I’ve been playing guitar for shoot…. 40 years now…. And this is one of the best things I’ve ever worked through on guitar…. I took this Corp. progression and I ran it through all 12 keys over a period of about two months. Running the triad all over the neck and then practice soloing all over the neck and I honestly can say this transformed my guitar playing not only from a neck awareness and visualization perspective, but also my ear started thinking ahead and hearing Melanie notes before I played them…. Thank you for this Guthrie…. anyone who reads this take two months of your life and do what I did. It will change you as a musician forever.
if you can't hang dont watch...and for sure dont post shitty comments about his teaching style. Dude is a pro and just on another level than 99% of players out there. Guthrie thanks for putting this stuff out there - love it.
Right , I just love it when someone I’ve never met wants to tell me what to do . How about you do what you want to and everybody else can do whatever they want to ? Just a crazy thought .
This is a master class from a monster of fretology and theoretical musicness. Oh, I use his new nickname of Guts Vontrapp. His lame nick was G.T. we gonna change his moniker. . Compared to Uncle Larry or Cousin Kenney Vaughn, the new nick of: Guts Vontrapp is golden and should be accepted by all. 😂
Took Guthrie’s course on Artistworks, for a year, and learned ALOT. The major sticking point for me is I need to learn the caged system, after that, will be signing up for another year.
One thing I learn from GT's videos is patience. Sometimes I think I should watch a 25 minute video with a lot of information and grasp it and apply it immediately. This is funny since I've been playing 35 years and it has taken 20,000 hours to get where I am today as a player. My advice is take a 5 minute "chunk" of material and focus on it for 20 minutes. Then move on to something else like learning a song you've wanted to learn. I've found if I spend too long on one thing I get distracted, bored, and I don't retain what I've learned. Thanks Guthrie. I'm a better player today because of your UA-cam stuff and the 2 courses I've purchased.
Oh, and it is ok to give a "teaser" on UA-cam for free in hopes of selling your videos. I've learned to eat 3 squares a day and like to get paid for my work too.
Just in case anyone is wondering, a secondary dominant is a dominant chord of the next chord. Ab7 is the dominant chord in Cm. It sounds good because the dominant chord (the V chord) always leads your ear back to the I chord. Another example is E7 to A. In the key of A, E7 is the dominant, or the V chord. You can do this for any chord, just insert the V of the next chord you’re going to play before it and you’re in business.
Guthrie, thank you for your generosity, sincerity, humility, and passion for just playing good music. I know you have so much going on and so am always grateful that you take the time to sit down with us and share your brilliance. Thanks, man!
I absolutely love your channel. I haven't played guitar consistently for almost 30 years. But in the last 6 months I've been working on my playing. I have the theory and fretboard knowledge, it's just the doing of it that I need to consistent with. So I study your videos with my ears as much as with my eyes. Your playing is unbelievably inspiring. Every night around 10:00 I check out your videos and then I just play for a while. I'm really enjoying it. Thank you so much.
@@guthrietrappmusic Friends and family having encouraging me to do a UA-cam. Can I have been considering it. I can't really play alongside guys like you or Brett Papa or Tim Pierce, but I think I can express the concepts that'll help the average person, like me, be more musical on guitar, whether playing rhythm or lead. So I'm working on that.
I greatly appreciate all your content, Guthrie. One thing I think never gets stressed enough for all of us watching these videos is the very simple fact that you need to spend a LOT of time with your guitar if you really want to improve. Most of us are busy with families and just trying to get by in this cruel world, but a person just has to carve out the time and commit to it. I’m trying to put that into practice in this new year. Say “hi” to Billy!😎
Noodling is essential for exploration of what is possible, training your ear, dialing in your tone, touch, gear, and combining what you already know, with what you’re learning/practicing. Noodle on GT! If you want less noodling, buy a course. Worth every penny and a bag of chips! Appreciate you GT! Happy new year everyone!
Guthrie, I very much enjoy and appreciate the good, solid material you present in each of your videos. It gives us all a lot of great stuff to work on. Knowing you're a very busy guy working on several projects at a time, as a 66 year old guy I would like to call your attention to trying to juggle too many things at one time. I would like you to use caution in spreading your time and effort too thin. Don't burn yourself out and lower your immune system. You sure as hell don't want to become sick from overextending yourself!
I know I commented yesterday, but this is one of the best lessons on playing the guitar that I have come across that is currently on the internet. Call me a fool, but it's true.
Cool dude. Subbed. I have been teaching guitar going on 34 years. The thing I most often say to my students is 'it's all the same thing' and you will be thankful once you get it. 6:00
I think the simple set up with less editing is actually better for us as viewers, because the easier it is to put stuff out the more stuff gets put out, and the more stuff that gets put out the more I learn. Thanks as always
Hey Guthrie don't change a thing. You're a great human being and I love getting caught up on your life. Most of us get it. If you want to learn the details sign up for some lessons. Keep the faith and don't stop doing what you do.
