There's enough material here for hours of experimentation! Thanks for the video! I like the King Crimson vibe of many of these chords, it's really great to add some darker colors to our toolbox. Enough practicing embelished beautiful-voiced chords for a while!
Understanding what has Happened before us We are confined to a Darkened hidden tomb The conquering of our world As we knew it Rise above this pit Of sorrow and pain Among the few We are the avant leaders We've got to live Through this trouble and decay This question haunts my mind Will we survive this night? We're harboring the meek Will we survive the sleep? Unsure and scared We are planning our reprise Revolves around this world We don't know anymore The odds against us Yet we're stronger and prevailing Learn from mistakes Counting souls for sale This question haunts my mind Will we survive this night? We're harboring the meek Will we survive the sleep? This question haunts my mind Will we survive this night? We're harboring the meek Will we survive the sleep? This question haunts my mind Will we survive this night? We're harboring the meek Will we survive the sleep?
Many of those chords are used in a lot of rock songs by Rush, Genesis, Metallica, Alice in Chains, Randy Rhoads, Dream Theater, Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Loomis. The list goes on and on and that's before you start to include the genres of jazz, fusion, gypsy etc.
i suppose it's because the #11 creates a tritone, plus it's only one semitone away from the fifth (which are mostly being voiced in these chords) so you have an interesting combination of simultaneous resonance and dissonance
It's like a distortion of something you associate with happiness. It's off just enough to still be called major, but twisted enough to sound wrong. Spooky
Absolutely baffled why someone would dislike this purely informational vid- it's like if they posted the notes of the pentatonic scale and got dislikes for it.
E7sus2(♯11) is my favorite. It's so beautifully sinister and ominous. It sounds like someone walking alone at night and realizing something's behind them.
Sounds like one of those nights you're watching forensic files. A7 b9 and #11 are my favorites. I've incorporated them on my riffs on 7 string. Friggin awesome dude.
No hatred, just wondering when "dank" started meaning something other than "unpleasantly damp/cold". Although these chords would be the perfect soundtrack for when you walk into my cellar.
fretjam-Sometime in the early nineties when that dank bud started rolling around. That's marijuana just in case you needed it spelled out for you. Dark, moist, sticky, smelly marijuana. Mmmmmm. Then dumb millennial wannabe hipsters started calling everything "dank". So there ya go, hope that answered your question.
@Aleksandar Ignjatovic : No, a diminished chord is a series of minor third interval steps. It's a very linear chord, unlike the E7 flat 9 witch has a few different interval steps.
Very nicely done. So that's what we call the Diary of a Madman chord... Learned that chord by ear years ago. There is a thin membrane between light and darkness. What one calls happy, to another is melancholy... Sounds great...
Cool and very different guitar lesson! I know I’m going to use some of the chords in this to create some interesting new music. I particularly like Am(maj13). Sounds like you put a little touch of chorus on the guitar for extra creepiness. 👍🏻
The problem is not "knowing" the chords. The real matter is deciding where to use them, what kind of combination it sounds best. At 5th, 4th, where does a +5 or b13 chords sounds best ? Prepare such a video please.
+Kaan Öztürk A lot of these examples appear in multiple lessons. But in terms of what sounds best is really down to individual experimentation. Start by replacing instances of regular major and minor chords with these when you need some tension. The more you try different chord types in these different positions, the more familiar you will get with what works. Sometimes I just randomly try chords in unusual positions and hit some gold. Other moves are more calculated based on past experimentation.
