The 10 Riffs That TAUGHT ME John Mayer

Love to see someone else using CuNiFe. I just got a set and put them in my ultra strat and I love them

Slow dancing in a burning room definitely taught me a lot about guitar playing
its an amazing song

Between the guy that gave you a hard time for struggling with 3x5 and the guy that told said you sounded bad practicing Belief, my biggest takeaway from this video is that you went to college with some assholes 😂

Not sure if you've learned too many Ed Sheeran songs or not, but that would be an amazing video as a returning player who's finally taking guitar seriously this time around and loves that style of music and songwriting!

Your learning curve in playing musical instruments heavily depends on the quality of artists you listen to. Go straight to John Mayer tabs and you'll learn fast in applying techniques, timing, and feel, while getting that buttload of soul. Almost all his songs when you can start playing em while singing em is heavy pussy wetter ability. Like edge of desire. Sounds hard but once you get into the feel it all feels intuitive and easy.

I’m from an older generation of guitar players who started playing listening to Page, Hendrix, Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and then migrated backward to their influences - BB King, Muddy Waters, Lonnie Mack, Kenny Burrell.

I love Mayer. I think he’s one of the guys keeping guitar music alive in this world of making a beat on a computer and auto tune. He’s an extremely talented man, there are others of the more contemporary as well I love - Ariel Posen, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Jared James Nichols - oh and I had a second row seat right in front of two months ago - holy crap - Tosin Abasi. He’s unreal.

And Mayer is an amazing songwriter.

Slow dancing is the BEST one!

GRAVITY, NEON where are they at? Love the vid btw

This mf thinks 2013 was back in the day 😂 first heard John Mayer in 2001, it's crazy nowadays dudes like this get attention from stuff I was doing in 2001

I'm jealous af bro hope I get to your level

Dave matthews

Fast Dancing in a Frozen Room

No such thing remember Everlong Foo Fighters

Covered in rain is the perfect song to learn for development in my opinion

Can someone tell me what somg it is at 1 52 cos i know hes playing of your body is a wonderland but idk if the riff is or not

I’ve never heard anyone say they hate ybiaw I was hoping you’d just play the riffs

Can't appreciate this gentleman enough !

Great

If you're a guitarist, at some level john mayer is your guitar teacher, the percussive, the chords, rhythm, blues, licks, solo and last neon to make you feel like quitting 😂😂😂

I started playing guitar in 2007 because of John Mayer.

Agreed with Assassin, very underrated track!!!

Requesting for a full tutorial on City Love (pretty please..)

Subbed.

YNIAW is great, don’t care what anyone says

Awesome vid man, I also discovered how great JM is in 2013- finished freshman year of college, was going through a lot, and I started to listen to Room for Squares the whole summer and had a blast discovering how great of a guitar player and songwriter he is through those songs. I dig the riffs you chose in this video, thanks for sharing your unique perspective!

hell yeah, the guitar Mike used on city love is the same guitar strap I have. I have it on my gretch semi hollow ;)

Your cool 😎

3x5 is so hypnotize to ne somehow

I've been chasing the Berklee version of Assassin for so long. The first time I heard him play that progression, it was so evocative and captivating. The record version really lost something in translation.

for me it was stop this train, learned me the slap technique while also showing me my thumb is not nearly long enough as John's.. 😂

John Mayer inspired me to go push my guitar playing., from 4 chord guy singing with friends by the beach to doing solo and riffs.. crazy but it's a good thing to know a lot here feels the same! WOW...

Just airing the headstock on the bass???😂

I'm afraid I belong to the clay cook no such thing superiority group

Hate to break it to you but your 3x5 rhythm still needs a lot of work

Good love is on the way is another one - an underrated JM song

John Mayer is the one made me continue and believing in my self !

I do not have a 10-riffs list specifically for John Mayer. But the ones that I do have were on your list. Always enjoy your videos and would love to hear more about your guitar journey. Cheers!

never heard somone mess up no such thing

I was not a big fan of John Mayer when i started playing (like 12 years ago)... but to be honest I never gave myself a chance to really listen to his music. It was until 2017 when I heard "The Search for Everything" and then really started fully understand why ge was such a great player... of course I listened to the Nokia Live album on repeat by months. On 2021 I finally decided to get a Silver Sky and I couldnt be happier with it. Still learning most of his songs and live solos.

I don’t need no doctor (even if his not his one , but killer riff)


Vultures


Queen of California


Call me the breeze


Moving on getting over


Helpless


Stitched up

Slow dancing..... sounds pretty good bro

I add to your list riffs like Why Georgia?, Neon (so hard to play!), Slow Dancing in a Burning Room, Gravity and 85. Have you learn this riffs bro?

my stupid mouth - pinky/thumb work

neon very tough

FYI, can confirm John is playing Assassin live now. He played it during his latest solo tour

FYI - assasin was an opener on his recent acoustic tour.

Mike you’re a true guitar hero , it’s really joyful to see how good you are expressing this thoughts that we all have on our musician journey , looking forward to see your own projects in the future

I love the first one too, it gets no hate from me.