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There are a few big moments of enlightenment in my playing history that all metal players should be aware of.... 1. CHORD THEORY- HOW THEY ARE CONSTRUCTED FROM SCALES. 2. MODES - LEARN THE MODES OF ONE MAJOR SCALE AND UNDERSTAND AND EXPERIENCE HOW THEY ARE RELATED. THEN PRACTICE MODES IN THE OTHER KEYS YOU MOSTLY PLAY IN. If you know the G major scale all over the neck then you know the E minor scale all over the neck.... and A Dorian aaaand B Phrygian... aaaand C Lydian.... and D Mixolydian and F# Locrain. 3. KNOW that all the arpeggios/chords in a key or specifically a major scale are modally related to the modes of that major scale... if you play an E minor arpeggio over a C chord.... you get a major 7th for example. I tend to think in Minor keys.... and relate and orient myself via the Minor scale as opposed to the Major.... as Minor is my personal tonal Centre. Just some thoughts....
You can learn so much more by exploring all genre's of music not just 1 or 2. It's all music at it's core. Take things you can learn from pop and incorporate it into metal. Jazz and classical are almost metal anyways just without the high gain.
To take this a step further, I personally always found it kinda odd that we categorize music so heavily into genres. Music evokes emotion or feeling, and there are too many of those to even count so to shoehorn everything out there into 10 genres doesn't really make sense to me at all. It would make more sense to me to categorize into light and dark than rock and pop...
@@m.taylor7025 I totally get what you're saying, but a dark music can be played in any style and with any instrument, same goes with all the other things. Genres exist to guide the people who listen, but they shouldn't be taken as boxes you can't go out from.
@@metalsalvo of course, it's just one of the many boxes we organize things into and then later have to "think outside the box" lol it just seems farcical.
I have to say I barely understood much, I am familiar with some stuff not all but it makes sense how all of this can actually expand your mind and make you understand your instrument so much better
As an education graduate and a heavy metal enthusiast. I was fortunate to have studied music theory as part of our curriculum. It was really a milestone to My playing during the 90s we don't have youtube at that time and sometimes we would learn songs by ear. Oh yeah if you really want to improve your ear training learn to play the keyboards as well, it will be a big help. But Bernth's channel is a good refresher, especially with the proper pick positioning I grew up watching REH Videos but proper picking approach and theory weren't taught on those videos.
I think for genres like metal and punk, the attitude of not learning music theory still ends up working as long as you just practice your chops and use your own creativity. But it also is a bottleneck. I can't remember how many times I wrote a bunch of riffs, but had no idea how to put them together or good and proper transitions that would work. Just learning music theory at a basic to intermediate level elevated my songwriting by quite a lot because I was now comfortable fitting different pieces of music together without hours of trial and error.
Honestly you are correct, but at the same time, many people completely overestimate the things that Theory will bring them, because ultimately its not practice. And there are quite a few musicians who can play wonderfully without being able to read even a single note. Like Anna murphy for instance. I think that if you rely on it too much, your brain will freeze and have the "but thats not making sense on the scale" and like one very famous musician once said: "If it sounds good together, you are probably on the right track." (It was Jacob collier btw.)
@@Bossfightmedia Yeah I agree. I just thinking knowing enough to be able to play exactly what you want without having to do trial and error is the sweet spot, imo. I know a lot of professionally trained musicians who are experts at writing music that sounds pretty conventional because they get caught up with what is theoretically the right way of writing a progression or melody.
I think as a self taught guitarist many beginners really only have in mind certain songs to play but even those goals seem almost impossible.. I play in a regional Mexican group but I won’t lie bernths tutorials has helped me add a diversity to the music I play plus there’s a lot of great guitarist in the genre I play, A lot of guitarists in the genre I play know how to shred
I've been playing bass and guitar for almost 20 years. But I've only ever learned riffs and a handful of songs from start to finish. When I played in a band the other members wrote my parts and I just learned them. It was well and good. I memorized my parts, practiced them relentlessly, and was never late to a practice or gig. But now I want to explore music more in depth and get a better handle on it, especially since I just ordered my very first nine string. Thank you, Bernth, for all the hard work you do in making these videos. I'm enjoying all of them so far and will more than likely join your Patreon once I'm back from this business trip. Metal forever!!
Another super important reason for learning at least the minimum amount of music theory that you outlined in this video is that it gives you a language to understand and communicate musical concepts: Its so much easier to learn a song if you recognize the key or the scale its using and you have words you can use to explain your song ideas to your band mates.
Started today as a new Patreon member with the beginner music theory course (visualizing the fretboard). After the 1st hour, I can finally SEE THE NOTES on the fretboard 🙌 Yes, I had some prior knowledge as an autodidact but never mastered the fretboard neither chord or scale theory in its details beside knowing the boxes and 3 NPs shapes. Due to your exercises, it was a real boost today for years 🙌 It’s still a long way, many lessons to master but I can’t wait to make some cool improvisations on your 7th chord backing track in today’s released 2nd music theory course 🤤 Greetings from Germany, you are the guitar teacher I never had! Stefan
@@heraldgreenbanger5488 There are light years between the skills I had in May and that I have right now due to Bernth's Patreon lessons. Technically and especially Music Theory wise!
