At first I thought that you had just mastered the art of clickbait but after seeing this video I stand corrected. I really haven't thought of guitar in this way before. You truly are one of a kind Rick and your knowledge in music is on a whole another level.
Truly. There are those that likely know more about specific aspects of music, but I would bet Rick is in the top 5 for just general breadth and depth of musical knowledge. Pretty insane range.
Eric Johnson has made a career out of it.....Eric calls them "open voiced triads". He plays them as chords and as arpeggios. You will hear them in every song he plays.
Tomi Syrén Don`t lets ignore or forget Robert Fripp(try the league of gentleman) or Philip Glass for the orchestral application As always Rick-great video
PFKM, SAN DIEGO these are very cello-flavored lines he was playing. There’s a great book called “Bach for Bass” which has arrangements of cello pieces for bass guitar that I learned a lot from early on
Rick, your last video on spread triads.. Took me away from just rehashing my riffs n licks of my fav guitarists to create songs. Exploring the idea of spread triads and creating a song which I think is my best and satisfying progression in 40 years of playing. Pat yourself on the back
Bach was my first thought. Once you hear that, this approach is almost intuitive. Rick is great at finding technique and inspiration from anywhere in music.
Drewg351 everyone watching that does understand this was in the same boat at some point. Unless they had a strong background in music already a lot of us had to unravel many of his lessons. My approach was “holy crap am I ignorant about music. What fundamentals do I have to build to understand this?” Now it’s not such a mind warp to follow. There’s still been quite a few videos I’ve rewatched to get it.
It’s not suppose to be “music”; it’s an exercise arranged to be as musical as possible by following the key chord progression... it’s all the inversions for each chord, which is instructive and helpful. Whether or not it appeals to me musically is beside the point. I would never use it this way, but it’s great practice!
I hope no one took my comment in the wrong way. I am in awe of Rick's talent and knowledge, and wasn't dissing on him. Quite the opposite actually. I'm the musically ignorant one. I have absolutely no clue what he's doing or discussing, yet I find myself drawn to these videos and find them entertaining.
I wish I was informed enough to understand any of Rick's triad videos... but I'm sure they're extremely beneficial to people who already have a good understanding of theory.
It’s probably simpler than you think. He’s doing some amazing stuff in real time, but he’s not using very much theory here at all. (Or I’m not smart enough to see it :-) ). What’s the bit you’re stuck on?
@@daviddawkins It's all based on theory. Not deep theory but one needs to understand the concepts of spread triads, and the theory behind maj and min triads and their inversions (and 7ths but the majority of the video was just maj and min). He has plenty of videos on the basics of all these concepts. He's just combining them all here to create some interesting ear catching movements.
Jason Bone I think we’re in agreement - there’s not a lot of theory required to understand triads. It’s not like we’re studying functional harmony here. I’m trying to encourage Dave Santini to jump in.
So it's nothing to complicated. Let's take the same example that he takes in the video itself the chord being Bm. So a Bm chord consists of a B, D and a F#. He plays exactly these notes in a spread triad position and from there he plays the exact same notes up the neck and coming down when trying to go to an E major he starts off with a B which is the fifth of that chord and is a common note between both the chords and then goes up the neck hitting only the notes of that chord
Dave Santini you may have to build on some fundamentals but what you don’t understand will guide you. If you understand how triads work and the fundamentals of chord progressions I think you’ll find that this lesson will click. Neither of those concepts are very brutal to learn.
As I was watching this, I couldn't help but wonder if the fact that you started on bass helped you think like that on guitar. I say that because I'm also a bass player and that is pretty much a fundamental technic on the instrument! Amazing as always!
Similar feeling! I had five years playing bass before ever picking up a guitar. My main struggle has been to embrace the quick utility of movable shapes. I always want to think through all the individual notes.
Rick, you're right. In my 3+ decades of playing guitar, I've never heard anything like this. Some of it reminds me of when I learned classical. This is great stuff. Thank you!
Your stacked intervals lesson back around '16 (maybe '17) and your first spread triad lesson greatly changed my playing and ability to create fun ways to move around the fret board. I like to combine the 2 ideas and play a major spread triad (1, 5, 3 with root on 5th string) and then stack another major spread triad (same shape) off the 5 of the first and create a maj 9 chord. Or stack a minor on it instead to create a 9 chord. So many unique ways to use these ideas.
