Wring It Out!

[@chefdave12118]

Ive been playing 6-7 weeks and im 48 years old (so the hand eye coordination aint there like it was 😂) and finally got around to diving in. Bought a brand new strat and borrowed a les paul and a couple acoustics from my kids. This is my favorite channel by a vountry mile. This guy talks to us like a teacher would and thats exactly what i need. Great youtube channel! ☮️❤️🎸

[@curiousguitarist]

Thanks so much, Dave. I really appreciate that. Keep it in your lap when you can, and thanks for being here, I'm happy to help!

[@LeeFKoch]

Hey, Chris, this video really nails it, in particular your statement: This is what turns you from a guitar player into a musician who plays the guitar. I've been playing the acoustic guitar for about 30 years now, and I've been good enough for camp-fire sing-alongs and for playing in our church band. I am a guitar player, but I want to be a musician who plays the guitar! Thanks for all your help and encouragement!

[@curiousguitarist]

@@LeeFKoch of course, Lee! It really is mostly that mind shift, THAT begins you looking at and thinking about the guitar in a more holistic way. And then you start choosing different things to work on and different ways to work on them. You’re already on your way!

[@lamper2]

The last note A (5:18) sounds too high when you just play the melody (or just maybe i've always heard it lower.) With the chords(7:49) it sounds fine. I'm thinking different people key in on different chord tones when they hear a chord or especially a chord progression? 19:57 Has anyone copyrighted that phrase GUITARCHEOLOGY?

[@curiousguitarist]

There's a guitar shop somewhere in the states called GUITARCHEOLOGY, they've got a website and all that. But I LOVE using that term ;) And yeah, if you think about it, each note in every chord, changes into another note on the chord change. Some do stay the same (common tones), but in general, there's all these little melodies moving together :)

[@davidcrabb8516]

Guitarcheology! Love it 😁👍

[@ripudamansinghpalawat8648]

Hi sir, just wanted to thank you since i've found your channel(props to marty) .i've been watching your vids day and night AND practicising. Me and my buddies have started a band and im in that band thanks to you Chris.

[@curiousguitarist]

Wow, that’s incredible!! I’m so glad the channel has helped you!

[@gusblacksmith9]

Damn that was incredible! It's crazy how you can teach by asking (and then answering) simple questions we're sometimes too afraid to ask ourselves as guitar players. Thank you for another great lesson!

[@curiousguitarist]

You are SO welcome!

[@lakervoxx597]

Well this absolutely blew my mind, just last night my mum asked me to play Let it Be, I knew the chords but fumbled with the turnaround.?!? I had the melody etched into my mind and ended up hacking through some double-stoppy , descending C maj scale that got praise from the old lady, but I died inside and knew I needed to go back and get it down. So to have you post this right now was some kind of divine timing!!! 🤯 Along with now having 'guitarcheolegy' in my vocabulary I'm a happy guy! Ha ha ha now I need to go back and figure out that whacky train speed problem 🤣

[@curiousguitarist]

That is sort of freaky really...I mean wow. I think the train speed is always 42 ;)

[@lakervoxx597]

@@curiousguitarist 🤣 that makes sense! I’m so glad we don’t need algebra to be musicians

[@curiousguitarist]

@@lakervoxx597 actually, a little basic geometry is super helpful. Triangles, etc.

[@stuartwertkin4977]

Thank you. Most of us guitar players just want to Play without thinking which is why we don’t make any progress! Thanks for showing how to get up the neck and out of first position. You’re a great teacher!

[@curiousguitarist]

Yeah, the thinking is first, then there's less, then it goes away, largely. But before ANY of that can happen, you have to do a little thinking :) Thanks, Stuart!

[@k2dave1969]

This is why I was unable to continue in the band I created with my wife and why she still is concerned when I try to venture out to play with others .....I am trying so hard to get this very concept under my belt........EPIPHANY!!! time. I want / aspire to be a guitarist not another guitar player.

[@curiousguitarist]

You got this. It will slow you down, temporarily, but the gold on the other end is what you've always wanted. Please keep me posted!

[@joeurbanowski321]

Solid gold Mister Chris..!!!…but I’m not surprised..Thanks..!

[@TommySG1]

Hi Chris, Thanks so much for all your work making these great lessons, it's no surprise to me that Marty became so knowledgeable with guitar / music learning from you man. I'm in my later 50's and I picked the guitar back up about three years ago. I took lessons as a kid back in the late 70's and wound up hanging it up after one or two years sadly, I wish I had a teacher back then just half as good as you are because I probably would've never given it up in the first place. Tommy~

[@scottkidwell3601]

Thank you, Chris! 🙏🏻🤍 Trying to get back in the swing of things. As you mentioned in the beginning of this video, I've been learning just enough to get by, but not practicing enough. I appreciate the kick in the shorts Be good to you 🙏🏻🤍

[@curiousguitarist]

Ha! I’m always good for a kick in the pants, you can rely on me! 😆

[@davidwood351]

Yes, interesting and provocative. Thanks loads.

