Incredible video... I finally got it. Your lesson on the circle of fifths and this one made it all click for me. I feel like my theory knowledge skyrocketed after years of only playing by ear. Thank you so much, wish I found your channel sooner.
I keep coming back to this one. It’s starting to sink in. This is definitely my next level that I want to understand. Super lesson. I really enjoy them and your style of teaching. Thank you.
Borrowed chords! Fantastic! Genius! I feel like I finally found the missing piece of the puzzle. Why I never heard it before? This simple concept explains a lot. Thanks for such a helpful and absolutely free class, dear Teacher!
Well done as always, Brian. There are a bunch really great instructors out there on the net. But you, your lessons, and your site are #1. Hands down. I’m a premium member, and will be for as long as I play guitar. In other words, for life. Thank you so much.
What makes this approach so valuable is that you explain how to see secondary dominants on the guitar neck. This upgrades the topic from interesting to useful. Thank you! I believe that this approach needs to be extended across all music theory concepts. Teachers usually explain things on a white board and apply them to the piano, thereby requiring the student to translate the information to guitar. Just start with the guitar.
Man I’ve just discovered you and you’ve just opened a new universe for me in learning about music and instrument: this is great and exciting. Thank you!
For me a real light bulb moment was at 11:52, introducing the secondary dominant 7th arpeggio as a lead line and lead device while playing over changes. Only picked this up while revisiting this lesson as it's tucked away near the end. Thanks Brian for another great lesson!
What a fantastic video. Perfect mix of theory with practical application...so rare to find people that get that mix correct. Makes it so much easier to understand than some guy teaching via powerpoint slides and musical notation
This is so great. Definitely couple this with his video on the circle of fifths. Take as much as you get, then come back in some time and get more. Great approach.
Wow! Just blew my mind. When you played the chords, I knew why I resonate with so many of the chord progressions in songs I like.....and when you just played a little snippet of lead at the end....yes....yes...yes!! Playing "outside" in a way and still very melodically. Totally gonna use that. Thank you, Brian!
so many youtubers giving great lessons. Every teacher has a different way of articulating themselves. Unfortunately that doesnt fit with everyone. But I think I've found the guy I understand. Good lessons man
Quando chega a sexta-feira, penso logo: "Hoje tem vídeo do Active Melody!" Muito obg, amigo, por compartilhar seus conhecimentos para todos nós. Deus te abençoe!
JAMES SCOTT NICHOLSON, ONTARIO CANADA 🇨🇦 YOU GUYS ARE GOING TO CONVERT ME FROM BLUES &CLASSIC ROCK TO A JAZZ GUITARIST.I AM ABSOLUTELY LOVING YOUR CHANNEL. I HAVE LEARNED MORE ABOUT TENSION & RELEASE IN 1 WEEK,THAN IN MY 40 YEARS OF PLAYING.THANKS FROM THE BEST OF MY HEART.PLEASE KEEP THESE KIND OF LESSONS COMING,I CANNOT GET ENOUGH OF IT.AND YES YOUR METHOD OF TEACHING IS QUITE UNDERSTANDABLE.PLEASE FORGIVE ME FOR THE CAPS THEY ARE STUCK ON.
Thanks so much Brian! This really put something together for me that I never really understood. I get diatonic progressions, but I was never very sure why some progressions had a bunch of dom sevens. This really made that clear to me!
I can't get over, how many lightbulb moments i've had since i'm binge watching your videos for just a few days. Never thought i'd even care about this concept before i can actually play, but now i realize, i've already been doing this intuitively before, when i wanted to play a little connecting run into the next chord, starting with that chord's 5th and more or less accidentally playing that whole secondary dominant. That tension always kinda felt more like "guess i'm doing it wrong", but now i see why it's supposed to be there.
Man, that statement: "That's all music is, tension and release." That's profound. I feel like that is the ultimate philosophy of existence in general: Life & Death.
Hi Brian, your video here today, gives immense benefit to new beginners for Blues like me( eventhough I am well familiar and proficient with the Blues scales for the last one year). I really like your structural application here across the fretboard in a detail format. Learning new things a little everyday in this regard, is what I called 'immense benefit' as we have to grow gradually in phase wise manner,spending sometime more in each and every item we learnt otherwise it doesn't get its groove in my mind.
Thank you so much for your valuable lessons. I have been very pleased & inspired to use the secondary Dom. chord. Now it is clear regarding secondary Dom.chord.
Superb lesson Brian! I've been playing for 20+ years but just made things up as I went along and never really took the time to learn alot of theory behind chord structures. Lockdown here in the UK really got me back into the guitar, and trying get into that side of things and understand it, at long last... and this was a great lesson. Many thanks!
