This is by far the CLEAREST and most succinct explanation I've ever seen about finding all the chords in a scale. This is important too because it ties into all the modal theory - which chords in a mode are major versus minor. So very cool! Hope you don't mind, but I'm sharing this all over!
pointless information. play what sounds good to you, not by some strict set of rules that tell you "this is what sounds good" and end up churning out the same incoherent nonsense everyone else does.
@@ShadowTheories thats one stupid expression supporters of "music theory" like to say a lot. too bad its 100% false. your arbitrary rules set forth by some rich twats hundreds of years ago are irrelevant.
I've been playing bass over 30 years so I know how important chord tones are. This just gave me a simple way to unlock them in every key, without having to really think about it. Plus it shows the beauty of the diminished chord in melody. Brilliant lesson for both guitar and bass players alike!
A little theory goes a very long way. Check out a site called Zombie Guitar and you'll have about 10 ah ha moments per video- I always do. Brian is an incredible online teacher. I played self taught for many years too before taking lessons in person. I quickly realized theory is not that scary and it seriously opens up doors. It helps having someone one on one so you can ask questions- but there are many good teachers online- but ZGuitar is one of the very best I ever found. I would learn the major scale first since everything is based off of that. Modes are fun and super easy and of course Penta for virtually everything else.
Well done. I’ve been a professional drummer for 30 years but have only been serious about my guitar for a little over 10. You’ve taken something that I “half knew” and explained it in a way that made it make sense to me. Trying to be a prog rock guitarist has not been easy and this helps!
He is a grand example declaring some people know how to teach, he makes it simple and clear, he is not on an ego trip like so many who feel like they have to intellectualize everything to make themselves appear to be somebody. He is one of the best teachers on UA-cam.
hands down... *HANDS DOWN* the most eye-opening guitar lesson I've ever seen - an absolute revelation and 100% proof of the truth of the phrase: "simplicity is the ultimate sophistication". For years I've had two charts taped onto the side of my amp (tables of major and minor key chord progressions) - I even regularly print out new ones to replace the old ones when they get too battered to read. Today, they're coming off and going in the bin! Many, many thanks, Will!
I would love to see an elaboration on this exact lesson but incorporating a loop pedal in which you use the chords you are describing and then play over it with the scale notes
1-4-5-6-2-3-7... awesome lesson. I’ve spent so much time figuring out how to do this exact thing. Even memorizing the half steps between notes then the modes.
Awesome. Just in the right time for my progress... no fancy lighting or guitars mics and amps, intros and credits. Just pure gold of simplified hidden hint that could take years to notice.
This video is one of the best things I´ve ever found on Internet. Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Do you have another "secret pattern" can help us to memorize the entire freatboard????
15 years of playing and I never realized how simple this is. Thank you. I have always struggle with memorization of keys and your demo is a repeatable and transferable shape to "figure" them out on the fly. Memorization is not really needed. It seems the only thing you need to know is how to count, how to name a note and how to play a Maj, min, Dim chord. I like this a lot.
Almost a million views on this bad boy! I remember watching Will back in the early days. You’ve come a long way, much respect man! You have a certain genuine attitude that makes you very relatable and you never feed us any fluff or bullshit. You’re the man. Thank you sir for your fine lessons.
Really great lesson. A great easy methodology for not only understanding the chords and notes in a key. I love how this eliminates the need for reference guides. The guitar neck is the guide. Thanks for sharing such a simple and wonderful insight to your fellow guitarist.
I think this is the single most important thing I've learned in the 10+ years of playing. Granted, I taught myself, so that's not saying much, but still. Thanks man! Took me a hot second to wrap my head around it, and busting out the guitar to try myself but makes sense now!
I love these practical theory lessons! Too many people discuss theory in the abstract but having patterns applied to the fretboard like this is so so useful. Thanks!
This!! This helped me so much. I am a bit exhausted today but I am going to keep coming back to this every day until I memorize it. But it was clear, concise and made so much sense this is an amazing METHOD! I love you man!
I’ve been learning guitar for 26 years. I don’t play enough to ever master the fret board but I’ve definitely learned a lesson today that nobody else has ever tried to teach me before. I’m gonna take this video to my guitar tonight. Thanks will 👍
Great, Very Refreshing, your right about the Pentatonics. I think I must have been one of the lucky ones. I was given A numbered fret diagram, 1 to 7 all over the neck, in the key of C, To get another key, shift the whole pattern. And told to study and practice playing 1 to 7 from all the strings, from 6 to 6 is the relative Minor 2 to 2 dorian Mode, and so on, for the Harmonic Minor start from 6 and sharpen No 5 you get my meaning I have not looked back since, I;ve been able to work everything else out from this . After reading a lot of thoughts on UTube I know I was very fortunate. It is so simple. Thanks for showing us simple.. Good to see and know people appreciate it . Great Job...
man this video helps so much, I struggle with schizophrenia and want to learn music so bad. going to take notes and rewatch when I get my new guitar. thank you so liked and subscribed keep on teaching us plz, also I don't think those that can't instruct others, obviously you have some intelligence and talent and are humble enough to share it instead of showboating.
sitting here speechless at this whole video. only managed to get the words "i love you" out after 10 minutes of watching. Thank you so much for making this video easy to understand for a music theory simp like myself
This video basically connected the dots for me on how a minor or major pentatonic fits in with the cords, I basically already knew how to play a major or minor pentatonic but had no idea which chords other than the root note chord worked in that key, thank you
I've played for more than 20 years and tried to learn this crap the hard way, and it never stuck. This is astonishing! I like this guy, and this idea is one of the best things I've run across. I'm going to subscribe to this guy's channel and start improving my playing.
