I really appreciate these lessons you make. The only thing that sucks about guitar is the only thing non guitarist think is impressive is playing fast or shredding. I started learning legato to get my speed up but realized it’s more important to learn the fundamentals first and it doesn’t matter what people think.
The most important things in playing guitar are: 1. Doing whatever is fun, fulfilling, or enjoyable to you. 2. Practice consistently. 3. Be open to trying and learning new things.
Thats non sense, I've been playing guitar just about 20 years now and i still dont know how to "shred." And for half those years i pretty much only knew power chords lol. But i played many shows with different bands, or played an acoustic at parties or on the beach, or by a camp fire, and people have always enjoyed it. Shredding only seems to impress beginner guitarists, and non guitarists who like metal lol. Simple chords work fine for the majority of people, and if you learn to sing AND play, people are even more impressed with you. Trust me, singing over some basic chords will almost always impress people versus just random shredding
This video is next level. I'm not great at guitar, but I understand this level of music theory enough and you make the hard parts seem easy. Thanks for including tabs too!
There Is No Such Things as Black Orchids by Lilys, from the album In the presence of nothing is literally the beginning of the video, it's the shoegazest shoegaze song of shoegaze time
You should have a fuzz and a reverb pedal handy (most common effects for this genre) so you can really hit home how these chords create the desired sound for the style.
@@Epicfrogger420 notes in scales and also intervals between notes. im not an expert on theory so you can just look up notes in scalrs or like guides to music theory
Came to the comments to say the same thing, it sounds like “how does it feel” by citizen mixed with “blank” by glare. It was bothering me for a awhile cause I was like “I know this song he claims to have made up” and went through all my playlist to figure out what it was that I was thinking of 😂
I hear some Tanya Donnelly and Belly in some of those chords and melodies. Here I am trying to learn 30s and 40s blues and saw this and now I'm wanting to play this as modern blues. 🙂
I think almost anyone who uses a lotta power chords discovers the first chord in like two or three days. Maybe longer or shorter depending how adverse to basic theory you are.
*Oh my gosh bruv! Trevor maaaate!! I feel so happy to see ya upload a Shoegaze Lesson for beginners! Especially focused around 2010 Shoegaze! Blessed my day
Woah, it's cool 'cause this actually reminds me a lot of like, 90's-2000's emo pop stuff like Get Up Kids and Texas is the Reason. Maj7 with distortion rules!!!
I somehow know and use several of these chords but I don’t know what they’re called I kind of just make random chord shapes and if they sound good I remember to use them later.
1. Acquire any offset bodied guitar. Preferably a Chinese jazz master 2. Acquire as many cheap pedals you can afford. 3. Hook up all the pedals at once so the signal is totally washed out. 4. Play any chord
By 2010 shoegaze do you mean beach fossils and diiv type stuff? I always get confused as to where shoegaze ends and dream pop begins but my guess is it’s in the shoes
I love that first maj7 shape, I found it in the bassline for Dramamine and its a shameful go to at this point.
its the shape i make every time i pick up a guitar
@@ThatFilmisGnarly same but im emo
I also heard Blame It On the Tetons in the Pairing Chords section. Awesome video!
If you steal chords and patterns, its not stealing. That's just called "learning stuff".
i found it in dramamine too!
These chords whirr very helpful!
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yeah i can slowly dive into that particular sound now ;)
I really appreciate these lessons you make. The only thing that sucks about guitar is the only thing non guitarist think is impressive is playing fast or shredding. I started learning legato to get my speed up but realized it’s more important to learn the fundamentals first and it doesn’t matter what people think.
