TOP 5 Chord Progressions according to Mark Lettieri

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  • Опубликовано: 1 июн 2024
  • We're back with Mark Lettieri and a new "Top 5" for ya. This time featuring his five favorite chord progressions!
    Featuring:
    1. Steely Dan - Josie 0:00
    2. Prince - Purple Rain 2:51
    3. Stevie Wonder - Living for the City 6:13
    4. Toni Toni Tone - Lay your Head on my Pillow 9:42
    Check out Mark's RUclips channel: / mjlettieri
    Check out Mark's sublime playing with Snarky Puppy: / snarkypuppy
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  • @BrazenNL
    @BrazenNL 5 лет назад +203

    This would be great to see as a series: Artists sharing their favorite chord progressions.

  • @sushigimme
    @sushigimme 5 лет назад +73

    I love how down-to-earth and likeable Mark is. He's crazy talented, but not an ounce of douchiness can be felt. He makes teaching sound interesting without sounding pompous.

    • @DanielSeriffMusic
      @DanielSeriffMusic 4 года назад +1

      He's the most genuine dude.

    • @hahabass
      @hahabass 4 года назад +2

      So well said. And so true... I hope. 😂

    • @schmty8947
      @schmty8947 3 года назад

      was lucky enough to catch one of his last live gigs right before the lockdowns, my dad and I got to the venue early and he was at the bar hanging with his bandmates, he ended up chatting with us for about an hour couldn't have been a nicer dude! Huge inspiration for me was an awesome moment

    • @AndrewSmith-yk2mx
      @AndrewSmith-yk2mx 2 года назад +1

      @@hahabass I met him and chatted at the Tacoma Guitar Festival recently and he truly is just the nicest, most genuine guy.

  • @mikeryder9982
    @mikeryder9982 5 лет назад +111

    Man, Mark's playing is so tight. He's got the rhythm to match his technical chops.

    • @droidfan
      @droidfan 5 лет назад

      It's super easy. Barely an inconvenience.

    • @frankgreco
      @frankgreco 3 года назад +2

      All the really good players have a sense of groove. This was an excellent vid.

  • @zugrath16
    @zugrath16 5 лет назад +102

    1. Steely Dan - Josie 0:00
    2. Prince - Purple Rain 2:51
    3. Stevie Wonder - Living for the City 6:13
    4. Toni Toni Tone - Lay your Head on my Pillow 9:42
    5. Herbie Hancock - Butterfly 12:00

  • @DroneCorpse
    @DroneCorpse 5 лет назад +34

    THIS DUDE IS THE REAL DEAL

    • @terrymiller111
      @terrymiller111 4 года назад +1

      I found out about him from Snarky Puppy. The dude should be a household name.

  • @simonkempnerguitar
    @simonkempnerguitar 5 лет назад +15

    dude is a genius and one of the tastiest guitarists out there!

  • @DJVIESTA1
    @DJVIESTA1 5 лет назад +7

    Mark Lettieri is so likeable, it's becoming frustrating that i'll never know him personally. I need him as a friend lol

  • @dlein93
    @dlein93 5 лет назад +41

    Between this and that top 5 riffs vid he did, he's played Prince, Band of Gypsys, Stevie, Family Stone, Steely Dan, Raphael Saadiq, and Herbie. No wonder he's become one of my favorite guitarists out now--the man raided my record collection!
    Great work as always! Immigrance and the Baritone Sessions have been in steady rotation since they dropped :)

  • @pneh
    @pneh 5 лет назад +7

    I think Mark will be remembered as an influence of a lot of modern players. Have we have turned a corner, post djent where players are gravitating towards playing with more class and musicality instead of technical brutality. Progressions have always been more intriguing than shred. This needs to be a series TC. Make it happen!

  • @dlswint
    @dlswint 5 лет назад +72

    Love the correction...but your chord choices still sound great, either way.

  • @dotpk1382
    @dotpk1382 5 лет назад +21

    One of the greatest guitarists of all time, talking about some of the greatest songs and songwriters of all time...epic.

  • @Yugal-Limbu
    @Yugal-Limbu 2 года назад

    So much talent and so down to earth. Man, It's sad how the majority of the world will never understand the talent this man has.

