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Sorry about that. I normally have a desser running over the audio.

Your welcome.

So the E position refers to the open chord that comes from the scale. People often use the CAGED system to describe different positions on the fret board. Each position sits in a different place on the guitar neck but is still the same notes (same scale). So once you know the C, A, G, E, and D positions you know that scale anywhere on the guitar. And if you are playing in the E position your bar chord will look like an open E chord. Please let me know if you have any further questions.

I have just added a video that brings it back to the start - th-cam.com/video/j-zCax0dzSc/w-d-xo.html

Hmm.... maybe a new project!

You are welcome. I still have about 100 more to put up. They are all from my website that has unfortunately been buried in googles search. I will likely release them free there next year.

I hate that it is used in so many songs and its just like oh change to this chord in split second.... horrible horrible people why! I still don't use it much - have a look for the C7th lesson - C maj 7 should be the new C - way better version. We can start a petition to change all songs using C!

Ha ha cheers! Enjoy.

Thanks. Its great as you start to link lessons together and come up with new ways of playing - i still do it as i go back through them.

It actually goes great with some blues in Em too.

Cheers.

Cheers!

You are welcome

You are welcome

It was actually South of Heaven that prompted me to add this in!

Cheers from Australia!

You are welcome. Enjoy.

Glad it was helpful!

The chords are easy but the theory can be tricky.

Ha ha. I do sound a lot like him - I teach maths too.

Thank you for that! I have never been quite sure if it was good format or not.

Thanks heaps. Check out the website - the early stuff is all unlocked and has backing tracks to practise with. Cheers. 7minutemusic.com

I did and it looks perfect for me. I'll work through the first 2 parts and hopefully 'join' after that. Thanks again.

You are welcome.

Thanks heaps.

You are welcome.

Yes same thing - it's the reverse action of a bend (descending portamento is the classical term)

Triplets are really hard, especially when jamming or playing live. I mainly use 3:4 for rhythm.

Absolutely, all my lessons are on skills rather than songs - get the skills you can play anything.

Also check the reference song in the description - the solo is in 3:4.

Your welcome!

Your welcome

Awesome enjoy!

Awesome!

Hi I'm Steve Smythe. Thanks so much for the comment. I was really trying to make a course that avoids all the 'just do this and you'll be a master' stuff. There is a trick all good musicians know. Learn your scales and practice a lot!

@@7minutemusic Ha ha yes i think that the success in life is hard work and if at first !!! Thanks for taking the time to reply and thanks again for your efforts on TH-cam.

Sorry, the short cuts out the explanation for that from the full video - the thumb wrapped around is used for muting the top string so you can strum with a bit more energy (not having to skip the top string). Thanks for pointing it out.

Cheers John. Will be getting in the studio with it soon. More to come!

No problem.

Thanks. If your interested have a look at what's available in the full program - 7minutemusic.com. There is a massive section on different scales there.

@@7minutemusic Thank you for the suggestion but I hardly play anymore I just like to watch TH-cam video.

Thanks Chris and a happy new year to you too. I love the scale. There is an even better one called Phrygian Dominant. I have a lesson on my website - 7minutemusic.com under scales. Let me know if you want me to send you a fretboard map of it.

@@7minutemusic just discovered u..I teach my students fun and complex chet atkins stuff and some van halen! etc. where are u located...and did you learn all the modes individually like the different colors they produce??

I am in Adelaide Australia. I learnt the modes through a teacher who worked with me that was jazz trained. We had a Diploma of music we ran that went through each mode in every CAGED position in different keys. It was awesome. We then set the students free to write their own music in any genre. It was amazing. The course I have up on the website reflects the order we learnt them in. Am and C major. Then G dominant, D Dorian. Then Phrygian, Lydian, Locrian. The number of flats/ sharps are what tells you the colour of the mode - so Locrian has 5 flats compared to the major scale if you play both in C and is wildly different whereas the Dominant only has 1 flat and is pretty easy to get a feel for. The Circle of 5ths is super handy for this. I'll find the link for one I made and add it here.

This will help with what mode is fitting in each key. 7minutemusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Circle-of-4ths-poster-scaled.jpg . For C Major - the note to the right is Lydian, left is Mixolydian. The Note below is Aeolian (minor). To the right is Dorian, to the left is Phrygian. Left of Phrygian is Locrian. The best way to look at it is the left is dark and the right is light - play them and you will see what I mean.

@@7minutemusic THANK U I APPRECIATE U!

Thanks. Have a look at the website too - it has chord charts and backing tracks for each lesson. 7minutemusic.com. Glad you like it.

Glad you liked it

Thanks! If you like that I have just put a new one up on moving open chords - th-cam.com/video/DJnExC9ljKE/w-d-xo.html

Cheers! Yeah that stuff might go in a level 7! I have mucked around with some quarter step stuff when playing in a belly dancing troupe (best job ever). I haven't included it in my course yet as thought it was a bit eclectic. I'll toss in some geomusic and planetary frequencies tuning and we can go off the deep end. Just getting the beginner stuff up for now.