Mastery takes 300 years - If you don't do this

[@jds2056]

The fact your course are free makes it even better, you give great lessons and you don't try to advertise something every video like most teachers on youtube. Thank you so much

[@robertbrawley5048]

I'm skeptical of those free courses . I see he has not free, courses varining from $29 to 199 dollars .

[@bevo65]

Holy crap, I wish I could bottle up Claus's intensity. This is pure gold. :-)

[@jazznotes3802]

bevo65 It’s what all good salesmen learn, it how you get people to buy into what your selling. Claus is great at it!

[@Aresmusic.official]

@@jazznotes3802 you don't get the whole thing at all. He's the one and literally the only one who is truly helpful.

[@jazznotes3802]

@@Aresmusic.official Great salesman need something great to sale and I agree Claus puts out some of the most awesome and helpful instructional guitar lessons on the web. I guess my previous comment could be taken the wrong way. But he’s a very intelligent guy and knows marketing very well. He also has a channel on self help you know…. a self help guru you could say. (Very expensive self help courses though). But his guitar related courses are indeed worth it. I have paid for some in the past and agree there’s a lot of helpful information in his courses. Well worth the ££cash!

[@congamike1]

Thank you for the wise council. I totally agree with Jocko John below; this is not limited to guitar, it is a life lesson. This lesson I needed in my life. Thank you sir.

[@dreaminglifepodcast]

Thank you for explaining mastery, not just talking about mastery.

[@Aresmusic.official]

There's no trace of you anywhere on the social media! You don't exist in the real world!! That's why each one of your videos and your words one by one are magical and golden! Huge shout out to you who ever you are!

[@robb4545]

Claus you are cool man. No doubt. The way you push is right on the mark.

[@neilcarroll5250]

Without a shadow of a doubt the best guitar tutorial I've ever watched and I have watched hundreds,now to put into practice 😁👊

[@ares8553]

You're leaps and bounds above any other guitar instructor in KZbin, Claus. Straightforward ideas, easily digestible AND applicable and your delivery is always stimulating. You're an incredible tutor (and a hell of a player) and your optimism rubs off on all of us. Thank you for everything.

[@joacovignoli]

You are awesome Klaus!! I love your pasion!! Thank you for you incredible content!!

[@jockojohn3294]

So true...This should be called a "law of learning". And NOT just for music, for anything. I unknowingly did this with woodworking. Obsesses with detail. Studied & practiced, repeat, little steps till I could know the outcome before I started. My first "competition" I entered I won 1st, 2nd, and honorable mention over people with decades of experience, but who never made it beyond mediocre. I'm seeing that the thing I "intuitively" did, is exactly the thing I need to do with music & learning guitar. I just needed to see if from the perspective of "this guy" where it finally clicked. Fretboard Mastery is my first of many courses. I can see the world open up already :)

[@davidthurman3963]

As a woodworker i totally agree on this.. Its the wax on wax off theory.

[@scottjones6624]

I so appreciate that for the first time I remember, you spent a significant amount of time applying these principles to song mastery. There are many of us whose vision of the ideal guitar player revolves around songs and performance flawlessly of those songs rather than being an improvisational god. I have found that your techniques are really working for me on this subject and you addressed it so well in this video. Everything you said has been validated by my experience once I started using your techniques around song mastery. Thank you for addressing this not only for me, but I suspect that there are countless players who have the same focus and desires that would benefit immeasurably from this perspective.

[@codzilla360]

Thank you for bashing this into my head, I really hope you remake this video 1000 times so I can keep remembering !

[@michaelgayerjr7293]

Started INGENIUM course today! I know how to "fake" and have sloppy technique covered up with distorion and impress non-guitar players, but I'm tired of it! Gonna do 1st exercise correctly with controlled alternative picking and correct palm muting. Not moving on till I have this fundamental technique mastered! Thank you Claus! Many many years ago I bought and remembered the Wizard of Shred course. I still remeber the 7 shapes till today, and I can connect the entire fretboard. But I have not gone for mastery so I get stuck a lot and have to think hard about where I am. But I'm gonna go for mastery and have focused practices from now on. Different mindset, different player!