I Agree! Keep it up. You’re a generous soul for what you give us on this channel. For anyone who wants to critique your teaching style, I also recommend that they should sign up for your lessons. The only price you pay for these videos is the time you invest. Keep the faith, GT!!
I heard Guthrie demonstrate that same progression a while back when Brett Papa interviewed him. Been practicing and playing it ever since. It is indeed a gold mine.
Hey everyone, if you’re into this then I highly recommend checking out Guthries more personalized lessons. I had a one on one Zoom meeting with him in December 2022 and it’s amazing how much he can pack into an hour. You get the recorded lesson to reference from for ever. Do yourself a favor!✌️ Kris
I have to pay some homage to you, Guthrie . I played guitar 20 years ago, and I have picked it up from time to time because I've been busy driving trucks getting by for the sake of my family surviving , but after watching Lions like you and uncle Larry Bret Papa etc ... etc... man, I had to get to know my guitar again, and I thank you all for that !! .I am pleased to say today I thought f it I love this so much and I feel I have something to give to people man I had to start a channel of my own. Thank you for your inspiration 🙏 bro , it would be a dream to play with you guys man I think I would just cry with joy lol
Been watching mr. Trap since since he went on with Brett papa/ Marty , he is usually way to advanced for myself, but this video breaks it down like no other , when of his best instructional vids, although just sitting back and watching him noodle is awesome too!!!
Yet again, you're pressing on such a good point, Guthrie. Thank you. I think so many of us learned 'chords' as an entity unto themselves, never registering that the exact same notes of the chord/triad, are what makes lead and soloing possible, never mind, imaginative rhythm playing. It's all the same cake as you mentioned. Only seeing 'chords', shortchanges the value of the notes that comprise the chord, especially where intervallic playing possibilities are concerned. When we know chords and triads, and especially, when we know them all over the neck, that's when scales, arpeggios, and intervals can begin to make so much more sense. Their point of origin -- literally starts to fall under our fingers -- from what we once saw strictly as 'chord or triad' shapes. It's how we choose to connect the dots (notes of the chord/triad) that expands 'playing chords', into roadmaps for soloing and chord leading. It's a beautiful eureka, when we can both see, and hear, this truth. Peace always, Guthrie.
Guthrie is NOT a guitar teacher primarily. He is an amazing musician who loves sharing the gold he has learned playing guitar over the years. I consider myself a beginner and I absolutely love his videos. I have learned so much about music from watching his videos. Keep sharing the treasures, Guthrie, we love it!
I've been watching your channel for years and thoroughly enjoy it. This chord progression is something you’ve played in the past and it caught my ear big time. I practice it quasi-religiously and am currently working on the triads with some single note stuff and diads tossed in. "Gold" as you've labeled it is totally accurate. Side note...coffee is expensive and I also try to finish every bit. Just sayin'.
Best comment, is when you’re enjoying the playing, and the lesson is an extra. You’re an amazing player and teacher. I’m a fan of one of your local bands All Them Witches. I’m 56, and have had the good fortune of seeing The Who, Aerosmith, Deep Purple, Guns & Roses, The Dixie Dregs, Jeff Beck & Stevie Ray Together! The Firm, Rush, and as a bass player, my favorite was Jaco Pastoris in a small club in New York. Tony Franklin with the Firm was another fretless beast, and being a Who fan, John Entwistle was insane.
this is not the first time I have learned this progression from you GT. This time I got a little more into how it all works and retained a bit more on maybe trying to to solo over it some day. I wanted you to know however that when I learned it the first time I used it to write a song and that song turned out to be a crowd pleasing one. I can now tell my band to go to the dominant 7 chord passing to the minor 6 which I could not do before just now. It's true that I get lost a lot when I watch your vid's because you move thru things pretty fast but I always take away something useful. I have been a professional musician for almost 50 year now and I wish I would have had UA-cam and instructors like you back when I started. Thanks for sharing your talents and have a great 2024!
I have been avidly following GT since the first Brett Papa video that I was introduced to him, and it took me a year or two to realize that if I want to understand his improv, I had to learn what he said to learn....knowing the chord shapes of CAGED is only the basic foundation, you have to dive into the arpeggios found in the shape, triads/pentatonics/major scale....but if you havent really studied triads and the major scale the way you should alot of info will fly over your head. Once you dive into those topics as well as relative minors....it all starts to make sense, It just doesnt happen all at once from a free video or three....I would love to afford some one on ones with Guthrie, but im good at taking what I get and knowing what I need to learn, and I use GT videos to that extent....and now im still just intermediate, because the more you learn, the more you realize you dont know. Guthrie has taught me so much in the last 4 or so years, and I havent been able to pay for it, but hopefully I will some day
Hey Guthrie, just had to say how much I love your channel. I’ve played for years, and hit many plateaus. Recently I’ve been in a creative slump and this lesson bumped me out of it. Can’t thank you enough! Your skills are inspiring and your positivity infectious. Keep up the great work!
