If you're struggling with "guitar theory"... WATCH THIS!!! 

If you liked this video, you should definitely stop by to my little corner of the internet called "Zombie Guitar": www.zombieguitar.com . You will love it!!

The best guitar teacher - period. I’m a subscriber to Brian’s online course and this has taken me from the pentatonic player to understanding how it all connects -- A no brainer recommendation…..

When this dude made a video explaining the CAGED system and I actually understood it afterwards, I signed up for his course. Yeah, if you're on a budget, you may second guess buying it. However, if you're learning on your own, it really is a bargain with all of the information and material he provides and it's a lifetime membership. I found it's worth it.

What annoys me the most is that it's taken me 30 years for so many light 💡s to go on........all thanks to you Brian. Where were you when I first picked up a guitar. Another great lesson, another light bulb I my head and it's finally coming together. Thanks so much as always Brian!! :)

Brian, as a professional educator myself, it doesn’t matter what you teach, it matters what they learn. If they are not learning, you, the instructor, needs to change something so they do get it. Just reinforcing what you have already taught does necessarily ensure student learning. You are thorough and we appreciate it!

Thanks Brian. Lonely solo learner here. you're a gem 💎🎸🤘🇬🇧

My mind is absolutely blown away by this. I’m relatively new to playing (less than a year). But this puts so many things into a good perspective for me because now I can structure my practice a little better.

This kind of clarity that you provide is so unique and so profound. For a guitar student this is life changing. Thanks for giving so much.

Excellent as usual Brian keep on going Thks for all

AWESOME LESSON!! A good teacher explains the complicated in the simplest way. CRYSTAL CLEAR. THANK YOU 😊🙏😊

I didn’t know anything about modes but you’ve really clarified it for Brian. That was well explained. Thanks for sharing.

Great lesson. Tied everything together. Thank you!

Someone already said it but I'll say it again. Best instructor in RU-vid regarding this subject. I learned a lot from this channel. Thanks Brian

Thanks Brian for a clear explanation - you have a knack of simplifying what seems (is) complex - I am beginning to depend on you for my information more than other youtube teachers!

O found that really made sense, appreciate that you really took the time to demystify , and slay some guitar zombies out there. Double thumbs up. I like your work book it will be really good to have one.

Excellent video Brian!! Thank you.

Brian, this was such a refreshing angle in which to approach modes! Really enjoyed this lesson, thanks again for sharing your wisdom!! :) Cheers from the UK!

From one Brian to another: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You cleared up years of confusion. You have a gift for teaching. Thank you for spreading your knowledge! Cheers!

awsome lesson brian thanks for taking the time for this video

You still the man! Thanks again, Brian. It helped -a lot.

Top shelf information Brian. I dont listen to anyone else, and it makes learning so much clearer...

This is great, very informative. I new some of the progressions but you made it much more easier to understand. Thank you. Keep up these tutorials.👍🎸

Another well explained lesson from an excellent teacher.

Thank you so much Brian😊 I was keeping the Modes part for later stage after digesting the scales and chords really well. Since I went through this video I got the gist of what the modes are So I will get back to it later. Your explanation is fabulous, you make an excellent instructor 😊 thanks once again! Appreciate your help 😊🙏🏽

Genius! The best far above. Thank you Brian!

Brilliant. Brian is an amazing guitar teacher, explains everything just how you can understand it

Brian you’re a legend. Thanks for all your work man. Such great content

This really is a top lesson, if you study all three segments it will make you a much better player because of the theory, the more theory you know the better player you will become, many thanks Brian.

Another great lesson! Thanks Brian!

As always, clear explanation. Thanks, Brian.

Interesting approach and presentation to three main guitar topics that are indeed thrown around by many with varying degrees of effective explanation(s). I will forever be as i say - "student of all, master of none". Another enjoyable lesson Brian and thank you!

Most understandable leasons on the internet. Thanks.

Super helpful video. It taught me so much.Thanks

This is GOLD!!! Now things are making more sense! Great explanation!!!!

