From 1:47 to 2:30....the chord chart that is on the screen shows "A" as the 6th chord...It should say "Am". My apologies about the mistake. I can't replace RUclips videos, but the corrected video is on the website.
Hi Bryan,my name is Fredi Gutierrez and this is a great lesson and the other ones too, what an eye opener, lots of ah ha moments thank you and I just subscribe.
Ain't no shame in that. Hell, these lessons are blowing my mind. You've got me doing simple solos to bb king blues and I was at square one. Thanks dude!
Thanks for brining all these patterns to our attention. I've seen the circle of fiths explained before, but your video really braught it home for me. Thanks.
WOW Brian, you’re a Genius!!! Had many “AHA Moments” in this AWESOME Tutorial!!!! THANK YOU!!!🙏🙏🙏. One of the BEST MUSIC THEORY LESSONS I’ve watched so far! So EXCITING!!!!!!😂. It’s making sense!!! Have a GREATER RESPECT for the “CIRCLE OF FIFTHS” diagram that was kind of mystifying.........WOW!!! I GET IT! I GET 😍😍😍IT
As I've come to expect, another great lesson. The magic of the Circle of Fifths never ceases to amaze, such a great tool. It is this channel that has instilled in me how important it is. Even most of the other top channels rarely touch on it, much to their detriment.
I started to learn Guitar 3 Years ago here on YT. Slowly it works ^^ I know all the Teachers here, but you are unique. Just GuitarJust Amazing. After 1-2 Years, i thought= O my God.. Im stupid and will never know Music and how does it works, why Major why Minor and so on. Why it sounds so and then it sounds like this. So many different ways. But it doesnt matter, all i want to say is, that your Channel is brilliant and u make so much people happy and motivate all of them to get better.and never stop to learn. Keep Practicing and so on Thank You 4 All Greets from Germany
Another great lesson which for this channel is just as I come to expect and am never let down. Thanks yet again I cannot even begin to tell you how much your brilliant lessons have helped me.
Hell Brian My name is James Jones and I just personally wanted to say THANK YOU !!! About a year ago I got back into playing guitar after not playing for a very long time and decided I was interested in MUSIC THEORY well THANKS TO YOU and your channel was the very 1st things I watched your knowledge has helped me so much I started with you CIRCLE OF FIFTHS VIDEO I remember you saying you had it Tattooed on your fore arm so you could reference it if you needed too and how your friends/Bandmates would tease you about it because you were as you put it a "Music Nerd " , lol Well I happen to think your a really KOOL PERSON and I'm digging in and studying triads and ear training and Alot more theory since then !!! JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW THAT MY JOURNEY STARTED WITH YOU AND I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT !!! THANK YOU SIR !!! SINCERELY JAMES JONES
@@zombieguitar I've been reading and watching videos about " Pythagoras " he had to sharpen the 4th note to add the octive forever changing music by giving us the Major scale and the "Circle of 5ths " what a True Angel He was !!! Really cool stuff thanks so much Brian !!
All these lessons are worth revisiting after gaining experience with the diatonic and scales. It is easier to grasp the use of the circle of fifths and the chord numbering system.
Excellent Brian, very helpful, l should delve into your many other videos more, l am subscribed to so many on the tube that it's making me scatterbrained
Zombie guitar should sell stick on circle of 5th tattoos. :-D This was a great lesson. I added to my list of chord progressions that I play though about twice a week. AND understood why they are what they are.
Thanks Brian, I recently discovered your videos and they really help! I have been playing for a long long time and I feel I just need an expert like yourself to really take an assessment of my current strengths and weaknesses so I can figure out what to work on. Suggestions? Thanks, -Frank
Brian you're just the best👍🏻. Could you do sometime a vid on jazz (or fusion) theory, chords, chord progessions and soloing. I am playing more than 40 years guitar, played in many pop/rock bands, but jazz is still for me a bit of a mystery in terms of chords and soloing. Thnx again for your great teaching🍻
Although jazz can get pretty complicated, at the core it still takes the "2 layer approach" just like everything else. The 1st layer is the scale, and the 2nd layer is the chord tones. Whether you are using just one scale over an entire progression (as is the case when everything is all in the same key), or whether you are using a different scale over each chord....the 2 layer approach ALWAYS applies!!
