Chord Progression Gold Mine! 

I’ve been playing guitar for shoot…. 40 years now…. And this is one of the best things I’ve ever worked through on guitar…. I took this Corp. progression and I ran it through all 12 keys over a period of about two months. Running the triad all over the neck and then practice soloing all over the neck and I honestly can say this transformed my guitar playing not only from a neck awareness and visualization perspective, but also my ear started thinking ahead and hearing Melanie notes before I played them…. Thank you for this Guthrie…. anyone who reads this take two months of your life and do what I did. It will change you as a musician forever.

That c shape triad explanation just blew my tiny mind

Your perspective is always interesting. Thanks again Guthrie. Much respect...

I heard Guthrie demonstrate that same progression a while back when Brett Papa interviewed him. Been practicing and playing it ever since. It is indeed a gold mine.

Great exercise. Thanks Guthrie.

Guthrie…you are a gold mine! I enjoyed your previous lesson on this progression but this takes it to another level. Thanks for making us all better guitar players!!! -Rich

Another fantastic lesson. Thank you for being so generous.

Yet again, you're pressing on such a good point, Guthrie. Thank you. I think so many of us learned 'chords' as an entity unto themselves, never registering that the exact same notes of the chord/triad, are what makes lead and soloing possible, never mind, imaginative rhythm playing. It's all the same cake as you mentioned. Only seeing 'chords', shortchanges the value of the notes that comprise the chord, especially where intervallic playing possibilities are concerned. When we know chords and triads, and especially, when we know them all over the neck, that's when scales, arpeggios, and intervals can begin to make so much more sense. Their point of origin -- literally starts to fall under our fingers -- from what we once saw strictly as 'chord or triad' shapes. It's how we choose to connect the dots (notes of the chord/triad) that expands 'playing chords', into roadmaps for soloing and chord leading. It's a beautiful eureka, when we can both see, and hear, this truth. Peace always, Guthrie.

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this is not the first time I have learned this progression from you GT. This time I got a little more into how it all works and retained a bit more on maybe trying to to solo over it some day. I wanted you to know however that when I learned it the first time I used it to write a song and that song turned out to be a crowd pleasing one. I can now tell my band to go to the dominant 7 chord passing to the minor 6 which I could not do before just now. It's true that I get lost a lot when I watch your vid's because you move thru things pretty fast but I always take away something useful. I have been a professional musician for almost 50 year now and I wish I would have had RU-vid and instructors like you back when I started. Thanks for sharing your talents and have a great 2024!

the Ab was almost the same sound as the train horn, you are a hoot man, thanks for the lesson

Noodling is essential for exploration of what is possible, training your ear, dialing in your tone, touch, gear, and combining what you already know, with what you’re learning/practicing. Noodle on GT! If you want less noodling, buy a course. Worth every penny and a bag of chips! Appreciate you GT! Happy new year everyone!

Your lessons are so inspiring!! I can't wait to grab my guitar and jump in!! Thanks again!!

Thanks.

Great stuff and your guitar sounds great. Cheers, James.

You played this progression in a video a couple years ago. At the time, I was learning triads. This was a great progression to practice triads. I ended up writing a song using the progression. It was a great learing experience for me. Thank you, Guthrie.

Killer lesson Guthrie!!

THIS! This is exercise/chord progression that got me to finally (FINALLY!) understand the fretboard. I was lucky to have a long lesson with Guthrie in Nashville and we spent probably a full hour on this chord progression. And it made a big difference. And it’s the Ab7 chord that forces you to acknowledge the chords and not just noodle. If you don’t pay homage to the Ab7, everyone listening will know you ain’t got it down. Love this. Thanks Guthrie!

oooo nice close groupings love that! It takes a while for this stuff to stick but it really helps - stick with it. Thanks GT this has been a massive help to my playing. Get your trio over to the UK!!!😍

Thank you!🍻

Solid gold ❤🙏

This is just awesome and clearly explained. Thank you!

Slash said "who am I , I ain't nobody but I was willing to put the work into it ". ... I say work is fun if you enjoy it.

Good man 👍🏿

Cool dude. Subbed. I have been teaching guitar going on 34 years. The thing I most often say to my students is 'it's all the same thing' and you will be thankful once you get it. 6:00

Damn. Thats called fretboard fluency.

Thanks for the great content!!!

Hey mate, for a second I thought you were gonna take me to the dock of the bay... (Thanx for a nifty prog) Cheerios

This is awesome. I'm already adding it. Can always improve but this came along for me at the right time. Thanks Cousin GT. Also at about 10 minutes that stuff was too cool.

Subscribed! thanks for taking the time to do this! Really nice lesson 👏. Thanks from Maine! Jake

What a great exercises. So fun to play. The progression never gets boring when you have so many ways to play it.

Your iPhone records guitar sound extremely well. Good stuff.

Such gold.. have this on loop and seeing progress each day. Thanks GT!