Much, if not most, of what Rick does and talks about is way over my head (I am not a musician or sound engineer) but I still love this channel and I think I might possibly be learning stuff every time I watch. Thanks, Rick. Stay healthy, everyone.
These are great for comping, especially in jazz. Even more interesting is dropping roots and fifths to highlight extended harmonies allowing the rest of the band to fill those gaps.
A tip for metal players. In drop tunings you can easily fret a spread triad as a root 6 cord voicing (maj min dim aug) and get some cool sounding three notes shapes. The raised third adds so much color. Thanks Rick for your previous spread triad insight. I can"t wait to apply the concepts in this video.
Rick: We are gonna reimagine playing rhythm guitar using single notes Me, a bassist: ...aaah I see you are a man of culture as well edit: wow this blew up thanks for SLAPPing like guys!
As someone who is a master of the pentatonics, this is definitely important. Never actually got or utilized spread triads, but learning about them now is sure a blessing!
Like Rick I started off playing bass, which gives you no choice but to get a high level of knowledge about music theory, then got into guitar playing primarily to be able to show guitar players what I wanted them to play ( most guitar players I knew seemed to have a great aversion to learning any theory). A lot of my associates thought that I was quite anal/insane about theory, but having watched this video I am relieved to see that I was not quite that crazy. A brilliant lesson as ever Rick, thanks for all that you do for us mere mortals.
I discovered very early on that when there were multiple guitars it was always best to pick a chord tone or different position interval from the other players. Nothing worse than having a bunch of guys hammering the cowboy chords until it was mud. Clutter sucks.
Rick, you blow me away with your skills, your musicality, the depth of your understanding of what is music, and your dedication to music as an art form, discipline and inspiration. I thank you for sharing the music in you.
Rick, I began doing your "triad speads" on Chromatic Harmonica a couple yrs ago, only I descended by 4ths rather than by m2's (Am-D7-G-Dm-G7-C-Gm-C7-C ... -Em-A7-D). Sounds quite smooth (and like you, I credit listening to Metheny). Stay well and creative, Friend.
Wow thanks for this and all the other videos you put up Rick. As a guitar teacher and class music teacher here in South Africa, your videos really cement what I learnt in music college, many moons ago. This however is a new approach which I can really get into in the age of the Corona virus and social distancing. (We're under lockdown for two weeks here.) Lots of practice ahead, lol. Stay well and again many heartfelt thanks for your musical knowledge, which is a great help. 👏👏👏
Wow. Back in the day if I could have done that I would have been the "lead " guitar player in my band...or the best bass player, ever. Thanks, Rick, for teaching a subject many of us would never have thought about.
I am so glad that some RUclipsrs post, years ago, directed me to you. I am completely ALL EAR trained and have been playing guitar, bass and singing for the last 30+ years, but so much more is starting to make sense!! Keep doing what you do . . .I LOVE IT!!
Californication, scar tissue, road trippin and a bunch of John frusciantes solo work use this approach. He also talks about it in an interview from 2006, really interesting stuff
Man, I love your videos. I have no instrument skill and little musical knowledge but your delivery makes it feel fun and aspirational (if y’all ignore that preposterous word). Love the vids, love you pushing on the walls of what we consider standard at the mo.
I love how you show the technical aspect, and then demonstrate a way to use it creatively. Music is like Legos to me :) you figure out what pieces you have, next thing you know, you can make whatever you want!
Has a League of Crafty Guitarists sound to it. Alos sounds like string sections in film compositions but much cooler and unexpected on guitar. Love this.
This something I started doing in around 1980, I was a junior in highschool & Disco was still going strong, plus, I literally grew up down the street from the Blues & Jazz clubs in Chicago & was heavily getting into jazz/fusion, inspiried by Al DiMeola, but also into classical guitar, this opens up any guitarist mind, GREAT video Rick, thanks for all you do, we really do appreciate it! You & your family stay safe my friend,Rock On & God Bless!!!
Awesome lesson. It put me right to sleep. lol, I know that may not be exactly what you expected to hear, but trust me, it’s a compliment. My brains heard your message as “high-value” and instantly put me into “subconscious download mode”. I’m just thankful nothing weird followed this video on my feed like “How to blown $15,000 in five minutes, on absolutely nothing! Rinse and Repeat Method 2020.” I’m also glad that I was inside and not walking down the road or down stairs.
