How to Play Chords on the "High Strings"
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- Опубліковано 13 бер 2024
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➢ "The Immersion Method": • How to Actually LEARN ...
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In case anyone is unaware Brian has done a whole series on chord tone soloing where he goes into great depth on all the shapes and little tricks to connect them etc. It is simply brilliant, if you put in the time it will take your playing to another level at least that was my personal experience. I just plodded along slowly slowly and then it just got in my head and fingers, it is like a magic trick a really good one at that. Thanks as always.
Thanks Martyn....that series is sooooo old though. I can't even watch it because of how awkward I am in those old vids. Please no one watch those old vids 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@zombieguitar I can say hand on heart that series was the bollocks for me. You are selling yourself short there friend.
As a relative beginner, I appreciate having the tabs above the video as I often have a difficult time seeing the actual frets that are being played. The oftentimes “Is he using his pinkie” question or “Is he fretting the E or A” comes up in nearly every lesson I video see, no matter from whom. I also believe the “chunks” of the lesson are appropriately paced so as not to confuse the lesson’s intent. Well done!
Great video Brian. Good to remind people best way to learn is by picking up the guitar and working through it. That's when it starts to click.
My successful request for a remake of the "Immersion Method" was an awesome result.
This additional lesson is the cherry on the cake ....
Cheers Brian, another quality video!!!
I just watched all 3 videos backwards, 1st this one, then the one from 3 days ago and last the old one from a year ago. In that order it ALL makes sense. Thanks for addressing the question you got.
Moreso, I have confirmed that I dont know the caged system and even less dealing with high string chord variations.
Thanks for providing a very comprehensive framework in order to learn this things.
You are so easy to listen to and your ability to translate what you know in an easy to understand way is a gift. If I had to choose one youtuber to learn from it would be you. THANKS!!!!!!
I appreciate the words! Thank you!! 😀
I guess I’m just dumb, but I really needed to hear this explained again. So thank you, I’m now going to use this process to learn the fret board!
Great video lesson Brian as always, It's much clear to me now. Thank you!
Just solid !! For anyone who is wanting to understand how their instrument can be utilized to it's fullest extent. Thanks.
Excellent material as always bud. Thank you for YOU!❤
U never disappoint us with ur vids man💪🏿Best guitar teacher on yt ngl✨Keep it up!!
Thank you for opening the secret of knowing all the chords on the entire fret board. Yes, we will have yo figure it out ourselves, but at least we know the process now. Cheers from Indonesia.
By the way, your lighting, background, color balance, and camera angle are looking sooooo good. Way to go.
Awesome Brian. Always a great reminder.m
This is so excellent!!! Thank you!!! I just subscribed as well dude!!!
This material is so good. If i get your system correctly it is important to know the notes on the low e and a and to deduct the shapes from that in general.
Yes exactly 😁
Baritone ukulele uses the same first 4 strings of guitar... That forces you to get good at these strings... Everything you learn will transfer to guitar... And they're small cheap and portable. Caramels even have a truss rod ❤
BINGO! Brilliant teaching. Very clear and linear. Wonderful that you very quickly responded to the viewer with a very clear answer to a question I am sure gillions of people would ask. Very responsive of you. Sign of a great dedicated teacher. Also some great distinctions about what is important and necessary and the concept that learning all the notes first is actually counterproductive or at least not very practical/useful. Like I said, BINGO!
Thanks Scott! I appreciate the words. This was a necessary follow up 😀
All these confusing C and A shapes. It serves me right for falling to concentrate during YMCA dancing lessons. Great lesson Brian, I spent too long on the A and E shapes and need to spend time thinking backward to get the C and G shapes under the fingers quicker.
DUDE!! You rock!! I love your style of teaching!! ~cheers Bro!
SO WELL EXPLAINED . THANKS MATE .
I think what people are probably missing is how to identify the individual notes in each chord shape. I would suggest learning intervals so they can see the relative positions of the 1, 3 and 5. I tried learning the fret board for years and it never stuck until I learned my intervals and major chord construction (from your videos, THANKS!). From there I was able to learn the fretboard in literally just a few days. I still don't have instant recall, but I'm getting pretty darn close. Hope this helps somebody.
