Part 2 example "I can See for Miles" The Who
Part 3 Example "Smoke on the Water"
part 4 Example Stevie Ray Vaughan
Part 5 - example: "Hey Joe" Jimi Hendrix
part 6 - E7#9 to E7b9 turnaround
Thursday, January 12, 2017
Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Tribalistic Guitar Zombies Attack Spartacus for post that went Viral!.
Save your tribalism for football, not music? Spartacus says YES!
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Yesterday's blog went viral with over 1000 views in a few short hours before I pulled the plug. People were offended and went tribal against me because they didn't want to accept that a "has been band" that they identify with, was actually now 70-year-old men playing ninth grade level material. I tried to let everyone have some fun at my expense, but they were serious and angry. This happened on several threads and groups so it was not a fluke....
It was like fighting tribalistic guitar zombies..... Proving them wrong, showing the facts, demonstrating the reality in an experiment mattered not to them as they kept coming.....
In the gladiator days, it was so much the beginning of time and civilization that the chariot race teams didn't even have names. They just had colors, like "red team". People would identify so much with their chosen color for the team they like, that fights between the colors would regularly break out in the stands because people would wear armbands or handkerchiefs indicating which team they supported. This "pack mentality" is not the consciousness that leads to being a true musician.
Do you know how many hundreds or even thousands of students that still play with the same problems today as they did decades ago when I originally pointed out the clear problems to overcome in their playing to them?
Example: I challenged everybody who plays guitar in Southern California to come by my gig on Highway 101 and try to take me on as a guitarslinger. I offered $500. if they can keep up with me. Hardly anyone showed up and when they did I defeated them quickly and decisively...... One guy in particular was a young very talented Italian gentleman who ended up taking lessons from me after he saw one of the competitive guitar showdowns. In the lessons I pointed out his clear core tempo problem, which is a major issue for 99% of the guitarists out there anyway, so there is no insult in pointing it out. In fact it is my job as a teacher to point out and fix issues like that. Well after many months of denial, where he simply did not believe that he had this problem, he invited me to his house. He had spent a fortune on pedals, and one of those pedals was a repeater. I watched him lay down a rhythm chop with slightly imperfect timing. He then proceeded to play along to the imperfect repeated rhythm riff with slightly off rhythm leads. So I found the cause and proof of his core tempo issue. Not only was he avoiding having me fix his internal core tempo, but he was continually making it worse with his repeater. This is what I mean when I say that music is an exact science, not a popularity contest. LOL
When yesterdays blog was going viral, I was getting notices continually on my computer screen with angry people who are trying to put me down. A common complaint was that they don't understand what I'm saying. Well that figures…but usually people are humbled when they don't understand and it pushes them to learn more. Not always the case though....Out here in California, for example, there is a rampant syndrome illness of denial. When I teach people something solid like 2+2 is four, they say things like, "Well five works better for me and my friends. In fact I think that five is the new four!" LOL.
Music is not a tribal way to identify yourself with a particular cultural group that presents a particular musical mood or rhythm. The online groups and communities of slaves that I was trying to liberate yesterday, insisted that they are more comfortable inside their cells because of excuses like that their meals are brought to them and they get good medical care. The analogy makes it so clear. :-) lol
All I have done since I went virtual is to give tons of free lessons and support to upcoming musicians that are sincere. In this process of giving help and realizations to hundreds and already even thousands of people that I have given attention to here online, I have finally found the 1st online guitar gladiator so far that I have actually registered to study with me. I guarantee you that this gentleman will reach the highest levels of mastery in a very short time with my guidance and I will show proof.
Yesterday's groups and communities that attacked me, were defending their illusion and mediocrity by trying to say that my absolutely free services were profit driven and therefore bogus. One pointed out that it seemed like my philosophy is similar to that of Tom Hess. LOL Tom is one of the most successful online teachers that ever was, so that is hardly a put down.
No one teaches for 50 years for money. The millions I made and blew was not from teaching I assure you. I teach because I care, and I hate to see all these guitarists suffering without a clue of how badly they are suffering. It is my little way of helping the world.