Here are a few examples I've been messing around with that might inspire you. Some examples I mix "regular" chords with chords from the video (here's the chart for reference: www.fretjam.com/images/dark-guitar-chords-chart.gif ) Em6/9 - F#11(b9) Cadd9 - Cadd9(b13) Em(maj9) - A7 Gmaj(#11) - Fmaj7(#11) Cmaj - Fm(maj13) Daug(add9) - Gmaj Amaj - Am9(maj13)
fretjam Thank you so much. This is the most important topic i need, and i am sure many guitarists do. I'm also sure there are many videos telling about guitar chords harmonizing and combining, but it's so difficult to find something really helpful.
fretjam Let me tell you a little deeper with an example. I know that 2nd m7b5 chord sounds great between 1st and 5th. So if i have a song going from 1 to 5 , i put the 2nd m7b5 before 5 and song sounds richer. So, this is definitely what i need to know; for the chords on your video. Like "4th b5 sounds good after tonic", or "5th +13 sounds good before 4th" visa verse .
+Kaan Öztürk Trust your ears. All people like me can show is what they have personally discovered. Movements of chords are not as confined to musical systems as scales are. Of course there are conventions that, unfortunately, too much music conforms to. But with chords you are truly free to set the foundations of a piece of music without any confining preconceptions of what is right or wrong.
While useful, remember that this only demonstrates single, isolated chords. The mood of any chord usually depends on context, and the most basic, vanilla major and minor chords can sound dark/happy/sad/whatever; it just depends on what comes before and after.
amazingly helpful video , I'm going to have a very hard time trying to figure any of them out by ear , or even put them in the right progression , but hell ,they sound very captivating .
Dan Hahn EXACTLY what I thought. Brent must have somehow used time travel to watch this video over and over while recording Remission. Wouldn’t put it past him.
Man. This is fucking awesome. I mean we all do goofy shapes when we noodle around but it is very enlightening to see the chord names. I saved this video and I'll keep it forever. Whenever I need some inspiration I'll trot thus out. Thank u for uploading this. Thumbs way f'n up. \m/
The chords Randy used for the song were dark but beautiful. Randy was a genious. If he were still alive he would be at a level that nobody could ever touch.
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0:23 E5(#11)
0:37 E7sus2(#11)
0:51 E7(b9)
1:40 Emaj(b13)
1:54 Emaj7(#5)
2:06 Em6/9
2:35 Em(maj9)
2:49 Edim7
3:00 Edim9
3:18 A5(#11)
3:29 A7(b9)
4:11 A7(b13)
4:24 A7(#11)
4:35 Aaug7(#9)
4:47 Am(maj13)
5:00 Am6
5:11 Am6(#11)
5:23 Am(maj9)
5:34 Adim7
6:08 Gmaj(#11)
6:21 Gm6
6:34 Gm(maj7)
6:45 Cadd9(b13)
6:58 C7(b9)
7:11 Cm6/9
7:23 Fmaj7(#11)
7:37 Fm(maj13)
7:49 F#11(b9)
8:01 Badd11(b9)
8:15 B(b13)
8:27 Bm11(b5)
8:40 Daug(add9)
8:51 Dm13
9:03 Dm(maj9)
9:14 C#7(#5,#9)
9:26 C#m11(b5)
9:38 Eb7(b9)
10:09 A5(#11)
10:21 Amaj(b9)
10:33 Aaug7(#9)
10:44 Am6/9
10:56 Am(maj13)
11:08 D9(#11)
11:20 D7(b5,b9)
11:32 Dmaj7(#5)
11:44 Dm(maj7)
champion
Well, off to scare the kids in my lawn. 😂
Master work here 👏
You're the best! Thanks!
Thank you!
I played an open C chord for 5 minutes to make everything ok again.
xhead75 lol
Lol. I'm at the point where I've played the open C too much and need to finally express my inner dark side.
hahaha
G chord, d chord, maybe e chord and a chord
im fucking siiiiiick of standard chord voicings, im fed up with open c and d lol
Now that's 50 more chords to add to my list of chords to learn, thanks for sharing!!
Totally the Diablo-esque chords, I dig it so much.
Which ones would you say sound most Diablo like
It low key reminds me of the music from Tristram. Especially New Tristram in Diablo 3.
Callese miserable
HAHAAHAHAH
Finally a video with no talking!
