best lesson on his style i've seen yet

You nailed it. I've been listening to John McLaughlin guitar playing for about 25 years, and it is the first time I realize that playing A BIT like him might be a reachable goal for a human being with a lot of work. It just seemed impossible before I saw your video. Thank you.

You absolutely nailed his style

Excellent lesson.

Great class and your dexterity is inspiring thank you

Not a guitarist. A musician and lifetime fan of McLaughlin. This is very revealing. It really helps my appreciation. I'm very excited to be seeing him with Shakti this summer. Thanks, and subscribed!

You really are a SUPERB guitarist! I agree that the rhythmic aspect and figures that he plays go towards encapsulating his style. The modal and scale examples are very well presented buts what’s missing is his wildness, his willingness to go outside the limits of modes and scales and keys. He is quite prepared to to play those rhythmic figures that you presented so well then just shift them sideways. The aggression is the other factor particularly in the Mahuvishnu days. He did lots of fierce string bending. Anyway thanks for a wonderful video. 🎸👍👏

bravo.

great for beginners! .

First time I've seen someone other than the Mahavishnu himself talking about the way he counts. Its not like we learned at music school. I've had several years with his 'This is How I do It' videos and this is exactly what he continuously emphasizes. The counting. John is not just playing music, he is imparting his belief system through his music. He literally talks about it in interviews and those videos. The other thing is his fingerings. He uses his first and middle fingers for stretches, he does not often use his ring finger for fretting patterns with whole steps. This is an incredible lesson! Thank you.

Bravo Felipe!!! keep it up!!

Sounds just like John. I love it!

I always wanted to learn this style. Felipe is well rounded.

Thank you very much. Great playing and insights!

If not for Lenny Breau John McLaughlin and Al Dimeloa these innovations would not have expanded to the depths they are today.

This is a brilliant lesson. You have explained these elements of his style in a very easy to understand way. Thank you! Your technique is great and effortless.

Cara, muito bom. MESMO! Eu nunca parei para estudar o fraseado dele usando a linguagem hindu de música. Agora fez TODO o sentido ahahaha. Obrigado

Linda aula irmão! Acho que as pessoas falam pouco desse cara... John é uma gande inspiração pra mim, me fez apaixonar pelo instrumento de novo. Parabéns pelo conteúdo e metodologia na aula.

Awesome! I’ll be watching this video everyday for the foreseeable future 😆✌️

Great playing and awesome ideas to try. Especially around fusion based music!

Very illuminating. I'm not a musician, but I enjoyed this, and it adds to my appreciation. Thanks Felipe.

Sod McLaughlin. You’re playing is awesome

Fabulous explanations, without all of the overly complex descriptions of music theory. Useable, sensible, concepts that most people will enjoy whether playing or listening. Thanks for your perspective!!!👍👍

Awesome!

VERY COOL

Great technique! Sounds like country music - e.g. Roy Clark, Glen Campbell.

Love from the Beaufort Street Cat's XxX

Excellent.

Brilliant lesson. I already employ a couple of these ideas, but you’ve opened up a few more, for which I’m grateful. 🙏

Some great ideas!

Excellent intro into 5the use of Konokol in guitar playing & phrasing - Ive not heard anyone come close to the way John sounds - It must be the constant use of the Konokol patterns in his playing. Excellent job! I hope to see more of Johns work here?

Ótima aula ...colem nele gerallllll.....

Extremely useful lesson! The core idea is simple but essential to unlocking faster playing. Besides, your technique and sound are fantastic, and it's refreshing to see someone come on video with gear that would be accessible to most guitarist and have such a fantastic, top-notch jazz sound. Nothing to be improved there! I just subscribed but wanted to show you my appreciation. Muito obrigado!

You can tell Zakk Wylde got alot of his picking technique ideas from John McLaughlin omg I'd love to have a lesson from you on how to play this stuff please!

Great lesson! I love how you build toward his sound from a technical level rather than jumping into it or mimicry

very nice ! thank you !!!!

Brilliant 👏

Nice work. Another thing is some of the same patterns you show but he uses pinky barres or ring finger barres across adjacent strings when crossing. A good one from David is (4th string start going up) D#EF#B, ABCE, D#EFF#B, A. Pinky barres.

This is video is awesome! You made me understand how John McLaughlin plays and it really helped me a lot, thank you!

