My Approach to Chords
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- Опубликовано: 28 июн 2017
- My Approach to Chords
Hey guys, I've had lots of questions about my chord choices and approach to using them in my music. I just thought I'd shoot a little introduction video to the subject. More to follow soon!
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Hey Guys - I'm Rabea
I'm the lead guitarist in Dorje and Toska, where i write music, make songs and have a great time with my mates.
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This guy right HERE! One of the most underrated guitarist in the world!
I'll second that!!!
There is a magic in the way he writes and plays which I'm not sure he sees as clearly as some of us do. For me it's fresh and imaginative in a world full of stale and repetitive. I hope he keeps at it for a long time.
dmwalker24 That's exactly how I feel. His playing totally has a breath of fresh air to it. I'll always follow him regardless of whether he's working on Dorje, Toska or any other project.
Sickman Comics aye men to that
why underrated???
"Theoretically it might be completely wrong, I don't know, it just sounds good..." Important to remember that music came first, theory second; theory only exists to serve music, therefore, if it sounds good, it's 'theoretically right'. IMO anyways
Spot on.
Music theory is just a knowledgebase of mankind's discoveries in the realm of music, you don't really need it if you're not interesting in re-inventing the wheel and pushing new boundaries like Bea is doing (intentionally or not).
Even if you don't know theory, your brain does...when you hear music in your head its usually "correct"...if you can succesfully get it out that is.
that is a very interesting comment, it does make sense
well said
I could watch Bea just jam for hours
Rabea, your chords are honestly some of the most beautiful and inventive of all musicians that I listen to. It always makes me want to use drop tunings more. And I'm surprised you don't know theory because it seems like it's just naturally wired into your playing. Theory's a good basis, but rules are meant to be broken! Keep shredding bro!
TheBenjyMan it is naturally wired into his playing, because it's in his ear and mind. He may not be able to speak about theory, but his brain knows how it works, through a lot of trial and error.
Jimi Hendrix was the same way.
Theory is just that, a theory. Play what sounds good to you.
TheBenjyMan "Don't know theory" is a bit vague. It's not a true false question, you know it or you don't, it's a scale. Obviously he knows some theory or he wouldn't even know terms like major, minor, root, etc. You could also know how to apply theory without being able to take an academic test on it. How many guitarists can play a standard blues progression? How many of those would know the chord names? How many of those would understand what 1 4 5 means... Etc...
I absolutely love you, man! Even noodling around, your chording nearly brings me to tears. You deserve anything good that comes your way, and more. You and Ola Englund are my favorite guitarists that have elevated my playing.
The melodic and ethereal elements of your playing are just stunning.
This is hugely useful... Thanks!
This may be an older video that you uploaded between gigs, but this helped me so much and was the boost I needed to get out of a rut. Thanks man for all the amazing sounds you leave us with!
What a great clean tone!
It's awesome to get inside your head because hearing Toska tracks and then having you explain how you come up with these progressions really sheds a lot of light on how you create musically. You obviously have an incredible ear for music, and great confidence in the sound you have created, and the emotions you are trying to evoke. I always enjoy your playing, keep it up.
I just want to say you are truly one of my guitar heros. I love your work and use your music to help improv my writing and making music.
Yes!!!! Waiting for this video for ages. Love you Bea!
Thank you Mr Rabea !! I've watched this video before but this time I spent more time focusing on the lesson itself and the words you employed and it gives me an insight on how to accompany myself
while I learn these different shapes and create my own. Anyway, I love your music because you add more soul in what you play and sing than most artists today!!
Keep up the good work and God Bless!
This has to be one of my favorite lessons ever. It opens up a world for you to explore. Dammit Bea, you're one of my favorite guitarists hands down
I hoped for this videos for years ! Thanks for all you do, it means a lot to me even though it might not be much to you. But anyways, thank you. It is much appreciated
THANK YOU - you made my day you have no idea.
I haven't really played in a while for the reason you just unlocked.
I watched this vid then immediately took my guitar went drop tuning (never played outside of standard - never occurred to me, hate myself for that right now) and watched the vid again.
I'm blown away, i just got instantaneously rid of quite a few stones in my shoe. My main issue has always been the complicated non intuitive finger positioning for some of the chords that just made me loose my cool as no matter how much i trained I couldn't have my thoughts and the physical stuff in synch and spoiled me fun.
Then your extra on chords and transitions was the cherry on top.
You've kind of set a part of me free. I watched tons of vids, why you? why now? don't know don't care. just THANKS.
This is an absolute eye opener to creating chord patterns, using intervals as the skeleton for the chord and then putting flavour on with different notes. Absolute genius
youre the hendrix of drop tuning my dude. i haven't been this excited to learn something since i learned those "hendrixy" chords that are so easy to embellish.
Love this,thank you. As someone who's been playing for around 26 years but doesn't have a strong theory side, this is encouraging. Really appreciate what you do. You inspire creativity in me after I thought I'd lost my mojo. Humble thanks,a fan.
