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I'm starting to really like you, my dude! I've been watching your videos the last couple of days, and I really like the way you teach. You have commitment and passion for it. I've been playing for 40 years now. I picked it back up a couple of years ago, after years of not playing, because of alcohol and drug use. I'm in recovery, been clean for 2 years and live in sober living. I did get back to where I was, and even improved, but I'm stuck in a rut. Man, KZfaq has been a lifesaver for getting my skills back! I'm sure you remember when we started playing, there was no such thing as KZfaq, or any tabs for that matter lol! When tabs came around, a lot of them were wrong. I learned a lot of stuff by ear, and learned from fellow musicians. Thanks for your hard work, and dedication for bringing us these lessons. I bet you're an awesome cat to hang out with as well! God Bless, my man, and keep up the awesome work!🙏💕❤️🙏❤️🎸🤟😝🤟

I love everything about this dude's guitar teaching but the best thing of all is his genuine enthusiasm and love for teaching and playing guitar and metal. Don't ever change, Jason!

Hey brother. So funny I been watching your channel for months, never saw this video in my rotation just saw it this afternoon. Back story... We are about the same age. I have picked up and put down guitar maybe 15 times through my life. Never got the point where I could accurately pick the strings. I would always get frustrated after a two week stint. My muscle memory coordination is bad in general, have struggled with it my whole life, hand writing terrible, etc, but being able to play is something I've wanted to do since watching my buddies in highschool. After watching your channel for a while, I dusted off my rig and said this time it would be different. I'm going to pick up and down those fkking scales for 30 minutes a day every single day for the next year straight until my fingers learn where the damn strings are. That was a couple months ago, and sonnovabich, as of the last few days, my fingers are starting to learn. I can now mostly pick up and down a scale without a missed note. This is a massive accomplishment for me. Shred is a long way off, but I can pick notes to a jam track and that makes me super happy. Earlier this week, I'm watching one of your vids going "man, this dude is ripped, about my same age, wtf is my excuse". I'm not in bad shape at all, but I'm too lazy to hit the gym. So today I wake up and I'm like "fk it, I'm going to the gym. I know other dudes my age that are ripped and it starts somewhere." So there I am in the gym, a nervanna song is playing in the background, thinking it's probably not too hard to play, there is another dude across from me, about the same age, ripped as sht, and I'm like "I'm putting on some bulk and I'm going to conquer this guitar thing and that's just how it's going to be" .... and the thought crossed my mind, no sht, "I need to leave a comment for Jason sometime and tell him I'm getting back on both horses and that he inspired me", I also wondered how he got started, did he always lift, etc. I flip on ytube for some background while I'm doing mindless work and this video is the first thing to play. Like it was planned that way. It was exactly on point, and this is first time I realized you had your book. I'm going to get a copy. So anyway, I really appreciate you and your channel and your positive attitude and wanted to let you know you kicked my ass into action. Hopefully I'll be able to report back progress in a few months. Cheers bro!!

Consistency & adaptability. I had to change up my workout routine due to shoulder issues. Can always find time to practice, even if it’s just an hour of off the cuff work.

Bro, I’m your doppelgänger. I’m 52, medium flamenco player, I’ve been on the metal journey since 1990. Bald head, I weight train the last 30 years. Love the vids. I’m definitely a fan of your project. If you saw me In the grocery store you would probably be like WTF? Keep grinding. I’m a constant student, but I have a consistent focus, during Covid your videos propelled me back to playing and training guitar. Forever grateful!!!!

