You are the only youtuber who teaches like this..........you really are opening doors for people like me who never went to music school.......THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TEACHING US THESE VALUABLE CONCEPTS
Now I don't wanna nag, but this was kinda in a rush, and I had some difficulties to follow, but really struck gold at around 9:10 - that's when I thought: Oh my gosh, that's exactly what I was looking for for weeks! Thank you so much!
Your previous caged chord lessons made me realize this. Since that time my playing has improved 1000%. My improvisational skills have increased tenfold as well. It has also made following chord changes much easier when soloing or putting fills in between the chords. There is no way I could express how much your teaching has meant to me. Thanks
Thanks a lot, Professore!!! I'm a huge fan of music theory, I can never get enough of it, understand inversions and a lot of other advanced concepts, very comfortable with the CAGED system, completed a music school in Kiev on violin, then switched to piano and classical guitar. Yet all of it is not enough to get the ease of moving up and down the fretboard while improvising, which is what I get a lot of thrills from and what you definitely taught me how to do. Your method is just fantastic, and you are a real mensch! (pardon my Deutsch 😅 ) Thanks a lot again!!!
BEST EXPLANATION OF CHORD INVERSIONS if you know the CAGE system. He’s right everybody makes it too difficult. I didn’t understand chord inversions until watching this video, thank you. “They are pieces of the chord”. Key words when understanding chord inversions! I love when you said you hated the word “triad”!
This is hands down the best explanation I have ever seen on chord inventions. I have never understood how to find the 3 & 5 until today and inventions were a complete mystery. This one lesson opened up my entire fretboard. Thank you
Hi Stich .... I am a novice guitar player who is just trying to understand triads and the inversions of those triads. I have watched several other videos that left me thinking what am I doing!!! Your video at least lets me "see" some of the basics. Thanks so much for your help ...you are the first to make some sense of a difficult subject!!
Using inversions is a good way to play three string major or minor chords and give them more of a power chord feel. So cool! It makes the basic major/minor chords sound heavier with alot of distortion. Really good for metal music.
I had already begun to piece this together on my own using your very own CAGED chord videos, but having this dedicated video that affirms it is just awesome, and gives me confidence that I actually am 'getting it'
I wish I had known someone with your knowledge and teaching ability 60 years ago. Oh, wait, I don't think they even existed back then. But on the bright side, I'm still playing professionally and learning exponentially thanks people like you. So much information that was always there but that I did not have the clarity to see even though I was using bits of it all the time. Hey, there's a new twist on an old adage, "don't know enough to know how much I don't know" to, Don't even know enough to know how much of what I know I don't know. Stitch, you are an amazing teacher, folks are so fortunate to have you as a resource.
I love that you repeat things multiple times in a row, making my brain actually accumulate the knowledge.. i have watched hundreds of hours of guitar stuff, and keep missing alot of info, because i havent processed something before they suddenly are 2 minutes ahead, having said a ton of other stuff.. i really liked this video, watched it while making dinner, and will watch it again with a guitar in my hands :)
I love this lesson. Simplifys inversions so it is easily understood. Everybody else on youtube makes such a big deal about inversions. Learn you triads and inversions. Learn the CAGED system and you learn both. Just a great way to explain it. i need to get back on Stitch's Patreon again. Time for more great lessons.
Oh my gosh, THANK YOU! I am taking guitar lessons, and just started learning inversions (starting in C Major on the top 3 strings for now) and I have had SUCH a hard time grasping this concept. Literally, my last lesson we spent the whole 30 minutes trying to help me to understand... Hearing that "Inversions are just pieces of a chord" is so helpful. I liked your wittiness in this video when talking about how simple this is supposed to be, but it can be explained in a way that sounds so complicated; I felt that, haha!!! Music Theory is kinda hard for me sometimes. Too many words to know and understand.
I was lucky in the 70's and bought a book named "Guitar Fingerboard Harmony" (Mel Bay, Bill McGuire). Its surprising how many dont have a inversional / harmony foundation, while practicing speed picking, etc. Thanks for making your gift of teaching available, it's a big commitment. BUT you're so good at it! I'll recommend you to my future students for sure.
