The level of clarity here is 11 out of 10. Outstanding. I knew these topics a bit. For 25 years. But not accurately. This was a *firehose* of accurate clear information. I totally follow, and can now speak to others more formally studied than I, in the terms they do. Thanks!
This is fantastic! I've been studying chromatic mediants from soundtrack/theory videos and was hoping that specifically your channel would make a simple, comprehensible, full reference for guitar. Thanks once again
Got about 1/3 of the way through, then my nose started bleeding…Got it bookmarked and will be coming back to it often to absorb as much as I can. Lack of implementation of this is why my own music is so stale. Fantastic content here. Many thanks.
The way you explain concepts is incredible. I could never have hoped to understand this otherwise and I'm excited to try and play around with this now.
Nick Johnston is magnificent at this technique and builds soundscapes that transports you exactly where you would only imagine in a dream state movie of your mind. Or not… lol… 🎸😳🌎☮️🎼
Commenting before watching: hell yes! Thank you! 😄 I know your videos and I know how you teach! Im watching (for the first time!) now! Thank you again!
My dear: I wonder why you did not touch hundreds of thousands subs. Your lessons are inspiring and well done among a sea of YT guitar lessons. Congrats and keep it up!
What a pleasant surprise this new masterclass! Full of known and unknown concepts and how they relate to each other, filling in the blanks and giving the possibility to create new, different and interesting compositions. Again your work in the creation of the video is impressive, as well as the examples/compositions and your execution that accompany each concept. There are no words to express the quality of what you share and how grateful I am to have your knowledge at my fingertips. Thank you so much Rob!
Like most of your tutorials, things that I (and a few others probably) will never truly master, but it is soooo satisfactory to UNDERSTAND how it works! Thanks!
Was just playing He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother the other day...I think one of these changes is in there. Part of the power of that song is the Em to Eb to F chords sections. Unusual and beautifully melancholy. A tear jerker for sure. Thanks for another great video Rob! Your theory videos are THE best.
This is really excellent. For an intermediate guitarist it opens many many new doors (and illuminates some dark passages between them!). Likewise suffering from a little nose bleeding per below :) but feels reachable!
Learning sooo much from you. Thank you! Fantastic work. Always eager to see new content from you and it's consistently awesome. Keep it going my good man.
As always fully packed with great explanation and presentation. Rob your content is absolutely great. When one starts taking music theory more serious - especially for guitar - they will always land here! I learned a ton so far!
Not sure if you'll see this, but I hope you do. I've been watching a couple of your videos and I'm very impressed with the depth of information you put together and the clarity of your diagrams. I'm likely gonna be picking up your ebooks soon but there's something else that would be quite cool, which is maybe posters of your diagrams in a summarised form. I've got some blank space on my wall and I've been looking for high quality music diagrams but not found anything to my satisfaction. Yours exceed expectations. It would be cool if you were to either make a PDF poster you were happy for us to get printed, or if you found a service that would handle the printing process. I would really appreciate being able to steep my wandering mind in these concepts rather than the blank walls I currently have. Excellent work, thank you for your educational content.
Dang it Rob I would have LOVED to have this information months ago. LMAO I was wondering what technique I was using. Best video for yet for my personal learning. THANKS ROB!!!
As for which musical genre abuses chromatic mediants the most in their extreme sinister form, symphonic black metal it is! Although my favorite band in this genre is Bal-Sagoth who use the most cinematic elements
Notable Mention would be Symphonic Black Metal in general, tons of Minor chord changes in that stuff whether its obscure Black Metal, or well known bands like Dimmu Borgir and their song "Kings Of The Carnival Creation" Kinda figured you'd mention that genre considering your accent but yeah.
Hi there, appreciated your hardwork a lot and recommended this channel to the needed ones.❤ Can you help me with the singal chord backing tracks used for practice routine section of scale arpeggio video. It would become easy for practicing one mode over a single chord backing track
Thank you, best explanation I've found, even better than Rick Beato's, and that's saying something. Also, thank you for the list of modern songs that use it. All the other explanations leave out context and that gives me something to look at as the two riffs I have that use this are difficult to resolve. On the Tears for Fears tune (one of my favorites by them) the melody is obviously flatting the G to fit the chord change, but it would be interesting to look at how modal ideas work through these. In that case could you keep the F# in place (if it were being used) making it a Lydian mode, or would you fully modulate to the C major and why or why not and how does that sound? I will sit at the piano when I get home and see what my ear thinks, but it would be an interesting part two to explore the melodic possibilities created by modal interchange.
