The "Djent" Chord!!! (Prog Metal Chord Lesson)

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  • Опубликовано: 14 июл 2024
  • If you've listened to any modern Prog Metal or Djent you've probably heard this chord. In this lesson I'll break down the theory of the Djent chord and show how to use it in your own songs.
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    00:00 - Introduction
    00:42 - The 'Djent' Chord
    02:22 - How to use it
    11:36 - Simple Variations of the Chord
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Комментарии • 59

  • @turian1moose
    @turian1moose 7 месяцев назад +55

    Djent is probably the best thing to ever happen to prog metal.

    • @TheProgSchool
      @TheProgSchool  7 месяцев назад +1

      😆😆

    • @staatsanwaltschaftemskirch4709
      @staatsanwaltschaftemskirch4709 7 месяцев назад +2

      Amen

    • @progfox
      @progfox 3 месяца назад +1

      worst*

    • @Reakerboy
      @Reakerboy 3 месяца назад

      I think the prog heads have taken on Djent as another heavier option. Classic djent ain't Prog. I like both but not too keen on the watered down djent prog metal stuff.

    • @Ike_AW
      @Ike_AW Месяц назад

      "worst*"​, said the zoophile @@progfox

  • @Kevin2341
    @Kevin2341 13 дней назад +3

    This guy talking about chords and I'm like "ah yes, I know some of these numbers and letters"

    • @TheProgSchool
      @TheProgSchool  13 дней назад

      @@Kevin2341 haha, honestly that’s all you really need to know

  • @mikiresa2892
    @mikiresa2892 7 дней назад +1

    Thx man

  • @SamBrockmann
    @SamBrockmann Месяц назад +1

    I really enjoyed you properly defining the modal context. So many people, when referring to modes, act like a mode is just another scale or another key. No, modes are modes. They're their own thing.
    And you treated modes that way. :)

  • @Scafidi616
    @Scafidi616 7 месяцев назад +4

    Dude your content was on spot, I've been searching for stuff like this for months!
    Thanks for this wonderful knowledge

    • @TheProgSchool
      @TheProgSchool  7 месяцев назад +1

      You’re welcome! Lots of other videos in this vain if you enjoyed this.

  • @modernmetal89
    @modernmetal89 3 месяца назад +2

    Thank you so much. I really wanted to know the music style I wanted, but thanks to the algorithm, I enjoyed it.

  • @travislee9662
    @travislee9662 7 месяцев назад +3

    Wow really glad this popped up in my feed, this video alone is a veritable masterclass…subscribed!

    • @TheProgSchool
      @TheProgSchool  7 месяцев назад +1

      Thank you, and welcome! I have dozens of videos in this vein if you enjoyed this one!

    • @travislee9662
      @travislee9662 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@TheProgSchool​​⁠yeah I see you’ve got a long list of videos and been at this for years. The chords in this video have already sparked a couple of ideas, I’m definitely going to be working through your other videos.

  • @grahamlong5969
    @grahamlong5969 3 месяца назад +1

    Love your channel and learning new stuff. I'm looking forward to getting into more of your videos.
    You were right about the way tabs were written, don't know what I was thinking in my precious comment. Sorry about that

    • @TheProgSchool
      @TheProgSchool  3 месяца назад

      No worries, I remember tabs being confusing myself for a a while

  • @jellytroid
    @jellytroid 7 месяцев назад +4

    Great video! I always thought of this as a “pretend to be Allan holdsworth” chord.

    • @TheProgSchool
      @TheProgSchool  7 месяцев назад

      That’s a fair assessment haha

  • @Jimmy.Williams
    @Jimmy.Williams 7 месяцев назад +1

    Nice job, very articulate with the explanations, but in a very digestible manner.

  • @creepymcpeepers
    @creepymcpeepers 7 месяцев назад +4

    Found a kool new channel today 😊

  • @fredquevillon3727
    @fredquevillon3727 Месяц назад +1

    For like 18 years I barely played in drop D or else. I played standard tuned 7 string alot. 6 years ago I discovered the djent chord and now I play 6 string drop D,C#,C…way more than before.

    • @TheProgSchool
      @TheProgSchool  Месяц назад

      It’s a fun chord to play!

    • @fredquevillon3727
      @fredquevillon3727 Месяц назад +1

      Thanks man I like your video. I was searching for the name of that chord for a long time!

    • @TheProgSchool
      @TheProgSchool  Месяц назад

      @@fredquevillon3727 glad I could help!

  • @Justin-ax
    @Justin-ax 7 месяцев назад +1

    Just subbed I like the channel

  • @leigor6020
    @leigor6020 7 месяцев назад +2

    1:45 I think I heard that chord from an Erra song

    • @TheProgSchool
      @TheProgSchool  7 месяцев назад

      That wouldn’t surprise me at all

  • @ryanellis02
    @ryanellis02 7 месяцев назад +1

    This is sometimes called the mu chord popularized by Steely Dan

    • @TheProgSchool
      @TheProgSchool  7 месяцев назад +1

      The mu chord doesn’t typically have the major 7 like this chord does. The mu chord is an add9 chord voiced in a specific way. They are pretty similar though

  • @dek86s
    @dek86s 7 месяцев назад +4

    Nice lesson!! what do you think of tesseract? and the one note picking (like the outro of nocturne)... that acle is well know for!!

    • @TheProgSchool
      @TheProgSchool  7 месяцев назад +2

      I really enjoy a lot of Tesseract, especially One and their latest album. I’ve done a couple of Tesseract lessons on the channel already.

