What level are you at?

There are many layers to you my man. It still boggles my mind to know that Poker and Football are some of your passions. Especially the ways in how they tie into your music as well.

I'm at level 1. Just started playing guitar at the end of July. I'm working through some feelings of impatience. I want to be at level 3 NOW! I'm so excited and want to get to the place where I can play along with some of my favorite songs and start song writing and I know, I know I am not there yet. I know it will take time and practice and more practice, but I can't help feeling impatient. Love your videos. They really help keep me motivated. I know you're a much more advanced player and a lot of folks that watch your channel are too, but you never neglect the absolute beginner and I really appreciate that about your videos. Thanks, man.

I'm on a level 2,5 Been playing for less than a year. I'm pretty confident as I pass that milestone I will start getting more properly into the third level, and stay there for a couple years before I find myself evolving in a significant manner

i’m currently working on level 3-4, trying to work an learn theory with my teacher, and even though it takes work to study and get better, it feels good to feel that your understanding of the instrument is growing.

Tyler, this video struck a solidly emotional response from me, seriously. I am at the very beginning stages of level 3 in your outline here. I want more and at the stage where most stop progressing, I think. I am stuck it seems at this point with a few cool licks in the pentatonic (weak major vocabulary) and seem to have hit a speed plateau. It feels like the next jump would launch me into the stratosphere if I could just get grounded in Level 3 and develop a more versatile vocabulary. This video seriously motivated me today - thank you.

Stopped playing when I got married/kids...for 20 years. Regrets. Wish YT existed. Now encouraging my true player son to NOT stop playing...to continue his journey. With YT and so many great teachers/talents...why would anyone ever stop playing guitar? I'm 60...hope to live and play well into my 90's.

"finding your voice", i think this is one of the most beautiful way anyone has ever put it down for me about playing guitar

Sounds to me like you've found your voice at the end there! I think it's too easy to think we aren't showing enough feeling, or who we are through music. When you take a step back though and listen as if you're someone else you realize that it's actually not true at all. Everything you create sounds like you, because you made it :D

I'm on this weird mix of level 2 and 4. Somehow I skipped 3, but I'm finally going back and checking it out and I'm confused as to why I didn't learn this stuff sooner because it just makes sense, but then I realized it's because I'm having to go back and unlearn step 1 because I'm self taught and I learned it all wrong, so I have to fix it before I can actually put step 3 in my bag of tricks. Take lessons, download video courses, read a book, do anything besides learn how I did. At one point I almost considered the unthinkable and bought a bass, but hey, I'm still moving forward.

I'm on level 1, i started playing this week starting jan. 11th, 2024, when my father let me use his strat that he doesnt touch anymore. i learned the A and G chord and so i am working on my transitions while trying to keep the notes ring without fret buzz. after fiddling around with it 20 minutes in one part of the day then another 20 another part of the same day, still practicing those transitions, im getting faster. The level of progress that i am seeing right now is inspiring and addicting because i can see myself improving as i practice. tonight i plan to practice with the metronome to stay in tune and time. im not even using any amps or anything, just the guitar. ill do the amp later when i feel comfortable and have my own guitar.

It was awesome to see you playing the same PRS CE that I own! Thanks for the continued content and hard work, Tyler! I appreciate you and your channel!!

I am at level 2 but about to move on to level 3, I guess. I started playing guitar when I was a teenager but never really learnt how to play. So I lacked a lot of theory and technique, but was able to play a few songs, even some more complicated stuff. But basically, I was playing the same stuff over and over again. However, I stopped playing a few years ago. Last year, I suddenly had the urge to start playing again, and this time to really learn it. And with the help of a KZfaq colleague of yours, I have learned incredibly much during the last couple of months, and I am finally beginning to express myself on the instrument if you will. No day passes without me picking up the guitar. And I love everything about it. By the way, your videos have played a huge role in motivating me again. So thank you for that!

I'd say I'm somewhere around level 2.5-3, just starting to regain my passion for the guitar. This video has kinda inspired me and I'll go and play now. Great vid

Thanks for making this video Tyler! it came at the right time for me, I smiled because this is the the exact position I'm in right now, trying to navigate teaching myself guitar and your levels are a help. I'm on level 1 at the moment but I am learning music theory earlier. Thanks again. I also love the style of this video. As someone said it struck a chord and ironically felt sentimental.