I took the blog post down yesterday, because I don't need a bunch of misinformed trolls who live in a world of musical self denial and delusion.... Zombies who keep coming back defending factual errors, in order to feel a tribal connection to their mediocre level musician friends rather than freeing themselves to grow into expressive linguistically coherent musicians. It is not my fault that music actually has clearly defined standards of which it is my job and duty to point out. By the way, I found the best thing about the band used as an example yesterday, and gave them huge praise, but the trolls had not read that far or "understood". lol :-)
When the groups of musical slaves that I tried to liberate yesterday were huddled in their cells refusing to come out and telling me to go away… I finally understood why they taught me to fight in the water when I learned lifeguard skills. Unbelievably most people will physically fight you as a primal reaction when you swim out a few miles to save them, so you have to sometimes punch them to knock them out in order to save them. Can you imagine how lame is to attack someone who is trying to liberate you with facts and demonstrations of the application of those facts?
I'm not thick-skinned, as I have been in this business my whole life, and I have been ripped off by tons of fatcats and harassed by tons of trolling fans. I am fighting for the few sincere musicians who are actually seeking to break through, rather than just "fit in".
They accused me of elitism and arrogance. Is it arrogant to master your craft over a grueling 55 years of almost daily work? Guitar teaching on the web and in the stores is not about creating virtuoso players, instead it is based on a tribal mentality of identification with a particular kind of music that associates with a particular social group. I may be arrogant in order to wake up sleeping musicians and provoke them into dialogue, but I am in no way an elitist. The proof of this is that I spent my life helping others in music and I'm still doing that today for free. I'm giving you my family secrets going back for many generations of musicians for free.
I am not going to excuse myself in terms of what I've achieved or the solid knowledge that is the truth which I stand by in order to make the gregarious "mediocre mentality" masses give me more "likes" and patronizing comments. People use tons of false equivalencies to eradicate the different levels of achievement in music as if it is all the same. Since very few people understand the language of music, they except musical gobbledygook, or they deny that people who are in their 70s and are still playing Johnny B Goode in the mediocre way is material for a high school level band. Instead of taking the next step and being curious, they zombie attack with lame clueless statements like, "I don't understand it, so therefore it is not understandable and you must be wrong, even though I can't explain how". Ha ha what utter nonsense.
The first album I was on was with Joan Sutherland, who was one of the greatest singers of all time. The conductor was Leonard Bernstein, one of the most prolific and advanced music teachers of all time. Do you think it hurts my feelings to hear some pathetic troll trying to deny truths in order to attempt to put me down? Fine then, it's a free country, go ahead and stay mediocre if you like… Go ahead and play children's level music for 50 years just because drunken audiences scream. Defend your lack of study, and continue to believe that comprehension and understanding to the point of realizations that integrate into your being as you play better and better is a bad thing....so this way you can do basically NOTHING.
Okay, so the Spartacus gladiator, guitarslinger analogy is a little silly and not for everybody. However I am amazed at how much the analogy of Spartacus and the slaves does hold up in this situation as I move forward to free the up-and-coming generations of guitar players… The problem is that it is hard to free slaves that believe that they already emancipated. lol
Since I got attacked so vehemently, I do not hesitate to add here that most of the guitarists out there are clueless. No amount of unsophisticated clapping audiences that puff you up, and no amount of money paid by record companies will change that. Being a virtuoso is not a cheap thing, and everyone who has achieved that level of mastery got help from bona fide maestros whether they know it or not.
If anyone believes that anything I teach is untrue, then come forward and if I cannot prove the teaching to be true, or an equivalent of something true, then I will admit defeat and eat my hat. If I can prove it though, then I will insist that you join our posse of freed guitar slaves and pass the master keys to musical freedom on to others..... if you want to be a "no facts" trolling zombie, then you can do nothing..... :-)
2) FREE Webcam Guitar Lessons - no sign up - no obligation
CALL Paul to book your free lessons: (707) 634-4447 spartacusofguitar@gmail.com
2) FREE Webcam Guitar Lessons - no sign up - no obligation
CALL Paul to book your free lessons: (707) 634-4447 spartacusofguitar@gmail.com
Yesterday's blog went viral with over 1000 views in a few short hours before I pulled the plug. People were offended and went tribal against me because they didn't want to accept that a "has been band" that they identify with, was actually now 70-year-old men playing ninth grade level material. I tried to let everyone have some fun at my expense, but they were serious and angry. This happened on several threads and groups so it was not a fluke....
