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@@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095 This is supposed to show you how to play those chords. If you aren't willing to play those chords yourself, there was no point in you watching the video. If you are willing to play the chords, there is no point in having the chords played in the video.
but harmony is way more complicated than that, this is just one way of voicing, its not considering keys, inversions, drop voicings etc, if simplicity is what you need, just stick to CAGED, its much simplier and its a good system
Wow, I'm actually pretty aware of most music theory and quite good at using it on the guitar, but this is a completely refreshing new way to look at it. Good job!
This is my first time seeing your Channel. I've been afraid of theory. I didn't know that I had ADHD or Dyslexia and when I took up learning guitar my teacher informed me that he's been teaching music all his life and that it was his observation that I would never be able to understand music or play the guitar. He said "the course was paid for in full and that it would be a shame to waste the remaining money". So, he suggested that I spend what was left on harmonicas... so I did. I'm a good harp player but I could never quit playing guitar... although music theory has been a mystery to me. You make it sound sensible and I thank you that. I'm 73 now ... music is a pleasure to me. People around me are deteriorating and many have passed ... but my music ... guitars and harps are with me still. I just got a keyboard... I figured that would be "basic and visual". I'm going to see more of your videos too. Thanks ❤️👍.
I played guitar for 25 years, never understood any theory. Then came RUclips and I learned a lot in just a year. Starting to play keyboard also helped, it is as you said more visual. If you are like me you just need to find the right teacher.
Idk why this is so much easier to visualize and apply than anything else, but it is. Thanks for the secret chord. Suddenly Hendrix, Buckley and the Vs make so much more sense.
I sort of "discovered" this chord while starting out on guitar, and I just really like how it sounds But now thanks to this video I know how useful it can be! Thanks!
i love this style of video! if i could make one suggestion, it would be to have auditory queues when showing the chord/describing what it may sound like. for example, when you're exposing the difference between maj7 and dominant 7, you could have the maj7 chord strummed once or played once when you're talking about it, then have the 7th note played, and when switching to the dominant 7 you can have the chord strummed or played once, and when referencing the note, play the flat 7 as a single note! i think that would take your video to the next level :D other than that, i loved it
Great suggestion. This video is definitely helpful in conceptualizing different chord forms. Having the sounds to correlate would be a great icing on the cake to help train the ear, too.
One of my new favourite channels! Honestly Sam, you have absolutely nailed everything about your presentation & editing style here. The clear verbal explanations supported by excellent animated graphics make your videos so valuable, especially as a novice guitar player like myself trying to build up theory knowledge. I've played bass for several years with almost no regard for theory (playing by ear) and this stuff is a bit of a revelation. Thanks and please keep doing what you're doing!
Glad to see you back, Sam! Thanks. Straight to the point and as insightful as probably never ever anywhere else. Appreciate your contribution and aid to all of us.
Really helpful, clear and easy to learn guitar videos, I barely comment on yt but I have consistently had my understanding of the fretboard improved by your channel
I have strumming guitar for long and stuck by just playing without understanding and can helped but always confused about music theory especially about guitar. But this channel is A Guitar Hack! I have been in a several video from this channel and a kind of found my eureka time. Still need to chew everything carefully but I my knowledge on guitar is improving. I can jump on notes with knowledge. Thank you for such an opening knowledge.❤
I dont comment on YT much, but this video was so helpful. Clear, concise, not overly long. I really like the format and visual aids. This really helped my understanding of intervals. I could've used this a decade ago, lol, but I'm glad it's here now! Thank you!
Best practical music theory for guitar ie the anatomy and working of and for building chords. One suggestion would be to display the name and order of each string 5:12
Musicians! Pay attention I am currently working with and performing with a Jazz Quartet and I use every single chord voicing on guitar 🎸 contained in this post. However, these same chord voicings are also used in country Blues Folk Rock reggae Blue Grass Pop R&B Soul gospel and on and on. You can not go wrong with this lesson and these Chord Voicing no matter what style of music that are interested in playing! Enjoy!
This is very interesting. You started with the E shape. If you transpose it up a fourth to the A string, you get the A shape. Transpose up another fourth to the D string to get the D shape. So all of these chords are from the same family, where the chord tones are on the same fret or higher than the root. But what about the other family? In the G shape, all the notes are on the same fret as the root or lower. Transpose the G chord up by a fourth (taking it from the sixth string to the fifth string) and you get the C shape. Now between the two families you’ve covered all the CAGED chords.