Man, I wish we had KZfaq and videos like this when I was a teenager picking up guitar for the first time. Many thanks for putting these out

Jason, you're an incredible person. I hit a plateau and literally within less than a week you have revolutionized my playing, I really love how you always say to develop your own style. I incorporated your style and put in my own stuff that I normally do and wow, the guitar is singing to me, dude, seriously, a million thank yous

I was getting lessons with a killer guitarist, but I think your content is a better fit for me at this stage in the game. I’m learning guitar because I want to be able to write my own reasonably basic Goth Rock/Metal music (not modern tech stuff). I’m also a huge fan of 80s Adult Contemporary like Lionel Richie, Christopher Cross, Peter Cetera. The goal is to one day be proficient in that kind of stuff and maybe make a hybrid of those styles. Up until a few days ago, nobody had quite broken it down like you do. Your basic riffage and basic lead videos are perfect for a guy like me, who’s not yet intermediate.

This helps a lot thanks

I try to learn and practice songs and riffs that I like as well as scales and sequences and right hand rhythm practice as well as phrasing stuff like legato, bends and vibrato.

You know noodling is awesome. I started doing the same as you trying to play along with records many teachers disagreed guess what I played power chords and didn't know any chords. Learned 2 positions of pentatonic scale play those with back tracks. Wrote a few songs first heavy metal She's going to love you.

Jason, the old school MMA fighter Bas Rutten had a similar but more severe nerve injury. He credits a peptide people use for research purposes to helping to regenerate his nerves. I won’t say which one it is exactly here. You can find it on his twitter. Really amazing he was able to recover from that level of atrophy.

Dude this video was awesome! Thank you so much

Love the channel brutha!

Never was much good with hammer-ons/pull-offs, but alternate picking came easy... so I recently came up with an alternate-picked, goofy old-school metal riff that's dripping with hammer-ons and pull-offs. Kinda kicks my ass but super fun and I think I'm getting better. :)

Hello Jason. Been playing guitar for a long time and never been too much into heavy metal. I just turned 44 now... for the last few weeks i was allways listening in my mind some kind of metal riffs, like a mental creation...and then i found your channel...i am really enjoying to learn heavy metal Riffs/Lead now, and it feels great to push myself on doing something diferent. Just want to thank you and congratulate you for the great vídeos, like this one, and for the great guitar player you are. I will for sure learn a lot in here. Cheers from Portugal!!!

Another great video Jason!!! Motivation LEVEL High 💪😃👌

Cheers mate🤘😎 Really helpful 👍👊

What Jason sad is the right way I think, every day to use a little time to practice! Thanks Jason👍💪🤘😈!

I love the way you explain stuff. I have for sure been improving since i been watching your video lessons. You are amazing ! Please keep making these videos sir. Been an amazing help for me

Jason, haha I’m jamming with my tapes these days 😂 Love the content

Love your work Jason... great job on your videos.

Heavy Metal & Weights is a great book. It’s a quick read but very informative and inspirational. I highly recommend it. I’m also a HUGE fan of Jason’s Metal Riff Master. It’s totally transformed my guitar playing. Support this dude, he’s the real deal. 🍻🎸🤟🔥

Great lessons thanx bud

I’m not that much into metal, but your videos and advices make lots of sense and I fully enjoy them

Another amazing video and tips. Everything you share comes with passion and straight from your heart. Thank you Jason!

Jason, just ran across your channel. Love your approach to teaching guitar. I taught myself this way as well....loyal subscriber.

Thank you buddy 🤟💞

I like to use that noodle time going back and forth between scale patterns. Learning alot from ya Bro. Thank You!!!

Awesome advice Jason, you're a very gifted teacher.

thanks man! inspiring video! Every Day I try to become a better guitar player thanks a lot

I'm enjoying your videos. I'm going to sign up for your beginners course

Thanks man, am like you i'wana play guitar, write music and books, and also gyming allthough i never trief the later

These are always great tips to keep revisiting. We all forget to practice on the things we are weak on and noodle our pracy time away. Thank you for your time and effort with this Jason!!

Awesome content Jason. No 🍞 crumbs wasted. Picked them all up from the floor. You rock 🔥💪🤩

The Guitar Grimoire is a fantastic practice aid !!

