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[@billcavin3554]

it helps when you have a magical floating guitar too.....

[@smatlock7040]

Bill Cavin 😁

[@cristianmoss7828]

Yeah, lol

[@ianashworth1101]

Bill Cavin fruit loops!

[@paulfrombrooklyn5409]

Exactly what I was thinking!!

[@android199x]

Fuck youuu 😂😂😂

[@rechsteinerrecords3510]

bottom line; The best musicians are good listeners

[@garrybullard1479]

Well,if that's true,then I ought to be the besssss,,,,,,wait,,,what did you say? .what were we talking 'bout ? Where the hel am I ??? Ah,just forget it ,,,...

[@jamesgeiger4795]

Agree. So many just listen to them self and not the song or what the rest of the band is doing.

[@thegreathawk2244]

I almost burst out laughing watching this because this video had the exact perfect advice I was looking for. Thanks chief, I'm excited to start playing now!

[@brubakersflatcakes9755]

The importance of what you're explaining here cannot be overstated. It's the very essence of starting simple, learning to build, and most importantly "listening". This leads to such huge gains with consious practice. Thanks for a great clip!

[@TheDuerden]

When I saw this guys first video, I will be honest, I thought he was a bit annoying, initial thought. However, I have to say, his advice is absolutely excellent. If you are an intermediate guitar player and you want to improve, I highly recommend that you watch and listen to this guy. I have improved in an afternoon, because i just wasn't putting my knowledge together properly. Oh god, I sound like an advert, but this is my honest opinion.

[@freddyferrillo9704]

Thanks for your honest opinion. It's much appreciated by me that's for sure. I'm gonna work with this channel. And others. I thought this video was helpful. I snubbed!

[@Violentimpulse360]

Elon Musk has mastered floating inanimate objects in the air... wow

[@kevinclose5840]

Very animated object

[@minderDOTorg]

Nice video. Here's two more tips (1) listen to the backing track and play nothing. Then try and hum a tune over the top that you like. Then try to recreate the tune you just hummed. Works for me, but it takes time of course. (2) Also, use 4 fingers when soloing - Claus does this in pretty much all his videos. Danke für noch ein weiteres großartiges Video, Sir.

[@GrachLP]

It is called "Audiate". (Your Number 1). Anyone more interested in that should check out Adam Neelys Video on the topic. :)

[@anthonyfisher5076]

well said. listen

[@stevedocherty1816]

For me, Paul Gilbert's advice of just listening to these "loops" (bars) and then tapping out a rhythm on your legs along with it really helped with phrasing and groove. You can then just follow with any scale notes to instantly go from shit that sounds like exercises to music. You just further refine it by throwing in tension and release notes in appropriate spots or deliberate "wrong" chromatic scale note as passing tones to spice it all up. But yeah, being able to truly listen to the backing as well as hearing yourself is the deal breaker.

[@redwhiteblue9866]

@@GrachLP Audiate, that's how Steve Vai came up with the theme melodies in for the love of God, as an example.

[@hookbolt7362]

Dieser Mann ist deutsch?

[@robsylvia6546]

I’ve only watched two of your videos and already you’ve expanded my thinking...the seeing music as loops, words, stories, speaking music, etc. thanks from a beginner.

[@jamesfeldman4234]

This is a superb lesson. And one of its important points, though not directly stated, is that great music is about the whole thing--the gestalt as it were--and not just about you, the soloist. A great soloist makes everyone playing their individual parts sound great. So you've gotten to listen and feel the other musicians, integrating your creativity into the whole of the music.

[@jasonandrade7874]

Very helpful already seeing improvement after day! Thank you!

[@MartinBurtonGuitar]

At about 4:40 after the solo. That's the best explanation of what being "in the zone" feels like that I have ever heard! The most magical place to be :D

[@howardrodriguez9831]

You’re a genius!

[@neilsjmcmahon]

He's so right - bring all your focus to your metronome / music

[@joshuawolf4848]

Wow!! Such a simple solution yet so wise. Thank you!!

[@robertwilliamson4615]

Bro....THIS VIDEO WAS A LIGHTBULB MOMENT FOR ME!!! Very effective, powerful, elegant, but simple! Thank you!!!

