The Most Useful Chords I Ever Learned
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- Опубликовано: 16 дек 2022
- In this guitar lesson, I'll show you some of the most useful chords I ever learned. These chords will help you play anywhere up and down the neck, using a simple technique -- play chords anywhere, the easy way!
If you're looking for a quick and easy guitar lesson, then check out this lesson on chords! I'll teach you three super useful triad chord shapes that you'll be able to use in your solos and rhythm playing, as well as some helpful tips on how to play them.
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I agree! I have learned so much from him. I have a learning disability and struggle with understanding a lot of complex theory but I simply find this guy so easy to understand!
I’ve been playing awhile and I know these chord shapes through past lessons as a kid.. BUT, qualifying them as Landmarks within a System makes the bell in my head ring. Why have I never made this connection😅 Thank You!
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Simply the best online instruction regarding connecting scales, chords, etc. Well done. Great teaching style.
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Yep, you’ve gotta keep the content coming, Blue. You’re right up there with the guys mentioned above and I reckon you’re on the cusp of massive numbers on here. Maybe it’s because you’re pitching your content right where us intermediate players live. Maybe it’s your clarity. Maybe it’s a gift…. But just keep going!
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Outstanding job of teaching progression of the major key changes.
You don’t hurry and you use great illustration and techniques to make your learning possible without any frustration.
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Great to hear thanks! Lots more lessons here on the channel and our Patreon group www.patreon.com/guitarlessonsvancouver
This dude has launched me into space! He teaches in a manner that is engaging, interesting and easy to follow. Wow!
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Been playing for 60 years and learning so much from you. Sometimes just reveals to me what I have been doing and why that works. Life long! I am primarily acoustic.
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🤯 I am only 4:48 minutes in and already you've connected this idea to concepts I've known for years...
Really appreciate you sharing, and kudos on your approach; you make the concepts very easy to understand!
Glad to hear it thanks! Lots more lessons on the channel and our Patreon www.patreon.com/guitarlessonsvancouver
Your lesson are so helpful. Thank you so much . God bless you
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Thanks David, great feedback
I’ve always had difficulties with mixing chords and licks. Your lessons helped me so much to understand shapes and correspondent scales. It all makes sense now!
Great to hear! Thanks for watching. More to come.
I'm also old enough to remember VHS tapes.
Before that there wasn't much beyond chord and song books.
I wish I would have had someone to "pull back the curtain" way back then.
It flattens our the learning curve by years.
Thanks Johnny, and those VHS lesson tapes were expensive too.
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Thanks 🎸 lots more coming to the channel and our Patreon www.patreon.com/guitarlessonsvancouver
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Really great and useful lesson for me and hopefully for all bedroom guitar players like me - thx!
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This is the easiest to understand ever. I have been playing since 1961 and this is very very good.
Great thanks Doug! Lots more coming here and our Patreon www.patreon.com/guitarlessonsvancouver
This guy deserves more subs! Teaches guitar in a simple, sensible and practical way! And because of that, I can understand and apply his lessons to my guitar playing right away! So many light bulb moments here man! I really admire and appreciate your effort! Thank you very much! God bless!
Thank you very much! Lots more coming to this channel and our Patreon 😎🎸
5:42 Root diagonal, 5:36 1st inv. Chord scales shape 1, 7:46 third inv chord/scale
Thanks. I can actually undrstand with the diagrams also. I never knew the A chord in those other places. Great teacher.
Glad it was helpful!
This is exactly what guitar lessons should be
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And for those of us who are older and/or will never have the time to learn and make use of learning every note, this does it for me. WOW! Thank you!
Glad to hear it thanks. Lots more on the channel
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Glad it's helping, thanks olivier!!
Top class, the volcabulary will make the sentence.. Thank you for the improvement to my understanding of the universal language...... Music...
Fantastic vid. I know you make this look easy, but at least you repeated the steps enough so I can learn a chunk at a time. Bonus footage of the Westie makes it even more enjoyable. I've had three Westies. One was born a grumpy old man but the other two were the best pooches I've ever known.
Glad it helped! Yeah Westies are the best 🐕
Won me over - new subscriber gained! Landmarks are such a great help.
Welcome aboard!
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The best clarifying explanation on how to connect chords and scales in a truly useful way!! Congrats on your channel and thanks for great content!
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Great and important lesson. One of the very best, a teacher guitar buddy
I appreciate that! Thanks for watching and commenting :)
Enjoying the lesson
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Love the teaching style...it works.