  • @thorndog100
    @thorndog100 5 лет назад +3

    I smiled the whole time throughout this video. Marks rhythm is just perfect. And amazing. He makes me smile.

  • @kylekarich
    @kylekarich 5 лет назад +9

    I hear Josie, I hit like.

  • @fabiocecchelli9662
    @fabiocecchelli9662 5 лет назад +4

    Omg Mark! I remember i was 16 years old when i’ve heard, for the first time, Josie from the album Aja by the Dan....but it was in 1982😂😂😂😂😂and you know...no Computers, no internet, no RUclips.
    We have to go to the Music Store and grab the chords from the book of the LP....we cannot afford 😂😂😂

  • @arnulfoparra9498
    @arnulfoparra9498 4 года назад

    Awesome THANKS Mark !

  • @JDGreen916
    @JDGreen916 4 года назад +1

    Mark - coming back to record a drop-in to correct the cords: Super classy move!
    TC - There's a "y" in the first "Tony".

  • @tootiegrigio713
    @tootiegrigio713 5 лет назад +3

    Mark is always welcome into the "influence room" in my head. Thank you for sharing!

  • @jordandupont7430
    @jordandupont7430 5 лет назад +6

    This guy is one of my favorite players and just overall great guy. Enjoyed this video

  • @alanhowell3646
    @alanhowell3646 5 лет назад +2

    Fantastic and so interesting

  • @JakeBisognin
    @JakeBisognin 5 лет назад +4

    Lay Your Head on My Pillow is such a great tune, so many cool guitar parts in there too!

  • @thaabstrakt
    @thaabstrakt 5 лет назад

    This is wonderful

  • @kegerjupit1448
    @kegerjupit1448 2 года назад

    Love seein' a bass in the background!

  • @gretchenmenn
    @gretchenmenn 4 года назад

    Brilliant!

  • @jahking1969
    @jahking1969 4 года назад

    Be careful when you play the wrong chords because some of these awful guitar players that are watching will think they have it right although I love how you came back and corrected yourself you have some great knowledge I enjoy watching you keep up the good work

  • @nr197
    @nr197 5 лет назад +2

    Can I just say: His sound! Wow.

  • @MsOZ79
    @MsOZ79 9 месяцев назад

    Brilliant brilliant well accomplished musician

  • @SummitGuitarSchool
    @SummitGuitarSchool 5 лет назад

    this guy is a class act! nice video

  • @livemusicshots
    @livemusicshots 4 года назад

    Such a precise and dynamic yet delicate playing... I love this guitarist. Was a bit disappointed that he wasn't with Snarky Puppy in Vienne, France !

  • @robvandevelde5141
    @robvandevelde5141 5 лет назад +2

    Great stuff BTW your gig was awesome in Rotterdam

  • @nyxaquar3474
    @nyxaquar3474 4 года назад

    Awesome!

  • @louisaccardi6808
    @louisaccardi6808 4 года назад

    I'm glad Mark showed us the other way of playing the Prince song/chords. Both ways sound great. However, it is important to see that you can play these chords in different positions and get a slightly different feel. So, it turned out well anyhow.

  • @HerculesXIV
    @HerculesXIV 5 лет назад

    I’m a beginner and am stumbling onto neo soul etc and all of the songs he’s played are now on my to learn list. I hadn’t heard of him either so into the rabbit hole I go! What a player and nice guy. I’d pay for lessons from him any day of the week.

  • @albertortiz1338
    @albertortiz1338 4 года назад

    Awesome.

  • @nyxaquar3474
    @nyxaquar3474 3 года назад

    Such a skillful player. And appears such as a genial person.

  • @meadish
    @meadish 5 лет назад

    Mark, you are a genius.

  • @wolfgangfahr5419
    @wolfgangfahr5419 4 года назад +1

    perfect session for advanced players like me. Fruitful.

  • @VincentBakker1964
    @VincentBakker1964 5 лет назад +5

    Ah, first! Mark, love your playing and attitude! Picked some stuff up from you as well!

  • @jorgetenamusic
    @jorgetenamusic 5 лет назад

    Mark rules!!!!

  • @Alemski
    @Alemski 5 лет назад +2

    It makes me stop playing guitar.. this is realy so gooddd. I saw him in Rom with S-narky. And people pay 100 Euro for other Pop Stars. Ed, John or others.. !!!!! Great Dude and Great musician.