Dude, this is an outstanding video lesson! I was a pro player, signed to Koch records. I have played all over, I have endorsements, I've shared the stage with many giant artists, suck as Metallica and Ozzy, to name a couple. I also play in some country bands. At first I thought you were teaching the 1,4,5 method. Then, I just learned something within the first 3 minutes of this video I will keep with me for life. Thanks for taking the time to upload this!!!! Awesome!!!!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
David Lee Roth I’m assuming that’s the 226(when I watched) dislikes. Haters. Seriously, unless you thought there would be subtitles in your language that isn’t English, there’s absolutely no reason to dislike this video. Even if you’re an expensive guitar teacher, use this to your advantage and be known as a teacher that gets results by making things easy on their students. This is exactly why I watch so many different lessons, because, so many different people have so many different Golden nuggets that either they figured out or they were taught by someone that themselves figured it out. Eventually, I’ll probably seventy, but I will personally have collected enough of these little tips to have a course curriculum. “Easy Guitar Mastery from absolute beginner to total master in as little as one sitting” $27. Of course by then all the little children will have microprocessors implanted in their brains and well on their way to cyborgery. When they wanna play guitar the just pick it up, instantly download every byte of knowledge on the subject, shred for a minute, laugh mockingly at our ineptitude, put it down, erase the files, clean the registry, and move on to the next relic of “humanity”. Fucking haters. lol. I hate those little soulless bastards already.
Can't solo to save my life, but in the last 24hrs, having watched this video a few times, everything finally makes sense! I've seen dozens (hundreds!) of YT videos on scales--but what the hell am I supposed to do with them? Memorizing all the scales without seeing the bigger picture is futile. The approach shown in the video, with patterns for literally every key, out of which you derive both the chords and notes for that key strikes gold, IMHO. Only THEN do the scales make sense. Thanks for a fantastic lesson!
oh my lord, i struggled so much years ago when i was starting with scales and understanding major and minor keys and how to improvise over keys, i wish i had seen this when i began, would have made so much more sense!!! thank you !
100% the best way to teach someone, I use this for my students, between this and the two string 7 pattern major scale I get them soloing within half an hour
Wow..... Been playing with guitars since I was a kid of around 15, in my 60's now and this was the most enlightening 13 minutes I've ever experienced. I have always been amazed how some guys just know how to move around the fretboard and hit the right notes all the freakin time, something that I never mastered. This simple demonstration was the best head start I've ever been given. So glad I found this.... Thank you so much for making this video. Really really great.
So easy to remember, but so fkn awesome !!! It's like finally finding the missing last piece of a jigsaw puzzle you've been searching for for ages. Beats the hell out of trying to extract this info out of the circle of fifths, or trying to memorize tables of chord progressions :-). Been meaning to learn this stuff properly for years, but haven't gotten round to it, mainly due to lack of practice time. Never seen it presented like this before. Just shows, a simpler approach can work wonders - now I can work it all out in an instant with one glance at the fretboard. Thanks for posting Will.
So, I’m a music education Graduate who studied theory for over 7 years. I am a clarinetist who just picked up a bass in the last 3 years. I have to say that I’m very impressed with how accessible this makes the instrument to me. I have all of this knowledge and the bass and guitar was just so foreign because I couldn’t easily identify the sharps and flats like you can on a piano. I think anyone can pick up basic music theory who understands notes on the guitar with this method, and vice versa, anyone with basic music theory knowledge can use this method to better learn the fretboard. This pattern should be taught really early. This will help people stop playing the 5 open chords we overuse all so much
I been playing 50 years, and you just explained (taught), something New,I could understand! Quite an accomplishment on your part! Considering how HardHead I am ! Congratulations, and Thank You...
WOW. I am a drummer self-learning guitar, and you just cleared up just about every question I had on how to figure out what notes to play to keep in key!! Thanks for this lesson!!
I have been playing the guitar as a hobby for about a decade without ever being able to learn the basics of scale theory… You, my friend, are amazing. You taught me what trinity school grade 8 guitarists couldn’t, and that too, so easily, in the span of this video.
I've learned this a while ago, so long that it took me a few moments to realize it. None the less, this is a GREAT video for those who aren't aware yet. This was one of those handful of things you learn that become invaluable for the rest of your playing career/life. This, along with how to find whatever note you're playing and to skip a string and skip a fret to find that note an octave up, or playing a note then move over one for the 3 and down 2 frets for the 5th; were the 3 things that made everything that came after SO much easier. Side note: those have to be some of the just polished frets I've ever seen. I use a silver jewelry cloth to clean my string and frets that works really well, but these frets can signal jumbo jets...
Dude I can’t believe it I have been struggling with all of this for 40 years and you just rock my world in 10 minutes that is so cool good work brother and thank you
awesome video! finally makes some sense to me. I liked when u said about how those that try to teach about pentatonic scale which doesn't truly teach u anything other than knowing it sounds ok with the main chord it rooted from. your lessons are very easy to understand. thanks .
I have been playing on and off for 35 years and I just learned some cool new tricks and tips. You teach well. Thanks a lot, I truly appreciate this lesson.
I have been playing a year have questioned the pentatonic box memorizing Because everyone who teaches it plays the most boring riffs humanly possible. This is Brilliant, I feel like it opens to the door to complete melodic playing.
By eliminating the rest of the fretboard and sticking to your "BOOM BOOM BING and this little guy makes it diminished" technique, I am able to use my ear to correctly identify the next chord in a progression more often than not. Really good stuff - thank you!
How is this not the gold standard for teaching beginning guitar. Reminds me of college. Some students would to get by w/rote memorization. They might even do well on the tests, but they'd graduate not actually being able to do much w/what they learned. While the other students would try to actually understand the material, to understand why things worked as they did, and they'd graduate as actual masters of their subject.
It’s so strange that this was suggested to me because I was attempting to explain this exact concept to my friend during practice yesterday. I couldn’t quite get him to understand, but your video explains exactly what I was trying to convey!
Oh my lord, I learned something new from a guitar video??? First time I’ve subscribed to a channel in months. I look forward to watching your channel good sir :)
I've been trying to self teach myself guitar for about 4 years . one song i always wanted to play has eluded me from day one i figured out in less than ten minutes after watching this . much thanks for sharing this magic , so helpful .
