Make YOUR OWN chords on guitar!

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  • @TheRealCAPerry
    @TheRealCAPerry 2 роки тому +8

    I’ve had a guitar in my life for 40+ years and I’ve never seen the dots joined like that before. Brilliant!

    • @curiousguitarist
      @curiousguitarist  2 роки тому +1

      Thanks CAPerry! Happy to connect them with you here.

  • @priceamp
    @priceamp 2 роки тому +18

    Wow, going to take me awhile to dissect this lesson, but talk about a great way to tie scales, chords and modes all together in one lesson. Thanks Chris!

    • @curiousguitarist
      @curiousguitarist  2 роки тому +1

      Yeah I was planning this out to be just about extensions, and then when I started filming it I realized it ties SO much more together!

  • @pauls5209
    @pauls5209 2 роки тому +2

    I cut myself off. I was saying that I try to support my UA-cam teachers as I can. You continually hit it out of the park and I think I would enjoy your Studio community, so I’m going to join. Thank you.

  • @EclecticEssentric
    @EclecticEssentric 2 роки тому +4

    Always great stuff! Thanks, Chris.
    A simple hack for anyone who knows basic triads, is to stack 2 chords on top of each other.
    Take F Lydian, from C key, take the F (FAC) and stack Em7 (EGBD) on top of it. Or, look at it as F arp, E arp, then D; FAC, EGB, D.
    I found this to make it very simple to quickly suss out the arp to 13.

  • @TheMinorFallTheMajorLift
    @TheMinorFallTheMajorLift 2 роки тому +6

    I would know so much less if it were not for you and the Studio, Chris. I could not function on guitar without the practical music theory you taught me here and in class. 🙌🏻

    • @curiousguitarist
      @curiousguitarist  2 роки тому +1

      Wow, thanks Mark, I really appreciate that, and I'm so grateful for your support and trust in me as your instructor.

  • @scottstevens9323
    @scottstevens9323 2 роки тому +1

    I keep telling anyone who will listen, “ watch your videos!” Your way of teaching really speaks to me. Thank you! I’m only a year and a half in and I’m loving every frustrating moment! Respect and love from Maine!

    • @curiousguitarist
      @curiousguitarist  2 роки тому +1

      Thanks so much Scott, it’s great to have you here. I appreciate the plug too!

  • @silvrface
    @silvrface Рік тому

    I've been an ear player for 45 years, and this is the first/best video or book I've ever found that made sense out of the "numbers above 7" - WHY they have those names in chords (and not repeating 1-7), what they actually sound like, and plants the seeds of how to use them.
    I got more out of this than out of hundreds of hours of videos and will save me tons of frustration trying to understand video and printed explanations.
    Thank you. I wish this was around 40 years ago!

    • @curiousguitarist
      @curiousguitarist  Рік тому

      Can’t tell you how good this comment is to read. I’m happy to be helping folks! Welcome aboard!

  • @joycegrove5602
    @joycegrove5602 2 роки тому +6

    I love these deep dives! Thank you, Chris!

    • @curiousguitarist
      @curiousguitarist  2 роки тому +1

      You bet JG! And may I return the thanks and say you are a critical cog on the curious guitarist machine, I could not do all this without your steady and high-quality help!

    • @joycegrove5602
      @joycegrove5602 2 роки тому

      @@curiousguitarist 💝

  • @kane6529
    @kane6529 2 роки тому +1

    This is so helpful! I had this realization a few months ago and found the modes much easier to understand 🤯 not sure the website but i found a site that list what all modes contain each specific chords and that’s when it clicked

  • @JCFern
    @JCFern 2 роки тому +1

    Took me a while to even getting around to watching this. But what I learned is…
    Lesson #1: Never procrastinate on watching a new Chris Sherland video. EVER.
    With that out of the way, I was just practicing harmonizing scales beyond 1-3-5 this evening, then it occurred to me to keep going till I arrived at the second octave. While my ears definitely liked what I heard, I didn’t fully recognize the significance of what was happening.
    Then this video pops up, and I started following along, counting 1 3 5 7 9 11 13, and…
    My head explodes yet again as yet another lightbulb flickers on. It’s absurd to only now be seeing what has been hiding right in front of me in plain sight on the fretboard!
    Now excuse me while I go grab myself a guitar and amuse myself by taking this 2-octave harmonization idea through the Modes.
    Killer lesson Chris!🙏

    • @curiousguitarist
      @curiousguitarist  2 роки тому

      Ahh thanks Joe! Once you’re done with the modes, your challenge will be to do this with Harmonic Minor!!!!!
      So glad you clicked with this one, Joe, thanks for all your support!

