You can figure them out all by yourself. All you need to know, is what intervals are in those nice chords. Often it is base tone, a terts (minor or major, and options are going up or down 1 fret or half a tone), a quint, a 7th or a 9th tone (same options). Well, and those you can do in a different order, flipping some an octave, so to say. But it comes down to only four different tones. Find them on your fretboard, practise the versions you like. Finding out yourself takes more time, you should get the names of the "options", you'll need those sooner or later anyway. The advantage of tinkering yourself is, that way you remember them easier.
Learn what a chord is, learn what a major scale is, learn what a mode is, learn what a chord progression is, then apply it to the guitar neck and you can write your own ticket on that front
The theory for those who want to understand: - A is the tonic chord. Your home base, and your key. - E7 (and its flavor extension E7b9) are dominant 7 chords. Dominant 7 chords have a very strong pull counter-clockwise around the circle of fifths. As E is an interval of a fifth away from A, it will pull you back to A. - Bm -> E7 -> A is something called a "2-5-1" which is the bread and butter of jazz music. Look it up! - F#°7 is a "fully diminished chord" and these kinda chords sound spooky on their own but are kinda nuts in how adaptable they are as approach chords to other chords. There's some interesting theory on why but it's too long for a RUclips comment! - Hopefully this should provide you with enough info to start researching the concepts yourself!
man, I need someone who knows this level of stuff to just sit down with me and help me connect the dots. I always feel like I have a general sense of what you've said, and - even if i don't know how to articulate it - I understand it to hear it / have done it in the past but unaware as to exactly *why* i'm doing it.
After playing for many years I am finally at a point where seeing this once I can play it. After another 40 years I might finally be able to do by hearing it.
For me it's vice versa. (65, playing for 50 years now) First I tried by ear and quickly found the chords for the first two sequences. For the third I had a look at Paul's fingers and his chords. Here I have to say that I don't really like his progression. I prefer instead A (IX), A7 (I), B7/9 (VIII), B (VII),... That sounds better, at least for my taste. No offence Paul! I much appreciate your inspirational workI Cheers from Berlin
@@wiejetze8397 I would much rather be you. I am a very strong mechanical player and parrot but I don’t know what tone even come from what area of the finger board. Just the way I learned.
@ in this specific melody yes, but then again he doesn’t show you why he adds these specific chords, and basically doesn’t show how this could be applied to other melodies
I have recently been working on this. Teaching myself little melodies on single strings. Then trying to find the appropriate chords to fill. The hard part is finding the chords. Making these chords in a sweet or spicy elegant voicing that fits good is the hard part. That’s why Learning chords, triads, diads even is so important. Ear training is equally important.
how do they take years? you can just read the music and practice it a bit. you don't even need to know the chords as such. just follow the coordinates mindlessly.
it doesnt take years, I think you dont even plays guitar. Such a demotivating comment lol. If people really gave up this easily then Thank GOD! Less competitions for me to get ahead lolll
@@sleshhsh cut the crap. You are the one who has never touched an intrument before. If you're ahead so quickly let's see you do something for us..and explain the theory and thought process too. Ready...go
it doesn't take years to learn but it takes years to execute it on the blink of an eye at any moment for any melody in your head. that's what he means brother
1) identify the note 2) find chords that use that note 3) experiment with different chords with that note being an important part of that chord (6th,7th,9th, etc.) 7th chords are pretty easy to learn and you may already know some 7th chords. They sound major because they are! Well, some of them anyway. Chords with a 6 are not so common, so people may know one 6 chord or one particular voicing, i.e. where you play it on the neck and which chord shape you use. The trick is simply dedicate time to learning different kinds of chords and figuring out how to implement them with chords you know by experimenting. Also, learn how many different ways you can play something like E major!
