Bullsh_t. It needs to be flipped over. It's scaled for lefties. Righties look down at the frtbd with nut to the left, obviously. Most vid instructors are righties, so yeah, we have to look at and interpret their fingerings in medium shots, but inclusion of numberings and noe letters make graphics more time-consuming.
Ive been playing now for a year and half. I really like how he has the graphics matching what he is doing. My brain processes it easier. Thanks for the lesson!
Just finished your improvisation lessons playlist up to date and even though I started with a really limited theory knowledge and hand ability I am playing improvisations and being able to build up from here is the fun part. Thanks a lot king !
thanks. that was incredibly helpful for stitching together “things I know” about but don’t know how they go together. I have been stuck playing chords forever but this lesson opened the heavens. best roadmap I have watched explaining this for someone who thinks visually. cheers!
Awesome man. I have been looking for this information for so long and no one has articulsted as well as you do. They just explain complex theory or give you simple chord transition riffs to copy. You just showed where the chords are in the scale. Thank you
Thank you so much for this great video..Sir.. I knew triad shapes but to be able to see that as part of pentatonic shapes has given so many options to solo over a chord..Thanx a ton Sir..Highly obliged
I'm so glad I stumbled upon this! First "What Are We Doing Here" By Ariel Posen is my latest favourite tune! Older Canadian Veteran here who loves to play guitar for therapy with other like minded Veterans. I've been messing with the pentatonic; on and off for over 6 years and have been learning triads lately. This is a good explanation and visualization on how to put them together.
Very well taught. I've always thought that when I'm teaching, it's important that I try to remember what would have helped me grasp a concept as a beginner. You've captured that spirit in your lessons. God, how I wish I'd had so much information at my fingertips 40 years ago. Lol. Please keep teaching. You are a good teacher.
Love your content Andrew, Wish i Had you when i started, would have learnt so fast. Sadly your teachings dont do much for me anymore but you precisely answer every question i had when starting out
That G major to e minor just did so much for me right there. I never knew that the relative major or minor would be found from the pinky or the index finger placement
Loved the lesson. Made a lot of concepts click together for me. Minor confusion for me: I found the chord diagrams to be upside-down. Or maybe the chord diagrams I am used to seeing are always upside-down (with the low E on the bottom) and these were right side up. I ended up flipping them 180 degrees to be consistent with my other practice materials. Take a look at Brian Kelly video: Guitar Theory Explained in 60 Minutes. At then end he has the same chord diagrams that include the whole caged chords. A good addition to the triads presented here. You will see his diagrams are flipped in the way that I am used to with the Low E on the bottom. Regardless of my confusion, thank you for the lesson. Great content and well explained.
I'm a intermediate player and kinda stuck in this spot ( caged / solo / intervals etc .. this video has open doors for me to move forward. GREAT video . THANKS for the info
This is such a fantastic vid Andrew. It could've easily turned very confusing with this level of detail but the way you explain things makes it easy to understand. Also, I for one prefer this fretboard shape, it's easier to visualise for me lol
Great lesson, the content is clear and useful and the added backing tracks are great. PS the graphic of the neck is perfectly fine. Beginners such as myself need to be able to identify many different patterns and having the fretboard as if sitting in front of a teacher is good.
This guy is GOOD. There is so much trash on the internet and it gets lots of views, perhaps people who don’t know much are drawn to its popularity. It is farcical how some try and tell you how you can master the guitar with these ‘3 tricks’. This guy knows what music is about and what it is for; he is genuinely trying to help us. Others deliberately make it more complicated to make themselves look good. Unfortunately even he has to do some theory because it is necessary, but it really isn't difficulty; there are only 12 keys and they are all the same - they just shift about. What makes it complicated is that there are so many different words for the same thing or even worse a similar thing! I would do his course but what I need is hours doing the basics; unfortunately no one can do that for me.
