It's funny how when you are first learning guitar you have to try so hard to stop from muting certain strings and then when you reach a certain level of proficiency you then have to learn how to mute strings.

Hard to focus on the lesson when faced with such a beautiful guitar.

Small movements!! The thing that helped me the most is to make sure my picking hand stays in one place and moves very little. Videoing myself playing helps tremendously. I didn't even know my right hand was moving so much. I notice that great players move their picking hand very little.

As a complete beginner, it's infuriating how most people just say to keep practicing to fix certain problems. Most of the time it's true, but dammit I'm already practicing. It's good to see that some folks like you out there actually offer sound advice. I'm under the impression that mastering the guitar is like trying to climb the Everest but without even knowing how to walk properly. It's such an overwhelming task. The thing is that I'm ambitious with my goals and I'd like to become advanced in the next 365 days. By advanced I mean being able to play my favourite songs (mostly hard rock and metal). Each time I make progress I feel like there's a new issue to fix (like plucking the wrong strings when doing exercises lol). I have no idea if my goal is feasible at this point. I practice consistently but progress comes slowly. Any ideas to speed up the learning process and minimize mistakes?

How long does it usually take for this to no longer be an issue? I’ve been playing about 2 years and still often hit the wrong string when going from strumming to picking

I love how PewDiePie teaches the guitar

I'm EXTREMELY frustrated because I keep missing and plucking the wrong string over and over grr!

I got myself in a bad habit of not using a pick to not play too loud at night. Im having a hard time using it now because my fingers are use to feeling where im at . I have a toddler so now Im kind of trapped between wanting to play clear but quiet. Lol . Thanks for the video.

I used a blind fold to train the ear and muscle memory in both hands. Recommended

Such a helpful video on picking, thanks Sean. A tip that works for me is playing and watching myself in a mirror, so I can see for better fretting accuracy without looking while getting a feel for the right positioning, The Everest climbing before you know how to walk is a great analogy! I can't believe how anyone had the patience to invent the guitar and how to play it, lol. Must've taken a lifetime.

So what you're saying is... Practice?

i love these! i’m learning guitar slowly but surely and these techniques work! keep it up sean!

Fretting isn’t my issue anymore. But I get scatterbrained when I focus on my fretting I feel myself getting lost between strings cause I never have time to look at my right hand to see where exactly I am. I’ll jump to G from D then hit E then when I want to go back to G I’ll end up hitting D and when I want to hit the right note I’m STILL hitting D like ugh. I drag myself through the dirt because of these mistakes.

Very important lesson Dano, I mute strings all the time without even realizing it out of the necessity for not being able to reach the full god damn chord in its full glory but it sounds great. I can sing the missing note. BUT shite its a useful thing to subconsciously incorporate. Great to see confirmation on this type of playing. Rock on dude W

Another observation Sean. You have 2 reference points going. One is your wrist locked and the other is your fingers are on the body of the guitar. So for bottom strings you appear to be using your fingers, and for top strings you use your wrist for referencing where the strings are.

Thanks for the video! I'm transitioning from bass to standard guitar,so this helps. That's a sweet D'angelico,great feeling and great playing guitars.

that guitar is one of the most cool looking guitar i’ve ever seen

This is the exact video I'm looking for right now. You are awesome. Great video man ❤️

The good thing about only having one guitar is that hitting the right strings become second nature because you only play one guitar. The downside is that when I borrowed my friends acoustic to play something, I hit a ton of strings that I shouldn't. The body difference between an acoustic and electric sure does make a difference.

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OMG! Such valuable information in such a comprehensible way, I should have known that 20 years ago! Thank You!

you are a clean player ,that thing with the thumb, that u have to practice lots and lots. i appreciate ur energy and the way u explain and dont waste time. good job man keep it up

This was super helpful in cleaning up technique on my picking hand. The thing that I really have trouble with is being able to see a chord shape in a scale. So for example I can play scales and I can see them pretty quickly, but I can't just look at a note, and go, that's the third in a four chord in the key of B major. I wish I could figure out a way to connect the scale patterns on the fretboard with chord shapes in all the keys. Thanks for the video!

wow the intro was so random but I appreciate that you mentioned bts^^ and thanks for the tips. They are rlly helpful👌🏼

I use a thumb pick as it seems I have more control over a normal pick .great informed video

Thanks for the advice. Certainly something I need to start practicing in my playing

I need to catch up on some of these vids. Best free teacher ever!!! Plus the guys funny. BAAAAAM

Great video man, really helped with technique but also provided some info too

🖤🌹. Bro can you please make a video on making melodies with scales and building up speed.

