Move Solos Generally Up In Pitch - John Mayer Teaches Guitar 07

[@philnicol8072]

For example. John makes example of this point extremely well in his lead break in 'Covered In Rain' He eventually lifts the roof off the place, when soloing in the higher 3rd and 4th octave. *Apparently he wrote this song a few days after the towers went down on Sep 11th. The 'heart and soul' that he pours out onto the fretboard in this solo, is purely amazing! After hearing his 'Any Given Thursday live DVD' * Made 'me' a JM fan for life! Morale of the story is. 'He inspires Everyone to become a musician' 🎸

[@Ourpetsheadsarefallingoff]

You mean the 11 minute wet dream of a solo session? I listened to that song multiple times a day for years. One of my favorite live performances

[@Allen_lena]

John : I'm going to sound like a lot of you now Me: I wish I sounded as good as his "bad" example.

[@tjukkv]

All I can think is my mom made me a quilt for christmas just like the one behind you.

[@diditmahendra6113]

The coolest john mayer fanpage on youtube, thank you for making this kind of content

[@MeadowMartin]

Just the fact he is talking about the Great Doyle Bramhall 2 is awesome because he is the 2020' guru for sound and fuzz touch

[@denisblack9897]

Thank you for the insight

[@jimherleva4541]

Paul Kossoff was a master at constructing a solo from low to high. Good advice.

[@codymcgrew4015]

J Mascis is a master of going back and forth on the neck.

[@jackkovar7806]

J Mascis, incredible guitar player!

[@AAM-01]

A true fan would know that he already gave this very advice on his reunion at Berkeley School of music years back

[@stevekirby7333]

I notice that most of the licks played are still descending lines. I think this comes from the jazz vocabulary, particularly pianists, as it's easier to roll your right hand fingers downward than upward. So we're used to hearing riffs that descend to a resolution. Similarly to your recommendation to give yourself room to evolve a solo to brighter and more exciting higher pitches, using upwards or ascending riffs adds tension and excitement to a solo. Which you can balance in a tension/release fashion with descending riffs that resolve more.

[@adam_michael540]

He’s talking about taking the space that you’re working up in pitch. Not only taking a lick in an ascending like.

[@rep1979]

I need me a pink PRS Silver Sky. Super sweet guitar.

[@igortumbas2769]

Hey John! Thank you for sharing your insights and experience. Really appreciate it! The first time I became aware of you was back in 2007 when my son was a baby. I was doing some house work as my wife and son were out and I had KZbin playing in the background and it randomly came up with your performance at the Crossroads 2007 Belief. I heard that opening improv and it really caught my attention so I ran to my computer to see who was playing. To me that performance was transformative. However after all these years it still eludes me. I just don’t know what you were playing there. Is there a breakdown video you can share because it was so interesting and emotive. I’d love to learn how you made phrasing choices. Many thanks! Igor

[@DopamineOverload]

Awesome channel!

[@CianRourke]

John - “Doyle Bramhall the 2nd is the master…” Millenials and Gen Z - “Siri, what is a Doyle Bramull the second?” Everyone needs to listen to Arc Angels from 1992. Doyle Bramhall II and Charlie Sexton backed by Double Trouble. A brilliant record. John was only 14 when it was released, but I’ll bet he was listening to it.

[@LotharOfTheHillPeople]

Big brain stuff here

[@jerrymorganjr]

When I’m with my trio, start low, go up, then back down again falling back into the chord progression.

[@tortoise2.04]

Everyone has this problem except a little fella named Stevie Ray Vaughan.

[@AAM-01]

A little big fella, a normal folk....but not so normal....a true legend that played harder than anyone EVER. SRV RIP

[@BarneysBullit]

if u need to be told this... get your guitar and head toward the wood chipper. now.

[@markhammer643]

