Dude. The amount of content in this video is out of control...literally years worth of lessons/college/gigging/playing in a half hour. Well done explaining it all, absolutely love it. Kids if all the music jargon scares you, go read a book and come back to this video in a year and you'll be glad you did. Keep up the awesome work man! Playing is sick!
great vid! for me Guthries explanation in one of his clinics really changed how i approached the instrument. "Are you playing what you're singing or singing what you're playing". Most songwriters like Clapton, Gilmour, Knopfler or Mayer tend to be more expressive with the guitar because they ARE actually playing what they're singing in their head. So i guess when you start recognizing those intervals you sing, on your fretboard, it's a real game changer. Even humming a simple melody and then trying to piece it together on the fretboard goes a long way. Thx for the upload!
JACK, i have been in need of this lesson for over 4 years. I am a pentatonic box and 3NPS warriror and i just didn't know how to get out of it. None of my guitar teachers ever told me that the perfect 5 interval doesn't really contain harmonic information. The sauce is made by root third and seventh! I am definetily buying your one chord improvisation lesson!!! You are literally my guitar saviour. Thanks dearly :)
First thought: [Groan] 32 minutes......And I was enthralled and total captivated. Given me a reason for why I'm spending so much time on theory and knowing my instrument
I stopped playing guitar for about 4 years. Coming back after that break, I’ve started approaching the fretboard with this expanded mindset about 7 months ago, and my improv has expanded immensely. Thank you for this video, it helped shed a lot of light onto why I can interpret the songs within much clearer now.
Youve captured all the knowledge it took me to acquire over several years in just 30 mins. Beautifully clear and well presented. Great to see you back on TH-cam with brilliant content. Thank you!
Coming back to this video two years after seeing it and I have so much of a better understanding of everything you are talking about. You've really jammed a ton of topics and knowledge into this video. It's kind of a masterclass in a way with enough things to work on for years. Thank you!
The problem with the typical guitar teacher on youtube is that you learn an exercise, or get an explanation of a method(tm) to follow. Sure, that might work for building muscle memory and a general familiarity with the fretboard, but it is completely useless other than that. This lesson teaches us how to figure it out even if we're on a desert island. Which is incredibly useful. Thank you!
Some years ago I randomly caught Tom Q. playing via some TH-cam vid & immediately being transfixed not only by how many different styles he was able to play, improvise & sound so well with, but above all the control he displayed with the instrument was mesmerizing! I knew then that I needed to seriously re-examine my technique. Something I had long thought I already had mostly in the bag for what I was looking to accomplish musically. It was quite a wake up call imo and I’m so glad I was exposed to his monster talent. If I could pick any guitarist to directly learn from and be taught by it would have to be Quayle!
After 23 years of rambling and meandering, which included 10 years of just mechanical training with no real direction or focus, am finally coming to start studying them standards. Dear Jack, your lesson is an ear opener and a whole new way of understanding intervals. Thank you so much. You have an incredible way of teaching and should continue to enlighten us more. Thank you so much again :)
I had come across this video before (and Tom Quayle's video) about visualizing the fretboard by "numerical formula/intervallic function", but initially never watched either beyond maybe three minutes, due to me being naturally impatient. What a huge mistake on my part. I finally got around to watching Tom's video in it's entirety. I was so mindblown, that I immediately dug up and watched this from start to finish. After which I proceeded to smack myself in the forehead for being a stubborn impatient idiot back then. After that, I binge-watched both videos AGAIN! I'm pretty excited to re-learn the fretboard in this manner. I don't have to discard what I've learned before per se, but simply apply this concept to visualize the scale/chord shapes that I am familiar with in a new way. Thank you so much Jack Gardiner and Tom Quayle!
I've always played this way and can fly over the fretboard, intuitively throw my hands on chords that I've never played etc. Its because i use my ears all the time when playing. Sure I know tons of Yngwie and Satriani licks from muscle memory but its when you understand how these work and you just reapply then in another part of the scale, or a different mode, that it becomes organic and takes you elsewhere. Music is emotion. Nothing more, so let the music speak. This *IS* the way - its how all jazz players work and most classical musicians too.
