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Too many ttalking, try improvve yr show, cheers

I am trying to test out of a class and this is the only thing I still needed to figure out. I literally got an email about testing out earlier. Thank you

Inversions, voicing, voice leading all affect the “quality” of the harmony. This is why guitar became the hegemonic instrument of music in the twentieth century. Guitar almost automatically inverts voices and voice leads. The other hegemonic instrument is the piano. But. The keyboard layout is completely graphic. It needs a conscious effort to achieve what a guitar does automatically but could be easier to demonstrate harmonic principles. Just trying to briefly explain what came to mind watching this.

Why is there a question mark after the 4 in let it be? mystery chord?

Wow, man, you just blew my mind! 🎸 Back in high school, about 16 years ago, I started teaching myself guitar. It was all very basic-learning chords, simple strumming patterns, and looking up songs I liked to try and play along. I didn’t know anything about music theory or harmony back then. All I understood was that chords had letter names, but I had no clue why C was C or E was E. I also noticed some chords sounded amazing together, while others didn’t-but I never knew why. Fast forward a few years, a piano came into my life, and I started figuring that out too. I began seeing patterns on the keys, learning the names of the notes, and figuring out how to form chords. That was a big moment for me-finally understanding why C is C and E is E. 😄 That knowledge helped me understand the guitar better too, but even then, scales, chord progressions, and all the numbers people talked about-1, 3, 5-still felt like a mystery. Then I stumbled on your video, and wow... it feels like every piece of knowledge I’ve gathered over the years finally clicked into place. When you explained how chords interact, how they feel, and how they relate to each other, it was like a veil was lifted. Suddenly, everything made so much sense-the beauty of harmony, the logic behind progressions, and why certain chords just work. I’m beyond excited right now! Thank you so much for creating this video. It’s given me a whole new understanding of music and how everything connects. Please keep doing what you’re doing-it’s incredibly helpful and inspiring! TL;DR Started learning guitar 16 years ago with no clue about music theory, later explored piano and began seeing patterns but still didn’t fully understand scales or chord progressions. Your video was a game-changer-it tied everything together, made harmony and chord relationships finally click, and completely blew my mind. Thank you for helping me see the bigger picture after all these years!

this was classic vague youtuber explanation of something they cant explain😅

Heh, hundreds of charts! Algo feed.

How little prep can one get away with!? Is RUclips impromptu rambling but free; honest rambling perhaps; can I do better? Can David Bennet do better and to what gain; not more views? There’s a discussion there, volume V quality V artifice V integrity V effort V cynicism. I fed the algorithm two ways + subbed.

Omfg I understand it now, it took me until the 4 chord for it to click 😂 Or maybe I still don’t get fully how to name chord progressions but using solfeg to sing around helped at least in the key of c haha

I’m trying so hard to get into numbered chords because I started playing at jams and people only call out the numbers (and the key). It’s frustrating right now but this is exactly what I needed!

oh man, i needed to hear this today! I just found your channel and I am loving the way you teach. I so agree on its a way to learn/teach life. Sometimes nothing happens and feel stuck and then one thing clicks!!!

Harmony are easier when done in relation to a melody. One good way to internalise harmony is to imagine that each chord brings a different direction to the melody. To start with, one has to be able to realise the melody (realising the so-fa names) in real-time. Then while minding the melody, think of directions like up, down, strong up, left/right turn, normal position (I), a weaker return to normal and big turn (turning backwards) vs small, sad up(VI), supportive downward (IV), sitting back to strong support (IV), loosing strength (dim), sideway weak support (III) ... etc. Invent your personal volcabrulary and map it to each chord you lean and realise from the music that you can identify. The guitar is a terrible tool to learn harmony because the inversion is more or less built into each chord. So getting a cheap keyboard is vital. Just one generation ago this was prohibitively expensive so do it now when it is cheap! After that, just keep listening to music and map it to the music.

This is possibly the most interesting thing I‘ve learned about music in a decade. Thank you so much

I have been trying to hear these cords for years. I thank you for these new ways to think about the chords. I will keep trying as I think it is important.

This was a great video Chris - thanks! I got tripped up on the second chord of the Green Day progression (the 4 chord) as a could hear a 6. I think I need to concentrate on listening for the "feeling" of each chord first and foremost. I want to start practicing this daily on real songs - I was thinking of starting with Country/Pop songs - maybe even Taylor Swift albums as she tends to use mostly the "primary" chords. Any other suggestions? Cheers!

This is why the Nashville Number System should be taught as early as possible, to musicians.

6:49 great lesson! I will mention that ii is supertonic, not subdominant. (Thought they do share an aspect of their feel!)

Great stuff! Thank you for posting this!

