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Ok, been watching your vids. They're good. To cover the multiple ways of learning, it would be *super helpful* if you could add the sounds of what you're stating and showing (instead of a "blip" sound), so there may be an audible connection to the words and pictures. Thanks for your hard work!
I’m an elderly Roman statesman who’s been playing the electric xylophone for 900 years. This is the most comprehensive list of chord types that I’ve ever seen anywhere.
Great video on chord building. I also have a reference: "Piano and Keyboard Chords" that I found at Half Price Books. Love your graphics and straightforward presentation.
Thanks Steve! Let me know what topics you would like to see me cover in the future 👍 and feel free to hit the NOTICATION BELL 🔔 if you haven't already 🙂
This is the best video I’ve come across explaining this topic combined with ur interval lesson there’s so much to be gained by guitarists here . Keep it up!
I stopped myself from commenting on this all week, until I watched over and over. This Sam, is by far the greatest lesson on chord building that I’ve ever watched. Thanks mate for your hard work and easy to follow lesson, and the other videos on your site 👍🏻🇬🇧🎸
I have to reply after watching this once. I’m not stupid lol, unless you ask an ex… 😂😂😂 but I’m gonna have to watch this over and over as well. Not that it’s confusing or a bad video, just to process lol
This channel is criminally underrated. One of the most straightforward approaches I’ve ever seen. All your channel content is so clear, well laid out, and easy to follow other creators should be jealous. Keep it up I’m learning loads.
Been trying to get music theory under my belt as a guitar player these last few weeks but this is just the most clear and well layed out video on chord building I've seen. Many thanks
I had a music teacher who drilled theory into my head. Years later I am so happy he did. For those of you who did not get formal training I highly recommend this video. It is streamlined for perfect understanding. If you need to, break it down into sections. Thank you to the professor behind this lesson.
I can NOT believe I NEVER thought to apply this strategy to the major scale. If you base it off of the major scale positions on both strings (E and A) you can create the chords across the neck on all strings and experiment with different chord voicing’s/inversions. Thank you so much! This was eye opening
This is SO much easier for keyboard players! I've played keys and guitar for 50-years now and what you've described is actually pretty trivial once it's shown in context. It's when you have to contort your hands into unnatural positions on the guitar that this becomes REALLY difficult! For a keyboardist, it's a piece of cake...
Funny thing, as a guitar player, I have the same contortion issues about playing keyboard. Especially regarding the visual aspect and transposing. It's so so much easier on guitar, IMHO. As long as I'm playing in C or G (and maybe A) piano is great fun. I've come this far, so what's with those horn players and that whole Bb thing? Talk about a guitarist nightmare? Until you tune down two frets, problem solved. Can't do that (easily) on a wooden piano tho. Rant over. What a cool channel and batch of videos on chord theory!
W H A T T H E H E C K this is most digestible explanation and presentation of theory on the guitar (western music in general) I've ever seen in my life! All in less than 20 mins. You are the real MVP 🏆
I found this video very helpful, especially when naming unusual chord voicings on guitar. There was a song a friend wrote that used a open G grip up two frets (from low E to high e strings the frets would be 5-4-0-0-0-5). I now know this would be referred to as an A11 chord as it contains scale degrees 1 3 b7 9 and 11.
Thanks for this lesson. I guess it was the right timing for me. I knew this chord theory should all make sense finally. Thank you for taking it home for me. Yes, I thought the same. Why have a book with 1000 chords. Huh ???
You are ripping through it but amazingly I get it. You have constructed this explanation very well. It may take me a long time to learn it all but at least I can understand it now. Thanks.
This is seriously the easiest most fastest straight forward lesson on this that exists on RUclips that I found so far and although I am not new to MusicTheory or chord construction, I stumbled upon this video and just randomly clicked on it and was more interested to see if this could help my sister who is just starting out with MusicTheory and I am definitely going to share this with her because for an absolute beginner this is so clear. Great video!
This is by far the best lesson I’ve ever watched about this subject. It helps a lot, it’s just so good and well explained. I’m recommending this to my friends!
This is insanely helpful, in 17 minutes (actually more like 30 cause i took way to many notes) this helped me understand everything i was missing about chord naming and finding the intervals and notes within those chords. Video deserves more than the one like i can give
Once again a thoroughly intense and beautifully laid out lesson! So much packed in such a short amount time. Unpacking now up to me slowly and accurately mastering each step along the way. Thank you!!! PS great graphics on fretboard and symbolic pics!✌️❤️
Every guitar player should learn theory. I learned it and it has helped me. As you said, you don’t have to memorize any of this. I never did but I know the whole neck of my guitar.