Powerful powerful powerful stuff. So dumb but I totally never thought to go find the chords in the minor presentation shapes. For what it's worth you know the way you set up the fretboard is how I think it should have always been done. When I was a beginner that was how I thought it was. It took me forever to understand it and even to this day I have to write down beside the diagrams eadgbe because I forget which way it goes. It totally makes way more sense this way. Thanks
Thanks! Nothing changes since you'd do the same thing for a relative minor key. So you would use all the same shapes I shared in the video for A minor since it's the same key as C major. The numbers would be shifted, but the shapes, chords, scales remain the same. Instead of it being C1, D2, E3, F4, G5, A6, B7; you'd have A1, B2, C3, D4, E5, F6, G7. For a better explanation of relative major and minor keys, check this video out: ruclips.net/video/6CiDlJepl-o/видео.html
ANDREW, can you make a lesson on how to ADD these chord tones to the pentatonic box#2,#3,#4,#5 for each pentatonic box which the chords changes from I-ii-iii-IV-V-vi-vii
These shapes exist in every pentatonic position all over the fretboard. In this video, I didn’t want anyone getting overwhelmed. But this can be done anywhere on the fretboard :)
That was really helpful! But how should we approach the minor key of a same note (C For example)? II chord of C Major Key is in the same position in the scale with IV chord of C Minor Key. Also, Major III chord - Minor V chord Major IV chord - Minor VI chord Major V chord - Minor VII chord are located in the same positions in their scale. Is this a good approach?
Yeah that's the idea! Typically, I just relate everything back to the relative major key to make it easier for me. But you can shift all the numbers to fit the minor key like you mentioned. Totally up to you and what works best in your mind. Thanks for watching! :)
I would recommend watching the pentatonic vid from fret science, then you should be able to build each position of the pentatonic and can apply the same thing Andrew is teaching to them!
This lesson would be perfect for you I think: ruclips.net/video/gpJwaidpcm0/видео.html It adds a few notes to the pentatonic shapes to make them major/minor scales which are more useful in my opinion. Otherwise, the video @XnylSculpts mentioned should be good!
One of the best Caged lessons i’ve seen in awhile. How do you train your ear to recognize each chord change & then land on the chord tones ? .uummmm……gonna take some doing…..just subscribed so thanks for this lesson.
Good question. And it requires its own lesson for sure. Takes some ear training but it's not really that hard. To start, you'll just want to be able to find the chords of a song by ear. Then eventually you'll be able to do it more on the fly. If you haven't gone through it already, this lesson is a good place to start: ruclips.net/video/kmAK4tRmLec/видео.html
I prefer Andrew’s format actually, especially while it’s stacked above or below each other, it facilitates understanding of the concepts while providing a visual aide with a glance either up or down
I honestly think the horizontal direction(right to left or opposite); doesnt matter much to me,its the vertical(up todown,thats lowE to high e)on fretboard diagram that hurts my brain the most...see convectional fretboard graphics always have the high e string up n low E down...man!!....that hurts my brain so much....in a way this vids picture is sweet to my brain...😊..im gonna invet all my pics from now...😊😊😊❤❤❤
Do your finger drills ,practice all your scales and your arpegiations of 1's , 2's , 3's ,4's ,5's,and every other note in your scales as your practicing them. Before doing all of this you must pick the strigs 8 times with your picking hand on each string.
I like how you teach. I think most that are learning would likely benefit more if you slow down your talking speed. It is better to have a video two minutes longer and very understandable, than one two minutes less, and jumbled.
I appreciate the feedback. And I understand that critique. I'm kind of a slave to the RUclips algorithm, and RUclips rewards faster paced content because it keeps the average person watching for longer, which in turn helps the video reach more people. As was recommended below, .75 speed might be your best bet for now. But I'll also see if I can strike a better balance between clarity and pace. Cheers!
