Dude. Your shorts have literally been everything I’ve needed to see to piece together my 15 years of playing hahaha This one minute has transcended my guitar playing immensely.
Start learning the major and minor scales. Start with just one key, learn all 7 notes. This will teach you the chords that belong to that key. Let's take the key of C. The notes are C D E F G A B. For major keys: the 1st, 4th, and fifth chords are major, the 2nd, 3rd, and 6th chords are minor, and the 7th chord is diminished. For minor keys: the 1st, 4th, and 5th chords are minor and the 3rd, 6th, and 7th chords are major. So for the key of C major the chords would be: I - C Major II - D minor III - E minor IV - F Major V - G Major VI - A minor VII - B diminished (don't worry too much about what this means for now, focus on the first 6 chords). --------------------------- Now, you can use these chords to start writing chord progressions. Let's stay in the key of C. One of the most common chord progressions for major keys is I - VI - IV - V. So for the key of C this would be Cmaj - Amin - Fmaj - Gmaj. Once you understand how the chords fit into each key, you can start to understand what he's talking about here: creating melodies which follow the changes of your chosen chord progressions. This stuff can be confusing at first, so start small and take it slow. It's not as hard as it seems at first. Hope this helped!
I approve this message, although I would make it slightly simpler. Major and minor keys are the same thing, just with different featured chords. In my opinion there's no reason to shift the numbering. To sound standard major you simply feature the 1 chord, to sound standard minor you simply feature the 6 chord. In this scenario the numbering stays the same, 1 4 5 are always major, 2 3 6 are always minor, 7 is always diminished. As opposed to saying In a minor key 1 4 5's are minor. This is true, because that's actually just 6 2 3 of the original major key. Within that structure, simply choosing to write music around different chords will yield different sounds, without having to change the numbering. Not saying this method works for everyone, but it definitely makes things easier for me.
I did this for the first time and I can already feel my brain expanding. Many thanks for refreshing my entire outlook on the instrument after so many years
You are an AMAAAZING teacher. This is the forth vid of yours I've come across, and in each one I've noticed you have this gift of showing ways to get over the main hurdles we face as guitar players.
I've been playing guitar since I was 7 years old I'm 41 now and haven't touched the guitar in almost 2 years, this video makes me want to pick one back up.
Brilliant. Edit: just want to say a big THANK YOU. I don't know if it was just the right teaching at the right moment, but this short video taught me all the three note voicings you used (I had never encountered that), and that the E string rooted voicings can work very well adding the open strings (esp in key of A). I also love that the diminished sounds so much more pleasing in the three note form. Finally, these shapes allow for really easy muting of the unused strings. Very cool and thanks again.
Brooo you've been blowing my mind for the past two weeks since i found you. You give immediate audio examples instead of just pasting a fucking notatiom or a tab for people to see when music is about hearing. Blessing to you!
If I ever decide to play guitar again (I lost all motivation, it has happened before) I will use your videos as guidelines for my relearning. Thank you so much.
Ur vids are awesome bro, can't tell u how much I appreciate musicians like yourself that aren't trying to gate keep useful music theory stuff behind a patreon or pay wall ur truly the peoples guitar instructor
I appreciate you sharing this I have been doing this for a few hours and have already seen results. Amazing how something so simple can have such an impact. You got a new subscriber.
Basically yes. For instance, first note I land on is G#. I know that note is the 7th of the Key of A, but I also know it's the 3rd of E major, the 5 chord. So by noticing this connection I now know the 7th of every key is the 3rd of that key's 5 chord, always. So I'll navigate the fretboard, finding connections like these, memorizing the ones I find most valuable, and commit them to my playing. In the demonstration, I'm mostly landing on 3rds of each chord just to keep it simple and working with the 1-5-3 shapes I'm using. At the end however I expand a bit out of that.
Wonderful exercise. I’ve been doing this for about a year and it’s been the most helpful in connecting chords w/ melodies; more so than any other exercise I’ve come across thus far.
Very nice and intelligent system. Ingenious. Perhaps the best sounding progression. Its open to improvisation and innovation. After countless years, finalky something i feel comfortable with and is so musical. I am 68. Where were you 55 years ago
I watched the breakdown video, it cleared a lot of stuff up that I’ve been a bit foggy about for the last 20 years. I had figured it out mostly but really didn’t know how it worked. This will be part of my daily exercise now. Thanks for the great explanation.
I wish I had this wrote down 😕 after 20years of playin guitar I know, knowing this will stop me being "stuck".. it's like the key iv been waiting to see . Great lesson man, you have an awesome way of explaining this so clearly, big shout out from Ireland 🤙🏼🍀
This guy is really helpful for some reason. My brain works that way I guess I just started watching his Contin couple weeks ago and it’s opened a couple really interesting doors for me like literally my band mates have been like that doesn’t sound like your usual stuff that you’re right not in a negative way but more like they were saying that I have expanded some of my playing. Very helpful dude I bet he fucking rips. I have yet to see him play live or anything but you can tell this dude probably kills it.
His playing/writing is great, I rocked a bunch of LAGQ back in the day. In reality, "classical" music theory is no different as the stuff we use today. All of the chord progressions and movements, Melody tendencies, passing tones, chord voicings, everything that you've ever heard in the past hundred years has been done a hundred years before that (and some concepts even a hundred years before that). The only difference are the tones and the general arrangement are wildly different than they were back then (distorted guitars and synth and whatnot).
Man I love the information you are providing but I wish these were regular videos or that I could save shorts to a playlist so I could come back at practice time and try these
If you go to my channel, I have all of these shorts organized into playlists. If you play the videos through the playlists, they'll open up like normal RU-vid videos and you'll have all the normal controls.
