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Glad you liked it AJ! Thanks for being here. For sure every incredible guitar player that I have ever met or worked with has always known how to play a lot of tunes on guitar. I've never met one who didn't have this trait. This is one of the paths anyone can use to improve their playing and musical knowledge. Yes the song count is really adding up on the UA-cam channel. A few years back I set a goal to get to 1,000 song lessons taught online. I'm currently at 820 from what I can count! Here is a playlist of them: ua-cam.com/play/PL9t5ENlVNlEeXBht22vQPzkZh_t7DVB5Q.html
Ill second the 'Banger' comment- classic*. I freaking love the music of Stevie now- and in general the beautiful chords of loads of the R&B classics you are posting here. In fact I've got a doozer of a story for you one day that will make you smile! ;-) (* even if it should be something closer to "mon cherie d'amour', but hey!)
@TJPatriot74 There are music-theory technical reasons for this. An A flat is the same as a G sharp, but if we see an A flat chord we don’t contact the writer and say “A flat? How about G sharp?” There are flats and sharps for reasons that relate to each key. Perhaps the easiest example is the major scale in the key of F. This is the notes F G A Bb C D E F. We can’t turn the Bb into an A sharp, even though they are “the same note” - or there would be two A’s in the scale and no B, as you would have F G A A# C D E F. Then if you were learning to read sheet music and your piece was in the key of F, then every time you saw the note A it would have to tell you whether it was the normal A or the sharp A. And if you saw the note B you wouldn’t know what to play because it “doesn’t exist” in that key. So it is a Bb - it just is not an A#. With a piece as musically sophisticated as a Stevie Wonder number, often in multi-sharp or multi-flat keys, it can therefore be perfectly correct to describe something as “C flat” and not B, even though they are “the same notes”. So it doesn’t matter, from the point of view of fingering the chord, if you want to think of it as a B Major 7 instead of a C flat Major 7, as they are played in exactly the same way. But if you wanted to dig deeper into understanding your music, it wouldn’t be right. And you must already be a reasonably sophisticated guitarist if you’re working on the correct chords for a Stevie Wonder number.
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Another absolute banger. At this point I’m convinced you spend everyday on front of a camera with an unlimited playlist to share with us.
Glad you liked it AJ! Thanks for being here. For sure every incredible guitar player that I have ever met or worked with has always known how to play a lot of tunes on guitar. I've never met one who didn't have this trait. This is one of the paths anyone can use to improve their playing and musical knowledge. Yes the song count is really adding up on the UA-cam channel. A few years back I set a goal to get to 1,000 song lessons taught online. I'm currently at 820 from what I can count! Here is a playlist of them: ua-cam.com/play/PL9t5ENlVNlEeXBht22vQPzkZh_t7DVB5Q.html
agreed. another "banger" - i gotta assume that's good. jon picks great songs and he's a great teacher.
Thanks a lot !!! My friend
I am really digging your musical choices. Thanks once again for another great lesson.
Glad you like them! Thanks for watching!
Duuuuude. So excellent. You saved me so much time and aggrevation. You're the man
Thank you!
Smashin them tunes out today my friend
Many thanks from Uk 🇬🇧
Great lesson! 👊💥
Well done, thanks
beautiful sound that tele, good lesson man thnx☼
Luv your chord choice at the end of your video introduction!!! Very melodic/harmonic ~!~
Right on. That's a tough one. Glad to help! I learned that shape from the opening chord to "One Rainy Wish" by Jimi Hendrix. Thanks for watching.
Ill second the 'Banger' comment- classic*. I freaking love the music of Stevie now- and in general the beautiful chords of loads of the R&B classics you are posting here.
In fact I've got a doozer of a story for you one day that will make you smile! ;-)
(* even if it should be something closer to "mon cherie d'amour', but hey!)
100 percent! Stevie is a musical genius.
Great tutorial Jon. Thank you !!
You're so welcome. Glad you liked it!
Please play other stevie song ❤
Nice. I'd love to see you do Superstition sometime also.
You're welcome. Here ya go! ua-cam.com/video/4Uxzfk36CTQ/v-deo.html
C flat 7? How about B7?
@TJPatriot74 There are music-theory technical reasons for this. An A flat is the same as a G sharp, but if we see an A flat chord we don’t contact the writer and say “A flat? How about G sharp?” There are flats and sharps for reasons that relate to each key. Perhaps the easiest example is the major scale in the key of F. This is the notes F G A Bb C D E F. We can’t turn the Bb into an A sharp, even though they are “the same note” - or there would be two A’s in the scale and no B, as you would have F G A A# C D E F. Then if you were learning to read sheet music and your piece was in the key of F, then every time you saw the note A it would have to tell you whether it was the normal A or the sharp A. And if you saw the note B you wouldn’t know what to play because it “doesn’t exist” in that key. So it is a Bb - it just is not an A#. With a piece as musically sophisticated as a Stevie Wonder number, often in multi-sharp or multi-flat keys, it can therefore be perfectly correct to describe something as “C flat” and not B, even though they are “the same notes”. So it doesn’t matter, from the point of view of fingering the chord, if you want to think of it as a B Major 7 instead of a C flat Major 7, as they are played in exactly the same way. But if you wanted to dig deeper into understanding your music, it wouldn’t be right. And you must already be a reasonably sophisticated guitarist if you’re working on the correct chords for a Stevie Wonder number.
What functions these chords have?
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