imagine how many players would be mentally prepared for fretboard mechanics, but people call it theory (it’s really mechanics) and people think it’s gonna be hard to understand. it’s not. it’s just putting the pieces together very mechanically. one by one, each piece as simple as a can of corn. ☮️
Same realization here. That few seconds where he mentioned that in the vid already saved probably years worth of time learning, visualizing, and applying theory. Great lesson!
Looking back I would have started internalizing intervals in every possible way ... once in your mind and soul they become the driving expressionists .. e.g. in a minimal Blues solo context . from that point it is like an intimate chat with your guitar :)
Intelligent, beginning guitarists: Watch this video TEN times. Don’t be surprised when the topic morphs from boring to fascinating. If you can abide it, your potential will leapfrog. I use this phrase: “Guitar as teacher.” Understanding the fretboard through such perspectives is pure gold. Don’t understand? Watch it twice more, even if you’re unsure exactly why you’re doing so. BTW: I am praising this teacher for this choice of topics. His approach is one of several useful approaches.
Finally a method that I can relate to that visually improve my understanding of notes on the fretboard. This video was exactly what I needed. Been watching instruction videos and no channel has ever covered intervals in this manner. Thank you!
Gotta leave a comment this helped me big time. Having the image of the intervals really helps put it in my head to start “thinking in guitar fretboard”. Your English is also very solid man I wish I could speak German half as good
Nice lesson. I've known for a long time that I need to learn my intervals--in fact I've had dreams at night about them. My subconscious must be telling me that they are the key to unlock the next level of understanding. This is the clearest explanation I've found and it allows one to visualize the practical employment of this material. My goal is to play jazz and I know understanding intervals will make it so much easier to understand the construction of jazz chords and go beyond just memorizing their shapes.
Great explanation mate I love interval theory. I studied music theory by myself and I am still learning my next thing to learn is inversions. Very cool video 🤘
@@stevendoust6658 Yes, the actual interval is a fifth, all possible variations, diminished, perfect and augmented, depending on whether it is a minor or major third/seventh.
Thank you very much for your answer and confirming it. It means a lot for me. It means I’m on the right track. Thank you very much you are a legend 🤘⚡️🔥
Excellent video, and the first one where the teacher plays intervals with BOTH the root and the interval itself, rather than just playing a single note at a time and naming it. Instructors would do well to take your approach to teaching intervals and consistently play that root note each time to exemplify the physical nature of an interval. Thank you.
I’ve been playing since I was a kid. At 40 I dug in deep on my technique, as I am left handed and I play right handed , which for me has made picking difficult. I’ve got my chops finally, and theory is next. But it’s confusing because I play trumpet and I read notation, which makes most theory videos easy in some ways but difficult in others. Your video I just watched taught me more than the other 20 I have viewed. It’s 5am, and my wife is going to be mad I was up all night lol. But I will be back to your videos tomorrow. I can’t wait. Steve
Copy this list of the intervals. Practice naming then on your guitar. The numbers represent fret distances. 0-0 unison (0-12 is the octave) 0-1 minor second (m2) 0-2 major second (M2) 0-3 minor third (m3) 0-4 major third (M3) 0-5 perfect fourth (P4th) 0-6 the tritone, aka the augmented fourth, or aka the diminished fifth. (#4; b5) 0-7 perfect 5th (P5th) 0-8 minor sixth (m6) 0-9 major sixth (M6) 0-10 minor seventh (m7) 0-11 major seventh (M7) 0-12 perfect octave (P8) - Start with the key of E, the two open strings, and memorize for example that B is the Perfect 5th in the key of E. Once you can name E-F-F#-G-G#-A-A#/Bb-B-C-C#-D-D#-E, then go onto all of the other keys starting with ADGBC and then F-Bb-Eb-Ab etc. You should know the name of all 12 intervals in all 12 keys (3 with 2 possible names to total 15).
Very cool lesson. Thank you. It’s funny I’ve played these patterns before but I’ve never really thought about them the way you just taught it. amazing connecting it with the theory. Quick question, what were the terms in German to describe major and minor more easily?
Thank you very much Tommy! 😀 The German terms for major and minor are "Dur"and "Moll" while a "major 7" is called "große Septime". In English, I very often have to make it clear with chord symbols such as Gmaj7 that the "maj" refers to the seventh and does not represent the mode. ...but that's just a "minor" issue 😜
I don't think learning the notes on your guitar as silly how else will you know what note your playing my teacher is experienced and he had me learn the notes otherwise why learn guitar at all.
