I realize that, when i sit down and start up my computer, after my children slept, just to play a game, to pass some time, i always find myself watching your vids for an hour or more. Great content, as always. I even put my guitars next to me, to their stands, better then dusting in a dark cellar. Thanks Paul. It's been more than 5 years without touching a string. Now my fingertips hurts and i remember that as a good feeling. Thx m8
I quit for 20 years and now I play for 2 hrs a day. It's been about 5 months. I love the vids where he starts simple and adds a little bit every few minutes. I get so hyped keeping up with a few rewinds. Then he keeps going and I don't know if I will ever finish a single video. Lol I got silk strings for my acustic. Easier on my wimpy fingers and quieter. Kind of dull though
Two things that held me back for years: 1. Thinking of chords as shapes. 2. Thinking it was necessary to play as many of the notes in the chord as possible.
100% agree! That was a great realization for me too. It’s these simple things that hold back guitar players. Chords are a combination of notes but here are some basic shapes to help you figure out where those notes are at is what I wish I would’ve been told early on. I think it was a combination of binary thinking and gate keeping by money hungry teachers that caused this.
Same. I always felt I had to finger the entire shape. It was only when I started learning triads and caged that it all started clicking for me. I still don’t have it memorized in my fingers but at least conceptually I understand my fretboard now.
Don't worry, I am making teh most of what Paul has to offer. I had lessons as a callow youth and he was terrible, taught me nothing. I was keen as mustard, and practised everything I was given, which was not much. Taught me chord boxes and not much else. Bastard!!@@cmdraftbrn
This 13 minute video has hours of practice within it. This is a great lesson and really gives the ball to all guitar players and song writers to apply this technique to their writing. Amazing
I've always loved and have been fascinated with the endless possibilities of triads on the guitar. Been teaching guitar for 45 years and have had so many students who have had terrible teachers. You sir are an amazing and excellent teacher! Your students are very lucky to have you as an instructor.
This is the best lesson ever if you're stuck on cowboy chords with no picking experience, you already pretty much know the chords but it opens your eyes. Thank you!!
@@guncreep9905 Internet is when german and french guitarists watch english videos about inversions. My grandfather had no internet and had to shoot against french soldiers. Aber so wie es jetzt ist isses irgendwie besser.
@@florzneb62 tu m'étonne ! Ja klar ! Tjah, wer hätte daß gedacht das es mal internet gibt! ?! Wir hamm schon Glück heute zu leben !!! Mach's gut ! ✌😉👍 und... vive la France 🇫🇷 😂
Wish i had a teacher like you yrs ago. was classically trained, learned pieces, fingerings, but not applied theory to the instrument. Your lessons are gems to me. Things are making sense now. Thank you Paul!
I took 8 years of piano. This is the first time I've seen anyone explain chord inversions on a guitar. I will be working on this until its second nature. Very useful. A good pianist will move as little as possible to follow a chord progression, and when done right it sounds huge.....same on guitar. I just didnt know how to do it until now!!! Thank you. My favorite guitar teaching/music theory instruction channel on UA-cam. Have a great day
As someone who played piano before guitar, I had the same feeling! Chord inversions are trivial on a piano -- I think some Grade 1 songs use them! But this is the first time I saw an explanation for guitar.
Fascinating. I’ve got many of the basic cowboy chords down pat, same with A, D, E, G & C bare chords. My strumming is ok. I’m happy with my finger picking... well that always needs work. I’m composing my own music. But, I’m bored. bored, bored. And I think this idea, is just the ticket to get the old gears turning. Something new, something fresh, for me any way. Thanks Paul, another great video.
I am 61 years old and just started learning guitar some via UA-cam. I’ve observed many good instructors but I always end up on your site . You are light years ahead of me and sometimes I get lost but I am slowly learning by watching your fantastic site . Working on Johnny Cash Hurt . Thinking about your basic course. Thank you sir
I wish I understood the guitar how you do, you make it always seem easy. I have so much to learn, and I greatly appreciate all of your time. It's great that anyone can learn anything from people like you who excel in a field and compile your years of experience and research into videos. I love learning, and every video you produce teaches me something new.
