Hey, what's up? So in this video you'll be learning how to have a successful Kickstarter or Indiegogo campaign.  Now, I think it's a game-changer. I think crowdfunding has completely revolutionized the way we do business, you know. The days are gone where the only resources for capital are banks and right now it's all about spreading your message and connecting with your clients before your product even comes out. However, it's not that simple. It's not as simple as, hey, I put a video on Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and poof, I have more than, you know, quarter million dollars in crowdfunding. There's a science behind this and this science is called marketing, product fit and having the right message. So I've kind of like summarized the key points that I think it takes to actually succeed in any crowdfunding campaign and this information doesn't come for me. You know, good friends of mine, Clay Hibbeir, who's raised more than 20 million dollars in crowdfunding. Like these guys have been in the backgrounds working with the who's who's. I've run, I've done my own Kickstarter for fashion. I've been behind scenes for a couple of them. I can tell you what, if you don't follow these steps, you won't succeed. So step one, think ahead. You just can't pop a video up and hope for the best. Most successful Kickstarter, the thought process, starts about six months ahead because you have to know your end game and the end game is like, what do we want to accomplish with this Kickstarter? Do we want to raise, for example, 100k? And I highly recommend if your goal isn't to raise at least 100k, it's not worth it because it's a lot of effort. People think Kickstarter's are easy. It's not. It's a full-time job that you have to do plus at least two, three other staff members for you to really have a successful Kickstarter. However, on the flip side, even if you don't raise 100k, it is the best learning curve possible to run a business. It teaches you about marketing. It teaches you about positioning. It teaches you about growth hacking. It teaches you about every single minute detail that it takes to run a business. So the first thing is plan ahead six months. What do you need to plan? You need to plan out exactly where do you want to go with that Kickstarter? What is your end goal with that Kickstarter? How you actually want to execute this Kickstarter? Which team members do you need on the Kickstarter? So for example, the most successful Kickstarter I've seen and even my own personal experience, you need two full-time staff members. Most likely the best option financially speaking is virtual assistants. But remember, these assistants need orders from you. They don't know what to do. So you have to do your homework. You have to tell them this is our daily task or weekly task or monthly tasks. And usually what we have assistants for is this. I'm going to tie this into number two. The name of the game is getting your message out there in front of the right people. Not the wrong people. It doesn't matter how much traffic you have. It doesn't matter where you're featured. It matters the exact, the best way I can say, the right place to get featured, right? So if I have, for example, a tech company makes no sense for my Kickstarter to be featured on a food bar. You see what I mean? So what you need to do is you can go and Google. This is where your assistants do. They go and Google and they start sourcing journalists who have written similar topics about your Indiegogo.  Next thing what you want to do is the next set of journalists who've written about crowdfunding, who've written about Kickstarter, who've written about Indiegogo. And your whole plan is to accumulate, I would say, hundreds and hundreds of names of these journalists. And this is why it's six months ahead. It takes time. Second step is after you have the journalists, you want to befriend them. You're not just going to send them cold emails. Come on. Think about that. What you want to do is get their Twitter profile, get their Facebook profile, get any social media profile they have and start messaging them. Hey, thank you so much. I read your article on X, Y and Z. I love it. That's it. You want to not develop rapport, build that communication, build that deep, rooted human connection because in the future when your Indiegogo campaign launches six months from now, it's not cold. They're aware of you. You've been communicating them for six months. Next, create a landing page. So obviously you have your own page on Indiegogo Kickstarter. However, the name of the game is Collecting Emails, which will tie into number four, but you need to create a beautiful landing page. And it's so easy these days. You can use software like lead pages, like ClickFunnels. You can even go into ThemeForrest for like 25 bucks, grab a theme and do it yourself or hire a designer programmer for 100 bucks and you have a beautiful landing page and make sure your landing page is legit. It has a USB, unique selling proposition, beautiful images, benefits of your campaign and has to be a reason for me to opt in. I'm not just going to give you my email for the sake of you saying, hey, join our crowdfunding campaign. So what are you giving me in return? That's why Elite Magnet comes in. Are you giving me a free report, a free book? Maybe you're giving me an amazing video series that goes around with your tech, like the top five texts in the world. And you're showing me what are the best texts. I'll opt in for that. I want to know the cool, latest, innovative texts around the world. So I give you my email address. Number four, Tyene's collecting email address. Crowdfunding in Indiegogo is like an e-commerce business and the best ROI right now as it stands is emails. So I say personally, if you do not have a list of at least 20,000 people on your email, you won't have a truly successful campaign. The only other way you can do that if you partner with somebody that has a huge list as well, because you control traffic that way. Other ways vis-a-vis content marketing, vis-a-vis even paying for advantage, you really don't control that traffic. But when you have your own email list, that is your traffic. When you send the broadcast out to them, you're telling them to go to that specific page and that page is your Indiegogo campaign. And the most beautiful thing about when you have a huge list and huge is in 20, you have constant communication. It isn't just a one-time blast. You're always delivering more updates. Hey, guys, this is what's going on. This is where we've been featured on. You're developing rapport. You're creating a family. But the only way to really get that 20k is once again, reverse engineering it, having that landing page, making the connection with the journalist and planning it out six months. Next five, the video. Most people try to focus on the copy below the page. The copy doesn't matter. What matters is a proper, emotional, enticing video that evokes a beneficial, emotional response for me to share the video, to contribute to your campaign. And there's so many scripts out there you can use. But what I've seen is two minutes and under work best, like a minute and 57 seconds. And it's like a story. It has an architectural climax, so beginning, climax, end. And it's about connecting to a human. I don't want to see a screenshot. I don't want to see any of that. I want to see a human being talking to me and hitting one of my emotions, pains, fear, happiness, et cetera. So really study the successful kick starters. You know, Picasso has a saying, good artist copy great artist steal.  And here's a tip, find a video similar to your niche that other kick starters or Indiegogos have done that's successful and just go on like Elan or Odas and transcribe that video and see what types of verbiage they use and just transplant your words into it. And that's a great template. You can use and find the viral aspect of it.  If you guys can see this, that's below the cause. What what cause is your campaign connected to? People really don't care about your product or your services, but they do care about a movement. And that's why revolutions work. So what revolution are you starting or what revolution are you part of? And if you're not starting a revolution, if you're not part of a revolution, then I highly insist that you join a partnership. You join a charity. You join a foundation. And that way people have a more deeply rooted emotional connection. They feel part of a tribe. They feel part of a family. And that's the key six steps when it comes to Kickstarter. I hope this helps. If you enjoyed this video, please share this video. Please subscribe to my channel and have amazing day. Adios.


