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I think you've broken some sort of unwritten rule for youtube guitar teachers. This is the first video I've seen that breaks down solo'ing in this way, and it really simplifies the whole concept of where the pentatonic shapes fit. Thank you, thank you, and thank you

BEGINNERS!!! Take note, this man will take you from knowing a few chords, to playing something resembling music! Check out his lessons. Thanks again Andrew

I'm 26 and I played guitar a bit in high school. Pulled it out of the closet a few weeks ago and decided to start spending some time everyday playing. You my good sir... awesome at teaching. Thanks for making videos and I hope your channel grows massively

I've been playing for about 5 years and I always hated guitar tutorials on youtube. Always felt like they were never as focused or catered to a beginner who wants to improve. Your videos are by far the most quality tutorials I've ever watched. I hope you grow further!

Kudos man. Ive been stuck with my guitar learning as it faced a roadblock after learning certain things . This unlocked a new level and now I can have fun playing around with notes. Great lesson. Keep making content like this more often.

You are a passionate guitar player and instructor. Thank you for all the time you put into making these videos.

This is the best guitar tutorial i have ever come accross on youtube

I ve been playing for just over 2 years now. I wish i had found you much sooner

Your gift is OUR GIFT. Thank you!

For years I haven’t understood what I can use scales for so I never really played them. These lessons feel like a great balance between theory and application for someone like me that will only learn something if the end result is clear.

Excellent lesson for those of us with the theory who are trying to implement in practise

AMAZING video. Finally someone explaining the concept behind it and not just giving random lick to try to plug somewhere. Thank you for that

I have a new favorite teacher. Been studying this for months. You present differently than anyone and it makes so much sense!! Thank you!!

Wow, just wow! Thank you so much for your videos! Even though I've been a musician for my whole life, I've started learning guitar very recently. You have a real talent for teaching so that everything suddenly seams very comprehensible. The structures you teach us just make sense. What I also appreciate is that you have no hidden secrets unlike many guitar youtubers who just show you part of the problem without getting into any depth, leaving you confused and manipulating you into buying their guitar course...

Great lesson 🎉 so much to practice and a framework for expansion- BRAVO ❤

You teach us to fish, not give us fishes. That's how you're different from other KZfaq Guitar Tutorial Teachers!

actually a hero. somehow the video i needed to see always shows up and from your channel. this is guitar teaching that is practical not a bunch of pretentious gatekeeping nonsense.

It's incredible how I've heard this information so many times, but you are the first person who puts it into order and explains it in a way that makes so much sense. Youre such a good teacher, thank you so much I've made a huge jump in my understanding now thanks to you and I have a clear idea of what to practice and more importantly how to practice!

I can't believe I'm learning all this at last! Andrew you are the best teacher I've ever had

Great lesson, thank you. A springboard into many hours of enjoyable noodling.

This is a video that I'l be revisting often.

this dude is 1 in million teachers. I used to go on KZfaq videos and get frustrated because I could not understand. but for the case of this man here I understand every thing to core. Yes, could give us Moree please about licks and riffs. God bless your work

Dude this is scary how great your lessons are bro 😩🔥 Ive been playing well noodling for almost 4 years with jazz. My theory is trash but I solo from using the melodies and mix the melody around. This was the first lesson from atleast 3,000 videos ive seen and this is the first one that clicked within the first 8 mins

Yes, I like it very much ti have this "base run" and "licks" between chords. Thank you very much. Cheers from Indonesia.

YES. I noticed all the other ones teach bits and pieces, that are not connected to an actual system to use. I want an actual system to understand and use. Thanks.

Hey, I really enjoyed this. You have asmooth approach, not too fast not too slow and verrry easy to understand. I will be returning to this mannny times. I am now subscribed an looking forward to more of your material. 🙏😊😊😊

I can recommend this for everyone serious with the guitar

There are tons of video’s on youtube on how to use and remember special shapes and formulas that supposedly simplify improvisation so you don’t need to understand the complex theory behind it but you do an incredible job of breaking down and simplifying the theory so it is understandable and easy to use.

This was great! Thank you for all the helpful content Andrew!

You're a beautiful treasure to us self taught players opening up our worlds to knowledge which always seemed ever so out of reach. Truly grateful 🙏🏼❤️

Andrew I'm on my knees. Thank you from the bottom of my heart

I think the most important thing, to jumping off into soloing, that absolutely no one talks about is to get out of the habit of strumming - that is the biggest roadblock mentally that does not allow us to solo We are too caught up strumming and can't break off; the trick is to do just one strum to set up the chord and set off

dude you’re literally the best, no one has explained it like this to me before!!!!!

Yeeeeeeees! This is so well pitched, it’s an art form in itself. That is another cup of coffee I owe you!

These two videos you've done on this subject have really helped me to make basic chord progressions just sound so much better and more interesting even though I'm still just keeping it super simple. As always I really appreciate you taking the time to make these videos with such an easy to understand method as well as you stating how important it is to start slowly and to re-watch videos to cement the theory and ideas into memory. Thanks!

Wow you made that so easy to understand, I couldn’t believe how simple you made it , I’ve never looked at it like this before Keep it coming

This a great supplement to your course, Andrew 👍. Have just finished going through the lessons, and this lesson shows how to add fills between the chords. Thanks 🙏🏼 and Happy Easter 🐰🐣

I ran across your video for the first time, and I have to say. You are great methodician! Thanks.I play guitar for hobby, now and then..I like to understand, what I' am doing, and why. You explain so much, and you have the talent, not to complicate it. So it's simple and..really helps. Keep up good work.

Awesome tutorial! (Awesome tone by the way!!!)

