You literally made me pick my guitar that i had left about 4 years ago back up and try some stuff. Its been a long time since i actually felt so motiviated to learn a instrument. I thank you for that.
I'm not gonna lie, I was taught by a guitar teacher and I was told "memorize this and you'll solo in no time" and guess where I'm at? I'm still on shore and some of the stuff I've even produced I don't even *really* like with solos in them. This changes everything.
Home run! This video speaks to almost every guitarist and perfectly encapsulates the "Ah ha!" moment. Please, continue the series - this is great stuff!
EVERYTHING is the major scale. Like literally everything and every major scale is the same. As a music teacher is so hard to "de-mistify" music theory (and music in general) for my students because we are used to it being just for the enlightened or the musically gifted. Thank you for making this video. I feel it's gonna help so many people understand so many things. Music theory is not meant to make you a better musician, or a better listener for that matter. It will not help you appreciate better what you listen, you listen with you ears and no amount of study will make your ears "better", you like what you like and that's all there is to it. It's just so you can explain whatever you or someone else made. Now a composer who knows theory can make much more interesting stuff for the listener and that is only because you can paint a better picture if you have a lot of colors in your palette, it's what you do with knowledge what counts, not the knowledge itself. Again, thanks for this. 14 year old me would have loved to find something like this on RUclips
One of the more helpful illustrations of modes for me is this exercise on the piano: Start at middle C and play all the white keys up to the next octave. That's obviously your typical major (Ionian) scale, with the half-step intervals between 3&4 and 7&8. Then start on D and do the same thing (play all the white notes from D-D). That's Dorian, with the half-step intervals between 2&3 (hence, a flat 3rd, so a minor mode) and 6&7. Repeat for all the white notes as the root of the scale, and you've just played essentially all the modes. All you're doing is shifting where the half-steps are in the scale to produce each mode.
Just sat down with my brother and watched this! He's been a choir nerd for his whole life and I a band nerd - our backgrounds in theory are light, basically just familiar with the circle of fifths and some scales, some chords. This was something I had thought about before but it was eye-opening to see it illustrated so clearly with the sliding scale visualizer. Really looking forward to the next videos in the series if you continue it! Gonna go pick up my electric right now and play. Thanks, V! 😁
Totally need this, finally explains the modes in a way that will actually sink in, from a guitarist that actually gets the reality of learning for many of us. Please keep these vids coming.
Dude I thought you were speaking straight to me when you were explaining your plateu. Taught myself and been here for several years now. Thank you for the knowledge nuggets man
As a self-taught guitarist, having not taken a single lesson, class, or having a read a book on theory....this made sense. I saw the patterns in the scales, and I am interested.
I have always been baffled by guitar. Having played trombone for a few years and doing well with that, as well as piano here and there, guitar just seems so hard to get into. You’re opening my mind, thank you good sir
I was trained traditionally in music, but never really got into the theory side of it, this was an incredible perspective on learning all that that I'd absolutely love to see more of it! That tool also looks awesome, definitely release it!
Came here as soon as i heard you talk about this on the pogcast. This is what I've been needing for years. It was only a few days ago I posted on Reddit for advice on understanding the guitar more and learning theory. I've played on and off for 15 years but never got further than just learning songs from tabs. I really hope you make more of these videos 👍👍
This was helpful! I heard about this from your podcast, I’d love to learn more from you. You have a way of explaining that is more clear than most musicians
On the subject of the circle of fifths, playing through some examples could be helpful. The basic idea of the circle of fifths is that you start on a I chord (in whatever key you want to be in), then move to any other chord, and get back to the I chord via the circle of fifths. The simplest example is I-V-I. Even better, I-V7-I. Using dominant seventh chords in the intermediate chords actually makes the natural progression to the next chord more apparent to the ear, because the tritone tension between the third and the seventh requires resolution. For a more interesting example, start on a I chord, move to III7 and then back around the circle to I: I-III7-VI7-II7-V7-I. In the key of C, that would be C-E7-A7-D7-G7-C. The reason why it's "the circle of fifths" is that the root of the chord you're on becomes the fifth of the chord you're moving to. In the above example, you moved away from C to E7, the next chord after the E7 would have E as the fifth, so it would be an A7, then A becomes the fifth of the next chord (D7), then D becomes of the fifth of the next chord (G7), and G becomes the fifth of the next chord and you're back to C (the I chord). You can use simple major chords as the intermediaries, but I find it easier to hear the obvious resolution with sevenths. The point is that the natural motion that a Western music ear expects is circle of fifths motion. The I-III7-VI7-II7-V7-I progression is the progression of the song "Five Foot Two". The step beyond that is to do "across the circle" chord substitution, where you replace an intermediary chord with one that is directly across the circle from the chord you would normally move to. But that may be getting too deep, I don't know.
