dude i started watching you and was like. . . . .effff this, way too complicated. . . . . then you started talking about how EASY it is to understand chords and all of a sudden you made sense to me. i watch all kinds of videos on music theory, cause im trying to get better at my songwriting. . . you helped me! thank you!!!!
Take a 7 chord with #5/#9 and move a tri-tone in the bass and you have a 9 chord with a 13 on top. E7#5/#9 becomes Bb9 add 13. Jazz organists will move these around in circle of fourths by moving the upper voices chromatically. For example: F7#5#9 to Bb9(add 13) to Eb7#5#9 to Ab9(add 13), or ( I - IV- V- I progression) with F7#9 to Bb9(add 13) to C Maj 7(b9 /#11) to F7 (with F on top)
I came across this idea from Pat Martino some time ago and it was helpful when I first got myself to memorize many movable dom7 chords. Every memorized diminished shape reminded me of 4 dom7 chord shapes and I'm sometimes still aware of it on some level when playing chords. The augmented chords were less useful for me but I remember finding patterns around these ideas that were interesting, but not really anything I felt I took onboard for my normal approach to playing. Actually, Pat has a bunch of other ideas and alternative ways of seeing/approaching things which, though interesting to read about, I personally either never fully got my head around or never managed to apply in a useful way. I also got a relatively recent book called Fundamentals of Guitar where the author draws this style of diagram for many different chord shapes and scales. It's quite a pretty book packed with many little thought-provoking diagrams.
The whole purpose behind a tonic diminished scales isn’t really the scale itself. It’s a cadence type. We’re used to hearing V7b9 - I. That’s the diminished from the dominant. For example, when we build the diminished on the tonic we get a b3 & b5 as tones that make a cadence back to the tonic sound. It’s just a sound. It’s another way to move to/elaborate a tonic chord. Or any chord in the same manner. Learn to hear the cadence. The tonic diminished scale just shows you what extensions are added to the tonic diminished chord: 9, 11, b6, maj7.
this is way above me but at least i know where to go. Right now im practicing using secondary dominants and it has really helped me when improvising in my band. Thanks a bunch and keep up the legendary work.
I actually started getting lessons now and I can't wait to watch your videos and finally understand what you are talking about and to put it into context and learn from it... ^^
Rick, I will buy your book soon. I am nowhere near as advanced as some of the concepts in your channel, but thanks for these lessons, you have helped me develop my ear and melodic sensibilities.
What killed my enthusiasm (?) for music theory were the music theory teachers. I would have needed someone like you. Thanks a lot for these wonderful vids!
I just recently bought a pat Martino concept dvd from the 80's and thought I would put it on while I was looking after the kids! (lol my bad ) think I lasted 15 minutes watching and had to turn it off, I just couldn't focus and take any of it in!(I'll try it again another time when I can fully commit to it!). I'm amazed at pat's story of having to completely re-learn the guitar and I've thought about whether he approached it differently second time around? whether muscle memory would return eventually? whether these 'new' or different approaches opened up fresh neural pathways to increase learning capacity? I really enjoy listening to pat and his comeback story is just as remarkable as his music.
Really awesome stream to tune into my man! You're right as you said towards the end, you gotta know and absorb a lot, but Memorization is key to all in Music Theory. And Victor Wooten did once say: Music Theory doesn't have to be hard! Also I'm sadly too broke to support you for the future, or anyone for that matter. But I hope the best of success for your career's future!
Rick, could you break down Overkill - Spiritual Void? D.D. Verni is a god in my book. Some of the Crunchiest bass grooves. thanks. P.S. Blowing my wad but, Primus - Hamburger Train, or Sgt. Baker. I love Bassists, love the channel thanks!
I've played guitar for about 15 years, although the first 11 were with a near disdain of actually studying the instrument. I still tend to get obsessed with technique but have gotten better at focusing on theory. With that said, I'm pretty behind on comprehension and some concepts tend to go over my head when they are from paper. In your experience, is there a more efficient way of teaching yourself other than just reading a passage and playing over a track? Or do I just need to find a teacher and admit I struggle with trying to teach myself?