I just discovered this channel. Fantastic content and amazing job of consolidating music theory concepts into easily understood concise videos. Subscribed!
This here is top notch "Golden Video"... Thank you for taking the time to explain the formulas for chords. The way you've layed it out to understand is inspiring, and simply superb.
Sometimes you find yourself idly descending the RUclips search results, into the oblivion of videos with triple digit views. And sometimes when you're in there, you find gold. This is it. 🥇
Thank you very much🙂🙂 this particular lesson took alot of time/effort so a comment like this means alot...feel free to check out any of my other Lessons👍👍
@@Samjamguitar Don't worry, it shows! I really enjoyed your presentation. You've got pretty much (Well, in my opinion ha) the perfect blend of humour to keep it entertaining. Dry dead pan delivery with bizarre stock images is a surefire laugh from me. But moreover your voice is also just calm and pleasant as narration. I'm really green in the music world and I'm still coming to grips with even basic theory, so this did great job demystifying chord construction for me, which previously seemed like 50% black magic. The sound effects, animations, and repeated guided breakdowns of the chord formulas made it all really easy to follow along with. Still, by the end I had trouble keeping all the new information together, so I'm gonna have to do a few repeat viewings as you recommended haha. For sure going to watch more of your videos!
Best summary of my channel's general teaching approach I've heard so far 👌👌 Glad that it's all coming across in the way I intended 🙂 if you have any suggestions for further lessons then feel free to leave them in the comments...I have a list I'm working through but always on the look out for new ideas... Oh and ring that NOTICATION BELL 🔔 if you haven't already 👍
I came across this video because I wanted to start playing again after taking a long period off of not playing guitar. This is a great refresher and a time saver as I refresh my memory on what I learned years ago. Thanks for the help and greatly appreciated.
You should be applauded for the quality and effectiveness of this video. You covered everything from most basic to the more complex without it ever getting confusing and still managing to keep it as concise as possible. It's really a simple concept but it's easy to get lost without a visual guide, and the changing graphics were perfectly timed to make it clear for everyone.
This is literally incredible, I'm someone who needs to understand before I can do, and this channel so far has been a goldmine for this. Thanks for all your work 👊
This is probably the easiest and fastest way to lean all chords with no tears. This teaching method is stunning by its simplicity and visuals. Congratulations to the creators! Greetings from 🇵🇦
as you can see sam these are great videos, lets move on as most of this comment will be difficult to read but as you can see this video is fantastic, furthermore lets move on as you can see clearly that you can see unless your blind then you cant see. honestly though you have fantastic pacing in this. extremely informative and to the point.
Around the time you first released this video. I had no idea of the concept. Today I ran across this video again. Man, I had learned enough about notes and scales that now this all makes since. Thank you so much. That is what I am into now, learning these beautiful building blocks.
Love u sir. U motivate me to push even on the days where we don’t feel like it. My dad has cancer and financially we are unstable but because of u I get the motivation and the drive to also pursue my career as a musician ( flamenco guitarist) and complete my engineering nicely.
Watching this and affirming the knowledge I’ve been acquiring gradually from multiple sources was really confidence boosting. This is a very full and comprehensive guide and being able to connect/recognise all of it mostly intuitively feels like I’ve reached a solid benchmark in my understanding of chord theory. Thanks!
This one simple and straightforward explanation has demystified the basis behind chord names as well as help to find the varying possible chords behind any root note within a melody. Subscribed with thanks from Malaysia.
I'm dropping you a like and subscription because this is one of the most concise and simple explanations of Chord theory on RUclips, and just wanted to drop a kudos!
This is by far the best explanation i've seen on chord building. The visualization and illustrations you made make the information so much easier to digest, i donno why other channels don understand that. i mean Beatos knowledge is gr8 and he is very charismatic guy, but our brains best source of attention is through our visual experience. The way you play with sounds/clicks on important moments, like chord characteristics - minor/major 3rd - and the way you point our attention with special notes/frames/clicks - is just very smart and though out. English is not my native, but even i could understand everything. Only thing i would advise is to speak a bit slower, and maybe give more examples before you switch on the another theme. Thank you very much for ur hard work, i'll go and watch ur other videos. Btw how do i drill this stuff? i want to include chord knowledge in my practice routine, but when i open one chord in guitar pro for example i see like 20-30 variations of one basic triad and its inversions. How much is enough?
