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One of the best fret jams yet. It’s nice to see it like this, because all day you can look up parallel minor and get the concept. Then, you have the job of searching for teachers that show examples in popular music. This just shows both, and even begins ear training. Of these examples, I can pick out a song instantly that I know that has one of these moves as it’s main hook. So the move, I remember by the song. Very good.
This is one of the lessons I always come back to. Helped me to understand the use of borrowed chords from a minor scale, but also borrow from others modally such as C mixolydian and/or C Lydian. Superb lesson!
This is definitely 100% a goldmine for guitar players on UA-cam. I haven't seen a better clip on UA-cam that me a humble guitar player with limited music theory knowledge can understand so clearly. Absolutely brilliant content at its peak.
Many are as Radiohead often simply switches to a minor where you expect a major. Of course, those talented folk do much else in their music, but your ear is correct.
Easy to undestand even for beginners! Thank you my friend! I'm a trumpet player wondering to compose good jazzy vibes and this helps about the choosing of chords. Cheeers!
Thanks to your lessons, I’m now inspired to be more creative, instead of just covering tracks...not only that , I’d reached a dead end , but now I have somewhere to go!!🤘🏻👍🤩
Your videos almost always teach me something, but this is one of the most useful videos yet. Knowing how to switch scales is probably my greatest weakness, so I usually resort to picking out good notes piecemeal. The idea that there's usually a ready-made solution is really eye-opening. Thanks.
Really beautiful playing in this lesson!! Nice tones, nicely enriched chords in the played exmples, and the lead playing is so tasteful! I got slightly Opeth-y vibes at points. Oh, and the lesson is good, too!
Love this type of thing. I recognize the sounds. Mostly in older music. The minor 4 was really similar to the song at the end of the movie La Bamba if I'm remembering correctly. Been years since I've seen that, but my mind instantly went there.
This is awesome. I've made handouts for basic chord progressions but now I'm thinking of making new handouts of chord progressions with borrowed chords. 😁
Amazing lesson, easy explanation to a big topic. So grateful you are doing that. Thank you for the support to all guitar players. Greetings from Guatemala.
one of the best chord progressions explanation i have been looking for. Thank you so much. Now i am gonna try a new song with some awesome chord progressions.
Here's a tip (and I'm by no means doing anything extra special here!) - start with arpeggios (major or minor depending on the mode) and build your phrases around them. Use arpeggios to lead into and out of a more linear phrase from the mode's pattern. Then look at the 7th and extended arpeggios that correspond to the mode. Do the same with building your phrases around them. So you're mixing "vertical" with "horizontal".
Hey man, I really cannot express how much I appreciate what you are doing. Short, simple, easy to follow, auditory and visual - great videos and instruction. Thank you.
Mike...thanks a lot for ur lessons...all ur lessons r very effective and helped me immensely in becoming musician I wanted to be...thanks for ur service to humanity...
Dude......your videos are a next level genius while remaining accessible. Harmonically provocative info grounded in far-reaching pragmatism. I’m excited
Great tutorial. I’ve seen about 7 or 8 videos on the topic of borrowed chords and found this one to be the best. I liked you included many examples. Most vids just show the IV/iv example and leave it at that. My primary instrument is guitar, so extra points for the riffing over the chords!
Chusss Music has created some great jam tracks that are perfect for applying what you learn in this lesson. Use them to play through the C major/minor scale changes covered... Cmaj / Fm (I / iv) - ua-cam.com/video/YF_wAcLtJGs/v-deo.html Cmaj / Abmaj (I / bVI) - ua-cam.com/video/PKZcPbWGjkE/v-deo.html
Great lesson as usual, sounds like a gold mine of new chord progressions. I love it. By the way great lead tone you got with those improvised parts, Could you share some details about your tone or gear? Looking forward to that 'Modal interchange' lesson.
Thanks my friend. I'm playing a Les Paul into a Boss GT-001 straight to the USB. I'm using a slightly modified "clean sustain" patch with a Dyna Comp and Blues Driver OD (both modelled through the GT). It does the job but finding good lead tone is difficult with digital processing. It can sound a bit one dimensional. I might try mic'ing an amp next time and do things the traditional way. Seems like the search for good tone never ends!
Well if you are going to compare simulation to actual hardware it would be really unfair. But the tone you got is good enough in general, maybe adding some space or room reverb would enhance it the way you want, you will have to experiment. I like the sound of Boss pedals and multi's. To be honest I have heard bad stuff coming out of expensive guitars and gear so I finally came to a conclusion that might sound like a cliche, but good tone comes from good hands :) or the tone is in the fingers like they say. By the way I sent you Email please check it.
