Holy breakthroughs, Batman! Just pick two chord arpeggios from the key and play them? So simple. My jamming just got so much simpler AND more musical. I kept obsessing over playing the right arpeggio to match the exact chord in the song and it felt impossibly cumbersome. This morning I just picked a few songs, found the key, picked two chords and just jammed on them, throwing some 7ths in with the triads... holy cow. It was the most fun I’ve had playing in a long while. AND, I started seeing how the patterns connect in all new ways, getting a glimpse of how mastery will come. That foresight is very motivating. I realize I’m ranting, but you don’t know how long I’ve been puzzled by “what to do with arpeggios?!” Thank you, Tommasso!
@@MusicTheoryForGuitar Glad I made you laugh! It's a joke that is wasted on all but folks with music theory background. And yes, I am experiencing the androgenic alopecia.
My first tip to people is take a scale and then play it in thirds, meaning play one note, skip one note, and repeat. This immediately starts sounding melodic because a chord is the same concept, play one note, skip the next
Wouldn't that be an arpeggio? 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 - if you did that for each scale degree, you will have harmonized the scale G, Am, Bm, C, D, Em, F#dim. Is that how you're working through it?
And then once you've tried moving around the scale in thirds, mess with all sorts of intervals! i.e traverse the scale in fourths, fifths, sixths, sevenths as well :)
Great lesson but too short...Nobody really takes the time to show how to make triads sound musical or how to mix them with the scales. I know triads are powerfull bu i still cant use them in a musical way. Sounds at the end as robotic as the scale...
I feel like such a caveman. My attention span is so short I'd never stay with this on it's own merits...Thanks for the girls, by shear accident I might learn something now.
Great lesson. "Scales give us options". Choosing the notes we want to play on a Melodic line was what I learned from listening to Miles Davis. Knowing WHY things work helps to give you confidence that what you hear in your mind has Musical validity. I play something & think "What the heck was I doing there?" (good or bad). You don't just teach tricks & licks, you educate our ears. Thank you.
this is the way real musicians see improv. in jazz (Triads Superimposition) N build powerful/effective melodies Keep going in this direction man this is the way to think about harmony
Excellent lesson, thank you. ^-^ I drill them whether I know them or not, and I always learn more. Focusing on open triads also helps a player see the intervals, and not just the shapes. You have to think about what the interval is, whereas closed triads are more often parts of very familiar chord shapes. The open triads are too, they're just not as easily recognizable in the beginning. Edit: Heeeyyy!! I was promised kittens! 3:43
I'm a beginner bass player (2 years) and I have been studying triads (major & minor) in all keys everywhere on the neck (up to the 12th fret). I imagine your 2 triad technique might make for a nice bass fill. Do you think so?
Oh yea, I've been playing bass for awhile and this video absolutely applies. It's scales after all. With faster music/frequent key changes I tend to play a triad of the specific chord being played instead, although grooving largely on the pentatonic scales as he briefly mentions is my favorite.
While I know that I know very little about guitar and have much more to learn. I'd like to tell you Mr. Zillio that I sincerely look forward to your videos. Thank you for your help.
The wisest and best among us always know they have a lot to learn still. I mean, Alan Holdsworth more often than not didn't think he was all that good. And I can't think of anyone better than him, maybe as good.. maybe.
Whoever translated this: scale (music) refers in german to "Tonleiter" not to Waage, You wouldn't use "balance" or "weighing machine" as a similar word for scale in english.
(1) 3:40: Ah, the "hot chick maneuver ..." angryflower.com/271.html (2) This reminds me of the way you decompose a scale into the tonic triad (the stable notes), and the rest of the notes as a seventh chord (the active notes), from an earlier video, and alternate between the two.
I'm the kind of dude that just understands sound and it works together. I can also most the time translate what I want to say in my head and so forth. So when it comes to actually using theory or learning it..........it's like trying to sit perfectly still while fire ant's crawl up your legs that are covered in honey........
Cool stuff. I believe that what you call open triads is formally called spread triads. Correct me if I am wrong. Not splitting hair but I think open triads involve open strings.
I've heard them referred to as both open triads and spread triads. Not sure about the open strings triads, and that does make sense, but only for stringed instruments. So I'd be hesitant to adopt it for that reason.