  • @tone-glide2402
    @tone-glide2402 2 роки тому +1

    Boy ohh Boy!!! Ya think think ya know it all as a guitarist and then BAMM!!!!.., Chris shows you another GREAT LESSON!!! and a real eyeopener! This really makes things open up as far as vocabulary AND! modes go!..., And I thought I really had good sight of the fretboard! I WILL NOW! Thank you sir! Another great one!

    • @curiousguitarist
      @curiousguitarist  2 роки тому

      Thanks so much Tone, I really enjoyed filming this one. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

  • @workingtoseethelight8244
    @workingtoseethelight8244 2 роки тому +1

    Returning with a can, a guitar, and patience. I can now play music. Thanks to Chris the Maestro! Seriously wonderful lessons... Noodling for eternity!

    • @curiousguitarist
      @curiousguitarist  2 роки тому

      Thanks much, I appreciate that. I'm glad you're here.

  • @rockitflash
    @rockitflash Рік тому

    Chris you are teaching me how to teach my students. I’ve never looked at chords this way and it’s so easy when you lay it out like this. WOW!!!

    • @curiousguitarist
      @curiousguitarist  Рік тому +1

      I could not be happier to hear this RF, spread the truth with me brother!!! Glad you're here.

  • @georgearuldoss
    @georgearuldoss 2 роки тому +1

    This lesson is on steroids. Excellent! Great teaching. Thanks a lot Chris!!

  • @52archimad
    @52archimad 2 роки тому +1

    Another priceless lesson that will keep me busy for the next couple of months. All the best Chris.

    • @curiousguitarist
      @curiousguitarist  2 роки тому +1

      That’s great 52archimad, so glad you enjoyed this one. This will last you a while for sure! Keep me posted!

  • @capbubba
    @capbubba 2 роки тому +4

    Another great lesson Chris thanks for helping all the curious guitarist out there 👍👍👍

  • @DavidMorley-i2x
    @DavidMorley-i2x Місяць тому

    that was good info i spend hours trying to make chords to see what makes them tick.i have found different shapes of some of those chords this heips me make more sense of it .thank you much for the lessons.

    • @curiousguitarist
      @curiousguitarist  Місяць тому

      @@DavidMorley-i2x of course! Glad you’re getting some good info here

  • @ShadowD2C
    @ShadowD2C 2 роки тому +1

    I feel like I dont comprehend this yet. But hands down the best channel for intermediates

    • @curiousguitarist
      @curiousguitarist  2 роки тому +1

      Thanks! Take it slow, get the major scale down, with the numbers, and everything revolves around that.

    • @ShadowD2C
      @ShadowD2C 2 роки тому

      @@curiousguitarist do you have any lessons for ear training? I want to make metalify my country's traditional music and it doesnt have any tabs..

  • @MartirosHakopianMarHak
    @MartirosHakopianMarHak 9 місяців тому

    Brilliant explanation .... Eye and ear opening . Thank you very much from the bottom of my heart .....

  • @russelljoplin2728
    @russelljoplin2728 2 роки тому +1

    Great "extension" to your great scale harmonization videos, Chris! Thanks for all you do!

  • @hottamanful
    @hottamanful 2 роки тому +1

    Seriously this is one of greatest guitar lessons ever ..
    Wish if you can treat the 6th and 7th modes the same way in another lesson..

    • @curiousguitarist
      @curiousguitarist  2 роки тому

      I TAB'ed the whole thing out, through 6 and 7 and those are on Patreon: www.patreon.com/chrissherland

    • @hottamanful
      @hottamanful 2 роки тому

      @@curiousguitarist Thank you for all that you do..
      Really I meant the chordal connections ..
      Besides, your direct informative talk makes it more memorable and understandable 🙏🏻..