    • @dek86s
      @dek86s 7 месяцев назад +2

      cool!! another band that is so good is IHLO they use 6 string in the track Coalesence.. an it has an ouitro as good as nocturne!!

  • @dngrouscrgo
    @dngrouscrgo 6 месяцев назад +2

    Double perfect fifth is “the” djent chord not this one. In fact the word djent was invented as an onomatopoeia of the sound of the double perfect fifth
    Source: Herman Li’s interview with Misha Mansoor on the origin of djent

    • @TheProgSchool
      @TheProgSchool  6 месяцев назад +1

      I always think of the double perfect 5th as being the ‘Prog Rock Power Chord’, but it is super common in Djent as well.
      I just picked a super common chord in this genre for this lesson. If Misha said that then that’s probably more correct!

  • @thepagesaretorn
    @thepagesaretorn 7 месяцев назад +3

    Great vid! One note: I didn't catch immediately when you dropped D and when you went standard, so I got so confused when you said Dm11 with an open 6th string. Maybe I missed it? After looking at the standard notation, I kept aware for later when you were talking about the Ebmaj9/G

    • @TheProgSchool
      @TheProgSchool  7 месяцев назад

      I did mention I was dropping to D. Although maybe I should have mentioned when I alternated between the tunings.
      Though that should hopefully be easy enough to figure out based on the sound.

    • @josku5
      @josku5 5 месяцев назад

      @@TheProgSchoolIt is easy for me and you but maybe for someone who doesn’t as good of an ear it could prove to be a hinderance.

    • @thenoobasaurus7840
      @thenoobasaurus7840 3 месяца назад +1

      @@TheProgSchool It may be a good idea to mention that sort of thing, as the type/quality of the chord does change depending on the tuning. Plini always uses drop Db as his tuning for example, and on the onscreen tab for his section he was playing the bottom 5 strings for the chord shape. This does indeed change the chord to a Min11 chord, as the notes then become F C Ab Bb Eb. Mark Holcomb also played all 6 strings in the very first clip you had in the section showing the chord in use by various artists, and in that guitar world video you included he was tuned to drop C. In fact, most of the artists in that montage were in some sort of drop tuning, except for Aaron Marshall of Intervals, but in his clip he still used it to transition from a iii chord to the IV chord in that song as a standard Maj7 shape on the E string. Of these artists, Aaron is one of the few that plays in standard tuning as opposed to a drop tuning. There was one guy I don't recognize who was playing an Abasi in there too who may or may not have been playing standard tuning as well.
      That aside, the lesson is great, but the vast majority of the prog/djent artists you listed use this chord in its Min11(sometimes with the 9th if they include the high e as well) rather than its major inversion counterpart you spent the majority of the lesson on. To those reading this, its the same as if you were to play 3 5 5 5 on the D G B and E strings yields an Fmaj7 chord, but if you play 5 3 5 5 5 on the A, D, G, B, and E strings you now have a Dmin9 chord -- one note being misheard or misrepresented can change the identity of the chord completely.

    • @TheProgSchool
      @TheProgSchool  3 месяца назад

      @@thenoobasaurus7840 You're right that I probably should have spent more time on the m11 version of this, but I wanted to start small and add more as I went. Also not everyone will be in a dropped tuning all the time so I wanted to start with a shape that was possible in standard tuning.
      As far as alternate tunings go it's tough to not make it super confusing. I prefer to stick in standard for the sake of teaching as all of these concepts work no matter how far the tuning is dropped.
      I also don't gear my lessons towards beginners. If someone is wanting to learn a more advanced topic like this and can't tell by listening whether I'm in dropped D or standard than there are probably other things they should learn first.
      I really appreciate the detailed comment though, it's never my goal to purposely confuse anyone!

  • @MrOscyn
    @MrOscyn 7 месяцев назад +1

    Allan Holldsword used that chord.

    • @TheProgSchool
      @TheProgSchool  7 месяцев назад +1

      Allan Holdsworth used every chord haha

  • @Kitty-dv3mk
    @Kitty-dv3mk 11 дней назад +1

    What songs are the demo clips at the start from

    • @TheProgSchool
      @TheProgSchool  11 дней назад

      @@Kitty-dv3mk I don’t remember exactly. Lots of random tunes

  • @JacobGorban
    @JacobGorban 7 месяцев назад +1

    Oh my, I discovered this chord and progression by chance (by ear) a couple of years ago, which eventually led to this mixed fusionish/prog metal song: ruclips.net/video/FQr31uTJNeA/видео.html
    I never quite knew how to articulate what the name of the chord is (well, not #5, for sure), or I've forgotten since then. So, to have this theoretic foundation from the lesson and learning that's actually called a "djent chord" is a welcome revelation.

    • @TheProgSchool
      @TheProgSchool  7 месяцев назад +1

      Glad to help! I’m not sure everyone calls it the Djent chord though, that might just be me haha

  • @rambache
    @rambache 5 месяцев назад +1

    Maybe i missed it in the video but what is the tuning he is using?

    • @TheProgSchool
      @TheProgSchool  5 месяцев назад +1

      I go between standard and dropped d, but I’m mostly in standard here. I mention the tuning in the video, but I probably should have specified when I switch between them. If you have specific questions let me know!

  • @Sphereal
    @Sphereal 7 месяцев назад +7

    Djent is probably the worst thing to ever happen to prog metal.

    • @TheProgSchool
      @TheProgSchool  7 месяцев назад +8

      I’m not the biggest Djent fan, but I enjoy some of the elements it’s added into Prog. Specifically from a rhythmic perspective.

    • @eliteleaf5305
      @eliteleaf5305 Месяц назад +3

      You know djent is incredibly good when it’s hated a lot by boomers