Ive been playing now for a year and half. I really like how he has the graphics matching what he is doing. My brain processes it easier. Thanks for the lesson!
Bullsh_t. It needs to be flipped over. It's scaled for lefties. Righties look down at the frtbd with nut to the left, obviously. Most vid instructors are righties, so yeah, we have to look at and interpret their fingerings in medium shots, but inclusion of numberings and noe letters make graphics more time-consuming.
thanks. that was incredibly helpful for stitching together “things I know” about but don’t know how they go together. I have been stuck playing chords forever but this lesson opened the heavens. best roadmap I have watched explaining this for someone who thinks visually. cheers!
Great video man. Really made it click for me about how these different moveable shapes can be targeted during leads. Also the best part is it gives some really nice non-boring-to-death stuff to practice to start getting these shapes/notes/chords/numbers under your fingers/committed to memory. 👏
Awesome man. I have been looking for this information for so long and no one has articulsted as well as you do. They just explain complex theory or give you simple chord transition riffs to copy. You just showed where the chords are in the scale. Thank you
I'm a intermediate player and kinda stuck in this spot ( caged / solo / intervals etc .. this video has open doors for me to move forward. GREAT video . THANKS for the info
Very well taught. I've always thought that when I'm teaching, it's important that I try to remember what would have helped me grasp a concept as a beginner. You've captured that spirit in your lessons. God, how I wish I'd had so much information at my fingertips 40 years ago. Lol. Please keep teaching. You are a good teacher.
This guy is GOOD. There is so much trash on the internet and it gets lots of views, perhaps people who don’t know much are drawn to its popularity. It is farcical how some try and tell you how you can master the guitar with these ‘3 tricks’. This guy knows what music is about and what it is for; he is genuinely trying to help us. Others deliberately make it more complicated to make themselves look good. Unfortunately even he has to do some theory because it is necessary, but it really isn't difficulty; there are only 12 keys and they are all the same - they just shift about. What makes it complicated is that there are so many different words for the same thing or even worse a similar thing! I would do his course but what I need is hours doing the basics; unfortunately no one can do that for me.
Just finished your improvisation lessons playlist up to date and even though I started with a really limited theory knowledge and hand ability I am playing improvisations and being able to build up from here is the fun part. Thanks a lot king !
Loved the lesson. Made a lot of concepts click together for me. Minor confusion for me: I found the chord diagrams to be upside-down. Or maybe the chord diagrams I am used to seeing are always upside-down (with the low E on the bottom) and these were right side up. I ended up flipping them 180 degrees to be consistent with my other practice materials. Take a look at Brian Kelly video: Guitar Theory Explained in 60 Minutes. At then end he has the same chord diagrams that include the whole caged chords. A good addition to the triads presented here. You will see his diagrams are flipped in the way that I am used to with the Low E on the bottom. Regardless of my confusion, thank you for the lesson. Great content and well explained.
That was a break through moment for me! Ive watched a lot of lessons and I get landing on a chord tones from the cage system but nobody tells you what to play in between those chord tones. Thanks heaps 🙏
I'm so glad I stumbled upon this! First "What Are We Doing Here" By Ariel Posen is my latest favourite tune! Older Canadian Veteran here who loves to play guitar for therapy with other like minded Veterans. I've been messing with the pentatonic; on and off for over 6 years and have been learning triads lately. This is a good explanation and visualization on how to put them together.
That G major to e minor just did so much for me right there. I never knew that the relative major or minor would be found from the pinky or the index finger placement
Thank you so much for this great video..Sir.. I knew triad shapes but to be able to see that as part of pentatonic shapes has given so many options to solo over a chord..Thanx a ton Sir..Highly obliged
That was really helpful! But how should we approach the minor key of a same note (C For example)? II chord of C Major Key is in the same position in the scale with IV chord of C Minor Key. Also, Major III chord - Minor V chord Major IV chord - Minor VI chord Major V chord - Minor VII chord are located in the same positions in their scale. Is this a good approach?