"Open triads" is the technical term, sometimes expanded in "open position triad" or "open voiced triads". This is the terminology in use from at least the 1890's. Not to be confused with "open STRINGS triads", more commonly "open strings chords". In the former, the triad is 'open'. In the latter, the strings are 'open'. "Spread triads" is guitarist jargon invented since people got confused between these two things.
this video is not for me...I barely know the major scale :) I am just getting ready to learn all these interesting scales that he has shown us. I will get back to this video in a year, when I become obsessed with scales :)
That's the best way to learn on the internet. You have to be able to see what steps you need to take. I suggest getting a metronome and using it as part of your practice time (sometimes you need to work on learning parts without one). And step one should be to learn the key of C Major all over the fretboard. Really once you've done that, most of the rest falls into place much easier. Tommaso has an awesome course, but if you're like me, that may not be something you can afford right away, but he has videos on all the basics here too. The play list he linked is a great place to start of course. But C Major is just 7 different scale shapes to learn the entire fretboard. Say or better yet, sing the notes as you play them to commit them to memory. The great part about that, is that by learning those 7 shapes you will be learning all of the root positions of each mode too. All of the shapes are moveable, and so you can play in any key and any diatonic mode by just moving those same shapes into a different position. So yea, focus on just the 7 notes of C Major for now, and you'll be up to speed right quick. This shows all 7 positions, and the number of each interval (relevant to the root note, C in this case) on the left side, and on the right side shows the finger number that's best for each shape: i.pinimg.com/originals/38/c5/5c/38c55c5a189f0724ff6bd2266703de01.png This one shows the note names: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/C_Major_Scale_on_fretboard.svg/1280px-C_Major_Scale_on_fretboard.svg.png I learned them all by making graphs like this, and so all the notes are forever etched into my memory. I've never not been able to tell what note I'm playing since then, so I recommend buying some empty guitar fretboard graph paper (I actually drew my own with a ruler when I was a kid).
@@MusicTheoryForGuitar ok but he has a point: at the same place the tab and the standard notation don't agree. Notation is going up in pitch when tab is going down
Oh, you mean the standard notation does not correspond to the tab? Sorry, I understood that the tab does not correspond to what I play. No, you're right, I didn't notice that when I was preparing the slides. Thanks for pointing this out.
i can't stop looking at the girl but triads is where i need to go two..er, i mean, too..uh, to..butt, um, i mean but, i will try knot to look too closely and get all tied up and string two triads together to further my edification and not wreck my train of thinking by training my ear to hear what it is ; the idea you are trying to convey or transport to me and others, like me, who can't resist the urge to allow their intrinsic nature to give rise to distraction...excellent lesson and ideas given but i need to eradicate by edit the images of distraction..signed and sighed, in truth;mice elf:
This is not how you break out of the scale! You’re just staying in the scale. The real difficulty is using a note or scale that’s not in the original scale and make it sound good and interesting.
@@karlderdelinckx You seem to know a lot about this already, Karl. Perhaps you should post a tutorial of your own. I see an entrepreneurial opportunity for you here. Cheers!
@@SandcastleTheory I’m not a music teacher. An example of playing out of scale to me would rather be philip Catherine plays Cole porters version of ev’ry time we say goodbye.
You're talking about playing outside (of the scale, or chord). What Tommaso is teaching here is how to break out of scalar playing. It seemed obvious to me, but I can see why you could be slightly confused about his intention, and where he could have chosen a slightly more fitting title. Nothing wrong with either of you for missing such details, or even seeing things a little different though.
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Holy breakthroughs, Batman! Just pick two chord arpeggios from the key and play them? So simple. My jamming just got so much simpler AND more musical. I kept obsessing over playing the right arpeggio to match the exact chord in the song and it felt impossibly cumbersome.
This morning I just picked a few songs, found the key, picked two chords and just jammed on them, throwing some 7ths in with the triads... holy cow. It was the most fun I’ve had playing in a long while.
AND, I started seeing how the patterns connect in all new ways, getting a glimpse of how mastery will come. That foresight is very motivating.
I realize I’m ranting, but you don’t know how long I’ve been puzzled by “what to do with arpeggios?!”
Thank you, Tommasso!
You're very welcome :)
LMFAO. "Stop looking at the girl." I was tooottally looking. xD
I'm a straight woman and I was like: O_O
I found it very hard to do the exercises with just one hand.
