The Hendrix chord and using your pinky to play melodies over chords is my "thing" in my band and it makes people think I'm a good guitarist when actually I'm very much average and having seen way too many Hendrix videos
This video had my eyes wide open the entire time. As someone who is trying to reinvent the way they play guitar as much as they can, some of these tips really did help. I don't ever post comments on videos, but I wanted to personally thank you for posting content like this. As someone currently balancing school and work, and finding themselves overwhelmed, it is truly a blessing that there are content creators like yourself who make nice little lessons that fit perfectly into schedules like mine. It serves as a nice little pick-me-up. That even though I don't have the time to sit down and practice or experiment for hours right now, little tidbits like this make the progression of my musical growth feel like it isn't constantly having the "pause" button hit. My personal favorite tips were the "Dave Matthews chords" and the open pentatonic licks". Two note chords played on the bassier strings, with an open to accompany them are my favorite types of chords to form rhythms with in my own writing. These shapes definitely opened a new avenue for me in that sense. Also, the open string pentatonic licks allow me to connect more ideas since I don't have the speed of a shredder. I can see how this allows me to utilize legato and obtain more notes with less pick strikes, giving me time to prepare for whichever transition i'm moving to next. Thank you!
You know what Based on the title I thought I was going to see things like basic tapping techniques or whammy dives or things like that. But what we got was how to maneuver around basic chords and I gotta say, I respect you for that. I hope one day I will have a clear understanding of how guitar works with chords and learn the fret board notes by memory. Great video!
Ive been playing guitar for almost 10 years...on and off, but have spent serious time invested in learning and practicing. I still feel like a newb. Within the first year my brother could solo to any song, learn any song, including metal, by ear. He can literally play anything, and is definitely some kind of savant. I just struggle so much, but I persist. These tips definitely helped, and I appreciate the effort to make the video. Just wish it was a little easier on me, mainly mentally.
Ever since I became a Rush fan, the whole "open chord" stuff has been really fun to experiment with. Like how Alex uses this on Xanadu, or another example is the Yes song "I've Seen All Good People," the first half being that example. It's really awesome how learning songs can give you these little fun things to add color to your playing.
The first right hand flamenco embellishment is called the "rasqueado," which translates to "scratch" in English. Very useful technique when playing fingerstyle.
Those open chord shapes are some of my favorite ambient things. Let them ring, let them drip with delay and reverb, and you've got some really syrupy good sounds.
I've done the Hendrix barre chord for years because it was just easier than doing an actual barre chord, now it's just become a natural part of my playing
When a few years ago I realized that moving the E major shape, moving it up the guitar, creating these amazing chords... I wouldn't stop for hours. :) And not just on the 5th and 7th fret like you did in lesson #6, but on the whole scale! Thanks for all of these, can't wait to try some of them out!
Honestly I love how he played the same thing slow and I immediately realised I can totally do that and it's just a matter of building speed. I started practicing with a metrenome and like 4 moderately complex riffs just to see where I stand. Right now it's like 140 but I know if I could get to like 200-220 it would sound amazing. Just gotta keep going. I think it's just a matter of of dedication TBH.
If you’re playing the last one on an acoustic, you can also hit the rim of the sounds hole with your index or other fingers to add a percussive sound to it. Sounds pretty cool too
OMG. I love your videos, but this is probably the single BEST ONE I've found so far. Tremendously useful tips. Thanks and keep it UP! Greetings from Argentina.
I love moving chord shapes...my favorite is taking an open G major power chord (320033) up to C to make a really cool Csus2 chord (Alex Lifeson plays this arpeggio after the acoustic intro in La Villa Strangiato, and it sounds awesome) or to D to make a sus4 chord. These are really colorful chords to end a song on :)
The open C chord technique is one of my favorites!...Richie Havens came to mind while discussing the Hendrix thumb technique. His thumb could cover all 6 strings!
Love what you're doing man! You're always a lot of help! It would be absolutely amazing if you were to make a video on some of stuff the stuff that The Beatles did!
