This feels like a breakthrough lesson for me. In one sense there's nothing special here as I've practiced all these pieces but never organized in this way. It feels this level of detail is needed to internalize the notes/scale degrees and to see more clearly in the moment...Daniel this super thanks is long over due btw
I really appreciate your support! 🙏 I'm so glad this lesson resonated with you and helped bring everything together. Sometimes, it’s all about organizing what we already know in a way that clicks. Keep at it, and stay in touch.
Watched a lot of videos trying to figure out how chords translated across the fretboard. Always felt like I was missing something. This video finally filled in those gaps. Great job really breaking it all the way down for us dummies
Thank you so much for the kind words! 🙏 I'm really glad the video helped fill in the gaps. You're definitely not a dummy-just on the path to mastering the fretboard! Keep it up! 😊🎸 weissguitar.com
Indian musicians are not allowed to touch an instrument until they can sing all the notes, their inflections and the standard ornaments. This even applies to drummers.
there's a video of allan holdsworth playing every e note on the guitar to see if he's in tune, I tried to transcribe what he's doing, and then do the same for every note, it has done a lot for my playing
I lived two blocks away from Allan here in SoCal. He taught me so much before he passed. He also taught me to learn the same phrases on a piano. Opened up Pandora's box for me! RIP Allan Holdsworth
@@robfirestone6158 in the video, allan plays three voicings that are just e notes in different positions, for example, the first one is, open low E, A string 7th fret, G string 9th fret, B string 5th fret, high E string 12th fret, then some other voicings like that, he's playing all the E notes on his instrument. I tried to learn that, and then I tried to come up with similar voicings for all twelve notes.
This is the type of lesson that should be taught long before the "boxes". Anyone that has learned to play and relys on those pentatonic boxes would do themselves a big favor and start over. I personally did my best long ago to "unlearn" and ignore those shapes (especially the ones with the 5th and 6th string roots) as best I could. Started learning single string melodies and arpeggios along the fretboard. Something clicked over time and I started playing more by ear any place on the fretboard. This is an excellent lesson, even for a beginner. All those books and lessons explaing the boxes would never be needed, or only used as a reference for advanced guitarists. My advice from someone who learned (or unlearned) the hardway, stay out of the boxes or make your own once you really learn the guitar.
Guitarists will learn a LOT by playing up and down one string. Dedicate a week to using one string, then move onto the next. Memorise the names of the notes on every string. Most guitarists only ever bother learning the notes on the E and A string in aid of the classic barre chords. It's not that much work to learn the D and G strings, they're just 2 frets offset from the E and A anyway, the high E string is the same as the low E, so the only big outlier is the B string. Don't be lazy. Learn all the notes. A month or to at most and you'll have it on lock.
That's good advice.. I've known them but playing more again and this will do the trick. I use to do like he is here.. pick a key...any key.. say B major.. then I play the neck as if it was only that.. the other notes aren't wrong per se it's just they are not B major.
@@jimrogers6138 Well, don't fret it then... :) Learn chords and progressions and move it all around... scales. You can indentify some notes hear .. :) and there. Enjoy playing..Pick the thing up and play. Get to it. Even one chord... just rock it.... blues it.. anyway you can use it. Of course get a good guitar. I recommend for acoustic the 70's FG series ... Yamaha. You can find very nicely priced and the quality is great. New strings stretched out. Truss rod adjusted for optimal neck relief. Then get a nice sound from it... enjoy it. That's my 2 cents..
thank uuu very much! the arpeggios was the piece of the puzzle that was missing for me. I'd spent two years practicing the triads and their positions on each string but never really unlocked the melodic part until now💯
Sebastián , Awesome to hear! So glad the arpeggios helped you unlock that melodic part. Keep it up! 💯🎸 And perhaps check out some more arpeggio lesson here on the channel
Nice lesson. Had to learn this on my own. I don't recommend that process. Actually say the notes and harmonic numbers. BIG help. Subscribed! That's why I got interested in music, endless discoveries. Thanks.
Well done. I feel that this lesson and concept is great for any level of player to get grounded back to fret board. As a concept in a teaching setting, I see great potential.Again WELL DONE.
