Jam Lesson 3 with Danish Pete - Captain Lee Makes a Breakthrough! 

Phil Smith I know the feeling.

Hej hej... :)

My Analog Corner I believe most of them stay in one key. It works like this: every major key has a relative minor key that has all the same notes in it. For example, E major has a relative minor key of c# minor. If a song is in E major, you can play E major or C# minor over it and all the notes will work. You can find a major key’s relative minor key by taking the root note (E for example) and moving down three frets. If a song is in C major, moving down three frets gives you an A, so C major = A minor. Also, if a song is in E minor, you can move UP three frets to find the relative major. Therefore E minor = G major. Hope this helps! 😊

Ok, thank you for explaining it to me 😊

Furthermore, every key has an associated set of major and minor 3-note "triad" chords (plus a diminished) that are associated with it. For instance, in the key of E major, you can use the following chords: E, F#m, G#m, A, B, C#m D# dim These chords are all constructed from the notes of the major scale. This pattern of major, minor, minor, major, major, minor, diminished occurs in every key, and a song can chose any of these basic chords (there are other basic chords that can be used, but these are the main ones). A song written only using the major chords (for instance, E, A and B) will have a solidly major feel. A song written with only minor chords (for instance, C#m, F#m, G#m) will have a solidly minor feel. A song written with a mixture of major and minor chords (for instance E, G#m, A, B) will subtly swing between major and minor. If you play the notes of the major scale over these chords, the "feel" will move between major and minor depending on which chord is being played. You can largely play any notes in the major scale over these chords, but some notes will sound better over certain chords. The "relative minor" thing is useful to understand. Every major key has a related minor key which uses exactly the same notes (and has exactly the same basic chords), but the "tonal centre" is different: different notes in the scale are emphasised. Again this related to the chords that are being played. The relative minor key of E major is C# minor. If you look at the minor example chords I mentioned above (C#m, F#m, G#m) these are more accurately in the key of C#m than E major. How do you know if the key is E major or C#m if it uses both major and minor chords? In some cases it's not always clear, but in most case it's where the song "resolves" to, which tends to be where it starts and finishes. Either way you can play the same notes over it, but to sound "right" you need to target different notes in the scale. There is some theory behind which these target notes are, but I think it's best to learn from experience: for instance, use E major and C#m backing tracks, listen for the chord changes and understand whether it's a major or minor chord being played and experiment with notes in the E major and C#m scales. You can also use E major and C# minor pentatonics in a similar way, as these are just the normal major/minor scales with a couple of notes removed.

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Sven Broos good man

Pentatonics are the same - not the E major and Db minor (C#) full major and minor scales. This video is soooo unclear.

ckjjclan same here, my friend. Good stuff

AlienFermentationLab sweep picking on this back track would be silly

Alcsbiker it's all relative... except gravity, that's a lie

Its always sexytime..... :)

haha... tree.. four..

Peter Honoré Not all can be so blessed.

yeah me too....doesn't make sense!

NightwishLover oopsie, I basically commented the same as You.

Just proves we're both rather sad!!!

Scott Card Was thinking exact same thing.

C# and Db are the same note

Yes and no. They sound the same. But if you're in the key of E, you would refer to the note as C# as there are no flat notes in Key of E (only sharps). Just as in the key of F you would have a Bb, not an A# (as those notes are also the same). As Scott mentioned above they are enharmonic. It may seem like nitpicking but when talking basic music theory it's important to get it right to avoid confusion.

And your post clears up all that confusion. And Brits think we Yanks have no sense of sarcasm...

All the thumbs for that C#, Just how I thought of it

filnn thanks for the explanation 👍

monstercrx Pleasure :) Hope it makes sense. It's sometimes hard to explain things in comments.

Exactly! Watching these (confusing) videos will make you question everything you thought you knew!

Williethekid Productions I think it belongs to Rob

It's always a long night Chris... :)

He certainly does...

He's working with the major pentatonic... something I've been waiting for :)

Well then I believe your on a journey that's going too make you a terrific guitarist and musician :-)

As a self taught player I can't disagree. I ended up messing my left wrist (tendon damage and such) so basically needed to relearn playing. Ended up shifting my focus to theory as I recouped. Now I deal with having a theory level well over what I physically can do now haha

If you hit a wrong note, BEND IT

Yeah baby...

It's not cheesy or stupid at all man, I'd be happy as well.

How can you hear music with no head?