The most important things in playing guitar are:
1. Doing whatever is fun, fulfilling, or enjoyable to you.
2. Practice consistently.
3. Be open to trying and learning new things.
that sucks... if you play guitar to impress non-guitarists. or anyone. that's a bad reason to play
shredding has limited applications and most people are majorly turned off by it
Thats non sense, I've been playing guitar just about 20 years now and i still dont know how to "shred." And for half those years i pretty much only knew power chords lol. But i played many shows with different bands, or played an acoustic at parties or on the beach, or by a camp fire, and people have always enjoyed it. Shredding only seems to impress beginner guitarists, and non guitarists who like metal lol. Simple chords work fine for the majority of people, and if you learn to sing AND play, people are even more impressed with you. Trust me, singing over some basic chords will almost always impress people versus just random shredding
This video is next level. I'm not great at guitar, but I understand this level of music theory enough and you make the hard parts seem easy. Thanks for including tabs too!
i use this maj7 shape all the time, the 1-3-7 one is also good and uses the same low strings
Works great on bass as well!
whagt is 7 representing
@@Midnight_Gust The 7th note of the major scale you play in. So for example when talking about the G major scale, the 7 would be F#.
@@QuickCygan oh so if we use 1-3-7 pattern in an A major scale it would be a major 7 or somthing
@@Midnight_Gustyes well the 7th note of the major scale of the root note
Wow dude, this is the single most impactful tutorial I’ve ever watched. It never occurred to me to keep the shape the same and it will work.
His example sounds just like citizens “how does it feel” mixed with glares “blank” sounds so awesome I’m glad I found this tutorial
I’ve been in a rut and this was super inspirational. I’m gonna write some riffs now 🔥.
There Is No Such Things as Black Orchids by Lilys, from the album In the presence of nothing is literally the beginning of the video, it's the shoegazest shoegaze song of shoegaze time
Great song
this has strong _school really sucked today (as always) and my parents are soo stupid_ vibes and I love it
I’m too new to really understand this stuff. But you do an awesome job explaining it! I’m gunna keep at it 🙌🏻
same lol
You do a great job explaining chord structure in building, especially around @2:00! Thanks!
You should have a fuzz and a reverb pedal handy (most common effects for this genre) so you can really hit home how these chords create the desired sound for the style.
and run the reverb then the fuzz in the signal chain
Reverse reverb ftw.
Just what I needed. Now some lead shapes/ transitional licks & riffs for this style?
You literally must be psychic just 3 days ago I was wanting to learn more shoegaze
Awesome lesson! I often pick 1-3-7 chord shape when writing progressions. However, I don't know many bands that use them. :(
Amazing video Trevor, keep doing your thing, I appreciate your efforts to help us learn guitar/shoegaze.
Trevor is goated fr
literally my second day learning guitar and here i am gerrrrrr only tape on my fingertips is keeping me going rn
guys what does he mean by 4 to 1 and all these numbers help O___o
@@Epicfrogger420 notes in scales and also intervals between notes. im not an expert on theory so you can just look up notes in scalrs or like guides to music theory
@@sordid_ray omg tysm ur goated
Best short intro to playing Shoegaze I've seen. Jjust love that sound, so nostalgic.
Can you do a similar video for early 90s shoegaze?
Dude this is incredible… definitely gonna jam out for hours practicing these techniques
You're a gem, dude. 🤗😁👍🏻
Please never stop! 🙏🏻🙏🏻
1:20, tons of inverted power chords too.
That first progression had instant Mew vibes... very nice.
The signal chain would be very interesting. The sound is awesome
Oof. I heard some self-titled Citizen vibes on the example. "How Does it Feel?" namely. Nice tutorial.
Came to the comments to say the same thing, it sounds like “how does it feel” by citizen mixed with “blank” by glare. It was bothering me for a awhile cause I was like “I know this song he claims to have made up” and went through all my playlist to figure out what it was that I was thinking of 😂
@@zandercapps131 Hell yeah good ear. I'll have to check out glare, too.
WOOOOO... What a beautiful progression!
This is perfect, I was listening to it and I got too excited XDDD "WHAT IS THAT MELODY???"
I hear some Tanya Donnelly and Belly in some of those chords and melodies. Here I am trying to learn 30s and 40s blues and saw this and now I'm wanting to play this as modern blues. 🙂
The example sounds very similar to How Does It Feel from Citizen. I fucking loved it!
Bro just casually made me understand more about music theory than years of school/college
fucking legend. Not all heroes wear capes 🐐
This video made me pick up the guitar for the first time in a while. Thanks
I am embarrassed that you have summed up the extent of my guitar playing in one video. haha. Great work!
Hope you're doing well Trevor. Thank you for all the chords.
trevor i love you at this point
these chords are pretty much my go to chords for everything, I didn't even realize they were common in shoegaze, cool lesson!