At 04:40 I say it's coming from an E minor shape which is correct when referring to CAGED shapes. It's an E minor shape bar chord positioned at the 5th fret which makes it an A minor chord. An A minor shape would be what we use for the ii chord.
very unclear about the fingering on the e minor chord. The diagram did not do a good job. Please go over the fingering of it. Otherwise, this is very useful.
Hope you enjoyed the lesson! Don't forget to download your 3 free backing tracks here: andrewclarkeguitar.com/p/slow-pop-pack
This was excellent although your chart that shows the guitar with the dots on it are inverted.
The way you have your fretboard diagram makes sense! Glad you are thinking outside the box!
Bullsh_t. It needs to be flipped over. It's scaled for lefties. Righties look down at the frtbd with nut to the left, obviously. Most vid instructors are righties, so yeah, we have to look at and interpret their fingerings in medium shots, but inclusion of numberings and noe letters make graphics more time-consuming.
You're doing it right, all the other RUclips videos just don't get to my head.
I'm glad the lessons are working for you :)
This video is the most helpful video I have watched in two years of playing guitar. Your lessons are excellent, thank you Andrew!
You are the best guitar teacher on the internet, I watched nearly all of your videos, thank you for your work!
Thank you so much ☺
Ive been playing now for a year and half. I really like how he has the graphics matching what he is doing. My brain processes it easier. Thanks for the lesson!
Glad it worked for you! ☺
What a lesson. Brilliant. Learnt more in 12 mins 17 secs than i have in months and months. Thank you Sir. So well presented and animated. Love it.
This is the exact lesson I needed to kind of tie everything together. This is gold man
That's so great to hear! :)
Just finished your improvisation lessons playlist up to date and even though I started with a really limited theory knowledge and hand ability I am playing improvisations and being able to build up from here is the fun part. Thanks a lot king !
thanks. that was incredibly helpful for stitching together “things I know” about but don’t know how they go together. I have been stuck playing chords forever but this lesson opened the heavens. best roadmap I have watched explaining this for someone who thinks visually. cheers!
This finally brought everything together! Thank you so Much!
Awesome! Glad I could help 😊
You are the best guitar teacher on youtube by far!
Awesome man. I have been looking for this information for so long and no one has articulsted as well as you do. They just explain complex theory or give you simple chord transition riffs to copy.
You just showed where the chords are in the scale. Thank you
Thank you a lot Andrew! Really appreciate your simplicity and kindness ❤
It's my pleasure!
Chord view is helpful for me. Been playing for over five decades. Do what works for you ❤.
Thank you so much for this great video..Sir..
I knew triad shapes but to be able to see that as part of pentatonic shapes has given so many options to solo over a chord..Thanx a ton Sir..Highly obliged
I'm so glad I stumbled upon this! First "What Are We Doing Here" By Ariel Posen is my latest favourite tune! Older Canadian Veteran here who loves to play guitar for therapy with other like minded Veterans. I've been messing with the pentatonic; on and off for over 6 years and have been learning triads lately. This is a good explanation and visualization on how to put them together.
I'm really excited to practice thie
Thank you so much for the lesson! Very useful, and as always you explained it very simply!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Very well taught. I've always thought that when I'm teaching, it's important that I try to remember what would have helped me grasp a concept as a beginner. You've captured that spirit in your lessons. God, how I wish I'd had so much information at my fingertips 40 years ago. Lol. Please keep teaching. You are a good teacher.
Thank you! Appreciate that a lot ☺
We need a part 2 for the bigger shapes please😭🎯. Love you videos btw❤
Excellent lesson! Thank you so much!! I learned so much in a little while so may God bless you for your forthcoming so freely! John 3:16-17! Peace!
Awesome tutorial
what a legend never thought i would reach this level of guitar playing
That's awesome! Congrats :)
Great tips really easy to understand 👍👍👍
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you. Your videos always make a huge difference
Happy to help!
Thankyou. Very helpful
You're welcome!
This tutorial is pure gold! Thank you!
