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Marty screwing up Smoke on the Water is all the push i needed today

I’m in between the two. I’d call myself a Begintermediate

Simply Guitar running ads on Marty’s videos is like a high school team handing out flyers for their game in front of an NFL stadium

Would love to see one of these for intermediate vs advanced.

some of this stuff looks insane and undoable to me and i constantly have to remind myself that three months ago i thought the same thing about the g chord and now i can transition to it pretty much effortlessly

After 45 years I know I’m not a beginner, I’m just not that good!

Fun fact: Playing WonderWall or Smoke on the Water automatically makes you the best guitar player 😉

It doesn’t matter how you label yourself, there’s always another style to learn, more to practice. The only thing that matters is the drive to learn.

I am always fascinated by guitarist wanting to label themselves as intermediate, beginner or advance. In fact, I am quite amazed at the labels we put on ourselves and others in life. I enjoy guitar every single day and know that this wonderful instrument will keep me learning the rest of my life (i am 54). I pick a concept or a skill and practice it. Sometimes I get it and sometimes I don't. Then months later something clicks and I get it. Some weeks I just fiddle, then other weeks I set small goals. Don't worry about labels fellow guitarist, just enjoy making the connection and finding your voice on the guitar. Best advise Marty gives is making small attainable goals. After awhile I find skills merge with other skills and another epiphany happens. Play with others too, nothing helps more than finding other good musicians to help and challenge. Most important question is not intermediate or beginner label, but what is your ultimate goal? Once that question is answered set all your small goals to work toward that ultimate goal.

Regardless of anything I ever hear, I feel like a beginner player

I think that the amount of years you play doesn't matter, but what you do in that timeframe. I'd like to think of myself as an intermediate after 5 years of playing, but I think it's possible to be beginner to advanced in one year so long as you put the time to it. Awesome work!

Proud 10 year player. Old guy. Still a beginner here. Never took a lesson. I have no natural talent so I have to work twice as hard. I can play and sing about 25 songs and parts of many more. Slowly getting it. Key is practice, practice, practice.

bar chords quickly became some of my favorite chords after mastering the bar technique

Video out for 4 mins: Everyone: Ah yes, im a beginner

Heyyy Marty... I know you've gotten a boatload of comments similar to this one, but I still have to thank you personally for all of your videos. You've helped and inspired so many guitarists, myself included. I have been playing for about a year and a half now and can confidently say I am at the intermediate stage in my guitar journey- that being said, I would not be here if it hadn't been for your guidance. Your videos have taught me everything from techniques, to how to play my favorite songs, to how musical theory applies to guitar. Its video quality, teaching style, and overall content make this channel hands down the best guitar channel on KZfaq. There's a lot more I could put in here, but suffice to say, you're doing a great thing and helping a lot of people with this project. :)

Guitar is my favorite hobby, and I love your channel Marty! I would call my playing " intermediocre"😄

"Marty: are you a beginner ? - proceed to screw up smoke in the water

The 2 thumbs down are beginner players that thought they were intermediate players..........lol

I started playing around with a guitar when my mother bought me a Harmony acoustic back in 1973 (I was 11 and I still have it). I know a lot of basic and more advanced chords, but I have never played a song all the way through. I just retired due to health issues last year and recently bought a Yamaha Pacifica electric and a Orangewood Morgan Mahogany Live acoustic / electric so I could take it up in my free time and try to do better with it. The "Yesterday" movie inspired me again to play because I am a lifelong Beatles fan since 1968. I paid and downloaded a lot of your courses and was in the process of working through them, but unfortunately I had a massive heart attack on May 4th, 2020 and had to have my heart stopped and shocked back into rhythm the follow day after surgery. Today is the first time I have tried to pick the guitar back up, but noticed that my left hand was so weak I could not make even the most basic chords. It's possible I had a minor stroke on my left side at the same time. Right now I am not sure I will ever get the feeling back as I sit here looking at these instruments wondering if I am ever going to be able to play again. But if I can, I will still be using your lessons. They were helping. Thanks Marty.

Man I'm so happy to rewatch this video years later and just nod my head at the end as to all the ways you become intermediate so to speak. I've been playing 5 years and a few years ago I watched this and I felt I was getting close but still not quite there. The last year I've really grown as a musician and gotten into that range and I consider this one of my greatest accomplishments. Keep playing guys its worthwhile

Marty you basically taught me guitar for my first year. I started playing back in 2014. My first video I watched of yours was your AC/DC Tnt lesson and I was instantly hooked. Glad to see you are still showing new beginner players the ropes!

