I Saved 3000 practice hours by doing THIS! (AMAZING Guitar Practice Routine)

[@SGM-RobertAndres]

In the late 1950s my uncle who was a professional Jazz guitarist used to play chord melodies at parties. That is was got me hooked. I ended up playing rock; however, today I am learning how to play fusion of jazz into my rock and blues which is what gives me the most joy. Playing effortlessly and melodically to any progression whether simple or complex is my goal.

[@Lettrcrafter]

I have listened to Metal for years, I really have always been moved by guitar heavy music. I was watching this cover of Fronteirs by Omnium Gatherum played by Allan Vallimaa during the pandemic and I told myself I would be able to play that one day. And 3 years later I have been playing almost every day, I am a worship leader playing live on guitar 2-3 Sundays a month at my church, have a few guitar students and I am loving increasing my skills every day.

[@kevinwatkins3856]

My personal inspiration came from my parents taking me to a Chet Atkins, Floyd Kramer, and Boots Randolph concert at 9 yrs old in 1965. Chet Atkins was an inspiration to many great guitarist worldwide.

[@MyLifEcademy-sr4hy]

Boots Randolph...I hadnt heard that name in a few decades

[@TheCompleteGuitarist]

People become virtuosos in their native language by listening and transcribing. All you need to do .... is ..... transcribe. That becomes your practice routine and gives you the language you require. Everytime you open your mouth you are improvising, not reading from a script or a score. All those ideas went in through the process of transcription and came out when you needed them.

[@medmusic7977]

Wise words thank u ! U should do a video too

[@mattveneri2112]

Thanks Kotem!! I'm a year and a half into guitar playing and this information has been very helpful! You provide a great road map for the beginner or one who is struggling to progress. I have seen other videos online and the common thread to progress is "flexibility" and "mixing it up" once you plateau or lose interest in a particular point. Being new at this, every so often as I am exploring new concepts, I'll get an epiphany which keeps my interest alive and fuels my hunger to learn more. Thanks again for your instruction here!

[@menamgamg]

That feeling when you suddenly understand something and it clicks and you notice your playing improving drastically is just so awesome and inspiring and it's really what keeps me going still after 15 years of playing :)

[@kylej.d.]

I'd love to see a ~10 minute video breaking down how you calculated the amount of time you saved! 🎉

[@LexAladar]

Bro truly loves to play guitar, the way he understands it highlights his passion.

[@christophercoughlin9493]

Knowing the relationship between notes and chords really helped me with composition, keys, chord progressions and understanding where the notes are on the neck.

[@gnawbabygnaw]

I picked up the guitar when I was in the Marines. I needed a mental escape. Guitar was it. Today there is a program for veterans called Guitars for Vets. If a veteran wants to pick up the guitar for various reasons. PTSD, depression, anxiety whatever. They can get in this program and they Give you a guitar if you complete a program to show you’re serious about it.

[@synthplayer1563]

Many, many good points. And finally a guitarist who said you have to know the notes you're playing. Then all fingering patterns and shapes are unimportant because you just play notes on the guitar. But of course, you still need muscle memory to transform the notes onto the guitar fret. I've been trying to convince guitarists of this concept for ages.

[@Nickshreds890]

So to answer your question about what inspired me to pick up the guitar 🎸. When I was 12 my Dad originally inspired me by teaching the intro to Nothing Else matters by Metallica to me. I am still inspired by him but now I have developed my own interests in music and my own taste. What inspires me now is progressive metal music . I love that genre a lot . Especially the Contortionist , Dream Theater , Dir en grey , Between the Buried and Me, Leprous , Tesseract and plenty more bands . I am also inspired to write my own music I enjoy learning classical pieces too because it's a genre I am not very familiar with

[@RotemSivanGuitar]

Love that!! So cool man.

[@Nickshreds890]

@RotemSivanGuitar Thank you, Rotem 😊 ! Your videos are always insightful ! 👌 I appreciate you sharing all this for free . Have an awesome day!

[@mjmason75]

@3:04 We say "don't CUT corners" here in the USA. This video was so honest and informative. You are amazing on so many levels and your playing is crazy good. I'm using your info and advice for practicing/learning bass guitar, which I've been playing for 35 years. You are so articulate which helps make you such a great teacher!

[@pinballrobbie]

We do say it in the UK.

[@onepointofview]

And in the US (in NY, at least)

[@keith3480]

No worries, Rotem! You are very inspiring, helping us to avoid your mistakes and not " cutting corners", "cut corners" is the English expression. I hope to someday, be able to play music and guitar as well as you speak and understand English. Lofty goal, and I'm going for it! Thanks for your help.