Thank you Bea!!! Extremely helpful. The Dsus2 has been a great starting point for me to understand more chords than just the usual open Am, C, and G chords. Thanks for the tips in 2018.
duuude your tone with these chords is pure magic
I've been waiting for a video on this for a while! Love your chords Bea!
Yes man, been wanting this for ages, you come up with such cool chord work - this is great
I've learnt alot of cool chords and rhythmic ideas just watching you play in demos and playing dorje/toska stuff, I love your note choice.
This is exactly the kind of video I want to see, thanks Rabea!
Rabea, thanks for sharing your expertise with us, I just wanted to say what a great album you put out, I've been listening to it on repeat for days now, packed full of exciting and captivating riffs!
Please, more stuff like this. I learn so much from watching you play and it's so interesting to hear how you approach music.
Thanks Rabea! You videos are always helpful. Love your ambient tones!
so cool, your playing and your explanations and expression. Please keep it up. This is the very best kind of stuff
A very helpful video. I often try messing around with random shapes and this video has informed me of how to do it in perhaps a better way. Thanks Bea
Great vid, Bea. Congrats on the tour(s)!
thanks man... that changed my whole perception on chords, and now am able to compose on wider themes.
AWESOME!!!
Incredibly helpful. Astonishing that you share this hard won knowledge so freely. Thank you Bea!
Wow! Thank you Mr. Rabea! This video was really eye opening for me. Definitely gave me a new way of thinking when looking for chord choices.
I dig your demo/reviews, but THIS is what it is all about. Thank you Rabea.
You're such a legend Bea! Thank you so much for this video! 🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻
you have made me a much better guitar player because in order to play toska songs I needed to learn how to be comfortable with chords I'm a bassist but I love toska and your riffs so in a way I started really playing guitar because of you
This is a great video. Extremely down to earth. Really appreciate your willingness to share and teach without thought of compensation. This type of thing does music a great service.
love the tone Rabea great video!!
Great video! I love your riffs dnd how you incorporate dissonances into them. Great to see that you are much more intuitive in your composition process than I thought. This video has motivated me into grabbing the guitar and composing my own music,
man I only found you a few months ago and you have became one of my favorite guitarist.
This was awesome! All I can say is more! Several videos like this would be awesome
Love this breakdown of your approach to writing/playing etc. More videos with this idea on different aspects of you as a guitarist would be great!!
Massive production values here. I wish every other guitar youtuber would watch, listen and learn from this. Basically seamless transitions between talking and strumming and no weird limiter (loudness compensation) adjustment artifacts.
Awesome.
Also, (I know, I know - three years late) thanks for sharing, Rabea.
Very informative! Really interesting way to look at chords I never thought about before. Gonna have to start trying this because I was kind of at a writers block with how I wanted to go about voicing chords when writing certain parts. Great video!
Love your tone. Always sounds amazing
Awesome lesson. A big problem for me in the past was trying to follow 'Rules', so to speak. When in truth, there are no rules when writing music. I now use an approach very similar to yours and it works for me.
Love that you took time out of your schedule to do this!
Dude!? It's so simple but this blew my mind! This gives me so many ideas to try with one of my music partners stuff that writes very simple open chordal music! Thanks for the tip!
Really good video showing how simple it can be to create chords and chord progressions.
You're so good Rabea. Thanks for sharing.
You know, I don't particularly look to try and find fault with anyone on RUclips, even if they appear to be be the sort of character that I may not easily get on with in real life. How one can ascertain anything remotely accurate like that through a screen on a recording though is anybody's guess, but we all judge from time to time.
Sometimes I moan to myself, or I even comment, but I've never found anything slightly negative to say about you ever, and I watch a lot of guitar RUclips.
Well done so far in your career Rabea, wherever it takes you and many, many blessings for the future man!!
Such a great lesson! It's very kind from you to do such kind of lesson. Thank you so much.
Ive always wondered how you came up with such interesting chords in your stuff. Just figured you were a theory god or something! Thanks for taking the time to break this down and show us your approach man!
Dude, this is the right subject, absolutely on point! Please do more videos regarding chords and creating that massive sound. :D
Thanks for this video - this really resonates with me personally; I've always loved the ideas you can get through simply experimentation!
PLEASE DO MORE VIDEOS LIKE THIS!!! But honestly love them all!
Damn... This is exactly what I wanted to see from anyone who is a master guitar player. You just nailed it, for me. This is what's helpful, to me. You know, everyone wants to show me chords and other things to start doing so that I don't pick up any bad habits while learning. It's little sessions like this, that do not impose a classical guitar lesson. I do not KNOW music. I do not KNOW tab, and I barely know notes! A month or so I have been at this, and I just wanted to tell you "Thanks"! Thankyou for your time, while actually being on tour! This is HUGE for me! I really do appreciate this. You are a very special kind of person, Sir. Patient, helpful, laid-back, and just relaxed. But, VERY helpful. Enjoy your tour, Sir!