Great points! Yes I'm generally a fan of Boss and the ME-50 multi has served me well live over many years. You're absolutely right, most of it is in the fingers and this is something that we just have to feel out over time. Got your email, thanks for that.
fretjam Interesting, I was going to ask the same question about the gear used. I could tell humbuckers but I would have guessed more like a Gretch or a PRS. Bloody digital processing...
It's only fairly recently that I've started to care more about tone (as in beyond fingers) and recording is where it becomes exposed the most. I know some people embrace that search and experimenting with different gear can go a long way to satisfying that. I personally find it a bit frustrating (not to mention financially burdensome) as I just want to plug in and play. So I think you're right in the scheme of things. Focus on developing playing skills first and foremost. When playing live, a lot of the tone you spend hours perfecting gets lost in the mix/ambience anyway. The main thing is that you get your musical message out.
This is a great video. I never borrowed the II chord in this way, I will start to use it after seeing this. However, I would like to encourage people not to ignore the minor dominant (fifth, V). If one can use Bflat major in the key of C, one can also use G minor. The resulting sound is beautiful and melancholic. Great example of this is the theme music from Black Adder.
I'd recommend treating the minor dominant as borrowed from Mixolydian rather than Natural Minor. Or you could see it as playing Dorian over the minor v (so either C Mixolydian or G Dorian over Gm).
@@fretjamguitar Yes, keeping the major 6th interval (from C) in play, also the major third. As you mentioned in the video, the way one thinks of functions within music is the way one will use them (paraphrasing here), there are many ways to think about it, and different results may occur from different perspectives. Thank you for response, this is the first video of yours that I have seen, and I will check out more because this one was both informative and simply cool.
I absolutely love your content. Even when you cover topics i`m already familiar with, It is just so much fun seeing it all presented visually in such a clear way and listening to your creative improvisations demonstrating the concepts. Amazing job ! cheers
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As a Keyboardist, Thanks for the lesson about this...
This is hands down the best lesson on using parallel scales I’ve ever seen!
mate im a pianist, been looking for a video explaining this and no one has explained it better than you did,really really appreciated, rock on mate !
I am from Iran, great teaching
One of the best fret jams yet. It’s nice to see it like this, because all day you can look up parallel minor and get the concept. Then, you have the job of searching for teachers that show examples in popular music. This just shows both, and even begins ear training. Of these examples, I can pick out a song instantly that I know that has one of these moves as it’s main hook. So the move, I remember by the song. Very good.
Yeah he can teach and play too.
Right, I was implying that...@@norakat
This is one of the lessons I always come back to. Helped me to understand the use of borrowed chords from a minor scale, but also borrow from others modally such as C mixolydian and/or C Lydian. Superb lesson!
This is definitely 100% a goldmine for guitar players on UA-cam. I haven't seen a better clip on UA-cam that me a humble guitar player with limited music theory knowledge can understand so clearly. Absolutely brilliant content at its peak.
The effort you put into your examples is very much appreciated
I appreciate your time.
That was incredible clear. I never quite got the logic in some of these until now.
Brilliant. I am a visual person, and the diagrams are essential. Thank you so much.
all the examples sound like early radiohead
i love it
Avvv Qvvv or nirvana
some of them have what i would call "the cobain switch" where you think it's in a certain scale but then it finishes with a borrowed chord
Many are as Radiohead often simply switches to a minor where you expect a major. Of course, those talented folk do much else in their music, but your ear is correct.
Exactly my thoughts! :)
As soon as I heard the C -> Ab, I thought about Nirvana.
Superb job explaining a reasonably advanced concept in very easy-to-follow terms.
Thanks, this was extremely helpful and smoothly explained. Very useful stuff!
My fav music teacher on UA-cam! Thank you! ❤️
Brilliant lesson. Ive been playing 20 years and that came in really handy. 😊
Great lesson. Best way ever to look at parallel major and minor scales. ]Thank you
I really want to do more on this!
The explanation is very clear and the visuals make it easy to understand the theory
Easy to undestand even for beginners!
Thank you my friend!
I'm a trumpet player wondering to compose good jazzy vibes and this helps about the choosing of chords.
Cheeers!
Thanks to your lessons, I’m now inspired to be more creative, instead of just covering tracks...not only that , I’d reached a dead end , but now I have somewhere to go!!🤘🏻👍🤩
This is the sole video that made me understand how to switch properly
Thank you!
This is a very clear explanation and great lesson. I see there's one dislike. The folk who give a thumbs down never offer an explanation of why!
There's a few now. All my ex girlfriends.
@@fretjamguitar hahahaha
Wow man thank you! You blow my mind by simplifying things I thought were esoteric!