@@zombieguitar ok thanks, I understand. I am struggling a bit in getting the jazzy solo vibe when playing over a jazz progression. May be I have dial in in some jazz guitar youtubers to get phrasing right. Thanks Brian
@@tonakkie635 use the scale as the "path" and the chord tones as the "destination"...and you will be good to go! But yes, there are definitely much better jazz teachers out there. My preference is more rock/melodic metal 😎
@@zombieguitar ok, yes, get the picture. Yes I know, i am also into the rock. But in the 80ties i also listen quite a lot to jazz-rock (i think you would call it nowadays fusion) and was always kind of goal for me to get to that level 😅. Thnx Brain
i'm more used to think about the major III chord as a secondary dominant V/vii or the fith degree from the relative harmonic/melodic minor scale, but with you're vision every out of key chords can bet thought as borrowed chord, it makes me want to try to borrow evrey chords that are on the circle of fiths other than the common ones to widen the harmonic possibilities. one that is common to use too is the bVI just before the one it sounds great !
Again Brian you knocked it out of the park. Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant, so many nuggets that make sense now. Need to get the circle of 5ths into my head. Main takeaway for me, ii chord sort of sad iii chord ITS TIME TO CRY 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The progression [ iv I ] (that is, 4m to 1) is the "amen" progression, also known as the plagal cadence technically. This is typically heard at the end of a hymn. Play F Fm C and you'll hear how familiar that is.
Thanks for all your valuable lessons. They are a wealth of information for us beginners, and you make it so easy to understand. For the circle of 5ths, looking at the C major scale, is it possible to have a song using nothing but the minor chords of C major (D min., E min., and A min.) or any other major scale for that matter, and if so would it still be considered in the key of C major?
Yes, you can absolutely use just those 3 chords. In that case you wouldn't call it the key of C major anymore. You would call it the key of A minor. You could also equally say "it is in the key signature of C major/A minor". The important thing to realize is that C major and A minor are relative keys, meaning that they share all the same "stuff" as one another!
Wow, thanks for the quick reply - one other question if you don't mind. In the C major or A minor key, are there any instances where all 6 chords would be used in a song and if so how would you know what key to call it...the one you start with?
Hello Brian, greetings from Holland and thank you another great lesson. You made a little mistake in the diagram of the C major scale. Almost below It says A: A C E, but it should be: Am: A C E.
🤯🤯🤯🤯as if it’s been that simple all along !!!!!!!!!! My apologies Brian it’s not simple you explain it in a way us dummies understand !!!!! Cheers bri!!!!!
About 8 months ago or so when I first started trying to learn guitar id watch your videos and be lost. Didnt have a clue what you were talking about. Now it is all starting to make sense. Different keys use different chords but the 1 4 5 chords always have the same effect even though they are different chords and different keys. Now how to know when and how to use 7th chords and such? Major minor dominant what does that all mean and how do 7th chords relate to the keys and when can you use them and which ones to use when??
Check out the lesson that I linked to in the description about "understanding diatonic chord progressions". I explain how the 7 seventh chords are derived in addition to the triads. The "I chord" and "IV chord" become maj7 chords. The "ii chord", "iii chord" and "vi chord" become m7 chords. The "V chord" becomes a dominant 7th chord, and the "vii* chord" becomes a half-diminished chord (aka. "m7b5 chord").
That's something wrong: if you consider C=T and you have a T S D progression ( C F G ) the parallel minor progression must keep the same functions; so if Am=t the parallel progression is t s d ( Am Dm Em ).
