Might as well cancel all my other guitar teaching subscriptions on this platform,...No-one else even comes close to teaching like this.. still can't believe how fortunate we are to have you guide us!!! Once again !.. BRAVO!!
This is fantastic. Thanks for taking the time to *walk through* this process like this. Harmonzing a melody with voice-leading in mind seems so daunting when you don't know how to even get started, but this was easy to follow.
Your unique and succinct lessons are great and much appreciated! Thank you. I have always like chromatic line progressions like this. I like how you show troubleshooting these triads and carefully analyze it all. Nicely done.
It's great to see a lesson with the teacher actually working through a problem instead of presenting solutions that were arrived at by mysterious means.
Love how you explain the thinking behind it. Been a hacker for many years, just learning songs like a parrot. Started learning the scales, modes, and phrasing techniques, but it all still sounds more mechanical than musical. THIS, and other lessons you share is the missing link. Thank you!
I’ve been working on learning my triads lately and this lesson was exactly what I needed. Really lightbulb going off stuff for me. Thank you. This is exactly the lesson I needed right now.
Brilliant lesson as usual, Chris. I can actually feel my brain getting a bit bigger each time I watch one of your lessons. that Demo at the beginning should be a song, just beautiful!
Some people are such great teachers. Make complex things look so easy. His teaching reminds me of my Medicine Proffs Grand Rounds who would diagnose complex cases with minimalist approach strongly grounded on fundamentals. Bravo Sir. Unbelievable service for music. 👏👏🙏🙏
Triads triads triads. They seem to be everywhere and SOOOO important. I've been working on memorizing them at least 20 minutes every day. Without them I could never understand this lesson.
One of the most eye opening lessons I’ve ever seen! I never seen this kind of approach to teaching a voice leading, I couldn’t grasp from anyone who has tried to explain to me but you Sir ! I owe you ! Thank you very much for your work ! Absolutely incredible ! Love to have this epiphany again ! Thank you for you’re making this video as guessing with all the options even they’re not right, I think most important step in learning is to do mistake and learn from them ! That’s when it clicked. Thank you again 🎉🎉
Whoah! This is the best video I have watched this month. Im happy and grateful to have came across this guitar lesson. You are a gift to the guitar community, sir. Mabuhay!
Hi Chris. I want to say thank you for the great videos you post. I've been playing for little over a year now and have learned so much about the guitar from you and Marty Music. Both of you are an inspiration and have helped this 40 something year-old get back into guitar. Thank you again and keep making these awesome videos!
What a very useful video. You added some vocabulary and context to things I had just been muscling through for years. I can see what a help this could be to arranging songs. Thanks!
Wow, Chris! You know, if you throw a stick in RUclips you're gonna hit a guitar teacher. But you, my friend, are the real deal! I love your cogent, in depth analysis and your kind encouragement toward discovery and self development. Thanks. Glad I subscribed!
Thanks Bunba! Line cliche or not, hearing these intervals and being able to retain them allows you to navigate them anywhere on the neck eventually! Can you recognize the intro scale?
It was so interesting to see how the voicing was broken down into which chords suited it best, using triad inversions until the best emotional "flavour" was found. It's almost like trying to build a sound picture from triad puzzle-pieces. Superb lesson!! Thanks again, Chris! I have been practising my triads every day (still rusty but slowly getting better) and NOW there is some melodic context for me to apply them to!
Thank you, Chris. This is such a gift. You have an amazing ability to take a lot of disparate theory pieces I've learned over the years and empowered me to apply them to actually make music. Amazing communicator.
Very cool to take a melody and have it define the chords. I'm so used to the opposite where it's the chords determining the melody. Very eye opening indeed!
love it, first time the whole picture of triads and lead voices has fallen into place and can see less confusion around building harmonies around riffs I think of, have to admit, you lost me a bit on the Eb7 and must get over and review the 251, but all up, great lesson, thanks Chris !
Yeah as I rewatch it I can see how that Eb7 section could have used a bit more attention. But I’m so glad the basic idea clicked for you Steve! Thanks for being here.