I look at the chord shapes often as triads.that way you can start anywhere on the neck without thinking in an unmusical"scale pattern" way.This is what the greats often do.The main things are the "movement'of the left hand,dynamics , phrasing+note choice
That is a good exercise, too, another thing is to learn to "hear" how moving the order of the notes sounds. For a very basic example, playing a major 2nd versus a 7th, so E-F# where E is the lower note versus F#-E and then E-D# versus D#-E since the E-major scale has the sharps at F#, C#, G# and D#. Developing the ear is so under-rated - like the idea that if you play a fifth interval on the guitar the lower note/string carries the melody whereas playing a 4th interval means the top note/string carries the melody. Your open G-chord is a great example because if you let all the strings play that lowest interval is a major 3rd (G-B) but a lot of times players will mute the 5th string (open A) so now your lowest interval is the G and D, i.e. a 5th i.e. a "power chord".
I don’t consider myself a guitarist, but I know how to find my way on the neck, improvise, create and have fun. I know scales and harmony and a number of things and can combine them to find my way. However the approach presented here seems to require to know where all the notes are as if seeing them on a keyboard, though this feels very tedious! It might work on a piano, but on guitar type instruments (bass, mandolin, banjo, etc.) I mainly understand fretboards relative to what is played on the moment, if that makes sense ;-) cheers
Playing by ear and feel, I could understand that. Learning the basic chords like A and G is not that difficult. Did you play that Kora? It's insanely good man 🤘🤘 (dropped you a sub).
Here's something I've pondered. I think learning the fretboard is a different process for someone who has little to no musical background and picks up a guitar as their first instrument, versus someone who, taking myself as an example, has/had substantial musical training and had the piano as their first instrument. I think cognitively it's a different process so for me one thing that helped was to sit at my piano with my guitar and basically "translate". So, what does an E-major root chord (E-G#-B) look like on the keyboard? Now, what is that shape on the guitar using the 1-2-3 strings, the 2-3-4 strings...up to the 4-5-6 strings? Now do the 2nd inversion, so G#-B-E, then the 3rd (B-E-G#) and same exercise. In your opinion, is this a good thing or does it create problems? I'm genuinely asking, I don't know. I could see how one might argue I'm using the keyboard as a "default" and translating to the fretboard. I would say, perhaps at first, but the idea is to eventually "break free" of doing the mental step of translation until one sees the fretboard as "naturally" as the keyboard, which to me would represent the equivalent of an "epiphany". More generally, would you teach certain aspects of the guitar differently if your student had a background in a different instrument versus someone new?
I am also piano trained first. I often mentally refer to piano hard shapes and “translate” to the guitar. The break through for me was practicing triad shapes on 3 strings at a time up and down the next. The key is to number the shape’s notes (Root, 3rd, 5th) as I was learning the shape. Now, just like the piano, I can instantly visualize the shape’s and its voicing along the neck on any strings. It has made me realize how much of a “ usual learner” I am as it is allows me to instantly visualize”see” a mental image as needed. He addresses this very thing specifically at 10:50
piano is so much easier then guitar... everything is random on guitar. while mastering one scale in one octave on piano lets you know all other octaves as its all just repeating...
Everything is relative-I don’t think things are random at all on guitar. The fretboard has its own unique logic and patterns that, once mastered, make everything click. You’re invited to check out my teaching approach at weissguitar.com
Hi Daniel, congratulations on this lesson but ... be aware that there's an italian guy who "stole" your lesson without giving you any credit. And he even made a wrong translation of "fretboard" with "manico" which is the italian word for "neck". Search for the video "Come un BUON CHITARRISTA vede il MANICO (RISPARMIA 20 anni in 10 minuti)"
Great lesson. But please don’t use reverb and sustain when you are trying to teach. It makes it unpleasant to listen to. Instead, please use a clean tone when instructing.
I have written an App, that allows you to see the fretboard, and display the note names/intervals/degrees and lots of other info, if Daniel ok with it, I can post, its free btw sot a sell.
No offense -- and I mean that genuinely -- but this is great for a "tour" of the fretboard. But, as a beginner, this doesn't provide me much help at all in how to "see" the fretboard as anything but a bunch of random frets. Learning guitar is really frustrating to me as a pianist because I've yet to find anyone who can explain the patterns of the fretboard in a way that's analogous to how I see a piano keyobard. Instead, every time I pick up my guitar, it's like I'm looking at six different keyboards with no discernible pattern between them I know it's there...but, for the life of me, I can't figure out why it's so hard to grasp.
