You have a thing or two to teach other KZfaqrs. You're straight to the point and don't complicate any of it. Keep it up, you clearly have a gift. Not only to play guitar but to teach!

Christ, 10 mins of this video and I've learnt more about music theory than any other "professional" guitar teach has ever taught me! Thanks!

Probably the best lesson I've seen in my 20+ years playing...

One of the best ever lessons....it was clear and to the point. Fantastic lesson.

I've been playing for about a decade and everytime I tried learning music theory and solo playing I got very confused and overwhelmed. I actually found this informative and easily digestible. More lessons please 🙏

This lady changed some of my perspective for real, Thank ya

50 years from now, some kid will be able to boast that they have the coolest grandma ever!! And that will be an understatement!!

*You need to be born with this talent. After 10 ten years of lessons as a kid I could never get it. Picking every note was like pulling teeth for me. I did know numbers and made millions in the stock market. We all need to stick to the skills we are born with, we are all different.*

Finally I get this 3 notes per string thing. Thanks for the lesson. And yes, I need more now, especially on using the modal scales

Thanks for this video Sophie, I'm sending it straight to my daughter. She's 15 and just started learning last month. She has three passions. Heavy metal, makeup, and clothes, possibly in that order, so I guess you will be really inspirational for her! The stuff on modal scales would be a bit advanced for her but the first half on three notes per string is great advice, as she's learning the typical "box" method now. She'll take advice from you so much more than from me, so hopefully she'll become a dedicated follower of your channel and learn lots from you. Cheers!

5.32-5.36 represents hundreds (probably thousands) of hours practice. So bear in mind newbies, it only looks easy because it’s been practiced many, many times, slowly, over years. Anyone can play this well if they’re prepared to put in the effort. Unfortunately we won’t all end up being articulate, attractive blondes. BUT, we can all become better guitarists if we’re patient and diligent. This lady displays such dedication with perfect technique and a great teaching style. Wonderful job, thank you.

I just want to say Thank you. You are so kind and thoughtful. Sharing knowledge, technique of YOUR style, posture and love of music.

Yes more lessons you’re so good thanks for sharing your time with all of us Sophie👍🏻❤️🇬🇧🇺🇸

It's rather astonishing being a decent guitarist and then realizing I look like a beginner compared to your talent. Something to strive for! Holy smokes!

I went through the comments and I really dig the fact that there are so many respectful people in here who didn't just stop at your physical beauty and focused on what your inner being is expressing

Keep it simple, Excellent presentation, highly appreciated.

"When the student is ready, the teacher will appear" Tao Te Ching. Thanks for a great lesson. Your teaching style and skill will help get me to the next level!

I LOVED THIS LESSON! YES WOULD LOVE MORE LIKE IT!! thank you so much!

Teaching is its own skill and you have it! More teaching videos please!

I have watched 100's of videos on modes and you just explained it in less than 5 min in a way that was super easy to get. Great video.

*Sits down for first day of class* 3 minutes into video: *stands up* “I think I’m in the wrong class.”

I learned a lot from this. The main being how much I suck😩

The picking patterns were the lightbulb for me - combined with a few key position shifts. Great info - thank you Sophie!

amazing, I don't need to play, it's amazing just watch you play

Great Vid Sophie. Great for those at an Intermediate level who have started playing with scales and want to get from there to the end game of learning to solo with them. In relation to your comment, yes I would love to see a modal video lesson. Would love to see how you use this soloing. To others in the comments, don't let it scare you. practice the scale as she covers in the first couple of minutes, over and over, and as you get comfortable with it, you'll gain more speed and more confidence. Getting from the beginning to Sophie s skill level is not a 2 hour quest on how to learn guitar, it takes dedication and practice for a couple of years. But a little patience and you'll get there. Keep it up Sophie!, great vid!

MORE LESSONS PLEASE YOU ARE AMAZING !!! THANKS

Thanks Sophie. A door opened when I suddenly realised mixing major and minor pentatonics together was not only allowed but unlocked fretboard freedom. I know a bit about 3 notes per string and know a bit about modes but you just opened up so much more! Pity I only just found this at the end of lockdown ...grrrr!

Thank you very much Sophie ! Your lesson is great and you're amazing.. the way you present the tutorial is too good ..love it ! Please continue your great work.

I feel like I just learned a lot more in this short vid than I ever did with hours upon hours of practice on my own, even the mode section made A LOT of sense and it doesn't even sound hard anymore, thank you for this ❤

I literally have no clue as to what you’re talking about I just love listening to you talk. 😬

Holy crap, there was a ton of great info in this video! And not just on 3 notes per string. Subscribed. Great job!!!

My most favorite teacher in the whole wide world.