Yeah that's the idea! Typically, I just relate everything back to the relative major key to make it easier for me. But you can shift all the numbers to fit the minor key like you mentioned. Totally up to you and what works best in your mind. Thanks for watching! :)
This is such a fantastic vid Andrew. It could've easily turned very confusing with this level of detail but the way you explain things makes it easy to understand. Also, I for one prefer this fretboard shape, it's easier to visualise for me lol
Great lesson, the content is clear and useful and the added backing tracks are great. PS the graphic of the neck is perfectly fine. Beginners such as myself need to be able to identify many different patterns and having the fretboard as if sitting in front of a teacher is good.
Powerful powerful powerful stuff. So dumb but I totally never thought to go find the chords in the minor presentation shapes. For what it's worth you know the way you set up the fretboard is how I think it should have always been done. When I was a beginner that was how I thought it was. It took me forever to understand it and even to this day I have to write down beside the diagrams eadgbe because I forget which way it goes. It totally makes way more sense this way. Thanks
Love your content Andrew, Wish i Had you when i started, would have learnt so fast. Sadly your teachings dont do much for me anymore but you precisely answer every question i had when starting out
ANDREW, can you make a lesson on how to ADD these chord tones to the pentatonic box#2,#3,#4,#5 for each pentatonic box which the chords changes from I-ii-iii-IV-V-vi-vii
I would recommend watching the pentatonic vid from fret science, then you should be able to build each position of the pentatonic and can apply the same thing Andrew is teaching to them!
This lesson would be perfect for you I think: ua-cam.com/video/gpJwaidpcm0/v-deo.html It adds a few notes to the pentatonic shapes to make them major/minor scales which are more useful in my opinion. Otherwise, the video @XnylSculpts mentioned should be good!
For those “flipped fretboard” problems, he is showing you the same view as the actual fretboard facing you. Just like a teacher in an in-vivo lesson. The diagram matches his hands on his fretboard. IMO it’s more coherent.
One of the best Caged lessons i’ve seen in awhile. How do you train your ear to recognize each chord change & then land on the chord tones ? .uummmm……gonna take some doing…..just subscribed so thanks for this lesson.
Good question. And it requires its own lesson for sure. Takes some ear training but it's not really that hard. To start, you'll just want to be able to find the chords of a song by ear. Then eventually you'll be able to do it more on the fly. If you haven't gone through it already, this lesson is a good place to start: ua-cam.com/video/kmAK4tRmLec/v-deo.html
Thanks! Nothing changes since you'd do the same thing for a relative minor key. So you would use all the same shapes I shared in the video for A minor since it's the same key as C major. The numbers would be shifted, but the shapes, chords, scales remain the same. Instead of it being C1, D2, E3, F4, G5, A6, B7; you'd have A1, B2, C3, D4, E5, F6, G7. For a better explanation of relative major and minor keys, check this video out: ua-cam.com/video/6CiDlJepl-o/v-deo.html
I honestly think the horizontal direction(right to left or opposite); doesnt matter much to me,its the vertical(up todown,thats lowE to high e)on fretboard diagram that hurts my brain the most...see convectional fretboard graphics always have the high e string up n low E down...man!!....that hurts my brain so much....in a way this vids picture is sweet to my brain...😊..im gonna invet all my pics from now...😊😊😊❤❤❤
These shapes exist in every pentatonic position all over the fretboard. In this video, I didn’t want anyone getting overwhelmed. But this can be done anywhere on the fretboard :)
I personally don't see a problem with the graphic matching your guitar. Funny how people see things differently. I would have done the same thing if it was my video.
At 04:40 I say it's coming from an E minor shape which is correct when referring to CAGED shapes. It's an E minor shape bar chord positioned at the 5th fret which makes it an A minor chord. An A minor shape would be what we use for the ii chord.
I know that this is a somewhat old video, but has it started to become common for chord/scale diagrams to become 'reversed'' for the purpose of video demonstration? In other words, the viewers lines ups what he sees the tutor doing on-screen instead of what he will see himself when looking down at the neck of the guitar when he is practising?