[@D3nDyson]

so useful ! a huge thank you so glade to have found you on youtube !!

[@sohamdas4974]

Thanks for the suggestions.. Really helpful for my situation

[@TomyBach]

Awsome tutorial ❤️ Helped me a lot thank you.

[@almanages7149]

Thank you Claus; I sincerely mean it! I have been playing for roughly 25 years and although technically proficient I really suck as a musician. I think this little tid-bit of your is what I been searching for all these years. Cheers.

[@KevinMarquezRocks78]

It makes sense ti me. Thank you very much for sharing!

[@johnnymontez7382]

Best explanation for a problem I've been dealing with !!! It works ...

[@barrychuckle5565]

Great, thank you. Nicely taught.

[@xavieruribe6529]

For the last few years or so I've always been a fairly good guitarist. I had my days where I would solo over music and sound absolutely great, and then I had my days where I sounded like a total amateur and it never felt good. Claus I'm not gonna lie I've tried for so long to just solo and sound great without sounding choppy and repetitive. I gotta say this video practically changed everything instantly about how to tune my mental state when soloing. now the notes just flow out. THANK YOU!!!

[@pablomolina8037]

Thanx, im gonna focus my training in this 😌

[@Danything123]

i like how u always came up with all these great examples

[@freddyferrillo9704]

I know exactly what you mean. I will definitely utilise this great tip! Thankyou Sir.

[@StephenRawding]

Just found your channel, subbed! Love the teaching style.

[@rianrian5677]

agreed. me too. and i’ve watched 3 now and all were very helpful

[@TIvesmusic]

Thanks for another great video 😊

[@Geotubest]

Really good lesson here. Thank you.

[@eazyrider6122]

Great info thats what i started doing and found improvement for sure.

[@wassilykandinsky4616]

So much energy!!!

[@spacetruckerspacetrucker8555]

you are so right when you say you can play along then actually play wrong timing a little then slot back into the groove and correct it so to speak. Great video

[@amiteshmagar6855]

Beautiful video, a lot has been learnt

[@chrispicha]

Really great advice!

[@EddieTheMessenger]

Thank you for this great video buddy 5 STARS !!!!!!

[@guitarpoetone1]

Thank u much finally found a guy that has super phrasing love it

[@tommccarthy3052]

Gotta to mention here that with this exercise you can also work on not starting every phrase, lick, etc. on the 1 (at the top of each bar). This forces you to use space/silence in context of any solo.

[@mrdinsdale]

Bam!

[@isaiah30v8]

That's good advice. - A beginner just starting out however, probably should use the 1 to help follow the progression. - Then try starting on the 3. Try playing the major 3rd of the next chord in the progression before you even get there. That's kind of fun.

[@mikecappadocia5959]

You look like Elon Musk

[@nicholasse7enfold]

Lol

[@firstnamethenalastname]

elon wishes he looked like claus

[@partha4u10]

Looks more like brad pitt..

[@moparmadness8841]

Arnold and Elon had a kid. Great lesson!!!!

[@svendragon8139]

Tiësto

[@northland..]

awesome video. such a good teacher man.

[@rodgray4459]

absolutely fabulous,,,,,,thanks

[@johnny2573]

Thank you! You make it easy

[@thongamchan775]

Today, I downloaded the Power Blues skill builder course. I will start working on it as it also coincides with the end of my holiday singing days in my acoustic guitar. It seems like my left fingers are more nimble to hit the strings in fast sequence but phrasing movement across the fretboard is a long way and also, alternate picking still a problem as I invested most of my time in only learning scales and songs for the holiday season.Anyway, I am feeling these days that the days of my solo play in my acoustic guitar, not very faraway as I can just play melodic licks much faster than last month.

[@brettneuberger6466]

Thanks. Great lesson!

[@communistwaterdrlake1268]

Probably the best advice i needed to hear

[@MobiusCoin]

This is SOOO HELPFUL! I realized this was my problem too. I know the scale and it just sounds like me playing the scale on top of the backing track, not playing with the backing track.

