The best teacher on line. A no horseshit, blue collar working man type of teacher. I bought the lifetime lesson deal from you. Well worth it. I recommend it to anyone as it is a great price with TONs of great stuff.
30 years on Guitar, with ten years of piano lessons prior to that and all my music theory classes, and no one has ever made me understand the circle of fifths the way you just did. I am a fan and a convert! Thank you!
I'm a piano player and I keep it real simple. Going from one key to another I simply play the dominant 7th chord of the key I'm going to. That's it! That makes for a smooth and beautiful transition. Of course that was one of the options you mentioned. Glad you're sharing good and useable theory.
I love this so much, man. So many people teaching music theory are all over the place with their examples, but this is perfectly coordinated. It has the same starting point every time, and uses the same groove to teach several different concepts. Most people would have had one example beginning on C, then the next example would begin on F#, then the next example would begin on E, etc. That’s such a confusing way to teach, because there’s no baseline for understanding the concepts. That’s like teaching a kid 2+2 with how many apples a man has, and then teaching 2+3 with how many cars a woman has. The basic concepts are subverted by having to process other information uselessly. Anyway, I’m so grateful that someone finally teaches these concepts in a way that’s conducive to learning.
Yes I have about 5 I watch Brian makes me feel like I'm actually sitting at a lesson. HE WILL TEACH U THINGS U DIDNT KNOW U NEED TO KNOW LMMFAO. COOL DUDE
When I encourage one to play and not quit I say most people don't go deep enough. At that point. It becomes a vortex. U R DOWN THE RABBITHOLE. where u wanna B
Just came across your channel Brian. I am a 40+ year guitarist purely by ear all these years, but with a bit of scale and basic theory knowledge learned along the way and of course solid memory of the entire fretboard. I finally decided during all the insanity in the world lately to dig deep into theory. I watched this video and became a subscriber. You have a very good teaching delivery that is much appreciated. I will be backtracking through your channel and absorbing as much as I can take in. Thank you!!
Brian, first of all I think that you are a very good teacher/instructor. I'm only into 10:11 minutes of the video and have learned so much. I keep stopping the video and making up chord progressions and rhythms within the concepts that you are teaching. I take lessons but this will definitely improve my progress. I was just thinking about key changes the other day and your video was right on time. Some people can teach and get the point across so we'll. You are one of them. Thanks.
Outstanding lesson! I feel like there was enough great info in here for at least 2 different videos, if you so chose. Plus, this is the best explanation of 2-5-1 I have yet to see. One of your best, man!
Thanks again, Brian, for an excellent lesson! You are such a great teacher!! In the space of half an hour you have taught me (a relative beginner) so much and made the concept of key changes less scary and more straight forward. So today I discovered two brand-new things: tritone substitutions and what 5-2-1s (or is is a V ii I?) are. Happy days!!!
Concepts that took me years to learn, here on your channel you learn it in 30 minutes, I congratulate you for your work and the great help you give to many people who learn with your videos Brian
I loved this lesson. Adding it to my tool box. I just got a Lava Me 2 guitar(with built in reverb and chorus) a month ago. It genuinely inspires me to move up and down the fretboard learning the different intonations. Will grab it immediately and try/practise/learn key changes from this methodical and pleasant presentation. 🙏😊
A really good lesson. It took a bit of focus at first, but was well worth it. I'd never heard of tritone substitutions before and this was really well explained.
another great lesson mate, ive been talking about changing keys with a friend recently. this certainly simplified things. love from uk as always, cheers!
Gold standard lesson as usual. Another use of TCOF with the tri tone substitution, brilliant! I prefer the sound of the tri tone sub to the 2-5-1 transition.
that's such an amazing lesson. it is such a shame that this video is not getting enough views. This is the first time i have seen someone is explaining this topic in such a delicate way that beginners wouldn't get frightened or confused!
I'm also a music teacher and I learn so much on teaching techniques from you My students thank you for helping them get lernt gooder 🤪 #1 Zombie ~ A Michael
@@zombieguitar Thank you for taking a personal approach and replying to your comments. You are a serious inspiration Brian, thank you for all your hard work ! #1 Zombie A Michael
Once again more tools for the tool box.. Piano players on RU-vid don't want to reference the circle of 5ths when they explain chord progressions or evaluate already established chord progressions. This leaves a lot of questions. You clarified the "why" in regards to a ton of decisions made made by artist and filled the gaps that piano players are leaving out. I can see where and why artist artist are using tri-tone subs now..some progression evaluations didn't make since before - now they do!! Thank you!!
My wife is a worship leader/pianist. I was able to use the knowledge from this video to wow her in key transitioning. Thanks, Brian, for (again) making me look like I know what I'm doing.
