Now explain it to me like I’m 5.

I'm now 82. I started playing guitar when I was 18 mostly using chords to accompany my singing as I am more of a singer than guitar player for which I learned to play in all keys but with limited basic chords. I've done singing semi professionally for 27 years in clubs and pubs circuits in the UK with my brother who also happened to play guitar mainly strumming. Ee managed to do this for 27 years and the audience were quite happy listening to us. I have a friend who is a very good guitar lead player and I can't forget what he told me that a man at the age of 80 can still learn to play guitar. Believe it or not, as I am still stuck in the Philippines due to covid travel restrictions, preventing me to go back to the UK, I decided to kill the time by playing guitar and that's when I happened to see Paul Davids in YTube. I have been following him up for over a year now and I am learning a lot and he influences me to carry on learning and improving my guitar. I'm now 82 and still learning a lot playing guitar. Salute to Paul and other guitar teachers for their no end of contributions demonstrating their talents in guitar playing.

Legend says the devil made a deal with Paul for a 3 in 1 deal, editing, soloing and beard grooming.

This guy makes everything seems easy. Not only because of his musical skill. But because of how he explains things, how he put everything into order.

15:30 “everyone will know you messed up, because it just sounds horrible.” My guitar playing in a sentence.

This man is the greatest guitar philosopher of all time.

Wow, I love the sound on that 335! It's buttery smooth and warm like a blanket out of the dryer. Aaaaahhhh.

I started as a bass player then moved to chords on acoustic and thought I wasn't good enough to solo. Then I realized when I was playing bass I was really soloing all along. It's all about practicing day in and day out. Learn your pentatonic, then your modes/scales and start to put it all together. You got this bros 💪

My eyes say "That's how I play solo" , my hands say "No, you don't know how"

These must be the best-produced videos I’ve seen. Great content delivered with humour, beautifully lit, imaginative settings changed continuously. A Masterclass in the medium. And those tones ....

That moment of sheer excitement when I see there's a new Paul Davids video...

As a senior and not far from 70, I just started learning the guitar during COVID-19 and though my skill level is at a basic level, your video is an inspiration to keep learning and keep practicing.

I think the ability to think about and construct a melodic and unique solo is one that is not easy. Solos are probably why most of us picked up the guitar in the first place. Appreciate the information and perspectives.

Four years of my puzzle solved in 19:12 minutes. You are the best buddy. This is the most fundamental need of a guitar player and never I have ever seen a simple explanation like you have done here. You understand what the people want and you understand what you are talking about and you the 'awesome' will deliver in the most fundamental and basic level where our concepts have paused. A true musical genius. #respect

This is the kind of lesson i wish i had 10 years ago. Being self taught it took me a lot of trial and error to figure this stuff out. The hardest thing for me is to push myself out of my standard bag of pentatonic tricks! Great stuff paul!

I wanna add something. Starting at 10:15 is a mini-masterclass on John Mayer's "Gravity" solo. Compare what Paul's demonstrating to the final ideas in John's solo and see just how important phrasing is to a good solo. You're the best Paul! Thank you for the excellent videos!

Best guitar teacher on ytb, in my opinion at least.

I just LOVE how emotional your guitar playing sounds even when you're playing on the "basic" patterns, great job as always Paul!

Loved seeing the progression from quite simple to complex. Loved just listening to your playing even more.

Years of questions solved in a 20 minutes video. What a great and straight to the point way to approach soloing. Thanks!

Paul you making the most mellow and relaxing videos. Thank you. We can watch you without feeling incapable and that is something I think we all can appreciate.

That tone....wow. One of the best tones just for a tutorial ever.

When you started the first solo I was like "what! No paul, no!" that was a good demonstration of tension and release😉

If somebody told me to choose one man to be my master and help me improve, it definitely would be you Paul. You're good maaann.

"Without tension and release, there's never a good story" I like that

3:33 - 3:43 a few of the most all-time classic moments on ALL of the internet(s) MADE MY DAY. Thank you!

