15 Mistakes Guitarists Make (Holding YOU Back?)

[@MrPolevaulter]

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[@angelius541]

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[@elmarg7966]

I am just so busy that i can't afford spending more than one hour a day to practice or learn something new. But I am slowly getting better every day and I am happy with this. I don't dream to be a good guitarist. As long as I am better than yesterday, I am happy.

[@DisruptedSinner]

I've been playing guitar on and off for over 30 years, but have barely touched a guitar in the last 12 years. In the last 8 months I've been really getting back into it (and can somehow still shred a bit) - practicing, studying theory, listening and learning, getting some upgraded equipment, etc. I massively appreciate that you think about all of these things and break them down into manageable pieces. You sir, are a gift to the music community. Thank you, from Montreal Canada. :)

[@MrPolevaulter]

Thank you very much :)

[@daniellarson3068]

Good Video - It's Summer. I've been very negligent with the guitar. This video kind of reminded me of Chinese Sage Advice. So - Once again I pay attention to the master and record his teachings: 1) Bends & Vibrato - The thumb need not be behind the neck. Listen and make the sound right. 2) Do not ignore non guitar music - Music originally came from nature and the sounds around us. It is a fool that does not learn from the world around him. 3) Not setting goals - Every journey begins with a single step, but every journey also has a destination. 4) Trying to be "perfect" - You will never be perfect. It's been said that the journey itself is the destination. 5) Not focusing when practicing - You must become part of the flow of the music. 6) Not practicing regularly - Do not attempt to flatten the mountain in one day. Chip away a little at a time. Practicing 50 minutes a day is better than a full day Saturday. 7) G.A.S. - Gear Acquisition Syndrome - Life need not be complex. Use what you have. Buy what you need. Frugality can be its own reward. Beauty is in simplicity. 8) Doing what other people want you to do. Some say that one purpose of music is to free your soul. Each must walk his own path. 9) Timing it poorly - One must be in sync with the music and the universe itself. 10) Set Gear up right - To be one with the guitar, the guitar must be set up right or the fusion will not occur. 11) Not measuring progress - Sometimes it's hard to follow the path when you don't know where you've been. 12) Practicing everything means practicing nothing - One cannot be all. The foundation must be complete before you begin the walls. Building the windows is no good without the walls being built. 13) Practice what you don't know - Don't just noodle. The destination will not be attained with endless wandering. 14) Muting - Part of music is silence. One must silence what you do not want to hear as much as producing what one wants to hear. 15) Others - Do not try to become others. One may emulate their fine qualities, but one must make these qualities one's own. You will never be someone else and should not want to be.😊

[@streetlegal008]

One piece of advice I can think of is 'open your ears'. You kind of touched on it with your listen to other kinds of music segment.. But it can be easy to get oneself stuck in a kind of musical rut - and perhaps the guitar especially can become just like a series of technical problems to be mastered - within which the musicality somehow gets lost. To have pin-sharp technique would be nice, but to have some musical expression is ten times better in my opinion.

[@soldierbreakneck771]

Lucky your students, Elmo. You are really good guitar teacher, you understand guitar and music topic drastically. In my young guitar years I have no such good teacher. It was like wandering in the darkness.

[@javi5810]

I like how all of this can translate to anything in life

[@reekyflapperbaade4071]

Ism trying to do what you said, and the little time I've done the 15 things ,I have noticed good things in different places. Thank you for the help

[@MrPolevaulter]

Glad I could help 😊

[@elsalves]

This is so good :) Lots of good advices to follow 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@MrPolevaulter]

Thanks!

[@looneyinkproductions-eduard]

Excuse me for being rude...you've forgotten mistake #16: Just keep remembering you play the guitar because you like it. You're not on a mission. If you keep enjoying to play the guitar, practising becomes fun and as a result you'll get better. Getting better should never be a goal (not in my opinion). Just play to please yourself.

[@MrPolevaulter]

"Getting better should never be a goal (not in my opinion)." When I stopped getting better I actually started getting worse, which frustrated me massively. I totally agree with what you're saying in that playing should be fun (I've talked about that elsewhere), but stagnation isn't fun for the most of us.

[@71771PAULTHEWALLOFSOUND]

As someone who's played off and on for years, not really getting anywhere this all makes sense. I'm 51 and starting again, but abit more seriously than ever before. So for muse i got a new guitar amp, peddles. I love metal, but i also grew up listening to Frank zappa, Jethro Tull, garry Moor, gong. But this all makes so much sense. Hmm food for thought. Thankyou.

