Be a champion and start rooting your chords on the A string. 9 different voicing that can be applied on 12 different notes, it all adds up to 108 chords my friends.
wow man..... you could be the best teacher ever....... for next time...... include some suspended, diminished, augmented chords please...... (jazzy chords....)
Dude, you are the man!!! I love how you "quickly" go thru these videos and cut out all that extra yada yada yada explaining crap that most of us already know and puts us to sleep lol. I love your teaching style and I have learned a ton from watching this video and your other one with the chords rooted on the E string. Thanks so much!!!
+Vince Gibbs Thanks for the kind words my man. Yeah I definitely make a point of zooming through the nonsense and trying to get to the helpful stuff. Thanks for watching and let me know if you have any questions or video ideas!
Man I just love you. You saved me hours of practice and experiment!!! I love this kind of teaching style, you give the whole thing in a classified manner which is can be easily adjusted to any fret. I honestly hate learning separate shapes for different chords.
This an the other video on the E string root helped me so much after years and years of trying to figure it out and countless videos, people trying to explain it this finally makes sense! Thank you so much man! :)
Great lesson! Thanks a lot Sean. You are a great teacher and I always take something away from you. I like how you always drive home about why it's important to learn the scales to help with music chords and theory. Ive been playing an very long time and I've been stuck on a plateau and you've helped me tremendously. Keep rocking and much success to you buddy hope you reach several million subscribers
yes the major or minor are important, they resonate in the same way as III vs iii. The complexity of tonality is forever fascinating. also thanks for these simple bar chord trix.
Hands down the best explanations on chord theory on the 'Net. Wish I had found your site earlier! 2017 will be the take-off I have been looking for... thanks Sean!
Your instructional videos are superb! They are very clear and concise, allowing guitarists who are new experienced to follow along and add to their knowledge of musical theory. After viewing a few of your videos I have learned much. Keep up the good work!
MAJOR CHORDS: 1:30 Major Chord 2:08 Major 7th Chord 2:36 Dominant 7th Chord 2:58 Major 9th Chord 3:40 Dominant 9th Chord MINOR CHORDS: 4:26 Minor Chord 4:44 Minor 7th Chord 4:59 Minor 9th Chord 5:43 Minor7b5
All of these videos are SUPER helpful. For a lefty who likes to visualize the chord shapes, you really nailed it! I'm slowly watching all of these as a mini series. I'm surprised you don't have more hits than this, man! Plus the jokes in between, great stuff! :D
I'm so thankful that Guitar Player magazine published your videos in the newsletter. I've been so frustrated trying to learn from books (they're really boring and the relationship to other chords isn't obvious). Your explanations are amazingly clear as is your speaking voice. I can't wait to get into all your postings and just maybe this old guy can actually have some fun while learning something. Thank you Sean.
Bro you’ve saved me … I’ve been on guitar 5 months an was on the verge of giving up because I spent countless time on RU-vid looking for the formula an thank u jesuuus came across your video
The most educational chord video ever!!! I mean I'm tired of all the jackasses that are like ,,Here is like C, E, Em and Am. Now go nuts... You have ALL you need.'' Thanks man... keep up the good work :D
After watcing these 2 learn 100 chords videos I was actually suprised that I found all these chords on my own.I mainly play bass and when I was starting out I fed myself with a lot of music theory,almost too much for such an early stage of playing.So when I started messing around on guitar it was really easy to apply all that knowledge and it is actually astonishing how this basic music theory knowledge can improve a player's vision of the instrument.
Damn, you are good man, thank you very much. Now it all makes sense. I just gotta learn the major scale rooted on the A string. It'll take me like 5 minutes to find a chord but at least I can find anything I want.
imagine, I just speend 8min to know the chord, and an hour to nail down all the 100 chords, now imagine, 1 day 100 chords, which will took me a month to learn without finding this videos.