Nein tut mir leid. Ich habe mich wegen der größeren Reichweite für Englisch entschieden. Die Videos in mehreren Sprachen anzubieten ist mir zeitlich nicht möglich.
Disappointing. Sorry to be critical, but I find it impossible to believe that anyone who doesn't already know the theory - and I do - can follow this. There's way too much information. I was hoping to see a video that started with the simple intervals - the octave, 4th, then 5th - and showing the tricks to find them across the fretboard. Then adding the flat 3rd, and the major 3rd, and connecting them to chords and arpeggios. The diagrams are also very hard to see. Finally, while some might find the stretches useful to those who don't already know this material, I find learning the basic and simple intervals first is better. And you can learn the stretches later if you need them. I suspect you're a metal player, so probably the stretches are more valuable to other players.
Of course, it's perfectly legitimate if you don't like my approach to explaining musical intervals. That's the great thing that there are many different approaches possible, and regardless of what you think, this tutorial has been luckily a great help to many! It's about the amount of intervals, why they got their names, and to show and learn to see them in logical order on the fretboard. The fact that the guitar tuning has advantages and disadvantages in terms of playable fingerings is secondary here, as is musical style. Categorizing intervals into difficult and easy would be missing the point in this tutorial, and the classification from consonant to dissonant rather an interesting addition. To start with fifths and fourths first, because they are easier to fret, they would have to be taken out of the theoretical context without first explaining, in an understandable way, why they are called that way and what that means. Thirds in "easy" guitar chords sit often in the upper octave. To show them already at the beginning in chords on the whole fretboard, what surely overwhelms many beginning guitarists, would absolutely not be what this tutorial aims at. There is unfortunately not "THE" king method to explain intervals suitable for everyone, but there are certainly other great tutorials that conform to your preference of learning!
@@BenjaminSchippritt Thanks for the replay. We agree that there are many different ways to teach this material and many different styles of learning. However, I'm a life long learner. And I've learned and taught myself many things. Music being one of the more interesting journeys. As a kid, I played the trumpet. I was very good - meaning the best in my small world - and I could play anything I could read. My friends couldn't, but they could figure things out. I also fiddled with the guitar and banjo. Later I took music theory in college. I did my homework like doing a math problem Because I couldn't play the piano, I never heard what I composed. Later, on guitar and banjo - off and on - I'd learn songs for enjoyment, without really understanding how or why they worked. Even though, I knew basic theory. During the pandemic I'm one of those guys who got serious about guitar. And seeing a TH-cam video on triads by Tomo Fujita was a breakthrough. Because of my learning style and my background - and limitations (my little finger has arthritis and bends towards my ring figure) - I've realized that making connections is key. I taught myself scales, modes, worked on the circle of 4ths, some arpeggios, and consider my an early intermediate player. I also realize that it's about doing, not knowing. Turns out I know things - I've seen patterns - that way better musicians than I'll ever be don't know. Mixolydian is an example. I know it, but can't use it. In discussing the various ways of soloing and improvising - pentatonic scales, modes, chord tones - Tomo Fujita told me that intervals were the key. At first I didn't understand his advice. Gradually, I think I'm beginning to. I've been breaking down the songs I'm learning - John Mayer calls it reverse engineering - to see how they work. Both harmonically and based on scale degrees and common intervals. I was hoping your video would help me organize and increase my understanding by showing me some tricks. In effect bootstrapping my next breakthrough. Finally, while there are different learning styles, and theories of education are a mess, there is some good cognitive psychology data about our ability to absorb complexity. We are limited, as you recognized yourself when you talked about people being tired and still with you when you introduced Mixolydian. The best lecturers in the scientific world tell you what they will tell you, tell you, then say what they told you. And they only tell you a few things. Graduate students tell you everything and usually don't finish because they run out of time. The right level of detail matters. We can absorb everything. The same applies to visual aids, like graphs of fretboard diagrams. I've participated in screenwriting workshops where we've critiqued each other's scripts. The only "rule" was that if a reader said they were confused, trying to explain their confusion away was pointless. Ignoring their advice on how to make the script better was fine. Again, thanks for the reply and best of luck.
I'm impressed you did a relatively complex music lesson in a second language. Well done.
This was an excellent lesson on intervals. Thank you very much.
Just an outstanding lesson and video! Thank you!
imagine how many players would be mentally prepared for fretboard mechanics, but people call it theory (it’s really mechanics) and people think it’s gonna be hard to understand. it’s not. it’s just putting the pieces together very mechanically. one by one, each piece as simple as a can of corn. ☮️
Thanks for your lesson ...i'm looking forward to practicing and learning more with you !
