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New Secret Guitar Teacher
Великобритания
Добавлен 22 апр 2011
Thanks for dropping in!
If you want to learn guitar, or improve your guitar playing then I want to help!
Please visit the Secret Guitar Teacher website (see links below) to access the full-length versions of the videos shown here as well as many many more!
I am also available for 1:1 SKYPE Lessons for both guitar students and those wishing to learn how to make a living Teaching Guitar.
For more info click here: nickminnion.com/contact/
I'm always happy to hear from fellow guitarists so don't hesitate to get in touch if you have anything you want help with to do with learning the guitar.
Happy Playing!
Nick Minnion
The Secret Guitar Teacher
If you want to learn guitar, or improve your guitar playing then I want to help!
Please visit the Secret Guitar Teacher website (see links below) to access the full-length versions of the videos shown here as well as many many more!
I am also available for 1:1 SKYPE Lessons for both guitar students and those wishing to learn how to make a living Teaching Guitar.
For more info click here: nickminnion.com/contact/
I'm always happy to hear from fellow guitarists so don't hesitate to get in touch if you have anything you want help with to do with learning the guitar.
Happy Playing!
Nick Minnion
The Secret Guitar Teacher
How to Use Your Guitar to Work Out Melodies by Ear
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In this video, Nick demonstrates how to use your guitar to work out melodies by ear. We do this by applying the patterns we have learned earlier on this course, for the Major scale.
This process includes some useful, practical tips on working out what key a melody is in.
In this video, Nick demonstrates how to use your guitar to work out melodies by ear. We do this by applying the patterns we have learned earlier on this course, for the Major scale.
This process includes some useful, practical tips on working out what key a melody is in.
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Playing Melodies from Standard Notation for Guitarists (Easier than you think)
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Find hundreds more lessons, videos and tutorials at the Secret Guitar Teacher site! Sign up now for a free 30 day trial www.secretguitarteacher.com/ It's great to be able to pick out the notes of a melody from sheet music or songbooks, but how confident are you in your ability to do this quickly and easily? In this video, Nick outlines a simple to follow procedure that makes this task as easy a...
Essentials of note reading (Standard Notation) for guitarists
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Find hundreds more lessons, videos and tutorials at the Secret Guitar Teacher site! Sign up now for a free 30 day trial www.secretguitarteacher.com/ This is a little preparatory step for this course. As part of the course we are going to learn how to interpret standard notation sufficiently enough to be able to pick melodies off sheet music or out of songbooks. This video just makes sure we hav...
How to Use the Major Scale as a Guitar Player (Section Introduction)
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Find hundreds more lessons, videos and tutorials at the Secret Guitar Teacher site! Sign up now for a free 30 day trial www.secretguitarteacher.com/ This is just a little intro video about the next section of the course.
How the Major Scale is Used as a Measuring Device in Music
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Find hundreds more lessons, videos and tutorials at the Secret Guitar Teacher site! Sign up now for a free 30 day trial www.secretguitarteacher.com/ In this video we look at the practical application of the Major Scale as a benchmark for all other musical elements. This may be the bit of information you are missing when trying to understand chord formulas, intervals, scale formulas and the way ...
Complete Your Understanding of Key Signatures by Integrating the Circles of Fourths and Fifths
Просмотров 18421 день назад
Find hundreds more lessons, videos and tutorials at the Secret Guitar Teacher site! Sign up now for a free 30 day trial www.secretguitarteacher.com/ After working through all the complexity, we finally arrive at the elegant simplicity of the relationship between all musical keys as shown in the integrated circles of Fourths and Fifths. This lesson was written for guitar players, but may be of g...
Why is it called a 'CIRCLE' of Fourths - rarely explained like this!
Просмотров 26521 день назад
Find hundreds more lessons, videos and tutorials at the Secret Guitar Teacher site! Sign up now for a free 30 day trial www.secretguitarteacher.com/ This is also not often taught these days... In this video, Nick takes a look at what happens when we continue on round the Circle of Fourths past the key of Cb. Just as we did on our journey round the complete circle of fifths, on the way we encoun...
Understanding the Full Circle of Fifths
Просмотров 27928 дней назад
Find hundreds more lessons, videos and tutorials at the Secret Guitar Teacher site! Sign up now for a free 30 day trial www.secretguitarteacher.com/ This is not often taught these days... In this video, Nick takes a look at what happens when we continue on round the Circle of Fifths past the key of C#. On the way we encounter a strange set of animals called 'double sharps' and pay a second visi...