There's enough material here for hours of experimentation! Thanks for the video! I like the King Crimson vibe of many of these chords, it's really great to add some darker colors to our toolbox. Enough practicing embelished beautiful-voiced chords for a while!
5:46 reminds me of Pantera's The Sleep
Well spotted. Dimebag is ascending the neck using those minor 3rd movements. Very cool trick.
DUUUUUH Dun Dun Dun
Understanding what has
Happened before us
We are confined to a
Darkened hidden tomb
The conquering of our world
As we knew it
Rise above this pit
Of sorrow and pain
Among the few
We are the avant leaders
We've got to live
Through this trouble and decay
This question haunts my mind
Will we survive this night?
We're harboring the meek
Will we survive the sleep?
Unsure and scared
We are planning our reprise
Revolves around this world
We don't know anymore
The odds against us
Yet we're stronger and prevailing
Learn from mistakes
Counting souls for sale
This question haunts my mind
Will we survive this night?
We're harboring the meek
Will we survive the sleep?
This question haunts my mind
Will we survive this night?
We're harboring the meek
Will we survive the sleep?
This question haunts my mind
Will we survive this night?
We're harboring the meek
Will we survive the sleep?
The Sleep is a 5:47 long song, that chord plays at aproximately 5:46, too accurate.
@@LucasHpm Oh shit
I love this video. I found it a few years ago and come back for inspiration often. For metal and folk stuff. Whoever made this...bravo.
The chords made me feel like someone else was in my home.
Spoopy
SAME XDD I JUST FREAK MYSELF OUT
Listen to these chords in headphones and you’ll feel the need to keep looking behind your back 😆
**In Your House - The Cure starts playing**
You're out of milk.
I like this because there is no wasting time and talking
My new Halloween track for the front porch.
I thought exactly the same
Scare those kids away!
Daniel Staples this is wholesome
Just sit on the front porch with an amp plugged in playing guitar and dressed as a scarecrow. 😂 Kids would lose their shit.
7:25 Fmaj7 (#11), that's classic Flamenco!
7:24 you can clearly hear that chord in Opeth's - Dirge for November. They really made a good use of that chord. Great video !
Masterpiece!
Prisms Edits i think i have heard that same chord in David Bowie's Space oddity
Same chord is also signature chord of Voices by Dream Theater.
First thing I thought too I learned that song years ago the context that chord is used in is perfect
And isn't the A7(#11) at the beginning of Diary of a Madman?
Honestly dude, this is a great amazing guide to keep me right when writing on the dark scales. Your a genius man.
The chorus makes it all the better
Dude, You Actually Help Guitarists Express Themselves and Show Some Guidance, Man!
You Have Awesome Music Theory, My Man! \m/
this looks and sounds like Metallica recruitment video
No, more like Alice In Chains!
Leonard Szubinski
A lot of the E chords had some metallica sounds. Namely Ktulu
hear a lot of Chains as well
the open E chords remind me of welcome home (sanitarium)
Many of those chords are used in a lot of rock songs by Rush, Genesis, Metallica, Alice in Chains, Randy Rhoads, Dream Theater, Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Loomis. The list goes on and on and that's before you start to include the genres of jazz, fusion, gypsy etc.
No. Just no.
This is the best and simplest way to learn chords. Instead of all the complex talking. Wow.
I'm surprised to see so many major chords in the list!
It serves as proof of how ignorant I am!
I find its usually the contrast between major and minor notes/chords that make the scary sounding chords.
i suppose it's because the #11 creates a tritone, plus it's only one semitone away from the fifth (which are mostly being voiced in these chords) so you have an interesting combination of simultaneous resonance and dissonance
+theycallmejpj Great comment which shows an awareness of how dissonance plays a role in music.
It's like a distortion of something you associate with happiness. It's off just enough to still be called major, but twisted enough to sound wrong. Spooky
L Galicki Band Its how you use them. Major scale can sound just as dark and or sad. Can use these in DSBM. I like whats going on here.
beginning of the video, the chords sound really like a shining song
Any diminished chord sounds freaky really
OfficialTechGamer true dat
Diminished chords sound a bit bland to me sometimes.