Going on everybody got Kyle Jake and Sean here late in sports cards, and we are ripping 2023 top scrum MLS 12 box case number two random team stop did a randomizer for the break guys Jerry F with Toronto down to Daniel L with Orlando City Go Lions. Alrighty. Good luck here guys. Let's do it. Come on messy. Show us some color this time Get a really nice two reds storage Conrad auto and the super in the last one trying to keep that going Jake's here got a hit of super Come on Let's go. We got box service here, dude What do you want to sing mark he'll sing it for you never mind Jake's out good luck everybody It's fair And we had a little bit of a moment to start a day a couple of Fun ones the top of a couple of fun ones the top load There's a rookie gold. That's gonna be Brian Gutierrez for Chicago fire On the rookie gold to 50 true gold you go Chicago Is a Sebastian Blanco or farson? 13 to go in the second bowman draft guys first one sold out hitch prog's of 50. We got Sebastian Ferrera Houston Houston or Halston or a ho Rookie ure had to take Sam's hockey bats earlier man.  It's so weird. Okay. So now I got Sebastian Blanco timbers I'm in Took them all didn't even just like Mitchell the other day with darts. I was like, okay No better than me. We missed the darts today though. There's a Petro Vitae Appreciate everybody grabbing spots today. We are filling up nicely spots been flying in all day.  Thank you guys Appreciate that Mixer number five sold out second one at 13 or third one actually third one Blue to 199 got Christian Fletcher DC. Thank you Luke grabbing a spot as well Our spot number six. We're done 12 on that one Costa math house that math house guys goes to New York Red Bulls found out the last one the New York What was it called Metro something or others? The New York Metro stars turned into the Red Bulls. There's a rookie 199 Martin Oheda rookie refractor in Goma for Red Bulls Hey, who's playing the Super Bowl? Danny lay what's a 99 on the green auto there for the Rapids this guy knows what he knows what to say He knows what to say I'm in there's a short print of 25 there's Caleb Wiley nice one there Yeah, the future stars are about two per case really nice when they're on the orange Those are harder to hit in this than they are in a baseball I love that design. Mm-hmm. There's a speckle rookie Kip Keller Kip Keller Get some cool inserts in this man. I like the diamond one Refractor Kucho Green to 99. We got a Nicholas Giappcini for St. Louis green lava Blue to 199 got a Sebastian forever rookie Houston box to Hate to see it box to Same Tom same. I'm liking the I'm liking the chrome design on these I like the inserts seen a lot of good color in them. Good luck. Good luck Clich on the Redemption or the insert The 99 there's a Clint Dempsey nice when there's sounders little color match Flashbacks to say what it's for. It's not like this or next To Churrito. There's a messy It's her Miami.  Gold to 50 f-brain alvarez. It's a question Eden Morris Take a look to 125 we got a aqua lava rookie Brian O'Hata Real Salt Lake Jordan Morris Craig I'm all I see some more color Say green to 99. That'll be Usaini Buddha for the earthquakes there on the green auto pitch prodigies out of So 199 blew a Buddha another one there earthquakes Where is the Super Bowl if it's blocks Miami might have to go Was in Arizona again, wait Mooney Gutierrez. I got the grass ready this year Last year they're rolling in out green and I'm not got Gaston Bruppen Gaston no, that's not Appreciate you guys grabbing spots spots still flying and thank you to 199 got Harry Harvey Neville Harvey Neville the 199 blue wave. Where was it last year? I think it was Arizona again wasn't it really Super Bowl. I think it was Magnal It would be back to back. Here's one. We got a rookie Perlers of Christian flat shirt. Hey, this one. Jay.  Yeah, I saw that Purlings.  We really like that. So it's in Vegas. Oh, it's in Vegas Allegiance, we're gonna be in trouble Miguel Perez rookie st. Louis It's already Alba who wants to go And guys who's ride with us to the box dolphin Super Bowl in Vegas There's a Bryce Duke to 199 that'll be for Montreal Who's riding with us?  Keep it going quite as many golds in this case so far, but We'll catch up and we'll catch up Fracture one Yama Jesus Ferrera. So 199 got Douglas Costa Douglas Costa Douglas Costa insert in can mr.  Thank you guys To 99 got flashbacks Andre Pirlo. This one there the maestro to 99 New York City think everybody's in on the Miami and Miami Tampa Super Bowl. Nobody said anything. So I think everybody's in on it Kucho on the speckle and that'll be a future stars Michael Baldizamo for the earthquakes Petro refractor rookie Starter sit to a oh boy got him in the final bro. Oh, that's the other guy Come on. Let me go back to back Ricky Puyg on the Derby diamonds Oh, I guess I'm starting Kyler over to according to these guys Oh 199 got Sebastian Ferrero on the rookie blue mini-dam, and I'm assuming it has something to do with like Not playing as much because they're kind of chilling. I don't know West Virginia vs. North Carolina. Hmm. I know Drake mays probably not playing right for North Carolina Probably not a walker either It's a 199 got a Jalen Lindsay probably go with UNC even though Drake mays probably not playing Hey appreciate that quack. Hope you did too, sir. Hey Thomas Williams refractor rookie Yes, is Drake may playing though, I know he's gonna be a top pick so I didn't know if he was gonna sit out Green to 99 Gaston Brugman for the galaxy Christian rolled on the Andre Yedlin He's not taking a first off the line prism spot To 125 got Harvey Neville into Miami on the lava like five of their starters Yeah, maybe I don't know maybe not them then there's a Christian Fletcher rookie pro prodigies nice one there for DC The green auto and maybe not them then Got orange nice one. There's a rookie Owen Wolf to 25. I like this throwback set Owen Wolf to 25 for Austin FC There's 12 starters not playing. Okay, maybe they will go with less Virginia Maybe we'll go with less Virginia. That's why I don't even like the bowl games really right now, man With the all the transfers and everything going on I know it's been like that for a couple years, but it seems to get it seems it's a lot worse right now There's a 199 rookie Brian Ohada all the all the non big bowl games, which is only the playoff that matters But it seems to the players so all the non big bowl games kind of kind of weird with all the sitting out and stuff Is it on ESPN might put that on refractor Walker Zimmerman now we're watching a Fantasy live fantasy live enough on that work To 125 got Danny Lava for the rapids Evander West Virginia scored on the first play. Okay, go with West Virginia Shaq more Go with West Virginia. Oh dolphins Oh dang, it's already second quarter in there And they got still only a seven zero. There's a Ted DiPetro 199 blue mini diamond rookie Me too. I Got one league. I'm one league. It's I got a chance I got a beat Scott though rookie Boma. He's a monster See See, I hope you beat him so 125 got Kyle Smith Dylan was telling me today said you weren't gonna pay him if you want to hear joking Yeah, oh wolf and Otto is the 50 honey moot are what's he gonna do? Nice one there for a Nashville on top goal scorers in the league honey moot are This one there Nashville. What are your cousins play for us when you really? 99 got a rookie Nicholas Giacchini. I remember was it Pat White was the cubie at a West Virginia a couple years ago, man. He was really good. It's more than a couple years ago now probably 15 Oh, that's a red to five Julian Caronza on the Perlers. That's a nice one. They're red to five for Philadelphia Very sick. They're three out of five. We're hitting a bunch of reds today This one there on the Perlers Julian Caronza. I'll go to Philly Really nice red there on the short print Buddha green loud in 99 got Thor Halson Orlando City all to this. Oh, no Oh, no quack oh and six in the semi-finals He's you made all of your teams to the semis Yeah, that's no fun. There's a flashback to 199 Clint Dempsey. Nice one there Seattle Diego Rubio refractor Speckle is Pedro Vite Leo Chu Never trapped digs again. I was just talking about that with Sean a second ago We uh, they had the digs replay on and I was like, this is just reminding me that he didn't score for me this weekend Been tech a steep a buke. Yeah, I don't know what the heck is going on with the digs and Alan They don't seem to have a very good connection going right now Kevin. No tool refractor rookie Kind of been since Trayvon called them out to Alan's kind of been avoiding them a little bit 199 we got a one Jose paratha for Atlanta Seems that way at least he's been kind of kind of getting the cold shoulder box five Yeah, Pat White I remember he was fire man. He's really good Yes, it was More than a few years ago. Definitely Tavon Austin to on West Virginia There's a gold the 50 nice one there another top gold score in the league Victor one Yama For Montreal there on the true gold here comes UNC another gold right behind is Charles Heel I don't be for New England Revolution Gold mini diamond to 50 Geno is right after dang Yeah, that's a that's a nice little combo 99 got one Jose paratha again for Atlanta. Yeah, I remember Gino too. Yeah Not bad. They've had a couple good teams at West Virginia for sure I've really put it together, but I think that's some good teams 125 is Daniel Edelman, New York Red Bulls We showed you guys grabbing spots and prism first off the line coming out Thank you. Charlie grabbing a few in our first prism boxes John Kay and then Jordan grabbing a spot in the Bowman mixer. We are down to 11 guys 11 to go on Bowman Three different mixers coming stuff Martinez nice and 99 we got a surge Goma on the derby diamonds aqua It's one there in New York Red Bulls 11 to go in the third mixer third mixer, and then we got to work on Some definitive mega dual case after that is sold out onto definitive Appreciate y'all. Oh nice orange flashbacks auto is Wayne Rooney. Oh There we go DC Spencer knows him DC United's Michael M.  Rooney Very nice one there the former man you star Get that in a mag Sick. All right. Let's keep it going guys, man This stuff is obsessed some sneaky really good stuff in here, man Oh and wolf rookie to 199 pitch prodigies. I really like that Like that Rooney. I probably used to be a huge man man. You fan. I was growing up Brian.  