@@stefanhalbritter8178 You first commented 11 months ago. Did you stay consistent? How would you compare yourself now after a year? I'm really looking to learn a lot! I'm at 0
Hey Bernth. Seit einiger Zeit verfolge ich Deine Videos. Ich muss sagen, dass Ihr echt geilen Stuff produziert! Gleichzeitig fühle ich mich selbst als Gitarrist eher mittelmäßig. Ich würde gern eines Tages euren harten Battles beitreten. Naja, ich übe fleißig weiter, durch Dich habe ich schon ein bisschen mehr gelernt. Macht weiter so, Grüße von Deutschland nach Österreich! \m/
I'm totally self taught, started with chords, stuck with that for years lol, at 51 I'm starting to take my playing abit more seriously, so now working on scales, solo's. But when it comes to number's i have a condition abit like dyslexia, number's just won't sink in, i can't remember the name of this but i did a test with a psychologist who diagnosed me with this thing. So i play to my strengths my ears, looking at patterns because thats how i see everything on a neck, it's all patterns. My neighbour is trying to teach me how to read music, and tbh i just like to improvise, and sometimes a song will come out from that. It's how i learned R.A.T.M K.I.T.N.O was messing with drop D. I would say there is all sorts of ways to learn music. And mainly just enjoy what you can do, and things will happen.
My journey on guitar? Boi I took mad notes on this. This is exactly the information and direction I needed to get past this plateau. Right now I feel more like a football coach than an athlete and I think this info will get me away from noodling all the time. Thank you!
You nailed it Bernth, I do feel like I am learning an endless number of "guitar exercises" I am sure "can" sound great, but whenever I practice arps, scales, triads 99% of it sounds like "twinkle twinkle little star" (maybe it's just me) I practice them anyway. I treat the exercises like steppingstones (did I mention endleess 🙂) I have to surpass to get to the inner guitar bad ass I know is there. Unlike some of your Shredders (hello everybody 🙂) I know I need music theory in my brain. Music theory and I are working on our communication skills. I "understand" how it all fits together: circle of fifths, modes, scales, how they are divided (major, minor, melodic, harmonic) but I have yet to memorize chord-scale relationships, intervals (perfect fifth sure, but what was that other one???) It is thanks to great RUclipsrs like yourself sharing the golden knowledge. I know half of the notes on the fretboard because of your guidance, (soon to know the remainder :-) I switched to fingerstyle almost 30 years ago, (when I tried to let go of the dream of being a shredder) tried some smaller super hard picks, (your suggestion, one is actually made of stone) spent two weeks with your picking exercises and I am already better than I ever was before with a pick. If I can just, no, WHEN I get through this chord- key- interval- scale relationship memorization hurdle; when I play I will be able to understand which note, notes, power chords, or chords are more or less likely candidates to be played next. Then, I WILL become a SHREDDER after all!!! ;-) Thank you Bernth.
I started playing guitar and had no lessons but trained myself by tabs from e.g. Metallica about 17 years ago. I cannot grasp the fact that nowadays there is so much info online which helps the starters. At my early days there was nothing but horribly wrong tabs and old-fashioned books. I have to admit that i am a bit jealous of the current generation 😁
I just realized the shirt 😂 I love it. Thanks. This helps a lot. I’m going to a school that incorporates guitar with their musical ensembles and this helps a lot as a starting point for me to know what to do and know what to have on hand when working with other people like composers or those in orchestra.
When it comes to my relationship with music theory, it's a bit controversial but works for me: right now I'm recording myself whistling over backing tracks and "guitarising" that. I do have quite a solid foundation about scales & arpeggios, but I decided it's better to follow intuition and "learn yourself" from that perspective - over the past 8 years of guitar playing I realised that creating music step by step instead of in real time leads to choice paralysis with the technical options at hand and makes you more preoccupied how it looks on the fretboard rather than how it sounds. But again, it's just my experience.
I can absolutely relate to that...I "write" the best music when laying in bed fantasizing orchestral pieces and most often even with up to three tracks at the same time. I can never recall what I thought of the next morning, and the same thing happens when listening to songs I like and like you said whistling (or just fantasizing) something different over them. The moment I pick up my guitar all the inspiration goes out the window and I'm instatnly stuck back in my relatively boring playstyle of all the things I can already play. I often thought I should record myself whistling just to memorize the stuff I come up with, because like you said my intuition feels like it can write really good music as it can bypass my lack of theoretical understanding of music...the only problem is without knowing the theory all the ideas will just float away as soon as I pick up my guitar or start up Reaper to put in the notes
@@AgeofJP not exactly - once you register your musical ideas in real time in some way (be it whistling, singing or humming), the music's already there. If you have a good ear, the process of trabscription is something admittedly arduous, but 100% doable.
@@matiosmi137 Oh I know it's absolutely doable...the only real problem is memorising everything about the idea. If I imagine a musical segment with three tracks I *need* to at least write down (or record) one of these tracks completely or it will almost surely be gone...the problem is I'm humming/whistling/singing pretty much *all the time* so any certain new melody I come up with doesn't usually make it into my long term memory because I'm already humming the next one. I wrote some good melodies but compared to how many are coming and going before I write them down I just feel like I should record myself humming all the time (or at least when I think "this one is really good")
Great video man. An easy way to start getting the hang of soloing in the right key: Find the root of the key your in, on the low E string. Lay the shape of the minor or major pentatonic scale (depending on what key you're in) on the fret board and anchor your index on finger on that E string root. Makes it easier to get in the ballpark when your first starting to wrap your head around the relation of the notes to each other, on the neck itself. Helped me a lot when I first got into Blues. And the scales the blues use, have a lot in common with metal... Hope this helps anyone that needs it... Hope I explained it correctly too lol
That second ref you play around 1:40 sounded badass you just gave me an idea for a song .. I've been playing guitar for about 15 years give or take a year and I never really learned how to alternate pick ,cuz I'm self-taught in the before RUclips era . I just learned cowboys from hell I can't tell you how frustrating it is to know how to play a song but you can't because you don't have the skills to alternate pick fast 🤦🏻♂️ I will say it is a great song for learning how to alternate pick because I am better at alternate picking in the past month and then I've been in 15 years since I've learned cowboys from hell, it's a song I really want to know how to play but I've always shied away from it cuz I thought it just sounded way too hard but I'm getting there.. nice videos man I love the way you have everything set up it's very simple to understand
I've been playing mostly by ear for years, now I'm addicted to learning everything I can about theory and understanding intervals. I took your advice and downloaded a Interval recognition app and will retrain my old ears...!!! So, you can teach an old dog new tricks!!! Have a kick ass Rockin Day...!!!
