The Most Useful Chords I Ever Learned 

Note all you new to intermediate guitarists out there; This Is The Guy You Are Looking For! I seen a lot on RU-vid buy this guy cuts through the nonsense and takes you directly to what you need to know, and without all the complications or other crap. This guy will make you better, quickly!

Simply the best online instruction regarding connecting scales, chords, etc. Well done. Great teaching style.

I have learned more in the last 2 hours watching your videos then I have past few years

My first teacher online was Justin Sandercoe then Marty! But nobody has come close to those guys as a teacher other than Brian in active melody… but Lordy Lord this guy blows them ALL out of the water!! Great teacher and always goes back to where it comes from so it makes sense!! My new guru next to Brian!💫✨🌟

For me everything unlocks when you learn all the notes (at least all the white notes on piano) on all the strings. Then when you have shapes you can move the chords anywhere you like as you know the key centers in all the strings

I’ve been playing awhile and I know these chord shapes through past lessons as a kid.. BUT, qualifying them as Landmarks within a System makes the bell in my head ring. Why have I never made this connection😅 Thank You!

Man! This channel is great!. Super teaching skills!

Been playing for 60 years and learning so much from you. Sometimes just reveals to me what I have been doing and why that works. Life long! I am primarily acoustic.

Your students are VERY fortunate to have such an EXCELLENT, EXCEPTIONAL Teacher! Logic, logic, logic! Kudos to you, Sir!

Outstanding job of teaching progression of the major key changes. You don’t hurry and you use great illustration and techniques to make your learning possible without any frustration. Thank you

Brilliant. Best approach to teaching this I have ever seen, and I have seen a lot.

THANKS ; You Sir are the best teacher hands down

I’ve always had difficulties with mixing chords and licks. Your lessons helped me so much to understand shapes and correspondent scales. It all makes sense now!

I feel that I've had the benefit of sitting with some really great teachers over many years. This video felt to me very much like an in-person lesson with a great teacher, (only you don't know how often I interrupted you, stopped you while I tried things for myself, or "asked you" to repeat something). In-person learning with a great teacher cannot be replaced, but your videos are really getting quite close to having that value.

Priceless Video for me. I can thank you a billion times ! FAN

Really great and useful lesson for me and hopefully for all bedroom guitar players like me - thx!

This guy deserves more subs! Teaches guitar in a simple, sensible and practical way! And because of that, I can understand and apply his lessons to my guitar playing right away! So many light bulb moments here man! I really admire and appreciate your effort! Thank you very much! God bless!

I’m a fairly new subscriber, and I must say, in a sea of guitar lesson videos on RU-vid, you are quickly becoming my favorite instructor. These lessons are gold for me. I’m finally trying to learn and apply some basic theory after all these years. Cheers!

🤯 I am only 4:48 minutes in and already you've connected this idea to concepts I've known for years... Really appreciate you sharing, and kudos on your approach; you make the concepts very easy to understand!

Just can't stop watching your channel brilliant thanks Colin uk 🇬🇧 👍

Man, I learn so much from your lessons! Thanks so much!

This dude has launched me into space! He teaches in a manner that is engaging, interesting and easy to follow. Wow!

I played guitar when I was a teenager (no lessons) and by all accounts I played "pretty good", but I never really understand anything I was doing. I just liked songs and wanted to learn those songs. I tried to "pick it up again" numerous times, but it always turned into some modal math equation of me trying to figure out sharps and flats on a circle of fifths, or me finding out that I no longer have the tenacity to attack a tune I like because replicating it was too hard and too much work. It's now 25 years later, and I've gotten back into it because an old friend picked it up because he "always wanted to learn" but he never did. I can see how teaching music must be a wonderful job (in the perfect circumstances). So weird how that fire gets lit again. Anyway, I just wanted to tell you that I absolutely love the way you teach. Some people might see your little "tricks" as shortcuts or hokey pokey, but for me it's more like a map to a vast pile of musical informational that there was no way for me to process or synthesis. And you're right. The little sayings really do make you remember them! There's something about the way you play that makes me want to learn more but yet I can understand you and what you're doing. Since I hadn't played a pentatonic scale in 20 years, I relearned them from you on your channel. Now I'm calling it "funny b", "the box", etc. I also use "above the equator" and "below the equator" on both the easy shape and funny b shape. The 6,5,4 string area of the 2nd position to 3rd position I call no man's land, or the land of dragons because I always get lost there. I can honestly say that I'm an "advanced beginner" knocking on intermediate, but I'm really good at making people think I play well because I got great chops, lol. It's this chord/scale/triad/mixture stuff that I'm on a hunt for now. I think I discovered your channel because I was searching for triad exercises every day for a week.