Hi Tony, search the “CAGED” system for guitar. It’s a pattern that helps you visualise triads all across the neck. Also search the 5 pentatonic shapes. These two patterns overlap/ integrate with each other. Take your time learning one pattern. Once you have it down,then learn the next one and so on. As you learn each pattern you’ll see they all connect. Be patient with yourself as it can take months and even years to get really familiar with the shapes but it’s worth it. Hope this helps and enjoy the journey 👍🏼
Tony - Thanks so much for your post, and I just want you to know, you're not crazy. Your confusion (for lack of a better term) *especially* coming from the world of piano is a very real thing. I have found that... in one respect, piano is easy than guitar-but in an entirely other respect, it's harder. What I believe my big "Ah-Ha!' moment was (first with chords, then many years later again, with scales (melodies), was to stop thinking along the letter of the note lines, and began thinking about the number of the interval. (I know, this might be very helpful, but perhaps the fastest way to articulate this thought is (as a piano player) instead of saying "there's a half-step between B&C, and E&F"... to rather say, "There's a half-step between 3&4 and 7&8" (and by "saying to oneself", I really mean think of the fretboard in these terms. I suspect this might not be that helpful, but I admired your courage to express that exact same frustration I had for years. I hope that you stick with it, and "don't quit 5 minutes before the miracle!" : )
Not a pianist, but can build chords on a keyboard. On a keyboard each chord eg. major, is a different fingering combination, but each note is in the same visual location. On a guitar, each chord eg. major is the same fingering combination (exception being basic open chords). So if you want to play an arpeggio on guitar, eg G major, the arpeggio for A major is the same, but starting on two frets higher on the lower E string (5th fret vs 3rd fret ). A C major arpeggio is the same pattern starting on the 10th fret on the lower E. Same with other variations of chords. The difficulty in the idea of a simple pattern repeating top to bottom of the neck (eg. G B D) is that the B string is tuned to the 4th VS all others tuned to the fifth, necessitating adjusting the fret on that string to account for the difference. As a 4 string bass player, this has made arpeggios and chords a challenge as well, as I never had the stupid B string to deal with. 😂
One way that helps visualize where u are at on the fretboard is to think in octaves… ie: take any note, let’s say G (3rd fret 6th string) if u skip the 5th string and go up a full step (5th fret) that’s another G From there u can start figuring out patterns, and they all just repeat from the octave (caveat: the B string kinda screws things up, but only by a 1/2 step)
I don't see random frets at all. I see specifically spaced frets. I like to sit down for lunch with the notes of a chord, and really get to know them. We talk about what chords they like to work with, and what chords they find abrasive. But if the notes don't show up for our date, I don't fret over it. Sorry. It's early. My sense of humor is groggy.
There's nothing "random" about frets. Move one, and see what happens in your ears. Learn theory, and the fingerboard, but by singing and then finding what you sang - but on the strings.
This just in: guitar wizard apparently born with the knowledge of every single note on the fretboard. Spends his free time telling TH-cam comment sections what a genius he is; amateurs everywhere hang up their guitars forever in shame of standing in the shadow of such a legend.
I guess I appreciate the utility of this as an exercise, I honestly shut the video off after 5 minutes as it’s just playing through chord tones of a Gmajor chord throughout the fretboard. Again I appreciate the utility of the exercise, my biggest gripe would be that you never answered the question in which the video is titled
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This feels like a breakthrough lesson for me. In one sense there's nothing special here as I've practiced all these pieces but never organized in this way. It feels this level of detail is needed to internalize the notes/scale degrees and to see more clearly in the moment...Daniel this super thanks is long over due btw
I really appreciate your support! 🙏 I'm so glad this lesson resonated with you and helped bring everything together. Sometimes, it’s all about organizing what we already know in a way that clicks. Keep at it, and stay in touch.
Watched a lot of videos trying to figure out how chords translated across the fretboard. Always felt like I was missing something. This video finally filled in those gaps. Great job really breaking it all the way down for us dummies
Thank you so much for the kind words! 🙏 I'm really glad the video helped fill in the gaps.