Do your finger drills ,practice all your scales and your arpegiations of 1's , 2's , 3's ,4's ,5's,and every other note in your scales as your practicing them. Before doing all of this you must pick the strigs 8 times with your picking hand on each string.
I thought I understood this but when I started looking at the shapes they didn't seem right. Shape I is an inversion? And shape VI seems off. In the example he used in the Key of C the notes are Ab, C, E. Is that Am? Trying in the Key of Bb the VI shape seems off again. What am I missing?
Hope you enjoyed the lesson! Don't forget to download your 3 free backing tracks here: andrewclarkeguitar.com/p/slow-pop-pack
This was excellent although your chart that shows the guitar with the dots on it are inverted.
Ive been playing now for a year and half. I really like how he has the graphics matching what he is doing. My brain processes it easier. Thanks for the lesson!
Glad it worked for you! ☺
The way you have your fretboard diagram makes sense! Glad you are thinking outside the box!
Bullsh_t. It needs to be flipped over. It's scaled for lefties. Righties look down at the frtbd with nut to the left, obviously. Most vid instructors are righties, so yeah, we have to look at and interpret their fingerings in medium shots, but inclusion of numberings and noe letters make graphics more time-consuming.
You are the best guitar teacher on the internet, I watched nearly all of your videos, thank you for your work!
Thank you so much ☺
This is a terrific lesson. Well explained and easy to follow, thanks!!
Thank you so much!
This video is the most helpful video I have watched in two years of playing guitar. Your lessons are excellent, thank you Andrew!
what a legend never thought i would reach this level of guitar playing
That's awesome! Congrats :)
Great lesson.
This finally brought everything together! Thank you so Much!
Awesome! Glad I could help 😊
You are joking right? Its all barre chords.
What a lesson. Brilliant. Learnt more in 12 mins 17 secs than i have in months and months. Thank you Sir. So well presented and animated. Love it.
This is the exact lesson I needed to kind of tie everything together. This is gold man
That's so great to hear! :)
Thank you so much for explaining how to use CAGED for soloing - you've done it much better than dozen of similar videos I have watched before!
thanks. that was incredibly helpful for stitching together “things I know” about but don’t know how they go together. I have been stuck playing chords forever but this lesson opened the heavens. best roadmap I have watched explaining this for someone who thinks visually. cheers!
Finally, a breakthrough on caged system and pentatonic scales. Thank you~
My pleasure :)
Great video man. Really made it click for me about how these different moveable shapes can be targeted during leads.
Also the best part is it gives some really nice non-boring-to-death stuff to practice to start getting these shapes/notes/chords/numbers under your fingers/committed to memory. 👏
Awesome man. I have been looking for this information for so long and no one has articulsted as well as you do. They just explain complex theory or give you simple chord transition riffs to copy.
You just showed where the chords are in the scale. Thank you
Excellent lesson! Thank you so much!! I learned so much in a little while so may God bless you for your forthcoming so freely! John 3:16-17! Peace!
I'm a intermediate player and kinda stuck in this spot ( caged / solo / intervals etc .. this video has open doors for me to move forward. GREAT video . THANKS for the info
Amazing! Glad it helped :)
Very well taught. I've always thought that when I'm teaching, it's important that I try to remember what would have helped me grasp a concept as a beginner. You've captured that spirit in your lessons. God, how I wish I'd had so much information at my fingertips 40 years ago. Lol. Please keep teaching. You are a good teacher.
Thank you! Appreciate that a lot ☺
Great lesson, keep them coming
Thanks, will do!
This guy is GOOD. There is so much trash on the internet and it gets lots of views, perhaps people who don’t know much are drawn to its popularity. It is farcical how some try and tell you how you can master the guitar with these ‘3 tricks’. This guy knows what music is about and what it is for; he is genuinely trying to help us. Others deliberately make it more complicated to make themselves look good.
Unfortunately even he has to do some theory because it is necessary, but it really isn't difficulty; there are only 12 keys and they are all the same - they just shift about. What makes it complicated is that there are so many different words for the same thing or even worse a similar thing! I would do his course but what I need is hours doing the basics; unfortunately no one can do that for me.