The Hendrix technique was also emplored by a favorite guitar player of yours, John Frusciante who is my favorite guitar player. It's not a beginner technique and most professionals can't get the feeling correct and it's rarely used like kareems skyhook. Both top of their professions but rarely used. I learned it very early on and it's come in handy when working with music school graduates and other professionals to give myself a niche. It is an amazing addition but more of an advanced technique
Hey juat wanted to say the dave mathews chords are also used by qotsa in the song villains. Definitely worth a listen. Thanks for all the great ideas and techniques keep up the great videos.
Samurai, i do number six. However i have my pinky fretting the 13th of the scale on the high e. Gives me the root third and fifth. Keep up the good work
For the C chord shapes up the next (trick 6), do it on the F root too, on 8th fret. So, open C, D at 5th, F at 8th, then G at 10th. This happens near the end of Taylor by Jack Johnson.
I wish you did a whole video on Dave Matthews's playing, besides the standard chords, you can go deeper into them and change them up, Mr Matthews is a fascinating player
Wonderful. Thanks. I am sure that the Hendrix technique you show here (using the thumb to fret the low E string) comes from Jazz, but in Rock you can see George Harrison doing that on many live Beatles' performances.
how the F I missed all this channel, all of the advices he gives are awesome, I knew some of them (and value those allready a lot), but I'm just bad at theory, and the small tips he throw in the videos really help me to understand all this (by the way if someone knows an efficient way to learn music theory (by efficient I mean a way that doesn't makes it feel like a horrible chore), I'm listening ! much love (even to bass and drum players)
Blackbird by Alter Bridge also use it, James Bay seems to be a fan of that kind of chord though he do it one string down (root on A, open G and the added flavor on the B).
With the Hendrix chords I always fret every string, I just do the Unbarred F major shape and use my Thumb for the E, ring for the A, pinky for the D, middle for the G, and I double stop the B and E strings. That way you don't have to mute the A string when playing this shape. I know John Mayer does it this way too, maybe you just need large hands?
What a great video and your guitar work is awesome!!! I have to say, watching this video was kind of like hearing the list of things I have done recounted back to me 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣with only a few exceptions. A lot of these are little things that you discover when playing guitar for a while that SOUND hard, but actually come very easily to a mind that has created them. However, I am a little scared to trying learn YOUR open pentatonic licks. Coming up with my own, at the same speed, sure. But learning yours... That's more of a challenge. Maybe I should challenge myself. One thing I definitely did not do was the latin handstrumming thing. That is so far from being my thing hahahaha but it IS a fascinating demonstration. So THAT's how they do that! You should think about making another one of these for drop D :D
Michael Clifford from 5sos used the "Dave Matthews chords" in a song called Jet Black Heart (which is a decent song and alot of fun to play because of the chords and how they sound)
the last one is also used in "rasgado", a cavaquinho plaing style... btw, cavaquinho is a Portuguese instrument (there is also brazilian one and one from Cape verde) similar to ukelele, what is normal, since ukelele was "born" from cavaquinho, when portuguese imigrants migrated to hawai
Sensei, do you have any back tracks we could use to play with? I haven’t invested in a looper like I keep saying I will, and I wanna get better at lead guitar. Love that Dave Matthews trick btw. It works cause g is a minor third from e. As a bassist, I use this trick sometimes to add stuff on top during an intro. It’s good knowing the intervals between strings. So E->a is a 4th E->d is a min7th, but more usefully two frets up you find the octave. E->g is a min3rd or a min10 E->b is a 5th or a 12th E->e is the second octave up
The shifted Pent: I learned this working my degree. What you are really doing is playing in a mode. For Example lets say you are playing in A minor. All of the notes in D dorian pentatonic are also in A minor so you can play any of the D dorian pentatonic shapes over A minor. Same for E phrygian. The practical way I was shown was to take the first position in A minor (or sixth position in C major depending on how you thing about it) starting on the 5th fret. You can move that pentatonic pattern up a forth to the D (9th fret) and up to the E (12th fret) and they still work because all of those notes are in the full A minor scale. I will often play a pattern at the fifth fret, then 9th, then the 12th, then the 17th. It makes for a pretty cool ascending effect.
The Hendrix chord might pre-date Hendrix. I've seen footage of George Harrison doing it in 1966. I suppose it's possible he'd seen Hendrix do it before Hendrix became big. Although my guess is that someone was doing it before either of them. The big difference between George and Jimi though was that George only did it for certain chords, he was alternate between that and standard barre chords.