Three Different Ways to Work Out Flat Key Signatures Using the Circle of Fourths
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Find hundreds more lessons, videos and tutorials at the Secret Guitar Teacher site! Sign up now for a free 30 day trial www.secretguitarteacher.com/ In this lesson we look at how the Circle of Fourths can be used to work out flat key signatures. First we look at how to do this when looking at music written in Standard Notation (Sheet Music or Songs in Music Books etc...) Next we look at how to ...
How the Circle of Fourths relates to Flat Key Signatures in Music
Просмотров 173Месяц назад
Find hundreds more lessons, videos and tutorials at the Secret Guitar Teacher site! Sign up now for a free 30 day trial www.secretguitarteacher.com/ Here we explore the fundamental connection between the Circle of Fourths and Key Signatures containing Flats. b keys follow a similar, but significantly different rule to # keys. Understanding key signatures is a very important step towards gaining...
Three Different Ways to Work Out Sharp Key Signatures Using the Circle of Fifths
Просмотров 201Месяц назад
Find hundreds more lessons, videos and tutorials at the Secret Guitar Teacher site! Sign up now for a free 30 day trial www.secretguitarteacher.com/ In this lesson we look at how the Circle of Fifths can be used to work out key signatures. First we look at how to do thuis when looking at music written in Standard Notation (Sheet Music or Songs in Music Books etc...) Next we look at how to do th...
What Are the Circle of Fifths and Sharp Key Signatures in Music Theory?
Просмотров 3913 месяца назад
Find hundreds more lessons, videos and tutorials at the Secret Guitar Teacher site! Sign up now for a free 30 day trial www.secretguitarteacher.com/ tour: Unlock the secrets of the Circle of Fifths and sharp key signatures in this comprehensive guitar lesson. Discover why the key of C Major is so special, learn how to build major scales starting from G, and see how sharps accumulate as you move...
Can Learning Standard Notation Boost Your Guitar Skills?
Просмотров 1963 месяца назад
Find hundreds more lessons, videos and tutorials at the Secret Guitar Teacher site! Sign up now for a free 30 day trial www.secretguitarteacher.com/ tour: Dive into the world of music theory with our guitar tutorial on standard notation! Whether you've been strumming chords or shredding solos, understanding how to read music can elevate your guitar playing. This lesson covers the basics of the ...
How Do Major Scales Shape Music Theory for Guitarists?
Просмотров 1853 месяца назад
Find hundreds more lessons, videos and tutorials at the Secret Guitar Teacher site! Sign up now for a free 30 day trial www.secretguitarteacher.com/ tour: Join us in this detailed guitar lesson where we dive into the world of major scales and their essential role in music theory. Whether you're a beginner or looking to enhance your skills, this video will guide you through the basics of standar...
Play major scales in any position and all keys with this easy drill
Просмотров 2833 месяца назад
Find hundreds more lessons, videos and tutorials at the Secret Guitar Teacher site! Sign up now for a free 30 day trial www.secretguitarteacher.com/ tour: Unlock the secrets of the major scale with our step-by-step guitar tutorial! Perfect for beginners and intermediate players, this video will guide you through the major scale across the entire fretboard, helping you understand the foundationa...
Clever hack for working out patterns on the guitar fret board
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Clever hack for working out patterns on the guitar fret board
Easy trick to learning any scale pattern on the guitar
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Easy trick to learning any scale pattern on the guitar
How to work out the notes of any Major scale on guitar
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How to work out the notes of any Major scale on guitar
What are the most basic units of measurement used in music?
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What are the most basic units of measurement used in music?
Using Major Blues Scales for Melodic Soloing
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Using Major Blues Scales for Melodic Soloing
How to Convert your Blues licks to Country licks
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How to Convert your Blues licks to Country licks
Relating the CAGED system to Major and Minor Blues Scales
Просмотров 2475 месяцев назад
Relating the CAGED system to Major and Minor Blues Scales
How to play longer runs using the Major Blues Scale
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How to play longer runs using the Major Blues Scale
What's the difference between the Major and Minor Blues Scales?
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What's the difference between the Major and Minor Blues Scales?
How to learn guitar intros and solos
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How to learn guitar intros and solos
How to instantly speed up your lead guitar licks
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How to instantly speed up your lead guitar licks
I’m lost🤷🏾♂️. But you are exceptional in guiding me towards learning. Thank you . I’ll keep following.
I appreciate you commenting. Please feel free to post any specific questions - I am always happy to explain things further if it helps...