Wow, this really helped me. Great timing. I actually watched a performance earlier where some of this was going on, and I was wondering about some of the chords being used. I've known about borrowed chords, but this is a practical approach to understanding and using the Secondary Dom Chords. I hope you'll do more vids on borrowed chords. Great teacher. Great channel. Thanks.
JAMES SCOTT NICHOLSON, ONTARIO, CANADA 🇨🇦 I JUST WANT TO. SAY THANKS!!! I COULD PLAY ANYTHING BY EAR,BUT ONLY KNEW THE NAMES OF MY MAJ & MIN CHORDS. SO DURING COVID I TAUHGT MYSELF THEORY,BUT I NEVER LEARNED IN ANY ORDER.I WENT STRAIGHT FOR ARPEGGIOS & MODES BASICALLY JUMPING ALL OVER THE PLACE.I JUST FINISHED 7THS , BUT REALLY NEEDED THIS INFO TO HELP FINISH. YOU HAVE THE NACK FOR TEACHING,ONCE AGAIN THANKYOU, AND KEEP ON TEACHING THIS STUFF.GOT IT RIGHT AWAY. TOP LEFT . SORRY ABOUT THE CAPS THEY ARE STUCK ON.
Classy lesson! Finally can follow this kind of videos! Will spice up my improvisations now i can sound less diatonic and indeed create tension and release, perfect! Soloing over them will be harder since the need of using arpeggios etc probably but yes yes! Borrowed chord, check! Thanks a lot.
I have went back to review my theory seen the Cage Lesson on AM working on that , good to go back and refresh, but i know you mention the secondary dominant chords so this one will be added to my favourites on Active Melody account, you have a great way of getting the information across, these are important lessons, Brian you done a cracking job with these lessons thanks
11:59 Are you playing the dominant arpeggios of the secondary dominant chords of G, Am, and Bm over the G, Am and Bm? I would like to understand this in more detail. Thanks for the great content!
Brilliant lesson! It's amazing ! thanks a lot! ... can we mix maj and min with 9th chords progression? and what types of chords are used in blues? .... again many thanks u r the best !
Hey Brian.....at 12:30, when you started playing the 2nd dominate notes....Were those ONLY the notes in the chord? Or some shared minor pentatonic notes?
Thanks for sharing this. May I add another way to find the 5th chord with power chords, that are made of root fifth and if you want, the octave. Nice video. Thanks. I have to check if you have some videos about Blu with 9th chords, 11th, 13th, etc. Kind of modern blues... Maybe you have done some examples already. Thanks.
Ok, so the primary dominant is always the 5 chord. Got it. I’m still not sure where the secondary dominant comes from. It is the 5 chord of the 5 chord? example in G the primary dominant is D so then the secondary dominant would be the 5th of D or the A or A7. Is that correct?
Exactly that George but it’s also the 5th of any of the diatonic chords in the key. So the II chord in G would be Am and the secondary dominant of Am would be E7. So in essence it’s a dominant chord that is borrowed from another key. E7 is not the primary dominant in the key of G so it is called a Secondary dominant. Hope that helps.
Ok Brian, I tried to watch this before. I only got as far as when you said, "If that's confusing to you, leave a note on the comments, wherever you're watching this." So this is my "note!" I understand that the secondary dominant chord is the fifth of whatever note/chord you're referencing, but then you said, "You don't want to count, that's exhausting." So then you showed us your "trick," which is from the E-shape, whatever note your ring finger is on.... But, I couldn't tell what chord your played... EDITED: Never mind! I figured it out. Where your ring finger is indicates the note, then you play the chord of that note! (Duh!) I happen to know that, in the case you demo'd, you played the C-shape, and because I know the root of that shape is under the ring & index fingers, I also know what chord it was. Sorry, don't know why I was so dense. Now I can finish watching the video! Awesome content... AGAIN!
Brian I love all your lessons you have a great way of teaching. But why does no one ever want to talk about the 7 chord of the scale? The secrecy around this chord is driving me nuts. Lol keep up the good work.
Dude, 2 years with Berklee, self taught, books upon books, and I finally go this, because of you.. Thank you
Incredible video... I finally got it. Your lesson on the circle of fifths and this one made it all click for me. I feel like my theory knowledge skyrocketed after years of only playing by ear. Thank you so much, wish I found your channel sooner.
Brian is so incredibly versatile, and has a great way of describing what you need to know, why it's important, and helpful tricks to get you there.
