You Don't Know These Chords 

That sounds like a really good exercise actually lol

You're killing me smalls.

Ouch! 😬

They're coming back. Don't worry

That's because the bass player has to know wtf is actually going on 🤟

It literally doesn't matter. Make music, once you get a feel for the sounds, you can follow your curiosity into music theory. If you have never played a bunch of dominant seven or diminished chords, you won't really profit from knowing what they even are. Imagine this. You are playing a game, and in that game there are skills. You just started, and you have like 3 skills that you can hardly even use, but now some dude is trying to explain to you that you can combine a bunch of skills that you have never heard of, and won't for some time, in a area that you have never heard of, for some effect you have never seen and have no use for. Great. You have just cluttered your head with useless information. Learn to play songs first and foremost. Don't make the same mistake I did, playing scales and trying to understand concepts I had absolutely no use for. You can play all of these chords anyway, it's not like you need to unlock them, it's just the music theoretical implications that are entirely irrelevant to you. Practice and being able to play actual songs is a billion times more satisfying and also productive than whatever some music nerd is thinking about, 15 years into his professional music career. Playing some scale won't impress anyone, it generates absolutely 0 joy. You won't be improvising for some time, and outside of that it's just a warm up exercise. Musicians are NOT musicians because they understand music. They are musicians because they can play music. If understanding music will not help you play music (and it won't for now) it's jot going to make you a better musician.

​@Carl Panzram This is just pure factual information hahaha. Also a tip I can think of is just look for songs with which you can use these chords. Melodic minor as a scale is also especially useful in jazz.

@@carlpanzram7081 so true! Also something that helped me progress faster, heard it from this PRS silver sky promotion video John Mayer did: if you like the sound of something, learn why. Like, when you hear a specific song you like a lot, learn the theory behind the core idea of the song. John gave the example of Gravity, where instead of just learning the intro riff, also try to find out what those notes mean, for this example G maj pentatonic BB king spot NO.1. That way you can actually understand what you’re playing! And for a beginning player this works the same by for example trying to understand chords and simple extensions

Bro lmao

Yes, it’s a minor triad where the 7th degree is sharpened by a half step e minor 7 for example is e,g,b,d e major 7th is e,g#,b,d# a minor major 7th is e,g,b,d# you have the minor triad e,g,b but instead of d natural it’s a d sharp from the major 7th chord