Thank YOU Rick for a great view of your Discipline.........just a guitar powered by Brains ! You do know how enjoyable your efforts have become to us...........right.
Thanks for all of this, Rick. I've always wanted to learn guitar. My dad was a great guitarist and owned dozens of guitars when I was a teenager. But he refused to teach me. Now as an adult with my own family, I'm learning from RUclips on a cheap acoustic and a beat-up Cobain style white Univox.
This very similar to violin, viola and cello technique and has been an important part of music since J. S. Bach. Great idea to introduce it to guitar players. As you know, it's not really as difficult as it seems. Everyone should try to do at least some of it, slowly and simply at first. Altogether a very good and useful lesson. Thanks Rick and stay healthy in these trying times.
Reminds me a little of Bach Cello Suite No 1 at 5.00. Great exercise, love hearing how the arpeggios sound as they segue into each other. Even though this is just a 'practise' exercise, it still has emotion as the intervals change and evolve. Love it, thank you Rick!
Rick, you are a great guitarist and music instructor. Someone like you should have been there in my teens back in the 70's. When I picked up a guitar, I just wanted to learn what was necessary to simply "rock out" and have fun. My reaction to all this is like Jeff Dunham's Peanut doing that "NEEEOOOWWWMM" thing to express the subject matter going over his head.
Hi Rick, I do this (or some like this) a lot when play in jams, trying to not copy the other guitar chords. The most of the time the other players says "Can you do a normal chord?" Also doing this, i try to discover new voicings for my compositions (which i called "Piano chords" because difficulty and oddness) But never applied progessions like V-II-I because im an ear autodidact musician. Also good channel you have a lot of interesting videos.
Thanks Rick. I love your live lessons. It's been a few years now keeping an eye on your RUclips instructional vids. I have learned quite lot of stuff here and have purchased the Beato book. And I would also like to say it's good to see you still at it and doing well. Stay safe during these unusual times. And Thank for all you do.
Spread triads are used all the time on the piano, which is where Eric Johnson regularly says he got the idea (amongst others) from his time playing the piano....
Great lesson Rick! I’ve also been experimenting with a cut capo, turning it upside down and barring a major triad (a major shape) and then playing single notes on the open E and A and bottom e strings So you’re still playing all 6 strings but using the cut / partial capo to fret the higher notes. Hope that makes sense! Really cool voicings!
I wonder how many you tubers who play guitar understand most of what Rick discusses. I certainly do not but I learn a little something with every video he posts. The man is a genius as far as I'm concerned.
I'd only ever done this strumming, killing the unplayed strings, down strokes mainly, with delay and chorus trying to mimic keyboard sounds. My ears have been taught, things will never be the same again. 😎🎙🎸✅
Great idea! It’s funny, I was teaching my kids theory yesterday and taking the chord spelling to the piano, where we were just starting on inversions. We were looking at GBD, BDG, DGB, etc., when my 6 year-old said “what about GDB?” I was going to wait on that until later, but since the question was asked, I said “SPREADS! Let’s do this!” Then this video appears! More content for the Covid-19 Music Academy. Thanks Rick!
Thanks. I was trying to figure out where I wanted to take my playing to next now that I find myself with a lot of time on my hands. This lesson is a good starting point and I can already start to see the path beyond.
OK Rick, I'm FINALLY taking up guitar for sure now. In 1965 I begged my parents for a guitar. So of course, I had to take ACCORDION lessons for 4 years. I had to pick out things by ear that I thought were cool, but the teacher wouldn't allow (Imagine "Jumping Jack Flash" on accordion. The neighbors were like, "what's that?" I was desperate man. LOL). It occurs to me, we'll know the world is about to end when I check my notifications and Rick says, "Sorry everybody, I don't have any ideas left."
Rick, all of your videos are gems and frequently enlightening. I get what you talking about here, but I don't have the memory capacity to store and instantly recall all of this theory nor the talent to put it to use with such fluidity. All the practice in the world won't make up for a fundamental lack of ability. OTOH, I won't stop playing guitar because of it - I've learned to accept that we all have our unique abilities and limitations. :-)
Some of those arpeggio techniques would sound great with a Bach chord progression, or something like Paganini's Moto Perpetuo, or as an additional variation to Paganini's Caprice 24.