Basically, every note in the melody is part of a key and has certain intervals, and you build chords around the notes in the melody to make the movement through the progression more dynamic. The note from the melody doesn't have to be the root of the chord you choose, as long as that note is in the chord, there's a way to make it work. To do this, you need to know modes and intervals pretty well as well as have a working understanding of harmony. If you study theory and start as an example learning some basic jazz standards you can get an ear feel for how these complex chords can fit together. Good luck, good news is you got your whole life to continue on the journey of learning
@@drdre4397It sounds like a solid 10 years of learning before doing something from this, and I am already 7 years in learning that damn instrument. This is such discourageous 😢
@@TheSkyline35 with that mindset it will actually take 10 years. But if you actually put some effort into it, learning this sort of stuff will only take a year or so
This is probably one of the most important things to be able to do. To be able to fill out so much space by yourself is great when you’re the only instrumentalist at a gig or playing by yourself in general. Plus it’s a good writing tool, the problem, is that it’s hard. Learning the chords wasn’t that hard, but learning where to put them was, but it’s like your 3rd eye opening once you get it
Lol it'd be nice if he gave us some pointers on how to play like that. Melodies and chord phrasing is exactly what I'm trying to work on right now. PD can we get a video on that please? Thanks
How do you play melodies from your head on the guitar i find it is a harder instrument to play intuative then the piano, although iv played chords the longest, is possible that you could a lesson on how to add chords like that, this guy is pure talent lol
This video is great for learning how to add spicy chords! Practice makes perfect, and one day we'll all be jamming out with these awesome melodies. 🎶🔥 #MusicEnthusiast
For actual advice that’s easy to learn, just throw in some rakes and vary the length of each note, and a good bit of vibrato and unison bends always do the trick well.
I get that way sometimes, if you like listening and watching these things, try learning again. When I get bored I just say "I don't enjoy rock and metal like I used to, let's try bossa nova" and after a week or so of learning a few songs and getting educated enough to begin to like the music through understanding I tend to get that spark back. Happy playing freind!
Can you show the chords in a diagram. It's a lot of work to look them all up or to figure them out looking at your hand. Then I'd play this in 5 minutes and learn a lot of new chords. Thank you. ❤
Paul, just in case you have nothing to do on Christmas... Would you mind to join us and play some christmas songs on the guitar? Food and drinks are for free 😅
While this works in some scenarios i can think of several songs, such as "what you know" by two door cinema club, that benefit from the bounciness of staccato single notes and would not have the same effect with complex chords forced in.
I do play it with all my distortion on- and send them a little birthday message. But I might change it to a little less intense so the elder generation may enjoy it too 🐝🐝😊🎸
Bro basically said: “Just play the instrument better, duh.”
Exactly what I was thinking 😂
This is what usually happens with these tutorials, they seem to teach a lot and teach nothing.
“With all due respect.”
Can't teach guitar in 25 seconds. That's why I have LOADS of videos on stuff like this
@ thank you for reaching out, I love you and your videos and just wanted to interact with a lame joke😅
If only I knew how to play these spicy chords 😢
It's close to learning a new language. You need to add more to your vocabulary!
You can figure them out all by yourself. All you need to know, is what intervals are in those nice chords. Often it is base tone, a terts (minor or major, and options are going up or down 1 fret or half a tone), a quint, a 7th or a 9th tone (same options).
Well, and those you can do in a different order, flipping some an octave, so to say. But it comes down to only four different tones. Find them on your fretboard, practise the versions you like.
Finding out yourself takes more time, you should get the names of the "options", you'll need those sooner or later anyway. The advantage of tinkering yourself is, that way you remember them easier.
Dream the chords into life
Just practice a lot and lock in my guy and u could probably play them juicy chords
Learn what a chord is, learn what a major scale is, learn what a mode is, learn what a chord progression is, then apply it to the guitar neck and you can write your own ticket on that front
That was the most RUclips-ish thing I ever laid my eyes upon
I know right, even for Paul! 😅
yes
I’m just surprised he didn’t plug his $1k private lessons (that he doesn’t teach) at the end
And use your right foot on a snare, your left foot for a shuffling sound and sing the melody in a baritone harmonising as a tenor on the in-breaths.
