Become A Melodic Guitar God With These 5 Simple Guitar Hacks

[@livergen]

Thank you David, started playing when I was 12 years old, old school rock 'n roll, played by ear, my mom one day made a statement to play with emotion and that has always stuck with me. I always gravitated toward rhythm guitar And dug around in each cord treating each string as an individual voicing like an individual group of singers But always with an emotional element. I'm now 68 years old And for the last month or so I've been watching your videos And have stepped back and literally leaped forward to a completely new level of expression that I have always told people that the music comes from your heart and the guitar is an instrument to funnel it through. What you are sharing on your channel David is very inspirational and solid, and your ability to slow things down and your explanations and how to listen to your inner voice I truly believe that it is unlocking a talent that lives within each individual guitarist. Thank you brother for taking the time, because time is a very precious gift we sometimes forget to use to our benefit, keep it slow, play and whisper from your heart, and let the music that lives within each of us leap forward.

[@tubeamp2872]

Your soul .. God I love playing guitar. I have lately really fell in love with D aeolian/FMaj

[@angularsquare8757]

Even if I've been playing for hours, I watch one of your videos, then pick the guitar back up again. Always inspiring to be shown how to play rather than what to play... Cheers.

[@jeffreyhangartner5314]

I would definitely agree with closing your eyes while soloing. It truly changes the dynamics of your creativity. It takes a little practice, but when you're not watching your finger placement, it opens up a new path to self expression.

[@RexyFan]

Out of all the guitar tutorials I’ve watched over the years regarding soloing. This had to be the most well explained video of all. Phrasing, lazy playing like Hendrix, non-mechanical, telling a story. Man… This is exactly what I need to add to my playing. Thank you sir for the master lesson!

[@atrijpaul9317]

That part where you introduce yourself with respect to metronome just made my life easier and was the answer of a question which I looked for years already ❤

[@sidjones_46]

Wow! Such a unique lesson on YT!! Nobody mentioned on YT that the heart needs to take it slow! Thanks, David for the different mindset a guitarist must have while playing licks/soloing.

[@denismguitar1552]

Excellent lesson! People get tired of hearing just notes. David Gilmour didn’t play 32nd notes. Or even four measures of 16th triplets. But man can he pull your emotions along!

[@jorgedejorge2326]

It's interesting that so many of us knew this at one time, but we got lost in the adrenaline.

[@brunocpimenta]

Dude what the ACTUAL FUCK?! That was a HUGE lesson. Much more of a "guru" or a spiritual guide to guitar music than average youtube scale 1+1=2 lessons out there. Your content is *great* :D

[@bryanlewis9575]

Hi David... Thank you! I have played around with guitar for about 42 years, and I must say... You have hit the nail on the head with your approach. You are a master at explaining the exact meaning of all these concepts! I honestly want to thank you. I so enjoy listening to your "lessons" and am relearning what I could never put words to, which is so refreshing! Please, keep up your appreciated work.

[@johnmiller0000]

Ooh...I always play with pauses and laziness. I'm relieved to learn it's a GOOD thing. Thank you!

[@MrNamePerson]

😆

[@rejiluz3465]

This is the only channel that talks about incorporating your emotion and heart a ton in playing, which I believe is equally important I guess more than learning fancy techniques... Hehehe...

[@drumcrazy72]

Every time I watch a video of yours I am further inspired. You make me a better musician, David. Thank you, from the heart.

[@Christopher_Bachm]

I love the amount of time and energy that you put towards actually creating music. You are truly unique.

[@gregriddle3042]

You said something that hit me right between my guitar playing brain! If you haven’t done much studio time or are about to go into the studio for you’re first time, OR played on studio tracks and absolutely hated it, because I prefer playing live, however I recall laying a solo track down on a song early on in my career, I just threw in what I thought would be hot, kinda flashy (show off a bit) I’ll never forget the studio engineer say in my headset “Hey Greg, on the solo…think Clapton” I got what he meant and all was good. I think one of the best lessons in playing a solo or lead in intro is to introduce yourself! Just like you said. Play, if you will “Hi, my name is Greg”. Fit the song. On a slow kind of bluesy song you want a remembered hook (on guitar) that pops its head up in the mix just enough for the listener to almost pass by it but in reality it’s going to come back and be recognizable, and identifiable concerning you as an artist. Wow deep, but I thought that was an outstanding takeaway from this video. Hope this makes sense. I haven’t finished the entire video but really enjoying this! Thanks man

[@joeym.delgado7144]

Thank you David! Your lessons always remind me that keeping it simple is what makes my music. I can get so lost in the rabbit hole of trying so hard to play like my guitar heros. Thanks for bringing me home.