This is crazy... I spent time last night linking all of the triads together along the neck. I told myself that the next step was to determine which note on each triad is the 1st, 3rd and 5th. This is a perfect exercise for me at the perfect time! Thank you Paul!
Man, one this single lesson changed my 15 years of plateau playing habits. I am so grateful Paul. I would love to donate what I can afford sitting here in India, but both Paypal and credit cards are difficult to access for the vast majority of your Indian viewers. I wish there was a way.
Awesome exercise. You make this look so easy! Will be adding this to my daily along with the 7th's arpeggios in C that you showed. I've long been fascinated by how close everything can be on the fretboard when you really just look at the notes and not the shapes. Guitar is a beautiful thing!
Such a great lesson to encourage the student to really think about the notes they are playing rather than just memorize shapes! It requires some patience and practise but is great for really getting to know the fretboard. Thanks for the thoughful lesson!
These kind of sus chord voicings is what i want to be hearing from the guitarist when I'm on the piano playing gospel worship music... The voicings gives room for you, the bass player and the singers.... Nice lesson ❤
Correct me if I am wrong. I think the fingering you say for Dm at around 11:40 is incorrect? It should be Dsus2 - 12 9 10 Dm - 12 10 10 Dsus4 - 12 12 10 This is the fingering you played. Otherwise. Excellent video.
This was a fantastic video, but this bit flummoxed me for ages. Partly because the numbers didn't match the fingers but also because this bit was rushed.
Thank you for these videos!!! As someone else said, I had already figured out lots of these chords and scales, but you really help me to understand them! Especially as I'm self taught and usually just experiment with what sounds good, half the time having no idea what I'm actually playing!
After playing by ear and by tabs for almost 15 years, I've put my guitar down and started learning music theory on the piano and also started to do some singing exercises. It's been a couple of months since I've started doing that, and God damn, finally I can watch lesson videos like this one and actually understand every single word an concept that this guy is talking about. Next time I start playing guitar I'll be 3 times the musician I was before... :D
I didn't learn the whole song, but the takeaway here for me was how to do basic 1st and 2nd chord inversions on a guitar. As a piano player this is trivial to do on a piano, but it's much less obvious on a guitar. Thank you again, Paul :)
This is really a fantastic exercise on many levels. Made me think and put into practice a lot of theory related to chords building. Pushes you also to learn notes on the fretboard.
Paul, I’d love to hear YOU apply this exercise to other gorgeous progressions like: 1) Pachelbel Canon in D, or, 2) Hotel California, etc., etc. But as a top-notch teacher, I can just hear you saying...”good idea!, figure those out yourself, the rewards will be satisfying”(?).
I have played guitar for quite a few years, I love your videos, it has shown me so much that I have never even considered learning before, thank you for taking the time to make these videos! Have a great Christmas
Love your infectious enthusiasm. Applying this to learning a stringed instrument (ukulele) and its a brilliant idea, great tutorial and inspiring to learn something new. thank you!
Wow, how timely for me. I've been working on triads and was realizing the realtionships. Wasn't quiet there yet, so this tied it up in a nice package for me. Thanks, always love you're videos.
Reciting the triad notes as you play them on those 3 strings D,G and B is a great way to memorize the fretboard notes. I do this with C major key chords in root order for simplicity e.g Em, F, G,Am,B dim, C, Dm. The 1st,5th and 6th string notes are easy to learn.
If I could have your teachings when I was younger I think I could have been learned,but know I (almost 60) it's difficult,my fingers don't want to follow . But I love your videos and how you have made them, keep going you are a good teacher!
hey thanks a lot sus chords are amazing they sustain but they also create tension they can help build into greater things. They help spice up simple progressions and they helped us also see and experience different emotions awesome man thanks
Wow! What an awesome lesson! Thanks very much. I'm going to come back to this one. I've never seen a teacher lay this out so well, never heard anyone explain this so easily...excellent job! I've experimented with this sort of idea on my own but I need to learn this move by move. There is so much that can be done with this when putting together a song. I suppose many veiwers might limit this to milder music styles, but so much could be done with this when playing metal and heavy styles...wow! This is just the kind of thing I need to focus on to advance my skill. ...oh and the siren in the background was a nice touch. Thanks.✓i just watched it again...this slays! Your playing a one six two five chord progression...so one could construct other chord sequences on those three strings and construct the idea on other string selections...nice.