I can file this under things I wish I knew years ago. Seriously this is the most straightforward and simple explanation I have heard, and I have been at this a while now.
OIC! About 40 or 50 years ago a musician practically begged me to join his band because ,"inversions baby! You know inversions!" I was like WTF is an inversion? I just play how I play. I didnt join, but it made my heart swell as well as my head spin in confusion. FF to today as I dig out with CCR album, & it dawns on me that their rhythm is the "my old rut" . Its been years since I've played, but it's all still good as new in my memories. Thanks for your explanation of the inversions. At last I wonder WTF no more.
This was so well explained and so simple to follow you. I’m been trying figure this out via vids and I was so confused before watching this. Thx brother 🤘
before i even finish watching this video (im 45 seconds in) i have to say, i love your guitar, its beautiful, i just want to play it. with that out of the way, please carry on the lesson, and thanks in advance for it! >.
Most don't see this until they go through learning all the triads on all the string sets, , major, minor, aug, and , dim, and then suddenly realize they're trying to learn pieces of stuff they already know just by already knowing their bar chords in all shapes up the neck and how to alter the major shapes. Crazy, and I'm guilty! I did find it helpful to learn that all the 2nd inversions with a 5-1-3 interval spacing were the E-A-D open shapes moved up the neck but that's a just side note. I like your way better. It's solid.
That's a great lesson. I wouldn't call them pieces of chords, they are the chords, although I see why you do. You're actualy just moving the bass note to the 3rd and the 5th. As somone that plays piano you can hold the actual root (name of the chord) in the left hand and the inversions in the right. Or if you're playing with a bass player they can hold the actual root/chord name.
08:12 USING INVERSIONS TO VARY THE BASELINE 08:19 Start with open G-F-C 08:28 Move to C-shape G *play it from B on 4th string up(first inversion) *move down same shape to F *play first inversion with A as bass * find the nearest voicing of C (A shape here) and play it from bass on the 4th string, like G and F before it, to create a smooth bass line. 10:50 Jack and Diane as best example of the above 11:50 How inversions(or different parts of chords) create moving melodies up and down the fretboard 12:04 Example riff from 'Free by Phish 12:29 Breakdown of harmony: D-C-Em-D-G-D
Another great video. Thanks! The signs of a good instructor are their confidence in their subject knowledge and the ability to reach an eclectic audience of all levels of experience and skill. You are an excellent professor of your craft.
This is one of the best lessons ever. I already do some of these inversions but having them explained in this manner was simple mindblowing. Thank you so much ❤️🎸🤘
This is a good explanation, especially for someone who wants to get started with inversions and using 3 note chords. As guitar players, we often use extensions on our chords 7th, 9th and 13th etc. and knowing how to create inversions with these notes is also important.
Thank you so much for this. I'm heavily motivated to finally start learning my inverted 4 note chords and inverting embellished chords. Just looking at charts and memorising it that way was boring to me. But you've given me the insight I was looking for so that I can do it on my own, in a fun and exciting way. Much thanks and blessings ☀️
Thanks for making literally the only video that has broken down inversions in a way I can see/understand them! However, NOT thanks for playing on a blue PRS Piezo, which is the guitar I'm dying for but can't afford anytime soon!!! T_T XD
You just taught me to under-think! The logic is impeccable and I wonder with all my over-thinking how I missed it for so long. I guess over-thinking is over-rated. Something you can never be. You Rock Groovy One!
I have been playing for 7 years now, I go to belmont University in Nashville with some of the best guitar players in the world, in my classes, in Nashville studios, or in bars...and this is the first time someone explained inversions in a way I can just grab and go. Like knowing the theory behind it is important but if I knew music theory well enough to just hear "second triad" I wouldn't be asking about inversions. So thank you sir.
I know about inversions and the caged system, and I guess I know them pretty well, but I never thought of the inversions being just a chunk of the fully CAGED chord. Nice tidbit.
That’s as excited as I’ve seen you in a while! Fun to watch as your enthusiasm is infectious! Great explanation of inversions!! My only problem is that I’m 1,000 miles from home and don’t have an axe to grind!! LOL!