You're so right! I'm the same way and I can't imagine a better way to go about it! I don't even have to look at the fretboard because I can hear the next notes/chords in the scale and voice them using any of the notes within the key in its proximity or along the arpeggio or crafted into licks cause I just know them so well and where they fit because of how much time I've spent acquainting myself with how they simply sound.
I had a nightmare when I was a kid and I swear it was you that was in it! You chased me to the end of a cliff - pulled a guitar out of nowhere and started riffing so hard I lost my balance and fell to my doom. It was absolutely you Mr Gardner. Weird!
Been playing guitar for 10 years and been stuck in pentatonic scale for the same amount of time. Lately I started relearning guitar and unconsciously started visualizing intervals without knowing it was an actual thing. I feel great to know I'm heading in the right direction. Great video!
I just came across this video. I've seen many of your post playing. I have played for a long time but lack information like this. It's complicated at first to learn but bits and pieces are starting to connect. I can't thank you enough for this video. You are a good man.
Thank for your sharing golden wisdom with warm and detail explain. i was worried about my lack of english skill, but it just worried for nothing. i've been losted while practicing only 3 per strings and pentatonic, but now i found the way by your lesson!
I don't know how TH-cam found this for me. It's as if a major puzzle piece was filled in. Your delivery system was perfect for me right now today!!! thanks
Thank you for posting videos like this, I watch things like this on my way to and from work and during my breaks to learn theory because if I'm lucky I only get about 2 hours of actual practice a day at home
Hey dude, random tidbit about your clip. I used to be friends with Brandon Ellis on the internet before he became a famous guitarist. He was always amazing, even when he was 15. He used to show me shred videos/covers etc. he randomly showed me that Scarified video forever ago. Man, 2008-era TH-cam was quite something. Cheers.
Mate this was very very helpful 👍🏻 After 30 years of playing by ear pretty well, I've just realised what I need to learn. I really can't thank you enough mate. Epiphany ain't in it...joy 😊
This is one of my all time most influential lessons. This is well laid out, well taught, but has core knowledge of intervals and 7th chords that is indispensable. I must sound like an advertisement. No, just a guy that was ready for this kind of voicing stuff, and I appreciate the professionalism that went into it. You can teach, Jack. You made a great lesson plan and presented it perfectly for the interval impaired like me.
JACK, I first saw your videos when I was learning and you always lost me half way through every time after a few years of being a bassist and drilling guitar in my free time and returning to your videos they help me SOOOO MUCH the, your lessons are amazing and so approachable i just needed soem damb chops to manifest the desire to drill things besides rythym and chugs, and you've just helped my chugs sound better with added fills of appregios, (sweeps (badstill haha)) and so many other thing and just thanks
In my music journey, I became interested in intervals and it hit me like this. Play a simple melody. Play it again 1 fret up. Chances are none of the notes are the same however the melody is still recognizable. The absolute pitch of the note is not important here (what was a C is a C#) but the melody being recognizable means these different notes are the same relatively to the other notes of the simple melody. New pitch, same job. Intervals is the word to describe the role of a note relatively to the rest of what is being played. What I try to do is hum melodies by saying the role of the notes at a chosen pitch rather than singing the note itself at its pitch if that makes sense. Try it with happy birthday!
Tom turned me onto intervalic visualization as well, excellent way to free yourself. I like to combine caged (just using the root/octave locations) and overlay intervals on the root. Great lesson and it reminds me I need to get back to some ear training.
It’s bonkers coming back to guitar after studying almost any instrument. You do a great job explaining what is basically day one of any music theory course, but I forget how little theory guitarists tend to learn. This def isn’t modern (Insert an classical musician), but for guitarists it probably is. Earned a sub.
