I've started a new feature on my patreon level 'The art of zen guitar'. I started with general advice videos, now I'm adding full guitar lessons. I am showing a ten minute segment here of a full 45 minute lesson on 'Down to the waterline' by Dire Straits. This is different and cheaper than my direct lessons level with one to one instruction over zoom. The $20 a month level will give you access to my advice videos, as well as full 45 minute lessons breaking down a song in all details, rhythm as well as solos. Very thorough! I'm doing lessons no one else on youtube is doing, and if they are, certainly not on the same level of detail. My first full lesson was 'lowdown in the street' by ZZ Top and NO ONE on youtube has ever made a lesson for this classic song! I also don't use alternate tunings, so you learn the song in standard tuning, which is a skill that I started very early. I also STRESS improvisation. It's all well and good to copy other players, but you must get away from that as soon as possible. If the chord is a B minor, play your own thing. In this example of down to the waterline, you can play what knopfler does in the opening, but why? It's already been done, express yourself! Nothing is easier than soloing over minor chord progressions. You will learn the song exactly the way I play it, and I don't do anything half assed. The goal is to gain command of fingerstyle techniques, rhythm work and lead work, often combining them. Most guitar lessons on youtube are strictly stuck on 'guitar parts' only, which to me has always been very boring. You should learn the entire song, starting with the bass line. You should be able to play bass lines as well as vocal melodies and the guitar parts and switch from rhythm to lead fills. It's fun to learn keyboard parts or horn parts on guitar. This increases your knowledge as 'non guitar players' play in totally different ways. You want to get out of the cliches of guitar players? (Even Knopfler employs massive cliches in his playing) Learn horn solos. When I learned 'touch me' by the Doors, I played the horn solo on guitar. An eye opener! This is especially important if you are a solo guitar player and don't have a band. I learned all this while playing in instrumental bands and doing street shows. Filling out the songs by playing all parts of the song. This makes it much more interesting and fun. If you join the $20 a month 'art of zen guitar' level on patreon, you get access to all guitar lesson content. You can even pick one song a month and I will make a lesson on that song. I keep adding lessons for songs that I love playing, and haven't been done to death on youtube. All these videos will never be published on youtube so you'll be part of an exclusive club, getting full tuition on your favori ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6fLcGXFWGo

This was a first. Man tries to tip me by attaching the money to the headstock of my guitar, but it doesn't work. He then hands me the $5. Says I should be working with Hendrix. Probably too late for that! Download the audio! https://thesixmilliondollarguitar.bandcamp.com/album/live-from-the-street-july-19-22 Patreon support/Jam requests/Guitar lessons:https://www.patreon.com/Shatnershairpiece 2000 original guitar jams on bandcamp: https://thesixmilliondollarguitar.bandcamp.com/ Paypal tip: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/6milliondollarguitar?locale.x=en_US Google pay tip/Apple tip/cc tip: https://busk.co/30027 Tip with 'buy me a coffee' https://www.buymeacoffee.com/RobinSpanell Shatnershairpiece t-shirts! https://www.redbubble.com/people/RobinSpanell/shop?asc=u - Want a song request for a gift? $100 gets you an extended jam of your choice! - Get my book 'The Joys of Busking' on pdf for a minimum $10 tip on paypal - Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7EL6MC3QrqFd_8RBmbdhow/join #busker #guitar #amazing #live #music #street #tips ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOZap3uAIr8