You uploaded this video just at the right time! I was wondering 'cause i watched Dean Lamb's video, what should I start to practise and improvise' cause i was like: There are so many theory thing, do i have to learn all of them and how much are them.. Then this video popped my homescreen and after I watched this video, I did practise routine all of these tips. Now, i don't have to start practising all music theory in the world. Thanks Bernth!
Someone just suggested to me learning music theory and appling it after I asked about what I can do to inspire myself further in my playing. So this might be a valuable video to me. Thank you...
I feel we are so lucky in this age to have such amazing content online instead to have to figure it out ourselves ❤ That being said, me who started playing the instrument 5 months ago can’t feel but depressed. Seems so far to me, I need another life to learn all these stuff 😅 Anyway, I have no particular expectations, just here to enjoy the learning journey 🤘
It takes time. First few years of anything difficult are rough. The most important thing you can do at your stage is learn proper technique (Bernth's videos on technique are priceless), which will set you up for success down the road. I've been playing for like 24 years and only in the last 1.5 years did I start taking it more seriously. I was okay before and still have a long way to go, but in this time I've progressed to playing stuff I never thought I'd be able to play because my technique was actually pretty correct and I've since improved with his videos. Focus on technique, simple theory, and fretboard memorization (in conjunction with theory...that's how it sticks) first and learn a few easy songs (to keep you emotionally motivated) and you'll progress the fastest. With that solid foundation you will add new techniques and theory for the music you want to play much more easily. Getting good at guitar is very hard, every amazing guitarist you hear has been playing for many years and dedicated enormous amounts of time to it, give yourself a break.
This is when Austria (Vienna) would be the next new capital of music again!!! What a great city, what a great country, my friend! Greetings from Chile. Keep on rockin'!!! 🤘🤘🤘🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
I’m one of those guitarists where I write a song/solo. And I tell people how I find the sounds by the “Numbers” on the fretboard…for some odd reason my brain remembers “Numbers” better than the names of certain scales or modes…However I want to be a lot more knowledgeable for when I do write more in the future and I’m going to get that music theory course on your patreon. Really enjoyed this video!
I play piano but my brain works the same way kinda. I dont think in scales and chords, my brain kinda highlights the keys I want to use and I pick out chords that fall on those keys or fumble around until I hear a chord I like. It makes it easy to improvise but modes are a bit confusing when I don't strictly root myself to a note.
I started, Jazz from the arm twisting learning jazz environment I come from. I'm really a fusion player, early Robben Ford stuff through in my Jazz foundation with a dash of spicy sweeping and sort em'. I'm liking the metal arpeggiated stuff, that's standard using Jazz theories as a foundation, but it's presented in a boring 💤 way. Sounds predictable/exercise way. It's definitely important, but gets lose on the learning wheel. You have to learn it, then immediately change it in a dirty creative way to get the most out it. - Fusion. It's a lot more fun. Straight Jazz has a melody line you solo around interweave, etc. Straight Jazz players have to become the horn, rhythm, piano, bass player. Especially if somebody doesn't show up for the gig. Tag - the guitar player is it. Jazz automatically teaches chord / scale , intervals, etc. That's why Bernth sounds good. He can go there with the metal favor traverse both sides of the music spectrum. He thoroughly understands relationship with chords/scales what to use and how. You can hear it - in his playing. Then did everyone a favor created a video. Premium stuff gang. That power chord stuff is grade school. But I try to through in metal thrills as well. Definitely, a lot more fun.
After playing guitar for almost 20 years and writing songs for almost 10 years I realized it was a big mistake not to learn music theory at the beginning, I started working on that the last year and man .. even though I'm still on the beginning it took my skills to a much higher level and will definitely look for a teacher in the near future to guide me through this journey cause the theory world is huge and you get easily lost by the amount of information.
First thing I did was try and learn theory... its soo hard and nearly 4 years later I actually stopped learning as much.... way better than just learning someone elses song off a tab!
I really appreciate you making your lessons available on patreon and keeping them affordable. I've been looking for good theory resources and yours has been an awesome outlet.
I'm into a lot of blues music right now I do play a lot of metal but I'm no sweeper yet still practicing and I learned most of it growing up cuz I was in band from 6th-12th grade pretty well rounded.
Still getting stuck a lot in soloing, but I practice improv mainly over blues tracks; it helps by giving me a bit of time to decide where to go next, and a lot of times speeding it up works well for metal.
Stil got stuff to learn. Pretty good with understanding theory, it's applying it I often struggle with. Odd meters is an area that I need to work on as is songwriting in general.
Hi Bernth! a simple way to describe my relationship wiht music theory would be "it's complicated" ;) Really nice video and practical advises! Take care!