Dont know if you guys cares but if you are stoned like me atm you can stream all the latest movies on InstaFlixxer. Have been streaming with my girlfriend recently :)
The Beatles songwriting is unsurpassed and the most beautiful. They knew no theory apart from a few chord names for guitar. Paul learned Piano so fast when Geroge Martin taught him some classical exercises. Its mindblowing.
I’m not beating myself up. I’m an older guy and lifetime music lover. I just started taking music lessons this past year. I study diatonic and chromatic harmonica. My teacher is known as the guy who really stresses music theory which I’m grateful for. After about 40 lessons stressing basic theory I’m finally learning how to play blues songs. It’s an amazing language this music. It’s like math but math that causes auditory art.
very intressting video rick! i heard the song four out of five from arctic monkey. know it? i dont know what happened in this song, the first 3 minutes are great and i think that could have been an instant classic. but then they messed up the harmonies big time! i would love your opinion on that.
Rick i just found this. You say that over E7 you can play Bb major. Why not Bb minor? when you can also play E minor?What am i missing? I know i'm missing something. Can that be done?
Watching these natural symbols, like the circle of the Circle of Fithts , the triangle and the Square ,and their relationship , I understand now why they say that the cosmos was created by sound. So I bet the hexagram , which is like the six-pointed star on the israelian flag, also could reveal some kind of relationship between scales.
Rick, just curious. Did you, as I, when originally learning the song, Dream On (Aerosmith), assume that the song was in open Em? I find it hard to fathom why they wrote it in Fm.
E7 confuses me, why is it a flat 7? Should it not be called EMb7? It tells you what notes to make up the chord but the 7th in E major is D# not D? So why call it 7 instead of b7?
There's a specific purpose for adding a scale degree to a chord name. E7 isn't called 'Emb7', because by adding 'b7' to it's name you just indicate a presence of b7 degree that is already obvious and doesn't display anything specific about the chord. Both E7 and Em7 contain b7 degree, the difference is the 3rd. E7 has a major 3rd(E7=135b7), while Em7 - a minor 3rd(1b35b7). Maybe it's a late reply, but you never know, hopefully it'll be helpful.
@@stephenlindsay3792 I usually write major 7th chords as Emaj7 for example, it's easier to avoid confusion. Comparing these should make it clear Emaj7-1357, E7 - 135b7, Em7-1b35b7. EMb7=E7, just written in a proper way.
@@dissolvethemist5453 Yea fair enough. Rick explained in another video that when it's written E7 but has a flat 7 it's a dominant 7, so the 5th chord in the scale, in the case of E7 the key would be A major
Maybe this is a question you answered previously, if so I’m sorry but I want to purchase your book but I would like a hard copy. Went to your website but didn’t see it other then PDF. Am I not looking right?
same mine, one thing that helped me get through the video was I paused it every time he said something I didn't know and googled it right away, that helped stitched it together conceptually for me at least. It was sort of a slow process but at least now I know them.
leon254 french i dont know any looper effect pedal to have that effect, do you know what type of looper? Cause id be pretty confident in saying it's not a looper
Someone can tell me how to use the discount code? ive got to create an pay pal account first? in which part of the process i have to insert the code? tks
Here is vhere Jazz really get boring to me. This jam of ways to play over a chord in a theoretically valid prospective rarely produce great melodic line, most likely just a level of sophistication that can interest only musician but not listeners
I just recently bought a pat Martino concept dvd from the 80's and thought I would put it on while I was looking after the kids! (lol my bad ) think I lasted 15 minutes watching and had to turn it off, I just couldn't focus and take any of it in!(I'll try it again another time when I can fully commit to it!). I'm amazed at pat's story of having to completely re-learn the guitar and I've thought about whether he approached it differently second time around? whether muscle memory would return eventually? whether these 'new' or different approaches opened up fresh neural pathways to increase learning capacity? I really enjoy listening to pat and his comeback story is just as remarkable as his music.
dude i started watching you and was like. . . . .effff this, way too complicated. . . . . then you started talking about how EASY it is to understand chords and all of a sudden you made sense to me. i watch all kinds of videos on music theory, cause im trying to get better at my songwriting. . . you helped me! thank you!!!!
Small oversight... if you raise a note of the °7 chord, it becomes the b7 of a m7b5 chord.
