I love your scientific view on things! I'm a computer scientist myself and all my band mates approach music with "I don't know, that's the way I've been taught". Understanding the core concepts opens up so many possibilities and greatly reduces memorization since you can always derive everything from the core concepts. Your rectangle + stack approach helped me improvise at a live gig with ease, just picked the root note from the fretboard and connected the shapes from there! (granted those were slow songs)
Keith, I don't even comment on YT videos, but I will because you are THE MOST BRILLIANT TEACHER putting content out there. I'm also a CS background person who's been playing for 17 years and I shudder to think what would have been possible if I had this back when I started. Thank you so much for taking the time to do this, you are incredibly gifted and there is literally no more practical or compact representation of this information. You have innovated on the fundamental science of teaching guitar!
Thanks for this great video 👍 I didn't learn anything about music theory, on my first guitar journey 50 years ago, only the usual standard open chords - but now 10 years after retirement and start of my second journey - it's amazing finally grasping all the difficult stuff after so many years. Thanks to easy and explainable lessons like yours and for me especially Justin Sandercoes great cd/dvd tutorials and songbooks, so much more have become knowledge as well as skills.☮️❤️🎸
Keith, thank you so much for your videos! Being a computer science guy myself, constantly switching between coding and, during breaks, trying to get something nice out of my Telecaster, they are exactly what I was always searching for. Namely, tiny mental models with the potential of saving me years of guitar lessons.
Lest the guitar teachers decide to come after me, I like to point out that live lessons with a good teacher are still the best way to learn, and these lessons help you get to the fun stuff - actually making music - much faster 🤣🎸🧪🤘
I have been playing guitar for almost 1 1/2 yrs now and I've also been learning CS along the way and your videos make everything so crystal clear. You are my favorite guitar resource and i sit and study all of your content. Thank you so so much for these amazing videos
Thank you, Keith. After 40-something years of playing guitar and bass, some of this is starting to make more sense. I appreciate you doing what you do.
A thing I recently realised is, that the E, A & D shape chords are all similar. They just start from different strings. The same goes with G, C, and F shaped chords (F starting from the 4th string). The first group is build upwards on the fret over a powerchord. The second group is build going down the fretboard, starting with the basic triad shape. Thanks a lot for your content🙏! I actually discovered everything in this video on my own in the last months. But I'm pretty sure older videos of yours influenced me, since my approach and thought process was exactly how you explained it here.
The chord groups you mentioned are exactly that…the same chord shifted up a string set and modified by passing across the “warp”. I think the best possible outcome for my videos is that they help guitarists make additional discoveries on their own, so I do hope my previous videos played some part in that for you. Cheers! 🎸🧪🤘
Hey man your channel is such a heaven sent, I'm one of your subscribers and each video is majestic, the way how you illustrate the fretboard. Your channel thought me that the idea of memorizing the notes on the fretboard is to locate on what key you'll want to play and also o where the thirds, the fifths, the octave, etc location prior to your key that you pick in anywhere on the fretboard, it would also be nice if you'd made a video on how different guitar tuning works such as dadgad, drop d, math rock and etc on how scales and chords sits on a specific tunings, thanks man for giving this kind of lessons for free.(Sorry for my bad english) God bless.
This video should be handed with any new guitar purchase I am an engineer myself and I love the approach of having fixed component classes and then variations to alter the behaviour. This should be how the guitar taught!!! Thanks a lot for your effort. The animation helps immensely.
I started learning guitar about three weeks ago. I played the cello for 10 years when I was younger and learned a lot of music theory then. But I haven‘t played music in 10 years now, so I forgot a lot. I am just as interested in learning music theory again, as I am in learning to play the guitar. And your videos are amazing for music theory. Also, I‘m an engineering student, so I like the very systematic and logic approach. Thank you so much and keep up the good work!
This is by far the most useful content I’ve ever found for guitar instruction. Visual high level concepts that challenge the player to solve for the sound vs memorizing dot locations. My guitar acumen has increased dramatically & I’m having more fun than ever! Thanks Keith!!
Congrats on your 2M views! Should it be a surprise? I don’t know - maybe it’s because my brain works in a similar way to yours. This year marks my 30th as a professional software developer beginning with 4 years in the USAF where I started one of the first web development shops in the DoD. You do a fantastic job of not only describing the concepts textually/verbally, but your diagrams actually add context and information!
I have to say I’ve long known all this stuff, but your video is the clearest such tutorial I’ve seen here on You Tube, and is recommended to all beginners.
i love that he mentioned what was at 16:50 when i learnt about chord theory, that's what made it click for me i was like "oh, dude, E major, is just like an, E Major chord, but you're barring the nut. But because it's the nut, you don't need to barre it!" oddly thinking about barring the open chords makes a lot of other chord shapes clicked for me, that's higher up the fretboard
The open C-shape chord is easy to convert to sus2 by removing the ring finger on the D-string and by omitting the high-E entirely. Sounds great, use it a lot. I'm sure you knew and overlooked.
This is the first video YT recommended me from your channel, and I’m instantly subbed! I deeply dislike when bigger guitar channels instead of explaining what everything means just say basically “trust me bro”. You’ve done a great jobs and I definitely see your channel surpassing 100K this year no problem. One thing I’d ask you though, still, to tell us not only that 1-3-5 intervals (which is great but leaves you wishing some more details), but to tell us actual notes, so we could learn fretboard easier and also always learn what Notes are in the Chords. This is that one thing that really bogs me with dozens of other channels. You’re already there like 90 percent, if only you can add actual Note Names :) Please and thank you for such a great educational content!