I trust in your method. That's really help and I don't how you can break must of my frustration at the time in one video. I identify my self when you talk about playing chords. My big mistakes at the moment
I’m gunna watch this video over and over and go check out learning chords with keys as well as triads. Hurts to be a drummer at heart cause it slows down my progress so much lol. But I have been writing my own stuff by ear, and I don’t know why I am writing songs that sound like these genres. ( regea and rock ). I’m glad I’m able to play the thoughts in my head. Just wish I knew sometimes how to maybe hear something more umphy. And I am forever great full cause with out you I’d still be playing 0-3-5. I as a dad have to understand that my journey may not take off as quick as others, and that’s okay. Love being able to pick up my guitar and hear out my daughters Elsa songs and sonic songs and be able to somewhat solo around(:
@@Bernthguitar I really have enjoyed your channel and am wondering what your experience is with software amp software? I’m currently in a demo of Petrucci Archetype.
Thank you so much for this video I really wanted to learn music theory SPECIFICALLY for metal and neoclassical metal to start composing some thing myself!
Your alternate voice in this video sounds a lot like Arnold Schwarzenegge. Thanx for all the tips. Wish I had this knowledge during my first few years of playing.
I got an idea for a video for some people love guitar want to play guitar but doesn't have any natural talent and wants to work really hard to learn easier way to learn develop picking fingering of cords other techniques to keep them from getting confused and wanting to quit including tuning amp setup for the song that they are trying to play baby good sound effects boxes that should be used and the best amp to start out if you're new
i hope the songs are more constant than while in writing them. Ifigured out that in metal there are no individual tones, so yet music comes as composing a distinguisher with a hydraulics for example
Yeah, have 2 say "donkschee" Bernt!!! seitT dem i deine Videos schaug, taug ma s gitarre spielen wieder voi! Du bringst des echt suppa umma, und dei skiLL level is way beyonD, ...!!! SchEEne griaSS aussN Tiroler untaLond. Bigup n 1loVe.
this is so helpful! i’m fourteen years old, and i really wanna sing/play guitar in a metal band. i’m hoping that i can record some music with people and write some songs, cos i have practically zero knowledge of music theory, and don’t even know where to start when it comes to making music. my new year’s resolution is to make some music to be fair, and try post it and put it somewhere.
Take your time. Something nobody told me when I was 14 was sonething that later changed my life when I learned it. Practice playing PERFECTLY and SLOWLY. it doesn't matter if you can play fast if it sounds like ass and if your practicing and speeding through you are practicing how to play bad... don't dothat. Slow and perfect will lead you to fast and awesome. It does take time. Also don't lie to yourself, don't hide your mistakes behind a wall of distortion, remember if you're not playing it perfectly you need to slow down a bit to where you can. You want to hear all your mistakes soon can identify why they are happening and work 9n that aspect :)
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There are a few big moments of enlightenment in my playing history that all metal players should be aware of....
1. CHORD THEORY- HOW THEY ARE CONSTRUCTED FROM SCALES.
2. MODES - LEARN THE MODES OF ONE MAJOR SCALE AND UNDERSTAND AND EXPERIENCE HOW THEY ARE RELATED. THEN PRACTICE MODES IN THE OTHER KEYS YOU MOSTLY PLAY IN. If you know the G major scale all over the neck then you know the E minor scale all over the neck.... and A Dorian aaaand B Phrygian... aaaand C Lydian.... and D Mixolydian and F# Locrain.
3. KNOW that all the arpeggios/chords in a key or specifically a major scale are modally related to the modes of that major scale... if you play an E minor arpeggio over a C chord.... you get a major 7th for example.
I tend to think in Minor keys.... and relate and orient myself via the Minor scale as opposed to the Major.... as Minor is my personal tonal Centre.
Just some thoughts....
You can learn so much more by exploring all genre's of music not just 1 or 2. It's all music at it's core. Take things you can learn from pop and incorporate it into metal. Jazz and classical are almost metal anyways just without the high gain.
I definetly agree, bebop is like guitar shredding or prog metal riffs but on clean channel
I also agree, I don't get those guys who say they do not progress anymore but only do and listen to Metal or a specific genre or band.
To take this a step further, I personally always found it kinda odd that we categorize music so heavily into genres. Music evokes emotion or feeling, and there are too many of those to even count so to shoehorn everything out there into 10 genres doesn't really make sense to me at all. It would make more sense to me to categorize into light and dark than rock and pop...
@@m.taylor7025 I totally get what you're saying, but a dark music can be played in any style and with any instrument, same goes with all the other things.
Genres exist to guide the people who listen, but they shouldn't be taken as boxes you can't go out from.
@@metalsalvo of course, it's just one of the many boxes we organize things into and then later have to "think outside the box" lol it just seems farcical.
I have to say I barely understood much, I am familiar with some stuff not all but it makes sense how all of this can actually expand your mind and make you understand your instrument so much better
I subscribed, and you immediately said, "Yes, now you're finally one of us." Well played
As an education graduate and a heavy metal enthusiast. I was fortunate to have studied music theory as part of our curriculum. It was really a milestone to My playing during the 90s we don't have youtube at that time and sometimes we would learn songs by ear. Oh yeah if you really want to improve your ear training learn to play the keyboards as well, it will be a big help. But Bernth's channel is a good refresher, especially with the proper pick positioning I grew up watching REH Videos but proper picking approach and theory weren't taught on those videos.
I think for genres like metal and punk, the attitude of not learning music theory still ends up working as long as you just practice your chops and use your own creativity. But it also is a bottleneck. I can't remember how many times I wrote a bunch of riffs, but had no idea how to put them together or good and proper transitions that would work. Just learning music theory at a basic to intermediate level elevated my songwriting by quite a lot because I was now comfortable fitting different pieces of music together without hours of trial and error.
