Vlog #1 - The stuff they don't teach you on the internet (FULL GUITAR LESSON)

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HUGE thanks go to my wonderful student Mike Smithson for letting me film this and put it up for everyone to benefit from. You're a champion. Check out his Facebook site: / smittymotorcity
In this first installment of my VLOG, Mike and myself are discussing the importance of ear training for guitar players. We go through a bunch of ideas and exercises, that help devoloping your musical ear.

[@LeviClay]

Big props to Mike for being comfortable singing in a lesson, especially knowing it's going out to 25000 subscribers! Good stuff dude

[@motorcitysmitty]

Thanks, Levi! You know what they say, any publicity is good publicity

[@LeviClay]

That's my motto

[@einarabelc5]

It's 38000 now and still going strong. WOW!!!

[@JustusVidyo]

he sings in the medleys too

[@modeeeeee]

81k views already!

[@danieltobing_]

"it doesn't matter how much time this process takes, what matter is that you go through the process". Really love it !!

[@kylekruszewski1078]

Weird, I read this just as Martin said it in the video. :)

[@johnnydessi8567]

this sentence seems to be from Pope Francis: who copied whom?😁

[@jeffrey.a.hanson]

This is badly needed in our culture where expectations are ‘right now’.

[@motorcitysmitty]

Thanks Martin! Guys and Gals, please take it easy on me!

[@steverayburn6271]

Mike Smithson good job mike!

[@motorcitysmitty]

thanks!

[@gabrielvictorrusso5931]

Great job... and thanks for sharing

[@albertofbr9121]

Great job man! you must have put a lot of work on this. Keep it up! and you will nail it :)

[@Krylov19]

Thank you Mike for letting Martin share this lesson with us all. It's very instructive.

[@luanreis3926]

Martin, I can't thank you enough for this. I just finished a course from coursera which covers the ear training topic as well, and it has helped me amazingly. I have heard from guitarrists such as Steve Vai and Andy Timmons, through their masterclasses, the same advice you gave on this lesson. Now I truly believe this is the most important part of learning music and people should definetly pay much more attention to this. Also, your example about the differences between major and minor sounds were simply mind blowing to me. I always learned to think about them as happy or sad sounds, and it kind of works but at the same time it traps me a lot because of the reasons you explained. I really hope you continue with this vlog lessons. Thank you very much!

[@RickFiorentino]

Martin you are such a gracious, patient instructor. Nice to see this with someone as uber talented as you. Mike! I love the dedication and wish you the very best!

[@motorcitysmitty]

Thanks, Rick. Really trying....

[@nichaju1]

Fantastic lesson Martin. Ear training is definitely a key element to become a great musician. And a huge bravo to Mike.

[@danielsperry8114]

Mike Smithson . Great job !!! Martin Miller this is really a great idea ... I've been playing 45 years and i've never had a teacher have me sing the notes .. Very important and thanks for sharing .

[@AXPena]

Hey Martin, this was very refreshing to see. I've had trouble with ear training my entire musician life and just started doing something about it. I have been doing 100 examples a day starting with m2 and M2 interval recognition (ascending, descending, and unison). I'm tracking my progress everyday and adding an interval every month. It's slow and tedious but I'm surprised at the progress I've made!

[@kevinp_25]

Mike, thanks for putting yourself out there to give us a peek at your process. It was exceptionally educational. Martin, thank you for providing such great instruction. I think I these concepts will help me greatly. I downloaded the EarMaster app for my iPad and will be working on it. Again, thank you both!

[@motorcitysmitty]

Sure thing, Kevin. We will be doing more of this in the near future.

[@A1exShishkin]

Personal takeaway: the point is not to identify intervals any old way you know how, but go through the process for every interval even if your experience tells you that that one's a perfect fourth, for example. Because some intervals are easier to hear than others, but you really want to be able to hear all of them.