A couple of points: 1) The shorter a string, whether fretted higher up, or simply a short-scale instrument, the less harmonic content, relative to fundamental. That's why analog octave-up and octave-down boxes sound and behave so much "better" when we pick above the 9th fret, and is also why many overdrives sound so much "smoother" higher up. It's a simple matter of physics. I mention this because playing higher up makes us focus on the melody, rather than working the harmonic content, which is a good direction for any solo to take. 2) Why are the strings/keys on a piano arranged from low to high, going from left to right? It would be no more mechanically or physically difficult to make a piano that reverses that sequence. I'll propose that it's for two major reasons. For most humans, language function tends to be localized in the left hemisphere, which also manages the right side of our body, and handles all movement on that side. So when we want notes to serve as a proxy for language, most people will want to use their right hand to express those "thoughts"; this translates into the "upper" half of the keyboard. (I also find very few players use their left foot to operate their wah to make their guitar "talk".) But why are *higher* notes (including those in the middle range) the ones we choose for melody? If one looks at adult-infant interactions (in either direction) pitch is used to convey emotional state. We talk low to either console/calm or to convey deep anger (but in the case of infants, primarily the former), and raise the pitch of our voice to convey what passes for content to wee ones. We also raise the pitch of our voice to direct or arouse attention (do a search for "motherese" or "infant-directed speech"). Going in the other direction, when people are asked to assess the state of an infant, based on recordings of their cry, higher pitch is perceived as conveying greater urgency. So, making a solo progress up the fretboard increasingly snags our attention, for reasons based in instinctive and infancy-established connections between pitch and attentional connection with someone else.

[@thomasroberts5363]

IF I AM GIVEN THE CHANCE TO LIFE ---I KNOW I WILL DO ONLY THAT --- I DID.I LIVED WITHOUT THINKING -- I JUST LET IT HAPPEN - ALL OF IT - I WAS SEEKING NOTHING --ASKING FOR NOTHING - NOT EXPECTING ANYTHING ---I WAS ON AN ADVENTURE - WITH NO INTENTION TO LEARN --JUST LIVE - JUST EXPERIENCE ALL OF LIFE - MY TIME HERE- WHATEVER IT WAS - EVERYTHING THAT WOULD CUM TO ME - THAT LIFE WOULD GIFT ME WITH OR DESTROY ME WITH===GOOD BAD - EVEN INDIFFERENT - I WAS WILLING TO TRY,AND IT ALL DID HAPPEN TO ME AND IT CHANGED ME ANY WAYS IT WANTED ---NOT IN WAYS I CHOSE.- AND I WILLINGLY ROLLED WITH IT.IT NEVER STOPPED WORKING THIS WAY ---IT STILL WORKS THIS WAY ----JUST THAT THIS PERIOD HAS LASTED SO LONG - AND IS SO DIFFICULT FOR ME.I KNOW THIS ISN'T SUPPOSED TO BE AN EASY RIDE - THIS IS THE PART THAT IS MEANT TO BE HARD.ALTHOUGH I CAN OFTEN BE OBJECTIVE- SEPARATE MYSELF - STAND BACK AND SEE IT FROM A DISTANCE - MORE ABLE TO ACCEPT IT AS ONLY A LEARNING -----NOT PERSONAL,BUT IT IS THE EMOTIONAL PART OF THE LEARNING - I CANNOT FREE MYSELF FROM - BE OBJECTIVE ABOUT ====MY HEART FEELS IT ALL - SO DEEPLY --MORE AND MORE - HOW REAL PEOPLE - ORDINARY PEOPLE ----EVERYBODY OUT THERE TRAPPED IN THIS SAME BOAT AS ME ---FEELS GOING THROUGH THIS CRAZY PUZZLEMENT TOO.SPENDING SO MUCH TIME AND EFFORT TRYING TO COPE WITH THIS LIFE - TRYING TO MAKE SENSE OF IT - TRYING TO FIND A LITTLE PEACE -A LITTLE PLEASURE - SOME JOY - WITH LITTLE SUCCESS -- BECOMES A HELL-OF-A-LIFE..AND FINDING OUT THAT IT IS A LIE --THAT OLD SAYING ---"that the truth will set you free" -----LIKE FROM ALL THE NASTINESS - BUT INSTEAD SHOWS YOU THAT IT IS GROWING WORSE - GETTING STEADILY UGLIER EVERY DAY - AND YOU ARE BLAMED FOR MAKING IT SO - LIKE THIS MESS HAS HAPPENED BECAUSE OF YOU - SO YOU DESERVE TO CARRY THE LOAD OF BLAME.BUT THIS IS A TRICK -NOT A KARMA YOU ARE PAYING BACK FOR BEING A BAD GUY ----AND AS A LESSON TO TEACH YOU - HOW TO BE A GOOD GUY ----THIS LOAD OF GUILT AND PAIN AND BLAME YOU ARE BURDENED WITH IS NOT GIVEN TO YOU FOR YOUR OWN GOOD - BUT ONLY TO MAKE YOU SUFFER BECAUSE LIFE CHOOSES TO DO IT YOU --A LIFE WITH NO CARING - NO PITY - WITH NO LOVE FOR YOU ----OR ANYTHING AT ALL.THAT MAKES WHAT IS SUPPOSED TO A HARD EXPERIENCE---UNBEARABLE. THIS HAS BECOME HARD --TOO HARD ---EVEN FOR ME - IT'S BLEEDING ME TO DEATH.