[@volkySt]

Love this guy

[@darenanderson4961]

I believe this message. I’ve watched dozens of Claus’s videos, which all have the same message. After each video, I tell myself that I’m going to follow this advice and stick with an area of focus until mastery. I haven’t been successful, yet; but I’m getting closer. Thank you, Claus.

[@TWMTWM-eb1lw]

Claus is intense. I like that!

[@mikedigesu4756]

Ok, you've convinced me. I have also fallen prey to the "a little bit of everything" practice routine, but I'm going to concentrate on one song, all the way through until I can play it in my sleep. As part of my finger warm-up, I'm going to use another one of your ideas and absolutely master small "loopable " idea(s) as well. I'm going to give this a try for at least a month and see what happens. This makes more sense to me than trying to do a little of everything and not focusing on anything.

[@psteeg3551]

I want to know how you're doing in 4 week! let me know ;)

[@priyalshaad8392]

Best guitar instructor ever..

[@avjake]

Thank you, Claus. Lately, I've been considering that anyone who masters anything MUST be obsessive about it. And whether I'm willing and capable of becoming one of those people.

[@whitebeardguitar]

You got me, 606th like and subbed. I get this message. 1000 times to get muscle memory they say...you just hammered that idea home. Thank you.

[@dolphinman09]

Very wise learning methods

[@20003052]

I've been playing for 6 years and I for sure have been struggling with this, and yes the fact that I started when I was 35 and the type of music I like is somewhat demanding and requires a certain level of mastery and competence made me anxious and had me trying to learn multiple advanced concepts all at once and here I am very seriously thinking about just quitting. so I have been thinking about this a lot lately and this is what I came too, It might take me a life time but one thing at a time until I master it is the way to go little triumphs and wins are the way to go. I would've been much further along if I have done that from the beginning.

[@DN-wy3ud]

I feel called out!🙈...this makes PERRRFECT sense and is much more feasible than my idea of learning everything at once😂

[@sammyp1971]

Brilliant brilliant brilliant! Truth!!!!

[@godukie3311]

Dude, when you were on that crazy rant and that strand of hair was hanging down, I had to put my guitar down (which by the way I have been practicing that 3 note/string Em run that I got from one of your videos like I'm mad scientist from Cern trying to tear a hole into another dimension)and stood at attention and hummed "Into the Night" by RacerX

[@sunburntaquaticape6694]

Thanks Claus, best wishes.

[@mahoya1232]

Thank you man

[@dichabachampdikgale3216]

The best advice ever, Learning for Mastery. I've been seeing this in my own playing lately, but didn't know what to call it (Mastery). when I choose to focus on something for a while, like a week, it really gets under my fingers and my playing ability just sky rockets, nd I make a whole lot of progress in a short space of time with proper technique and can play it no matter what's happening to me ot around ME.

[@fulviodagostino9367]

Great lesson!

[@valdemarpultz9278]

I love it!!! :)

[@SRHMusic012]

The range of one's "mastery" in this sense, does start to accelerate as he says at 5:28, because you build on what you know (as long as you can connect new thing back to what you know). Also, pet peeve here, I think most classical oriented teachers don't really get how popular (rock, blues, jazz, etc.) music is put together and approached by professional musicians in those genres. After one can play some songs I'd say avoid any teacher that just wants to show you "how to play a song," as opposed to learning how songs _work_ and _why_ musicians play or choose the things they do. (Learning songs, for example, is far easier if you get the idea of understanding the changes first.)

[@floatinspaceboy]

wow this guy is great

[@mariusmynthe9965]

I should realy do that. I always thougt i had to practice it all at one time

[@Dooality]

Hi Claus. I've been playing for about fifteen years. I'm a pretty advanced player but I'm trying to clean up my playing and get a more "outside" sound with my improv. Often I only get a solid hour or two to practice, but sometimes I get up to six. I work on a specific pattern with the half-whole diminished scale, I run through the whole tone scale, and then I work on one or two "chunks" (three or four note patterns) at very high speeds. I also dedicate part of my practice time to a jazz standard that I've been working on. That's four specific things. Am I working on too many things a day? Should I literally only practice one or two of them every day for a few months?

