Minor Scale Chords Guitar Lesson - Learn how the hits used them
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- Опубліковано 1 лип 2024
- Minor scale chords guitar shapes are the same as the ones from the major scale, but ordered differently. Here's the music theory of minor scale chords and how I recommend you practice them on guitar. ***Get my FREE awesome chord options chart ➡ chordswithcolor.com/
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Lesson Content Outline with Timestamp Links:
0:00 - Lesson intro
0:22 - About this lesson
1:01 - Major key chords review
1:29 - Relative minor scale chords
3:55 - Parallel minor scale chords
5:54 - Chords through ‘A’ minor
6:23 - Music ex: Jolen by Dolly Parton
7:11 - Music ex: Heart of Gold by Neil Young
8:04 - Music ex: Somebody that I used to know by Gotye
8:30 - Major V chord and harmonic minor scale
11:59 - Music ex: Good Vibrations by the Beach Boys
13:32 - Outro
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Lesson Description:
I remember having a conversation with other musicians at a social gathering many years ago.
Um... okay, yes we were talking about music theory at a party... no shame here :)
My friend Mike, a great ukulele player, shared how a song he was working on used the second chord of the minor scale in an unusual way.
"So you know how the second chord of the minor key is diminished?" he said as a setup.
Uh oh... "Yeah, totally," I replied.
Then I paused and decided to try to learn something instead of lying about it. "Wait... can you explain that to me actually?"
I had been playing guitar for YEARS but never fully understood the chord qualities that exist through the minor scale.
After learning the minor scale chords, guitar theory and all-and practicing through it on the fretboard-playing and writing in minor keys became so much easier.
I made this video so that those who need it can get this info down ahead of time before the music-nerd parties are allowed to happen again post-covid :)
I hope you enjoy
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I remember how it felt before learning the minor scale chords - guitar playing in minor keys felt like a shot in the dark with a lot of guessing and checking. Once I learned and practiced the minor scale guitar chords in the way that I demonstrate in this video I got much more confident and I now see minor scale chords as clearly as major keys.
Hope you enjoyed this lesson. Let me know what you thought :)
- Jared
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Let me know if there's something you learned here that you didn't know before, and thanks for watching :)
-Jared
Idk what to say I learned so much really. I have a sheet in front of me that’s helpful showing the whole and half steps major and minor chords and the flatted notes next to the mode names I think I would have had to struggle a little without this reference
I am very grateful for the best guitar teacher on youtube!!!
Jared, i’m in love with your teaching ways. So clear and direct. I’ve been trying to self-learn to play guitar and music theory, this channel of yours has been great for that. Thank you so much for your effort, great job!
Hi there! Thanks so much for positive feedback and the kind words! That means a lot and I'm very glad to hear that my teaching style is resonating with you :) -Jared
This has to be one of your key, foundational lessons. Very clear and valuable.
Holy ish? You like the only dude on UA-cam that showing the chords in a minor scale. God bless you, God damnit...
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Great lesson!! Thank you for the fantastic diagrams!
Wow...... i am so grateful to have discovered your channel. You are a top knotch in depth teacher. There are some teachers out there that are priceless. And you are one of them..
Wow, that means a lot! Thanks so much! :) ~~ Jared
The rare kind of person that has the magic to explain those things
Thank you so much!!!
Why are you’re lessons so AMAZING?!?!?
Hi Jared, you are turning to be a great guitar teacher, reminds me of Steeve Krenz
Like a nail in the brain. Brilliant.
I have heard about natural or relative minor versus parallel minor before, but your emphasis on the raised seventh and the example of the Good Vibrations really made it clear to me. Thanks for posting this video
I like that the lesson on minor scale chords is the *sixth* one in the series. Relatively well played.
Your curriculum for teaching is by the best. I am very grateful for your dedication to sharing your mastery of musicianship to the masses. Thank you for your help showing me the proper direction to take for, I believe, the exact goals I am hoping to reach.
Number 1 take away is: excellent but more relevance to some person who mainly sticks to pentatonic. How to introduce extended/variant chords into there playing. Practically! that's the key to getting a great you tube video. Translation!
