How to Learn ANY Song

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4 ай бұрын

Some thoughts on how to learn ANY song on guitar. Thanks to @ElixirStringsMedia for sponsoring this video. Get yourself a set:
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@crazed1x 3 ай бұрын

Who had Sean breaking out a TooL riff on their bingo card? ❤ Great lesson!

@SlimeyGuitarStrings 3 ай бұрын

Sean did Tool as listening homework a year ago for Parabola. I think I had heard Tool before, but that was the first song that ever hit for me by them.

@seandaniel23 3 ай бұрын

Gotta let the people know!

@swaggercat 3 ай бұрын

This lesson has got to be a lot of WOW moments for a lot of people. Well done Sean. The tip about 5 and 7 equaling 12 blew me away

@seandaniel23 3 ай бұрын

Thanks! I'll try and come up with some more!

@antoniopetroff979 3 ай бұрын

Great point about going backwards 😮

@seandaniel23 3 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

@owenanstey436 3 ай бұрын

This is a particularly helpful lesson Sean, thanks so much.

@bernicekemp953 3 ай бұрын

Thanks Sean ... This has been very helpful. Keep up the great work!!

@seandaniel23 3 ай бұрын

Thanks so much! I'll keep em coming :)

@jporterz2873 3 ай бұрын

So thanks to you Sean, I changed my strings to Elixir's. I doubt I will ever put nay others on my acoustic guitar. They sound amazing! I'm only about 4 months into playing, and I can tell the difference, in a big way!

@seandaniel23 3 ай бұрын

Nice!!

@aliasrai 3 ай бұрын

I can't emphasize how much this short video has taught me. thanks a lot!!

@TheHesseJames 3 ай бұрын

What works for me best when trying to identify the key is: 1. listen to the song 2. hum a constant note along with the song 3. find that note on the guitar 4. whatever chord fits, major or minor, that's your key! Why humming the note? If you are not super proficient in quickly identifying what note fits best on your fretboard like our Sean here, you are most likely much more experienced in humming instinctively the root note of the song's key. Then, finding what you are humming is much easier.

@SlimeyGuitarStrings 3 ай бұрын

That's not a bad thing. Lots of crazy good electric guitarists actually hum/sing what they're playing at the same time to help them relate the notes to the guitar and to help with phrasing.

@johndooley7812 3 ай бұрын

Great lesson. Thanks Sean.👍

@seandaniel23 3 ай бұрын

Happy to help!

@CalvinLimSH-ld5le 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing how to learn a song quickly by playing a single bass note usually the root note which can represent any complicated chord sounds [ major, minor, dim, etc).

@seandaniel23 3 ай бұрын

You know it!

@ethanrightmyer255 3 ай бұрын

Sean!!! Man that was so spot on- you explained it so perfectly for me, made me really start connecting the dots with progressions/ charting and Basic theory THANK YOU!! 🤘

@seandaniel23 3 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@jcburger733 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for another great lesson. Very helpful!!

@seandaniel23 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching Joe!

@adsfaedaer 3 ай бұрын

whilst this is excellent, what would make it better, would be to take a billie ellish (or whatever) song and break it down using this technique.

@seandaniel23 3 ай бұрын

Maybe I can do this on a livestream soon

@FrancisRoy 3 ай бұрын

I’d love too

@canoworms609 3 ай бұрын

Once again ,just when I was about to set my guitar on fire , I am back in the game ! ThankYou Sean !

@MrCinester 3 ай бұрын

Great lesson

@stevepeppers560 2 ай бұрын

Got me a new set of lixers day fore yesterday.

@johngriffon2118 3 ай бұрын

Great double lesson of how to write songs too

@seandaniel23 3 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

@trusarmor4957 Ай бұрын

an Amazing lesson

@AdamHT 3 ай бұрын

I always learn something from your videos, Sean, this time thinking of a minor root as the 6th chord of the relative major key. So obvious when you know, so why have I never thought of that before?? Thanks!

@danscharman4266 3 ай бұрын

Damn. 🍺🍺🍺 another awesome trick/tip you’ve presented, going up a string to get the 1-4-5 ? I could have kept trying to Learn guitar for the rest of my life without finding out this tip. Thanks again for all you do!! Now I can get 1-3-5 or really any progression with a new thought process/map.. same with just simply finding the single note on the fretboard more easily like G-C-D backwards to B by just going back a fret from the C note on the a string. I’m still processing the 5 to 10 fret and then back down the fretboard. But I’ll get t here,, thanks to you,,, and a little practice on my part 🎼🎼🎼🍺🍺

@seandaniel23 3 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for the kind words! Keep rockin!

@Tcontinenza 3 ай бұрын

It’s really good to see you do a guitar lesson again. It’s always feels resolved. I realize that you have expanded your channel to be more of an entertainment channel and that is fine but it’s really good to return home. Wishing you continued success and thanks for your channel.

@TheHesseJames 3 ай бұрын

The problem is that over the years he already covered practically everything of interest for the beginner and intermediate player. And he doesn’t seem wanting to dabble in more advanced stuff like modes or Jazz, Bebop lines and I fully understand this. This would probably overwhelm/ bore his audience and might degrade the entertainment value which is a big plus of his work.

@Tcontinenza 3 ай бұрын

@@TheHesseJames it was not a criticism just an observation and a play on progression

@TheHesseJames 3 ай бұрын

@@Tcontinenza I didn’t take your post as criticism and I didn’t want to criticize your post. So, all is well :)

@seandaniel23 3 ай бұрын

Thanks so much! Always trying to come up with fun ideas :)

@seandaniel23 3 ай бұрын

Yeah I don't mind re-teaching things. Also wouldn't mind getting into more advanced stuff, but those videos never really seem to do very well.