Love your input on music and you are a hell of a player so keep rippin up that fret board 🤘🙏

Great video !!! I try to focus the same as I did growing up pitching. Location, location, location. Then the curve, change up, maybe a slider. The work you put in as a youngster applies to the guitar. Awesome man. Made my day. You got a leg !!!!

This was a badass video man, awesome job!!

I've really been liking the videos recently! Amazing quality and production

This is definitely the video I needed to watch. I’ve been stuck between four and five now for quite some time I just want to advance beyond that and stop getting stuck in these valleys and working night shifts really do not make it easy but this definitely helped!! Thank you Tyler !! 🤘🏾🤘🏾

Seeing all those guitars I would love to see a studio tour/guitar collection video.

You and I have a kind of a simliar style in our solos so I very much enjoyed this. I really dig the track you're playing over.

This video was great, ive watched your channel since I first picked up a guitar and I always turn to your videos for inspiration. Thank you, this may be one of my favriot one of your vids, Keep it up.

awesome video, great to see another aspect of your life

Killer video! helped me realize where I am, and what I should be focusing on and looking forward to. Thanks!

Great football kicking Tyler. As a side note, you did ok with your guitar playing too 😛

Great video. As someone thinking of getting back into guitar after decades the arc of the guitar player was something I was always curious about.

I've been playing trombone for the past 5 years of my life but have only more or less recently picked up guitar as a hobby and was quickly sucked down the rabbit hole of everything it has to offer, but having that prior musical experience really makes all the difference even when the instruments could not be more different.

very nostalgic, made me think of my way through the years. Now I'm in the level 4 (crossing to 5) and i would say is the longest level, the guitar super system helps a lot.

I really like the videos that you are putting out where you relate guitar to vary different activities!👍

Wow this is a great video. My absolute favorite creator on KZfaq!

This was a fun watch. Thank you for this!

You just became my favorite guitar guy on KZfaq. I too used to be a kicker and I live in Nashville also I am a Pats fan. My home town team

It’s hard to place myself anywhere. Never been taught any lessons anything at all. I picked up a guitar about 2yrs ago, started learning faster about how to fix them more than playing them. But I am at a point now where I can pretty much play along with any song. I learn something new every single day

By far one of your best videos. It’d be so sick to sit and Jam with ya. Very knowledgeable

Lots of natural talent there Tyler my brother- you are just plain gifted in many ways! Lucky man you are- be grateful. . . .

Just getting back into it after about 15 years of not playing. Also, just found your channel. I appreciate all the levels of content you produce. It’s helped me remember how much I used to love to play, even as a novice. Thanks!!!

Think we all had no idea what to do after we completed our beginner stages

Really interesting video. When I was at leave two I started to learn the banjo. So taking techniques from that into the guitar, such as dingier rolls. Helped me really advance faster on the guitar with certain fragments from different levels.

Thanks for doing what you do! Fantastic channel Cheers from Texas! 🤟😺🤟

Great idea Tyler!

hey tyler, keep up the work love all your videos. i am taking a music education and i love to see this stuff, where it is just someone, passionate with the same instrument as me:)

This was like a cool short film! Thank you!

I'm a great chord changer and can play with hammer on's and pull off's. I just now am trying lead. Learning it and what the scales are. Great video as always.

Some inspiration from nutshell on the backing track??? Was listening to it right before this video and can’t help but hear the similarities. Awesome vid!

I love these kind of videos that remind me of why I subscribed in the first place 😊

Hey man, the editing with the guitar playing on the different levels using the same backing track was dope

I am currently between level 2 and 3... I absolutely love to Improvise over minor songs... which might be holding be back at this stage because I probably neglect practicing tecniques and hand syncronisation etc... Thank you for your inspiration tho to keep on getting better and better.... Maybe one day I will take a deeper look into Music theory and strict practice routines... but Imprv over songs just makes me so unbelieveably happy ... for me it is still all about fun at the end of the day.. and while I still have the biggest smile on my face after a 5 min blues solo... I have nothing to regret in life ;) Thank you so much for your content

I got lost in theory and stopped playing for 8 years. Picked it up a few months ago, did repairs , got new strings and tried again. Looked about intervalic improvisation. It is opening up everything. Knowing the notes on the fretboard imo now is vital.