Thank you soo much for that video! Helped a lot

Best description and method for laying out fretboard for us less experienced players. Thanks

Fantastic it’s so simple many great teachers have not explained things so easily 👍👍

An amazing video Andrew!!! You make the internet a better place with this kind of content! Hoping to see you dive even deeper and show us even more stuff! Thank you for uploading this! :)

I don't play guitar, but instead play banjo, and this translates perfectly. This is exactly what I was looking for! Thanks!

Great video. I hope you continue this series. This makes more sense than other soloing videos I have seen plus it gives great rhythm guitar tips.

I have been watching many different videos on guitar soloing. The main thing Iv'e been seeing was to learn all the 7 modes (which is a lot). But I love how you started of with only the 2 strings and simplified it with the road maps, and then added the minor pentatonic scale to it which is a pretty easy shape to learn for me. Great video!

I would buy a course where you go in depth about licks and riffs tbh, this is so helpful

Very crucial topic you picked in thank you for sharing your knowledge with us it helped me alot

Hey Andrew, this was a terrific video with lots of great insight. I especially like that you're teaching a concept that can broadly applied to many musical contexts rather than specific licks for specific uses. Great explanation and very clear communication :)

Okay, I need private one-on-one lessons from this guy!🙂

This was a really good video. You're one of those instructors that has a clear and fluid pedagogical style; that's rare. Congratulations, and thank you.

broo i cannot thank u enough, played for like 7 years only by ear and got stuck, discovered ur videos like 2 weeks ago and i already made mad progres, bless u brother

Great video sir, thank you!

You earned a new subscriber and I’d definitely like to see a continuation of this topic.

Can you post up how to connect chords with riffs, and licks in major and minor? Also the 3 minor scales? That would be really great, to finally understand the whole system. I liked where you were going at the end of the video, could you show us from beginner, all the way up to advanced, on how to do this? Thanks!

Woww this was amazing!! Definitely putting into practicee

Very professional structured lessons! Thanks Andrew 🫡😊

Thanks a lot. Easy explained! ❤

This is an awesome video! For a beginner, I can see them being able to ENJOY playing the guitar and making music. As an advanced player, it is a great way to think about the fret board for inspiration. Thank you for making this video!

Great lesson. I’ve been playing for years and this was extremely helpful.

Great videos, Andrew! Maybe, it's just me.. But I find your way of explaining the fretboard is helping me to learn and understand the fretboard more than ever before, not to mention but play the guitar has become a lot more fun! Please, keep doing what you do.

excellent job. needed the internet back in the 80s when I tried to teach myself the guitar.

Brilliant man, I used it as the bass line to play over the progression, thats another applicaiotn of it, you can create the bass line from that. Sounded killer. Wil check out the channel, than you very much.

Nice tutorial and they all sounds good.

Thank you for all your help. Your videos are very helpful. Thank you for responding.

Thank you for this wonderful lesson!

What a great lesson!! Thank you....

Couldn’t have clicked quicker! Extremely grateful for this Andrew! Your teaching is incredible. Please keep them coming

Amazing Video 👏, I was literally seeing hundreds of video on improvising but this just the best of all. I find ur teaching way to be natural and I'm wondering y ur channel doesn't have many millions of views!!!

I enjoyed that approach it eventually gives me another way to see the major scale nice one.

Yesss!! Nice 👍 please continue this to expand how to visualize more shapes and also what best to play for the various chords 1 to 6 in a key!

Very good lesson. Gives us ideas rather than just performing scales.

I started improving myself since I saw your videos thanks

As much as I love Blues Rock and 1,4,5 progressions, I loved this video and found it so helpful since I love other genres, too. I appreciate this!

Thank you.....that helped me quite a bit. Now I must practice, practice

This is a game changer for me. I cannot thank you enough. Liked and subscribed.

That's sounds amazing =)

Awesome lesson. Very inspiring.

Wow this video is amazing! Definitely going to rewatch it a couple of times to get the best understanding.

😭😭😭Watching and crying I'm doing this already Watching this the hundred time

Fantastic!!! More please

Another interesting lesson. I need to the time sit down practice this and use your other videos over again. But I already feel more knowledgeable and confident with the guitar. Thank you so much. Keep up the great work.

Thanks so much for demystifying improvisation. Looking forward to applying this in my practice routine

Awesome! Would be cool to see the same concepts applied to different styles of music.. to expand our horizons even further.

That might well be the best way to learn scale in a practical way, while playing chords. Thank you for sharing.

I love your use of charts. This is a really great video. Thank you.

Thanks for the fishing 🐠 🐟 lesson!😊

Another very good and informative lesson! Thanks 🙏

Been excited for this one. Thank you!

Thanks for the lesson Andrew!! Looking forward to exploring these concepts and to your future lessons as well! 🎉

More awesome content! Watching your videos is really starting to make it all click. Thank you for continuing to put out great stuff!

This is a great lesson for many reasons. Though I know the Caged system, this is the first lesson I’ve seen that connects the chords through the Diatonic scales! Bonus, the Diatonics are ‘in the neighborhood’, so it gives the connection. Great stuff, just subscribed! Thank you Andrew!

First time here. Great lesson. Could you expand on the riff-chord example you played towards to end on the expanded pentatonic shapes "nearby" the chords?

Love It! Just what I was looking for. Would be very happy to see more 👍

I was way overcomplicating this in my head. This is so helpful. I thought on the V chord I'd have to play notes from that Major scale. It all is relative to the scale of the key ur in! That's much simpler.

Your videos are so well explained, thay are helping me alot. Keep up the great work bro

thank you very much brother, you have just open a whole new level of playing the guitar to me. Please keep up with your good work!

New to your channel, really great and yes It would be great to see an expanded series

You’re an amazing teacher 🙏🏻👍🏼🍒