@josephcasey322 3 ай бұрын

Park a sedan/steely Dan in compact/pop space! Gr8 tips mahalo

@scottkidwell3601 3 ай бұрын

Something that may help narrow down the key in a song is that a good many popular songs are usually in one of a few keys... A, E, D, G (the people's key), and C for example. Good lesson 🤘 I use a similar method to figure out basslines

@TheHesseJames 3 ай бұрын

Unless they are piano driven songs which might be in difficult keys for guitar if you use open string chords. But then, that’s what the capo is for. Just put it somewhere where you can play it in the shapes of one of the easy keys.

@QBRX 3 ай бұрын

Best lesson in a long while.

@seandaniel23 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for saying so!

@fredforseman851 20 күн бұрын

What guitar are you playing. I love the sound!

@kaushalsuvarna5156 3 ай бұрын

Where's the guitar you discovered at Martin?

@Donny_A 3 ай бұрын

This actually works if you put the time in

@seandaniel23 3 ай бұрын

Truth!

@luisfelix9529 3 ай бұрын

Nice guitar

@kennethochoa7550 3 ай бұрын

ha! ha! very entertaining yeah cats are cool 😃 i want to make a slide show for my art, and this video is quick and simple I just have to learn how to import music and art images and how to render 🤔 I'm new to da vinche 😇

@dan_kay 3 ай бұрын

I was always very unsuccessful with this super easy two-step method: 1. Find out the key of the song. 2. Then play the rest of the song. Easy, peasy.

@mustofaabudan6784 3 ай бұрын

Would u reaction the play gitar from Indonesia Alip ba ta With title of the song the last of mohican 🙏🙏

@Playsinvain 3 ай бұрын

Get the key and consult the circle is what I’ve been doing to mild success

@seandaniel23 3 ай бұрын

Whatever works!

@Playsinvain 3 ай бұрын

@@seandaniel23 lol. I wouldn’t go as far to say “works”. Thanks for your service to others, Sean.

@anthonykinrade8642 3 ай бұрын

I thought you sounded better today, you are playing a Yamaha!😅

@seandaniel23 3 ай бұрын

haha, fair enough

@davidhowe8292 3 ай бұрын

What do you have against Steely Dan?

@tammywalla7259 3 ай бұрын

I’m certain he doesn’t have anything against Steely Dan. I just know that Steely Dans chords progressions are pretty complicated and are not applicable to this lesson.

@jamesadams1064 3 ай бұрын

What if a song is in an alternate tuning. Listen to Eric Taylor. See if you can figure out one of his songs. Good video by the way.

@TheHesseJames 3 ай бұрын

Let me take a wild guess here. We watch his channel for instant gratification. Alternate tuning means you have to retune your guitar! We probably couldn’t be bothered with that, right?

@GUIDESPERSPECTIVE 3 ай бұрын

I only came here to say that I tried this with Steely Dan Songs and it doesn't work. Oh and I also came to complain because Sean still hasn't answered my question in the comments for the Positive Grid Live demo he did. 😪

@Playsinvain 3 ай бұрын

Heart is willing, the mind is weak

@harimathur2191 3 ай бұрын

Hi Sean, great stuff, but..... doesn't work with Radiohead....😅

@TheHesseJames 3 ай бұрын

Oh, it does, you just have to try out all 12 possible chords in major as well as in minor on each chord shape. Well, seriously, you just have to step away from all those boring I + (IV,V,VI) progressions and just be reasonable with your guesses for the next chord, with a bit of practice (having like 10-20 songs under your belt) you can narrow down the possible next chords. If not, then you have to start with the melody and analyze what chords should fit with the melody. And yes, in the beginning this might take quite a while.

@harimathur2191 3 ай бұрын

😂nah! Ill wait for Sean to spoon feed me the tabs and tutorial😊@@TheHesseJames

@TheHesseJames 3 ай бұрын

@@harimathur2191 The big mouth I am, I started figuring out “Amsterdam”, and it took me a whole five minutes to settle between two possible keys (I got that one right), another three minutes to find the second chord, then I got lazy and looked up the rest of the chords. Turns out, it is just a loop of four easy chords, one where you throw in an extension and another loop of the same chords in different order with two more extensions to get that droning sound. Really easy to figure it out but I didn’t want to put the work in. Another learning experience missed.

@TheHesseJames 3 ай бұрын

Btw, I strongly recommend this song, it is easy to play (when you bring it down from Eb to D) and really nice to sing to.

@anthonykinrade8642 3 ай бұрын

Start with nursery rhymes and work up from there....😊

@richr1925 3 ай бұрын

You have great videos . . . BUT!! . . . moving from thicker strings to thinner strings across the neck is moving UP! Not down. Moving from the nut toward the bridge along the strings is moving UP! Not down. "Up" means moving from lower notes to higher notes. "Down" means moving from higher notes to lower notes. Nothing else. Otherwise, great session.

@TheHesseJames 3 ай бұрын

Yeah, I stumbled over that in many YT videos until I understood that the guitar is a much more geographical instrument which is often taught more in terms of physical directions and shapes than in note values. If you are trained in music theory you might scoff at this but for non-trained beginners this is much more helpful.

@richr1925 3 ай бұрын

@@TheHesseJames No. It is not.

@TheHesseJames 3 ай бұрын

@@richr1925 Yes, it is. ;)

@seandaniel23 3 ай бұрын

Yeah I've been teaching beginners for awhile and I started asking them what makes more sense if they come in with no preconceived notions. And they all say it makes more sense this way.