Wow As an ear player, intuitive only, I have memorized the fretboard….but only as sounds, not named, which makes it difficult to use your understanding except in visual form, but a warm up I do is to play the 4 forms you’ve showed of the 1st position D, I didn’t realize straight across 2nd fret was a D major 7! And diminished & sus chords are nearby just by string omission. But I can still use this info by searching for these simplified chord shapes in a chord book, the open strings you showed just gave me a 5th form of the D, so your direct & simple explanation of moving the 3rd or omitting a string to get different voice is very useful. I’m old, Bar chords literally hurt, so I need to find ways to play chords without barring a fret!😵💫 I started as a bass player, because of my knack for understanding single note lines, but with no band, I went back to guitar, music as notation and a spoken language is not how my brain works, and intervals as chords has not come easy, although as chord tones my brain gets it, in the context of solos so my practice routine (& my love of improv) is to jam with the masters on Pandora, but it’s pretty much all Jazz, because I #1 wanted to learn the complexity intuitively, but also the parts before the solo sections & the endings jazz is not heavily compressed like Rock, so the modes and notes and key are all easier to hear. Same sets over and over for years, so as I’m improvising….my brain can still hear those I jam to, although it’s not so much consciousness and I’m absorbing their technic, as well as theory all their licks, horns, keys, & guitar licks! my other goal was to play laterally, to escape the scale boxes, I also having knack for finding the octave notes on the fly both above and below my location on the neck. Example: Jean Luc Ponty taught me forths, on the violin it’s only tuned to 4ths, that opened my mind to the length of the fretboard, the latteral patterns and how the scale boxes connect. My journey started at a guitar clinic given by Joe Pass, but only when I retired did I get diligent about playing daily.
Wow, its Saturday afternoon in sunny old East London in the UK and am watching another incredible lesson over here. This is starting to be a habit that I'm swiftly becoming accustomed too. Fretboard Science is making my life so easy as far as understanding the guitar. I was just thinking about: how do you play Sus, Maj and Min 7th etc., lower down the neck in open positions when this FS video remarkable featured prominently in my stream. I had to smile, the internet, UA-cam and algorithms, how the heck did we all cope before. Cheers Mate! from the other side of the pond.
Okay, I paused the video before it started, and I haven't looked at any comments. We're going to be schooled in the "CAGED" system, aren't we? Okay again, at 00:16, there we have it, folks! The "CAGED" system! Okay, now I'll eat a bit of crow here at 00:26. I'm not proud. It turns out that this is an excellent video, but my post-COVID, post-cardiac arrest, 66-year-old brain will never be able to use the information presented here. Actually, I already know this information, but knowing it and using it fluently are two entirely different things. Young folks here, pay attention. There's a ton of great information here. This guy knows his stuff.
Warning: Once I start commenting, I sometimes fail to shut up. You can bet that I did learn here today. Now, if I can only remember what it was. 🤪🤪🎶🎶👍👍 I really will need to review, though, in order to remember, and to probably once again forget. I recently suffered a heart attack, accompanied by two cardiac arrest events, and it really has messed with my cognitive abilities. I'm not seeking sympathy, just stating that such is the case for me these days. My previous statement as to my already knowing of your information was somewhat flippant on my part, I must now admit. I feel confident, though, in saying that the information has technically existed all along. A fretboard is a fretboard, is it not? I must once again apologize. I feel as if I'm being quite a smartaleck today. I mean no offense, at all. I'm just trying really hard to be humorous. 🤪🤪 It's the way that you present your concepts in such a useful manner that is unique in your teachings. Thanks for replying to me in the manner in which you did. I like your style. There was something about the thumbnail on this video, that initially screamed "CAGED" to me, but there was also something else that beckoned to me to make my far from accurate "prediction" that ended up in my snacking on some crow. Regardless, I stayed to watch, like, and subscribe. That's what counts. That was a fun little experience for me today. Something tells me that you have some sort of secret, beckoning siren call embedded in your thumbnail for this video. I have no idea what it was, but it worked its magic on me. Thanks for the mysterious, added entertainment value, included at no cost to the viewer. Seriously, though, in that nowadays I'm more of an armchair accumulator of musical science, theory, and interesting new (to me) ways of imagining concepts regarding techniques, rather than attempting to put them into my actual playing of many instruments (my playing ability at my age and physical condition as would be demonstrated on a bell curve chart showing age-related playing skills is quite noticeably on the downward slope in recent years). I haven't done so yet, but I'm intentionally keeping this window open to come back to, to take advantage of your Patreon and other offerings. Kudos to you. My comment to the youngsters to pay attention to you was truly heartfelt by me.
Engineer here too, but honestly this is way too much for me. Brilliant video with excellent animated graphics but doing it alone I'm just not getting it. Wish I had a guitar buddy.
@@francescolley7004 I am guessing that you're getting stuck on one or two relatively small details. If you have specific questions, I'm happy to answer them here in the comments or on Patreon (I read every comment and respond to most). If you aren't sure what to ask, having a one-time lesson with any teacher would probably get you unblocked.
I know it, I play some or major of those , but I feel I need more and more and more .... so nice to hear from expert to slow down and chew what I already know rather then constantly chase new shapes , arpegios and triads. thank you
Yes, that definitely changes the tone, although not the chord quality, which is what I’m focused on this video. To your point, how you articulate the thirds can make a big difference to how muddy they sound.