[@adrilima8144]

Awesome.

[@bigskycharlie]

I love your enthusiasm. You're a cool teacher to I bet.

[@Heaven-dy9lj]

This is invaluable. Must listen to chord changes and feel where the music goes.. It sounds obvious but so many player don't do this! Thanks.

[@user-wf3kk4xb5k]

Thank you for sharing your great videos and plz let me know what gears you prefer to use to go in live performance

[@lbjmuzic]

This got me to subcribe...excellent...👏👏👏

[@rickyasrori2158]

FANTASTIC LESSON! SALUTE !!!

[@paimannamazi3064]

You are so on point because that's the way I play. I'm 54 years old and I started playing when I was 14 taking private lessons in a guitar shop in Queens New York LOL So long story short, I have a roommate that I met in the Navy back in the eighties which I live with him now, I taught him how to play in the Navy and I must tell you in the last year or so he has improved exponentially. However, he's got a hurdle that's very difficult for him to defeat. I showed him the extensions of a minor blues mode to the left into the right looping all the way back to the same let's say a minor blues mode. And that's where he's having a problem because he's getting lazy LOL We kind of take turns almost every night playing with a backing track similar to what you're playing and then when it's my turn to play with a backing track he just sits there with his eyes wide open in wonderment and I tell him dude, spend one day practicing and I'll write out the extensions to the left into the right for starters and he agrees but then the next day kind of scoffs at it. I can only help someone so much before it becomes a futile, but I'm not giving up because when he gets into it like you talk about and that happens to me too.... It takes me about a half hour or less to warm up to that point where I'm all over the neck like you were but not as good as you. You are much faster and don't hit any wrong notes. When I reach that level to about 30 minutes or so, I can actually look away from the fretboard and not have to see what notes i'm playing without any mistakes. It's just that leading up to that point I make those One Note here One Note there rare mistakes but it still pisses me off to the point where I want to make it right and that's what counts Anyways, thanks for what you're doing and helping people out, it's people like you that have the positive energy 2 spread that energy oh, and the internet is one of the best things that was invented because information can now be transmitted not by the Pony Express, but thousands or millions of people at one time. Of course there are some downsides to the internet, but that can be applied to anything in life, and when looking at the bright side of it, this can be so helpful and in so many ways, so thank you again and have a great day!

[@keepmyselffree]

Thank you for getting me out of my rut! All great truths are simple, or they wouldn't be great truths.

[@danaeverhart6487]

From one German to another , your guitar mastery is off the hook brother

[@mooka5445]

Imagine being german

[@nadeemafzal8984]

simply genius - Thank u

[@guitarmastery]

You're welcome!

[@O.C.B.real_deal]

This is insane!

[@jmichaelE68]

the most insightful teacher of the guitar.

[@kshithijrai6116]

Awesome video!!!!

[@mauri5464]

Motivational!🤘🏼

[@loveprestrump824]

It's so true what a good lesson

[@sabu1136]

Very good, thank you:)

[@yeahsonayeah]

Hi! One question: you say to hear out the structure of the song with easy riffs and understanding it before creating sentences to fit it. If the structure changes, i.e. for the chorus, i assume we go back to easier riffs to hear it out again and go from there. Does that sound right? In that sense for later changes, i.e. the second chorus, you can rip straight away if you want.. (this I guess only applies to songs we don't know)

[@veson3d480]

This guy really knows what he's talking about and I could feel it

[@bernhardnizynski4403]

Great player!

[@scottnicoltv]

Brilliant

[@arpitjoshi4929]

Thank you sir.

[@timothyclay3668]

Loved the video... got to admit it's all a bit "not so simple.. tricky to understand how to do this exercise" maybe one day I'll get it.... (after watching this video a few times more) But what I really want to say is, you know... I love what you play here. You REALLY make that guitar just sing.. phrasing rhythm, all of it. Just awesome.

[@p.pentatonic4309]

Great Player

[@Blueninja3]

I want to play like this. 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

[@pedroschwartsburd237]

Excelent explanation!

[@trevorreniger5670]

Oh man. The facial expressions kill me! :D Great video, and a charming entertaining teacher.