Guthrie…you are a gold mine! I enjoyed your previous lesson on this progression but this takes it to another level. Thanks for making us all better guitar players!!! -Rich
This chord progression has opened my eyes and ears to a whole new world of possibilities. Having such a killer progression to drill triads and chord shapes has literally changed my approach and in the past few weeks I’ve seen and hear my playing mature and begin to sound so much more composed. Thank you Guthrie for helping me see the light!
This is so great! These vids helped me so much getting out of the pentatonic prison! This chord progression and the way you handle it with the triads is so helpful. I need to practice this for a few hours when the kids are in bed, but it opens the fretboard. After a while you're not even thinking anymore, it just comes out of your hands. Just like you said when you were on the lower strings: "I can't believe I did that!". You'll probably never (or seldom) play in that register, but it's the ears that for some reason drive your fingers to the right notes without thinking too much. This takes practice, for both your fingers, but mostly for your hearing. This is a great chord progression and technique to get to a higher level of playing if you're a bit stuck like me. Thank you GT for all the great video's! I love watching them and they really help me. Besides that, I also like the East-Nashville alarm clock in almost all vids!
I talked to you before a concert with John Oats in Texas. We would love to hear you again in Nashville in April or May. Where can we hear you? Best wishes 2024.
Great lesson Guthrie! I have to slow down your videos sometimes to capture all the gold but you are providing the decoder ring for leads. I wish I had seen these videos 20 years ago!
Can't wait for the record release of the album with Tom Bucovac! when is that coming out ? Is there going to be a tour with the release? Thanks G man , Love everything you do!
You played this progression in a video a couple years ago. At the time, I was learning triads. This was a great progression to practice triads. I ended up writing a song using the progression. It was a great learing experience for me. Thank you, Guthrie.
This past week I've been playing the triads in the key of D below around the 5th fret. Each set of three strings has three different triad shapes, so I'm kinda getting D and E with one shape, F# and G with another and and A and B with the third, C# with whichever one is handy, then moving on to the next set of three strings and so on, deriving the shapes as I go and accounting for minor and diminished. Sounds tedious to write out, but has been great fun, and watching Guthrie's videos is what makes me think of doing stuff like that when I'm noodling. Now, seeing this video, and seeing how he's doing the same thing with the chords from his progression is very interesting. My buddy Kent and I used to play "Blues for Dixie" (chords on the Internet), and its progressions are a lot like the one Guthrie is using here. I'm motivated to go figure out how to play Blues for Dixie all over the neck using triads... thanks for another blast of inspiration Guthrie!
I have to say your play on the piece made me imagine Andres Segovia rolling in his grave wanting to jump out of there and dance. You speak at least to me, with a big YES. Inner confirmation of truth.. I will be following you. I sorta found you thru Lance Lopez. We have a history and he is a good guy truth teller also. I wish continued success.
There is so much good stuff packed in this video it's crazy! I've been working through it for hours now and the lights are starting to turn on for me. I'd consider myself an intermediate player and this came along at the perfect time. It's like ten lessons wrapped into one and it's so much easier to take it all in when it's presented in such a musical context. Thanks for taking the time to do this Guthrie. I'll be working on this one for weeks!!
Your amazing guthrie just playing in a other level i learn so much thanks greatings from Thailand rock band blasting in club next door. Sitting in a small room Practicing
THANK YOU! This progression and your very approachable treatment of how to play over it has hit me at the perfect time. It makes so much sense. Now to get my ears and hands on the same page… Lots of work but each session is so rewarding. Thanks again!
Frank Vignola has TrueFire lessons showing how to do comping rhythms on just the 3rd and 4th strings with complex chords changing a lot. Remarkable how much the ear hears the chords change with only two notes. Guthrie is showing a variation on this.
Wooooo!! 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸😅 I LOVE this stuff GT. It's so organic and approachable. Very pleasing to the ears as you can hear each chord spelled out. I've appreciated your kindness over the years!! My playing is *orders of magnitude* better because of you. That is worth far more than I can say in a UA-cam comment!! Thank you!
THIS! This is exercise/chord progression that got me to finally (FINALLY!) understand the fretboard. I was lucky to have a long lesson with Guthrie in Nashville and we spent probably a full hour on this chord progression. And it made a big difference. And it’s the Ab7 chord that forces you to acknowledge the chords and not just noodle. If you don’t pay homage to the Ab7, everyone listening will know you ain’t got it down. Love this. Thanks Guthrie!
