INTERVALS explained by GUITAR GENIUS Tom Quayle! 🧠🎸 

Learning these intervallic functions in one octave is exactly the thing to do along with learning Triads and moving around on the neck. Wonderful lesson and very helpful.

This is the single most important concept for getting good at guitar for players that have made it beyond struggling with getting your hands to move right.

I'm not always the biggest fan of Tom's style of playing, sometimes he plays something mind blowingly awesome, but most of the time what he plays is usually pretty neutral for me, BUT his explanation of Intervals is literally THE key concept that took me from floundering around the first Pentatonic scale shape, power chords and the 5 cowboy chords, to actually being able to look at the Guitar and figure out how all the seemingly overwhelming scales and chords in a way that let me get most of them down anywwhere within a few days to a week or 2 of practice. Without Tom Quyale, I wouldn't be the Guitarist I am today, which is still a pretty crap one, but people compliment my playing more than they criticize so I'll take it! XD and for that I say thank you for everything Tom! ❤️

This is like the greatest lesson ever.

Oh my gosh. This is such a better way to approach melodic harmony!

best 12 minutes ive spent on youtube in a very long time..thanks for making us all better.

Nice job Tom, love the way you delivery the message, great teaching!

Tom is a legend.

This is exactly how I've been approaching my understanding of the fretboard over the last several months, and it's insanely useful.

I just got my baritone ukulele and have to learn the fretboard. What a lifesaver.

glad to know all the chord forms ive been learning with roots and function will some day pay off i legit just learned all the 7th in nat minor and was like whaaaaat thats exactly the stuff i like lol love when you think ya have to be super creative then ya just learn some stuff and it clicks and your like sweet

Oh god, how awesome Tom....

Tom Quayle is a master of guitar!

One day the light will come on. Until then I will never know how it is that I can be so smart with everything else and yet so instantly thick when it's music theory time...

Great lesson.

Learn the same melody in diff octaves to learn the fret board. Then do it again and again with other melodies. Have fun learning all!!!

Very interesting approach to studying music...I'm not sure how to start practicing this approach though.

thanks man and you have a really cool guitar

This guy's always exuded intelligence. Big fan of his.

been following Tom for a while and this method is amazing once you understand it. it opens the fretboard so much! Are you going to post the rest of the clinic?

didnt fall a sleep but half way throught I was lost in my thoughts

Nice break down

There's an app called Solo that Tom made for this exact purpose. I use it daily as an exercise, highly recommend to help with visualization of the guitar through intervallic functions!

superb

Part two .please

If you want to develop a deep understanding of the fretboard and start visualizing harmony learn this. Learn it the hard way. Go through all the 11 intervals one by one through all permutations. You will evolve as a player.

Probably more useful if the camera is angled straight on so the frets and fingers are visible. Either that or supplement with some visual. I know - unsolicited suggestion but hopefully something to consider. Thanks much!

Great simple concept. Really useful for playing the changes. Thanks for Sharing.

here i am waiting for a lesson on my favorite band Intervals...

Bruh started dipping his toes into the Mandalorian theme song for a second there.

muchas gracias por la informacion! puedo encontrar este material en idioma español?

Where can we get access to the full video

He is a master in playing but also a grandmaster in tuition!

I'm just going to make a cup of tea.

BEAUTIFUL QUESTION at the end, man asked exactly what I was needing clarification on

I literally fell asleep while watching this 😇

Thank you for sharing. One big stumbling block; did I miss where you said what an interval is? Is a 1 to 2 one fret apart, and so on? Feel like strong understanding of theory is prerequisite. Thanks!

I feel like perfect 4th is more monophonic and standard is polyphonic!

You’re miss a few zeros from the views, this is absolute gold👍👍👍👍

I fell asleep before it ended zZzz

At 2:32 when Tom refers to 4ths Tuning by tuning the top 2 strings higher, is he saying that string 2 (B) should match string 3's fret 5 instead of fret 4 (and similarly for string 1)?

Okay, but the question is in what order should we learn them? Chromatic? R,b2,2,b3,3,4 etc or you do major-minor arpegios? or like in this lesson 1,2,3,4 probably a major scale, and after that learn other intervals? 🤔

Would be helpful to have a view of the fretboard and his fingers as he's explaining this.

ggwp mr quayle

well done

One thing he's missing, is the person learning scales/ intervals, would have to know all the formulas for said scales if he/she would reproduce them based on intervallic knowledge

God guitarist and god teacher. I will be seeking out as much tom quayle lessons as google can provide me.

So I have learned the definition of Intervals and each one like a thousand times, but i have no idea how to use them and I cant find any video that explains, its all just telling me what each interval is and the note gaps

The subtitles could do with a couple of tweaks

Would have been better if the camera angle focused on the notes he was actually playing - it’s a talk about intervals .

ive come a long way on guitar over the last 30 years but just don't understand theory for the life of me absolutely no clue

actually the way that he is explaining it, is more difficult to understand than the way I learned. Most of the time, the 1st and 2nd note are 2 frets apart- whole step. Intervals are not hard to understand- it's just how people explain it

TL;DW use the number system

Serious question: is it Tom-brah? Tambour? I don’t know!