😂❤
The in breaths had me😂
@@itsrasalhague yeah we all were ahh we know where this is going.. wait what
Don't forget the cowbell
The theory for those who want to understand:
- A is the tonic chord. Your home base, and your key.
- E7 (and its flavor extension E7b9) are dominant 7 chords. Dominant 7 chords have a very strong pull counter-clockwise around the circle of fifths. As E is an interval of a fifth away from A, it will pull you back to A.
- Bm -> E7 -> A is something called a "2-5-1" which is the bread and butter of jazz music. Look it up!
- F#°7 is a "fully diminished chord" and these kinda chords sound spooky on their own but are kinda nuts in how adaptable they are as approach chords to other chords. There's some interesting theory on why but it's too long for a RUclips comment!
- Hopefully this should provide you with enough info to start researching the concepts yourself!
I need to invite you down the pub for a pint. 🙏
Tank you! This is gold for my playing. 👍
thank you
man, I need someone who knows this level of stuff to just sit down with me and help me connect the dots. I always feel like I have a general sense of what you've said, and - even if i don't know how to articulate it - I understand it to hear it / have done it in the past but unaware as to exactly *why* i'm doing it.
One of these days i really should look into some music theory. That's what i got from this comment.
After playing for many years I am finally at a point where seeing this once I can play it. After another 40 years I might finally be able to do by hearing it.
Same here🎉🎉
For me it's vice versa. (65, playing for 50 years now)
First I tried by ear and quickly found the chords for the first two sequences. For the third I had a look at Paul's fingers and his chords.
Here I have to say that I don't really like his progression.
I prefer instead A (IX), A7 (I), B7/9 (VIII), B (VII),...
That sounds better, at least for my taste.
No offence Paul!
I much appreciate your inspirational workI
Cheers from Berlin
@@wiejetze8397 I would much rather be you. I am a very strong mechanical player and parrot but I don’t know what tone even come from what area of the finger board. Just the way I learned.
@@wiejetze8397 Make a video dude! I’d love to see it.
“Stop being bad. Start being good”
I like the fact that he shows you how to add the spicy chords
I think it's spacy
Just pause the video haha
He did he told you every cord he added to the progression
@ in this specific melody yes, but then again he doesn’t show you why he adds these specific chords, and basically doesn’t show how this could be applied to other melodies
@ he built the cords off the original basic notes… he didn’t change the notes just made them cords…
Thanks for the advice, I'll never touch my guitar again.
😂
Same
😂😂
good for you, this way she can't file a lawsuit later on
XD
😂😂😂😂😂
I love how you can be as smooth as frustrating ahah, great job Paul ! Ima trying it right now
The Sound is so nice and smooth !😊
'Like that'.
Rick Beato quote👍
Got so sick of that guy's videos.
I have recently been working on this. Teaching myself little melodies on single strings. Then trying to find the appropriate chords to fill. The hard part is finding the chords. Making these chords in a sweet or spicy elegant voicing that fits good is the hard part. That’s why Learning chords, triads, diads even is so important. Ear training is equally important.
This is really nice, i like playing the Bm7 as a straight Bm but with the open D strig ringing out as the m3, its a subtle difference but i like it
Oh wow I never thought to do that, thanks!
Some spicy chords and a little Thunderstruck moment.