Wow. Recently discovered you when I was researching the Strandberg. Just three weeks ago I started counting the notes of the pentatonic licks and runs that I do on auto pilot from muscle memory. The reason I started counting the intervals was to better understand why some things naturally sound good against the One while other things sound good against the four. I was trying to get out of the box and start hunting for third because I know already that the third gives a chord it's flavor and mood. Rick Beatos ear training uses the same sort of player that this toned ear site uses. I know because I bought and enrolled in Rick's course because I too am a fan. Now I will use the toned ear to help me train daily for Rick's tests. Just now I went to the site and ran a quiz. First time ever using it and I answered 64 out of 73 correctly for an 87 percent. That's because I Rick beato is training me to hear intervals. The way I train in Rick's program is I put the guitar in my hand and listen to the interval question on Rick's site. Then I find the notes on my guitar to help my make sense of what I'm hearing. Next I sing the individual notes that make up the interval on my guitar in order to make a strong internal connection to the tones. Then I answer the interval question. This method has without a doubt improved my improvising and understanding of intervals. I use the cage system to map the one third and fifth of the cord, that way if I'm up the neck in bar two of a 12 bar blues I know I'm on the one and headed for the four that is right next to that third. The cord map of triads usually puts the third on the next string down from the one and the fifth is usually up above the one. Thinking in this interval fashion is changing my whole approach to playing guitar. Sorry for the ramble bro, just trying to make sense of this stuff. Started listening to you music. That's deep stuff. I'm a new fan. Cheers Mate
I have Tom's Fretboard visualization course, an amazing course by the way, however, this type of information can not be repeated often enough, so I came here, and watched your entire video, and I've actually learned something that is not covered in Tom's course, which is, to concentrate my efforts on R-3-7 kinda chords (as opposed to R-3-5-7), because the 5 has no extra "meaningful" information to provide, and also to avoid forming chords that contain notes on 6th and 5th strings simultaneously, as they tend to sound "muddy". Thank you very much for the lesson!
After 10 years of noodeling, this is my first video where i will actually pay attention and try to learn something! Wish me luck hehe, i have watched hundreds of hours of videos, but not learned a thing because everytime i sit down with my guitar, i cant figure out where to start.. learn a new song? Play something i know? Learn scales (ok what scales, what system should i follow, what this what that) so i spend alot of time just thinking and not doing anything.. currently in a band and i should really be practising the songs, but no.. this is the time i will finally progress in guitar playing😂 spending all sunday on this and then will start to practice at least 30 mineveryday for a couple weeks to see if i can keep it going. Weird how hard it is for me and others to actually sit down and practise these things, when we all want to be better.. its like, with frisbeegolf i spent an entire summer practising everyday, getting 10x better than anyone i know, with gaming the same thing, but with guitar? Cant do it😂 mostly i think because there is too much.. to many styles to play, jazz blues rock, punk, indy, metal, prog, all with their own scales, and so i sit down and cant even figure put where to start.. but today! Starting with this video and see where it leads me😊
When I started learning piano after 10 years of guitar the harmonic complexity and variation totally blew my mind, it still does! My guitar playing also almost instantly improved 🤖👍 Learning bass also taught me the importance of string choice in relation to tone in addition to reharmonisation. bottom line - play more instruments! And try out loopers, samplers and percussion/drums... Oh and definitely sing! 😎✌️
You beaut, this is exactly what I'm working on now but didn't know where to start. Great lesson structure and even better for keeping it simple. Thanks dude
This is one of the few longer lesson videos that I watched in entirety. Not to mention I’m watching it while at work, lol. Very cool information, and I’m looking forward to getting home later and playing around with it. Thanks, Jack!
never learned the CAGED system from a teacher or YT. I actually fell into the system myself. 3/string is basically brand new though, and I love it. Thanks Jack!
