If you want more lessons, sharing this video with your friends, online forums, etc. is a huge help! I also answer every comment on lesson videos. I’ll always do gear videos, but I love to teach guitar as well.
D(r) - A (5) - C# (7) - G(10) played on the A-D-G-B strings on the 5-7-6-8 fret respectively, is one of my favorite sounds, especially when transitioning to the “Hendrix chord” E7#9. It’s just so comfortable on the hands and the sound is such a happy blue and I never hear it anywhere.
Please don't get My comment wrong, this video should be the explanation in between rock discipline by John Petrucci and Melodic Control by Friedman, lol. It's just hard For US man hahaha cheers from Peru.
This is the video that people need, but probably not the one they wanted... If it doesn't do as well as your gear related videos, I hope that doesn't discourage you from doing more like this. I would be interested in more stuff on harmonic progressions.
I just discovered this channel and already, this video has helped clear the confusion of triads and its extensions for me when other videos didn't. Thank you! You explain things in a clear and detailed manner. Subscribed :).
Learnt more about chords in 16 minutes than in many, many hours of watching other channels and in reading "traditional" music theory books. That way you were intimidated by the 12,000 chords book is exactly how I'd feel if presented with it.
There’s the Majors, the Minors, Diminished, major 9ths(extended chords), 7ths, augmented, triads, suspended, Dominant chords,Indetermiate, Predominant, major 3rd flat 5, just, bitonals, and lastly atonals
Also, "You getting carried away" with that section was fantastic to me. To show the rules and simply destroy them all within a few minutes opens our eyes to why we really need to fill in knowledge gaps. Our options will open up tenfold or beyond by understanding the intricacies of the relationships between chords, triads, and their extensions.
Haha the Google search at 2:06 on emptiness is a great subtle joke. Excellent video Andre, your video quality keeps getting better and better; very concise and clear intro to chord theory on guitar. One small tip I learned from video editing courses in college: for text in videos that you want the viewer to read, it should stay on screen for as long as it would take you to calmly read out loud.
I remember buying chord books too.i could never remember them till I learned the theory behind how to make chords.makes it much easier.love this music theory stuff
Love this so much! 🤗 On my part i try to learn jazz and funk through only A major coming from a death metal/core background. This is what we all need, the 12000+ chords comment is great. Chords are just shapes and context, to get the right sound/feel, as far as i’m concerned right now. The major/minor relevance from 7th and upwards was great imo. Thanks a bunch and keep at it!
Great video! Well done! I love those 11 tensions chords, they add this tightening up or freeze like sound to the melody. In Julie’s London’s first album she does a take with Barney Kessel on guitar on the song “No Moon at All” he starts off with just that interval spread such as with with the “3rd and 11th” playing just the two notes, But a nice example of that sound purposed in a song.
I can't believe you didn't mention diaphonic monochromatic philly dill-whomper 9th over 18th polytonic symphonic chords. This channel has definitely gone down hill.
Thank you so much for this video Andre; this has helped me advance my music theory knowledge in ways no other video has. You explained and visualized ideas that just made missing pieces fall in to place so very well. Thank you again.
Sorry for the long comment 😅 I really enjoyed your content and couldn't keep it to myself. Just wow! I had started my music journey with my birthday gift keyboard and had learned theory mainly on the 12 keys. I recently grabbed my dad's old guitar to try and learn it and was discovering chords and resolutions on the 5 strings (cause the high e string was broke😂). I might have watched over a hundred videos on harmony and chords/progressions but I haven't come across a video quite like yours. This is the first video of yours that I watched and I can fairly say that I wanna watch more. The way you introduced chord inversions and how the quality of the chords get more sophisticated as we add extensions was very eye-opening for me. And you telling us that it doesn't necessarily make it more complicated, but, conversly, makes it simpler was spot on. You really seem to know what you're doing and what makes it even more striking is the comments you add and the guidance you provide. Even though I didn't exactly learn a new chord or a cadence or blah blah, I, for sure, am willing to ponder and experiment with my 5 stringed guitar because of the insight you gave me. Thank you for your insightful teaching and keep doing what you're doing. Much love from a graduating high schooler❤
Thank you so much! I really appreciate your comment! I’m going to do a similar video like this on scales and I have lots of other harmony videos coming soon!
I am sooooo grateful this video popped up in suggested vids. Been playing guitar for 30yrs, I’m no slouch, but mostly self-taught, I play these types of chords, but never knew the “mystery” behind the names, especially suspended and diminished. Andre!! Thank you so much! Fantastic content. I’ll be sharing this video with family and friends. My mum leads a local ukulele group, I think this video will give her great insight on how to explain chords to the group. You Rock bro!
Thanks, Fludd! I've struggled a lot with chord theory and got bored using the same basic chords. You have really opened up the chord vocabulary a lot. Thanks again!