You're very welcome!
Man, you rock. You talk about stuff that makes the guitar cool, and you do it in cool ways. Thanks
Glad you liked it! Cheers :)
Really helpful. Thank you for this!
My pleasure! Glad I could help ☺
Finally, a breakthrough on caged system and pentatonic scales. Thank you~
My pleasure :)
Finally CAGED made sense for me, thank you 😁
This is well explained to others bunch of tutorials here in youtube. Thank you so much and sub.
Thank you very much for this video! Totally awesome! Great tips
You are so welcome!
Wow! Thanks Andrew. You have a very unique and easy to understand way of teaching.
I appreciate that!
learned so much tonight. Thank you, you're amazing, you're teaching style is logical and linear and I just love it.
You're very welcome!
Awesome bro❤.. Great job 👏🏻.. very helpful 👍🏼
Appreciate that. Glad I could help :)
Really great ! I’ve played for years and know caged well and still opened my eyes to some stuff
Glad I could help ☺
cant thank you enough for this !!! Thank you so very much this is really helpful !
You're very welcome!
I came across your channel a few months ago. Your videos have helped me alot with understanding music theory. Hope you keep the good work😁
Thank you! I'm glad you like the videos.
You sir are a genius! This is magic.
Glad you liked the video! :)
Excellent, as usual :) many thanks
Thank you! :)
I wish this helped me better, thanks for your time
Great lesson
Thanks!
Another great lesson. Thank you
My pleasure!
Great lesson 👍✌️
Glad you liked it!
that was helpful. thanks for this video!
You're welcome!
You are my friend for life brother, thank you 🎸, I needed this one
Glad I could help ☺
Im left handed playing right handed so this inverted visual is perfect.
Great lesson! Your fretboard diagrams are perfectly ok
Thank you!
good lesson
Finally…… this is amazing
Thanx so much bro
My pleasure ☺
Good lesson thank you.
You're very welcome!
Cool Bro ❤
Love your content Andrew, Wish i Had you when i started, would have learnt so fast. Sadly your teachings dont do much for me anymore but you precisely answer every question i had when starting out
I appreciate that!
Awesome! Would be great with a cheat sheet for the same for the other positions as well!
That G major to e minor just did so much for me right there. I never knew that the relative major or minor would be found from the pinky or the index finger placement
It's such a handy trick! Glad you found it helpful too :)
Loved the lesson. Made a lot of concepts click together for me. Minor confusion for me: I found the chord diagrams to be upside-down. Or maybe the chord diagrams I am used to seeing are always upside-down (with the low E on the bottom) and these were right side up. I ended up flipping them 180 degrees to be consistent with my other practice materials. Take a look at Brian Kelly video: Guitar Theory Explained in 60 Minutes. At then end he has the same chord diagrams that include the whole caged chords. A good addition to the triads presented here. You will see his diagrams are flipped in the way that I am used to with the Low E on the bottom. Regardless of my confusion, thank you for the lesson. Great content and well explained.
I'm a intermediate player and kinda stuck in this spot ( caged / solo / intervals etc .. this video has open doors for me to move forward. GREAT video . THANKS for the info
Amazing! Glad it helped :)
This is such a fantastic vid Andrew. It could've easily turned very confusing with this level of detail but the way you explain things makes it easy to understand.
Also, I for one prefer this fretboard shape, it's easier to visualise for me lol
That's so great to hear. Thank you for watching ☺
Thank you!!!
You're welcome!!
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Finally I found what I wanted more blessings bro may God bless you abundantly I mine it am Trevor jax from Uganda🇺🇬
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Great lesson, the content is clear and useful and the added backing tracks are great. PS the graphic of the neck is perfectly fine. Beginners such as myself need to be able to identify many different patterns and having the fretboard as if sitting in front of a teacher is good.
Thank you!! Glad you found the video helpful.
another day of thanking youtube for suggesting you on my feed back when i didnt know you
This has filled a huge gap in my musical knowledge. Thank you!