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Another great clip!
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Thanks for watching and commenting. Ah well, it's rain here in Vancouver :)
I've been trying to learn the cage system and get better at triads for a while. I know the theory, but I couldn't translate it to the fretboard in realtime. I was waiting for that aha moment people are raving about. Man, you just connected my brain to the fretboard in 3 videos. Thank you!
Cool thanks! More videos coming every Saturday of this year
Very useful, thanks 🙏
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Super useful lesson, thanks for sharing.
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Great lesson... excellent info
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Thanks! 😃
You have a really good way of teaching music. I have learnt so many useful things from you. Thank you.
Thank you CryptoKnight!!! Lots more coming here to this channel and on the Patreon.
Another excellent lesson!
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The way you've opened my eyes n ears to a new way of envisioning the fretboard is a beautiful Thang!
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@@GuitarLessonsVancouver thanks again! Left guitar man here! Finger playing no pick! Ive learned to solo a bit while finger playing got a Prs se 24 Tobacco sunburst,glad of it! Beeing a lefty! Hard getting good guitars for a nice price so again! Much appreciated stuff! And Beeing a lefty i take your tutorials mirrorwise! A special breed! Us lefties! 😂 Kind regards.
Very helpful. Thanks.
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Once again, great content. I'm familiar with this stuff but I really like the way you break things down. And I did get some take aways.
Good to hear, thanks Michael!
Your channel is extremely good keep it up looking forward to you're lessons so easy to understand and implement thankyou
Awesome, thank you Kai!
I just found your site recently and I am very impressed with your lessons. They are super helpful and well taught. I am actually working on learning my triads across the fretboard and your lessons on this topic have been very useful. Keep up the great work.
Cool thanks Timothy!
Thank you!
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Blue you filled in the gaps I've struggled to find for years and years thanks mate.
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Great lesson here. Unlocked the horizon for me. 🙏. Thank you for sharing
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Right now my favorite teacher of guitar on RUclips. Good teaching style.
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Excellent lesson, i always learn something new with your video thank you, you're really the best...
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There are so many guitar lessons on RUclips
but you're the only one I watch....
I always knew this stuff was in there somewhere! Thanks for clarifying it!
Thanks! Glad it helped
Another brilliant lesson Blue, thank you so much, really love how these connect every Saturday opposed to ‘random idea’ lessons found elsewhere which are fun but lead one nowhere in terms of overall development as a player. One idea that would be so helpful if you would be so kind, is to take an entire lesson to demonstrate in more detail those fabulous licks you do every time you enter a pentatonic shape, even when I slow it down 50% so you sound drunk while doing it I can’t quite workout the notes and fingerings you’re doing. Lastly love the tone you’re r getting out of that tribute, I can’t seem to replicate with mine….and the puppy relaxing in the background is a hoot! Thanks again and best wishes.
Thanks S Y, Ringo the dog steals the show again. 😆
Really great lesson. You are a fantastic teacher. I have struggled with the caged system for quite a while and this boils it down to just 3 very useable shapes that even I can memorize. Thank you. Oh and I love your westie. We used to have a pair of them and they didn’t get along because they both wanted to be stuck to your side. Loyalty and unconditional love. What could be better. Happy new year. 🎉
Thanks Tim! My dog's name is Ringo and he is indeed a good boy.
Thanks great lesson
Thanks! New video every Saturday
I have taken live lessons from an instructor and they taught me a lot and certainly have real advantages. But I absorb stuff slowly. Once I get it I get it but it's slow and I would often ask for numerous explanation repetitions from my instructor. Frustrating for both of us sometimes. This lesson shows why often (for me) online lessons such as this can be so helpful to me. There's a lot of info in this lesson. I got a lot of it but sometimes just hanging on by my fingernails (no pun intended). I will watch this a number of times to let
it sink in. Don't get me wrong, you're clear, concise and succinct. But I am slow and there are gaps (many) in my knowledge. But I can repeat and repeat to slowly get it. Thanks so much for these little yet important "landmarks" tricks and procedures that can make it
easier for us older amateurs.
Hi Michael, I find also needed loads of repetition when I was learning a lot of this stuff. Don't feel discouraged. There will be further explanation of each of these concepts in my YT videos on my new Patreon page, which launches tomorrow. It will certainly help with what you're saying: www.patreon.com/guitarlessonsvancouver
Where the F has this lesson been my whole life! I knew some of these concepts, but never explained so well and so concisely! THANK YOU!!!