Nice way of explaining inversions! Always think about the chord shape that they are embedded in. Same thing applies when you're doing double-stops -- you're just not playing the "full chord" (1-3-5 or 1-b3-5). And: when you drop the 5, and arpeggiate the 1 and 3 (or the 1 and b3) for each chord in a progression, with the the 3 (or b3) as the lowest (bass) note, you're playing a progression of first inversions (just without the 5) that just happen to be . . . (wait for it) . . . sliding sixths.
Ian, I'm excited man! Please expand or slow down with this vid. Hopefully, you'll expand on this. After research, my first finger is 1/2 inch shorter than the average dude. Along with arthritis and martial art damage, I'm unable to execute bar chords. I continue to practice the 5 positions I bought from you. Thanks, Randy in Idaho.
I’m not sure why you hate the word “triad.” It’s the foundation of all chord-building. For me, remembering three triad inversions (that are the same for *every* key everywhere) is far easier than trying to remember five things that are actually repetitive (CAGED chords). By learning triads, I’m learning a scale on three strings at a time, seeing how the different parts connect. I don’t think about scale position or anything else anymore, and guitar is so much easier. The “inversion piece” *is* the entire chord, and players like Anastasio are thinking of the guitar this way.
StichMethod Guitar I see what you’re saying, but I will have to disagree. “Triads” tell me *how* chords are made, whereas “chord tones” are simply “any note in a chord.” A triad shows me all the intervals and how they relate to each other, and I can find extensions easily by “stacking thirds.” If I’m playing over an A-maj chord, the CAGED system might be able to help me find some A-major chord tones, but I then have to remember which scale position goes with which CAGED chord, among other complicating mental work. By knowing the three triad inversion of the A-major chord, I can locate all the chord tones anywhere I can locate an A-note. What’s more, if I’m in the Key of D for instance, I can also know exactly where the dominant seventh is-a minor third above the fifth-and if I know that I can easily find the ii, the IV, and the vi notes in the scale-absolutely anywhere on the neck whether I’ve played it in that position before or not. In that case, I’m playing the D-major scale, but my brain doesn’t think of it that way nor do I really care-if I know my triads, and by extension my arpeggios, then the scale is always underneath my fingers, wherever I’m playing. By using the smaller pieces of information at the beginning (the triads), I’m now able to “chunk” much larger pieces of information about the fretboard so that I don’t have to think about the theory anywhere near as much. Now, if I hear a three-chord progression I just look for where I can play the triads and figure out interesting ways to connect them, just like you did in this video. Ironically, it was an earlier video you did that got me started on this path-the video about the song “Dirt” by Phish. Anastasio plays triads down the neck in his solo, and once I saw what he was doing it opened up a whole new world. It let me see that Gilmour plays this way on his first solo in “Mother” and “Comfortably Numb,” making it so much easier to transfer this kind of vocabulary to my own playing. Understanding triads even helped me to see what different scales I might be able to play over a chord-like playing a B-minor pentatonic over a Gmaj7 chord-because the Gmaj7 chord is just a G-note played with a B-minor triad. To me, this understanding was liberating rather than the other way around.
Thanks for this video As a beginner Getting into theory is so daunting, And theres so many videos out there. I don’t know where to start. I know a few chords and a few pentatonic scales. But I wish there was a chronological playlist that I could watch that would really breakdown where to begin. One minute I’m watching a video about modes, the next pentatonic scales, then inversions, root notes, triads, caged system. Extended scales. it’s all very confusing. Lol 😭😫
Hi Joseph. There might be a playlist on a channel or more somewhere, I haven't looked to see if Stich has such a playlist. Worth having a look. But if not you don't need a video..just google music theory..or music theory for guitar..the basics are pretty much the same. Those sites will start at the beginning and take you through your basic theory. And beyond once you have the basics under your belt. I think we can get so reliant on you tube it's easy to forget all this info is on the internet.
Hi Joseph, try this for a learning order. Just a suggestion I wish I would’ve gone in and am still following on my journey. 1.) open “cowboy” chords 2.) e-shaped and a-shaped barre chords. (While doing this learn the roots on the low E and A strings) (strum patterns) 3.) The roots in step 2 will now assist you with minor pent scales (positions 1, 2 and 5) 4.) Now find major pent scales. (Simple from what you learned in step 3.) 5.) Now you can start learning some chord inversions (triads) and CAGED system (this video is excellent) 5a.) Some basic finger picking pattern. 6.) Arpeggios and Modes. 7.) More Scales and improvising to backing tracks. Metronome work. Good Luck and remember rule 1 is always to just have fun and give yourself time.
