The Guitar Fretboard's Mind-Blowing Mathematics
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2021
- The guitar fretboard is filled with secret patterns ... that are hiding in plain sight. In this video, I show you how to uncover them so you can master the instrument.
And ... you'll see how the guitar offers a glimpse into the higher dimensions. (For real.)
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I have been playing guitar for over 30 years now and nobody has ever explained it this way to me. I feel like my minds eye has been opened wide and now I can see all the patterns in my head without even looking at a guitar fretboard. For the people who find this complicated and confusing, just remember that our brains are wired a certain way to help us learn and in my case, I’m a pattern type of person and I have always seen this pattern on my feet board but the only thing I needed to know open my mind was the key to decipher it’s meaning. Thank you so much for this gift. I will like, subscribe, and share.
i’ve playing guitar for 52 years (really) and i have a degree in music theory and composition. i was mesmerized and lost at the same time. MIND BLOWN. Better watch it again.
This is above my understanding...I need a drink 😅😅😅
Cheers !
I´m really happy that this was not the first video I've encountered when learning guitar.
Why didn't I have a teacher like you when I was a kid! This is amazing!
I find that what helps me most with the guitar is to simply view the neck and fretboard as a piece of lumber with strings stretched over it.
Don't forget the frets! (LOL)
Muscle memory, intervals, chord shapes and good ears.
And arpeggios...
I am glad a number of people interested in guitar found this helpful. I viewed it as a colorful way to make learning guitar more confusing. Thanks for your efforts, Mike.
Lol
If you like confusing, check out Pat Martinos take on parent chords etc. Its technically correct, but you'll need aspirin before you're done. Lol
The geometry of music is like the algebra of cooking. The best bread uses the fewest ingredients and you never measure them::: The magic is in the hands of the baker.
Keep lost in the fretboard.
If not, watch the video again. He is basicly explaining simetrical intervals between diferent strings and freets
Thank you for that, I appreciate it!@@franciscoacosta1667
Bro.. 🤜🏼🤛🏼
You win the best fretboard theory video I have ever seen. Its been 36 years of picking random covers out by ear.. I’m turning myself into a music theory, geek to figure it out. Now I love music theory, the traditional method, or the active listening method, I have never thought to related to a Taurus, my mind is blown.
Thanks for this incredible lecture! I grew up playing the classical guitar and have just picked up the electric guitar, where for the first time I'm conscious of the patterns to learning scales and using movable chords. It's made me more excited about this beautiful instrument. Your explanations have only helped me process and brought me clarity to what I've been observing.
Holy cow, you just made 10 years of my life make total sense today, thanks❤
At around minute 7, I was feeling the tug to disagree because of the major-3rd interval between the 4th and 5th strings of any standard tuning (regardless of how high or low you have 'standard' tuning). You do explain the semitone shift a minute later, but I feel that it is understated, as the results have big consequences, and those consequences are *enormous blessings to fingerstyle players* . I wonder if I'm unique in that I see chords and CAGED system patterns -- not a Cartesian coordinate system.
I still like this video because it explains note relationships perfectly well but only while strings are *tuned fourths apart* . Food for thought.
Can't you see both?
@@LeeGee You could if you are like Tom Quayle who chooses to use all 4ths tuning:
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Agreed. I’m a mathematician and guitar player, and it was an interesting exercise, with limited usefulness when in standard tuning. Also, good guitar players have simply memorized the fretboard as second nature from lots of practice and experience. That intuition is ingrained in their minds, not some color matrix or even conscious labeling of notes and intervals. Also, knowing the position and pattern of internals on the guitar is essential and much simpler than what is presented here.
B/E string shift ruined the party 😮
I have been playing for 20 years have a degree in jazz and followed what you were saying but it infinitely made guitar more complicated 😂. Scales and modes/ recognizing intervals works just fine for me
Those are intervals... Are You sure You have a degree? Or... Just trying to sound like You know what you're talking about?
@@franciscoacosta1667 yes i make a living as a music teacher I definitely know what I’m talking about. This may be helpful for some but i just don’t need this kind of patterns to understand or explain guitar well
This blows my mind! This will definately be totally usless.
Mendeleev Presented to The Royal Society, a Thesis which shows that the Periodic Table of Elements is in Octave Format, so We are All, and Everything is Condensed Energetic Music.