[@jakobstein3574]

bro what is all this?

[@Owtyg23]

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[@solideomusical]

Very logical

[@jasong546]

Darn right bout Doyle

[@brianm9902]

excellent advise, this will be burned into the memory banks thanks !

[@trackerbuckmann1627]

This is helpful.👍

[@luisalbertomogollontello3703]

Am I wrong or he was going to play a song “in c” of DBII? I wonder which it’d be… any ideas?

[@davidthomas3725]

Agree...

[@jessedavidmathis]

"You should probably leave" by Chris Stapleton is a song with a solo that goes lower than the rest of the song. I think this opinion really limits guitarists of their soloing abilities.

[@etucc8]

He's not talking about how you sit in the mix.

[@jessedavidmathis]

@@etucc8 lol no he isn’t, he’s talking about guitar solos getting higher in pitch. It goes down in you should probably leave

[@etucc8]

@@jessedavidmathis the way you worded it, it made it sound like the guitar is just taking the lower octave. My bad

[@TomCPlus1]

That is a really good song. The opening riff (not the solo) does indeed run from higher notes to lower notes. And then the actual solo break later in the song runs from low to high along a scale, and then back down the scale primarily. Those guitar parts are killer, and they are also about as elementary as one can get. Not really comparable to the kinds of solos John is working here. Just goes to show that there are exceptions to any rule, and the rule still works.

[@watchuwatching1286]

He could have explained all of this without even playing a guitar and I wish he had of too. Nice Stevie Ray King lick... Never heard that one before.. 😏

[@Troycus]

Start listening to Albert King bro.

[@watchuwatching1286]

@@Troycus Ya mean like 30 years ago when I saw Albert, live...? He was a force, for sure. He was having an off day though... Couldn't get Lucy in tune.. Yelling at the keyboard player and cussing.. He looked really annoyed.. Finally, he found a few notes that sounded good... He settled in, lit his pipe... and watched as most of the people walked out.. one by one.. I felt kind of sad seeing this. I've seen two of the three Kings... How many have you seen, Goober?

[@j.r.goldman3279]

I am busted lol

[@thomasroberts5363]