Amazing video, Jack. Thanks for this. Do not underestimate your skills as a teacher - your pacing and demeanour make it easy to follow. (Reminds me of Guthrie Govan’s teaching style)
Woah man.. watching this has changed the way I see the fretboard, i'm definitely going to be focusing on those big juicy harmonic notes. Thank you so much for making this video :)
So happy I discovered your channel. Will be watching all of your videos for the next few months. I'm already way better at melodic minor improv thanks to u. Liked and subscribed
Listen to this man, If you totally have had to teach yourself guitar, which I did and pre...technology (I began in 1999), if you have no resources or humans, this is how you teach yourself, somewhat intuitively, although it is something you're searching for, that you don't know about until you find it. When you only can listen to music, and very manually (tape, cd) and have to find sounds, usually you'll pick out bass, root notes out easily, but then you have to learn your ear, and learn singing voice tones, seperate melody notes, harmonize and find ways to get there. Basically it's deconstructing and understanding what notes are where and why, etc, then constructing them and using them. That's my long way around, but you never forget when you do this. Love your approach, brother.
Great lesson Jack. I actually took a masterclass with Tom Quayle @the IMS in NC USA a few years ago and he is phenomenal. Love your strandberg and I’m getting one this Christmas 🎄.
I know how far I am from being any good in the guitar (and music, in general) by watching this video... Very few times in my life I've felt something to be so alien to me.
Thanks you for this is a great lesson, finally something that’s not some 5 minute bullshit lick. I’ve had a conversation about this concept with my teacher before but didn’t totally grasp it, this really helps cement the idea. Again thank you!
Hey, Jack. Just got Tom Quayle's "Visualising the Fretboard" where he talks about this very thing. It would be nice if you had a video with some techniques on how to actually practice intervals. I'm running out of ideas, lol.
Wow better player as a teenager than I’ll ever be! I’ve just reached the point in my understanding where I figured out last night to play the same interval scale from any root note (B string is no big deal, just bump it up) and even sing along, so this video makes sense to me. I knew I wanted to start getting more intervalic, skipping strings and such, but I didn’t think of focusing on the 3rd and 7th. I don’t play blues or jazz so I am not sure I always want to do that-unless I’m going for a Nuno sound maybe-but maybe it is more important than I thought, so I will definitely remember this tip. Coincidentally, last night I also expanded my understanding of Mixolydian. The popularity of Pentatonic scales has long vexed me because I think it sounds boring and prefer to use the whole scale when making melodies. Then I looked at Lydian and Mixolydian and found that they alter the 4th and 7th, the same two notes cut out of Pentatonic...so I wonder if Pentatonic was made popular to make it compatible with those modes (for beginners)...
That little part where Paul Gilbert talks about the 2 notes blues describes the problem I am facing since ever... I learn scale patterns and shredded them up and down, but not studying the intervals and their function over the whole key and over the chord been played.
Learning intervals is great, but what really opened up my fingerboard knowledge (on the bass) are tetrachords. Just by mastering 4 tetrachords (on one string initially, then across two strings), you can easily combine them to construct any flavor scale up and down the FB. Those 4 tetrachords are: major, minor, phrygian and whole-tone.
@@fraserwing8744 Tetra-chords have 3 components, expressed in semitones. An Upper chord, lower chord and a separator interval. So for Major it's 221(2) 221. I learnt about it from 'Fundamentals of Modern Harmony' by Dick Grove. 1977 (217 pages)
Wow!! Thanks so much. This lesson is packed with so much. Extremely helpful. Just made huge strides. Thanks Jack! Im going to get some more practice and look forward to getting in touch once I’m a bit further.
Brilliant. I was expecting a rehash of what I've already learned but nope. You launched into CAGED and I thought, aww here we go again. Nope. This was incredibly new and you teach it so well. You seem like a super cool dude too.
Thanks Jack, I've been working on learning my intervals after seeing you and another jazz player recommending it and I'm still at the beginning but I have to say it makes so much more sense now to me than going by any shape system.
Best explanation of intervals I have come across to date. I got a bit lost with the shell chord section, but I need to absorb the first half of this video and then return to the second half when the osmosis process has terminated. Great to hear it in my native accent too; made me homesick for the Mersey. 😉
This video made me all warm and fuzzy inside! Love it and you dude!