Nearly every one on the web explains modes incorrectly, Brian nails it and makes it clear. Inspirational stuff from a truly gifted teacher. 👍🤠👍

THANK YOU for clarifying modes. Been searching months for an answer

Simple yet intellectual .. Everybody can utilize and relate to this lesson.. Good job 👍..

Great work as usual

Great lesson! Cheers Brian.

Great lesson. Resolidified my knowledge of modes and their usefulness quite well.

An absolutely awesome lesson! I now finally and fully understand modes, ATB from Steve in the UK

You cleared my foggy perspective from scales, chord tone, and modes soloing. Thanks Brian!

Phenomenal lesson, my dude!

This video is really enlightening and clear. I recently signed up to your course and I’m really impressed with your style of teaching and the clarity you provide. Great work Brian!

Great video. Thank you so much!

Great Theory lesson. Spot on.🏅

Thank you. I needed this.

Great stuff definitely explains things in their simplest way

Brother, you are a master at dealing with confusion.

Excellent tutorial. I must say you have the best out there and I’ve been watching a lot. There’s a few that I really like a lot but you’re definitely at the Top! Thank you. I understand so much better

Awesome! Thank you.

Thank you for this video and the others you provide I have been playing for a year and a half now my progress has been great but I hit a wall and got confused exactly like you described it.. I've been looking for an explanation like this since I started playing and finally got it . That was awesome broskie thanks 👍

Nicely explained. I’ve used your free videos so much, I’m going to get on patreon as soon as I figure out what that means.

Nice video. I learned a lot. BTW, beautiful LP Classic!

well this is a great lesson. helped me a lot , a lot of people think i am advanced but i do it by feel and sort of never really feel like I own my good moments. easy steps . key is important . that is where everything starts.

Awesome, I work on these ideas, it's clear I need to work a heck of a lot more, but keep your approach in mind at every move,thank you.

This helps greatly! Now that I totally understand what I need to practice I can get started with confidence. I owe you a cigar man!

Well I watched it and appreciate the struggle you must feel on how many of us are misguided buy misleading information. Thank you for caring and taking the time to help. I'll keep viewing the video until it sinks in.

Awesome thanks!

Brian, your content is awesome…thank you for your clarification!!

Thanks so much for your videos, i think you are one of the best teacher in the tube, i'm from southamerica, my english is far not the best, but anyway i understand your lessons without no problem, learning from you so many things. Thanks a lot. Keep rocking!!

Very good lesson mate, thanks to the RU-vid recommendation 😊, you're a great teacher, cheers... Subscribed!

I signed up. Brian really makes it easy.

Helped me immensely, thanks....

Now I understand. Thank you!

Thank You Brian Kelly!

All my years of blindly learning memorizing 3NPS, CAGED, and other scale shapes and never really knowing what to do with them… This lesson here is the key to better understanding how I can make use of any and all of those shapes. Learning that the modes are defined by the chords… WOW

That was an awesome lesson on scales and modes and chords I am a former musician institutes student and that was a great description on how to use those modes

Great lesson

Thanks for your helpful and informative lessons that would help me improve my guitar skills. Your such a great teacher and your guitar videos are highly appreciated and recommended to everyone learning guitar the right way

Amazing. Thanx

Well done

Awesome BRIAN best explanation ever cheers mate

Thank you sir great lesson , that too free. GBY

Great video

This is a life changer for me thank You god bless U

nice lesson brian, i admitedly know most of this thanks to your other lessons but always good to have a refresher. still saw things in a new way so a very handy lesson mate. i worked out my finances and in approx 4 weeks i will be a fully paid up zombie guitarist! cant wait. love to you and yours as always from the uk! hope youre all doing well!

Now I understand thanks Brian

For guitar music theory yr the best on youtube!!!

Best teacher I have found in RU-vid

You are THE teacher !

Since I put my focus on learning with you Brian my playing has improved a lot. I was following several teachers and just stayed confused so my advice is find a teacher that explains music to where you can understand it and put it to practice, stick with that teacher!! Brian just happens to be that teacher for me. Thanks so much!

As usual, clear, effective, and another light bulb moment. For me, especially modes.