Love your entertaining & wealth of knowledge, that you've shared. I've dealt with some serious health issues myself. Just as I'd gotten a foot in the door with a Phoenix area promoter, doing opening acts, & since I started in Highschool 3 months before graduating, being hired by a pro band first as lead singer, thanks to an extra weekend of West Side story being given another weekend of shows. The female lead singer who heard me doing Tony's part, Maria, Tonight, Could be, the latter with 2 unique time signatures, but since my Music theory teacher,along with strings, & part of the trio of Humanities teachers. He allowed me to interpret them how they worked for me. The gal had a blend of both gals who made Heatwave popular Martha of Martha & the Vandrells, & Linda Ronstadt, though her insanely jealous husband didn't want her to dance or move on stage. As if she could stop playing tambourine & other similar drum beat additions would keep her still. She was built like a brick shit house, but she was as loyal as a good lap dog. But no bitch in her~ I wish I'd had more than the month singing with her, she could sing any style flawlessly. I had over a 4 octave range at the time. At 64 cancer, 310 self administered injections of Interferon in a year, to beat 24 square cm's of stage 3 Melanoma at the base of my neck, top right back & right shoulder. The hack general surgeon considered me dead & said he'll with the plastic surgeon, who was at the Scottsdale Hospital. He'd promised me if he removed anything larger than a thumb, he'd call in the pro. Instead he used a cauterizer & hacked 5 figure 8's in me 1 in my neck, 2 in the top of my back & rt shoulder, which was so tight & pulling to the right, I thought I'd be able to reach over my rt shoulder & wipe my ass. I won't bore you with the rest, within 6 months of treatment I knew the odds of me working again would be slight, adding to what 2 50 to 55 mph rear end collisions & 2 work injuries. The AZ State Dr saw me 1 time for 5 whole minutes & denied all the injuries, the last 3 w/o full records or seeing me. They found everything & then some in my 5 year follow-up, as I'm sure you know, if you don't go after Dr's within 5 years, especially in a right to work (for nothing) I started working for myself after being here 5 years. A failed attempt at a Realtor, I sold my 1st house in 2 months, passed the test in half the allotted time, but the 30 Year Scottsdale company I joined. Was bought by some yahoo from Jersey, who while the prime lending rate was 18.9%, he built a huge glass building, on the most expensive real estate left in old town Scottsdale 5th Avenue & Indian School & built 100 commercial on one floor & home real estate with the same number. We had 5 people on residential & there was less than 20 commercial~. A week after my check cleared, he filed for bankruptcy. Add to that my now ex wife managed to leave a job with Blue cross Michigan that had 100% paid everything, from regular to dental & eye are. Didn't have a day's worth of birth control, & managed to suck at the rhythm method, telling me her safe days, which once I added things up later she couldn't have been further off. Her Dr wouldn't show up to the hospital, unless he was paid in full. There wasn't time for me to join a new company & rely on a market where unless people were moving here & down sizing & paid cash or I could find an smassumable mortgage, which fee would list, cuz in that market they knew they held a gold mine. So music at first had to take a secondary place & 10 years later with many out of State owners, bands would be lucky to get $50 a man what we got in Spain regardless of the size of the band, since the 2nd best Jazz pianist had a standing gig with the band, it he had a Friday or Saturday night off. The kind of talent that he'd hear the intro to one of our songs & play it perfect the next time we played it. You just wanted to slap him & tell him stop that you lucky bastard! I was the one learning all the new top 40 & writing 3 & 4 part harmonies, as well as my own songs. But I certainly needed more then one time through for the speed & technicality of what he picked up instantly. I can't imagine the best if he was 2nd~ Long winded as usual, check out ConVivo for a 45 minute collage of a guy building a Spanish guitar,mostly by hand with 1 wooden jig & a few aids, but shaping with the rasps, files down to sanding by hand. I think you'd get a kick out of the old guy's mastermind abilities & talented hands,ugh like the guitarists over there. Not that you're not a hell of a talent yourself. But chances are they'd been building them that way for centuries. Just curious if you cover using carbon fiber guitars, as an old Grand Funk fan & Mark Farner fan. After neck surgery his Dr told him more planks like Starts or SG's or Les Pauls. So he now has used Parker Fly's & with a black drummer (Hubert 'HBomb' Crawford & a 5 string black bassist Paul, his last name escapes me. But Mark just released a 16 track live track DVD, with 2 music videos one on Mark Farner.com free & Abysmo on UA-cam 'Never & Always' at between 69 & 71 he's still singing in the same keys as he was at 18 & 19 & all over the stage, recorded in Santiago Chile, also 5 new tracks $14.99 if which $3 goes to Vets helping Vets, gets them off the street, & does whatever's needed to get them working. 100% of the proceeds go the Vets. His Dad was a tank driver in WWII & got 2 or 3 bronze stars, as well his Mom was the first American woman to weld on Sherman tanks, the same to anks his Dad drove in combat. At the Fisher body plant in Flint MI. Don't know if you'll catch this but if anyone else does both are worthy of your time & money in Mark's case. The Parker has a regular pickup & a oiezo. He uses 15's for one side & sends the piezos to a Fender Twin, he carries 3 sets of his own power tubes on fly gigs. The crowd in Santiago know the words to every one of his songs & they speak many languages beyond Spanish. The DVD'S entitled 'From Chile with love' Hope your doing well health wise, I feel for you & one of the few who experiences much of what you do. Thanks for all your valuable info & entertainment, as I'm stuck horizontal far more often than I prefer, I never was patient, only as a father to my 2 sons, 1 of which I lost in 2017, to they assumed it was an his meds, for be one the lazy bitch never rolled him over off his ass belly, noting he can had a small anterior scar on the back of his right knee, had she rolled him over, she'd have seen his entire patella missing & a scar 8"'s above his foot & 8"s down from his hip a cut all the way & he lost about half the muscles, ligaments & tendons, due to an ignorant orthopedic, who ignored the obvious warning signs of infection. MRSA & MSSA both flesh eating staph infections & required the strongest antibiotic available, thru a pic line in an artery, cuz it was so strong if it went through a vein it'd eaten thru it! That's pure hell for a father to see.
I've been playing guitar for 9 years and have just been flat out stuck for the longest time. I thought I needed to get better at pentatonics, scales, and music theory in general, but all I needed was THIS! Thank you so much dude🤘
Thanks so much man. I was just belittling myself yesterday for not being well versed enough in this stuff. This really helped and I appreciate it immensly. Keep it comin man
This has honestly changed things for me. Bass player my whole life and an okay guitar player but now I feel like it's all opened up with this. Can't wait to watch more....
OMG thank you soo much! now it all makes sense! I was just looking at the Nashville system and got really confused. Your method is GOLD, I finally get it now, total game changer!
Diminished chord = when the train appears in those old black and white movies and there is a woman tied to the tracks and some random person has dynamite for reasons.