Brilliant explanation Brian. It just so happens that I was working on a song that had a key change in it, and this video gave me what I needed in a very clear way. Yet another practical application of the “Circle of Fifths” . Thank you.
I thank you from bottom of my heart. Your teachings answered my long years of questions: Why these things are build and how to use these. Thank you so much! ❤️
Damn, I’ve been looking at the circle of fifths since I was 12 probably, never fully understanding it but a little more each time I check it out. Watching it now; I’m like 85% there and kind of freaking out, cuz key changes to me are the last door to openly walking anywhere on the fretboard.. fuck yeah, thanks man.
Man I love your channel. I have young nephews here in Australia that I'll share with as they are chomping at the bit to learn music. All the best from Melbourne Australia. 😈🤘
PLEASE make a video on key changes or transitions using Major and Minor Sevenths, Sus 2 & 4, Add 9’s, Diminished, Augmented. That would be really great! ✨ Example - C Major Key to C minor Key using 7th (C Major - C7 - F Minor - C Minor) Thank you 🫡
This video is the video man. You need to understand key signatures first and foremost. All of that 7, 9, sus, etc. stuff is simply add ons to the triads. The triads are the foundation for which the key change occurs. THIS video that you are watching is the video that you want to pay attention to. Adding the extensions is simply icing on the cake. For a video regarding adding extensions to a single key signature, you might like this one: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qf-aVkLGdG4.html
I can't afford learning music from big name music institutes. Hence I'm here. One thing I must say that I would remain grateful to you forever for all the things you taught me through such videos. Regards to you.
Hola,apenas soy un aprendiz de musica y todo lo que enseñas me parece maravilloso, uno puede aprender sin complicarse tanto la vida,por eso,otra vez muchas gracias por compartir y hacernos a los que aprendemos mirando videos en yt mas faciles algunas cosas,cordial saludo amigo.
Thank you Brian! I am 57 and getting back into guitar and I have such a hard time understanding the correlation between many things in music. You have presented so much in a language I can grasp which makes my learning so fun again!!!! Thank you my friend. God Bless!
Why was example 2 not moving from C major to Eb major? The Eb note became the tonal centre. Also, in example three, C and Eb were, again, the tonal centre (to my ears) regradless of the first underlying minor chord in the progression.
Thanks Brian! So, you can either use the 5 chord to 1, or tri-tone sub chord to 1, or 2-5-1, can you mix and match? Could you go 2, then tri-tone sub of 5 and then to the 1 chord of new key? . . . Sometimes I don't trust my ears!
In order to "label" a chord, all you need to do is to recognize if it is "in key" or "out of key". If the chord in question is "out of key", you can then look to assign a "label" to it (eg. "borrowed chord", etc). However in this case it can simply just be labeled as a "dominant" chord since G is a 5th above C 🎸
What determines where on the fretboard of a given scale you play while doing a solo? Say for Aminor @ around 10:44 do you have to play the scale at that location or does ANYWHERE on the scale work?
Yup anywhere on the fretboard works! There are only 12 notes in total on the fretboard, and 7 of those notes are the A minor scale notes. Play any of those 7 notes, anywhere on the fretboard, and you are good to go 😁
@@zombieguitar Ok just the whole "box" that you use to solo confused me. I guess that is just something more for begginers that only have like 1 of the scale patterns memorized. Your lessons are great man. I stopped playing over a decade ago and just started up again like 2 weeks ago... Already feel like I have learned more in these 2 weeks watching urs and other videos then i did in the 10 or so years i played when i was younger... "self tought" of course. I used to just memorize songs, have tried to take a different approach this time as I never seemed to get much better back then just kind of hit a wall and didn't progress as much as i should have.... Of course YT didnt exist back then all I had were like guitar magazines and shit lol... Im learning on my brother's Ukulele that was given to me after he passed away in 2020. This was his RU-vid channel ( ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-v-HwNtWQ7ik.html ) he was a bit of a working musician out in Hawaii. Its funny I tought him how to play guitar when we were younger (he was 10 yrs older then me) and in a way he inspired me to take it up again.
Of course the golden rule is to always use your ear... But if the goal is to get to a minor key, you could try to do a ii° - V - i. The V would still remain a dominant chord (or major triad). This is typical for minor keys, and this is where the harmonic minor scale is derived from. It's a bit trickier, but with some experimentation, you could definitely find something that sounds good!
that 2-5-1 sounded abrupt to me because as soon as you go to the 2 you have changed key and that in itself sound abrupt to me. is there a way to lessen that?
Well, the less "outside notes" that are used that aren't in the starting key...the less drastic of a change it will be. This is where some nice chord substitutions would come into play 😀