[@rickjensen2717]

I got started when I heard the fantastic Aria and Variations by Frescobaldi and got started on classical guitar. Later got into jazz when I saw Joe Pass on the TV with Oscar Peterson - the guy was a true master.

[@gabibonza]

Awesome video 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@TheOyeoye000]

I’ve never heard anyone speak about the millimeters we musicians work in. That muscle memory comes with time and enjoying playing and listening. Great reminder!

[@marshwetland3808]

I don't remember the word millimetres, but that part about the muscle memory reminded me of Feldenkrais. Kinda like that, really consciously tuning into the body and letting it make subtle adjustments, subconsciously. And then you see the results.

[@hankstains603]

gary moore is my inspiration and i want to play like him and am studying/practising very hard.

[@marshwetland3808]

Thanks for sharing your LOVE of playing music. It was a breath of fresh air for me.

[@saroyo2687]

Great video. Thanks! We don’t want to “cut” corners.

[@etiennedekock3722]

What first inspired me with music and specifically the guitar was hearing Spanish guitar. It just pulled me in. I picked up a classical guitar and never looked back. 30 years on I combine the different styles but having a classical background was a solid foundation. Im really enjoying hybrid picking atm.

[@antoine819]

As always, wonderful video. Thanks a lot from France

[@RotemSivanGuitar]

Merci Antoine!!

[@wachiravichamorndachaphon5257]

This direct to the point. So useful. Thank you so much.

[@janetrivers7332]

What inspired me was watching a guy play acoustic guitar at a church coffee house for teens- Beatles and Dylan type music- and I knew I had to be able to do that, to play acoustic guitar😊

[@PPKSuhonen]

Tommy emmanuel is big inspiration and paul davids.. i play now with thumbpick so i can play tommy emmanuel songs, i just needed few years to practice fingerstyle so now is easier to play with thumbpick.. i learning now chet atkins song chaplin in new shoes.. i just love acoustic and songs what are played with thumbpick

[@tuomasmiettinen2648]

I was probably 9 When my father played Jimi Hendrix fire to me. I just loved it and ituitively started to dream about guitar and music in general

[@snkrsdon2675]

Bro causally playing the most beautiful chord combinations ever.

[@gustavogoesgomes1863]

I think that the most important thing guitarists should do is, as you say in the end of the video, remembering that the guitar is a musical instrument. when you are improvising, you can actually "feel" what you want to play and how you want to sound. even when you don't know the chords, you kinda feel when you are targeting good notes to go along with it. I realized that if you use scales not to train your hands and fingers, but your ears, you can easily pickup the tonality of a song and play along with it. obviously you'll play some wrong notes, but when I realized how effortlessly I could do it I've got surprised. since then, I focused a lot more into recognizing intervals and permutations of chord shapes, as I feel my ear can guide me through the scale and the frets. if you know how to transfer what you hear inside your mind to the instrument you don't really need to keep memorizing and studying a lot of these things

[@RotemSivanGuitar]

Music is the art of listening so we have to keep working on our ears and be aware as possible

[@DizzyKrissi]

Good points and best click-bait title I've seen for a guitar-video in a long time.

[@67ratsrule]

Mostly I wanted to learn to play because my mom played. I also loved much of the same music she loved and also loved the music my dad loved. I wanted to play the songs I heard. My mom taught me some cowboy chords and handed me a pile of fake sheets (lyrics and chords) that I could do with my cowboy chords.

[@anatol1204]

You are a good teacher for sure..

[@SigmaDee]

I love how you seem to mentally note every gap in your understanding of the english language. I bet this is the same attention to detail that has left you with incredible guitar skills and a great command of the english language.

[@thormusique]

You make lots of wonderful points here, thanks ! And your point about being 'flexible' is particularly important in my case. I've been playing since I was very young, and from that time I had this crazy belief that whatever I learned to play, I would have to keep repeating for the rest of my life, otherwise I wouldn't improve. (Yes, when I say this aloud it sounds even crazier.) It took me many years to start to realise that playing a new thing didn't just negate whatever progress I'd made before. Even now I sometimes have to remind myself to 'move on' and not get stuck doing the same things over again, which of course also becomes boring. So, what you say here also serves as an excellent wakeup call for me. Btw, I just wanted to also mention how much I love your use of dynamics in your playing, which seems increasingly rare among guitarists nowadays. Cheers!

[@RotemSivanGuitar]

Thanks so much! Yea, it's hard and I need to remind myself that often as well :)

[@RichInternationalAir]

Liked and subscribed! Excellent video.

[@mrjasondylan]

It's cut corners not carve corners that's a saying here in England. As in don't cheat or rush it, i love your Gibson . Is it a Howard Roberts ? I can't think of another model it could be.