He played a high school a little bit in college and He uh He's a huge man. You fan make up Perez Always love Rooney say Fuentes Joe Gutierrez Refractor olfarsen. It's auto there. Nice. Uh, nice one there Michael It's a 99 got been tech a green a lava Blast frax pure low rookie Celentano Okay, cool already here guys box six keep it going. Come on messy Come on messy Give us some color. Oh and wolf on the rookie diamonds flashbacks Junina Green to 99 got Connor Ronan for the rapids green lava Taco Bell in your house, bro The rookie refractor Thor Halson is a rookie to 125 Esmir who? Bajrak Tarevick Bajrak Tarevick Sean's gonna get that one to go. Hey, what's up Nicholas? New sir afternoon Hexton pumpkin that one that one got me for a second. I Started to go for it and then I got to the end of the world There's a rubio rubio on the speck. Well, I thought I had it and I had a look a little closer And there you go quack There's a flashback refractor Frank Lampart Salute salute now probably had to skip last week. I have to uh, I have to get This week's going we'll see what happens Charles Heal. There's a pitch priorities to 199 Sung Bin Jong for Minnesota Minnesota Minnesota to 199 Sebastian Blanco. I appreciate that necklace. Thank you. Thank you Joe Claus and there's messy First messy base of this one Come on We're hiding from us messy There's a green Frederico Bernadette sheet is 75 there on Toronto and green in 99 Matt co. Miljevic or Montreal Let me see Mitch. You had the sounders Seattle sounders Seattle sounders You keep Martin grabbing a spot definitive and one in the boom and you Talia grabbing three in the mixer. I think we're down to nine on that one Nine on the uh mix for number six seven seven actually there's a derby diamonds Russell row It's orange to 25 Giorgios Kutzi us for the Chicago fire. It's pro G's orange to 25 Yeah, I want to see a nice color throwback of What's his name for you flashbacks there Tim Howard Of Clint Dempsey, that's one of my favorite American players back in the day So you 199 got Danny Lever Colorado Rapids a Diego Rubio and gold auto is gonna be Alan Velasco on the true gold auto for the for FC Dallas on the Velasco Argentina Yeah, I think that's one of MLS's rules is you have to if you're getting a team You have to build a soccer specific stadium. That is a Orlando City had to deal with that day to build their own stadium Rookie could see us. Oh my bad. They had to build one downtown like right by right by the Amway I guess the Kia Center now But yeah, they that's one of the MLS rules is you have to have its own stadium to 199 Oheda Rookie for Orlando City the first year we played in the old Citrus Bowl And they had to they had to get it by like a year a year in they had to have its own stadium Whatever reason I mean Ford field would be a sick place. I think Atlanta is the only one that doesn't I think they had They play in the Mercedes stadium I think they play in the Mercedes, but that was probably a whole different deal Torres rookie Min or Vancouver. Let me let me see one second to 125 Steven Cervada rookie Aqua See if the autos are anywhere rapids Nashville FC Dallas and no autos almost for Philly Was it Minnesota and Vancouver? Nothing really yet color wise or autos wise Keep looking for you. He actually did get a flashbacks Mitchell Clint Dempsey to 99 I didn't realize Yeah, no autos yet. Jason keep on looking Hey, appreciate you thermal appreciate you my man. We are trying see some bangers today for sure Here's a gold. I was sure Dan security gold mini diamond to 50 nice one there Chicago Former EPL player Hey, no problem Jason. No problem. I'm in is a flashbacks Ashley Cole Hopefully we can see some more for you That's color and auto or so really the MLS said no, that's weird. That's weird quack She's a Rito and that'll be Brandon Vasquez for Cincinnati to 99 FC Cincinnati Flashbacks germaine de faux There's a come on Miller enter Miami to 199 Come on. Where's your teammate messy? Where is your teammate? Pris bilko Think Casper Pris bilko flashbacks pure low That's it. Oh man Give me to go To 199 got John Token for the Red Bulls Fractured Douglas Costa flashbacks pure low to 99 there is again flashbacks Clint Dempsey You go mr. Mitchell Two numbered Clint Dempsey's there on the flashbacks green to 99 in the base Thank You Stephen taking the Guardians in definitive. Oh gaming order. Okay, and Bryce taking two spots in Bowman Chrome you and then Jordan taking one in our mixer And John taking a prism football spot Appreciate you guys 2199 K Cole earthquakes Yeah, I think they probably had a deal because that freaking stadium was so expensive Atlanta had to play and they're probably rookie Boma or Goma That Mercedes-Benz stadium is not cheap. So I'm sure Arthur Blank was telling them you guys can you guys can right here There's a Eden Morris out of that be Columbus crew a Morris refractor auto Miguel Perez refractor you mark taking a Bowman Chrome you spot that one's getting pretty close as well It's pretty close to full diamonds John Token to 199 rookie is Oh Badger a terrific Yep Give it a go Sean. Come on. Give it a go Sean Bajrack tarmac. There we go. That's probably better actually Sounds pretty good Foxy pretty good of me Sounded pretty good of me. Good luck. Good luck To hook what up to hook Say a green to 99 for kundo Torres nice one there in London City Orlando City's best player right there Me Duncan McGuire rookies man. There's a rookie Harvey Neville to 199 Blue Mini Diamond rookie Jalen Neal galaxy There's a gold to 50 gonna be Allen up Toledo Toledo there for Sporting KC Gold to 50 stay down south of Michigan. Oh boy. I'm not very good at geography Illinois DeRuzzi that's a 99 there nice one Austin 99 on the green auto Oh Okay Ohio, I know that was a real place. There's Leo messy refractor I know how it was real Thor Halson refractor rookie green to 99 got air cam Cara Another one for Orlando City and Kai Wagner to 99 Philadelphia Union flashbacks refractor bastion swine stager Now when I actually know Swine stager Bastion to 199 got Brian Gutierrez He was a long-time player there for Germany and Byron Hey, thank you. Noah appreciate that my man Yeah, that one's pretty close to full that'll be the third one we do today. Appreciate you, sir There's a it's 125 Jordy Alba nice one there. That's he's former teammate and current teammate aqua lava Yeah, that would be sick. That would be a sick addition The match ball autos just seven to go in the second one guys. There's a Jesus for our nice one Dallas and That'll be a Tiago Al Mada future star short print Much more short printed than in a baseball. I like those future stars prodigies buke Swidersky and some 199 guys Sebastian Driesi blue Mini diamond Fox 9 West Virginia might look like the move fracture rookie Christian Fletcher DC United. Oh, you've got shipping notifications coming in There's green to 99 Douglas Costa for the galaxy Shakiri Shaq more to 199 rookie obed Vargas for the sounders Rookie for Seattle aqua to 125 Alejandro, but doya our team USA midfielder there Ricky Pueg diamonds Speckle talus Magno. Oh and wolf refractor. I'm all messy for actor Carlos Vela Where's the app? Where's the orange at? Diamonds is Hector Herrera green to 99 Diego Tiago a moda Pull a mess. I got you Timmy Immediately, there's a base messy. That was that was immediate. I was saying saying what you were tight there That's pretty sick Arayola Tolkien That was some interesting timing right there Timmy. There we go And gold the 50 nice one there is cave Cole on the diamonds a good young player there for the earthquakes San Jose I Looks good with gold It's 199 Alejandro, but do it to the Delphia where there's a kayak Wagner Wagner Now I never know because of the Franz there's a Jaroslaw nizgota to 199 Sounds right to me for Portland. They'll do Always got shots confidence either way there's an auto. It's gonna be Miguel Perez for st. Louis on the rookie auto Nice one there SLC and gold the 50 is gonna be Billy sharp for the galaxy on the gold mini dad La galaxy for after Kaikomara and Angola Alrighty guys three more box number 10.  I like it might as well. Just leave now was Jace do sounds like you're close enough We're gonna hospital, right? We're gonna hospital, right? Not the tilt the world it's the 199 we got Steven servata for the Red Bull Red Bulls Blanco Craig Missed the field of all tapping each other up. I'm excited about 125 Deandre Yedlin into Miami Sebastian Blanco Ferrera Fair enough. There's a Jackson Hopkins rookie there for DC United rookie autos at 99 Jackson Hopkins Basically a carnival in the in the hospital kitchen. I can see it Another goal. It's gonna be a Pedro Vita for Vancouver Vancouver on the true goal Jason was asking me if we get one there we go true gold fair And there's some 99 Aaron long green lava say rookie Jack Penaeo to And he oh total 199 world. It's a 199 got Bryce Duke Montreal. I'm gonna see that one's got spread So 199 Lucho Acosta delivers furniture belief You've got a question for Jayce Clint Dempsey flashbacks. I think I remember that I think I remember him telling us that 99 got Frederico Bernadessi Caranto Bernadessi fun name to say in Morris Kyle Smith There's a rookie bogus on the speckle rookie. I know he's the only one that's horizontal. He's the only car horizontal I guess I like the picture That's cool. Kaikomar a fracture Gotcha. Gotcha. I knew you worked the hospital. I wasn't sure exactly what you did Rino in senior Indiana Vassilov Yeah, terrifying Bernadessi again, it's a 99 nice one there to 75 for Nashville, Shackmore Amada It's a job. Yeah Box 11 I'm going. I'm on messy Where's the color at we only got to base this one 125 Ricky Pueg nice one there for my Barcelona star Ricky Pueg There's a gold flashback for New York Red Bull is Junino Junino true gold the 50 on the flashbacks Fractal rookie Owen Wolf appreciate you guys filling these up guys. We got two Bowman mixers to go We'll get those going next those are filled up third one is at seven to go third ones at seven to go 199 Thor O'Farsson. I don't believe so shite. I don't believe he does just color and inserts Owen Wolf There's some good some good like throwback names and stuff on the auto checklist, but I don't think Messi is one of them 2199 De Petro Got speckle Lorenzo insigne You know Wayne Rooney to 25 just a minute ago pretty sick one Refractor Gia Cini St. Louis It's a 99 gonna be a Morse for Columbus green lava. There's a mender Garcia refractor rookie strikers been techie. There's Tim Howard Secretary of Defense Costa Yedlin That's fair Jace. Oh, there's a nice one to 10. That's gonna be a rookie auto of steep a buke LAFC that black is clean looking man. Really nice one there on the color match Two out of ten steep a buke for LAFC. That is awesome looking man. I like that one Hey, co really nice one there congrats LA LAFC Rubio Owen Wolf Rudy as Vasilev Langford or Lauer louder I go with Langford I go with Langford the bats do better selling wise, but talk about in general Think louder is gonna be a good prospect, but I really like to watch in Langford of Florida 199 rookie on Miljevic. That's saying a lot as a Florida State fan, too He was a beast at Florida rookie low Fracture is Joseph Martinez Louder do we do like saying louder around here though Jake loves it So rookie refractor Jack Pena Uto U2 And he There's another black this one is number to ten Marco and Gulo nice one there Cincinnati These blacks are freaking clean man. Nice one there. That is Carlos Carlos with the Marco and Gulo nine out of ten rookie These blacks are really nice man. I like that out of Ecuador Marco and Gulo Yeah, yeah, I'm not surprised Jace. That was a not not even a bit surprising He's supposed to be like the third or fourth receiver taken so At zero intention him playing he really didn't even play the last like four games of the year. He didn't care He couldn't care less once George JT went down. He really he really did not care. He was not playing very hard So I'm not surprised. He's not trying to take it to Georgia pitch progies Gutierrez rookie Yeah, he kind of shut down after Travis went out So 199 rookie is Ben Bender or Charlotte. What a name Ben Bender. Let's go West Virginia Let's go West Virginia Jordan Morris He is a smart legend That is a fact. We got a gold. It's gonna be rookie gold Leo Chu for Seattle. I'll be mr. Mitchell Gold mini diamond Leo Chu on the rookie Bernadette. She goma and gold auto. This one is Brandon Vasquez for FC Cincinnati Right back to Cincinnati. Mr. Carlos true gold auto Brandon Vasquez Kermeshi Petro address MSU fans Spartan legend Spartan legend Niko Lidero the Eagle Luna It's a 99 Charles heel on the revolution. I'm going Jayce Be safe Surprise it took him so long And we knew he wasn't playing. I don't know what took him so long rookie Owen Wolf to 199 Austin seen him everywhere, man Everywhere Victor on Yama and Rike pitch progies 125 Ted De Petro DC rookie refractor gyro Torres My house Hey, what's up genius? We doing what's up?  