I have all the gear. Amps, guitars, plugins, pedals, this and that. But guess what, like a year ago I realized i was not even able to play to metronome. Playing for 20 years that was embarrassing. So I stripped my rig and play through a Marshall dsl1 combo. No pedals or stuff and a Boss metronome tuner. :D

Just found your channel, good stuff man .. been all over the Internet watching different tutorials.. you are by far the best ! You speak my language and keep it real . Thank u

Words of wisdom here…. whenever I watch one of your vids I get inspired! Thank you!

I just wanted to say thank you for the inspiration!!! I really feel like this video hit home!!! Got a lot going on in my life right now and definitely need to follow some sort of routine!!! It’s been very helpful,it’s up to me to take it from here!!!!!😎

Avoid metronomes ! Jason is absolutely right! A drum beat is what you’re going to be playing to anyway so skip the beep beep beep till ya sleep!! I love when people try to play Wasted Years and pick really fast! When it’s actually played somewhat slowly!!

Yeah, preacticing onto drum tracks is a lot more motivating. Exciting that Toontrack made EZDrummer 3. Looked at a few vids from KZfaqrs checking it out. It is better than EzD 2 was.

So happy to have found your channel. You're awesome and your content is exactly what I was looking for. I'm working through some other more traditional practice courses but have been looking for some metal in there too. Most metal lessons are either way over my head or well.. lacking. You hit that sweet spot. I'm finally riffing how Ive wanted to for a while. Cheers brother. Ima buy you a beer :)

Duuude number four really helped take a awesome chord progression into a great riff and I literally added another note with each chord like you said and it was better that's the best advice for me and thank you you really helped me thanks bro🤘

Just broke out off my rhythm block and started to play lead guitar and I love, just found your channel in the right time. Thank you very much for teaching it’s really good. I went from playing for about 15 to 30 minutes a day to several hours a day and find my fingers and joints hurting and skins on my fingers breaking off, could you do a video about hand care ? Thanks again you Rock!

I really appriciate the fact that you put forth the effort to help people out in every possible way that you know how to do. It hit me pretty hard just now when you said how we need to be consistant. Thats really all it comes down to. Ive never been one to make excuses and ill be the first to admit to being flat out lazy. I just turned 40 and i sware my waste thought it was supposed to turn 40 also. I need to get my shit together no ifs , ands, or buts about it. Thank you for the motivation and inspiration. I apologize for my grammar, i just cant seem to care at the moment. Keep Shredding my friend!!!! No pun intended!!!

I do something like that riff practice. I usually pick a riff that includes things I need help on, but from a song I know. :) Biggest weakness I have, is poor delayed left/right movement on neck. I'm using some Black Sab stuff for that. On upside, I've been getting good improvement in pinky control, since the stroke. I was even kinda bending notes with it. I'm using round head tacks on back of neck, to help me feel where I need to be.

these are good tips Jason I often feel stuck in my guitar playing having to remember certain notes and how to properly play them takes a lot of work

1. I noodle over background tracks from 72 bpm to 144bpm. 2. I create my licks and riffs, record them in Audacity. 3. I write my tabs, settings of pedals. 4. Then I write an entire song with lyrics optionally. 5. I add bends, tremolos etc as 'Human Element' to final songs. 6. And then I record all songs, create an album. So far 5 albums of guitar instrumental music are published. I am 50 and started playing at 42 from internet help and books. Now I am doing 'Ear Training' to enhance my ability to understand musical notes. COVID reduced my weight by 11kg. I am still having issues of muscle strength. But it will take quite some time to regain the strength. Perhaps all strength might not come back...anyway I work out at home only in simpler way. I guess we are doing things quite similarly. Thanks for sharing all this.

Awesome video once again! Although I have to say I like those other videos where you have eye contact like you’re really talking to me… or the viewers. 🤘🤘🤘

As always a fantastic video! You are the best! 3-4 days a week guitar and working out. Coinsidents?🤔🤔🤔 I DON'T THINK SO!

