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"they're just playing shapes they've already memorized" well excuse me and my beloved pentatonic scales 😤

Tim Henson once said: "A good guitar solo is a guitar solo that you can sing"

“Play shapes that they’ve already memorized” man’s describing me right there

John Mayer is a genius, the way he finds the notes and uses them In the right place is truly impressive

Brandon, so glad you speaked on Mayer. As a mayer fan and someone who keeps up with you, this was surprising. More Mayer content please.

Not just playing lines a singer would sing but you can literally play the melody of the song. Adding extra notes and embellishments each time you do it through so by the end of the solo there’s hits on the melody but still has the epic solo vibe

Amazing

The dead and company Althea playing in the sands version is a great example of John’s soling

That performance in the background at the beginning is one of my faves, John and Keith Urban are brilliant

These are good advices

A singer wouldn’t belt out everything out the gate….. insert Bowser’s classic Peaches here

Great video, useful and stuff

Great short. Def something I have caught onto over my years of playing and trying to get better at lead.

“A singer won’t suddenly scream when the song starts” idk man slipknot kinda do

Whoa.When you showed Mayer playing the lick, then singing it, that was a aha!, moment for me. Thank you.

So the guitar was needed for this video

There you are! I forgot to subscribe when I discovered you ages ago, but yay the algorithm has reunited us lol

Check out guthrie Govan please.

One of the things that made Jerry Garcia so great was his vocabulary was so large that he could shoot out of a rocket even before the first bar of the solo and sustain that energy through the whole solo without repeating himself and still maintaining the melody

Me, I'm sending this to myself

Whenever I write a guitar solo, I like to write it out as sheet music first. And yea "ohh what da hell why are you using sheet music just use MIDI" well using sheet music means that if you do put a note out of key that it has to be intentional, and it lets you see the relationships between notes better which leads to better writing in my opinion. Anyway the point is that by writing out the solo long before ever playing it or noodling over the solo section, you completely break away from all limitations you have as a player, be it your memorized shapes, your comfort zone, etc. it means you can write something you cannot play yet, or it means you can write something so easy to play yet so catchy that you never would've played that by writing on your guitar.

Dude jams like a gangster.

It’s kinda funny how I hated this dude when I first saw his videos years ago but now he’s one of my favorite teachers on the internet lol

What a hot take

John Mayer is the truth 🙌

Ya know buddy, that’s not good advice. That’s fucking great advice! Thank you.

aboot aboot aboot aboot

For me personally playing a guitar is like having a conversation. Reminds me of the element of playing called call and response.

Totally. You gotta think of the guitar as a voice or group of voices

Good 👍

Am moving up holy Sh*t

I don’t have the patience to sit through a John Mayer solo

CHEERS BVRO CHEERS CHEERS

Why did i just see this now,-,

Sure okay ,,B.B .King lifts

Learned from the great B.B. King

this is good advice becos leads are leads, thats why its good to have your guitar sound like a singer especially during the solo, a good example is Hysteria, the solo almost sounds like the chorus vocals,

lol, a boat 😂

Mayer the goat

make your own.

Bro why’s this guy always so mad

I would rush out of the gate and play a fast, dissonant lick to grab the audience’s attention then play a blusey, home base nice resolution lick, because I am not a singer I am a guitarist…however, John Mayer’s approach to improvisation and soloing is a very valid and great place to start to learn how to solo..

look up john mayer crayola box quote

shoutout to theo katzman, who consistently sings what he solos when he plays live

i’m a john mayer fan so do i send this to myself?

I think like that but my technical ability cant keep up yet😢😢

I want one of your guitar but signed

Ngl as a bass player I don’t love guitar. But that guitar is beautiful.

Jazz guitar players like George Benson do that, singing the lines then playing or while playing them. Jazz singers sing lines and it amazes me because they're are more than just a singer. With their voice they are a true musician.

Meanwhile deathcore singers take everything out as soon as the song starts

Yo Brandon Boss. Do a video about Frusciante solos!!!

Yea but what if I wanna play a line in my head but I don't know which notes to play on the spot? 😭😭

Nice Ultra Tele

If you can sing something you can play it even better

What are rests?

This makes me think of Zakks solo in “I Dont Wanna Stop” its sort of the opposite to this mentality. Starts and finishes at 100, starts and ends pretty high.. as opposed to something like “No More Tears” which is just great in every way

Well, it's about realizing that melodical instrumental lines are similiar to vocal lines

Singing and playing after. Sounds like my man mark knopfler

You hear that polyphia

Ppl think be bas bedhead hes actually a super Saiyan he does the transformation before every video it makes his playing 10x better

How about Send a John Mayer to video fan instead?

Canadian ey?

Musicians under promise and over deliver, it’s how you keep people coming back for more. If you start with your lost impressive stuff what’s stopping people from leaving once you’ve run out?

Why does bruh own a Tele-Strat. 💀

No

Alternative title, but still yelled at the camera: “HOW ANY MUSICIAN WORTH THEIR SALT THINKS ABOUT A NORMAL SOLO WHERE THEY ARENT TRYING TO SPECIFICALLY DO FACE MELTERS”

Yeah never "play shapes" that will make you listen to shapes, "play SOUNDS" and listen to the sound coming out of the speaker.

So... play up the neck, up the scale, build to a crescendo , then play back down. Sounds like standard music.

i diagree

“Send this to a John Mayer fan” So nobody is getting sent this.

How to play like John petrucci

Steve Perry. Oh Sherri. GOAT. This means all singers should come in hot. John Mayer is wrong!

Hey man, phish?

Dude... Jerry brah... same shit 50 years earlier...

Yeah John is lovely, and always will be nr1 in my heart but the authority musically on guitar playing solos would be mr Derek Trucks. John has soul and theoretically gets it, but Trucks just transcends the boundaries John Mayer and many other guitarists are bound by😮

I'm a john mayer fan

I'm sure through pop osmosis and store soundtracks I've listened to some Mayer but all I remember is a line about fathers being good to daughters and absolutely nothing from his guitar work. I don't consider any of his quitar work memorable

First

You should check out Rory Gallagher shadow play live I think it’s in German not sure you’ll know when you know

Because I’m not a singer 😎

Ppl think be bas bedhead hes actually a super Saiyan he does the transformation before every video it makes his playing 10x better