I am a pianist, but I enjoy this channel much more than other piano channels. Everything is explained from a different and very clear point of view. Great!

If a teacher and musician like you exist in every coordinate on earth, the world will produce more music then hatered. Love you brother from Assam.

Hey, can you do a vid on how you would make a lofi guitar piece (including how you would make the whole thing sound lofi)

Me: I need to use something other than ionian. *Paul plays ionian solo (4:48) Ooh that's the best. Guess I just need to do it like Paul!

I've been playing for 33 years and learn something new every time I watch one of your videos. It always inspires me to play. Thanks for what you do.

Undisputably THE BEST guitar lesson on the Internet. Paul, you are an incredible guitarist but your greater gift is teaching. THANK YOU!

Paul is the GOAT when it comes to teaching guitar and enthusing people for playing guitar. Full stop. Nothing more to say. ❤

Soloing videos from Paul and Chris Buck on the same day! My beginner’s blues shuffle doesn’t sound quite as awesome as it seemed yesterday. More work to do.

I work in the mental health field AND I am obsessed by guitar. One of my clients saw a tagline on my email mentioning guitars and he actually recommended Pual Davids. Funny thing, I have been a follower for at least 2 years now. I think your lessons are top notch, the fact that my guy mentioned you right off the bat was an interesting coincidence, and it shows that you have a wide range of followers. THANK YOU for all you do for us!

I think this is one of the best video's you've ever done. The level of clarity provided u know basics of Tones/Semitones is something i wish i had 10 years ago.

This is pure gold delivered on a silver platter by an amazing person

the lighting is so good

Man that's some of the prettiest guitar I ever heard. I'm 70 and a big hard rock fan, but this but this grabs me real deep. Is that a epi 339? This confirms why I subscribed to you.

Just as I'm starting my solo-ing journey. Timing couldn't be more perfect!

Best explanation I've found of how to play to the chords while leveraging the potentially constraining pattern systems.

Thanks, David! I’m still stuck in the unflavoured, pale and shallow pentatonic swamp. I understand and hear every single bit of what you say and play but can’t get it out through my fingers. I’ve been there for years... Thanks for your work and efforts you put into your videos. You are a breeze of fresh air!

I just wanted to thank Paul Davids for his inspiration and relentless dedication to providing entertaining and useful content for guitar players around the world. I am only a beginner-intermediate player but the vistas shown by Paul help motivate me to keep practicing, listening and studying.

Paul cured my anxiety and taught me guitar. What a guy.

Hello from France, thx what you are doing it's awesome stuff xoxo

So far I've just been sticking to minor pentatinic, major pentatonic, and natural minor/aeolian. I know enough theory now to be able to diagnose what key a song is in and to just use the appropriate scale over the whole thing, I'm just in a bit if trouble if the song I'm jamming over throws in anything outside of the key. I usually just jam with someone so it's not a problem (I'll get him to play dome looped chords from say A minor, and I'll improvise with the A minor pentatonic on top of it all). For now, that's good enough for me...I see myself as mostly a rhythm player who just dabbles in lead anyway, so that's good enough for me for now...

playing along to this video has already helped me improve my soloing so much. i've gone from noodling all over the fretboard with no direction to actually playing some decent solos. thank u!

He’s back!!!

When Paul makes a video, I am glued. That soft spoken accent, that gentleness, that dedication........

I’ve missed your videos these past two weeks mr Paul

Ive been playing music all my life and this is the best video I've ever watched. Thank you for making the only video anyone needs to become a good improviser.

I WANT AN ALBUM MADE BY YOU IN MY DESK NOW OMG PLEASE This licks that u played were so warm and good

I never want your videos to end.... The flow...the sounds... The visuals... I am in love with your playing and videos. 19 mins is still too less 😭 I wish I could listen you play all day . Never stop , kind sir!

You literally the best guitar teacher I've ever seen I really love this kind of videos thank you very much!

I know this is a video about music and guitars and all, but the lighting in this video is so good.

I literally was thinking about difficulty in soloing when the notification came!!!

This was the most informative solo lesson I've seen on KZfaq so far. No bs, and very educational thank you.