[@MrPolevaulter]

Hope it helps 😊

[@kmichaelp4508]

Hummmmmm. Some people are tone def! And there are those even as a professional guitarist! Yep. One of my favorite guitarist is tone def! You don’t hear about him very often. But! I remember reading an article about him in the 70’s and it just floored me. I could understand it after analyzing his choice of structure. Not that it’s bad. Just weird. I love weird 😊 he knows music theory butis not a melodic player. He has improved over the years though. But I can’t remember him ever bending strings. Maybe I’m wrong? I just can’t think of any occasion. My man, Robert Fripp.

[@ThisOldGuy3]

I recently relieved myself of GAS I decided that all I needed for what I truly love playing was 1 Les Paul 1 Strat and my Fender Vibro Champ with a couple of assorted pedals. So I started selling off everything else I found that owning too much gear can affect your focus on what really counts, playing and progressing. 🤘😎🎸🏍

[@MrPolevaulter]

Cool bananas :)

[@RickMichaelis63]

Thanks for the video Elmo! Always a blast hangin out!!😎🎸🎶😄✌️

[@MrPolevaulter]

Always! :)

[@rockhead11]

When you talked about trying to be perfect, I thought of Jimi Hendrix’s live sets. I bet he always thought that he could do better (and probably cringed and laughed when he listened to some of the recordings) but that didn’t stop him from playing the next concert. Great tips, by the way. Thank you.

[@MrPolevaulter]

Yeah, Hendrix is a very good example. Cheers!

[@Alfredo78666]

- Short pants teacher? - Is way hotter here you know, 5° celsius, I'm melting perkele!

[@MrPolevaulter]

:D

[@watchfan6180]

Great advice

[@MrPolevaulter]

Cheers!

[@ramonwillemsen]

Wise words, actualy meaningfull and helpfull! Thanks dude!

[@MrPolevaulter]

Glad to be of help :)

[@nikman5300]

hardest thing for me right now is to apply theoretical knowledge on fretboard, you know things like triads, modes, changing keys successfully etc. By the way is that vox behind you a pathfinder or an ac-10?

[@insearchof_light]

I've been playing for 7 years on and off. But I've always kept in touch with my guitar.. holding chords while studying or just holding the guitar by its neck while attending meetings. I think I'm guilty of every item on the list here. 😛 One thing I've felt myself lacking poorly is Ear training. And this is mostly because I've never REALLY paid attention to what I've been playing all this time. I'm trying to turn this around by just paying more attention. Hope I get better! Loving the content Elmo. You always manage to pack in a great deal of humour in your videos. Much love from India! Cheers!❤️

[@MrPolevaulter]

Thanks!

[@alessandrotorrescampos522]

Amazing and valuable tips, just as always

[@MrPolevaulter]

Cheers!

[@soldierbreakneck771]

My main mistake is not to learn music theory 😆😆

[@christineayres7199]

Modes , Scales , Arpeggios , basically all their is to it and don't forget the circle of 5ths , I went to college to study music learned all that stuff and to read sheet music , you dont need to read sheet music to play unless your going to be a Violin or Piano player lol

[@MundMoriginal]

There's not too much needed to gain an understanding to play and write great stuff. If you read about it a little every day, you have all the knowledge you need in a month or 2.

[@Kowinaida]

I purchased a new guitar & I've been playing every day because I love this guitar! Way better than my old one. It's extremely comfortable & sounds great therefore I have a great incentive to keep playing regularly. So sometimes new gear is very beneficial.

[@MrPolevaulter]

It can absolutely be that. It's the shopping bit that isn't 😊

[@charlief.]

Elmo, is the fretboard of that strat rosewood? It looks amazing.

[@MrPolevaulter]

Yeah.

[@cookiemonster2949]

Great advices! Please make an instructional video on picking hand techniques, my hand sucks as I get fast😒

[@MrPolevaulter]

Maybe at some point. I have a bunch of stuff in my academy.

[@guillaumeledique3401]

Elmo... I just compared myself to you and realized that neither of us will be caught on video doing finger-picking...

[@MrPolevaulter]

Haha :D

[@artwhat..]

Hi..E.. very good point(which one) ha..

[@MrPolevaulter]

Cheers!

[@robertspreitzer8126]

Yup #6 just 5 minutes a day turns into an hour or more or until my wife yells down to tell me dinner is ready.

[@MrPolevaulter]

:D

[@gasparepellecchia]

you have given arguments for thirty years of guitar study 😆 💪💪💪❤️

[@MrPolevaulter]

:)

[@rockandrollmd541]

The singer in my band doesn't put his thumb over top of the neck of his acoustic. He frequently hits the open E and A strings when he should not when strumming chords (D, C, B) 😡

[@MrPolevaulter]

I feel your pain :D

[@Bowietrope]

Elmo Magnifico! Excellent video, wow the one thing that's more expensive than gas these days is still.......G.A.S! You are so right, when I practice hard and correctly, it's astounding how guitar amps I've had for a while, for example, suddenly sound way better! My arch nemesis is still right hand picking technique (my left hand just shreds with a pick haha) I also appreciate your importance put on performance, and this stage fright problem I've had which can only be cured by just doing it! Thanks much, Bruce

[@MrPolevaulter]

Thanks! Glad you liked it Bruce :)

[@71771PAULTHEWALLOFSOUND]

I remember when i first picked up a guitar my goal was to learn chords, and i did that. Great. Trouble is I love to improvise or is that bad? Jeez i would love you as a teacher, 15 mins a day, you wouldn't handle more than at 🤣

[@williammolina9792]

I need to learn the notes.