Yes 100%!! I say the same thing in every single CAGED video I make (including this one)..."Do not just memorize the shapes, but also memorize where the 1, 3 and 5 are located within each CAGED shape." I did specify that in this video too. That is exactly where the true potential of the CAGED system lies!! Good call on understanding just how important this aspect is!! 😀
Thanks!
Thank you Ken!! Much appreciated 😀
Wow, that is SO simple...
WTF have I never noticed that or literally anyone else ever said it!?
Just like how if your first finger is on the root, it's minor pentatonic, and if your pinky is on the root it's major pentatonic, these chords work the same way!
Hi Brian, sure it's a nice exercise. The only issue with it is that you can cheat it all the way though using just intervals and a single note as a reference. IMO, a bit more efficient way is to work it out backward: a drill app, the circle of fifth, then get it all working by naming playing notes out loud.
The fact that you can "cheat" is precisely the reason it works. The "chord clusters" are always the same for all keys. No apps necessary. To each their own though!
@@zombieguitarNavigating the fretboard this way doesn't require being aware of note names we are playing. The human brain likes to optimize unnecessary stuff. And it would be counterproductive to mess around without reliable feedback. It's nice if the ears could provide us with such feedback, but often it's not the case. So having a decent fretboard map already embedded in the memory should help a lot.
Can someone help me with learning a new key? I know the g major based only off of its intervals and now I want to learn how to play its relative e minor. I know all you have to do is shift the patterns/ intervals to the new key, but I feel like shifting the intervals around will just confuse me and it will be harder to visualize the new key without getting mixed up with the old one. Am I thinking about this in the wrong way?
Hi, first learn the major and minor intervals on one string, you listen to this sequence, it is best to learn to sing it as well.
You can start in any key, the sequence of tones and semitones is always the same for all diatonic scales. Then you can easily find shapes between multiple strings yourself,
Intervals from the tone G: w,w,s,w,w,w,s = major; Intervals from the tone E: w,s,w,w,s,w,w = minor 😀
Wiki: As musicologist Roger Kamien explains, "the crucial difference is that in the minor scale there is only a half step between '2nd and 3rd note' and between '5th and 6th note' as compared to the major scales where the difference between '3rd and 4th note' and between '7th and 8th note' is [a half step]." This alteration in the third degree "greatly changes" the mood of the music, and "music based on minor scales tends to" be considered to "sound serious or melancholic," at least to contemporary Western ears 🤘
You don't need to "change patterns" when you make the shift from G major to E minor. They have the same 7 notes, and therefore the same exact patterns. However as stated above, you will need to change the note that you are labeling as the "1" within the patterns. This will cause the other intervals to change as well.
Fortunately if you can do this for the key of G major/E minor, then you will have a pretty easy time doing it for the rest of the keys since the "shapes" are exactly the same for all keys on the guitar.
I have so many vids that I could recommend to you, but here's a good one I did recently that might help 😀 ua-cam.com/video/uZV9oz-5J7c/v-deo.htmlsi=_b_wC_MJgB34423X
Wait, so we should learn CAGED before doing the immersion method? Or does it not matter, as long as I just figure out where the notes are and memorize them through using them as root notes to play the triad shapes?
"Learning CAGED" can all be done right here, using just this video. But yes, it would be useful to be able to quickly identify which of the 7 shapes you have available to you depending on where on the neck you're at. Having a basic understanding of CAGED would definitely be helpful for that.
The objective is to use the Immersion Method to learn and internalize the notes on the upper strings, not vice-versa!
@@zombieguitar I'm still pretty confused, mostly about the CAGED part. What about this, would it also be acceptable to use your original video where you learn the notes 3 notes at a time(going through each chord every week and playing them over a backing track), and then also learn all the main triad shapes on top of that? That seems more straightforward to my brain.
@@BlazinLow305 I think this is the other video that you're talking about...this one does not require you to know CAGED at all! ua-cam.com/video/Jx-Nk0uARws/v-deo.htmlsi=MyCYthIH4UrtVkjH
Good video, one question remains. Is 'the upper four strings' the same as 'the higher four strings'?
