16 Years of Guitar Frustration Solved: My BREAKTHROUGH Moment

I thought that I had an epiphany but it turns that it was just an Epiphone. Carry on. Seriously I'm looking forward to this lesson thanks..

I've been playing guitar for 30 + years (never taking it all that serious) but frustrated that I really never saw much improvement. I've just started learning my scales and the fretboard in general and chord relationships. I have noticed a vast improvement in my playing and it's kinda reinvigorated my interest in guitar. Thanks for the video!

You gave me this breakthrough moment 11 years into my playing. Totally changed my playing 7 years later. I absolutely never thought I’d be able to do what I can do now. All thanks to your work Stich. 🙏

Man, you’re my favorite teacher on here. I’m self taught, YouTube University since 13, and the way you slowly break it down with clear simplicity has helped me tremendously. Thanks!

Man you give the best FREE content ever. I'm so glad I found you. You have a very clear way of explaining things and I can tell you really care. Kudos to you brother. You're such an awesome person giving back like this.

Your formula sums it up perfectly! I’ve been playing on and off for 30 years and I used this exact formula all the time. Thanks for sharing professor!

Just here to say your Patreon membership is so worth it. I signed up several months ago. Best instructor out there if you want to learn more than just individual songs. Thanks for all you do, Ian.

this was SO good. i’ve been playing for almost 25 years and these hugely solidified a bunch of mental models that i’ve been piecing together over the past few years as i’ve gotten past a plateau i was stuck on. sending this to all of my friends; thank you so much

Stitch is absolutely (in my opinion) one of the most humble guys sharing his knowledge of playing guitar. Credit goes out to him for this. Thanks and KEEP ON STRUMMIN! Dallas

Great video! Learning the fret numbers for chords is such a game-changer. It really does open up the fretboard and make music theory click. Thanks for sharing your breakthrough moment and all the helpful tips. Can't wait to put this into practice!

You are hands down the best guitar teacher on Youtube. Thank you for your efforts.

T watched all your caged chord videos and after about 6 months I'm very comfortable and grateful to you for the content, but wow this is like the next steps thank you , it took me 6 months but I did join another band as a bass player.

I’m trying to teach myself and listening to you talk about this is really opening my eyes and ears, I’m musically inclined and can play trumpet and piano, but find guitar still very difficult. Great video!

The original never lost video was still one of the biggest lightbulb moments for me. Stoked that you're still making great content.

Man, I argue about this with my music teacher all the time. His brain is wired in a way that the letters are easiest for him, and he seemingly can't accept that my brain isn't like his. I'm entirely on your side—tell me where the degrees are relative to the root! If I need to figure out the note names afterwards, I can absolutely do it, but the difference between a tenth of a second and a second is life and death while I'm playing.

I must thank you for this really great technique by remembering the fret numbers. I’m gonna definitely work on this. I’m struggling with some things and I think this might help me a lot . Thanks Stitch

Man I dont even play guitar and i got this video recommended...... I enjoyed the vid a lot! I play keys and go to uni for music production and theory and i'm glad to say this video is the right path! In harmony classes we study the berkleey method of chord-scale theory from day one. This method is very controversial epecially on the internet with guitar players 😅 however I have found chord-scales to be a great method if you have the right mindset. This video lays out excactly why chord-scale theory rocks! Chords are very similar to scales like you said on the video, and if you learn to identify chords on your instrument (on the fretboard) you will ouluck the underlying harmony and music behind the notes! You mentioned that chords are broken up scales, this is true but in chord-scale theory we take it even further and say that chords ARE scales and scales ARE chords. This opens the door to internalize the "sound" of the music: instead of saying C to G7 we simply identify the Ionian to Mixolydian "sound" and we can generalize even more and think of it like an Ionian cadence "sound". This is usefull when composing for multiple instruments like on the orchestra. Instead of having a 3 note F triad spread amongs the orchestra with lots of duplicates you can simply think of this bar as a "lydian sound". The lydian scale has many more notes than the F triad so you can be more creative by spreading the lydian sound amongst all the instrumental families. The chord-scale-instrument relationship truly does unlock wonders! And i'm happy that more and more people are starting to see it! I'll subscribe and see what my guitarist friends are doing because inspiration comes from everywhere!

I get your Patron when I have time to practice it. I jump on and off as time permits. Please keep the content coming.

This is really great man. Thank you!

I like this perspective. I know a lot of the shapes already, but I will definitely start to think more about the numbers, to get an even better understanding of the fretboard. Thanks man!