Great to hear!
I think this is the most mind blowing guitar lesson I have ever had.
Thanks! Lots more lessons like this one on my channel and Patreon www.patreon.com/guitarlessonsvancouver
Wow that is awesome thank you so much
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Very useful guitar lesson. Greetings from Germany. Melody2go
Many thanks!
I agree with others, I know the chords, but never applied them like this. I've been noodling for yrs and decided two yrs ago to learn, you've taught me more in 10 videos than I've ever known for 15 yrs.. thanks bud !!!
Cool thanks James!
Thanks!
Thanks very much Rick!
This is the lesson I have needed...connects the dots
Awesome, glad it helped
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Yes. This is great!
I know all these chord inversions, and so I know the landmarks. But putting them together with the Pentatonic shapes is what i didn't have.
And, in learning the Pentatonic shapes, i could never remember all of them, because i just couldn't relate them to anything! When or why would i use them?!
Then, you come along and show us how they relate to these chord shapes/inversions!
Ding!
THAT is the information I've been needing!
Thank you, Blue!
Wow. Just a few lessons have REALLY opened up so many possibilities in my playing.
Now i can do so many things I've wanted to do, for so long!
I just can't believe how so much has opened up for me after just a few short lessons.
Mm, mm, mmh.
One happy dude here!
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Great news! Glad to hear it worked for you, thanks for commenting!
Nice job…thanks!
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Wow, I wish you had been my guitar teacher when I was first learning! Very cool and easy to follow, but powerful lesson!
Thank you! Lots more on the channel and our Patreon 👍🎸
I’ve never seen this presented this way but it is so useful. Subscribed! Now I want to practice finding all the nearby diatonic chords in a key, and on the top 3 strings as well. Any plans for videos exploring those topics?
Welcome aboard! Those chord shapes will be explored over time, though maybe not all in one video. More in context of common chord progressions which I think is more useful. But I'll make a note for this.
@@GuitarLessonsVancouver Looking forward to it, thanks!
Excellent stuff! Thank you! And you didn't say the scary letters CAGED, Will you do a minor version, too? Please? (Lastly, your dog is the cutest.)
Thanks! Minor will be covered eventually.
brilliant
Thanks Tim! 🎸
Why i could not make this Landmarks connections ??
Im late on this by 40 years !!
Better late than EVER !!
THANK YOU, SIR !!!
Glad it's working for you now. Lots more like this on the channel and our Patreon www.patreon.com/guitarlessonsvancouver
This video references the "Incredible Chord Scale Connector" video: ruclips.net/video/16mJJJjhgZ0/видео.html Thanks for watching everyone! I really appreciate your support! 🎸😎
I had been making major strides in learning my CAGED shapes and Triads. Your lesson really has helped me make some amazing connections. My current approach to connecting the appropriate major pentatonic shape to a chord is to look at which string the root is on. If the root is on the 6th string, I can solo with the 5th and 1st position major pentatonic shapes. If the root is one the 5th string, I can solo with the 2nd and 3rd position major pentatonic shapes. And, if the root is on the 4th string, I can solo with the 4th position major pentatonic shape. This was a major ah ha moment for me. I can connect any scale to a chord simply by knowing where the root is found on the strings. Thanks for your lessons. They are amazing.
Awesome thank you!! Glad it's helping 😀
Hi Blue, 6:34 that 60s 70s 80s Chord that Keith Richard Chord and Bad Company chord Kiss Chord and Free Chord it in the song Alright Now,it in lot Rock Songs, Great Lesson and Thank you Blue, you are Awesome Teacher and Thumbs 🆙 Great video.
Thanks! Indeed, I often call that move "The Keith." I'd like to do another video exploring that more.
@@GuitarLessonsVancouver Thank you for reply Blue , That would be a excellent video Lesson to do on Keith chord Video,Merry 🎄 Christmas to you and your Family to. I love your Teaching style and you are Excellent Guitarist and you are a Awesome Teacher to, Thank you,James
This is awesome. Makes so much sense. Is there a similar system with minor chords?