I keep coming back to this one. It’s starting to sink in. This is definitely my next level that I want to understand. Super lesson. I really enjoy them and your style of teaching. Thank you.
I have checked-out a lot of Guitar Teachers, and YOU are the one I learn from. Thank You
David Lewis thank you!
@@activemelody I finally got, that you get out, what you put into it...and I have been playing since 1981; finally got a wild hair, and a Les Paul
An epiphany for me Brian.Unravelling the mystery of seemingly complicated progressions.Very clearly explained.Thanks a trillion Brother.
Borrowed chords! Fantastic! Genius! I feel like I finally found the missing piece of the puzzle. Why I never heard it before? This simple concept explains a lot. Thanks for such a helpful and absolutely free class, dear Teacher!
Brilliant lesson! It's amazing how much we can learn in just 14 minutes! Eye-opening, Brian, absolutely fantastic way to explain this! ♪❤️
Well done as always, Brian. There are a bunch really great instructors out there on the net. But you, your lessons, and your site are #1. Hands down. I’m a premium member, and will be for as long as I play guitar. In other words, for life. Thank you so much.
tschlagel thank you 😊
Ditto for me! Everything tschlagel said. 👍
Best guitar teacher I’ve ever had, thanks Brian! Also, what an absolutely beautiful guitar
What makes this approach so valuable is that you explain how to see secondary dominants on the guitar neck. This upgrades the topic from interesting to useful. Thank you! I believe that this approach needs to be extended across all music theory concepts. Teachers usually explain things on a white board and apply them to the piano, thereby requiring the student to translate the information to guitar. Just start with the guitar.
Yes I agree. I knew what these were but the tip about the guitar strings and positions make this so much easier to improvise a song.
Your explanation of basic music theory is so easy to wrap one’s head around. Lot to think about and noodle with on the guitar. Thanks as always.
Man I’ve just discovered you and you’ve just opened a new universe for me in learning about music and instrument: this is great and exciting. Thank you!
Great lesson -that explains a lot of what i see in songs but had no knowledge of what it was and how it is used. Thank you
For me a real light bulb moment was at 11:52, introducing the secondary dominant 7th arpeggio as a lead line and lead device while playing over changes. Only picked this up while revisiting this lesson as it's tucked away near the end. Thanks Brian for another great lesson!
What a fantastic video. Perfect mix of theory with practical application...so rare to find people that get that mix correct. Makes it so much easier to understand than some guy teaching via powerpoint slides and musical notation
Thanks Brian, so well explained with all your examples. Appreciate your work.
You are an incredible teacher. Thank you so much. The difference this makes to a song is incredible.
This is so great. Definitely couple this with his video on the circle of fifths.
Take as much as you get, then come back in some time and get more. Great approach.
Wow! Just blew my mind. When you played the chords, I knew why I resonate with so many of the chord progressions in songs I like.....and when you just played a little snippet of lead at the end....yes....yes...yes!! Playing "outside" in a way and still very melodically. Totally gonna use that. Thank you, Brian!
so many youtubers giving great lessons. Every teacher has a different way of articulating themselves. Unfortunately that doesnt fit with everyone. But I think I've found the guy I understand. Good lessons man
Superb lesson. Especially liked the shortcut for the E and A shape. Thanks Brian.
Quando chega a sexta-feira, penso logo: "Hoje tem vídeo do Active Melody!" Muito obg, amigo, por compartilhar seus conhecimentos para todos nós. Deus te abençoe!
JAMES SCOTT NICHOLSON, ONTARIO CANADA 🇨🇦 YOU GUYS ARE GOING TO CONVERT ME FROM BLUES &CLASSIC ROCK TO A JAZZ GUITARIST.I AM ABSOLUTELY LOVING YOUR CHANNEL. I HAVE LEARNED MORE ABOUT TENSION & RELEASE IN 1 WEEK,THAN IN MY 40 YEARS OF PLAYING.THANKS FROM THE BEST OF MY HEART.PLEASE KEEP THESE KIND OF LESSONS
COMING,I CANNOT GET ENOUGH OF IT.AND YES YOUR METHOD OF TEACHING IS QUITE UNDERSTANDABLE.PLEASE FORGIVE ME FOR THE CAPS THEY ARE STUCK ON.
Thanks so much Brian! This really put something together for me that I never really understood. I get diatonic progressions, but I was never very sure why some progressions had a bunch of dom sevens. This really made that clear to me!