  • @donlessnau3983
    @donlessnau3983 2 роки тому +1

    Great info, Chris. I use it mostly for chord-melody which is all I play, It's even easier to finger on the top four strings. They're all inversions because the melody note is on the first string. But it's great to practice with the tonic on the D string as well. Also a great tool to master the fretboard while practicing them with the tonic on the 5th and 6th(as you did). Nice lesson. Thnks.

  • @mountain_girl
    @mountain_girl 2 роки тому +1

    um......so.......I am only 7 minutes and 10 seconds in and already having one of those "you're kidding me" moments you spoke of in your intro. Literally. Wrote it down in fact. Time stamped the moment my guitar and music theory learning quest had a major breakthrough....from @6:59 to @7:10. I almost want to just stop here for a beat or two and just...process. And maybe come back and finish the full lesson in full. I put in a lot of "trying to get this whole music theory thing" hours over the last two years. Sometimes pays off in little blips of clarity here and there. Learning some concepts can be like trying to learn a new language but all the books you read on the subject are in the language you're trying to learn. So then its like a puzzle, but always seem to be missing some pieces and unable to really *see it as a whole*. I have had the rudimentary knowledge to understand that 7th chords are four note chords and the expensive sounding chords give great clues to what they are if you know the scales...but yet I was still just missing something. Those 11 seconds just blew some stuff open....or made it seem readable all of a sudden.....hard to explain. Sorry. Incapable of short, succinct comments. I write like I speak and it only gets worse when I am super stoked about something. Be back in ....a bit. Oh god, and, thank you? Very much.

    • @curiousguitarist
      @curiousguitarist  2 роки тому +1

      yeah, stop and process. In the world of YT we are encouraged to go fast. please take it slow and let the lights come on at their own pace!!
      So glad you're here 3mountaingirl!

    • @mountain_girl
      @mountain_girl 2 роки тому

      @@curiousguitarist Slowing down is my hardest discipline after meditation. I'm a person that is happiest when working at 110%. But I've been handed an opportunity in the guise of a life-setback and really trying to get the most out of it. Much like this lesson. Trying to get thru multiple lessons in a given day yeilds lesser returns than digging as deeply as I can in to one. Something like that anyway...but thank you again.

  • @yongchaozhao1437
    @yongchaozhao1437 2 роки тому +1

    Very helpful! I get some knowledge about 7, 9, 11, and 13 chord structures.

  • @timsellsted521
    @timsellsted521 2 роки тому +1

    This is great Chris. Lightbulbs! The new SG sounds great!

    • @curiousguitarist
      @curiousguitarist  2 роки тому

      Thanks Tim! These are the new pickups. It was a bear to get them in with Gibson's quick swap wiring, but the soldering iron made quick work of it after I got my head around what to do to bypass the system.

  • @RabidPrimeape
    @RabidPrimeape 2 роки тому

    Wow... I just had another 🤯 moment. Thank you for your channel! 🫡

  • @barryevans6757
    @barryevans6757 2 роки тому +1

    Great lesson and your teaching style is warm, relaxing, thanks;

  • @kdavis63
    @kdavis63 2 роки тому +1

    Mahalo for the most excellent lesson!! You make these things look so easy!!

    • @curiousguitarist
      @curiousguitarist  2 роки тому

      My pleasure, Kevin! Mahalo, and thanks for all your support!

  • @priceamp
    @priceamp 2 роки тому +1

    OK, next day and 2nd time through. This time I stopped and backed up the video and studied it. Really helped me fill many gaps in my music theory understanding. Now, back to the blues. :-)

    • @curiousguitarist
      @curiousguitarist  2 роки тому +1

      Yeah!! Now try tossing in those 9 11 and 13s over all the dominant chords in the 12 bar blues!! Bending that 9 up to, and then past the b3 is delish!!

  • @Dave-gf3kd
    @Dave-gf3kd 2 роки тому +4

    Another great video! I am not much of a user of “exotic” chords…but now I understand what they are!!!! As always - simple, clear, disciplined in not overloading us, but giving us enough to build on!!!!

