How to Practice Guitar

[@donindri]

I was totally frustrated trying to learn guitar years ago. I found a toy keyboard with a cassette tape. It had songs on one side for white keys only and songs for black keys only on the other. I jammed with that toy and tape for hours, best musical light bulb of my life. Thanks for posting this.

[@szczerzo]

Why I'm not getting better? I'm watching youtube videos about playing guitar instead of practicing.

[@matttalbotmusic]

Guilty 🙃

[@Marys-Channel]

@@matttalbotmusic Ditto 😎

[@johnlewis8493]

I'm sure I could do well a written test about all of these you tube videos, but my playing never improves b/c I'm always watching these videos.

[@nicoengerer5959]

Dude, I play guit since 30 years, lot of touring and recording. You Tube was never my big thing but you're really a great, very empathic teacher, thx a lot for your great work. And for sharing your experience in music & life🤘 All the best from Nürnberg, Bavaria and stay healthy

[@napadave58]

I'm gonna comment on your comment since it's what I was gonna say. Good comment. Heh. Sean is exactly the teacher you want online or in person. I wish he lived in my town.

[@greg7656]

Truer words have never been spoken about the Ebow. I was so psyched to get it, then got bored around the 15th time I tried to play the intro to "Heroes." I gave it to my nephew

[@chrismoose64]

My guitar playing plateaued 30 years ago and has been going downhill ever since. Until I found your channel. Cheers mate 👍

[@ThePandaProcrastinates]

"Won't play guitar for 20 years... Then watch KZbin videos 20 years later..." How did you know my situation... haha

[@miahorg]

I feel seen

[@robf.9982]

@@miahorg lol... same here

[@smokeynewton]

I think there are more than a few of us out here.

[@Vivi_9]

@@miahorg do you feel seen or... sean?

[@OSUHARDING1ATECHNICEXPERIENCE]

Same

[@neilritson7445]

Sean congrats on your channel. I've been in education [usually in 'management'] for many many years - and the main thing I've learned is never to tell students something is easy or 'fun'. If they succeed then there is no big deal - but if they fail they are desolated. Learning is also not helpfully defined as a pastime, a hobby,as 'fin'. What is 'fun'? Learning has its rewards for achievement, even small steps, and that's where the emphasis should lie. I don't find even strumming chords 'relaxing' as some claim. I'm concentrating!

[@glenlimstrom3157]

I picked up the guitar at 17 years old I'm 57 I have never tried so hard to understand simple connections between chords until the last 10 years I have never recorded but I've been told that I have some skill I hope everyone out there keeps trying

[@seandaniel23]

Keep up the good work!

[@bofa83]

I love Christmas music, and I love a cappella, but I totally agree with you. Especially about pentatonix, they got shoved down our throats.

[@FerrisFlyer]

Very useful lesson. I have been practicing alot of scales and while my fingers have got a lot quicker I'm still frustrating shit at innovation and musicality. The 2 chord daily jam is a great idea. Cheers.

[@TheFeelButton]

The only thing that angers me more than unsolicited Pentatonix is being asked for my last name first! Cheers Sean!!

[@RameshKumar-ng3nf]

I wonder why doesn't excellent music educators like Sean have atleast 1M subscribers . He deserves more than that. Thanks Sean for the beautiful lesson as always ❤❤❤

[@nicholasmoore7659]

Sean's vids seem more tailored to intermediate players, so the audience will be a bit smaller as a result. Plus, he doesn't do many song tutorials - I have to imagine those bring in a ton of clicks and subs.

[@RameshKumar-ng3nf]

@@nicholasmoore7659 👍. Thanks for your comment. Hope Sean reads this. You have good point .

[@freesk8]

@@RameshKumar-ng3nf Gorgeous women singing with him also helps... :)

[@RameshKumar-ng3nf]

@@freesk8 😃😃 he he

[@eddfanning]

Love this type of lesson for my level.... which I’m at for the past ten years...😂😂😂... helps me kick on hopefully... thank you!!!...🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@HowardOwensIII]

“I wish I saw this 20 years ago.” I wish I had KZbin 40 years ago.

[@Mega_Casual]

Thanks for this video. I'm that guy that put his guitar away for 20 years. Had played constantly for 15 years then got side-stepped to learn computer technology. Now retired, wished I could get that 20 years back. Playing every day again trying to get back where I was 20 years ago. Amazingly, much of it has come back, but training my fingers to go where I want has been the challenge.

[@Marys-Channel]

I hear ya.😎

[@tomcat2]

I have written down all the songs I've learned, intro to outro, and replay them all, through out the week. This is the only way I can keep them in my head.

[@Marys-Channel]

It works!😎

[@zenrobotninja]

Great question, I'm in the same boat so really appreciate this vid. Wonderful advice as well

[@flyingfish5604]

You are such a great guitar teacher...all the best from the UK

[@shaunfradd5890]

I like your channel because you explain music theory in a non boring way👍keep up the good work.

