How To Play What You Hear In Your Head (On Guitar)

If you hear a lot of cool ideas in your head, but you just.

Cannot get them onto your fretboard consistently, fluently and effortlessly. This video is for you. Alright, I'm just gonna sing a random first thing that comes to my head. Okay, so I'm hearing a key. I can already tell it.

This is one. So I went 1, 7, 1, 2.

3, 2, 3, 4, 5.

So now all I have to do is find one, play any random note. I just played note six. I know I started on note one. And so my lick is.

And so for some of you guys, I'm sure if you've ever tried to.

Do something like that, it looks more like.

You know what I'm saying and you're just like guessing and like spraying and praying until like you find the right.

Note that matches the pitch of your voice. And then oftentimes by the time you get to the end of the idea, it's already lost. And so what's the difference in these thought processes? Well, you kind of saw me go through it. I already knew how to play it before I even touched my damn instrument. I could play it in another position too. Let's just do that really quick. I'm gonna play another random note. So I play.

It's funny.

I played another note six there. So now there's the one over here.

1, 7, 1, 2, 3, 2, 3.

4, 5, 3, 1, 7, 6.

It's like that happy birthday lick. Anyways, you have to know what it is before you even touch your guitar. How can you start to develop this? Because you know it's not just like a magic snap of the fingers. And you can do it. You sing numbers along with your playing. And I recommend doing this a chord at a time. And, and so let's just take. I always do the one chord. I want to have you guys experience something a little bit different. So I'm going to take my five chord here.

I'm going to say my note five.

Is this fifth fret of my D string. Okay, so step one is you're going to play note five to note five, five, six, seven, one, two, three, four, five. It's all based on the major scale, by the way. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 7, 6, 5.

And so what you do here is.

You don't even have to use the whole scale. You can if you feel comfortable. You're gonna sing the numbers as you play them. And that's going to teach your brain how to think in this language. So I'll give you an example.

Five, six, seven, one, two, three, Four, three, four, three, two, one, seven, five, four, seven, five, four, seven, five, five, one, five, six, two, one, seven, six, five, four, three.

And so, first of all, I don't.

Know if you guys noticed, I kept my improvisation within an octave. If you start going outside of an octave, like five is your ceiling and five is your floor, is whatever or whatever note you choose, your ear is going to lose track of like the sound of that specific chord and you're just going to start hearing it as one. So keep it within one octave at the beginning. But basically, once you start setting that foundation, you start to realize, oh, actually, I don't even need the guitar.

And I can go 5, 6, 7, 1, 2, 3, 4, 3, 4, 3, 2, 7, 5, 5, 6, 5, 1, 7, 5, 4.

And so if I can go 1.

7, 5, 4, you know how easy.

It is for me to go. And there's no guessing.

I know exactly what it is, I know exactly where to find those sounds.

And so the skill that you need.

To develop is the ability to take a melody and translate it into tonal numbers. And how do you get the foundation for that? You sing the numbers as you play. And so simply just improvising is going to teach you this. Improvising with awareness and your voice is the key to everything. This is basically exactly what I do inside my coaching programs. I teach you how to build on the skill, develop it systematically.

If you, if you want to have.

A little bit more of that systematic practice, check the link in my bio. I've got this starter pack for you, all that you can get started with. And just get a more in depth actual lesson about how this stuff works rather than an overview. Yeah, link in bio and have a beautiful day.