[@Nikodemus96]

Which loop did you youse in this Video? I like this ;) Thanks for this great Video ;)

[@aljohno72]

New to your channel fantastic 😀 love the Charvel have you ever done a review?

[@jetguam6278]

CHARVEL!!!!

[@Man777Alive]

Excellent video..

[@dunskiedmusic4396]

thank you

[@ericheine2414]

Bobby Barth told me told me that it's a lot like skiing. You stand at the top of the hill and you look down the hill, you see the basic shapes that make up the mountain. And you see the moguls. The music is the mountain. You have to plan your turns and your pole plants to match the basic shape of the piece of music. You have to see three phrases at the same time. If you know where you've been. If you know where you are. If you know where you're going. You will always have a sense of fluidity and continuity in your playing. You'll never lose your place in a piece of music. Listening to this seemed to really help me become a better player. Becoming an active listener. Thank you.

[@Hellijazz]

Great!

[@jcserrano1663]

Nice idea Mate !!! 🎸🎸🎸

[@MrMadmaxgarcia]

great video!

[@loveprestrump824]

Very good lesson I am very pleased it's good

[@MikefromAlabama]

Tearing that guitar up. Good comments. I like that backing track.

[@wolfsblei-bleiwolf4698]

Cool sound and intonation

[@Theearswe]

Can you share that backingtrack you use?

[@albinpetschauer984]

Why tf is his guitar floating 😂😂😂

[@Iamedavee]

@@phoenixmunro1992 😂😂😂

[@dethja]

I'm not so good with solos but the key is keep practicing, great video

[@patrickgreaux6399]

Great tips as usual. What's the jam track?

[@waynedombrowski7568]

I hope I can give a few helpful suggestions on the subject of phrase structure and soloing:#1 - get Piston's "Harmony" and study the mechanics of non-triadic tones over harmonic rhythm;#2 - Study and analyze Jazz;#3 - Analyze 20th century French composers like Ravel,Debussy and especially Faure.I've found that one of the strengths of the French(as opposed to German)composers is their freedom from what was referred to as 'Tyranny of the Bar-line'. They have a natural tendency to not be as 'four-square' in their phrases.

[@itsDJChewii]

miss this guy

[@Ploughedcoconut]

You Sir are a great and inspiring teacher !! I watched a couple of your videos and your art of teaching are immense!!! I keep asking myself though.... Where is your accent from ???

[@adamsreport]

HI CLAUS I REALLY LIKE YOUS LESSON AND VIDEOS AND I LIKE TO KNOW WHATS THE SETUP ON YOUR GUITAR I REALLY LIKE HOW SOUNG AND WHAT EFFECT YOU USE... THANKS

[@TheForce_Productions]

That helped to get rid of the guitars weight!

[@michaelreyes147]

Are a bad ass teacher thank u brother

[@jumemowery9434]

Another great video with great philosophy and great driving analogy

[@ExposingEvil_]

Your accent is the best. Simply the best. I subbed.

[@wesmatron]

That solo at the start has hints of Mike Oldfield. Love it

[@zzrwood]

Hi Claus - what are the wireless headphones you are wearing? Do you monitor the guitar through them and, if so, how is the latency?

[@leonardorohr9261]

I think he´s using ear protection, you can tell when he speaks over the loop, he speaks loud. I´ve been using ear protection when practicing, it prevents ear fatigue and other issues in the long term

[@keithcarpentersr.4353]

Why doesn’t this guy answer any questions? Some are very interesting and we’d like to know

[@Cats-sw7nd]

Hi Claus, can you give us some examples on how to practice sequences and Building them. Trank you

[@LordRigon]

Hey Bill Cavin, that magical floating guitar seems to be in every clip. How does he do that?! Anyway, awesome video and great technique tip. My problem is learning how to use scales to work together. If I could know that much I would be most grateful to the guitar teacher who could teach me that.

[@rev.sanjaydan7598]

What's your good name sir? You are awesome! What software ur using for backing track?

[@markwilding3828]

listen to the music... what a concept. It is for guitarists, something similar to drummers who have an epiphany about maintaining a tempo.