Here are some key points and takeaways from the chord theory video for notes or revisiting, im doing this for myself and to potentially help viewers: Chord formulas show the intervals that make up a chord relative to the root note (e.g. major triad = 1 3 5) Triads are 3 note chords built from major/minor thirds and fifths (major, minor, augmented, diminished) Seventh chords add a seventh interval to triads (major 7, minor 7, dominant 7) Suspended chords replace the third with a second or fourth (sus2, sus4) Ninth, eleventh, and thirteenth chords add those extensions to seventh chords Chord names tell you the formula (e.g. Gmaj7 = G major triad + maj 7 interval) Extensions come from continuing the major scale (9=2nd, 11=4th, 13=6th) Omit non-essential notes like 5ths and 9ths when building big chords Altered chords have b5, #5, b9, #9 intervals to create dissonance Key Takeaways: Learn chord formulas and intervals to build any chord Decode chord names to understand their structure Stack 3rds, 7ths, and extensions to form more complex chords Omit non-essential notes when playing big chords on guitar
This is such a good lesson! Every video you make is so much better than all the other channels I follow! I only have one criticism, I wish you made more videos! Lol! That's just me being greedy! I used to edit photos for a professional photographer. It took some time to edit photos and create marketing material so I can't imagine the time you put in to edit your videos! Anyway, thanks for yet another great lesson!
I am getting closer to my goal of going full time on this channel...when that happens I will be able to pump out much more content! Glad your enjoying the lessons!
This was FABULOUS. Rick Beato should watch your videos to see what "teaching" is all about. You started easy and built from there, like putting bricks on a wall. I need to watch a 2nd time to help retain it, but it all made perfect sense. thank you so much. This was truly a spectacular explanation
I've been eyeing this video for a while but. I always wondered, what are some of standard ways to shape your hand/fingers for some of these chords? I find myself making very awkward shapes which just never feel right. Also, are there any exercises to practice forming some of these chords, or getting them to be a bit more intuitive?
I will perhaps make a video regarding the fingering of less familiar chords!! In terms of practicing chords like this, i would highly recommend buying THE REAL BOOK amzn.to/3xxCApM it's a huge collection of jazz chord charts! Simply open a page every day and work through a page until the chords become far more familiar!! The link is an affiliate link so I will make a small commission from any sale! Its a great book that I use every day for teaching chords harmony etc! Hope that helps👌
Nice video, i kinda get it now. But can use any order of the notes from the chord. So if your 1 is on the low E, your 3 on the A and your 5 on the B. Can you than also switch them around so your 5 is on the A, 1 on the D and 3 on the G or does it has to be the 1-3-5(or different) order. Also does this apply to more scales or only this shape of the major scale. Thanks!!
You will be able to work out EVERY chords using this method and the major scale. Intervals can be in any order 135 351 531 these are referred to as inversions!
Sam is the best theory and guitar instructor of all time. I would recommend subscribing and start from the beginning to learn and advance your skills in learning how to play a guitar…period! Thanks Sam
Thank you very much Samjamguitar, incredible simple way to understand name and formulas and positions in the fretboard of different chords! . Congrats as always master!.
I understand the concept really well but Im having a really hard time understanding how to apply it to the fret board is there a place where I can get more examples on how?? 🙏
No probs! I would also recommend grabbing a copy of the REAL BOOK! this has hundreds of chord charts for jazz standards... great for putting chord construction into practise! here is a link amzn.to/3xxCApM
I cannot add anything to the other comments here. No superlatives adequately describe the clarity and usefulness of this lesson. I have listened to jazz musicians spelling chords and despaired of ever understanding the theory. I read music fairly well - enough to sight read a song accompaniment on the piano. I am however compelled to add my comment just out of gratitude- in short, you sir Rock! Thank you!
I think I watched this a couple years ago tounge and cheek. I had used a few videos on this channel the ones I could follow. I can’t say I know this but I can say I speak the language well enough to understand everything taught. I think I’d like to learn a lot more arpeggios . Maybe I’ll get out those jazz chord books I bought on Amazon lol
Thank you so much!!!!!! Your channel made me not give up on learning. I finally understand 😭 I hope ur merch gets sold out and you have an amazing life!