And in the end "forget about everything and just play." It's all about the melody folks.

Paul is the only guy that actually makes theory interesting

😍wow, touched my soul right away.... I can never get tired to listening to it🙃

Another excellent video, very helpful in learning the basics of how good soloists approach chord changes. I wish I knew this stuff 40 years ago! I remember when I first realized that all the pentatonic scales based on each note in a key are also in the key and thus always work. It's an amazing feature of musical math that I didn't know until recently. Most teachers never seem to come out and say it, but it's an extremely useful bit of information.

I would love to see a collaboration between Paul Davids and Justin Johnson - my two favourite guitar KZfaqrs

I'm grateful for video lessons like this. Before we had access to them I had been stuck on that intermediate level for a few years. I couldn't afford private lessons. Tried learning by teaching myself covers of the best guitarists in the world, but that just made me a good cover player. Great if you just want to be in a cover band, but useless if you want to compose originals and sound original. Videos like this helped me smash through that damned intermediate ceiling, and today I'm actually getting a little session work. 👍✌️🙏

You really don't realise how useful this video is, I really appreciate it man

I've been playing guitar professionally for 35 years most of it five nights a week at least and I'll tell you one thing I love this guy this guy I love this guy so if you want to be really good do what he says and you improve improve improve and you will be will be really good

I wanna see this man at a live venue, I would pay big money to see him rock out live on stage.

There should be an option to subscribe twice. Very informative for one of the most confusing elements of playing guitar. I love that you play an example of what you explain every time. Thanks for everything Paul

Ever since I started playing guitar I’ve loved it, but seeing these videos really motivates me to keep pushing my playing to the next level. thanks Paul

We love you too, I've been playing for 12 years and this was really useful for me! Thanks a lot please dont ever stop doing your thing! Regards from Sweden ⭐🎸

I love when a guy with unnatural freakishly long fingers wraps his fingers around the fretboard twice and says “Here’s a fun chord you can all play…”

Good advice I’ve been experimenting with some backing tracks to see what seems to fit, to my ear.helps a lot to find your way around the fretboard without being boxed in.

5:06 I like the Sultans of Swing inspiration.

I'm working on an improvisation solo with like 7 chords out of key and its really fun. helped me a lot!

Ik ben eigenlijk wel benieuwd of je wel eens bent gevraagd om op tv te komen? Je bent wel echt DE Nederlandse guitar goat💪💪😁

You're the best teacher Paul, also always a variety of content to widen once perspective on playing guitar. Many thanks!

I always get lost as soon as scales come up... I feel like I've learned what the pentatonic and blues scales are at least 10 times but they haven't stuck in my head.

2:14 that right there is what I want to learn. Just those licks. Cause whenever I try to do fast lead I just need to know licks and the rhythms to do those fast runs. Im not a beginner just dont know how to approach lead like that sometimes

I’ve probably watched this 124 times

Lethal the smoothness..so beautiful..

Thank you, this video slapped my potatoes, toasted my buns, buttered my eggroll and regulated my blood pressure.

One thing I really like about your videos is that you don't start by showing everyone what a superior player you are. I guess doing that isn't the worst thing, but I don't click on a video unless I already think the guy trying to teach me something is already pretty good. I just like this about your videos, you play a little tasty passage and then get right to the meat of what you want to convey. You are one of the best, but you have a way of making it look like I could possibly learn to do it like you do. Thanks.

Tfw Paul trying to make this as easy as possible and I still can’t completely follow… Maybe I shouldn’t be watching this lmao

Groot respect voor de kwaliteit van het hele plaatje. Je weet precies hoe je bij ons binnen komt. Je weet een hele groep mensen te onderrichten van beginners tot gevorderden. Je bent een meester . Als je daar ook nog een gevoel meegeeft met prachtige beelden die precies daar komen waar je het hebt uitgedacht. Dan mag je jezelf een meester noemen. En dat is wat we nodig hebben. Your the best.

