Bad Youtube Lessons

[DuncanAngus]

Went hunting for a "Ticket To Ride" lesson on Youtube today. I mean, Youtube is a great tool for guitarists and sure beats most of those TAB books we bought in the 70's but, WOW.... For every video of someone banging it dead-nuts, someone else had it way wrong. I admit, the opening riff is only 6 notes and I had never even tried to play it, but I can't imagine setting up a camera, showing my face and being so off. I mean, you gotta love these guys that post, if only for the effort but, it's a classic Beatles song... One guy had me scrambling for the mouse just to shut it off.

Don't wanna sound like an ungrateful Dick, but....

 

[Stratavarious]

The fun part is figuring out what they do wrong and then getting it right!

 

[Anchoret]

I think that in my experience, about 95% of the "musicians" I've seen on Youtube demonstrating gear and so forth are so staggeringly awful and so oblivious to it that you know that their experience is limited to their bedrooms since Day One to present.

I was really, really amazed. I mean they absolutely don't get it at all.

 

[zimbo]

I disagree. There are some really great guitar lessons on YouTube such as Justin Sandercoe and Tonedr who posts here under Tab / Technique. Tonedr has a fantasic ear and comes up with the right version of just about any song.

 

[eddie knuckles]

and lets not forget...

THOR VON CLEMSON!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSUz5GtZyko

 

[Rhomco]

The first clue

The first clue is the pajamas the dude is wearing followd by the clothes all over the floor.

 

[allen st. john]

You Tube is an amazing resource and lots of really talented teachers--my favorite is the awesome Rob Bourassa-- as well as a few that are just plain wrong.

What I don't get is the people who can't play at all (like me, but I don't post) and just stumble through a song without any idea just how bad they are. And yet they get all this glowing feedback.
In a place that's all about ridiculing unwitting schlubs like the woman who fell into the fountain, the guitar corner of YouTube seems to be the last bastion of unwarranted flattery.

 

[Duncas]

i havent had much of a problem with youtube teachers.

the thing that gets me is the 11yr old kid with the Dr Z, Les paul custom and mountain of BOSS pedals who sits there and plays nirvana songs then plays them slower and calls it an instructional video

 

[imwjl]

Take it like life where you search for the good in everything and bury that which won't do you any good.

I commend the not so greats and have learned from them too.

There are some truly shameless out there and be thankful that I don't apply my shameless side to posting my playing.

 

[missinglinkwray]

So much of music on youtube is full of unwarranted flattery. Every half-forgotten psychedelic group is "unsung genius", every half-decent songwriter "cleanses your soul", and people feel the need to elevate the music of yesterday at the expense of whatever is happening today.

 

[SPUDCASTER]

Try www.vanderbilly.com, they have kind of a rating system. With any video lessons, unless it's by the person who was on the original recording, your probably subject to some form of interpretation. You Tube is open to whatever you want to post and I'm sure there is alot of "Hey, I'm on TV, look at this" kind of thing good or bad.