Hi thank you for all these amazing content, I would like to ask do we mute the strings which are not needed when we play the chord voicing without barring them? Or is it okay to play them as well? Thank u so muchhhhh
You rock man! now could you do 100 chords shapes rooted on the D string. I see alot of guitar demos on youtube and a ton of really great players seem to have these high register cheat chords that always sound great and are also move able! keep rocking. when does your album get release. Digging your original music.
Great idea! I think I'll try and do the D string video in the next week or two. Thanks for checking out the music! I'm planning on putting the album up on the 1st of the year but might drop another track or two in the meantime. Stay tuned :)
because no one make a vedio on RU-vid how use chord in song or how to find out chord of a song. and your teaching way is awesome. hope sir your will hope us
I don't know who presses the no button but I would like to see them do it - I like this - and I know these cords but you teach well! I would enjoy seeing you go just slightly into theory to explain why there are no 8th or 10th chords etc., -
Hey Sean! or anybody really. does anyone have a huge picture for all these chords (e root, a root, d root) because I love this lesson and just like to have it in front of me. love the videos hands down fav teacher.
Oh my gosh. I just realized. If you play a major down the neck of the E string you're barring an e chord and if you play majors on the A string you're barring an A chord. MIND BLOWN.
I have a problem with playing lead guitar. Suppose a song is being played in E minor scale, I play solos in the conventional E minor pentatonic scale with the root note on the low E string. I do know that there are the same roots all over the neck and I see many players playing the scale all over the board. I'm restricted to play only in the conventional scale and I'm afraid to go beyond the scale. I'm afraid that I might hit a wrong note. Could you make a video explaining how to connect all the dots to play a certain scale all over the fret board? Would really appreciate it.
Hey there, I'm actually relatively new to guitar however stumbled upon the answer to this in my first week or two before I knew much of anything. if you find the fret board positions for the respective key it will show you the notes you can play to stay within the key through the entire fretboard. Generally there is a set of major and minor positions - once you know it for one key you can apply it to all 12 notes - shift position 1 to different roots to start a different key (A on 5th fret of Low E) Or you can play different positions for that key (not sure what it would be for A however: G position 1 is on the 3rd fret, Position 2 is on the 5th fret etc) This might help :) www.fretjam.com/major-scale-positions.html
cmon man how is this possible dude LOL I've been playing guitar for years never knowing any of this. and then you come and teach them to me in like 2 weeks WTF DUDE seriously thank you sooo much. I have one question it's about this video tho. I just can't figure what key a song. I've been trying, already watched your video on it like 3 times just in case I'm missing something but NADA. the progression is Am C Dm F E7 ✌
Thanks so much for reaching out! So that song is in the key of C but is 'borrowing' a chord, the E7. Even though if we just stick by the rules it should be an Em, an E7 sounds close enough to add to the game :)
One more question for each chord do you bar from A besides the ones that don’t root on 5th fret (A)string or just press A string each picture is different any example is D major 7 picture has no bar
Really great video! But I would like to ask when should we use these chords? Like in some pop songs and I don't wanna use those normal chords all the time.
that was great , but C,D,G, are also movable all over the fretboard just like E and A , are you looking forward to make a lesson about them please ? and thank you very much , I've learned a lot from you , awesome teacher
For sure, any chord shape you know is moveable as long as you remember to compensate for open strings. Thanks for the kind words and I'll try and talk about some other shapes soon.
Awesome series man, took me about 5-6 years off self confused teach to get that by myself. I use to show people with the same method as you, but you tought me new ones with the 6's and the 9's. The only thing i have to say is that you should have done the same way as the first video and in the same order. There is some kind of chords thats youve put in the 1st video that are not in this one and vice versa. :/ Otherwise, I wish I could have see thatr video a couple years ago man xD
Hi, sorry my English, I'm from Brazil, I wonder if these chords you taught for example Dmajor9, can you move that model of chord to another key and make other chords with the same format? Thank you and god bless you
Yup! You're exactly right! Any of these chords you can move to a different 'root note' and it'll be the same type of chord but just in a different key :)
this tutorials are awesome, I understand that i can swap minor chords with something like minor 7 or minor 9, same with majors, but what about plain 7 and 9 chords (diminished) how can i use them in progression? would be awesome if you could reply. thanks for all the tutorials.