Triads? Pairs? Huh? (Sorry, still looking.)
Same here lmao
“You don’t learn scales to play scales”
"Stop playing scales!"
"OK! What should I do instead?"
"Learn the Triad Scale!"
" -___- "
Your new video each week is probably the only thing I'm looking forward to on a monday :D
4:07 It's hard to focus on the pair of triads instead of a different kind of pair.
As a former bass player, I recognize these patterns from walking bass in 12/8. Listen to this man. He makes sense
Sounds like Frank Gambale licks
Stop looking at the train!
I'm losing my hair, so I use the Minoxidilian scale.
HAHAHA
@@MusicTheoryForGuitar Glad I made you laugh! It's a joke that is wasted on all but folks with music theory background. And yes, I am experiencing the androgenic alopecia.
French viewers be like : "ARRÊTEZ de sonner comme une machine à balance de guitare: comment sortir des échelles de guitare"
@@fonfon575 That is how the google translate tool did translate the title in french.
"a guitar scale machine" ... Gah! do you have a listening-device in my apartment? ;-) I feel "seen" ! (or "heard")
Wooou...this nice , I like this....
My first tip to people is take a scale and then play it in thirds, meaning play one note, skip one note, and repeat. This immediately starts sounding melodic because a chord is the same concept, play one note, skip the next
Wouldn't that be an arpeggio? 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 - if you did that for each scale degree, you will have harmonized the scale G, Am, Bm, C, D, Em, F#dim. Is that how you're working through it?
And then once you've tried moving around the scale in thirds, mess with all sorts of intervals! i.e traverse the scale in fourths, fifths, sixths, sevenths as well :)
I sometimes practice doing stacked third arpeggios for that reason.
Apparently he has heard and does not like the instrumental I wrote titled, "Non-variations on the Minor Pentatonic."
:)
Great lesson but too short...Nobody really takes the time to show how to make triads sound musical or how to mix them with the scales.
I know triads are powerfull bu i still cant use them in a musical way.
Sounds at the end as robotic as the scale...
Well, it's the first video in a series. Next ones are coming soon ;-)
I feel like such a caveman. My attention span is so short I'd never stay with this on it's own merits...Thanks for the girls, by shear accident I might learn something now.
That’s how I was until I saw how much better this is than playing scales, basically just practice your triads, I just started
The pics he chooses tho
The chick-pic *you* chose though too. lols ^-^
Informative as always. Thank you!
Great lesson. "Scales give us options". Choosing the notes we want to play on a Melodic line was what I learned from listening to Miles Davis. Knowing WHY things work helps to give you confidence that what you hear in your mind has Musical validity.
I play something & think "What the heck was I doing there?" (good or bad).
You don't just teach tricks & licks, you educate our ears. Thank you.
I can't wait to practice this after I'm done with my semester exams.
Same bro
this is the way real musicians see improv. in jazz (Triads Superimposition) N build powerful/effective melodies
Keep going in this direction man this is the way to think about harmony
This particular video is not really about music theory. It's more about music wisdom.
Yea man, the oncoming train wreck is real. lols
the girl made me subscribe lol no really tho i subscribed but just remember one thing -
GIRL = Guy InRealLife
Excellent lesson, thank you. ^-^ I drill them whether I know them or not, and I always learn more.
Focusing on open triads also helps a player see the intervals, and not just the shapes. You have to think about what the interval is, whereas closed triads are more often parts of very familiar chord shapes. The open triads are too, they're just not as easily recognizable in the beginning.
Edit: Heeeyyy!! I was promised kittens! 3:43
8.20 my playing in a nutshell. Taken me years to undo that damage.
Very informative and useful information again. Thank you
the reason behind the pics cracked me up, love your videos :D
bella ragatz Tommaso . gracias .
I'm a beginner bass player (2 years) and I have been studying triads (major & minor) in all keys everywhere on the neck (up to the 12th fret). I imagine your 2 triad technique might make for a nice bass fill. Do you think so?
Yes, this will work as well for bass too.
Yea, I bet this would sound awesome on bass.
Oh yea, I've been playing bass for awhile and this video absolutely applies. It's scales after all. With faster music/frequent key changes I tend to play a triad of the specific chord being played instead, although grooving largely on the pentatonic scales as he briefly mentions is my favorite.
