A couple thoughts on my own video: 1) I understand that my final tempo is slower than needed, but maybe that's even better. I'm a slow guy and don't like to play too fast anyway. 2) I understand that I could get more "punch" by slapping the bass more instead of playing it as I do in the video, but I'm not a fan of slapping either. So I recorded a general idea that I got from the riff, I don't think that it's too off from the original, but I'm aware where it's off.

Me watching this video while glancing at my guitar... My guitar: *"Don't even think about it!"*

that tiktok really cracked it wide open for me too. I cant believe how he just beamed the key to that technique into my head with a couple of sentences and 10 seconds of playing. He would be the best guitar teacher.

Steps to learning Neon by Pavel: 1) learn every song in Mark Knopflers discography through deep intellectual study of his technique 2) spend 11 minutes learning Neon

Excellent lesson God bless you

Awesome! I remember seeing this video and thinking "that looks extremely hard to play". Now I look at this video and I think "it still looks extremely hard to play.. but at least I know where to start". Thanks Pavel, can't wait to attempt learning this riff

This actually a really great explanation and you helped me out a lot. Thank you

Great video Thanks a lot

Really needed that

John Mayer is a very talented guitarist who can play so many different styles, also to his credit considering how much of a star he is, he's alway putting up vids and lesssons for his fans. Also if anyone here is interested in getting into listening to John's music i'd recomend you start with his live stuff, it's on another level compared to his studio releases.

Great work ! Ill give it a try;-)

Interessante grazie Pavel.

Yeah but on every chord every 3rd note is actually played with the thumb (going to the 3rd string), watch carefully the tiktok

Thanks for the tips and explanations! I started learning the riff like 5 days ago, mainly based on GuitarZeroToHero's tutorial (Dave's an awesome teacher and, he tabbed the whole thing OMG) But you pointed out one additional important technique he didn't, which is the False Plectrum Technique snare sound. It's something I just realised (I didn't watch JM's ticktock tips) To be honest I am not sure whether adding this technique would be too much for me right now, but I'll give it a try :) (I only seriously picked up the guitar 5 months ago haha) Months ago I didn't even think I would be able to EVER play this riff, but after consistent grinding on my techniques and actually started learning it, I feel like it is actually possible, I just need to take it slow and grind through it ;) (and I mean, I'm not expecting myself to play already like JM now, just hope to be able to play the riff in a somewhat slower tempo relatively consistently) And there is another thing that I am unsure of - After the first 2-3 days I found my right hand being a bit unstable, and not really able to play "under control". I recalled Davie504 using his other fingers to "anchor" on his bass, and he said he developed this habit to help himself ensure his right hand maintains stable and consistent when he's slapping. So, I actually tried to do that with my pinky finger as an anchor. And surprisingly, I personally found this very helpful and significantly improve my ability to control my right hand, now my right hand thumb and index fingers tend to be able to play more consistently without hitting the wrong strings by accident. I also happened to see one of my favorite guitarists occasionally do this when he's doing fast fingerstyle song, just wondering if this is actually something common (or actually weird) to do. But I might keep doing this for the time being as it works for me. ;)

This is right up my alley! Learned this song in the past (I'm far from good at it yet!) and I watch everything I can about JM. After seeing videos on Neon, and recently his tik-tok, and being a fan of yours, seeing this excited me. Thanks so much for sharing! I'd recommend you watch Tyler's experience learning Neon on his channel Music Is Win -- you may enjoy that!

ee buenisimo,bien ahi papaaa

4:42 how I think it’s gonna come out… how it actually comes out 4:45. All jokes aside very grateful this excellent tutorial 🙌🏽

Thanks, Pavel. I'm not a JM huge fan but I respect him.

U catch a tight thing base note nice

No way! I just learned this riff last week too after branching out from playing pretty much solely knopfler stuff.

The john mayer ticktok - his thumb hits the string at a straight angle. The same kind of angle you did on the first string minus the slap. So you would get more of a enhanced drum roll effect.

Its been two weeks now and i am at 140 BPM of the song plus i am doing exactly how john does it including his thumb over bass note on the C sus2/Bb chord. It is slow but i am getting the hang of it. I'll update after few days( if i master it completely) lol

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Wow you strike down on the G string with your index finger. That's a way of playing it I hadn't seen or thought of. I've been playing it with a downstroke with the thumb

The hardest part for me is the chords, it's either stretch my hand and thumb to make it work and flow and possibly get dead notes OR jump to a stretched hand position which is hard to jump to when playing at a good speed. What I've been doing just to make it sound similar and make myself not quit immediately is just muting the bass notes with my thumb. I don't know if it's just me but if a song I'm learning doesn't sound that good after a day i stop, so muting with my thumb instead of trying to fret is way easier and keeps my morale up a little.

Now you just need to fret that last bass note with your thumb like JM does 😂

Is the 6th string tuned down to C? (Шестая струна настроена в До?)

I think a full lesson of that riff would be like 3-4 minutes, the whole song maybe with tabs, i've seen some lesson with an hour for a song with the only hard thing it's to sync the hands and some chords, the picking should be like a minute explination or less

Is this Mark knopfler version?

whats the tuning here?

Using 3 fingers makes it easier