Where have you been all my RUclips life. I totally agree with the positive comments here. I hope you're making a few bob out of this - many thanks for helping this guitar theory loser (me) understand arpeggios, as well as their relationships with the other aspects of what chords are.
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Ok, been watching your vids. They're good. To cover the multiple ways of learning, it would be *super helpful* if you could add the sounds of what you're stating and showing (instead of a "blip" sound), so there may be an audible connection to the words and pictures. Thanks for your hard work!
Hey dude I found alot of theory videos a bit difficult to understand but your video was perfect balance of information and how to play it and when!
Sam. The link to your merch doesn't work for me...
I’m an elderly Roman statesman who’s been playing the electric xylophone for 900 years. This is the most comprehensive list of chord types that I’ve ever seen anywhere.
😆😆thanks!
😂😂😂
😂😂
Great video on chord building. I also have a reference: "Piano and Keyboard Chords" that I found at Half Price Books. Love your graphics and straightforward presentation.
Thanks Steve! Let me know what topics you would like to see me cover in the future 👍 and feel free to hit the NOTICATION BELL 🔔 if you haven't already 🙂
This is the best video I’ve come across explaining this topic combined with ur interval lesson there’s so much to be gained by guitarists here . Keep it up!
Great to hear!
Yesʻ yes i can! Great Video
Yes! Thank you!
I had to get my pen and paper out for this one !
as long as it doesn't remain on paper and ends up in your memory!
I stopped myself from commenting on this all week, until I watched over and over. This Sam, is by far the greatest lesson on chord building that I’ve ever watched. Thanks mate for your hard work and easy to follow lesson, and the other videos on your site 👍🏻🇬🇧🎸
Thank you very much Dave!! Comments like this make it all worth it🙂
Definetely only watched a few seconds and this is gonna be watched by me a lot !!
I have to reply after watching this once. I’m not stupid lol, unless you ask an ex… 😂😂😂 but I’m gonna have to watch this over and over as well. Not that it’s confusing or a bad video, just to process lol
Yep, one of the if not THE best guitar chord tutorial for begginers on youtube.
I agree 100%.
I'm a music teacher who has been teaching theory for over 25 years. This is a very comprehensive lesson on chord theory. well done!
Cheers!
How much would you charge to teach music theory per hour on zoom?
If you a Music teacher, SO WHY WOULD YOU HAVE TO WATCH THIS VIDEO THAN HEAH???????????????
@@raysist5020probably looking to find extra material to provide for his students as a supplement to the lessons he gives
@@raysist5020 pure curiosity most likely
Homie you just made me realize how easy this stuff is the most intimidating part is learning the fret board to incorporate this knowledge
It doesn't have to be difficult! Hope you get on well with the rest of the videos on my channel!
This channel is criminally underrated. One of the most straightforward approaches I’ve ever seen. All your channel content is so clear, well laid out, and easy to follow other creators should be jealous. Keep it up I’m learning loads.
Glad you think so!
Been trying to get music theory under my belt as a guitar player these last few weeks but this is just the most clear and well layed out video on chord building I've seen. Many thanks
Awesome, thank you!
I had a music teacher who drilled theory into my head. Years later I am so happy he did. For those of you who did not get formal training I highly recommend this video. It is streamlined for perfect understanding. If you need to, break it down into sections. Thank you to the professor behind this lesson.
I can NOT believe I NEVER thought to apply this strategy to the major scale. If you base it off of the major scale positions on both strings (E and A) you can create the chords across the neck on all strings and experiment with different chord voicing’s/inversions. Thank you so much! This was eye opening
no probs!
Oh wow 👏 appreciate all the time and effort you must have put into making this video 😯 really good content. Thank you SamJamGuitar 😊
Thanks Alda20 👍
This is SO much easier for keyboard players! I've played keys and guitar for 50-years now and what you've described is actually pretty trivial once it's shown in context. It's when you have to contort your hands into unnatural positions on the guitar that this becomes REALLY difficult! For a keyboardist, it's a piece of cake...
50!?
@@Scrub_Lord-en7cq - Actually, it's about to be 51...started in 1972!