Finding the names of note intervals by picturing your guitar fretboard in your mind is a brilliant idea, thanks for that!
Same realization here. That few seconds where he mentioned that in the vid already saved probably years worth of time learning, visualizing, and applying theory. Great lesson!
This is spot on. I've recently been able to "see" things better. It's quite cool and I absolutely imagine the fretboard in my head
Incredible stuff right here ! Thank you
The RK tele made me a subscriber😂
Seriously though, great stuff!
THERE WAS NO VIDEO EXPLAINING INTERVALS LIKE THIS... YOU HAVE DONE IT SO WELL... THANKS A TON
I have watched a lot of Interval lessons and you my friend have the best one.
Wow, thank you so much 😀🙏
I keep coming back to this lesson. No one talks about this method.
The reason why I understood you is that you know how to teach and your english…..is better that natives!Really bro !
Greetings from Poland
@@x0pz360 Man, thank you so much 😃🙏
Hot rail on the bridge HELL YEAH 🤘
Looking back I would have started internalizing intervals in every possible way ... once in your mind and soul they become the driving expressionists .. e.g. in a minimal Blues solo context . from that point it is like an intimate chat with your guitar :)
Great instruction and video....thanks for sharing! 🔥🎸👊
Intelligent, beginning guitarists: Watch this video TEN times. Don’t be surprised when the topic morphs from boring to fascinating.
If you can abide it, your potential will leapfrog.
I use this phrase: “Guitar as teacher.”
Understanding the fretboard through such perspectives is pure gold.
Don’t understand? Watch it twice more, even if you’re unsure exactly why you’re doing so.
BTW: I am praising this teacher for this choice of topics. His approach is one of several useful approaches.
Nice work man. Much needed knowledge.
Finally a method that I can relate to that visually improve my understanding of notes on the fretboard. This video was exactly what I needed. Been watching instruction videos and no channel has ever covered intervals in this manner. Thank you!
Fantastic approach Benjamin!!! Thank you very much for sharing 🤘🤘
Excellent lesson in intervals on the fretboard combined with great music theory explanations.
Thank you for the explanations! Very clear and still so packed with content that I will re-watch the video several times.
This is a game changer, thank you so much!
Gotta leave a comment this helped me big time. Having the image of the intervals really helps put it in my head to start “thinking in guitar fretboard”. Your English is also very solid man I wish I could speak German half as good
@@bostonclark1721 Thank you for your kind comment 🙏😃
Nice lesson. I've known for a long time that I need to learn my intervals--in fact I've had dreams at night about them. My subconscious must be telling me that they are the key to unlock the next level of understanding. This is the clearest explanation I've found and it allows one to visualize the practical employment of this material. My goal is to play jazz and I know understanding intervals will make it so much easier to understand the construction of jazz chords and go beyond just memorizing their shapes.
Great explanation. Dance schön!
Awesome! Subbed!
Excellent lesson. Thanks.
Great lesson. Also, your guitar is stunning
Great explanation mate I love interval theory. I studied music theory by myself and I am still learning my next thing to learn is inversions. Very cool video 🤘
Thank you very much 🙏🏻😀 ...I've also made a couple of tutorials about inversions. Maybe you'll like to check them out too.
I think I just had a light 💡 moment correct me if I’m wrong but is the 5th of the 3rd minor or major a 7th ?
@@stevendoust6658 Yes, the actual interval is a fifth, all possible variations, diminished, perfect and augmented, depending on whether it is a minor or major third/seventh.
Thank you very much for your answer and confirming it. It means a lot for me. It means I’m on the right track. Thank you very much you are a legend 🤘⚡️🔥
So clearly explained. Thank you!!
Thank you Uli Jon Roth
Excellent video, and the first one where the teacher plays intervals with BOTH the root and the interval itself, rather than just playing a single note at a time and naming it.
Instructors would do well to take your approach to teaching intervals and consistently play that root note each time to exemplify the physical nature of an interval.
Thank you.
Great video! Thanks for sharing
This is premium stuff Ben thank you!
I’ve been playing since I was a kid. At 40 I dug in deep on my technique, as I am left handed and I play right handed , which for me has made picking difficult. I’ve got my chops finally, and theory is next. But it’s confusing because I play trumpet and I read notation, which makes most theory videos easy in some ways but difficult in others. Your video I just watched taught me more than the other 20 I have viewed.