  • @dustinflock1972
    @dustinflock1972 5 лет назад +1

    This is tight stuff. My thoughts, we should all be striving to be better rhythm players. All of these ideas are worth the time to learn.

  • @kevinballard1004
    @kevinballard1004 5 лет назад

    real cool nice voicings

  • @IStruggleWithGuitar
    @IStruggleWithGuitar 5 лет назад

    Sick lesson good man! You've done the legendary North Texas music dept proud. Thanks for sharing and keep on keeping on. Snarky Puppy in the... !

    • @mjlettieri
      @mjlettieri 5 лет назад +1

      Thanks! Didn't go to UNT though. Was at TCU :)

    • @IStruggleWithGuitar
      @IStruggleWithGuitar 5 лет назад

      @@mjlettieri Oh Doozy. I stepped into it. My boys in Ft Worth are going to CRUSH me for this big booboo. Either way, great stuff you're sharing and Keep on Keeping on man!

    • @IStruggleWithGuitar
      @IStruggleWithGuitar 5 лет назад

      @@mjlettieri Oh Doozy. I stepped into it. My boys in Ft Worth are going to CRUSH me for this big booboo. Either way, great stuff you're sharing and Keep on Keeping on man!

    • @IStruggleWithGuitar
      @IStruggleWithGuitar 5 лет назад

      @@mjlettieri Oh Doozy. I stepped into it. My boys in Ft Worth are going to CRUSH me for this big booboo. Either way, great stuff you're sharing and Keep on Keeping on man!

  • @redbrown7355
    @redbrown7355 4 года назад

    21 thumbs down? Really!!? How could that be possible? The chords and chord progressions are beautiful!!
    I guess it's true...you can't please everybody; but that's okay though. Great video, and awesome progressions.
    I didn't check it your information section but it would be great to get these chords in Tab if possible, because I couldn't quite figure out what you were doing exactly, just from watching.
    And every artist that you covered, just happened to be some of my all time favorite artist of all time.
    So I would really love to know how to make these chords exactly like you did because I think you did an excellent job!!

  • @benjaminkenobi21
    @benjaminkenobi21 4 года назад

    As if I wasn't sold before then.... I was 100% sold when you started ripping "Butterfly"

  • @cafearga
    @cafearga 4 года назад +1

    It would be interesting to do a top five most used Chord Progressions and show just how many different styles of music use the exact same chord progressions. From the very beginnings of music to classical, to jazz or Nu-metal. How does what we love fit into what everyone else is doing with he same material. Gives a different kind of spin on conservatism and tradition v progression and freshness and how they all mingle together even though they seem worlds apart.

    • @fiddleandfart
      @fiddleandfart 2 года назад

      Yes, common progressions played in different ways - a potentially very interesting route to explore!

  • @adsensedd
    @adsensedd 5 лет назад +2

    Blue in Green is the best progression I have heard.

  • @marksc1929
    @marksc1929 5 лет назад

    Really good stuff .. dude is nice with finger dexterity from hell ... Cheers

  • @diegorhoenisch62
    @diegorhoenisch62 5 лет назад +2

    I strongly suspect that Wendy Melvoin came up with the guitar voicings in Purple Rain.
    Cheers,
    Alan Tomlinson

  • @nikolajhansen15
    @nikolajhansen15 5 лет назад +3

    How do you like that Hansen guitar, Mark? Im having one built by Henning Hansen this summer :)

  • @jacobk4n3
    @jacobk4n3 5 лет назад +7

    Innervisions is the best dang album

    • @jeffpettit1
      @jeffpettit1 5 лет назад

      Jake Stone yup... but he’s got 4 other absolute masterpieces as well. 🔥S’Wonder🔥

  • @Erdnase23
    @Erdnase23 2 года назад +1

    As far as I’m aware, Wendy voiced the chords.

  • @nathansturgess92
    @nathansturgess92 5 лет назад +1

    I genuinely don’t think I could disagree with Mark on anything related to music.

  • @ejasugas9495
    @ejasugas9495 5 лет назад

    A snarky puppy quality

  • @descentintozachstrom
    @descentintozachstrom 4 года назад +1

    Living for the city!!! Yes. I still need to sample that bridge...