Your channel is a gold mine :) Been playing for quite a while now and I am fairly proficient technically, but the theory part has always been missing. I have tried to learn about theory multiple times, but your approach finally makes everything click. Thank you!
Wow, that's so wonderful to hear. Thank you for taking the time to comment and let me know where you're at in your guitar journey and how these lessons fit into it. I'm glad the material I'm teaching is resonating with you! :) -Jared
great stuff your are a legend
playing a minor (NOT DIMINISHED) II or VII-maj7 is a great switch-up if you want to play dorian mode (same scale but with a sharp 6) over it.
its pretty nice for bridges or choruses while you keep your verses strictly in the minor scale (avoid the sixth, keep that for the dorian part of the song). this creates a nice contrast of melancholy and brightness without having to worry too much about tension.
radiohead used this on a few tracks.
I needed to rewatch the part about the parallel minor a few times lol but I think I'm starting to get it, I still have trouble counting in the minor scale rather than just translating though.
That part about making the minor five (v, or iii in the relative major scale) *major* before playing the tonic chord (leading up to it, which is why it's called a leading tone) because it "sounds good" and is "satisfying" clarifies a lot of questions I've had about the chord progressions of some songs. I've noticed how some songs that use the minor scale also use a cursed major third (III) in the chord progression, like in "Creep" and "Somebody that you used to know". It's that "I, III, IV, vi" guy btw
Though I guess they are actually using the Harmonic Minor scale and we're just referring to the chords in the major way. Even though the tonic is musically the minor 6, vi, it makes sense to just use the major system (the minor one has way too many flats and they're technically equivalent anyways, even though they're also technically not lmao)
Thanks for looking at the Minor Scale and Chords, that is really rare. Although I absolutely hate the Harmonies and Sound of The Beach Boys in general that was very clear and precise
So glad I recently found your channel Jared, I really relate to your perspective. Another very good & popular (1.6M subs) UA-cam guitar teacher suprised me when he said he had wasted a lot of time trying to learn the harmonic minor scale. I was surprised because minor progressions so often have a major V chord. For my rock improvising the harmonic minor (including its 5th mode, the phyrgian major) is very important.
It took me time to uderstand the full episode. But i eventually did and it was nice
Glad to hear that! :)
Thankyou so much
I've been playing guitar very casually on and off for nearly 40 years and in the past few have been finally trying to learn about music theory. Better late than never, I suppose. This "How to Learn Guitar Chords" course has been extremely helpful. I assumed it would be too basic for me when I started since I know a LOT of chords, including many jazz voicings and inversions, etc, but these lessons have really unlocked a lot of doors for me as far as understanding the theory behind the chords and how it all works. I've had a few minor epiphanies so far. Thank you for laying it out so logically and clearly. An excellent series. Looking forward to new entries in the series.
One thing that I'm having trouble wrapping my head around is the parallel minor scale. Specifically, how it is built. Is it just necessary to know that the 3rd 6th and 7th notes in the major scale are flattened to create a minor scale? Should I be thinking of it as a different pattern (whole step, half step, whole step, whole step, half step, whole step, whole step)? And when doing the chord building exercise that you taught for the major scale in an earlier lesson -- finding the 5th and 3rd of each note on the scale to build the chords -- should I be using this different pattern to count just like the major scale pattern?
Hi There! Thanks for the comment!
I'm very glad to hear that you're finding this series useful. And YAY for those little epiphanies! That's awesome :)
Great questions!
Regarding the parallel minor scale, you nailed it. It's precisely right to just think of how it's different than the major scale, so you simply flat the 3rd, 6th, and 7th exactly like you said. We can measure EVERYTHING against the major scale even when not in major keys.
And yes, think of the natural minor scale as its own structure where the 2 and b3 are a half step apart and the 5 and b6 are a half step apart and everything else is a whole step distance.
As for the chord building exercise where we count to find the labels, we can just ALWAYS use the major scale to count with. Again, we're measuring everything against the structure of the major scale to make sense of what other structures are. We can use the major scale as a default measuring stick to compare anything else to. So no matter what chord type or scale type or tonality, you can use the major scale to count and find what chord tones or scale degrees are there. Just count with the major scale then flatten or sharpen notes as needed when you see what they're next to. Hope that makes sense!