You're the man!
aka a half diminished 7th chord
Bought your book today. Support this man and his work!
Rick, you are the best on RUclips pal!
Take a 7 chord with #5/#9 and move a tri-tone in the bass and you have a 9 chord with a 13 on top. E7#5/#9 becomes Bb9 add 13. Jazz organists will move these around in circle of fourths by moving the upper voices chromatically. For example: F7#5#9 to Bb9(add 13) to Eb7#5#9 to Ab9(add 13), or ( I - IV- V- I progression) with F7#9 to Bb9(add 13) to
C Maj 7(b9 /#11) to F7 (with F on top)
I came across this idea from Pat Martino some time ago and it was helpful when I first got myself to memorize many movable dom7 chords. Every memorized diminished shape reminded me of 4 dom7 chord shapes and I'm sometimes still aware of it on some level when playing chords. The augmented chords were less useful for me but I remember finding patterns around these ideas that were interesting, but not really anything I felt I took onboard for my normal approach to playing.
Actually, Pat has a bunch of other ideas and alternative ways of seeing/approaching things which, though interesting to read about, I personally either never fully got my head around or never managed to apply in a useful way.
I also got a relatively recent book called Fundamentals of Guitar where the author draws this style of diagram for many different chord shapes and scales. It's quite a pretty book packed with many little thought-provoking diagrams.
The whole purpose behind a tonic diminished scales isn’t really the scale itself. It’s a cadence type. We’re used to hearing V7b9 - I. That’s the diminished from the dominant.
For example, when we build the diminished on the tonic we get a b3 & b5 as tones that make a cadence back to the tonic sound. It’s just a sound. It’s another way to move to/elaborate a tonic chord. Or any chord in the same manner. Learn to hear the cadence.
The tonic diminished scale just shows you what extensions are added to the tonic diminished chord: 9, 11, b6, maj7.
this is way above me but at least i know where to go. Right now im practicing using secondary dominants and it has really helped me when improvising in my band. Thanks a bunch and keep up the legendary work.
I actually started getting lessons now and I can't wait to watch your videos and finally understand what you are talking about and to put it into context and learn from it... ^^
Have just purchased the the Beato Book 2.3 pdf.....457+ pages....wow! I think this will be a good reference source...thanks for the promo code!
Rick, I will buy your book soon. I am nowhere near as advanced as some of the concepts in your channel, but thanks for these lessons, you have helped me develop my ear and melodic sensibilities.
That's a gorgeous Les Paul. Great playing too. Having the visuals on the white board ...I've never seen those broken down so simply. THANK YOU!
What killed my enthusiasm (?) for music theory were the music theory teachers. I would have needed someone like you. Thanks a lot for these wonderful vids!
Rick Beato... Best musical educator the world over.
History in the making! Thank you Mr.Beato. I’m a proud Beato Club member!
Always interesting to receive a different view on a topic, thanks Rick & best wishes from the UK.
I just picked up The Beato Book, Amazing! Thanks for all that you do Rick. I'm more than happy to support. You rock \m/
The amount of content in this video is just stellar! Mind bending indeed! Thanks, Rick!
I love your teaching. You are awesome!
You are creating history! Thank you Rick
Wonderful! A whole new perspective, and it all makes perfect sense! Thanks a lot Rick!
Not all heroes where capes! I'm diggin' this big time.
Thank you so much for making this. Fantastic.
I just recently bought a pat Martino concept dvd from the 80's and thought I would put it on while I was looking after the kids! (lol my bad ) think I lasted 15 minutes watching and had to turn it off, I just couldn't focus and take any of it in!(I'll try it again another time when I can fully commit to it!).
I'm amazed at pat's story of having to completely re-learn the guitar and I've thought about whether he approached it differently second time around? whether muscle memory would return eventually? whether these 'new' or different approaches opened up fresh neural pathways to increase learning capacity?
I really enjoy listening to pat and his comeback story is just as remarkable as his music.
Congratulations for you channel. Nice and serious content!
awesome video thank you for some interesting ideas to play around with
Hi master Rick. I just purchased your Beato book. Greetings from France.THX
Have you read into it too much ? I'd buy pretty much anything from Rick I'm just curious how useful you think it is for a professional musician ?
