3 Tips to Jamming on Guitar Video Lecture - The Ultimate Guitar Course

so Dean and I are often referred to as
the Siegfried and Roy of guitar teacher
job which we take is a massive
compliment because they're magicians
right and we are magician exactly and
wit and right now magic or the white
tiger is like the perfect Jam that is
kind of like the Beast that we're going
to summon so we're here today to give
you three tips on how to play with
another musician in a jam setting three
very important tips that are often
overlooked
yes all right yeah we're going to right
now tip number one we got one let's see
drum roll please dynamics all about
dynamics you an example of when you have
no dynamics between a rhythm and a lead
player what is gonna sound like short
what's something
okay ng algorithm one two three four
why's those awesome we just ended right
yeah that's yeah awful I see this all
the time and when people are trying to
jam the rhythm guys just wailing yeah no
it's actually that's a very egotistical
move when you say hey you want a jam but
let's not jam together yeah so you got
to learn how to jam together you're fair
fans they jam together so there is a
little bit of like shedding your ego
exactly and learning how to jam so I'm
gonna be the rhythm guy the number one
thing I'm gonna do I'm not gonna do
anything different except I'm gonna palm
mute the guitar so if you've never palm
you do anything where I've got another
video link YouTube but basically the the
idea is take the side of your hand which
isn't really the palm well meeting is
kind of like the wrong name for this I
think nobody palm you it's a karate chop
yeah it's really you're juror you're
chopping the bridge of the guitar
keeping it there so if I'm gonna play a
G chord instead of book now may be
dynamically I can beat up to that and
can and if I'm lifting yeah you know
yeah but yeah right now I'm just gonna
do the same thing and play the same
chords in the key G I'm just gonna
heavily palm mute the chords to kind of
give this guy lobe assign could take
over right let's do it sorry oh two
three four
oh wow there we go
why die scared me a little bit all about
dynamics yes you can still do your thing
as a rhythm player gotta pull it back
yeah it's not about you when you win
it's like when you're when you're
married it becomes bub both of these
about the jam about the Jin yeah what
would happen to sync for you to took
over it's like you know I always been
getting little too much press I'm taking
over one of them you're bidding face
balling it had it happened look it up
Wikipedia of it I just did actually you
lose just yeah ah so that's tip number
one dynamic and I'm sure your dynamics
even if you're not gonna palm muting it
just
bring it down a little bit right how
about you bring it up
right it goes off of cliff yeah real
quick yes bring it down
I try to metric a complete player can
play at any volume loud you need to you
can bring it back if you need to it's
your palm muting as a rhythm guitar
plays if you're looking up videos on how
to play a guitar on YouTube chances are
that you have friends and you're gonna
jam so take these tips honestly because
they aren't necessary mmm okay it's your
survival there we go all right shift
number two mm-hmm
know your role yeah what it's all about
right knowing your role as in somebody's
got to be the rhythm player somebody's
got to be the lead player now you can
trade off but it's very important that
from the get-go the dominant lead player
is established yes and there actually is
a foolproof way to find out what that
dominant leader is I will say there is a
foolproof way but we are the only
purveyors of this so as a few we have to
consult the John Petrucci handbook to
find out of which player dumb is ghent
yeah exactly
the Patricia handbook of dominance
please subscribe I was playing weed uh
rule number 73
the bigger the beard solo okay check one
for me it's you okay anything else
bylaws uh yep if you have ever modded
your own wah pedal solo anything else uh
me uh huh what was third one is your
stupid let's go oh yeah here we go uh
rule 172 ask the question fresca or
50/50 whoever answers fifty-fifty solo
so Ian is right on all three counts that
means he'll be playing lead now with
playing rhythm dominant established yeah
now this is actually gonna segue into
tip number three which is no surprises
as the rhythm player right yeah amen man
yeah yeah maybe this happened to you
you're playing with a guy and like it
you kind of get a groove going on and
it's good and then all of a sudden I
don't know where key change with no it's
no big morning yeah where I even just
chord that may go together you just take
the guitar player away from what he was
doing
yeah really you got to work together so
we're gonna do something with a key
change hmm but I'm gonna call it out
tastefully
and not not on the beat to write a song
about playing G he changed to b-flat
yeah I don't know yeah you got a letter
no right let him know I'm gonna
tastefully cue my lead player who has
established dominance you know I feel
like there are more mature ways we could
go about choosing the lead player but
we're gonna so we're gonna start in G
yeah and then we're gonna transition
awesome and even before before we even
begin
yeah let's start in G and then uh sounds
good then maybe do you want to switch is
there a zero is there a key I would like
going up a minor 3rd to the b-flat
that sounds good awesome ok yeah cool so
let's just start playing in G and then
I'll let you know hey buddy
yeah thinking about going to be my 1 2 3
4 and go to b-flat
they're so fun I yeah I had a great time
I had a can too one quick thing is it
also repeat your corporation yeah right
eat it just let them have it
like um a nice palette exactly I mean
maybe like a nice cheese platter when
your friend comes over shoot videos that
be nice to write it's all about the
groove is what it's about and it's not
about the cheese it's not good that he
got yeah look I just groove in it
get that get that loop going huh
whatever no one's in a rush no I've
never been rushed in a jam
yeah like listen we got a we got a good
idea to mortiser out oh yeah it's nice
yeah it's not a battle of yeah goes like
come on yeah like yeah I get all
together I get it you know a lot of
chords whatever there's so many times
that I've been forced to jam with people
who don't know how to jam and it is so
awkward not only going in but getting
out yeah so if you if you're going to
jam with someone set your expectations
know who's going to solo first be a good
rhythm guitar player with dynamics and
your chord progressions it is so
important music is not about who has the
bigger guitar it's a okay it's about
playing together mmm by achieving a
common goal yes
always chasing the tiger always