You're definitely not a dummy-just on the path to mastering the fretboard! Keep it up! 😊🎸 weissguitar.com
Easy things are the most consistent. This is a master way to decode the guitar fretboard!
🙏 Thank You, Giuseppe
I think people should be encouraged to sing each note at the earliest opportunity.I wish I was !!
That’s a great tip, Thanks for sharing and for tuning in!
Indian musicians are not allowed to touch an instrument until they can sing all the notes, their inflections and the standard ornaments. This even applies to drummers.
agreed, this was the single biggest breakthru in my ability to improvise
there's a video of allan holdsworth playing every e note on the guitar to see if he's in tune, I tried to transcribe what he's doing, and then do the same for every note, it has done a lot for my playing
Link please?
Not sure what you’re saying. You’ll take a Holdsworth solo and find every note in the solo everywhere it appears in the neck?
I lived two blocks away from Allan here in SoCal. He taught me so much before he passed. He also taught me to learn the same phrases on a piano. Opened up Pandora's box for me! RIP Allan Holdsworth
@@robfirestone6158 in the video, allan plays three voicings that are just e notes in different positions, for example, the first one is, open low E, A string 7th fret, G string 9th fret, B string 5th fret, high E string 12th fret, then some other voicings like that, he's playing all the E notes on his instrument. I tried to learn that, and then I tried to come up with similar voicings for all twelve notes.
@@saltyassassin that's so cool
This is the type of lesson that should be taught long before the "boxes". Anyone that has learned to play and relys on those pentatonic boxes would do themselves a big favor and start over. I personally did my best long ago to "unlearn" and ignore those shapes (especially the ones with the 5th and 6th string roots) as best I could. Started learning single string melodies and arpeggios along the fretboard. Something clicked over time and I started playing more by ear any place on the fretboard. This is an excellent lesson, even for a beginner. All those books and lessons explaing the boxes would never be needed, or only used as a reference for advanced guitarists. My advice from someone who learned (or unlearned) the hardway, stay out of the boxes or make your own once you really learn the guitar.
Guitarists will learn a LOT by playing up and down one string. Dedicate a week to using one string, then move onto the next. Memorise the names of the notes on every string. Most guitarists only ever bother learning the notes on the E and A string in aid of the classic barre chords. It's not that much work to learn the D and G strings, they're just 2 frets offset from the E and A anyway, the high E string is the same as the low E, so the only big outlier is the B string. Don't be lazy. Learn all the notes. A month or to at most and you'll have it on lock.
That's good advice.. I've known them but playing more again and this will do the trick.
I use to do like he is here.. pick a key...any key.. say B major.. then I play the neck as if it was only that.. the other notes aren't wrong per se it's just they are not B major.
Absolutely! 💯%
My personal moniker, "Stay out of the boxes and learn the instrument"
It's not that easy to memorize this much when you're in your 70's.
@@jimrogers6138 Well, don't fret it then... :) Learn chords and progressions and move it all around... scales. You can indentify some notes hear .. :) and there.
Enjoy playing..Pick the thing up and play. Get to it. Even one chord... just rock it.... blues it.. anyway you can use it.
Of course get a good guitar. I recommend for acoustic the 70's FG series ... Yamaha. You can find very nicely priced and the quality is great.
New strings stretched out. Truss rod adjusted for optimal neck relief. Then get a nice sound from it... enjoy it.
That's my 2 cents..
@@alexgramm5170 I have really liked the tone from the only two Yamaha acoustics I have ever heard or played. I may have to get me one!
Thanks!
Hey Mitch, thanks so much 🙏
thank uuu very much! the arpeggios was the piece of the puzzle that was missing for me. I'd spent two years practicing the triads and their positions on each string but never really unlocked the melodic part until now💯
Sebastián , Awesome to hear! So glad the arpeggios helped you unlock that melodic part. Keep it up! 💯🎸 And perhaps check out some more arpeggio lesson here on the channel
thanks very much! now i'm finally ready to become the next gary moore
You gotta love the easy fix 🙌
Best of luck! :)
This guitar has a pristine sound!!
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@@victoza9232 thanks
@@victoza9232oh Pristine, why can’t you be true? oh Pristine….
This sb lesson number one for anyone picking up the guitar and bass ❤
🙏 So happy it resonated with you, Brian!
