Adding to this concept: Listen to the song, sing along with the melody. Then when the vocals stop keep singing just do "da da da" or humming, whistling, whatever, wordless singing , so you can just vocalize melody ( even if you "can't sing" at all ) Or even better do this on a backing track. As you are doing this pick up the guitar and imitate exactly parts of what what you sang on guitar Keep doing this for 10 minutes like it is a rule that when you pick up the guitar you can't play anything you don't vocalize first. And when you do the vocals, just humming or "do do do, however you do them put a lot of feeling into it. It can be off key here and and not presentable at all, it is just a sketch to get new melody on your guitar without all your hand habits. If you do this many melodies will come naturally but when you go to the guitar you will find they are not the same ones that you would come up with out of your hand habits. After doing this just integrate this material into your regular guitar playing. You can also read a page of text from a book and listen to your own rhythm and melodies fragments in your own plain speech and occasionally sing some of the text or you can do this with your own writing. With the guitar imitate some of this, the nature of your own unique speech.

you nailed it.... listen to 95% of green day 'solos', he's just recreating the vocal melody...

Nirvana too

SHOW US

Same!

Easy, just point the photon crystals at the flux capacitor to circumvent the adamantium diode..... It really is that simple. Me: still playing polly wolly doodle

Exactly my thought. I laterally understood nothing :D

It has been 2 years; did you get it now buddy?

@@deepeshjohnekka2161 No I didn't man, life got in the way in a bad way. Randomly just caught on to an amazing band - Greta Van Fleet - and its inspired me to get back on it. All the best.

It's almost time dude

I’ve been playing off and on for years but consistently for at least 7. I feel the same way 😳

Guys don't get discouraged. It takes time...if you've played for years and never learned actual music start slow and you will get there ..have fun most of all and help your playing by learning as much as you can ...just a suggestion. .I also understand .many guys can play incredibly but have no musical vocabulary. Good for those rare players , just keep in mind theory can only help you .never hurt your playing. You got this man....u can do it.

@@allguitar3349 I appreciate the words of encouragement. I’ve got good basic theory under my belt…applying it to playing is the struggle but I’m plugging along. 👍🏼

I'm the same - it puts me off when these lessons sound like algebra and I realise just how incredibly difficult it all is. I gave my guitar to a charity shop two weeks ago after realising I could never be any good.

@@salvadormarley Sorry to hear you gave it up. It can be frustrating. I’ve realized there’s a certain level of playing I will never get to no matter what so I have to accept that and just enjoy playing for playing sake. I often can hardly get through a simple song without playing the wrong chord- basic stuff, let alone getting good at soloing.

yes!

No can do. Not me. My voice is wrecked from spending my whole twenties smoking joints and sniffing coke, which then goes down the back of your throat and messes it up. It can sound OK if you have a deep voice, but mine ain't so it sounds terrible. Wouldn't recommend.

@@paulgordon6949 Clapton sounds good as a singer, so does Elton John. Lindsay Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, Steven Tyler, Robert Plant likewise. They all did plenty of coke ane still can sing.

@@paulgordon6949 Dont need a good voice if you have a good story to tell (sounds like you do!)

Light bulb went off for me about a year ago man. I didn't plan for decades and all the sudden something just happened

Thanks Brian! More of these to come.

It's all about the melody! 👋😉

I can't play chords at all but I can play lead to any song because I started by playing along with an advanced friend. Can we combine powers?

I am getting to this stage too... But oh lord hearing exactly what is happening and reacting to it by going to right notes in a fraction of a second while playing seems really damn hard 😅 Sure i can pick a song and plan that stuff somewhat ok, but on the fly... I will be way older when this really happens 🙄

When i was trying to learn the fret board i wrote it out a couple times, find your octaves and find the patterns, could help you get there a little faster

I spent 15 years just jamming to my favorite bands songs. I could play almost anything I wanted if had tabs and time to work it out. But I had no clue where to begin with improvising solos over backing tracks. I spent a year learning by ear only. I used a cool app that u can break songs down on a grid and slow it down and loop whatever sections you want so it made learning by ear much easier. After about a 8-12 months I viewed the fretboard entirely different and it gave me an understanding of how to move anywhere on the fretboard I wanted while improvising. It can take some adjustments and be a little tough to start off but ear training and learning by ear is an incredibly effective way of advancing your playing and giving you a much better understanding of how to navigate the fretboard

Do you sing the solfeggio scale often with and without guitar in hand? I'm working on the same thing as you and find this practice seems to be helping most. Everything starts to connect when you start hearing the intervals and the roles each note in the scale plays.

I know that feel

I don’t think Michael will be bothered by my recommendation for you to visit the “other camp”… so check out Guthrie Trapp and his videos… he’s a very melodic guitarist down in East Nashville… although his teaching methods are not on the same level as Michael’s,he does have some great advice..

I bet!!

Yes!! It’s the key to it all.

Thx!!

That’s it. People make things too complicated sometimes. A song needs a melody... usually:)

Hey, it worked for David Gilmore, so it's probably a good idea. 😉👍

Yup. Takes one to know one!