When You Get Asked To Play Something 🎸 Do THIS 😲🔥

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[bboom]

Love it! I realised years ago that just being able to play something, it doesn't have to be complicated, just sound cool, is really impressive to people with absolutely no playing ability. It's a great confidence builder. Great vid buddy!

[reybot]

That’s weird. Usually people ask me to STOP playing

[davidheckmanr.ph.]

60 years of playing and I still find guys like this that can teach me some cool licks.

[svenolofandersson]

Story of my life. I practised guitar like a maniac. Classic, jazz scales, but when someone wanted me to play a pop chart song, I was lost. Then there was always another guy who knew all the girlie songs and I went to bed alone. Again. Great vid!

[mrphil]

Im hearing a little bit of Supertramp (Give a Little Bit) in this progression (very cool)

[scrow]

Here’s another great lesson! You are so right with your intro of being “paralysed with a G Chord when being asked to play something”!! You’re lesson on “what to play when you rock up at a guitar shop” is also another classic situation that scares the bejesus out of most of us try hards.

[peterpzazz]

No one ever asked me to play my guitar…..they asked me to put it away.

[daryljones]

Stunning run of just a few simple chords strung together in a couple fun riffs with a great bluesy walk-down/turnaround finish!
👏🎸🎶

[MrKipcorley]

I absolutely LOVE the way you make something that sounds so complicated and cool, so easy to understand and play. I'm actually a professional, doing gigs with cover songs and sometimes even my originals and I can use these riffs and tricks to add to my arsenal. Thank you so much!

[marcmoss]

thank you tony, you're spot on about the delema for novice players when asked to play something for others. This really helps!

[JeffBurton-hcgg]

You have given me the opening to feel more confident when people say " Play something for me" because I know lots of campfire songs but have a voice like a shovel dragged across gravel and this sounds like I know what I am doing without having to sing along. More of these please Champion.

[Jon_Inrus]

Thanks so much for this. Last week I practiced what you teach here, then just a couple of days later I was asked to play 'Thanks & Praise' from 'Songs from the soil', and realised this is almost exactly what they use for their guitar intro. It was so easy to pick up, and I have no idea how long it would have taken me to work out otherwise.
Thank you so much.

[briandocherty]

This is a great way of learning to get up and down the fretboard and getting to know which fret is which for a 10-month beginner. Thanks.

[annsassone]

Great sound, wish you could do TAB for those of us in a mid level ability. That would make it easy. Thank you.

[JamieLow]

Love this! The video title was a great hook, and I can't believe how easy this was; it pulls together a few things I had messed with before but never managed to bring together like this. if i had heard it before you broke it down I'm not sure I would have bothered trying it but I think I managed to nail most of it by the end of a single session (which never happens.) Great lesson!

[erikyoung]

Rush's beneath, between, and behind vibes...nice 🙂

[clayandannasteinwinter]

If I could just nail that accent, I wouldn’t need the darn guitar to impress anyone!

[loriann]

This is so great! A real confidence builder. Thanks so much from Florida!

[kurtrightmyer]

I've been playing a long time, but I keep coming back to simple things like these because they are fun and easy.

[cancelbubble]

Cool descending and ascending little riff.