I think almost anyone who uses a lotta power chords discovers the first chord in like two or three days. Maybe longer or shorter depending how adverse to basic theory you are.
More of this style! Pls!
Amazing video! Very helpful, thank you so much
YESSS DUDEEE YESSSSS THANK YOU
Great lesson. Thanks so much.
*Oh my gosh bruv! Trevor maaaate!! I feel so happy to see ya upload a Shoegaze Lesson for beginners! Especially focused around 2010 Shoegaze! Blessed my day
This was the most helpful shit
i love you trevor wong
Wow I love these explanation videos!!! So helpful!!! 🙏🙏🙏
10 Years - Slowly Falling Awake sounds just like what you playing by the end of the video. Also a bit of Mein by Deftones.
Awesome video. This sound reminds me of Alcest and early White Ward.
Woah, it's cool 'cause this actually reminds me a lot of like, 90's-2000's emo pop stuff like Get Up Kids and Texas is the Reason. Maj7 with distortion rules!!!
Oh man I need to play these chords ASAP
masterclass my friend.
Yes I also still love Whirr even though..
Getting Movements and Citizen vibes from this.
Great, informative video. I learned a lot and I hope that makes you happy to hear
Thank you for this.
Looking forward to the next video!!!!!!!!!
Hey! Great video!
I’m practicing and coming up with some fun riffs/progressions myself!!! 🙌🏼🤙🏼😀
This is awesome and fantastically explained! Thank you 😊
This is SO coooool ! thank youuu
so so helpful. Thank you
Great info, Trevor. Thanks!
Back to learning how to play a chord I go, wish me luck
Very helpful, thank you!
good vid, very informative and straight to the point.
I love me a tutorial that wastes no time and gets right into it
Great tutorial!
Amazing! Thanks man🎉
The chords have been around forever,it’s the sounds
You are the best!
I think you progression sounded really great xD
Very helpful! Thanks!
Nice
thank you thank you thank you
Those progressions remind of Turnover's Magnolia album
wrote a new song from these shapes! thanks man.
I always called that shape a 1,5,9 or a 9 😅. makes more sense as sus2. 🤓
Came here to learn that 2010 shoegaze is my whole musical identity on electric guitar, apparently?
Love it
Exactly the video I wad looking for. But what kind of effects are on? Can anyone help me out?
aprecio mucho lo muy minucioso que es me encanto
That Gmaj7 and Esus are soooo deftones
0:10 souds like death before glory
I have such a big crush on Trevor
cant shoegaze without that fuzzed out reverb and a jaguar or jazzmaster for the trem
The goat
is there a fingering for a minor chord version of the cmaj7 and gmaj7 chords you used in this video ?
Hi, great Video, thanks! Which AMP Settings you set to get this sound?
What are some good 2010s shoegaze bands?
I love the jazzmaster click bait! You know your audience very well!
I somehow know and use several of these chords but I don’t know what they’re called I kind of just make random chord shapes and if they sound good I remember to use them later.
What were some good 2010 shoegaze albums, besides the old bands coming back (MBV, Slowdive)?
Title Fight- Hyperview
Dead Mellotron, Ninth Paradise, Burrrn, some of Deerhunter's catalog
The Yours also have a great 2012 release
Why did it take me so long to find this channel? Better late than never.
Trevor, what's the name of your song at the end (outro)?
What amp do you use? Great clean tone!
Yes!! Early squad
Maj7 chords saved my life
1. Acquire any offset bodied guitar. Preferably a Chinese jazz master
2. Acquire as many cheap pedals you can afford.
3. Hook up all the pedals at once so the signal is totally washed out.
4. Play any chord
i love the tone, could i please know how to achieve that?
Probably any decent clean amp with light overdrive would get you there after EQing to taste.
Didn’t even know the style was called shoegaze. Nice video.
have you ever heard of hail the sun?
By 2010 shoegaze do you mean beach fossils and diiv type stuff? I always get confused as to where shoegaze ends and dream pop begins but my guess is it’s in the shoes
The shoes
The shoes?
ITS GOTTA BE THE SHOES