[@mmelloffparis]

Thank you Mike also ! We really all struggle and I applaud you for your progress

[@motorcitysmitty]

it's way harder than it looks, at least for a complete newb like me...

[@rottalmusik6563]

Thanks Mike and Martin! This ist the best content for a music/guitar lesson i'v catched in years! I will work on this hard and make it similar to Rhythms !!! Thanks to Martin for teaching us and thanks Mike for having the courage to show your learning process! This are the things nobody wants to share, cause it is the hard work! It's not the easy looking show off after it! I will love to see and hear more of this!

[@motorcitysmitty]

There will be more coming!

[@Broadfieldpoint]

Martin Miller is truly a breath of fresh air in the guitar community. He is humble and among the greatest players alive today.....a rare combo. So thankful for this and the video series offered here.

[@reallyreallyryan]

We definitely need some more VLOG type videos, Martin! I was really pleased to see this pop up in my feed.

[@motorcitysmitty]

+Ryan Simmons Martin and I will be doing more of these

[@reallyreallyryan]

That's great news, good luck!

[@boult1487]

Honestly, thank you so much for this Miller. Being a totally self-taught musician, lessons like these show what I can work on, especially since I hit dead ends a lot. I'm real glad you're sharing your knowledge with us.

[@michaelrobinlegion4209]

Thankyou Mr. Martin Miller , I watched this entire whole video and I found a lot of knowledge, I realized that this is one of my struggle as a musician the most important of all.

[@myyootube2]

Wow! I just found a lesson on the internet on something they don't teach on the internet! You have patience and precision. Thanks for bending our ear!

[@PedroDuarteMusic]

Top advice from Tim, as always. Ear training is fundamental. Some people, lots of people, forget that the object of music is sound.

[@jailbreak5755]

Vlog #2 :PThanks awesome work both of you guys. You're an excellent teacher Martin love your patience. So will get your Improvisation Masterclass Vol.1. Love your work :D

[@leekirkland.musician]

I love Mike...he's world class!!! good luck mate! thanks for this I really enjoyed it.

[@CharlesRoss2007]

I am very impressed Mike I’m clapping and cheering you on! Great work Martin you’re such a great teacher and musician extraordinaire! Thanks again guys this helps so much, haven’t done much of this in awhile long while, come across this stuff originally in the Joe strain guitar secrets book

[@19universe81]

One of the best instructional videos i've seen lately! Congrats to both and thanks for sharing, it's been inspirational

[@slash100588]

Wow i loved this lesson I feel like this is what I need to get to next level in my playing. Thank you so much for providing this to us!!! I can't say enough good things about this lesson.

[@kroadster3249]

The advice at 54.26 pure gold. Martin you just showed me another important idea.

[@ericjurotich9078]

There is no way Martin is going to see this, but so far two of your lesson videos have made break throughs for me, One was on speed and coming at playing fast from the top down instead of slowly building up (I can finally shred a bit) . And the other is this video, Ive known ear training was important for so long and have worked on it here and there, but this really made it clear to me I should put more time in on ear training. I ended up buying your improv master class on jtc, thanks for what you do Martin. Looking forward to making my way through the course.

[@MartinMillerGuitar]

Appreciate this!

[@flamen89]

you are a fantastic teacher Martin

[@Eccentrics]

Excellent lesson Martin and great job Mike!

[@NinoHelfrich]

Haven't seen such an interesting video in a long time. Thanks for sharing and please do more!

[@tasossimeonidis3275]

Well done to both of you for this presentation of a really important aspect of musical education in general.Martin, that was also a ''window'' to a complete and thorough teaching process,which is very interesting from a pedagogical point of view.I recently attended a classical guitar festival where you could attend one on one lessons from experienced teachers and it was great to see the whole process of learning and interacting!You made it possible on the internet!Again,well done and keep it coming!Thank you

[@shapedindreams]

great work!....so enjoyable to see mike's success!