Songwriting and playing for 20+ yr and this is the most simple, to the point, bullet proof explanation. This will help beginners much more then scale charts, he is correct that this will unlock the use of scales. Well done Sir!
Great Lesson! Fortunately i bought the book "Rock guitar Secrects" by Peter Fischer in the early 90s, which explains this very well. It's the advantage of guitar. If you know such learning patterns, it's easy to read where the mixolydian or dorian mode is, or if the seventh for any chord is minor or major. It's all on the fretboard once you have learned to see it. Next lesson after this would be to learn the major scale that starts with the first of the three major chord positions and the minor scale that starts with the first of the three minor chord positions. Once you see those two scales on your fretboard you can read any chord interval from them.
I have that book to, Piter is such amazing guitarist IMHO he was in same level if not better then YJM, Satriani, Vai etc all those Americans (ok Y is swede...)..They wrote about Him in guitar player in that column from Mike Varney...He definitely deserved far more recognition in world but well lucky for us He gave us few great books, have 4 books he wrote all are great but RGS is probably the best
So glad to see another music theory video from you Will. I subscribed to you years ago because of your theory videos. I thought you taught theory better than any of the academics. The way you teach it makes so much sense. Very refreshing. Thank you. And those are some very nicely polished frets!
Eyeopening... I knew all this stuff but the way you are explaing this is definitely helping me understand what I thought I understood but with a better grasp. I hit subscribe, hit the bell, and hit the bell again for more notifications plus a thumbs up.
I've been fooling with a guitar for over 50 yrs, I'm self taught. I've been watching some guitar teachers on utube lately and I've never saw anyone TEACH this. That's great, Thanks for the lesson. I'm a singer-songwriter.
Just listened to your music, you're shockingly unrecognized. Not sure if that's a compliment or not, I suppose it depends on your intentions in music but wow, certainly full of talent in vocals, lyrics and guitar.
How is this not the first thing they teach you when you learn about diatonicism!! So helpful thank you, been looking for exactly this info for ages now, trying to memorise all chords in all keys... ffs !! So simple here . Amazing thank you
This is one of those concepts that should be the simple logical conclusion of basic theory. But I never saw it myself, watching the video I'm smacking my forehead wondering how I overlooked it. Thanks for the tip.
I feel like you need to see something like this video at the right moment when you've got some knowledge built up around what the notes are on the 5th and 6th strings, need to know your barre shapes and how to switch them around nicely. And then you see a great pattern like this and it clicks. I saw this same video a few months ago and it didn't click at all, but now it's like a revelation.
I don’t know if anyone else pointed this out but the 7th chord of the harmonized major scale is only half diminished (min7b5). A full diminished chord has a bb7.
Good teaching skills. I had a student once but he tried to strike me down so I vanished forever, it pissed him off. You are a great teacher though.
So you’re not dead... that’s bs is you are.
exploiting the high ground again?
U fucking god u really did it, u r the one
Hey, ben kenobi's just some hermit that lives out in the sand dunes, I'd take his advice with a grain of sand if I were you.
@@ElisPROducts No one ever really dies.
This is by far the CLEAREST and most succinct explanation I've ever seen about finding all the chords in a scale. This is important too because it ties into all the modal theory - which chords in a mode are major versus minor. So very cool! Hope you don't mind, but I'm sharing this all over!
that's what it is there for. thanks!
pointless information. play what sounds good to you, not by some strict set of rules that tell you "this is what sounds good" and end up churning out the same incoherent nonsense everyone else does.
I used to think this way
@@FingerinUrDaughter You need to first understand the rules so you can break them.
@@ShadowTheories thats one stupid expression supporters of "music theory" like to say a lot. too bad its 100% false. your arbitrary rules set forth by some rich twats hundreds of years ago are irrelevant.
I can tell you have a passion for music simply because you’re giving us tools that people normally charge us for
🤣 dude made so much money from this video
So I had to watch this three or four times to fully digest it, but this is absolutely a revelation. Thank you so much for this!
I've been playing bass over 30 years so I know how important chord tones are. This just gave me a simple way to unlock them in every key, without having to really think about it. Plus it shows the beauty of the diminished chord in melody. Brilliant lesson for both guitar and bass players alike!
I've been playing for almost 50 yrs, mostly self-taught, and therefore lacking in music theory knowledge. THAT was seriously helpful. Two thumbs up.
A little theory goes a very long way. Check out a site called Zombie Guitar and you'll have about 10 ah ha moments per video- I always do. Brian is an incredible online teacher. I played self taught for many years too before taking lessons in person. I quickly realized theory is not that scary and it seriously opens up doors. It helps having someone one on one so you can ask questions- but there are many good teachers online- but ZGuitar is one of the very best I ever found. I would learn the major scale first since everything is based off of that. Modes are fun and super easy and of course Penta for virtually everything else.
"and remember that pattern: we have 'boom, bang, boom'"
Jacob Smith i saw this comment as he said that
NoodleCoffee LMAO me too
NoodleCoffee I read your comment in sinc with the video
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started Guitar at age 10.Now 63 and YOU just showed me something wonderful :>) THANK YOU !!!!!!
humblegeorge bruh how u not know this I learned this first week of playing
Brayden Richards shut the fuck up, go practice instead of talking yourself up online. That just makes people KNOW you suck.
@@eleven9286 Notice how Brayden Richards has no videos up showing how awesome a player he is.
guys chill, he's probably a young kid who doesn't know any better. he probably doesn't know that the internet wasn't a thing 53 years ago
Same here with me started around 12 and I’m 60 now
Well done. I’ve been a professional drummer for 30 years but have only been serious about my guitar for a little over 10. You’ve taken something that I “half knew” and explained it in a way that made it make sense to me. Trying to be a prog rock guitarist has not been easy and this helps!
Dude you just consolidated 25 years of pain into 12 minutes - so easy I’m literally kicking myself
I’ve watched hundreds of guitar lessons and this is one of the best explanations of the subject. Thank you so much!!
I second that thought.