[@zvonimirsarcevic7928]

thanks...I needed this...

[@karangautam6054]

i guess this is true since last 5 months im obsessed doing alternate picking complete alternate picking ..that now i even play one not per string arpeggios with ap..

[@diegobayona9785]

Well I am not sure if it works for me... i just started learning guitar a month ago... and to stay in a simple change chord progression it would have been incredible frustrating for me because I started with cero skills. So, i have been mixing my practice routine, learning tremolo picking , strumming, scales , and so on. It has been very motivating for my learning process to see that i understand and i can link concepts , theory, exercises and so on. I feel like i moving on, of course i think that the theory of mastering something is useful but in my case i would prefer to balance it with a dynamic and motivating routine too.

[@arpeggioblues5924]

You are so awesome.. :)

[@cooper512atx]

5:26 So that's what I'm missing

[@davidfinney6855]

Claus, been doing the Ingenium program for about a month and I'm up to 120 (Allegro) for triplets from the second video/exercise. When do I know I can move to the next exercise?

[@SixEightSixty]

suddenly it seems possible to play like ichika nito

[@itsstillfriday]

But how does one know (after much repetition), when mastery has been achieved.. and the next task can then be approached..??

[@SorooshGb]

don't try to rationalize this shit and convince yourself into not doing it, you will simply know it and feel it when you get there, when you master something it means it should feel totally effortless and automatic and you can do it without thinking about it while being totally relaxed without making any mistakes :)

[@JonathanCarterSchall]

I consider myself a advanced beginner, also. Why do I start missing the frets and/or strings after several reps? Sometimes, without looking, I can go from arms at my side to the exact chord or note I intend to play, but after a few to several reps, I start missing the fret/string/etc. Why does this happen? If I can hit it right, even without looking, how is that I can't go 16 reps?

[@psteeg3551]

I guess either you're playing too fast for your brain to keep up exactly what you're doing, or you're playing at controllable speed but you lose focus. I have the same problem I think. I often experience I can do something challenging for 1 or a couple of bars / repetitions, but when I keep repeating for 1 or more minutes I make more mistakes, perhaps because I've trained myself to play 4 repetitions flawless and then play a 5th repetition with mistakes. So... we need to train to maintain flawless repetitions, because performing 1 perfect repetition is different from playing 1 perfect minute

[@lucienmarcel4880]

YEAH !!!

[@estebangranados4949]

Let's say you have more time than the average player to practice... would you still focus 8 hours a day on the "same thing"? Or you would do something like chords the full day, but for example a different progression/song every two hours?

[@mickm8028]

It depends how good you want to be. Ok so you have eight hours and you practice 4 songs for 2 hours each over 7 days . Or you take 1 part of 1 of those songs and practice it for 2 hours and then the next part for 2 hours and so on. Or you take one part of a song and practice that for 8 hours , then 8 hours on the next part the next day learning only 1 song a week for a month . So which way do you think would bring you to mastering those 4 songs . Yes it's common sense

[@robertbrawley5048]

All the classical violin teachers say practice 5 hours a day but divide that time up in five minute segments to practice a specific technique. Saying that short segments of a particular technique won't lead to carpal tunnel syndrome or some other injury. 5 minutes a day? That's what they say

[@henrychimanga7657]

I think I'm doing it wrong... He is what I do. In a day, I spend 20 mins practicing the Major Scale with a metronome and next 20 Minutes I practice Major 7 Barre Chords. Is this bad like Claus is saying...?! Lol

[@kibesamuel697]

That's not good enough ☺️

[@kiddi3smalls]

I could have watched this without even knowing what a guitar is and still be extremely inspired. Elon Musk genuinely is a master of all trades

[@alaafellah6108]

Wackentosh Jr 😂😂😂

[@Oulde]

Boring repetition for ....illion times plus sloppiness without getting clear is what makes it to stop trying ( sorry for english).

[@DanielFBest]

Go into politics, my friend

[@stiqsify]

Don't

[@stiqsify]

Don't

[@mussieafeworki2726]

Hey you talk too much right? Show how to play or move!!! Bloody hell!!!!