I'm a bass bass in an a cappella choir still learning to read scores with some accuracy. I use this technique to ensure I'm correct, it helps with my guitar knowledge ( which is basic) as well. Thanks for the lesson.
Good to know :_) thanks for commenting.
Ur very smooth person
Thanks for your kind comment :_)
Fantastic ❤ thank you
Thank you; I've been a very amateur, very casual player for decades and still have difficulty getting a consistent clean sound. From your simple point about examining and adjusting wrist, hand, shoulder, and elbow position, I realize that part of my problem is that the rare times I do pick up my guitar these days, I'm almost always seated on a sofa; sitting in this relatively low, crouched position, I'm forcing myself into a very constricted posture that completely sabotages my mechanics.
Many thanks for commenting. Good to know I've helped you see the error of your ways ;-) Hope it leads to a nice breakthrough for you. Learning guitar is difficult enough a task without making it harder for ourselves by these fundamentally physical 'bad habits' !
I’m lost on this one 🤷🏾♂️
This lesson does come from an advanced level course. So, it assumes some prior knowledge of music theory, mainly concerning chord formulas. Let me know if you'd like to plug any gaps in your understanding of these foundations and I'll point you towards some specific videos that might help with that. You can contact me privately via the website at secretguitarteacher.com or nickminnion.com
Man you really spell out EVERYTHING nice and clear . Thankyou 🎸😎 so much !!!!!!!!
Thanks for commenting - glad you liked it 🙂
Great video, but I’m still struggling to play the 16 beats of EEEEAAEE… I don’t sound the same as the video, I feel like I’m ringing cords too much whereas in the video he sounded like only ringing one in every 4-8 beat
Not easy to get without much practice! I advise copying what I do from 1:55 on the video. Start with a fully muted guitar so you can concentrate solely on strumming hand. Will take a bit of patience and persistence.
@@SecretGuitarTeacher thanks so much!! The timestamp is super helpful. I’ll keep listening/watching and figure out what I’m doing different
Very good teacher
This was such a clearly explained tutorial - thank you very much.
Thanks you i really enjoyed how you explained that it helps me a great deal.
Thanks for the feedback - glad you enjoyed it 🙂
I haven't found the link to the backing track on the description. What mode is that backing track?? Dorian?, mixolidian? 12 bars?
Please use link in the description to access the backing track. This can be done by signing up for a free trial of the website (no credit card required). If you have any difficulties finding the lesson on the site, please contact me using the messaging system. The backing tracks are not modal. They are simply me playing the drill at different tempos and with each of the three rhythmic feels described in the video. The idea is that you play opposite me - ie. you play the repeated first note of each position while I play ascending/descending run for one bar then we switch. This makes more sense when you hear the tracks!!
Thanks for your lesson,sir! So clear and perfect for beginners with blues!
Ugh, so boring…next
I play piano and rhythm guitar- can you please explain why c flat would be useful as opposed to b major, since most of us are going to recognize the b note as a B not a C flat, so it seems C flat is unnecessary confusing! I'm sure there's a reason for it, I just don't know what it is!❤
Great question. There are very few guitar players who would be able to answer this question, because it is not until you have delved quite a way through the process of understanding music theory before the reason emerges. The main issue is this: Beginner and intermediate musicians learn to think in different keys. But the advanced musician has realised that all keys share common ground. The trick is to think of any major scale as being numbered 1 to 8. Then you can appreciate a whole bunch of common rules like, for example, how chord formulas work (notes 1+3+5 make up a Major chord, 1+3+5+6 make up a major sixth chord ... etc...) . Then there are rules about how chords are formed in each key (by harmonising the scale, the chords always come out in the same sequence of chord types: I = Maj(7) II = Min(7) III = Min (7) IV= Maj(7) V=Major or Dominant 7th vi = Min (7) vii = diminished or min7b5 (aka half-diminished). These ruiles hold good no matter what key you are in. So advanced musicians learn to think (and talk) in numbers, whether discussing notes in a scale or chords in a key. Now this is all well-covered elsewhere, but the point that is so rarely taught is that LETTER NAMES ALWAYS COINCIDE with NUMBERS. So in the key of F# Major the 4th note is called B (FGAB) but, in the key of Gb the same note is called Cb (GABC). In the key of Gb the fourth note cannot be called 'B' because we have already used that letter for the third note of the scale (Bb). The integrity of the system relies on two golden rules that should never be broken: 1: All major scales must contain all the letter names (ABCDEF&G) and 2. no letter names can ever be duplicated (thus you can't have B and Bb in the same key as note names even though, in the case of the key of Gb both those notes are present as sounds. Long explanation, but hope it gives you a glimpse.