[@rassputton]

Martin... fantastic lesson! the idea of listening and playing internally, without playing an instrument; I hadn't yet heard it explained in this way, and I immediately benefited from this, mere seconds after hearing it, before I even picked up my guitar. GREAT work. P.S., your session tribute band if F*&$ing AMAZING. Thank you.

[@PietroBernal]

its so much easier learning solos by ear because all the notes are being played individually ( most of them) or arpeggiated like you've said. When it comes to chords, even basic ones, I struggle so hard. Sometimes an idea comes up to my mind and I try to register it on the cellphone. Months later when I try to replay it, I just cant. With the hints that you've shown in this video, learning chords progression by ear and passing to the instrument an idea that is in my mind will be much easier. Thanks guys!

[@MartinMillerGuitar]

+Pietro Bernal Hey Pietro, thanks for your kind words. There's a few things about your post that I want to point out: 1. You've mentioned chord progressions, but at no point in this video we are dealing with chord progressions. How one chord or chord quality moves from one to the next is a whole different discipline. All we are doing (in the first part of the video) is identify what inversion a triad is by finding out it's root note, then it's top note and then comparing the two. 2. Learning solos by ear is a possible application for these skills but it's not really what we're going for. When transcribing solos by ear you can slow down recordings and pretty much trial & error your way through it until you have the right notes. What we're trying to achieve is to be so familiar with intervals/sounds/qualities that you don't even need to try, you just know. Just like you immediately recognize that Mike's guitar is blue. The idea is to be able to do this in real-time, so you can apply this to any musical situation, especially improvisation and interaction with other musicians.

[@PietroBernal]

Hey, thanks for answering back! Indeed you guys haven't dealt with these topics directly, but someway just by finding its root note, the quality of the interval, its inversion and stuff helps out a lot when it comes to more complex situations. It's a good way to start, specially for those who never got the chance to have a lesson like this before, like me. In the end, it's all about getting your ears educated and I see many benefits in this practice. I will start doing 15/20 minutes daily at the beginning of my study section like you've pointed out to your student. Btw, I am looking forward to seeing more videos like this Thanks a lot guys!

[@marshalcraft]

I found part about major/minor thirds tricking part interesting. Like If i play 1-3-6-8 that is a the major and then minor 3rd, and it is c, resolving on c, yet doesn't sound like it resolve. But then I think about it, and those notes haven't constrained C major yet (or F major), further playing a C major chord, or F major chord still doesn't constrain a Key yet.

[@diegodeltoro5190]

I love every of your works and projects. I've been following you for a while, and i really like what you have, you've become one of my favourite guitarist. Greetings from Colombia!:D

[@aliplaysgtr]

This is a gem. Thanks a lot for putting this online

[@jeffrey.a.hanson]

You stole my word. Only I can use ‘gem’ to describe guitar videos!

[@trentwaterman7049]

It's great to see that the learning process is as slow for me as it is for other people and I'm not a special unit. Thankyou Martin!

[@rjdom]

Great vid guys, Satch has a similar video singing the intervals and guessing the mode and quality of the triad. This is an exercise every guitarist should do, you will gain ear training that cannot be "tuned" any other way.

[@LeFrogCatcher]

This tutoring is worth EVERY cent. WOW. Thank you for sharing. I didn't know this, I mean I feel it, but didn't know it even 30 years after picking up a guitar. Thank you student as well, for being GREAT, and for wanting to learn, for learning in front of the entire internet. That is BALLS! Cheers

[@LeFrogCatcher]

15.36 tuturing, WORLD CLASS!!!!!!!

[@LeFrogCatcher]

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@LeFrogCatcher]

Student, AND TUTOR, WORLD CLASS!

[@jimvee4528]

This was outstanding. I'd like to hear more of Mike's playing, beyond what's available on the Facebook link. I'm nowhere near as good as Mike is, but I can wee hope. I've tried ear training before, but got bogged down. That app is really good and very patient.