3:56 - I'm happy! Nice looking girls. :-)
NOOOOO ... of course I don't want to make the girls sad 🤣👍✌️!!!
He sounds like father Guido Sarduchi .
Ok but the tone on your guitar is horrible,, just use a clean sound when teaching
Can you please make a volume 2 of this and expand further? I’ve been playing for 20 years but is a brand new thing to me.
I'm editing it as we speak :-)
10/10 guru lvl guitar teachings, another awesome video dude!!!
autotranslate fails big time (german) with the headline
Looks interesting. Can't wait to check it on all the chords. Majors, Minors & added Chords. Thank you.. see you next year 😊😊😊
3:54 I confess I had to rewind because my attention was elsewhere occupied
Useful stuff. Great ideas to break free of restrictive habits and to experience new dimensions in practising/performance. Thanks.
I kept thinking the intro to Long DIstance Runaround by Yes.
While I know that I know very little about guitar and have much more to learn. I'd like to tell you Mr. Zillio that I sincerely look forward to your videos. Thank you for your help.
The wisest and best among us always know they have a lot to learn still.
I mean, Alan Holdsworth more often than not didn't think he was all that good. And I can't think of anyone better than him, maybe as good.. maybe.
There is a mistake in the notation at 6:15. The tab shows two times down, but in the notes it's going down and then again up.
Complete Chord Mastery, is a "per month" cost. Is this an ongoing subscription? Or just for that course, and if so, how many months is the course?
Please direct all course questions here: tommaso@musictheoryforguitar.com
Grauenvolle Übersetzung. „Gitarren-Waage“ Echt jetzt?
Whoever translated this: scale (music) refers in german to "Tonleiter" not to Waage, You wouldn't use "balance" or "weighing machine" as a similar word for scale in english.
(1) 3:40: Ah, the "hot chick maneuver ..." angryflower.com/271.html
(2) This reminds me of the way you decompose a scale into the tonic triad (the stable notes), and the rest of the notes as a seventh chord (the active notes), from an earlier video, and alternate between the two.
So where do I get my Nobel prize? ;-)
@ Christopher Heckman : It was right at _"E=MC2 I like weiners"_ that I was very happy I'd finished my tea already. lols
I love it! 😍😍😍✅✅✅🇵🇭
I came here for the lesson, I stayed for the "train"ing. I enjoyed your joke with every fibre of my being.
This is a great, immediately useful video!
I never leave comments but I make an exception as ur videos are so inspiring and well done. Thanks a million!
Nice to read your comment.
"Stop looking at the girl!"
I can't stop looking....!!
pic of girl in bra, but don't look
Can u upload that pdf
thank you! always enlightening!
I wish jazz guitarists would watch this clip!
Nice one that will keep me busy :)
It was fantastic lesson i enjoyed it so much
I loved the train idea 😆
grande tommaso! grazie grazie ☺️
I’m too lazy - I just start with chord notes.... then borrow chords notes of the following chords as passing notes
I'm the kind of dude that just understands sound and it works together.
I can also most the time translate what I want to say in my head and so forth.
So when it comes to actually using theory or learning it..........it's like trying to sit perfectly still while fire ant's crawl up your legs that are covered in honey........
Thank you for another great lesson!
Cool stuff. I believe that what you call open triads is formally called spread triads. Correct me if I am wrong. Not splitting hair but I think open triads involve open strings.
I've heard them referred to as both open triads and spread triads. Not sure about the open strings triads, and that does make sense, but only for stringed instruments. So I'd be hesitant to adopt it for that reason.
"Open triads" is the technical term, sometimes expanded in "open position triad" or "open voiced triads". This is the terminology in use from at least the 1890's.
Not to be confused with "open STRINGS triads", more commonly "open strings chords". In the former, the triad is 'open'. In the latter, the strings are 'open'.
"Spread triads" is guitarist jargon invented since people got confused between these two things.
@@MusicTheoryForGuitar thank you, the guitarist in me is constantly fighting the musician in me 😁
Some "deep cuts" in this video
Didn't understand anything 🙄
Then this playlist is for you: ruclips.net/video/V7wGIxpW5rM/видео.html
this video is not for me...I barely know the major scale :) I am just getting ready to learn all these interesting scales that he has shown us. I will get back to this video in a year, when I become obsessed with scales :)
Watch this playlist: ruclips.net/video/V7wGIxpW5rM/видео.html
That's the best way to learn on the internet. You have to be able to see what steps you need to take. I suggest getting a metronome and using it as part of your practice time (sometimes you need to work on learning parts without one). And step one should be to learn the key of C Major all over the fretboard. Really once you've done that, most of the rest falls into place much easier.