Funny thing, as a guitar player, I have the same contortion issues about playing keyboard. Especially regarding the visual aspect and transposing. It's so so much easier on guitar, IMHO. As long as I'm playing in C or G (and maybe A) piano is great fun. I've come this far, so what's with those horn players and that whole Bb thing? Talk about a guitarist nightmare? Until you tune down two frets, problem solved. Can't do that (easily) on a wooden piano tho.
Rant over.
What a cool channel and batch of videos on chord theory!
@@SteveMeiers - Keyboard layouts are consistent from end to end. The B string screws up that consistency on guitar...
@@Snarkapotamus - Some players are tuning in all 4ths now to solve that. That's also what I love about mandolin tho. You got me on that one.
As a guitar teacher, I teach this stuff everyday. This is a fantastic video - outlining the basics of chord structures. Very useful video. Thanks!
I’m six minutes into this and it is already one of the finest, most worthwhile lessons I’ve had. Cheers.
Very much appreciated!
Fe so many teacher complicate this , I fully understood how all this works now
W H A T T H E H E C K this is most digestible explanation and presentation of theory on the guitar (western music in general) I've ever seen in my life! All in less than 20 mins. You are the real MVP 🏆
Much appreciated 👌
Clear, concise, articulate, simplified, logical and visual. This is the best laid out explanation I have ever seen. Thank you Sam.
You're very welcome 👌
This is so well-articulated, and I wish my guitar teacher oh so many years ago had taught me this. Brilliant, concise, valuable. Thank you.
Wow, thanks!
This is the chord builder tutorial any budding guitarists will ever need. Clear, simple and so easy to follow. Cheers🍻
Cheers!
This is up there with the best channels. Understanding how it all works made easy. Thanks
Thank you for the kind words Andy it's great to see you coming back for every Lesson 👍👍
I found this video very helpful, especially when naming unusual chord voicings on guitar. There was a song a friend wrote that used a open G grip up two frets (from low E to high e strings the frets would be 5-4-0-0-0-5). I now know this would be referred to as an A11 chord as it contains scale degrees 1 3 b7 9 and 11.
Appreciate your concise visuals and straightforward approach. Great work Samjamguitar!
My pleasure!
*** Yes, Finally the video I was wanting to make …. but, yours is explained perfectly!!!
Excellent Explanation, Thanks For Making this ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
😊👍👍👍
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for this lesson. I guess it was the right timing for me. I knew this chord theory should all make sense finally. Thank you for taking it home for me. Yes, I thought the same. Why have a book with 1000 chords. Huh ???
Glad it was helpful!
You are ripping through it but amazingly I get it. You have constructed this explanation very well. It may take me a long time to learn it all but at least I can understand it now. Thanks.
Glad it was helpful!
This is seriously the easiest most fastest straight forward lesson on this that exists on RUclips that I found so far and although I am not new to MusicTheory or chord construction, I stumbled upon this video and just randomly clicked on it and was more interested to see if this could help my sister who is just starting out with MusicTheory and I am definitely going to share this with her because for an absolute beginner this is so clear. Great video!
i watch, i learn, i like, i dont practice.
This is by far the best lesson I’ve ever watched about this subject. It helps a lot, it’s just so good and well explained. I’m recommending this to my friends!
Wow, thank you! Be sure to check out my other Lessons also...plenty more where that came from👍
This is insanely helpful, in 17 minutes (actually more like 30 cause i took way to many notes) this helped me understand everything i was missing about chord naming and finding the intervals and notes within those chords.
Video deserves more than the one like i can give
Many thanks Josh! it's much appreciated!
Once again a thoroughly intense and beautifully laid out lesson! So much packed in such a short amount time. Unpacking now up to me slowly and accurately mastering each step along the way. Thank you!!! PS great graphics on fretboard and symbolic pics!✌️❤️
You're so welcome!
OUTSTANDING !!!!
May I ask what you used to do your graphics ?
Thank you !!
Michael
Thanks! It's mostly photoshop👌
Thank you so much. I have been searching something like this for HOURS. This is EXACTLY what I have been looking for. I now understand everything.
You're very welcome!
Every guitar player should learn theory. I learned it and it has helped me. As you said, you don’t have to memorize any of this. I never did but I know the whole neck of my guitar.
Excelente vídeo. Muchisimas gracias por compartir tu trabajo.
I just discovered this channel. Fantastic content and amazing job of consolidating music theory concepts into easily understood concise videos. Subscribed!
many thanks J Martinez!
This here is top notch "Golden Video"...
Thank you for taking the time to explain the formulas for chords.