I've been following you ever since I saw a video of you doing "Patricia" with the wonderful Michael Rhodes. Your Truefire course is fantastic, and as someone who plays every weekend in a function band your advice is top notch, your musicianship and advice is astoundingly good. Your way of sharing your knowledge (and a lot of it's free because you have to market yourself) is spot on.
oooo nice close groupings love that! It takes a while for this stuff to stick but it really helps - stick with it. Thanks GT this has been a massive help to my playing. Get your trio over to the UK!!!😍
Already commented on this one but I have to post another. I’ve been playing with this chord progression as GT suggested and (a) have been having a blast and (b) it’s opened up something about my soloing that I’ve never experienced. Guthrie, you’re so generous with your lessons and your passion for the joy of the music is so contagious!
I would love to have been in the room when Guthrie was a beginner/intermediate player and decided to start memorizing all these triads and linked scales up and down the neck. What was that feeling like - that decision? This is a task! And I'm a pianist who can read notation and knows theory. The fretboard is like pawing around in the dark, to me.
That was at a time when there was much less noise in the world. I was in a sleepy little town on the Gulf Coast, surrounded by music and had time to work all this stuff out when I was a young teenager. But trust me that it works!
This is awesome. I'm already adding it. Can always improve but this came along for me at the right time. Thanks Cousin GT. Also at about 10 minutes that stuff was too cool.
Great video. The chords are the foundation of any song. Building solos off the chords helps to tie the solo to the song. This exercise will also help tune your ears. Hear notes that you didn’t hear before. 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
I have the time to pratice these concepts so that’s what going to do!! Been playing for 27 years but want to prove to myself that an old dog can learn new tricks Thank you Guthrie for your insight and inspirational playing
I’ve been playing guitar for shoot…. 40 years now…. And this is one of the best things I’ve ever worked through on guitar…. I took this Corp. progression and I ran it through all 12 keys over a period of about two months. Running the triad all over the neck and then practice soloing all over the neck and I honestly can say this transformed my guitar playing not only from a neck awareness and visualization perspective, but also my ear started thinking ahead and hearing Melanie notes before I played them…. Thank you for this Guthrie…. anyone who reads this take two months of your life and do what I did. It will change you as a musician forever.
I love voice text. I’m not correcting a thing.
I agree!
if you can't hang dont watch...and for sure dont post shitty comments about his teaching style. Dude is a pro and just on another level than 99% of players out there. Guthrie thanks for putting this stuff out there - love it.
Nobody has to listen to you
Idiot doing Idiot stuff. Losers always love to troll great content...
Right , I just love it when someone I’ve never met wants to tell me what to do . How about you do what you want to and everybody else can do whatever they want to ? Just a crazy thought .
This is a master class from a monster of fretology and theoretical musicness.
Oh, I use his new nickname of Guts Vontrapp. His lame nick was G.T. we gonna change his moniker. . Compared to Uncle Larry or Cousin Kenney Vaughn, the new nick of: Guts Vontrapp is golden and should be accepted by all. 😂
Took Guthrie’s course on Artistworks, for a year, and learned ALOT. The major sticking point for me is I need to learn the caged system, after that, will be signing up for another year.
One thing I learn from GT's videos is patience. Sometimes I think I should watch a 25 minute video with a lot of information and grasp it and apply it immediately. This is funny since I've been playing 35 years and it has taken 20,000 hours to get where I am today as a player. My advice is take a 5 minute "chunk" of material and focus on it for 20 minutes. Then move on to something else like learning a song you've wanted to learn. I've found if I spend too long on one thing I get distracted, bored, and I don't retain what I've learned. Thanks Guthrie. I'm a better player today because of your UA-cam stuff and the 2 courses I've purchased.
Oh, and it is ok to give a "teaser" on UA-cam for free in hopes of selling your videos. I've learned to eat 3 squares a day and like to get paid for my work too.
Just in case anyone is wondering, a secondary dominant is a dominant chord of the next chord. Ab7 is the dominant chord in Cm. It sounds good because the dominant chord (the V chord) always leads your ear back to the I chord.
Another example is E7 to A. In the key of A, E7 is the dominant, or the V chord. You can do this for any chord, just insert the V of the next chord you’re going to play before it and you’re in business.
Thanks you, I know you meant Ab7 is the dominant chord in C#m*
@@Channel-io1diYes, you’re right! My mistake.
really awesome concept - why everyone love the hook in Santeria
Wow great explanation thank you
Guthrie, thank you for your generosity, sincerity, humility, and passion for just playing good music. I know you have so much going on and so am always grateful that you take the time to sit down with us and share your brilliance. Thanks, man!