Oh wow I’m so freaking mesmerized. I’m relearning guitar and this just touched my soul and gave me the inspiration not to give up. Thank you and thank you John Lee Hooker RIP!!!!!!❤
Best explanation Ive seen it’s helped me a lot
Thanks for your feedback. Good to know this helped 🙂
As I'm waiting for my guitar, I'll have to go back thru all your underrated precious lessons for reviews. Thanks a lot!
Thanks for your kind comment. Hope your guitar gets to you soon 🙂
@@SecretGuitarTeacher I hope so, thank you
Helpful, thank you.
Obviously a few thousand people liked this, but I'm not a fan of this type of lesson that doesn't teach you anything but a sequence of almost correct mechanical movements. You may be learning a song, but not how to PLAY on the guitar. At no point do we get to see the sequence played through for a whole verse. Picking direction is shown, but we don't get taught about up-down picking technique. The bass part shown around 2:20 is incorrect: it should be alternating between a fretted G and the open E, not a fretted F#. How about talking about how it's all minor pentatonic based and uses the first position blues scale with a little extension on the high strings? The use of the flat 5 (Bb) on the second phrase as a "blue" note for dissonance. A hammer on for the B in the last lick is the correct way to play it, and sounds a lot better than picking each note. Just to be clear: this is not a criticism of Billy (he honestly seems like a nice guy), it's just a commentary on this lesson. I've been playing for over 45 years and now I'm a stodgy old fart.
Thanks for the quality control. You are of course right about the bass line and the hammer on at the end. It may be worth noting though that this video was not primarily made for RUclips, but rather in response to a specific request from my site members. As such, it is pitched with a minimum of theory-based explanation and quite deliberately mechanistic. In general I prefer, like you, to look deeper into what lies behind the choice of notes in a song. We are probably both stodgy old farts ;-)
I watched this video ten years ago and have been using this every day since I learned it. I have since passed this lesson on to anyone learning guitar and when I was doing that today, I thought I’d look for this video and was happy to see it still here and helping others. Thank you so much.
Thanks for this lovely comment! Great to know this had the same effect on you as it originally did on me 🙂
Great video ! You really have taken a Fantastic approach to teaching . Up close fret work plus tabulators . Truly Great !
Where can I find part 2?
Go to www.secretguitarteacher.com and sign up for the FREE thirty-day trial (no credit card details required). Navigate to the SGT Classic section of the site and find the course called: SGT Classic: From Blues to Jazz. These videos are part of that course.
Will you be my dad???? I CANT TELL YOU HOW EXCITED I AM TO FINALLY UNDERSTAND AND PLAY THIS!!! sir, I first heard Mr. Johnson and my first intro into blues when I was 13 by pure accident. I was like “OMG What is THIS!?” Two years later I got my first guitar, and now 35 yrs later, I can finally play what started it all. My god.. first video/lesson that makes sense! from the bottom of my heart THANK YOU.
Great to hear your guitar playing has come full circle in this way! Thanks for the comment 🙂
Great lesson, clear and inspiring. Thank you very much
Cool.
Cool.
Thanks❤
thank you very much sir!
thank you!