I really appreciate that! Thanks for watching ☺
Brilliant and really helpful. Thankyou
You're welcome!
Really great ! I’ve played for years and know caged well and still opened my eyes to some stuff
Glad I could help ☺
Just finished your improvisation lessons playlist up to date and even though I started with a really limited theory knowledge and hand ability I am playing improvisations and being able to build up from here is the fun part. Thanks a lot king !
Loved the lesson. Made a lot of concepts click together for me. Minor confusion for me: I found the chord diagrams to be upside-down. Or maybe the chord diagrams I am used to seeing are always upside-down (with the low E on the bottom) and these were right side up. I ended up flipping them 180 degrees to be consistent with my other practice materials. Take a look at Brian Kelly video: Guitar Theory Explained in 60 Minutes. At then end he has the same chord diagrams that include the whole caged chords. A good addition to the triads presented here. You will see his diagrams are flipped in the way that I am used to with the Low E on the bottom. Regardless of my confusion, thank you for the lesson. Great content and well explained.
That was a break through moment for me! Ive watched a lot of lessons and I get landing on a chord tones from the cage system but nobody tells you what to play in between those chord tones.
Thanks heaps 🙏
You're very welcome!
great lesson, thank you so much!
You're very welcome!
I'm so glad I stumbled upon this! First "What Are We Doing Here" By Ariel Posen is my latest favourite tune! Older Canadian Veteran here who loves to play guitar for therapy with other like minded Veterans. I've been messing with the pentatonic; on and off for over 6 years and have been learning triads lately. This is a good explanation and visualization on how to put them together.
You are the best guitar teacher on youtube by far!
That G major to e minor just did so much for me right there. I never knew that the relative major or minor would be found from the pinky or the index finger placement
It's such a handy trick! Glad you found it helpful too :)
Thank you so much for this great video..Sir..
I knew triad shapes but to be able to see that as part of pentatonic shapes has given so many options to solo over a chord..Thanx a ton Sir..Highly obliged
Thank you a lot Andrew! Really appreciate your simplicity and kindness ❤
It's my pleasure!
Thank you so much for the lesson! Very useful, and as always you explained it very simply!
Glad you enjoyed it!
learned so much tonight. Thank you, you're amazing, you're teaching style is logical and linear and I just love it.
You're very welcome!
Man, you rock. You talk about stuff that makes the guitar cool, and you do it in cool ways. Thanks
Glad you liked it! Cheers :)
Thank you!!!
You're welcome!!
That was really helpful! But how should we approach the minor key of a same note (C For example)? II chord of C Major Key is in the same position in the scale with IV chord of C Minor Key. Also,
Major III chord - Minor V chord
Major IV chord - Minor VI chord
Major V chord - Minor VII chord
are located in the same positions in their scale.
Is this a good approach?
Yeah that's the idea! Typically, I just relate everything back to the relative major key to make it easier for me. But you can shift all the numbers to fit the minor key like you mentioned. Totally up to you and what works best in your mind. Thanks for watching! :)
Really helpful. Thank you for this!
My pleasure! Glad I could help ☺
You sir are a genius! This is magic.
Glad you liked the video! :)
We need a part 2 for the bigger shapes please😭🎯. Love you videos btw❤
Chord view is helpful for me. Been playing for over five decades. Do what works for you ❤.
This is such a fantastic vid Andrew. It could've easily turned very confusing with this level of detail but the way you explain things makes it easy to understand.
Also, I for one prefer this fretboard shape, it's easier to visualise for me lol
That's so great to hear. Thank you for watching ☺
I came across your channel a few months ago. Your videos have helped me alot with understanding music theory. Hope you keep the good work😁
Thank you! I'm glad you like the videos.
Wow! Thanks Andrew. You have a very unique and easy to understand way of teaching.
I appreciate that!
Thank you. Your videos always make a huge difference
Happy to help!
Great lesson! Your fretboard diagrams are perfectly ok
Thank you!