I'm going to spend some time with this one. What a great practice aid. It sounds really cool and it checks off so many different aspects that us mere mortals need to work on. Paul, You are such an inspiration to so many people and I am learning so much from you. I know that you love to see that "subscribe" button being hit, but when you think about it, every one of those clicks has touched a person. Some with life changing effect. That's pretty cool if you ask me. What an age we live in that this can happen. As usual, THANK YOU so much.
Hi, I just posted a comment in a video you made 11 months ago... and it looks like you've already made the adjustments towards this new and better camera angle for fingering instruction. Thanks for all your videos and may you have a very happy and rockin' new year! I'll give this one a try...
I realize that, when i sit down and start up my computer, after my children slept, just to play a game, to pass some time, i always find myself watching your vids for an hour or more. Great content, as always. I even put my guitars next to me, to their stands, better then dusting in a dark cellar. Thanks Paul. It's been more than 5 years without touching a string. Now my fingertips hurts and i remember that as a good feeling. Thx m8
Hi im from the future
Pick ‘em up!
come onnn, pick them uppp.. its not too latee broo
I quit for 20 years and now I play for 2 hrs a day. It's been about 5 months.
I love the vids where he starts simple and adds a little bit every few minutes. I get so hyped keeping up with a few rewinds.
Then he keeps going and I don't know if I will ever finish a single video. Lol
I got silk strings for my acustic. Easier on my wimpy fingers and quieter. Kind of dull though
Two things that held me back for years:
1. Thinking of chords as shapes.
2. Thinking it was necessary to play as many of the notes in the chord as possible.
100% agree! That was a great realization for me too. It’s these simple things that hold back guitar players. Chords are a combination of notes but here are some basic shapes to help you figure out where those notes are at is what I wish I would’ve been told early on. I think it was a combination of binary thinking and gate keeping by money hungry teachers that caused this.
Yeah, that second one...
What is interesting is that these shapes can be explained and derived from the CAGED System to find where they are lying which is still a pain for me
Same. I always felt I had to finger the entire shape. It was only when I started learning triads and caged that it all started clicking for me. I still don’t have it memorized in my fingers but at least conceptually I understand my fretboard now.
If I had a teacher like you, I would never have stopped having lessons.
Mr Scrofulous haha I absolutely agree with you my friend!
yep. i'd second that. also, its never to late to start again.
me 2 ahahah
Don't worry, I am making teh most of what Paul has to offer. I had lessons as a callow youth and he was terrible, taught me nothing. I was keen as mustard, and practised everything I was given, which was not much. Taught me chord boxes and not much else. Bastard!!@@cmdraftbrn
@A.J. Ello 😄lol
Paul's content is what internet was made for
Couldn't agree more.
nope. first and foremost its for porn
I know, so handsome, right?
Nah, it was made for the military
THE single most important guitar tutorial on UA-cam. Actually explains and demonstrates the concept that all of the other channels reference.
This 13 minute video has hours of practice within it. This is a great lesson and really gives the ball to all guitar players and song writers to apply this technique to their writing. Amazing
OMg this is 4 yrs ago i feel like a time traveller
THE most musical, beautiful sounding exercise I’ve heard in 50+ years of practicing. An “exercise”, more beautiful than many good songs!
I've always loved and have been fascinated with the endless possibilities of triads on the guitar. Been teaching guitar for 45 years and have had so many students who have had terrible teachers. You sir are an amazing and excellent teacher! Your students are very lucky to have you as an instructor.
This is the best lesson ever if you're stuck on cowboy chords with no picking experience, you already pretty much know the chords but it opens your eyes. Thank you!!
Wonderful triad lesson!
Of course, can't put out a video on Christmas without telling stuff about Gsus.
Frohe Weihnachten, lieber Paul :)
That was such a bad joke I had to share it with my wife! Thanks!
Lol !!! Frohe Weinachten aus Strasbourg im Elsass ( France ) auch Dir !!! 👋🎅👍🇫🇷
@@guncreep9905 what a big joke by words, isn't it :-)
Schöne Winnachte from over the Rhine out of Kehl!