For sure Rafal! I'm planning on doing a whole video just on 9 chords soon. So plain 7 and 9 chords (also known as dominant 7 and dominant 9 chords) technically can only be used to replace the 5 chord in a key. So in the key of C you could throw in a G7 or G 9, in the Key of D you could use A7 or A9 etc. Now that doesn't mean you can't add them wherever you feel like it, but to technically stay within a key, those chords are replacements for the 5th note's chord. But some of the coolest ways to use them can be non-traditional, so just take those voicings and try them out in random places and see what you get! Hope that helps man! Thanks for watching :)
I sometimes use all 4 fingers for those bar chords because it just doesn't feel natural to bar the ring finger but mute the high e string at the same time, otherwise it becomes a major 6th chord :P Maybe I just need to work on it more
+TheEric1203 I think it's one of those things that you don't even need to think about and eventually your hands get flexible and strong enough to just start doing it one day.
3:18 so for Dmaj9 it takes D F# A C# E right? for a 1 3 5 7 9 but theres no A note am i missing somehtin? by the way you are freakin awesome man. i have taken a shot at theory like 3-4 separate times previously over the past 10+ years. but your approach to it just clicks. n ive been on a binge of your vids the last lil bit. since i pretty much already knew how to play., its not even that confusing once you figure a lil bit out, it all falls together. i just never really understood chords since i play thrash metal mostly. and just learned off ear/tabs. but since i know the neck its really pretty straight forward once you get the notes down. anyways thanks for sharing the knowledge ^^
So cool to hear they've been helpful. As for the major 9, 5 note chords can be tricky to play on guitar since there's only 6 strings, so oftentimes certain notes will be omitted or 'implied'. A lot of the time it'll be the 5 (so the A note in a D chord), this chord is one of those times. So it may not technically have all the notes 'required' for the chord, but it still sounds like so we call it good :)
Hi Sean. Great video mate. Just wanted to clarify a little something. when you were playing that d maj 9, why were you still playing the 7th note? Does that make this the d maj 7 add 9 or something like that? Also, a chord usually has the 1st, 3rd and 5th note. But the Dmaj9 lacks the 5th note. Kinda confused here mate. Pardon the ignorance. Still learning the ropes here. Thanks again for the great videos cheers.
on the D7 chord if you move your pinkie from F# to G what chord is that? soneone plz help I've been trying figure it out for 2hours and no tutorial uses this chord
Sean Daniel thx u so much. your videos are amazing too. thxs for responding most people don't respond. imma recommend you to all my beginner guitar player friends.
I have to add, in case Sean is watching this thread, that sometimes, a response to a question like this can make all the difference in the world between moving on, as a student, and staying stuck, until you finally learn it 'way down the road, sometimes after years of playing by memorization, only. I love instructors who answer our questions. I know it takes time, but it makes the question AND THE LESSON come alive!
what i meant by ''kinda chords'' is: Youve shown in the last video (the one with the low E stuff) how to do the Major 6 and Minor 6 wich you didnt in this one. And youve shown in this video, Major 9 and Minor 7 Flat 5, wich you didnt in the previous one. Actually would be awesome as well if you could include the Suspended, Diminished and Augmented shape as well :)
+Arunas For sure, I've got a few other ones in the pipeline first, but I'll get to it soon. Let me know if you have any ideas for more lessons. Thanks for watching.
in this shape there is no A and i thought the major 9 chord consisted of D - F# - A - C# - E. where do we get our A then ? i sat down broke the chord into pieces to see where the notes are but cant find the A with this shape
You're right on. I that case the fifth (the A note) would be 'implied'. Some of the bigger extension chords can be shortened so they make more sense for guitar voicings. Usually the 5th is the note that gets the axe while still technically being consider an A major 9. I did a video on major 9 chords you should check out if you want to see more specifics. Thanks for watching! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ky9TW4H1YQo.html