The way you've opened my eyes n ears to a new way of envisioning the fretboard is a beautiful Thang! Thank you so much mang !!

Love you lessons. I just started watching you from last week and I really like how you teach and explain things. They make sense to me.Thanks

Thanks. I can actually undrstand with the diagrams also. I never knew the A chord in those other places. Great teacher.

I've been trying to learn the cage system and get better at triads for a while. I know the theory, but I couldn't translate it to the fretboard in realtime. I was waiting for that aha moment people are raving about. Man, you just connected my brain to the fretboard in 3 videos. Thank you!

You have a really good way of teaching music. I have learnt so many useful things from you. Thank you.

5:42 Root diagonal, 5:36 1st inv. Chord scales shape 1, 7:46 third inv chord/scale

Amazing. You are becoming a star instructor.

I have taken live lessons from an instructor and they taught me a lot and certainly have real advantages. But I absorb stuff slowly. Once I get it I get it but it's slow and I would often ask for numerous explanation repetitions from my instructor. Frustrating for both of us sometimes. This lesson shows why often (for me) online lessons such as this can be so helpful to me. There's a lot of info in this lesson. I got a lot of it but sometimes just hanging on by my fingernails (no pun intended). I will watch this a number of times to let it sink in. Don't get me wrong, you're clear, concise and succinct. But I am slow and there are gaps (many) in my knowledge. But I can repeat and repeat to slowly get it. Thanks so much for these little yet important "landmarks" tricks and procedures that can make it easier for us older amateurs.

Really great lesson. You are a fantastic teacher. I have struggled with the caged system for quite a while and this boils it down to just 3 very useable shapes that even I can memorize. Thank you. Oh and I love your westie. We used to have a pair of them and they didn’t get along because they both wanted to be stuck to your side. Loyalty and unconditional love. What could be better. Happy new year. 🎉

I agree with others, I know the chords, but never applied them like this. I've been noodling for yrs and decided two yrs ago to learn, you've taught me more in 10 videos than I've ever known for 15 yrs.. thanks bud !!!

Another brilliant lesson Blue, thank you so much, really love how these connect every Saturday opposed to ‘random idea’ lessons found elsewhere which are fun but lead one nowhere in terms of overall development as a player. One idea that would be so helpful if you would be so kind, is to take an entire lesson to demonstrate in more detail those fabulous licks you do every time you enter a pentatonic shape, even when I slow it down 50% so you sound drunk while doing it I can’t quite workout the notes and fingerings you’re doing. Lastly love the tone you’re r getting out of that tribute, I can’t seem to replicate with mine….and the puppy relaxing in the background is a hoot! Thanks again and best wishes.

Top class, the volcabulary will make the sentence.. Thank you for the improvement to my understanding of the universal language...... Music...

Thank you!

Super useful lesson, thanks for sharing.

This is the lesson I have needed...connects the dots

Your lesson are so helpful. Thank you so much . God bless you

The best clarifying explanation on how to connect chords and scales in a truly useful way!! Congrats on your channel and thanks for great content!

Great and important lesson. One of the very best, a teacher guitar buddy

Love the teaching style...it works.

OMG THIS IS REALLY HELPFUL!!!

Thank you for all the great tips!

Won me over - new subscriber gained! Landmarks are such a great help.

I always knew this stuff was in there somewhere! Thanks for clarifying it!

Yes. This is great! I know all these chord inversions, and so I know the landmarks. But putting them together with the Pentatonic shapes is what i didn't have. And, in learning the Pentatonic shapes, i could never remember all of them, because i just couldn't relate them to anything! When or why would i use them?! Then, you come along and show us how they relate to these chord shapes/inversions! Ding! THAT is the information I've been needing! Thank you, Blue! Wow. Just a few lessons have REALLY opened up so many possibilities in my playing. Now i can do so many things I've wanted to do, for so long! I just can't believe how so much has opened up for me after just a few short lessons. Mm, mm, mmh. One happy dude here! 👍 👌 🤪

This is wonderful!

And for those of us who are older and/or will never have the time to learn and make use of learning every note, this does it for me. WOW! Thank you!

Wow! Awesome stuff! Much appreciated!

I think this is the most mind blowing guitar lesson I have ever had.

Another great clip!

Blue you filled in the gaps I've struggled to find for years and years thanks mate.

Right now my favorite teacher of guitar on RU-vid. Good teaching style.

Excellent lesson, i always learn something new with your video thank you, you're really the best...

Great lesson!

