Guitar Phrasing Explained

[@CanalRunner-gg5mz]

This is very insightful. Thanks for explaining this in such a succinct and vivid manner,. Keep up the great work - its appreciated

[@krystlepyette]

I love this as a topic. It's really something that should be thought about and ingrained into our playing from the start.

[@thefrenchexpedition]

wowwww the drone work! thank you! I just did this and I finally felt like I was thinking of somewhat melodies. I know where to go on fretboard and what to play but have had the hardest time being musical. sitting there with the drone with eyes closed and just feeling where to go and hearing it changes so much!!!!

[@LordChaosWing]

Love the content! I am glad the algorithm brought me to this video, because I've been pondering this for a bit, and have already taken some of your ideas. KZbin likes to show me guys with flashier editing who aren't reading from a script, but the IDEAS matter so much more to me.

[@karantrehan7710]

I believe that having an internalized sense of intervals and how to instantly play them on guitar can help immensely in phrasing. Phrasing is automatic when you let your imagination guide your melody and your fingers know how to play the imagined note on guitar instantly. Excellent explanation and beautiful soloing towards the end.

[@CSDex]

This is a very good point. You could have amazing phrasing in your head but still sound like shit.

[@rakzo7133]

wow this is exactly what im looking for. you jumpstarted my phrasing creativity and the important mindset that I needed. subbed

[@grandarchon6969]

When I first learned phrasing, my guitar teacher and I would take turns improvising over a simple chord progression, and we would make up silly, and quite inappropriate sentences, and say them out loud and on the guitar in an appropriate scale for the progression. Very fun to do with a student, as long as they don't tell their mom. Also just play random songs of a genre you're less familiar with. Listen, figure out the key, and then improvise over the whole song and try to make stuff that fits. Or doesn't. Just have fun. Way better training than memorizing tabs, and much better practice for playing along with other musicians.

[@jaketcooke]

good stuff brother not enough people diving into this topic like this

[@andrewallison1]

NORM! The video was great but that norm addition made it extra great. Thanks for the lesson!

[@ThomasB_N4G]

You know, I am perfectly happy and content with being an intermediate guitarist. I play stuff that is pleasant and interesting to listen to and very fun to play. For some reason we’re made to believe that people who play guitar at the intermediate level can’t produce beautiful music. Not everyone is meant to be an “advanced”guitar player. Would I like to advance, of course, But I believe we do people a great disservice by convincing them that being intermediate is somehow deficient or inferior. And really most are “stuck” at that level, not because they don’t know what you know it’s because they haven’t really mastered what they know.

[@C.M.Sivelle]

Wow, this video is exceptionally helpful and informative, I’m amazed. Thank you!

[@Noodlebowlconchile]

Great content, my friend. Very important concept. Oh, and I love your Peter Green haircut!

[@GP1989]

Excellent video. Touch and hearing are far more important than sight. Hendrix rarely ever looked at the fretboard. Why? Because his ear and his feel led him around the guitar. Thank-you for bringing this out in the open. Too many instructors push learning notes and scales and move over what you just showed.👍

[@jonnyroxx7172]

I like where you’re going here. You’re not quite there yet, but you’re clearly on your way. Keep going brother. And keep following this brother students. He’s right on. 😊

[@FabsDolan]

Thank you bro, I appreciate the support

[@sferguson1130]

This is fantastic insight

[@GodsStoryteller]

You are quite detailed. Thanks. I subscribed. I love phrasing and i do the little i know. I basically love creativity and find this video a piece that kinda tells me im very much on the right track. You tighten my knowledge. Thanks.

[@StefanGBucher]

13:07 Just play it! Just play the Pink Panther theme! Don't leave me hanging! 😄 Excellent lesson! Thank you!

[@johnallwood]

Excellent approach , content and presentation :)

[@Theactivepsychos]

This is everything I needed to hear right now.

[@johnmac8084]

You're describing articulation. In your example of the comedian, that was, as you said, phrasing. He used groups of words up to podium, the first phrase, and importantly, a big gap before the second phrase, the punchline. Call & response is a type of phrasing, where the first lick sounds like a question, and the second lick sounds like an answer. The gap between the phrases is almost as important as the notes, like a singer breathing between phrases.