@@guncreep9905 Internet is when german and french guitarists watch english videos about inversions. My grandfather had no internet and had to shoot against french soldiers. Aber so wie es jetzt ist isses irgendwie besser.
@@florzneb62 tu m'étonne ! Ja klar ! Tjah, wer hätte daß gedacht das es mal internet gibt! ?! Wir hamm schon Glück heute zu leben !!!
Mach's gut ! ✌😉👍 und... vive la France 🇫🇷 😂
This guy's a natural teacher with a fantastic grasp of music theory. Anything you learn here will stay with you forever. Keep going Paul. We need you.
Wish i had a teacher like you yrs ago. was classically trained, learned pieces, fingerings, but not applied theory to the instrument. Your lessons are gems to me. Things are making sense now. Thank you Paul!
I took 8 years of piano. This is the first time I've seen anyone explain chord inversions on a guitar. I will be working on this until its second nature. Very useful. A good pianist will move as little as possible to follow a chord progression, and when done right it sounds huge.....same on guitar. I just didnt know how to do it until now!!! Thank you.
My favorite guitar teaching/music theory instruction channel on UA-cam.
Have a great day
As someone who played piano before guitar, I had the same feeling! Chord inversions are trivial on a piano -- I think some Grade 1 songs use them! But this is the first time I saw an explanation for guitar.
I’ll be revisiting this video over and over. This is what I’ve been trying to grasp. Thanks
Fascinating.
I’ve got many of the basic cowboy chords down pat, same with A, D, E, G & C bare chords. My strumming is ok. I’m happy with my finger picking... well that always needs work. I’m composing my own music.
But, I’m bored. bored, bored. And I think this idea, is just the ticket to get the old gears turning. Something new, something fresh, for me any way.
Thanks Paul, another great video.
I can listen to you play guitar ALL DAY! Absolutely beautiful music.
I am 61 years old and just started learning guitar some via UA-cam. I’ve observed many good instructors but I always end up on your site . You are light years ahead of me and sometimes I get lost but I am slowly learning by watching your fantastic site . Working on Johnny Cash Hurt . Thinking about your basic course. Thank you sir
I wish I understood the guitar how you do, you make it always seem easy. I have so much to learn, and I greatly appreciate all of your time. It's great that anyone can learn anything from people like you who excel in a field and compile your years of experience and research into videos. I love learning, and every video you produce teaches me something new.
This is crazy... I spent time last night linking all of the triads together along the neck. I told myself that the next step was to determine which note on each triad is the 1st, 3rd and 5th. This is a perfect exercise for me at the perfect time! Thank you Paul!
I'm feelin' your pain, same effect on me. Great lesson!
Sir, you are the cutting edge of guitar playing, instruction, & innovation. Many thanx for what I learn from y'all!
Your channel have the best quality guitar lessons on UA-cam. Truly.
So basic, so simple and so EXTRAORDINAIRE ! La progression sounds so nice ! Thank you so much !
Man, one this single lesson changed my 15 years of plateau playing habits. I am so grateful Paul. I would love to donate what I can afford sitting here in India, but both Paypal and credit cards are difficult to access for the vast majority of your Indian viewers. I wish there was a way.
Awesome exercise. You make this look so easy! Will be adding this to my daily along with the 7th's arpeggios in C that you showed. I've long been fascinated by how close everything can be on the fretboard when you really just look at the notes and not the shapes. Guitar is a beautiful thing!
Despite all your preaching about Gsus, our chord and player, this was a great video ;)
hahaha this comment is underrated!
Haha took me a second to get it
He has a financial interest in Gsus.
You have been warned.
@@HouseholdDog keep your desires to yourself
Genius comment ! You deserve way more visibility 😅👌
paul davids deserves 2.5 billion subscriptions.
Thank you so much Paul. The clarity of your teaching is just wonderful. You have a new fan.
OH GOD, this is the treasure box I have been searching for years!!
Such a great lesson to encourage the student to really think about the notes they are playing rather than just memorize shapes! It requires some patience and practise but is great for really getting to know the fretboard. Thanks for the thoughful lesson!
These kind of sus chord voicings is what i want to be hearing from the guitarist when I'm on the piano playing gospel worship music... The voicings gives room for you, the bass player and the singers.... Nice lesson ❤
One of the best lessons ever.