The way you've layed it out to understand is inspiring, and simply superb.
Can you make a video on how to put these chords in scales
Sometimes you find yourself idly descending the RUclips search results, into the oblivion of videos with triple digit views. And sometimes when you're in there, you find gold. This is it. 🥇
Thank you very much🙂🙂 this particular lesson took alot of time/effort so a comment like this means alot...feel free to check out any of my other Lessons👍👍
@@Samjamguitar Don't worry, it shows! I really enjoyed your presentation. You've got pretty much (Well, in my opinion ha) the perfect blend of humour to keep it entertaining. Dry dead pan delivery with bizarre stock images is a surefire laugh from me. But moreover your voice is also just calm and pleasant as narration. I'm really green in the music world and I'm still coming to grips with even basic theory, so this did great job demystifying chord construction for me, which previously seemed like 50% black magic. The sound effects, animations, and repeated guided breakdowns of the chord formulas made it all really easy to follow along with. Still, by the end I had trouble keeping all the new information together, so I'm gonna have to do a few repeat viewings as you recommended haha. For sure going to watch more of your videos!
Best summary of my channel's general teaching approach I've heard so far 👌👌 Glad that it's all coming across in the way I intended 🙂 if you have any suggestions for further lessons then feel free to leave them in the comments...I have a list I'm working through but always on the look out for new ideas... Oh and ring that NOTICATION BELL 🔔 if you haven't already 👍
Definitely golden!
Thanks Kirk 🙂🙂🙂 feel free to share this with anyone who might like this👍
This is pure gold 👏👏👏
You sir are a genius 💯🎸
Thank you.
Followed
Awesome, thank you!
I came across this video because I wanted to start playing again after taking a long period off of not playing guitar. This is a great refresher and a time saver as I refresh my memory on what I learned years ago. Thanks for the help and greatly appreciated.
So much education going on here. I slowed it down so I could follow it better. Excellent stuff! Thanks....
Glad you enjoyed it!
You should be applauded for the quality and effectiveness of this video. You covered everything from most basic to the more complex without it ever getting confusing and still managing to keep it as concise as possible. It's really a simple concept but it's easy to get lost without a visual guide, and the changing graphics were perfectly timed to make it clear for everyone.
Wow, thank you!
Wew. I'm grateful to encounter this video it helps alot since I always look at chord books. Now I just need to engrave this to my brain.
This is literally incredible, I'm someone who needs to understand before I can do, and this channel so far has been a goldmine for this. Thanks for all your work 👊
Great to hear!
I search in some websites and some classes in yt about for these chords no one explain like this
But u r explanation is superb 😊
❤
Thank you so much 🙂
Knowing the notes & intervals between them is key. Thanks. Now then one can practice the fingerings of chords in the song.
definitely! Thanks for watching!
This is a great lesson. Thank you! However, I would like to see one thing added, an example of the fingerings for these. Could that be part three?
This is the most helpful video on chords I’ve seen yet and I’ve been playing for years and years, thank you!
You're welcome!
lol at the marauders sound at the beginning
I'm so glad I found this channel
The best explanations of chord types I've ever seen. Well done sir!
Thank you! Feel free to share it around👌
Best video I have seen till now, about this topic. Thank you!
Wow, thanks!
This is probably the easiest and fastest way to lean all chords with no tears. This teaching method is stunning by its simplicity and visuals. Congratulations to the creators! Greetings from 🇵🇦
Thanks! It's just me! ...would be nice to have a team of editors etc it would certainly make things easier!
as you can see sam these are great videos, lets move on as most of this comment will be difficult to read but as you can see this video is fantastic, furthermore lets move on as you can see clearly that you can see unless your blind then you cant see.
honestly though you have fantastic pacing in this. extremely informative and to the point.
Brilliant chord theory lesson Sam. Clear and concise as usual.
Cheers Jimmy! Glad you enjoyed it👌
Best ever explanation i have experienced in years. Perfection.
Brilliant!
Thank you very much ☺️
Hi it’s amazing the technology bug chords I play so many years. I never knew those things. I will say bravo for you for doing this.
Thankyou!
Love all your tutorials.
They're short, simple
and to the point.
Thank you for sharing
your time and knowledge,
as it's much appreciated!
✌🏼🎶🎸
Thanks for taking the time to comment...its much appreciated!
The video editing and the sound effects and graphics and the way it is told, very unique and very attractive.