[@jcburger733]

Thanks for the practice tips. Always love your responses to the salty comments

[@ImNotOld_ImVintage]

The question about American Performer Tele and the EOB Strat really depends on what your looking to do.. the Tele will do everything you expect a Tele to do... It definitely keeps it's colors inside the lines. The EOB Strat has a mini humbucker in the bridge, a Texas Special in the middle position and the sustainer in the neck. It will do everything you expect of a Strat, and a lot more. If you're looking to explore sounds and make *synth'y" pads to loop in, it has a lot to offer. I've spend hours just exploring what I can do and have no means reached an end. One caveat, if you don't like a chunky neck, the EOB Strat is not for you. It's really up to what you're trying to do with the music. Personally, I like mixing it up so I have the EOB Strat, a MIJ offset Tele w/P90's, American Tele w/51 no-casters and a MIM Tele w/ no-caster bridge & twisted Tele neck.. to go with my other MIM and American Strats.. chasing tone and feel gets addictive.

[@boomerdell]

I have an American Performer Telecaster HS just like the one Sean is holding, albeit in a different finish but otherwise identical, and I can vouch for it as a great value, great guitar. Super-versatile, so well built, and I can say as a relative newbie, very player-friendly. Highly recommend it.

[@deadlypredator3]

Thats a taylor

[@greymatters6015]

I was gonna practice tonight, but now I've GOT TO FIND MARCOS

[@Marys-Channel]

I agree with practicing intervals. You can apply the snip-its and embellishments to some real simple normally boring songs and have fun bringing them to life. 👍 Sean ~Mary😎

[@bellsprout666]

I've been anticipating the next "when I'm not" joke and this one delivered 10,000% relatable

[@rohit.kkatariya555]

Post some inversions of jazz chords.

[@bryannelson3462]

cool vid but your G chord is a D chord 5:53 lol what's your band name and do you have any vids on youtube of you playing out? great lessons posted thanx !

[@Gguymusic]

Awesome video. Keep it up ✊🏻😎🤍

[@dmyerstc55]

Sean this was a powerful lesson. Maybe you can expand on these individual concept in future lessons!

[@seandaniel23]

Great idea Don! Thanks for wattching!

[@darksideofdonny]

Hey Sean, can you do a video about your top ten favorite Elliott Smith chords/songs/riffs to play on guitar. Or whatever number feels right to you. That’d be really awesome.

[@davidwalker41]

I would love for someone (SEAN) to give some tips on how to take a song performed by a full band - something you hear on the radio with bass, drums, maybe keyboard, etc. - and strip it down to a sparser arrangement that sounds good on solo guitar. These are sometimes hauntingly beautiful (e.g., the cover of "Welcome to the Machine" that you did with Jaida). What kind of decisions do you make to keep the essence of the song while stripping it down to it's bare bone?

[@allenkennedy6748]

It’s odd that I have just discovered Sean tonight. But I’m listening. Having recently been appointed “King of the World”, I have been busy banning Whitesnake from KZbin. Now I hear your comments about Pentatonix, you must realize that they are out as well. Practice, lads, practice. And remember I am listening.

[@1cleandude]

Great lesson Marco!!🙏🏻

[@geekwillow8177]

Ah!! A practice regimen would come in handy when some says "Here, play me guitar." Yes, I watched that video too.

[@seandaniel23]

Thanks for watching!

[@DarrenRayYagle]

Great video Sean! 👍10% physical 90% mental. You gotta want it!!

[@DarrenRayYagle]

Taking the Gilbert approach on the 3 note pattern! Nice!! I use my 2 finger for this mostly. Been experimenting with using my 3rd. Feels weird but I'm trying to get it to feel right. Just takes a little time and patience.. Thanks Sean! Merry Christmas to you and yours.

[@rosettap]

Love the tips and humorous commentary! Following up on your advice to "pick up a second instrument" when you feel stuck, who is the Sean Daniel of mandolin? Is there a Sean Dandieolin KZbin channel? Thanks.

[@Marys-Channel]

He dabbles with the Ukulele 😎. That's my go to instrument. I've learned some good tips from Sean. The Ukulele is like training wheels for my new guitar 🎸. And Sean is genius. He's my go to hero.😎

[@zygotebear3631]

Thanks sean

[@seaking530]

Damm you are a great teacher thank you.

[@alanmcclelland5245]

Great lesson Sean, thanks ( there seems to be a lot of " most important things" though, lol )

[@Dinglebeardedlady]

There was a lot of "most importants" there. Most importantly, keep checking the channel.

[@drewdietz2115]

training your memory as a muscle...... love this my man!!! very true, that's why I take ginko biloba.....lol for memory retention! Ryde on bro...