All i gotta say is thanks Paul. Your nickname should be the "plateau smasher"
Paul you absolute gift to humanity God bless you
Every video that you made till now is really helpful and encouraged.
You're the best teacher
Correct me if I am wrong.
I think the fingering you say for Dm at around 11:40 is incorrect?
It should be
Dsus2 - 12 9 10
Dm - 12 10 10
Dsus4 - 12 12 10
This is the fingering you played.
Otherwise. Excellent video.
This was a fantastic video, but this bit flummoxed me for ages. Partly because the numbers didn't match the fingers but also because this bit was rushed.
Glad someone else noticed this too. I was starting to second guess my transcription. Great exercise!
@@thomaschilds8781 yes yes, flummoxed me as well Thomas
@@thomaschilds8781 Flummoxed, what a brilliant word!
Thank you for these videos!!! As someone else said, I had already figured out lots of these chords and scales, but you really help me to understand them! Especially as I'm self taught and usually just experiment with what sounds good, half the time having no idea what I'm actually playing!
One of the best teachers on UA-cam…thanks
After playing by ear and by tabs for almost 15 years, I've put my guitar down and started learning music theory on the piano and also started to do some singing exercises. It's been a couple of months since I've started doing that, and God damn, finally I can watch lesson videos like this one and actually understand every single word an concept that this guy is talking about. Next time I start playing guitar I'll be 3 times the musician I was before... :D
Learning inversions helped me more than any other lesson in the context of writing nice sounding melodies. I was stuck and they showed me the way
I wish this channel existed when I first started playing 20 years ago. Good stuff, man!
I didn't learn the whole song, but the takeaway here for me was how to do basic 1st and 2nd chord inversions on a guitar. As a piano player this is trivial to do on a piano, but it's much less obvious on a guitar. Thank you again, Paul :)
This is really a fantastic exercise on many levels. Made me think and put into practice a lot of theory related to chords building. Pushes you also to learn notes on the fretboard.
Paul, I’d love to hear YOU apply this exercise to other gorgeous progressions like: 1) Pachelbel Canon in D, or, 2) Hotel California, etc., etc. But as a top-notch teacher, I can just hear you saying...”good idea!, figure those out yourself, the rewards will be satisfying”(?).
“It’s truly a wonderful moment”
Nice, gentle, easy introduction to CAGED.
Great exercise, and great teaching. Thanks, Paul! -Jared
I have played guitar for quite a few years, I love your videos, it has shown me so much that I have never even considered learning before, thank you for taking the time to make these videos! Have a great Christmas
Omg that little flourish @2:36 was golden. 👌👌😱😁
Some people are just born to teach.I am stealing your ideal for a finger picking song. Thanks.
I'm a bassist trying to self-learn a bit of guitar and you're really a great teacher.
Love your infectious enthusiasm. Applying this to learning a stringed instrument (ukulele) and its a brilliant idea, great tutorial and inspiring to learn something new. thank you!
Wow, how timely for me. I've been working on triads and was realizing the realtionships. Wasn't quiet there yet, so this tied it up in a nice package for me. Thanks, always love you're videos.
I love this theory lessons, they provide the viewers really useful techniques. Thank you Paul.
I’ve found my perfect teacher! Every topic you touch it gets in my brain and finger clearly and fast! Obviously with some practice! Thanks Paul!
Watching you is so enjoyable ❤ thank you so much for your awesome learning inputs!
Reciting the triad notes as you play them on those 3 strings D,G and B is a great way to memorize the fretboard notes. I do this with C major key chords in root order for simplicity e.g Em, F, G,Am,B dim, C, Dm. The 1st,5th and 6th string notes are easy to learn.
Hey Paul, thank you for this video. I've been hitting a plateau in learning guitar these past few weeks, this opens up a whole lot of possibilities!
I DONT CARE IF THIS IS AN EXERCISE...THE SOUND YOU PRODUCED WITH THIS SEQUENCE PROGRESSION...WAS SIMPLY AMAZING...!!!
A seven course meal to be savored and digested slowly and completely!
Thank you Paul.
Still watching these videos in 2024. Such an amazing teacher.
so far, i haven't gone past the A m chord, but willing to continue. Great lesson, thank you.
