Julian Lage - How to UNBLOCK your guitar playing - Lessons with Lage

[@neilmarsh7437]

Thanks - love Julian’s playing and the chord shape with one raised or lowered note is wonderful fun - very generous of you to share what must have been an amazing time spent with masters

[@RobertCassard]

It was a blast 💥 Neil. Although I was massively humbled and overwhelmed by virtuosity quite a few times! Since it was like drinking from a firehose for me, I thought it would be most helpful to “slow the flow” and hand out small glasses of water in these videos!

[@lucassanchez7741]

Thanks for sharing! Love the Martin!

[@RobertCassard]

My pleasure, Lucas. The Martin is my “new” (2001) HD-40MK…the holy grail I’ve searched for for many years. I did this video all about it: C.F. MARTIN Guitar's "HOLY GRAIL" Project - How I finally found MY OWN Holy Grail! kzbin.info/www/bejne/j4nMkoBjpayVr6c

[@josegagliano5816]

excellent video, talking about real advice on how to approach the instrument in a different way

[@RobertCassard]

I’m glad you can appreciate its value, Jose!

[@johnmarcellino5034]

This couldn’t have come at a more relevant time for me. Thank you for the insights!

[@RobertCassard]

Love it, John. Come back and tell me how the exercises affect your playing. Cheers!

[@patrickwal55]

Wise, creative advice from a master musician - thanks for sharing Robert.

[@RobertCassard]

Thanks for listening and watching, Patrick.

[@Turn2Self]

Spider chords! Great tip. Thanks for this. Appreciated.

[@RobertCassard]

Simple, fun, and often very surprising!

[@CalvinLimSH-ld5le]

Thanks for explaining the three guitar exercises by Julian's left hand smooth playing techniques all over the guitar fretboard using a range of notes or triad.

[@RobertCassard]

The exercises are really helpful for me, and just a couple of the many building blocks we can use to express ourselves through our guitars and find more joy doing it!

[@eashwar1231]

An excellent video (as always), Robert. So helpful getting to know 'fretboard range' and 'spider chords' among other concepts of Julian Lage. It is interesting that so many chords exist around that C chord!! Great insights, overall. Thank you!!

[@RobertCassard]

I’m glad you enjoyed this, Eashwar. I did 5 videos in this Julian Lage series, and even that wasn’t enough to cover enough to cover everything I learned from him.

[@eashwar1231]

@@RobertCassard Thanks, Robert. I am just now beginning to look through your Julian Lage series. How in the guitar world did I miss your enlightenment about this genius?!!!

[@videogrowthhacker]

@@eashwar1231 LOL. It all comes down to the KZbin algorithm, right? Sometimes it doesn't have very good taste... Please share videos you like with other musicians...it really makes a difference!

[@RobertCassard]

@@eashwar1231 If you missed anything, blame it on the algorithm! Anyway, I'm happy you're enjoying this series.

[@marvinnorstrom2636]

Great stuff!

[@RobertCassard]

Glad you enjoyed it, Marvin. I've released 5 videos in the Lessons with Lage series. Here's #1: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYiVnKGFZa93Y6c

[@jimphilidor9031]

Great video, I had to sub! I just found Julian Lage recently and he is truly incredible.

[@RobertCassard]

Thanks for the sub, Jim! Sounds like you appreciate Julian as much as I do. 😍

[@TinyNormous]

absolute gold. thanks for sharing

[@RobertCassard]

Glad you enjoyed it, TN. Lessons with Lage #4 coming out tonight!

[@steinhalvorsen_]

1 and 3 are superb for me at the moment. 2 is a good principle in general.

[@RobertCassard]

Glad they’re helpful, Stein. Exercise #2 seems like a window into Julian’s level of discipline and experimentation. #1 and #3 are a pair of his building blocks. Have fun and tell me how it goes!

[@nohillforahighstepper]

Excellent. Thank you. 😊😊😊

[@RobertCassard]

You're welcome 😊

[@shortlessonshardquestions8105]

Great summary and presentation.