Sounds great

Love these lessons

Wait, no hat with the tux?? 🤣 Thx for another awesome video.

i rally like you guitarplaying welcome to sweden billy

Love your content Guthrie...maybe a small clip on mic for your shirt would help your voice audio.

14:55 “That’s a lot a bullshit that I’m playing…” to which I have to totally disagree with you on Good Sir! I hope I can pull off even half of what’s going on in this lesson. I’m gonna add this to my daily practice schedule… Thank You Soooo Much For Sharing! You are making a difference in my playing… 🎸🔊🎶🤘✌️❤️🤟

I ❤❤❤ to sound of trains. I miss TN time. I hang on Lookout Mountain

"I'm Just An Old Chunk of Coal"

Great lesson bud

Hey everyone, if you’re into this then I highly recommend checking out Guthries more personalized lessons. I had a one on one Zoom meeting with him in December 2022 and it’s amazing how much he can pack into an hour. You get the recorded lesson to reference from for ever. Do yourself a favor!✌️ Kris

Superb job as always. how about a lesson on only bare bones arPeggios?

Man, great lesson and amazing playing. Really tasty stuff. Thank you so much!! Could you say, what is the speaker in this beautiful Princeton? Thanks a lot!!

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It would be helpful to have the shapes marked on a guitar fretboard paper/pdf to be able to see it easier IMO.

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GT at 08:30 I can't believe I did that!

JAMES SCOTT NICHOLSON,ONTARIO, CANADA 🇨🇦 GREAT LESSON. PLEASE READ PINNED COMMENTS.♥️♥️✌️🙏🌎☮️🙏👍🎸

Rhode Island is neither a road nor an island. Discuss.

"I don't practice Santeria..."

Guthrie, you are something special Buddy. I agree with alexeagle9966. He nailed it. Thanks so much Brother. You are making a difference in our world. God bless

Guthrie, thank you for your generosity, sincerity, humility, and passion for just playing good music. I know you have so much going on and so am always grateful that you take the time to sit down with us and share your brilliance. Thanks, man!

Can't wait for the record release of the album with Tom Bucovac! when is that coming out ? Is there going to be a tour with the release? Thanks G man , Love everything you do!

if you can't hang dont watch...and for sure dont post shitty comments about his teaching style. Dude is a pro and just on another level than 99% of players out there. Guthrie thanks for putting this stuff out there - love it.

Took Guthrie’s course on Artistworks, for a year, and learned ALOT. The major sticking point for me is I need to learn the caged system, after that, will be signing up for another year.

I've been watching your channel for years and thoroughly enjoy it. This chord progression is something you’ve played in the past and it caught my ear big time. I practice it quasi-religiously and am currently working on the triads with some single note stuff and diads tossed in. "Gold" as you've labeled it is totally accurate. Side note...coffee is expensive and I also try to finish every bit. Just sayin'.

I have been avidly following GT since the first Brett Papa video that I was introduced to him, and it took me a year or two to realize that if I want to understand his improv, I had to learn what he said to learn....knowing the chord shapes of CAGED is only the basic foundation, you have to dive into the arpeggios found in the shape, triads/pentatonics/major scale....but if you havent really studied triads and the major scale the way you should alot of info will fly over your head. Once you dive into those topics as well as relative minors....it all starts to make sense, It just doesnt happen all at once from a free video or three....I would love to afford some one on ones with Guthrie, but im good at taking what I get and knowing what I need to learn, and I use GT videos to that extent....and now im still just intermediate, because the more you learn, the more you realize you dont know. Guthrie has taught me so much in the last 4 or so years, and I havent been able to pay for it, but hopefully I will some day

Simple guitar math - the secondary dominant is a dominant chord build off the fifth of whatever chord you want to lead to.

Ricky lake is diggin this lesson. Very mucho is am enjoying playing this progression. Lots of places to go. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4UtEzWiB-mk.html Sadly, we , me us must steal this and make a real live musical moment that will live on in infamy and verve. Lots of verve. 🎉 Seriously folkes, prolly the 20th viewing of this particular video and I can tell my chops have improved. I am grabbin the chords faster and my fangerin has gotten tighter. Way cool stuff. Already looped the progression and having fun with the ideas. . Thanks guts. Love ya, mean it. Here is a bit of what got stolen from yer masterclass lesson. I like this lesson vid and will be back many times til I can learn as much as I am able to get. I made this up from what I gleaned from yer lesson ..

Just in case anyone is wondering, a secondary dominant is a dominant chord of the next chord. Ab7 is the dominant chord in Cm. It sounds good because the dominant chord (the V chord) always leads your ear back to the I chord. Another example is E7 to A. In the key of A, E7 is the dominant, or the V chord. You can do this for any chord, just insert the V of the next chord you’re going to play before it and you’re in business.

Keeps me searching for a heart of gold...and I'm getting old. Cheers Guthrie!