Embarrassed to have played for 18 years without knowing this but stoked to know it now, much appreciation
I can't get over, how many lightbulb moments i've had since i'm binge watching your videos for just a few days. Never thought i'd even care about this concept before i can actually play, but now i realize, i've already been doing this intuitively before, when i wanted to play a little connecting run into the next chord, starting with that chord's 5th and more or less accidentally playing that whole secondary dominant. That tension always kinda felt more like "guess i'm doing it wrong", but now i see why it's supposed to be there.
Okay, I've watched two of your videos now. I AM A FAN!!!
Best instructor on the www.
Nobody Knows You (When You’re Down and Out) is a masterclass in secondary dominants.
Hoo funny I thought the same
Awesome, brother! You're a stellar teacher.
Man, that statement: "That's all music is, tension and release." That's profound. I feel like that is the ultimate philosophy of existence in general: Life & Death.
You are the Troy Grady of Guitar Theory. And once again that's one beautiful guitar.
Hi Brian, your video here today, gives immense benefit to new beginners for Blues like me( eventhough I am well familiar and proficient with the Blues scales for the last one year). I really like your structural application here across the fretboard in a detail format. Learning new things a little everyday in this regard, is what I called 'immense benefit' as we have to grow gradually in phase wise manner,spending sometime more in each and every item we learnt otherwise it doesn't get its groove in my mind.
thongam Chan that’s the best way to learn. Little bit every day
ive learn more from your videos than I learned in a life time of playing thanks
Thank you so much for your valuable lessons. I have been very pleased & inspired to use the secondary Dom. chord. Now it is clear regarding secondary Dom.chord.
I want to thank you for all these lessons. I was a subscriber back in 2010 i think. You've helped me so much.
Thank you so much. This opened many creative doors for me 🎶 . Wow gorgeous sound. I’m stoked to implement this
Great lesson. Very good explanation on how and why this works.
Perfect lesson thank you. I love those chords and now I know how to use them properly.
Superb lesson Brian! I've been playing for 20+ years but just made things up as I went along and never really took the time to learn alot of theory behind chord structures.
Lockdown here in the UK really got me back into the guitar, and trying get into that side of things and understand it, at long last... and this was a great lesson.
Many thanks!
This dude is awesome....cannot really thank you enough!!!
this is really some pretty slick stuff. great teaching here.
Wow, this really helped me. Great timing. I actually watched a performance earlier where some of this was going on, and I was wondering about some of the chords being used. I've known about borrowed chords, but this is a practical approach to understanding and using the Secondary Dom Chords. I hope you'll do more vids on borrowed chords.
Great teacher. Great channel. Thanks.
Found the model...byrdland 61-69. I just wanted to add a thank you for the great lesson!
Thank you Brian. Your helping me a lot in my guitar progression.
JAMES SCOTT NICHOLSON, ONTARIO, CANADA 🇨🇦 I JUST WANT TO. SAY THANKS!!! I COULD PLAY ANYTHING BY EAR,BUT ONLY KNEW THE NAMES OF MY MAJ & MIN CHORDS. SO DURING COVID I TAUHGT MYSELF THEORY,BUT I NEVER LEARNED IN ANY ORDER.I WENT STRAIGHT FOR ARPEGGIOS & MODES BASICALLY JUMPING ALL OVER THE PLACE.I JUST FINISHED 7THS , BUT REALLY NEEDED THIS INFO TO HELP FINISH. YOU HAVE THE NACK FOR TEACHING,ONCE AGAIN THANKYOU, AND
KEEP ON TEACHING THIS STUFF.GOT IT RIGHT AWAY. TOP LEFT . SORRY ABOUT THE CAPS THEY ARE STUCK ON.
Nobody knows, when you're down and out (Eric Clapton), Now I gotcha! Thanks Bryan!
Wow, a huge light bulb came on for me! Thanks for a great lesson. I will start incorporating this into my playing from now on.
Useful lesson and remarkably I understood it thanks.
Great lesson and playing as usual Maestro. Absolutely gorgeous axe...!
Classy lesson! Finally can follow this kind of videos! Will spice up my improvisations now i can sound less diatonic and indeed create tension and release, perfect! Soloing over them will be harder since the need of using arpeggios etc probably but yes yes! Borrowed chord, check! Thanks a lot.
This is a brilliant explanation very clear and understandable , more or less If I get this your creating a new home sound or tonal quality ,
Thanks for being a great teacher.
Masterful. Many thanks, Brian.
I have went back to review my theory seen the Cage Lesson on AM working on that , good to go back and refresh, but i know you mention the secondary dominant chords so this one will be added to my favourites on Active Melody account, you have a great way of getting the information across, these are important lessons, Brian you done a cracking job with these lessons thanks
that would be "I have GONE back..."
Awesome lesson!