Oh, yeah Bud rookie arcane Cara Few packs left who to go. I'm on orange It is a orange Cameron Harper. I don't need a 25 nice one there Red Bull New York Red Bulls with the true orange to 25 close us out there and last pack blue is Marco and gulo to 199 Rudy and Brandon Vasquez Alrighty, alrighty there guys, so that will do it for MLS chrome for today. We have one more listed for tomorrow guys Starting at 5 p.m. Eastern me and Sean we back you guys want to get that one already It is listed for tomorrow Right guys will do some a quick hit recap here Then we're on to baseball got about 10 minutes actually before the next one. So we'll type in some names. We'll take a quick break here To 99 got Charles. Heel Morris Bernadashi long on Mata Costa Cara for fecundo Torres. There's Clint Dempsey Brandon Vasquez in 99 got Milievic Ronan Benteke Goma is Thor Halson. Yeah, Cheney Brugman Pirlo Brugman another Clint Dempsey Gia Cheney and Blanco 75 we have Frederico Bernadashi gold is a Gutierrez Juan Yama he'll Alvarez Shakiri sharp Vitae Chew Polito, there's a kid Cole nice one there earthquakes Janino Ferrera to 25 we had Caleb Wiley Houtzias there's Harper and Owen Wolf. We also had the Perlers Christian Fletcher and Marco and gulo to 10 Hey, sounds good. 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I've been asking people really specific questions, and seeing them not know who they're talking about, it's got a funny feel. Okay, give us a random question. I will ask anybody anything. Toro on Twitch. Freed, I feel like I'm finally in America after that. Hasn't been in the gym. Good morning football fans from around the nation. We have an excellent stream for you playing today. Welcome. S-Fans Tailgate Tour is back. Yeah, it's a round of applause from everybody at home. S-Fans Tailgate Tour is back. We're here at the University of Texas against Alabama. I'm here with Tectone, of course. My good friend Tectone has joined me. We got a little bit of a late start today. We had some game day traffic. We got some Alabama fans here. It's gonna be fantastic. We came to UT last year. It was great. We came with Danny Brown. Roll tide. Let's go ahead and get inside. We don't have as much time as I'd like to have today, but let's get inside and let's go see everything. Yes, it's a cosmetic mic. It makes me look more official. It is 9 in the morning and this place is packed. They have never been to a football game in my entire life. The environment is ecstatic. It is electric. A lot of guests that we're gonna have throughout the season are gonna be like that. They've never been to a football game. They've never seen kind of the tradition, the pageantry, right? Everything that you see with college football and coming to these tailgates and what people love so much about football, not exactly with football itself. It's the environment around it. The environment around football. San Antonio and they drove all the way from Alabama to Lou. How long have you been alive? 45? 45. This was a baby baby. Roll tide. Everybody is all awesome, man.  So about 7 bits of hook'em or something? No, no, no. This is hook'em horns. Roll tide. Does Alabama have a hand signal? I have a question. Does Alabama have like a... We have a shake. We have a number one. There you go. Alabama does this. There you go, number one. Hook'em. Yeah, so in a lot of these tailgates chat, they have food, they have drinks and stuff that you can get at different booths. A lot of times they'll have a bunch of tents set up like with a lot of families. People will know each other. There's people that have like their tailgate spots that they've just had for years, right? So a lot of the families with different tailgates or whatever will be like alumni groups. It's a whole culture. It's a whole like... That's just what they do every football season, every home game. Roll tide, man. There you go. So people really get to know each other. Football games are being used as like a dating social ground. I don't know. I mean, surely college kids, college kids are trying to find whatever they can. The anime cons are like a breeding ground for trying to find a wife. You know what it is with college kids? I feel like every college kid thinks that if they don't find a husband or wife by the time they graduate, like it's over. Dude, that's how I thought. Is that not how it is? It is how it is. So hey, GG's boys. My problem is I don't know shit about football so I don't know what to ask for. You don't need to. Oh, okay. Here we go. Here we go. Okay, so do me a favor. He has never been to a football game before. Can you explain football to him? I haven't watched the game. Oh, Mr. Guy. Oh. Nobody in chat goes, I can't hear the music over Tecto. I can go so much loud. Dude, the fun slide. Damn. Oh, yeah. Here we go. He kept that. He kept that in his face. It's funny, but some people are vlogging by so it's like a bare belt. Okay, let's do this one. 121. 31. 21. 21. 21. 31, 21. Bama. Good. Good energy. Like one of those bro heads, dude. That was like a perfect like IRL really mad. Dude, he grabbed my neck and he was like Alabama, baby. I'm like, okay, bro, I believe you. Oh, dude, touch your strength. Dude, we got to do it. Oh, I got to do it? Yeah. No, we're good. That's man's tailgate tour. It's the biggest tailgate show I've ever seen. It's the biggest tailgate show I've ever seen. That's man's tailgate tour. It's the biggest tailgate show on Twitch. Do you know what Twitch is? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's the biggest tailgate show on Twitch. Nice. It's also the smallest.  And then say hook up. My grandma died last night. Football, man. God damn, I love her, man. Hey, Joe, let's see. Hey, everybody, who are you cheering for today? Alabama. Let's go. Alabama. Yes, sir. Now I got a question for you. Let's see. See, I'm new to football here. What are the Alabamians? What do they say about their football? They've got something like hook them from Texas or no? Roll time. Roll time. Roll time? Okay. I love this. It was awesome. I told you, you're going to have a great time. Pre-game ritual. I hope Alabama likes brisket because they're getting smoked today. So sick, man. Also, Alabama is really good. So we'll see how it actually turns out. There's a lot of people thinking that Texas is not going to do too hot today. But you never know. You never know. Hey, what's up, big man? Hey. Hey, how are you? What do you think is going to happen today? You don't remember me, do you? I do. No, you don't. I do. You look so familiar. Yeah. We were nice to meet together. Not bad. Yes. Oh, my gosh. Chewy. Chewy. Yes. No, you don't remember. No, I swear to God I do. Dude, that's crazy. Y'all went to the same college together? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, that's cool. Football team for a little bit. Yeah, I do. So I'm streaming.  I'm doing television.   I do YouTube and Twitch. You know what Twitch is? Yeah. Yeah, I do Twitch. Are you famous? Almost. Yes. How many followers are you on? Like 1.2 million. Dude, this guy. This guy's my boss. I work for him. Wow. See, SMU did something, right? I did something. I learned how to use the camera. That's what happened. I learned how to use the camera. That's where we are. It's great to see you. Dude, it's great to see you. Yeah, have a good time. I heard you were important back. Hook him. What's the score? 42. Yep. 35. Yes, sir. Hook him, baby. Hook him. Good seeing you. You guys want to come say hi? Here we are. We live in Austin, though. We're both. I live in Arizona, but one Texas is number two. Okay. Either way, you're going to be happy. We're happy no matter what. We're going to go probably back to Canada. Okay. Why is that? Well, we live from there. We live there. We don't. Texas is awesome. Austin seems to have a bad choice today. It's like the best thing ever. Yes, it's the best thing ever. It's the best thing ever. It's the best thing ever. What do you think the score is going to be? Oh, I know. Oh. A billion is enough, too. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. We don't know for who. We just know somebody's getting negative. Somebody's getting a billion. So they got some tailgating areas over there. Let's look around. We'll go talk to them. All right. Should I say somebody about who was born in Alabama? Yep. Okay. All right. Roll time.  