This Circle of 5ths Trick Blew My Mind 

The circle of fifths is so useful, I had it tattooed on my right forearm. It’s like a permanent cheat sheet 😂

Thanks Sean. Love your channel! I’m a songwriter and I literally noodle around to find my sound and I’m having some success, but your insights and humor inspire me. Thanks again for having useful content!

Glad to hear your finally coming around to join us outlaws

Learned more about circle of fifths from you. Thanks. Also loved the Salty Blues Comment and response!

Takamine g series new around 450 and this guitar has great electronics stays in tune sound is bright and very easy comfortable. Hope this helps. I love how you teach with your own style. I hope this move brings the best.

Key signatures and the Circle of Fifths always just seemed like a memorization task to me. Last week I realized that my Violin and mandolin are tuned in 5ths (well I knew that) but the strings being GDAE are the exact start of the circle, string one G has one sharp, string two D has two, A three and E four such an easy way for me to remember. Doesn't quite work that well on the guitar but it was helpful to me. I've just started sitting in on bluegrass Jams with these instruments and most songs are 1, 4 & 5 chords thinking about intervals much more.

Love the decor of your apt very nice

Another acoustic guitar maker to consider in that price range is the oft-overlooked Canadian guitar company, Seagull (a brand of the Godin - pronounced go-DAN - guitar company based near Montreal). I have a Seagull that I bought new about 5 years ago and I love it. I think it was maybe US$400 or so.

Hardy is such an amazing song writer (and I'm not even a country music fan)! The Mockingbird and the Crow is amazing.

good on ya for sharing mate greets australia , keep doing you

Absolutely hilarious @Hardy, Wait in the Truck, thank you so much for a really good laugh, comedy gold.

Love the way you redid the room to colour coordinate it with the new guitar Sean lol

Thanks for the props!

wow that circle of 5s opened me up to finding chords on the fret board. huge tip thank you

I got the Martin DX1E Kao last year for under $500 at a local shop, and was lucky to get it. It's the nicest acoustic guitar I've ever owned (I also have a 20+ year old Yamaha that I keep at work to plink around on) and a real joy to play. It's a laminate, so it's a breeze to keep clean, and it sounds so good! Highly recommend!

Thanks a lot for this video. Very useful. When I found out that our standard guitar tuning is actually a Em or G pentatonic I was really shocked that I played guitar for years and never realized it. Same here. Thanks!

Love your channel. You remind me of a younger Steve Martin. Awesome!

Key signatures and the circle of fifths is most useful when it comes to transposing. However instead a circle think of it more as a line of integers from -6 to +6 with 0 in the middle. Gb=-6 Db=-5 Ab=-4 Eb=-3 Bb=-2 F=-1 C=0 G=1 D=2 A=3 E=4 B=5 F#=6. When transposing to a different key however much you add/subtract to get there, you do the exact same to every chord. E.g. A song is in key of F and i want transpose it to D. It has the following chords F, Bb, Dm, C. What do you do to -1 to get 2? We add 3. So we add 3 to every chord and we get the same chord progression in the new key. -1+3=2, -2+3=1, -1+3=2 or 2m+3(m)=5m, 0+3=3; Therefore the transposed chord progression in the key of D is D, G, Bm, A. After decades of doing this, i can do all these calculations on the fly. It's all just basic math really.

🎶 Wait in the truck 🎶 Great song loved it! Lainey Wilson is great! There are some fine musicians in top Country Bands. That guy Hardy’s Brother won American Idol a few years back. I think he’s still in the band Hardy. That guy who played the main role is his Brother. Their last name is Hardy. TMI? 😝

I love that blue color of your guitar

Seagull S6 is awesome!

Lightbulb moment, this will be helpful in memorizing the notes on the fretboard!

Wow, thank you! I had to write out what you were saying, to be able to take it in. Have you noticed that if you write out the Cof5 from C, (in a circle?): C G D A E C, C Major Pentatonic is alternate notes. Obviously Am is similar. I'll be sweeping up fragments of my mind for days.

Finally circle of 5ths for guitar. Not just on paper.

BIG Jeep Wave for Sean!!

Your voice impression on the first Salty Comment was excellent. And the 'best look for a meth head or crack head' was a head-scratcher.

Ok, that Listening Homework was wild.

Mike George also has some very good RU-vid videos explaining the circle of 5ths/4ths. There’s one about the mathematics of guitar that is also quite fascinating. Thanks for posting

Going in reverse in the Co5ths you get Circle of 4ths. Beadgcf is how the guitar notes are laid out on the guitar (save the B string). You can find this pattern all over the fretboard. Use top 2 strings and work down the board. It's an easy way to learn the fretboard notes. Look down the strings on the B note and look at the pattern as it's laid out this direction way as well.

Keep talking Sean Daniel! I’ve learned something from every single video I’ve seen. The Salty comment “guy just likes to hear himself talk” hasn’t figured out how to skip forward, go back, pause, etc. Poor fella!

You crack me up!

My two first practice guitars were single cutaway Martin and a Gibson pro seafoam green. If you ask me, they are okay.

It’s cool you can make a power chord out of every note in the pentatonic scale,and it will be in key.a lot of riff possibilities

The Mike George video I was thinking of is titled The Guitar Fretboards Mind blowing Mathematics. Every time I watch it I get a little more, especially about the colors and the portal to higher dimensions, yep, that’s what I said!