[@guitmeister]

My first guitar mentor told me forget about theory, what you have is natural & don't ever lose that ( becoming mechanical ) I listened to Trower- Winter‐ Ghaligar- Beck Then MIHALIS came out & changed everything, never looked back ! Pure feel has made me many fans & no regrets- 48-yrs later....

[@928CS]

Excellent... When you did your 2 versions of 'Hello, my name is David', Pink Floyd immediately came to mind for the 2nd version - very effective example.

[@TheImageDoctor]

Damn... I consider myself a pretty good teacher/presenter, but you are SO natural, genuine, and simple w/ your guidance - easy to follow, easy to implement, great stuff man - thanks for being YOU !!!!

[@thegermantomoeser]

Please do more of this lessons - they are absolutely brilliant!

[@victorgroves7426]

Awesome "formula"!!! I'm just researching soloing, and this is so cool! No rushing to speak, but slow to speak holding the suspense! Great!

[@fretwiz1]

Best channel I’ve found on creating lead lines! I hit a brick wall last night in my studio, I never thought I would find such a clear answer. You saved me from going out and buying a new guitar, which I thought was the problem. Thanks a million, David!

[@randywhite1422]

Thank you for breaking it down to an easier level that starts with baby steps to learn how to play lead

[@GinoCournoyer]

Well... Thank you!

[@toko-thornikesiradze857]

Grace potter feat Joe Satriani - Satriani really does his out of this world stuff, Em backing track reminded me this. Thanks David for your great videos and lessons and positive vibe, God bless

[@PlouplePoupi]

En plus de nous ouvrir des horizons, tu nous donnes instantanément envie d’attraper une guitare Merci David tu es incroyablement rassurant👍🏼🍒

[@alexanderhammer688]

Très vrai

[@bygrcalne3262]

Soooo simple yet so difficult cause we get lost in wanting to impress from the beginning where we lose the listener speaking every language under the sun the first minute out the gate. Thanks David, another fine lesson!

[@kennethlavalle1608]

A great feel to this lesson David. I've been taking lessons for four years and recently have been learning a tremendous amount from you. Thanks!

[@TwistedMind86Chern]

Your lessons are pure gold David 👍

[@gatt2b]

David you're my favorite guitar teacher mainly because for me you help me get out of those irritating ruts that we sometimes get caught in and it's a video like this that opens my mind and next thing I'm back on track out of the musical rut your lesson a few years back on the 7 modes was a game changer for me and I thank you I am so greatful and appreciate you and your ability to play very well but mainly your ability to teach love you like a brother

[@YTisverycool2007]

David, you are such a great teacher! I enjoyed learning from your videos as they are entertaining and educational as well! Thank YOU!!!

[@vincentjohnson435]

Great lesson

[@Dmaher1111]

Great comment

[@raihankhanphotography6041]

Loved this video. I've been playing for a little over six months and this really will help me out of playing more mechanically!

[@LEIFanevret]

Awesome guit man! Wow! Youre so right! Playing with heart and soul! Is THE most important! Feeling! Techn. is fine but THE feeling! Is everything!

[@denispelletier5850]

kind of Pinkfloydish, really give me the feeling you want to transmit, thanks a lot!

[@danielfazenda]

I was searching for these tecniques, melodic guitar sound. Thank you.......

[@kane6529]

This is that special sauce that people act like someone’s born with but really it can be learned thankfully 😅

[@ald7688]

Inspirational!

[@view5558]

What an insight....You have just uncovered the essence of music.

[@kudys]

David, I just have to and want to thank you so much for your videos. You help me very much to play better. I've bought your school too. But in your free videos is plenty of tricks and usefull things, which can help every guitarist. Thank you, very good job!

[@mikestar3686]

This man is brilliant.

[@donkiddick3562]

Excellent. Been looking for this kind of lesson.

