steviesnacks.com – If you can learn to hear the sonic pattern created by playing certain notes in a specific order then you can begin to recognize those patterns when those same notes are played that same way in any key, at any speed. This will make the process of re-learning those segments much, much easier because you wont have to isolate and re-learn every single note. Once you can recognize the pattern, you instantly know how to play it.
The Power Of Pattern Recognition
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Hey Anthony-
Great stuff! Stevie was without question, a true force of nature. I’ve seen a lot of guys play his stuff, but you’ve obviously gone a little further with your understanding of his style. Like any player should, I have my own way of doing things, but it doesn’t hurt at all to bite off a few of these tasty riffs hope they find their way into my playing (which they certainly have). Thanks for your hard work and I’ll continue to support you all that I can.
rob
What type of strings do you use ?
I always thought this was something I just did.. Didn’t know it was a skill to learn.. Thanks for the lesson.
Fantastic lesson. Thanks, Anthony!
I noticed one thing as you play the lick faster. As you go faster you switch to using your middle finger on the the first note on the G string as opposed to your ring finger. Is that a way to help with speed or just a habit?
Yup.
I absolutely love Capo. Cool lesson man. This is something I have been working hard on for awhile. It is cool studying an artist like SRV because once you learn some of the things he does you can start to recognize them. One of the coolest things that has started to happen for me is that you can almost slow down these licks in your head. You are a lot further along than me so you must hear these licks pretty slow in your mind right?
Are you still using the Samamp? I’m really digging your break up.
Because then you couldn’t hear how awesome my random string bumping sounds.
Your vid’s are very good at addressing rarely-taught techniques which help students advance quicker as we learn to "use" the instrument (as opposed to "playing it") than if we just start memorizing the scales/modes/intervals.While these are proportionaly important, Good foundation and practice habits are the key.
I can’t believe you didn’t talk about it before … EITHER! But thanks anyway.
Several available, Capo on Mac is a good one, Amazing Slow Downer for windows.
Surgical Listening…YES
What is the "slow down" software you speak of?
what is cool with a guitar is that you can turn the volume off when you are speaking ;)
Agree entirely with what your’re saying. It’s something I’ve picked-up over the years as well. A guitar teacher I had got me learning all the licks in Freddy King’s "Tore Down" and then try to use them elsewhere and in different ways. I hear them all over the place now, from T-Bone to SRV and indeed to what you’ve just done on this video.
Dude 1080p is amazing, such good quality! Free lesson Friday is the best, thanks for helping us guitarists!
The pickups Sounds like Butter cuz they are humbuckers
the only dude i’ve ever seen that delves into guitar philosophy
Thank you,Anthony. Do you really wonderful lessons! I do not know English (Google translator), but on the video is very much becomes clear (Understood the subtle nuances and moments). Thank you very much for your work!! 🙂
There are certain parts of country that it applies to, but certainly not all. The way I present the fretboard is aimed squarely at simple blues and blues rock. Some country style soloing works too, but it would be hard to be a convincing country guitarist using my approach.
No need to apologize, people make that mistake all the time.
I did not know …I apologize 🙂
His name is Anthony