This channel is a gold mine. Thank you.
Well produced, informing video, with clearly explained examples.
This is a gold mine of cool chord progressions 😂
Your videos almost always teach me something, but this is one of the most useful videos yet. Knowing how to switch scales is probably my greatest weakness, so I usually resort to picking out good notes piecemeal. The idea that there's usually a ready-made solution is really eye-opening. Thanks.
One of the best learning channel on UA-cam
Learning makes so much easy here.
THANKS A TON.
Really beautiful playing in this lesson!! Nice tones, nicely enriched chords in the played exmples, and the lead playing is so tasteful! I got slightly Opeth-y vibes at points.
Oh, and the lesson is good, too!
Incredible tutorial! Thank you so much! It's easy to see now the Beatles and Radiohead were masters of borrowed chords.
Best video of borrowed chords ever. Thanks
Thank you for that lesson! I've known about parallel major and minor for some time now but now I get it. Awesome lesson! Please don't stop!
Love this type of thing. I recognize the sounds. Mostly in older music. The minor 4 was really similar to the song at the end of the movie La Bamba if I'm remembering correctly. Been years since I've seen that, but my mind instantly went there.
Holy crap! This legitimate helps out alot by playing both rhythm and lead guitar!
Great lesson. Super well done and very informative. I’m wondering who are the 36 people who didn’t like this video! Heathens.
This is awesome. I've made handouts for basic chord progressions but now I'm thinking of making new handouts of chord progressions with borrowed chords. 😁
Theory and visuals facilitates my understanding. Your clip is great. I’ll try your method in my playing now.
I have to say this video is incredible! Just subscribed. And the example choices really set it over the top with the diagrams!
Amazing lesson, easy explanation to a big topic. So grateful you are doing that. Thank you for the support to all guitar players. Greetings from Guatemala.
La Guitarra Chapina I know these videos are seriously helpful and breaking so many walls down for me. The material on this channel is so professional
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One of the more helpful eye opening lessons that I've seen in a long time. Thx!!!
Wow...thank you for this incredible lesson!
i immediately subbed because you teach with actually playing and it sounds nice . good balance between theory and playing
Pure gold . . . thank you and I love your tone when you play the lead lines over the chord changes.
one of the best chord progressions explanation i have been looking for. Thank you so much. Now i am gonna try a new song with some awesome chord progressions.
Fantastic lesson! Really well explained and immediately useable.
I went to like this video just to find out that I had already liked it before. That's how awesome it is.
Bless you!
one of my favorite youtube lessons ever
Dude you have several amazingly tasteful solos every video you make about modes....I can't even write one or just solo over jam tracks...
Here's a tip (and I'm by no means doing anything extra special here!) - start with arpeggios (major or minor depending on the mode) and build your phrases around them. Use arpeggios to lead into and out of a more linear phrase from the mode's pattern. Then look at the 7th and extended arpeggios that correspond to the mode. Do the same with building your phrases around them. So you're mixing "vertical" with "horizontal".
The best video about borrowed chord. Thanks mate!!!
This lesson was very clearly explained. Awesome examples and visuals!
The way the scale chart animations are synchronized to the playing is really incredible.
I fell in love with the guitar playing..... incredible!
Hey man, I really cannot express how much I appreciate what you are doing. Short, simple, easy to follow, auditory and visual - great videos and instruction. Thank you.
You're the greatest channel on here.
Thank you. Beautifully explained, you blew my mind, finally pieces are fitting together.
Mike...thanks a lot for ur lessons...all ur lessons r very effective and helped me immensely in becoming musician I wanted to be...thanks for ur service to humanity...
I really enjoyed the lead guitar melodies you used to flesh out your examples!
Fretjam, greatest guitar theory channel in the universe.
Thank you
Sweet examples of chord tone targeting !
hypnotically educative. thank you
Dude......your videos are a next level genius while remaining accessible. Harmonically provocative info grounded in far-reaching pragmatism. I’m excited
"Harmonically provocative info grounded in far-reaching pragmatism" Ooh I like that! Thanks for the kind words my friend.
Your lead playing is really great and perfectly conveys the feeling/vibe of the chord changes! Really enjoying your lessons.
I've been following your channel for a long time, and i enjoyed every bit of it. Keep on the good work, good sir. God bless you
As usual mate, a fabulous lesson.. thank you so much.. always has me thinking and grinning for days...