"stop playing simple melodies, just use complex chord progressions which take years to learn"
how do they take years? you can just read the music and practice it a bit. you don't even need to know the chords as such. just follow the coordinates mindlessly.
it doesnt take years, I think you dont even plays guitar. Such a demotivating comment lol. If people really gave up this easily then Thank GOD! Less competitions for me to get ahead lolll
@@sleshhsh cut the crap. You are the one who has never touched an intrument before. If you're ahead so quickly let's see you do something for us..and explain the theory and thought process too. Ready...go
it doesn't take years to learn but it takes years to execute it on the blink of an eye at any moment for any melody in your head. that's what he means brother
Learn to read into things, guys - get a sense of humour
If I could I would Paul. 😢
I'm 60 and back in August I started to learn guitar and play Melodies not easy but I'm moving slowly
Just play the way that makes you happy with the instrument, you'll slowly get better eventually just by the passion you'll develop for it.
one of my favourite songs, good choice mate.
i like this style of videos much more!!! keep it up paul my boy
Just by hearing and not looking again I’m playing this coz of the single notes guideline now I’m just adding full chords and diminished them 😊
This is the exact thing I needed to see rn rare youtube shorts W
Chords like E7b9 are only “basic” if you’re Ted Greene
Ahhhh he was amazing chord-melody player.
How
1) identify the note
2) find chords that use that note
3) experiment with different chords with that note being an important part of that chord (6th,7th,9th, etc.)
7th chords are pretty easy to learn and you may already know some 7th chords. They sound major because they are! Well, some of them anyway. Chords with a 6 are not so common, so people may know one 6 chord or one particular voicing, i.e. where you play it on the neck and which chord shape you use.
The trick is simply dedicate time to learning different kinds of chords and figuring out how to implement them with chords you know by experimenting. Also, learn how many different ways you can play something like E major!
Basically, every note in the melody is part of a key and has certain intervals, and you build chords around the notes in the melody to make the movement through the progression more dynamic.
The note from the melody doesn't have to be the root of the chord you choose, as long as that note is in the chord, there's a way to make it work.
To do this, you need to know modes and intervals pretty well as well as have a working understanding of harmony. If you study theory and start as an example learning some basic jazz standards you can get an ear feel for how these complex chords can fit together.
Good luck, good news is you got your whole life to continue on the journey of learning
@@drdre4397It sounds like a solid 10 years of learning before doing something from this, and I am already 7 years in learning that damn instrument. This is such discourageous 😢
@@TheSkyline35 with that mindset it will actually take 10 years. But if you actually put some effort into it, learning this sort of stuff will only take a year or so
@@jimit.4220 That's my goal for 2025, I will go into the more theoritical to better understand this fretboard
It'd be a dream come true for me to learn how to do this!
It probably feels so good to know every chord
Best Christmas gift
This is probably one of the most important things to be able to do. To be able to fill out so much space by yourself is great when you’re the only instrumentalist at a gig or playing by yourself in general. Plus it’s a good writing tool, the problem, is that it’s hard. Learning the chords wasn’t that hard, but learning where to put them was, but it’s like your 3rd eye opening once you get it
I can now play the guitar. Thank you
Gosh. You play with so much feel. I love it ⚡️
Lol it'd be nice if he gave us some pointers on how to play like that. Melodies and chord phrasing is exactly what I'm trying to work on right now. PD can we get a video on that please? Thanks
Ha ha ha ha ha😂!! Funny. The tapping "atonal" part in the end sounds exactly like most of my own tappings experiments. Serendipity!
Yeaj nice, chill and gentle😃👌🏼💫🎶🎅🏻🎂 Regards from Sweden🇸🇪
All it needed was the harmonic hit at the end. I think it’s the high note you were searching for.
but damn, that was pretty
yes finally paul is creating more awesome shorts as well
I really like the chord voicings here
This is soooo coool!
This is the musical equivalent of "Now just add in the details."
Thank you for that, im going to now practice smoke on the water using just the E string.
Awwww 😍😍😍😍 im fallen love!❤️
You just won my heart ❤
How do you play melodies from your head on the guitar i find it is a harder instrument to play intuative then the piano, although iv played chords the longest, is possible that you could a lesson on how to add chords like that, this guy is pure talent lol
When you add those chords, can you teach us?
Smooth as butter ❤
I "figured out" a way to play a LotR soundtrack medley like this.. the Shire theme sounds beautiful 😅 used to love playing it
Helpful. I love it ❤❤❤❤
Happy birthday to you. Nice
Wow that sounded great!