Enjoyed your lesson. I am beginning in metal and getting 7 stringer on payday, looking forward to learning from you! 👍

Watched this on the bike at the gym after my workout before heading home to practice 💪 🤘

You sir are awesome! I wish the world would be filled with more positive souls such as you! Regarding the best ways to practice guitar, you forgot to mention one of the most important ones - Practicing slowly! Seriously though, it took a while for my guitar teacher to really stick that in my head but now that I'm aware of the importancy of slow practicing my guitar skills have skyrocketed!

I wish I could learn how to play. Had guitars all my life but can't get it, I am musically challenged, lol. This is John D. from your old employer. Great work Jason!

Love this video, been playing for almost 3 years and still feel mediocre at best most of the time, hopefully having more structure to the routine will help

Jason. Love your videos bro! Keep the coming! Don’t know if you tried this or not. For pinched nerves getting chiropractor adjustments work wonders. I used to compete in bodybuilding back in the day and it was a game changer. Thought this could help your recovery go faster. Keep shredding!

hey thank you Jason, since knowing your channel I've improved quite a lot (from your free shared riff lessons, from the free Metal courses you've sent as well as many sharing videos) Would love to see more tips/tricks on the EZ Drummer thing (i.e. create drum backing track for a specific song ....) - sorry I'm no-theory hobby-player XD

I really enjoying learning from you sir..But my humble request is display the tabs along ..pls 🙏😊

Recently found your videos and wow, so glad I did, interesting ideas and concepts. A question for you, I can practice like a demon, no issue but what I'm really struggling with is creativity, playing along to a backing track, it used to be easy but now I seriously struggle, any pointers on how to help that?

What can i say? thank you so much jason 🙏🤘

Amazing Noodle . That’s the best way to learn put your hands on the guitar and play. My “practice” is my warm up finger per fret scales tap them out also down the neck not in a cage lol 👍🏼 Sick Trill on the tap example bro don’t think I’ve heard you use that one yet !!🤘🏻 I love that stuff big part of my behind the scene solos . All those years of bass playing get that finger strength. Mr Big is the best example of Trill by far . Billy and Paul best at it by far

Jason, you have been watching me… how did you know I poop at 2 daily?!! 😂. Well, you have a great video here hitting the highlights for sure! I would add that for me getting a looper pedal is also a great practice method for ALL of your 7 tips. This let’s you get feedback on your timing, let’s you hear what you sound like, and could even be a source for your gigs! Some really religious nerds (won’t name any LOL) even catalog their practice sessions with practice apps. Also, I use BeatBuddy and Aeros Loop Studio together…they are THE best way to practice.

Can also use backing tracks off yt in different keys sounds cool

I just want to thank you Jason to be honest with you I'm beginner on electric guitar well pick back up to busy writing my music doing rythem mostly power cords that are powerful I wouldn't gotten better with out you're instructions and Ozzy iron maiden dio of course Randy rodes My hero thank you deathjeff

Just Subsribed.Got no green but got Lots of Love n Prayers 4 You..Jesus is tha Rock...He is Metal.His Blood is IRON..Thanks Bro.

I wish I had a guy like you local to me for lessons , love the video and the enthusiasm.

Awesome Jason great tips! I like your suggestion to use a drum track with EZDrummer in Presonus Studio One. Plus you can record a full song too easily and EZDrummer I think has a beat match to your recorded guitar riffs.

Your videos are pretty much best metal guitar lessons one can find online

Ya..you rule

Love the hair 😅

Hey sir, I appreciate your videos, very very useful. I have a question, I have seen guitar players who lower the strap of the guitar to their waist, others almost have it on their chest, either of them works for me but when I do solos I feel a bit uncomfortable and I can't do them cleanly, what works better for you?