[@hfrankbrown]

In 2019, I connected with “the rain song” by Led Zeppelin. I haven’t put the guitar down since. Thanks for all your help in my path, Rotem!

[@dylanclark5438]

Great song! Have you heard the live version?! Madison square garden 1973. Even better.

[@christophercoughlin9493]

If you like to make up your own music, one of the things that will happen is that you will automatically incorporate whatever new thing you have learned into your composing on the guitar, which gives you practice on that particular lick, or technique.

[@jolijnboland3333]

Yes exactly I always call it practice-play. It is the most fun. Right now I am, like Rotem did in his example, learning the major scale. I already knew it but I am trying to dream it, that it is ingrained where all the intervals are in relation to the root everywhere on the neck. Having fun with it but at the same time consciously thinking about where you are.

[@ТимурПятигорець]

Good and important idea to be flexible and to change practice program, when will that you stuck.Thank You!

[@mrjub]

What's with all those rubber bands? Great vid by the way. Thanks.

[@mendozosa]

You're a greath teacher, yo can go futter in the topic of learning and starting with the building blocks in this case music. Can you do a video about what you need to become advanced in theory and practicallity? I will be glad to see some video like that.

[@francoscotta220]

Great videos Rotem! 🫶🏻

[@createmedialabs]

This is a really great video, thank you for putting this together!

[@tooselfish]

Moin Rotem, it's a very good Video, with great advices, thanks a lot, i started playing guitar after listening to the Eric Clapton Blues in the early 1990's, Greetings Harry

[@RotemSivanGuitar]

Nice!! Eric Clapton is do great. That's how you started playing?

[@tooselfish]

​@@RotemSivanGuitaryes, 27 years old in 1991

[@jameshobley8130]

For me it was the first time I heard Californication and John Fruciante's guitar playing and how it made me feel.

[@PabloskyS84]

I guess that my first flame was the rock and pop guitar heroes from 60s to 90s who got me into the guitar, but also I am from Chile so a lot of Sudamerican folk music was always in my veins (acoustic guitar). BTW on minute 4:46 you play the first two chords of "Twilight" by ELO =´)

[@TheStobb50]

Thank you for explaining so clearly, and I like your guitar

[@gregcastagneri25]

Ace Frehley of Kiss was my first inspiration to play guitar. Then had a neighbor who was great 👍

[@spivvo]

I’ve figured what I’ve been missing! I need to gaffa tape a piece of toast (or is it rye bread?) under my strings 😂. Excellent lesson as always.

[@etiennedekock3722]

Spot on bro.

[@marcellussalerni1281]

This is a great, great video!!

[@omorganstudios]

Any advice on recording so the audio doesn't crash? I am guessing you figured out what it was...maybe make a quick "how to record guitar video?" Chuck Berry Johnny Goode playing Bb5 Bb6 I IV V blues shuffle gave me the confidence I could play guitar...and been noodling around with chords and little melodies ever since😂👍

[@edwinwoods8294]

this is awesome thkyou

[@adrianhigh4210]

When I go to gig I think..."If I had that technique..I wouldn't play those notes"...(mostly!) But that's why I play guitar. Thanks for your view of things. Every idea helps.

[@maxkelter3561]

I like to identify with patterns and then learn the notes. Once skilled building gets easier.

[@cbolt4492]

Awesome playing

[@Dreamdancer11]

Well yes you cant really cut corners and we all find that out sooner or later...for example my playing has developed to be very interval based...meaning that i see instantly the intervals on the neck so i can construct on the fly scales arpeggios or chords no need for predetermined shapes and thats a big win BUT i have realised that although that is certainly an excellent skill to have(especially with the guitar that is a matrix not something linear like piano) in many cases doesnt help me cause i dont know the actual notes of the thing iam playing(minus the root) and i lack knowledge in theory to understand better what iam playing and in turn make more meaningful or complex chord progressions and music....so its something that i have learn IF i wanna progress so you cant really cut corners...

[@darkcarnival5207]

How do you know how many hours you or anyone else would save? If any at all?

[@newtonlkh]

I am a big fan of "play by shapes" methodology. But every once in a while I would think, it would be even nicer if I could QUICKLY find any note anywhere on the fretboard. But those exercises of "playing and the Cs" are just another "shape". The shapes of unisons and octaves. I remain very sceptical of their efficiency in actually learning the notes. (eg, finding a F# on the 3rd string without referencing other stings"

[@michaelcard9382]

Don't "CUT" corners is the expression 😊 Thank you for this great video

[@piax9567]

do you always use pick and fingers? hybrid picking

[@arasteh2an886]

I feel good

[@RotemSivanGuitar]

That's great! lol!