"let's play that!" -priceless.
That is such a beautiful sound from your guitar and amp and effects. Very beautiful.
Thank you so much! 🙏
Nice lesson. Had to learn this on my own. I don't recommend that process. Actually say the notes and harmonic numbers. BIG help. Subscribed! That's why I got interested in music, endless discoveries. Thanks.
Thanks
Thank you so much! 🙏 I really appreciate that
Well done. I feel that this lesson and concept is great for any level of player to get grounded back to fret board. As a concept in a teaching setting, I see great potential.Again WELL DONE.
Thanks for tuning in and for the warm words-I’m glad you found this helpful!
Another Brilliant tutor on TH-cam. Really worth paying attention to. Thank you
Big thanks for watching! 🫶
Wow. This is really good. You’ve given me a fresh perspective. Well explained too. Subscription added🎸
Thanks for tuning in! 🙏
God, I wish my guitar was so beautifully intonated. Nice presentation. Thanks for uploading this
Glad it’s resonating! 🎸thanks for being here
Very good presentation, thanks
Glad it was helpful! thanks for being here
I look at the chord shapes often as triads.that way you can start anywhere on the neck without thinking in an unmusical"scale pattern" way.This is what the greats often do.The main things are the "movement'of the left hand,dynamics , phrasing+note choice
I definitely am a slow learner but that has helped me understand what you teached here. Thank you.
Glad it helped, 🙏
Thank you for this excellent lesson
Grateful to have you watching! stay in touch
Really useful!
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Excellent!
Great lesson!! I will try this.
Thanks, David!
This is amazing, I cannot thank you enough.
I'm so glad it resonated with you! 🙏
I'm so glad it resonated with you! 🙏
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This is a great lesson! Thank You!!
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The guitar sound great with the amp. And the lesson too
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thanx man..subbed
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Great lesson!!
Appreciate your support! 💪
Definitely need to know the notes on the strings. Great lesson.
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This was excellent. Thanks very much. That guitar sounds fantastic BTW. I'm currently fiending for a 335!
Thanks! 🙏 335's are awesome! 🎸
Wonderful lesson
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Well done.
Thanks! 🙏
Great idea for learning how to solo over chord changes through an exercise. Thanks.
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WOW!
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Thank you for this lesson Daniel. This is so useful to me.
Glad it was helpful! Chris. - stay in touch and feel free to check out weissguitar.com/ for more cool stuff :)
Is your guitar going through a modeler or a tube amp, or what?
That guitar has such a clear yet throaty sound. Great wood too.
Nice video Dude
Thanks 🙏🏻 Hx stomp into sound card,
and my mic is probably getting some of the acoustic sound, I like that blend. Thanks for tuning in 🎶 stay in touch
That is a good exercise, too, another thing is to learn to "hear" how moving the order of the notes sounds. For a very basic example, playing a major 2nd versus a 7th, so E-F# where E is the lower note versus F#-E and then E-D# versus D#-E since the E-major scale has the sharps at F#, C#, G# and D#. Developing the ear is so under-rated - like the idea that if you play a fifth interval on the guitar the lower note/string carries the melody whereas playing a 4th interval means the top note/string carries the melody. Your open G-chord is a great example because if you let all the strings play that lowest interval is a major 3rd (G-B) but a lot of times players will mute the 5th string (open A) so now your lowest interval is the G and D, i.e. a 5th i.e. a "power chord".
He sees it by looking at the front of his guitar. Its right there.
Thank you so much for the clarity. Great lesson!
I appreciate it, thanks for tuning in!
Perfect way to understand!
🙏 Thank you
Great lesson with an wonderful approach. Thanks so much!
Richard, I’m so glad you found it helpful! 🙏 stay in touch and feel free to check out weissguitar.com/ for more cool stuff :)
Just excellent!!!!
Thank you :)
This is similar to the holy grail. Man I was born to early but I'm still glad to experience yt road of information at my fingtips!!!!
Glad it resonates! stay in touch
Great information
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I don’t consider myself a guitarist, but I know how to find my way on the neck, improvise, create and have fun. I know scales and harmony and a number of things and can combine them to find my way. However the approach presented here seems to require to know where all the notes are as if seeing them on a keyboard, though this feels very tedious! It might work on a piano, but on guitar type instruments (bass, mandolin, banjo, etc.) I mainly understand fretboards relative to what is played on the moment, if that makes sense ;-) cheers
Playing by ear and feel, I could understand that. Learning the basic chords like A and G is not that difficult.
