@seandaniel23]

Thanks guys!

[@markcafebrown2883]

Nice job Sean. Great video 🎸

[@diegooland1261]

Cool. This got me playing around with adding G 6ths to the Em idea. The G on the B string 8th fret as the target note. I peddle the low E while dropping down by 6ths to the 5th (in G). It's okay if the open A rings out because it's a second in G or fourth in A. Then back to the Em chord. And now you know why my bass player hates me.

[@TheBorrito]

Started out weird, but then changed into something incredible. Thank you.

[@mrx-b3i]

you have so many good ideas 😀😀

[@jkdsonly6233]

Intro joke super relatable 😅

[@jimbrown5125]

Sean, I believe I have been watching from almost the beginning, in the BC era (before covid). You were playing a Taylor 3-series? Times have changed and you have gotten the recognition you deserve for being a KZbin iconoclast. Are you still in the Sarasota, FL area?

[@trusarmor4957]

The Dawgs Approves of this message. 👍

[@seandaniel23]

:)

[@theturtlemike9197]

Hello Sean, its been few months I found you on KZbin... first few vidoes I was like... man this guy has big ego and it does not feel good to me. Idk why, but then I was watching you more and more and then I upgraded to stage, that you really CAN and it was just my bad look on you. Big thanks for your sharing. Not gonna lie... I am still beginner with my 9 chords "army", did not even started any scales and so on... but I wanted to ask you if its possible to add strumming patterns, it could be arrows downs and ups, it can be one simple picture in corner. That would definitely help to people like me. Keep great work and lets see you in next video. Waiting for that notification bar. 🙂 Last words: You made me buy Kyser Shortcut capo and even when I can play one simple fingerstyle pattern, you showed me different world. 🙂

[@BrianEllison-fc8tp]

Great lesson...

[@pitchygroans]

Is this only useful for keys where you can have E in the base? Would be great with tips on how to generalize it!

[@FrenchSquareDancer]

That amp really does have a nice, creamy, rich, sound.

[@johnezell9808]

Puppies work really well also. 🐶💌🎊

[@dan_kay]

If you want women to go one step further, rent a dog from a friend for one day, let the lady meet him or her, tell her next day your dog died, and let the magic happen.

[@seandaniel23]

This is 4d chess right here

[@70mcnevin]

This probably works great for 1NS. But if she meets your family...

[@coloaten6682]

@@70mcnevin If she meets my family my dog will be the last thing on her mind!! 🤣🤣

[@dasninjastix]

.."everyone should see.." hey thats me! Thanks!

[@lbmeredith9839]

Is that similar to DRIVE by Mr. Bonomassa?

[@lbmeredith9839]

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[@painter08]

bravo...another light bulb moment Salty comment: now i need a Supro amp

[@seandaniel23]

you do!

[@jaynedoe1959]

Oh sure, you refer to some chords as MAJOR, but how do you think that makes minor chords feel?

[@jdubs681]

Ok I’m commenting as watching. We making a tool song here or what are we doing? 😅

[@jdubs681]

Ok ok it came together! You always get me to pick up my guitar. So I’d say you accomplished the goal of the video!

[@seandaniel23]

Thanks for watching!

[@TimothyCookUSMCRetired]

The dogs know the truth and will tell on you.

[@jereltoliver6668]

Finish the whole video

[@trusarmor4957]

how does one know when They/I hit the ... intermediate level?

[@wraith_1171]

When you've been playing for a while, learned a fair amount but you're still depressed because you think you suck.....then you're probably an intermediate 🙂. That's how it's working for me anyway

[@jdubs681]

You can play all the campfire chords consistently. You know 300 riffs but can never focus to play through most songs. And like other guy said, you feel like you suck way more than you should at this point. That’s the intermediate level. Lol

[@wraith_1171]

Think my reply is a little negative. Cowboy chords ✅- some strumming patterns ✅- riffs ✅. You're probably better than you think you are and the problem is you realize there's so much more to learn.....just keep it fun and I just laugh at myself and plug away

[@jereltoliver6668]

First

[@seandaniel23]

winner!