I didn't get into talking about tonic, subdominant and dominants in this video. In this key signature C, Am and Em are consider to be in the tonic family. F and Dm would be in the subdominant family, and G and B° would be in the dominant family. This lesson is about showing how to use in-key chords, transposing keys and borrowing from parallel keys. There was no need to talk about chord families here 😎
You english speaking people should adopt the word parallel for C maj and A min otherwise you don't understand why A min is a different key from C maj with different chords like E7 that is a dominant and not a chord borrowed from another key. In the circle of 5th Am is under C that is a parallelism! How can you name c min parallel to C maj if there is no parallelism.. notes are not the same just they are between C and A min. And consider C maj the same key of A min is a mistake, you'll never understand what a minor key really is in that way.
@@DoktorLorentzBig the keys of C minor and C major are parallel keys because they both share the same root. The key of C major and A minor are relative because they share the same notes. Although E7 is commonly used in the key of A minor, it is still a non diatonic chord because of the fact that it contains the note G# which is not part of the key signature 😉
@@philjames1019 there is nothing offensive in what I'm talking about, I think music is a universal language and I exort people of the world to have a common language to analyze it. Minor keys are more complex to comprehend and in my opinion it should be great if people understand that composing a minor piece of music is not the same as consider it a major one; functions, if it's functional theory we wanna speak about, are related to the tonic not to a parallel or relative major. Hope you'll understand that. If tonic is minor also something wrong goes with the number system; the VII chord for example: in C maj is B D F A but in A min is G B D F; think about that..
I was wondering if you could give any examples of a popular song most people know that uses lots of out of key chords. I would assume that there aren't too many examples since it makes it sound jumbled.
Isnt it weird how people on tv such as news stations blink constantly for some reason . This guy here proves u can blink naturally while being filmed. So what the hell is going on with people on tv
From 1:47 to 2:30....the chord chart that is on the screen shows "A" as the 6th chord...It should say "Am". My apologies about the mistake. I can't replace RUclips videos, but the corrected video is on the website.
Hi Bryan,my name is Fredi Gutierrez and this is a great lesson and the other ones too, what an eye opener, lots of ah ha moments thank you and I just subscribe.
@@fredigutierrez7385 thanks Fredi!
Thanks for the lesson, had perfect ear for years. Had shoulder surgery. Forgot so much. Getting back into it again. Love your aggravated approach lol.
If you re-edit the video, can't you just drop the new one over the old one? I think I tried that years ago and it worked.
Ain't no shame in that. Hell, these lessons are blowing my mind. You've got me doing simple solos to bb king blues and I was at square one. Thanks dude!
Brian, I like how you simplify theory, make it interesting and dont use any stupid gimmicks 👍
I hope you get 100k subs by end of the year. A truly to the point, easy to understand and no nonsense approach that is hard to come by nowadays.
Your music theory knowledge is abundant and the way you describe it for a circle of fifths, noob like me is appreciated!!
Another fantastic addition to the Zombie lesson library. Had a particular light bulb moment with regard to the "bVII" chord information ... awesome!!
Thanks for brining all these patterns to our attention. I've seen the circle of fiths explained before, but your video really braught it home for me. Thanks.
WOW Brian, you’re a Genius!!! Had many “AHA Moments” in this AWESOME Tutorial!!!! THANK YOU!!!🙏🙏🙏. One of the BEST MUSIC THEORY LESSONS I’ve watched so far! So EXCITING!!!!!!😂. It’s making sense!!! Have a GREATER RESPECT for the “CIRCLE OF FIFTHS” diagram that was kind of mystifying.........WOW!!! I GET IT! I GET 😍😍😍IT
The circle is so much deeper than I thought. Amazing knowledge
Simply the best teacher on RUclips. Keep up the good work bro 👍🏻
Great lesson Brian.your really keeping us together with your lessons. Thank you. Stay well, Stay safe.