How am I supposed to believe someone who doesn't have a tuner or capo dangling from their headstock? Seriously, thanks for addressing this. It's one of my (many) stumbling blocks.

As you progress through your guitar journey, you figure out which search terms to employ, and you learn stuff you didn't even know you needed learning. But you did. #subbed

What a wonderful guitar!!! 😍👍

Just the video I was looking for and best explanation yet! Thanks Sean!

"Now that I can kind of do it! - Oh, the humility!!

Plz tell me how i can hit the exact strings without picking and using only my thumb

Perhaps because I'm left handed and my only choice was to learn on a right handed guitar my picking problem is as follows. Picking out lead type notes isn't much of a problem, my right hand seems to know where to go when a left hand finger touches the string/ note, but when I make a chord and my left hand stays in place I don't have the consistent accuracy I desire. Anyway I shall not give up!

Excellent lesson!

great advice Sean. Also its okay to look at your picking hand, especially if its something new. I still do when i am learning a new finger picking song and pattern until i get it down. An amazing exercise to get better at muting strings is to play the pentatonic scale but muting all strings except the note you are playing and going up and down the scale. It is really difficult at first but if you take it slow and start with just the low E and A string then steadily go down the scale more and more, then you will get better and your string muting will be pretty solid.

Another great video! Thanks Sean!

Another great one Sean! Thanks

Great video !!. When I first saw the acoustic version of "Something like Olivia" on KZfaq, it just blew my mind away. He (Mr. Mayer) wasn't just hitting the strings but he was moving his wrist in a manner you would move while strumming, i.e. with full force and power. He produces a really powerful music in that song by a combination of strumming, soloing and muting. I would consider myself lucky if I could do it some day :)

I've been watching your channel for a little while now and your terrible jokes at the beginning of your video make my practice sessions awesome haha

god fucking damn I love your videos easy to follow tutorials really useful stuff and a charismatic guy to boot keep doing your shit, dude.

Finally, this was the guitar lesson i was searching for. Having said that, this doesn´t help me at all... :( But thank you for trying.

Great video man. I appreciate you and your videos. They help a lot.

This. This right here is what I was looking for. Now it's just a matter of application. Yea I know, it's called practice. It's hard to concentrate on learning and practice on one thing at a time but this aspect I think will bring greater rewards faster before moving on to the next problem area.

I think if someone wants to learn the guitar by ear and hand they should practice the guitar with a blindfold on or in the pitch dark. So it stops their eyes diverting back to the fretboard. I think this way of practice will be build confidence quicker and relax them more as well.

Great 'check in' lesson at this point for me: thanks for posting.

Thats a really cool guitar shape!

Good lesson Sean. I always have a hard time hitting the right string

I think you just explained how to fix my problem! Thank you!

Man.... That's a beautiful guitar you have... Nice tips... I need it

The one area that still frustrates me. Have been playing for years now and am not too bad but I still have occasional issues with hitting the wrong string with my picking hand. And getting in enough time to practice.

Great tips. Thanks for sharing.

That guitar is lovely!

I struggle with hitting the right strings alot,but i recently started to learn to play with a pick ,while since now i always played with my fingers so i guess thats okay for the moment ,eh Sean? :P

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I love this Guitar👍👍👍

My only issue is downpicking powerchords with a dead string between with one down stroke rather than twoz because While I can do it, it needs practice

Very helpful THANK YOU!

Sean, your lessons are great! If you take requests, I would like to see something on natural harmonics and how they can be used with other notes for soloing and chords, etc. Is it possible for the natural harmonics to represent notes in any way?