Can't help but notice you still played the melody part exactly like this
Ow. So there's no difference?
Thanks!
That's what I want to learn sir 🙏
Stop making such good videos like this!!
This video is great for learning how to add spicy chords! Practice makes perfect, and one day we'll all be jamming out with these awesome melodies. 🎶🔥 #MusicEnthusiast
Thank you, now i get to play real birthday music... :)
Wow, that just sounds way much better
How on earth did he make happy bday sound soooo beautiful 😅😅
Nice ‼️‼️‼️
I can do that and i learned it by trying this on the Ukulele and transferred that to the guitar later on 🎸
Merry christmas Paul🎄 ☺️
Got it. Very useful. Thanks a lot
Brilliant❤ i can picture Lenny Breau live playing this.
'Of course, why didn't I think of that?
Easy peasy!'
man made happy birthday sound like a christmas song 😭
I suppose playing a simple A7 on the second freet, as well as E7 on the first second freet should also sound okay-ish.
Exactly! A little spice goes a long way. It doesn't have to be at Paul's level.
I want to play guitar has good technique like him ❤️👍
Happy Birthday in blues💙
Solid bro, love it
For actual advice that’s easy to learn, just throw in some rakes and vary the length of each note, and a good bit of vibrato and unison bends always do the trick well.
So bro just told me I need to step my game up. I definitely need to though.
"Stop playing melodies badly, instead, play them good"
I was just learning Don’t Look Back in Anger on piano and was thinking man that E7 is beautiful
He’s ready for the beach under the sunset with that progression…
I lost my love for playing guitar, but I’ll never lose my love for listening to a guitar
I get that way sometimes, if you like listening and watching these things, try learning again. When I get bored I just say "I don't enjoy rock and metal like I used to, let's try bossa nova" and after a week or so of learning a few songs and getting educated enough to begin to like the music through understanding I tend to get that spark back.
Happy playing freind!
It was my birthday this Tuesday, so ya, thank you
Easy for YOU to say, YOU'RE FREAKIN PAUL DAVIDS! 😭😂
Happy New year
Playing from 10 years i think more 10 yrs i will be there😢
"Stop playing like the newbie you are, play like a pro"
Septimas y novenas llegaron para quedarse
Lit is jazz cool 🥶 you are the best 🔥
Experiment explore improvise to your heart's content. God bless 🙏
Can you show the chords in a diagram. It's a lot of work to look them all up or to figure them out looking at your hand. Then I'd play this in 5 minutes and learn a lot of new chords. Thank you. ❤
My bday is in 30mins from now.. gotta learn it for my day coming. 🫂✨
Paul, just in case you have nothing to do on Christmas... Would you mind to join us and play some christmas songs on the guitar? Food and drinks are for free 😅
Stop playing this at all. Every corner, every shop, it's all over. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
Will take me weeks to learn that
Never listen to those who tell you how not to do something. That's just one way to play; it's neither worse nor better
And what about everyone else on the planet that is mortal?
Be content playing mortal combat on your ps5
@@craigdanj Atari, Sir.
Melodies is not rules, it's about soul
"You're a beginner?
LMAO, git gud bro"
That's what you call skills sir🎉
I totally understood what you meant by E7b9 in there.
Yep add G#
While this works in some scenarios i can think of several songs, such as "what you know" by two door cinema club, that benefit from the bounciness of staccato single notes and would not have the same effect with complex chords forced in.
Sayah barusan tercengnang melihat chord itu 🎉😳"
Bagaimana itu terjadi
I do play it with all my distortion on- and send them a little birthday message. But I might change it to a little less intense so the elder generation may enjoy it too 🐝🐝😊🎸
Turns out that the secret to adding spice is throwing in a. 2-5-1 whenever you get the chance
This is the same as "now draw the rest of the owl".
Thanks. Now I'll just play spicy.
I didn’t need to be flexed on like this today
"stop playing bad, play well"