Tommaso has an awesome course, but if you're like me, that may not be something you can afford right away, but he has videos on all the basics here too. The play list he linked is a great place to start of course.
But C Major is just 7 different scale shapes to learn the entire fretboard. Say or better yet, sing the notes as you play them to commit them to memory.
The great part about that, is that by learning those 7 shapes you will be learning all of the root positions of each mode too. All of the shapes are moveable, and so you can play in any key and any diatonic mode by just moving those same shapes into a different position.
So yea, focus on just the 7 notes of C Major for now, and you'll be up to speed right quick.
This shows all 7 positions, and the number of each interval (relevant to the root note, C in this case) on the left side, and on the right side shows the finger number that's best for each shape: i.pinimg.com/originals/38/c5/5c/38c55c5a189f0724ff6bd2266703de01.png
This one shows the note names: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/C_Major_Scale_on_fretboard.svg/1280px-C_Major_Scale_on_fretboard.svg.png
I learned them all by making graphs like this, and so all the notes are forever etched into my memory. I've never not been able to tell what note I'm playing since then, so I recommend buying some empty guitar fretboard graph paper (I actually drew my own with a ruler when I was a kid).
@@MusicTheoryForGuitar Thanks, I like your videos and have already watched some of these but need to not only watch...but practice :)
I wanted to take the chord mastery course but its too expensive for me :(
Can your courses be purchased one time or is it solely subscription based? And are you doing any black Friday deals? Thanks.
Please direct all course questions to tommaso@musictheoryforguitar.com
At 6:16 the notes do not correspond with the tabs and what is played.
At 6:16 I'm not playing anything. The example before and after that time play exactly what it is in the tabs.
Well, I mean 6:35, sorry for that. The tabs are correctly, but the notes are not.
@@MusicTheoryForGuitar ok but he has a point: at the same place the tab and the standard notation don't agree. Notation is going up in pitch when tab is going down
Oh, you mean the standard notation does not correspond to the tab? Sorry, I understood that the tab does not correspond to what I play. No, you're right, I didn't notice that when I was preparing the slides. Thanks for pointing this out.
Yes, that's what I meant. No problem.
Wish there was more examples to this.
There will be soon. I'm planning more videos on this.
How not to sound like a stereotype Italian ?
Mamma mia... ;-)
@@MusicTheoryForGuitar me cojoni !
You had a live class? What?
Disliked for the objectification of women, but thanks for the good suggestions.
Truly, understanding irony is a lost art.
So many guitarists need this! Excellent video.
i can't stop looking at the girl but triads is where i need to go two..er, i mean, too..uh, to..butt, um, i mean but, i will try knot to look too closely and get all tied up and string two triads together to further my edification and not wreck my train of thinking by training my ear to hear what it is ; the idea you are trying to convey or transport to me and others, like me, who can't resist the urge to allow their intrinsic nature to give rise to distraction...excellent lesson and ideas given but i need to eradicate by edit the images of distraction..signed and sighed, in truth;mice elf:
This is not how you break out of the scale! You’re just staying in the scale. The real difficulty is using a note or scale that’s not in the original scale and make it sound good and interesting.
That's actually fairly easy: ruclips.net/video/gLCSA3tp-zM/видео.html
@@MusicTheoryForGuitar that one is playin fill in notes but is not really breaking out of you’re scale.
@@karlderdelinckx You seem to know a lot about this already, Karl. Perhaps you should post a tutorial of your own. I see an entrepreneurial opportunity for you here. Cheers!
@@SandcastleTheory I’m not a music teacher. An example of playing out of scale to me would rather be philip Catherine plays Cole porters version of ev’ry time we say goodbye.
You're talking about playing outside (of the scale, or chord). What Tommaso is teaching here is how to break out of scalar playing. It seemed obvious to me, but I can see why you could be slightly confused about his intention, and where he could have chosen a slightly more fitting title. Nothing wrong with either of you for missing such details, or even seeing things a little different though.
Feels like I’m learning guitar from Borat.