Chris - this is an outstanding lesson and a great way to think of progressions driven by melody rather than just chord progressions. For example, the C to Cm is a great borrowed chord but you got to it by accommodating the melody rather than for the sake of adding an interesting chord substitution in a standard chord sequence. All of this, by the way, being pretty new to me. Anyway, I'm a new fan and I'll be watching for new content after I pour through all of the backlog. Thank you!
So great to have you here! Please let me know if you need a hand finding things. There's a few playlists here that are also fairly well focused so that also might be fun. Welcome aboard!
Yet another extraordinary lesson Chris. You’ve just opened the door to composition for me, which prior to this lesson felt like a daunting leap.. You’ve transformed it into a wonderful exploration. Thank you. Just prior to you going there, I was wondering if you could introduce a flat 7, and then it magically appeared. The only reason that even occured to me was because of what I learned from your previous videos. You are awesome 😎
Great video Chris, very valuable info. I learned the chord melody "triads" (of the key) awhile back and it made a world of difference in my improvising and now learning voice leading it will just add to that. Thanks again and please do more like these!
Wow! Thank you!! Makes complete sense of something that hadn't before. (Btw, i *think* you might've said Bm when you played Am on the ii V I?... or maybe i misheard). Anyway, just a superb explanation!
Amazing lesson and another barrier braker! It is like putting pieces together on a jigsaw. I will have to study a bit more of triads and harmonizing scales. Thank you Chris!
This was incredibly helpful thank you so much! this is a great tool for songwriting as I cant tell you how many times I thought of a melody and I had no idea how to accompany it! I also realised if you add suspended chords into this process as in making the melody note a 2nd degree or 4th degree in a chord, you can add a whole other layer of wonderful chords to fit the a melody
You always teach exactly what I need Chris! Can't wait to catch up on your videos when things calm down over here. Ichika Nito does some incredible voice leading in his work
Chris, another great tool for the quiver! I really like seeing the thought process as you explore the possibilities in search of the pleasing chords. My question is...."what comes first, the melody and thus search for chord progression? Or....progression and extract a melody?"
Both :P There is not right or wrong way to compose really. I use both methods all the time. In the video on 6th chords, I wrote that chord progression first, then hunted down the melody. In fact, practicing both of these methods is a great journey in and of itself. Thanks for the comment and being engaged here Mick!
thanks for the lesson. suscribed right away.!! I've been intrigued by harmonizing melodies and notes for months and this is highly useful and you made the topic interesting and easy. however, I have been practicing this for the whole week (it's been helpful) and by watching this video over and over and I've noticed something off towards the end of the video. I think you meant Am as the first chord of the 2-5-1 cadence instead Bm, right?
@@curiousguitarist I’ve seen voice leading with triads used off of known chords lined up and the chords voicing lined up so that the melody came from the chords but not having an inspired melody and then voicing it with the different types of triads on the strings of the melody line by using the ear to determine a best fit. The interesting thing was I heard the chords you did for the best fit. I notice you mainly do string set 2-3-&4. Why not the other string sets?
Hee! A darker variation of the start of the Gilligan's Island theme popped into my head. Probably because I've been hiking around like a video game character trying to mail things from outgoing mailboxes that are more likely to be collected, instead of the closest one to where I live. Compartment syndrome delirium from the ongoing relay. It's just that time of year where the mail collection wheels come off for about a month and a half or two. Deadline ptsd. Stranded on an island of sorts. Isn't everybody right now though?😅
Pretty specific no nonsense instruction on moving lines and chords around , I'm getting into playing guitar for composing jazz fusion ,I am a bass player been playing for many years , still trying to get used to the close string spacing on guitar sorta frustrating , also I have my guitar tuned P4 tuning
Is voice leading the same as playing solos to the chords correctly? There is almost no videos with tabs on youtube to show how to play solos along with chords, follow chords, or whatever you call it..
Ok, C major and minor in the same cadence? Are we using here the G 5# scale, or the E harmonic minor? If so, how can we finish it off with a 2-5-1 ? I can smell a key switch here, or is it just a borrowed chord? I'd love to understand!