Thanks a bunch, man! Means a lot to me. It’s helping me learn and how to explain and communicate these concepts also.
I absolutely love your channel. I haven't played guitar consistently for almost 30 years. But in the last 6 months I've been working on my playing. I have the theory and fretboard knowledge, it's just the doing of it that I need to consistent with. So I study your videos with my ears as much as with my eyes. Your playing is unbelievably inspiring. Every night around 10:00 I check out your videos and then I just play for a while. I'm really enjoying it. Thank you so much.
So happy to hear that it’s working for you! I’m learning a lot here also. How to better communicate these things.
@@guthrietrappmusic
Friends and family having encouraging me to do a UA-cam. Can I have been considering it. I can't really play alongside guys like you or Brett Papa or Tim Pierce, but I think I can express the concepts that'll help the average person, like me, be more musical on guitar, whether playing rhythm or lead. So I'm working on that.
I greatly appreciate all your content, Guthrie. One thing I think never gets stressed enough for all of us watching these videos is the very simple fact that you need to spend a LOT of time with your guitar if you really want to improve. Most of us are busy with families and just trying to get by in this cruel world, but a person just has to carve out the time and commit to it. I’m trying to put that into practice in this new year. Say “hi” to Billy!😎
That’s exactly right. Thanks man
Noodling is essential for exploration of what is possible, training your ear, dialing in your tone, touch, gear, and combining what you already know, with what you’re learning/practicing. Noodle on GT! If you want less noodling, buy a course. Worth every penny and a bag of chips! Appreciate you GT! Happy new year everyone!
To be clear, I’m speaking about my own noodling and how I find it useful
Thanks for understanding how this works!
Guthrie, I very much enjoy and appreciate the good, solid material you present in each of your videos. It gives us all a lot of great stuff to work on. Knowing you're a very busy guy working on several projects at a time, as a 66 year old guy I would like to call your attention to trying to juggle too many things at one time. I would like you to use caution in spreading your time and effort too thin. Don't burn yourself out and lower your immune system. You sure as hell don't want to become sick from overextending yourself!
Great advice. Thanks. I’m running pretty hard for sure.
I know I commented yesterday, but this is one of the best lessons on playing the guitar that I have come across that is currently on the internet. Call me a fool, but it's true.
Wow, thank you!
Cool dude. Subbed. I have been teaching guitar going on 34 years. The thing I most often say to my students is 'it's all the same thing' and you will be thankful once you get it. 6:00
I think the simple set up with less editing is actually better for us as viewers, because the easier it is to put stuff out the more stuff gets put out, and the more stuff that gets put out the more I learn. Thanks as always
Totally agree!
There is more info/knowledge in this video that in whole other UA-cam channels straight
Hey Guthrie don't change a thing. You're a great human being and I love getting caught up on your life. Most of us get it. If you want to learn the details sign up for some lessons. Keep the faith and don't stop doing what you do.
I Agree! Keep it up. You’re a generous soul for what you give us on this channel. For anyone who wants to critique your teaching style, I also recommend that they should sign up for your lessons. The only price you pay for these videos is the time you invest. Keep the faith, GT!!
I appreciate that
I heard Guthrie demonstrate that same progression a while back when Brett Papa interviewed him. Been practicing and playing it ever since. It is indeed a gold mine.
Again GT makes it look so easy. Almost effortless. Goldmine.
Hey everyone, if you’re into this then I highly recommend checking out Guthries more personalized lessons. I had a one on one Zoom meeting with him in December 2022 and it’s amazing how much he can pack into an hour. You get the recorded lesson to reference from for ever. Do yourself a favor!✌️
Kris
Thanks a bunch for sharing that!
I have to pay some homage to you, Guthrie . I played guitar 20 years ago, and I have picked it up from time to time because I've been busy driving trucks getting by for the sake of my family surviving , but after watching Lions like you and uncle Larry Bret Papa etc ... etc... man, I had to get to know my guitar again, and I thank you all for that !! .I am pleased to say today I thought f it I love this so much and I feel I have something to give to people man I had to start a channel of my own. Thank you for your inspiration 🙏 bro , it would be a dream to play with you guys man I think I would just cry with joy lol
Thanks so much, man. That means a lot to me. Those are great guys you mentioned and dear friends.
Been watching mr. Trap since since he went on with Brett papa/ Marty , he is usually way to advanced for myself, but this video breaks it down like no other , when of his best instructional vids, although just sitting back and watching him noodle is awesome too!!!