Thanks for this very valuable lesson. I'm glad I've stumbled upon this, thanks for the YT recommendation. I'm fairly new to guitar, learned just last year about this "cowboy chords" and just brought my Fender Stratocaster USA as an upgrade to my Walmart guitar.🤭 Apart from this, what lesson on your channel would you recommend for me to learn the basics of basic soloing over chords like this? I have no idea what triads and modes are, or what are the I, II, IV numbers. But this video made clear a few of those.😄...... Thank you very much, mate.👌SUBSCRIBED!🔥
Glad you’re here! This playlist has my recommended viewing order: ua-cam.com/play/PLMuHlX9RiFi1L1RdC0CzYa1qxZllD5Ujz.html&si=DX6UkmpwgTffFnIb My next video(s) will be explicitly about soloing over chords.
@@fretscience Thanks a lot my friend. I really learned a lot from this chords lesson👌 I'm gonna watch your playlist....and I'm looking forward to the "soloing over chords" lesson. That couples with this will really make you a well-rounded guitarist. Cheers!😀
Wow! This is amazing!🤯 Thank you so much for this knowledge!🙏 This just unlocked some many aspects of music to me!🤩 This is well-done!👏 A masterpiece of valuable information all in one video! Beautiful!🤍
60 years ago or so I wondered why there were only 2 moveable chord shapes because I found a barre let me playC, G and D chords up the neck. The CAGED system has been in use a long, long time.
keep up with what you are doing it's really inspiring. I had a question for example you are playing a lead line, melody or solo 1) do you hear in ontervals 2) you hear and thenknow where are all the intervals 3 when playing solo do you prallely think that bend from b5 to 7 and then this lick then 4 and 5 hammer on If yes then what should I do to achieve same level
Those are super-nuanced questions to answer. The more I practice improvising, the more aware I am of how various intervals sound against various chords. I have moments where I know what sound I want and my fingers reach for it almost on their own. But most of the time, I am still visualizing triads near wherever my fingers are, and I’m explicitly choosing target notes but filling around them with other notes from an appropriate scale without thinking about each note individually. Great improvisers can just go for it and let their ears lead their fingers, but it takes a tremendous amount of time and practice to get to that point. All of the methods I teach for visualizing scales and chords are ways to bootstrap and accelerate that process. They’re a faster way to reach the ultimate goal of not needing them.
this is the first time in mt 9 to 10 week playing guitar that i understand that first and third the easy way but around 6:50 or somewhere close ... is the g minor chord thej with the A string on the first fret and 1th and 6th strings on 3th?.. because that chord i didnt knew then but that is one fret down?. and E chordnis then because 3th is alteady on the first.. with not using that 3th. and the c? is that then the G and B strings on first fret?.. i only know the open Am Dm and Em so..
I’m sorry, I’m not sure I understand your question and the 6:50 timestamp seems to be a different part of the video than what you are referring to. It’s challenging to play a G minor chord in open position because of the open B string. If you play 310033, that’s a Gm, but there are other non-open voicings that will likely sound better.
@@fretscience sorry, 7:10 it is . but you say later its different with the Cm and Gm and come back later on that 2 but i didnt see that.. like you shift the 3rds one fret down, with A E and D to Am Em Dm. but with C and G i did the same then you got what is in my first reply (what i think is not the right Cm and Gm) i dont know if you get what i mean now with my english. 7:25 you say hold on to that .. maybe i missed that part but i thought it wasnot in the video later on
@@fretscience ah your 310003 is what i meant i guess but thats not really a Gm that is used then?.. is Gm mostly played with barre on the 5th fret and not at all an open Gm then?.. and the same with Cm i think that its a weird open Cm? but then on 8th fret
@dabiededoo I cover other ways to play Cm and Gm both in the triad section and in the barre chord section…that’s what I meant by “hold on to that thought”. I definitely could have been more clear about that!
After over a decade playing and around 5 learning the theory explaining what I’m playing, this has been the most helpful video of them all fr. And I’ma gona be a rockstar and I’ma rub it in my mom’s face like at least two or three times. 2 or 3 good ones. “Toldjaso. Dinnitellya? And look- skinny jeaned, guylinered, oversprayed mullet and all. Better late than never and late’s never been better, ma!” You’ll see! You’ll all see! Okthxbye 🙌🙏🙌🙏💅
Viewing the fretboard from a scientific perspective is a great angle and rather unique, as with the helpful graphics. Great video as always. The intervals with the chord types and their differences, places everything neatly into boxes for the brain to connect. The 3rd being always one up and one across from the 1 (R) (except for the G & B string crossover) was a lightbulb. I know this wasn't meant to be a caged lesson but could there be, as the cheat sheet had blank spaces for the various shapes. It would be a complete resource for CAGED with all the 5 shapes referenced with major, major 7, minor, minor 7, dominant 7, sus 2 and sus 4 chord types.
Thanks for the content. Camera looks good. 0 issue with presentation, style, voice, volume, and clarity. However, the sound quality is really boxy. Check your EQ settings, maybe?
@@fretscience Knowing I'm figuratively preaching to the choir, consider playing with EQ settings for your voice, putting a cut somewhere in the 350-600Hz region to reduce the boxy/hollow sound without needing to mess with soundproofing. It's more obvious with headphones. Again, great work overall, man. Thanks again.
@TrinityUser thanks…I made the mistake of monitoring the mix on speakers that hid that. Your remedy is spot-on. I just wish there was a way to update it on UA-cam after the initial upload!
New PDFs are free for Patreon subscribers or can be purchased separately. The bundle covers the first 12 videos (which is the core of the method). If you sign up for my newsletter, you’ll get a discount code for individual PDF purchases
The link for Patreon is in the video description. It just launched and the website hasn’t been updated yet. I’m not sure what you’re referring to when you ask about Zoom…I’m not currently offering any live classes
@@fretscience sorry my mistake. When you said lessons I assume there was some sort of live or zoom component. I see that you have some lesson plans that are included to patreoning subscribers. Do you have a sample of those that you're willing to share?