I'd argue it isn't and that up and down is judged by the distance to the floor, not the pitch. So basically, everytime you say 'upper four strings', you mean basically the opposite.
But still completely understandable and a very informative video. Thank you for the upload.
"upper" = "higher pitched" 😀
@@zombieguitar Are you prepared to die on that hill? 🤣🤣🤣
Have a fine day! :)
@@TheGrandmaMoses yes sir I am 😁
How do you know what CAGED patterns go with and when? .... At 4:33 you say on the low E string you can go with the E shape or G shape.. How do you know that, How do you figure that out?
I know ALL the CAGED shapes, but not connecting the dots yet. and that's frustrating cause i feel like I am right on the brink of a break through here
How do you know that pentatonic position #2 is always right next to position #1? Because that is how a standard-tuned fretboard is laid out...
How do you know that the "E shape" and "G shape" are always available when your root note is located on the low E-string? Again, because that is how a standard tuned guitar is laid out!
You can test and verify this as many times as you'd like using any root note you want, and you'll always find that it is true!
I don't mean to sound like an idiot just not seeing it yet...
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@@MrCalenture you’re gonna get it just keep practicing.. if you know your CAGED shapes then you’ll notice that on the low E string the E-shape and G-shape shares the same note.. for example say the note is G on the Low E string right.. you’ll notice that you can play the open G shape or the E-shape on that same exact which is the G chord so that’s what Brian is meaning when he says you have two different choices to pick from
@@MrCalenture you don't sound like an idiot. This stuff isn't super obvious at all!
I'm just trying to get you to think about an "unknown" concept to you in the same way that you think about a "known" concept to you.
If you put your first finger on the note 'A' on the 5th fret, low E-string, you then have the "shape" of the A minor pentatonic scale in position #1 that stems from there. This is "known" information to a lot of guitarists. Most don't question "why". They just accept it and move on...
If you start on that same 'A' on the 5th fret, low E-string, you can also build an A major chord in either the G-shape or the E-shape. That is just the way the fretboard is laid out. You are having trouble blindly accepting this and moving on though...
The only difference between the first example and the second example is that most people assume that the CAGED system needs to be super complicated and hard to understand (it's not). Therefore a lot of people tend to have a more difficult time simply accepting that these "shapes" are there under their fingertips in the same way that they accept that the scale patterns are also there under their fingertips.
Scale patterns, chord shapes...it's all just "shapes"...but for some reason people will always overcomplicate their thinking when it comes to chord shapes, but they don't do the same overthinking when it comes to scale shapes.
It seems that may be the issue 🤷
Really appreciate the encouragement and support. Means a lot! thank you!!@@Musickvibe
Greatly appreciate Brian’s teaching style but i have a disconnect in these last 2 videos. when he says “we know where the roots are on the Dminor shape, so just do this…”. I don’t, but hope to know after these videos but that’s the cart before the horse.
Perhaps it’s no coincidence that the last 2 videos have loud sound effects on the pop ups that distract me.
You might like this video instead. It is a bit more straightforward approach 😀 ua-cam.com/video/Jx-Nk0uARws/v-deo.htmlsi=cWSLoWZaHM_vIePi
Exactly what I needed. Thank you for being so responsive
I love to listen to you going through the various processes Brian you are truly a master. But I have to stop watching as you run up and down the fretboard as it totally does my head in when the fretboard above is not only upside down but back to front and my head cant get around it. I think that I must be wired up differently being a natural left hander but ambidextrous in some things and play guitar right handed. Am I the only one out here that thinks that the fret marker above the guitar should follow the guitar in orientation? It just to me feels totally illogical that the fretboard marker does not follow your finger placements in the same direction as your fingers on the guitar. I just wish I could cope with it, but it frustrates the hell out of me. Thanks Brian.
Think of it as a second viewpoint. First, you have the view as if you were sitting face to face with a real life guitar teacher. Second, you have fretboard diagrams in standard orientation for a right-handed fretboard. Think of the second viewpoint as a bonus for watching on the Internet vs in person!
The fact that you are left-handed is what causes the difficulty in learning from a right-handed teacher. That is what is causing the "reverse" issue!