Takamine are incredible guitars. I own two and thinking of getting another one. Yamaha as well do make excellent ones. Again, two in my possession, actually 3, but one needs repairwork. I never paid more than 500 € for any of my guitars so far, and am perfectly happy with their characteristics. People often ask me, what guitars I am playing... Well, i am having to admit, for the 3rd year now i always put Elixir strings on them, hey ... but that was before Sean started telling me about them

Thanks, are you familiar with BEADGCF circle of fiths tool? You can quickly capture the structure of the fretboad just rememebering that sequence of notes.

A Taylor GS Mini might be a great choice for a beginner. 23 something scale, easy to play sounds great! It will also hold its value! I keep one next to the couch and play it every day! (I have 40 more also LOL) If I remember right, the 1, 4, 5 in each key is one of the very first things I learned. Just take 1 simple song and play it in each key. Note, B and F excused for the first round. LOL That's what I coach folks to do anyway. Having fun out there Sean? 8) --gary

Neat. I hadn't spotted it either.

As a former northeast wrangler owner, I am surprised you didn't get the wave. The practice was alive and well a few years ago :(

He looks like he combs his hair with a firecracker but is a great guitarist. I've learned alot from Sean.

Bro unpopular opinion, you look so young and so old at the same time(love your videos btw)

do you use "chordie" or "Ultimate Guitar" or "4square" , or anything like that for learn other people music?

just enjoy your freedom of driving and be happy. this can be a positive cooment

Sean got a Miata! Welcome to the club, brah! Oh, youre.gonna love it. Cruising out to the Valley or up the PCH with the top down. The honeys will be hopping in everytime you stop at a red light. We got a subreddit. Come hang out!

The T0D10n is sick

Hey I was wondering - is distrokid what I should use if I want to post on yt? Enjoy the videos and the intros :)

To keep blowing your mind. Add the next one note before and one after the circle of fifths pentatonic and you have the major scale!

Curious, what model of D'angelico is that?

You & Jacob Collier are my favorite. 😊

Hmmm, I pegged you for a Prius driver.... Wrangler, you say?

Interesting thing with the 5ths making the pentatonic scale, if you keep going and make 7 notes its creates C lydian

Epiphone (Gibsons less expensive line) have some good guitars. I have a hummingbird pro from them.

"Just wait in the Truck" sounds like drop D tuning to me, lot's of droning note. Am I hearing right?

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actually knew about this through djayin..

Just goes to show!!! A guy like me who figured that out in the early as a way to play everything, people assumed I didnt know anything.... Plus I tried and tried, but I still think it sounds better like that! Great Video's as always

I love a well written salty comment. Thanks for sharing.

Well… the open strings form a pentatonic scale, and are constructed from 4ths (mostly)…

Just wait in the truck… it’s the Jeep Wrangler and I’ll go buy a new guitar for $500 then come back and tell you all about the Circle of 5ths might have been a better outcome for everyone involved in the Hardy song! Good song, a bit weird and a stupid way to go about things but good song nonetheless. Thanks for your content🤠🤙

9:19 The Passive Aggressive Salty comment of the week' award goes to this guy ... and ... 9:41 yeah Dude, some of us only have budgets Under a Grand. Please keep that in mind for us Jeep Owner who are trying to over look that Mazda thing

Moving from FL to CA so you can finally make outlaw country. What a cliche.

i would think that a relative minor would be the most similar key, since all the notes are the same... yes? no?

I am writing this from the future. The RU-vid algorithm placed this as the first video on my home page today so I decided to view it...again. I know I saw it last year. Here's the sad part. It took the second viewing for the C of F's relating to the Pentatonic scale to sink in. Even worse, I've been staring at a C of F's diagram on my wall for over 3 years. Who's the crackhead meth addict now, I ask you!? 😖

If you have to live with one guitar, which one would it be...

So be it

Who is Jake Palier?

Nahh you not a crackhead just a fine rounded musician

I bet you get a really low APR... LOCKED But if the Circle of 5ths fought the Circle of Thirds, who would win?

Circle of sevenths

I gave this vid a like just because of Cartman’s salty comment of the week!

Jeep guys are just guys who want to be cool car guys, but they just don't quite get it. Kinda like a guy who doesn't follow sports, but he wants to talk sports with the other guys at work, so he picks a sport to follow, but he ends up picking soccer.

Clockwise it's 5. Anti-clock it's 4. But it's the same spacing???????

Move in fifths and it sounds major. Move in fourths and it sounds minor

SEAN ? Man ! IF U think UR going to do "The Same Things -- The Same Way ", as U did in Florida; In Los Angles !?!?!?? UR going to Get the Same Results ! ! ! and, wonder Why things didnt go UR way In L.A. ! Get Out and Make UR self available to as Many in the Music Industry as Possible Dude ! The (GIT) MI IS only One (#1) best way and the recording Studio's Are the Other ! ! Ol West

Hardy video - I have questions He didn’t even ask her any questions? She doesn’t even visit him regularly??? Just every once in awhile? Wow…

Jacob Collier if you didn't catch the name.

Buy American !

Nope. Still don't get it 😔

"WAIT IN THE TRUCK" IS A 100% B.A.D.A.S.S. song!

Do not buy a Jeep -- any model of Jeep. Terrible quality and frequency-of-repair record. The only brand any rational car buyer needs to know is Toyota (and its various subsets, such as Lexus). Alas, much car buying is not rational. Just buy Toyota. They've figured out mass-produced quality. You know, kaizen and all that. But don't listen to me say it, listen to RU-vid car mechanic guru Scotty Kilmer say it. Jeep? Yeah that's a hard 'no.'

Dude, you’re drunk.

BOY ! Sean,,,,,,,, UR a Walking / Talking; Commercial for stuff ??

Lol. Not a Crack or meth look. Definitely not. But I know you burning ganja.