Of course it all depends on how they are used though.
Yes I use many of these in upbeat jazz songs which don't sound freaky at all. So effects do have some affect along with pick attack.
Rock music sucked until bands such as The Beatles and others started using diminished chords
Beautiful. These sounds have some the vibes of "Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines"
Yeah i played the game and i loved it when it came out. Down town and Santa Monica theme was my favourite.
7b9 chords are so horrifyingly beautiful
Most of this video boils down to the use of three things:
1) tritones (b5 or #11)
2) flat ninths (b9)
3) augmented triads (like C-E-G#)
Good to know.
I feel badass now...
Time to steal candies from kids.
+Rohanjeet Das Candy donations will be accepted regardless of their means of acquisition.
Are going to play this in the background too while you take the candies lmao!
I feel dark-ass now...
😂😂
wow me too
Absolutely baffled why someone would dislike this purely informational vid- it's like if they posted the notes of the pentatonic scale and got dislikes for it.
E7sus2(♯11) is my favorite. It's so beautifully sinister and ominous. It sounds like someone walking alone at night and realizing something's behind them.
4:23 Ozzy Osbourne's Diary of a Madman
Holy shit you're correct. That's crazy. I guess I know how to play that now! I've been hunting to figure out that chord for atleast a year now
First one was Slayer.
Thats exactly that 7th (#11) chord ....just not sure about the root note...
@@natmilcur you should learn to read tablature ! Guitar tabs have been around forever on the net.
@@dayglo98 i can read tab, I just couldn't find a useable version of diary of madman.
Diary of a madman
Highways6 Also heard the sleep by pantera lol
4:24
Socially Absurd I was waiting to see if anyone else noticed
That's what I heard , Randy roads
Sounds like one of those nights you're watching forensic files.
A7 b9 and #11 are my favorites. I've incorporated them on my riffs on 7 string. Friggin awesome dude.
whats with this amazing tone? i thought this was an instructional video, not an ultra progressive song
dagerhabid snakeskin chorus?
Very Petrucci-like tone
yeah, thought so too... in many DT songs petrucci layers an acoustic recording of the same stuff on top of this kind of sound.
Chorus and reverb for the spookiest cleanest tone
he has acoustic pickups on his electric guitar (they're called pizos or something).
Very cool! Now I need to go back and listen to those Steven Wilson masterpieces; he's a maestro of the 'dark sound'.
Mikael Akerfeldt likes this.
Yeah
Mikael Akerfeldt is awesome!
Came here to find and like a comment like this
dmitryWeirdo LOL
dmitryWeirdo That's what I thought
That E7(b9) Arpeggio was Awesome!
This should be a series
Love this vid...these are the sounds that makes music paddle away from the shallows and dive down to the deepest depths of our minds...
Well-stated 👍🏻
These awesome dark chords sounds like something from Pantera's song This Love.
Fantastic. Tiamat and Hipocrisy are full of this, captivate and mesmerizing, thanks for sharing this.
Many of these are used in Flamenco. Beautiful darkness!
True. And Villa-Lobos!
How can anyone down vote this... what a fantastic video
Agree 100%
I like this style
BrownBagSB if you like it hear the album oktubre from patricio rey, is an argentinian famous band (oktubre was the most dark album)
This jingle in the end is the best thing I've heard all month.
I love the sound. It’s so calming. I wanna hear these forever. Connects to the soul very much. T_T Beautiful.
well, it seems dark chords have an immense relaxing effect on me.
Obscure dark side of the force i hear.. Very well informed this one.
even that I play the guitar for à long time this still freek me out
metal head me too!
Thanks fretjam. Very well done.
This is every chord ever used by TestAmenT over their career. Very nice. Definitely saving this vid for later.