Tolkien even includes "The Three Themes of Music" which Illuvatar "gives" to the Airnur to Sing, which in turn, brings all things into existence, providing the structure, and phenomena of reality.
Wow, this is what I was looking for. I am a beginner playing the guitar, and also an electronic engineer for 40 years. Everything in electronics is mathematically based, this is the only way to really understand the mysteries of electronics. I knew the guitar fret board had to have a mathematical definition on how the fret notes are positioned on the neck. I feel a lot better now knowing there is some method to the madness. I'm still studying this video as I still have a few things to comprehend, nevertheless this video is a wonderful insight on this subject. Thanks so much for the details, I needed it.
This has changed my life completely, I am now a mathmusician
I studied with Pat Martino in 1982 for 6 lessons. He was pointing these concepts back then. Good stuff.
This is not necessarily helpful for teaching guitar but in revealing geometry behind music theory it’s pretty spectacular. The animations are incredible! I’ve always been intrigued by the mathematical foundation of music but I have a hard time articulating it to others. This video will be mucho shared
I’ve been recently sorting through the joys of music theory and I found this video most insightful!! Thank you and keep up the fantastic work. This is the depiction of the higher dimensions we engage with as music lovers. Awesome content!
You're the greatest contemporary talant in music I ever know!!! 💖💖💖
Mike, you are the Christopher Nolan of music theory videos! For a second, you brought me to a musical tesseract and unlocked a new dimension! Thank you for this mind-blowing mathematical lecture in musical physics.
9:46 “Holy Torus, Neo, that was incredible! 👍🏾🎶
That was an incredible video. The time and effort and vision to build that and succinctly present those concepts is amazing!
These kinds of ideas need to be contemplated.
Mind-Blowing is certainly the proper terminology. Awesome!
Thank you. you took something complicated, the guitar fret board notes, and make it Extremely Complicated.
To me this explanation is making the whole thing more complicated. I rely on the major/minor scale and intervals to navigate my way around the fret board
Yeah sure is more confusing 🤣
Transposing the color spectrum to the fretboard - and then adding the 'shift' for the two bottom strings - screwed up any hope of following an already difficult pattern, at least for me.
@@mtmcb As a beginner...my brain exploded while watching this!
It's important to know the notes on the fret board. Just period. How would know where your root is when you're playing? If you in any way have memorized the low e strings notes to assist in finding your root then you in fact have half assed learned the notes. Now match them to the other strings. Just do it. Why you cheaping out, don't you want to be a better player.
@@cfdwarrior 48 years playing, here. I do try to improve, and am always grateful for what I CAN do. Improving alot, I think, requires time. When I first started playing at 17 y.o., it was no big deal to put in 3 hours per day. I was/am very good with the little I know. I'm not EVH, that's for sure. Back then (1970's) you learned from your friends, practicing, and maybe guitar lessons. I know some people have more inherent talent than others, but I will quickly add that if you truly enjoy the instrument, you will always get better at it, and yes, whatever point you're at, you will always improve by the "you get out of it what you put into it" principle. Scales are needful, even if only from a conceptual background understanding of what you are playing, but I find them difficult to deal with 'on the fly'. Intervals, on the other hand, are very useful when playing melody, and the shorter intervals become intuitive after time. I would say, finally, that the single best concept for my own improvement has been that of the "CAGED" system. It can become very easy to use while improvising or simply looking for a better position to play, when you are constructing a song.
Wow! What an amazing insight into the fret board! Very informative! Great teaching!
Holy moly. Three of my favorite subjects in one video: music, math and color theory. My brain is doing back flips!
Me too
This is an amazing video with great visuals. Much, much, MUCH appreciated!
That being said this was a fantastic I have never had mathematics of the fretboard detailed so well...
You've got no idea how happy I'm am to have found your channel! I'm both a math and music nerd lol, this was like eating fries with ice cream, the perfect pair. Thanks a lot!
Grateful for creating and for sharing this. Amazing how maths and music can be taught in one shot. Thank you for the idea and for the time you spent to make it available.
fascinating way to think about the fretboard, thank you for opening my eyes to this!
I'm glad it helps!