I have a really simple question about something that's been holding me back. Whenever I see a fingerboard diagram it seems wrong to me. For example, at 3:00 a diagram is shown. I like the fact that the nut is to my left when viewing it, but why is the Low E string at the bottom? If I turn the guitar to face me (with the nut to the left) it looks that way, but when holding the guitar to play it the Low E string is at the top because I am behind it. When practicing in front of a mirror the nut is also to the left and the Low E string is at the top in the reflection. If the diagrams matched this it would be a whole lot easier for me because I wouldn't have to translate in my mind what the positions are. Am I the only one who thinks this way? Because of how hard it is to follow along with what I feel are "wrong" diagrams it has impeded my ability to learn from tutorials such as these. Thanks for any input anyone may have. --Retired IT guy
I understand your frustration, and I wish there was a good universal solution. The orientation I’m using has been the standard in guitar books for decades, I think because it’s like looking down at the fretboard from above while you’re playing (assuming you are right-handed). It’s worth getting used to this orientation if you want to use most guitar resources. On the bright side, one of the good things about the Fret Science approach is that you won’t need diagrams for long…the system is designed so that you learn a handful of small patterns and then apply them to the fretboard without referring to a diagram.
@@fretscience Thanks for the reply. I think your system is the most accessible which is why I chose to post my query here. Maybe it's time for another approach to how the charts are presented. I can no more wrap my head around looking over the fingerboard from the top so that the Low E string is at the bottom any more than I can play video games without inverting the Y axis. I learned joysticks in the eighties when the stick represented your head. Push the stick forward and your head tilted forward (i.e. down). Pull the stick back to go up, as in how one would fly a plane. Maybe it's time for someone to embrace a change. After all left-handed guitars were created for left-handed people and the Reformation was created for people who thought differently. I don't want any credit for helping effect this alternate approach. Maybe it is a subject you wish to pursue. I don't think I'm "on the spectrum" but I think this small change might help more people than just me. I might be interested in purchasing your PDFs, but as things stand I would have to remap them according to what I have explained. I have laid an opportunity upon your table. We shall see if it bears fruit. You could "be the change". Kind regards.
@@fretscience Why would I want to "look... down at the fretboard from above while ... playing" when I can see it right in front of me right-side up when playing? Just pretend that the wood is not there blocking your vision and you're good-to-go. I think this way of visualizing the fingerboard makes sense.
I love your scientific view on things! I'm a computer scientist myself and all my band mates approach music with "I don't know, that's the way I've been taught". Understanding the core concepts opens up so many possibilities and greatly reduces memorization since you can always derive everything from the core concepts. Your rectangle + stack approach helped me improvise at a live gig with ease, just picked the root note from the fretboard and connected the shapes from there! (granted those were slow songs)
That’s awesome to hear! 🎸🧪🤘
Another fantastic lesson from one of the internets best guitar teachers.
@caliandy1 Thanks, much appreciated! 🎸🧪🤘
This is one of the best channels for guitar, period. Great stuff!
Much appreciated, thanks! 🎸🧪🤘
Keith, I don't even comment on YT videos, but I will because you are THE MOST BRILLIANT TEACHER putting content out there. I'm also a CS background person who's been playing for 17 years and I shudder to think what would have been possible if I had this back when I started.
Thank you so much for taking the time to do this, you are incredibly gifted and there is literally no more practical or compact representation of this information. You have innovated on the fundamental science of teaching guitar!
Much appreciated, thanks! 🎸🧪🤘
Thanks for this great video 👍
I didn't learn anything about music theory, on my first guitar journey 50 years ago, only the usual standard open chords - but now 10 years after retirement and start of my second journey - it's amazing finally grasping all the difficult stuff after so many years.
Thanks to easy and explainable lessons like yours and for me especially Justin Sandercoes great cd/dvd tutorials and songbooks, so much more have become knowledge as well as skills.☮️❤️🎸
I’m glad you’re finding them helpful…cheers! 🎸🧪🤘
Keith, thank you so much for your videos! Being a computer science guy myself, constantly switching between coding and, during breaks, trying to get something nice out of my Telecaster, they are exactly what I was always searching for. Namely, tiny mental models with the potential of saving me years of guitar lessons.
Lest the guitar teachers decide to come after me, I like to point out that live lessons with a good teacher are still the best way to learn, and these lessons help you get to the fun stuff - actually making music - much faster 🤣🎸🧪🤘
I have been playing guitar for almost 1 1/2 yrs now and I've also been learning CS along the way and your videos make everything so crystal clear. You are my favorite guitar resource and i sit and study all of your content. Thank you so so much for these amazing videos
I saw the cat shirt and had to get one instantly, happy to support anyways :)
Much appreciated, thanks! 🎸🧪🤘
Thank you, Keith.
After 40-something years of playing guitar and bass, some of this is starting to make more sense.
I appreciate you doing what you do.
I’m glad to hear it’s helpful! 🎸🧪🤘
A thing I recently realised is, that the E, A & D shape chords are all similar. They just start from different strings. The same goes with G, C, and F shaped chords (F starting from the 4th string). The first group is build upwards on the fret over a powerchord. The second group is build going down the fretboard, starting with the basic triad shape.
Thanks a lot for your content🙏! I actually discovered everything in this video on my own in the last months. But I'm pretty sure older videos of yours influenced me, since my approach and thought process was exactly how you explained it here.