It was like fighting tribalistic guitar zombies..... Proving them wrong, showing the facts, demonstrating the reality in an experiment mattered not to them as they kept coming.....
In the gladiator days, it was so much the beginning of time and civilization that the chariot race teams didn't even have names. They just had colors, like "red team". People would identify so much with their chosen color for the team they like, that fights between the colors would regularly break out in the stands because people would wear armbands or handkerchiefs indicating which team they supported. This "pack mentality" is not the consciousness that leads to being a true musician.
Do you know how many hundreds or even thousands of students that still play with the same problems today as they did decades ago when I originally pointed out the clear problems to overcome in their playing to them?
Example: I challenged everybody who plays guitar in Southern California to come by my gig on Highway 101 and try to take me on as a guitarslinger. I offered $500. if they can keep up with me. Hardly anyone showed up and when they did I defeated them quickly and decisively...... One guy in particular was a young very talented Italian gentleman who ended up taking lessons from me after he saw one of the competitive guitar showdowns. In the lessons I pointed out his clear core tempo problem, which is a major issue for 99% of the guitarists out there anyway, so there is no insult in pointing it out. In fact it is my job as a teacher to point out and fix issues like that. Well after many months of denial, where he simply did not believe that he had this problem, he invited me to his house. He had spent a fortune on pedals, and one of those pedals was a repeater. I watched him lay down a rhythm chop with slightly imperfect timing. He then proceeded to play along to the imperfect repeated rhythm riff with slightly off rhythm leads. So I found the cause and proof of his core tempo issue. Not only was he avoiding having me fix his internal core tempo, but he was continually making it worse with his repeater. This is what I mean when I say that music is an exact science, not a popularity contest. LOL
When yesterdays blog was going viral, I was getting notices continually on my computer screen with angry people who are trying to put me down. A common complaint was that they don't understand what I'm saying. Well that figures…but usually people are humbled when they don't understand and it pushes them to learn more. Not always the case though....Out here in California, for example, there is a rampant syndrome illness of denial. When I teach people something solid like 2+2 is four, they say things like, "Well five works better for me and my friends. In fact I think that five is the new four!" LOL.
Music is not a tribal way to identify yourself with a particular cultural group that presents a particular musical mood or rhythm. The online groups and communities of slaves that I was trying to liberate yesterday, insisted that they are more comfortable inside their cells because of excuses like that their meals are brought to them and they get good medical care. The analogy makes it so clear. :-) lol
All I have done since I went virtual is to give tons of free lessons and support to upcoming musicians that are sincere. In this process of giving help and realizations to hundreds and already even thousands of people that I have given attention to here online, I have finally found the 1st online guitar gladiator so far that I have actually registered to study with me. I guarantee you that this gentleman will reach the highest levels of mastery in a very short time with my guidance and I will show proof.
Yesterday's groups and communities that attacked me, were defending their illusion and mediocrity by trying to say that my absolutely free services were profit driven and therefore bogus. One pointed out that it seemed like my philosophy is similar to that of Tom Hess. LOL Tom is one of the most successful online teachers that ever was, so that is hardly a put down.
No one teaches for 50 years for money. The millions I made and blew was not from teaching I assure you. I teach because I care, and I hate to see all these guitarists suffering without a clue of how badly they are suffering. It is my little way of helping the world.