I suppose it’s because I was already a musician before I picked up guitar almost eight months ago, but I started doing all these things by instinct and watching great guitarists-you included-play. Of course it helps when someone shows me a formal version of any of these techniques, but it seems to me that most every technique beyond what is done in Classical guitar originated in accidents.
Always Great video...Anyway I got some advice for those learning to play Guitar...If Any of the students are Left Handed like Me..? Please have them go to the music store and have them try playing a Right Handed Guitar..! Think about having the opportunity to play the neck of Your Guitar with Your Right Hand..? I learned this when I was teaching Guitar wayback (Sherman and Peabody) in the day...I don’t normally advise people who are already somewhat accomplished at playing as is not fair to have them start over..Henry.
The Hendrix chord and using your pinky to play melodies over chords is my "thing" in my band and it makes people think I'm a good guitarist when actually I'm very much average and having seen way too many Hendrix videos
JoeyK I learnt it from frusciante haha wouldn't even call myself a fan of his though, I just watched a video on his style
They played that way back in the 1920s. Frank Stokes for example played every Barre Chord like it and fingerpicked through.
I have the exact same thing😂. People think I'm good, but I just learned the Hendrix way
the Hendrix is an E 7 sharp 9 as used in Purple Haze, not the thumbed E string root chord (yes I am a pedantic bastard)
your graphics are extraordinarily clear and useful
Samurai Guitarist: "I'm not that great at shredding"
*proceeds to shred for a whole video*
you know what he means tho lol
Well.. Shredder was something like a samurai.
Rudy Ayoub damn Rudy I found you elsewhere
This video had my eyes wide open the entire time. As someone who is trying to reinvent the way they play guitar as much as they can, some of these tips really did help. I don't ever post comments on videos, but I wanted to personally thank you for posting content like this. As someone currently balancing school and work, and finding themselves overwhelmed, it is truly a blessing that there are content creators like yourself who make nice little lessons that fit perfectly into schedules like mine. It serves as a nice little pick-me-up. That even though I don't have the time to sit down and practice or experiment for hours right now, little tidbits like this make the progression of my musical growth feel like it isn't constantly having the "pause" button hit. My personal favorite tips were the "Dave Matthews chords" and the open pentatonic licks". Two note chords played on the bassier strings, with an open to accompany them are my favorite types of chords to form rhythms with in my own writing. These shapes definitely opened a new avenue for me in that sense. Also, the open string pentatonic licks allow me to connect more ideas since I don't have the speed of a shredder. I can see how this allows me to utilize legato and obtain more notes with less pick strikes, giving me time to prepare for whichever transition i'm moving to next.
Thank you!
That last rythym bit made me think of Sultans of Swing. Nice!
because he played the song's chords lol
Maybe because it actually is...
Guess what? Those ain't Sultans of Swing's chords.
@@abonc2146 those are part of it
@@ArbiterBrick not really
You know what
Based on the title I thought I was going to see things like basic tapping techniques or whammy dives or things like that. But what we got was how to maneuver around basic chords and I gotta say, I respect you for that.
I hope one day I will have a clear understanding of how guitar works with chords and learn the fret board notes by memory.
Great video!
Ive been playing guitar for almost 10 years...on and off, but have spent serious time invested in learning and practicing. I still feel like a newb. Within the first year my brother could solo to any song, learn any song, including metal, by ear. He can literally play anything, and is definitely some kind of savant. I just struggle so much, but I persist. These tips definitely helped, and I appreciate the effort to make the video. Just wish it was a little easier on me, mainly mentally.
Bruh stop saying youre a newb. That is what's holding you back. And jam with your brother its more fun.
If you think you suck. I have been playing guitar for 5 years and i still can't play B major
Amazing as usual =D
BRKsEDU 1 day ago??
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samuraiguitarist that's what you want us to think
Lizard people...
samuraiguitarist that makes more sense
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Your Telecaster tone is beautiful man! I'm literally watching this just for the tone.
Ever since I became a Rush fan, the whole "open chord" stuff has been really fun to experiment with. Like how Alex uses this on Xanadu, or another example is the Yes song "I've Seen All Good People," the first half being that example. It's really awesome how learning songs can give you these little fun things to add color to your playing.
