Original Video: guitar lesson

What is up fellow YouTubeers? So hopefully in my next video we'll do a tutorial on how to make some old school coffee out of a percolator. It's real easy That'll be accompanied with a vocal cover that was requested by Dana Smith, but in this video On my last video, rant video, someone said, Qatar Sweeping tutorial win. to do the old sweep picking and well yeah well that I can do switch the the panogram ring over to my other hand tutorial how to sweep well I got this tuning on my guitar right now now. But for the sake of this video, we'll go from this train. the the the the the the the I'm Okay, we're will involve a number of strings more than two at the release three. That's your basic sweep picking and switchback. You want to take the point of your pick, not the side, the points, you know. Now if I push down the strings and just You want to take the point of your pick and kind of Drag it across your straw. Plucking the string you want to drag the point of your pick. Going down and up. So we'll start with one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, ten, eleven, eleven, twelve, twelve, twelve, twelve, fourteen, fourteen, fourteen. Take your third finger, put it on… third finger put on the 14th front let's see two four six eight ten hold on the 12th yeah 14 and then your middle finger is going to go on the 13th fret on the second stream below that and then your pointed finger is then going to go on the 12th fret and then and then you're pointing finger is then going to go on the 12th fret and then and then your pointer finger is then going to go on the 12th fret and then and then your pinky is going to the common 13th 14th 16th fret on the high E. Gee get Just like that. But the key to a good sweep is you want your picking hand and your picking hand is you want your picking hand and your freting hand, the hand you fret with, you want them, you want them to be in bloody sink with each other. Because if you try to go really fast with your pick, but then your fretting hands off, it's going to sound like shit. Yeah. And speed versus control. Yeah. And speed versus control. Not just in your technique and how you keep your picking hand and your fretting hand in sync. You also want a good pick for sweeping. You don't want something too thick or too thin. This is a nice even thickness and I've taken a nail file and this is something I like to do to my picks. See how they have like a little bit of bend but not too much bend. and this is something I like to do to my picks. See how they have like a little bit of bend but not too much bend? Yeah, if the pick bends too much it's just gonna look no control. Okay, you're not gonna have any control that if the pick is too bendy it's just gonna slide up and down and bend too easily. But if it has no bend then you're going to be sitting there pushing with your wrist on the pick and this here has a little bit of bend but not too much bend on the pick. So this offers you some control, it'll slide down the strings but it also you won't have to do much to force it. Now you can take some sandpaper or a nail file and what I like to do for my picks like this is I like to put a nice a point into my pick. is I like to put a nice a nice point into my pick. Believe me, it's not just in the technique of how you sweep. I mean, your sweeping technique is a part of it, yes, but you also want a decent guitar pick behind it. Otherwise, you know because there's some guitar you know what's the difference oh yeah they make different thicknesses of guitar pick man and if your guitar pick has no bend you're gonna be sitting there forcing it with your wrist where you want just effort you know what I'm saying? down on it like that and it bends just a little bit there you go this is what I prefer although some guitarists will say oh you want to pick that bends real easy because you'll go to sweet faster no no no no no no no you should not rely on the pick itself to sweet faster because that's only to pick the strings you need to rely on your wrist. 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This is what happens when you're picking hand and your fretting hand aren't in sync it's going to sound off But you want the, you want a nice firm, you know, you don't want your wrist to be super loose around your fingers, you want a nice, you know, not like death grip it, but like you want to take your thumb on top and your finger on the bottom, so that way when you sweet pick, you're basically, you're pivoting off you know. If you're using a little bit of your wrist and your pointer finger and thumb muscles to pivot the pig and kind of push it down and up. So it's also called it's also called rakes, rakes sweeping, whatever you want to call it. You want the point of your pick to just sweep across the strings really easy. I want you and this is the cool thing about guitar, YouTube, is once you've mastered one basic, one very basic sweep, like say, like way up here, you can take that same shape and move it in different sections all over the guitar. Now like I said apply it anywhere on the neck. Although like down here you're going to have more of a stretch on the lower nose but up here on get the idea. If sweeping is too hard, which it takes a while to master sweet picking, you're not going to, you know, as with anything on guitar, if you want to get better at it, practice makes perfect. There we go, it's more standard. There we go, it's more standard. There we go, it's more standard. Yeah. I begin to like the