Im starting to see crazy useful stuff like this all over now. Another example is if you start the circle of fifths on any root you get the notes of the major pentatonic scale
I found this way of understading the patterns in the guitar all alone and it really took me a while!!! My life would've been easier if this video existed at the time. Now I'm sending your video to my amateur musical friends to help'em, you explain it really well!! greetings from brazil, great vid.
I've never seen the material presented this way - it makes sense to me. Let's see if I can remember it tomorrow, but right now, I feel a little smarter than I was.
Highly valuable video. I noticed similar patterns when 7ths compared to other 7ths, suspended chords, and regular major minor chords. Usually starting on the A string though and some on the E
What really helps (if your hand is big enough) is being able to use your thumb for the base string. From there, it's simply manipulating the A- shape...
dude the most useful chords are 35 voicings of drop 2,3 and 2 and 4 of minor and major 6th dim scale since if you borrow any notes from the neighbor full diminished chords you can create tons of cololorful harmony, and chord substitutions, they are fascinating even in a way that like adding 5th string note to high set string of drop 2 3rd inversion of minor 7th makes chord a major 9 chord. and there are really tons of way to create pretty harmoney with such diffrent substitution skills like that creating simple repating note triads to 7th chords plus altered sounds
This was the MOST useful video I have ever seen! Many of your others are amazing too but this one beats them all. I’ve been playing for many years. Do you do private lessons?
It would have been a bit clearer if your chord tone diagrams also included the flattened or raised notes instead of just 1-3-5-7. I feel a sense of validation in knowing all of this already, but this is indeed quality content for beginners who don't know chord structure or the notes of the board yet.
always completely obssesed about this chord every since I first learned it and I never could put my finger on why, it's gotta be something to do with this
I might! However I feel if you are able to understand and implement this idea from an E string root position then you are probably able to then do the same from A and D string positions 👌
How do you finger this shape effectively though? Muting the A string is my problem. Do you reach over with your thumb to get the low E and mute the A the thumb or hit low E with index and other notes accordingly? The first is told to me by many to be not such good practice, but it makes fingering the other notes so much easier, the second is less strenuous but makes the fingering more complicated. Anybody got input on this?
In reality you should strive to be able to comfortably play both the fingerings you mentioned..they should feel as effortless as each other. I would suggest the index on the low E followed by the 3rd(ring finger) on the D string then 4th finger on G and 2nd (middle) finger on the B string. This should be very comfortable and allow you enough stretch to adjust the intervals to form new chords... and your 1st finger (index) should take care of any muting on the A + high E strings without any effort👌
Sam!! Do you have any content about modes? I would love to see you explaining this topic, just found your channel and I am amazed by the easiness of your explaining, your channel is top quality.
I hate having Dyscalculia man because I feel like a lot of these things I know subconsciously or my fingers can move and my ears can guess where is the right spot in the scale to form chord etc but the moment people starting throwing all these numbers around my brain just stops working. Like you explained this like it was the most simple obvious thing on the planet yet my brain has pretty much no idea what you just said :( I hate it.
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Thank you! Finally someone brave, who is not affraid to show, that harmony is much less complicated than many thinks 😁
You're welcome!!
@@Samjamguitar
You should have played each chord.
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@@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095 This is supposed to show you how to play those chords. If you aren't willing to play those chords yourself, there was no point in you watching the video. If you are willing to play the chords, there is no point in having the chords played in the video.
@@ThorsShadow
But playing the chord would be a better teaching aid.
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but harmony is way more complicated than that, this is just one way of voicing, its not considering keys, inversions, drop voicings etc, if simplicity is what you need, just stick to CAGED, its much simplier and its a good system
Wow, I'm actually pretty aware of most music theory and quite good at using it on the guitar, but this is a completely refreshing new way to look at it. Good job!