The first right hand flamenco embellishment is called the "rasqueado," which translates to "scratch" in English. Very useful technique when playing fingerstyle.
Those open chord shapes are some of my favorite ambient things. Let them ring, let them drip with delay and reverb, and you've got some really syrupy good sounds.
I've done the Hendrix barre chord for years because it was just easier than doing an actual barre chord, now it's just become a natural part of my playing
This video inspires me to get better at music theory so I can actually apply this stuff.
When a few years ago I realized that moving the E major shape, moving it up the guitar, creating these amazing chords... I wouldn't stop for hours. :)
And not just on the 5th and 7th fret like you did in lesson #6, but on the whole scale!
Thanks for all of these, can't wait to try some of them out!
I should practice more...
So say we all.
Saaaaaaaame
Honestly I love how he played the same thing slow and I immediately realised I can totally do that and it's just a matter of building speed. I started practicing with a metrenome and like 4 moderately complex riffs just to see where I stand. Right now it's like 140 but I know if I could get to like 200-220 it would sound amazing. Just gotta keep going. I think it's just a matter of of dedication TBH.
So should I
We didn’t ask...
You've gotta get yourself a band and make a full album man, I love everything you play but your originals are waaay to short. Anyways cheers
If you’re playing the last one on an acoustic, you can also hit the rim of the sounds hole with your index or other fingers to add a percussive sound to it. Sounds pretty cool too
A perfect example of why I love your channel.
Yaaaayyyyyyy neeeew upload!! I bloody love your channel! Thank you so much for all of the musical help! I honestly can't thank you enough
6:00 sounds a bit like Black Dog from Led Zep
9 minutes and 44 seconds of pure gold. Thanks.
OMG. I love your videos, but this is probably the single BEST ONE I've found so far. Tremendously useful tips. Thanks and keep it UP! Greetings from Argentina.
The Hendrix barre chord technique is awesome. I am beginner but it is comparatively easy for me to use all 6 strings.
why are your clean tones always so beautiful? ugh
You are one of my fave to learn new stuff from ... Keep up the most AWESOME work Bro !!! 💘
When I first came across the ”Dave Matthews chords”, about 6 years ago, I instantly fell in love. They’re still with me today.
I watch 20 of your videos and this is the first one I actually learn anything on the guitar.
I've seen and learned from many tutorials, but none of em made me commented but now I'm not only gonna comment but will say 'I love you man'.
Every time I watch one of your videos I want to play my guitar all night without sleep you’re truly an inspiring teacher
What a great video. Some of it I already knew of, but it's all just pure geetar fun. Thanks for sharing.
Cool nod to Dave Matthews. I've always enjoyed his guitar playing as well as his song writing and lyrics. Nice vid as always. :)
I love moving chord shapes...my favorite is taking an open G major power chord (320033) up to C to make a really cool Csus2 chord (Alex Lifeson plays this arpeggio after the acoustic intro in La Villa Strangiato, and it sounds awesome) or to D to make a sus4 chord. These are really colorful chords to end a song on :)
I never get tired of your videos! Thanks for the great work!!
these are some really cool ideas. i use a few of them already, but some were new to me. thanks so much for sharing!
This has been one of the most helpful lessons I've had in over a decade!
the C shape moving up to 3 & 7 is in Rush - Resist. sounds great
You are..the best guitar teacher ever and nothing less
3:44 that sounded amazing
The open C chord technique is one of my favorites!...Richie Havens came to mind while discussing the Hendrix thumb technique. His thumb could cover all 6 strings!
shifting pentatonic inversions sound very whitney i love it!!!
Love what you're doing man! You're always a lot of help! It would be absolutely amazing if you were to make a video on some of stuff the stuff that The Beatles did!
I love your videos, they’re always so helpful!
Glad to hear it my man!
Bro, the Dave Matthews chords shape is really awesome. Thanks a lot for the tips. Regaards from Brazil! Oss, Sensei. 🙏
Guardian by Tigers Jaw uses the Dave Matthews chords! :)
Thanks for the "12 string acoustic" love. There is not many of us, so thanks. Keep up the great videos and ill keep watching.