Maybe this video is a bust..lol😂😂
He is a grand example declaring some people know how to teach, he makes it simple and clear, he is not on an ego trip like so many who feel like they have to intellectualize everything to make themselves appear to be somebody. He is one of the best teachers on UA-cam.
hands down... *HANDS DOWN* the most eye-opening guitar lesson I've ever seen - an absolute revelation and 100% proof of the truth of the phrase: "simplicity is the ultimate sophistication". For years I've had two charts taped onto the side of my amp (tables of major and minor key chord progressions) - I even regularly print out new ones to replace the old ones when they get too battered to read. Today, they're coming off and going in the bin! Many, many thanks, Will!
Thanks!
I would love to see an elaboration on this exact lesson but incorporating a loop pedal in which you use the chords you are describing and then play over it with the scale notes
Yea It's quite informative ,, but again Tooo much schsphpeil
1-4-5-6-2-3-7... awesome lesson. I’ve spent so much time figuring out how to do this exact thing. Even memorizing the half steps between notes then the modes.
Awesome. Just in the right time for my progress... no fancy lighting or guitars mics and amps, intros and credits. Just pure gold of simplified hidden hint that could take years to notice.
Thankyou! 20 years of playing and frustration at not being able to remember chords in a key, scales etc just became clear! Legend. Cheers!
This video is one of the best things I´ve ever found on Internet. Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
Do you have another "secret pattern" can help us to memorize the entire freatboard????
15 years of playing and I never realized how simple this is. Thank you. I have always struggle with memorization of keys and your demo is a repeatable and transferable shape to "figure" them out on the fly. Memorization is not really needed. It seems the only thing you need to know is how to count, how to name a note and how to play a Maj, min, Dim chord. I like this a lot.
Almost a million views on this bad boy! I remember watching Will back in the early days. You’ve come a long way, much respect man! You have a certain genuine attitude that makes you very relatable and you never feed us any fluff or bullshit. You’re the man. Thank you sir for your fine lessons.
Really great lesson. A great easy methodology for not only understanding the chords and notes in a key. I love how this eliminates the need for reference guides. The guitar neck is the guide. Thanks for sharing such a simple and wonderful insight to your fellow guitarist.
This blew my friggin’ mind. God bless you, sir.
Thanks man. It's always hard to find out where to pick up where I left off. This is some much needed groundwork I have been looking for.
Great video Will! Nice work! A great lesson in song writing right here folks!
thanks mang!
I think this is the single most important thing I've learned in the 10+ years of playing. Granted, I taught myself, so that's not saying much, but still. Thanks man! Took me a hot second to wrap my head around it, and busting out the guitar to try myself but makes sense now!
I love these practical theory lessons! Too many people discuss theory in the abstract but having patterns applied to the fretboard like this is so so useful. Thanks!
It is unbelievably so easy and comprehensive !!!!!!
This!! This helped me so much. I am a bit exhausted today but I am going to keep coming back to this every day until I memorize it. But it was clear, concise and made so much sense this is an amazing METHOD! I love you man!
I just love it when someone comes along and shows how something so complicated can be so simple. great video
I’ve been learning guitar for 26 years. I don’t play enough to ever master the fret board but I’ve definitely learned a lesson today that nobody else has ever tried to teach me before. I’m gonna take this video to my guitar tonight. Thanks will 👍
The best lesson, and in only 13 minutes, I think
I've ever seen.
30 years I’ve been playing, and this is the best, easiest way to explain scales and chord progressions. Well done!
Great, Very Refreshing, your right about the Pentatonics. I think I must have been one of the lucky ones. I was given A numbered fret diagram, 1 to 7 all over the neck, in the key of C, To get another key, shift the whole pattern. And told to study and practice playing 1 to 7 from all the strings, from 6 to 6 is the relative Minor 2 to 2 dorian Mode, and so on, for the Harmonic Minor start from 6 and sharpen No 5 you get my meaning I have not looked back since, I;ve been able to work everything else out from this . After reading a lot of thoughts on UTube I know I was very fortunate. It is so simple. Thanks for showing us simple.. Good to see and know people appreciate it . Great Job...
man this video helps so much, I struggle with schizophrenia and want to learn music so bad. going to take notes and rewatch when I get my new guitar. thank you so liked and subscribed keep on teaching us plz, also I don't think those that can't instruct others, obviously you have some intelligence and talent and are humble enough to share it instead of showboating.
30 years paying the guitar, never have i thought about chords and notes in this way! Amazing!
sitting here speechless at this whole video. only managed to get the words "i love you" out after 10 minutes of watching. Thank you so much for making this video easy to understand for a music theory simp like myself
This video basically connected the dots for me on how a minor or major pentatonic fits in with the cords, I basically already knew how to play a major or minor pentatonic but had no idea which chords other than the root note chord worked in that key, thank you
I've played for more than 20 years and tried to learn this crap the hard way, and it never stuck. This is astonishing! I like this guy, and this idea is one of the best things I've run across. I'm going to subscribe to this guy's channel and start improving my playing.
This is the most valuable lesson I've seen to date, that makes sense and is understandable. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS!
Realising now I was lucky enough to have a great teacher who taught me this. Never knew it wasn't common knowledge. Great video.
Dude, this is an outstanding video lesson! I was a pro player, signed to Koch records. I have played all over, I have endorsements, I've shared the stage with many giant artists, suck as Metallica and Ozzy, to name a couple. I also play in some country bands. At first I thought you were teaching the 1,4,5 method. Then, I just learned something within the first 3 minutes of this video I will keep with me for life. Thanks for taking the time to upload this!!!! Awesome!!!!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
I am also a pro player , played with Beethoven and stuff . . . I am awesome but was humbled by you too.
@@someguy67693 good stuff🤘
@Doritohead69 Believe me, no one wasn't talking to you. Good luck learning how to play!
Can I have some proof of your professionalism please
@@lojadorsmp No.
Smartest tip I have ever heard in 55 years. This is so important to figuring out chords and then Arpeggios to play over them. Smart
Thank you ...One if the best lessons I've been lucky enough to attend via you tube this is really eye opening ...Thank you !!!