Thank you for your comment! It is indeed very interesting to explore modal interchange ideas. I made a video about that subject too if you're interrested: ua-cam.com/video/9LxJPaqh51o/v-deo.html
You can't use one scale for both chords, because they come from different keys. The easiest way is to modulate to the key of the chord: over C-E use Cmajor and E major. After this you can switch to modal playing and use for instance C Lydian and E mixolydian.
No doubt, this is quality content and these things are just typos. I appreciate that you share this knowledge, but when I see sth. wrong I have the urge to point it out.
I saw the title, Chord Progressions!....with ONLY 2 chords and thought, that sounds perfect for me! Now I need to lie down for a while.
This video should become the new standard in teaching mediants -for all instruments-.
Thank you
Wieder ein geniales Video, was ich mich sogar bis zum Ende angeschaut habe. Danke Rob.
I must say, your posts are pure gold fella. I have learned so much, or rather I like to think I have ;)
Thanks!
Ok this answers a lot of questions I didn't know how to ask even... Goodbye to boring playing within a single scale...
The level of clarity here is 11 out of 10. Outstanding.
I knew these topics a bit. For 25 years. But not accurately.
This was a *firehose* of accurate clear information.
I totally follow, and can now speak to others more formally studied than I, in the terms they do.
Thanks!
Thank you!
Rob another masterclass. Thank you!👍🏻
This is fantastic! I've been studying chromatic mediants from soundtrack/theory videos and was hoping that specifically your channel would make a simple, comprehensible, full reference for guitar. Thanks once again
Got about 1/3 of the way through, then my nose started bleeding…Got it bookmarked and will be coming back to it often to absorb as much as I can. Lack of implementation of this is why my own music is so stale. Fantastic content here. Many thanks.
Thank you!
This is the most complete explanation of chromatic mediants I have seen, thanks Rob
Great! Great! Great! I suggest you a video about harmonising melodies within conplex chord progressions
The way you explain concepts is incredible. I could never have hoped to understand this otherwise and I'm excited to try and play around with this now.
Great lesson.Easy to understand and I can really hear what is going on.
what a video every second offers a guitar love forever
Thank you!
Very cool concept! Thanks for all of the lessons.
Roger Taylor ( drummer from Queen) song from first solo album - Laugh Or Cry
This lesson is amazing. Thank you.
Greetings from Brazil.
Thanks!
Thank you again for providing u with your talent, explaining things cristal clear!
Great Video Rob, I found this really helpful for composing, lots of fun too!
Nick Johnston is magnificent at this technique and builds soundscapes that transports you exactly where you would only imagine in a dream state movie of your mind. Or not… lol… 🎸😳🌎☮️🎼
That's poetry in itself! :)
Brilliant pedagogy!!!!!
Commenting before watching: hell yes! Thank you! 😄 I know your videos and I know how you teach! Im watching (for the first time!) now! Thank you again!
My dear: I wonder why you did not touch hundreds of thousands subs. Your lessons are inspiring and well done among a sea of YT guitar lessons. Congrats and keep it up!
Thank you!
What a great informative and professional video. Thank you
thanks for some fresh ideas on chord progressions! really like your videos 😊
I always admired the doors for their song.....light my fire...... - Thank you for explaining this and other unheard sounds so clearly .
Excellent presentation, the material is in valuable!!
Chromatic mediant sounds a lot like Michael Romeo's progression style. Thanks!
This video has clarified a lot of tangles in my mind!!! Thank you so much 🙂
What a pleasant surprise this new masterclass! Full of known and unknown concepts and how they relate to each other, filling in the blanks and giving the possibility to create new, different and interesting compositions.
Again your work in the creation of the video is impressive, as well as the examples/compositions and your execution that accompany each concept.
There are no words to express the quality of what you share and how grateful I am to have your knowledge at my fingertips.
Thank you so much Rob!
Thank you!
Recorda-Me has the chromatic mediant Am to Cm, while The Doors' Light My Fire - Am to F#m.
Haven't realized until this lol
Thanks man,, I've been stuck on composing progression. Now I've got a lot of idea 👌👌
This is excellent Rob - thank you brother
This is absolutely phenomenal.
Great lesson Rob, Thanks!
Brilliant lesson! I'll be applying this for sure, thank you so much!
Wonderful lesson on how to simply associate the sounds with the concept. Also, the Twitter joke was a winner. 😂
Bravo!
Like most of your tutorials, things that I (and a few others probably) will never truly master, but it is soooo satisfactory to UNDERSTAND how it works! Thanks!