[@RobertCassard]

Glad you liked it! I tried to make a short lesson out of the hard questions. LOL.

[@AndreaTarquiniMusic]

wonderful Julian

[@RobertCassard]

Exactly!👍

[@alessandrastievano4823]

Fantastico! Grazie Robert 💚

[@RobertCassard]

Prego! Quanti chitarristi in Italia conoscono Julian?

[@alessandrastievano4823]

​ @RobertCassard Tutti i chitarristi Jazz. Ciao

[@RobertCassard]

Sono felice di sapere che la sua reputazione è diffusa ❤ @@alessandrastievano4823

[@mikepow.guitar]

Wow thanks so much for sharing !!

[@RobertCassard]

You are so welcome. I love how much of what Julian suggests will work for any guitarist at any level of experience.

[@davidrinaldi77]

Does julian prefer to use economic picking or alternate picking?

[@RobertCassard]

Great question, David. Julian never discussed this aspect of his technique but by watching his right hand, I'd say he favors Economy picking. Lots of sweeps and quick strums. And runs that don't always follow an alternating down-up motion. He uses the pick to generate sonic effects!

[@tazador793]

That was really good

[@RobertCassard]

Thanks, tazador. I'm trying to distill long sessions and lots of content into really helpful exercises and lessons. I'm glad you liked it.

[@NahuelMusic]

very nice!!

[@RobertCassard]

Thanks,for watching, Nahuel!

[@StankoAx]

Solid advice, I can definitely see them working for me. I use them to some extent even now, especially the last one.

[@VitoGaarin]

Niiiice👍👍👍👍

[@RobertCassard]

Thank you Vito!!

[@jlarson1040]

The best guitar players lift fingers slightly when moving up the neck to avoid noise squeaks. I noticed squeaks on the second sample you gave of Lage playing. He was probably playing with new strings which have a tendency to squeak more.

[@RobertCassard]

You’re highlighting one of the reasons I prefer to play coated strings. Aside from being corrosion resistant, they tend to be much quieter than uncoated round-wound strings, especially compared to new uncoated strings.

[@bobfurlani3314]

I really like that chord exercise, but also thinks it's important to know how you are altering the chords as you move various fingers. I.e. flatting the 5, lowering or raising the 6, lowering the 7th,etc. That way you have some context to what you are doing

[@RobertCassard]

I agree with you, Bob, but Julian didn’t mention that. He seemed quite focused on developing a hand-ear connection and breaking down many guitarists’ tendency to use standard “safe” chords in favor of more unusual modified ones. He talked about getting comfortable with chords that contain challenging harmonies so we start to miss those tensions when they’re not there.

[@anonamos8129]

Jazz is the devils joke to musicians.

[@RobertCassard]

I don’t understand what you mean. Would you explain, please?

[@anonamos8129]

It’s either beautiful unique expression, or random notes that make no musical sense. It’s a nightmare for classical trained musicians. But I love it.

[@RobertCassard]

@@anonamos8129 "Classical training" is such an interesting, and often restrictive, concept. It's particularly ironic when you consider that cadenzas in the Classical period were intended to be improvised! (It was Beethoven who decided to write out cadenza content in detail. I'm guessing he got tired of hearing a portion of his pieces get stained by inferior improvisation...)

[@anonamos8129]

@@RobertCassardimprovising is an essential part of being a musician. If you think about it, all songs first start out as improvised then get written down into a formal structure

[@RobertCassard]

@@anonamos8129 I agree. But the fear of improvisation and making mistakes stops the majority of people who make music from ever trying to improvise or write their own songs. sad really, because most of my joy comes from creating something new musically!

[@michaelmcdonald3057]

"Master Improviser"? In Austria we refer to his technique as" Noodlemiester." (Apologies, I am just so jealous of his skill.)

[@RobertCassard]

Okay, Michael. Master Noodler then! 😎