[@solomon7072]

What about the USA borders? That's the border you should be concerned with!!!

[@jayfreeman3004]

my passion ( one of them) is teaching guitar....and i like ( not love) your videos. Your ideas are usually good but the essence of what you want to convey gets lost in your frenetic communication style. The journey of guitar learning is really a process of building rhythm skills on top of chord/ scale knowledge. There are no shortcuts. It all looks easy looking backwards once you have the basics bit acquiring the basics is hard. So every viewer of these videos comes tk the table with a different level of skill sets and an eagerness to learn "something. ". The question i always ask about a videos is centered on " take aways" To me, that is the essence of good teaching..Often your videos do not meet that fundamental. b tal criteria. i do wonder you think about this????

[@iuhyeah1641]

I'm sure the 100s of thousands that have had huge breakthroughs back to back from Sean are laughing at this comment

[@seandaniel23]

My man

[@robinr22]

​@@iuhyeah1641 I really enjoy these videos and I don't want to be at all critical - I can't imagine how difficult it is to be a KZbinr and make engaging content. And this is only my opinion, others may disagree. But I agree wholeheartedly with this comment and it would be a real shame if it is laughed at because it is a really important point. These videos are packed with useful content but I usually find them difficult to take anything away for exactly this reason. For example, watch 1:50 - 2:00, which explains a key point and tell me that's easy to follow or understand. Teaching is much less helpful when rattling through an explanation at 500mph, showing really important concepts once and not really explaining them, jumping around from idea to idea and so on. It makes for an entertaining video - but it's so hard to learn anything from it. It's a technique demonstration, not a lesson. And maybe that's fine - I imagine if you're already know this stuff and want to think about it from a different angle, this is probably really useful. And if technique demos gets the necessary views, probably makes sense on that side as well. But the feedback from me (a relative beginner) and from someone who is a guitar teacher is that they are (usually) hard to use as lessons. I've seen similar feedback before too. So it might be feedback worth considering. It's a video setting out two shapes - even putting up a chord diagram of the two shapes would be a massive help.

[@seandaniel23]

Yeah see this is useful feedback that is presented in a thoughtful context. I feel the original comment is a bit unhinged and low key salty which is why it's laughed at. EASILY the hardest part of teaching lessons on youtube is finding an appropriate speed and concept that will reach as many people as possible, while still playing the youtube game of needing to hit click thru rate and audience retention numbers to even have them show it. I'm always down to try and change up the format of the videos and comments like yours are helpful in thinking of new ways to approach it.

[@robinr22]

@@seandaniel23 There is actually a bit of salt in the original comment that I didn't pick up the first time so fair point - I imagine all that must get a bit old sometimes... Totally appreciate what you say and it must be a really difficult balance to strike. Ultimately you know what works better for your channel better than I ever could and I guess nearly half a million(!) subs means you're doing ok so far 🙂. And I really do enjoy your videos - you obviously put a lot of work into them and they are great to watch, very entertaining and engaging. I was probably being a bit unfair before, I do learn from them, often things that I hadn't seen elsewhere that introduced me to approaches that really opened up a lot and that I use all the time - just not perhaps quite as much as I would if there'd been a handy chord diagram 😉. Thanks for the reply and all the best!

[@joejones4181]

Sean, my brother, help an old returning guitar player out. How does the patreon work, can I see a list of the lessons? Is there a trial period? Can I cancel at anytime? I have gained huge inspiration from your lessons and would love to try the patreon. But my brother, make it dog easy for people like me to spend their hard earned SS payments. LOL. Seriously, very, very helpful and pulled me out of a huge rut. But honestly becoming a patreon member should be super simple, easy to understand (for old people). Keep up the great work and a big THANK YOU you have helped me so much.