Yes there are key changes here, but primarily we are in G. The Cmin is a "borrowed" chord from the key of Gminor. This video might help a bit: ruclips.net/video/V-opgWim1No/видео.html I do finish it off with a ii V I in the key of G. Amin, D7, G. and yes there is a #5 tossed in there on the G for a little added tension :) All rules are meant to be broken. I followed my ear for this one...hunted down what I wanted to hear, then we can analyze it afterwards :)
Illuminating to see this process. Somehow it never crossed my mind that the note might fit as the 3rd/ 5th/ 7th of a chord. I’d try major and minor and then be out of ideas.
Now on my day off, Im watching this video for the 2nd time, and finally I have a chance to hold my guitar in my hand. Just realized a problem. Right off the bat, as we start from the G and established the next chord is an F - in my head I am already in the realm of C major, and would automatically assume, the mode is mixolydian, and the third chord would be E minor and it sounds great too just like the C major , but this way of thinking would gets me totally in a different direction, and the result is amazing! Not so much difference tho, but still sounds good!
Ahh yes. Once you have the diatonic chords familiarized, then key changes, substitutions, pivot and borrowed chords are all much more exiting because you can see they don’t follow the rules. Glad you enjoyed this one Murph
@@curiousguitarist I am certanly did! Stacked triads also another interesting concept, that this video just brought up to me. Eb7 triad in the video could also be a G° in different context.
This was a fantastic lesson, and really helpful at my level - I understand the construction of chords, so this informal and intuitive approach to harmonisation is great. But, I’ll admit, it doesn’t seem to describe what I understood as voice leading, which would be to consider those harmonisation notes as their own “voices”, and to therefore try to make the changes between them as smooth and potentially as interesting as the melody. You do this automatically by virtue of using triads on a restricted string set to harmonise, but if you played those chords in (for instance) the easiest open position, I don’t think that would then be “voice leading” any more? I dunno. Total amateur here. Not criticism, just joining the discussion!
I think that voice leading happens organically as you put chords together, in any voicing. But voice leading as an active effort allows for some level of thoughtful design. Great comment
I understand 2 5 1, so why did you use Bm, D, and G for the example. Unless I've missed something (huge), the Bm is 3. Still sounds great, and I loved the lesson.
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This is one of the most eye opening lessons I’ve ever seen. This is amazing. Thank you so much for your lessons.
You bet Jason! Glad you're enjoying the channel!
Might as well cancel all my other guitar teaching subscriptions on this platform,...No-one else even comes close to teaching like this.. still can't believe how fortunate we are to have you guide us!!! Once again !.. BRAVO!!
That is a such a great and generous comment! So glad this is working for you!
Just watched your Zep and Skynyrd vids. Nice playing there sir!
@@curiousguitarist THANK YOU! For putting them out there for us!
@@curiousguitarist Thank you sir!! As you know there’s always room for improvement!
Chris you've become my favorite teacher on this platform. Keep up the incredible work!
Thanks Man! That means a lot to me.
Watching your videos is like having an actual guitar teacher again. I can't thank you enough.
You are so welcome Dan!!
This is fantastic. Thanks for taking the time to *walk through* this process like this. Harmonzing a melody with voice-leading in mind seems so daunting when you don't know how to even get started, but this was easy to follow.
Great to hear Sam! Thanks for the comment.
Outstanding. Clear, simple and concise presentation. Thanks a lot. Well done.
You bet Don.
Incredible lesson. Very original way of showing a concept that is rarely discussed in detail on youtube.
So glad you enjoyed it!
I swear I'm awestruck every time I watch Chris teach a lesson.
Thanks Brian!
Geez Louise! This is GOLD Chris. I love how you show us how to figure it out on our own and not just show us this lovely melody and chord progression.
This is like discovering a gold mine... Can't thank you enough!
You are so welcome!
Thank you for the simplest explanation of the Voice leading concept. Keep up the good work
Ha! You bet, Peter!
Chris I’m looking forward to pt.2 on “voicing.” Your lesson are always home runs, this a Grand Slam!
I'll keep hitting this subject, it's a big one :)
Your unique and succinct lessons are great and much appreciated! Thank you. I have always like chromatic line progressions like this. I like how you show troubleshooting these triads and carefully analyze it all. Nicely done.
Thanks Rory! Happy to be making these, and happier still that they are valuable for folks.
