Andrew York's Secret To Fingerboard Mastery 🤫 #shorts

In Andrew York’s course on creativity he shares his thoughts on the importance of improvisation and how it is necessary for being a well-rounded musician.

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[stevenlader]

He hit the nail on the head. I was learning songs, technique etc. but didn't know what was going on.
Now that I am interested in improvisation it is challenging to bridge this gap. It's hard to find a teacher and/or curriculum along these lines.

[MehAwake]

Man, he seems like he’d be an awesome teacher.

[blahblah]

More of this, please! Can never get enough of Andrew York's teaching us.

[franzenmusic]

Love this! Improvisation is my passion. ❤

[wordofmouth]

Knowing how to speak the language and knowing how to read and write that same language make you so much powerful than one who just speaks it.

[Wade-ugfv]

Great truth this is! Thank you Maestro!

[feelingsviawood]

Yep… he said it… this is the main reason I can not ever call myself a musician or a player of any kind att all.
I am happy for those students that has had a teacher that has been able to find the way to each student to REALLY understand music theory etc. in practise. I think that sure is not the easiest task to do.

Thank you Andrew for your honesty and music!

[ashevilleguitar]

Great advice from one of the greats ✌️❤️🎵

[iogeek]

Precisely why I study both classical and jazz. A truly competent classical guitar teacher knows the fingerboard well, and also understands the musical thinking/harmony and compositional forms of various periods that guitar literature is drawn from. If you want to maximize your musical experience on guitar, then don’t settle for a teacher who does not have these qualities.

[JediRastafari]

So true! I was lucky enough to have studied with Matthew Grief who also taught me jazz in addition to classical. As a result, I encourage my students to also learn enough theory so that they know what's going on under the engine, so to speak.

[Akukog]

Yeah this is correct. How ever your good at some point if you don’t know what your playing at, ….. there is a missing piece in your personal artistic performance. And ingesting the moral of the piece. And these things for me is vital. Also on how to improvise these things can be helpful as well… and for me if a performer knows these thing well…. You just go there is stage and play without hesitating or being afraid that you might make mistakes. But that’s is always part of personal growth, without mistakes …. How can you be a successful person, in general.

[johnskelley]

The key all all notes that correspond with it, it was first for me with improvising solos

[adadses]

Part of my warm up - or even spend time outside of this by practicing playing synchronous notes split by an octave.

Polyphony I think it might be called?

[newgunguy]

Jimmy Bruno's five fingerings helps to learn.

[Cool_Blue_Ice]

Yes, I've always been amazed when studying sheet music arranged for classical guitar. There's not even a hint as to the chords being played and the harmonic structure. The music basically says, "You don't need to know WHAT you are playing... just play it as written." Likewise, I am equally amazed at Jazz lead sheets, that just have the simple melody written out in just one voice, plus the chord names and a few slash marks to show the basic rhythm. I love Andrew's approach that this huge gap needs to be bridged if players wish to improvise. ... And let's not even MENTION tab (of which Andrew is not a fan.) :-)

[minabani]

omg I AM THAT MUSICIAN. It's so annoying how little I know and how much repertoire is in my head and my fingers. But in my defence I would have loved to learn but was told to focus on performance and repertoire. This will be the year I correct this. Also Andrew York is <3

[ronmounts]

That's Absolutely Me!!!! Other Guitarist ask me what chord is that, , , and I exactly say I'm not sure, , , I was just screwing atound and putting me fingers that sound great, , , and slide it down to different frets, , , , Till this day if 45 years of playing I still only know 5

[scotthayes-nylonstringguit]

Seems so obvious, but really does bear repeating. I am guilty of this at times myself

[JazzgutsVGvanKampen]

Very wise, knowing scales, arpeggio's, in all positions, multi keys and functions, that's the bible on guitar.

[PpCcBb]

I find reading Tab uses a whole different part of the brain than Memory and improv/riffing off the fret board and theory.
Musically, it feels and sounds like I'm two separate musicians. I find it impossible to grok the two at the same time, and /or memorizing TAB without looking at TAB