Honestly you are correct, but at the same time, many people completely overestimate the things that Theory will bring them, because ultimately its not practice. And there are quite a few musicians who can play wonderfully without being able to read even a single note. Like Anna murphy for instance. I think that if you rely on it too much, your brain will freeze and have the "but thats not making sense on the scale" and like one very famous musician once said: "If it sounds good together, you are probably on the right track." (It was Jacob collier btw.)
@@Bossfightmedia Yeah I agree. I just thinking knowing enough to be able to play exactly what you want without having to do trial and error is the sweet spot, imo. I know a lot of professionally trained musicians who are experts at writing music that sounds pretty conventional because they get caught up with what is theoretically the right way of writing a progression or melody.
I’m in the same situation.
I write riffs but feel like they don’t make sense musically/songwriting wise.
I think as a self taught guitarist many beginners really only have in mind certain songs to play but even those goals seem almost impossible.. I play in a regional Mexican group but I won’t lie bernths tutorials has helped me add a diversity to the music I play plus there’s a lot of great guitarist in the genre I play, A lot of guitarists in the genre I play know how to shred
@@Guicho_sama Man latin music full of shredding haha.
I've been playing bass and guitar for almost 20 years. But I've only ever learned riffs and a handful of songs from start to finish. When I played in a band the other members wrote my parts and I just learned them. It was well and good. I memorized my parts, practiced them relentlessly, and was never late to a practice or gig.
But now I want to explore music more in depth and get a better handle on it, especially since I just ordered my very first nine string.
Thank you, Bernth, for all the hard work you do in making these videos. I'm enjoying all of them so far and will more than likely join your Patreon once I'm back from this business trip. Metal forever!!
I'm a drummer but I love how you open up the concept. Your videos are very inspiring and well made, keep it up Sir!
Another super important reason for learning at least the minimum amount of music theory that you outlined in this video is that it gives you a language to understand and communicate musical concepts: Its so much easier to learn a song if you recognize the key or the scale its using and you have words you can use to explain your song ideas to your band mates.
Started today as a new Patreon member with the beginner music theory course (visualizing the fretboard).
After the 1st hour, I can finally SEE THE NOTES on the fretboard 🙌
Yes, I had some prior knowledge as an autodidact but never mastered the fretboard neither chord or scale theory in its details beside knowing the boxes and 3 NPs shapes.
Due to your exercises, it was a real boost today for years 🙌
It’s still a long way, many lessons to master but I can’t wait to make some cool improvisations on your 7th chord backing track in today’s released 2nd music theory course 🤤
Greetings from Germany, you are the guitar teacher I never had!
Stefan
It's such great value.
Have you progressed much more since this comment?
@@heraldgreenbanger5488 There are light years between the skills I had in May and that I have right now due to Bernth's Patreon lessons.
Technically and especially Music Theory wise!
@@stefanhalbritter8178 You first commented 11 months ago. Did you stay consistent? How would you compare yourself now after a year? I'm really looking to learn a lot! I'm at 0
@@xsinbad1913 As I already said to Herald: it's a different world. I am thinking more musical, trained my ear a bit and playing much more precisely
Hey Bernth.
Seit einiger Zeit verfolge ich Deine Videos. Ich muss sagen, dass Ihr echt geilen Stuff produziert!
Gleichzeitig fühle ich mich selbst als Gitarrist eher mittelmäßig. Ich würde gern eines Tages euren harten Battles beitreten. Naja, ich übe fleißig weiter, durch Dich habe ich schon ein bisschen mehr gelernt.
Macht weiter so, Grüße von Deutschland nach Österreich! \m/
I'm totally self taught, started with chords, stuck with that for years lol, at 51 I'm starting to take my playing abit more seriously, so now working on scales, solo's. But when it comes to number's i have a condition abit like dyslexia, number's just won't sink in, i can't remember the name of this but i did a test with a psychologist who diagnosed me with this thing. So i play to my strengths my ears, looking at patterns because thats how i see everything on a neck, it's all patterns. My neighbour is trying to teach me how to read music, and tbh i just like to improvise, and sometimes a song will come out from that. It's how i learned R.A.T.M K.I.T.N.O was messing with drop D. I would say there is all sorts of ways to learn music. And mainly just enjoy what you can do, and things will happen.
you got to 51 and have only now started taking your playing serious? Jesus lol
My journey on guitar? Boi I took mad notes on this. This is exactly the information and direction I needed to get past this plateau. Right now I feel more like a football coach than an athlete and I think this info will get me away from noodling all the time. Thank you!
You nailed it Bernth, I do feel like I am learning an endless number of "guitar exercises" I am sure "can" sound great, but whenever I practice arps, scales, triads 99% of it sounds like "twinkle twinkle little star" (maybe it's just me) I practice them anyway. I treat the exercises like steppingstones (did I mention endleess 🙂) I have to surpass to get to the inner guitar bad ass I know is there.
Unlike some of your Shredders (hello everybody 🙂) I know I need music theory in my brain. Music theory and I are working on our communication skills. I "understand" how it all fits together: circle of fifths, modes, scales, how they are divided (major, minor, melodic, harmonic) but I have yet to memorize chord-scale relationships, intervals (perfect fifth sure, but what was that other one???)