They're celebs. They're celebs. They're celebs. All right. So, I mean, as y'all know, Alabama is about tradition. And this is a family tradition of ours in my household. We've been having one of these since I was growing up as a kid, man. So I just had to bring it to Texas to eat the tradition we're holding, baby. Roll time. How's it feel being out in the territory? It feels great, man. It feels good. I feel like you thrive in your backs against the wall. You think well-calibrated, huh? Oh yeah, for sure. What's the score going to be? 52 to 10. Easy money. Easy money. I got one more question. I'll give him a touchdown of fieldball. Touchdown of fieldball. I got one more question. Here we go. What do you think of Top Gun Maverick? I've only watched half of it. So, hold that question for later. Okay. All right. What's your favorite anime? I don't watch anime. Shit. All right. That's all right. I'm going to Dragon Ball Z. That was the only guy who actually looks like he watched it.  I'm literally the only guy here. I love the cosmetic mic. Yeah. It's just like, it puts people in the mood to answer questions. Roll tide. Roll tide. Roll tide. Roll tide. Hi there. Hello. How long have you been a fan of Alvin?  Oh, a happy birthday. You look amazing. Happy birthday. This is happy birthday, Sal. Hey, and you know what my birthday present is to you? A win. A win. There you go. Yeah, we got season tickets.  What is your favorite memory of Texas football? It was a damn good game. What? It came to be. What do you guys think this course is going to be today? I'm calling it 38-35. 38-35. Taxes by three. Taxes by three. Okay, sick. All right. Awesome. We'll see you again. We shipped today. Yeah. So get your camera ready. Uh-oh. The horns are going to take care of business today. Yeah. So watch the news. Let me ask you a question. You said that we're going to shock the nation. Why isn't it just to be expected? Yeah, you know, the truth is, with the way the media is, they overlook the horns. I get it. It is what it is. You look at rankings and you see hate. But you know what? The horns put their jobs on just like the Tide team. That's right. And this ain't no Nickel-Dime campus. That's right. This sooner comes. Hey, keep that low. Keep that low, Jeff. Drake's in the hole. Baby brother. Baby brother. We playing. Hey, guys. You know this, DB? They outlawed it. Hook him, baby. Horns. Horns for life, baby. Horns for life. DBU. What year? 86 through 90. 86. You know Van Malone? Yes. I know Van Malone real well. I worked in SMU with him. One of the hardest-hitting DBs ever to play at Texas. There you go. He is one of those that would crack your helmet all day. He was something else. Oh, yeah. Drake, what's your name? Drake, ghost. Wayman Weston. Wayman Weston. Next time I talk to him, I'll let him know I met you. Run? Yeah, I'm not staying. All right. But, hey, we got Austin and Weston in the right. In the left. All right. We got twins here. Future Longhorn baseball players and pro athletes. They're going to be, his dad went straight pro. But these guys, I'm hoping he's going to let them play here. Yeah. Get him on vacation, too, while they're at it. Oh, God, yeah. That's the least. But absolutely. They're going to have to be here, man. Good. Thank you, guys. You got one more thing. You got any words from anybody sad going home from Alabama today? You know what? There'll be better days. Not today. But today is not that day. Hey, time, baby. That's fantastic. That was great. I saw him live up in Canada for about 10 years. Coming down to the stage for about, I've never seen football before. Like in real life. I've only watched about a game. Last time I watched was Randy Moss playing the Patriots. I don't know when that was when I was a kid. I was wondering, you got any advice like new football fans that you can share? Like what is it about football that you love? Just to come lottery. It's good. Collision. Collision. You bring in all different races. We just want a cheer. I get that every time, bro. I get that. It's been real nice. Very welcome. It's been very nice. It was in 2008. 2008? Yeah. It was paint manning Packers. Randy Moss Patriots. Paint manning with the Colts. Was he? In the quarterback? With the Colts. You talking about Eli. He drinking football. Eli with the giant. Paint manning with the Colts. No, baby man. There's no Colts. Colts. In the afternoon. Oh. Oh. He said, I thought he said Colts. He's from Bama. The Colts. The Colts. Colts. Who do you think the three all-time great talk? I'm a goal. See, to me, yeah. I mean, no blemishes on your record. Oh. So I'm a goal. Montana one. Mm-hmm. I'm a goal. Brady two. Mm-hmm. And then I'm a goal-paying three. Okay. But I love Marino and Elwood. Okay. They're my boys, too. Yeah. But I'm a cowboy fan. Yeah. So of course, I'm a star-bogging truck. But them top right there. Yeah, that's what I'm up with. What did you rumble on? He was the truth. He didn't have a team with him. He didn't have a team. Do you hear him call a game? Yes. He's the best game. He's the best.  You know what? He calls it. But he didn't have an offensive line. Right. Exactly.  And when he did, you know what happened? He got hurt and that took it over. Exactly.   They would have won.   They would have won. Yeah. The rumble on the truth.  My man. There you go. See, if you know, you know. Everybody who knows football knows. Tony Romo is unreal there. I think it's called Espen's Tailgate Tour. The biggest tailgate tour on Twitch. You know what Twitch is? Um, it's like gaming, right? It's gaming. It's like real live show. Yeah, it's everything. Gaming's dead. But you know what's not dead? Texas chance to bring it home for Hook'em. That's true. Yeah, absolutely. 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Guitar and Excel. Pentatonic scale fret 5 fingering. Get ready and don't fret. Remember, the board's been fretted, so you don't have to be. Here we are in Excel. If you don't have access to this workbook, that's okay because we basically built this from a blank worksheet, but did so in prior presentation. So if you want to build this from a blank worksheet, you may want to begin back there. However, you don't necessarily need access to this workbook if looking at this from a music theory standpoint because we'll simply use it as a tool to map out the fret board. Give us the notes scale chords that we're focused in on. If you do have access to this workbook though, there's currently nine tabs down below. We've got a bunch of example tabs and then we've got the OG Orange tab. The OG Orange tab representing the original worksheet we put together in a prior section. It now acting as the starting point going forward, mapping out the entire fret board, giving us the entire musical alphabet and letters in number format and combining the letter and number format, providing a key that can be adjusted with this green cell, which will adjust the scales of the worksheets on the right hand side, which then provide the notes in the scale. We're focused in on the chord constructions from the notes in the scale and interval information. We then wanted to focus on the C major scale and look first at the chord constructions from the notes in the C major scale starting with the one chord. We did that over here. We're looking at open position, frets one through three is what I'm defining that as. We mapped out the one three five of the C major chord, discussed it in detail. We then went to the four chord F major, mapped it out in open position, discussed it. We went to the five chord, mapped it out, discussed it. We went back to the two chord because that's a minor chord construction. D minor, discussed it, went to the E minor, discussed it, A minor, discussed it, and then we went to the diminished and discussed that. Now by doing that, if you combine all that together, you basically end up with this blue box down here, which is the major scale construction. What we want to do now is look at this in another light, now looking at it in terms of the scale constructions, but not starting with open position. We'll get to there, but instead moving to the middle of the guitar and we're going to start learning the middle of the guitar using a scale position rather than chords directly. And then we'll go back and learn the middle of the guitar with chords with the caged system. So we put this worksheet together in a prior presentation to help us to build out what we're going to do. It looks long, it looks messy, it looks scary. But what we're going to do now is copy this over and focus on one chunk at a time and this is going to be this middle chunk on the fifth fret. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to hold down control, left click and drag this to the right. And so this is going to be here and I'm just going to call this practice pentatonic fret five, let's say fret five. Okay, let's get fret five fingering. Let's do that. And then I'm going to make it blue just to show that that's the one that we're focused on. So I'm going to right click and make it blue. Okay, so what I'd like to do now is basically hide everything we have up top. So this shape, and I'll actually just remove this stuff. I'm going to remove the colored boxes here. Maybe I keep that one. Removing the colored boxes. And then you'll note that this fretboard goes up to 12 frets and then it starts over to 24 frets. So not many guitars are 24 frets. They're going to be around, you know, somewhere around this length a little bit longer than that length, right? So this length, if you just look at this fret five, which I'll even bring it down to here. Let's just look at fret five is basically pretty close to the middle of the guitar. That's why it's a great place to start. So I'm going to hide this side of the guitar and we'll just focus on just that bit. I'm going from J to Y, right click and hide. And then I'm going to hide and then you could keep this side of the guitar to look at the open positions that we looked at before. We'll open up again later so we can check that out. But for now, I'm even going to hide that and I'm just going to select that right click and hide that. So now we can focus just on that fret five. So that's right in the middle of the guitar. Now on the right hand side, I also want to see the minor construction on the right. So I'm going to hide this AT to squish this together as close as I can. Hide this and then I'm going to hide from this cell on to the minor construction and hide this. So when we think about this pentatonic scale, you'll recall that this is basically just taking the major scale and removing two