Using GHOST NOTES To Make Your Guitar Playing MORE RHYTHMIC | Rhythm & Lead Fingerstyle Phrasing

[@DarrylSyms]

TABS for each demonstration are available for download to Patreon Supporters! www.patreon.com/darrylsyms I hope you all enjoy the video! :)

[@DarrylSyms]

Hey Leandro - yep, all examples and demonstrations are included! 🙂

[@jlmcches]

Your playing is unreal

[@DarrylSyms]

Thanks man! 🙂👊

[@wispyfn8792]

Thank you I had no clue what ghost note was but I saw it in some tabs and I didnt know what it was. THANK YOU!!

[@DarrylSyms]

You’re welcome 😄 There are many different kinds of ghost notes so be careful ✌️

[@Shanecurle]

Love your playing, tone, and guitar! 🤘🔥💯

[@DarrylSyms]

Thanks so much Shane! 🙂

[@ferthambo461]

you have been my best teacher ever, thanks!

[@playmovingpictures]

Darryl great videography. Very clear to see where your at. Most guitar teachings don’t show the guitar view and the slow detail of how to achieve guitar playing. I would like you to do a right hand video how to use your right hand with the left hand in solos Cheers thanks ian.

[@DarrylSyms]

Thanks man! I try my best 🙂 I anticipate on doing some more right hand videos soon ✌️

[@luisduke4813]

I’ve learned a lot, thanks Darryl!

[@sunepozukum107]

As always very helpful n informative..big ups

[@alvinsubmarine3275]

You're a Legend teacher.

[@DarrylSyms]

You're a legend supporter 🙌

[@princejmn]

You are what we call 'A GREAT GUITAR PLAYER', I dare say an even better teacher - ! Thank you.

[@DarrylSyms]

Thanks Prince, that’s very kind of you 🙂

[@88_TROUBLE_88]

Holy shit those pickups! You have a great setup of pickups man

[@Lockit467]

Instant sub from your demo alone

[@DarrylSyms]

Thank you!

[@Csar-wj3od]

Matheus Asato!!!!!!! Great lesson!

[@mas_3330]

You should check out tom misch's cover of isn't she lovely. He rhythm guitar makes great use of ghost notes

[@DarrylSyms]

Great example - he plays a beautiful version!

[@kazutokirigaya6597]

No dislikes! ✊

[@ThatPunker]

very nice man

[@johnniemnemonic73]

I'm working on the ghost notes bit of your finger picking course. It's tricky but I'm getting there. To do anything well, you have to put the time in. 🤘🌏✌️

[@DarrylSyms]

Amazing sir! Ghost notes are great fun hey 😄🙌

[@Wicked_Fox]

So its the same as muted / dead notes? Guitarists on forms are telling me it actually mean to play the note quietly. What if a tab legend says: X = Dead Note () = Ghost Note What Do I Do Then?

[@DarrylSyms]

Dead note = ghost note. Muted note = muted note (aka palm muted I would assume). A note annotated with brackets such as “9 --- (9)” just means to sustain the note. There is no way to annotate tab such that it tells you how loud to play a note. None that I’m familiar with anyway. There’s “accent” notes, but nothing that depicts volume 🤔

[@Rubenbauer80]

Ok im so confused here, ive been playing for 7 years and have read hundreds of sheet music i always thought a ghost note for expample ---2---(2) this is what it would look like on paper and i always just played the note then played the ghost note aftarward as if it were anyother note but that would just be sustaining the note so your info is new to me thank you this should help.

[@Rubenbauer80]