Check out “The Other One” documentary about Bob Weir. He started playing rhythm in his teens and is considered one of the most innovative players out there because of how creative he is with inversions. Maybe invite him on, Rick?
Me: "Oh! I play rhythm in a band, this'll be good!" *Starts watching* "Ok. Interesting. Keys player won't like that, but hey." *Watches to end* "WhaattTF? Keys player be fine, 'cos I'd never be able to do that in a million years."
You can make it even more interesting and invent new patterns and rhythms if you incorporate various echo settings to the notes and how you manually play them. Edge was doing this in the 80s.
Simply amazing and eye opening!! There’s no one on RUclips or anywhere else for that matter teaching things as unique and interesting as you Rick! Your videos are the best thing on RUclips!
At first I thought that you had just mastered the art of clickbait but after seeing this video I stand corrected. I really haven't thought of guitar in this way before. You truly are one of a kind Rick and your knowledge in music is on a whole another level.
Truly. There are those that likely know more about specific aspects of music, but I would bet Rick is in the top 5 for just general breadth and depth of musical knowledge. Pretty insane range.
Eric Johnson has made a career out of it.....Eric calls them "open voiced triads". He plays them as chords and as arpeggios. You will hear them in every song he plays.
Whole - Nuva - Level
Tomi Syrén totally true. Great comment man
Tomi Syrén Don`t lets ignore or forget Robert Fripp(try the league of gentleman) or Philip Glass for the orchestral application
As always Rick-great video
Seems like a lot of this would work exceptionally well on bass also.
PFKM, SAN DIEGO well two basically, it started in late XVIIIth. Century, nothing to brag about.
PFKM, SAN DIEGO these are very cello-flavored lines he was playing. There’s a great book called “Bach for Bass” which has arrangements of cello pieces for bass guitar that I learned a lot from early on
Rick was a Bass player, so I’m sure he got some ideas from that. And yeah, playing bass like this awesome
Thank you so much. This is a full advanced chord course in a short video for free. This is one of your best videos prof.
Always amazed at how intelligent Rick is in music theory...It's incredible to watch..
Rick, your last video on spread triads.. Took me away from just rehashing my riffs n licks of my fav guitarists to create songs.
Exploring the idea of spread triads and creating a song which I think is my best and satisfying progression in 40 years of playing. Pat yourself on the back
This reminds me of the Bach Cello Suites
Bach was my first thought. Once you hear that, this approach is almost intuitive. Rick is great at finding technique and inspiration from anywhere in music.
@@christophermccoy8689 Yes, I thought Bach right away. Insanely useful stuff.
Thought the same thing.
To me: this sounded like a "foreign language". I had absolutely NO idea what he was talking about. I just nod my head like "right, right, right". 😂🤣
I can see why you're overlooked.
Drewg351 everyone watching that does understand this was in the same boat at some point. Unless they had a strong background in music already a lot of us had to unravel many of his lessons. My approach was “holy crap am I ignorant about music. What fundamentals do I have to build to understand this?” Now it’s not such a mind warp to follow. There’s still been quite a few videos I’ve rewatched to get it.
PizzaDave underated comment😂
It’s not suppose to be “music”; it’s an exercise arranged to be as musical as possible by following the key chord progression... it’s all the inversions for each chord, which is instructive and helpful. Whether or not it appeals to me musically is beside the point. I would never use it this way, but it’s great practice!
I hope no one took my comment in the wrong way. I am in awe of Rick's talent and knowledge, and wasn't dissing on him. Quite the opposite actually. I'm the musically ignorant one. I have absolutely no clue what he's doing or discussing, yet I find myself drawn to these videos and find them entertaining.
Makes me think of the arpeggio practice on my flute - very classical sound, very Bach-ish. Nicely done, Rick!
I wish I was informed enough to understand any of Rick's triad videos... but I'm sure they're extremely beneficial to people who already have a good understanding of theory.
It’s probably simpler than you think. He’s doing some amazing stuff in real time, but he’s not using very much theory here at all. (Or I’m not smart enough to see it :-) ). What’s the bit you’re stuck on?