I’m at level 4 now, I’ve been playing for a year and a half now, but in this 1.5 amazing year guitar has been my life and I’ve been playing like 7-8 hours everyday…

Hey Tyler, thanks for the video. I thought it was meme stuff but it turned out to be very encouraging and inspriational. So thank you for motivating me to overcome the guitar midlife crisis I had not recognized I'm in before watching the video.^^

Love this. Great analogy.

You are a real inspiration, man.

This video inspired me so much to start learning again. First tried a year or so ago as an adult and the biggest misstake was that I bought my guitar(s) online. I tried a few really cheap ones over a few months, always ending up returning them or selling them because none of them really fitted me is that makes sens. I also took some free online courses and none of them didn´t really either teach in a way I understood. Maybe it would be time to go to a guitar store and try out a few guitars and start again.

Awesome video, coming from a learning guitar player, and former Highschool kicker! Really impressive

Nice piece to watch while stopping for a coffee. Cheers.

Great video. I would add to level 3 or 4 is understanding your gear. Setting up your guitar, understand amp and pedal settings, interfaces, and most importantly.. finding your sound and style. I’m at a okay 3.5 level and its discouraging at time. But it’s important to keep playing

Hello Tyler 😁😁

Enjoyed the video man

Keep up the great work 😃

This was a very good analogy of levels and I agree. I am 58 and at 3.75 to 4. I know my limits on speed and what I can and cannot do and will never progress past this level. I am good with that because I can play at my level and enjoy it. I will say one thing that actually got me to progress was no more running scales, no more new chord shapes no more difficult phrase learning. It was one thing that Ben Eller said. Stop playing parts of a song and stop playing riffs. Learn the whole song on everything you play and learn it to the point its clean and not sloppy. This made me a better guitar player hands down. Again great job!

I liked these levels you came up with, and how you tied in different genre skillsets - I've been trained primarily in flamenco/south american music styles on nylon-string guitar, but I play a lot of electric guitar in rock/punk bands... while thinking about my own skillset I realised I've never tried sweep picking since I play with my fingers - I'd say I'm at a level 4 due to learning theory, improvisation, etc. might have to try learning to sweep pick though seems pretty dope

Your finest video sir!

Great video. Thanks for sharing

I'm between level 1and 2. Am very happy about that. I love playing it. I just got where I like to play for now.

25 years later and I'm still at level 1. Well that was the kick in the junk I wasn't expecting.

Thx for the tips man

Level 5ish but some days feel like I’m level one again lol Poker and Football 🏈 we have a lot in common Tyler. Thanks for sharing your world with us. You Rock!!! 🤘🎸🤘

lol i can DEFINETELY tell when its "me who is playing" :D

Nice work

Tyler your hair looks better than ever. The video is also great! Greetings from Russia!

Finally got too comment love this channel soo muchh

What a genius video. Great story telling strategy in a non traditional story telling video, very interesting

Much love 💘

I feel like I'm right at the end of level 2 or maybe starting on level 3. I can do some tapping and I'm practicing sweep picking. Great video too!

I really enjoy watching your videos, I am an avid guitarist and I have been playing for about 10 years. I got to tell you I don't think there is 5 levels of guitar learning or mastering , I believe you simply start by getting your first guitar , then getting familiar with it , and falling in love with Playing and practicing, and then you simply develop your own style and you keep on playing and never lose the passion to play and enjoy the instrument, so I counted 3 levels 😉

I can thump and selective pick as well as tap out some crazy patterns but sweeping I just can't sweep it is by far the most difficult technique to learn on the guitar. It is the bane of my existence.

Interesting concept, the one about finding your guitar voice. Inspiring! This video feels very much focused on electric guitar, which is understandable, but it would be interesting to hear your opinion on the same subject but towards acoustic guitar instead.

I loved this vid

Hell yeah man keep kicking

Hi Tyler. I appreciate your detailed approach to teaching guitar and providing a framework for us to understand where we are on the spectrum of beginner to advanced player. I am also a paying subscriber to guitar super system and am enjoying those courses, as well. I do have some feedback on GSS, however. I struggle with some of the exercises because there doesn't appear to be accompanying tabs or charts to show the starting position on the fretboard for each exercise. I have to slow down the video speed in order to find the starting position and watch repeatedly to understand what notes you are playing in each exercise. Maybe I'm missing something? Anyway, I very much enjoy the way you teach, explain, and inspire. Rock on!

love the Sandlot reference at the start of the video. great movie

I learned the guitar in my early teens, but I never advanced beyond level 2 imho. But after about 5 to 6 years of not playing, at all, and not even owning a guitar, some kind of motivation really struck me. I want to know how to play. So I geared up, and started again. I had to go back to level one to get the hang of it again. I am now in level two again. A lot of the stuff naturally came back, but I am now really working on these pentatonic scales. But I feel for me at least, basic Music theory needs to be the next step imho. Knowing Scales is all fun and games, but I find it extremely frustrating to not understand the "Why". That's why I am now working on not memorizing the Fret board, but to understand it. And It feels like this is the way for me to keep motivation going.