Great video, I have the maj and minor inversions down. Finding how to make them a 7th has given me some issues. Some are simple, some are like jazz chords. Yo have to have bionic fingers to make them. I’m sure I just haven’t found the correct fingering. Enjoy your vide’d and teaching greatly.
I feel like I’ve had a “third eye opened” sort of moment watching this. The idea of using inversions to make a melody off of bass note that isn’t the root is something I’ve never really thought of. I’m sure I’ve played it before, but I never really understood what was actually taking place musically. Thanks for helping me understand, I feel like I understand a whole different dimension of guitar
Hi firstly thanks for all your videos! Question around the 5 minute mark. You say (if im understanding correctly) that on guitar one fret up and one string down we have the major 3rd, If I look at my fretboard say the root is A , well one fret up and one string down is F not C#? cheers and thanks again!
But I think you do want to know where the 1s 3s and 5s are so you can target them in your solos, like if you want to land on the 3rd you can... so it does kind of matter what the inversions are only because it helps you learn where the 1, 3, and 5s are
For a teacher of your caliber to mention me in 1 of your videos I'm honored. Great lesson on a subject that can be confusing. 👍
Thanks for bringing it up in the live stream!
Great lesson on a great topic. Thanks guys.
And he mentioned you twice! :)
we all owe a debt of gratitude to thunderfalcon 🫡
You are the only youtuber who teaches like this..........you really are opening doors for people like me who never went to music school.......THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TEACHING US THESE VALUABLE CONCEPTS
So glad you enjoyed this! All I ask is you share it.
@@StichMethodGuitar man are you kidding....... absolutely 👍
Now I don't wanna nag, but this was kinda in a rush, and I had some difficulties to follow, but really struck gold at around 9:10 - that's when I thought: Oh my gosh, that's exactly what I was looking for for weeks! Thank you so much!
Your previous caged chord lessons made me realize this. Since that time my playing has improved 1000%. My improvisational skills have increased tenfold as well. It has also made following chord changes much easier when soloing or putting fills in between the chords. There is no way I could express how much your teaching has meant to me. Thanks
Thanks a lot, Professore!!! I'm a huge fan of music theory, I can never get enough of it, understand inversions and a lot of other advanced concepts, very comfortable with the CAGED system, completed a music school in Kiev on violin, then switched to piano and classical guitar. Yet all of it is not enough to get the ease of moving up and down the fretboard while improvising, which is what I get a lot of thrills from and what you definitely taught me how to do. Your method is just fantastic, and you are a real mensch! (pardon my Deutsch 😅 ) Thanks a lot again!!!
BEST EXPLANATION OF CHORD INVERSIONS if you know the CAGE system. He’s right everybody makes it too difficult. I didn’t understand chord inversions until watching this video, thank you. “They are pieces of the chord”. Key words when understanding chord inversions! I love when you said you hated the word “triad”!
CAGED*
This is hands down the best explanation I have ever seen on chord inventions. I have never understood how to find the 3 & 5 until today and inventions were a complete mystery. This one lesson opened up my entire fretboard. Thank you
Hi Stich .... I am a novice guitar player who is just trying to understand triads and the inversions of those triads. I have watched several other videos that left me thinking what am I doing!!! Your video at least lets me "see" some of the basics. Thanks so much for your help ...you are the first to make some sense of a difficult subject!!
I'm am stunned! How many videos and books have i read and have not been able to grasp inversions. Dude you are a solid teacher! Thank you.
Using inversions is a good way to play three string major or minor chords and give them more of a power chord feel. So cool! It makes the basic major/minor chords sound heavier with alot of distortion. Really good for metal music.
When the bass player is holding the actual root it can keep things from getting too muddy as well.
