Do this to become an ADVANCED guitar player

#guitar #great #practice
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00:00 Intro
00:16 Decide to get great
00:36 Define greatness
01:18 Learn from everyone
01:53 Course plug
02:22 Always be listening
02:55 Find your voice
03:14 Keep your ears open
03:46 Maintain a healthy relationship with music
04:20 Learn how you best learn
04:49 Trust and develop your instincts
05:18 Say yes (but not always)
05:48 Believe in yourself
07:30 Accept you'll never believe you are great
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[caged]

Hey there Young Jedi, Steve Ono here. We had some contact back in the early days of the web. I am now a 70 year old guitar teacher in Fresno Ca. I applaud this video. The channel this message comes from has videos I made for my beginning guitar class at a public high school during the pandemic shutdown. The music itself has endless depth. There is no end to it and it is everywhere.

[Krankitopia]

I really dig this video style. Feels like a marriage between your old videos and feels like you are moving in a new direction with the shots you are trying. Has a different, but save vibe. I thoroughly enjoyed the message and style.

[MashaT]

Amazing advice! We all need to really internalize and act on each of these points.

I particularly like point 8. I’m a trained educator (but had to stop working due to medical issues). I also have a TBI. I never thought I could learn to play guitar because I struggle to remember basic details and stay focused. However, my service dog loved my first horrible attempt at plucking some basic notes that he motivated me to keep trying to find a path of learning. I started in March 2020 when various apps gave three months free. I quickly learned that I couldn’t just use a single app to learn. They each teach more or less the same concepts in a similar order, but sometimes each one presents it differently. I stay focused by doing a quick warm up, a new lesson or two (or more if I’m feeling it), and then I always end by playing songs for fun that incorporates the skills I’ve been learning. 4.5 years later, I’m much farther along than I ever could have imagined between my TBI and some physical limitations. Finding my own way and method that worked around my weaknesses, along with the motivation to be able to let my service dog chill to live music nearly every day or night, has kept me going strong.

The only time I don’t play is if I’m really too sick with a migraine, etc that would prevent me from playing. Being tired isn’t an excuse because I’m always tired in reality. I usually sit with my guitar for an hour or two (sometimes more), but even if I can only squeeze out 15-30 mins or so, I’m happy. If I really can’t play while I’m at the tail end of not feeling well on a particular day/night, I try to watch some educational guitar content (not gear vids, lol) to at least keep internalizing new things to try when I get back to the guitar. A recent fun discovery was a DADGAD capo for E standard. Now I’m curious about other partial capos and that Spyder capo. That had led me to try some new things I might never have tried without having to retune my guitar (I only have one).

Yep, number 8 is the most important part of my success. I’m no guitar prodigy, but I can play along with nearly anyone, play my faves, etc. I’m more of a rhythm guitarist for sure, though now I’m exploring leads a bit to get out of my comfort zone. It’s a huge challenge for my hands and brain, but it’s fun trying!

[dilipgoswami]

This is great advice not just for guitar but any deep pursuit.

[climbing_thomas]

when i realised that i can strive towards always being myself and just enjoy the journey, i found a lot of freedom that made me forget to always ask wether i am great or even just good or average. as long as i can just enjoy those moments when i play music, alone or with friends, wether somebody is listening or not, and i feel like i express who i am, it doesnt really matter if i make mistakes or play perfectly, i will consider myself content, and happy (and maybe being happy is a little act of greatness in itself already?)!
that was an inspiring video, and i have been following you for years and years now and you played a significant role in my development as a player, and my attitude towards music! thanks for everything that you do!

[josheakinsmusic]

Your videos are always very well done but your multiple camera angles incorporated with a diversity of teaching props made this video exceptional!!

[TheRealSandman]

That last one is very true. People will say I'm amazing etc. but I never feel it. I think we take for granted how far we've come & don't realise we're great at what we do because we're in the middle of it. Practicing every day is normal to us. It'd serve us all to realise how good we all are without being arrogant. Just appreciate ourselves.

[majorpie]

Hey Sammy G. I've been a big fan of yours for years and I've never seen a bad video from you. But this video really resonated with me; I gotta say I needed to hear a lot of this. Some things you said made me remember what I've seemed to lose over the years, other advice was really eye-opening, and it was all executed with a very sincere and genuine demeanor. Thanks so much for always being rad and funny, and, of course, thanks for this video, I needed to hear that!