Did you play that Kora? It's insanely good man 🤘🤘 (dropped you a sub).
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Here's something I've pondered. I think learning the fretboard is a different process for someone who has little to no musical background and picks up a guitar as their first instrument, versus someone who, taking myself as an example, has/had substantial musical training and had the piano as their first instrument. I think cognitively it's a different process so for me one thing that helped was to sit at my piano with my guitar and basically "translate". So, what does an E-major root chord (E-G#-B) look like on the keyboard? Now, what is that shape on the guitar using the 1-2-3 strings, the 2-3-4 strings...up to the 4-5-6 strings? Now do the 2nd inversion, so G#-B-E, then the 3rd (B-E-G#) and same exercise.
In your opinion, is this a good thing or does it create problems? I'm genuinely asking, I don't know. I could see how one might argue I'm using the keyboard as a "default" and translating to the fretboard. I would say, perhaps at first, but the idea is to eventually "break free" of doing the mental step of translation until one sees the fretboard as "naturally" as the keyboard, which to me would represent the equivalent of an "epiphany". More generally, would you teach certain aspects of the guitar differently if your student had a background in a different instrument versus someone new?
I am also piano trained first. I often mentally refer to piano hard shapes and “translate” to the guitar. The break through for me was practicing triad shapes on 3 strings at a time up and down the next. The key is to number the shape’s notes (Root, 3rd, 5th) as I was learning the shape. Now, just like the piano, I can instantly visualize the shape’s and its voicing along the neck on any strings. It has made me realize how much of a “ usual learner” I am as it is allows me to instantly visualize”see” a mental image as needed. He addresses this very thing specifically at 10:50
i will need to watch over and over. I was lost at the 1:53 mark...
I see a kind of plank attached to he body and then usually I feel compelled to worry the wire attachments.
Thanks. Good tips. PS Are you using an EHX Attack Decay? The notes sound like they swell in.
Volume pedal :-] Thanks for tuning in! happy to help
Are you using a Boss SG-1 or a volume pedal along with some kind of shimmer reverb in this video?
Yes, Hx stomp (reverb/freeze) boss fv50
Good lesson but start with the open note as the root to get spacing in mind and ear
This is how the sausage is made people.
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Wow
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Which brand and model of guitar are you playing in this short video?
Hi, Eddward - Es335 (2006) , my main guitar :-] thanks for tuning in
I pick a guitar and play a G chord. Then all hell breaks loose. For better or worse 😂
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piano is so much easier then guitar... everything is random on guitar. while mastering one scale in one octave on piano lets you know all other octaves as its all just repeating...
Everything is relative-I don’t think things are random at all on guitar. The fretboard has its own unique logic and patterns that, once mastered, make everything click. You’re invited to check out my teaching approach at weissguitar.com
Hi Daniel, congratulations on this lesson but ... be aware that there's an italian guy who "stole" your lesson without giving you any credit. And he even made a wrong translation of "fretboard" with "manico" which is the italian word for "neck". Search for the video "Come un BUON CHITARRISTA vede il MANICO (RISPARMIA 20 anni in 10 minuti)"
:) th-cam.com/video/ySrG6d2hBn0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=graXl-UQwl9W0UuG
Great lesson. But please don’t use reverb and sustain when you are trying to teach. It makes it unpleasant to listen to. Instead, please use a clean tone when instructing.
I have written an App, that allows you to see the fretboard, and display the note names/intervals/degrees and lots of other info, if Daniel ok with it, I can post, its free btw sot a sell.
GBD is a Triad, not a chord 🙂 GBDF# is a Chord. 👍🏻
A triad is the simplest form that a chord can take. Everything added to the triad is an extension. Look it up.
Most important is obsessing about what a group of notes fretted 'sounds' like, in the context of your song. That's it.
CAGED. Every time.
I still don't understand.
I would love to answer any questions you might have :-)
No offense -- and I mean that genuinely -- but this is great for a "tour" of the fretboard. But, as a beginner, this doesn't provide me much help at all in how to "see" the fretboard as anything but a bunch of random frets.