Most interesting. And clearly explained. Thank you. I expect to be studying this for a while. There's a lot of info in these patterns! Thank you for organizing this body of work. Cheers, Dk
Very well explained. I will try to use the method. After 35 years of struggling with tin ear this will improve my right hand dramatically.
10:02 ... “You will remember nothing!”
;) ... intriguing presentation,thanks mucho
My engineer mind LOVES this! After years of playing, last year I stumbled onto seeing the circle of 4ths or 5ths going across the strings at a given fret, and suddenly could know where the notes were within a key, relative to the root. Your observations gave me more insight into the repeating nature of the patterns for all the notes in a key... and merging that with my knowledge of the CAGED patterns... the light bulb is flickering on... THANK YOU!
How long you been playing??
This is a fantastic explanation of the guitar fretboard, note relationships and music theory in general. Truly mind blowing and helpful! Thanks Mike!
This is so well made and explained. Just wow!
Very cool man! Keep the vids coming🤘
This was such a great video! I'm taking a geometry of music course this semester and I will be sure to try to learn more about this in class!
Very good material, your introduction of n-dimensional topology as applied to the guitar and music in general is new to me, and fascinating.
Since I'm a former data guy the fretboard has looked like a matrix/vector to me for a long time. A song looks like the (usually) cyclical audible expression of a series of vector transformations over/through a period of time. And the series for a given instrument and piece of music can be (and usually is) stacked and synced with the series - the musical "parts" - of others, to produce more complex performances.
Bla bla. Linear algebra. Why this all works this way, and why music can engender psychological states in human listeners, beats me. Neato.
Now you have me thinking about n-dimensional toroidal vectors and transformations along the time dimension. Hmm. Thank you, Mike.
I’m tone deaf AND color blind… I wanted to learn guitar. I feel a little discouraged right now
My mind is blown now
This video was nuts man
You gave me the mechanical breakdown of the guitar neck by the numbers
Wow that really makes things clear !
I need therapy, only 4 minutes in and there was a overloaded circuit breaker in my head, in a good way, you delivered
Well that was clear as mud.
Great take on it. Seen this before but I love your presentation.
An eye opener..
Excellent analysis across various disciplines.
Very interesting, without knowing the concept of guitar theory, I had told a friend of mine whom is a lead guitarist that he was a color man, it was what I felt he brought to the band, so from a layman point of view to your explanation an agreement of understanding that makes this so very true, it's like a creative singer that feels this color and responds accordingly, like it was fait that brought this conversation, a language of it own that everyone can see as the hear, just down right spiritual, in fact in the Bible when God's people would go to war the tribe of Judah went first, the name Judah means praise. It's a God thing and you are a intelligent feller.
Really enjoy your presentation.
An old feller told me once......."When in doubt, move up two frets" LOL!
VERY interesting....not sure how to apply on the fly but definitely cool. Rock on!
I lost you at about 2 min but I LOVE those cool colored dots!
Loved it! Fascinating.
This video is absolutely awesome! 🤘🤘
Thanks! Music is a beautiful thing, right?
Impressive. Thank you very much for the lesson!
Great video thank you for posting it
Simply mind blowing
This is certainly interesting especially from a compositional standpoint. And if improvisers have a compositional approach perhaps this might work. But the guitar in standard tuning is arranged to make it easy to form chords. This kind of explains the second and third string ( b and g) being in a third, while the rest of the tuning is in fourths. I think seeing the patterns as chords give it context even if you are playing in scalar fashion. But anyway, we can agree that the guitar is fascinating. I do like the thinking in colors approach. Worth exploring.
Very colorful.
Love the visuals of the patterns. Subscribed.
Awesome! Thank you - and welcome. 🤘
This finally reaches me. This makes sense. Thanks!
Great visualization framework to help navigate the fretboard, in my opinion. If you are musically trained and/or can already navigate the fretboard fluidly good on you, this is obviously not something you need. I’ve been playing guitar as a hobby for two decades and still appreciate tools like this one and find them helpful to improve my skills in new ways. Thanks for the video!
Damn, man, only 34,800 subscribers? Your channel is seriously underestimated!
"mind blowing" is an understatement!
Simply WOW!
Your right! You blew my mind.
Excellent explanations
I’ve been a guitarist and teacher for a while now, but I gave up 4:31. The colours are nice though!
Great video , thank you!
LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS. Bruh - keep it coming.