Hey Tyler! You should really check out Anthony Rosano and the Conqueroos. They're a local to VA band, and were going to go on tour with Bob Seger before covid. They're an incredible band and I think you'd enjoy looking at their music.

This video made me feel a lot better

Hey Tyler, amazing video as always. Since you made this video of the level of guitar playing and you have the guitar super system, can you please update the website and put a section that's grouped the program BY LEVEL so that beginners or new users of your interface can easily navigate your website and follow a specific program according to their playing level? Just like you said before, the best guitar lessons are always descriptive, not prescriptive so please describe that to us. Think of it as what subject to take this semester. that would boost your online guitar course I guarantee. I'm a big fan of what you do. thank you for the guidance

I main bass. I don't know what level I am, since I just pickup guitar every now and then. But I know the following after a year: 1. Triads, every inversion, anywhere along the neck. I can identify most notes in each string so I have lot of freedom in that. 2. Major scale, how to form major scales, and how to do it everywhere along the neck. 3. Chords, how to form chords, which notes are flat/sharp, how to add extensions, etc. I have a lot voicings now from each string. I now how what chord scales are now, what chords are in a major scale, as long as its diatonic I can figure that out, can play chord scales vertically and horizontally. But only major scales. Can also confidently drop notes to make it sound better or just because I don't want awkward fingering. 4. Basic soloing, again just major scales, don't know any other scale lol. 5. I don't know any techniques like sweep picking, insane bends, my taps are probably basic at most. I mostly play jazz chord melody. Focusing on rhythm. I also practice funk strumming, like Cory Wong. But I like jazz more. 6. Can figure things out by ear. Mostly coming from playing bass. Same as my theory knowledge, mostly came from bass. I'm probably level one.

Loved this video! Lets go Giants!

I am somewhere in the middle of level 2 and started loosing motivation and this got it back at least a little bit longer

We’re you measuring that field goal in yards or feet? Lol awesome video Tyler

I like it thanks.

Been playing for a year and a half now, and been practicing a couple hours a day for most of that. I'd say in at level 3.5. I've got decent alternate picking shred speed, solid tapping and hybrid picking, I'm pretty comfortable improvising on stage, and got some solid music theory knowledge, but sweeping still needs a lot of work. I haven't tried learning much music with sweep picking that I can use to power through some progress. The only one I've learned is the sweepy part (supposedly Tim alternate picked it in on the record, which my brain doesn't compute) of 40oz off of the Most Hated EP. Honestly, not the hardest sweep shapes, and there are really only 3. I think I'm at a good pace, and relatively content with the progress. Still want to be worlds better in a few years. Kinda feels like lifting in the gym. Even though you've made progress that your past self would be incredibly envious of, it's never enough.

Man I have my guitar, but suck at playing it (probably level -1), but trully enjoy watching your videos.!

I love the tone of the guitar! What is it?

I wish you’d do a video on Johnny Ramone. Now he has a style that’s frequently overlooked or mocked by the guitar elite. To play “Surfin Bird” like The Ramones do live, with the accuracy and the stamina, the low slung guitar, is something few truly get right. Additionally I’d suggest it’s American Rock and Roll at its most primal and fundamental. It’s The Beach Boys on Meth.

Thank you

The levels vary for me. For example, I'm taking a huge interest in building my personal voice and style, but at the same time I'm still working on level 3 and even level 2 techniques.

I've been at level 2 for a long time. I am hoping Guitar Super System helps me bust through to level 3 and then 4!

I would’ve said I’m probably at level 2, but I’m forcing myself down to level 1. I’ve learned to play along with a few songs that I love but I’ve never really had a proper ground-up kind of tutelage on the guitar. I’m currently taking online lessons with the aim of creating a foundation I can properly build on.

Hi Tyler. Can you do a guitar video recommending good affordable electric guitars! It would certainly help us know what to look out for while buying electric. Thanks!