Learning guitar is really frustrating to me as a pianist because I've yet to find anyone who can explain the patterns of the fretboard in a way that's analogous to how I see a piano keyobard. Instead, every time I pick up my guitar, it's like I'm looking at six different keyboards with no discernible pattern between them
I know it's there...but, for the life of me, I can't figure out why it's so hard to grasp.
Hi Tony, search the “CAGED” system for guitar. It’s a pattern that helps you visualise triads all across the neck. Also search the 5 pentatonic shapes. These two patterns overlap/ integrate with each other. Take your time learning one pattern. Once you have it down,then learn the next one and so on. As you learn each pattern you’ll see they all connect. Be patient with yourself as it can take months and even years to get really familiar with the shapes but it’s worth it. Hope this helps and enjoy the journey 👍🏼
Tony - Thanks so much for your post, and I just want you to know, you're not crazy. Your confusion (for lack of a better term) *especially* coming from the world of piano is a very real thing. I have found that... in one respect, piano is easy than guitar-but in an entirely other respect, it's harder. What I believe my big "Ah-Ha!' moment was (first with chords, then many years later again, with scales (melodies), was to stop thinking along the letter of the note lines, and began thinking about the number of the interval. (I know, this might be very helpful, but perhaps the fastest way to articulate this thought is (as a piano player) instead of saying "there's a half-step between B&C, and E&F"... to rather say, "There's a half-step between 3&4 and 7&8" (and by "saying to oneself", I really mean think of the fretboard in these terms. I suspect this might not be that helpful, but I admired your courage to express that exact same frustration I had for years. I hope that you stick with it, and "don't quit 5 minutes before the miracle!" : )
Not a pianist, but can build chords on a keyboard. On a keyboard each chord eg. major, is a different fingering combination, but each note is in the same visual location. On a guitar, each chord eg. major is the same fingering combination (exception being basic open chords).
So if you want to play an arpeggio on guitar, eg G major, the arpeggio for A major is the same, but starting on two frets higher on the lower E string (5th fret vs 3rd fret ). A C major arpeggio is the same pattern starting on the 10th fret on the lower E.
Same with other variations of chords. The difficulty in the idea of a simple pattern repeating top to bottom of the neck (eg. G B D) is that the B string is tuned to the 4th VS all others tuned to the fifth, necessitating adjusting the fret on that string to account for the difference.
As a 4 string bass player, this has made arpeggios and chords a challenge as well, as I never had the stupid B string to deal with. 😂
... well a chord played on the 6,5,4 strings will have a different shape on the 4,3,2 and second strings
One way that helps visualize where u are at on the fretboard is to think in octaves…
ie: take any note, let’s say G (3rd fret 6th string) if u skip the 5th string and go up a full step (5th fret) that’s another G
From there u can start figuring out patterns, and they all just repeat from the octave (caveat: the B string kinda screws things up, but only by a 1/2 step)
You didn’t show how it’s useful. It didn’t sound like music.
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I don't see random frets at all. I see specifically spaced frets. I like to sit down for lunch with the notes of a chord, and really get to know them. We talk about what chords they like to work with, and what chords they find abrasive. But if the notes don't show up for our date, I don't fret over it.
Sorry. It's early. My sense of humor is groggy.
😂 I love it!
There's nothing "random" about frets. Move one, and see what happens in your ears. Learn theory, and the fingerboard, but by singing and then finding what you sang - but on the strings.
Yes, then you build pitch sense - and that is music essentials.
There never was a time in which I saw “random frets” which makes no sense whatsoever.
This just in: guitar wizard apparently born with the knowledge of every single note on the fretboard. Spends his free time telling TH-cam comment sections what a genius he is; amateurs everywhere hang up their guitars forever in shame of standing in the shadow of such a legend.
See Jimmy Bruno five shape videos if you really want to see the fretboard. This is not the way in my opinion.
I guess I appreciate the utility of this as an exercise, I honestly shut the video off after 5 minutes as it’s just playing through chord tones of a Gmajor chord throughout the fretboard. Again I appreciate the utility of the exercise, my biggest gripe would be that you never answered the question in which the video is titled
Big thanks for watching! 🫶
Fretboard check
Triads check
So hard to pass to voice leading…
You got this ! 🎶