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This was a great lesson. Lots of info on techniques, timing, simplification and space. But, what I liked the most was the section on how to listen to the band or backing track to get the drum timing, the bass style and the overall mood. We get so fixated on our own role that we fail to see how to "fit in". I think it's magic when the whole band is totally in sync... the music sounds magical.

Almost skipped this because of the title, but I am impressed. Great delivery and lesson. I wish I had seen this 18 months ago. I’ve been practicing scales against a metronome and getting nowhere. Thank you.

So simple, but so effective!

I've been playing guitar for over 30 years, and this may be the most straightforward and clear explanation of how to use your playing to complement what the other players are doing. Listen and adapt. Thank you for the awesome lesson and the excellent backing track.

This is a really great lesson! Back to the basics, but really paying attention to the slow dynamics. Excellent!

AWESOME vid, Daniel. Makes total sense! Thank you.

Such a great lesson, thanks. You regard the music as a living, breathing being that has to be heard and contemplated, not just played over in a flurry of scale notes.

Without a doubt the best presentation of this concept I've ever seen. Fantastic job, Daniel. Thanks for the tips.

Once again, great lesson. For me this 2 for 2 of watched, listened and absorbed your excellent calmly explanations to get our desired goals as musicians, happening to be holding a guitar! Thank you! Subscribed and will be sharing with my buddies!✌️❤️

Great stuff. Thanks for your insight.

Excellent, thank you, Daniel! I just subscribed. Looking forward to more insights.🎸🎶

Thanks for this thought-full lesson 😊

Really great lesson! I know the shapes really well, and have also learned how to change up the feel with blues notes and finding the 3rd and 6ths. I’ve also really improved my picking. Problem for me is that I now tend to overplay! Adding other notes can be great but I find that I tend to play too fast and also I guess I’m mixing up modes accidentally a lot 😅. This lesson is really great at bringing back musicality and emotional control. My one advantage though is that I’ve listened to so much guitar music over the years (my favorites are Page, Cream Clapton, Hendrix, Beck, Gibbons - pre VH blues rock basically) that I have all these colorful techniques in my brain. I love bending - slow bends, half bends, pre bends - but in all cases I feel I need to be more in control and more musical rather than overbake everything. My next goal is to try to learn how Eric Johnson plays those smooth, fast pentatonics. Thank you!!! PS: I mentioned Jeff Beck. I love his Wired era melodies. When I add the major 3rd I hear that sound a lot and I try to add it when it sounds right.

Thank you for the unbeatable top camera angle when presenting concepts on the guitar.

Excellent simple lesson. What a pleasant change! Thanks

This is great! It's kinda like Bob Ross for guitar, learning by getting into the feel for it.

Great lesson, great content and delivery. Thank you 🙏

This was fantastic teaching. Thank you greatly!

Totally dope! No truer words have been spoken. I feel that everything you said is completely accurate and opened my eyes immensely. Thank you so much!

Simply WOW! This is such a great lesson which instantly motivates one to grab the guitar and accompany you! Also, these hints on analyzing firstly what's going on in the backing track are super useful. Thank you so much, Daniel!

Man I’m glad this video came across. Great stuff here. Thank you sir. Subscribed.

Makes perfect sense--thank you

Nice chill lesson. Easy to ingest. Cool.

Awesome lesson. I really enjoyed this and spent the next 1/2 hour doing som practise to the backing track. So great.

Excellent video,,very relaxing, great instructions.

Lovely lesson! Thank you!

Great lesson, thank you!

This is a guitar lesson.

Gold! Thank you!

This kind of thing makes up most of my practice time. I tell myself I'm gonna do 30mins then my stomach starts rumbling and I realise 4 hrs have dissappeared. Awesome stuff, good lesson!

Insights for next level guitar. Properly explained. Thx. New sub.

Great tips! Been playing for years and _still_ working on getting that sweet, natural sounding "vocal" vibrato...Clapton/Page/Beck...vibrato mastery to aspire to. Love the tone of your PRS! I'm a big fan the middle/both pickups sound as well--there's a whole pallet of tones there--the more bridge, less neck sound...less neck, more bridge sound...or making them about the same, etc. Cheers!

great lesson, thanks.

I’m only half way through the video because I keep rewinding. This lesson is so filled with information, it’s hard to digest in one passing. Didn’t take long to subscribe. You’re an excellent teacher.

Thanks nice lesson!!

Great lesson!

He man. This is really great. Thanks!

Thank you this is really helping me find my voice

So true. Backing tracks are a must. They bring out your feel, timing, emotions. Space, the final frontier. That’s my problem, haven’t master this yet. Great vid🤘 Just a following up, finally had a chance to use this backing track with a little Pink Floydish plug in on my Spark. Oh my goodness, I actually almost sound like a guitar player. I’m a mid-level beginner, so this is so much fun feeling like I’m soloing and almost sound good to my ears. Thx again and keep the vids coming.

Awesome lesson man!

Great video!

Great lesson thanks

This is a brilliant lesson n how less is more! For those of us that aren't interested in shredding or playing complex tapping harmonics this opens the door to some more expressive (and beautiful) soloing IMO

Great 'different' lesson. Subscribed!

Like this concept a lot.

Finally an enjoyable lesson everyone can wrap their heads around to 😄

I'm about a year in to self-teaching. Backing tracks are a great resource, I started off with a basic droning track in a single scale to learn the notes. After a while I learned some embellishments and moved up to more challenging tracks and keys. I also try to end a practice with something impossible for me to play, but try anyways. Rarely do I not learn something new on every session. I improvise everything, I have yet to learn a published song.

thank you!