Holy heck mind blown! This is going to be interesting im just mind f*cked as to how i missed this. I dont know what to think haha thanks for the video and good playing bro, you can really tell who puts in the work on their instrument and years of experience pays off trust me so to anyone reading this i want you to know, when i first started i just wanted to learn a couple songs but obviously being a noob pretty much every song is out of our leage accept "smoke on the water" lmao, so pretty much my expectations were to play ozzy like no more tears and the solo and everything but thats not reality so start out small with easy riffs, mostly rythm guitar parts and learn some basic chords because youll need to learn those for good anyway when you start playing better songs. Now keep practicing but keep the tabs to the songs you really want to learn and memorize it, practice it, play a little bit at a time everyday and practice the song in steps like "beginning intro" "chorus" that type of stuff, if you have a basic amp and guitar buy a boss distortion pedal so you can switch to clean and dirty while playing also make sure you get the charging cable for it not use the battery they die easy. More than 50 percent of how you sound is just how good you actually are, i sold my nice expensive g&l guitar (regrettably) and had to get a shitty starter "first act" guitar just so i could play something because i missed it so much and i have a shitty ibanez amp and boss distortion pedal and although its far from the best or that hard chunky sound that we all want our setup to sound like i still manage to sound halfway decent and practice more until i upgrade, i recommend emg pickups (forgot the model) as a good upgrade for any somewhat begginer out there. You can actually invest in a pretty decent setup for cheap, id go with an ibanez electric guitar with upgraded emg pickups and go to your local pawnshop and pic up a decent sized amp for hella cheap, buy some cabels and start buy more pedals mainly a wah pedal and distortion pedal, the basic ones that work. You dont have to spend thousands of dollars for your rig to sound good, good luck guys keep on rocking.

[@Rubenbauer80]

Also effects pedal dont always fix everything and automatically give you the sound you want, theres more factors that play a role, like i said puckups play a big part and they're not too expensive and if you have one of those small shitty starter amp those just suck period and nothing you do will ever make it sound good. The guitar actually plays a small role in the sound and gradually increases with the price of the guitar so ofcourse a five thousand dollar guitar is gonna sound good but can you actually afford it? Btw stop going to guitar center and music shops and picking up the most expensive guitar you can find with your grubb paws, if uou want to look at it then do just that, dont pull it off the shelf and plug it into the nearest marshall amp and go to town no no no, for 1 you probobly (highly likley) cant afford it and if you ever get a job and know what its like to work for money you probobly wouldnt want to save up forever just for a fancy guitar, thats just not life, and second most of you guys who do stuff like that the instument is just way out of your league, i know it and you know it so please start showing some etiquette. My cousin told me he did this at a music shop and was bragging about it and it just made me cringe at what a dumbass he probobly looked like to the workers doing that because they had to tell him to put it back.

[@Rubenbauer80]

Also for beginner's tuning is your best friend, learn to tune to standard with your ear and then learn half step down and full step down, also i dont recommend a floyd rose bridge, i like them and i had one and they are nice but just a pain in the ass to tune unless you stay in one tuning but youll always have to switch from standard low e to drop d tuning and doing that throws off all the other strings. The one i had had lock screws on the headstock and once you were locked in to the tuning you wanted you had micro tuners on the bridge which sounds nice in theroy but a real pain in the ass. I found that standard electric guitars without the locking feature on the head can hold a tune much better if your gonna be switching back and fourth alot. Also dont waste your time with tuners once youve practiced, its much faster and easier to do it by ear once you can. For strings noobs usually go with earny balls and they work but i recommend if you want a quality string that will last awhile try dean markley blue steel strings, these are the best ive found so far personally. I know everyone buys the damn painted guitar strings once and the neon which are pretty cool not gonna lie but they dont last as long especially the painted ones. Try out a thick and thin pick the dunlop brand, i used to really love the feel of the 1.0mm blue pick for some reason but i recommend the .50mm red ones. Alot of your sound quality is going to come from the proper tuning and if you did a good job doing so. Begginers seem to have a thing for distortion and i get it i was a noob once as well and my reasoning behind this was a couple things, 1 i thought alot of the sound depended on strings, 2 i was trying to supliment a shitty amp and pickups with a distortion pedal. Now that im back into playing guitar again and have learned over the years more what makes your setup sound good, propper tuning, decent amp and pickups, before when i was a noob i was focused on; which effects pedal will give me the best sound (haha) obsessed with the brand string i was using (standard size are the best) once i replaced my starter guitar with a g&l rampage the next thing i would have done is replaced my crap amp and that would have been decent in itself.

[@DarrylSyms]

Holy shit Robert, you could write a novel with these comments! 🤣😅 I appreciate your feedback and tips - thanks, and I’m glad you found this interesting and helpful ✌️

[@LizaLavolta]

@@DarrylSyms lolllllll

[@blahblahblah5333]

Wow man you're off the fucking chain! You make a nice melody bro

[@DarrylSyms]

Thanks man!

