Lyrical Guitarist Melanie Faye Discusses the Number System 

vanessa damn right!

Ya I can't see it

Because its fukken strong?

I see it

it's wearing a baseball hat? 🤔

Bidwellz9 lmaoooo frrr

I think she has it just right...the number system should be learned early on in one's study of guitar for the reasons she outlined.

I laughed too but c'mon, seriously, in all fairness anyone actually trying to learn the guitar needs to learn the steps she outlines: open chords, keys, major and minor intervals and progressions etc. These things aren't advanced concepts, they are the basics. My opinion, personally, is that if you can learn by ear as she says she does (and that is also pretty basic tbh), why do you need a number system? Every note has a letter, every chord a name. Scales and modes exist for a reason. Music theory is millenia old, notation centuries old. Why re-invent the wheel? 🤷‍♀️

@@cgavin1 Because musicians need to communicate, and the number system is a very efficient form of communication, as well as being a good way to conceptualize the function of each note or chord as a scale degree no matter what key you are in. 4 is 4, whether you're in the key of B# or Fb.

Yeah, this isn't a beginner guitar course that teaches you the parts of the guitar, how to sit up straight and angle the neck, how to use your fingertips and where to place your thumb, strength building to avoid fret buzz, the name of each string, beginner chords and scales, and just the most basic elements of guitar, etc. This is a video on how to conceptualize what you do on the guitar once you've learned the bare basics.

This young girl just explained the Nashville Number System more clearly than all the other "experienced" men on RU-vid lol.

@@mragunathan1627 Nice negative and divisive spin on it!

@Dan Bertucci >African-American plays African-American genres. >not remotely African lol

@@ProfessorGroyper there's a difference between African and African-American you know...

@@yourphone5380 ooga booga there is not much different than ooga booga here

Chad Long: the sweet tone is due in large measure to the fact she's playing with her finger tips.

"we take the first chord in the key and we call that chord 1" *beautiful jazz noodling* "and we call the fifth chord in the key chord five" *beautiful jazz noodling*.

same here, I think it's just looking at the same thing but from a different perspective and boy it's helpful!

Chad Long sameee 😍 she’s a legenddddd

Chad Long same!

how did you do ? like what did you do learn ?

@@Farahimn basically I just learnt the chords in a key and tried playing them in different positions

Understand each chord

@@Farahimn i understood straight away bcuz i play the piano try google image: chord progressions (most/all are piano, but just focus on the chord names & numbers) Pictures help so much more than explaining in words. i suggest: 1. Learn basic chord progressions like 1-6-2-5 (jazz) 2. Have like a printed chart of chord progressions and get it in ur head 3. also it helps to understand the music theory on how chord progressions are built 4. Then just practice &practice until u can play by ear. (like u meet a new friend, the more they talk to u, the more u are familiar with their voice) at 1:52 she talks about playing by ear (recognizing chord progression/pattern from a music u hear for the first time)

Jesus Christ Official Thanks Jesus

it do.

her pinky game is insane

john mayer is trash

Ben lol. Have you seen him play?? Eric Clapton called him a master of guitar. John is far from trash! lol.

@Inget Namn what the fuck is this purity testing nonsense? Clapton is an amazing guitarist even if it's not your style, and so is John. What does coke and/or racism have to do with it?

@@bensblues hey at least injecting some more sophisticated musical tastes to the more popular music fanbase

Lol really? So did I

Same dude, that and One by Metallica. Been playing for ten years now

Yo what is it about cliffs of Dover 😭😂. That's the exact reason I started taking guitar seriously too

Cliffs over Dover... honestly guitar hero three changed lives!

I started playing Guitar Hero because I wanted to play guitar! I played it until I could afford a guitar.

Its a D'Angelico Premier DC

Don't really like Sea Foam Green..but I respect anybody that wants to stand out and Rock it'...or Jazz it' as the case may be. Your Playing is great really cool to see you do your thing.

@Hebert Brietzke damned if i know. And probably not, but theres a possibility

very cool playing

"Its so much easier When sea foam green is in fashion"

That is why I like acoustic guitar. When I started guitar in 2017 (I don't know any other instrument) I only went for the acoustic one. By the way I am 51 now and eager as a beginner. I do not want any electric guitar.

@@univuniveral9713 You can make an electric guitar sound better than an acoustic or like one. what matters is your tone and some people arent into the distortion. and its not necessary

@@mastertrey4683 Instead I tend to feel it's easier to make an acoustic guitar sound like electric especially when connected to a good mix/amp. No electric guitar has ever given me the feels of an acoustic. Myself, i practice only with acoustic but when i play an electric or jazz guitar it feels kinda too easy with chord shapes, solos, bends, hammer-ons etc..

Yep. No pop song would have a 13th chord nowadays

Yeah I was thinking maybe rhythmically? But that doesn’t make sense either

sunday morning - maroon five

N oh yeah

in this progression actually, a 2-5-1 in cmaj I believe, you can substitute the 5 chord for one a tritone above it, also known as the tritone substitution. you can do this anytime the 5 chord is resolving to the tonic, or the 1 chord. Or you might hear it called a "functioning dominant." so in this case the 5 is a G7, so the substitution would be a C#7 which is a three tones, or six semitones up from the G. it adds for some flavor in your playing, can creates a nice chromatic feel and be mixed up in alot of ways in itself

THANK YOU Lol i love that song, was singing it there too

That s like what came to my mind ... i dont even really know the song but i started mumbling some like sunday morning reh meh fah lihn....

Stfu

Man, I hope you're right...I think you're right. Oh, and Amet....stfu!!!

Loremipsumdolorsit Amet - Stfu = Soulfully Transforming Fecund Universalities ... back at ya Amet

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