Around the time you first released this video. I had no idea of the concept. Today I ran across this video again. Man, I had learned enough about notes and scales that now this all makes since. Thank you so much. That is what I am into now, learning these beautiful building blocks.
Fantastic!
I think this is Brilliant,, but I'll have to watch it a 100 times😊 Matt.
Please do! The youtube algorithm overlords love that kind of thing👌
Love u sir. U motivate me to push even on the days where we don’t feel like it. My dad has cancer and financially we are unstable but because of u I get the motivation and the drive to also pursue my career as a musician ( flamenco guitarist) and complete my engineering nicely.
Thank you! I'm glad my videos are helping you! Keep going and don't give up👍
How come I've never known that? It's really that easy. Stunning!
Just found the channel and it is excellent, thanks very much for the videos
Welcome!
Watching this and affirming the knowledge I’ve been acquiring gradually from multiple sources was really confidence boosting. This is a very full and comprehensive guide and being able to connect/recognise all of it mostly intuitively feels like I’ve reached a solid benchmark in my understanding of chord theory. Thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
absolutely top class lesson. Clear, well-paced and to the point. Thank you for demystifying. I will watch many (many!) times.
Thanks! It's much appreciated!
I’ve been on a commenting spree. Just helping out you algorithm so more people discover this great channel.😊
Brilliant! The more comments the better!!
This is why I keep commenting as well.
Great instruction, Sam. Liked & subscribed😊
Awesome, thank you!
This one simple and straightforward explanation has demystified the basis behind chord names as well as help to find the varying possible chords behind any root note within a melody. Subscribed with thanks from Malaysia.
You're very welcome!
Thank you so much for this video! I really learned a lot.
You are so welcome!
I'm dropping you a like and subscription because this is one of the most concise and simple explanations of Chord theory on RUclips, and just wanted to drop a kudos!
Such an easy explanation! Thank you, I never understood these things without you guys!!! ❤️
Happy to help!
This is by far the best explanation i've seen on chord building. The visualization and illustrations you made make the information so much easier to digest, i donno why other channels don understand that. i mean Beatos knowledge is gr8 and he is very charismatic guy, but our brains best source of attention is through our visual experience.
The way you play with sounds/clicks on important moments, like chord characteristics - minor/major 3rd - and the way you point our attention with special notes/frames/clicks - is just very smart and though out. English is not my native, but even i could understand everything. Only thing i would advise is to speak a bit slower, and maybe give more examples before you switch on the another theme. Thank you very much for ur hard work, i'll go and watch ur other videos.
Btw how do i drill this stuff? i want to include chord knowledge in my practice routine, but when i open one chord in guitar pro for example i see like 20-30 variations of one basic triad and its inversions. How much is enough?
Here are some key points and takeaways from the chord theory video for notes or revisiting, im doing this for myself and to potentially help viewers:
Chord formulas show the intervals that make up a chord relative to the root note (e.g. major triad = 1 3 5)
Triads are 3 note chords built from major/minor thirds and fifths (major, minor, augmented, diminished)
Seventh chords add a seventh interval to triads (major 7, minor 7, dominant 7)
Suspended chords replace the third with a second or fourth (sus2, sus4)
Ninth, eleventh, and thirteenth chords add those extensions to seventh chords
Chord names tell you the formula
(e.g. Gmaj7 = G major triad + maj 7 interval)
Extensions come from continuing the major scale (9=2nd, 11=4th, 13=6th)
Omit non-essential notes like 5ths and 9ths when building big chords
Altered chords have b5, #5, b9, #9 intervals to create dissonance
Key Takeaways:
Learn chord formulas and intervals to build any chord
Decode chord names to understand their structure
Stack 3rds, 7ths, and extensions to form more complex chords
Omit non-essential notes when playing big chords on guitar
Your video was posted a year ago,I wish I found you then, it would have saved me a lot of misery! 😂 A belated thank you!
Better late than never!!
guitar george over here
Next up inversions and drop chords. What a fabulous tutorial. Should be where any musician starts. Great job sir!
This is such a good lesson! Every video you make is so much better than all the other channels I follow! I only have one criticism, I wish you made more videos! Lol! That's just me being greedy! I used to edit photos for a professional photographer. It took some time to edit photos and create marketing material so I can't imagine the time you put in to edit your videos! Anyway, thanks for yet another great lesson!