Excellent fellow wow this so real a wealth of knowledge for all of us so great full thank you so much bro

We need the lesson on how to play like John McLaughlin… FINGERSTYLE!!

Obrigado Felipe! Wow, that really stirred up the natives 😄 LOL What tremendous playing and not to mention your work to know and figure all that out. That's about the best take on John's playing I've seen or heard. I've followed McLaughlin since In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew, through Mahavishnu Ochestra and on and on. Had a great long hang with him when the 2nd MO played Christchurch, New Zealand. Talked for hours, he was interested in what I did which was classical guitar concerts...he said he love the Julian Bream 20th C. album etc etc, what a totally nice guy! Took me a while to relax I was so star struck! What a find your channel is, subbed, liked etc....You know your stuff man! Just one thing unless it's a state secret, what pick are you using ? Looks like a Jazz 111...but it's not the red one like JM uses. Looking forward to following your videos!

I was just looking at all the other videos you have done . Thank you SO MUCH for sharing these . You are quite an inspiration.

I heard some riffs in the first segment, right from the funk part of Vision is a Naked Sword. Great playing ! Those riffs also sound great using a phase shifter and panned back and forth.

Great. It would be nice to have a lesson on this alternate picking style,..

Thanks so much

Very thorough observation of John’s style. The one thing I notice John likes to do is bend notes down with tremolo as resolution of a run, imitating a sax in a way. Exactly opposite of Allan Holdsworth, who used to bend notes up. Just my noticing.

Fantastic!Merci...

Thank you so much very informative

I just subscribe to your channel. I think you’re an excellent instructor. John McLaughlin is in my top 10 faves.

Amazing lesson, very inspiring, many thanks!

O difícil é ter a genialidade , a criatividade dele , em tantos estilos e épocas .

At around 4.46 ,you play the four note groupings down up down up ,as i would imagine Mclaughlin does ,then when you speed up ,you change the pick stroke to include two string sweeps followed by upstrokes.

Really great sequences,man! This would make a whole instructional of playing these in all different positions Hannon Style , or Vinnie Moore instructional style

Great lesson!

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Wow 🤯

Amazing lesson! It would be really great have to have the score for that, sell it on gumroard perhaps?

Brilliant.

Brilliant

Begin the Beguine

Really great insights! I'm definitely going to try these out. Also, how is it possible that you have such technique with a pick and classical fingerstyle!?

Great video. I’ve never heard of this concept, is it “conical”, “konical”, how is it spelt?

A little bit out of time, because you play sweep instead of alternate picking 😊

and subscribed!

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@<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="607">10:07</a>, Wow, wasn't that the basis for King Crimson's Frame by Frame lick??

So from this, John uses economy picking whenever crossing strings? Does he definitely do that or is this your preferred way of playing the same notes? If he does, at what point in his career did he start using that technique? Great video!

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="377">6:17</a> Not sure what happened here, but you said D Dorian, then used C# as a chromatic approach to D. (Basically arpeggiating a Dm(maj7) chord. Maybe you were already anticipating the harmonic minor example?). Then suddenly at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="402">6:42</a>, you're using C, and I can see the D Dorian aspect stepping up in fourths, ii V I IV. Not sure if you were trying to convey this (with the C# usage) but I wonder how it would sound to just use a half step into every chord

Could you please help with the backing track... Would be really helpful

Ok, but how to play like Laurindo Almeida? :)

show !!!

Nice Bro!! But where is the Melody?

Tablatura por favor 💓

I always thought Mclaughlin had a lot of different styles.

I wish when you play slow you would name the note not the degree of the scale it's easier to visualize the pattern for me as you speak over what you're playing and slow your speech when naming the scale you're using I have old years old eyes But the fingers still fly thank you. Peace

Could you have this lesson scored or in tabs ?

Any tabs for sale on these examples ?

Good observations. You’re pronouncing John’s name wrong! It’s: McLachlan ( mə-KLOKH-lən) and yes I know him.

Are you using straight alternate picking or economy picking for playing fast?

thanks for tips and tricks, but HOW BEING SPEEDY? not only become speedy with thousands of hours of exercises.can an older player having hands and muscles for speedy exercises? speed is not peculiar but can be so funny.thankss ciao from Italy

Nobody does play like john mclaughing

Not his Style...

Awesome lesson!