[@andrewkratz226]

I appreciate your videos

[@BAMF69]

Hey brother wondering it you could go into some jimi Hendrix songs and just breaking them down and how you feel about them.

[@sadfasdf74]

what inspired me to play guitar was temecula sunrise by dirty projectors.

[@RotemSivanGuitar]

Love that song / album!!!

[@paulmitchell5349]

Do you personally think more in terms of shapes or intervals when you improvise ,and what is that damping system you have on your guitar ? For me the important thing is to stay motivated. Scales do get boring after a short while. I prefer to see what note combinations raise my energy and then work with those. Pedants say that music is about maths ,but for me it is about EXPRESSION. Often more can be said with 6 notes played with feeling than 20 played like a robot.

[@thomasmartinscott]

I love it!

[@williewest5574]

What is that under the strings next to the pickup?

[@easylivingsherpa]

Whats with the rubberbands.

[@ecojot]

nice - todah

[@hankevans7890]

Do you really need the rubber band all over the first fret?

[@DavidRees43]

inspirational 😎

[@javelin3105]

The game “The Sims 2” inspired me to play guitar.

[@kh485]

Good music in that game!

[@k4tchenwunschkonzert]

Prince 💜

[@francissreckofabian01]

I want to play The Beatles, The Blues and my own music.

[@joyoffilming9500]

So true!

[@josepolanco9147]

I learned that we were becoming parents with my wife. I decided to pickup the guitar to teach my daughter about music, not necessarily guitar. So far, she's lovin' it being less than 1 y.o.

[@serdar_a]

I startet to play guitar because of Anatolian Rock

[@theintervalicfretboard.9602]

I would love to see you get interviewed by rick Beato... My god

[@RotemSivanGuitar]

Would be fun! Great dude.

[@theintervalicfretboard.9602]

@@RotemSivanGuitar make it happen! 🤣 Jkjk

[@diggie9598]

I probably won't do all that, but still subscribed. Well presented and informative lesson, i support that!

[@Thimbmoh92018]

I want to try but i don't have acoustic guitar 😅

[@africanchina1]

I would say listening to Jimi Hendrix is what inspired me

[@davidmiller4078]

Sure but u have to make the time if yr into it ?

[@rgth3167]

Thrash metal and Brian May made me start playing. But I INSPIRE to play better blues and jazz and be as a whole more familiar with my instrument!

[@TeleTonemonkey]

I want to be Larry Carlton, work in progress! 😊

[@chopperwhopperzzz]

Sorry can't do this...

[@joseflastovicka6216]

Expected clickbait, was ready to click "back" button, but suddenly i am clicking on subscribe instead

[@peteskyrunner4845]

I would struggle to speak and play a scale at the same time. But you do it even though English isn't your native language, very impressive. Your English is excellent by the way. We say 'cut corners' not 'carve corners' (although I love your version of it), not criticising, just being helpful 🙂

[@gerrittenberkdeboer7763]

instead of noodeling....mean it. right

[@herrvierkoetter]

I learned piano, but guitar was easier to carry.

[@BeefNEggs057]

It’s cut corners in English. Instead of carve corners. Close enough!

[@arasteh2an886]

When I play my guitar

[@RotemSivanGuitar]

Me too

[@seth5394]

I saw a Flying V in the window as a young boy.

[@markdickens6426]

I dont get this. This video seems to be yet another, "Look how boringly fast I can move my fingers across the fretboard" skit. The only informative nugget is that once you plateau, don't be afraid to practise something else. What's the point of playing all of those beautiful fill-in chords at breakneck speed, if you're not going to show us what they are?

[@petarkosovic6455]

These are usual tips, not life altering advices.

[@duncanjones7310]

cut corners ye

[@gk1771]

My forever problem has always been picking. Being a leftie forced to play right when I was in grade school during the 1970s due to elders and music teachers born before WWII who never heard of McCartney, Hendrix, and other lefties. My fretting is good, but it gets distracted by my effort trying to pick the right strings, especially on down scales and pull-ups, or anything that requires travelling more than 2 strings. My right hand technically feels like your lips when you walk out of the dentist with the anesthesia still in effect, while trying to drink through a straw.

[@bogse]

A priest played guitar every night at confirmation school. So after that I had to have a guitar.

[@michaelt5012]

Just wanted you to know in case you didn't know your cool thanks

[@reboot110]

I honestly don’t know what my ‘inspiration’ to play was, just always kind of drawn to strings

[@Keith-tz2jy]

Discourging

[@gregdemeterband]

dON'T MAKE EXCUSES FOR PEOPLE THOUGH...yOU SHOULD BE ALL oPRA sINGERS, hA!