I had already begun to piece this together on my own using your very own CAGED chord videos, but having this dedicated video that affirms it is just awesome, and gives me confidence that I actually am 'getting it'
I wish I had known someone with your knowledge and teaching ability 60 years ago. Oh, wait, I don't think they even existed back then. But on the bright side, I'm still playing professionally and learning exponentially thanks people like you. So much information that was always there but that I did not have the clarity to see even though I was using bits of it all the time. Hey, there's a new twist on an old adage, "don't know enough to know how much I don't know" to, Don't even know enough to know how much of what I know I don't know. Stitch, you are an amazing teacher, folks are so fortunate to have you as a resource.
Okay the light bulb went on for me starting at 10:35. And what a great attitude he has! Thanks for posting.
Hey Stich! I think I have to watch this one again. Lord help my brain... You're by far one of the best on RUclips. Cheers bud!
I love that you repeat things multiple times in a row, making my brain actually accumulate the knowledge.. i have watched hundreds of hours of guitar stuff, and keep missing alot of info, because i havent processed something before they suddenly are 2 minutes ahead, having said a ton of other stuff.. i really liked this video, watched it while making dinner, and will watch it again with a guitar in my hands :)
Awesome to hear! So glad you liked the video
I love this lesson. Simplifys inversions so it is easily understood. Everybody else on youtube makes such a big deal about inversions. Learn you triads and inversions. Learn the CAGED system and you learn both. Just a great way to explain it. i need to get back on Stitch's Patreon again. Time for more great lessons.
So chord inversions is just being creative by the existing chords. Thank you! You make it simple
Oh my gosh, THANK YOU! I am taking guitar lessons, and just started learning inversions (starting in C Major on the top 3 strings for now) and I have had SUCH a hard time grasping this concept. Literally, my last lesson we spent the whole 30 minutes trying to help me to understand... Hearing that "Inversions are just pieces of a chord" is so helpful. I liked your wittiness in this video when talking about how simple this is supposed to be, but it can be explained in a way that sounds so complicated; I felt that, haha!!! Music Theory is kinda hard for me sometimes. Too many words to know and understand.
I've been over complicating this for ages - how much easier after this video -thanks dude
I was lucky in the 70's and bought a book named "Guitar Fingerboard Harmony" (Mel Bay, Bill McGuire).
Its surprising how many dont have a inversional / harmony foundation, while practicing speed picking, etc.
Thanks for making your gift of teaching available, it's a big commitment. BUT you're so good at it!
I'll recommend you to my future students for sure.
I can file this under things I wish I knew years ago. Seriously this is the most straightforward and simple explanation I have heard, and I have been at this a while now.
So glad you liked it
Thanks man... Got my evening 🌃 planned.
Your lessons are a starting point to explore and practice the guitar meaningfully
I'm the 161th person thanking you. Learning inversions now and I was stuck..... but now I'm not! Valuable lesson! Thank you!
OIC! About 40 or 50 years ago a musician practically begged me to join his band because ,"inversions baby! You know inversions!" I was like WTF is an inversion? I just play how I play. I didnt join, but it made my heart swell as well as my head spin in confusion. FF to today as I dig out with CCR album, & it dawns on me that their rhythm is the "my old rut" . Its been years since I've played, but it's all still good as new in my memories. Thanks for your explanation of the inversions. At last I wonder WTF no more.
This was so well explained and so simple to follow you. I’m been trying figure this out via vids and I was so confused before watching this. Thx brother 🤘
Frickin Amazing. How simple! I just freed up 10% of my guitar brain. Thanks.
before i even finish watching this video (im 45 seconds in) i have to say, i love your guitar, its beautiful, i just want to play it. with that out of the way, please carry on the lesson, and thanks in advance for it! >.
Billy Breathes! I haven't thought of that album in forever, thanks man!
Yep. I've been preaching this for years. It's utterly simple and works.
Most don't see this until they go through learning all the triads on all the string sets, , major, minor, aug, and , dim, and then suddenly realize they're trying to learn pieces of stuff they already know just by already knowing their bar chords in all shapes up the neck and how to alter the major shapes. Crazy, and I'm guilty! I did find it helpful to learn that all the 2nd inversions with a 5-1-3 interval spacing were the E-A-D open shapes moved up the neck but that's a just side note. I like your way better. It's solid.