    • @curiousguitarist
      @curiousguitarist  2 роки тому

      Thanks Dave, so glad you enjoyed this one. It really is an eye opener once it starts clicking under your fingers.
      Thanks for being here!

  • @yokeloonw
    @yokeloonw Рік тому

    This is the way to teach without going to rote learning. It builds understanding.

    • @curiousguitarist
      @curiousguitarist  Рік тому

      That’s exactly right, Loon! I’m glad you enjoyed this one

  • @pauls5209
    @pauls5209 2 роки тому +1

    Boy Chris, that was meaty. It extended for me the harmonizing concept I took away from your scale sequencing offering. I hadn’t considered continued sequencing notes in thirds through the upper extensions. I notice that the thirds in the Ionian mode alternate between major and minor. Is that true of the other modes? I haven’t been through them yet. Applying this harmonization concept to the modes really brings it around for me. Thank you.

    • @pauls5209
      @pauls5209 2 роки тому

      I’ve gained a great deal of knowledge and inspiration from your free content over the past year or so. I appreciate your work. I feel this way about several UA-cam providers and I try to sprinkle my limited financial resources among would like to be part of the community that shares this perspective. I’m joining your studio.

    • @curiousguitarist
      @curiousguitarist  2 роки тому +1

      Great question! They don’t alternate purely, the Ionian example is Maj , min, Maj, min, min, Maj, min.
      Each time you change the root or tonic, that pattern will shift. The underlying relationships do not change, just the point of reference.

    • @curiousguitarist
      @curiousguitarist  2 роки тому

      And thank you so much for joining, and trusting me with your deeper education!!

  • @joeurbanowski321
    @joeurbanowski321 2 роки тому +3

    The 2 octave scale is a lightbulb moment..!👍🏼

    • @curiousguitarist
      @curiousguitarist  2 роки тому +1

      It was for me too! Crazy how something so simple and obvious can lie just under your fingers! Thanks, Joe!

  • @j.hammer573
    @j.hammer573 2 роки тому +3

    Great lesson! Also, looks like you’re hitting the weights. Smart with summer approaching…sun’s out guns out.

  • @annetteprince7536
    @annetteprince7536 Рік тому

    Chords,scales, arpeggios are all the same. That will be a wow moment when you understand that. And modes are just what notes you highlight!

    • @curiousguitarist
      @curiousguitarist  Рік тому

      The more I look at it, the more it becomes like the matrix, just all one big thing.

  • @allansamilow728
    @allansamilow728 2 роки тому +1

    Another way to look at, and understand, modes!

    • @curiousguitarist
      @curiousguitarist  2 роки тому

      Isn’t it cool how it all starts to look like one thing just from different lenses?

  • @timbornone
    @timbornone 2 роки тому

    Another great video. I like how you bring everything back to the fretboard. Also it wasn’t obvious to me that two octaves will cover all of the notes in a scale.

  • @Deadhansome
    @Deadhansome 2 роки тому +1

    That was really useful! Thanks Chris!

  • @avisekchatterjee372
    @avisekchatterjee372 2 місяці тому

    U are truly a genius teacher ....love❤

  • @tomg.8217
    @tomg.8217 2 роки тому +1

    Great video Chris. Thank You.

  • @plainsroamer405
    @plainsroamer405 Рік тому

    9, 11, 13! I've seen it but never understood why. Thank you!

  • @figdestroyer
    @figdestroyer 8 місяців тому

    I don’t even know what to say, I was brushing my teeth thinking about ‘weird’ chords before bed, I lay down, open UA-cam and the first video is this… my mind is blown and also feels like it has been read somehow?

  • @devasiamunjely
    @devasiamunjely Рік тому

    Beautifully explained

  • @MikefromAlabama
    @MikefromAlabama 2 роки тому +1

    Wow, and I thought I was advanced! That's amazing!

    • @curiousguitarist
      @curiousguitarist  2 роки тому

      There's always SOMEthing around the corner, right? I'm still learning a ton of new stuff and wondering when it ever ends!!!