This is my first time seeing your Channel. I've been afraid of theory. I didn't know that I had ADHD or Dyslexia and when I took up learning guitar my teacher informed me that he's been teaching music all his life and that it was his observation that I would never be able to understand music or play the guitar. He said "the course was paid for in full and that it would be a shame to waste the remaining money". So, he suggested that I spend what was left on harmonicas... so I did. I'm a good harp player but I could never quit playing guitar... although music theory has been a mystery to me. You make it sound sensible and I thank you that. I'm 73 now ... music is a pleasure to me. People around me are deteriorating and many have passed ... but my music ... guitars and harps are with me still. I just got a keyboard... I figured that would be "basic and visual". I'm going to see more of your videos too. Thanks ❤️👍.
you're guitar teacher is an idiot.... anyone could learn the guitar.
he would have said the same thing about me.
you need a good teacher
I played guitar for 25 years, never understood any theory. Then came RUclips and I learned a lot in just a year. Starting to play keyboard also helped, it is as you said more visual.
If you are like me you just need to find the right teacher.
This channel will blow up.
Hopefully
@@Samjamguitar nah Abraar is right man, this channel WILL blow up.
This guy is probably the best guitar theory teacher so i think after some time he willl blow up
I agree
Yes! Just subbed. 😀
Idk why this is so much easier to visualize and apply than anything else, but it is. Thanks for the secret chord. Suddenly Hendrix, Buckley and the Vs make so much more sense.
You're very welcome!
I sort of "discovered" this chord while starting out on guitar, and I just really like how it sounds
But now thanks to this video I know how useful it can be! Thanks!
I remember creating all the 7th chords variations with this method on my own. Was a game changer!
i love this style of video! if i could make one suggestion, it would be to have auditory queues when showing the chord/describing what it may sound like. for example, when you're exposing the difference between maj7 and dominant 7, you could have the maj7 chord strummed once or played once when you're talking about it, then have the 7th note played, and when switching to the dominant 7 you can have the chord strummed or played once, and when referencing the note, play the flat 7 as a single note!
i think that would take your video to the next level :D other than that, i loved it
I agree!! And will implement this in future videos for sure👌
Great suggestion. This video is definitely helpful in conceptualizing different chord forms. Having the sounds to correlate would be a great icing on the cake to help train the ear, too.
Thks very good theory
One of my new favourite channels! Honestly Sam, you have absolutely nailed everything about your presentation & editing style here. The clear verbal explanations supported by excellent animated graphics make your videos so valuable, especially as a novice guitar player like myself trying to build up theory knowledge. I've played bass for several years with almost no regard for theory (playing by ear) and this stuff is a bit of a revelation. Thanks and please keep doing what you're doing!
For people like me who's been tried to crack the code for 3 decades this is pure gold man. Thanks.
many thanks!
Glad to see you back, Sam!
Thanks. Straight to the point and as insightful as probably never ever anywhere else.
Appreciate your contribution and aid to all of us.
Cheers Andrej! Much appreciated 👍
Really helpful, clear and easy to learn guitar videos, I barely comment on yt but I have consistently had my understanding of the fretboard improved by your channel
That's great Oliver! And very much appreciated 👍
This is one of the best and most useful lesions that I have ever encountered.
I have strumming guitar for long and stuck by just playing without understanding and can helped but always confused about music theory especially about guitar. But this channel is A Guitar Hack! I have been in a several video from this channel and a kind of found my eureka time. Still need to chew everything carefully but I my knowledge on guitar is improving. I can jump on notes with knowledge. Thank you for such an opening knowledge.❤
thanks you! its much appreciated!
I dont comment on YT much, but this video was so helpful. Clear, concise, not overly long. I really like the format and visual aids. This really helped my understanding of intervals. I could've used this a decade ago, lol, but I'm glad it's here now! Thank you!
Thank you for watching! And welcome to the channel!
Dont be surprised if this channel blows up like crazy
This is QUALITY content!
Keep it up!
Appreciate it!
I've never heard it explained so clear and concise. You just helped me break through a wall. Thank you! 🤘
Glad it helped!
the best video with the best explanation, so simple, so tranquil, so accurate, not to much information, it's perfect.
Wow, thanks!
This is, without any doubt, the most usefull video on chords i’ve ever seen
Once again simple but profound! Best explanations of theory on the internet! Thanks!✌️❤️
Many thanks John👌
Hands down the best fretboard memorization on youtube! Thanks Samjam.
My pleasure!
Best practical music theory for guitar ie the anatomy and working of and for building chords.
One suggestion would be to display the name and order of each string 5:12
Hard to find a straight forward explanation, coming from a music school and I've found really useful things in these videos, keep up the great work!
Much appreciated 👌 thankyou!
Musicians!