[@pauli8267]

Great, thanks for sharing!

[@RichardFriendartist]

this was excellent and fascinating...always so much to learn which is why guitar is a life long pursuit and always rewarding~! thank you both!!

[@geragamo]

Amazing guitar player and teacher

[@juanmlarios]

I'm in the exact same place. This is so helpful. I've studied Jazz, I've played guitar for a long time but although i might spot chords and progressions fairly well, i have a lot of trouble making a distinction in intervals and individual notes. I think this is really going to help phrasing and my overall approach to music! thanks!

[@GMSlash]

Wow Martin, what an eye-opener. Such a useful exercise. Thank you for this, you're an excellent teacher!

[@Aalii6]

very clear and helpful step by step guidance, this is great fun too, thank you

[@darrelbigdaddywhite]

Great...Just what I need. Thanks to you both for the teaching, courage. I will be looking into the program when funds come but following on sideline for now.

[@OLBax1981]

Fantastic lesson! Well done Mike, wonderful student!

[@jazzercaster4749]

Great work Martin!! For anyone that wants to look at a great book for ear training check out "Training the ear Volume 1" by Armen Donelian, I've been working through it the last month and have made huge progress and am feeling so much more connected with my playing and ideas. Also Hal Galper "Forward motion". Totally agree with Martin also, doing all of this, sight singing away from your instrument will kick your butt, but man it will make you so much better.

[@MrJUNNY7777]

MR. MILLER! YOU'RE AN AMAZING TEACHER 👏 THANKS FOR SHARING YOUR KNOWLEDGE 🙏

[@unclejohn8520]

love you martin and mike!

[@barriomeister]

Please make more videos like this! I l learned a lot from this video. I remember doing aural activities like this in my music theory class that I took in my senior year of high school, but I did not make the connection of how important this kind of skill truly is when it comes to improvisation on the guitar.

[@7strSlnger678]

Awesome lesson, Martin. Great progress, Mike! Lots of great information.

[@MaxPadron]

I love this! Thanks Martin!

[@MateNako]

1h vlog from Martin!??! FUCK YES!

[@BenMcrea61]

I had heard Martins name mentioned in connection with the Ibanez signature model but hadn’t heard any of his music until I saw him today on a Troy Grady video. Wow, I’m blown away. Have listened to Earthquake about six times today and now looking for other stuff.

[@CarlosEGuillen]

Great Lesson. Excellent work thumps up to Mike as well Already started to practice this.

[@brokenbuffalo5608]

super radical video, i was talking to the screen in answers way more than a sane person should. great work teach

[@lucasbretels]

Hi Martin, very great lesson, I am happy that my ear is already more developped then the pupil here, but great he is, just after a few weeks.

[@djonathannagtalon9934]

Thanx for sharing this.

[@normanmichelisz4574]

People hate solfeggio lessons but this is what they teach you guys. Very important stuff! Thanks Martin.

[@DavidMakesNoise]

I hated the ear training class I took at berklee which was all singing and it was the worst but helped out alot

[@ShpookyMetal]

@@DavidMakesNoise

[@WilmerLebron]

Great Stuff Martin!! 🎸🎶🤘🏻💥

[@sagig72]

Great lesson! One of the best in you tube! truly a good job Martin.

[@Caarloz2]

Wow this looks really difficult. I've tried it myself and it's just crazy :)

[@TechMetalRules]

Keep these coming!

[@motorcitysmitty]

There will be more!

[@felixschlegel7048]

Thanks Martin and big thanks to Mike! Great lesson

[@mmelloffparis]

Amazing Martin ! Thank you

[@jacksimmons1999]

Dude this is awesome please do more

[@motorcitysmitty]

We will be doing more

[@stevencorley3296]

Regarding hearing the "correct" octave: standard tuning guitar sounds an octave below the written note. The low E that is on ledger lines below the treble clef is actually the low E just below the bass clef. I had been reading guitar music for years but did not realize this until I took an orchestration course.