That picture at your background is just SWEET ♥️
I just wish that there was a complete course in voice leading for guitar. I would definitely pay for that. But no one offers it, not even TrueFire.
Such a wonderful teacher.
Fantastic lesson Paul very clear and understandable Thanks.
Nice lesson! This guitar course can make you multiple times better than when you just play between chords! Merry Christmas!!!
7.00 look at his face when he was saing so cool. He is dying for it. Best teacher ever ✌️
Perfect video I've been waiting for, I've wanted to expand my chord options besides Barre and open chords
Great exercise Paul. Outstanding content.
Your channel is such a gift
Sometimes sounds like Bach's prelude in C. Really cool
If I could have your teachings when I was younger I think I could have been learned,but know I (almost 60) it's difficult,my fingers don't want to follow . But I love your videos and how you have made them, keep going you are a good teacher!
its the brain that learns, the fingers will follow what you learn, if you apply yourself.
This video helped me...a lot! Thanks for that! Wish I could have you as a teacher, easy to understand,easy to work with! Have a happy new year man!
As always, superbly taught.
Thanks for a great exercise! It forces me to focus and keep track of where I am in the chords.
it's amazing how any subject I may search to learn, you have it covered. Favourite techer! Chears from brazil!
I could just solo over it forever and never get bored🤘
Right.
Thanks very much Paul. This is a very interesting practice routine ... Lots to learn here!!!! Thanks again.
amazing content man, please don't stop giving people ways to help themselves, it really does help !!!
Paul. You can call it an exercise, but it's very melodic and beautiful. Really nice. I'll study and try to learn it. Thank you.
This is what I was looking for! Thanks Paul, love the wedding pic in the back btw! :)
This is so beautifully simple and brilliant.
Great lesson Paul. High quality information here !
thank you so much for this, its so useful and finally put some terms to the chord shapes i hear in the music i listen to and wanted to learn
Your lessons are seriously fantastic.
I've already watched this video when it came out and go back to it now. Such a nice little piece. Thks Paul.
Merry Christmas Paul!
Paul looks and sounds like the nicest person there is on Earth.... I'm sure he is too 😄... Love from India
Best teacher ever!
Wow, this really made me think about chords and how they are made. Thanks for the kick in the butt :)
Nice way to walkt through the circle of fifths (if you conitue the 4th to --> 2nd relation) really cool excersize
such a great study. Cool Imperial. I had a turquoise one. killer amps.
hey thanks a lot sus chords are amazing they sustain but they also create tension they can help build into greater things. They help spice up simple progressions and they helped us also see and experience different emotions awesome man thanks
Great content Paul, great guitar teacher. Keep it this way.
Wow! What an awesome lesson! Thanks very much. I'm going to come back to this one. I've never seen a teacher lay this out so well, never heard anyone explain this so easily...excellent job! I've experimented with this sort of idea on my own but I need to learn this move by move. There is so much that can be done with this when putting together a song. I suppose many veiwers might limit this to milder music styles, but so much could be done with this when playing metal and heavy styles...wow! This is just the kind of thing I need to focus on to advance my skill. ...oh and the siren in the background was a nice touch. Thanks.✓i just watched it again...this slays! Your playing a one six two five chord progression...so one could construct other chord sequences on those three strings and construct the idea on other string selections...nice.
thanks for that wonderful lesson mate. really apprecite the knowledge you share for those of us who can't afford time or money to go to a music school
Geweldige les. Precies wat ik op dit moment nodig had. Dankjewel Paul!
I'm going to spend some time with this one. What a great practice aid. It sounds really cool and it checks off so many different aspects that us mere mortals need to work on.
Paul, You are such an inspiration to so many people and I am learning so much from you. I know that you love to see that "subscribe" button being hit, but when you think about it, every one of those clicks has touched a person. Some with life changing effect. That's pretty cool if you ask me. What an age we live in that this can happen.
As usual, THANK YOU so much.
Qué bonito! Lo he practicado y es un autentico gozo...
Thank’s for your beautiful lesson.
Love your teaching😊
Hi, I just posted a comment in a video you made 11 months ago... and it looks like you've already made the adjustments towards this new and better camera angle for fingering instruction. Thanks for all your videos and may you have a very happy and rockin' new year! I'll give this one a try...