*expensive guitar teachers have left the chat*
David Lee Roth I’m assuming that’s the 226(when I watched) dislikes. Haters. Seriously, unless you thought there would be subtitles in your language that isn’t English, there’s absolutely no reason to dislike this video. Even if you’re an expensive guitar teacher, use this to your advantage and be known as a teacher that gets results by making things easy on their students. This is exactly why I watch so many different lessons, because, so many different people have so many different Golden nuggets that either they figured out or they were taught by someone that themselves figured it out. Eventually, I’ll probably seventy, but I will personally have collected enough of these little tips to have a course curriculum. “Easy Guitar Mastery from absolute beginner to total master in as little as one sitting” $27. Of course by then all the little children will have microprocessors implanted in their brains and well on their way to cyborgery. When they wanna play guitar the just pick it up, instantly download every byte of knowledge on the subject, shred for a minute, laugh mockingly at our ineptitude, put it down, erase the files, clean the registry, and move on to the next relic of “humanity”. Fucking haters. lol. I hate those little soulless bastards already.
If they're good teachers they stayed right here and learned something!!
@@lancegould What do you expect? He is a singer pretending to be a guitarist who is pretending to be a singer for VH.
@@lancegould 😂😂😂genius!!
Well, that could well be the case, so be it if so. Are you the actual David Lee Roth I wonder? I suppose probably not. I guess that's the internet.
Can't solo to save my life, but in the last 24hrs, having watched this video a few times, everything finally makes sense! I've seen dozens (hundreds!) of YT videos on scales--but what the hell am I supposed to do with them? Memorizing all the scales without seeing the bigger picture is futile. The approach shown in the video, with patterns for literally every key, out of which you derive both the chords and notes for that key strikes gold, IMHO. Only THEN do the scales make sense. Thanks for a fantastic lesson!
oh my lord, i struggled so much years ago when i was starting with scales and understanding major and minor keys and how to improvise over keys, i wish i had seen this when i began, would have made so much more sense!!! thank you !
100% the best way to teach someone, I use this for my students, between this and the two string 7 pattern major scale I get them soloing within half an hour
Wow..... Been playing with guitars since I was a kid of around 15, in my 60's now and this was the most enlightening 13 minutes I've ever experienced. I have always been amazed how some guys just know how to move around the fretboard and hit the right notes all the freakin time, something that I never mastered. This simple demonstration was the best head start I've ever been given. So glad I found this.... Thank you so much for making this video. Really really great.
I’ve researched countless hours, already 5 mins in, I’ve learned more than I have the last few years. Thanks!!!
Gotta know where to look and who to believe, this applies to much of life. I can tell ya that 666 stuff is intentional misdirection. ;)
So easy to remember, but so fkn awesome !!! It's like finally finding the missing last piece of a jigsaw puzzle you've been searching for for ages. Beats the hell out of trying to extract this info out of the circle of fifths, or trying to memorize tables of chord progressions :-). Been meaning to learn this stuff properly for years, but haven't gotten round to it, mainly due to lack of practice time. Never seen it presented like this before. Just shows, a simpler approach can work wonders - now I can work it all out in an instant with one glance at the fretboard. Thanks for posting Will.
Thanks Will, good to see you back!
So, I’m a music education Graduate who studied theory for over 7 years. I am a clarinetist who just picked up a bass in the last 3 years. I have to say that I’m very impressed with how accessible this makes the instrument to me. I have all of this knowledge and the bass and guitar was just so foreign because I couldn’t easily identify the sharps and flats like you can on a piano. I think anyone can pick up basic music theory who understands notes on the guitar with this method, and vice versa, anyone with basic music theory knowledge can use this method to better learn the fretboard. This pattern should be taught really early. This will help people stop playing the 5 open chords we overuse all so much
I been playing 50 years, and you just explained (taught), something New,I could understand! Quite an accomplishment on your part! Considering how HardHead I am ! Congratulations, and Thank You...
thank you for such a valuable lesson. Its priceless how you've summarized a very complex subject to 12 mins.
WOW. I am a drummer self-learning guitar, and you just cleared up just about every question I had on how to figure out what notes to play to keep in key!! Thanks for this lesson!!
I have been playing the guitar as a hobby for about a decade without ever being able to learn the basics of scale theory…
You, my friend, are amazing. You taught me what trinity school grade 8 guitarists couldn’t, and that too, so easily, in the span of this video.
this was the first thing i taught myself sitting in my room for years that really boosted me. true stuff right here
I've learned this a while ago, so long that it took me a few moments to realize it.
None the less, this is a GREAT video for those who aren't aware yet. This was one of those handful of things you learn that become invaluable for the rest of your playing career/life.
This, along with how to find whatever note you're playing and to skip a string and skip a fret to find that note an octave up, or playing a note then move over one for the 3 and down 2 frets for the 5th; were the 3 things that made everything that came after SO much easier.
Side note: those have to be some of the just polished frets I've ever seen. I use a silver jewelry cloth to clean my string and frets that works really well, but these frets can signal jumbo jets...
The dude's a walking encyclopedia I've been watching him for about six years!! this is just the first time I've said something
Dude I can’t believe it I have been struggling with all of this for 40 years and you just rock my world in 10 minutes that is so cool good work brother and thank you
Can’t thank you enough!!! God bless you for being so generous in sharing this amazing knowledge!
awesome video! finally makes some sense to me.
I liked when u said about how those that try to teach about pentatonic scale which doesn't truly teach u anything other than knowing it sounds ok with the main chord it rooted from.
your lessons are very easy to understand.
thanks
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I have been playing on and off for 35 years and I just learned some cool new tricks and tips. You teach well. Thanks a lot, I truly appreciate this lesson.
So simple yet so brilliant. I have been playing for decades and have never heard
this tip!
Whoooooa! My mind is blown. I cant believe I never put that together in 25 years.
christian - I never got that in 50 years! I must be very special!
Carl Taylor 🤣 Well played Carl.
Guitar for dummies bro. Save yourself the next 25 years
22 years here....
christian yates right?!?!?
I have been playing a year have questioned the pentatonic box memorizing Because everyone who teaches it plays the most boring riffs humanly possible. This is Brilliant, I feel like it opens to the door to complete melodic playing.
This really is the only video that makes sense seriously I keep rewatching it has changed my playing tremendously deadass 😮💨
By eliminating the rest of the fretboard and sticking to your "BOOM BOOM BING and this little guy makes it diminished" technique, I am able to use my ear to correctly identify the next chord in a progression more often than not. Really good stuff - thank you!