Rick,
When you get around to interviewing people about keyboards please try to get an interview with Larry Fast.
By the way, I really like the A minor chord over the D in Coltrane's "Giant Steps" as it adds the 9 and possibly the 11 (Amin7 over D)...
Really awesome stream to tune into my man! You're right as you said towards the end, you gotta know and absorb a lot, but Memorization is key to all in Music Theory. And Victor Wooten did once say: Music Theory doesn't have to be hard! Also I'm sadly too broke to support you for the future, or anyone for that matter. But I hope the best of success for your career's future!
Stop watching youtube and do something that might earn you money if you have financial problems.
@@Dante-xf1mu Watching his RUclips content is a way of supporting.
Do a hard core Pat Martino deconstruct like you did for Pat Metheny
thx for share your wisdom with us.
Hey Rick. I always learn something new from you. Thanks for all the great content.
Check out the Tessitura Pro app. Every single scale is shown using similar shapes to that on the board.
Thanks for this, Rick.
Wow...mind blowing indeed!!
we luv ya rickstar
Thanks, great stuff!
Good lesson!
Thank you.
Do a video on the circle of fifths please
If my memory serves me right. The bass line in Giant Steps actually goes down in whole steps on the recording!
Rick, could you break down Overkill - Spiritual Void? D.D. Verni is a god in my book. Some of the Crunchiest bass grooves. thanks. P.S. Blowing my wad but, Primus - Hamburger Train, or Sgt. Baker. I love Bassists, love the channel thanks!
1 minute into this vid, (1.00), Rick mentions something every teacher should try to do.
Wow this has fixed gaps in my thinking like brain surgery hahaha thanks again!
I've played guitar for about 15 years, although the first 11 were with a near disdain of actually studying the instrument. I still tend to get obsessed with technique but have gotten better at focusing on theory. With that said, I'm pretty behind on comprehension and some concepts tend to go over my head when they are from paper.
In your experience, is there a more efficient way of teaching yourself other than just reading a passage and playing over a track? Or do I just need to find a teacher and admit I struggle with trying to teach myself?
this is good
awesome.
You lost me at, "What's up everyone?"
Dont know if you guys cares but if you are stoned like me atm you can stream all the latest movies on InstaFlixxer. Have been streaming with my girlfriend recently :)
@Forest Rhys Yea, have been using Instaflixxer for since november myself =)
Aaaaah music theory
"play over an E7 chord" proceeds to play E7#9 which opens up whole other possibilities. ;)
actually changes all the equation.
1st this awesome thank you!
This is so much theory...too much for my little brain....btw, what freeze pedal is that @Rick Beato?
Dang. I can't remember the last time I liked a 38 minute video before the 5 minute mark.
When did you take up Smoking...................thank you for making me better....Rick
I like that
My wife has a collection of about 150 coffee cups from around the world. Don't need another. How about a Beato Club Beer Mug? ;-)
The Beatles songwriting is unsurpassed and the most beautiful. They knew no theory apart from a few chord names for guitar. Paul learned Piano so fast when Geroge Martin taught him some classical exercises. Its mindblowing.
Why you call E7 chord, but you play (E G# B D G)? It would be E7 without last G. It sounds like E7/g
Dmitry Lubenskiy sharp 9 i think
#9
If I wasn’t a total neophyte regarding music theory this would be mind bending. This isn’t kindergarten stuff. I’m in kindergarten.
Don't worry. Start where you are. Everyone does....... :)
I’m not beating myself up. I’m an older guy and lifetime music lover. I just started taking music lessons this past year. I study diatonic and chromatic harmonica. My teacher is known as the guy who really stresses music theory which I’m grateful for. After about 40 lessons stressing basic theory I’m finally learning how to play blues songs. It’s an amazing language this music. It’s like math but math that causes auditory art.
So many old guy boomers on this channel
very intressting video rick! i heard the song four out of five from arctic monkey. know it?
i dont know what happened in this song, the first 3 minutes are great and i think that could have been an instant classic. but then they messed up the harmonies big time! i would love your opinion on that.