@@daviddawkins It's all based on theory. Not deep theory but one needs to understand the concepts of spread triads, and the theory behind maj and min triads and their inversions (and 7ths but the majority of the video was just maj and min).
He has plenty of videos on the basics of all these concepts. He's just combining them all here to create some interesting ear catching movements.
Jason Bone I think we’re in agreement - there’s not a lot of theory required to understand triads. It’s not like we’re studying functional harmony here. I’m trying to encourage Dave Santini to jump in.
So it's nothing to complicated. Let's take the same example that he takes in the video itself the chord being Bm. So a Bm chord consists of a B, D and a F#. He plays exactly these notes in a spread triad position and from there he plays the exact same notes up the neck and coming down when trying to go to an E major he starts off with a B which is the fifth of that chord and is a common note between both the chords and then goes up the neck hitting only the notes of that chord
Dave Santini you may have to build on some fundamentals but what you don’t understand will guide you. If you understand how triads work and the fundamentals of chord progressions I think you’ll find that this lesson will click. Neither of those concepts are very brutal to learn.
As I was watching this, I couldn't help but wonder if the fact that you started on bass helped you think like that on guitar. I say that because I'm also a bass player and that is pretty much a fundamental technic on the instrument! Amazing as always!
Similar feeling! I had five years playing bass before ever picking up a guitar. My main struggle has been to embrace the quick utility of movable shapes. I always want to think through all the individual notes.
Naki Ryan meh you’re one of those people who puts quotes around something that wasn’t actually said word for word
Always wanted to know if there was a guitar player who played like a bass player since there’s so many guitar player bassists, I finally found him
He actually started on bass
7:23 is me trying to learn Sweet Child O'Mine
lol
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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This needed a demo of how it works as rhythm guitar--i.e., combining with a lead guitar or other to result in MUSIC.
Paul Quirk make a recording of: bass in the center channel, traditional rhythm guitar/lead guitar panned hard left, Rick guitar panned hard right
Alternative title: How To Play The Piano Using Only A Guitar
Rick, you're right. In my 3+ decades of playing guitar, I've never heard anything like this. Some of it reminds me of when I learned classical. This is great stuff. Thank you!
That first spread triad had me thinking of spaghetti western scores, like The Good The Bad and The Ugly.
John Wehby me tooooo
And, I was thinking, Cake
You nailed it.
Your stacked intervals lesson back around '16 (maybe '17) and your first spread triad lesson greatly changed my playing and ability to create fun ways to move around the fret board. I like to combine the 2 ideas and play a major spread triad (1, 5, 3 with root on 5th string) and then stack another major spread triad (same shape) off the 5 of the first and create a maj 9 chord. Or stack a minor on it instead to create a 9 chord. So many unique ways to use these ideas.
1:22 “this was before...” (Bm)
Holy crap, i know Rick has grey hair, but I didn’t know he was born before Bm was invented :p
Haha, I love this comment! Thank you!
Much, if not most, of what Rick does and talks about is way over my head (I am not a musician or sound engineer) but I still love this channel and I think I might possibly be learning stuff every time I watch. Thanks, Rick. Stay healthy, everyone.
This has something of Bach and the Suite No 1 for Cello in G major, BMV1007: 1. Prelude
Love it.
These are great for comping, especially in jazz. Even more interesting is dropping roots and fifths to highlight extended harmonies allowing the rest of the band to fill those gaps.
This is so way over my head, I’ve no real idea what’s going on but I like the sound of it!
At 4:55: "using spread triads with some inversions and maybe changing the rhythm" -- sounds great! Worth a thumbs-up just for that section, IMO.
A tip for metal players. In drop tunings you can easily fret a spread triad as a root 6 cord voicing (maj min dim aug) and get some cool sounding three notes shapes. The raised third adds so much color. Thanks Rick for your previous spread triad insight. I can"t wait to apply the concepts in this video.
i instantly thought of classical music.... fast forward to 5:00.. yup lol. Cool stuff!
Yep, I went instantly to Bach there.
Very Bach-ish in places!
Yes, Bach's Cello Suite #1 opening.
Yes! As a cellist who later picked up guitar, I am loving this!
I'm not even classically trained and it was the first thing I thought of. Love that part at 5:00
Rick: We are gonna reimagine playing rhythm guitar using single notes
Me, a bassist: ...aaah I see you are a man of culture as well
edit: wow this blew up thanks for SLAPPing like guys!
xD
Rick is a bassist if I am not mistaken.