1:00 mark,devil put dinosaurs here AIC!!
Ok this actually gives me chills wtf
I clicked this video just to say i thought the thumbnail said "dank chords"
please dont hate me
No hatred, just wondering when "dank" started meaning something other than "unpleasantly damp/cold". Although these chords would be the perfect soundtrack for when you walk into my cellar.
Dank chord progression is such:
G-D-Am-C for Verse
G-C-C#-C for Chorus
fretjam-Sometime in the early nineties when that dank bud started rolling around. That's marijuana just in case you needed it spelled out for you. Dark, moist, sticky, smelly marijuana. Mmmmmm. Then dumb millennial wannabe hipsters started calling everything "dank". So there ya go, hope that answered your question.
Dankest chord ever: G#dim
Tab: 420xxx
Oleksandr Horskyi This, this comment made me fucking lose my shit laughing. A+ for that man.
Very cool lesson idea! Some of my favorite chords !
5:24 , try moving your 1st finger up one fret.
Creepy awesome!!! I would never have guessed such works of beauty and macabre were possible.
Great video! Subscribed!
do not piss me off, else I will play E7 flat 9th for you.
+Patriot Civillian Bit harsh.
Is not that chord the usual diminished cord? So called "dim".
@Aleksandar Ignjatovic : No, a diminished chord is a series of minor third interval steps.
It's a very linear chord, unlike the E7 flat 9 witch has a few different interval steps.
*tries to piss you off intensely*
Aylbdr Madison .
Very nicely done. So that's what we call the Diary of a Madman chord... Learned that chord by ear years ago. There is a thin membrane between light and darkness. What one calls happy, to another is melancholy... Sounds great...
Cool and very different guitar lesson! I know I’m going to use some of the chords in this to create some interesting new music. I particularly like Am(maj13). Sounds like you put a little touch of chorus on the guitar for extra creepiness. 👍🏻
So awesome to see these collection of extended chords across the fretboard! Just awesome video idea and thx for posting!
My left hand got more spooked than my listeners.
Thank you so much for this! For someone who writes music for guitar but doesn't know how to play, this is amazing.
The problem is not "knowing" the chords. The real matter is deciding where to use them, what kind of combination it sounds best. At 5th, 4th, where does a +5 or b13 chords sounds best ? Prepare such a video please.
+Kaan Öztürk A lot of these examples appear in multiple lessons. But in terms of what sounds best is really down to individual experimentation. Start by replacing instances of regular major and minor chords with these when you need some tension. The more you try different chord types in these different positions, the more familiar you will get with what works. Sometimes I just randomly try chords in unusual positions and hit some gold. Other moves are more calculated based on past experimentation.
Here are a few examples I've been messing around with that might inspire you. Some examples I mix "regular" chords with chords from the video (here's the chart for reference: www.fretjam.com/images/dark-guitar-chords-chart.gif )
Em6/9 - F#11(b9)
Cadd9 - Cadd9(b13)
Em(maj9) - A7
Gmaj(#11) - Fmaj7(#11)
Cmaj - Fm(maj13)
Daug(add9) - Gmaj
Amaj - Am9(maj13)
fretjam Thank you so much. This is the most important topic i need, and i am sure many guitarists do. I'm also sure there are many videos telling about guitar chords harmonizing and combining, but it's so difficult to find something really helpful.
fretjam Let me tell you a little deeper with an example. I know that 2nd m7b5 chord sounds great between 1st and 5th. So if i have a song going from 1 to 5 , i put the 2nd m7b5 before 5 and song sounds richer. So, this is definitely what i need to know; for the chords on your video. Like "4th b5 sounds good after tonic", or "5th +13 sounds good before 4th" visa verse .
+Kaan Öztürk Trust your ears. All people like me can show is what they have personally discovered. Movements of chords are not as confined to musical systems as scales are. Of course there are conventions that, unfortunately, too much music conforms to. But with chords you are truly free to set the foundations of a piece of music without any confining preconceptions of what is right or wrong.