It is thanks to great RUclipsrs like yourself sharing the golden knowledge. I know half of the notes on the fretboard because of your guidance, (soon to know the remainder :-) I switched to fingerstyle almost 30 years ago, (when I tried to let go of the dream of being a shredder) tried some smaller super hard picks, (your suggestion, one is actually made of stone) spent two weeks with your picking exercises and I am already better than I ever was before with a pick. If I can just, no, WHEN I get through this chord- key- interval- scale relationship memorization hurdle; when I play I will be able to understand which note, notes, power chords, or chords are more or less likely candidates to be played next. Then, I WILL become a SHREDDER after all!!! ;-) Thank you Bernth.
I started playing guitar and had no lessons but trained myself by tabs from e.g. Metallica about 17 years ago. I cannot grasp the fact that nowadays there is so much info online which helps the starters. At my early days there was nothing but horribly wrong tabs and old-fashioned books. I have to admit that i am a bit jealous of the current generation 😁
Don't be jealous, you are still lucky enough to live in the time where there's access to all these resources! :)
Fact that makes me sad too...
@@justusb1017 difference is that they probably wanted a career in music and are beyond that now
I think that's the first time I ever heard anyone say there jealous of this generation
@@Lovell93 A lot of times. I still have the Extreme 'Pornograffiti' tab book. It is rife with errors.
I just realized the shirt 😂 I love it. Thanks. This helps a lot. I’m going to a school that incorporates guitar with their musical ensembles and this helps a lot as a starting point for me to know what to do and know what to have on hand when working with other people like composers or those in orchestra.
This is exactly what I wanted in my life right now. Thank you so much Bernth ❤️
So happy I found your channel man. Not sure if I'll ever be good enough to play for an audience, but I sure enjoy learning and playing for my own sake
When it comes to my relationship with music theory, it's a bit controversial but works for me: right now I'm recording myself whistling over backing tracks and "guitarising" that. I do have quite a solid foundation about scales & arpeggios, but I decided it's better to follow intuition and "learn yourself" from that perspective - over the past 8 years of guitar playing I realised that creating music step by step instead of in real time leads to choice paralysis with the technical options at hand and makes you more preoccupied how it looks on the fretboard rather than how it sounds.
But again, it's just my experience.
I can absolutely relate to that...I "write" the best music when laying in bed fantasizing orchestral pieces and most often even with up to three tracks at the same time. I can never recall what I thought of the next morning, and the same thing happens when listening to songs I like and like you said whistling (or just fantasizing) something different over them. The moment I pick up my guitar all the inspiration goes out the window and I'm instatnly stuck back in my relatively boring playstyle of all the things I can already play.
I often thought I should record myself whistling just to memorize the stuff I come up with, because like you said my intuition feels like it can write really good music as it can bypass my lack of theoretical understanding of music...the only problem is without knowing the theory all the ideas will just float away as soon as I pick up my guitar or start up Reaper to put in the notes
@@AgeofJP not exactly - once you register your musical ideas in real time in some way (be it whistling, singing or humming), the music's already there. If you have a good ear, the process of trabscription is something admittedly arduous, but 100% doable.
@@matiosmi137 Oh I know it's absolutely doable...the only real problem is memorising everything about the idea. If I imagine a musical segment with three tracks I *need* to at least write down (or record) one of these tracks completely or it will almost surely be gone...the problem is I'm humming/whistling/singing pretty much *all the time* so any certain new melody I come up with doesn't usually make it into my long term memory because I'm already humming the next one. I wrote some good melodies but compared to how many are coming and going before I write them down I just feel like I should record myself humming all the time (or at least when I think "this one is really good")
I literally do the same thing. I “whistle” solos and then translate them into notes. I thought i was a weirdo for doing that lol
Me learning intervals instead of checking tiktok on the toilet: Prrrt! prrrrrrrrt! Oh, that's a diminished 5th!
😂😂
@@joad7949 Yes.
Yoooo same
Bernth i want more music, love the album, i was hooked sins the day you released it. Thanks for the great music... And the tips.
Thanks for supporting the music Johan 🤘
I've been clicking on your videos for months. Always impressed at the knowledge and ideas. I think I should just subscribe.
Great video man. An easy way to start getting the hang of soloing in the right key: Find the root of the key your in, on the low E string. Lay the shape of the minor or major pentatonic scale (depending on what key you're in) on the fret board and anchor your index on finger on that E string root. Makes it easier to get in the ballpark when your first starting to wrap your head around the relation of the notes to each other, on the neck itself. Helped me a lot when I first got into Blues. And the scales the blues use, have a lot in common with metal... Hope this helps anyone that needs it... Hope I explained it correctly too lol
The light bulb went on and I can see all the notes on the fretboard holy shit , so coooool.. 43yr old back in school . Thank you
That second ref you play around 1:40 sounded badass you just gave me an idea for a song .. I've been playing guitar for about 15 years give or take a year and I never really learned how to alternate pick ,cuz I'm self-taught in the before RUclips era . I just learned cowboys from hell I can't tell you how frustrating it is to know how to play a song but you can't because you don't have the skills to alternate pick fast 🤦🏻♂️ I will say it is a great song for learning how to alternate pick because I am better at alternate picking in the past month and then I've been in 15 years since I've learned cowboys from hell, it's a song I really want to know how to play but I've always shied away from it cuz I thought it just sounded way too hard but I'm getting there.. nice videos man I love the way you have everything set up it's very simple to understand
This video gave me some much needed direction
One of the biggest things for me was playing with feel, and figuring out how count it after. Especially using rests and different note values.
I've been playing mostly by ear for years, now I'm addicted to learning everything I can about theory and understanding intervals.