[@z.z.onichi5365]

EPIC. love this only Legends come here

[@z.z.onichi5365]

Thank You. i'm rewatching this daily, it's so good :) . i like this information even though it sounds simple i think its like the core of the guitar, expressing our feelings and emotions. i personally never learned any theory ever except the standard tuning e a d g b e, I have no clue of anything else. i just enjoy noodling on the guitar along the music. but recently I've been more interested in learning some theory. but one thing that boggles my mind, how much my mood affects my playing. like the days that im happy and in a good mood, i can play something randomly along a song. and then sometimes i try to play it the day after and even i can somewhat figure it out, i just never can get it to sound as good as the first random try. which most of the time happens to be like at low volume me recording at 1am when I can't sleep lol like this part here doesn't something anything super hard even now I still can't play the timing and intervals as good as the first time. it always somehow sounds off. any idea what the reason might be? Thank You so much kzbin.info/www/bejne/eKC8oXR6rttnbc0 kzbin.info/www/bejne/nYu4lYyYq6hkmrc

[@foralltoknow9279]

Show me the way sensei i wish i could get real lesson from you. The way you describe melodies makes so much sense to me.

[@tdz69]

Fantastic advice here. So easy to get excited and lose the “dialogue” aspect of playing.

[@jaroslavholinsky8105]

An inspiring video on how to start creating your own musical ideas. Great! 100x better with guitar now:)

[@Blues40]

This is an absolutely fantastic lesson. Thank you 😊

[@ChristopherMichaelMusic]

David`s conversation idea is spot on....BTW, from a Worship leaders perspective, Worship music is pretty much based on The Edges tone and approach for guitar.

[@jeffrobodeenyehcmon5925]

Great lesson. Been playing for 40years and the blues bores the crap out of me. Getting into Gilmour and want to play more jazzy. Cool thanks

[@Xirrious]

gilmour always been a favorite but also getting into jazzy stuff after 16 years! Love this guy

[@timothyjohnson9739]

Thanks, David. Love your approach; you've taught me much over the past year or so. Like this lesson, particularly in mindset lessons. Theory is great, but listening rules!

[@jayaristonlim4244]

Your playing is so Amazing Sir 😃makes me feel that I am in a mysterious desert in an epic and dramatic search for the girl of my dreams😊❤👍👍👍

[@nasudengaku4me]

Happy Christmas and New Year to you and yours!

[@matthieuvanasse8092]

Thanks Dave... That part @6:50 about "being loose" is so cool! I read once in a magazine (yeah, yeah, that tells my age...lol) that Robert Fripp use to say : the good musician is NOT the one who can play 1000 notes in a bar... It's the one who can play 1000 note, BUT choses to play 3!"... It's not about the number of notes; it's about the importance you give to the ones you chose to tell YOUR story (that's not from Fripp, nor me... it's from Wallimann!)

[@johncantarini3461]

Fantastic!!!

[@leeryan5667]

Thank you fella, much appreciated

[@genenorman8385]

This is a fantastic and under addressed topic. Thank you!

[@jeffellermeyer4517]

The sound you get is key to the attraction. Wish I knew how to dial in an amp for that tone.

[@troymattingly3071]

That Vola guitar is, unique, to me. It's interesting and likable! Thank you for this, excellent, presentation!💯

[@jonathandufern7421]

Dissonance is a wonderful part of music, many ignore it and it’s criminal to ignore adding tension.

[@eliaspap8708]

Great video, but the tempo/style and feel u give a particular solo, can also depend on what mood ur in.and your mood will reflect in your playing.

[@nickandrews2255]

Back it up with checking if we get it or not I will let you know if we do. Cheers for sharing this as I feel like there a few points here that I feel ready to intentionally try with with this backing track or other ones here Cheers boss Cheers I hope you get the healing you deserve with sitting with yourself after deploying your heart here Cheers

[@garrettramsey643]

David Gilmore, Neal Schon, Eric Clapton really come to mind

[@petereiseman-investor]

Thanks so much for sharing your wealth of experience and mastery of the guitar and music in general. I’ve been playing a very long time and I’m learning more now than ever. Thanks again for being so generous with you time and knowledge.

[@latebloomerrunner]

Great stuff!!

[@jonasxie5230]

Thank You So much

[@FrostyFreeze541]

Whoa 💡🤯 You just change my life

[@uniquebeatsboutique]

Clever approach 👏 appreciate the tip!

[@1965RonnieP]

Thank you Dave for your powerful insights also thanks for mentioning Worship Music. It's the main reason I'm improving my guitar playing. It's confirmation I'm listening to the right guy. I also love playing Mandolin. Love your sound and your versatility.