I was thinking about getting the Beato bundle. But your course seems more guitar-centric and better for my means. I really like this video. Might have to grab your lifetime course thing soon. Just found your channel, too. You're good at this, man.
This was a great lesson for me ! I’ve been playing for a few years now, self taught, and I play quartet but this just put all the pieces together for me 🤯
Great content. You’re a great teacher because you simplify the mountain of theory for people to visualize so they can learn the rules but then break them when the opportunity arises.
I wish all guitar tutorial videos used a guitar with that fretboard. Thank you! It astounds me how many such videos I see where the guitar has either no fret markings or markings that are difficult to see.
only halfway thru and im already subscribed, liked the video and commenting for the algorithm. more people should see this, it's an excellent explanation. great work 👍🏽
Damn, this is such a huge help. Thank you. Im not even a minute in and everythings clicking for me so much more then it has before. Youre good man. For real.
This is brilliant, and you are the best for sharing this with us. Feel super fortunate to be having this stuff broken down and getting to enjoy the benefits of getting better through learning. Thank you so much!!
Thanks a lot for the insight: "apart from triads, major isn't really major, minor isn't really minor"! It sumed up for me what I visualized a long time ago, but couldn't really figure in a rational way. When I was messing with triads inversions, the little shapes looked liked pieces of 7ths chords that I knew. Well, now you gave me a aforism to remember and apply intentionally. The soft rule is also a good one. Embraces tradition openly.
A very interesting video Andre, albeit at a breakneck speed. I think I'm pretty good on chord theory but there's always something to learn if you keep an open mind. Beautiful sounding guitar you've got there by the way. I think of scales as just guidelines and if all melodies were diatonic, some great songs would never have been written. I like your idea of soft rules.
Great video! And please go deeper into the confusing stuff. That's what I'm here for lol! I often think about sevenths and extensions as stacking triads on various chord tones but I haven't really managed to use that in any appreciable way.
That is certainly a correct way to see things. However, I think it’s much easier to implement on piano just by nature of the instrument vs the guitar. Stacking triads is a great approach for soloing on guitar but not so much playing chords (but again that is just my experience always do what works for you!)
This video is amazing!! I wish it was made earlier while I was accidentally stumbling into figuring it out by myself. Love videos and discussions about theory.
@8:38 i rhink perosnally is how u resolve it, obviously going 11 to 10(M), and then dropping a 4th seems natural or u could take a couple of steps and like sharp the eleventh and so some type of like dim 5 sus to I
The truth about chords and melodies on instruments is no matter how many videos or books you read, if u don't spend enough time with the instruments you might never get to see and understand it... I really think you get to enjoy songs more when you see these patterns... Great lesson 👏👏
As an old guy that pretty much learned to play by ear this information is concise readily available study to give theoretical insight into what I know how to do , but lack the ability to define. I hope that makes sense. Until seeing this short video I have considered that an insurmountable t 11:06 ask. Thanks , I don’t mean to say this is simple as it is complicated but not fragmented information. You have interested me greatly sir.
Damn..I wish you were my guitar teacher. I had one before but I quit going to him after he discouraged me using a chord in a sequence I came up with…I asked him where I can go from that chord and he told me not to play it. It was the opposite of what I wanted…
Man I just strum along to radio rock songs using simplified top of the neck chords using the free version of the Chord U website don't know what the notes are couldn't explain what a key is to a child but this was pretty interesting nonetheless despite it pretty much going over my head.
I would love to read your PhD treatise. Musical note relationships (intervals) are very cultural. Sound is not quantised but intervals are. Note quantisation is the core of musical theory in all cultures.
I liked thinking of the realtive under for the chord, and perhaos whivh function i think i could also think of the superior. I am curuous, how 137, voicings stabalize in their function vs like adding the 5th and how that might be more like lsubversive dominant as the 5 is the relative 7th Also a lil angry that u used a sharl 6 in thr minor 6 chord example for thr fsharp dim minor, hurt my brain for a bit, dorian and other modes eff with my head
Hey Andre, I was wondering if you could ever muster up a talk on Jeff Buckley's guitar playing. Imo he's incredibly overlooked, despite thats where he spent most of his life. His skills are best showcased in his live bootlegs. One that immediately comes to mind is his cover 'the way young lovers do' the one thats titled "AMAZING" here on RU-vid
@@andrefludd thanks for responding. That's weird - maybe something went wrong with your order? I see it in stock on the Strandberg website and a lot on Reverb. My local store had 6 and still have 2 left.
bro thank youuuuu, tryna join jazz band and this is really helpful, the fact that this isn’t the first video that shows when you look up how chords work bugs me
I know i need to watch this video, im a 15 year guitar player and i need to take the next step further.... but i can't man, sorry, will keep at the pentatonics, wish me luck, crazy guitar man.
So if you base your scale in something say far Eastern, is it in a realm to change basic chords? Like toying with flats/sharps. Am i falling into funky jazz stuff?