The chord groups you mentioned are exactly that…the same chord shifted up a string set and modified by passing across the “warp”. I think the best possible outcome for my videos is that they help guitarists make additional discoveries on their own, so I do hope my previous videos played some part in that for you. Cheers! 🎸🧪🤘
Hey man your channel is such a heaven sent, I'm one of your subscribers and each video is majestic, the way how you illustrate the fretboard. Your channel thought me that the idea of memorizing the notes on the fretboard is to locate on what key you'll want to play and also o where the thirds, the fifths, the octave, etc location prior to your key that you pick in anywhere on the fretboard, it would also be nice if you'd made a video on how different guitar tuning works such as dadgad, drop d, math rock and etc on how scales and chords sits on a specific tunings, thanks man for giving this kind of lessons for free.(Sorry for my bad english) God bless.
Thanks…I will probably do some videos o alternate tunings at some point, but I have a bunch more to say about standard tuning first 🤣🎸🧪🤘
Always delivering great, clear, and inviting to watch videos!
Thanks! 🎸🧪🤘
This video should be handed with any new guitar purchase
I am an engineer myself and I love the approach of having fixed component classes and then variations to alter the behaviour. This should be how the guitar taught!!! Thanks a lot for your effort. The animation helps immensely.
Much appreciated, thanks! 🎸🧪🤘
Genius teaching skills here. Your videos are always game changers. They have had the most profound impact on my playing. Thank you very much.
Thanks, Tom! 🎸🧪🤘
I started learning guitar about three weeks ago. I played the cello for 10 years when I was younger and learned a lot of music theory then. But I haven‘t played music in 10 years now, so I forgot a lot. I am just as interested in learning music theory again, as I am in learning to play the guitar. And your videos are amazing for music theory.
Also, I‘m an engineering student, so I like the very systematic and logic approach.
Thank you so much and keep up the good work!
I’m glad you’re finding them helpful…cheers! 🎸🧪🤘
This is by far the most useful content I’ve ever found for guitar instruction. Visual high level concepts that challenge the player to solve for the sound vs memorizing dot locations. My guitar acumen has increased dramatically & I’m having more fun than ever! Thanks Keith!!
Much appreciated, Eric…cheers! 🎸🧪🤘
I love the way you have broken this subject down. This is the first video that has made sense to me, holy crap; thank you.
That’s great to hear…welcome aboard! 🎸🧪🤘
Thank you for making the guitar make sense for us CompSci dorks! More videos on chord theory (maybe harmonic functions?) would definitely be welcome.
Glad it was helpful! 🎸🧪🤘
Congrats on your 2M views! Should it be a surprise? I don’t know - maybe it’s because my brain works in a similar way to yours. This year marks my 30th as a professional software developer beginning with 4 years in the USAF where I started one of the first web development shops in the DoD. You do a fantastic job of not only describing the concepts textually/verbally, but your diagrams actually add context and information!
Thank you…much appreciated! 🎸🧪🤘
Everything I’ve needed to know for so long explained perfect! Thank you 🙏
I’m glad it was helpful! 🎸🧪🤘
I have to say I’ve long known all this stuff, but your video is the clearest such tutorial I’ve seen here on You Tube, and is recommended to all beginners.
Thanks! 🎸🧪🤘
i love that he mentioned what was at 16:50
when i learnt about chord theory, that's what made it click for me i was like "oh, dude, E major, is just like an, E Major chord, but you're barring the nut. But because it's the nut, you don't need to barre it!"
oddly thinking about barring the open chords makes a lot of other chord shapes clicked for me, that's higher up the fretboard
The open C-shape chord is easy to convert to sus2 by removing the ring finger on the D-string and by omitting the high-E entirely. Sounds great, use it a lot. I'm sure you knew and overlooked.
I’m sure that’s not the only useful voicing I missed! 🤣🎸🧪🤘
This is the first video YT recommended me from your channel, and I’m instantly subbed!
I deeply dislike when bigger guitar channels instead of explaining what everything means just say basically “trust me bro”.
You’ve done a great jobs and I definitely see your channel surpassing 100K this year no problem.
One thing I’d ask you though, still, to tell us not only that 1-3-5 intervals (which is great but leaves you wishing some more details), but to tell us actual notes, so we could learn fretboard easier and also always learn what Notes are in the Chords.
This is that one thing that really bogs me with dozens of other channels.
You’re already there like 90 percent, if only you can add actual Note Names :)
Please and thank you for such a great educational content!
Welcome aboard! 🎸🧪🤘
I've been playing off and on since the early 60's. It took me a very long time to learn this stuff. Wish I'd seen this a few decades ago.
Same (except substitute mid-80s)…cheers! 🎸🧪🤘
Wow As an ear player, intuitive only, I have memorized the fretboard….but only as sounds, not named, which makes it difficult to use your understanding except in visual form, but a warm up I do is to play the 4 forms you’ve showed of the 1st position D, I didn’t realize straight across 2nd fret was a D major 7! And diminished & sus chords are nearby just by string omission.
But I can still use this info by searching for these simplified chord shapes in a chord book, the open strings you showed just gave me a 5th form of the D, so your direct & simple explanation of moving the 3rd or omitting a string to get different
voice is very useful. I’m old, Bar chords literally hurt, so I need to find ways to play chords without barring a fret!😵💫
I started as a bass player, because of my knack for understanding single note lines, but with no band, I went back to guitar, music as notation and a spoken language is not how my brain works, and intervals as chords has not come easy, although as chord tones my brain gets it, in the context of solos
so my practice routine (& my love of improv) is to jam with the masters on Pandora, but it’s pretty much all Jazz, because I #1 wanted to learn the complexity intuitively, but also the parts before the solo sections & the endings jazz is not heavily compressed like Rock, so the modes and notes and key are all easier to hear. Same sets over and over for years, so as I’m improvising….my brain can still hear those I jam to, although it’s not so much consciousness and I’m absorbing their technic, as well as theory all their licks, horns, keys, & guitar licks! my other goal was to play laterally, to escape the scale boxes, I also having knack for finding the octave notes on the fly both above and below my location on the neck.
