I'm sorry to hear about your arthritis! I pray that God heals you!

Keto + IF has helped many who suffered from arthritis. If you could find a proper doctor to guide you, you might want to give it a try

@@ezer0923 I have one of the best doctors in the entire US taking care of me, literally. There are many forms and causes of arthritis. I didn't mention what type I have and what causes it. Thanks for your suggestion, but I'm doing everything humanly and medically possible to manage, improve and slow down the progress. I only mentioned arthritis because I wanted to emphasize how important triads are to my continues enjoyment of making music.

I am disabled with a chronic pain syndrome (among other things) and have issues with my hands and arms. I can relate with the ease of triads (except I can’t do many barre notes). I also like to use power chords frequently - until my muscles tire out. May I ask what kind of guitar/s you find comfortable to play? And strings? I only own a single acoustic guitar from KLOS (a full sized model) that is really great because the body weighs next to nothing and is really comfortable. However the neck is really comfortable too, but because of my limitations, it’s very painful to play many types of songs as the session goes on because of the way I have to grip the neck at times. Do you use acoustic or electric? Which model/s? I really love D’addario Acoustic Phosphor Bronze XT coated strings. They sound amazing in my guitar and feel as comfortable as 11-52’s can feel. I just tried the new XS strings (they sent a sample pack to me), and I don’t like them as much as the XT’s. They don’t seem to stay in tune. The XT’s get tuned once before I start playing and usually don’t need retuning until the next day - and even then, the tuning is usually still fine. The XS goes out of tune 1-2 songs into my playing session. The XS also sounds a bit brighter and less balanced than the XT’s when they are in tune. But here’s the biggest deal breaker for me: the coating seems to be way too slick for my fingers, which, tend to slide off the sides of the strings and make me miss fretting notes. I had contacted D’addario asking whether they had any customer feedback about fingers slipping off the strings before I went to purchase a pack, so they offered to send me a sample pack. I’m really glad I didn’t spend money on strings I’m not happy with. They seem to be well reviewed on KZfaq on videos I’ve seen, but they aren’t great for hands that have issues and the tuning issue is really odd. I’m gonna have to switch back to the XT’s in the coming days. Which strings do you use? I have a feeling I’d do much better with an electric guitar. I can’t afford it, though, as my circumstances have changed. Been trying to get a donated one but I haven’t gotten anywhere. A thinner neck would probably make a huge difference in my chronic pain as would thinner gauged strings. I’ve been playing for 1.5 years now. It’s a struggle, but I love it - best PT, OT, cognitive therapy, and recreational therapy all rolled into one! I’m homebound since July 2019, so guitar has been an amazing outlet. My service dog enjoys the music too! Glad I had the guitar laying around my house from several years ago (purchased before my life drastically changed) and decided to give it a try. Anyway, would be helpful to hear more about your guitar and string choices. Thanks!

@@rustyl.6358 Hey man, just wanted to say I had arthritis years back and what helped me recover was cutting out grains, dairy and high-carb foods, and replacing them with a lot of healthy fats and oils. Not sure if you've read up on anything like this or if whether it will even work for you as it did for me as we're all different, but thought I'd share in case it proves to be useful. Bless and good to hear you're still engaging in your passions regardless of the circumstances :)

The 'Sesame Street trick' was basically Pretty little Ditty by RHCP

Yeah!! Love that RHCP song!!! It's perfect for the mighty triads, also wouldn't the Edge from U2 qualify with his licks? I can definitely see how the big hair bands from the 80's, used power chords and triads a lot on their epic albums!!

it’s josh not fursciante for their new album and last

@@jochem420 yesss! Pretty little ditty! I actually play bass and most songs have rather boring bass lines (or at least not melodic enough for my taste). But I always enjoyed learning flea's basslines and also some of frusciante's riffs.

@@thomasburke_ you haven't heard the news? They kicked Klinghoffer out of the band and Frusciante rejoined. They're working on a new album and world tour is coming.

Not only Paul himself, but also his videos are handsome af.

I did no even notice that until I read this. You are correct, really amazing job on the overall look.

Yeah be4 this video. I just learn triads cause they said it's a secrect then i didn't see where tf is the secrect

Paul is great. But check out Rob Swift (Swiftlessons), too. Excellent teacher.

Paul and Bernth are the main 2 I look to if I'm in a rut

Personally I don't believe in any of these youtube lessons! You must either choose guitar like your profession, or you must be extremely motivated, with no social life in order to learn good guitar. Other than these two cases you just loose your time.

@@guardianobserver6593 Um, no. You can make drastic improvements with just an hour a day.

@@guardianobserver6593 loose your time? in what sense? What are you supposed to do with “time” according to you?

so is Weir.... maybe more so,

He was indeed

I'm working on Acoustic Adventure just now and will move to NLP soon

I’m gonna jump to NLP after I finish LPP. I don’t want any lag time between them I just want to get into his take on playing anywhere on the neck and improvising.

I figured it out myself 30 yrs ago when nobody expected free lessons to learn guitar.

4:12 got me on the editing. Masterpiece.

Hi George, how will you recommend to start learning triads?!

@@oscrem78 Learn about intervals and find some ear training apps to recognise them. Learn your Major and Minor scale across the neck. Look into how we use intervals to build chords. Learn about inversions, what a first inversion and second inversion are exactly. Practice these across the neck. Look into chord extensions and how they relate to intervals and triads. Learn about third inversions. Look into which chords are built from the intervals in your scales, and which extensions you can use on those chords using scale tones. Look into modes and how this affects chord building. That should do you for a few years, if you really dig into it.

Doing this for practice tonight once I get home!