Very helpfull, thank you so much 🙏
Great ! Thanks a lot.
very informative guitar tutorial, thanks for sharing again sir🙏🙏
Great lesson thank you 😊
Was just playing He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother the other day...I think one of these changes is in there. Part of the power of that song is the Em to Eb to F chords sections. Unusual and beautifully melancholy. A tear jerker for sure.
Thanks for another great video Rob! Your theory videos are THE best.
your channel is amazing
E to C is boss like... as are Augmented chords.
This is really excellent. For an intermediate guitarist it opens many many new doors (and illuminates some dark passages between them!). Likewise suffering from a little nose bleeding per below :) but feels reachable!
Learning sooo much from you. Thank you! Fantastic work. Always eager to see new content from you and it's consistently awesome. Keep it going my good man.
This is a fantastic video!! Your videos are always very informative and enjoyable. Thank you for such amazing content.
My favourite chromatic mediant is also from the Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship theme.
As always fully packed with great explanation and presentation. Rob your content is absolutely great. When one starts taking music theory more serious - especially for guitar - they will always land here! I learned a ton so far!
Thanks!
This is a really cool masterclass! Thank you for explaining these concepts so clearly and for the examples!
Not sure if you'll see this, but I hope you do. I've been watching a couple of your videos and I'm very impressed with the depth of information you put together and the clarity of your diagrams. I'm likely gonna be picking up your ebooks soon but there's something else that would be quite cool, which is maybe posters of your diagrams in a summarised form.
I've got some blank space on my wall and I've been looking for high quality music diagrams but not found anything to my satisfaction. Yours exceed expectations. It would be cool if you were to either make a PDF poster you were happy for us to get printed, or if you found a service that would handle the printing process.
I would really appreciate being able to steep my wandering mind in these concepts rather than the blank walls I currently have. Excellent work, thank you for your educational content.
Great lesson Rob! 👍
Thanks
❤ Thanks
Dang it Rob I would have LOVED to have this information months ago. LMAO I was wondering what technique I was using. Best video for yet for my personal learning. THANKS ROB!!!
As for which musical genre abuses chromatic mediants the most in their extreme sinister form, symphonic black metal it is!
Although my favorite band in this genre is Bal-Sagoth who use the most cinematic elements
very inpsiring indeed !
This blows my brain
Notable Mention would be Symphonic Black Metal in general, tons of Minor chord changes in that stuff whether its obscure Black Metal, or well known bands like Dimmu Borgir and their song "Kings Of The Carnival Creation" Kinda figured you'd mention that genre considering your accent but yeah.
😎👍👍👍Wow! I think I need to watch this about a thousand times. Auto Sub Like and Share.
Thanks!
Hi there, appreciated your hardwork a lot and recommended this channel to the needed ones.❤
Can you help me with the singal chord backing tracks used for practice routine section of scale arpeggio video. It would become easy for practicing one mode over a single chord backing track
I will put it on my patreon page!
@@QJamTracks thanks a ton.. have subscribed to your page.. will wait for the update
Insane
Thank you, best explanation I've found, even better than Rick Beato's, and that's saying something. Also, thank you for the list of modern songs that use it. All the other explanations leave out context and that gives me something to look at as the two riffs I have that use this are difficult to resolve. On the Tears for Fears tune (one of my favorites by them) the melody is obviously flatting the G to fit the chord change, but it would be interesting to look at how modal ideas work through these. In that case could you keep the F# in place (if it were being used) making it a Lydian mode, or would you fully modulate to the C major and why or why not and how does that sound? I will sit at the piano when I get home and see what my ear thinks, but it would be an interesting part two to explore the melodic possibilities created by modal interchange.
Thank you for your comment! It is indeed very interesting to explore modal interchange ideas. I made a video about that subject too if you're interrested: ua-cam.com/video/9LxJPaqh51o/v-deo.html
Very (too much) complex for me :D
What are the scales to use to improvise on these chords progressions?
You can't use one scale for both chords, because they come from different keys. The easiest way is to modulate to the key of the chord: over C-E use Cmajor and E major. After this you can switch to modal playing and use for instance C Lydian and E mixolydian.
Black Metal Chord Progression
I feal like beginner guitar players do this with out realizing all the time
14:40 B = II Bb= bII
...or am I wrong here?
also : bVIII ? Tell me more about that.
No doubt, this is quality content and these things are just typos. I appreciate that you share this knowledge, but when I see sth. wrong I have the urge to point it out.
No problem. Please do point that out, so others can benefit from that.
This dude just went full Arnold Schoenberg on a UA-cam video.
chromatic mediants are like 8 chord jumps x 2
so 16 chord jumps
First
what i hear....blah blah blah blah