Thanks! There is a similar lesson for minor chords, it's called, change how you play rhythm guitar here: ruclips.net/video/0PJm-HbVctE/видео.html
This is cool stuff, but you need to know your root note locations. I reckon a session on octaves would go well with these lessons. I learnt all this via CAGED system and found knowing octaves was really useful when wanting to move to the next chord / scale
Good point, you're right certainly helps. Thanks for watching
Please make a video on finding tabs of any song ❤
Superb lesson. Do you have a lesson on the double stops you are using for your scale playing?
I have a video on double stops here: ruclips.net/video/hCD8ObXejWU/видео.html ... I will do more in the new year. Thanks for watching 😀
Great lesson! Thanks.
Thanks Jay!
This was so helpful, a light bulb just went off and all of a sudden I am searching all over for the root and the inversions. Thank you, Thank you.
Wonderful! Glad it's working for you!
Be great to have a minor version of this!
Already done ✔️ ruclips.net/video/0PJm-HbVctE/видео.html
Excellent lessons. Just found you a few weeks ago. I have learned so much and had so much fog lifted from my brain in such a very short space of time. A question - I enjoyed the lesson on playing the major Penta on 1 chord and playing the Minor Penta on 4 chord. However which scale would be most suitable on the 5 chord and any other chords within the song? Is there a rule of thumb for this?
You can use either the major pentatonic or the minor pentatonic on the five chord. Among other options. For example you could even use the major pentatonic of the five chord for the five chord. Thanks for watching
Yeah, the "rule" is you use whichever one (Major or minor) you need to express the feeling you're trying to convey. 🤪
The only rule is that you can play EITHER Major or minor pentatonic over a Major chord...but you can only play minor pentatonic over a minor chord.
The only reason it's a "rule" is because playing Major pentatonic over a minor chord would "clash"...but if that's the feeling you're trying to convey...well, it's your music, after all. It might sound like crap, but maybe that's what you want your audience to hear, lol.
Does that put it in perspective? Sure hope so.
Nice,but would have liked to see you play the D scale notes in the C shape position
I'll get there ... in another video 👍😄
When switching to a different chord like the I to IV, it's much easier to just know your scale degrees. If you know where the 4th scale degree is (always 1 string down on the same fret), then that's where you place the chord.
Thanks Nate, that is something I also teach, 4 is up a string. Though chord shapes have to change when we move up a string.
@@GuitarLessonsVancouver Indeed. Found your videos today and subscribed after the first one. Keep it coming(:
Are these triads?
Holy Smoke! I've seen those chords but never made the connections.
Thanks for watching! 👍🎸
I surmise the Hendrix over the thumb trick was the landmark
It could be thought of that way, foor roots on the low E, for sure 😄👍
Great lesson. Weren't you mixing minor and major pentatonic scales in your examples, or maybe I was confused.
All major in this one. Next week I think I'll mix major and minor pentatonic
Why is D the 1 position minor penta? When the second penta is used at the G major position?
So…Lightfoot…Young…Mitchell…this dude!
100% Canadian.
Thank you 🇨🇦
How I wish I had been exposed to this concept 35 years ago.
Thanks Todd!
My wise advice to anyone who wants to make a quantum leap on the guitar: practice what is shown here. The effort that goes into this will be more than rewarded. Unfortunately, simply consuming it doesn't help. Even if you understand the content a lot: you also have to practice it!! This means sitting down with the guitar and naming the notes on the fingerings. It's a bit like learning a new language. You can't learn it just by listening...(I know what I'm talking about because I usually avoided the effort of learning and preferred to watch the next guitar learning video instead ;)
Well said about needing to practice it and not just watch the videos. Thank you for commenting!
I had the bits and pieces, for so long, but they never really sounded so good, it was not connected like this at all.. Aww man if I only knew! You got more connecting stuff like this?
Yup sure do! Lots of this type on the channel and our Patreon. 😀👍
@@GuitarLessonsVancouver All I can afford is free stuff right now..I am just an old school sacrificing starving musician..paying my dues for so long, all my life so far.
@michaelcraig9449 No worries, lots of free stuff on the RUclips channel here 😀
Great lesson. But maybe it’s because I am a newbie but the bar chord at 2:03 is a D chord right, not an A like you mention.🤔
I see what you mean, I should have been more clear there. I meant to say the open A chord shape moves up to become a D chord -- the bar chord shape is based on the open A chord 😀
Ha thanks for setting it straight. It is a very good lesson and I learned a lot from it. Keep on doing the good work🙏
@Danny B Thanks for pointing it out 😀
Tele sitting in corner giving him the stink eye.
Tele is my best friend tho