Imagine someone trying to impress her by playing wonderwall on acoustic

The "shut up/boobs" line at the end nearly killed me 👍🙂

For anyone new to guitar or just refreshing their licks, your tutorial style is second to none. All the best from some old muso.

It is hard to find a straightforward breakdown of patterns/scales that are broken down to match the way riffs work sonically. Especially fast playing. So, the fact you broke it down visually, physically and technically is one of the better teaching tools I’ve seen. Even pros skip over speed playing. The patterns and how they work are rarely explained. So having played a long time now, I have always been stuck in learning how to how to navigate scales accurately to get the texture I like while playing them clean. Well done! Thank you! If you could also go over timing, how to play in time would also be helpful.

I'm a beginner who's practicing due to quarantine, I'd appreciate a video on how to take a scale and work it down the fretboard. I've been working off of these scales. Good video! E minor pentatonic scale C major G major E harmonic minor scale (sounds so nice)

You showed up totally randomly in my feeds and i'm glad i clicked. This is a very well explained use of the modal system, provided the fact that some of ur viewers (not all of them apparently) have already experienced or dived a bit into modes. There are tonnes of videos out there explaining modes that are confusing (Gambale included). The only one that enlightened me and got me started was a video from Rob Chapmann. I'd be for a videos explaining modes your own way or give a first step to experience it , just so people start to understand that the "minor" scale is not a different scale, just a major scale with a different chord progression and starting point. Anyway, that's how i see it today. I'm sure u'd do a great job explaining it your own way. Keep up the good work this channel deserves to get bigger.

Great video. I've always played this scale this way; never thought to skip strings like that. I'll give it a try. I've been playing for 32 years, you are way better than I am.

Thanks for your perspective young lady. Keep rockin

the examples for different excersices for the scale you offered were good but the part where you were explaining how to use the scale in a modal context was really really great. It was explained simply so it would make sense for even musicians who are not too familiar with music theory and there was just no unnecessary digressing or over complification. That part was one of the best short guitar tutorials I've seen so far. kudos

What a great and inspiring musician, love your shred covers! Keep on doing what you’re doing

I feel like I just had my third eye opened watching this. You're doing God's work.

I would like to know what compliment has been left out? I feel blessed by finding your channel. Thank you for sharing your gift. I am speechless.

Hey sophie! Thanks for the lesson, I've been playing guitar for 20 years and this was good i apretiate it! I think you should do more lesson videos for sure!

Great lesson, very informative and easy to understand. I would love to see more instructional videos about three notes per string and modal playing. Thank you 🎸🎸🎸

I am an old rocker/physician, been playing since 1964. Sophie that was wonderful lesson and I will be back

I'm an old guy trying to learn. Thanks for showing the 3-note per string scale. This concept makes a wider scale, plus I can remember and visualize it fairly easily.

Great lesson! More please!!!

I see someone actually made you stay on your music theory, in which my dad really tried encouraging me to stay on. Should have listened to Dad!

A perfect example of less is more! So expressive with just the major scale. Short video,big lesson for me.🙏🙏🙏

You know the lesson is compelling when ,looking at beauty is overshadowed by talent ...well done

Yes please a full lesson on modal playing will be great. Thanks Sophie.

Sophie: Ok here's an example solo. Me: Cool can't wait to see how she uses the scale. Sophie: Plays 741 notes in 3 seconds. Ahhhh yeah that makes sense now. (Great video tho keep it up)

Thank you for this. It reinforced what I already knew and added the final bits that I didn’t.

Sophie, it was extremely kind of you to post this lesson. Thank you for all of your outstanding videos.

This was really great! I think it will be really fun to practice this, it made so much more sense to me than any way I've tried to teach myself. Thank you! You rock!

That’s a beautiful guitar. Like a piece of art.

That was a superb lesson!

This is brilliant, and very digestible teaching. Thank you Sophie. Reminds me of all the years I spent studying 1:1 with Tony McAlpine before he moved to Cali and became a super-star. You have my attention, and am glad I found your channel. Cheers to you! Great work you have going, here!

I love your guitar and how you play 👌

1st off, cool video, I enjoyed it 2nd, gorgeous guitar, I love the burst colors, and the unique dots on the fretboard. 3rd, I love the skull and mini guitar on your AMP head. 4th, Very cool of you to make such a useful speed increasing video free of charge, not too many channels willing to do that. 5th, I'm now subbed, look forward to watching more. \m/

This was a great lesson. My distraction with her appearance was subdued by the skill, content and delivery. Basically once the playing started I became a student instead of a gawker. Well done, I’ll be getting my ESP E2 and following her along.