[@FretboardMaestro]

I think you’re getting articulation and phrasing confused… articulation is needed for proper phrasing but they are not the same thing…

[@ClaudioMartella]

Exactly. "Notes don t matter" is so stupid. Sure, you can tell a good joke badly and people won't laugh. But you can try to articulate random words as much as you want and you won't make a joke

[@jazzybluesguitar4317]

I think you're right. When he mentioned “how we play individual notes-” Thats pretty much a description of how you “articulate” the notes in a “phrase.” Phrase is the sentence. articulation is how syllables are emphasized. I would compliment the content of the video though. Its just a question of definitions. Btw. There's dizzy Gillespies explanation. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fWfJi5yZf5aDa68si=tK5AlsVkprUFE1Bo

[@JanSalzman-m1i]

i thought this would be about grouping notes together and using space to form phrases

[@BrianSimpson-t8t]

As players we should spend more time working on these techniques

[@PixelWavesGuru]

Great Perspective!

[@michaelasange7377]

Dude!..You still made it funny! You ARE funny!

[@Houston123ABC]

Doing all the things possible with one note is genius!

[@StefanJordan-kb4ck]

I understand why language is used as an analogy for music, but really I think music is an expression that has no meaning. Language has meaning, the ideas formulated by a listener to music are purely subjective and a group of listeners will all have differing ideas and feelings in response to the music because music is not a language, it is just sound.

[@BHCollectives]

Notes within music can have meaning though, similar to language, it’s not purely subjective to every listener. E.g. hitting the root note on the down of 1 vs hitting the 3rd note will convey a very different message. Ending a phrase on a non-triad note over the chord tone will feel like an unresolved question, just like how we end questions vs statements.

[@StefanJordan-kb4ck]

@@BHCollectives If I say the word 'tree' you know what it means, if I play a note or a series of notes they have no meaning. They may induce a feeling or some ideas for the listeners, but those ideas and feelings will be unique to each listener because the notes have no literal meaning. I enjoy the instrumental music for this reason. Thanks for the reply.

[@BHCollectives]

@@StefanJordan-kb4ck I hear ya. It’s definitely not the same, but it does help me approach music writing, especially leads and phrasing, with calls and response etc. At the end day, there’s no set rules to music though, whatever gets us to keep creating and connecting! :)

[@StefanJordan-kb4ck]

@@BHCollectives It is fascinating how music can move a person emotionally as a listener or a player. I've been playing guitar for 40 years, used to play in bands. I love improvisation and jamming, the amazing feeling when the music seems to play itself, free of thought.

[@timslaughter7050]

What’s a Strat body doing with a LesPaul neck?

[@fkrohmer]

I’m pretty sure that’s a Paul Reed Smith Silver Sky, or some such. Weird guitar. Good vid though.

[@SVN62534]

Thank you for everything brother.

[@ClaudioMartella]

You can focus as much as you want on how you articulate random words, but you won't make a joke about of them

[@abhisekmukherjee8621]

Everything matters.

[@jonathanroselaw]

Can you add the link in the comments?

[@hipihei]

..i've been playing guitar around maybe 40 years..but still can't tell myself have i gotten good on guitar..😅

[@AP-ui7oi]

The differences between a good player and average are phrasing and vibrato.

[@NorthGeorgiaMountains]

You can’t teach phrasing or feel. You either have it or you don’t

[@frantisca]

A bit long, but nice explanation of the concept. Cheers !

[@garyeggleton1142]

thats why I dont get all the videos about noodling, thats how I always work on phrasing, by noodling with purpose

[@charlieritchie5980]

Hmmmmmmmmmm maybe not

[@DarkInvader1963]

Bro, Less Talking And More Playing. You Said The Same Thing 5 Different Ways. I'm Going To Stay Subscribed But More Playing, So We Can Play With You And Learn Those Phrases In A Solo 12 Bar Solo You Create And Play For Us So We Can Play Alongside You. Then Add That To Our Own Arsenal Of Licks And Phrases. Thank You.

[@Wordsareprayers]

Everybody is a critic🤓

[@marcsullivan7987]

Why Do You Capitalize Every Word As If It Were A Title?

[@DarkInvader1963]

@marcsullivan7987 If You Were Smarter You Would Know What I Did For A Living.

[@Wordsareprayers]

@@DarkInvader1963 with all do respect- nobody cares what U do for a living.🥸

[@douginny]

Way top much talking bro. And this is not what phrasing even means.

[@TheRealJanKafka]

he reeds gud