This tutorial is pure gold! Thank you!
You're very welcome!
really good thanks
My pleasure!
cant thank you enough for this !!! Thank you so very much this is really helpful !
You're very welcome!
Thank you very much for this video! Totally awesome! Great tips
You are so welcome!
I'm really excited to practice thie
Thankyou. Very helpful
You're welcome!
Great lesson, the content is clear and useful and the added backing tracks are great. PS the graphic of the neck is perfectly fine. Beginners such as myself need to be able to identify many different patterns and having the fretboard as if sitting in front of a teacher is good.
Thank you!! Glad you found the video helpful.
Finally CAGED made sense for me, thank you 😁
Sick ass lesson! Very helpful, thank you.
You're very welcome!!
You are my friend for life brother, thank you 🎸, I needed this one
Glad I could help ☺
Another great lesson. Thank you
My pleasure!
Powerful powerful powerful stuff. So dumb but I totally never thought to go find the chords in the minor presentation shapes. For what it's worth you know the way you set up the fretboard is how I think it should have always been done. When I was a beginner that was how I thought it was. It took me forever to understand it and even to this day I have to write down beside the diagrams eadgbe because I forget which way it goes. It totally makes way more sense this way. Thanks
I appreciate that! I'm glad you found the video helpful ☺
Love your content Andrew, Wish i Had you when i started, would have learnt so fast. Sadly your teachings dont do much for me anymore but you precisely answer every question i had when starting out
I appreciate that!
ANDREW, can you make a lesson on how to ADD these chord tones to the pentatonic box#2,#3,#4,#5 for each pentatonic box which the chords changes from I-ii-iii-IV-V-vi-vii
This would be a pretty packed lesson. But I'll try to do something like this soon. Good suggestion.
@@andrewclarkeguitar yes it would be but every guitarist really needs to know how to do this
Great video and very helpful. Does this only work for a Major key? What about Minor Keys?
It totally does! You just have to relate it to the relative major key. This explanation should help: ua-cam.com/video/6CiDlJepl-o/v-deo.html
Awesome bro❤.. Great job 👏🏻.. very helpful 👍🏼
Appreciate that. Glad I could help :)
Awesome tutorial
Im left handed playing right handed so this inverted visual is perfect.
Excellent, as usual :) many thanks
Thank you! :)
that was helpful. thanks for this video!
You're welcome!
Good lesson thank you.
You're very welcome!
Thanx so much bro
My pleasure ☺
What pentatonic shape would you recommend learning this for after the a minor shape? Thanks for this as always great!
I would recommend watching the pentatonic vid from fret science, then you should be able to build each position of the pentatonic and can apply the same thing Andrew is teaching to them!
This lesson would be perfect for you I think: ua-cam.com/video/gpJwaidpcm0/v-deo.html
It adds a few notes to the pentatonic shapes to make them major/minor scales which are more useful in my opinion. Otherwise, the video @XnylSculpts mentioned should be good!
This has filled a huge gap in my musical knowledge. Thank you!
You're welcome!
Finally I found what I wanted more blessings bro may God bless you abundantly I mine it am Trevor jax from Uganda🇺🇬
🙏🙏
Great lesson 👍✌️
Glad you liked it!
This is well explained to others bunch of tutorials here in youtube. Thank you so much and sub.
Awesome! Would be great with a cheat sheet for the same for the other positions as well!
I wish this helped me better, thanks for your time
Can this apply to other positions of pentatonic scale? Or only the first position
It applies to every position. The shapes are different obviously, but you can fill out every position with every chord. Pretty cool stuff!
For those “flipped fretboard” problems, he is showing you the same view as the actual fretboard facing you. Just like a teacher in an in-vivo lesson. The diagram matches his hands on his fretboard. IMO it’s more coherent.
Agreed you’re looking at the diagram in the same perspective you’re looking at the screen. Very intuitive to me, great job Andrew!!
One of the best Caged lessons i’ve seen in awhile. How do you train your ear to recognize each chord change & then land on the chord tones ? .uummmm……gonna take some doing…..just subscribed so thanks for this lesson.