Example: Jean Luc Ponty taught me forths,
on the violin it’s only tuned to 4ths, that opened my mind to the length of the fretboard, the latteral patterns and how the scale boxes connect. My journey started at a guitar clinic given by Joe Pass, but only when I retired did I get diligent about playing daily.
I’m glad you found something useful in the video…cheers! 🎸🧪🤘
As always Keith! Great video from a great new perspective! You changed guitar playing for me and i recommend you every chance i get!
Thanks, Zachary…that’s much appreciated! 🎸🧪🤘
Really good information and video. Easy to understand and listen to as well. Thank you for posting.
Much appreciated, thanks! 🎸🧪🤘
Best guitar content on UA-cam! Thank you so much!
Much appreciated, thanks! 🎸🧪🤘
Wow, its Saturday afternoon in sunny old East London in the UK and am watching another incredible lesson over here. This is starting to be a habit that I'm swiftly becoming accustomed too. Fretboard Science is making my life so easy as far as understanding the guitar. I was just thinking about: how do you play Sus, Maj and Min 7th etc., lower down the neck in open positions when this FS video remarkable featured prominently in my stream. I had to smile, the internet, UA-cam and algorithms, how the heck did we all cope before. Cheers Mate! from the other side of the pond.
Cheers! 🎸🧪🤘
Okay, I paused the video before it started, and I haven't looked at any comments. We're going to be schooled in the "CAGED" system, aren't we?
Okay again, at 00:16, there we have it, folks! The "CAGED" system!
Okay, now I'll eat a bit of crow here at 00:26.
I'm not proud.
It turns out that this is an excellent video, but my post-COVID, post-cardiac arrest, 66-year-old brain will never be able to use the information presented here.
Actually, I already know this information, but knowing it and using it fluently are two entirely different things.
Young folks here, pay attention.
There's a ton of great information here.
This guy knows his stuff.
I hope you found something small in there that was new or that you can use in your playing 🤣
Warning: Once I start commenting, I sometimes fail to shut up.
You can bet that I did learn here today.
Now, if I can only remember what it was. 🤪🤪🎶🎶👍👍
I really will need to review, though, in order to remember, and to probably once again forget.
I recently suffered a heart attack, accompanied by two cardiac arrest events, and it really has messed with my cognitive abilities.
I'm not seeking sympathy, just stating that such is the case for me these days.
My previous statement as to my already knowing of your information was somewhat flippant on my part, I must now admit.
I feel confident, though, in saying that the information has technically existed all along.
A fretboard is a fretboard, is it not?
I must once again apologize.
I feel as if I'm being quite a smartaleck today.
I mean no offense, at all.
I'm just trying really hard to be humorous. 🤪🤪
It's the way that you present your concepts in such a useful manner that is unique in your teachings.
Thanks for replying to me in the manner in which you did.
I like your style.
There was something about the thumbnail on this video, that initially screamed "CAGED" to me, but there was also something else that beckoned to me to make my far from accurate "prediction" that ended up in my snacking on some crow.
Regardless, I stayed to watch, like, and subscribe.
That's what counts.
That was a fun little experience for me today.
Something tells me that you have some sort of secret, beckoning siren call embedded in your thumbnail for this video.
I have no idea what it was, but it worked its magic on me.
Thanks for the mysterious, added entertainment value, included at no cost to the viewer.
Seriously, though, in that nowadays I'm more of an armchair accumulator of musical science, theory, and interesting new (to me) ways of imagining concepts regarding techniques, rather than attempting to put them into my actual playing of many instruments (my playing ability at my age and physical condition as would be demonstrated on a bell curve chart showing age-related playing skills is quite noticeably on the downward slope in recent years).
I haven't done so yet, but I'm intentionally keeping this window open to come back to, to take advantage of your Patreon and other offerings.
Kudos to you.
My comment to the youngsters to pay attention to you was truly heartfelt by me.
@bobjeaniejoey Glad you’re here, Bob, and I’m glad you’re finding these videos worth watching…cheers! 🎸🧪🤘
Excellent video. Very organized and easy to follow. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it! 🎸🧪🤘
And here`s my comment for you, my dear guitar wizard
Thank you so much
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Thankyou , the table says it all succinctly, I will remember it Cheers 🇦🇺scott
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Engineer here as well, this is great thank you!
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Engineer here too, but honestly this is way too much for me. Brilliant video with excellent animated graphics but doing it alone I'm just not getting it. Wish I had a guitar buddy.
@@francescolley7004 I am guessing that you're getting stuck on one or two relatively small details. If you have specific questions, I'm happy to answer them here in the comments or on Patreon (I read every comment and respond to most). If you aren't sure what to ask, having a one-time lesson with any teacher would probably get you unblocked.
Great! Thanks for another inspiring video. Recently came across your channel. The new methods and patterns for learning scales are amazing...cheers.
Welcome aboard! 🎸🧪🤘
I know it, I play some or major of those , but I feel I need more and more and more .... so nice to hear from expert to slow down and chew what I already know rather then constantly chase new shapes , arpegios and triads. thank you
Thanks for a detailed Caged chord visual lesson and its voicing variation played all over the fretboard.
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immediate thumbs up even before watching the vid
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Subscribed! Love your explanation here, going to dig deeper. Cheers!
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Great vid, im all over that patreon!