It's certainly fine to count using a minor scale or any other scale type too, especially once we see those things as obvious, but it's not necessarily better or more accurate to do that.
Hope that helps!! Thanks again for the great questions :)
-Jared
@@soundguitar Yes. This makes sense now. Knowing that everything relates back to the major scale is extremely helpful. Thank you for your thorough response. Looking forward to digging into the next lesson in the series that you just posted. I'm going to try to really absorb all of this stuff and then move on to your Modes lessons. Thanks again.
@@nobones3297 Excellent, glad that answered your questions! Let me know if you have any others any time and thanks for watching :)
Thanks!
Thank you so much!! 🙏
Wow. Awesome
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Would have been great to see the frett numbers alonside the fingering . Still great tutorial, thanks for sharing
Hey jared love from India 🇮🇳 I m following you since last few months and i found you are the best teacher for learning the guitar with deep knowledge. But in this video these subtitles are very irritating, bcos i use to watch your fingers also with your words, this time subtitles covered all your fingers. As this is my beginning phase, I found this video lil bit difficult to learn means I learned only 50% btw you did great. And i hope there will be many students like me, so pls it will be great if the don't have subtitles as it covers your guitar. Thanks love you very much ❤
Hi Jared. Great series of lessons. I am a little confused about the flat chords. Help me to understand it correctly. Lets use the flat 3 as an example. The way I understand it is that it is not necessarily a flat chord like ex. Eb but the chord is flatted relatively to the Major Scale, so it can be for example a E chord but it is the flat 3 in the minor scale.
If I understood you correctly, I did not realize that the harmonic minor scale forms its own key. I also didn’t really realize that there is a step and a half between the flat six and the seven. After about the four times of listening to this video and going through it on guitar little by little I’m getting it. All I was aware of before is that you move the flat seventh two or a major seventh to make a harmonic minor. I did not know about the cord change from a minor fifth to a major fifth.
So glad to hear that this helped things click for minor key chords! Thanks for the comment, Michael :) Cheers -Jared
Ahhh haaa! FINALLY another light bulb moment, thank you for this lesson!!
You're very welcome! Thanks, David! :)
I have NEVER noticed the relationship between The major and the Minor harmonic field
Right on! Glad to help out :) -Jared
I still confused why third chord is called flat3 in natural minor, it sound like major third right?, why its called flat then?, please somebody any explaination
Great lesson, i almost understand but not enough. Thanks though.
Thank for watching! :) -Jared
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Gotye ripped off “Baa baa black sheep have you any wool” with that song.
good ear! A lot of popular songs are just souped up nursery rhymes. e.g. Fleetwood Mac Never Going Back is 3 blind mice.
How come the whole steps and half steps change in the minor scale? It’s kinda confusing. Instead of a half step between 3 and 4 it’s not 2 and 3? And no half step from 7 to 1?
Why dont you teach the chords with the root on the 6th string also? This is important too right? If this is the 6th one in series, what are the other ones in order?
Those are good too, yes. Just is helpful to get it down along one string first, and 5th is easier. There’s a link in the description to the full video series in order
Another excellent teacher, Marco Cerillo, just posted a nice use of these chords in the progression: i, iv, bVII, bIII, bVI, ii, V, i
in this video ua-cam.com/users/shortsBJoeE3oLIaM
Hi ..why it is called flat 3 ,flat 7 etc..not just major
saying flat indicates how it's different than major. 3 means from the major scale, flat 3 means down a half step from that
@@soundguitar I had the same question. So, let me see if I understand right. It's a flat 3 chord because of the chord's root note and it's relationship to the minor scale but the chord itself is major.
@@joshuaarriola1337 BINGO! yep, and would be written bIII, and called "Flat 3 Major Chord". The upper case "III" means major. iii would mean minor. nice work. ** Jared
Well, thanks to the STOP and PLAY buttons, I can try to grab the concepts. Because, the explanation is way too detailed but way too fast. If wasn’t already familiar with chords and scales, no way I’d get any valuable information.