I ONCE HAD A LIFE -- I LIVED - I WAS ALIVE - TOO BUSY LIVING TO HAVE TIME TO SPEND THINKING ABOUT IT.BUT THAT CHANGED.MY VOICE TOLD ME - about 50 years ago now - THAT WHEN I DIED - I WOULD END UP IN A COLD PLACE WITH PEOPLE WHO DID NOT KNOW HOW TO GIVE LOVE OR TAKE LOVE.I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND ANY OF IT.I THOUGHT IT AN IMPOSSIBILITY FOR ANY PERSON NOT TO KNOW SOME KIND OF LOVE,BACK THEN I FELT ALIVE -- WAS WITH REAL PEOPLE WHO WERE ALIVE AND SHARED THAT EXPERIENCE WITH ME - AS REAL FRIENDS ---MAKING LIFE A WONDERFUL ADVENTURE --TO ENJOY ---LOVE.LOVING LIFE - BEING ALIVE - WAS --EASY.IT-- WAS RIGHT.THEN I FOUND OUT WHAT I WAS TO LEARN ---THE REALITY OF EXISTING IN THE COLDNESS OF AN IMAGINATION HEARTLESS - FILLED WITH EMPTY SPIRITLESS CRITTERS= SOULLESS---DISCONNECTED --WITH NO ONE TO CONNECT --WITH.LIFE-- DUMPED ME IN THE SITUATION IT SAID IT WOULD - I GRADUALLY FOUND OUT ---AND I ALSO FOUND OUT I HAD NO IDEA HOW TO DEAL WITH --IT.NO-- MATTER WHAT I TRIED EVENTUALLY BACKFIRED BECAUSE IT IS A WRONG VERSION OF REALITY FOR ME ---- BUT IT APPEARS PERFECTLY RIGHT FOR THE ONES WHO LIVE HERE.LFE HAS SPENT YEARS MAKING ME INTO A LEARNER --A THINKER ---PUTTING ME THROUGH THIS SCHOOLING ---TRYING TO UNDERSTAND --MAKE SENSE OF WHAT DOESN'T ---TO ME.TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THESE "imaginations" THAT REALLY DO KNOT KNOW OR WANT TO KNOW LOVE - of any kind - has been difficult - AND I AM NOT ALLOWED OUT - LIFE KEEPS ME HERE -i tried twice to leave.BEING STUCK IN THIS DARKNESS - A NEGATIVITY OF UGLINESS AND HATE - IS A CONUNDRUM THAT HAS FINALLY EXHAUSTED --ME.YOU-- ARE ALIVE --YOUR MUSIC IS ALIVE ---IT IS A LIVING EXPERIENCE ---YOUR LIVING EXPERIENCE - YOUR LIFE - WHO YOU ARE - LIVING YOUR ADVENTURE ---AND SHARING THAT LIFE - THAT ADVENTURE - EVERY MOMENT OF YOUR BEING - BEING THE LIVING CREATOR OF THE MUSIC AS YOU MAKE IT --HAPPEN.YOU-- SHARE LIFE - MAKE ME FEEL ALIVE - EXCITINGLY ON THIS DISCOVERY LIFE IS FOR YOU --- YOU DARE TO LIVE AND DO IT THINKINGLY ---TOGETHER.I ONLY THINK ---BECAME A THINKER ----MY ADVENTURE IS AN INTELLECTUAL ONE - RUMINATING - RUMMAGING IN IDEAS MY MIND == AN EXISTENCE NON PHYSICAL.I DO NOT EXPERIENCE LIFE -I OBSERVE IT---LOOKING OUT -- LOCKED UP = LOCKED INSIDE MY HEAD,LIFE BRED ME- TRAINED ME TO BE THIS "thing" THAT DREAMS LIFE BECAUSE I DON'T LIVE.AND NO MATTER WHAT I TRY OR REQUEST FOR CHANGE --I AM KEPT PRISONER HERE - LIKE THIS --- WHICH IS PRETTY OBVIOUS THAT ONLY IN IT'S SWEET TIME WILL LIFE RELEASE ME ---WHEN IT DECIDES ----which I think means I have more to learn to finish this education.The only release i can count on is THE SHARING OF THE IMAGINATIONS OF CREATIVE PEOPLE LIKE YOU.YOU MAKE ME FORGET THIS STAGNANT LIFELESS HELL OF HATE.YOU GIVE ME FREEDOM - TO FEEL ALIVE.WHEN I LET GO AND BECOME LOST IN YOUR IMAGINATION ----HEAVENLY YOU IS ALL THERE IS - AND THAT IS EVERYTHING - NOTHING MORE IS NEEDED -FOR THE DREAM TO BE REAL.YOU HAVE PROVEN TO BE WHAT LIFE KNEW AND PREPARED ME TO UNDERSTAND WAS THE RIGHT INGREDIENT - THE KEY - THE MAGIC - THE MEDICINE THAT COULD CURE.THIS IS WHAT SEEMS RIGHT ---BUT IT IS ONLY A DREAM OF A THINKER - WHO IMAGINES A VIRTUAL REALITY IN MY MIND.SO FORGVE ME IF IT IS WRONG - I EXPECT NOTHING - I ASK FOR NOTHING - YOU GAVE ME SO MUCH ALREADY

[@DannyBoy...]

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[@pepsy910]

he talks just like tomo fujita lol

[@nekkon1989]

Yes but Tomo addresses the virtual viewer much like Dora the explora 😅

[@karolstevenvillacarillo1036]

passed down teaching habits, i guess

[@thomasroberts5363]

this crazy system just gives snippets - fragments - of my babbling ----CAUSE IT ASSUMES IT KNOWS BETTER WHAT I SHOULD SAY- AND WITH THAT PRESUMPTION IT DOES DECIDE FOR ME.I HAVE AN EDITOR - A PROOF WRITER -----ALWAYS CAREFULLY MAKING MY FUMBLING ATTEMPTS AT EXPRESSING MYSELF ---BETTER.I COULDN'T HIRE SUCH A --PERFECTIONIST.GOOGLE-- KNOWS --- IT IS WHAT IT BELIEVES IT IS ----GOD.I HAVE FOUND GOD IN GOOGLE -----who knew?I AM SAVED!-------HALLELUJAH!!!!!

[@MintStiles]

Poor BB King LOL.

[@papachung6639]

Right lol the whole time I thought that sound familiar

[@plstrom]

clapton usually enters the solo at full confidence ahead , already high and bending af !!