Gunner is your shadow 🤟😎🎸✌️👍play what your heart hears and let your spirit rip the guitar 🎸🤘🤟😜

Listen to Megadeth Dave uses a lot of upstrokes!! Sometimes the higher note sounding first allows it to ring out instead of the bass note drowning out the mid tone.

Looks like i gotta do the same thing i do with my gym clothes, pull it out on display the night before since it motivates me to pit it up the next day

#7 is the best play out of the box in styles that are not the USSUAL also I would suggest a theory review so u know what works in what key

That’s awesome! I am a gym rat. I competed in bikini for years, and am adding on size to head to wellness division. Packing on legs. Brand new to guitar. Which program is best for me. I bought a Tele because I have no idea what I’m doing and going out to buy the esp you suggested. I will put the time in, but am clueless. I bought a Boss amp. Will I need a different one for my ESP guitar? I mostly want to play metal and I bought a Taylor acoustic to play some country. I look forward to your lessons! Thanks Jason, Heather 😊

I started playing several years ago and quit for several years which was a huge mistake because I'm having to start all over I'm obsessing to much with trying to get a metal tone I wanna sound heavy so heavy it hits you in the face lol also if I play metallica songs I wanna sound exactly like kirk and James or Pantera I wanna sound just like dimebag I know I can't because I'm me and there who they are so I get discouraged and stop playing for awhile I'm hard on myself to hard when I should be enjoying playing

Lol I love that u said if your still watching the vid then u are probably already knowing that you want to shred like the the gods and u hit the nail on the machine head with saying that because since I abducted my GFS KZfaq(she got premium!)I have been watching you and a few other teachers religiously,alot of all nighters and bad habits mixed with my good habbit

Not necessarily a metal player.. more Jerry Cantrell.. Mark Tremonti.. Mike Mayok..style But I'm having issues with my ring and pinky speed or cohesiveness. My guitar is cheap and some frets are shot.. But I just cannot get my picking hand and fingers to get to speed fluidly. It's like it's not in my brain to work

I have found out a problem with my Aria Pro II guitar on my thin E string. It clicks when I play it. I think it was badly setup when I took it to a guitar shop, it has a floyd rose so I can't sort it. Unfortunately I can't get it sorted at the moment, so I am back on my Ibanez. Problem is that my strings are a little high on my Ibanez and I am scared stiff about changing the height of them. However at least my E string sounds nicer.

Hey man so im a beginner guitarist and i wanted to ask what i need to learn for metal only and in what order should i learn it i am stuck and dont know what to do i have about 2 weeks with the guitar

666th like 🎉 if this is not a reason to be happy to have found you here 🖤🔥🤘🏻

i basically want an amp with looper and drum machine cause im too lazy to interact with computers

We are about to Ride the Lightning. Everything is fading to Black. That's Metallica for you.You wouldn't believe I figured out how to turn a guitar into a Mic and play KZfaq videos through the guitar pickups and put a delay sound to the voice. I can listen to KZfaq videos at over 200 decibels and it sounds exactly like a PA system. I did this with a guitar also. I have to say everyone has shredded and played Rhythm. Everyone was like WTH when I Played Harley Davidson Edition. Pick scratch the 6th string then slap a finger down on the 3rd fret. Running in Tweed Fuzz neck pickup only then ease the pressure off the fret but strumming E&A strings you have cranked and are idling the bike. Slide that middle finger slowly down the fret board not fretting the strings but Harmonics can be noticed. This drives the Harley at idle speed around the parking lot on guitar a rev Bomb is a quick press down on the 3rd fret E&A then lightning fast to fret 22+ then back to 3 idling. Then to take off changing gears fret 3 E&A press down strumming fast then slide down the neck to fret 22 repeat 3 times then to fret 7 or 9 holding strumming then back to 3 idle speed. Everyone is like WTH they couldn't believe I figured that out. Tweed Fuzz Distorted concoction you can do a lot with that add delay it really gets crazy. Had Fun.

This guy keeps rehashing the same things over and over again good grief give it a rest already