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You should have stated what you basic concept of muscle memory. This is the same thing I teach my students and it is muscle memory of the brain. Not actual muscle work. The brain is a muscle on its' own. I show my students this concept in real time as well. Great lesson

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I owe a huge thanks to you for helping me learn notes on the fretboard. I did that exercise where you play one note on every string all over the fretboard. I am able to locate notes on the fretboard by muscle memory and not theoretical memorization. ♥️

I started doing the full process 3 days ago- admittedly I put in a few hours already, but I’m already seeing lightbulbs go off. It is ALREADY changing how I look at and think about my instrument! Cannot believe I put this off for so long. I can do 90bpm including sharps and flats, changing as I reverse directions!

Misleading title

I get a weird sensation in my palm doing it with the pinky. Anyone else have that?

This is about the stupidest recommendation I’ve heard.

I like this approach. I am going to give it a try.

this is silly and meaningless. You're telling people to not memorize anything, but then say to read and learn them to remember them, which actually means "commit to memory". So, you contradict yourself. Then you say "just let them go" which is counter intuitive to the act of learning anything. I don't think you understand how memory, and learning work

He's talking about INTERNALIZING vs Memorizing.

I have never practiced. I just play. This approach has resulted in me sounding terrible for many years, but having fun. And now I sound good. It only took 50 years or so. What is this "sheet music" you speak of? Music comes in sheets?

It is more valuable to train your mind to think and work through everything at a fast rate and not to rely on muscle memory. There are so many other chords, chord voicings and scales it really is impossible to memorize them all.

This is so good. I am treating learning instruments like learning to type. I used to hunt and peck as a kid but when I started journaling daily I got the hang of it and can now type almost as fast as I think without conscious effort. I am working on feeling the sound if the notes and intuiting the proper distance between. Two months ago when I first walked into a guitar store to buy my own first guitar, I couldn't hold a D chord or play a pentatonic scale. Now I can just feel where it's supposed to go just like typing. Loving your videos!!

Use it or lose it.

Thank you goat

Still too easy

I know this video was made a while ago so you probably won’t answer but is it 5 minutes on each exercise everyday? Also if I’m first starting out and literally just learned the string names can I just build up to doing all exercises in order by starting with just 1 for a week and progressing from there?

This video is like a ray of light in my gray reality!💫

You say "Just a few weeks" but I'm finding more like "Just a few months." Which is fine, I'm not concerned with time. I've found that using your system is good mental exercise and good for my overall efforts at being a better guitar player. Oddly enough, I think it helps with other things, such as playing Sudoku. So thank you.

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With respect, this is an argument in semantics here. Whether you memorise by reading or by doing you're still memorising, it's the learning method that changes and different people learn in different ways. Some will remember things quicker by reading, some by doing. Yes you need the practice and repetition one way or another to develop the muscle memory but even that is a form of memorisation.

I really love the explanation. Very interesting!

Charlie Parker did not know there were keys. He thought music was just one big thing. When I learned that, I threw out everything and every theory book. I made my own understanding of music theory and I am so happy I did. I got into that awful habit of playing things without hearing them inside my head first. That’s what practicing things to learn them by memory did for me. A complete waste of time!

Very true sight reading is the way to go. And sounds memory

Another thing to consider; the description of negative harmony presented only works in the Key of C. Note that in this case the Third "E" translates to Eb.. Why? when you construct the tonic of the key "C - E - G" you first have to spread out that chord so (in C) it's "C - Db - D - Eb - E - F - F# - G" there are now all the notes of the tonic, and the notes between.. There are "8" notes.. then you divide them in half, the halfway point is "Eb - E" note that E translates to Eb.. This is why.. then using the chromatic scale you find all your translated noted (positive to negative) now are layed out.. when you do, that's how you get "A=Bb" "B=Ab" "F = D".. etc.. now you translate your melody in C and diatonic chords in C. Now what everyone is missing here is that if you now are in another key.. THIS DOESN"T WORK.. you have to do the same thing to establish the positive and negative relationships: Starting with the key of "G" in kind: "G - Ab - A - Bb - B - C - Db - D" now that mid point between the flatted-third and the natural third are you pivot point (key of C: it was "Eb-E", in the key of G; it is between "Bb-B", now you use the chromatic scales starting with each and you get the associated Positive=Negative note/diatonic chord schema.. You must do this in all keys.. If you modulate, that's where you can mix, but the destination modulation key, must be re-aligned, else it will not sound right. I tested this, and created Pos-negative notes and diatonic chords for all useable keys, and my theory is correct.. the negative notes and positive notes now work in the current key.. This is something that has been missing from the explanation of Negative Harmony as discovered, again, by "Jacob Collier" (he's on U2B) and one of the most valuable resources about anything involving music theory and also experimental music. (I like to present these ideas, but rarely get reactions or comments - maybe you don't care).