I took the blog post down yesterday, because I don't need a bunch of misinformed trolls who live in a world of musical self denial and delusion.... Zombies who keep coming back defending factual errors, in order to feel a tribal connection to their mediocre level musician friends rather than freeing themselves to grow into expressive linguistically coherent musicians. It is not my fault that music actually has clearly defined standards of which it is my job and duty to point out. By the way, I found the best thing about the band used as an example yesterday, and gave them huge praise, but the trolls had not read that far or "understood". lol :-)
When the groups of musical slaves that I tried to liberate yesterday were huddled in their cells refusing to come out and telling me to go away… I finally understood why they taught me to fight in the water when I learned lifeguard skills. Unbelievably most people will physically fight you as a primal reaction when you swim out a few miles to save them, so you have to sometimes punch them to knock them out in order to save them. Can you imagine how lame is to attack someone who is trying to liberate you with facts and demonstrations of the application of those facts?
I'm not thick-skinned, as I have been in this business my whole life, and I have been ripped off by tons of fatcats and harassed by tons of trolling fans. I am fighting for the few sincere musicians who are actually seeking to break through, rather than just "fit in".
They accused me of elitism and arrogance. Is it arrogant to master your craft over a grueling 55 years of almost daily work? Guitar teaching on the web and in the stores is not about creating virtuoso players, instead it is based on a tribal mentality of identification with a particular kind of music that associates with a particular social group. I may be arrogant in order to wake up sleeping musicians and provoke them into dialogue, but I am in no way an elitist. The proof of this is that I spent my life helping others in music and I'm still doing that today for free. I'm giving you my family secrets going back for many generations of musicians for free.
I am not going to excuse myself in terms of what I've achieved or the solid knowledge that is the truth which I stand by in order to make the gregarious "mediocre mentality" masses give me more "likes" and patronizing comments. People use tons of false equivalencies to eradicate the different levels of achievement in music as if it is all the same. Since very few people understand the language of music, they except musical gobbledygook, or they deny that people who are in their 70s and are still playing Johnny B Goode in the mediocre way is material for a high school level band. Instead of taking the next step and being curious, they zombie attack with lame clueless statements like, "I don't understand it, so therefore it is not understandable and you must be wrong, even though I can't explain how". Ha ha what utter nonsense.
The first album I was on was with Joan Sutherland, who was one of the greatest singers of all time. The conductor was Leonard Bernstein, one of the most prolific and advanced music teachers of all time. Do you think it hurts my feelings to hear some pathetic troll trying to deny truths in order to attempt to put me down? Fine then, it's a free country, go ahead and stay mediocre if you like… Go ahead and play children's level music for 50 years just because drunken audiences scream. Defend your lack of study, and continue to believe that comprehension and understanding to the point of realizations that integrate into your being as you play better and better is a bad thing....so this way you can do basically NOTHING.
Okay, so the Spartacus gladiator, guitarslinger analogy is a little silly and not for everybody. However I am amazed at how much the analogy of Spartacus and the slaves does hold up in this situation as I move forward to free the up-and-coming generations of guitar players… The problem is that it is hard to free slaves that believe that they already emancipated. lol
Since I got attacked so vehemently, I do not hesitate to add here that most of the guitarists out there are clueless. No amount of unsophisticated clapping audiences that puff you up, and no amount of money paid by record companies will change that. Being a virtuoso is not a cheap thing, and everyone who has achieved that level of mastery got help from bona fide maestros whether they know it or not.
If anyone believes that anything I teach is untrue, then come forward and if I cannot prove the teaching to be true, or an equivalent of something true, then I will admit defeat and eat my hat. If I can prove it though, then I will insist that you join our posse of freed guitar slaves and pass the master keys to musical freedom on to others..... if you want to be a "no facts" trolling zombie, then you can do nothing..... :-)
2) FREE Webcam Guitar Lessons - no sign up - no obligation
CALL Paul to book your free lessons: (707) 634-4447 spartacusofguitar@gmail.com
Friday, January 6, 2017
Origins of Guitar - G form
"Orienting to G form"
video ends with fade to black then it kept running :-) lol
The primal string... Allman Brothers "Ramblin Man" breakthrough position 1973
Part Four: All the way up the neck with transitioning from E form to G form in high register of A. Move way beyond open chords forever and free yourself!
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