Awesome, just getting started over there, but I have lots planned for the future! 🎸🧪🤘
Finger picking also helps with changing the sound.Or hybrid picking.
Yes, that definitely changes the tone, although not the chord quality, which is what I’m focused on this video. To your point, how you articulate the thirds can make a big difference to how muddy they sound.
Very nice. Thank you
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Thank you 👍🎸
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thanks, keith. this is actually somewhat helpful.
Thanks...really enjoyed this and very informative!
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Thanks!
Much appreciated! 🎸🧪🤘
Thanks for this very valuable lesson. I'm glad I've stumbled upon this, thanks for the YT recommendation. I'm fairly new to guitar, learned just last year about this "cowboy chords" and just brought my Fender Stratocaster USA as an upgrade to my Walmart guitar.🤭 Apart from this, what lesson on your channel would you recommend for me to learn the basics of basic soloing over chords like this? I have no idea what triads and modes are, or what are the I, II, IV numbers. But this video made clear a few of those.😄...... Thank you very much, mate.👌SUBSCRIBED!🔥
Glad you’re here! This playlist has my recommended viewing order: ua-cam.com/play/PLMuHlX9RiFi1L1RdC0CzYa1qxZllD5Ujz.html&si=DX6UkmpwgTffFnIb
My next video(s) will be explicitly about soloing over chords.
@@fretscience Thanks a lot my friend. I really learned a lot from this chords lesson👌 I'm gonna watch your playlist....and I'm looking forward to the "soloing over chords" lesson. That couples with this will really make you a well-rounded guitarist. Cheers!😀
Wow! This is amazing!🤯 Thank you so much for this knowledge!🙏 This just unlocked some many aspects of music to me!🤩 This is well-done!👏 A masterpiece of valuable information all in one video! Beautiful!🤍
Glad it was helpful! 🎸🧪🤘
YAY!!! More content from my favorite UA-cam guitar instructor!
Great video
Thanks! 🎸🧪🤘
I wish you were my brother in law! Super stuff!
That’s an oddly specific wish, and my wife might have something to say about it, but thank you! 🤣🎸🧪🤘
60 years ago or so I wondered why there were only 2 moveable chord shapes because I found a barre let me playC, G and D chords up the neck. The CAGED system has been in use a long, long time.
Yes, just over 50 years since it was described in Guitar Player magazine. As far as I know, that’s the earliest reference.
Excellent.
Thank you! Cheers! 🎸🧪🤘
Nerds are cool
Thanks for the videos
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keep up with what you are doing it's really inspiring. I had a question for example you are playing a lead line, melody or solo
1) do you hear in ontervals
2) you hear and thenknow where are all the intervals
3 when playing solo do you prallely think that bend from b5 to 7 and then this lick then 4 and 5 hammer on
If yes then what should I do to achieve same level
Those are super-nuanced questions to answer. The more I practice improvising, the more aware I am of how various intervals sound against various chords. I have moments where I know what sound I want and my fingers reach for it almost on their own. But most of the time, I am still visualizing triads near wherever my fingers are, and I’m explicitly choosing target notes but filling around them with other notes from an appropriate scale without thinking about each note individually.
Great improvisers can just go for it and let their ears lead their fingers, but it takes a tremendous amount of time and practice to get to that point. All of the methods I teach for visualizing scales and chords are ways to bootstrap and accelerate that process. They’re a faster way to reach the ultimate goal of not needing them.
this is so good but please get a better mic
Looks like I did a lousy job eq’ing this one 🧐
What happened to your previously awesome audio?
Long story…short version is that I monitored it on a different system and didn’t do a good job eq’ing it.
"This is not a video on the CAGED system" ... well, yes, yes it is.
My point was that it isn’t a complete description of the CAGED system
this is the first time in mt 9 to 10 week playing guitar that i understand that first and third the easy way
but around 6:50 or somewhere close ... is the g minor chord thej with the A string on the first fret and 1th and 6th strings on 3th?.. because that chord i didnt knew then but that is one fret down?. and E chordnis then because 3th is alteady on the first.. with not using that 3th. and the c? is that then the G and B strings on first fret?..
i only know the open Am Dm and Em so..
I’m sorry, I’m not sure I understand your question and the 6:50 timestamp seems to be a different part of the video than what you are referring to. It’s challenging to play a G minor chord in open position because of the open B string. If you play 310033, that’s a Gm, but there are other non-open voicings that will likely sound better.
@@fretscience sorry, 7:10 it is .
but you say later its different with the Cm and Gm and come back later on that 2 but i didnt see that..
like you shift the 3rds one fret down, with A E and D to Am Em Dm. but with C and G i did the same then you got what is in my first reply (what i think is not the right Cm and Gm) i dont know if you get what i mean now with my english.
7:25 you say hold on to that ..
maybe i missed that part but i thought it wasnot in the video later on
@@fretscience ah your 310003 is what i meant i guess
but thats not really a Gm that is used then?.. is Gm mostly played with barre on the 5th fret and not at all an open Gm then?.. and the same with Cm i think that its a weird open Cm? but then on 8th fret
@dabiededoo my most commonly used Gm voicing is xx5333 (or 355333), and Cm is x35543 or xx(10)888
@dabiededoo I cover other ways to play Cm and Gm both in the triad section and in the barre chord section…that’s what I meant by “hold on to that thought”. I definitely could have been more clear about that!
After over a decade playing and around 5 learning the theory explaining what I’m playing, this has been the most helpful video of them all fr. And I’ma gona be a rockstar and I’ma rub it in my mom’s face like at least two or three times. 2 or 3 good ones. “Toldjaso. Dinnitellya? And look- skinny jeaned, guylinered, oversprayed mullet and all. Better late than never and late’s never been better, ma!” You’ll see! You’ll all see! Okthxbye 🙌🙏🙌🙏💅
Cheers! 🎸🧪🤘
your constant reminder to your other videos is off putting.