[@curiousguitarist]

You bet!

[@andyjales]

Absolutely awesome video!!!!! I ve been practising in the way you explained, and it s great to listen the explanation from you, an awesome teacher!!!! Thanks!!!!!

[@curiousguitarist]

Glad it was helpful, Andy! Sometimes I get the feeling I also am a customer of mine...I need to hear this stuff too. Thanks for being here.

[@splashesin8]

❤😊Thanks Chris!

[@timsellsted521]

Great lesson Chris! I definitely need to do more of this!

[@curiousguitarist]

Ha! Yeah it's easy to forget from time to time. But the deeper you go, it seems, for me at least, the more my musician brain sort of demands I look deeper. It's becomes self-fulfilling I guess. Thanks for all your support over the years Tim, it means the world to me.

[@smoothpicker]

Ive actually been doing something similar for a while. Anytime i learn a new song i try to learn it in every key up to a point. Now i need to take it that step forward to include some walk ups or downs like you showed on this one. Just never occured to me before. Thats why i love your lessons you teach us how to get everything you can from something new! Thanks again Chris!🎉

[@curiousguitarist]

You're so welcome! I'm glad the channel is helpful!

[@tone-glide2402]

Working on songs for a new band endeavor now! , and this is a great piece of knowledge to be able to use! As always! Chris! Your unwavering generosity in showing us all here the insight and tools needed to become an even greater musician! This all adds up to nothing more than Fretboard superiority ! Thank You!!!

[@christophervincent8420]

Very nice. I've been trying to get the chords and notes in the same areas without moving around so much. Because the cowboy chords doesn't work sometimes. So this is a huge help

[@curiousguitarist]

Glad it was helpful, Christopher!

[@MikeyBakerMusic]

I love this.

[@ForTheLoveOfGuitars]

Awesome, cogent explanation. Well done.

[@curiousguitarist]

Thanks!

[@johnnyfreedom4117]

Great intel & method thank you!

[@curiousguitarist]

You bet, Johnny. Glad it’s helpful.

[@oldrrocr]

Chris! Thanks!

[@jackfromthe60s]

Excellent

[@curiousguitarist]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@joshnorko5586]

Great job per usual man!

[@blakerunyon8523]

Love it. Very well said. Definitely try to see yourself as a musician who plays guitar, not just a guitar player.

[@curiousguitarist]

It feels better too...even with limited knowledge, it's the curiosity that does it!

[@j.hammer573]

I’d just get a new singer (haha). Great challenging lesson! I just learned Mayonnaise by the Pumpkins this week (by ear too). I’m going to try this lesson out on that song.

[@curiousguitarist]

Great idea! And yeah, I feel ya on the singer thing :) My band is all instrumental these days :)

[@erichartwell6792]

Good stuff I’ll have my teacher help me with this 💯

[@curiousguitarist]

That’s perfect! Keep me posted, and tell your teacher I said hi :)

[@kemdo123]

You are literally the Pep Guardiola of guitar theory

[@curiousguitarist]

Haha! Love it!

[@iframes2d]

This is a deep video, now have to go back to the lab. Definitely going to experiment. Oh yes I subbed too 😊

[@curiousguitarist]

Thank you!! Glad you enjoyed this one

[@kdavis63]

Mahalo for the excellent lesson!! Love it! Great analogy to ML...being a developer I get it!

[@curiousguitarist]

Sweet! I'm so glad that one got caught! What about the algebra? Hahaha!

[@kdavis63]

@@curiousguitarist I suck at math, but here I am writing code and playing guitar...

[@chrispeleshenko9226]

The difference between a musician and a guitar player. Truth hurts, but it's real!

[@curiousguitarist]

And the entire shift is in mindset, has nothing to do with how well you think you play. Amazing stuff! Thanks Chris!

[@melodymp2844]

But Chris...I have watched you use algebra :)

[@curiousguitarist]

I was hoping no one noticed that. But yes, calculating climbspeed when you only have drag, weight, thrust and horsepower isn’t easy :)

[@davidthomas5035]

Dang! Calling me out. Been playing for 40 some odd years. Still just a guitar player. Better get to work.

[@ekw555]

well, look at the bright side - I have been doing next to nothing for the last 40 years, therefore I'm not even just a guitar player. more like "just a guitar owner"

[@curiousguitarist]

@@ekw555 It's a corner you turn, that's all. It's a mind set and a drive to find out. That's all you need...well that AND a guitar of course!!! HAHAHA!

[@curiousguitarist]

Ask yourself "what else can I do with this" the very next time you learn something new, and that will be that. BOOM!

[@ekw555]

@@curiousguitarist I have . . . four ?? guitars. which is a lot for a guy who can't play sh!t.

[@curiousguitarist]

@@ekw555 you know what they say right? Q: “How many guitars do you really need? A: “Only one more” Works forever.

[@TheRealCAPerry]

Or you could tune down to Eb 😂

[@curiousguitarist]

Yup. The idea of it makes me feel like 😬😬but yeah, that's an option :)

[@MikeyBakerMusic]

😂