I have needed this lesson for 30 years
I’m glad you’re here!
love how you show the possibilities and bad choices along the way. great video
Ha, thanks! I had a blast with this one, glad you enjoyed it.
It's great to see a lesson with the teacher actually working through a problem instead of presenting solutions that were arrived at by mysterious means.
Glad to hear this TM, this is the basis of the teaching style I'm striving for. Thanks for being here!
Great teaching and playing! Love the topic and your explanations are wonderful. Cheers! :) -Jared
Thanks Jared
Such a good lesson. Thanks very much Chris
You are so welcome, Kevin.
A 1000 watt light bulb just lit up in my brain.
Never had a concept so simply and perfectly explained.
Thanks.
1000 watts is very bright. That's enough light to expose a lot :)
Happy to turn them on with you Donald!
Love how you explain the thinking behind it. Been a hacker for many years, just learning songs like a parrot. Started learning the scales, modes, and phrasing techniques, but it all still sounds more mechanical than musical. THIS, and other lessons you share is the missing link. Thank you!
You're so welcome Fretboard Fatfingers! Good to have you here~
I’ve been working on learning my triads lately and this lesson was exactly what I needed. Really lightbulb going off stuff for me. Thank you. This is exactly the lesson I needed right now.
So glad to hear it! Welcome aboard!
Brilliant lesson as usual, Chris. I can actually feel my brain getting a bit bigger each time I watch one of your lessons. that Demo at the beginning should be a song, just beautiful!
Thanks H! I really had fun doing this one too!
Some people are such great teachers. Make complex things look so easy.
His teaching reminds me of my Medicine Proffs Grand Rounds who would diagnose complex cases with minimalist approach strongly grounded on fundamentals.
Bravo Sir. Unbelievable service for music. 👏👏🙏🙏
Thank you!
Triads triads triads. They seem to be everywhere and SOOOO important. I've been working on memorizing them at least 20 minutes every day. Without them I could never understand this lesson.
Fabulous!
One of the most eye opening lessons I’ve ever seen! I never seen this kind of approach to teaching a voice leading, I couldn’t grasp from anyone who has tried to explain to me but you Sir ! I owe you ! Thank you very much for your work ! Absolutely incredible ! Love to have this epiphany again ! Thank you for you’re making this video as guessing with all the options even they’re not right, I think most important step in learning is to do mistake and learn from them ! That’s when it clicked. Thank you again 🎉🎉
You are so welcome! I'm so glad that this video was helpful.
I knew about the leading tone concept but didn’t have a method for discovering the underlying chords. Thank you, Chris!
You bet!
wow again you take something that seems abstract and define the structure. what a communicator!
Thanks Jack! really appreciate it, and thanks for being here!
Whoah! This is the best video I have watched this month. Im happy and grateful to have came across this guitar lesson. You are a gift to the guitar community, sir. Mabuhay!
Glad it was helpful, and Mabuhay!
Wow! Talk about demystifying harmony. Beautiful lesson, thank you!
You are so welcome, Howard! Thanks for the views and comments. I’m glad you enjoyed this one
Hi Chris. I want to say thank you for the great videos you post. I've been playing for little over a year now and have learned so much about the guitar from you and Marty Music. Both of you are an inspiration and have helped this 40 something year-old get back into guitar. Thank you again and keep making these awesome videos!
Thanks Jason, I really appreciate the encouragement and glad you’re back to playing.
Hi Chris , for sure this video one of the best lessons I've ever seen, appreciate your time and best wishes from Iran 👍
Best to you as well!
Wow! Speechless really... By far the best guitar teacher on youtube. Period.
Well Chuck now I’m speechless! :)
Thanks!
What a very useful video. You added some vocabulary and context to things I had just been muscling through for years. I can see what a help this could be to arranging songs. Thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
Wow, Chris! You know, if you throw a stick in RUclips you're gonna hit a guitar teacher. But you, my friend, are the real deal! I love your cogent, in depth analysis and your kind encouragement toward discovery and self development. Thanks. Glad I subscribed!
Wow, thanks Madison, and you are so welcome. I’m glad this resonates with folks. I know I’m loving it from my side.
Kudos on teaching how to harmonically navigate a line cliche like a boss
Thanks Bunba!
