2 Hours With John Mayer: Live Berklee Clinic
Last Friday (12/3/2011), John Mayer spent an afternoon at Berklee teaching. I was lucky enough to get a recording from one of the students, which you can listen to here.
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The recording goes for about 2 hours, so I have created a 5 minute sample track which you can quickly listen to now and then later grab the full length version (2:33 hrs) to add to your iPod for some quality time with John Mayer 
In the clinic John shares his advice on songwriting. He also shared his thoughts on why today’s generation is so distracted by social media. There was a minor uproar from his millions of followers last year, when he cancelled his twitter account.
John Mayer giving advice on songwriting
He also shares some new songs that are due for release on his next album.
After the teaching session, he asked some of the students to play their songs as he read over the lyrics and then gave his advice. The clinic was supposed to finish at 4:30pm but he wanted to hear everyone’s songs..so he didn’t finish until 7:20pm!
You can download the 5 minute highlight track here. You can also download the full length recording (2:33 hrs) here or here (the first link dosen’t seem work for some).
Enjoy!
Tags: berklee clinic, john mayer
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I have been playing guitar for over 20 years now and love it more every day. I hope through this blog I can inspire and be inspired by other musicians. Music is a journey, and this blog is my way of sharing that.
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17.03.11
awesome! thanks for heads up and link dan
17.03.11
no worries bro!
17.03.11
Ha, I just left Berklee cause it’s spring break and I don’t have class Fridays. Whatever, his first clinic was the big one.
17.03.11
I don’t know.. this is pretty awesome!
Let me know what you think once you’ve listened to it..
there’s some great advice in there. Particularly when it comes to songwriting.
17.03.11
Awesome! I still listen to the blues jam he did with Tomo and Gravity he did in that small room in Berklee on my iPod very frequently, haha. Love the stuff posted on YouTube too.
Wait, he did two already?
17.03.11
Yep! John Mayer has been back to Berklee a few times now.. Check out the Berklee website as I think they still have the old video recordings.. one problem though, you have to be a student
Here you go: http://www.berkleemusic.com/welcome/mayer_clinic
Alternatively you can just search on youtube..
17.03.11
D’oh! I was just getting into it.. he was about to play one of his new songs and then it stopped! Noooo
I’ll just have to download the full version and listen to it later tonight
17.03.11
Mayer is the man
18.03.11
heck yes! I’m only half way through listening to his clinic, but it is awesome so far!
21.03.11
John Mayer is absolutely briliant,inspiring artist and complex human being not to forget Absolutely gorgeous. His new songs are amazing !He is the best!
21.03.11
Totally agree with you adele.. maybe not the gorgeous part though (i’m guessing that’s coming from a girls’ perspective)
he has definitely inspired me to keep writing and creating new music.
ps. have you heard the new music from adele: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_Zs7XS3XUo
She is another great songwriter!
30.03.11
Hey, the Mediafire link isn’t working for me. Is it just broken? I really want to listen to this.
30.03.11
No worries Dewayne, you can also download the full 2 hour version here: http://www.rockyourguitar.com/wp-content/audio/johnmayer_clinic_final.mp3.zip
03.09.11
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE AUDIO
05.09.11
No worries Yosra..
Hope you enjoy it