Yet again, you're pressing on such a good point, Guthrie. Thank you. I think so many of us learned 'chords' as an entity unto themselves, never registering that the exact same notes of the chord/triad, are what makes lead and soloing possible, never mind, imaginative rhythm playing. It's all the same cake as you mentioned. Only seeing 'chords', shortchanges the value of the notes that comprise the chord, especially where intervallic playing possibilities are concerned. When we know chords and triads, and especially, when we know them all over the neck, that's when scales, arpeggios, and intervals can begin to make so much more sense. Their point of origin -- literally starts to fall under our fingers -- from what we once saw strictly as 'chord or triad' shapes. It's how we choose to connect the dots (notes of the chord/triad) that expands 'playing chords', into roadmaps for soloing and chord leading. It's a beautiful eureka, when we can both see, and hear, this truth. Peace always, Guthrie.
So happy to hear it’s working for you! Thanks a bunch
Guthrie is NOT a guitar teacher primarily. He is an amazing musician who loves sharing the gold he has learned playing guitar over the years. I consider myself a beginner and I absolutely love his videos. I have learned so much about music from watching his videos. Keep sharing the treasures, Guthrie, we love it!
Thanks for the kind words! Means a lot. So happy to hear it’s working for you!
Your microphone is sick! The guitar sounds perfect, your voice comes through great, and the train sounds like it's right outside my house.
Ahhh...my lunch hour is always better with you man... you are phenomenal!
It's basically the same progression as bell bottom blues. Starts out sweet then turns immediately Moody. 1-3(dom7)-6-4 etc. Magical
I've been watching your channel for years and thoroughly enjoy it. This chord progression is something you’ve played in the past and it caught my ear big time. I practice it quasi-religiously and am currently working on the triads with some single note stuff and diads tossed in. "Gold" as you've labeled it is totally accurate. Side note...coffee is expensive and I also try to finish every bit. Just sayin'.
Best comment, is when you’re enjoying the playing, and the lesson is an extra. You’re an amazing player and teacher. I’m a fan of one of your local bands All Them Witches. I’m 56, and have had the good fortune of seeing The Who, Aerosmith, Deep Purple, Guns & Roses, The Dixie Dregs, Jeff Beck & Stevie Ray Together! The Firm, Rush, and as a bass player, my favorite was Jaco Pastoris in a small club in New York. Tony Franklin with the Firm was another fretless beast, and being a Who fan, John Entwistle was insane.
this is not the first time I have learned this progression from you GT. This time I got a little more into how it all works and retained a bit more on maybe trying to to solo over it some day. I wanted you to know however that when I learned it the first time I used it to write a song and that song turned out to be a crowd pleasing one. I can now tell my band to go to the dominant 7 chord passing to the minor 6 which I could not do before just now. It's true that I get lost a lot when I watch your vid's because you move thru things pretty fast but I always take away something useful. I have been a professional musician for almost 50 year now and I wish I would have had UA-cam and instructors like you back when I started. Thanks for sharing your talents and have a great 2024!
Thanks a bunch, man. So glad to hear this. Keep it up. We’re all learning together here!
I have been avidly following GT since the first Brett Papa video that I was introduced to him, and it took me a year or two to realize that if I want to understand his improv, I had to learn what he said to learn....knowing the chord shapes of CAGED is only the basic foundation, you have to dive into the arpeggios found in the shape, triads/pentatonics/major scale....but if you havent really studied triads and the major scale the way you should alot of info will fly over your head. Once you dive into those topics as well as relative minors....it all starts to make sense, It just doesnt happen all at once from a free video or three....I would love to afford some one on ones with Guthrie, but im good at taking what I get and knowing what I need to learn, and I use GT videos to that extent....and now im still just intermediate, because the more you learn, the more you realize you dont know.
Guthrie has taught me so much in the last 4 or so years, and I havent been able to pay for it, but hopefully I will some day
Thanks a bunch, man. Keep it up! It works 👍
Welcome back! Glad you had some time off
This lesson is guitar gold!!! Thank you sir for what you do.
Hey Guthrie, just had to say how much I love your channel. I’ve played for years, and hit many plateaus. Recently I’ve been in a creative slump and this lesson bumped me out of it. Can’t thank you enough! Your skills are inspiring and your positivity infectious. Keep up the great work!
Great to hear!
Keeps me searching for a heart of gold...and I'm getting old. Cheers Guthrie!
Guthrie over here just giving it all away. So much amazing information in every one of his videos.
Guthrie…you are a gold mine! I enjoyed your previous lesson on this progression but this takes it to another level. Thanks for making us all better guitar players!!! -Rich
Free for the taking! Thank you!
Guthrie dropping more guitar gold. If you want a deeper dive get the Artist Works course!
Doing great! Nobody quite like this on YT. Grow this channel & us with it.
Your perspective is always interesting. Thanks again Guthrie. Much respect...