Your chops get exponentially better every video I watch. Holy progress Batman.
I loved this video and it was very helpful, please go even deeper into this!
Thanks for all the great content! It'd be great to see a short vid on how you approach writing heavy riffs. I think your riffing is some of the best I've heard in a long time.
Your Tone is to die for Bea!!! Bloody amazing
Wow! The first chord transitioning to that stunning second chord...really has a lot of emotional pull - amazing sounding stuff!
love the way you approach chords, more on this please, and have an amazing rest of tour.
I wish i had a guitar teacher like you you have the guitar style that i would pour my life into. Great video learned from it and will practice thanks very much youre awesome!!!!!
Super video dude, really helpful and loads of good ideas without being overly technical or overly patronising. Personally I'd love yo see/hear more along these lines from you, its really useful tuition that works across genres and playing styles. Looking forward to sitting down with my guitar and trying some of this stuff out
Appreciate ya Rabea . Love your playing bro. Love your vibe. Thanks for sharing your gifts .
Interesting stuff Rabea, great insight into how you write and also learned a few things for myself along the way.
Agree 100% with your ethos man. I think that way of thinking leads to more interesting and original compositions, and makes the writing process more natural and fun.
amazing lesson, great video Rabea!
Rabea, in all honestly, your playing inspires me to write basically more than anyone else. You are one of the (if not the only) guitarist who plays the kind of music I hope to write. Please make more song writing videos, every time you make a sort of lesson video I take it all to heart and incorporate it in my writing/playing. I think one of the main hardships with instrumental music is that it is more difficult to express emotion, and I think Toska is one of the few bands I know to totally overcome this. Please keep doing what ever it is that your soul draws you towards.
Man you’re super awesome that’s a sweet tone I like it! You’re definitely one of the most underrated guitarists I’ve learned so many things I didn’t know how to approach thanks 🤘🏼
that intro is mindblowing. Love that kind of content!
you want to know what we think of your video? how about awesome and brilliant? i could never keep my brain focused long enough to learn much theory. your explanation and approach was really helpful and motivating. thank you!
wow, 26 years of studying music and found a new way to look at chords, amazing! I'll use that!
Awesome approach to creating music and one I can completely relate to. Thanks for putting it into words that are easily understood.
Excellent! You are a gifted man, indeed!
love ya bea, always doing great content, inspiration is coming
More on this subject please Bea. Looking at some Toska songs like you mentioned would be wicked. You're new sig looks epic as well
Much appreciated. This really makes it more approachable for those of us with next to no theory.
Been waiting for this bro. Awesome
Great video and pretty helpful too. I always appreciate videos on chords and peoples approaches to them. I really liked your interval approach and I'll probably start incorporating it myself. I typically tend to choose a bass note to start with or I'll focus on a middle note and where the middle note goes i'll make all the other notes just kind of follow it. I like your approach more. I love chords because anyone can make a scale and that's easy, but using chords within key and even out of key fluidly is always really impressive to me.
Best explanation of playing guitar, imo. Thx, Rabea! Keep it up, pls :)
Killer !!! Thanks for the insight Rabea.
That is a BEAUTIFUL tone!!!
Very cool for this guy to sit down and really share his approach on chords. He really captures the emotion with his style and it sort of reminds me of how would come up with them 😎👌
Nice! I really enjoyed this. I could listen to you play those chords all day man. Thanks for sharing.
Absolutely awesome and thanks for sharing your tips 👍 💚
Great video! I'd love to see more about this with examples from songs, as you said!
Rebea that was really helpful to me man keep up the awesome guitar work
I could listen to this man play all day long
Nice to know Im not the only one using this method. Great post Rabea
Bea. Great video brother. That opened my eyes on experimenting a lot
Great creative approach to writing harmonies bro! Really cool! Also, your videos thumbnails are the best! Always a good photo and design.
very helpful! thanks rabea! i have been experimenting in the clean/crunch channel chords to explore for my musical taste,love how you play those ambient melodic chord progressions, its so inspiring,i enjoy it with my coffee. i will review this vid again to learn, i pay drop tuning alot, drop b&A , c sharp mite be something to try. THANKS RABEA!
these are my favorite type of videos. thanks please do more
such inspirational videos, i saw you on many many Anderton's videos without having the clue to "stalk" you. So much time wasted haha!
Now i'm dealing with a Kraken V4 pedal ! Thanks to you @Rabea Massaad
great video, thanks rabea. that was really helpful.
Awesome video Bea with some great tips. Deffo a video analysing some songs chords would be great! But most of all, I always come away from watching your videos wanting to pick up my guitar again. Keep it up mate.
I enjoyed this video and the concept behind it. I love it when stellar players say they don't know what they are doing, as that takes away a lot of the mysticism behind theory for me. Knowing that I'm not the only ignorant one is always nice lol. Good luck on tour!
love your vids Bea! I've got toska on repeat haha
Thanks, I just loved this video and your guitar playing, please keep posting :0)