The best video I could wish for on this subject
Great tutorial. I’ve seen about 7 or 8 videos on the topic of borrowed chords and found this one to be the best. I liked you included many examples. Most vids just show the IV/iv example and leave it at that. My primary instrument is guitar, so extra points for the riffing over the chords!
i love the practice examples. helps a lot
2:02 as we can C
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@@thalle6567 you missed the joke
INCREDIBLE LESSON
This is one of the best theory lesson I have ever seen! Thanks!!!
Great lesson and presentation!
Thank you so much for the video it meant a lot to me understanding a song thank you
This is an amazing resource. Thank you.
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Sweet guitar playing for examples !
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Awesome lesson Mike!!!! As usual best guitar lessons on the net......thanks for that!!
Thank you, I was always confused until now
What a great lesson with awesome examples
This video is brilliant as always Opened me to so many possibilities
How are your videos free? I feel like I've learned sooo much, dude. Thank you!
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Super clear and super useful as usual. Thank you friend for sharing with us your music knowledge!
Brilliant lesson... really well presented. So much information ! Very impressed.
Chusss Music has created some great jam tracks that are perfect for applying what you learn in this lesson. Use them to play through the C major/minor scale changes covered...
Cmaj / Fm (I / iv) - ua-cam.com/video/YF_wAcLtJGs/v-deo.html
Cmaj / Abmaj (I / bVI) - ua-cam.com/video/PKZcPbWGjkE/v-deo.html
my brain just exploded. Thank you very much!!
very good video. really helps to clarify things
OMG this is the best video I've ever seen on music theory (at least on borrowed chords), thank you so much, the sound examples are amazing!
What a great understandable lesson. Thanks.
Great lesson as usual, sounds like a gold mine of new chord progressions. I love it. By the way great lead tone you got with those improvised parts, Could you share some details about your tone or gear? Looking forward to that 'Modal interchange' lesson.
Thanks my friend. I'm playing a Les Paul into a Boss GT-001 straight to the USB. I'm using a slightly modified "clean sustain" patch with a Dyna Comp and Blues Driver OD (both modelled through the GT). It does the job but finding good lead tone is difficult with digital processing. It can sound a bit one dimensional. I might try mic'ing an amp next time and do things the traditional way. Seems like the search for good tone never ends!
Well if you are going to compare simulation to actual hardware it would be really unfair. But the tone you got is good enough in general, maybe adding some space or room reverb would enhance it the way you want, you will have to experiment. I like the sound of Boss pedals and multi's. To be honest I have heard bad stuff coming out of expensive guitars and gear so I finally came to a conclusion that might sound like a cliche, but good tone comes from good hands :) or the tone is in the fingers like they say. By the way I sent you Email please check it.
Great points! Yes I'm generally a fan of Boss and the ME-50 multi has served me well live over many years. You're absolutely right, most of it is in the fingers and this is something that we just have to feel out over time. Got your email, thanks for that.
fretjam Interesting, I was going to ask the same question about the gear used. I could tell humbuckers but I would have guessed more like a Gretch or a PRS. Bloody digital processing...
It's only fairly recently that I've started to care more about tone (as in beyond fingers) and recording is where it becomes exposed the most. I know some people embrace that search and experimenting with different gear can go a long way to satisfying that. I personally find it a bit frustrating (not to mention financially burdensome) as I just want to plug in and play. So I think you're right in the scheme of things. Focus on developing playing skills first and foremost. When playing live, a lot of the tone you spend hours perfecting gets lost in the mix/ambience anyway. The main thing is that you get your musical message out.
Amazing video, explained me a lot of stuff I didn't understand
Wooow Good explain and thank you very much Master ...............🙏🙏🙏🙏
great tool for songwriting!
Your lessons always help. Cheers
This is a great video. I never borrowed the II chord in this way, I will start to use it after seeing this. However, I would like to encourage people not to ignore the minor dominant (fifth, V). If one can use Bflat major in the key of C, one can also use G minor. The resulting sound is beautiful and melancholic. Great example of this is the theme music from Black Adder.
I'd recommend treating the minor dominant as borrowed from Mixolydian rather than Natural Minor. Or you could see it as playing Dorian over the minor v (so either C Mixolydian or G Dorian over Gm).
@@fretjamguitar Yes, keeping the major 6th interval (from C) in play, also the major third. As you mentioned in the video, the way one thinks of functions within music is the way one will use them (paraphrasing here), there are many ways to think about it, and different results may occur from different perspectives. Thank you for response, this is the first video of yours that I have seen, and I will check out more because this one was both informative and simply cool.
I absolutely love your content. Even when you cover topics i`m already familiar with, It is just so much fun seeing it all presented visually in such a clear way and listening to your creative improvisations demonstrating the concepts.
Amazing job ! cheers
Absolutely positively great video
Very helpful lesson for learning..Thanks...