Rick i just found this. You say that over E7 you can play Bb major. Why not Bb minor? when you can also play E minor?What am i missing? I know i'm missing something. Can that be done?
Watching these natural symbols, like the circle of the Circle of Fithts , the triangle and the Square ,and their relationship , I understand now why they say that the cosmos was created by sound. So I bet the hexagram , which is like the six-pointed star on the israelian flag, also could reveal some kind of relationship between scales.
Rick, just curious. Did you, as I, when originally learning the song, Dream On (Aerosmith), assume that the song was in open Em? I find it hard to fathom why they wrote it in Fm.
More Bernard Herrmann!
E7 confuses me, why is it a flat 7? Should it not be called EMb7? It tells you what notes to make up the chord but the 7th in E major is D# not D? So why call it 7 instead of b7?
There's a specific purpose for adding a scale degree to a chord name. E7 isn't called 'Emb7', because by adding 'b7' to it's name you just indicate a presence of b7 degree that is already obvious and doesn't display anything specific about the chord. Both E7 and Em7 contain b7 degree, the difference is the 3rd. E7 has a major 3rd(E7=135b7), while Em7 - a minor 3rd(1b35b7). Maybe it's a late reply, but you never know, hopefully it'll be helpful.
@@dissolvethemist5453 when I say EMb7 I mean E major flat 7
@@stephenlindsay3792 I usually write major 7th chords as Emaj7 for example, it's easier to avoid confusion. Comparing these should make it clear Emaj7-1357, E7 - 135b7, Em7-1b35b7. EMb7=E7, just written in a proper way.
@@dissolvethemist5453
Yea fair enough.
Rick explained in another video that when it's written E7 but has a flat 7 it's a dominant 7, so the 5th chord in the scale, in the case of E7 the key would be A major
E7 is tonic- major3th-5th- flat 7 the Emaj7 is tonic- major 3th-5th and natural 7th.
Consider my mind bent
You're right, I should've written bent.
English is not my native language, but I should've noticed that beforehand.
It's correct now.
Maybe this is a question you answered previously, if so I’m sorry but I want to purchase your book but I would like a hard copy. Went to your website but didn’t see it other then PDF. Am I not looking right?
It only comes in PDF form. Most people just have it printed and bound.
Neo rieman theory
Above me at this point, but I’ll keep trying
same mine, one thing that helped me get through the video was I paused it every time he said something I didn't know and googled it right away, that helped stitched it together conceptually for me at least. It was sort of a slow process but at least now I know them.
What pedal are you using to get that infinite freeze synth sound from the guitar?
Lord Wilson looper
leon254 french i dont know any looper effect pedal to have that effect, do you know what type of looper? Cause id be pretty confident in saying it's not a looper
Could be a good looper with just a chunk of the sustain looped (before it starts fading).
EH Freeze most likely. TC makes one , boss DD500 can do it too
25 disklike. 25 people who staking loops in FLstudio and pretend to be producer ... xD
junosensis 😂good one..
is there a special spelling for flat five or a link its not comin up
I think it's just flatfiv, without the e
Someone can tell me how to use the discount code? ive got to create an pay pal account first? in which part of the process i have to insert the code? tks
Write me
I bought it yesterday. Very very nice Rick congrats for your channel and your book. Glad to support your work. Cheers from Argentina!!
Hey Rick, you wanna join our band, Konstipated Kitty, for a national tour? We have The Furious Furrballs warming up for us.
Mind bent
I like to sell it
Here is vhere Jazz really get boring to me. This jam of ways to play over a chord in a theoretically valid prospective rarely produce great melodic line, most likely just a level of sophistication that can interest only musician but not listeners
I just recently bought a pat Martino concept dvd from the 80's and thought I would put it on while I was looking after the kids! (lol my bad ) think I lasted 15 minutes watching and had to turn it off, I just couldn't focus and take any of it in!(I'll try it again another time when I can fully commit to it!).
I'm amazed at pat's story of having to completely re-learn the guitar and I've thought about whether he approached it differently second time around? whether muscle memory would return eventually? whether these 'new' or different approaches opened up fresh neural pathways to increase learning capacity?
I really enjoy listening to pat and his comeback story is just as remarkable as his music.