Michelediaf you’re not mistaken at all. Guitar is his first love.
Brilliant
thanks Ivan, belly laugh of the day
As someone who is a master of the pentatonics, this is definitely important. Never actually got or utilized spread triads, but learning about them now is sure a blessing!
I guess the similar idea is behind Joe Satriani's "Midnight"..
Yes reminds me of Joe Satriani too
1:54 The Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing (the legato part)
only the beginning part where rick demonstrate the basic stuffs. Afterwards, Joe never close to those
I was thinking 'Echo'. But I agree.
@@dougrobinson8602 Wow! Echo is my favorite tune of Joe Satriani, truly mesmerizing and that powerful bass line through the whole song is epic.
Reminded me of the baroque and renaissance consort music I used to play in an recorder group. Sounds beautiful!
Like Rick I started off playing bass, which gives you no choice but to get a high level of knowledge about music theory, then got into guitar playing primarily to be able to show guitar players what I wanted them to play ( most guitar players I knew seemed to have a great aversion to learning any theory). A lot of my associates thought that I was quite anal/insane about theory, but having watched this video I am relieved to see that I was not quite that crazy. A brilliant lesson as ever Rick, thanks for all that you do for us mere mortals.
Rick Beato, you are a Wizard of Music. Thank you so deeply for teaching us Practical Musical Magic.
I discovered very early on that when there were multiple guitars it was always best to pick a chord tone or different position interval from the other players. Nothing worse than having a bunch of guys hammering the cowboy chords until it was mud. Clutter sucks.
JimmerSD producers everywhere appreciate you
Rick, you blow me away with your skills, your musicality, the depth of your understanding of what is music, and your dedication to music as an art form, discipline and inspiration. I thank you for sharing the music in you.
1:25 like that scene in The Exorcist:
Bm
AAAAAAH!!!!
Wow! This voicing on 6 minute reminds me of Bach's Cello suites (especially the 1st). Sound incredible!
Rick, I began doing your "triad speads" on Chromatic Harmonica a couple yrs ago, only I descended by 4ths rather than by m2's (Am-D7-G-Dm-G7-C-Gm-C7-C ... -Em-A7-D). Sounds quite smooth (and like you, I credit listening to Metheny). Stay well and creative, Friend.
As a bassist I find your spread triad videos immensely useful and satisfying.
Wow thanks for this and all the other videos you put up Rick. As a guitar teacher and class music teacher here in South Africa, your videos really cement what I learnt in music college, many moons ago. This however is a new approach which I can really get into in the age of the Corona virus and social distancing. (We're under lockdown for two weeks here.) Lots of practice ahead, lol. Stay well and again many heartfelt thanks for your musical knowledge, which is a great help. 👏👏👏
You are the modern JS Bach Rick! That is just plain genius. It would take me years to learn that but it is really appreciated!!! Thank you!!!
honestly, completely mind expanding, i feel like i just learnd how to play a brand new instrument.
Wow. Back in the day if I could have done that I would have been the "lead " guitar player in my band...or the best bass player, ever. Thanks, Rick, for teaching a subject many of us would never have thought about.
Your enthusiasm and ideas are really helping me through this time. Thanks Rick!
Love the sound of those inversions. Would like to see all that in a book with exercises written out in guitar TAB.
Tom Scharf
Yes me as well.
That screensaver reflecting on your guitar is mesmerising.
I am so glad that some RUclipsrs post, years ago, directed me to you. I am completely ALL EAR trained and have been playing guitar, bass and singing for the last 30+ years, but so much more is starting to make sense!! Keep doing what you do . . .I LOVE IT!!
Californication, scar tissue, road trippin and a bunch of John frusciantes solo work use this approach. He also talks about it in an interview from 2006, really interesting stuff
Finn can u please send me this interview
@@Simonknowsall i want it too
Waiting in case captain
1:23 before the dark times, before B minor
Man, I love your videos. I have no instrument skill and little musical knowledge but your delivery makes it feel fun and aspirational (if y’all ignore that preposterous word). Love the vids, love you pushing on the walls of what we consider standard at the mo.
I love how you show the technical aspect, and then demonstrate a way to use it creatively. Music is like Legos to me :) you figure out what pieces you have, next thing you know, you can make whatever you want!