You're welcome!
This guy is GOOD. There is so much trash on the internet and it gets lots of views, perhaps people who don’t know much are drawn to its popularity. It is farcical how some try and tell you how you can master the guitar with these ‘3 tricks’. This guy knows what music is about and what it is for; he is genuinely trying to help us. Others deliberately make it more complicated to make themselves look good.
Unfortunately even he has to do some theory because it is necessary, but it really isn't difficulty; there are only 12 keys and they are all the same - they just shift about. What makes it complicated is that there are so many different words for the same thing or even worse a similar thing! I would do his course but what I need is hours doing the basics; unfortunately no one can do that for me.
I really appreciate that! Thanks for watching ☺
Powerful powerful powerful stuff. So dumb but I totally never thought to go find the chords in the minor presentation shapes. For what it's worth you know the way you set up the fretboard is how I think it should have always been done. When I was a beginner that was how I thought it was. It took me forever to understand it and even to this day I have to write down beside the diagrams eadgbe because I forget which way it goes. It totally makes way more sense this way. Thanks
I appreciate that! I'm glad you found the video helpful ☺
you are genius 😭
🙏🙏
Can we get a part 2?❤
Excellent video packed with helpful tips 😊 Can you please do one on how to apply this comcept on a minor key?
Thanks! Nothing changes since you'd do the same thing for a relative minor key. So you would use all the same shapes I shared in the video for A minor since it's the same key as C major. The numbers would be shifted, but the shapes, chords, scales remain the same. Instead of it being C1, D2, E3, F4, G5, A6, B7; you'd have A1, B2, C3, D4, E5, F6, G7. For a better explanation of relative major and minor keys, check this video out: ruclips.net/video/6CiDlJepl-o/видео.html
Great video and very helpful. Does this only work for a Major key? What about Minor Keys?
It totally does! You just have to relate it to the relative major key. This explanation should help: ruclips.net/video/6CiDlJepl-o/видео.html
ANDREW, can you make a lesson on how to ADD these chord tones to the pentatonic box#2,#3,#4,#5 for each pentatonic box which the chords changes from I-ii-iii-IV-V-vi-vii
This would be a pretty packed lesson. But I'll try to do something like this soon. Good suggestion.
@@andrewclarkeguitar yes it would be but every guitarist really needs to know how to do this
Great stuff Andrew! Do you always have to start from pentatonic position one? Or is any pentatonic shape OK?
These shapes exist in every pentatonic position all over the fretboard. In this video, I didn’t want anyone getting overwhelmed. But this can be done anywhere on the fretboard :)
That was really helpful! But how should we approach the minor key of a same note (C For example)? II chord of C Major Key is in the same position in the scale with IV chord of C Minor Key. Also,
Major III chord - Minor V chord
Major IV chord - Minor VI chord
Major V chord - Minor VII chord
are located in the same positions in their scale.
Is this a good approach?
Yeah that's the idea! Typically, I just relate everything back to the relative major key to make it easier for me. But you can shift all the numbers to fit the minor key like you mentioned. Totally up to you and what works best in your mind. Thanks for watching! :)
Beest lesson for chord tones I’ve come across in video form and I used to pay for online lessons 😅
Great to hear! :)
Fuck yeah bro, liked commented subscribed, love your shit
Thank you!! 😀
What pentatonic shape would you recommend learning this for after the a minor shape? Thanks for this as always great!
I would recommend watching the pentatonic vid from fret science, then you should be able to build each position of the pentatonic and can apply the same thing Andrew is teaching to them!
This lesson would be perfect for you I think: ruclips.net/video/gpJwaidpcm0/видео.html
It adds a few notes to the pentatonic shapes to make them major/minor scales which are more useful in my opinion. Otherwise, the video @XnylSculpts mentioned should be good!
The scale is CDEGA up and AGEDC down . Can you sing it?