Thanks for that lesson! Since Eddie passed away I've been wanting to reconnect with that part of myself and I've been picking up my electric again when the opportunity has come up. Before even seeing this video I did something I haven't done in years: played scales! The skipping strings approach is something I want to try as it can add variety to my leads. I appreciate your generosity in putting these tutorials out there along with your performances.

Steve Howe from Yes made this technique his signature sound. You can hear how this sounds like on any of Yes' 70's records.

Can you maybe make a video on breaking down your thought process if you were gonna improvise let’s say over any key (let’s say Bm). How you would implement pentatonic, natural minor, harmonic minor (if applicable), triads. And how you actually go about changing your playing when there’s a chord change. Thanks your videos are awesome!

This is absolutely the best guitar lesson

thanks Sophie I´m learning much better with your lessons.

9:05 - Lol, great sense of humour

i love how it started simple and got gradually more complicated. Something for people of all skill levels. I'll hopefully come back when I can actually understand the later parts.

Thank you very much. Wonderful presentation to teach Guitar through KZfaq.

Sophie wonderful playing. I so enjoy watching and listening to you play. I could kill a whole day just doing that.

hey this lesson was really easy to follow along! thanks for the 3nps exercises as well - appreciated the string skip and picking variations! please keep doing more as you're really great at breaking things down :) would love to also see a close up of how you hold your pick to get the maximum speed. and also how your pick moves between the strings (do you slant it? and how much pick do you use when you do it?)

I think of all the education that I missed. But then my homework was never quite like this

One of the best...or should I say two. Seriously among the best lessons I've ever had the good fortune to see.

This just reminds me of why I spent the first hour of practice everyday playing each scale form all the way down the neck (open - 13th fret). When this became second nature, I was introduced to the metronome. She is 100% right though when you can start combining forms and just naturally "feel" what is right and sounds right all while staying in key.

Ahh the lesson ive been searching with begineer explanation so i can understand easily. Keep up the good lesson!! Thank you so much

I took music theory in high school, been playing guitar for 40 years, and still ain't even close to being as good as this lady!

3 notes a string...Amazing idea. Thanks Sofie beautiful lady. I love your purple guitar and the amazing sounds from it. My favorite guitar is my purple Jackson so I appreciate that. With this lesson nobody has an excuse to not learn. I think everyone has talent within them.

Sophie, you combine musicality, guitars playing art and beauty. There is everything for a musical success.

Thats really well explained and incredible playing!

Sophie - Music theory and humor combined. Now, that's almost as amazing as your guitar skills. Thanks for the technique on the fast runs. I must admit that probably half of the view count on the Living on a Prayer shred is probably due to me having it on loop; it is fantastic! ;-)

Sophie's lessons 'shred'!!!...they're just the right approach! Thanks for the triplet tricks and hammer on/offs, and modes. Thanks a bunch! (Happy, Happy!)

Wow I use to play in a band for years and you have taught me I know pretty much nothing. Your music knowledge, skill and speed with all fingers is breathtaking! Please keep lessons flowing, it would be good to know high level how to structure our Learning/practice to get to this level

I learned something. That's a good thing. Teach us more

you're the best Sophie !!!

Sophie, Thanks for the lesson and thanks for presenting simply! You are inspiring!

Sophie: "but sometimes playing in just a major scale can sound a little boring" Also Sophie *shredding the crap out of that guitar* me who just recently learned smoke on the water: ill just go back to guitar hero

Yes, give us a lesson on modal playing.

That was actually helpful. I tried combining the 3 notes per string with the pentatonic of the relative minor and it worked great! Thank you!

Finally a taste of modal theory that made sense to me. Thank you for the great video. Beautiful guitar too!

The Ingwie Malmstein school of shredding: "Do dis" , "Now do dis faster".

Best sign-off ever (at 9:06): “Or tell me to shut up, and comment on my boobs” 😂😂

You rule! That was a very eye opening video. I’ve never heard modes, string skipping, 3 notes per string explain so simply!!

Thank you, I'd like to see more lessons - that was beyond my current level, but I am motivated to pick the guitar up more regularly again and then come back and watch again when it isn't. I understood the theory as you explained it and would certainly watch more of this type of content thanks.

Only the anti -talent will not understand it and will not play. Perfectly explained. Very good job :)

Then moment she said she is looking at me, I got nervous LMAO. EPIC WORK THO.

I've seen a lot of guitar teachers on KZfaq rambling and not teaching anything. This girl really did help me get better. And I can get better at guitar while looking at a stunning girl instead of some balding dude, thanks KZfaq.

Super helpful! Been a “box player” for 30 years, thinking about three notes per string in a new light after this!! Thanks, Sophie!

I'm so in love with this girl... she's playing amazing, and its so beautiful.