Fix your soloing in a week - This really works

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[billcavin]

it helps when you have a magical floating guitar

[brubakersflatcakes]

The importance of what you're explaining here cannot be overstated. It's the very essence of starting simple, learning to build, and most importantly "listening". This leads to such huge gains with consious practice. Thanks for a great clip!

[robsylvia]

I’ve only watched two of your videos and already you’ve expanded my thinking...the seeing music as loops, words, stories, speaking music, etc. thanks from a beginner.

[rechsteinerrecords]

bottom line; The best musicians are good listeners

[thegreathawk]

I almost burst out laughing watching this because this video had the exact perfect advice I was looking for. Thanks chief, I'm excited to start playing now!

[minderDOTorg]

Nice video. Here's two more tips (1) listen to the backing track and play nothing. Then try and hum a tune over the top that you like. Then try to recreate the tune you just hummed. Works for me, but it takes time of course. (2) Also, use 4 fingers when soloing - Claus does this in pretty much all his videos. Danke für noch ein weiteres großartiges Video, Sir.

[Violentimpulse]

Elon Musk has mastered floating inanimate objects in the air... wow

[TheDuerden]

When I saw this guys first video, I will be honest, I thought he was a bit annoying, initial thought.

However, I have to say, his advice is absolutely excellent. If you are an intermediate guitar player and you want to improve, I highly recommend that you watch and listen to this guy. I have improved in an afternoon, because i just wasn't putting my knowledge together properly.

Oh god, I sound like an advert, but this is my honest opinion.

[jamesfeldman]

This is a superb lesson. And one of its important points, though not directly stated, is that great music is about the whole thing--the gestalt as it were--and not just about you, the soloist. A great soloist makes everyone playing their individual parts sound great. So you've gotten to listen and feel the other musicians, integrating your creativity into the whole of the music.

[MartinBurtonGuitar]

At about 4:40 after the solo. That's the best explanation of what being "in the zone" feels like that I have ever heard! The most magical place to be :D

[robertwilliamson]

Bro....THIS VIDEO WAS A LIGHTBULB MOMENT FOR ME!!! Very effective, powerful, elegant, but simple! Thank you!!!

[neilsjmcmahon]

He's so right - bring all your focus to your metronome / music

[almanages]

Thank you Claus; I sincerely mean it! I have been playing for roughly 25 years and although technically proficient I really suck as a musician. I think this little tid-bit of your is what I been searching for all these years. Cheers.

[tommccarthy]

Gotta to mention here that with this exercise you can also work on not starting every phrase, lick, etc. on the 1 (at the top of each bar). This forces you to use space/silence in context of any solo.

[xavieruribe]

For the last few years or so I've always been a fairly good guitarist. I had my days where I would solo over music and sound absolutely great, and then I had my days where I sounded like a total amateur and it never felt good. Claus I'm not gonna lie I've tried for so long to just solo and sound great without sounding choppy and repetitive. I gotta say this video practically changed everything instantly about how to tune my mental state when soloing. now the notes just flow out. THANK YOU!!!

[paimannamazi]

You are so on point because that's the way I play. I'm 54 years old and I started playing when I was 14 taking private lessons in a guitar shop in Queens New York LOL

So long story short, I have a roommate that I met in the Navy back in the eighties which I live with him now, I taught him how to play in the Navy and I must tell you in the last year or so he has improved exponentially. However, he's got a hurdle that's very difficult for him to defeat. I showed him the extensions of a minor blues mode to the left into the right looping all the way back to the same let's say a minor blues mode. And that's where he's having a problem because he's getting lazy LOL

We kind of take turns almost every night playing with a backing track similar to what you're playing and then when it's my turn to play with a backing track he just sits there with his eyes wide open in wonderment and I tell him dude, spend one day practicing and I'll write out the extensions to the left into the right for starters and he agrees but then the next day kind of scoffs at it. I can only help someone so much before it becomes a futile, but I'm not giving up because when he gets into it like you talk about and that happens to me too.... It takes me about a half hour or less to warm up to that point where I'm all over the neck like you were but not as good as you.

You are much faster and don't hit any wrong notes. When I reach that level to about 30 minutes or so, I can actually look away from the fretboard and not have to see what notes i'm playing without any mistakes. It's just that leading up to that point I make those One Note here One Note there rare mistakes but it still pisses me off to the point where I want to make it right and that's what counts

Anyways, thanks for what you're doing and helping people out, it's people like you that have the positive energy 2 spread that energy oh, and the internet is one of the best things that was invented because information can now be transmitted not by the Pony Express, but thousands or millions of people at one time. Of course there are some downsides to the internet, but that can be applied to anything in life, and when looking at the bright side of it, this can be so helpful and in so many ways, so thank you again and have a great day!

[jasonandrade]

Very helpful already seeing improvement after day! Thank you!

[Heaven-dylj]

This is invaluable. Must listen to chord changes and feel where the music goes.. It sounds obvious but so many player don't do this! Thanks.

[pablomolina]

Thanx, im gonna focus my training in this 😌

[ericheine]

Bobby Barth told me told me that it's a lot like skiing. You stand at the top of the hill and you look down the hill, you see the basic shapes that make up the mountain. And you see the moguls. The music is the mountain. You have to plan your turns and your pole plants to match the basic shape of the piece of music. You have to see
three phrases at the same time.
If you know where you've been.
If you know where you are.
If you know where you're going.
You will always have a sense of fluidity and continuity in your playing. You'll never lose your place in a piece of music.
Listening to this seemed to really help me become a better player.
Becoming an active listener.
Thank you.