Much appreciated
the Ab was almost the same sound as the train horn, you are a hoot man, thanks for the lesson
That c shape triad explanation just blew my tiny mind
You’re the man, Guthrie, many thanks for sharing all this great stuff 🤠⚡️🎸🙏
This chord progression has opened my eyes and ears to a whole new world of possibilities. Having such a killer progression to drill triads and chord shapes has literally changed my approach and in the past few weeks I’ve seen and hear my playing mature and begin to sound so much more composed. Thank you Guthrie for helping me see the light!
So glad to hear it’s working for you!!
Thank you for your super-tasty ideas that you sharing here always. No pressure and bs, just the simple love of music. Happy 2024!!
You are very welcome!
Yes, complexly is a good conjugation of the word complex in this case.
Great lesson as always Guth!
Thank you Guthrie your content and attitude are top shelf! Thanks again!
This is so great! These vids helped me so much getting out of the pentatonic prison! This chord progression and the way you handle it with the triads is so helpful. I need to practice this for a few hours when the kids are in bed, but it opens the fretboard. After a while you're not even thinking anymore, it just comes out of your hands. Just like you said when you were on the lower strings: "I can't believe I did that!".
You'll probably never (or seldom) play in that register, but it's the ears that for some reason drive your fingers to the right notes without thinking too much. This takes practice, for both your fingers, but mostly for your hearing.
This is a great chord progression and technique to get to a higher level of playing if you're a bit stuck like me. Thank you GT for all the great video's! I love watching them and they really help me. Besides that, I also like the East-Nashville alarm clock in almost all vids!
Thanks a bunch. We’re all in this together. I’m learning a lot here also. Cheers!
Love your content Guthrie...maybe a small clip on mic for your shirt would help your voice audio.
I talked to you before a concert with John Oats in Texas. We would love to hear you again in Nashville in April or May. Where can we hear you? Best wishes 2024.
Great lesson Guthrie! I have to slow down your videos sometimes to capture all the gold but you are providing the decoder ring for leads. I wish I had seen these videos 20 years ago!
Glad to help!
Can't wait for the record release of the album with Tom Bucovac! when is that coming out ? Is there going to be a tour with the release? Thanks G man , Love everything you do!
Very soon!!
You played this progression in a video a couple years ago. At the time, I was learning triads. This was a great progression to practice triads. I ended up writing a song using the progression. It was a great learing experience for me. Thank you, Guthrie.
That's great! So glad to hear it’s working for you!
This past week I've been playing the triads in the key of D below around
the 5th fret. Each set of three strings has three different triad shapes,
so I'm kinda getting D and E with one shape, F# and G with another and
and A and B with the third, C# with whichever one is handy, then moving
on to the next set of three strings and so on, deriving the shapes as I go
and accounting for minor and diminished. Sounds tedious to write out,
but has been great fun, and watching Guthrie's videos is what makes me
think of doing stuff like that when I'm noodling.
Now, seeing this video, and seeing how he's doing the same thing
with the chords from his progression is very interesting. My buddy
Kent and I used to play "Blues for Dixie" (chords on the Internet),
and its progressions are a lot like the one Guthrie is using here.
I'm motivated to go figure out how to play Blues for Dixie all
over the neck using triads... thanks for another blast of inspiration
Guthrie!
That’s the way to do it!!
Solid gold ❤🙏
Man… I am so grateful that you take the time to share and show us stuff. I have learned so many useful things. Endless…Thank U’s 😊
I have to say your play on the piece made me imagine Andres Segovia rolling in his grave wanting to jump out of there and dance. You speak at least to me, with a big YES. Inner confirmation of truth.. I will be following you. I sorta found you thru Lance Lopez. We have a history and he is a good guy truth teller also.
I wish continued success.
There is so much good stuff packed in this video it's crazy! I've been working through it for hours now and the lights are starting to turn on for me. I'd consider myself an intermediate player and this came along at the perfect time. It's like ten lessons wrapped into one and it's so much easier to take it all in when it's presented in such a musical context. Thanks for taking the time to do this Guthrie. I'll be working on this one for weeks!!
Sweet thanks 😎☮️
Your amazing guthrie just playing in a other level i learn so much thanks greatings from Thailand rock band blasting in club next door. Sitting in a small room Practicing
You are the best
Great exercise. Thanks Guthrie.
Cheers Guthrie, so much to work through here. Great great insights and as you unpack each one, you get the - ‘now I get that’ feeling.
Great mini lesson. Your ear and improvisation is off the charts!
THANK YOU! This progression and your very approachable treatment of how to play over it has hit me at the perfect time. It makes so much sense. Now to get my ears and hands on the same page… Lots of work but each session is so rewarding. Thanks again!