I am getting closer to my goal of going full time on this channel...when that happens I will be able to pump out much more content! Glad your enjoying the lessons!
Thank you. This is incredible!
You're very welcome!
This was FABULOUS. Rick Beato should watch your videos to see what "teaching" is all about. You started easy and built from there, like putting bricks on a wall. I need to watch a 2nd time to help retain it, but it all made perfect sense. thank you so much. This was truly a spectacular explanation
Glad you enjoyed it!
I've been eyeing this video for a while but. I always wondered, what are some of standard ways to shape your hand/fingers for some of these chords? I find myself making very awkward shapes which just never feel right. Also, are there any exercises to practice forming some of these chords, or getting them to be a bit more intuitive?
I will perhaps make a video regarding the fingering of less familiar chords!! In terms of practicing chords like this, i would highly recommend buying THE REAL BOOK amzn.to/3xxCApM
it's a huge collection of jazz chord charts! Simply open a page every day and work through a page until the chords become far more familiar!! The link is an affiliate link so I will make a small commission from any sale! Its a great book that I use every day for teaching chords harmony etc! Hope that helps👌
Nice video, i kinda get it now. But can use any order of the notes from the chord. So if your 1 is on the low E, your 3 on the A and your 5 on the B. Can you than also switch them around so your 5 is on the A, 1 on the D and 3 on the G or does it has to be the 1-3-5(or different) order.
Also does this apply to more scales or only this shape of the major scale.
Thanks!!
You will be able to work out EVERY chords using this method and the major scale. Intervals can be in any order 135 351 531 these are referred to as inversions!
Watched almost every video, and stil CANNOT BELIEVE that I found you. WONDERFUL WORK. Thanks.
Brilliant thanks!
This content is amazing! Thank you
You're very welcome!
Sam is the best theory and guitar instructor of all time. I would recommend subscribing and start from the beginning to learn and advance your skills in learning how to play a guitar…period! Thanks Sam
Much appreciated 👌
way too much info in a short time, after awhile its just becomes random
Thank you very much Samjamguitar, incredible simple way to understand name and formulas and positions in the fretboard of different chords! . Congrats as always master!.
Glad it was helpful!
M speechless.. such an easy way to learn chords. U r the best.
Thanks and welcome!
I understand the concept really well but Im having a really hard time understanding how to apply it to the fret board is there a place where I can get more examples on how?? 🙏
Here is another video I made which does just that! ruclips.net/video/CbTnxzlTg2A/видео.html
@@Samjamguitar thank you so much 😊
No probs! I would also recommend grabbing a copy of the REAL BOOK! this has hundreds of chord charts for jazz standards... great for putting chord construction into practise! here is a link amzn.to/3xxCApM
I cannot add anything to the other comments here. No superlatives adequately describe the clarity and usefulness of this lesson. I have listened to jazz musicians spelling chords and despaired of ever understanding the theory. I read music fairly well - enough to sight read a song accompaniment on the piano.
I am however compelled to add my comment just out of gratitude- in short, you sir Rock! Thank you!
Many thanks!
I think I watched this a couple years ago tounge and cheek. I had used a few videos on this channel the ones I could follow. I can’t say I know this but I can say I speak the language well enough to understand everything taught. I think I’d like to learn a lot more arpeggios . Maybe I’ll get out those jazz chord books I bought on Amazon lol
Have you watched my video on Arpeggios yet? ruclips.net/video/fxpn2pf0zf8/видео.html
It’ll definitely have to watch this multiple times to fully retain it all, but this is the lesson I’ve been searching for. Thanks man💯
No probs! Hope it helps!
Thank you so much!!!!!! Your channel made me not give up on learning. I finally understand 😭 I hope ur merch gets sold out and you have an amazing life!
Maybe one day! glad my lessons are keeping you playing!
This was extremely well done!
I am in your debt, my friend. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and your teaching talent. So much info finally fell into place watching this video.
You are so welcome!
Where have you been all my RUclips life. I totally agree with the positive comments here. I hope you're making a few bob out of this - many thanks for helping this guitar theory loser (me) understand arpeggios, as well as their relationships with the other aspects of what chords are.
I'm getting there revenue wise! Thanks for watching!
Thanks very much for this sensible explanation and examples. I had quit playing guitar and gotten tired of it. Now I will get it back out.
Brilliant! Glad to hear you are taking the guitar up again!