Good way to think about it, one brick at a time.
Has a League of Crafty Guitarists sound to it. Alos sounds like string sections in film compositions but much cooler and unexpected on guitar. Love this.
legendary league
Pure gold. Time and again. Thanks Rick and all the best from Finland!
Really appreciate for all the ideas from the channel
Thanks Rick! As always we are the lucky ones. You make this crazy time so much better.
This something I started doing in around 1980, I was a junior in highschool & Disco was still going strong, plus, I literally grew up down the street from the Blues & Jazz clubs in Chicago & was heavily getting into jazz/fusion, inspiried by Al DiMeola, but also into classical guitar, this opens up any guitarist mind, GREAT video Rick, thanks for all you do, we really do appreciate it! You & your family stay safe my friend,Rock On & God Bless!!!
Awesome lesson. It put me right to sleep. lol, I know that may not be exactly what you expected to hear, but trust me, it’s a compliment. My brains heard your message as “high-value” and instantly put me into “subconscious download mode”. I’m just thankful nothing weird followed this video on my feed like “How to blown $15,000 in five minutes, on absolutely nothing! Rinse and Repeat Method 2020.” I’m also glad that I was inside and not walking down the road or down stairs.
I might not have understood all of the technical aspects or theory of this, but the sound of it definitely inspires some new ideas! Nicely done Rick 👍
Thank YOU Rick for a great view of your Discipline.........just a guitar powered by Brains ! You do know how enjoyable your efforts have become to us...........right.
Thanks for all of this, Rick. I've always wanted to learn guitar. My dad was a great guitarist and owned dozens of guitars when I was a teenager.
But he refused to teach me. Now as an adult with my own family, I'm learning from RUclips on a cheap acoustic and a beat-up Cobain style white Univox.
This very similar to violin, viola and cello technique and has been an important part of music since J. S. Bach. Great idea to introduce it to guitar players. As you know, it's not really as difficult as it seems. Everyone should try to do at least some of it, slowly and simply at first. Altogether a very good and useful lesson. Thanks Rick and stay healthy in these trying times.
Reminds me a little of Bach Cello Suite No 1 at 5.00. Great exercise, love hearing how the arpeggios sound as they segue into each other. Even though this is just a 'practise' exercise, it still has emotion as the intervals change and evolve. Love it, thank you Rick!
Brilliant! keep ‘em coming as we’ve plenty of spare time at the moment..
Wow that lesson was great, the guitar has a way of reaching out and touching your soul.
The Bm spread triad sounded like Bucketheads Soothsayer!
that's what it reminds me of .
The whole time I kept thinking it reminded me Andy Summers and how he would approach his rhythms .
Rick, you are a great guitarist and music instructor. Someone like you should have been there in my teens back in the 70's. When I picked up a guitar, I just wanted to learn what was necessary to simply "rock out" and have fun. My reaction to all this is like Jeff Dunham's Peanut doing that "NEEEOOOWWWMM" thing to express the subject matter going over his head.
Your knowledge is just remarkable. So much to learn by watching your channel. Thanks for all the videos.
Hi Rick, I do this (or some like this) a lot when play in jams, trying to not copy the other guitar chords. The most of the time the other players says "Can you do a normal chord?" Also doing this, i try to discover new voicings for my compositions (which i called "Piano chords" because difficulty and oddness) But never applied progessions like V-II-I because im an ear autodidact musician. Also good channel you have a lot of interesting videos.
As a bassist, I use this all the time. Inversions and voicing is the bedrock of my playing. You da man
Thanks Rick. I love your live lessons. It's been a few years now keeping an eye on your RUclips instructional vids. I have learned quite lot of stuff here and have purchased the Beato book. And I would also like to say it's good to see you still at it and doing well. Stay safe during these unusual times. And Thank for all you do.
Spread triads are used all the time on the piano, which is where Eric Johnson regularly says he got the idea (amongst others) from his time playing the piano....
Beato your always going into deeper depths of music.
Nobody quoted Steve Morse ? He is the first I thought of watching this video . Thank you Rick, as always, amazing content !
BRAVO!!! Couldn’t have come at a better time for me musically!!! THANK YOU RICK!!!
Great lesson Rick!