I’m sorry that it bothers you, but most viewers of any individual video haven’t seen the others.
Thank you
Glad it was helpful! 🎸🧪🤘
Keith, you are my hero, forever. I totally bought your pdfs and will keep on coming back to all the ressources
Much appreciated, thanks! 🎸🧪🤘
Solid stuff man!
Thanks! 🎸🧪🤘
Viewing the fretboard from a scientific perspective is a great angle and rather unique, as with the helpful graphics. Great video as always. The intervals with the chord types and their differences, places everything neatly into boxes for the brain to connect. The 3rd being always one up and one across from the 1 (R) (except for the G & B string crossover) was a lightbulb. I know this wasn't meant to be a caged lesson but could there be, as the cheat sheet had blank spaces for the various shapes. It would be a complete resource for CAGED with all the 5 shapes referenced with major, major 7, minor, minor 7, dominant 7, sus 2 and sus 4 chord types.
It really is a CAGED lesson…I meant that it isn’t trying to give a full overview of the system like I did with the other video. Thanks and cheers! 🎸🧪🤘
Great video. You clearly communicated the concept and didn't waste any of my time. 100% subscribed and will be watching every future video.
Welcome aboard! 🎸🧪🤘
The way you use graphics to detail the various interval relationships is the best I have ever seen.
Thank you! 🎸🧪🤘
Man, that is a hell lf a video. Thanks mate.
Glad you liked it…cheers! 🎸🧪🤘
Another engineer chiming in: great stuff.
Thanks! 🎸🧪🤘
Thanks for the content. Camera looks good. 0 issue with presentation, style, voice, volume, and clarity. However, the sound quality is really boxy. Check your EQ settings, maybe?
Interesting…it sounds okay on the systems I’ve tested it with. Not amazing, but not bad
@@fretscience Knowing I'm figuratively preaching to the choir, consider playing with EQ settings for your voice, putting a cut somewhere in the 350-600Hz region to reduce the boxy/hollow sound without needing to mess with soundproofing. It's more obvious with headphones. Again, great work overall, man. Thanks again.
@TrinityUser thanks…I made the mistake of monitoring the mix on speakers that hid that. Your remedy is spot-on. I just wish there was a way to update it on UA-cam after the initial upload!
Great👍
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If we have purchased the bundle is this PDF included or do we need to purchase separately or is there a discount.
New PDFs are free for Patreon subscribers or can be purchased separately. The bundle covers the first 12 videos (which is the core of the method). If you sign up for my newsletter, you’ll get a discount code for individual PDF purchases
@@fretscience how do I get more information about your zoom classes. Do you record those?
Also just weny on your site. Couldn't find information about patreon.
The link for Patreon is in the video description. It just launched and the website hasn’t been updated yet. I’m not sure what you’re referring to when you ask about Zoom…I’m not currently offering any live classes
@@fretscience sorry my mistake. When you said lessons I assume there was some sort of live or zoom component. I see that you have some lesson plans that are included to patreoning subscribers. Do you have a sample of those that you're willing to share?
I have a really simple question about something that's been holding me back. Whenever I see a fingerboard diagram it seems wrong to me. For example, at 3:00 a diagram is shown. I like the fact that the nut is to my left when viewing it, but why is the Low E string at the bottom? If I turn the guitar to face me (with the nut to the left) it looks that way, but when holding the guitar to play it the Low E string is at the top because I am behind it. When practicing in front of a mirror the nut is also to the left and the Low E string is at the top in the reflection. If the diagrams matched this it would be a whole lot easier for me because I wouldn't have to translate in my mind what the positions are. Am I the only one who thinks this way? Because of how hard it is to follow along with what I feel are "wrong" diagrams it has impeded my ability to learn from tutorials such as these. Thanks for any input anyone may have. --Retired IT guy
I understand your frustration, and I wish there was a good universal solution. The orientation I’m using has been the standard in guitar books for decades, I think because it’s like looking down at the fretboard from above while you’re playing (assuming you are right-handed). It’s worth getting used to this orientation if you want to use most guitar resources. On the bright side, one of the good things about the Fret Science approach is that you won’t need diagrams for long…the system is designed so that you learn a handful of small patterns and then apply them to the fretboard without referring to a diagram.
@@fretscience Thanks for the reply. I think your system is the most accessible which is why I chose to post my query here. Maybe it's time for another approach to how the charts are presented. I can no more wrap my head around looking over the fingerboard from the top so that the Low E string is at the bottom any more than I can play video games without inverting the Y axis. I learned joysticks in the eighties when the stick represented your head. Push the stick forward and your head tilted forward (i.e. down). Pull the stick back to go up, as in how one would fly a plane. Maybe it's time for someone to embrace a change. After all left-handed guitars were created for left-handed people and the Reformation was created for people who thought differently. I don't want any credit for helping effect this alternate approach. Maybe it is a subject you wish to pursue. I don't think I'm "on the spectrum" but I think this small change might help more people than just me. I might be interested in purchasing your PDFs, but as things stand I would have to remap them according to what I have explained. I have laid an opportunity upon your table. We shall see if it bears fruit. You could "be the change". Kind regards.
@@fretscience Why would I want to "look... down at the fretboard from above while ... playing" when I can see it right in front of me right-side up when playing? Just pretend that the wood is not there blocking your vision and you're good-to-go. I think this way of visualizing the fingerboard makes sense.