Line cliche or not, hearing these intervals and being able to retain them allows you to navigate them anywhere on the neck eventually!
Can you recognize the intro scale?
What a great explanation! Even though I was searching for the opposite process. Building a melody from a chord progression.
Look at the Pachelbel video for that method. Great to have you here, Juan!
This is the best explanation I've seen about this concept. Thak you very much!
Glad this was helpful Santiago!
As always, next level stuff, Chris. So hard to express my appreciation for these studies!
Wow, thank you Russell.
Wow. Beautiful. And so nice to see ways to dig when you want to.
Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it, more like this on the way!
It was so interesting to see how the voicing was broken down into which chords suited it best, using triad inversions until the best emotional "flavour" was found. It's almost like trying to build a sound picture from triad puzzle-pieces.
Superb lesson!! Thanks again, Chris! I have been practising my triads every day (still rusty but slowly getting better) and NOW there is some melodic context for me to apply them to!
You bet Joyce! Thanks for being here, and sorry for the late reply.
I hadn’t understood “voice leading” - do now. Also this helped advance my understanding of harmonization and triads! Thanks Chris
You bet Dustin. Sorry for the delay in response!
Great lesson Chris. Tied in nicely with me learning triads. Thanks!
Great to hear!
Truly a learn by ear experience
Amazing
@@hotpenguin607 this one was fun too…just allowing your ear to literally tell you were to go. A total blast!
Thank you, Chris. This is such a gift. You have an amazing ability to take a lot of disparate theory pieces I've learned over the years and empowered me to apply them to actually make music. Amazing communicator.
Thanks Ari, I really appreciate it, and so glad these are helpful!
Just came back from a run to find a new video. What a great day, keep up the great work Chris!
Welcome home!
Very cool to take a melody and have it define the chords. I'm so used to the opposite where it's the chords determining the melody. Very eye opening indeed!
So glad you enjoyed it Jeff!
love it, first time the whole picture of triads and lead voices has fallen into place and can see less confusion around building harmonies around riffs I think of, have to admit, you lost me a bit on the Eb7 and must get over and review the 251, but all up, great lesson, thanks Chris !
Yeah as I rewatch it I can see how that Eb7 section could have used a bit more attention. But I’m so glad the basic idea clicked for you Steve! Thanks for being here.
Wow, this opens up something very new to me. Thanks a million, I love it.
You bet!!
this specific topic was very helpful, ty! another video like this in the future would be great
Glad you liked this one. I did another like it here, maybe this would be helpful too?
ruclips.net/video/1aloWy9TfJQ/видео.html
More on the way!
awesome! thanks so much @@curiousguitarist
Chris - this is an outstanding lesson and a great way to think of progressions driven by melody rather than just chord progressions. For example, the C to Cm is a great borrowed chord but you got to it by accommodating the melody rather than for the sake of adding an interesting chord substitution in a standard chord sequence. All of this, by the way, being pretty new to me. Anyway, I'm a new fan and I'll be watching for new content after I pour through all of the backlog. Thank you!
So great to have you here! Please let me know if you need a hand finding things. There's a few playlists here that are also fairly well focused so that also might be fun.
Welcome aboard!
Excellent, beautiful, this made me fall in love with music again. Love this. More of this please.
Wow, that's a great comment to read after working all morning! Thanks Jigmee, and yes, more is on the way!
Yet another extraordinary lesson Chris. You’ve just opened the door to composition for me, which prior to this lesson felt like a daunting leap.. You’ve transformed it into a wonderful exploration. Thank you. Just prior to you going there, I was wondering if you could introduce a flat 7, and then it magically appeared. The only reason that even occured to me was because of what I learned from your previous videos. You are awesome 😎
Thanks Darren, fun journey eh!? Happy to be part of it with you.
Wonderful Explanation Chris Your a champion.
Thank you kindly Peter!
Super, super, super explained! Thank you so much !!! Greets from Hamburg, Germany
Hallo Christian! Glad you liked this one!
Great video Chris, very valuable info. I learned the chord melody "triads" (of the key) awhile back and it made a world of difference in my improvising and now learning voice leading it will just add to that. Thanks again and please do more like these!
