You just randomly stumbling into a Drive like Jehu riff while giving the most concise explanation of 7th chords I've heard is exatly why this is the best guitar channel on RU-vid !
While I was familiar with the material already, I’ll show up for whatever Eric has to offer. Saying this as a high compliment, dude is truly the Bob Ross of guitar. 🤘
understanding intervals is the most important music theory lesson out there. it helps with modes, chord progressions, arpeggios, tension/release, etc. just all around the FIRST thing everyone (right after the 12 notes of course lol) should learn
Man, I already know all this information (I'm a guitar teacher myself) yet I still thoroughly enjoy watching you teach it; you somehow manage to deliver information in a way that is unbelievably friendly, welcoming, and concise.
I remember when I learned your standard blues wasn’t diatonic my mind was blown 😅 your dominant 4 chord is why that pentatonic noodling often sounds like dookie! Was the very thing that made modes make sense when I realized it comes from Mixolydian
Caveman level of understanding is exactly my speed. Never could wrap my brain around this stuff when I was a kid, but you make it all easy. Your videos have been a real education to me. Much appreciated!
What's better than a major 7th chord? A major 7th chord resolving to another major 7th chord a half-step below! Ugh, that tritone substitution beauty or whatever the jazz cats call it. The major 7th really is a strong tool on every writer's arsenal.
Your way at teachings awesome I like when you look into simplicity because from simplicity comes come consistency and that's what I look for for. Just cause something's complicated or grab doesn't mean it's great. You definitely have the right approach for many arts.
When I heard the first few notes of your cool soul sound - I thought "Starman" Love it. I would love to create those alternate versions. Thank you for the lesson and a great spin in a great song.
Excellent video, Eric! I try and watch lessons of all skill variety because there's almost always something to be learned. Intervals really seemed to click for me from this one, on top of the great lesson on 7ths themselves.
This is so brilliant, for me one of your best to date. I just love the texture of these chords and I'll be working on how to apply them with taste for a good long while. Every permutation suggesting a different melody. So powerful. No doubt there'll be more brain meltingly good shenanigans afoot in the weeks to come.
that is a great tip. just yesterday i had an exercise that goes from amin7 at the 5th position to cmaj7 at the 8th. and i couldn't make the switch. now if i think of it as a e min, may be...
Also, protip for learning the diatonic voicings for any chord quality, the green day song basket case is built on the pachelbel’s canon chord progression. It has a root on every note in the key except 7 & 2. So you can play all the chords in the verse and hit every diatonic chord quality without playing the same chord shape twice in a row. Then sub the minor 7b5 for the V7 chord & the II min7 for the IV maj 7 every other verse, and you have them all.
Just spent an hour on this lesson, then another hour coming up with a cool jazzy funk chord progression that I'm excited to show off to Eric in my lesson with him on Monday. I am a far better guitarist for learning from him for years. Patreon'd.
In a future video it would be helpful to discuss when you might want to use other color tones like a 6th or 9th versus 7th. Just a thought and suggestion. Thanks!
Drive Like Jehu reference 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻 Love your educational style, would absolutely love a similar approach for post-hardcore. Give it the Haugen treatment!
thanks. i made the mistake of throwing around 7th intervals that weren't diatonic. sometimes it sounds cool, but i am enjoying doing the work of harmonizing with diatonic intervals
Great video. I’m not an expert on this, but I think it’s potentially confusing to refer to the 7th in a minor 7th chord as a “flat 7” (video, at 8:11). I think it should be referred to as a minor 7th. It’s not a flat 7 because it’s the actual 7th note in the minor scale. Shouldn’t be confused with a real flat 7, such as the flat 7 in a dominant 7th chord, where the 7th note of the scale is actually flattened by a semitone to make the chord. (Correct me if I’m wrong!)
I thought I loved 7th chords until today... I didn't even finish the video! My whole thing is you totally went beyond my ability. I was kinda hanging in until you brought up the CAGED shapes. I'll come back and love this video in a few months.
Drop 2 maj.7 voicings... I'm having trauma flashbacks to standing in front of Jon Finn & Joe Stump sweating through my first semester proficiency nervously twisting my fingers into that awful min7b5 with the root on 6 that nobody ever actually plays. 😅
Aaaaaaaaack balancing equations! Quite often I hit limits of my intelligence. Anything too mathy or jargony and I start to feel like Ralph Wiggum from the Simpsons.
Major 7ths were called Holiday Inn chords back in the day. Because what a metaphor of sad dissonance to be hanging out drinking at your local Holiday Inn lounge while listening to a mediocre cover band play 70's soft rock ballads. lol.
At 11:50 Eric shows that you just have to move the 7th chord shapes around. So for the Cmaj7 at the 5th string, 3rd fret, you'd use either of the C or A shapes he is showing there for Gmaj7. Hope that answers your question!
i know, i was commenting about the start of the video where he mentions the 7th chords that are in G major scale, he omits Cmaj7. this omission will confuse people who are learning.
I was kind of hoping that jazz for rockers would be about jazz as opposed to diatonic harmony. While understanding harmony makes perfect sense regardless of the type of music you intend to play, jazz presumes a certain harmonic sophistication. I think a student who needs to be introduced to diatonic harmony is a long way away from comprehending and playing jazz. My 2¢.
alternatively, just be a space rock stoner metal guy like me and when Eric teaches you an F#m7b5 chord, all you have to do is throw a ton of delay and a flanger on it and play it to some slow drums and now you have a whole song