Loved this. Recently picked up the guitar again as part of therapy and trying to find a way to express myself. Thanks for all your hard work, and yes please I would love more of this! Can't wait to catch you on stream again!
why does this not have more views!? also, i used to be interested in guitar, tried for like 3 weeks, gave up. that was like 2 years ago, just been watching your streams and listening to your music on spotify and its gotten me to pick up the guitar again and give it the old college try. love your vids and how in depth you go with all of your videos! keep up the great work and thank you for the knowledge you continue to pass on about the shit youre interested it!
i never knew any of this just your basic blues and major and minor scales this has opened my eyes alot i feel like alot of theory ive read over the years makes sense now , love improvising over a back track and this helped me to understand how to do this better , ive been playing for 10 years , a few years ago i felt like i stopped improving , this helped me alot . thank you i hope to see more content like this !
I remember my first guitar teacher trying to teach me scale patterns and it 1, blew my mind and I couldn't remember any of them and 2, burnout started to set in and I put the guitar down for 12 years. I'm trying to pick it back up again but the motivation is really low. I'll most likely bring this video up with my current teacher and try to get back on the wagon and try to get to where I wanted to get all them years ago. Thanks man :)
Yo man I love your content! I've loved all your music and actually wanted to reach out about how you got your skills. Super awesome video man glad you made it. Whatever you do I'll be here to support you!
I just got my first guitar(thanks V for the inspiration) so I have very little clue about the subject lol, but man am I excited to learn music theory from you lol
Hey Veritas, thank you very much for sharing this! This is certainly very helpful for me. Im nearing my 2-year mark now too and i've already watched a couple of music-theory videos but also - not really... Most of the time i would get bored of learning theory and not understanding most of what i just heard/watched and instead just start the amp and noodle around with the a-minor pentatonic to some backing tracks or a simple chord progression that i'd loop. Since i discovered a couple of months ago, that you can just move all the patterns up and down the neck i would just do that until it fit without even knowing which key im in and especially not which mode. However i still somehow want to understand what the heck im even doing and especially how i could alter my playing, since its getting kind of repetitive too. Maybe your aproach is more intuitive than most of what i've seen so far? The tool looks already really helpful! Thanks a lot for sharing! :)
I love your content in general and love that you are making music theory content too! But, i didn't got your point in "there's only one scale" sanction.. For my ears, you just played E major scale, for the root note in theses example is always E. Probably because you threat E as the root in your solo (lead). Ive even tried to listen to your examples with F# drone on top to hear it in F# dorian, than G# for Phrygian, that A for lydian and so on.. For my hears: you just played in E major. Maybe im totally missed you point.
You literally made me pick my guitar that i had left about 4 years ago back up and try some stuff.
Its been a long time since i actually felt so motiviated to learn a instrument. I thank you for that.
I'm not gonna lie, I was taught by a guitar teacher and I was told "memorize this and you'll solo in no time" and guess where I'm at? I'm still on shore and some of the stuff I've even produced I don't even *really* like with solos in them. This changes everything.
You, my good sir, just gave me my eureka moment. For that I sincerely thank and applaud you.
Home run!
This video speaks to almost every guitarist and perfectly encapsulates the "Ah ha!" moment. Please, continue the series - this is great stuff!
Please release this series! I’ve never heard modes explained better so I just am stuck in the minor pentatonic slump.