Ahh, the “Jumper” chord!! Great D chord, love you stuff man!!
The Hendrix technique was also emplored by a favorite guitar player of yours, John Frusciante who is my favorite guitar player. It's not a beginner technique and most professionals can't get the feeling correct and it's rarely used like kareems skyhook. Both top of their professions but rarely used. I learned it very early on and it's come in handy when working with music school graduates and other professionals to give myself a niche. It is an amazing addition but more of an advanced technique
Holy mole-ee this is chalk full of useful stuff. Please more of this good sir.
Very nice. Very useful. A good start to my "less diddling about, be more constructive and LEARN more" in 2019.
This is a great video, please do a part 2, It will be much appreciated
Hey juat wanted to say the dave mathews chords are also used by qotsa in the song villains. Definitely worth a listen. Thanks for all the great ideas and techniques keep up the great videos.
Samurai, i do number six. However i have my pinky fretting the 13th of the scale on the high e. Gives me the root third and fifth. Keep up the good work
Biffy Clyro wrote a whole song with the Dave Matthews chord shapes, it‘s called many of horror and it‘s beautiful!
great tips, and great sounding tele
For the C chord shapes up the next (trick 6), do it on the F root too, on 8th fret. So, open C, D at 5th, F at 8th, then G at 10th. This happens near the end of Taylor by Jack Johnson.
For the shifting up open chords, the D chord shape is worth mentioning, like in Old Man by Neil Young or Over the Hills and Far Away by Led. Zeppelin.
I wish you did a whole video on Dave Matthews's playing, besides the standard chords, you can go deeper into them and change them up, Mr Matthews is a fascinating player
Jimi Hendrix bar chords very useful thank you!
Wonderful. Thanks. I am sure that the Hendrix technique you show here (using the thumb to fret the low E string) comes from Jazz, but in Rock you can see George Harrison doing that on many live Beatles' performances.
You need to give us more, how about everyday. Your in my top 5 must. Absolutely great info even for the beginner. Thanks!
Dude those diagrams helped me so much
Truth in advertising! This was definitely fun, quick, and easy!
Last thing is the best one to improve your attack for sure
Must have for metalheads and funk guys
Awesome video; any one of those tips could be an episode on its own!
that dave matthews chord shape thing is great
Those Dave Matthews chords are incredible.
Great video! Very helpful, different, and fun stuff here.
Just love this guy's videos!
That ‘Dave Matthews’ chord is really popular in worship music; especially stuff by Hillsong. I use them in church all the time.
how the F I missed all this channel, all of the advices he gives are awesome, I knew some of them (and value those allready a lot), but I'm just bad at theory, and the small tips he throw in the videos really help me to understand all this (by the way if someone knows an efficient way to learn music theory (by efficient I mean a way that doesn't makes it feel like a horrible chore), I'm listening ! much love (even to bass and drum players)
The Dave Matthews chords I do believe are used in Biffy Clyro's Many Of Horror, but played in drop d :)
Cool to know, can't say I've heard of Biffy though
samuraiguitarist they haven't crossed the Atlantic yet so I understand, they're huge in the UK though
don't you worry, they're already past their prime. but check out 'only revolutions'. it's a killer album.
Blackbird by Alter Bridge also use it, James Bay seems to be a fan of that kind of chord though he do it one string down (root on A, open G and the added flavor on the B).
You can use the same concept on the a string. Some classics like Scar Tissue are written with that technique.
Ahh another cool list my man! Keep up the great and informative content!
That Hendrix barre chord is just the best.
I saw a video of Les Paul and Mary Ford from 1953 or something and he was playing a barre chord with the thumb over the top.
With the Hendrix chords I always fret every string, I just do the Unbarred F major shape and use my Thumb for the E, ring for the A, pinky for the D, middle for the G, and I double stop the B and E strings. That way you don't have to mute the A string when playing this shape. I know John Mayer does it this way too, maybe you just need large hands?
The right hand technics are used a lot on brazilian "sertanejo" it's like country and usually played with a 10 string "viola"
danielffnando also flamenco
What a great video and your guitar work is awesome!!!