four, five, six, seven, whatever threat, sweet peaking. Start off with like three, just… and if you don't have a metronome just kind of one two one two one two two ones you can tap your foot along to it. A course when people think about the electric guitar, the first thing I think is… Is he get that? Then you have alternate picking which is the difference is between alternate picking you hear the strings individually like not just a continuous sweep like… instead of it being a continuous sweep, but small. down with the point of the pick on the string. Look at that was just showing off. Oh, what was that? Oh, this? That's double hand tapping, baby. Hammer on slide. If you're doing the hammer on, it's like Eddie Van Halen style type guitar playing really easy. You take either your pointer and your pointer and your pointer. and um, either your pointer or your third finger or your second finger with your first finger and you want a nice little string gap between the two. And it's really easy to take the first finger, hammer on, and then after that first note, you want to flick your finger, like you're flicking a burger, just flick, you know what I'm saying? Flick, hammer on, flick, flick, flick. Now, you can do this over and over and over eventually you'll start to kind of… Of course, you don't have a whammy bar like I do on this one. You can string bend. And then of course how do you do that? That's like metal sound. It's called palm muting. Take the palm of your hand and you want to place it right there kind of like you got your pickups right here take him and kind of put it right here so I was like I noticed if I would take an E minor chord, if I would take an E minor and strum it, it rings out. But taking my palm and placing it over all six of my strings just like that, and strumming it, you know it has a shorter ring to it. But much like anything in life YouTube if you want to get better at it you got a practice practice practice practice practice and don't let's practice and don't let people say well you suck a guitar yeah well no one's going to be good at it when they first learn I mean I wouldn't consider myself a beginner I'm more or less intermediate I'm not quite advanced there are some things I need to work on when I'm playing like using my pinky more and also learning songs. But other than that, I mean… Now this is a bit more complicated, but on the serious note though, if you want to learn how to sweep pick, there you go. And you think, oh, what if I don't have an electric guitar? How much… Oh, well, you think you can't sweep pick on an acoustic? You two, come on. You think you can't sweep pick on an acoustic? Oh, certainly you can. Oh, look at that. Although with the acoustic you're going to have to rely on doing it right. I mean with the electric guitar you can use distortion to hide some of your mistakes, but with the acoustic guitar you really have to work at it. So if you play an electric I would encourage you to also play acoustic because learning to play the acoustic will actually make you better at electric go figure. I've got to tune your guitars before playing. Pretty straightforward. I'm you My dancer is yes, you can definitely sweep on an acoustic. You don't have to have an electric guitar and an amplifier to shred on the… on the guitar, you know, more country music type. That's a fun little riff to play on the guitar, especially if it's acoustic. Take you, point your finger and your middle finger and your third finger. Okay. This would be, yeah, this would be a D chord. And then you take up and go up to the A chord, which is the next three to all three, one underneath each other, one, two, three. And then of course you made your chord. Yeah. Of course when you shred the guitar behind your head. showing off that's what that was yes I'm What the hell is that supposed to be? Oh, the opening turned the page by Monsellica? Remay. the the the I'm the I'm serious YouTube, you want to get better? The only way to… I'm gonna… I'm serious, YouTube. You want to get better at guitar? The only way you're going to get better is practice, practice, practice, until you get it Okay, a sloppy Michael Myers theme song with that. If we do in blues, hold on a second. Switch it over to… There we go. Not quite. There we go. I'm Yeah, blues guitar man, that was cool. Yeah, blues guitar man, that was cool. And you gotta respect your musical roots, man. We wouldn't have rock and roll and heavy metal if we didn't have blues. So, people basically like, oh let's miss blues in country and see what we get. Oh look, that's how rock and roll was born baby, get it! Get it to gorge. I'm I'm But there you go YouTube, that's how you, that's how you, that's how you, that's how you, that's how you, that's how you, that's how you, uh, do a couple of those basic guitar tricks, I mean, not too difficult, I guess, once you break it down, step by step by step, step by step, step by step, step by step, step, string, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step,, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and,, I mean, not too difficult, I guess, once you break it down, step by step, string by string, note by note. And if you want to be like super lightning fast, that guitar like that, you know, you're going to have to spend a good number of years practicing before you'll be good enough, you know I mean if I could have played that fast overnight that would have been awesome, but unfortunately that doesn't it doesn't quite match up with how life works, I mean But you