[@sakules]

Thanks Martin and thanks Mike!

[@algarvemike]

What an awesome lesson, teacher and video. I learned so much

[@algarvemike]

I’d love to watch many more of these.

[@jeffreymonroe153]

Great job Mike! I learned a lot here. So thank you both!

[@jhon1736]

love the lesson, master Martin. more please!!!

[@edwinmclean6775]

Always love your video Martin.

[@jeffrey.a.hanson]

Guitar is often forgotten as a ‘musical instrument’. Majority of my students come in nailing their scales, but can’t create a musical idea. It’s interesting because I learned backwards, where scales came out of necessity. My first band blew up fast in college…and we didn’t have enough songs.

[@neilsherman3483]

Well done Mike! I always found the song "you" by Radiohead to be what jumps into my head when I hear a major 3rd. The vocal melody has a VERY distinct G# to G (major to minor 3rd) in the key of E

[@Taylorxswifte]

Great teacher

[@johnharreld4875]

Ha, "know one is going to sit through this whole hour". Looks like a lot of people have. I did and it was excellent. Thanks!

[@Edje001]

Martin is so much right! Martin Uber Alles! Martin is gewoon TOP!

[@Vintagestep]

"No one is gonna sit for the entire hour" Oh well, about that... Anyways, this was a very good reminder of what's important. I found that I'm struggling a lot with transcribing, improvising, and right-hand technique, this definitely covers part of that.

[@toneseeker87]

Wow a very humble student. Congrats Mike!

[@MartinMillerGuitar]

Humility and openness are some of the absolute key features required to be improving quickly. Well observed!

[@warriorjudo]

love this, I need this!

[@stuffedtoylover]

hi i sat through the entire hour and it was great

[@vuha5000]

this is a killer way of teaching...meanin in both aspects :D very effective and hard...wish my teacher..."tortured me" as well like u doin with mike ...keep the good work up :D

[@RaemusGuitar]

Thanks Mike :) This lesson was very helpful and wouldn't have been possible without you volunteering to do it. Also, thanks Martin :) You're an inspiration and a great teacher!

[@prodchronic]

Man I wish I could have somebody to push me like this

[@kroadster3249]

Danke Martin für die sehr gute Lesson. Weiter so.

[@DaremAq]

This lesson gave me a few epiphanies in theory! Thank you for sharing. I think I come from a similar place as Mike as my fretboard knowledge is miles ahead of my ear knowledge. Thank you for sharing this and I look forward to more of this! Cheers!

[@motorcitysmitty]

This is the one main reason why I wasn't progressing any in improvisation in my opinion. There are a lot of others I am sure, but this one keeps me from taking melodies or lines in my head and expressing them on the instrument.

[@ado65514452]

Very good stuff, thanks for doing this.

[@leocomerford]

54:18 A valuable tip.

[@irti_pk]

"No one's gonna sit through the entire hour" Me, having watched the entire 1 hour and 10 minutes :

[@flamen89]

Martin you are actually a genius!

[@buddhikaroxz]

Thank you very much

[@chumbo]

Kudos to me then....I watched til the end! ;-)

[@DarkImperialism]

I play completely by ear with no musical training so this is easy. 1st one is inverted power chord at 13th fret 5th string.. then u just reverses the position same strings and fret on second one. Takes me about 10 seconds or less to find any chord i hear.

[@plexisuperlead]

Really great lesson and student! It

[@seven7sseven7s83]

Nice channel love the audio exercises

[@Achielezz]

Oops, i just sat through the entire hour :D Great Video guys :) I learned that i need eartraining :D but its not so bad

[@TOMMYBENICE66]

painfully awesome

[@lewisbirkett4428]

Mike's the man

[@mattbirtwistle6188]

Brave volunteer! A great and informative video though.