One Year of GUITAR Lessons in JUST 20 Minutes!

[@rohankshetrimayum1049]

This is one of the best guitar lessons I have ever watched on KZbin Can u pls do this as a series for the whole one year practice regimen in more detailed manner by breaking it down in month by month format? That will be really helpful for all of us pls ❤❤🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@garywatling430]

Yes please do this Blue. By the way I’m enjoying Book 2 😊😊

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thank you! The Patreon group basically follows this ... plus more. I've been thinking about doing it in order again here on YT but I would be repeating too many videos that are already on here. Would be nice to have them all in an order though. You can see the order here: www.patreon.com/posts/96493793

[@darrylwainwright5865]

Best teacher on KZbin ❤ from the UK, carry on

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thank you very much!

[@zeljkolukic9057]

Dear Blue. Thank you for all your lessions. There is no doubt thet there on youtube is a lot of good teachers but you are the first from which I get this wow effect. After more than ten years of teaching guitar I was stuck with playing chords. After watching all your videos (some of them many times) I finally made some progress in way of melodic playing and soloing. I like your consistency and a way you giving your knowledge supported with just enough graphic interpretation. Thanks for your lessions. Greetings from Europe.

[@danrunnoft6642]

Congrats on the growth of your channel. Great lessons!

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thanks! I appreciate the support!

[@Ohmverse]

I am coming back to guitar after almost 3 decades away...and my wife has expressed interest in learning for the first time. This seems like a really great road map for us to take the journey together (it's been so long I've forgotten more than I remember). Great video, thank you for what you do! Instant subscribe.

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thank you! One day you can form a band together 😎 Lots more lessons on the channel to help you and more coming in two weeks.

[@jeffbosch1697]

Same here (except the wife part). Blue's book Fretboard Fundamentals is a good "review checklist" if you find that sort of thing useful. (I do.)

[@462rob]

So, I watch a lot of guitar videos. Some good, some not so good. Even with this guy. The one thing this guy taught me that seems like a little thing but has helped IMMENSELY is "naming the shapes." Not only does it help you remember them and their order, it also helps you find them when you are in a triad position. If a triad is shaped a certain way, there is usually only ONE scale shape that would fit that. He's got a lot of valuable advice but for me, naming the shapes has been the most useful....

[@larrypritchett2264]

Thanks for all the great lessons and Happy New Year! You were one of my best discoveries of 2024. I've studied many of the great teachers on youtube from Rick Beato to Justin Sandercoe to Tim Pierce, but you have a unique way of connecting the dots when it comes to teaching how chords and scales relate and then how to put it all together with triads etc. So many people give up before reaching their potential. It's really important to get people playing so they have motivation to learn the more difficult concepts. I'm from Texas, grew up in the same neighborhood south of Dallas as Stevie Ray Vaughan. Unfortunately, that's where the similarities end but it was Elvis then SRV (with some English bands in the middle) that served as my inspiration. Love the blues...I even named my hunt'n dog Blue;). When I started learning there was no internet. This is such a great time to learn from some of the best. Thanks again, you are on to something good! Stay with it!

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thank you very much, I'm glad you are enjoying the lessons! More coming in about 2 weeks

[@dennisk5082]

Briliiant as usual Blue!! The books are phenomenal!

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thank you 😊!!

[@QBRX]

Wow, a whole bunch of stuff in here...thanks Blue!

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thank you!

[@jmoorecareers]

Wow. Great lesson, as always!

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thanks again!

[@LeeFKoch]

What a great way to start off the new year! This practice plan really seems do-able to me, so - even if I know some of the stuff on your list already - I'm gonna give it a go in the order you suggested, because it seems like each step builds upon the foundation set in the previous one. I think it'll make me a more solid guitar player by the end of the year. Wish I'd have had this a few years back, when I decided to learn the electric guitar. Thanks, Blue!

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Awesome! You can do it!

[@trusarmor4957]

i needed a practice regime for the whole yr

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

😎🎸 happy new year!

[@trusarmor4957]

@@GuitarLessonsVancouver Happy New Year😎😇

[@denisgeorge9287]

I love the month progressions, sounds like real instructor!

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thank you! More lessons coming to the channel next week 😎🎸

[@paolod1057]

Easy and clear. Bravissimo!

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thanks! Lots more lessons coming here in 2025!

