Why Chords Matter Most! (What Robben Ford Helped Me See)
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- Опубліковано 26 січ 2021
- Chords matter most! Today I'll be discussing why knowing and understanding chords is the post important thing to work on. How Robben kicked my butt on this stuff on gigs, and more.
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these are great videos, really enjoying them. (The best line I heard about great tone is attributed to Chet Atkins. Someone approached him at the end of his show and said, "Wow Chet that guitar sounds great!" Chet put his guitar on the stand, looked at the guy, looked at the guitar, and said, "How does it sound now?")
Thank you soooo much for this mind blowing revelation. I have always know there has to be more than just the scales. I can run the scales and make it sound alright, but I can't play anywhere close to the way you play. I'm excited to learn from you. Thanks again
You are so welcome!
Love that Larry Carlton tone...so warm.I really enjoy listening to the jazz chording on those great old jazz recordings. Chords at the speed of sound!
Great stories and great advice Jeff. Lots of gold here.
SO awesome that you explain what you're thinking when you play. So helpful.
Thanks David !
sounds fantastic!
This was a great video. Very helpful.
This is a big help. Thanks!
really great, Jeff, thanks!
Thanks Wick!
I could get through most blues jams with a sense of thinking I had done well with scale appropriate licks and tricks. I now use the chordal information you explained and demonstrated and have shown me a new approach that has increased my vocabulary 10 fold!!!! Bravo to you for giving valuable and life changing examples to the guitar enthusiasts/hobbyists/ players that want a little extra to say while we play and continue onward. 👍 And of course a tip of the hat to the great Mr. Robben Ford .
This is great.been practicing this approach alot.
Ah man, the first of all of the streams I've missed live and it's exactly what I'm working on right now! Another brilliant lesson Jeff, thank you very much.
Ha! Gotta work out those time zones Matt!
Some great info here Jeff as usual thank you for continued inspiration
Thank you!!
This is great Jeff. I love the Hammond & Leslie backing too.
I'm going to stick my neck out .... this chap provides the best combination of authenticity (you can't be a good player without WORK) and teaching skills on UA-cam. There, I've said it! Thanks a million Jeff.
Thank you a million! I really appreciate you took the time to let me know this. Makes my day!
Thanks Jeff very helpful. Really appreciate you putting this information out for Joe ordinary. This has made more sense to me than discussions about scales and shapes.
You are quite welcome Andrew.
I really like this approach! When it's time to solo, think chords, and those notes will always be right. Genius and yet simple! Thanks Jeff!
That’s basically what separates pros from non pros that easy! I don’t mean any disrespect at all it’s music, I want every player to be on that level and experience that sweet feeling.
This lesson is a game changer - Do Dig!
I know this is a year old, and I probably have already commented, but between 21:20 and 22:00 ...I can definitely relate. All your vids are pure Gold. Oh, & "Beano on a budget "was awesome too! Keep 'em coming Jeff. When I watch your vids, it feels like I am in the room with you. Thanks
Hi Jeff. This is all the stuff I've been studying to improve my note choice as a bass player. It's so valuable to understand how a top notch guitar player thinks about it. All that different scale stuff seems like it's just too much for my feeble mind. Playing the chord tones with some leading tones makes all the difference for laying down a solid bass line in blues and jazz (along with surviving in a rock jam when I don't know the tunes).
Awesome lesson Jeff. This made a great follow up on the advice you gave me a couple of months ago. Since I’ve been implementing this chord tone concept, I’ve noticed I’m playing certain arpeggios I never considered before.
That’s awesome!
Awesome one as always Jeff! I’m always looking for ways to solidify what I consider the Blues foundations and this is right up my alley. Going through your Take 5 Blues Comping course as we speak and I remembered that I wanted to give you some quick feedback on this one.
Glad to have you back but please take breaks as long as you need when you feel that your body/mind/soul needs it. You need to take care of yourself my friend!
Take care!
Thanks! I’m doing ok! Hope you are as well!
Just found you. Great lesson. A lightbulb went off - at last! Thank you.
Fantastic! Glad to have you here!
oh yeah so helpful to hear his approach while he's playing through it.....wow
Hey thanks for opening that door man.
You’re welcome.
U da man Jeff. I am way to scaley rt now! Chord sub video would be awesome!
The comping course is great..I'd highly recommend it.
Thanks!
Missed it live, under a wee cloud. But caught up now. Cheers Jeff
As long as you are here! Hope you are well!
another amazing lesson as they always are thank you so much!!
I'm just about to get the backing tracks from bandcamp and I wondered whether you had a list of your videos that use the specific backing tracks? that would be quite useful :) anyway stay safe mate
Great video lesson. Why is there an f flat written on the wall.. 😮
Now would it be possible to get a video done on inversions??? Just explaining what they are. How they work. Just the processes that you go thru & how to understand it? It would be a great help.