  • @tomaszjaworski4676
    @tomaszjaworski4676 5 лет назад +1

    Nice :) But.....What you think about Walk between the raindrops of Donald Fagen ?

  • @ramo1222
    @ramo1222 5 лет назад

    I was playing along and I have a question about Lay Your Head on my Pillow: what is the voicing of the first chord (Bb13sus) in the bridge? I can't seem to quite get it

  • @troytolbert2005
    @troytolbert2005 5 лет назад +1

    Mark, you're slowly becoming a Yoda. Hans Solo no mo. Lol!

  • @FunkadelicPancho
    @FunkadelicPancho 4 года назад

    Butterfly has one of the coolest basslines also

  • @chrisdaviesguitar
    @chrisdaviesguitar 5 лет назад +1

    Lovely chords on that intro. Jazz has always eluded me tho. Some tab would be nice :)

  • @ToddPritch
    @ToddPritch 5 лет назад

    Yeah maaaan

  • @benpeterson4998
    @benpeterson4998 5 лет назад

    Dust by Chon has to be one of my favourite progressions

  • @revenant235
    @revenant235 5 лет назад

    What a guy.

  • @noelhoekstra6852
    @noelhoekstra6852 5 лет назад +7

    I would sell my guitar for paying guitar lessons from this legend. Oh wait what...

  • @jakollee
    @jakollee 4 года назад +1

    Great video! But are you sure about the last chord in the Josie intro? I think that chord should have an F in it, I try to play a Csus4 over an A Flat bass, but it's a pain to play (especially after the preceding chord), and I'd be happy to substitute your chord! Anyway, love your playing!

    • @claudiusjelinek6063
      @claudiusjelinek6063 4 месяца назад

      my guess is that the piano plays (high to low) g-F-c-ab while larry carltons chord is g-D-c-ab....
      thanks for the inspiring video

  • @quintstarkie4838
    @quintstarkie4838 3 года назад

    Hi Mark, what are the pick ups you are using?

  • @BigSh00tsie
    @BigSh00tsie 5 лет назад +28

    Listening to ML talk about playing guitar makes me feel really musically stupid haha.

    • @AI3JeWelz
      @AI3JeWelz 5 лет назад +1

      Oh I feel you

    • @makkietakkie
      @makkietakkie 5 лет назад +3

      You'll get there too if you really want to (:

    • @meadish
      @meadish 5 лет назад +4

      It sounds much more difficult than it is. Naming chords is based on a few very simple principles. You can learn the system in a day and internalize it in a week or two. To make it truly useful, you should learn to name every note in every location on the neck. That takes longer, but if you do 5 minutes a day, after a month or two, you have the foundation.
      Justin Guitar's theory course is a good way of learning it. My ramblings below are probably less useful, but here goes:
      Start with 'triads' (chords consisting of three tones). They are based off a scale, and you build them by starting on one note in the scale, skipping the next scale note, playing the next one, skipping the next scale note after that, and then playing the next one. If you use a major scale (take C, because it tends to be the 'mother' of scales, and it has these notes: C D E F G A B [and then back to C again]) as the starting point, starting on the C note, you skip the D, play the E, skip the F and play the G. So the notes are C E G, and that is a C major triad. If you start on any other note of the scale and use the same "PLAY, skip, PLAY, skip, PLAY" method, you get all the triad chords in the key of C.
      On the guitar, if you play every string, there are more than just three notes. So when you play an open position C chord (the first C chord most of us learn) it means some chord tones are repeated, but all of the notes you play in that C major chord are C, E and G notes.
      Now, if you use the same play, skip, play method and add a 4th note from the scale, you get 7 chords (major 7 chords, minor 7 chords, dominant 7 chords). And if you continue to add a 5th note, you get 9 chords. Add a 6th note, you get 11 chords, and finally 13 chords. (See how the naming skips a number - 7, 9, 11, 13 - but no 8, 10, 12 or 14.)
      Then you can make one note in the chord *flat* (lower it one step/fret) or *sharp* (raise it one step/fret).