You have a great simple way of explaining complex topics!
That's a great lesson. I wouldn't call them pieces of chords, they are the chords, although I see why you do. You're actualy just moving the bass note to the 3rd and the 5th. As somone that plays piano you can hold the actual root (name of the chord) in the left hand and the inversions in the right. Or if you're playing with a bass player they can hold the actual root/chord name.
08:12 USING INVERSIONS TO VARY THE BASELINE
08:19 Start with open G-F-C
08:28 Move to C-shape G
*play it from B on 4th string up(first inversion) *move down same shape to F *play first inversion with A as bass * find the nearest voicing of C (A shape here) and play it from bass on the 4th string, like G and F before it, to create a smooth bass line.
10:50 Jack and Diane as best example of the above
11:50 How inversions(or different parts of chords) create moving melodies up and down the fretboard
12:04 Example riff from 'Free by Phish
12:29 Breakdown of harmony: D-C-Em-D-G-D
Just what I was looking for! As always, splendid video
Another great video. Thanks! The signs of a good instructor are their confidence in their subject knowledge and the ability to reach an eclectic audience of all levels of experience and skill. You are an excellent professor of your craft.
Thanks Warren
This is one of the best lessons ever. I already do some of these inversions but having them explained in this manner was simple mindblowing. Thank you so much ❤️🎸🤘
This is a good explanation, especially for someone who wants to get started with inversions and using 3 note chords. As guitar players, we often use extensions on our chords 7th, 9th and 13th etc. and knowing how to create inversions with these notes is also important.
That was pretty rad Stich!
Well done.
Thank you so much for this.
I'm heavily motivated to finally start learning my inverted 4 note chords and inverting embellished chords.
Just looking at charts and memorising it that way was boring to me.
But you've given me the insight I was looking for so that I can do it on my own, in a fun and exciting way.
Much thanks and blessings ☀️
This lesson was a blast of info I wish I had years ago. You are a good teacher.
Thanks for making literally the only video that has broken down inversions in a way I can see/understand them! However, NOT thanks for playing on a blue PRS Piezo, which is the guitar I'm dying for but can't afford anytime soon!!! T_T XD
Thank you!! 😊 I think I finally understand it now. Connecting the dots. Love your PRS
Right on, the last lesson you did on building melodies and chords from the major scale is mainly what I have been practicing for the last three days.
Thanks REALLY another speedbump avoided. In 10minutes. Cool
You just taught me to under-think! The logic is impeccable and I wonder with all my over-thinking how I missed it for so long. I guess over-thinking is over-rated. Something you can never be.
You Rock Groovy One!
I’m so happy to hear man!
I have been playing for 7 years now, I go to belmont University in Nashville with some of the best guitar players in the world, in my classes, in Nashville studios, or in bars...and this is the first time someone explained inversions in a way I can just grab and go. Like knowing the theory behind it is important but if I knew music theory well enough to just hear "second triad" I wouldn't be asking about inversions. So thank you sir.
A minier piece of the chord! 😂 pure gold and Genius that is Ians Stitchmethod vocabulary
I had to pause for a minute to smash that like button subscribe and bell that thannggg.. wow.. amazing teacher!
Thank you for de-mystifying inversions.
Helps a lot!
I know about inversions and the caged system, and I guess I know them pretty well, but I never thought of the inversions being just a chunk of the fully CAGED chord. Nice tidbit.
OMG that's beautiful man. It could not be explained better thank you
Thanks! This was hands down the best explanation of inversions.
The best triads lesson ever. A triadless 😅 and inversionless 😅 triad lesson !
That’s as excited as I’ve seen you in a while! Fun to watch as your enthusiasm is infectious! Great explanation of inversions!! My only problem is that I’m 1,000 miles from home and don’t have an axe to grind!! LOL!
Nice way of explaining inversions! Always think about the chord shape that they are embedded in. Same thing applies when you're doing double-stops -- you're just not playing the "full chord" (1-3-5 or 1-b3-5). And: when you drop the 5, and arpeggiate the 1 and 3 (or the 1 and b3) for each chord in a progression, with the the 3 (or b3) as the lowest (bass) note, you're playing a progression of first inversions (just without the 5) that just happen to be . . . (wait for it) . . . sliding sixths.