[@sonofabeachent]

I put new strings on my guitar a month ago but it still sounds the same leaning up against the wall. What a rip off!

[@randycompton5230]

I have trouble practicing scales. Maybe it’s lack of attention span? I have learned enough chords to follow along with a song, if I have the chord charts in front of me. The one thing I noticed in your video today, was the descending chords. I would like to do that as an exercise. Run up and down with progressive chords that fit together. Can you help?

[@DaringDan]

Sean, what's your favorite Pentatonix album and why is it, 'A Pentatonix Christmas'?

[@KimchiSpringRoll]

Yes I can play a scale starting with any finger but how would you incorporate chords into the melody? I'm not asking about theories but just your own thought process on what you think of when you have to play both chords and melodies as a solo performance like Joe Pass. Been stuck on this for so long.........

[@johnletitia]

Hello Sean, I have a question...Even though my hands are large, I have terrible trouble stretching my left hand to do a 3-note-per-string scale..can you make a video on how to learn top reach for us who are struggling? thanks!

[@zampant1]

How do you keep your guitar looking so clean?

[@seandaniel23]

Thanks! I think there's something about maple necks that just look great when you clean off the fretboard.

[@jeremy2189]

Could you tell me what acoustic guitar you're using ? Also great video !

[@trusarmor4957]

got any practice tips for NEWbies that first section seems sorta advanced .. or is it me?

[@heyou429]

Hey Sean. What did De la Soul mean when they said "ain't no half stepping"? Sometimes I worry that I've been half stepping and that it might catch up with me.

[@Aloshi19]

Intro jokes... They never get old..🙂🤘

[@kond1e]

Sean.. is there a specific way to get better at triads and mastering the fretboard ? I've been using a book but I can't seem to apply it

[@azrakaltak7224]

Veliki pozdrav za sve vas a posebno za muzičara

[@margareta5519]

Pozz

[@azrakaltak7224]

@@margareta5519 🙂

[@MacKinnon2k13]

I can't believe I haven't achieved 'salty blues comment if the week yet'. I have to try harder I guess. Lol.

[@trentc7329]

So, you going to watch the Joe Bonamassa doc on Amazon? I feel torn because I hate blues-daddery and gear-snobbery, but I admire his work ethic, suits and dgaf attitude about haters like me. What's a contrarian to do, Sean?

[@rexhayes1719]

Barring chords looking so easy, I've broken my fingers multiple times it's so crooked it's not even straight anymore,but I keep trying, very frustrating

[@hopefulhyena3400]

0:30 I didn't miss you throwing in a "great" where there wasn't one.

[@toblue7451]

SEAN ! My Teaqch Mr. Christopher EVERETT (and a few of BEATO's guitar friends) Says the Hardest Thing to Teach Is: "RHYTHEM", and as such They Absolutely Hate teaching Rhythem ! Now, that Ive had a Couplete pf Mild STROKEs, Mr. Everett has Me Listening to the Songs he assign's Over and Over to get My Playing mixed in with the Music ! This kinda goes along with "STEVE Ray's listening to HENDREX songs over and over til he Got his playing to go with and match Hendrex's ?? Ol WEST

[@J.QNobody]

Middle pinky? Middle index? why confuse?

[@wetsand7379]

as a beginner, I wish I could play like that off the top of my head.

[@NWLee]

You are suggesting that we just sort-a play with the guitar if we can't otherwise make ourselves practice, why of course. Thanks!

[@TheOdontologist]

If I cant practice often and long enough to become a nuclear physicist / ballet dancer/gymnast.....how can I become one? Is it enough to just learn the periodic table and watch a few YT videos of the Cuban National Ballet? Is that how you learned Sean?

[@barruzza]

What Taylor model is that?

[@jcmartin1978]

I wish I had KZbin 30 years ago. I feel attacked lol

[@kiddcomet3563]

Cool 😎

[@chrisgrabowski2678]

Look Sean, we both know why I'm not getting better: I'm watching too many youtube videos. Peace

[@tenpercentfordabigguy8550]

I wish I could just plug into the Matrix and download this Kung Fu straight to my brain.

[@olivermakinano9567]

This is still difficult

[@briankeller2048]

Maybe a lesson on Kumbaya for all of us Swahili lovers. Thanks

[@AuralSects]

That is a pretty guitar.

[@motocephalic]

you use chords that most beginners have no clue how to make, like me. I know first position, but playing the middle of the neck, you lose me. I really like your crazy ways though.

[@Stargazer-px7fw]

Was the same here for me. So I came back 2 years later after mastering barre chords and getting much better on guitar. Now I understand more (still not 💯 😂) , so just keep practicing and you will get there.

[@rachelthompson9324]

Salty comment: Sea salt is no better than processed table salt! All salt, at some point, came from the sea barring certain mineralized rocks. But if you really look at it....