    • @BigSh00tsie
      @BigSh00tsie 5 лет назад

      I think it’s just knowing it so offhand. I know the theory and the concepts but I don’t know how to apply it so quickly. I king of want to just break out my chord book and play cool chords

    • @alexfvcruz
      @alexfvcruz 3 года назад

      @@BigSh00tsie it's ok you have to play a lot to be able to think in the spot, the more you play the more confident you are about what you play next

  • @federicogatto2635
    @federicogatto2635 5 лет назад

    1:28 That‘s the Jeff Beck’s ‘Cause we‘ve ended as lovers’ signature chord! 😜 or at least one of them..😵

  • @ahall3823
    @ahall3823 5 лет назад +1

    Love the sound! What is the rig?

  • @KunchangLeeMusic
    @KunchangLeeMusic 5 лет назад

    👌🏿

  • @salcasabianca
    @salcasabianca 5 лет назад +3

    Check out Ted Greene chord chemistry.

  • @starfleet1126
    @starfleet1126 3 года назад

    Dude you're chord choice is better than Princes on purple rain. I'm just saying. Dig it Dude!

  • @dalefrary
    @dalefrary 5 лет назад

    Anyone know what model this axe is?
    Thanks

    • @tcelectronic
      @tcelectronic  5 лет назад

      It's a Hansen! hansen-guitars.com/instruments/

  • @kopfstandsnoopy
    @kopfstandsnoopy 4 года назад

    whats that blue guitar??

  • @TedSchoenling
    @TedSchoenling 2 года назад

    Put Mark Lettieri in a room with Paul Gilbert and I'm thinking between the two of them you can hear 90%+ of all tunes written

  • @randallwalsh3919
    @randallwalsh3919 5 лет назад +1

    Had to break out THE DAN

  • @pedroharunari5237
    @pedroharunari5237 5 лет назад

    Listen to Toninho Horta and he will fill out the whole list

  • @chhau123
    @chhau123 4 года назад

    I wonder how many more chords can he pull out

  • @joseluisfernandez3453
    @joseluisfernandez3453 4 года назад

    My fingers hurt as hell after trying all of these chords
    But this pain sounds beautiful in my guitar

  • @GerryBlue
    @GerryBlue Месяц назад

    What Chorus is he using?

  • @randyducasse9075
    @randyducasse9075 4 года назад +1

    What song is played at 5:35

  • @jackfanciulli903
    @jackfanciulli903 4 года назад

    2:17

  • @vaibhavjoshi9141
    @vaibhavjoshi9141 4 года назад

    Ted Greene chords

  • @mattgilbert7347
    @mattgilbert7347 4 года назад

    Umm...no, I can't play those (except for Purple Rain, on a good day - and it's not a flanger it's either a Boss CE-2 or Dimension-C)). My fingers/hands don't work like that. Arthritis and I never learned Jazz shapes during my formative years. Back to my alternate tunings and open string drone chords...

  • @chrisegg7936
    @chrisegg7936 4 года назад

    probably not a good sign that after watching this a couple times I still don't have a clue how to play any of these songs

  • @chrisdaviesguitar
    @chrisdaviesguitar 4 года назад

    Tab would be nice

  • @everythingisopen
    @everythingisopen 4 года назад

    0:30 isn't that a .... Fmajor7add9/c :)
    Though with the g note just one step above the root Mark calls it a F2
    Frets, low to high:
    x
    3
    3
    0
    1
    0
    same, in chord tones:
    x
    5
    1
    9
    5
    7

  • @leonidastheking7830
    @leonidastheking7830 4 года назад

    deacon Blues its more brilliant

  • @ryanlayton3868
    @ryanlayton3868 5 лет назад

    His tone is ridiculous.

  • @beaujpatt
    @beaujpatt Год назад

    Came for the progressions, stayed to feel emasculated by how little i understand music theory.
    “D over G”, my dude wtf is that 🙃

  • @alanduncan1980
    @alanduncan1980 5 лет назад

    What the fuck is a chord?

  • @mattgilbert7347
    @mattgilbert7347 4 года назад

    I hate Steely Dan. Love Prince.

  • @sillysausage4549
    @sillysausage4549 3 года назад +1

    Purple Rain - overrated. Prince - massively overrated. Just my opinion of course. I know we are supposed to worship him, but I never saw the appeal.

  • @Carefaceeeee
    @Carefaceeeee 5 лет назад

    I hate jazz ,its the art of ugly