One of the best Caged lessons i’ve seen in awhile. How do you train your ear to recognize each chord change & then land on the chord tones ? .uummmm……gonna take some doing…..just subscribed so thanks for this lesson.
Good question. And it requires its own lesson for sure. Takes some ear training but it's not really that hard. To start, you'll just want to be able to find the chords of a song by ear. Then eventually you'll be able to do it more on the fly. If you haven't gone through it already, this lesson is a good place to start: ruclips.net/video/kmAK4tRmLec/видео.html
Thanks Andrew. Are you going to cover the other 4 shapes/scales and their associated caged chords at some time in the future? @@andrewclarkeguitar
@@timleem3609 yes. I plant to at some point!
Subbed as looks like some great ideas but have to agree with others that having the diagrams backwards is rather confusing. Great lesson though :)
I prefer Andrew’s format actually, especially while it’s stacked above or below each other, it facilitates understanding of the concepts while providing a visual aide with a glance either up or down
Thanks for the feedback! In my mind, the purpose of the graphic is to support and clarify the video, which this layout does.
I honestly think the horizontal direction(right to left or opposite); doesnt matter much to me,its the vertical(up todown,thats lowE to high e)on fretboard diagram that hurts my brain the most...see convectional fretboard graphics always have the high e string up n low E down...man!!....that hurts my brain so much....in a way this vids picture is sweet to my brain...😊..im gonna invet all my pics from now...😊😊😊❤❤❤
Minute vids please with no fluff. U will grow much quicker!! Thanks for the vid regardless!
Anyone else notice the sample is gravity 😆
Do your finger drills ,practice all your scales and your arpegiations of 1's , 2's , 3's ,4's ,5's,and every other note in your scales as your practicing them. Before doing all of this you must pick the strigs 8 times with your picking hand on each string.
Hi sir very interesting video tutorial I'm interested to your free handbook can I get one..?🙏
Just go to the link in the description of this video and you can download it for free :)
Thats how you look at the fretboard if you're watching someone play and trying to work out what they're playing.
Why is this inverted?
Andrew, I cannot download, "system error... we are investigating", what wrong?
The website may have been down. It looks like it's all working now. Are you still having trouble?
How can i be i'm contact with You.
I like how you teach. I think most that are learning would likely benefit more if you slow down your talking speed. It is better to have a video two minutes longer and very understandable, than one two minutes less, and jumbled.
RUclips playback .75 speed
I appreciate the feedback. And I understand that critique. I'm kind of a slave to the RUclips algorithm, and RUclips rewards faster paced content because it keeps the average person watching for longer, which in turn helps the video reach more people. As was recommended below, .75 speed might be your best bet for now. But I'll also see if I can strike a better balance between clarity and pace. Cheers!
I really wish this video was flipped. Or at least the fretboard graphic.
04:40 "... and this is just coming from the C minor shape" => the A minor shape actually
At 04:40 I say it's coming from an E minor shape which is correct when referring to CAGED shapes. It's an E minor shape bar chord positioned at the 5th fret which makes it an A minor chord. An A minor shape would be what we use for the ii chord.
@@andrewclarkeguitar I stand corrected - I heard "c minor" which did not make sense, but indeed it is an A minor chord in the E minor shape. Pfewww :)
Sorry ..whole tone scales i mean. In any key?? Ex: in F is FGABnatural C#D#F up and down:F EflatDflat Bnatural AGF
is FC#BAGF
the fret board is inverted and hard to follow
Omg... i really want to watch this but cant. That flipped fretboard graphic is a no go for me as well. Bunners
JUst xlnt
very unclear about the fingering on the e minor chord. The diagram did not do a good job. Please go over the fingering of it. Otherwise, this is very useful.
Sorry about that! Was the video portion tough to see? Or was there something else about it that made it more confusing than the other shapes?
Could not see what the fingering was at all. @@andrewclarkeguitar