Good question. And it requires its own lesson for sure. Takes some ear training but it's not really that hard. To start, you'll just want to be able to find the chords of a song by ear. Then eventually you'll be able to do it more on the fly. If you haven't gone through it already, this lesson is a good place to start: ua-cam.com/video/kmAK4tRmLec/v-deo.html
Thanks Andrew. Are you going to cover the other 4 shapes/scales and their associated caged chords at some time in the future? @@andrewclarkeguitar
@@timleem3609 yes. I plant to at some point!
You're doing it right, all the other UA-cam videos just don't get to my head.
I'm glad the lessons are working for you :)
Excellent video packed with helpful tips 😊 Can you please do one on how to apply this comcept on a minor key?
Thanks! Nothing changes since you'd do the same thing for a relative minor key. So you would use all the same shapes I shared in the video for A minor since it's the same key as C major. The numbers would be shifted, but the shapes, chords, scales remain the same. Instead of it being C1, D2, E3, F4, G5, A6, B7; you'd have A1, B2, C3, D4, E5, F6, G7. For a better explanation of relative major and minor keys, check this video out: ua-cam.com/video/6CiDlJepl-o/v-deo.html
Fantastic...
good lesson
Terima kasih video
Tutorial on every mini chords inside on every major scale shape
Beest lesson for chord tones I’ve come across in video form and I used to pay for online lessons 😅
Great to hear! :)
I honestly think the horizontal direction(right to left or opposite); doesnt matter much to me,its the vertical(up todown,thats lowE to high e)on fretboard diagram that hurts my brain the most...see convectional fretboard graphics always have the high e string up n low E down...man!!....that hurts my brain so much....in a way this vids picture is sweet to my brain...😊..im gonna invet all my pics from now...😊😊😊❤❤❤
Finally…… this is amazing
another day of thanking youtube for suggesting you on my feed back when i didnt know you
I use CAGED but all Dominant 7 chords and play the Mixolydian scale over each chord.
Great stuff Andrew! Do you always have to start from pentatonic position one? Or is any pentatonic shape OK?
These shapes exist in every pentatonic position all over the fretboard. In this video, I didn’t want anyone getting overwhelmed. But this can be done anywhere on the fretboard :)
I personally don't see a problem with the graphic matching your guitar. Funny how people see things differently. I would have done the same thing if it was my video.
you are genius 😭
🙏🙏
Cool Bro ❤
04:40 "... and this is just coming from the C minor shape" => the A minor shape actually
At 04:40 I say it's coming from an E minor shape which is correct when referring to CAGED shapes. It's an E minor shape bar chord positioned at the 5th fret which makes it an A minor chord. An A minor shape would be what we use for the ii chord.
@@andrewclarkeguitar I stand corrected - I heard "c minor" which did not make sense, but indeed it is an A minor chord in the E minor shape. Pfewww :)
I know that this is a somewhat old video, but has it started to become common for chord/scale diagrams to become 'reversed'' for the purpose of video demonstration? In other words, the viewers lines ups what he sees the tutor doing on-screen instead of what he will see himself when looking down at the neck of the guitar when he is practising?
Do your finger drills ,practice all your scales and your arpegiations of 1's , 2's , 3's ,4's ,5's,and every other note in your scales as your practicing them. Before doing all of this you must pick the strigs 8 times with your picking hand on each string.
I thought I understood this but when I started looking at the shapes they didn't seem right. Shape I is an inversion? And shape VI seems off. In the example he used in the Key of C the notes are Ab, C, E. Is that Am? Trying in the Key of Bb the VI shape seems off again. What am I missing?
Hi sir very interesting video tutorial I'm interested to your free handbook can I get one..?🙏
Just go to the link in the description of this video and you can download it for free :)
The reason he has the fretboard this way is to show playing in the right hand position. Stings 6 down to sting 1. Like he was playing.
Subbed as looks like some great ideas but have to agree with others that having the diagrams backwards is rather confusing. Great lesson though :)