Just close your eyes and go solo ❤🎶

This video really highlights the importance of knowing the fretboard inside out. Yet more to work on! Such lovely tones for something so simple...great video

Paul: plays a solo Me: wow thats a heavenly solo!! Paul: wait a sec!! Thats not good! Me: true, that sounds horrible!! 🤦‍♂️

Continually proving to be one of the GOAT's of tuition and straight up wonderful content

great, now explain it to me like i’m 4

That's the best melodic demonstration of Lydian I've seen or heard 🎸🎶🕊

*Yo **#pauldavids** check out my latest song let me know what you think. I would appreciate feedback from an accomplished musician.*

You are so inspiring and positive!!! Thank God such people like you visit our world!! I watched your video on "one breath". And found so many interesting things, that I can use in my playing. Thank you!🎉🎉🎉

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Love your channel Paul. Have been playing blues and rock for 50 years and studying classical guitar and music theory for the last 3 years.You make make understanding guitar playing reasonably easy. There is no doubt a little theory (i know we just want to play not get lost in theory) is really a great way to get the basic understanding of how it all works, couple that with some playing experience and you are on you way to playing your guitar like you always wanted to. The one other thing you need to know is that good gear does make a world of difference especially as you improve your approach to playing via theory and experience. A good player can make a rubbish instrument sound good. Stick with it people and the rewards will come! Playing guitar is a very personal experience but it must come from the heart. Please keep it coming Paul you are indeed making an impact on players around the world.

If you have just or recently started, please read this. TL;DR: Please don't do my mistake. Get lessons, learn theory, play with others, be patient. That's literally all that's needed to become a talented artist. I started playing at 12 years old. I picked it up pretty quick I felt. Being able to play some classic rock songs to a point where they could be recognized. Then I felt like I knew and could play the whole song when I got through most of it in one go. I got so many compliments when I told them I was self learned I felt like a natural talent. I went on to more and more complicated songs and struggled a bit, but knew how to play the defining riffs of the songs, and felt content with that and moved on. This trend continued until I started to play and improvise my own parts over these songs and felt great about it! I wanted to join our put together a band, but nothing came out of it. The tabs for more complicated song became harder and harder so I kept improvising my own stuff. Up until that I had not learned any theory at all. It seemed daunting, I had no is where to start, and I felt my improvisation worked fine, so why should I? At one point I learned the pentatonic blues scale. Or so I thought. I learned the vertical pattern down the strings, but not horizontal up and down the fretboard. I did not learn the notes, or anything else. I never got much better than that. I have played for 13 years now, and still am at that level. Everytime I try to learn any theory, I just can't. I don't know where to start, how to remember and apply it. I can make some decent riffs, and they sound good. But that's pretty much it. Every time I see and bear someone playing like this, varied, confident, tights, built on knowledge, etc. I get so demoralized I just put my guitar down and do something else. I find it harder and harder to find joy in playing, and I hate that part of me because it was easily avoidable if somebody told me that would happen. TL;DR: Please don't do my mistake. Get lessons, learn theory, play with others, be patient. That's literally all that's needed to become a talented artist.

Hey Paul, thanks for your inspiration. Your calm explanation, the visuals and knowledge brought me back to my guitar. Father of two kids, full-time Job felt like nothing was left for being creative on my instrument. My Tube amp had a defect so everything went on my attic. Your approach was so refreshing that I instantly went to a technician, searched for my pedals, set everything up and now I am playing hours and hours. Feels really good. Thank you!

Instead of learning, I’m just lost in those sweet melodies you’re playing. 🥰🥰🥰

Tension is the key. As untrained as I am, I realised a long long time ago stretching and pushing the boundaries in whichever way you are able to makes the solo cooler. Great vids as always Paul.

For many years of playing guitar, I would stay away from scales and only stick to chords. After watching this, it made me more inspired to learn more about guitar playing.

You are the best teacher i ever heard in my life. Thanks so much my friend... You made my day today. Thank God for your life Paul. My name is pastor Joseph Kwan

This video I’ve been wanting to watch for the last 10 years! It explains everything I wanted to know!