Wow, either I've gotten better or this one was easier than your last ear training vid haha

I think having an arrow pointing to what chord is currently being played will help a lot. I had trouble hearing when the progression looped

#4 = self-regulating your nervous system

Thanks for this. Really accessible and inspiring content. I sometimes play 320020 as a passing chord. It seems it has all the notes of a G chord and a C chord in it. What would you call that chord? Gadd4add6??

I am so hooked to what and how you teach. Much appreciated.

Very helpful. Thank you.

I would ask you to say fewer words and be more deliberate about what you are saying. So often you are talking over the sound which is very distracting. Tell us what to listen for, then play it but don't speak over it.

Your guitar is a bit quiet compared to your voice

I love you and I want to have your babies ... xxx Hiram Bullock was a guitarist who studied and REALLY brought harmony into his style and opened up his playing in every genre.

OMG, thank you so much. This makes ear training way easy to tackle and understand. You literally made me sooo happy and excited to work on my ear

Borrowed chords equals radiohead

Always looking for good analogies to understand theory stuff more functionally

Enjoyed the insight. Thanks for the lesson

10:12 what the tittle says how to learn harmony the you tell us to google stuff wtf 😅😂

You mentioned thinking about piano to correlate the "letters" (chord names) with the "numbers" (scale degree of root note of chord). If you think about barre chords on the guitar, you can kind of do the same thing. If you find the I ii, iii, IV, V, and vi chords on the guitar, say, in the key of A, I is the major barre chord rooted at the 5th fret of the E string, the ii chord is the same "shape" up two frets and make it minor, the iii chords is the ii chord up two frets. The IV chord is back on the 5th fret, "A" shaped chord (in CAGED sense) rooted on the A string (chord is actually D major), the V chord is the same "shape" moved up two frets. The vi chord is the up two frets and make it minor. Memorize this pattern of six chords, and you can move all six chords up and down the fretboard to get the chords for any key. Or to put another way, every key uses the same pattern of chords, just shifted up and down the fretboard. And minor keys may be had by their relative major. This is basically the same idea as your "piano keyboard way of thinking" but applied to the guitar fretboard. Obvious once you think about it, but worth pointing out.

Great lesson! Many thanks!

Loving it Chris! Keep 'em coming <3

Really confusing. The 'feel' of chords is to me self-evident, and can that be taught /learned? Just have to take your word for that. But digressing. To the point, 1 to 2; OK I guess. I see a full tone progression. But 1 to 3 sounds like it descends a semitone. OK so it depends which note you're mentally singing. And for 1 to 3 -or for any of them -it shouldn't necessarily be that bass note it seems. So I'm feeling like I need to know a lot more about 'tonic' and related ideas to perceive rules that I'm not getting here. The sense of the place in a progression, as I said, feels self -evident. Have I learned back to front? How could anyone have learned so much theory they're fine to play all these chords on demand without feeling their colour or 'climbing out of' or 'hitting the darkest point' or 'clearly about to arrive home' qualities?? If people really don't get that feel, then labelling a minor chord 'uplifting' is perhaps not going to help them much! And 'churchy'?? No idea. Never part of my life, 100 singings of Messiah notwithstanding. I dunno. What am I missing? What if 1 is up in 12th position /6th octave, and the progressions descend while that special undefined note ascends? How do we pick those notes to follow?

Thx for helping me on my journey man! I love the way you emphasize these are feelings. They are! I can remember being a kid and feeling like the music was revealing “adult” emotional reality. It was. Music can make you feel complex emotions and things you don’t even understand yet but now know are real.

Im really going to focus and try to get this working in my head. Im just now understanding Secondary Dominant moves while practicing in a I-vi-IV-V progression in C. I have it working just enough to be dangerous, I still have to go slow and think about it. Then I just saw a thing about moving four intervals back from the Secondary Dominant to find Secondary Sub-Dominant chords.......I can barely play the Secondary Dominants, lol. Hopefully we can play through some examples of all of this here.

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You are so helpful, it's insane

Imagine my surprise when I opened RUclips and saw this posted 2min ago. I know where my next 40min are going, welp

Er, you've used arabic number set for chords instead of roman numerals. Bit confusing, since arabic numbers are meant to denote scalar tones and roman numerals chords to differentiate the two.

Man I am so bad at this, I didnt get one right after level 1

Like others have said, these are really helpful. Looking forward to more of these! Keep it up man! 🤙

thank you <3

Are there more videos in the pro secrets series? This one was useful

Man I can't begin to tell you how helpful your videos are, thank you!! Can't wait for future videos. It feels like a personal guitar lesson

You’ve given me a good idea, im going to make a list of different feelings and emotions and then match them up to chords

But I think what add to it is the way you do the beat, like building tension

I think it’s cool, it’s more of an unexplored way of music, that I really think I’m going to start doing I hope you don’t mind