The Differences Between BEGINNERS, INTERMEDIATE, And ADVANCED Guitar Players
Are you a beginner guitar player? Or an intermediate player? How do you know which one you are? Well the answer isn’t very simple, keep watching to learn more!
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Excellent episode
I love this video so much and have to tell people the same thing all the time. The only bone I have to pick is that piano in particular has a specific path. The fact thst so many proplenapproch it this way ends up harming them, especially if they are looking toward a career as apianist where nearly the same breadth of skills are out there as guitar and basically most of them are increasingly expected. I will grant that the physical approach is slightly more varied for guitar.
But so many pianist learn in the tradition way only to find out that memorized classical repertoire is not at all useful. Yheybhavr neglected not only sightreading, but playing by ear, being able to comp from charts, having functional theory knowledge, etc. And then there are the physical and technology aspects thst come with needing to play synths, and other key word instruments like those with unweighted keys which have a shockingly different technical approach comparable ro the difference between playing fingerstyle versus with a pick.
The deficit also greatly affects many other instrumentalists (like trumpet players) and as the bar rises constantly in the working musician world this lack of rounded news is affecting even instruments you'd think only need to play in traditional styles…something I run into frequently when working with string playersbin a musical theatre pit which expects them yonhavr stylistic abilities they were never exposed to as well as extended technique relevant to those styles.
That little bit aside, I absolutely love your videos and your extremely solid pedagogy.
Setting goals is the biggest problem I have. There are too many things I want to learn for one lifetime, let alone the limited amount of time I have left. And if I choose to work on one thing, I'm implicitly choosing to not work on all the other things. And it's hard to give up on things I really want to learn. But then, since I haven't set any goals, I end up going nowhere.
Thanks for for what you do Tommaso
I have a question regarding what I do with the guitar, basically I'm a singer songwriter and therefore my practice on guitar has been learning all kinds of chords(extended, altered, inversions and different cool voicings) and how to use them to write unique chord progressions and rhythmically I've been exploring syncopations and common odd time signatures like 5/8,7/8, 7/4 etc.to spice up my accompaniments and songs but I've never paid any attention to lead playing/improvising and feel like I'm missing out but I'm not sure if it's possible to do that as well together with the singer/songwriter thing and if there's a need for me to "balance" this. I would really appreciate if you could enlighten me based on whatever little introduction I could give here 
Thankyou, Vin
I'm gonna be honest, i skipped through this. Does he actually play the damn guitar??? Was hoping to see sound samples of the differences
that’s a fine mentality, and very much the reality.
Absolutely one of your Greatest Video ever!! I agree totally!! Your 1 through 5 statements is what any musician..guitarist, pianist…etc. is perfectly spot on!!
Good points. I like these discussions ????
When I hear a guitar player call themselves intermediate, I think of the Princess Bride and Vizzini and I hear the voice of Inigo Montoya saying "You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means."
Your narrative strikes me as very sensible. For example, I have played for 5 decades, and can compose interesting pieces like solo acoustic chord melodies with incorporated bass lines, multipart songs with vocals, etc. However, I haven't learned to produce a pleasant (rock or blues) vibrato on electric guitar, play clean power chords, harp harmonics, speed over 450 npm, etc. In my experience finding an effective, accessible teacher and targeted "curriculum" presents a significant challenge, particularly for rock and other contemporary electric guitar styles.
have you been binging on crack or cotechino lately? jokes apart, I liked the music theory part better Tommaso!
Allora, Buon Anno!
From the beginner level it took me 4 years to A) settle on what I want, B) be able to describe what it is. In the meantime I tried shredding and comping both ????
I seem to remember reading somewhere that Steve Vai wanted to be the best in the world at all guitar styles. He soon gave up on that when he realised it’s impossible.
I'm the world's mediocre-est guitarist, 20 years running. ????????????
Exatcly what I needed to hear to decide what to study this new year, thanks man! Happy 2024!
Talk about over thinking . Jeez.
Dunno… John Mayer is an advanced player. Tommy Emanuel is an advanced player. My nephew I gave his first guitar for Christmas is a beginner.
Beginner: I want to start playing guitar.
Intermediate: I want to get better at playing guitar
Advanced: Shut up and play yer guitar.
Mark knopfler in one interview said, "Hey I understand it's a bottomless pit the amount that's out there to done and to learn (with guitar), I'm only doing what I dig" This confirms your point. Thank you for this great clip.
good perspective, for me I don't ever use that, well, if you're a beginner, and you're still struggling with barre chords, yeah, that's a beginner, but from then on, there is no Intermediate, nor Advanced; it's just a straight forward journey to Mastery of the guitar.. even professionals, still travel that journey. You will never get there, because there is always something new to explore.. Oh, Btw, some of your interesting ways to create progressions are some of the best insprirations.. (ie m3 up, Maj3 down, up 4th, down 4th, and minor, major, augmented or diminshed triads.. still hard to wrap my head around that, but it's really interesting, so is borrowing chords in parallel modes.. C Ionian, C Dorian.. etc.
Well said! ????????????