As I've come to expect, another great lesson. The magic of the Circle of Fifths never ceases to amaze, such a great tool. It is this channel that has instilled in me how important it is. Even most of the other top channels rarely touch on it, much to their detriment.
I started to learn Guitar 3 Years ago here on YT. Slowly it works ^^ I know all the Teachers here, but you are unique.
Just GuitarJust Amazing.
After 1-2 Years, i thought= O my God.. Im stupid and will never know Music and how does it works, why Major why Minor and so on. Why it sounds so and then it sounds like this. So many different ways. But it doesnt matter, all i want to say is, that your Channel is brilliant and u make so much people happy and motivate all of them to get better.and never stop to learn. Keep Practicing and so on
Thank You 4 All
Greets from Germany
Awesome!! Glad to hear you are finding the channel helpful 😀
The place to come for your music theory whatever you play. Great lesson as always.
Absolutely never thought of that, interestingly, I wouldn't write a song without the c5ths....real moment of clarity
What a great lesson! I really appreciate your calm approach to a complex idea.
Amazing lesson! Things were so easy to understand for a beginner like me! Thanks so much!
Most things are easy once you have learned and understand them. Until then most things seem difficult. But I really like your way of teaching.
This video basically taught me to experiment and see what sounds cool. Your explanations are ace!
Another great lesson which for this channel is just as I come to expect and am never let down. Thanks yet again I cannot even begin to tell you how much your brilliant lessons have helped me.
Thanks Martyn. I appreciate that you have been following my vids for so long!
Hell Brian My name is James Jones and I just personally wanted to say THANK YOU !!! About a year ago I got back into playing guitar after not playing for a very long time and decided I was interested in MUSIC THEORY well THANKS TO YOU and your channel was the very 1st things I watched your knowledge has helped me so much I started with you CIRCLE OF FIFTHS VIDEO I remember you saying you had it Tattooed on your fore arm so you could reference it if you needed too and how your friends/Bandmates would tease you about it because you were as you put it a "Music Nerd " , lol Well I happen to think your a really KOOL PERSON and I'm digging in and studying triads and ear training and Alot more theory since then !!! JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW THAT MY JOURNEY STARTED WITH YOU AND I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT !!! THANK YOU SIR !!! SINCERELY JAMES JONES
Glad to help James!
@@zombieguitar I've been reading and watching videos about " Pythagoras " he had to sharpen the 4th note to add the octive forever changing music by giving us the Major scale and the "Circle of 5ths " what a True Angel He was !!! Really cool stuff thanks so much Brian !!
All these lessons are worth revisiting after gaining experience with the diatonic and scales. It is easier to grasp the use of the circle of fifths and the chord numbering system.
Cheers Brian. Great lesson!!! Circle of Fifths tatoo huh? Love it.
Fantastic lesson. Easy to understand
Another great lesson Brian! Everything sounds so easy and logical the way you explain it. I’m a big fan of your channel.
Thanks Malcolm, much appreciated!
Dude should have at least 500k subscribers. Oh well, their loss! I'm watching and learning and that's what matters.
My Fav is Zombie!🎵🎶🎸💞
Thanks for this. The magic is what we can make with those building blocks. That it is possible to do that.
Great teacher. Hello from scotland 🏴
Thank you for all your videos! You really are a good teacher! And happy new year! Cheers!
Excellent Brian, very helpful, l should delve into your many other videos more, l am subscribed to so many on the tube that it's making me scatterbrained
Zombie guitar should sell stick on circle of 5th tattoos. :-D This was a great lesson. I added to my list of chord progressions that I play though about twice a week. AND understood why they are what they are.
its just Wow how you explained everything Sir great Vid!!
Great lesson! Thanks Brian!
