@@thebadash4165 same, im like yelling at the screen "How is an A note lower then a D or C" lol even tho i learned my scales I wasn't applying it to chords... And I had played guitar for years when i was younger but am just now picking it up and BUT learning the thoery part first instead of 'wingin it..
I learn more from this video than anyone I asked or searched on youtube about chords, he makes it so simple and does not confuse you with a lot of terms.
Thanks Jonathan. I now understand that the root note can also be open strings.... before I saw this video I thought it was the lowest note that my finger was pressing down on eg. D. Chord
I learned something new! Of course everything is new at this point, since i've only been playing a couple of weeks. One thing I'd suggest is breaking stuff up a little more. We beginners start getting overwhelmed with too much information. I see so many videos about the guitar on here that start with a good basic point, but then devolve into "oh... and you could play the chord like this.... or like this... or like this"... and I end up walking away confused.
Sweet this is great. I've seen a lot of vids where there's green red blck etc. It didn't come together until you mentioned hey the roots the lowest tone in the chord. Nice. Thanks. This made some things a lot easier to put together in my head now. Thanks for taking the time. Great teaching brother. Rock on.
Actually there is a difference between the root note for a chord, and the tonic of the key - which you referred to as the root note for the song. Every chord has it's own root note, but there is one chord where the whole song feels like it comes to rest, and the root note of that chord is called the tonic. When we say a song is in the key of G, then the G note is the tonic. We can take that further too - once we know the tonic is G, we can actually build out a whole bunch of relevant information from that, like the scales we should use, the other chords in the key, and so on. I get into that much further in my Unlocking I IV V course at PlayGuitar.com.
Wow I get it now. THANK YOU. not many people are saying something as simple as hey The d chord us built around your finger on the d note. Honestly I was lost till right now. Lol thanks.
SIMPLE AND CLEAR. ALL THE RU-vid GUITARIST OUT THERE. WHY IS IT SO HARD TO TELL SOMETHING SIMPLE AND STRAIGHT WE ARE NOT DUMB KIDS AND THIS IS NOT SOME SORT OF A MAGIC OR THIS IS NOT ONLY FOR A GIFTED FEW MUSIC IS UNIVERSAL.
@@anuvette Inversion f.ex means your lowest note in a C-chord is an E (the third) or G (the fifth) In other words the lowest note in these chords are not the root.
Thanks this is a really nice explanation. The only thing is though it would be nice to have chart for each string and the notes dependant on the fret. As a beginner I haven't got a clue what each note is on each fret. I did find a chart but just saying it would be nice in the same video. Other than that, great video learnt a lot, thank you :)
Should explain high note vs low note FIRST before anything else. That is the biggest thing that confuses people i think (me atleast). Like in a C major scale the C is lower then the A and B, but in some scales/chords it might be higher. You have to know the order of the scales to be able to determine a root note etc.
Hi Jonathan , I like ur videos. I hv started learning guitar couple of months ago, but I am not able to move or progress from one chord to another ,.. I am very slow and it's not at all smooth as it shd be. Pl help, how shd I Practise. Thx
Im stock , please help me!!!! I dont know if its because im mixing theory with practical but... To play a c major chord.. If EADGBE (654321) when use the triad (CEG) How do you find THE C on the strings. Im confused.. Many thanks in advance
Hi Sara G. I recommend watching the lesson I did here: playguitar.com/tones-semitones/ There you will learn how the notes work on the fretboard, and how the note names change as you move through the frets. To answer your question, you can find a C on any of the strings, but there's one on the 5th string at the 3rd fret. If open is A, then next fret is A#, 2nd fret is B, and third fret is C. Likewise, the open 2nd string is B, so if you move up one fret, you find a C there too.
@DamianSix66 Haha, yeah, well if I had actually demolished the wall I think my house would fall over, but I did indeed get a fancy new background. I still kind of liked the bricks a little though... I guess the jury is still out on that one :-)