[@LizaLavolta]

Dang....I just wrote a full song off of you playing that at the end. Guess I'll have to learn it now hahaha

[@melodystation4394]

Very useful lesson....

[@DarrylSyms]

I agree, I like this one :) Thanks!

[@aynvaibhav9705]

You are one of my favourite teacher on utube..... thanks for everything.... i want to be like john mayer so any suggestion for me 😁

[@DarrylSyms]

Thanks man! I appreciate your support 🙂🙌

[@princesslazza]

You are the best

[@RichySama]

I almost have the solo down and I have the chord progressions down. Now I just have to mesh them together lol.😂

[@enricosenno7767]

A la John mayer. ..cheers

[@bobdeluxeandtheideals1356]

🔥🔥🔥

[@sebastianlagundzija8001]

Are those examples only single notes playing or there are chords included as well?

[@DarrylSyms]

You can include whatever you want 🙌

[@sebastianlagundzija8001]

@@DarrylSyms but here in the videos it's single notes, or I might be wrong?

[@DarrylSyms]

I do a combination of everything here. Singles, doubles, and chords, which I elaborate on throughout the video 🙂

[@sou_desu8587]

So do u just mute it?

[@DarrylSyms]

Yes, just mute it

[@sacoto98]

So a ghost note is basically a note played 2 times with the first time being muted?

[@DarrylSyms]

Nope. That’s plural, notes. A ghost note is a note that has no pitch value (“muted”)

[@sacoto98]

@@DarrylSyms wow, thanks for the lightning fast reply. I came to your video because I'm trying to play a song that has ghost notes but I haven't quite figured out how the ghost notes have been inserted

[@sacoto98]

@@DarrylSyms do you know any songs that have a lot of ghost notes?

[@DarrylSyms]

sacoto98 they are tricky to hear sometimes, and the hardest part is fitting them in rhythmically. I can’t quote any songs of the top of my head, but if you scroll through my videos, you’ll see that it’s a technique that I put into almost everything that I talk about ha!

[@sacoto98]

@@DarrylSyms thanks a lot! My main issue is that the tabs say that there are two ghost notes played in quick succession but when I listen to the song I can't manage to hear them. But maybe they are a bit out of my league since I started learning guitar only 2 weeks ago 😂 but I'll definitely check out your vids. Thanks again!

[@mfillieule]

I understan beacause of you what is a ghost note....At your first plan you'll never take the A chord...ok and at the you stayed cool with your finger on a A

[@jlmdot]

Speed up the intro to 1.5 -> Instant Polyphia.

[@DarrylSyms]

Hahahahaha this is golden.

[@questionableguitarplayer7721]

bannana

[@BahamianDetailer]

Dammit dude. You are a fucking distraction. I came here to learn about ghost notes but I cant get pass the intro cuz its insanely amazing.

[@DarrylSyms]

Soz 💛

[@ThaPAnthem]

Actually when u block the chord and play percussive that’s dead notes, ghost notes are very soft notes (real notes) that u can barely hear to add some groove or effect too

[@DarrylSyms]

That’s not what the consensus thinks. Wikipedia says “In music, a ghost note is a musical note with a rhythmic value, but no discernible pitch when played” 👍

[@ThaPAnthem]

Okay I see, what’s the difference between ghost notes and dead notes then? I’ve always called the percussive sound a dead note (x) on tabs

[@inspireforgreatness7345]

Who else came here after watching ichika nito 😭

[@BenK.]

Watch John Mayer Your Body Is A Wonderland at the Grammys. Your mind will be blown x)

[@DarrylSyms]

8 years ago? Acoustic?

[@BenK.]

yes, look at what he is doing at the end there. Sick rhythm skills. Dont know what you call it though...

[@DarrylSyms]

Are we watching the same version? 😝 Send me a time code on insta

[@raftag590899]

any funky players?

[@G-Nuko]

You looked a little bit like tom holland

[@Letsplaywithadam]

It's strange to see a grown man wear his hat like that.

[@DarrylSyms]

Thank you.

[@84kjk]

Good playing. But that guitar is ugly