How is this not the gold standard for teaching beginning guitar. Reminds me of college. Some students would to get by w/rote memorization. They might even do well on the tests, but they'd graduate not actually being able to do much w/what they learned. While the other students would try to actually understand the material, to understand why things worked as they did, and they'd graduate as actual masters of their subject.
Thanks, Will. Many of us amateurs just bang out the chords. This makes innovation easy!
It’s so strange that this was suggested to me because I was attempting to explain this exact concept to my friend during practice yesterday. I couldn’t quite get him to understand, but your video explains exactly what I was trying to convey!
Oh my lord, I learned something new from a guitar video??? First time I’ve subscribed to a channel in months. I look forward to watching your channel good sir :)
I've been trying to self teach myself guitar for about 4 years . one song i always wanted to play has eluded me from day one i figured out in less than ten minutes after watching this . much thanks for sharing this magic , so helpful .
Mind blown! Great lesson! Speechless no one has ever taught this before.
Know someone who has wasted 40+ years of their life trying to figure this out-i do! And all those wasted years .Blew my mind alright!!!!
What makes this pattern work so well?
GRAVITYYYY !!!!
Awesome. Tried this out, and didn't play a bum chord or note. Absolute gold of a lesson 👍😃
Bless the algorithm for recommending me this. It’s such an awesome trick and you explain it so well. A huge thanks for making this video
Love your entertaining & wealth of knowledge, that you've shared. I've dealt with some serious health issues myself. Just as I'd gotten a foot in the door with a Phoenix area promoter, doing opening acts, & since I started in Highschool 3 months before graduating, being hired by a pro band first as lead singer, thanks to an extra weekend of West Side story being given another weekend of shows. The female lead singer who heard me doing Tony's part, Maria, Tonight, Could be, the latter with 2 unique time signatures, but since my Music theory teacher,along with strings, & part of the trio of Humanities teachers. He allowed me to interpret them how they worked for me. The gal had a blend of both gals who made Heatwave popular Martha of Martha & the Vandrells, & Linda Ronstadt, though her insanely jealous husband didn't want her to dance or move on stage. As if she could stop playing tambourine & other similar drum beat additions would keep her still. She was built like a brick shit house, but she was as loyal as a good lap dog. But no bitch in her~ I wish I'd had more than the month singing with her, she could sing any style flawlessly. I had over a 4 octave range at the time. At 64 cancer, 310 self administered injections of Interferon in a year, to beat 24 square cm's of stage 3 Melanoma at the base of my neck, top right back & right shoulder. The hack general surgeon considered me dead & said he'll with the plastic surgeon, who was at the Scottsdale Hospital. He'd promised me if he removed anything larger than a thumb, he'd call in the pro. Instead he used a cauterizer & hacked 5 figure 8's in me 1 in my neck, 2 in the top of my back & rt shoulder, which was so tight & pulling to the right, I thought I'd be able to reach over my rt shoulder & wipe my ass. I won't bore you with the rest, within 6 months of treatment I knew the odds of me working again would be slight, adding to what 2 50 to 55 mph rear end collisions & 2 work injuries. The AZ State Dr saw me 1 time for 5 whole minutes & denied all the injuries, the last 3 w/o full records or seeing me. They found everything & then some in my 5 year follow-up, as I'm sure you know, if you don't go after Dr's within 5 years, especially in a right to work (for nothing) I started working for myself after being here 5 years. A failed attempt at a Realtor, I sold my 1st house in 2 months, passed the test in half the allotted time, but the 30 Year Scottsdale company I joined. Was bought by some yahoo from Jersey, who while the prime lending rate was 18.9%, he built a huge glass building, on the most expensive real estate left in old town Scottsdale 5th Avenue & Indian School & built 100 commercial on one floor & home real estate with the same number. We had 5 people on residential & there was less than 20 commercial~. A week after my check cleared, he filed for bankruptcy. Add to that my now ex wife managed to leave a job with Blue cross Michigan that had 100% paid everything, from regular to dental & eye are. Didn't have a day's worth of birth control, & managed to suck at the rhythm method, telling me her safe days, which once I added things up later she couldn't have been further off. Her Dr wouldn't show up to the hospital, unless he was paid in full. There wasn't time for me to join a new company & rely on a market where unless people were moving here & down sizing & paid cash or I could find an smassumable mortgage, which fee would list, cuz in that market they knew they held a gold mine. So music at first had to take a secondary place & 10 years later with many out of State owners, bands would be lucky to get $50 a man what we got in Spain regardless of the size of the band, since the 2nd best Jazz pianist had a standing gig with the band, it he had a Friday or Saturday night off. The kind of talent that he'd hear the intro to one of our songs & play it perfect the next time we played it. You just wanted to slap him & tell him stop that you lucky bastard! I was the one learning all the new top 40 & writing 3 & 4 part harmonies, as well as my own songs. But I certainly needed more then one time through for the speed & technicality of what he picked up instantly. I can't imagine the best if he was 2nd~ Long winded as usual, check out ConVivo for a 45 minute collage of a guy building a Spanish guitar,mostly by hand with 1 wooden jig & a few aids, but shaping with the rasps, files down to sanding by hand. I think you'd get a kick out of the old guy's mastermind abilities & talented hands,ugh like the guitarists over there. Not that you're not a hell of a talent yourself. But chances are they'd been building them that way for centuries. Just curious if you cover using carbon fiber guitars, as an old Grand Funk fan & Mark Farner fan. After neck surgery his Dr told him more planks like Starts or SG's or Les Pauls. So he now has used Parker Fly's & with a black drummer (Hubert 'HBomb' Crawford & a 5 string black bassist Paul, his last name escapes me. But Mark just released a 16 track live track DVD, with 2 music videos one on Mark Farner.com free & Abysmo on UA-cam 'Never & Always' at between 69 & 71 he's still singing in the same keys as he was at 18 & 19 & all over the stage, recorded in Santiago Chile, also 5 new tracks $14.99 if which $3 goes to Vets helping Vets, gets them off the street, & does whatever's needed to get them working. 100% of the proceeds go the Vets. His Dad was a tank driver in WWII & got 2 or 3 bronze stars, as well his Mom was the first American woman to weld on Sherman tanks, the same to anks his Dad drove in combat. At the Fisher body plant in Flint MI. Don't know if you'll catch this but if anyone else does both are worthy of your time & money in Mark's case. The Parker has a regular pickup & a oiezo. He uses 15's for one side & sends the piezos to a Fender Twin, he carries 3 sets of his own power tubes on fly gigs. The crowd in Santiago know the words to every one of his songs & they speak many languages beyond Spanish. The DVD'S entitled 'From Chile with love' Hope your doing well health wise, I feel for you & one of the few who experiences much of what you do. Thanks for all your valuable info & entertainment, as I'm stuck horizontal far more often than I prefer, I never was patient, only as a father to my 2 sons, 1 of which I lost in 2017, to they assumed it was an his meds, for be one the lazy bitch never rolled him over off his ass belly, noting he can had a small anterior scar on the back of his right knee, had she rolled him over, she'd have seen his entire patella missing & a scar 8"'s above his foot & 8"s down from his hip a cut all the way & he lost about half the muscles, ligaments & tendons, due to an ignorant orthopedic, who ignored the obvious warning signs of infection. MRSA & MSSA both flesh eating staph infections & required the strongest antibiotic available, thru a pic line in an artery, cuz it was so strong if it went through a vein it'd eaten thru it! That's pure hell for a father to see.