Sorry for the delayed reply Charles, glad this is working for you. I'll definitely cover more stuff like this in future vids. Thanks for being here!
This man is holding. Hes the plug for sweet sweet guitar lessons.
Thanks Scott!
Wow! Thank you!! Makes complete sense of something that hadn't before. (Btw, i *think* you might've said Bm when you played Am on the ii V I?... or maybe i misheard). Anyway, just a superb explanation!
Ahhh I’ll check it out. Glad you enjoyed this one!
So enlightening! Great composition fuel!
Amazing lesson and another barrier braker! It is like putting pieces together on a jigsaw. I will have to study a bit more of triads and harmonizing scales. Thank you Chris!
Thanks for that comment Fernando, it's so good to hear these help to build a better view.
Another Great content and Great lesson.
So much intriguing and in depth context, but explained in a clear and simple manner.
Thank so much Asif! Glad to have you here.
Thanks goodness you put up this video 😭
Any time Joushua!
This is great stuff. Glad I stumbled upon your channel .. thanks 🙏🏻
Welcome aboard!!
This was incredibly helpful thank you so much! this is a great tool for songwriting as I cant tell you how many times I thought of a melody and I had no idea how to accompany it! I also realised if you add suspended chords into this process as in making the melody note a 2nd degree or 4th degree in a chord, you can add a whole other layer of wonderful chords to fit the a melody
Of course! Adding in the suspended notes would allow for some really nice mellow harmony.
Glad you liked this one Stratagem271!
You always teach exactly what I need Chris! Can't wait to catch up on your videos when things calm down over here. Ichika Nito does some incredible voice leading in his work
Indeed! Good to see you here Jake!
Righteous. Beautiful to behold.
Thank you kindly Timmy!
Love this lesson @chrissherland! This makes so much sense. Now I have to try it!
Keep me posted Tom!
Subscribed and liked! Great lesson Chris! Thank you 🤘
Thank you, Todd, glad you're here!
Chris, another great tool for the quiver! I really like seeing the thought process as you explore the possibilities in search of the pleasing chords. My question is...."what comes first, the melody and thus search for chord progression? Or....progression and extract a melody?"
Both :P
There is not right or wrong way to compose really. I use both methods all the time. In the video on 6th chords, I wrote that chord progression first, then hunted down the melody.
In fact, practicing both of these methods is a great journey in and of itself.
Thanks for the comment and being engaged here Mick!
This is awesome! I was just thinking about voice leading recently!
{mind reading skills seem to be sharpening}
@@curiousguitarist 🤫
thanks for the lesson. suscribed right away.!!
I've been intrigued by harmonizing melodies and notes for months and this is highly useful and you made the topic interesting and easy.
however, I have been practicing this for the whole week (it's been helpful) and by watching this video over and over and I've noticed something off towards the end of the video.
I think you meant Am as the first chord of the 2-5-1 cadence instead Bm, right?
Thanks for the sub! I'll watch it through, but yes, I've made a couple of errors here and there! Thanks for letting me know!
What a poetical journey! Thank you so much!
You bet!
Exactly what i needed thanks for the knowledge
You bet, Sebastian!
Changed my life
Wow...that's amazing :)
Love your lessons ❤
Another super lesson Chris
Thanks Dean!
Awesome lesson!
Thank you so much for a great lesson.
You’re welcome, TORI.
This is an eye opener.
Cool! How so?
@@curiousguitarist I’ve seen voice leading with triads used off of known chords lined up and the chords voicing lined up so that the melody came from the chords but not having an inspired melody and then voicing it with the different types of triads on the strings of the melody line by using the ear to determine a best fit. The interesting thing was I heard the chords you did for the best fit. I notice you mainly do string set 2-3-&4. Why not the other string sets?
I love your videos, thanks Chris I always learn something cool..
You bet forty5!
The door swung wide open.. awesome
YES! That's great to hear JC!
Always awesome, sir! Thank you!
Of course!
Love that Chevy/GMC in your avatar BYW
Awesome to see how you think. Wonderful. Subscribed.
Thanks Marcus, good to have you here!