I’ve been an intermediate level player for 30 years just trying to make it over the hump. If I’d had KZfaq as a teenager I’d be a rock star 🤘🏻

I think people should stop worrying about what name of the level they are at, and worry about being the best player the can be... so go practice!!

I picked up my first guitar a little more than a year ago, and I would say I'm still a beginner, but moving up the ladder. Love your videos Marty! You make thing so easy to follow. I have a music background, but this is my first stringed instrument. I've been making music since I was 6. I'm not great by any means, but I certainly enjoy it!! Thanks for all you do, Marty!!!

Marty I've got to say, I've been learning guitar now for four weeks. I have mainly been watching your videos and I can already play a variety of 'easier' songs and they are songs I've wanted to know my whole life. I also have worked on a couple of my own that I myself enjoy. Thank you so much for doing what you do.

Really enjoy your tutorials! Guitar has alway been one of my favorite hobbies. Been play since I was 22, now 52 i find myself wanting to play more and your videos and your energy level really motivate me to learn new songs! Thanks for all you do, DANO

I'm glad you're still doing this. Makes me happy. I've been watching since I was in high school over 10 years ago. Never stopped playing and never stopped learning.

Marty teaching me how to play Wish You Were Here as my first song and now telling me that I'm an intermediate player is a pretty cool feeling

Sir how about some collective soul guitar lessons...i relly want to know how tp play that song blame Specially the intro and the song listen..thanks sir marty...youre the reason why i played the guitar again.and bcoz of the quarantine i been watching a lot of your Tutorials all over again.

I’ve just started playing after about a 30 year break and loving it , Loving your lessons. thanks Marty

This is great Marty. I'd love to see you do another video like this for Intermediate to Advanced (or whatever you think the next level is)

As a 45yr old beginner, I would like to say thank you. Thank you for the simplicity of explaining things. Your tips have helped me move along in a gradual pace. It helps me get closer to getting the music in my head onto the guitar. As a PTSD veteran, this helps me tremendously.

Marc another teacher with integrity defines beginner and intermediate a little tougher. Intermediate = a guitarist that can play pubs every weekend, and a beginner who can play barre chords, scales and certain songs. Muscle memory etc. Marty’s beginner Acoustic DVD series has helped me a lot as well as his Eric Clapton mp4 video course of incredible licks that are not on KZfaq. Marty, you’re a diamond alright- thank you for all the encouragement and enthusiasm to play guitar. Signed, a seasoned- jazz bassist who has been over the mulberry bush a few times. Guitar is awesome.

Blooming fantastic man ,,, thanks for sharing this Brother ,,, from the UK huge thanks man ,,,,,,

Been plateauing somewhere around the Begintermediate stage for the majority of the year. The last month I have been practicing the 12-bar blues and barre chords daily and have seen some solid improvement and this video has inspired me to keep pushing!

I like how the only song he messed up was Smoke on the Water

Been playing for a year and a half so far, and for the first 5 or so months of my guitar playing I practised for 8 hours a day because I started when I was 17 and though I had to learn as much as I can before heading to college the next year. So in about 6 months of playing I could comfortably strum, play the basic 8 chords, the dominant 7 chords, E and A barre chord shapes and 5 shapes of the minor and major pentatonic (all i learned, I learned it from you Marty, so thanks). I guess my question is where do I go from here? I mean I learned all my favourite songs and all the songs everyone else learned. I am happy with how much i know, but now it feels like I'm not learning anything new. I just play it everyday to retain the ability of playing it.

This really helped me. I have been self learning for about two years. I can play some easier songs know all my open cords and just started to smoothly transitioning to barr chords. I was trying to figure out where to set my goals next. This really helped me see where I am and where I wanna go. Thank you!

Thanks for all of your helpful lessons Marty! Thanks to your videos I have learned a lot in a year of playing guitar!💯

I got my first guitar at 10 years old and, being the lazy little sod I was, I gave up because it was too much hard work. I just wonder how good I would have been now if I'd worked at it back all those years ago. I've been back and forth with the guitar ever since...from pointless noodling to actually putting some half decent tunes together. I do a fairly good first solo of Money by Pink Floyd (Thanks Marty) and I am just about there with the Black Sabbath Paranoid solo. Got to try and iron out some of the bad habits I've picked up along the way though.