Brilliant lesson Guthrie. Thanks for all these it slowly opens up the fretboard for me. :) By the way what are you playing through in this video. It sounds killer. (as always)

That was awesome man. I only wish you might have did some improv over the chords as they were playing. Its always awesome watching you go.

Do learn those terms and how to utilize them ( also tritone substitution) advanced my playing beyond belief.

Try dog tag cafe coffee. Best coffee I’ve had. A veteran here in West Virginia makes it. 😊

There is more info/knowledge in this video that in whole other RU-vid channels straight

When is the Uncle Larry record coming out already?

I relate to being with good folks. No bullshit served here.

I love everything about the way you explain this stuff … happy new year to you all … gold again Guthrie… all the best to you in the new year ❤

Hey Guthrie don't change a thing. You're a great human being and I love getting caught up on your life. Most of us get it. If you want to learn the details sign up for some lessons. Keep the faith and don't stop doing what you do.

Man… I am so grateful that you take the time to share and show us stuff. I have learned so many useful things. Endless…Thank U’s 😊

I greatly appreciate all your content, Guthrie. One thing I think never gets stressed enough for all of us watching these videos is the very simple fact that you need to spend a LOT of time with your guitar if you really want to improve. Most of us are busy with families and just trying to get by in this cruel world, but a person just has to carve out the time and commit to it. I’m trying to put that into practice in this new year. Say “hi” to Billy!😎

So much ear training in this.

Great video. The chords are the foundation of any song. Building solos off the chords helps to tie the solo to the song. This exercise will also help tune your ears. Hear notes that you didn’t hear before. 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

Guthrie, thank you for this, it is extremely insightful. As someone who often gets paralyzed trying to understand every aspect of the music I am hearing or playing, I really appreciate the “don’t worry about it” approach. Although you clearly deeply understand what you are doing. I am curious, when you are working through these changes, you are using the non-diatonic chord tones to construct some really beautiful scales. Are you arriving at those primarily by visual fretboard reference or ear? It is really incredible.

Love your content brother

Great progression❤ like Jimi Hendrix, Little Wing❤ I call this one Guthrie Trapp[ big chicken wing]

Your amazing guthrie just playing in a other level i learn so much thanks greatings from Thailand rock band blasting in club next door. Sitting in a small room Practicing

Great mini lesson. Your ear and improvisation is off the charts!

This is an awesome lesson Guthrie and I appreciate you sharing with us. I understand the chord progression, but how can I learn the triads and how to outline the chords using the target notes ?

Coffee is supposed to taste better cold. 🤔 Oh, you're a bloody good player by the way. Class.

Guthrie over here just giving it all away. So much amazing information in every one of his videos.

I have to say your play on the piece made me imagine Andres Segovia rolling in his grave wanting to jump out of there and dance. You speak at least to me, with a big YES. Inner confirmation of truth.. I will be following you. I sorta found you thru Lance Lopez. We have a history and he is a good guy truth teller also. I wish continued success.

You are the best

Such a wonderful lesson! So clear. I finally understand what secondary dominant means and how applied. Great service to all of us guitar learners.

I love this progression. I play it all the time .must have learned it from you awhile ago,lol.but it is great, to practice improvising over.

I still dont get how you hear this stuff so fast without thinking about it, but I persevere lol

Frank Vignola has TrueFire lessons showing how to do comping rhythms on just the 3rd and 4th strings with complex chords changing a lot. Remarkable how much the ear hears the chords change with only two notes. Guthrie is showing a variation on this.

One thing I learn from GT's videos is patience. Sometimes I think I should watch a 25 minute video with a lot of information and grasp it and apply it immediately. This is funny since I've been playing 35 years and it has taken 20,000 hours to get where I am today as a player. My advice is take a 5 minute "chunk" of material and focus on it for 20 minutes. Then move on to something else like learning a song you've wanted to learn. I've found if I spend too long on one thing I get distracted, bored, and I don't retain what I've learned. Thanks Guthrie. I'm a better player today because of your RU-vid stuff and the 2 courses I've purchased.

This lesson is guitar gold!!! Thank you sir for what you do.

I talked to you before a concert with John Oats in Texas. We would love to hear you again in Nashville in April or May. Where can we hear you? Best wishes 2024.

Doing great! Nobody quite like this on YT. Grow this channel & us with it.

I wouldn’t mind hearing the 4 chord (A major) go to Am in this as well. But this is a great progression for sure. Thanks G!

This chord progression has opened my eyes and ears to a whole new world of possibilities. Having such a killer progression to drill triads and chord shapes has literally changed my approach and in the past few weeks I’ve seen and hear my playing mature and begin to sound so much more composed. Thank you Guthrie for helping me see the light!

Been watching mr. Trap since since he went on with Brett papa/ Marty , he is usually way to advanced for myself, but this video breaks it down like no other , when of his best instructional vids, although just sitting back and watching him noodle is awesome too!!!

Super helpful content. Thanks

Your microphone is sick! The guitar sounds perfect, your voice comes through great, and the train sounds like it's right outside my house.