I waited for it🙂
Your sound is so beautiful. So mellow!
This is great stuff. I don’t use inversions nearly enough. I will now. Edgar Winter’s “Free Ride” uses nice onversion similar to Jack & Diane.
Great lesson! Also, I love your new PRS Hollowbody Piazo II. I've got the exact same one and love it!
I like the new PRS and I see you have some new art work in the background as well.
Ian, I'm excited man! Please expand or slow down with this vid. Hopefully, you'll expand on this. After research, my first finger is 1/2 inch shorter than the average dude. Along with arthritis and martial art damage, I'm unable to execute bar chords. I continue to practice the 5 positions I bought from you. Thanks, Randy in Idaho.
Thanks for breaking down Free hook. I've been working on that for a while. This puts me over the top. So sweet!!!
Glad you enjoyed! Spread the word😉
Ya just can't beat simple instructions. Thank you
Thanks ThunderFalcon😎
Stich@6:03 Berkeley comment priceless 🤣 your awesome lesson probably clear up some hazed eyed Student there😎👍
Excellent. Great job of demystifying.
Great lesson,, not to much theory but simple explanation of it and how to use it which was great. Thanks
Would love to see you explain how to use inversions to create an Ascending and descending melody..
Loved this lesson as I was really getting hung up on inversions and how to use them.
Awesome work! thank you for simplifying theories
I was doing all this by ear didn't know what it was now I know thanks
Thanks so much, you're an amazing teacher.
I’m not sure why you hate the word “triad.” It’s the foundation of all chord-building. For me, remembering three triad inversions (that are the same for *every* key everywhere) is far easier than trying to remember five things that are actually repetitive (CAGED chords). By learning triads, I’m learning a scale on three strings at a time, seeing how the different parts connect. I don’t think about scale position or anything else anymore, and guitar is so much easier. The “inversion piece” *is* the entire chord, and players like Anastasio are thinking of the guitar this way.
I linked a video as to why in the video around the 8 minute mark.
Yes it’s the foundation but, there is a bigger picture. IMHO
Last thing, from what I gather from Trey interviews is he is way more thinking about the chord entirety instead of the triad. Again, IMHO
StichMethod Guitar I see what you’re saying, but I will have to disagree. “Triads” tell me *how* chords are made, whereas “chord tones” are simply “any note in a chord.” A triad shows me all the intervals and how they relate to each other, and I can find extensions easily by “stacking thirds.” If I’m playing over an A-maj chord, the CAGED system might be able to help me find some A-major chord tones, but I then have to remember which scale position goes with which CAGED chord, among other complicating mental work. By knowing the three triad inversion of the A-major chord, I can locate all the chord tones anywhere I can locate an A-note. What’s more, if I’m in the Key of D for instance, I can also know exactly where the dominant seventh is-a minor third above the fifth-and if I know that I can easily find the ii, the IV, and the vi notes in the scale-absolutely anywhere on the neck whether I’ve played it in that position before or not. In that case, I’m playing the D-major scale, but my brain doesn’t think of it that way nor do I really care-if I know my triads, and by extension my arpeggios, then the scale is always underneath my fingers, wherever I’m playing. By using the smaller pieces of information at the beginning (the triads), I’m now able to “chunk” much larger pieces of information about the fretboard so that I don’t have to think about the theory anywhere near as much. Now, if I hear a three-chord progression I just look for where I can play the triads and figure out interesting ways to connect them, just like you did in this video. Ironically, it was an earlier video you did that got me started on this path-the video about the song “Dirt” by Phish. Anastasio plays triads down the neck in his solo, and once I saw what he was doing it opened up a whole new world. It let me see that Gilmour plays this way on his first solo in “Mother” and “Comfortably Numb,” making it so much easier to transfer this kind of vocabulary to my own playing. Understanding triads even helped me to see what different scales I might be able to play over a chord-like playing a B-minor pentatonic over a Gmaj7 chord-because the Gmaj7 chord is just a G-note played with a B-minor triad. To me, this understanding was liberating rather than the other way around.
It’s all good, all in all the same result
Great! Thank you for the accessible lesson.
