5 Things I Wish I Had Learned Earlier On Guitar

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The first years of learning guitar are crucial in the way you'll approach music. I wish I had learned some things differently to broaden my horizon from the get go in order to express my inner musician sooner. So here are 5 of those things I'd wish I learned earlier.

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[ginagriffin]

David...YOU TEACH like NO one ELSE on the internet! SOOO creative, AND helpful....THANKS!, Gina

[LodvarDude]

Mayer-strat falling from the sky! Oh, my!

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12 HOURS A DAY TO LEARN THEORY, I JUMPED ALL OVER THE PLACE STARTING AT ARPEGGIOS AND MODES.TAKE IT FROM
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[lohia_shubham]

Love your perspective of music, thanks a lot 🙂

[rogersimms]

This was very helpful. I wish I had known these things 40 years ago.

[artistCDMJ]

Good video, and I'm glad you mention the connection between chords and scales/rhythm and lead as I find I still have to explain this to people that are not guitar players. A guitar player is a guitar player, not a rhythm player or a lead player only, even if that is the role they play at times.

[nikkiseven]

That was really helpful awesome explanation 😀

[rccarsandmusic]

Nice video approach Music as a language, that's the truth!

[theDubleD]

Almost everybody says you don't need music theory, while that is true, i wish i learned it earlier.

[huahuar]

Oh my!!, last night I had a dream... if one day I wake up and find one guitar in my living room and I never see a guitar in my life and never listened music, so I start to play the strings and let´s see.. Thanks for your amazing videos David.

[GearGasms]

I have a USA Strat and I love it but I’m thinking about getting a SS for myself for my 55 birthday. Is it worth it to own both? I have two Teles and several Les Pauls so it’s not uncharted territory for me. I also have a PRS C24 ten too that I love. I’m either going to get the SS or and Ibanez PS120 and a Wolfgang. I have two EVH striped series but the Wolfie is a different beast. Ah, tough decisions!

[Hodenkat]

It's a great concept (inner musician) but where I have trouble is improvising. I keep falling back on pentatonic licks, scales, and other "tricks" to get the job done. :(

[meowwoem]

i think the main thing i wish i'd learnt of the bat was arps and then the scale(s) you can play around them.

[GabrielSkolderblad]

If you believe in parallell universes then ther is copies of you out there :P