want to know my theory on this YouTube as to why life isn't just handed to you? For the most part, the reason why life is just not simply handed to you is so we can learn self-grantification, which is a good feeling to learn and have, especially when you achieve something. Now this is no different than learning how to ride a bike. Um, you know, you're gonna fall off your bike. God knows how many times cut the shit out of your elbows and your knees and you're gonna cry, you're gonna kick your bike and stub your toe. You're gonna… All this shit, right? But then, you don't quit.. You don't give up and eventually you learn how to ride a bike and that self-batification of learning how to ride the bike and gain your independence and ride all over town you know it's a wonderful feeling I mean that's that's basically everything in a nutshell once you learn it's it it's just, you know, second nature. Yeah. Now how the bloody hell did I make this 41 minutes long? Uh, we're sitting here like, oh well, let's do a guitar lesson for you two. We're doing sweet picking. Why does we all show them how to do a bunch of other shit too. And, uh, yeah. Yeah. And, uh, you know, there's been a couple times I've wanted to quit playing guitar, YouTube, but I didn't. And now I'm at a spot on my guitar playing where I'm like yeah I know I a couple chunks of songs here and there I can show off for a crowd of people and play lightning fast and it's somewhat accurate I mean there's a couple occasionally all mess up and hit a wrong note and it'll sound like Sooten like poopy but For the most part I guess I do all right on the guitar. I'm not gonna say I'm the world's greatest at it because that would be a a mild and understatement Because I'm not like no, I don't claim to be the greatest guitarist out there YouTube cut somebody else down for their guitar playing. You know what I'm saying? If you're a true guitarist, you know. If you're a true guitarist, don't cut somebody else down for their guitar playing. Just to make yourself feel better about your shitty playing You know what I'm saying? I hate that shit You get these snobby assholes on YouTube were like. Oh, yeah, I'm better than you a guitar Wipe, you want a cookie? Yeah, dude, you got any? No, well, screw you then. I hate that. Like, and that's just with anything that requires learning and practice. People who are better than you think they have this, you know. Why is it though that when you see other guitarists do that shit? They pick on guitarists who are below them and they're playing skills. Because they think, oh, that's a threat. That's a threat of someone getting better than me. And they can't take the idea of someone being better than them. So naturally, you know. And when it comes down to a guitar playing YouTube, it's not about who's better than who, who's got the nicest guitar, who can shreds faster than who, it's about practice, dedication, and enjoying your instruments and playing it. Enjoying the playing process, you know, it's just about enjoying. You know, who's a better guitar player than who, fuck all that dude, guitar playing is about enjoying music and learning it and, you know, and the better you practice, the more you practice the better you'll get, you know, but be fair warned, your fingers are going to sting a little bit. When you learn how to play a good time, first couple of times playing it, fingers are going to sting a little bit. When you learn how to play guitar at first couple of times playing it, you're going to get these little calusks on your fingertips. You know, that's perfectly natural. You can tell I'm a guitar player from years of playing because you notice that the fingertips on my left hand are a lot rounder than the ones on my right. I mean the ones on my right are kind of standard you know finger shaped but then the ones in my left hand or a bit rounder. Yeah. People like I wonder when you're gonna see a sweet picking tutorial. Why I just cover what am you going to see? A sweet picking tutorial. Why I just cover all the basics all right? It's sweet picking, double hand tapping, alternative picking, palm muting, double hand tapping, sweet, yeah. And there are plenty of people to learn guitar from on YouTube, so I appreciate you watching this long-ass video just screwing around on the guitar like, hey, look at this guy. Mr. Freaking Show off over here. That's all it takes man. And if you get to a point where you're playing your guitar, you've been practicing for a good couple hours and it hurts to push your fingers down on your strings. Then give it a break. You know, there's no… I mean, you can play till your fingers bleed, but that's… a bit extreme. You know, for a good as I am at guitar, even if I get to a point when I'm playing guitar for a couple hours a day and then it hurts to like push down on the strings, that's when I'm like, yeah, now let's give this a break for a couple hours, you know. You know what I'm saying? Like, you don't want to overdo it. I mean, you could play until your fingers bleed, but that's just, I don't know. You get blood all over your guitar, and it's like, ew. So I tend to play until my fingertips can't push down on the strings,, and it's like, oh, ow, you know what I'm saying? But then eventually your fingertips will get used to it and you'll build up muscles around your fingertip and strength and you'll build on, you know. But anyways, tubes, I guess if you want more guitar videos I can definitely do that. Thank you for watching and I'll catch you Cool Cobras later.