I saw Priest and Maiden live more than any other bands :) still have the stubs
Would love to know his amplification and pedal setup. Such inviting tone!
Learn the notes of the chord, learn the arpeggios and play within the notes of the arpeggio. If you want to start ripping spontaneously, you can use some more scalar derived licks. Great Lesson Jeff, Thanks!
Basically yup!
I was waiting for a Robbin Ford diminished riff on the 5.
Hendrix was playing with a big band outfit before going out on his own. You gotta know chords to play guitar and unfortunately I've payed too much attention to scales. However, if your gonna play a MODAL piece then you've gotta know those scales to generate the CHORD shapes to play over.
It’s amazing that I’ve literally never heard of mentally framing a solo with the chords instead of scales. I was actually wondering if this is what people meant when they say “play over the chord changes”, and then you said exactly that in the vid. Without even practicing this way yet, it already makes a ton of sense to me. This could be a good push for me, as a very competent player who just never landed the ability to solo well. Thank you!
I just had another "come to Jesus moment," thanks again to Jeff Mcerlaine.
Jeff do you ever talk about phrasing or do you have a course on phrasing. One can know all the chord tones in a progression but it is where and how you place them that is important. :)
Who else has their guitar slung over their shoulders now, chiming in every now and then ??
came for robben ford but you sound great
It’s like people expected RF to appear in this screencast as your ophthalmologist :)
Great stuff Jeff. We need to ask Gibson or Historic Makeovers to produce a JM signature Les Paul guitar :-)
I concur. 😉
Jeff where can I find the B min blues you reference around the 30:45 mark? I don't see it on the album I downloaded. BUT it's early and I'm only on coffee #1...
Got the comping course - a steal right now as it's on sale on TrueFire too! :)
What happened to the Skynyrd live stream? It said not available when I went to watch it.
so question. to run laterally up and down the neck using pentatonics you visualize shapes 1 through 5. when using chords you use caged system to move that way?
Nm you answered it later in the video. Thanks.
There are no mistakes.. only where and how you go next.. Or how proficient you are is how quick you can adapt to your wrong thinking..
I saw something from Robben Ford where he says he almost never plays barre chords. It's tough when you've spent time learning 5th and 6th string rooted chords -- I guess that's my next challenge!
Hey SAYS that but he plays the root on the 6th string Dom7 chord ALL the time! 😉
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Hi Jeff love the playing and tone in the intro, is the backing track you're playing available on your bandcamp? If so what is it called? Thanks and love the channel!
Never mind I got it!!
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What pickups you got in that there Lester?
Throbak sle 101s!
I would add to this. You learn scales: one note at a time. You learn intervals: two note at a time Then you understand the chords. - BUT here is the next step. If there are chords and a single note bass line :intervals and single notes work. If there is a single note bass line and intervals (two note ) jabs on the guitar or piano and organ: you play chords, arpeggiated chords, etc :WHY? They left you room to do so. If a singer is singing a melody and the keyboard is hitting chord and the bass line is single note....WTF do you do? Interval stabs to fill out the single notes in the mid range and back up the chords. So. You find what ISN'T happening...then you have where you are king. I don't care if it is Chopin, Bill Evans, BB King, Zappa, Ratt or whomever...what spot ISN'T being filled...there is your spot. And you need to learn ALL OF THEM. So you need those scales. Then you need to learn intervals and what power they have. Then chords. Then you listen to NOW and what THIS piece is doing and you take that knowledge and ADD what will have strength without diminishing the other parts.
Still searching for the lost chord.
Have you checked out back? 😉
This methodology is not talked about nearly enough... thanks for posting on the path to competency. Do you practice note names or the intervallic position of the note when working through arpeggios and playing through changes?
Hey what happened to the southern rock lesson?
Tech issues, I couldn’t go live. 😡 I’ll do it next week. Thanks for being here!
@@JeffMcErlain Looking forward to it, love Southern Rock almost as much as blues
kinda like.."i'm walkin"
What's the meme that represents how you feel when you came for Robben, but he's not here? Then again I stayed cause it was actually good, lol
Ha! Well I’m glad you stayed. I didn’t mean to mislead anyone! He and I work together often!
You arel never more than a half step away from the right note!
No! Melody is King!. Indeed, harmony - chords - don't exist in whole heaps of world music. And, of course, even in the West, harmony is only a relatively recent development. BTW, how much "harmony" did African slaves bring with them to the Americas? For example, the original banjos ( fretless ) were clearly designed to playing melody. Indeed, we are not even sure if the first banjos even had a drone string.
Never heard of Robben Ford. She looks like she’s been thru some rough shit.
What a wonderful person you are. It’s awesome you’d take the time post such beautiful comment on someone you said you don’t know, saying something that you would surely say to him in person given the chance. I’m sure your positive energy fills a room and the example you set for the people in your life is truly a blessing. One can only hope someone can repay your kindness towards other people. Bravo.