I'm struggle with E chords on ukulele. Never failed to spook me out.
While useful, remember that this only demonstrates single, isolated chords. The mood of any chord usually depends on context, and the most basic, vanilla major and minor chords can sound dark/happy/sad/whatever; it just depends on what comes before and after.
What a great video!! Thank you!
I look forward to exploring these voicings!
So the thing is that you build your chords around tritones and seconds. That makes them spooky
Its like learning opeth songs without realizing them i love this list
Perfect for black metal
Yes :)
amazingly helpful video , I'm going to have a very hard time trying to figure any of them out by ear , or even put them in the right progression , but hell ,they sound very captivating .
The first 5 alone feel like the Tristram theme straight from Diablo
Your guitar tone makes it spooky as well. You can play on major scale and still sound spooky with this tone.
This is mastodons secret weapon in one video
Dan Hahn EXACTLY what I thought. Brent must have somehow used time travel to watch this video over and over while recording Remission. Wouldn’t put it past him.
brent is actually a fifth dimensional being, thats why he apppears to be stoned all the time because actually he saw all the alternate timelines
thank you sir you are the one of the best theory channels in youtube
1:30 the devil put dinosaurs here alice in chains
Gabriele Rocchetti That chord is actually pretty common, but that particular voicing is almost identical to the AiC song. Well spotted!
AIC has pretty much used all of these chords
Verdade uahsuahs
Also Love, Hate Love, kinda
Well, close, but no cigar.
omg this video is one of your best!! thanks this is right down my alley!!
2:07 For a moment I thought of Sanitarium
I think this is my favorite video of all time.
Try E minor and then C minor
Joe Redfield ssup buddy ;)
This is was terrific! Thanks so much for taking all the work of figuring these out away. You’re awesome!
So this is how they make background music for cave levels.
Oh I love these. These are fantastic. I was getting pretty bored with the standard chords for practice.
Gadzooks! I've been spooked!
Very useful, I made the intro to a song with chords shown here, WHILE watching this. Thanks!
Sequences please
Man. This is fucking awesome. I mean we all do goofy shapes when we noodle around but it is very enlightening to see the chord names. I saved this video and I'll keep it forever. Whenever I need some inspiration I'll trot thus out.
Thank u for uploading this. Thumbs way f'n up. \m/
Reminds me of Radiohead and Metallica
No, more like Alice In Chains!
or metal church
Mercy I was wondering where RANDY RHOADS stashed his chords......I'm glad he left them with a credible source!!!! ..... THANKYOU
Diary of madman kind of chords
quit293 yeah agree!....especially at 4:25.
The chords Randy used for the song were dark but beautiful. Randy was a genious. If he were still alive he would be at a level that nobody could ever touch.
;)
quit293 😍😎
Very much of the Opeth atmosphere here in this .Beautiful
tristram anyone?
Sounds very diablo-ish !
3:45 for sure!
what do you think the ones sound the most diabloish in my fellow fans opinions! the first one sounds very diablish E5#11
It seems like most of the 7th chords in this video sound very similar to Tristram.
And yes that first one definitely does too
I don´t know whos behind this channel but this is genius!!
That intro reminded me of the legend of zelda music for some reason
Malcolm_mal yeah I heard that for sure
my dream its real! thx for this video i cant believe this!!
Ron Jarzombek liked this
As a smooth jazz player, I must admit that I love this stuff!
now i am writing music that sounds like music to listen to while you planning a plan for world domination lol
This was the video I needed. I love the dark stuff. The A chord inversions sounded a lot like Queensryche.
Many of these made it into “Diary Of A Madman” .
RR4Ever.
nice job. I don't think anyone has illustrated these voicings this way. thks
0:23 chord Kurt Cobain used it in their song"Paper Cuts"Thank me later
I Saw so many videos in other channels in México And the yours are the bests i'm learning New things thanks man