It’s 5am, and my wife is going to be mad I was up all night lol. But I will be back to your videos tomorrow. I can’t wait. Steve
Thank you very much for your kind words 🙏😀
Excellent lesson, very well paced to understand this important concept. Bitte
Thank you very much 😀
Outstanding lesson, Benjamin. Thank you!
I learned a lot. Thank you
Very helpful.
great lesson dude!
Incredible interval lesson, I subscribed.
Thank you 🙏😀
Just what I was looking for today and better and more thorough than any other you tube teacher I have found. Thank you!
Thank you so much 🙏😃
thank you alot
great video!
Great lesson!!! Great teacher....thank you for this solid foundation
oh thks for this ;)
Excellent
Always learning
thanks friend
Great lesson, probably the best one that ı have about the intervals. Thanks a lot, it was quite an eye-opening one for me :)
Thank you very much for your kind comment. I really appreciate it!
Great video
Excelente video gracias!!!
Very practical and enlightening, thanks
Love it!
Is that a Richie Kotzen Telecaster?
Solid lesson! 🤘❤️
Thank you 🙏😃 Yes, it's a Kotzen Signature.
Phenomenal! Danke!
This was very good, Sir...
Very very useful it is....👌👌👍👍
Copy this list of the intervals.
Practice naming then on your guitar. The numbers represent fret distances.
0-0 unison (0-12 is the octave)
0-1 minor second (m2)
0-2 major second (M2)
0-3 minor third (m3)
0-4 major third (M3)
0-5 perfect fourth (P4th)
0-6 the tritone, aka the augmented fourth, or aka the diminished fifth. (#4; b5)
0-7 perfect 5th (P5th)
0-8 minor sixth (m6)
0-9 major sixth (M6)
0-10 minor seventh (m7)
0-11 major seventh (M7)
0-12 perfect octave (P8)
- Start with the key of E, the two open strings, and memorize for example that B is the Perfect 5th in the key of E. Once you can name E-F-F#-G-G#-A-A#/Bb-B-C-C#-D-D#-E, then go onto all of the other keys starting with ADGBC and then F-Bb-Eb-Ab etc.
You should know the name of all 12 intervals in all 12 keys (3 with 2 possible names to total 15).
Best guitar lesson EVER
Thank you 🙏😀
Very cool lesson. Thank you. It’s funny I’ve played these patterns before but I’ve never really thought about them the way you just taught it. amazing connecting it with the theory. Quick question, what were the terms in German to describe major and minor more easily?
Thank you very much Tommy! 😀 The German terms for major and minor are "Dur"and "Moll" while a "major 7" is called "große Septime". In English, I very often have to make it clear with chord symbols such as Gmaj7 that the "maj" refers to the seventh and does not represent the mode. ...but that's just a "minor" issue 😜
Anyone who finds this difficult my advice learn all the notes on the fretboard at least all major notes the other notes will easy after that.
I don't think learning the notes on your guitar as silly how else will you know what note your playing my teacher is experienced and he had me learn the notes otherwise why learn guitar at all.
100% correct.
Danke! Ünd grüße aus dem Regnerischen Eislingen in BaWÜ!
I'm hardly in and the class is truly genius
yeh pretty cool. For me, a minor break through ;)
Very helpful, thank you!
Is video 58 gone? Cannot find it :(
It's all there! th-cam.com/video/jJ0sfFoVD2E/w-d-xo.html
But isn't the minor 3rd in the hendrix chord considered a #9?
Yes and I'm explaining this in the last part of this video! 😉
It just occurred to me that this guy knows his theory in more than one language. So when I get this down pat we can do it in German😂
Really nice lesson!
Zum ersten mal hier bei dir. Super erklärt und sehr verständlich. Sofort abonniert 🤘
Herzlichen Dank 😃
Jerry Cantrell teaching intervals 😀
Visualise the fretboard
#9, tho?
Why is there not an interval between major third and perfect fourth?
There’s no interval there, between 3 and 4, not between 7 and 8 (better named 1).
Looking at a piano keyboard will show you that.
“English is what it is” -The guy with a ten letter name with one vowel. 😊
😂 I've never thought about this. Hilarious!
Vowel efficiency.
music has a theoretical basis, but when someone called fretboard mechanics “theory” they messed with a whole lot of people’s minds.
Was ist das deutsche Wort fuer minor und major wie Sie gesagt habe
Hello Anselm, minor is in German "Moll" and major is "Dur".
Gibts das video auch auf Deutsch?
Nein tut mir leid. Ich habe mich wegen der größeren Reichweite für Englisch entschieden. Die Videos in mehreren Sprachen anzubieten ist mir zeitlich nicht möglich.