This is 💯% true. You just have to keep playing . Question for you, I've found that for songs I learned but have not played in 2 yrs, I can't remember them anymore. Is this normally what other's may also find? I guess my question is a little subjective but it comes from the fact that one just can't keep playing everything they ever learned , so they may retain only , say the last 10 or 15 they've been playing in the last few months?

You always have an interesting take on guitar learning. I agree but disagree, and practice to get good at a technique but forget it for the next technique. I do the same with the songs I write/record. I practice and get the best take, and move on to the next song. When I do it acoustic, I do it different but same. ?? I really have a terrible attention span. Thanks for the vid.

If I use a different key is there a different axis line to flip the notes?

This is a key that teachers take for granted and students never get told in a way they understand. Teachers mean "learn to do" (through repeated practice) and students understand "learn to know" (through memorisation, as they were made to at school).

Stearing at a piece of paper is the opposite of memorization. Why do you think it is the same?

he would be cool to see you play your own music or whatever like ken tamplin does with singing

thank you master

I'm no expert, but toddlers learning to speak don't really focus on memory of how to pronounce words and we adults certainly don't, we just speak. I just wish my playing came as naturally as my speaking.

Trying playing a Bach fugue without memorizing it.

I agree completely!

Dude this is genius. What you explain is like learning a language. It's much better to practice speaking and listening then trying to memorised the grammar rules. Best guitar channel ever. Edit: I actually do as you say and my guitar tech has improved tenfold. All my practice is just warm up to play songs I like haha

In exactly the same everyone learned their first language. Daily exposure.

finally! haha yes 100%

this video is still relevant

Very John Mclaughlinesque

Thanks a lot. I'm saving this video because i will probably forget it.

Memorization is not how you learn the language of music.

One very important distinction you could mention talking about this issue. Yes memorization can be useless activity but only when you have your guitar available for you at the moment. If you don't have access to your instrument you can memerize by visualizing the freatboard and this is an activity with great return on time investment.

You are correct but I can give you my edge case .... I memorize a lot because on of the goals of me playing music is for quick recall and as another tool to prevent dementia. I do this with drums and piano as well. Also, I can't read music and have no interest in learning, I have my own notes I make that make sense probably to me when I'm learning something, but once I learn it I try to not reference that again.

Really? I have to disagree.. In order to reach mastery, you take one idea, scale, pattern etc, and you pound it into your short-term memory, fail, relearn, fail, relearn.. when you can sit in front of your TV and play it without thinking about it, now it goes from Short-term memory to Long term memory.. Remember learning your times tables.. repetition is the ONLY way to master it.. You practice kicking a soccer ball, until you get it to the goal, the move to a new position and try again until you get it.. The real key.. Concentrate on ONE thing, until you can do it and hold a conversation with someone at the same time, then go to another thing.. guitarists that try to learn to much causes your brain and short-term memory to short out. ONE thing at a time, and master it until you don't think about it.. An intermediate guitarist learning basic chords, remember how hard it was at first.. Now you don't think about how to finger an E major chord, a C major chord. Key don't try to learn too many different things at the same time. Pace yourself, and master the guitar this way.. otherwise, you will confuse yourself, and your short term memory will not store ., I have to completely disagree with this anti-memorization concept. It doesn't work towards total mastery.. it's malarky! to go in this direction. Mastery requires repitition, repitition commits to long-term memory. It's okay to try something, and then next day you forget, that's what is SUPPOSED to happen, keep doing it until you don't have to think about it. Now, it's in your long-term memory.. the next thing you learn, will come to you faster because you trained your brain to use it's short-term memory and long-term memory efficiently.. I've been playing for over 40 years, this is how it's done. I'd like to offer a tip that increased my learning speed to 300% of all the rest of you. I have abandoned the EADGBE tuning.. go to FOURTHS tuning.. EADGCF.. now ALL triads 7ths scales.. have the exact same patterns. no more B and E string shifts.. this means you have to learn 33% of what you need to learn. I'm doing fusion now because of this one move.. I'll never go back to campfire guitar tuning.. MY Humble Opinion.

Gets up on stage, sorry I didn't memorize my songs...

Okay this title really confused me at first, but I totally get your point when watching 😂. Thanks again

Isnt it a two way thing? If you want to remember something on the guitar you have to play it a lot. If you want to play something you will also have to remember it. And sometimes just playing it over and over again is maybe only kinda going to help if its for example something rythmically weird or something like that. Then you have to look at the notes, where they fall in the bar etc and figure out a way to always remember it.

I'm a pro at the forgetting part

Oof! Subtle point but very true!