Damn you Ian for making things so simple and easy to understand! ;-)
Thanks for this video As a beginner Getting into theory is so daunting, And theres so many videos out there. I don’t know where to start. I know a few chords and a few pentatonic scales. But I wish there was a chronological playlist that I could watch that would really breakdown where to begin. One minute I’m watching a video about modes, the next pentatonic scales, then inversions, root notes, triads, caged system. Extended scales. it’s all very confusing. Lol 😭😫
Hi Joseph. There might be a playlist on a channel or more somewhere, I haven't looked to see if Stich has such a playlist. Worth having a look.
But if not you don't need a video..just google music theory..or music theory for guitar..the basics are pretty much the same.
Those sites will start at the beginning and take you through your basic theory.
And beyond once you have the basics under your belt.
I think we can get so reliant on you tube it's easy to forget all this info is on the internet.
Hi Joseph, try this for a learning order. Just a suggestion I wish I would’ve gone in and am still following on my journey.
1.) open “cowboy” chords
2.) e-shaped and a-shaped barre chords. (While doing this learn the roots on the low E and A strings) (strum patterns)
3.) The roots in step 2 will now assist you with minor pent scales (positions 1, 2 and 5)
4.) Now find major pent scales. (Simple from what you learned in step 3.)
5.) Now you can start learning some chord inversions (triads) and CAGED system (this video is excellent)
5a.) Some basic finger picking pattern.
6.) Arpeggios and Modes.
7.) More Scales and improvising to backing tracks. Metronome work.
Good Luck and remember rule 1 is always to just have fun and give yourself time.
Thanks very much, Ian. That was great.
Great video, I have the maj and minor inversions down. Finding how to make them a 7th has given me some issues. Some are simple, some are like jazz chords. Yo have to have bionic fingers to make them. I’m sure I just haven’t found the correct fingering. Enjoy your vide’d and teaching greatly.
I feel like I’ve had a “third eye opened” sort of moment watching this. The idea of using inversions to make a melody off of bass note that isn’t the root is something I’ve never really thought of. I’m sure I’ve played it before, but I never really understood what was actually taking place musically. Thanks for helping me understand, I feel like I understand a whole different dimension of guitar
Watch my CAGED Masterclass…. That should continue the journey
Hi firstly thanks for all your videos! Question around the 5 minute mark. You say (if im understanding correctly) that on guitar one fret up and one string down we have the major 3rd, If I look at my fretboard say the root is A , well one fret up and one string down is F not C#? cheers and thanks again!
Yes! I saw that stream with @GuitarHack . This is a Great video sir. Nice shoutout to @ThunderFalcon.
Me, too!
Hey ya Ian is an awesome teacher.
@@ThunderFalcon333 there's no denying that buddy! He's a good person to.
@@JaniceLalla I also remember seeing you there.
Great explain in a simple way! Awesome
But I think you do want to know where the 1s 3s and 5s are so you can target them in your solos, like if you want to land on the 3rd you can... so it does kind of matter what the inversions are only because it helps you learn where the 1, 3, and 5s are
yep
Another straightforward application of theory!
This is phenomenal!
So glad you dug it!
Great lesson so well explained, thanks this was great help
Thank you. Very informative as usual. Also inspirational. Can I ask how long I should be taking to digest one of your lessons?
Stich you have done it again! thank you!
Thank you!!
10/10 advice.
you are simply the best- thank you!
We have the same guitar :) I love my hollow body
Amazing video. Darn I learned the CAGED shapes and roots but don't know the notes of the fretboard! :(
nice new guitar!
Brilliant video 👍👏👏👏👏👏
Holy Smokes! You just made that SO simple. Thank you sir.
Spread the word Bob! Thanks for enjoying
Also, fantastic tone btw - please share your gear/pathway!! Thank you.
I noticed you do not have a guitar strap. Are you resting the guitar on a pillow or a cushion of some sort to hold it into that position?
Would this work with spread triads? Thanks!
This is an amazing lesson!!!
Very good lesson Stich💪💪 love it
Hay Mr. Stich ?? Are You back Home in SW Florida ?? Ol West (from Sean Daniels YT site )
This is a fantastic lesson! Thank you!