Very useful guitar lesson. Greetings from Germany. Melody2go

Fantastic vid. I know you make this look easy, but at least you repeated the steps enough so I can learn a chunk at a time. Bonus footage of the Westie makes it even more enjoyable. I've had three Westies. One was born a grumpy old man but the other two were the best pooches I've ever known.

Once again, great content. I'm familiar with this stuff but I really like the way you break things down. And I did get some take aways.

This is the easiest to understand ever. I have been playing since 1961 and this is very very good.

Another excellent lesson!

So great thank you

I’ve never seen this presented this way but it is so useful. Subscribed! Now I want to practice finding all the nearby diatonic chords in a key, and on the top 3 strings as well. Any plans for videos exploring those topics?

Excellent stuff! Thank you! And you didn't say the scary letters CAGED, Will you do a minor version, too? Please? (Lastly, your dog is the cutest.)

I'm also old enough to remember VHS tapes. Before that there wasn't much beyond chord and song books. I wish I would have had someone to "pull back the curtain" way back then. It flattens our the learning curve by years.

Where the F has this lesson been my whole life! I knew some of these concepts, but never explained so well and so concisely! THANK YOU!!!

Excellent ⭐️

This is cool stuff, but you need to know your root note locations. I reckon a session on octaves would go well with these lessons. I learnt all this via CAGED system and found knowing octaves was really useful when wanting to move to the next chord / scale

I just found your site recently and I am very impressed with your lessons. They are super helpful and well taught. I am actually working on learning my triads across the fretboard and your lessons on this topic have been very useful. Keep up the great work.

I had been making major strides in learning my CAGED shapes and Triads. Your lesson really has helped me make some amazing connections. My current approach to connecting the appropriate major pentatonic shape to a chord is to look at which string the root is on. If the root is on the 6th string, I can solo with the 5th and 1st position major pentatonic shapes. If the root is one the 5th string, I can solo with the 2nd and 3rd position major pentatonic shapes. And, if the root is on the 4th string, I can solo with the 4th position major pentatonic shape. This was a major ah ha moment for me. I can connect any scale to a chord simply by knowing where the root is found on the strings. Thanks for your lessons. They are amazing.

This is exactly what guitar lessons should be

Very helpful. Thanks.

Wow, I wish you had been my guitar teacher when I was first learning! Very cool and easy to follow, but powerful lesson!

Hi Blue, 6:34 that 60s 70s 80s Chord that Keith Richard Chord and Bad Company chord Kiss Chord and Free Chord it in the song Alright Now,it in lot Rock Songs, Great Lesson and Thank you Blue, you are Awesome Teacher and Thumbs 🆙 Great video.

Great lesson... excellent info

Enjoying the lesson

Pure gold! Thanks Blue

Thanks great lesson

Please make a video on finding tabs of any song ❤

Wow that is awesome thank you so much

Great lesson here. Unlocked the horizon for me. 🙏. Thank you for sharing

Thanks!

brilliant

Your channel is extremely good keep it up looking forward to you're lessons so easy to understand and implement thankyou

This is awesome. Makes so much sense. Is there a similar system with minor chords?

Superb lesson. Do you have a lesson on the double stops you are using for your scale playing?

Why didn’t you have this channel in 1992 when I needed it?! 😅😂

Nice,but would have liked to see you play the D scale notes in the C shape position

Excellent lessons. Just found you a few weeks ago. I have learned so much and had so much fog lifted from my brain in such a very short space of time. A question - I enjoyed the lesson on playing the major Penta on 1 chord and playing the Minor Penta on 4 chord. However which scale would be most suitable on the 5 chord and any other chords within the song? Is there a rule of thumb for this?

Wouldn't the D inversion be played on the weird B scale as explained in the other video? Since we started on the A string?

Why i could not make this Landmarks connections ?? Im late on this by 40 years !! Better late than EVER !! THANK YOU, SIR !!!

When switching to a different chord like the I to IV, it's much easier to just know your scale degrees. If you know where the 4th scale degree is (always 1 string down on the same fret), then that's where you place the chord.

Great lesson. Weren't you mixing minor and major pentatonic scales in your examples, or maybe I was confused.

Nice job…thanks!

Why is D the 1 position minor penta? When the second penta is used at the G major position?

This was so helpful, a light bulb just went off and all of a sudden I am searching all over for the root and the inversions. Thank you, Thank you.

Holy Smoke! I've seen those chords but never made the connections.

This video references the "Incredible Chord Scale Connector" video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-16mJJJjhgZ0.html Thanks for watching everyone! I really appreciate your support! 🎸😎

You just made Music Life is so enjoyable.