Thanks so much for the positive feedback. Means a lot
Amazing lesson. Thanks for sharing your ‘gold’ with us Guthrie. Appreciate it
Glad you enjoyed it
Frank Vignola has TrueFire lessons showing how to do comping rhythms on just the 3rd and 4th strings with complex chords changing a lot. Remarkable how much the ear hears the chords change with only two notes. Guthrie is showing a variation on this.
Wooooo!! 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸😅 I LOVE this stuff GT. It's so organic and approachable. Very pleasing to the ears as you can hear each chord spelled out.
I've appreciated your kindness over the years!! My playing is *orders of magnitude* better because of you. That is worth far more than I can say in a UA-cam comment!! Thank you!
So happy to hear it’s working for you!
Hey brother, greatly appreciate your time, you always make fun and keep it real !
I appreciate that
Love your content brother
Guthrie, just phenomenal stuff and thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it
Such a wonderful lesson! So clear. I finally understand what secondary dominant means and how applied. Great service to all of us guitar learners.
I relate to being with good folks. No bullshit served here.
Never! 👍
Good man 👍🏿
Another fantastic lesson. Thank you for being so generous.
My pleasure!
Good stuff Guthrie. Can't wait to re watch it with a guitar in my hands!
Froggin A! Thanks
THIS! This is exercise/chord progression that got me to finally (FINALLY!) understand the fretboard. I was lucky to have a long lesson with Guthrie in Nashville and we spent probably a full hour on this chord progression. And it made a big difference. And it’s the Ab7 chord that forces you to acknowledge the chords and not just noodle. If you don’t pay homage to the Ab7, everyone listening will know you ain’t got it down. Love this. Thanks Guthrie!
Hey, man! Thanks a bunch for the positive feedback. Means a lot and helps us all!
Try dog tag cafe coffee. Best coffee I’ve had. A veteran here in West Virginia makes it. 😊
Thank you Guthrie. Your videos make time fly.
Glad you like them!
Yeah., the problem for me is that when you get older, time flies by too fast ....
Thanks.
Fantastic lesson. I know you did a few on this progression before, but this one really clicked with me! Thank you
Great to hear it!
I've been following you ever since I saw a video of you doing "Patricia" with the wonderful Michael Rhodes. Your Truefire course is fantastic, and as someone who plays every weekend in a function band your advice is top notch, your musicianship and advice is astoundingly good. Your way of sharing your knowledge (and a lot of it's free because you have to market yourself) is spot on.
Thanks so much. It means a lot.
Your iPhone records guitar sound extremely well. Good stuff.
Simple guitar math - the secondary dominant is a dominant chord build off the fifth of whatever chord you want to lead to.
oooo nice close groupings love that! It takes a while for this stuff to stick but it really helps - stick with it. Thanks GT this has been a massive help to my playing. Get your trio over to the UK!!!😍
I love this progression. I play it all the time .must have learned it from you awhile ago,lol.but it is great, to practice improvising over.
Simply mesmerising 😊
Already commented on this one but I have to post another. I’ve been playing with this chord progression as GT suggested and (a) have been having a blast and (b) it’s opened up something about my soloing that I’ve never experienced. Guthrie, you’re so generous with your lessons and your passion for the joy of the music is so contagious!
I would love to have been in the room when Guthrie was a beginner/intermediate player and decided to start memorizing all these triads and linked scales up and down the neck. What was that feeling like - that decision? This is a task! And I'm a pianist who can read notation and knows theory. The fretboard is like pawing around in the dark, to me.
That was at a time when there was much less noise in the world. I was in a sleepy little town on the Gulf Coast, surrounded by music and had time to work all this stuff out when I was a young teenager. But trust me that it works!
Your lessons are so inspiring!! I can't wait to grab my guitar and jump in!! Thanks again!!
Great stuff and your guitar sounds great. Cheers, James.
Great progression❤ like Jimi Hendrix, Little Wing❤ I call this one Guthrie Trapp[ big chicken wing]
Guthrie Guthrie the whole day through.. Just some sweet sweet chords keep Guthrie on my mind.. Amazing stuff!
This is awesome. I'm already adding it. Can always improve but this came along for me at the right time. Thanks Cousin GT. Also at about 10 minutes that stuff was too cool.
Glad to hear it!
Great video. The chords are the foundation of any song. Building solos off the chords helps to tie the solo to the song. This exercise will also help tune your ears. Hear notes that you didn’t hear before. 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Exactly! 👍
Killer lesson Guthrie!!
Coffee is supposed to taste better cold. 🤔
Oh, you're a bloody good player by the way. Class.
I have the time to pratice these concepts so that’s what going to do!! Been playing for 27 years but want to prove to myself that an old dog can learn new tricks
Thank you Guthrie for your insight and inspirational playing
Hey mate, for a second I thought you were gonna take me to the dock of the bay...
(Thanx for a nifty prog)
Cheerios