God damn man that blew my mind 🤯

Great information I just signed up as a full member 🇺🇸✊

Just purchased the "Scales, Arpeggios and Modes", looks amazing, a MUST have!

Brian, sincerely, very well done. Thank you, this is a great help. I have been trying to figure out something Brian May said in Star Licks video many years ago "I don't think of scales, I tend to play across chords". I wanted to understand how Brian May's solos always sound so locked in or in keeping with the other parts like the Piano. A few weeks ago I dissected the notes in the Bohemian Rhapsody solo with my guitar teacher and they do fit the chord tones of the Piano chord underneath. James Rundle also did a video for me about this and explained that a solo using just the scale would hit the chord tones 3 in 7 times. Brian seems to increase his chord tone hit rate when soloing by using chord tones and moving to follow each chord. The modes explantion and demontration at the end in part 3 is the best and clearest I have seen. Thank you. I am now off to your website. Best regards, Ian

Great vid Brian 👍 I didn't feel confused in my understanding but I believe that it's always good to revise and confirm that, just in case 😁👍👍. I've learnt thinking that you understand something and actually understanding that something are 2 entirely different things. Also the leap from knowing to putting into practice and making music that's actually good to listen to makes all the difference. So thanks for all of the free lessons that you post, even though you deserve to make a living out of it based on all the work you put into it, unfortunately I cannot afford it yet. P.S; you're right about other youtube guitar channels but you explain the theory in a much better, understandable way and you regularly post as well.

I had a proper eureka moment when you removed modes from scales. Thanks Brian.

Thanks

"The modes are just perspectives of the same key signature". The best explanation I find in the Web.

Fantastic Brian! Thanks! I kept on thinking «it shows that this guy is an engineer». Well structured, to the point, only the essentials. I believe your early years working as an engineer was not a waste of time, but contributed to you becoming a much better musician and instructor. I have been shopping around on the Internet and RU-vid for a good teacher who could help me understand and master the guitar and music production. I believe I have found the person :-) and you have just earned yourself a monthly paying member.

Thanks. Never understood the context of modes before now.

One important aspect of all this is "getting it under you fingers" or knowing it or sometimes memorizing; paying dues so to speak. I know when I learned the major scale (any key...) the length of the fretboard I found/saw... patterns or shapes and thus I use those patterns to play notes from the major scale to find notes for a solo. Worked for me...

best explanation ever

I don't understand how so many people are amazed how clear this made things for them. I'm even more confused now after watching this. Been trying to learn since 2004, no luck. The only thing that ever worked was memorizing songs and their solos, then when I hear something I realize "hey it kinda sounds like that song" and then I know sort of what I can play. Anything else just never worked, best case I play some "scales" or whatever it is up and down and sound horrible, until I get so bored with it that I forget what little I even learned in the first place. Then I end up on a video like this here in hopes it finally happens for me. See you next time.

the Best Guitar Sensei there is... 👍👍

I do understand scales, arpeggios and modes, but I still keep watching this channel because I just enjoy your unending frustration with all the misunderstanding (which I put down to people not getting the difference between patterns on a fretboard and the logic of intervals). Dunno why, just makes me feel like the universe is still in balance👍🤘🙏 (but one thought on modes. ultimately you also want to stress the intervals that define each mode. for example, in Dorian the flat 3 that defines minor and the major 6 that differentiates it from minor/aeolian)

I found that over the years the five pentatonic patterns I was first taught that then turned into the five caged patterns your talking about worked but then when I learned the 7 3nps scales theory became much more clearer but for years could never make them work very well but when I started understanding how the 5 pentatonic patterns in a certain key worked and were in the 7 3nps key things became very clear and totally eliminated the 5 caged scales and now only look at the 7 3nps scales and the 5 pentatonic scales in all keys. The 7 3nps scales and the 5 pentatonic scales seem to create a total different vibe of playing

Kelly sir l like this video also you have kept all video l never miss it becouse of you l have got a lot of idea for solo and improvise thank you sir moreover l hope you will put video using 6 or 3 idea I double stop in you tube