of the notes from it. By doing that, when we went through all of these chord constructions, we looked at it in terms of the related pentatonic scale in the key of C. And you'll note that all of the other chord constructions don't always fit in the pentatonic scale, although they will fit all these chords, for example, don't always fit in the pentatonic scale. For example, clearly the four chord isn't going to fit in the pentatonic scale because we're missing the F, right? It's not going to be in there. But when we look at the major chord, the pentatonic scale will work perfectly, and we look at the minor chord construction, the pentatonic scale will work perfectly. So therefore, when we think about a normal pentatonic scale, we're usually attributing it to the major, in this case the C major, or its relative minor. In our case, that's going to be the A minor, which is always going to be in any position, it's going to be the sixth of the major construction. So pentatonic scale in your mind, you're usually thinking, okay, that's going to be related to the C major and the A minor. You can play the pentatonic scale possibly as you're moving through chords, right? That's right, from like a C, and if you're playing in the key of C, and then you play an E minor and an F or something, and you're noodling around in between those chords, you can play the pentatonic scale, and you'll be safe because you're playing something that's in the key of C, but you'll not be having some of those notes that might be in the chord that you're in. So like the F, and if you wanted to target that F, then you can either switch your mind to be thinking, I'm going to be playing in the major construction, because if I look in the major construction, it would be there because we constructed that chord from the major scale of the C scale, right? Or you can think of it, I'm still going to be playing in minor, but I'm going to add that, basically that note. Some people like to think of it different ways. Some of the benefits of the minor construction is that you get all of these notes that generally tend to work well if you're playing them across different chords, and in like a band setting where you have different people playing basically different things. It's less likely that you're going to hit something that's going to basically clash too dramatically, right? So that's one of the benefits of the pentatonic. It's also of course very easy to play because the shapes are going to be a lot. You would think it wouldn't be that much more simple with removing two notes, but actually you can see down here that those two notes kind of pop up a lot. So it actually does simplify the shape a lot if you just move it down to five notes. And with a five note construction, you can actually kind of think of some rules that you're going to have with a five note construction, and that is going to be that you never really have on the pentatonic scale the two notes right next to each other. So for example, if I look at this whole shape on the pentatonic, you don't see two greens a half step away from each other, right? This is a black one, not a green, right? You don't see two greens right next to each other, and you're not going to see more than two blank notes that you're going to be skipping, right? So you're always going to have an interval that is going to be either this interval skipping two notes or you're going to have an interval where it's skipping basically one note. So you can think about that as kind of like in the pentatonic shape, you can almost think about it as if the long shape or is it going to be basically the short shape. And if you finger that on the guitar, it works out quite nicely because if I look at this top one up top, I'm starting on position five. If you have the dots on the guitar, you'll have a dot one, two, three, four, five. And then the long shape is you have to grab it with your pinky over here. So now I'm going to fret five to eight. That's kind of difficult when you're starting out. But for a pinky grab, that's perfect because it fits your hand perfectly. So the idea of the guitar would be that you have the frets lined out and you want to be playing everything in position and every finger is kind of taking care of its own little location. Now I deviate from that a lot. Some people like to be very ergonomic and they're fingering and that's probably a good place to start. But then when you start messing around with it, you're going to be moving around depending on what you want to do. So any case. So you have this one. So you probably want to, if you're new to that practice like a hammer on to get that one to work out that pinky. Also note that when your thumb is too high up, it might be harder to grab than if you have your thumb lower back on the neck here. And then the shorter positions are going to be these positions and that should be really comfortable. Well, that's as comfortable as it gets, right? Basically going from your pointer finger to your ring finger. And then down here you've got a pinky position too, but this is usually a little bit easier to play down because you have more leverage, especially if your thumb is lower on the guitar. And that's usually this shape that most people learn. And you might get, I used to ask like, well, why do most people learn that shape? Like what is it about that shape? Because all the other shapes have the same notes in them. And from what I can, a couple of reasons that shape is really useful. One, it's in the middle of the guitar. So now it's in the middle of the guitar and I can expand and grow my shapes and learn my shapes back towards the back as well as towards the front of the guitar. That's the way you want to learn it because then you can kind of organically expand your knowledge there. Another reason is that it starts on an A, which is the minor relevant of the C. So that works really well to be playing in A minor, which has all the same notes as the C major. And so that's a very common scale to be playing in. So that works good, or you can play it in the C major, but the C is going to be this note over here. So you can play it in either C major or A minor. But most people are probably going to start to think of it as A minor because you're going to start fingering the position with that A note. So that's probably the easiest way to be thinking about what you're doing in A minor and start from there and then start targeting other types of notes. So that's another reason that I think it's a really useful position to start with. Another reason is that if you're playing in A minor you've got this open A string right here. So that open A string is really useful because you can kind of ring it out open even way down here. And that's useful. You also have your E position here and your E string is an open E string that's right above it as well if you were playing in like an E or an E minor. So for all those, and also in the blues guitar, they actually modify a lot of people like one way to think about blues guitar. And we won't get into this now, but it's just interesting to note is that they actually use this position one shape in kind of strange ways. So instead of thinking about a different scale, we kind of just think about this one shape in some ways you can think about it as looking at this one shape and augmenting it towards a blues kind of thing. The blues thing has dominant seven chords. It does some kind of weird stuff that you can learn kind of conventionally with this shape and then you can kind of get deeper into like what it's doing, which is actually quite confusing. So we might like that later. So then with the shape then, as far as learning the shape, what you're going to want to do is you could, I'm going to try to put this up top, learn it the way everybody's going to do it at first. It's just going to happen is to just finger the shape, right? Now a lot of people will be down on just finger in the shape from top to bottom because they say that that's not musical and learning it and you're just playing a shape and it's not, you're learning it like a rogue and it sounds like a scale and people will be saying that that's not cool or whatever. But everybody ends up doing that. So that's one thing that you can do is of course you can just play it up and down the neck and I'm trying to do alternate picking when I do it usually. So if you're trying to get good with the pick, you could try all down strokes if you're new to the pick. So I'm just doing just down strokes but then alternate picking down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up. So I'm just alternating the down and up which is going to be faster with the picking and of course you do want to go back up to. So that's the first thing that you can do. You can do that while watching. You don't even need to pick. You can just use this hand and just once you got the finger in down to just run it up and down the guitar while you're watching Netflix or whatever you watch. I'm not promoting Netflix. I don't know. I like that one piece show. That was cool. But in any case, you could do so you can do that and then then also just I also just want to point out the name of this shape. So so when you're trying to say I'm going to play this shape, what are you what are you going to say what you could say I'm going to I'm playing a pentatonic shape on fret five and people will usually note that as fret as what your starting point will be fret five. So you can name it that way. You can also most people a lot of people will call it your one position. So you're going to play pentatonic position one in the key of like a minor or starting on fret five. Right. Or you can try to name this shape by using the caged system that we'll talk about later and say this is a G shape position. Some people will do that that that took a while for me to understand because I didn't see it that way before. But like the kid like here's your G shape right here within it. So that so so you can see that G shape. Now you wouldn't actually play that G shape normally because you'd have to borrow off these three over here. But you can see the G shape over here. It fits nicely into this shape. So we'll learn more about that in the caged