I have to say, watching this video was kind of like hearing the list of things I have done recounted back to me 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣with only a few exceptions. A lot of these are little things that you discover when playing guitar for a while that SOUND hard, but actually come very easily to a mind that has created them. However, I am a little scared to trying learn YOUR open pentatonic licks. Coming up with my own, at the same speed, sure. But learning yours... That's more of a challenge. Maybe I should challenge myself.
One thing I definitely did not do was the latin handstrumming thing. That is so far from being my thing hahahaha but it IS a fascinating demonstration. So THAT's how they do that!
You should think about making another one of these for drop D :D
Michael Clifford from 5sos used the "Dave Matthews chords" in a song called Jet Black Heart (which is a decent song and alot of fun to play because of the chords and how they sound)
e Major up 1 fret is a Fmaj7#11/E. the switch between the 2 sounds killer
Your graphics are really nice and clean, very educative.
the last one is also used in "rasgado", a cavaquinho plaing style... btw, cavaquinho is a Portuguese instrument (there is also brazilian one and one from Cape verde) similar to ukelele, what is normal, since ukelele was "born" from cavaquinho, when portuguese imigrants migrated to hawai
Love those Gilmour bends!
That is crazy I play acoustic for a regional Mexican group (tuba, requinto/12 string, and a six string) and we use that Hendrix figure all the time.
What a nice exemple from the getgo ty!!
Merci
Thanks for watching!
Great vid esp examples. "Dave Matthews chords" = Tracy Chapman, Fast Car
Sensei, do you have any back tracks we could use to play with? I haven’t invested in a looper like I keep saying I will, and I wanna get better at lead guitar.
Love that Dave Matthews trick btw. It works cause g is a minor third from e. As a bassist, I use this trick sometimes to add stuff on top during an intro. It’s good knowing the intervals between strings.
So
E->a is a 4th
E->d is a min7th, but more usefully two frets up you find the octave.
E->g is a min3rd or a min10
E->b is a 5th or a 12th
E->e is the second octave up
The shifted Pent: I learned this working my degree. What you are really doing is playing in a mode. For Example lets say you are playing in A minor. All of the notes in D dorian pentatonic are also in A minor so you can play any of the D dorian pentatonic shapes over A minor. Same for E phrygian. The practical way I was shown was to take the first position in A minor (or sixth position in C major depending on how you thing about it) starting on the 5th fret. You can move that pentatonic pattern up a forth to the D (9th fret) and up to the E (12th fret) and they still work because all of those notes are in the full A minor scale. I will often play a pattern at the fifth fret, then 9th, then the 12th, then the 17th. It makes for a pretty cool ascending effect.
Wow this is so great!Thanks!
Great video! I liked the follow along diagrams
Is “the Dave Matthews scale” what is used in the Beatles “black bird “?
The Hendrix chord might pre-date Hendrix. I've seen footage of George Harrison doing it in 1966. I suppose it's possible he'd seen Hendrix do it before Hendrix became big. Although my guess is that someone was doing it before either of them. The big difference between George and Jimi though was that George only did it for certain chords, he was alternate between that and standard barre chords.
I suppose it’s because I was already a musician before I picked up guitar almost eight months ago, but I started doing all these things by instinct and watching great guitarists-you included-play. Of course it helps when someone shows me a formal version of any of these techniques, but it seems to me that most every technique beyond what is done in Classical guitar originated in accidents.
Oh thanks so much, I only knew 2 of them! Will practice a lot!
The open notes for pentatonic scales makes me think of Brad paisley.
I’d love to see you dive into his ridiculously innovative style in a video!
Great tips
The Dave matthews chords are the chords used in the verses of Still Breathing by Green Day
Pure shimmery goodness.
Always Great video...Anyway I got some advice for those learning to play Guitar...If Any of the students are Left Handed like Me..? Please have them go to the music store and have them try playing a Right Handed Guitar..! Think about having the opportunity to play the neck of Your Guitar with Your Right Hand..? I learned this when I was teaching Guitar wayback (Sherman and Peabody) in the day...I don’t normally advise people who are already somewhat accomplished at playing as is not fair to have them start over..Henry.
The fourth trick is a similar idea to the guitar part in Blackbird by The Beatles, although this is fingerpicked with an open G drone.