Beauty !! Another Sooper lesson nicely explained 🙏🙏👏👏🎸🎸😊👍👌
Thanks Brian, I recently discovered your videos and they really help! I have been playing for a long long time and I feel I just need an expert like yourself to really take an assessment of my current strengths and weaknesses so I can figure out what to work on. Suggestions? Thanks, -Frank
Best guitar teacher on yourube
Brilliant lesson, you explain theory in an easy to understand way. Did anyone ever tell you that you sound like Adam Sandlar?
Great lessons Brian👍😊
@17:00 First song that popped in my Head-- Space Oddity by Bowie 😄. Awesome vid, luv ur channel man.
Yup, he uses that IV - iv in that song...it's a great chord combo!
Brian you're just the best👍🏻. Could you do sometime a vid on jazz (or fusion) theory, chords, chord progessions and soloing. I am playing more than 40 years guitar, played in many pop/rock bands, but jazz is still for me a bit of a mystery in terms of chords and soloing. Thnx again for your great teaching🍻
Although jazz can get pretty complicated, at the core it still takes the "2 layer approach" just like everything else. The 1st layer is the scale, and the 2nd layer is the chord tones. Whether you are using just one scale over an entire progression (as is the case when everything is all in the same key), or whether you are using a different scale over each chord....the 2 layer approach ALWAYS applies!!
@@zombieguitar ok thanks, I understand. I am struggling a bit in getting the jazzy solo vibe when playing over a jazz progression. May be I have dial in in some jazz guitar youtubers to get phrasing right. Thanks Brian
@@tonakkie635 use the scale as the "path" and the chord tones as the "destination"...and you will be good to go!
But yes, there are definitely much better jazz teachers out there. My preference is more rock/melodic metal 😎
@@zombieguitar ok, yes, get the picture. Yes I know, i am also into the rock. But in the 80ties i also listen quite a lot to jazz-rock (i think you would call it nowadays fusion) and was always kind of goal for me to get to that level 😅. Thnx Brain
i'm more used to think about the major III chord as a secondary dominant V/vii or the fith degree from the relative harmonic/melodic minor scale, but with you're vision every out of key chords can bet thought as borrowed chord, it makes me want to try to borrow evrey chords that are on the circle of fiths other than the common ones to widen the harmonic possibilities.
one that is common to use too is the bVI just before the one it sounds great !
OMG I can't believe you've got the circle of fifths tattooed on your arm!
Most useful tattoo I ever got!!
keep growing 👌👌👌 amazing.,,.,..
Again Brian you knocked it out of the park. Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant, so many nuggets that make sense now. Need to get the circle of 5ths into my head. Main takeaway for me, ii chord sort of sad iii chord ITS TIME TO CRY 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
There always time for a good cry 😂😂😂
I can definitely see how that tattoo would come in handy :D. The trouble now for me is visualizing and memorizing all that info.
The progression [ iv I ] (that is, 4m to 1) is the "amen" progression, also known as the plagal cadence technically. This is typically heard at the end of a hymn. Play F Fm C and you'll hear how familiar that is.
I love the minor plagal cadence 😁
Thanks for all your valuable lessons. They are a wealth of information for us beginners, and you make it so easy to understand. For the circle of 5ths, looking at the C major scale, is it possible to have a song using nothing but the minor chords of C major (D min., E min., and A min.) or any other major scale for that matter, and if so would it still be considered in the key of C major?
Yes, you can absolutely use just those 3 chords. In that case you wouldn't call it the key of C major anymore. You would call it the key of A minor. You could also equally say "it is in the key signature of C major/A minor".
The important thing to realize is that C major and A minor are relative keys, meaning that they share all the same "stuff" as one another!
Wow, thanks for the quick reply - one other question if you don't mind. In the C major or A minor key, are there any instances where all 6 chords would be used in a song and if so how would you know what key to call it...the one you start with?
On behalf of actual zombie guitar players, aaauuuhhgrraruuuuhhh (It means thanks!)
Hello Brian, greetings from Holland and thank you another great lesson. You made a little mistake in the diagram of the C major scale. Almost below It says A: A C E, but it should be: Am: A C E.