Hee! A darker variation of the start of the Gilligan's Island theme popped into my head. Probably because I've been hiking around like a video game character trying to mail things from outgoing mailboxes that are more likely to be collected, instead of the closest one to where I live. Compartment syndrome delirium from the ongoing relay. It's just that time of year where the mail collection wheels come off for about a month and a half or two. Deadline ptsd. Stranded on an island of sorts. Isn't everybody right now though?😅
Pretty specific no nonsense instruction on moving lines and chords around , I'm getting into playing guitar for composing jazz fusion ,I am a bass player been playing for many years , still trying to get used to the close string spacing on guitar sorta frustrating , also I have my guitar tuned P4 tuning
So cool! Thanks for the comment, Ken. Its great to have a bass player in here!
Great lesson!
Glad you liked it!
Did you get new recording equipment? I may be crazy but this video just seems extra crisp to me.
Nothing new, maybe just getting better at the tech stuff. I do need a new mic, that's for sure!!
Really really love this.
And I love reading comments like this :)
Great lesson sir
Thank you!
This was fun. Thanks 👍
You bet!
another great lesson..
Thank you John!
Is voice leading the same as playing solos to the chords correctly? There is almost no videos with tabs on youtube to show how to play solos along with chords, follow chords, or whatever you call it..
Try this one: Playing Over Changes 101
ruclips.net/video/B3BxTwyaCs8/видео.html
Ok, C major and minor in the same cadence? Are we using here the G 5# scale, or the E harmonic minor?
If so, how can we finish it off with a 2-5-1 ?
I can smell a key switch here, or is it just a borrowed chord?
I'd love to understand!
Yes there are key changes here, but primarily we are in G. The Cmin is a "borrowed" chord from the key of Gminor. This video might help a bit: ruclips.net/video/V-opgWim1No/видео.html
I do finish it off with a ii V I in the key of G. Amin, D7, G. and yes there is a #5 tossed in there on the G for a little added tension :)
All rules are meant to be broken. I followed my ear for this one...hunted down what I wanted to hear, then we can analyze it afterwards :)
@@curiousguitarist Thank you so much! I appreciate it!
Illuminating to see this process. Somehow it never crossed my mind that the note might fit as the 3rd/ 5th/ 7th of a chord. I’d try major and minor and then be out of ideas.
So glad this is helpful. I use this all the time when I’m composing
Now on my day off, Im watching this video for the 2nd time, and finally I have a chance to hold my guitar in my hand.
Just realized a problem. Right off the bat, as we start from the G and established the next chord is an F - in my head I am already in the realm of C major, and would automatically assume, the mode is mixolydian, and the third chord would be E minor and it sounds great too just like the C major , but this way of thinking would gets me totally in a different direction, and the result is amazing! Not so much difference tho, but still sounds good!
Ahh yes. Once you have the diatonic chords familiarized, then key changes, substitutions, pivot and borrowed chords are all much more exiting because you can see they don’t follow the rules. Glad you enjoyed this one Murph
@@curiousguitarist I am certanly did!
Stacked triads also another interesting concept, that this video just brought up to me.
Eb7 triad in the video could also be a G° in different context.
Wow! This is alchemy.
Indeed! Glad you lied this one!
This was a fantastic lesson, and really helpful at my level - I understand the construction of chords, so this informal and intuitive approach to harmonisation is great. But, I’ll admit, it doesn’t seem to describe what I understood as voice leading, which would be to consider those harmonisation notes as their own “voices”, and to therefore try to make the changes between them as smooth and potentially as interesting as the melody. You do this automatically by virtue of using triads on a restricted string set to harmonise, but if you played those chords in (for instance) the easiest open position, I don’t think that would then be “voice leading” any more? I dunno. Total amateur here. Not criticism, just joining the discussion!
I think that voice leading happens organically as you put chords together, in any voicing. But voice leading as an active effort allows for some level of thoughtful design.
Great comment
wow! awesome video.
Thanks, glad you liked it, Gregory
Lovely video
Thanks John.
I understand 2 5 1, so why did you use Bm, D, and G for the example. Unless I've missed something (huge), the Bm is 3. Still sounds great, and I loved the lesson.
Correct! I played Amin but said "B Minor"!!! I'll try to go fix that right now. Thanks!
Fixed! Thank you so much.
Cool stuff! Thx!
Glad you liked it!