Consistent practice and continuous learning separates, beginner from intermediate to advanced. Thanks Marty. I learned a lot from you!!!

Im sooo happy I bought a guitar four months a go and already learnt so many songs to sing along too aswell. I'm super excited and found my love for guitar!! Thanks for your channel and helping me 😁

Great video. I bought a guitar since Covid started and have enjoyed the journey so far. I even purchased your blues courses and am 2/3 of the way through it. I have loved all of the advice you have given and hope you keep giving it. I feel like after 3 months of playing for 15 minutes each day, I'm on the edge of leaving the beginner phase. Thanks Marty for all you have given the community.

This was really cool! I've still been referring to myself as beginner for a while, because I feel like a lot of songs and riffs I play can sound really rough still. Although maybe I'm just picking more complicated songs haha. But in terms of basic skills I guess I'm actually more intermediate because I can do pretty much everything you showed, although I need to try those scales now :)

I really appreciate this video👍🏼👍🏼

Awesome vid...like your playing and teaching..

Marty I love your channel - have recently picked the guitar back up, and your content has been extremely helpful!

The people who disliked this are afraid to admit they're beginner

You upload this right when I need it the most 🤣

Marty's guitar lessons/tutorials really helped inspire and motivate me as a new guitar player, It feels so good to be able to play some of your favourite songs. I'm improving quite steadily and I owe it all to him!

Just a heads up...You say "guitar payer" instead of player in the title

5:58 And just like that folks, you learned to play one of Nirvana's song.

i learned soloing before chords so i feel like a total noob going back to learn chords.

I just started playing guitar 4 days ago and got my first acoustic guitar. Thanks to your videos I feel I have made so much progress. I learned how to play wonderwall decently and am working on barre chords now. Thanks for all your help Marty!

Even though you have 2.21M subs, I still feel like your underrated :)

You know, that's probably the best video I've watched from Marty - and I've watched a lot over the years. For my 2 cents, I think the best step once at intermediate, is going to be getting together with fellow musicians, if you aren't already. You're going to want to JAM. The trick, as with anything, is to try to pair with someone who is better than you, but not *that* much better - not everyone is a teacher like Marty, right? If that person is too good, they may just show off and leave you depressed - and if they can't be bothered to teach you, what's the point? You need some healthy competition . You can imagine John and Paul back in the day, when they first met, riffing off each other, then George comes along and blows them away - he's just that little bit better. They all shared with each other, taught each other new stuff they'd learned. The other thing, I think personally, to remember, is that you can pretty much stick hovering around beginner/intermediate and STILL write your own music, do your own thing. Was it Lou Reed who said he only needs 3 chords for a song? Heck, I think once he said you only need two! - it's how you emote it, how you pour your soul into it. You can have an absolute virtuoso in terms of technical ability, but if they have no soul, they can be blown away by someone playing 3 simple chords - seriously. For me, the biggest thing recently - not really just guitar, but general music creation, was getting involved with a group of people during lockdown to do cover challenges. This is an awesome idea and really pushes your musical ability, because it sets you a goal - you get to show your chops, you get challenged to produce. So, how does it go? Well, you get as many musicians together as is comfortable - say 5 to 10 people - and each of you picks a song you want someone to cover. You have to be reasonable with the choice - nobody wants to do a prog rock song, right? So, now, the co-ordinator of the challenge has to randomly assign those song requests to each member of the group - however they do it, it MUST be randomised - that's the fun part. You then each go away and spend a few weeks putting your cover together - 2 weeks is good. You record it however you can or want to - doesn't matter. Garage Band, Logic, whatever - even people totally new to this can produce at least something. Someone needs to be the co-ordinator of this challenge - someone you send your songs to, so they can group them together on the final day. On that final day - that DEADLINE - you all meet online, in a video chat - and, well, you listen through everyone's songs! You chat, you then pause the chat and say "Right, next song up!" - soundcloud or something like that is a good place to store the groups songs. You all listen, while muting your video chat - watching each other bopping away, smiling, thumbs-up. After each song, a round of applause. The most important rule of all? No "Negging" - "Negging" means neither the person who created the cover, nor those listening, can bitch about it. This is not a critique session, it's a FUN session. So, why am I rambling so much about this? Simple - it turns you from a beginner to an intermediate or an intermediate to the next level up, with deadlines, with challenges, with fellow musicians. It's AWESOME fun. Because of the "no Negging" rule, it means people of all abilities can produce their songs. And BOY oh BOY, some of the people with the least equipment and the least knowledge, often produce the BEST stuff. Not always, but often enough - they have been challenged, they have a deadline - it pushes them to produce something. There's no sweat, if you can't make it - if you don't manage it, the group understands - try next time. But most of the time, people do manage to produce something in the time allowed - like I said, two weeks is good - two weekends. It really makes you understand the process, understand music, having to put together these covers - from the most simple guitar with vocals, right through to multi-layered productions.