system. But that's one way that you can anchor. You're not playing. If you played this chord you would be playing a C but you could see the shape is a C major shape. I mean a G major shape if it was an open position. And so we're trying to use those shapes that we all learn in open position to anchor ourselves as to what the shape is not only for that chord but the related pentatonic shape. Which will be unique to this position. But then also when we get to the major shape down here we can do the same thing. Now you have to be a little bit careful with that though because of course you have one problem of saying that you're using a G shape even though you're playing a C chord. So you have to keep that straight in your mind. But there's no there's no perfect way to say this stuff. People get say well I don't like that because you're not you're using the shape to say it's a C chord and you're saying G. But again there's there's no perfect way to do it. So the other issue that you have to keep in mind however is that when you apply that to the whole major chord construction down here. Then the G shape will fit in the G chord shape will fit in multiple major positions. Because we because we know that the one four five works as major chord construction. So if I started you know so if I started on like a G as my one chord and I was playing in G major the one four five position would have a G would fit into the shapes even though the entire chord shape would be different. Right we saw that when we went to when we did some of our movable shapes here. So you have to be kind of careful the fact that you see that this G shape fits inside of a major chord construction doesn't necessarily tell you that you're in position one right. But but so again it's not a perfect you got to kind of deal with those those kind of things. So that's going to be the naming convention. Now the next just tip when you're when you're learning this position is that is that you're going to you usually want to start to target an actual note in it. So and that's usually going to be the a minor. So we'll talk more about targeting a note in the position later. But when you start to play this more musically you're going to want to say like for example if I'm targeting that a there's an a here there's an a here. So here's an a and here's an a and here is an a. So there's three a's in this and this position and the open string if I is an a back here. So if I just selected that open string I would be in an a. So when you start noodling around you might end on that a it's quite common to try to noodle your position and end on this a which is nicely in the middle of the guitar.  You'll start to learn to do that just by your ear. But if you if you target a note and the a is going to be the easiest note to do that basically playing then in a minor. Then you could say OK I'm in a minor now I'm going away from a minor and then see how I resolved on that note that takes me back to the a minor. So then you could start to get a little bit more musical trying to find ways that you can basically start and end on a note. Once you do that in the a minor you could do that with other notes to like the C up top like I could start playing not from this note but from here and start on a C and then end on a C. Here's a C down here so I could. Right and then I'm trying to make it resolve to basically a C. So the next thing that you want to do just musically would be instead of playing because if you play this just up and down all the time you'll end up in a situation where you where you don't even know. Like I don't know what to do down here like you might say well what I know this is this a half position or a whole position well in order to know that I have to play it from top to bottom. Oh OK there there it is but obviously you don't want to have to do that you don't want to have to go all the way back up to the top again and play it from top to bottom to know what to do down here right. So so you want to practice bits and pieces starting from different areas in the position. So instead of practicing and playing in the full position you might just select this top box and then see what you can do musically with that very limited amount just in terms of rhythm. So I'm doing a little bit of bending I'm doing a little bit of rhythm to it. I'm going to do some double stops two strings at the same time hammer on and then hammer on here is a perfect hammer on place. You can even experiment pulling in the open string so the string is open. It should work because I'm in the key of a minor although it might sound funny not because the e isn't in the a minor the a minor that we're working in but because we're in a completely different register we're a little too high up on the guitar for that really low base to ring out true sometimes. So you can kind of experiment experiment with that the open a same thing. I can play out that open a which is this string and work it in here. And I can work that in and that should sound good because I'm basically in the key of a but again it might sound lower than than the rest of the register that we're basically playing in. You can also imagine that you're moving to another shape and do and be like be doing this and then move up to that shape right as if you're going to be moving up here. Notice I'm taking my fingers off and playing them open sometimes as well. And then you might take like this three box notice that these are all the short all the all the short intervals and I'm going to start it's kind of useful to start to see this pentatonic shape like I say as the long intervals and the short intervals. So these three are the short intervals and then you got the two long intervals. And this this is not the same thing as saying as as like mapping out the the scale where we said where we said whole step whole step I'm not thinking the formula of whole step whole step half step. However, the shape what I'm saying what I'm looking at is the shape here is that there's the long shape and then the shorter shapes when you look at this pentatonic. And you can see they actually will follow each other like this these two long shapes at the bottom are going to be next to each other. And if you can get this bottom one correct the top one is the same. So there's actually only five unique strings on the guitar because the bottom guitar bottom string the top string repeat their different octaves but they're the same tone. So if you if you can understand this top string you already have the bottom string it's going to be the same. And then you just have to figure out the other the differences right so it's going to be these three are the are the are the small intervals and the long intervals with regards to your fingers. Right so if I play just in this little interval it's perfect for your finger. A lot of shape a lot of shapes that you can play you can start with this a or a lot of hammer-ons that you can do right I can start with this a. So notice I'm sliding up to that I'm not going to go out here because that but that slide is something that you can kind of work in there. Just know it will talk later about actual shapes in here. This is actually an a minor shape. I'm not going to get into it when I'm just noodling around what shapes are here but any comfortable shape will be some chord construction right so you can start to experiment like well what if I just held those three notes right there down. What does that sound what's that what's that sound so I can be noodling around. I can put my two fingers up here so now I'm basically playing this and then these two. I like that. Right and then you can kind of end off there that's a that's an a minor position but if you just noodling around you'll kind of find that just by ear and then of course you can go down to the bottom. I'm going to add this one because it's hard to do something just with those two long shapes right you can do rhythm stuff. So now I'm playing these three together so so and even when you're playing up and down on this you might do some. You might try to make it sound more musical I'm not even trying to be in in a in an a I'm just trying to do something that I think would be cool and notice that this shape right here. If you play like this note and and this note is a power chord so you can you can that's always good to play and all these notes are fair game. I like these three notes are fair game so you could. I like to shuffle between the power chord and then this C and by doing that you know that's kind of just an interesting basically shuffle pad. So now I'm ending on that A because I'm on the A to the A. So you could just kind of jam around in there and try to try to make it more musical that's another way to practice it. Now then what you want to do with this is start to connect it later to I'm going to unhide the cells to the open positions here. So and again the easiest way to do that is to think of yourself in an A minor but we'll talk about all of the chords that we did except possibly diminished. But we'll talk about all of the chords and see how we might be able to link that possibly to our position up top. So if you go to your nice nice friendly A minor down here then the question is well how can I lead up from my A minor to get into my position up top. So I could like just use this string and just and then I'm not just zoomed into this to this position right here and now I can be up here and be like OK. And then I'm going to end I'm targeting so now I'm zooming up to this note and then I'm going to target till I can just get back to that note which is in my pentatonic position. So I could be like so right and now I'm back to from an A minor to an A. And so and then if you're in the pentatonic question is how can I get back to that to my A back there. I could just jump back there right I can follow the string up to the position. This is an A to an A if I just or I'm sorry an A to a C and that gets me into the position right. You can also follow this string because that's going to be your open A. And so so you can always be jamming around here. A nice comfy A. And then how can I get back well I could just use that string. And then I'm just I'm just playing that string as I'm kind of zooming back or I can walk this string down. I could be on this string and then kind of walk it back. Remember when we were in open A I kind of like the shuffle pattern of just hope holding down this E which is just another way to play the A. But now I'm just holding down that E. And that's just I'm just staying all I'm doing is playing a minor basically and then just noodling around. I'm trying to find a way to get home from my open position into my pentatonic and when in pentatonic targeting the A. And I'm usually just targeting that. I just want to know around and then go home and then go home back home A open position. So those are some tips just to kind of memorize that position. We'll go into then more detail later talking about the intervals of this position a bit more. And then we'll try to tie out more specifically each of these chords to to into the pentatonic this pentatonic position that usually everyone everyone loves this pentatonic position. This is the main one oftentimes so we'll try to get the most utility out of it and take all these notes into that pentatonic position and then we'll later on then we'll add the the notes for the full major position adding the two other notes and talk about it.


Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching today. This week's hobby based card is using the Banner Dyes and I've created this really simple colourful happy birthday card which I think is quite a unisex card as well so you could give this for male or female. Very straightforward but I really do think it still does kind of pack a punch, I think it's got a really cool look about it. I've set the Banner Dyes all on foam so they are lifted off the page and then that birthday is stamped directly onto the card base so it's got a few levels to it, it's got the dimension there with the Nuvo drops as well and then some texture with the ribbon that I've tied in a knot on the top so that's today's card. So I'll pop that one just over there. It's on a 7x5 card base in landscape so if you're cutting this from your own card stock it'd be a piece of 10x7 and along the 10 inch side you want to score at 5 inches and then just fold it in half and that'll give you a landscape or portrait but we're going to be working in landscape orientation today. Then we have all the bits and pieces in so I've already gone ahead and die cut the same colours I've done four of them just because you don't need to watch me do all of that but I am going to do the yellow one and I've got my own stash there just some letter dies that I've pulled out so any small letter dies really depends how big you're doing your card if you're doing a smaller card you do have the smaller ones here and you also could use very small letters in those so it's entirely up to you but I've used the the middle one okay so yeah it's the third smallest or the third largest depending on how you look at it but it's that middle one here and sorry it's bunting not banner I always say banner but it's not it's the bunting one there so what you want to do is cut out these ones you may want to do the multi-colored I've done the multi-colored just because I wanted it to kind of be a card that would work for both male and female but again if you're doing this for someone specific then obviously you can match your colors however you want so you can really kind of change it up a bit but I quite liked that rainbow with the the black okay so just so you can see how these ones cut we've got a really nice stitched detail around the edge there as well so that's my colors done there and then what you need to do what I found was worked well for me to know that I was going to get everything nice and straight just grab a ruler keep that to one side so we need it in a minute and along every one of these we want to do is just mark a light pencil mark from the very top of that little flag part there so where it goes up to create that bunting effect just put a pencil line just the thin one you just see there okay and that's where we're going to line our letters up so it just means that every letter is exactly the same now you may want to have yours all different by all means you can do but this is how I found it easier easiest to do if you do want to do it the same way so I'm just going to go along there and just pop a pencil mark on all of my other pieces okay so I've gone along and done all the pencils and pencil lines and I've also gone ahead and die cut all bar one of the letters now I've kept the same sequence but I've just flipped it so rather than starting with the orange again I'm starting with the green and working backwards with this one here so if you are doing the same with the word happy obviously you will have the parts of the P in the middle are loose and again the a you need to make sure you keep that because we'll be sticking them inside the letters once we all attach it so I've just got the y here and just popping it in the middle just literally just above that pencil mark and if you keep the same that you know the same way with all your other letters and you'll get them nice and straight and then just again just carefully that one through and again keep all the little letters because they are handy for another card you could just do the reverse so you could just have a more simplified card with all of the letters that you've cut out right that is everything died cut so now what we want to do is grab your card base and I done a pencil mark on here what was it again I'm using it the wrong way around one of five eighths so just come up the side again this will depend on if you're using the same and bunting dies as me but basically with this one here I'm just coming up one one and five eighths of an inch and I keep forgetting I can do it with that ruler I'll just bring this one in here and just do a fine line and this is the line I'm going to use now with my stamping platform so that I can make sure I get my sentiment nice and straight and within a nice area like an equal distance from the bottom of all of the bunting there so what I have here is I wanted a nice big birthday word and I couldn't find any on their own I've got lots of small ones but nothing big but this dovecraft birthday boy is a really nice size at birthday so I'm going to show you a way to use part of a stamp so partial stamping and you can just basically you just cover one half so all I want to ink up here is the birthday so I'm just going to have got just got this piece of card here now I've already lined this up from the last card I done so I know that when I bring that over that birthday is going to sit nicely within this area here just below the pencil mark okay so you will line that up first lay your stamp down check that you've got it in the position that you want it to be in okay let me just grab my I'm just going to use my Versa fine pop my card over everything that I don't want stamped okay so in this instance it's the word boy I don't want that one then I can just go ahead and stamp as normal and then you must must must remember to take this off okay and then just go ahead and stamp as you normally would have a nice impression and again you can go back in and re-stamp it if you need to but I'm happy that I've got that where it needs to be okay so now I will rub out my pencil marks on all of my bunting there and also on my card okay so all my pencil lines are now rubbed out now you want to find the center point of your card now this is seven inches long so it'll be three and a half now I already know that three and a half sits perfectly between the letter H so I'm going to start from the middle and I'm going to attach this one first so the point inside here this bunting sits nicely in between the H there again you can stick it directly down onto the card but I am going to use some dimensional circles here so I'm just going to pop a couple on the back there and then just cut a couple in half and just pop them down the bottom there just so it keeps it nice and even so like I said start with the middle first this is an odd number as only five letters if you've got an even amount still work from the middle out so I'm coming down by about one eighth of an inch keeping it nice and straight that's the first one I'm going to stick all the little bits in afterwards now I'm going to go along to the next one and keep working your way out and then I'll do that one so just carry on and get those all stuck down okay so that's all now perfectly stuck down and nice and even just gonna pop a little bit of glue on my hand here with my tweezers just going to pop in the little parts to the letters there so make sure it's the right way up just a little bit of glue don't need to go too mad dinky dinky piece here which is so small that my tweezers are even struggling to pick it up okay so that while that's there drying I'm going to grab my ribbon and all I'm doing is tucking it under and over so I'm not even sticking this down you can pop a little bit of red tape on the back if you want to but I'm not too worried that this is going to kind of move around so off to the right hand side just in between the P and the Y you can twist it all around once you've done it but I'm just going to tie it quite a tight knot because you do want it to stay in place so just twist all the other bits around so they all lie nice and flat and then trim those bits right down so they're really short I want it to look like a knot that's the effect I'm going for okay and then with my Nuvo drops which I have wherever I put those there we go just to pop a few little dots make sure you get the air out so just squeeze it on a bit of scrap first and then you can just I always like to do three in different sizes really tiny one and then do a bigger one up there like so it's those little details that I think just really do give it a nice finish so they have it really quite quick to do but fun it's a nice way to play around with your dies and your alphabet dies and the stamping and you can still add all those other bits and pieces in there so but just bring that one in that's the reverse and I think they look really lovely so I hope you've enjoyed this week's hobby base tutorial and I'll be back again next week thanks for watching bye