10 THINGS I wish I knew as a beginner guitarist

Emotions can ruin accepting constructive criticism if you can't take tough love. I love your lessons fr

Show off your pretty good though

Is this for beginners really? Im sooo not a beginner then 😢

Seriously helpful! Thanks!

Hello sir i am watching your most of videos on yutube in i want that kind of guitar .but in country nepal impossible .

my man started playing DnD at the fifth tip

Beginners have the greatest guitar emotions. I remember being able to play "And I Love Her" from The Beatles", "Somebody" from Adams and "Sandman" from America. You only feel that Once in your lifetime.

If you make a course just on kids songs for $1000 I'd still buy it haha

We had a great music teacher in primary school, She taught us timing through clapping and shouting ta tatay ta tay ta and other things too but it certainly helped me in later life when I picked up a guitar.

i always wished i'd been taught way earlier that Am and C are the same *^%$ing scale! and that all major and minor chords are tied together like this. i remember that being a huge deal to find out when i was trying to get better at my scales and soloing, it's so obvious once you know it or if you come from a theory background, but it wasn't obvious to me growing up with a guitar.

Having a teacher is a great help for sure.

You are wrong if you get a better guitar you won’t be a better guitar player but YOU WILL be a player of a better guitar!

Aha!! How do you Like that?

Is it possibly for anyone to learn the Guitar.... Honestly.?

I love your videos Paul, it's nice and easy to watch, like the sense of humour too

ur singing voice kinda reminded me of a chicken dont know why

My fingers hurt… lol

I love the no wrong notes thing. As someone who grew up playing piano (properly trained in theory and sheet reading) and has spent plenty of time in DAWs, it always amazes me how strictly bedroom producers would stick to one specific key. I was very used to seeing naturals in piano sheets and soft tempo changes (which don't work almost at all in MIDI programming) and it always really felt like everyone was following the WWHWWWH / WHWWHWW rule without knowing why. It's nice that guitar is naturally less rigid than piano (bends/slides/slurs, plus the harmonic gaps between strings) because that stuff comes so naturally with it.

Play guitar like you whistle. You never focus on your lips, tongue, whatever when you whistle. You just whistle what you want to hear and it works.

That was really great advice, thank you

I played guitar as a kid and made all of these mistakes, every single one. Recently I got served your videos and now I’m playing again after 16 years with a fresh mindset and loving it, thanks Paul

"You only took the time to learn the verse."

Me: 😒

Bro has the hippy look down

pls no more videos from this guy in my feed. i press dont recommend videos in my feed and jew-tube keeps recommending them. I dont like the content

What ARE the “four magical chords?”

This man has one the smoothest yet clearly Dutch accents I've ever heard

the biggest thing that i wish i knew sooner was, you can learn any song, and you should learn stuff that is way outside your comfortable playing level. It is very hard for me to find new things to learn on guitar, partially because I just don't think I'm good enough to play some songs that i think are cool. But I finally learned to just learn it no matter how difficult it is to play. all it takes is time and practice, but anyone can play anything. And usually songs that are very difficult for you to play will teach you an extremely valuable skill or just make you a better player in general

great vid, do one with number five you're right and i hate it

best thing I heard, was

"G + 1 = perfect number of guitars

P + 2 = perfect number of pedals

G = guitar you own
P = pedals you own"

pretty good sales pitch lol 😂

if you wanna sound like John Mayer or Black Keys, you will figure out a way with just your one 15w modulated amp and $150 electric guitar if you really want

and yes, being retired first responder, THIS is my worst of these ooops as I now have 6 guitars 😅

I disagree with the one regarding better guitars and gear. But let me limit this to guitar. Paul's example is someone who jammed a SRV song with a cheap guitar. If you are jamming a SRV song with any guitar - a cheap one even - you're already well on your way in your playing so yeah, guitar won't matter to that dude. All of the great guitar players look back and make this comment - guitar quality doesn't matter. Like rich guys saying money doesn't matter. lol. You never hear a new guitar player say that or an average guitar player. "Beginner guitar" makes me cringe. Start with an easy to play GOOD guitar and you'll be on your way faster. (Squires are great). Lame guitars with high action and poor intonation are not a lot of fun. Actually, if you're going to be able to play at all, that will be established in 2 minutes so you'll find a way to make it fun - true - as in my case, I could play Sister Ray pretty quickly on my 5 string piece of junk. lol. But nice guitars are fun to play and inspiring. You will become a better player faster if you don't have to start all over again on that cruel piece of junk every time you find yourself away from playing for a few days. You can pick up a nice guitar and carry on quickly rather than spending 2 days on physical conditioning to sound okay on an impossible guitar. There's only one pro out here who plays a Squire here online - a real one - not a 1k Squire. Get your child a nicer guitar quickly once you establish the kid can play and wants to play. If you are starting later in life - get a Strat. Go all in.

One thing I wish I’d learned a long time ago, practice perfectly. Play accurately as slow as you need to not make mistakes. If you make a mistake, start at the beginning and go a little slower, not just the last bar or two. This ties in with the metronome. Play that speed metal at 30bpm if you need to, then work up to the face melting 180bpm of the recording.

My advice would be get a better guitar instructor. Everything seemed to be a secret that needed to be unlocked at a later date. A 14 year old doesn’t want to learn music theory.

Your voice is better than you think.

#1 thing i wish i knew when i started: not to waste my time on videos similar to this

So, speaking about a guitar making a better player(No.8). I believe that it actually does. If you have a crappy instrument that crucifies your fingers or sounds awful you don't want to play. When I finally bought a guitar with some reasonable action I WANTED TO PLAY and picked it up much more often. And yes it made me better.

3. 6. And 9. Were my faves! 3. &6. You talked about fear and 9. Well BEN M F LEVIN. All 10 should be taking into consideration. 10 is my #4 pick!

"Assistant to the manager of a small paper company in Pennsylvania"
Dwight, is that you? XD

Love the scat singing...

glad you kept the singing part in the video 😄

Your videos are seriously amazing. You're brilliant at communicating your ideas. I recently watched one where you talk about the top ten songs you started with, which hit home for me. When you played "Is there Anybody Out There" ... Ain't gonna lie. I cried a bit. Loved that one. Great picking song. I too chose that. Another one is Dee, by Randy Rhodes. I was never able to get it. But I tried my best. My question, which I'm sure you'll never read. Lol Hahaha. Can you do a video of that song in particular and break that down?

Force yourself to always learn new things. One you know a few hours of material and it will be easy to keep playing the same things, but without realizing it you will get bored, and start playing less, and then not at all, and then one day you will realize, I should play again, you will learn some new stuff and the whole cycle will start all over again.

Hi Paul, You mentioned the Atkins guitar in the credits but what about the parlor with the maple sides (and back?)? What a beauty!
I love your playing, teaching, and everything about how you conduct yourself on this channel!

An open "D" chord is basically a barred "C" chord moved up two frets, playing only the G,B, and E strings.

Sorry I'm late it's 2023...😅 ....It's been 6/7 months since I've been practicing guitar but i still don't know where i reached I'm lost....my guitar teacher only gives me rhymes to play....wt hell should i do ... But what so ever im still playing rhymes 😢

What is the name of the kid song he was playing for number 10? Does he have any lessons to teach this song and its melody?

This is so great… Earlier in my guitar playing life all my friends wanted to be a shredder if you didn’t shred you weren’t cool… I don’t know that I drop them as friends we just don’t talk guitar anymore because I don’t care what they think… Oh well executed rhythm guitar part way more enticing then shredding

Completely Valid

How to fix problem when your ring finger is short and weak as the pinky finger? 😅