Pay attention I am currently working with and performing with a Jazz Quartet and I use every single chord voicing on guitar 🎸 contained in this post. However, these same chord voicings are also used in country Blues Folk Rock reggae Blue Grass Pop R&B Soul gospel and on and on. You can not go wrong with this lesson and these Chord Voicing no matter what style of music that are interested in playing! Enjoy!
Exactly!! Well said👌
This is very interesting. You started with the E shape. If you transpose it up a fourth to the A string, you get the A shape. Transpose up another fourth to the D string to get the D shape. So all of these chords are from the same family, where the chord tones are on the same fret or higher than the root.
But what about the other family? In the G shape, all the notes are on the same fret as the root or lower. Transpose the G chord up by a fourth (taking it from the sixth string to the fifth string) and you get the C shape. Now between the two families you’ve covered all the CAGED chords.
Great way of looking at it👍
Im starting to see crazy useful stuff like this all over now. Another example is if you start the circle of fifths on any root you get the notes of the major pentatonic scale
I found this way of understading the patterns in the guitar all alone and it really took me a while!!! My life would've been easier if this video existed at the time. Now I'm sending your video to my amateur musical friends to help'em, you explain it really well!! greetings from brazil, great vid.
Great thanks!
This is the most useful and informative guitar learning channel on RUclips. I love how everything is so easily digestible and simply explained.
Wow, thanks!
Really helpful way of visualising and extending roots on the 5th string is trivial. Thanks for this phenomenally helpful video!
You're very welcome!
I needed this years ago, thanks buddy!
Pd: thanks to YT too for recomend this to me the same day you upload it, time to practice!
Glad it helped! Be sure to watch the video linked at the end of this Lesson which discusses this subject in much more detail and much more👍
this video is a gem. thank you
Glad you enjoyed it...feel free to watch more lessons like this on my channel 👌
Your content is TOO GOOD. Keep posting, bro.
Appreciate it!
Really Great tutorial. My playing utterly changed when I first learned this. You've put it really simply here. Great channel by the way. Subscribed
Awesome, thank you!
Just about to binge watch all your video's, should I get popcorn?
Given the nature of your RUclips name.... I would suggest a dip instead.
Thank you Sam, looking to piece together the launguage of moosic, look forward to learning more, bless you
Glad you're enjoying the Lessons on my channel Peter! Keep it up👍
I've never seen the material presented this way - it makes sense to me. Let's see if I can remember it tomorrow, but right now, I feel a little smarter than I was.
That's super helpful for beginners. Didn't see anything as compact and digestable before tbh
Expertly described. Concise, and thorough.
Wow, wow...! ...This is the full PWR of musical Science...!!!
Thanx a lot indeed...!
Glad you liked it!
Highly valuable video. I noticed similar patterns when 7ths compared to other 7ths, suspended chords, and regular major minor chords. Usually starting on the A string though and some on the E
Excellent! Just what I was looking for 👍🤘👏
Enjoy!
Wonderful explanation! 👏🏻
Thanks👍
What really helps (if your hand is big enough) is being able to use your thumb for the base string. From there, it's simply manipulating the A- shape...
Your crazy good teacher, short, clear and right, so much thanks. inspiring. God bless
Thanks 👌
Well this is life altering. Bravo.
Knowing a little bit about music theory already, this helped tremendously. I’m gonna have to watch it a few more times to soak it in though.
I've watched A LOT of guitar videos. This is easily one of the best!! Well done Sir, keep up the good work and channel should explode :)
Wow, thanks!
Rhis channel was ao accurate and honest ..
Thanks 👌
Short and sweet, Just the facts. Thank-you!
You're welcome!
Thanks for this video. Clarifies so much of my personal chord chaos.
Glad it was helpful!
Unlocking precious video indeed!
OMG your videos are aamazing! Thanks and keep up the good work!
Thank you! Will do!
what an underrated channel! hope you get far soon!
Thanks I appreciate that! 👍👍
Great lesson
Many thanks Andy 👍
Absolutely mind blowing presentation on Chords. Bravo 👍and thanks
My pleasure!
Incredible channel! Greetings from Brazil.