  • @Terribleguitarist89
    @Terribleguitarist89 2 роки тому +1

    Being a visual person, my ah ha was when I started to visualize the chord shapes within the scale shapes.
    I.e. the CAGED shapes within the minor and major. From there I learned my intervals and through messing around with shapes within those scales I discovered chords I never would have played by looking up the names alone.

    • @curiousguitarist
      @curiousguitarist  2 роки тому

      THAT, right there, IS the curious guitarist at work!

    • @Terribleguitarist89
      @Terribleguitarist89 2 роки тому +1

      I'm far too analytical for my own good so it took me a while to follow Zappa's age old advice. So I was stuck in that loop of only playing to the level of knowledge I had vs realizing the music theory is more about explaining why something sounds a certain way vs being hard set rules. Sometimes you just have to play and see what comes out, the explaination for why it sounds good can come later. Beato's analysis videos where he throws the, "now did the artist know the theory of why? Maybe not, but this is why it worked", type lines helped me too in that haha

  • @bazilbrushrocks
    @bazilbrushrocks 2 роки тому +1

    The aha! Moment for me was realizing that the Amaj7 was just playing the C#min triad over the A root (which is clear when you think about the harmonization).

    • @curiousguitarist
      @curiousguitarist  2 роки тому

      I LOVE that context! I did a video on that same thing a while back. Thanks!

  • @scottkidwellmusic9175
    @scottkidwellmusic9175 2 роки тому +1

    💡💡💡
    Thanks, Chris! 🙏

    • @curiousguitarist
      @curiousguitarist  2 роки тому +1

      My pleasure, Scott. Thanks for all your support!

  • @willischeyltjens2980
    @willischeyltjens2980 2 роки тому +1

    difficult lesson for me chris, you connect chords with the mode scale. I learned this phrase: Every Good Band Disserves Fans And Cash. So in A that's ACEGBDF or R 3 5 7 9 11 13. You give me a totally different view.Harmonizing.

    • @curiousguitarist
      @curiousguitarist  2 роки тому +1

      By doing it over the scale you don't need to worry about the note names initially, just the scale degrees. I always found it easier that way to move something through the keys with less stickyness.

  • @jonnehayesjr.9299
    @jonnehayesjr.9299 Рік тому

    Hello Mr. Chris/Sheridan great lesson. I have a question in regards to you going through the different modes. Are you using one universal pattern going through the scales starting on different notes or different patterns altogether? Thanks.

    • @curiousguitarist
      @curiousguitarist  Рік тому +1

      In this example, I'm only using the notes from the key of A. So starting and ending on each of the notes in this scale you must play a different fingering pattern for each position.
      A Ionian
      B Dorian
      C# Phrygian
      D Lydian
      E Mixolydian
      F# Aeolian
      G# Locrian

    • @jonnehayesjr.9299
      @jonnehayesjr.9299 Рік тому

      @@curiousguitarist Thank you Sir

  • @donlessnau3983
    @donlessnau3983 2 роки тому +1

    Looks like an SG Special. Did you switch pick guard to white?

    • @curiousguitarist
      @curiousguitarist  2 роки тому +1

      Yes, the previous owner did the guard swap, I changed out the pickups. It plays very well.

    • @donlessnau3983
      @donlessnau3983 2 роки тому

      Maybe a Sherwood Green. Don't see that green much lately. Sweet

  • @markgoodwin5306
    @markgoodwin5306 2 роки тому +1

    Yo Chris I’m writing this comment before watching the whole video because I’m a dummy.
    I think the worst and most frustrating thing I ever did was to try to memorize shapes.
    When really I should have started at the ground level, learned all the inversion, then made my adjustments. Like, here’s a G7#5. Well if I know all the dominant inversions, just raise the 5th up. That was light bulb for me haha.

    • @curiousguitarist
      @curiousguitarist  2 роки тому +1

      Exactly! Now, Mark, you don't even HAVE to watch it! Hahaha!
      Kidding. Of course you HAVE to watch it!
      Thanks Mark!