My brain hurts.

Tuned to 4ths on a guitar is awful , works great for a bass bc of single notes . Like he said all chords are gone tho .. don’t tune to 4ths save yourself the headache

Just remember the 5 is never major or minor but always above the root. The 6th note of any major scale is the root of the glorious nasty pentatonic scale that you should know all 5 positions.

great video, bad camera placement

This could have been an e-mail. Guitar frets, 1/2 step. Learn how to count fast and you know all the scales

Why does every "lesson" on musical theory have to be dumbed down for guitarists? Intervals are the basic building blocks for all of music. What do we we get in this? This is a C and two frets up I the next note?

I’m good.

Great guitarist and teacher, shame about the camera angle.

..well, i literally fell asleep after 5 minutes..

With a name like Quayle, is there a Manx connection?

Is there a lesson with tabs? You know, visual...

If you understood any of that then you’re cleverer than I am😂

Genius is a bold claim

ok but how's this gonna help me play that song where is the rest of the video for god sake

who you looking at

Who is the guitar genius?

I would have liked this a little better if I could see his fingers better.

Not sure how this makes it easier to know "all" scales, you still need to have a rote memorization of all the intervals in each scale. The argument there sounds a bit disingenuous.

y cuando tu disco pues tom solo hay enseñanzas nomas no mames jajajaj

I just took 2 melatonin. Is this a promise?

There is an easier way to teach this but it would be less useful in the grand scheme of things. Learn your major scale everywhere and then work relative to the major scale. That way you only have to learn one scale (and its modes or rather its other positions). Then you can work relative to it. i.e. he used dorian as an example, you could look at that as a major scale but moving two notes (the 3rd and 7th notes down a semitone/ fret), although you could also think of it like a major scale where the 2nd is now the root. The only problem that, whilst it will make learning any scale or chord easier you will still need to learn your intervals to improve in any sophisticated way. Invariably you are going to learn both methods eventually *shrugs*.

It's 3:16 in and I still don't know where he's going this. His guitar isn't even in standard tuning. Before anyone says it, It's not that I don't have the attention span to watch the whole thing, it's just that the nature of the RU-vid algorithm, there's millions of basically what amounts to spam videos by so called geniuses. If you really are good, give your audience a reason to stick around.

DO YOU KNOW WE CANT SEE YOUR HANDS?? BE NICE TO SIT IN FRONT OF THE CAMARA!!

Lol remember the guitar grimoire books? Esoteric, overcomplicated, unmemorizable blocks of dogshit. This type of approach is so much better

Great video, horrible captions.

You really can't trust people who sit like this.

If this is aimed at beginners, why does he go on to jazz comping? If it's aimed at advanced players, why is he explaining intervals? Also, why is he teaching using that tuning? This was a train wreck.

what a mess.

*Genius?! Say what?!* Yes, every guitarist ought to learn how to express intervals on two adjacent strings. Thus, R1, m2, M2, m3, M3, P4, A4 / D5, P5, A5 / m6, M6, m7, M7, P8 Yes, every guitarist ought to learn that in nearly all scales, adjacent tones are either Major 2nds (M2) or minor 2nds (m2) most often. Yet, this far easier and deserves the label of genius far before the waste-of-time 12 plus minute video of babbling above. Behold! Nearly all seven tone scales (i.e., hexatonic) fall into two families: Major 3rd (M3) scales and Minor 3rd (m3) scales. All anyone needs to do is learn Ionian, a M3 scale, and Aeolian, a m3 scale, and then derive from either one the rest. Ionian is the natural major scale with these intervals: R1, M2, M3, P4, P5, M6, M7 Mixolydian = Ionian m7 Lydian = Ionian Aug4 Ionian #5 = Ionian Aug5 and so on Aeolian is the natural minor scale with these intervals: R1, M2, m3, P4, P5, m6, m7 Dorian = Aeolian M6 Dorian #4= Aeolian Aug4 M6 or Dorian Aug4 Harmonic minor = Aeolian M7 Phrygian =Aeolian m2 Locrian = Aeolian m2 dim5 G Hungarian = Aeolian Aug 4 or Harmonic minor Aug 4 and so on.

"without falling asleep" ironically they got the most boring guitarist to do this

Guitar genius jaaaajaaa... What a joke!!

this is a horrible way to teach intervals. the Root to the fifth the ROOT to the maj and mnor 3rd the ROOT To flat seven.... the octive..... In that order. the 2 as you call it, the snd degree os the scale,Its better to visual this way because if you now where your root your 3rd and your 6th are is i say to wheres the 4, will its betweem the 3rd and the 5th as opposed to having to look at it in a linear fashion

You have a buzz in your frets

Genius

😳? I don't get it! Wished I had time to pay attention. Wished. RU-vid was saying when I had 8rs a day to play as a youth! FREE GREAT LESSONS FROM THE ABSOLUTE BEST! FREE!