Is this the most confusing guitar lesson ever?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV5RzboBpsE&feature=related

Was searching for a bit of the Richard Lloyd magic and came across this. I defy anyone to follow what he's showing you.

About 5:30 he's just reeling off numbers and telling the guitar to obey him

buh?

When his hand runs up the fretboard it looks like a tarantula. That's what I'm taking away from this lesson.

Many moments begging for use as samples on new Boards of Canada material, esp the magic numbers and "unlocking the secrets of music" stuff.

1,4,7,tritone,7,4,6...

I kinda sorta see what he's doing, dividing the scale up into 3-note patterns, one pattern per degree of the scale, and numbering them, so that "One" is (in F) F-G-A, and "Three" is "A-Bb-C"; then showing how those patterns repeat across degrees (e.g., "One," "Two," "Four" and "Five" are all the same two-whole-step pattern, based on the 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th of the scale) and using them to construct a long scale run.

But it would have been easier for him to just say "I am Richard Lloyd and am from another dimension so plz just give up now."

Like so many great guitarists, his fingers and hand span are frustratingly enormous.

Yeah, I saw a Davy Graham thing on BBC4, it looked like he had two feet on the end of his arms.

it's kinda inconceivable to me that an algorithm like this would be easier to learn than just memorizing all the notes on the fretboard and thinking through the scale as you play it. but i guess that means i haven't unlocked the secret of music :'(

man, this makes me never want to pick up my guitar again

tbh I think Lloyd is drunk

I've taught music in public schools for over twenty years, and this is one of the most bizarre, convoluted, confusing methods for presenting scale concepts I've ever seen.
Do learners a favor and remove this.

More laughs than Jens Hannemann. I interpret the wince at 1:40 as "I can't believe these dummies need this explained."

The video is more or less the unintentional version of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evTTHS9hwvU

woah...lloyd is out there.

basically i learned this guy has asperger's.

at 2:00 I lol'd

it's awl in da column

yew geddit?

1473625 1562374

1473625 is the magic number (not De La Soul), apparently: http://www.free-guitar-chords.com/rock-guitar-improvisation.htm

on the plus side, this finally sorts out that whole da vinci code thing

Couldn't get past two minutes. If you ever wanted to know what a grad school p-chem lecture was like at 8:00 in the morning on a Friday, that unintentionally captures it.

No personable mien at all. Unless that all came after two minutes. Great opportunity for satire,
though.