[@pierreg1340]

WOW, another GREAT lesson and a fabulous sounding Jeremy Edjan guitar. Of course, the musician has something to do with the sound also.

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thanks! Yeah sweet guitar to play too 😎🎸

[@brazilgriller6073]

You are AMAZING!!!!

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thank you! 🎸😎

[@richbratten]

This is such a great overview because it covers, from a big picture perspective, pretty much every main concept to learn to become proficient, or fluent on the guitar. My guitar playing friends would consider me to be a good guitar player, while I think of myself as being a mediocre guitar player. I am familiar with ALL of the concepts Blue describes in this video, but I don’t truly know ANY of them, truly have them down cold. Given the realities of the busyness of life and everything else, I would say that it would take me somewhere from 3 to 5 years to master these 12 major areas of guitar playing. This gives me some good ideas on things to work on and truly know well, a big picture roadmap to follow. The sooner I start, the sooner I’ll become proficient! Thanks Blue!

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thank you! More lessons coming next week 🎸😎

[@sc90s]

Fantastic lesson. Thank you sir. I’m going to incorporate playing a chord, then a lick from the associated scale position into my daily practice.

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thank you! That's a great idea for practice 👍

[@ajs8972]

Found your site a couple weeks ago when looking for some Hendrix style tips. Now I'm a regular and this is a very timely lesson for me. FYI...I work with a guy named Blue!

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thank you! More lessons coming to the channel next week 😎🎸

[@joev4483]

Thanks!❤

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[@larryhagman3543]

This is great stuff. I would say this is a great ladder to test abilities and see where to direct skill building. Then plan out to work on the gaps in knowledge. Each step of this looks like a years practice though. For an average Joe like me. Thanks for sharing such great material. I think. 😂

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

I like the way you're thinking... self evaluation and focusing on where we can improve. We'll said thanks!

[@jumpingdude766]

Sorry if this is a silly question, but I am confused by the instructions at 12:27. First you play an A minor chord, then play an A minor pentatonic lick. Then you play a D minor chord, then play a D minor pentatonic lick. So you are playing different scale for each chord. But in a song, don't you usually play only one scale over all the chords? For instance, the Stairway to Heaven solo is all in A minor pentatonic, even though the chords beneath it change from A minor to G to F.

[@CD_Character]

I'm sure Blue would say that both are valid. There's no hard rule - your ears will tell you which is the "right one" for the song or the moment, as there's surely no rule against using both within the same song. But as a vehicle for learning and practicing, I'd match the chord with the lick to get going.

[@jumpingdude766]

@@CD_Character I agree, whether it sounds right to your ears is always the ultimate test. Also, I did some further research, and I believe I now understand the theory behind why Blue's method sounds so pleasing: It turns out that if you play the corresponding pentatonic scale over each chord, it is equivalent to playing the diatonic scale of the key. For example, suppose your song is in C major, and you play an E minor chord. You then play a lick in E minor pentatonic, which contains the note B. This note is not in the C major pentatonic scale. However, it is in the C major diatonic scale. The same goes with all the chords and corresponding pentatonics in the key of C: the notes will always belong to the C major scale. Just thought I'd mention this, in case it is helpful to anyone. As this took me a long time to understand!

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

That's right. If the sing is in Am you can stick to the A minor pentatonic scale, but you could also use a different scale over the chords, like D Minor Pentatonic over a Dm chord. Good to be able to have both so you can play over the changes as they say

[@volkerhevler390]

Blue, mistake in September. Should be Fret VIII extention shape and not XIII

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Oops thanks for that. Can't fix it now though 😆 oh well.

[@jwilkinson341]

Nice guitar looks like Custom Shop, Christmas present, I never got one

[@pierreg1340]

It is a custom shop made by Jeremy Edjan guitars

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thanks! It's a guitar by a local guitar maker here in Vancouver. This one is on loan to me 😀

[@GreenpointRemembers]

5:37 everyone I know plays eruption, it can’t be that hard, right?

[@CD_Character]

🎸😎

[@c9b868]

This is awesome and a great way to start off the new year! I have a question: Are you going to be creating lessons each month that accompany the roadmap you just laid out for your Patreon subscribers? For instance: in January, do you plan to put out a practice video with methods on how to help learn the fretboard for 20 minutes a day? Or is this more of a map for us to create our own practice schedule for the year?