[@proshathaghighi8927]

Interesting... 🧐🧐

[@evanwilcox82]

Keep your toxic salty comments out of here.

[@ymaxdtitanvictor9589]

Kul

[@danmabe8918]

I hear ya..... all I wanna do is zooma zoom zoom zoom....

[@richlight]

Ohhh you mentioned star wars in another video. That you dig listening to.the comics. Check out tarkin hunting vader. Grandma Tarkin (Grandmoff Tarkin). Vader accepts tarkins challenge to hunt him to the death using whateber empire assets he wants. Such a cool story of you dig vader Tarkin looks down on Vaders ability as just a hired goon usomg brute force, vader looks down on Tarkin as a feeble old fool who "knows nothing of the power of the Dark side. . . " its a cool story about how there is more than one way to skin a cat. People are tested , repects earned and its just a really fun tale from the empire And while i have a reason to talk star wars. . . . I dont like some of Disneys choices for the movies but to the people who thought Luke had to be an infalible Jedi god. . . How???? He was never properly trained. It makes semce Luke becomes a powerful force user but not a jedi or sith. . . It makes sense he becomes a grey Jedi who thinks he falls om the sode of light. Even in the original movoes Luke uses the dark side. Like when Jaba has his friends. The 1st force power you see him use is force choke. . . . Thays daddys favorite darkside power lol Luke is left to finish training on his own. He draws his owm conclusions and has no dogma , or.no evil villan to throw him off.course as a student of.the living force. No dark, no light. They believed Anakin to be the chosen one to.bring about balance by giving all the power to the light. Sound balanced? After anakin and palps destroyed the jedi order with order 66 anakin did bring balance. 2 sith, 2 jedi left Qui gon the jedi who fought so hard for Anakin to become a Jedi was a grey jedi himself . Thats why quigon wasnt on The jedi council. They didnt like that he believed im the living force instead of the dark and the light One thing i have learned in my life is good amd evil dont exist. You tell me.spmethings good or evil. . . Name anything. Even hitlers not off limits. I will show you how perspective makes ot wrong lol. Their is no right. Just whats right for us. Star wars originally tried to convey good vs evil but transformed in to a mirror of real.life. i think thats why i love it so much

[@scoobydoo4087]

I’m gonna watch you in 20 years. Bye.

[@DudeitsLandon]

You ever get back problems from sitting down too much while you play? I do :(

[@Marys-Channel]

My boob gets in the way. 🤕 Ouch. Lol😎

[@bishalbanerjee8109]

Cool.. really learnt a lot from this video...

[@Smelly_D]

Did you read my diary?

[@christopherpeters3922]

Shit I'm watching KZbin videos 20 years later🤦‍♂️

[@eamonmac2751]

Instagram can be a reason too. There are so many fake guitarists on that platform. It’s rather disheartening to see their accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers and views.

[@silent-trouble]

You look like a younger brother of Dexter (TV series)

[@hogtied12]

You have to know what you are doing, not just fiddle about

[@MiketheNerdRanger]

Thats all you can do when you're starting is fiddle about. Learning stuff sucks.

[@richlight]

I stopped asking others for the thoughts om guitar because i notice most people just endorse their play style and what they like. . . I dont like most people let alone their tone hahahhaa

[@wilhelmrogue1]

Who bets sean can pull the tail,, wink wink nod!

[@alexevans7916]

I have improved 200% but still cant play.

[@azrakaltak7224]

Bravo svaka čast

[@richlight]

Marcos Cirillio is awesome , but not a great teacher for beginners. I get why dudes mad at Marcos lol. But Sean is a great teacher for all skill levels before master. Very few can be called a master let alone teach at that level

[@seandaniel23]

Thanks so much Rich!

[@alansimpson8962]

Or a harp pick up a harp😀

[@glenbateman5960]

Obsessively.

[@samraffertymusic]

Loved the listening homework! Billie Eilish does get a lot of hate but she has a lot of really great songs imo

[@HowardOwensIII]

I suspect a lot of people who think they’re all that with their musical taste (aka, snobs (and I am one)) look down on Billie Eilish. They shouldn’t. She’s great (and her brother). Nice to see her get a little shout out.

[@scolpitts]

If I were to wager a bet I would bet you’re a far better guitarist than you give yourself credit for

[@davidcochran6291]

I have another scenerio. You play for 15 yrs. Then you play for the next 20 yrs. Then watch Sean's videos and realize that you are still crap!!!

[@markgee9211]

Like most people, this is not my life. It's just another hobby that I bounce back and forth to. I learned a dozen chords or so and learned some songs. You will find while practicing the chords you will hear many familiar songs without trying. Just have fun, you are not going to be a professional musician.

[@ipsofacto6864]

I want to impress people and make them love me, so it compels me to practice until I find the opportunity to blow them away in order to receive the adulation I need.