Very cool boss as always - Rajev
HYPE!! 😊Ready to learn!!
cant wait to sit down with this one
I don't know anything about guitar but that was really interesting
EVERYTHING is the major scale. Like literally everything and every major scale is the same. As a music teacher is so hard to "de-mistify" music theory (and music in general) for my students because we are used to it being just for the enlightened or the musically gifted. Thank you for making this video. I feel it's gonna help so many people understand so many things.
Music theory is not meant to make you a better musician, or a better listener for that matter. It will not help you appreciate better what you listen, you listen with you ears and no amount of study will make your ears "better", you like what you like and that's all there is to it. It's just so you can explain whatever you or someone else made. Now a composer who knows theory can make much more interesting stuff for the listener and that is only because you can paint a better picture if you have a lot of colors in your palette, it's what you do with knowledge what counts, not the knowledge itself.
Again, thanks for this. 14 year old me would have loved to find something like this on RUclips
Really glad you enjoyed!
One of the more helpful illustrations of modes for me is this exercise on the piano: Start at middle C and play all the white keys up to the next octave. That's obviously your typical major (Ionian) scale, with the half-step intervals between 3&4 and 7&8. Then start on D and do the same thing (play all the white notes from D-D). That's Dorian, with the half-step intervals between 2&3 (hence, a flat 3rd, so a minor mode) and 6&7. Repeat for all the white notes as the root of the scale, and you've just played essentially all the modes. All you're doing is shifting where the half-steps are in the scale to produce each mode.
thankyou, very very interesting!
Bro yes. We talked about this on stream and it changed my guitar playing forever. Thanks dude, you're the best! Always the best content!
Just sat down with my brother and watched this! He's been a choir nerd for his whole life and I a band nerd - our backgrounds in theory are light, basically just familiar with the circle of fifths and some scales, some chords.
This was something I had thought about before but it was eye-opening to see it illustrated so clearly with the sliding scale visualizer. Really looking forward to the next videos in the series if you continue it! Gonna go pick up my electric right now and play. Thanks, V! 😁
Totally need this, finally explains the modes in a way that will actually sink in, from a guitarist that actually gets the reality of learning for many of us. Please keep these vids coming.
Dude I thought you were speaking straight to me when you were explaining your plateu. Taught myself and been here for several years now. Thank you for the knowledge nuggets man
As a self-taught guitarist, having not taken a single lesson, class, or having a read a book on theory....this made sense. I saw the patterns in the scales, and I am interested.
Very much interested found myself doing the same stuff
I have always been baffled by guitar. Having played trombone for a few years and doing well with that, as well as piano here and there, guitar just seems so hard to get into. You’re opening my mind, thank you good sir
I swear, you make the best videos in every category you choose to enter. What a beast. Great video, Veritas!
Thank you for the video! Looking forward to see the other.
I was trained traditionally in music, but never really got into the theory side of it, this was an incredible perspective on learning all that that I'd absolutely love to see more of it! That tool also looks awesome, definitely release it!
Came here as soon as i heard you talk about this on the pogcast. This is what I've been needing for years. It was only a few days ago I posted on Reddit for advice on understanding the guitar more and learning theory. I've played on and off for 15 years but never got further than just learning songs from tabs. I really hope you make more of these videos 👍👍
I concur
Thanks for making this man! I hope you put out more theory stuff like this in the future!
This was helpful! I heard about this from your podcast, I’d love to learn more from you. You have a way of explaining that is more clear than most musicians
Super video. Top notch content.
Totally peaked my interest. Thanks!
I have been paddling on the shallow waters for over 15 yrs !! This looks like a series of videos I will paying attention to!!
revolutionary stuff here. came from the pogcast and this has completely changed my thought process about the guitar.
On the subject of the circle of fifths, playing through some examples could be helpful. The basic idea of the circle of fifths is that you start on a I chord (in whatever key you want to be in), then move to any other chord, and get back to the I chord via the circle of fifths. The simplest example is I-V-I. Even better, I-V7-I. Using dominant seventh chords in the intermediate chords actually makes the natural progression to the next chord more apparent to the ear, because the tritone tension between the third and the seventh requires resolution.