[matthewgonzalez]

I’ve loved your channel since you started man! I’ve always found your content inspiring, and since starting my music career I’ve had so many ups and downs. Thanks for making this great content and helping us all along the journey ❤

[jpmosher]

You had Rik Emmett, of Triumph, as a guitar teacher?
That is freaking COOL!!!

[dwstoeckel]

Always love the way you think! Best wishes.

[multilegolover]

One of the reasons I love this channel is the presentation. Obviously the advice is super helpful, but it's great how Sammy G puts in the extra effort to make the videos themselves entertaining. Most other channels would just sit in front of their computer and mechanically list off each item, but Sammy tells a story with each step and cuts out the fat. Even the simple shots of him changing his guitar strings in the middle of the vid helps make it seem less like a lecture and more like a story. Sorry for the ramble yall i just had to get that off my chest lol

[stompKrr]

Bingo. So well thought out and insightful. Nothing in music came to me easily or naturally; just a plan, focus, time and hard work. Excellent points and love the unbroken chain of progression. In addition to burnout, there is also a real risk of over-use injury, such as I experienced in my own intentional journey from 'meh' to fairly ok.

[BlueJayWaters]

I'm very impressed Sammy. I've been trying to tackle a lot of these elements that elevate a musician on my music channel. The fact you've been able to come up with so many and explain them all fairly well with brevity shows just how great you have become as a musician. And what's best is that unlike some guitarists who make it to that level, you share your knowledge and experience to bring others up with you. Outstanding

[antoineswine]

Sammy, you are one of the amazing guitarists on Youtube that has helped me to squash the little voice in my head telling me that I'll never be good enough. I haven't found my band yet, but I don't think I could have even tried to start this journey without inspiring and reassuring folks like you. Thank you for your awesome videos!

[danielaiello]

You are on to something with accepting you'll never believe you're great. In the fall of 2011 I attended a Master Class with Ravi Coltrane and I had the awesome opportunity to ask him a question. I said, "When did you realize that you had gone from a good musician to a great musician?" and he smiled and look at his watch, laughed and said "What time is it? That hasn't happened yet!" Incredibly humbling moment for me and Ravi was a tremendous guy!

[-eye-willy]

ive been playing guitar for 30 years, and ive never made a decision to be "great" after 20 years i realized "damn, im getting pretty good at this" and thats when i started being great. guitarists tend to have fragile, inflated ego's that can either get you on the fast track to greatness in no time, or hold you back from reaching your full potential. shit is more nuanced than deciding to be great, and if anything you become great, and that time it takes can vary wildly from person to person.i think the cognitive dissonance between the time you make a decision like that and actually reaching that potential may or may not discourage you when sammy isnt there to glaze you with sweet nothings in your ear. i would suggest you maybe not hold yourself to the standards of greatness before you have even started. just chill out and learn at your own pace, and if you were meant for greatness you will gradually become truly great.

[ionageman]

It has been an amazing journey .. I’m also 20+ years .. I may not have much longer on this earth, but I enjoy my ability to read music and sing through my old Yamaha C40 student guitar .

[herrchristophotto]

Thanks for these words, man :) hadn't tuned in to your channel for quite a while now, since playing guitar is just a minor hobby for me, which I am totally content with. However, I was very curious about this one, since I could sense yome general life wisdom in the title, that I didn't wanna miss out on. So yeah, that's quite what you delivered. I think substituting guitar for everything else (at least concerning creative stuff) you wanna become great at works really well here and can, for instance, easily be adapted to being an engineer (which is my profession) or photographer (which is my major hobby haha). And as always, you made the message in your charismatic yet humble tone and I especially like your final conclusion, that you'll never become great (whatever that means), because there's always something new to learn. And I think especially this healthy self criticism is very important, since it keeps us humble while still developing further. So yeah, thanks again man :) greeting from Germany, Chris

[donnyroxlive-youtubechanne]

Much of what your saying in this video comes under the category of "I wish I knew that when"

I'll be 68 in a week and have been playing since I was 14 which makes 54 years...when I started out I learned fast in was in my first band in 3 months, after 2 years playing school dances and such. I was in a doo-wap group at the same time in a rock and roll band. Learning stuff I never heard of and doing it well. Music was always magical to me the blend of melody, harmony, lead, Rythm, sounds vex me and so did sex, drugs and playing music...left music for about 10 years after almost dying (non drug related) and started reading guitar world and other mags. All the lead stuff I knew how to play I finally knew why and more how...this October I'll have 32 y clean and sober play in various bands, duos and mostly solo these days for as many years as I've been sober. I still have that same enthusiastic feeling from music that I did when I picked it. Love your channel... thank you
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