Ah dammit!! I've been slacking lately and making stupid mistakes like this!!
🤯🤯🤯🤯as if it’s been that simple all along !!!!!!!!!! My apologies Brian it’s not simple you explain it in a way us dummies understand !!!!! Cheers bri!!!!!
It IS that simple once it clicks for ya!!!
Brilliant
Great channel!
About 8 months ago or so when I first started trying to learn guitar id watch your videos and be lost. Didnt have a clue what you were talking about. Now it is all starting to make sense. Different keys use different chords but the 1 4 5 chords always have the same effect even though they are different chords and different keys. Now how to know when and how to use 7th chords and such? Major minor dominant what does that all mean and how do 7th chords relate to the keys and when can you use them and which ones to use when??
Check out the lesson that I linked to in the description about "understanding diatonic chord progressions". I explain how the 7 seventh chords are derived in addition to the triads. The "I chord" and "IV chord" become maj7 chords. The "ii chord", "iii chord" and "vi chord" become m7 chords. The "V chord" becomes a dominant 7th chord, and the "vii* chord" becomes a half-diminished chord (aka. "m7b5 chord").
It's a long way to the top
If you wanna rock 'n' roll 😅🤕🤯
The best teacher! I'm coming out from darkness... Thanks!
nice
Nice lession. But tatoo with circle of fifths wins. Tou are truly guitar lover 😉
The best
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That's something wrong: if you consider C=T and you have a T S D progression ( C F G ) the parallel minor progression must keep the same functions; so if Am=t the parallel progression is t s d ( Am Dm Em ).
I didn't get into talking about tonic, subdominant and dominants in this video. In this key signature C, Am and Em are consider to be in the tonic family. F and Dm would be in the subdominant family, and G and B° would be in the dominant family.
This lesson is about showing how to use in-key chords, transposing keys and borrowing from parallel keys. There was no need to talk about chord families here 😎
You english speaking people should adopt the word parallel for C maj and A min otherwise you don't understand why A min is a different key from C maj with different chords like E7 that is a dominant and not a chord borrowed from another key. In the circle of 5th Am is under C that is a parallelism! How can you name c min parallel to C maj if there is no parallelism.. notes are not the same just they are between C and A min. And consider C maj the same key of A min is a mistake, you'll never understand what a minor key really is in that way.
@@DoktorLorentzBig the keys of C minor and C major are parallel keys because they both share the same root.
The key of C major and A minor are relative because they share the same notes.
Although E7 is commonly used in the key of A minor, it is still a non diatonic chord because of the fact that it contains the note G# which is not part of the key signature 😉
@@zombieguitar Your replies to these people are more diplomatic than mine would be my friend. But I'm just a humble English speaking person!! LOL!!
@@philjames1019 there is nothing offensive in what I'm talking about, I think music is a universal language and I exort people of the world to have a common language to analyze it. Minor keys are more complex to comprehend and in my opinion it should be great if people understand that composing a minor piece of music is not the same as consider it a major one; functions, if it's functional theory we wanna speak about, are related to the tonic not to a parallel or relative major. Hope you'll understand that. If tonic is minor also something wrong goes with the number system; the VII chord for example: in C maj is B D F A but in A min is G B D F; think about that..
I was wondering if you could give any examples of a popular song most people know that uses lots of out of key chords. I would assume that there aren't too many examples since it makes it sound jumbled.
Hotel California uses a few out-of-key chords!
Isnt it weird how people on tv such as news stations blink constantly for some reason . This guy here proves u can blink naturally while being filmed. So what the hell is going on with people on tv
If Adam Sandler taught guitar lessons
But !!! Happy music makes me sad.
What if writing sad music makes me happy ?
Seriously .....
Try no to over use the word “So” to many people on RUclips do this. Otherwise good lesson. Thanks
Nice lession. But tatoo with circle of fifths wins. Tou are truly guitar lover 😉