I actually found the information useful. I had noticed years ago that the fretboard on a horizontal plane (box type) was based on the circle of 5ths. My excellent guitar teacher at the time was unaware of that fact. Has it made me a better guitar player? Probably not, but I put the blame on the the player (myself), where it belongs. It is fascinating though: if one can unlock the fretboard and ALL of the other intricacies of becoming a great musician, that's when the fun really begins! It's still work for me.......
Excellent visual 🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼
I like your style! Thanx for the "Back to the Future" clip!
You are one of a kind. I would say near genius. Thanks for the enlightenment.
Those are some great insights. I think I'll have to watch this a couple more times to really understand what's happening though.
Thanks for your feedback. And cheers!
Yes. I will apply this over the next three years 👍
Amazing and fascinating🔥🔥🎸🎸
Mind blown
Someone said that "music is numbers in motion". How true it is. Also, this is the best lesson I've seen on this subject. Thanks for posting. SL
Geez, way to make music as fun as math. Forget this, I'm gonna go jam some tunes and enjoy myself.
You are amazing. Thank you for that!
This reminds me the book "A Geometry of Music" by Dmitri Tymoczko, applied to guitar logic.
Excellent video. Greetings from Bogotá, Colombia.
This is not a “how to play guitar” video. It is describing math and is not for everyone. After almost 40 years of playing guitar and bass I found this very interesting. I have been working with perfect 4ths tuning with the idea that I may try 8 string guitar at some point and want to keep the relationships the same. Anyway, very interesting take and great effort on the graphics: subscribed!
I was confused about the fretboard before. But after watching this video I’m _really_ f***ing lost! 😵💫
Mind blowing video.
thanks for the video
My eyes are as glazed as a donut.
Yes many thanks, very helpful
I’ve played the guitar since 4th grade. This video made me totally confused about the guitar fretboard.
Great explanation.. However, everything is shattered when you go to standard tuning which distorts the nice matrix
Here is how you make this practical: LEARN YOUR GOD DAMN INTERVALS!!! There is no way around it. No matter how much of a revelation you think this video is, it will not provide any shortcuts to understanding the fretboard. You simply have to spend lots of time and brain power drilling the patterns of the fretboard into your brain, both visually and aurally. Even though it takes time, learning your intervals, especially learning to hear your intervals, will pay dividends for as long as you listen to, play, and internalize music. If this is new territory for you, start out with octaves! Memorize the main shapes used to play octaves between the following pairs of strings: E-D; A-G; D-B; G-E; E-G; A-B; and D-E! Start with that and don't move on until you have them under your fingers and can move them around all over the place. Then do (in approximately this order): fifths/fourths, major/minor thirds, half/whole steps between different strings (I'm assuming you have a handle on those when played on the same string), tritones, major/minor sevenths, and major/minor sixths, before moving on to larger intervals like ninths, tenths, etc. That said, just getting comfortable within an octave takes a long time (months, if not years if you're being truly rigorous with yourself), and I cannot overstate how far that alone will get you. It will take you very, very far.
If you're not yet sold on committing time to this, I will say that for me the primary benefits have been: Being able to play melodies/motifs/other musical ideas by ear, instantly. It also allows me to improvise in a way in which I'm not guessing what notes will come out of the instrument-- I know exactly what I'm going to play before I play it, which means being able to fluidly convert my internal musical ideas into awesome lines in real time. To me, it is one of the most satisfying forms of self expression that being a musician can provide.
One thing that this video overlooks (among others), is the exception to the rule which is the B string. You have to learn the patterns on and between each string, and that means learning the shapes for the normal strings, as well as intimately understanding the way in which those shapes change when the B string is involved. That is why I believe this level of abstraction can be detrimental, because it overlooks the fact that the guitar (typically) only has 6 strings (as opposed to an arbitrarily large number) and that it is not completely tuned in perfect fourths.
I will say, the math behind music is absolutely incredible, and this video doesn't begin to scratch the surface of it. I would recommend someone like 3blue1brown for that. For the physics of music, checkout Science and Music by James Jeans if you really want a revelation.
this is AMAZING in how you explain. GREAT a first I have ever seen. Based on your work; haven't see the spectral picture; plot the frequencies...a thought
This is dope. Love it.
Awesome ❤