me who has been playing guitar for 3 years: hmmm i wonder if I'm an intermediate

Best beginner song is A Horse With No Name by America.

Let’s hear never going back again by Fleetwood Mac

I was in the middle of guitar practice when this was uploaded lol

Are you a beginner? wonderwall intensifes

I like how Marty gets carried away when he plays a riff

After youve moved past intermediate, you start asking "Am i a badass guitar player, or one of those hipster guitar players?"

marty please could you do a tutorial on the hotel california solo!!

Even Jimi asked: "Are You Experienced?"

Haha sick, I’m intermediate babiiiii. I think setting those goals would be sick tho

Ive been playing for 2 weeks, so i'd say im better than jimmi hendrix

Can you do a lesson on the Rock Show by Blink-182

did anyone else get that ad that says youtube isn't good for learning guitar

I'm in the guitar "payers" club lol

How is capo pronounced? Is it capo or capo? I call it capo but wife insists it is capo. This is probably while I'm still a beginner and she's filing for divorce.

When are you going to do Alice In Chains I stay away like so Marty can see

I’m an intermediate in the sense of PLAYING, but not anything else. (Tuning, Capo, FINGERPICKING)

I see between the Em and G you started playing about a girl

6:14 NEVER CARED FOR WHAT THEY DOOOOO!!!!

i don't have a lot of money so I'm not an intermediate payer I'm afraid.

I hate when I have to answer ”what kind of music do you want to play”. I don’t know!! Sometimes I feel like playing led zeppelin, somtimes ed sheeran and sometimes metallica

Me : Trying to enjoy another amazing Marty Video Dumb KZfaq Ads Interrupting : Hey have you ever heard of Simply Guitar?

I’m better than intermediate but still not advanced how do I get there

Yo Marty can I get a heart

I'm intermediate. Hm. Who knew? But just barely.

Im a beginner that's been playing an intermediate length of time 🤔

Me after watching this video: "Nope, yep still a beginner" shoot

Must have missed the "are u a bassist or already guitar beginner" vid

Hello to everyone watching this who have been playing for 20 yrs. :D

I’m an intermediate? What a shock.

I can play Snow hey oh

Begginer = Less than 10 hours Intermediate =Less than 100 Advanced =Less than 500 Professional= 1000+ (Unless all you pratice is smoke on the water)

Can you stop talking I’m trying to watch the video

The first strumming pattern brought a smile to my face, ty for that.. Seminole Wind was the first song I learned back in the early 90's. So there's that...

Amazing , talking and demonstrating from experience make your lessons some of the best on the internet. Thanks Marty.

such good advice marty that really help me understand where i am at i m ready to break into intermediate guitar it was so much work to even get to this point so far , lol

This actually is super helpful to get the idea of the whole guitar learning process. Thanks!

I have a guitar that I bought years ago and never stuck to it enough to learn how to play. I love your videos and was just wondering if I could get a short list of which tutorials you have posted that would be the most beginner friendly. Keep up the good work!

Love the video Marty! I've been learning to play with your videos for over a year now and I am proud to say I have gotten into the realm of intermediate. I am really into that Clapton/Hendrix/John Mayer vibe if you could do some more videos like that. I learned Sunshine of your Love from you about a year ago and I'd love to see a video on another Cream song, maybe something from John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers. Love you man keep it up!

Just wanted to say that your guitar tutorials help me out with not only learning songs but improving my skill

You are the best Marty !!!!! You got me started months ago on my first lesson and got me on the right track. I have learned so much from you and really appreciate all you do on here.

brilliant marty, 5 months in to guitar lessons. you made it all make sense. keep going. Manchester uk.

Excellent vid, as usual . The red line of “hotel California “ . Just love listing to you play ! 👌🏻😎😁