Chords for The Secret To Playing Like Andy Timmons

In today's video I'm going to talk to you about a very special mindset that beginners usually have and we forget as we
grow on the instrument and unfortunately that prevents growth.
_ _ [E] _ Hi, this is David so glad you're here today.
We're talking about this mindset that
Honestly, I had forgotten about for a long time.
Here's the deal.
I was planning to
Record the second episode [C] of the new series on the channel, which is the what can we learn from this player?
You know, the first episode was on Drossa Triani.
And yes, we are continuing this series episode 2 was being planned and
As I was going through samples from this artist.
Well, who's the artist?
Well, you saw the title of the video [A] any tennis will be an episode 2.
Well as I [Dm] was planning this
episode I
[Bb] Asked myself a question what makes Andy's playing so special and it is special when Andy plays [D] something it's
It's intentional, [Dm] but it's very much Andy.
[F] So how do you do that?
How do you [Bb] make what you play?
You I think the answer is really in the mindset the way that Andy and you hopefully and me approach practice approach
Guitar I think that anytime Andy works on something a lick a song or something
he approaches that with the
The filter [Ab] of does this feel good to me this one [Bm] for example
We're in B minor pentatonic very [B] traditional lick.
We've heard that quite a few times
[Bm] And this lick has one two, three, four five five notes
It's like a five letter word by the way, if you're new to the channel
I like to call lakes words because if you combine different words together, you'll have a sentence different sentences together will create a
story and
It's same with music music is a language
The licks are the words put one lick after another you'll have a sentence put ideas together and you'll have that musical story
It's really all about the story if you want to learn more about that
I highly recommend that you sign up to my free music theory DNA course
Guitar infusion comm the link is below.
Anyway, so we've got this traditional lick and we could just [B] stop there.
We've got our five
Letters, that's our lick great works.
Good.
I could practice this
over and over
[E] That would be fine.
You'd get okay at playing this lick, but I really don't think that's the way Andy would practice this I think
Andy would experiment a little bit with maybe playing the lick with fingers to something like this
[F] It sounds a little different than with a pick
[B] _ It feels different to me _
Personally, I kind [Bb] of like this because I feel more in touch with [Em] the instrument
I can put more [B] pressure on or the the pull can be more or less subtle
I just feel more connected to this and I think that mindset [Gb] is about the connection this kind of
awareness of the way you feel about music happens very
naturally the first time you pick up a guitar and you learn your first few chords because everything is new so you're aware of
The the contact of your your skin on the on the frets on the strings.
You're aware of those calluses growing
it's just a very _
Awareness driven experience as you play you kind of tend to forget these things and you might you might think well
So what a note's a note right this [B] note is always gonna be that pit this word
Is [E] always gonna be that word?
Yes
But there are so many subtle things that you can add to a word when you're saying it you can whisper it you can stutter
On it, you can pronounce it with a weird accent all these different things
Will come out [Ab] from an awareness of what you're playing.
[Bm] So back to our look.
_ [E] I'm
Engaged with the process.
I'm feeling everything
[B]
I'm imagining how a note [Ab] will feel under my fingers before I even play the note.
I'm basically [Gb] becoming one
With the instrument [F] that will naturally create some
[Ab] _
Some sounds if I'm aware of the process if I feel the process it will it will change that link into something a little more
Emotionally driven it's very subtle and you might not hear it as you're practicing day to day
But eventually if you get used [E] to the process of becoming one with your instrument
This will almost become an extension of your body it won't be foreign anymore and you will feel
feel connected with every single note and that will
[G] Transpire in your music and that's what happened what's happening with with Andy's music this works with really anything not just licks but
Chords just simple chords simple ideas songs
Anytime you pick up your instrument being aware of the process
Basically avoiding this where you [B] have your guitar and you're [Gm] doing something else
_ _ [D] _
[Gb] You're not being aware of the process it's really an awareness a connection it will connect
Your inner musician like I like to call it with
The the pencil which is the guitar.
This is your pencil.
You're the author.
I say it all the time.
It's so true
So let's take a chord.
Let's just jam on a chord and try to
Experiment that experience experience [Am] that a little bit.
I always have to mess up at least one word
Okay, [A] stick this chord for example an a minor where I have the the fourth and the third [F] string
Fifth fret and then I'm playing every string except for the low [Am] e string
So we'll take this _
_ _ _ _ _ [Em] Adding a little bit of [Am] vibrato
Trying to feel things does _ [Em] _
[Am] it feel good?
If not, maybe I'll try something else.
Maybe I'll try the fingers at _ [Em] _
least [C] try
Try something different [A] and see
Feels better
[A] With your ears with your fingers.
Are you engaged with this?
Does it feel natural?
_ [Am] _
Maybe I'll play the pick.
Maybe I'll reverse the pick.
Maybe instead of using the pointy part.
I'll use the thicker part
Which I kind of [G] like I
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ Like [Ab] it because not just the tone, but I like it because I feel that I have more
Connection [E] with the strings.
My [D] my fingers are really touching the strings as opposed to holding the pick like this
I feel a little bit lost in the process because I feel far away from those strings
When I'm playing this feels more _
_ [A] More connected and in that connection [Db] it kind of builds my confidence
_ [D] That I'm not competing [Dm] with anyone.
I'm just being [D] myself on the instrument.
I'm touching this this is part of me
And there's no competition [Am] there, right?
I'm just
[A] _ Playing the way that I want to [G] play
_ [C] So wrong note
_ _ _ [Em] _ [D] I'll play something really [E] that I don't like
[F] _ _ Okay, like there.
[C] Yeah, I kind [E] of freaked out there.
That's why I'm gonna work on them _ _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ [A] _ _ [Fm] This thing that came out of a mistake I wasn't intending to do that but
[Dbm] But that by fixing [A] it this came
And so it's it's really in this case a minor pentatonic driven [E] and I've got something like this
Which I'm approaching with the index picking that because it feels good to me.
I feel more connected and then I'm [D] doing
Some pull-offs here from [E] the seventh fret to the fifth [Dbm] and then sliding to three this [D] feels
Feels nice.
I like this sensation. _ _ _
[A] [E] I
Like it also because of the sound like some notes are a little [A] bit louder _ _
So there's a lot of
_ Organic
[C] feel to this
[G] Does that make sense?
I feel that I'm going off of this weird spiritual tangent, but to me it makes sense
So I hope it makes sense to you.
It's it's just an awareness of something.
It's going back to the beginning
[Gb] but with everything that you've learned and
_ Rediscovering things and things will click more they'll become more [Fm] personal check out guitar infusion comm if you want to revisit
Some of the early lessons that you may have missed with this new awareness
It's really going to help you guitar infusion comm the link is below and be on the lookout for
Episode 2 of what makes this player?
What can we learn?
No, what do we know?
That's that's rigged the Otto's channel.
Sorry I meant
What can you learn from this player episode 2 with Andy Simmons will be up at some point in the next few weeks and then
You can watch episode 1 right here if you'd like with Joe Satriani.
Thanks so much for watching this one
I will see you very soon