[@leoroarfischer9271]

Elmo??what electric guitar you recommend to me?400-600 dollars.?and a portable amp on battery's?15 v -30 50...how is vox mini go 50?or nux? And how is the boss cube street 2???

[@MrPolevaulter]

What type of guitar? Floyd Rose or not?

[@MrPolevaulter]

And portable amp, Spark Mini or Micro Cube or Katana Mini.

[@leoroarfischer9271]

Floyd rose or regular termolo, not a guitar with regular Bridge,

[@myhapylife]

Hi Elmo, I see you have whole around your trem, what would be the benefits of having trem recesed in body? Better trem range? Or something else?

[@MrPolevaulter]

Yeah, lets me pull up more.

[@28reinvent]

You are a great, talented teacher. And you have an amazing presence. ty

[@MrPolevaulter]

Thank you :)

[@christineayres7199]

Cardinal sin you never put the thumb over the neck according to tutors lol but then who was Hendrix anyway ? I mean he put his thumb over the neck and look how that turned out lol best to play the way you feel comfortable , in my case i was forever getting told off for not using alternate picking and only using upstrokes in my picking but thats how ive always done it and im able to pick as fast as anyone else so no idea why they get so mad ? , also when it comes to soloing as long as you know what key your in and can get back to the root note you usually can get away with a lot .

[@ChingiWingi]

Thanks for a great video mister "My name is tricky to pronounce"(not)

[@MrPolevaulter]

:D

[@JohnGalt539]

The biggest mistake is thinking, I can never be as good as Joe Satriani or Yngwie Malmsteen and wanting to give up, my advice would be, get as good as Satch and YJM because it’s possible but then discover Bireli Lagrene and only then give up.

[@MrPolevaulter]

Haha :D

[@Tony78432]

Breh I’ve been playing guitar for 15 years, what the heck do I have to do to play like Yngwie Malmsteen

[@MrPolevaulter]

Depends on what you've been doing.

[@permjoback2580]

👍🎸

[@shanewalton8888]

I compare myself only to the Golden Metal God: Elmo! (Wait, perhaps that's Robert Plant)

[@MrPolevaulter]

Haha :D

[@viggoalmquist7265]

Hej Elmo

[@MrPolevaulter]

Hej Viggo!

[@nkhjk3457]

I have gas when it comes to electric guitars , i really dont know why , i try not to over do it , i have until now 4 of them , and i am getting another one soon and then i will just NEVER search for a new guitar again i hope 😂 Contrary to my acoustic guitar which i have had since 2015 and i still use it and i recently broke the bridge and i need to get it glued … best part .. the guitar only costed 60€ .. and i never felt like i needed more out of it , and i even tried other even more expensive acoustic guitars and yet never has any gas But electric .. oh dont even get me started on the pedal board side of things … my wallet is dying 🥲

[@MrPolevaulter]

Haha :D I know the feeling :)

[@soldierbreakneck771]

I put like.

[@MrPolevaulter]

Thanks!

[@PooNinja]

I wanna be Me, only better with hybrid/chicken pickin!

[@MrPolevaulter]

Cool bananas :)

[@christineayres7199]

Kirk Hamster i call him lol

[@MrPolevaulter]

:D

[@christineayres7199]

@@MrPolevaulter LOL i know right , Kirk is probably the most overrated player of them all ,When i first learned guitar way back in 2003 my neighbour was really into Metallica , He taught me all of Master of Puppets and Ride the lightning albums on guitar in a few months , easiest guitar solos ever for beginners to learn , where as guys like Jason Becker or Yngwie took me a lot longer to learn due to the technicality of what they are doing , Sweep Picked Arpeggios not easy to get right.

[@TheRichie213]

I don't get all the Kirk Hammett jokes. The first five albums he did is better than most people will ever do.

[@Clemppu]

Wah do you mean? 😉😉😉😂😂😂

[@TheRichie213]

@@Clemppu He mainly starts over doing the wah on the fifth album. I don't even care for anything after the fifth album. And I don't like how he improvises but the first five are gold.

[@Healcraft]

So, play GTA to ace school. Got it!

[@MrPolevaulter]

Haha :D