[@manhongtv81]

i like the way you explain things. it's exactly what I'm looking for.. I'm gonna try this... thanks.. 🎵😊🎸

[@bungalowbluesman]

love the intro illustration - great way of making your point. 👍🏻

[@JayMathy]

Man, I wish I could make my pentatonic scales sound that good when I play. Great lesson!

[@NeelSarkar]

David, you are truly successful to make anyone understand how music speaks 🙂🤘🌸 Hugs man and thanks for your teachings 🙂

[@Geeko-vd9ld]

This guys feels music.

[@neusprach]

Thank you! This is such a great video and you are a natural teacher! I learned so much from this. Again, great job, thank you!

[@maurocabezas3920]

Me encantó, una lección moderna. Gracias

[@alexanderhammer688]

David, csmae across your lesson here and I am very much impressed with your teaching style and sensitivity.

[@PositiveGiggles]

You deserve millions of subscribers

[@MK-tj5bf]

Thanks!

[@Wejohnsn]

this was awesome

[@78tag]

I've heard various people talk about how to do this in the beat divisions but you get closer to how to actually use it naturally. I can't imagine what the 7 thumbs down reactions could be about? Thanks.

[@walksuponwater7261]

David when you played your heart sound out came.......Pink Floyd! Thats why floyd is so huge.....it's an experience of emotions of sounds talking from the heart and then...the soul. We are the wandering angst filled notes lost in hardships and survival of a universe on the edge of oblivion.

[@Guto-df3hq]

muito obrigado cara 😎 excelente trabalho

[@SAINTMARCMUSIC]

Basically the cutest dude on KZbin! 😍 and you are saying lots of good stuff, playing incredibly smooth and musically.

[@7KRTN]

Nice approach. I enjoyed the lesson.

[@misterclutchabc]

Thank you, Sir! 💪🏾

[@scotturnquist1240]

Great video. Thanks .

[@lesshrubb203]

Thanks, David. A great guitar lesson.

[@jerryhosentfeld]

This is exactly what I needed to hear today.. thank you!

[@satchrules101]

Gold lesson! very inspiring ! Great teacher and player!

[@donaldmcgee9442]

Very very good David I appreciate the way that should teach even though I've been playing a lot of years I'm old I have learned from back traction you know I didn't really learn to scales I don't know how to read music. Play by ear and your explanation of how music is within us and this a gift and that we tell stories on his guitar I was really really encouraged by that my dad was a violin Cajun fiddle with my brother play with the benches for 20 years and I'm just sort of mess around but I enjoy it so much because I play what I feel it's a story that I tell for my innermost being thank you for explaining this in a simple way but yet with your heart and soul it really really translates me a lot and gives me a lot of information that I used to be able to increase my knowledge and my gift

[@lawrencekovalcik8848]

Daang.. David at 12:20 on some beautiful stuff. those bends. Make it talk!!..Nice!! Looking forward to trying these out. Thx much.

[@sambird9317]

Thanks Man, helped me bring my feel back

[@jennyleeb3772]

Thank you

[@GuillermoGuzman-nm8nb]

Thank you sir i had fun following you

[@The9mmProfessor]

This Video is brilliant. The Miles Davis approach to composition. You earned a subscriber with this...I just kept seeing you wearing a tricorn hat and a bird on your shoulder.

[@talal-music.2961]

MY FAVORITE TEACHER, MR.WALLIMANN

[@Vivek2062]

This guy is such a vibe!!!! Digging all of your teaching methods man! I've never been taught like this my entire life by any other YT channel! Thanks and keep going! ❤️😍 Love from India

[@Wallimann]

That means a lot man, thank you!

[@Vivek2062]

@@Wallimann ❤️❤️

[@freeman5885]

Love the drill @ 12:00, approaching notes from a half step bend. Also the example @ 3:25 was very useful for me to demonstrate the importance of using silence to develop motifs and hooks. Before I was able to slide around and move through patterns by ear, to crank out riffs like that seemed like a dream... Now that I'm playing riffs I'm working on learning to play less!

[@markgoodwin5306]

This is why you practice with some sort of beat behind you. It’s not as boring, it doesn’t feel as robotic, it becomes more interesting and you can up with good ideas.

[@gtrdoc911]

So many great nuggets. Thanks David.