I've been playing guitar for 9 years and have just been flat out stuck for the longest time. I thought I needed to get better at pentatonics, scales, and music theory in general, but all I needed was THIS! Thank you so much dude🤘
Thanks so much man. I was just belittling myself yesterday for not being well versed enough in this stuff. This really helped and I appreciate it immensly. Keep it comin man
This has honestly changed things for me. Bass player my whole life and an okay guitar player but now I feel like it's all opened up with this. Can't wait to watch more....
Why did I not know this. This could have helped me so much over the last few years. Thanks so much for unlocking things for me.
OMG thank you soo much! now it all makes sense! I was just looking at the Nashville system and got really confused. Your method is GOLD, I finally get it now, total game changer!
Diminished chord = when the train appears in those old black and white movies and there is a woman tied to the tracks and some random person has dynamite for reasons.
Seems fitting for our times, i wonder if people are playing diminished more these days, lol😿
I learned more from that lesson than I did from my last two teachers,
and 16 lessons. thanks will
Thank you. I learn in patterns. I really appreciate this. Makes way more sense.
Songwriting and playing for 20+ yr and this is the most simple, to the point, bullet proof explanation. This will help beginners much more then scale charts, he is correct that this will unlock the use of scales. Well done Sir!
Excellent, nice to hear the proper way to understand relative minors from major roots. Once again excellent stuff.
Great Lesson! Fortunately i bought the book "Rock guitar Secrects" by Peter Fischer in the early 90s, which explains this very well. It's the advantage of guitar. If you know such learning patterns, it's easy to read where the mixolydian or dorian mode is, or if the seventh for any chord is minor or major. It's all on the fretboard once you have learned to see it.
Next lesson after this would be to learn the major scale that starts with the first of the three major chord positions and the minor scale that starts with the first of the three minor chord positions. Once you see those two scales on your fretboard you can read any chord interval from them.
Jep, you're perfectly right. Bought the same book as I started playing in 1993. Greetings from Hamburg! :-)
@@CaptainDaveFlightsimmer Greetz back from LG :-)
@@annonuhm617 That's not far away! :-)
I have that book to, Piter is such amazing guitarist IMHO he was in same level if not better then YJM, Satriani, Vai etc all those Americans (ok Y is swede...)..They wrote about Him in guitar player in that column from Mike Varney...He definitely deserved far more recognition in world but well lucky for us He gave us few great books, have 4 books he wrote all are great but RGS is probably the best
Why did you use only the lower strings?
5:49 “because the G minor, is the relative minor. Of this guy right here” only a good ass teacher would talk to us like that
Hyphens are important.
So glad to see another music theory video from you Will. I subscribed to you years ago because of your theory videos. I thought you taught theory better than any of the academics. The way you teach it makes so much sense. Very refreshing. Thank you. And those are some very nicely polished frets!
Eyeopening... I knew all this stuff but the way you are explaing this is definitely helping me understand what I thought I understood but with a better grasp.
I hit subscribe, hit the bell, and hit the bell again for more notifications plus a thumbs up.
Thank you so much. I've been playing the guitar for 200 years and this is definitely the most useful thing i've learn about playing the guitar.
I've been fooling with a guitar for over 50 yrs, I'm self taught. I've been watching some guitar teachers on utube lately and I've never saw anyone TEACH this. That's great, Thanks for the lesson. I'm a singer-songwriter.
I'm a vegan
Just listened to your music, you're shockingly unrecognized. Not sure if that's a compliment or not, I suppose it depends on your intentions in music but wow, certainly full of talent in vocals, lyrics and guitar.
@@thereasonableamericans411 Hey, The ReasonableAmericans, I REALLY APPRECIATE YOU LISTENING. Thanks.
How is this not the first thing they teach you when you learn about diatonicism!! So helpful thank you, been looking for exactly this info for ages now, trying to memorise all chords in all keys... ffs !! So simple here . Amazing thank you
I ii iii IV V vi vii° is the first thing you learn if you study music theory of chord patterns.
This is one of those concepts that should be the simple logical conclusion of basic theory. But I never saw it myself, watching the video I'm smacking my forehead wondering how I overlooked it. Thanks for the tip.
Yeah, totally. This is really cool
@@z.s.n.And the smack of another forehead!
I feel like you need to see something like this video at the right moment when you've got some knowledge built up around what the notes are on the 5th and 6th strings, need to know your barre shapes and how to switch them around nicely. And then you see a great pattern like this and it clicks. I saw this same video a few months ago and it didn't click at all, but now it's like a revelation.
Thank you, I've been practicing for years on and off but was never looking at it from that perspective! Helped glue things together
I don’t know if anyone else pointed this out but the 7th chord of the harmonized major scale is only half diminished (min7b5). A full diminished chord has a bb7.
........like ANYONE who is in NEED of this lesson will grasp what you are talking about.
mpesta bruh shut the fuc up
@@iluvbloxorz what?
Hiyss if you don't understand what I said then it's best that you don't
@@iluvbloxorz nono, its just that your comment is so stupid and unreasonable that i can't really comprehend what you're trying to do.
With this newfound knowledge I shall take over the whole music industry....
Triangle man can't defeat univers man