I took your advice and downloaded a Interval recognition app and will retrain my old ears...!!!
So, you can teach an old dog new tricks!!!
Have a kick ass Rockin Day...!!!
You uploaded this video just at the right time! I was wondering 'cause i watched Dean Lamb's video, what should I start to practise and improvise' cause i was like: There are so many theory thing, do i have to learn all of them and how much are them.. Then this video popped my homescreen and after I watched this video, I did practise routine all of these tips. Now, i don't have to start practising all music theory in the world. Thanks Bernth!
Someone just suggested to me learning music theory and appling it after I asked about what I can do to inspire myself further in my playing. So this might be a valuable video to me. Thank you...
I feel we are so lucky in this age to have such amazing content online instead to have to figure it out ourselves ❤ That being said, me who started playing the instrument 5 months ago can’t feel but depressed. Seems so far to me, I need another life to learn all these stuff 😅 Anyway, I have no particular expectations, just here to enjoy the learning journey 🤘
It takes time. First few years of anything difficult are rough. The most important thing you can do at your stage is learn proper technique (Bernth's videos on technique are priceless), which will set you up for success down the road. I've been playing for like 24 years and only in the last 1.5 years did I start taking it more seriously. I was okay before and still have a long way to go, but in this time I've progressed to playing stuff I never thought I'd be able to play because my technique was actually pretty correct and I've since improved with his videos. Focus on technique, simple theory, and fretboard memorization (in conjunction with theory...that's how it sticks) first and learn a few easy songs (to keep you emotionally motivated) and you'll progress the fastest. With that solid foundation you will add new techniques and theory for the music you want to play much more easily. Getting good at guitar is very hard, every amazing guitarist you hear has been playing for many years and dedicated enormous amounts of time to it, give yourself a break.
You are like a "newborn" baby. There is a whole musical world of wonders to be discovered, just play and enjoy the ride.
This is when Austria (Vienna) would be the next new capital of music again!!!
What a great city, what a great country, my friend!
Greetings from Chile.
Keep on rockin'!!! 🤘🤘🤘🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
I knew all of this fortunately. I was just curious at what the video was like. Fun video to watch.
I loved those tips!!
Holy crap, where the hell has this been? I've been looking for something like this for quite some time
I’m one of those guitarists where I write a song/solo. And I tell people how I find the sounds by the “Numbers” on the fretboard…for some odd reason my brain remembers “Numbers” better than the names of certain scales or modes…However I want to be a lot more knowledgeable for when I do write more in the future and I’m going to get that music theory course on your patreon. Really enjoyed this video!
I play piano but my brain works the same way kinda. I dont think in scales and chords, my brain kinda highlights the keys I want to use and I pick out chords that fall on those keys or fumble around until I hear a chord I like. It makes it easy to improvise but modes are a bit confusing when I don't strictly root myself to a note.
This is exactly what I needed 5 years ago
I started, Jazz from the arm twisting learning jazz environment I come from. I'm really a fusion player, early Robben Ford stuff through in my Jazz foundation with a dash of spicy sweeping and sort em'. I'm liking the metal arpeggiated stuff, that's standard using Jazz theories as a foundation, but it's presented in a boring 💤 way. Sounds predictable/exercise way. It's definitely important, but gets lose on the learning wheel. You have to learn it, then immediately change it in a dirty creative way to get the most out it. - Fusion. It's a lot more fun. Straight Jazz has a melody line you solo around interweave, etc. Straight Jazz players have to become the horn, rhythm, piano, bass player. Especially if somebody doesn't show up for the gig. Tag - the guitar player is it. Jazz automatically teaches chord / scale , intervals, etc. That's why Bernth sounds good. He can go there with the metal favor traverse both sides of the music spectrum. He thoroughly understands relationship with chords/scales what to use and how. You can hear it - in his playing. Then did everyone a favor created a video. Premium stuff gang. That power chord stuff is grade school. But I try to through in metal thrills as well. Definitely, a lot more fun.
This video really helped me get into and explore more music theory! Thanks for great, simple, motivational content!
A nice tip for everyone here to help make the guesswork a lot easier; ALWAYS know what the distance between each of your open strings
Best guitar teacher on RUclips!
Straight to the point. Nice.
Thanks for this. I never knew how to organize myself to learn. This helps to make an outline.
After playing guitar for almost 20 years and writing songs for almost 10 years I realized it was a big mistake not to learn music theory at the beginning, I started working on that the last year and man .. even though I'm still on the beginning it took my skills to a much higher level and will definitely look for a teacher in the near future to guide me through this journey cause the theory world is huge and you get easily lost by the amount of information.
First thing I did was try and learn theory... its soo hard and nearly 4 years later I actually stopped learning as much.... way better than just learning someone elses song off a tab!
your music theory for metal is really inspiring.really thanks a lot for the lesson.
I really appreciate you making your lessons available on patreon and keeping them affordable. I've been looking for good theory resources and yours has been an awesome outlet.
I love metal and composing 🤘🤘
Just a hobby 😊
It was helpful, thanks.
I'm into a lot of blues music right now I do play a lot of metal but I'm no sweeper yet still practicing and I learned most of it growing up cuz I was in band from 6th-12th grade pretty well rounded.
Still getting stuck a lot in soloing, but I practice improv mainly over blues tracks; it helps by giving me a bit of time to decide where to go next, and a lot of times speeding it up works well for metal.
Stil got stuff to learn. Pretty good with understanding theory, it's applying it I often struggle with. Odd meters is an area that I need to work on as is songwriting in general.