@@BenjaminSchippritt ok schade Englisch geht zwar auch aber deutsch ist eben doch anders 😂
Language is what it is. In Spanish there are 3 words for time. In English, there is just one word for the three concepts of time. Tough in research.
Machst du diese Videos auch auf Deutsch?
Nein - für die Zukunft schließe ich grundsätzlich nichts aus, aber gegenwärtig wäre das aus rein zeitlichen Gründen leider nicht machbar.
modal arpeggios leson please
That's a polished guitar.
Disappointing. Sorry to be critical, but I find it impossible to believe that anyone who doesn't already know the theory - and I do - can follow this. There's way too much information.
I was hoping to see a video that started with the simple intervals - the octave, 4th, then 5th - and showing the tricks to find them across the fretboard. Then adding the flat 3rd, and the major 3rd, and connecting them to chords and arpeggios. The diagrams are also very hard to see. Finally, while some might find the stretches useful to those who don't already know this material, I find learning the basic and simple intervals first is better. And you can learn the stretches later if you need them. I suspect you're a metal player, so probably the stretches are more valuable to other players.
Of course, it's perfectly legitimate if you don't like my approach to explaining musical intervals. That's the great thing that there are many different approaches possible, and regardless of what you think, this tutorial has been luckily a great help to many! It's about the amount of intervals, why they got their names, and to show and learn to see them in logical order on the fretboard. The fact that the guitar tuning has advantages and disadvantages in terms of playable fingerings is secondary here, as is musical style.
Categorizing intervals into difficult and easy would be missing the point in this tutorial, and the classification from consonant to dissonant rather an interesting addition. To start with fifths and fourths first, because they are easier to fret, they would have to be taken out of the theoretical context without first explaining, in an understandable way, why they are called that way and what that means. Thirds in "easy" guitar chords sit often in the upper octave. To show them already at the beginning in chords on the whole fretboard, what surely overwhelms many beginning guitarists, would absolutely not be what this tutorial aims at.
There is unfortunately not "THE" king method to explain intervals suitable for everyone, but there are certainly other great tutorials that conform to your preference of learning!
@@BenjaminSchippritt Thanks for the replay. We agree that there are many different ways to teach this material and many different styles of learning. However, I'm a life long learner. And I've learned and taught myself many things. Music being one of the more interesting journeys.
As a kid, I played the trumpet. I was very good - meaning the best in my small world - and I could play anything I could read. My friends couldn't, but they could figure things out. I also fiddled with the guitar and banjo. Later I took music theory in college. I did my homework like doing a math problem Because I couldn't play the piano, I never heard what I composed. Later, on guitar and banjo - off and on - I'd learn songs for enjoyment, without really understanding how or why they worked. Even though, I knew basic theory.
During the pandemic I'm one of those guys who got serious about guitar. And seeing a TH-cam video on triads by Tomo Fujita was a breakthrough. Because of my learning style and my background - and limitations (my little finger has arthritis and bends towards my ring figure) - I've realized that making connections is key. I taught myself scales, modes, worked on the circle of 4ths, some arpeggios, and consider my an early intermediate player. I also realize that it's about doing, not knowing. Turns out I know things - I've seen patterns - that way better musicians than I'll ever be don't know.
Mixolydian is an example. I know it, but can't use it. In discussing the various ways of soloing and improvising - pentatonic scales, modes, chord tones - Tomo Fujita told me that intervals were the key. At first I didn't understand his advice. Gradually, I think I'm beginning to. I've been breaking down the songs I'm learning - John Mayer calls it reverse engineering - to see how they work. Both harmonically and based on scale degrees and common intervals. I was hoping your video would help me organize and increase my understanding by showing me some tricks. In effect bootstrapping my next breakthrough.
Finally, while there are different learning styles, and theories of education are a mess, there is some good cognitive psychology data about our ability to absorb complexity. We are limited, as you recognized yourself when you talked about people being tired and still with you when you introduced Mixolydian.
The best lecturers in the scientific world tell you what they will tell you, tell you, then say what they told you. And they only tell you a few things. Graduate students tell you everything and usually don't finish because they run out of time. The right level of detail matters. We can absorb everything. The same applies to visual aids, like graphs of fretboard diagrams. I've participated in screenwriting workshops where we've critiqued each other's scripts. The only "rule" was that if a reader said they were confused, trying to explain their confusion away was pointless. Ignoring their advice on how to make the script better was fine. Again, thanks for the reply and best of luck.