How To Pick Up Your Guitar and JUST PLAY

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Have you ever wanted to be able to pick up your guitar and just play something awesome? In this guitar lesson, I'm going to show you how to navigate the fretboard and come up with unlimited musical ideas on the fly. To do this, we'll be using a combination of music theory, bar chords, and the pentatonic scale. If you have any questions, please leave them in the comments. Thanks for watching!

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▶️ Referenced Videos:
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🎸 Gear Used In This Video:

Guitar:

Suhr Alt-T

Pedals:

Origin Effects Cali 76

Browne Protein Overdrive

Universal Audio Golden Reverberator

Amp:

Suhr Bella

Cables & Strings:

Revelation Cables

Stringjoy Signatures 9-42
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📖 Video Chapters:
0:00 - What are you gonna play?
0:33 - Scales, keys, & chords
2:07 - Chord roadmaps
3:21 - Your pentatonic sits right on top
4:23 - Combining chords & pentatonic
5:02 - How to start practicing this
5:52 - Playing between chord changes
6:18 - Moving to another key
7:24 - My personal approach
9:00 - An example
10:02 - The combination of 3 things
10:46 - What to watch next
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[jpaul]

Beware the neglected guitar on the wall at a party. It probably still has a horrendous factory setup that has gotten even worse over time.

[BinarySecond]

"Oh sorry I'm left handed"

[mehmetnaciakkk]

Dear Andrew, this was one of the simplest and best ways of explaining hours and pages of underlying music theory! You are a good teacher 😊

[albertchurchill]

Guitar teachers from thirty and forty years ago never taught about scales or keys. The most common thing I heard from anyone was that If you know three or four chords, you can play hundreds of songs. Almost as if they were hiding something. The biggest reason people quit is they don't progress. I now know I won't.

[randomize]

you’re telling me I finally understood keys, chords and scales, and IN TWO MINUTES??

[uncledrew]

I truly appreciate how you keep your playlist up to date. This video just so happened to be the next one I’m supposed to watch and it was posted 2 hours ago. Most YouTubers end up neglecting their playlist so this is very helpful

[JTB--]

Always play "Kumbaya" if you want to get everyone out of your house so you can go to bed

[nerael]

Really insightful for me, who never really had enough of a clue before to figure out how/when to play 'diminished' chords before that link to the key. Thank you!

Also, your preferred way of 'mapping' first from root notes of all intervals in the key, then the pentatonics + other scales on top of that is a great way to reinforce everything together. I've been playing for years and it still helps!

[BackTheBike]

Thanks Andrew. As a beginner of 50yrs strumming Ive been playing with triads and I think you've just squared the circle for me with the pentatonic shape and 7 chords.

[JeremyAndersonBoise]

As an improvising bassist and guitarist for more than thirty years, I think this can be a great approach for beginners starting their improvisational journeys, very good advice. Bravo, I totally approve of your message here.

[andremanfrinigarcia]

This was so well put together man, thanks! I would add that having the Circle of Fifths in front of you can help you a lot when practicing or memorizing those chords.

[snorkfire]

Glad I watched this one. This is a great simplification on how to enjoy a complex music machine we call a guitar. And it is a great foundational base from which to expand. Well done.

[NITHINS]

I was learning these concepts separately, now it is all starting to make sense. Thank you for helping me to connect the dots.

[ivinn]

this is some of the best educational guitar content on the platform currently thank u so much for what u do

[westongeorge]

When you started chording through the C Major scale, I couldn't help but start singing "Once upon a time you dressed so fine, threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you?"...

[MarkWilliams-tjru]

Wow I've been playing more years than I care to mention but in a few short mins you have made chord arrangements make sense to me in a way I can understand & now apply to other keys I have also subscribed thankyou so much
Mark 🤙

[mrbubbies_]

Awesome vid, that rearranged major scale really anchored everything together for me

[EdwardHassall]

thank you just starting to understand chord theory and this video really helped

[mahdiab]

this is the exact video ive always been trying to find, thank you so much

[kiancourt]

Spent years just learning songs and wishing I could do what you explained in 11 min. No telling where id be at if someone has shown me this 6 years ago