Hey brother I used to play guitar for Suffocation and I just wanna say I enjoy your videos and talent!
Very genuine guy and found you from your guest spot with Tool. Really quality content and shred master guitar status!
Hi Bernth! a simple way to describe my relationship wiht music theory would be "it's complicated" ;) Really nice video and practical advises! Take care!
Great idea with the ear training app!!!! Thanks!!
Thank you for explaining this in depth. I have a hard time learning things in ways that some people teach
I'm naturally getting better with my riffs and making my but scales I like to be better on and learn more
Beyond the great content that guitar is stunning. Please I need to know more about it !
Thank you so much for this useful tips 🤘
I trust in your method. That's really help and I don't how you can break must of my frustration at the time in one video. I identify my self when you talk about playing chords. My big mistakes at the moment
#8 is probably the best advice ..at least for me......thanks Bernth
Thanks buddy, I really appreciate your insights and the way you explain things.
I’m gunna watch this video over and over and go check out learning chords with keys as well as triads. Hurts to be a drummer at heart cause it slows down my progress so much lol. But I have been writing my own stuff by ear, and I don’t know why I am writing songs that sound like these genres. ( regea and rock ). I’m glad I’m able to play the thoughts in my head. Just wish I knew sometimes how to maybe hear something more umphy. And I am forever great full cause with out you I’d still be playing 0-3-5. I as a dad have to understand that my journey may not take off as quick as others, and that’s okay. Love being able to pick up my guitar and hear out my daughters Elsa songs and sonic songs and be able to somewhat solo around(:
I envy the amount of musical information contained in this dude's mind holy f***💯🔥
After 9 years of campfire chords it's my first step into music theory ever.
That is sad
🤣🤣🤣 I am watching this on the toilet. This is my private time. 🤟🤟
Great choice 😂🤘
@@Bernthguitar I really have enjoyed your channel and am wondering what your experience is with software amp software? I’m currently in a demo of Petrucci Archetype.
Thank you for all you do and teach us it's so inspiring and appreciated
The best thing any musician can do is study jazz. It opens up so many things that you can incorporate into any other genre.
Damn I always created Hip Hop / Rap but recently I really wanted to try metal cuz metal is so fucking dope
came here just to leave my comfort zone for a while. Good content, good job!!
im trying to love and learn theory haha thanks for making it less scary and painful
Thanks for sharing bernth
Exactly what I was looking for, thank you!
monsterrrrr love you bro thanks fo existing
your birthday is like litterally the day before mine but older than me 🤘🤘🤘👍 Do you tour UK
Thank you so much for this video I really wanted to learn music theory SPECIFICALLY for metal and neoclassical metal to start composing some thing myself!
"Learn riffs that snap necks and melt faces."
#Lifegoals
Hey Bernth please make a video about how to add chords (or know chords ) for melody? This would be so helpful.
Your guitar color is sick
Your alternate voice in this video sounds a lot like Arnold Schwarzenegge. Thanx for all the tips. Wish I had this knowledge during my first few years of playing.
you have such a beautiful guitar man
you're a true guitar god 🤘 awsome guitar work mate 🤘 rock on 🤘 metal for life 🤘
I got an idea for a video for some people love guitar want to play guitar but doesn't have any natural talent and wants to work really hard to learn easier way to learn develop picking fingering of cords other techniques to keep them from getting confused and wanting to quit including tuning amp setup for the song that they are trying to play baby good sound effects boxes that should be used and the best amp to start out if you're new
Thank you for sharing Bernth!! This will def help me write leads that melt faces😂🤘
Danke Bernth 😄🤘🏻
Thank you so much @BERNTH !! We need these 🔥🔥
This video actually helped me a lot
Such quality content always man
i hope the songs are more constant than while in writing them. Ifigured out that in metal there are no individual tones, so yet music comes as composing a distinguisher with a hydraulics for example
same comes to random hi-capping, when the instrumental is in the middle and you hear most of echoes, great trick is to evade high tunes
So much to learn! Thanks a lot 🤘
Even as a bass player this really help
Yeah, have 2 say "donkschee" Bernt!!! seitT dem i deine Videos schaug, taug ma s gitarre spielen wieder voi! Du bringst des echt suppa umma, und dei skiLL level is way beyonD, ...!!! SchEEne griaSS aussN Tiroler untaLond. Bigup n 1loVe.
Loving your content bro keep it up 🤘🏻
BERNTH... U R. THE BEST!!!
Thank you young man!
Awesome vid mate.
Thanks so much
So, this is a list of what to learn. Thank you I guess.
does anyone know what's the link or title that he played at 5:46 ? share me the video link please
this is so helpful! i’m fourteen years old, and i really wanna sing/play guitar in a metal band. i’m hoping that i can record some music with people and write some songs, cos i have practically zero knowledge of music theory, and don’t even know where to start when it comes to making music. my new year’s resolution is to make some music to be fair, and try post it and put it somewhere.
Take your time. Something nobody told me when I was 14 was sonething that later changed my life when I learned it. Practice playing PERFECTLY and SLOWLY. it doesn't matter if you can play fast if it sounds like ass and if your practicing and speeding through you are practicing how to play bad... don't dothat. Slow and perfect will lead you to fast and awesome. It does take time. Also don't lie to yourself, don't hide your mistakes behind a wall of distortion, remember if you're not playing it perfectly you need to slow down a bit to where you can. You want to hear all your mistakes soon can identify why they are happening and work 9n that aspect :)
Long is the way ....will get to patreon asap
keep the spirit, and keep working always waiting for your latest video I'm from Indonesia 👍👍👍👍👍