I’ve also been experimenting with a cut capo, turning it upside down and barring a major triad (a major shape) and then playing single notes on the open E and A and bottom e strings
So you’re still playing all 6 strings but using the cut / partial capo to fret the higher notes.
Hope that makes sense! Really cool voicings!
I wonder how many you tubers who play guitar understand most of what Rick discusses. I certainly do not but I learn a little something with every video he posts. The man is a genius as far as I'm concerned.
The depths of his knowledge is deep and unending. I learn something new everytime I watch Rick.
What a fabulous lesson and it has really got me thinking and inspired me! Thank you Rick.
Hi Rick.... this has to be one of the most powerful videos on the net........ Thank you
Thank you so much for the slow pass through all this!
This is the most inspiring lesson I found on internet. Great video as always.
I'd only ever done this strumming, killing the unplayed strings, down strokes mainly, with delay and chorus trying to mimic keyboard sounds. My ears have been taught, things will never be the same again. 😎🎙🎸✅
Great idea! It’s funny, I was teaching my kids theory yesterday and taking the chord spelling to the piano, where we were just starting on inversions. We were looking at GBD, BDG, DGB, etc., when my 6 year-old said “what about GDB?” I was going to wait on that until later, but since the question was asked, I said “SPREADS! Let’s do this!”
Then this video appears! More content for the Covid-19 Music Academy. Thanks Rick!
Thanks. I was trying to figure out where I wanted to take my playing to next now that I find myself with a lot of time on my hands. This lesson is a good starting point and I can already start to see the path beyond.
God, this is golden. Definitely gonna use this. Thanks Rick
OK Rick, I'm FINALLY taking up guitar for sure now. In 1965 I begged my parents for a guitar. So of course, I had to take ACCORDION lessons for 4 years. I had to pick out things by ear that I thought were cool, but the teacher wouldn't allow (Imagine "Jumping Jack Flash" on accordion. The neighbors were like, "what's that?" I was desperate man. LOL). It occurs to me, we'll know the world is about to end when I check my notifications and Rick says, "Sorry everybody, I don't have any ideas left."
Rick, all of your videos are gems and frequently enlightening. I get what you talking about here, but I don't have the memory capacity to store and instantly recall all of this theory nor the talent to put it to use with such fluidity. All the practice in the world won't make up for a fundamental lack of ability. OTOH, I won't stop playing guitar because of it - I've learned to accept that we all have our unique abilities and limitations. :-)
Some of those arpeggio techniques would sound great with a Bach chord progression, or something like Paganini's Moto Perpetuo, or as an additional variation to Paganini's Caprice 24.
Steve Morse the official master of this technique! Awesome lesson Rick 👍
Check out “The Other One” documentary about Bob Weir. He started playing rhythm in his teens and is considered one of the most innovative players out there because of how creative he is with inversions. Maybe invite him on, Rick?
Opens up a whole new world of possibilities - I can see some solo pieces perhaps coming out of this as well.
Me: "Oh! I play rhythm in a band, this'll be good!"
*Starts watching*
"Ok. Interesting. Keys player won't like that, but hey."
*Watches to end*
"WhaattTF? Keys player be fine, 'cos I'd never be able to do that in a million years."
You can make it even more interesting and invent new patterns and rhythms if you incorporate various echo settings to the notes and how you manually play them. Edge was doing this in the 80s.
How can people dislike this? Great as usual. Reminds me on Robert Fripp. 🎸
Thanks, Rick. Gonna try this exercise. Been meaning to work on some arpeggios anyways.
Simply amazing and eye opening!! There’s no one on RUclips or anywhere else for that matter teaching things as unique and interesting as you Rick! Your videos are the best thing on RUclips!
4:44 reminds me of the intro riff to Veil of Maya's "Crawl Back."
Sounds Tool-ish around the 7:00 to 8:00 mark. Amazing stuff that I don't understand as usual. Keep it coming.
VERY interesting and inspiring lesson! Now I'm thinking about bass lines differently.
This is great stuff. Aside from very sonically interesting, it opens you up from some “finger patterns” that a person falls into. Thanks!
rkon spent most of my playing life in 3 piece bands and sort of gravitated towards including that style in my tool bag Police used it a lot
Pure Gold! Great lesson... Thanks. He is really Anthony Bourdain of guitar world. Wait? What 😀