Great stuff Brian thank you so much ... these have been on my radar for some time but as yet I haven’t done much with them. I will now 👍🏻. G.
it's just way more interesting; nicely presented. thanks.
Such an awesome lesson 😎!
By the way awesome lesson. I am glad I found you
One can watch 100's YT's on learning to play the guitar and still miss the essence. Until you watch this one.
Pure gold 👍 thank you!
Yep love to learn from brien so informative
Nice lesson Brian and sweet guitar 😊
11:59 Are you playing the dominant arpeggios of the secondary dominant chords of G, Am, and Bm over the G, Am and Bm? I would like to understand this in more detail. Thanks for the great content!
Gorgeous guitar 👍🎸 🇨🇦
Man this is a great lesson. Thank you.
Great lesson thank you
I needed this!!
The dog is interested too! Great lesson.
Brian could you teach secondary dominants in details?
Love your lessons
Great lesson, and a great guitar. A custom shop Byrdland?
This is gold.
Very nice
Thank you
And so, Brian launches his one-man crusade against click-bait titles on RUclips...
Being able to tell what the video is about from the title is so refreshing!
I just realize that you look a lot like Clapton and now I can’t unsee it (that’s a complement btw)
Nice ax Mate!
Thanks Brian that’s a great lesson, even if I had to listen 4 times to get it. Glad I persevered though
Brilliant lesson! It's amazing ! thanks a lot! ... can we mix maj and min with 9th chords progression? and what types of chords are used in blues? .... again many thanks u r the best !
M Shadow yes you can mix them
EC's old guitar. Sounds like a nod to his version of "Over the Rainbow".
Hey Brian.....at 12:30, when you started playing the 2nd dominate notes....Were those ONLY the notes in the chord? Or some shared minor pentatonic notes?
you make theory so easy
What is that model guitar is that it is beautiful
Thank you so much.
Thanks for sharing this. May I add another way to find the 5th chord with power chords, that are made of root fifth and if you want, the octave. Nice video. Thanks. I have to check if you have some videos about Blu with 9th chords, 11th, 13th, etc. Kind of modern blues... Maybe you have done some examples already. Thanks.
sciexp yes good tip
What guitar is that??
Abba's song The Winner Takes It All uses secondary dominants
That's the secret to flavour. :-)
this video really helped me learn guitar melody. if I may, I ask again how the song melody: amazing grace. major scale
Bravo!
Ok, so the primary dominant is always the 5 chord. Got it. I’m still not sure where the secondary dominant comes from. It is the 5 chord of the 5 chord? example in G the primary dominant is D so then the secondary dominant would be the 5th of D or the A or A7. Is that correct?
Is that correct, Brian? After all these years you would think I should know this.
Exactly that George but it’s also the 5th of any of the diatonic chords in the key. So the II chord in G would be Am and the secondary dominant of Am would be E7. So in essence it’s a dominant chord that is borrowed from another key. E7 is not the primary dominant in the key of G so it is called a Secondary dominant. Hope that helps.
Thank you.
how is it that the 5 chord of C is G7 . what technique do we use to find the 5 chord of every chord
Just wondering is it always a 7th for the dominant? couldn't the five chord be just a regular chord? ex play E minor then play B major or B minor?
So what's the difference between secondary dominants and 5th of the 5th ??
Ok Brian, I tried to watch this before. I only got as far as when you said, "If that's confusing to you, leave a note on the comments, wherever you're watching this."
So this is my "note!" I understand that the secondary dominant chord is the fifth of whatever note/chord you're referencing, but then you said, "You don't want to count, that's exhausting." So then you showed us your "trick," which is from the E-shape, whatever note your ring finger is on....
But, I couldn't tell what chord your played...
EDITED:
Never mind! I figured it out. Where your ring finger is indicates the note, then you play the chord of that note! (Duh!)
I happen to know that, in the case you demo'd, you played the C-shape, and because I know the root of that shape is under the ring & index fingers, I also know what chord it was.
Sorry, don't know why I was so dense. Now I can finish watching the video!
Awesome content... AGAIN!
Hey Jeff, try this video - I think it explains what you're asking about better - ruclips.net/video/TMUJGslwJW8/видео.html
What’s his guitar & amp/effect???
If your 1 chord is a minor would your 2, 3, and 6 chords be major and your 4 and 5 be minor typically?
Brian I love all your lessons you have a great way of teaching. But why does no one ever want to talk about the 7 chord of the scale? The secrecy around this chord is driving me nuts. Lol keep up the good work.
John Devlin it’s a diminished chord - I’ll devote a lesson to it
@@activemelody Thanks Brian then I might learn when to use it.