For a more interesting example, start on a I chord, move to III7 and then back around the circle to I: I-III7-VI7-II7-V7-I. In the key of C, that would be C-E7-A7-D7-G7-C. The reason why it's "the circle of fifths" is that the root of the chord you're on becomes the fifth of the chord you're moving to. In the above example, you moved away from C to E7, the next chord after the E7 would have E as the fifth, so it would be an A7, then A becomes the fifth of the next chord (D7), then D becomes of the fifth of the next chord (G7), and G becomes the fifth of the next chord and you're back to C (the I chord). You can use simple major chords as the intermediaries, but I find it easier to hear the obvious resolution with sevenths. The point is that the natural motion that a Western music ear expects is circle of fifths motion. The I-III7-VI7-II7-V7-I progression is the progression of the song "Five Foot Two".
The step beyond that is to do "across the circle" chord substitution, where you replace an intermediary chord with one that is directly across the circle from the chord you would normally move to. But that may be getting too deep, I don't know.
Another great video, thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Loved this. Recently picked up the guitar again as part of therapy and trying to find a way to express myself. Thanks for all your hard work, and yes please I would love more of this!
Can't wait to catch you on stream again!
why does this not have more views!? also, i used to be interested in guitar, tried for like 3 weeks, gave up. that was like 2 years ago, just been watching your streams and listening to your music on spotify and its gotten me to pick up the guitar again and give it the old college try. love your vids and how in depth you go with all of your videos! keep up the great work and thank you for the knowledge you continue to pass on about the shit youre interested it!
I don't even play guitar Im watching this to improve making music. Composition is the hardest
dude this is a game changer will definitely be coming back to this video
I think I'm going to pick up my guitar again. Thanks, Veritas.
i never knew any of this just your basic blues and major and minor scales this has opened my eyes alot i feel like alot of theory ive read over the years makes sense now , love improvising over a back track and this helped me to understand how to do this better , ive been playing for 10 years , a few years ago i felt like i stopped improving , this helped me alot . thank you i hope to see more content like this !
I remember my first guitar teacher trying to teach me scale patterns and it 1, blew my mind and I couldn't remember any of them and 2, burnout started to set in and I put the guitar down for 12 years. I'm trying to pick it back up again but the motivation is really low. I'll most likely bring this video up with my current teacher and try to get back on the wagon and try to get to where I wanted to get all them years ago. Thanks man :)
Yo man I love your content! I've loved all your music and actually wanted to reach out about how you got your skills. Super awesome video man glad you made it. Whatever you do I'll be here to support you!
I just got my first guitar(thanks V for the inspiration) so I have very little clue about the subject lol, but man am I excited to learn music theory from you lol
Hey Veritas,
thank you very much for sharing this! This is certainly very helpful for me.
Im nearing my 2-year mark now too and i've already watched a couple of music-theory videos but also - not really... Most of the time i would get bored of learning theory and not understanding most of what i just heard/watched and instead just start the amp and noodle around with the a-minor pentatonic to some backing tracks or a simple chord progression that i'd loop. Since i discovered a couple of months ago, that you can just move all the patterns up and down the neck i would just do that until it fit without even knowing which key im in and especially not which mode.
However i still somehow want to understand what the heck im even doing and especially how i could alter my playing, since its getting kind of repetitive too.
Maybe your aproach is more intuitive than most of what i've seen so far?
The tool looks already really helpful!
Thanks a lot for sharing! :)
I think you shoud look up Kodály method, its the way we learn music in Hungary. It's kinda the same perspective as yours.
Great video tarkov brotha
I actually know nothing about playing guitar or music in general but I really enjoyed the video anyway
this is good stuff
I love your content in general and love that you are making music theory content too!
But, i didn't got your point in "there's only one scale" sanction..
For my ears, you just played E major scale, for the root note in theses example is always E.
Probably because you threat E as the root in your solo (lead).
Ive even tried to listen to your examples with F# drone on top to hear it in F# dorian, than G# for Phrygian, that A for lydian and so on..
For my hears: you just played in E major.
Maybe im totally missed you point.