Hey, thanks!
dude the most useful chords are 35 voicings of drop 2,3 and 2 and 4 of minor and major 6th dim scale since if you borrow any notes from the neighbor full diminished chords you can create tons of cololorful harmony, and chord substitutions, they are fascinating even in a way that like adding 5th string note to high set string of drop 2 3rd inversion of minor 7th makes chord a major 9 chord. and there are really tons of way to create pretty harmoney with such diffrent substitution skills like that creating simple repating note triads to 7th chords plus altered sounds
Incredibly useful! Thank you so much for this!
Glad it was helpful!
This is pure gold!
Bravo 👏 Thanks for sharing!
Thanks 👌
Great video! Keep on making these!
Thanks! Will do!
God dam dude ! That was so well put together,
Cheers! Much appreciated 👌
Such valuable information, and presented in the most perfect way. Thank you for taking the time to produce these lessons!
This is the best chord construction secret pattern
Thanks!
The absolute best guitar channel. Thanks! 🙌🏼
Thank-you for saying so!
This was the MOST useful video I have ever seen! Many of your others are amazing too but this one beats them all. I’ve been playing for many years. Do you do private lessons?
Very soon this will be one of the best channels
Hopefully!
This is immensly useful for me, a big thank you
You are welcome!
Dayum Sam, I love the way your mind frames shit….! Thanks for sharing…
No probs 👌
I’m proud I recognized it was a Major 7th chord from the thumbnail 😅
I'm about to binge watch this channel I'm actually retaining this information 👍
Excellent lesson. Thank You
This is the most amazing video I've ever watched
Thanks 👌
@@Samjamguitar No, thank you
It would have been a bit clearer if your chord tone diagrams also included the flattened or raised notes instead of just 1-3-5-7. I feel a sense of validation in knowing all of this already, but this is indeed quality content for beginners who don't know chord structure or the notes of the board yet.
You make music so logical. Other teachers not so much.
Thanks!
Good video! I'd love to see a video on triads.
Noted!
Great vid, Sam.
Thankyou
always completely obssesed about this chord every since I first learned it and I never could put my finger on why, it's gotta be something to do with this
I love this chord
Super easy to use, great vid man
happy to find this channel, these video work very fine with me
Great to hear!
Cool vid! Thank you. 💚🎸
Glad you enjoyed it!
Bossa Nova will teach you a lot and it's fun to play.
Thanks a lot bro this helps me a lot
Happy to help!
where are you man? upload more content please 🙏🏻
Excellent 👏👏 thank you 💯🎸
Cheers!
These videos are priceless
Thanks!
Brilliant stuff 👍🏼
Incredible content. All the best
Crazy good!
Glad you think so!
Such a nice illustration! Are you planning to do the same for chords with the root on the A and D strings?
I might! However I feel if you are able to understand and implement this idea from an E string root position then you are probably able to then do the same from A and D string positions 👌
AmAzing amount of stuff I didn’t know in a quick tidy package. Well done sir 🤙🤙. Thank You. Liked and subscribed and rang the bell. 🤙🤙
Great video!
Thanks!
Thanks!
Cheers for the SUPER THANKS!! It's Very much appreciated 👌
How do you finger this shape effectively though? Muting the A string is my problem.
Do you reach over with your thumb to get the low E and mute the A the thumb or hit low E with index and other notes accordingly? The first is told to me by many to be not such good practice, but it makes fingering the other notes so much easier, the second is less strenuous but makes the fingering more complicated.
Anybody got input on this?
In reality you should strive to be able to comfortably play both the fingerings you mentioned..they should feel as effortless as each other. I would suggest the index on the low E followed by the 3rd(ring finger) on the D string then 4th finger on G and 2nd (middle) finger on the B string. This should be very comfortable and allow you enough stretch to adjust the intervals to form new chords... and your 1st finger (index) should take care of any muting on the A + high E strings without any effort👌
@@Samjamguitar Thank you so much for the reply! Love the content, good luck with growing your channel🤘
Sam!! Do you have any content about modes? I would love to see you explaining this topic, just found your channel and I am amazed by the easiness of your explaining, your channel is top quality.
I hate having Dyscalculia man because I feel like a lot of these things I know subconsciously or my fingers can move and my ears can guess where is the right spot in the scale to form chord etc but the moment people starting throwing all these numbers around my brain just stops working. Like you explained this like it was the most simple obvious thing on the planet yet my brain has pretty much no idea what you just said :( I hate it.
so good lesson
Thanks!
Amazing!
Thank you! Cheers!