I know the very well presented in interesting lesson, but as a tone deaf bass player who is actually hard of hearing, I'll just let somebody say we're playing this in A or whatever and I'm away if I can remember the next chord so I always assume that meant it was in A. also with the power of the internet, unlike when I was a teenager I look online and it might give the chords or I'll look at play along tracks. and I just assumed that the first chord represented the cat was in maybe small complicated than that, but I've been living in a wonderful falls paradise 😁😊
Another very well presented. interesting video and to repeat what I said in an earlier post. I play bass and I've never played lead, but there are different ways to improve and this is a very watchable, informative series of videos I was in the impression the blues songs were offering in meineke not in a 7.Dominant 7th chords ...have I got this wrong or is it only part of the story And blues is often in minor or in seven dominant seventh. The second question is that if somebody was playing a blues in C major then I could play C E G E As a pattern and if necessary, go beyond it to make it two bars walking bass style but if it was in C minor i guess I should play C Eb G Eb And beyond. is this correct? and quite often they don't tell me whether it's made a reminder at the blues jams. they just stsrt playing and it sounds okay anyway😂 I don't really collect anybody ever saying this is in c7 but if they did would I play something different? thanks
When i see B/F# I believe that means it's the chord of B, but F# is the lowest note and it seems to be a dominant note. I've been led to believe that as a bass player, I should play the F sharp and indeed why not experimented in this instance and play the B it doesn't sound good. in fact, it sounds wrong but If I played B on bass it would still sound okay but just not sound as good or as interesting is it my lack of music clear or or am I correct? and in this instance B would actually sound wrong rather than not sound appropriate
that was a very pleasant and well presented lesson. you speak very clearly and you don't say hey you guys... And there's nothing wrong with that but it does irritate me so thank you for not doing it. I found it remarkable that you say some bass players responded in a negative way. I haven't heard this other video but you don't say anything in the slightest bit arrogantly and it's clearly obvious you're just giving ideas out. I play bass but no more. am I a musician than as an English speaker. I am a poet or an author. I simply play bass but I am absolutely not a musician. personally, I find it quite difficult to believe that any lead or even rhythm guitars can't simply pick up a bass and play it whether they play it well is a different matter, but to me one is To a certain degree a subset of the other ( in terms of the notes) even though they need a approavh different feel. I have heard many many lead guitarists play bass and they've played bass for a variety of reasons and they generally don't make mistakes, but some of them play such tedious bass lines and others don't provide much for foundation for the music and seem to spend 99% of the time playing a lead bass which for me doesn't work. unless that is what the song was designed for. Many leaf guitarist have started on bass. And usually they play the bass with the feeling and drive of a bass player with the extra knowledge and experience of a lead guitarist and it's wonderful to listen to. such a specific riffettes as in a whole lot of love. paranoid we got to get out of this place. etc I never try to learn what a bass player has played. I wouldn't be able to learn it and I would forget it. I simply do not have a good musical ear or memory for sounds so I cannot learn / remember these. very clever bass lines people have played I have little or no music theory or training but I am looking at that nowadays and what I look for is the chord, progressions and structure of a song. once I know the chord progressions and that can take me a while to learn I just mive between The chords and yes, I'll sometimes get it wrong and I'll often play something that isn't in the appropriate scale, but on balance it works and that's simply how I play I've played many blues numbers quite well without having any idea which song im playing, but I think there's a lot for me to learn So I'm going to look at your video on the Blues.
Thanks for your kind feedback. There are of course, many approaches to playing bass. I see them as being on a sort of spectrum from 'purely lead' all the way to 'purely functional' . Personally I like to make sure my bass playing makes the rest of the band sound as good as possible, so I probably lean in the direction of functional rather than 'interesting' ! But i don't preach that as being 'right' or 'wrong' - it just feels the best approach for me in the particular context I play most of the time. Also, you can have zero understanding of music theory and still play excellent bass just by listening well, experimenting and trusting your own musical feel. Likewise, you can have a degree level grasp of theory, play all the 'right' notes and sound completely dead if you don't have the feel!
Great lesson. Love the singing too
Thanks, that is very kind of you 🙂
it looks to me like playing over e penta...
Aces! TY!
good day please try a down bit only I am from Jamaica
Love your videos. As a guitarist, your instruction makes the transition to a bassist much easier. K.I.S.S - Keep it simple stupid. The foundation of success. Thank you.
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Hi Im a super beginner, Im finding your lessons to be super comfortable. I like how you take your time in showing the fingers to frat, showing over and over again. I can get comfortable with your lessons, please keep the slow paste for super beginners.. Much Respect
Good to know you appreciate the teaching style. Thanks for commenting 🙂
This is so accurate.. Thank u
Thanks for your kind comment - really nice to know you appreciate it 🙂
Great lesson Nick, I always learn new things when watching your videos
Thanks for commenting 🙂Good to know.
The vanilla cadences.....but they become much more with syncopatio, see page 5 compund 5/4 cadence with a prepared dissonance. Acoustic sustain is perhaps a bit weak to demonstate, but it's an overlooked glory for electric guitar: derekremes.com/wp-content/uploads/compendium_english.pdf
You have change my life,thanck
Good to know! Thanks for the comment 🙂
I haven’t been able to relax my strumming hand until I followed along with this. Well done.
Great to know this helped! Thanks for commenting 🙂
Sounds like you need a higher action.
Absolutely. I don't do a lot of slide guitar so I haven't got a guitar properly set up for it. If I did, I would probably make a special nut and bridge for it to help raise the strings away from the frets.
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I have a lot of respect for Robert Johnson I'm a lead and rhythm guitar player in a hard rock band and we are wanting to remake a song by Mr. Johnson to pay our respects to him.
Great idea!
Better than most lessons here on youtube. Well appreciated 🙌🏼
Thanks for your kind appraisal :-) Glad you liked it.