Fantastic lesson, slowing down and giving the notes some space is a biggie.

Another awesome "play along" lesson ... really enjoyed this. As a proud owner of the "Diagonal Pentatonic Method", I would recommend its' purchase to anyone reading this comment. It's a fantastic course!!! I'm definitely coming back tomorrow!!!

After just 3 minutes in you had me! I am kinda bummed, I wish I learned this several years ago. 😂

Very cool lesson, Daniel! For more advanced practice, you can start that diagonal shape on any of the pentatonic notes. That will also give minor 3rd jumps on a single string instead of just whole steps.

“Playing scales without a backing track is a waste of time”… ugh, that makes so much sense, yet what have I been doing…? Exactly that… 🙄🫤🤣 Thank you so much for this lesson Daniel! Eyes opened! 👍🏻🎸

Holly shit! This guys studio office! And what is that drum up in the air on that stand? I don’t know what it is or why it’s there, but i think I need it.

Love your enthusiasm; I like to let it breath a little not shred. thanks

This really is a great idea! I've mostly practiced scales, arpeggios etc - dry (with a metronome). And while i don't think this is time wasted. In fact i think i am more fluid doing what is suggested here because of the dry practice, i need more of this type of practice along with practice with a looper. Besides it's more fun!

This is a guitar lesson, but it is pure gold

I write songs about a dozen so far but don’t know how to solo. This gives me hope. I have solid theory. I’m older yet learning to solo remains my lifelong goal. Where to start? I was taught classical scales but then the focus was on *reading* sheet music. My heart is singer/songwriter/guitarist dreaming akin to James Taylor, Jackson’s Browne, Lightfoot, etc. Soloing is the missing link.

Definitely I think phrases is way better than just endless noodling I think of it as speaking where you have a certain cadence and pause in between sentences You are so right about the guitar black hole, there's so many clickbait videos to unreal the hidden secret of the universe of guitar playing that will make you Jimi Hendrix and it's so easy to get lost and lose the path. Play your videos help me stay centered and focused help my playing and techniques I can use.

Break out of them? I'm still trying to break into them!

Really enjoyed your presentation on phrasing in your practice. My takeaway of this anyway. Very timely for me as one who is starting to have the matrix unveiled on the fret board with the different scale shapes and approaches, whether it's horizontal, diagonal or 1 string. This is great for embracing the neck but I agree it gets you nowhere for melting into the groove of a gig. It would be nice to see how you find that major/minor shape in the correct key in short order? Appreciate your feedback and Thanks for a nice Segway into practicing with a purpose.

Less is more... A lot of wisdom in this video. Btw, I learned it in another one of your videos, but the diagonal pentatonic thing has been game changing for me, and it feels so much more useful than the traditional box pattern approach, especially if you're trying to get away from the glorified scale practice sort of noodling a lot of us end up doing and move more toward playing actual music. Thank you for sharing and advocating that concept and for all the great videos!

Magic time.

Never dawned on me to slide in from a half step. Dang, I don’t know why. Habits I guess. Maybe I do and it sounds like bad lol😂

This video just showed me the way out of the KZfaq Black hole. It's a complete game changer for me. Thank you so much.

More of this

Fantastic advice...listen to the other players in the band! Seems obvious, but it's absolutely crucial and surprisingly absent in some players I've encountered.

I kept getting distracted by that tom drum 7 feet high behind you

Hi Daniel, Is my first time hearing about you. I like your approach and just wondering if I sign up and pay for your course is there any kind of trial period where if I it's not a good match for me I would receive a refund.

I wasted a decade on teachers telling me to use scales, part scales, mode scales, longways, sideways, all ways - then I discovered chord tones for soloing - that was the a-ha moment. Everyone's different, but trying to learn scales first (in any configuration) in order to solo, never did shit for me. Learning the chord triads and chord tones first, enabled me to learn where the notes on the fretboard were, and easily 'see' where the scales were and how they fitted into to other scales and chords - AND it actually sounded like I was playing music as I was learning and practicing, which was great. Wish I could get the practice time back I wasted on scales, but again, your experience may differ.

I like, thanks. Where do find the backing track, please?

LOts of great idea... and I cant find the backing track... where is it?

What is a good backing track app?

Did you just end with ‘you don’t need triads?’ 😮

Can someone explain the concept of “anticipation” and how it differs from counting “swing?”

We live in the golden age of space exploration and guitar education. Someone below said it better, but I was compelled to grab my guitar after listening. Love it.

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Trying to get your free e book but not arrrving at e mail. Checked spam but nothing.

Sorry, I couldn't understand your last tip about sliding up to a bend, and the angle of the camera, shot from above, didn't help. Can you video your hand movements straight -on instead of from above?

Why do people think that playing scales is "playing guitar?" No It's playing melodies. Not scales. If playing scales is anyone's idea of playing music, they simply don't understand music.

That's not the reason classical musicians can't improvise. The reason they can't improvise is because they don't practice improvisation. I know many classical musicians who can speak at their instrument just fine. But there is no longer a tradition or performance reason to improvise, so they don't.

Scrolled through to see if anyone had added time stamps…but no one has. Thanks for nothin’!

No playing is useless - lost me right there.

Thanks for this lesson......i was struggling on leads trying to memorize every shape, every key of the major scale driving myself to insanity......I'm going to relax, and practice just taking it easy with a few notes of a pattern just like you're doing.

Great lesson!

Great lesson. Thank you!