Thank you for being patient in your videos I appreciate the way that you take your time to share with your audience instead of running right through it. Cheers 🌍🍕
Way back before internet, when I was learning guitar, I didn't understand what an arpeggio was. It was never explained in the guitar magazines I was picking up... "just play an arpeggio, man" ... Finally figured out what arpeggios were, and that I'd been playing them for a while. Appreciate you taking the time to share and explain your observations
It's so much easier to learn chords on the piano, when it comes to actual notes because it's so linear- knowing all that made my transition to guitar easier, and I often go to the piano to figure out a chord composition, just because it's so easy🥰
This was great! Thank you for breaking down the importance of arpeggios. Is there any chance you could another chord building video with arpeggios? They’re a real help. You’re the man!
Thanks for this video Sean. Love your take on making things musical using the theory as a guide not a cast in stone rule (at least that is how I interpreted it LOL)
Arpeggio means playing the chord one note at a time, like Beethoven's Fur Elise. You demonstrated playing scales, or 'runs', between chords. Learning notes in a chord is as easy as counting on your fingers, one letter per digit, just leave out the even numbers, so 1, 3, 5: Am ; 1 ( A = pinky), 3 ( C = middle ), 5 ( E = thumb ), you skipped 2 (B = ring ), 4 ( D = pointer ), CM ; 1 ( C = pinky), 3 ( E = middle ), 5 ( G = thumb ), you skipped 2 (D = ring ), 4 ( F = pointer ). To make a minor chord into a major chord, raise the 3 note 1/2 step ( one fret). To make a major chord into a minor, lower the 3 note 1/2 step. Very easy to see in the A, Am & D, Dm & E, Em chords.
My recommendation would be, move here to Victoria BC because Hallmark is shooting movies here ALL the time. Mostly christmas specials though. Also, you'd be kind of a big fish here...
I’m thinking more a movie of your life with like the American Hugh Grant playing you. Guitar Guys. Justin and Marty could be supporting characters:). The intrigue in the lives of your favorite you tube guitar gurus. I’m working on the narrative arc.... could be awesome! 🥳
Good job with this lesson Sean. Do you use this method for soloing the first time (on the spot) with another player, or more for composing original music? Good stuff, and great job teaching/explaining these things in a way that is so easy to understand. Much appreciated.
Once my mom realized I had an ear for playing my daddy’s guitar (which he could not play a lick and told me to never touch it) I was pushed into 8 years of guitar lessons with a teacher that only taught what I considered “old people’s” music like Johnny Cash, etc… hey, I was a child of the late 60’s and 70’s. I could read sheet music as well but was never taught the basic note and chord names, flats, sharps, major and minor. Finally one day I burst into tears during a lesson and announced that I hated playing the guitar and wanted no more lessons. Being forced as a kid only makes you push harder the other way. All this being said and now 60 years young, I want to purchase an electric guitar and amp. I currently have an Ovation acoustic that is 30+ years old and sounds good as it did brand new. What are your suggestion(s)?
Ill probably get beat up for this but i bought a faux tele for 100 bucks, i also bought 15w tube amp 250 just received it and both are out of this planet. There are alot of video reviews of both. I read 300 reviews and had concerns of the fret sprout but for a 100 dollar guitar i could take up luthier skills and if i screw it up oh well id order another of either in a heartbeat. ***i edited the company names out since this is a sponsored video. However you can sesrch youtube for both and they will pop up "100 dollar guitar" and "cheap tube amp"
Yes, I love it. Once I learned the notes that made up chords, it put the picture on the puzzle, instead of staring at empty puzzle pieces I could see what it was. Like you said, you can discover your own voicings once that happens. Flipping through plages of a chord book gets old after a while, but if you find them on your own you won’t forget them. I use G7 when I practice but that’s about it. It’s pretty ugly, I’d rather use just a G major.
@@Todd_Connelly yea, that’s what makes it a 7th. There’s a position that almost looks like a regular G chord, but your pointer finger is on the high E string, first fret which is F. F= dominant, F# Major 7. You can play a G7 in the Key of C major instead of G major. 5 chords in major keys can go dominant, but they need resolved.
Excellent advice, as always! Thank you! Question, though: It looks like you've got double-jointed thumbs-at 13:14, for example. So do I, and it's causing me some pain while playing barre chords. Is it ever an issue for you? And if so, do you have any advice? I've tried splints and braces and littlre stretchy cuffs, and it didn't really work. Would be grateful for any tips!
When your playing G major arpeggio and adding the 2nd or 9th wouldn’t it technically be a GADD9? If you weren’t playing the 3rd you could call it a Gsus2 right? Great stuff Sean! Go Dodgers!
Interesting, just confused on the part at 13.40 time where you mention playing C Major 7 and Eb major 7 , shouldn't the C Major 7 be a C Minor 7 in relation? Thanks
The point he is making is that sometimes songs change key. Sometimes for an extended period, sometimes only briefly. Point being in the key of C major there is NO Eb note or chord.
@@rajeshgumber363 from my understanding this is called borrowed chords. Which is why you learn all the modes. C Phyrgian has a EbMajor chord and C Ionian (Major) has a E minor chord. When playing a song in C major you can borrow chords from C's other modes. So instead of just playing the same 7 chords (I ii iii IV V vi vii°) you have a ton of new chords to add into your music.
Hey Sean, i have learned so much from your classes on patreon and your youtube videos though i still have so much to learn. However, if you would by any chance do a video on how to relax the fretting hand. Short of smoking a fat dube to relax, wich i havent done since college i can not keep my fretting hand relaxed wich is slowing me down tremendously as though rigormortis has set in. I cant be the only one with this problem. Please help. Thanks and keep up the great work.
Thanks for this lesson and encouragement to learn the intervals inside the different chords. Things are starting to connect for me on guitar. It makes me want to get a USDA Grade A Angus beef hamburger. Yumm!
I'm super late in commenting, but I think it's worth mentioning that you'd make an excellent elf in a Hallmark Christmas movie... if anyone from Hallmark is watching this make it happen!!!!
Roughly quoting you ”Not tasty?” What?When you get into at around the 11:00 min, you not only played Bob Marley’s ‘Redemption Song’ but also The Temptation ‘I’ve got Sunshine.’ Many a hit song was written this way. I’m always playing with this connective tissue in different meters, and order to find the hooks.
Sometimes I put Sean on when I just want to fall asleep. Blah Blah Bla... that s the major 3rd... now I flatte nnnnnnn iiiiiiiiiiiiittttttttttttttttttttttttt snore...
I think it might be better to always quickly demonstrate what you are about to teach before you start the teaching and then demonstrating it again afterwards.
While I do sympathise with your hallmark movie dreams, it's far too early in the year to be mentioning the C word. Awesome video though, very helpful! :)