    • @markgoodwin5306
      @markgoodwin5306 2 роки тому

      @@curiousguitarist Of course I watched it haha. Always do. I thought of something else that inversions did for me. Voice leading ideas, came so much easier. Like that G7#5.
      How can I make this sound cool going into C major 7.
      Well here’s a G7 voicing and the #5 runs right into the chord of C major 7.
      Whoa, if I raise the root up a half step, it’s a b9#5.
      All from basic inversions. It makes guitar so much more enjoyable when you’re not guessing haha.

  • @ross3818
    @ross3818 2 роки тому +1

    Stellar!

  • @orvilfarley7861
    @orvilfarley7861 2 роки тому +1

    Cool lesson! I made it bout half way through before starting scratching my head lol

  • @anthonyjohnson4734
    @anthonyjohnson4734 2 роки тому

    Incredible

  • @MikeyBakerMusic
    @MikeyBakerMusic 2 роки тому

    Awesome sauce!

  • @QBRX
    @QBRX 2 роки тому

    Always wondered how certain chords were tied to certain modes...thanks. It'll take some puzzling through to get this into my noggin.

    • @curiousguitarist
      @curiousguitarist  2 роки тому

      It's really rewarding when it starts to shine through. Stay at it until it clicks!!

  • @rorycampbell122
    @rorycampbell122 2 місяці тому

    Stoked I found your channel! The ah ha moment 🙌🙌

  • @hannahwilliamson5902
    @hannahwilliamson5902 7 місяців тому

    What are chords named when they are based in modes of a key, rather than based in their own scale?

    • @curiousguitarist
      @curiousguitarist  7 місяців тому

      Hey Hannah,
      That's a pretty deep question, but the chord names never change. That said, how we refer to them within a progression will definitely shift as we use chords to outline or support a more modal piece.
      If you're interested and have a few free Saturdays starting this week, my Modes Mastery course is running for the last time. Check it out here: chrissherlandguitar.as.me/schedule.php

  • @leegosling
    @leegosling 2 роки тому

    Lightbulb!

  • @annetteprince7536
    @annetteprince7536 Рік тому

    The 3rd is really important! Flat 3 is minor.

  • @donlessnau3983
    @donlessnau3983 2 роки тому

    Looks like somebody's got a new guitar. Nice. Looks like a Gibson SG with P90's?

    • @curiousguitarist
      @curiousguitarist  2 роки тому +1

      Yup, just got it off of Reverb, it’s a 2017 SG Special. I dropped a pair of Seymour Duncan pick ups in it as well. It really plays nicely, and in fact it might be the most comfortable guitar to play that I own.

  • @monkeyrater
    @monkeyrater 2 роки тому +1

    I have huge respect for your teaching method, you explain a lot of important facts that most every other guitar teacher on youtube glosses over. However in this lesson youre leaving out important facts. For example by not showing tabs people wont be aware that these patterns stay the same for all 12 keys. This is what makes the guitar so much more powerful than the piano, you learn the scale/chord shapes in one key, then you automatically know them for all 12 keys compared to piano where you spend months learning scale shapes before you can start playing in all keys. And so the other thing youre leaving out is that you dont have to find chords by counting up from one key, you can access every chord from root in its own key because the pattern is the same for all keys. I get that you have to make money, but you dont mention the tabs are not a free download on patreon, that people have to subscribe on patreon to see this stuff. I think people would go on your patreon to get lesson material from you, but I dont think anyone is going on patreon just to access tabs to your youtube lessons.

  • @popsfereal
    @popsfereal 2 роки тому

    Space aliens HAVE given me some great ideas.

  • @extramile734
    @extramile734 2 місяці тому

    Unbelievable.

  • @splashesin8
    @splashesin8 2 роки тому

    🌟💫✨ 🌅😊

  • @Burnt_Gerbil
    @Burnt_Gerbil 2 роки тому

    I’m a decent guitar player. Not a very good musician. With this video I will work on it. 😬

    • @curiousguitarist
      @curiousguitarist  2 роки тому

      Glad you enjoyed this one! Keep me posted on how it goes!

  • @delacruz-gn8zj
    @delacruz-gn8zj Рік тому

    I love u chris no homo

  • @RandLoreTwo
    @RandLoreTwo 2 роки тому

    2:10. I'm bored. GET to the meat!!!