Good lesson thanks 👍

U r a great teachr

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It’s hard to play D/chord without hitting the top two strings without looking. I just started learning chords. I can play the Sublime “Santeria” solo without looking and standing up?? But I just started chords and playing chords where I can’t mute strings it’s hard to hit certain chords

Need this to play cant stop by rhcp

Gentle wrist movements🤔... the vigorous wrist movements engrained in my muscle memory since my teens must why my playings a bit sloppy😅

I have really small hands so when I go to pick any of the bottom strings I move my hand down to pick the bottom strings better and it works for me because I practise a lot so I know where all the strings are

I've been playing for 30 years, and I still have issues strumming single strings. My pick either gets stuck, or I just hit the wrong string. I try to tilt my pick, so it's parallel to the string (since our guitars tend to be at an angle when strapped up). I play an Ampeg Dan Armstrong plexi, so the neck is tighter. But I have the same issue when I play my Fender Strat, so I guess it doesn't matter. Anyway, this has been my Achilles Heel for many years. I still haven't solved this issue.

I like the way you teach 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

thank you !

beautiful guitar!

That guitar is nice😍

So... when someone is hitting only the strings they want, they either have GREAT muscle memory or are just muting the other strings so they can be as wreckless as they want?

Great lesson Sean. Have you talked about pick attack angle?

Thanks

Thanks Sean. 🤘

that guitar is beautiful.

Recently started trying the boom chuckka Folsom Prison Blues, Ghost Riders stuff. Aiming at the right strings on a whole new level. Progress is slow. Any recommendations for that style of playing? The people who do it right make it look easy! .

thnx brah!

What a gorgeous guitar, what is the make and model again? Didn’t quite catch it in the video.

The neck of your guitar is really wide so the strings are very far apart. What about a thin neck guitar?

Just realised lately that I anchor my picking hand on the guitar just below the strings with my little finger. Its a pretty bad habit to get out of.

Tip, when you hit a wrong note repeat it & people will think it is supposed to sound that way. That advice comes from Keith Richard & he has hit a few wrong notes. I call it Guitar Deception. :)

mine is that the upper part of my finger hits the string pleas help

As someone who has recently bought a guitar with golden hardware, I hope you are using a matching cable with it!

Hey, Sean. I've never jammed with anyone, and I've never played over backing tracks. I mostly just noodle around meaninglessly. Anyway, I decided to record a backing track, nothing too fancy, just a I-IV-V, and play over that. It was terrible. I couldn't keep track of the changes, and I didn't know what to play over it. Aside from "Practice, practice, practice", what advice do you have to get better at it?

THATS SO SCARY I PLAYED THE EXACT SAME NOTE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT SOMETHING AT 6:08’while not watching the video and I FREAKED OUT HAHA I PLAYED IT AT THE SAME TIME😂😱

Sean, any advice (or maybe a video?) on how to best avoid screeching noises caused by the fretting hand? I just can't seem to get rid of them when I'm sliding from one fret to another. I've tried adjusting pressure and angle, but nothing's worked so far

Beautiful guitar, Sean. Is it the same scale length as the Gibson? Thoughts?

I can play the right strings like 98% of the time. Learned scar tissue by rhcp and can play it pretty good. Just can’t play under the bridge by rhcp without raging

Great advice 👍🏻😎

My advice is to practice alone so nobody else hears you. It can make you self conscious and less loose. Embrace your errors and missed notes. Every time you miss you learn. In fact that is the only time you really learn. You aren't pushing yourself if you are mistake free. Learn and practice until you can play something well and groove with it to get comfortable - then get uncomfortable by moving on to something you make mistakes doing. But do it alone or with another player who gets it.

A family friend showed me his arm after playing for a bit, and it had 6 stripes on it. He then told me " I feel on wich string i am" But he's been playing for ages hahaha Edit: how I play guitar : 4,3 Basically 4th fret 3rd string 😭😭 Is that a bad thing to do?

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It's very hard for me to jump from a small riff to a chord!

Good video my friend! Super like 👍

Woah! What guitar are you using?

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Summary:- practice and build mustle memory, why you all beginners come to youtube to find an easy way, go, practice hard cry and start over