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thanks! The lessons are all pretty much on Patreon and in that order, though I haven't labeled them to suggest a month by month progresion. I'm thinking about doing that as well so one can follow through the lessons either way. You should be able to see the plan in order here: www.patreon.com/posts/96493793?

[@nowhereismyhome1458]

Man I have some work to do 🙂 Lead on Blue 🙏

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thank you! 🎸😎 more lessons coming un a couple weeks

[@rochefsky]

At 22:13 the diagram shows XIII as the fret indicator rather than VIII ?? I assume that's a mistake? Amazing video btw!!

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thank you! I think at 13:20 or so I have the wrong roman numeral. Oops. I wish I could fix these and re-upload but unfortunately YT doesn't allow for that.

[@qodvbop]

u have an organized structure for the video tutorials?

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Lesson order structure is on the Patreon. It gets updated when new lessons are added www.patreon.com/posts/96493793?

[@raymondcorreira847]

Ok so I have all this down plus Major scale all positions, the million dollar question everyone wants to know is what makes melody? Ok so yes intervals and key and scales but? What is the meaning to life IE Melody? Love the lessons !!

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thank you! Sounds like you're on your way! Keep learning and one day you'll just hear yourself playin' exactly what it is you wanted to be playing!

[@drutgat2]

Great stuff. Arpeggios are a necessary inclusion, too.

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Good point! We'll have to fit those in somewhere 🙂

[@Oli-Oli911]

great roadmap - thank you for confirming that I'm on the right way :-) .... although that it will take me seven more years 🤣

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

You can do it!

[@MustafaBaabad]

Thank you very much Blue. I have a question, though it is not technical and may be considered as natural talent, but how can we "develop the taste of melodious combination" in a lick? I know it is more personal, but is there anyway to systematically improve it through exercise? I know some guy who knows very little about technical stuff, but when he plays guitar randomly, it sounds awesome already. I wish I know the secret to develop that kind of feeling. Cheers from "Pacitan" in the south coast of East Java facing Indian Ocean. We like to come here very often since it is beautiful, and yes everything is cheap, not crowded, safe and friendly people. 🙏

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Good question! One way is to play the guitar parts from songs you like, learn them note for note, and play along to the original. Try to compre your sound to the original in real time. Copy the expressiveness. Once you can do that, you can start to make things sound like "your own", developing your own style. It's one half understanding how the music works, and one half making the guitar sing. 🎸

[@aminahmed2220]

Awesome video blue have a great day also happy new year also in March I will quit ❤😊 KZbin

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thank you! Happy new year! 😎🎸 more coming soon.

[@nicolasmaurin182]

Over 12 months or 12 years ? 😂

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

It is ambitious for sure.

[@sandywoodburn8885]

I’m currently studying with Blue and it’s taken me just under two years to make it to around October. Of course, talent and hard work factor in, which may explain why I’m progressing at half speed. So worth it though! I love his teaching style!

[@blueszooz9031]

hmmm.....you forgot vibrato work. Maybe on the weekends. LOL

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

True, we're gonna have to fit that in somewhere 😎🎸

[@jeff7764]

Can you be my teacher??

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thank you! Im not taking any more students here in Vancouver but lots of lessons on this channel and our Patreon https//:www.patreon.com/guitarlessonsvancouver

[@lazvt8469]

Another excellent lesson! You Canadians need to become Americans... LOL!!

[@Arsen_Wipus]

No they don't 😮😊

[@trusarmor4957]

dont insult the man, he's helpin' us out 😆😆😆

[@jaynawilliams8923]

I went to Amazon and looked at Book One. I saw a page with all those lines on them and all the little circles and it looks like Greek to me. I actually bought a guitar book by someone, took one look at page one just covered with lines and white and black dots and numbers and stuff and put it back on my shelf. It made no sense to me whatsoever, though I know intellectually it does have meaning. But just not to me.

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

You can learn to read tabsnin about 15 minutes. Just the numbers on the lines is all you need. Ignore the rest for now.

[@mollyp.sasser223]

That TONE! Ooh LAHH!

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thank you! Fender Deluxe and tape delay. Bit of compression

[@jasonwallis5875]

ok, I'm onboard. Sold. so now just give a lesson per week in this format for the next year. 100% people will follow your lessons and compound the numbers 'til you're rich from youtube

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thank you! Lots of lessons on the channel and more coming here next week and on Patreon www.patreon.com/guitarlessonsvancouver