Haha! All the love back mate! ❤️
Tom, your video on harnessing the potential of the diminished scale, ‘...THE sound of fusion’, it was such a moment in my musical learning.
Tom is FN Brilliant
Same ! 😆
Is this ‘the’ tom quayle...ie the dawsons music guy? 😂
Dude. The amount of content in this video is out of control...literally years worth of lessons/college/gigging/playing in a half hour. Well done explaining it all, absolutely love it. Kids if all the music jargon scares you, go read a book and come back to this video in a year and you'll be glad you did. Keep up the awesome work man! Playing is sick!
This comment is correct. A lot of important info here, I have a very good instructor who teaches scales / intervals this same way.
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great vid! for me Guthries explanation in one of his clinics really changed how i approached the instrument. "Are you playing what you're singing or singing what you're playing". Most songwriters like Clapton, Gilmour, Knopfler or Mayer tend to be more expressive with the guitar because they ARE actually playing what they're singing in their head. So i guess when you start recognizing those intervals you sing, on your fretboard, it's a real game changer. Even humming a simple melody and then trying to piece it together on the fretboard goes a long way. Thx for the upload!
JACK, i have been in need of this lesson for over 4 years. I am a pentatonic box and 3NPS warriror and i just didn't know how to get out of it. None of my guitar teachers ever told me that the perfect 5 interval doesn't really contain harmonic information. The sauce is made by root third and seventh! I am definetily buying your one chord improvisation lesson!!! You are literally my guitar saviour. Thanks dearly :)
Great video bro! Love the blues section!
My tiny ipad speakers are struggling to reproduce your drop e voice
My face is 6 inches away from the screen 😀
Yeah bro. I had to run my mixing headphones in my iPhone to hear his voice.
Need a lav and a compressor ❤
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First thought: [Groan] 32 minutes......And I was enthralled and total captivated.
Given me a reason for why I'm spending so much time on theory and knowing my instrument
I stopped playing guitar for about 4 years.
Coming back after that break, I’ve started approaching the fretboard with this expanded mindset about 7 months ago, and my improv has expanded immensely.
Thank you for this video, it helped shed a lot of light onto why I can interpret the songs within much clearer now.
Youve captured all the knowledge it took me to acquire over several years in just 30 mins. Beautifully clear and well presented. Great to see you back on TH-cam with brilliant content. Thank you!
Coming back to this video two years after seeing it and I have so much of a better understanding of everything you are talking about. You've really jammed a ton of topics and knowledge into this video. It's kind of a masterclass in a way with enough things to work on for years. Thank you!
The problem with the typical guitar teacher on youtube is that you learn an exercise, or get an explanation of a method(tm) to follow.
Sure, that might work for building muscle memory and a general familiarity with the fretboard, but it is completely useless other than that.
This lesson teaches us how to figure it out even if we're on a desert island. Which is incredibly useful.
Thank you!
Tom is frightening and so are you Jack! Learning a lot from you lately!
Some years ago I randomly caught Tom Q. playing via some TH-cam vid & immediately being transfixed not only by how many different styles he was able to play, improvise & sound so well with, but above all the control he displayed with the instrument was mesmerizing! I knew then that I needed to seriously re-examine my technique. Something I had long thought I already had mostly in the bag for what I was looking to accomplish musically. It was quite a wake up call imo and I’m so glad I was exposed to his monster talent. If I could pick any guitarist to directly learn from and be taught by it would have to be Quayle!
I stumbled across gold😭 This is quite literally a life changing moment. Thank you so much
After 23 years of rambling and meandering, which included 10 years of just mechanical training with no real direction or focus, am finally coming to start studying them standards. Dear Jack, your lesson is an ear opener and a whole new way of understanding intervals. Thank you so much. You have an incredible way of teaching and should continue to enlighten us more. Thank you so much again :)
I had come across this video before (and Tom Quayle's video) about visualizing the fretboard by "numerical formula/intervallic function", but initially never watched either beyond maybe three minutes, due to me being naturally impatient. What a huge mistake on my part.
I finally got around to watching Tom's video in it's entirety. I was so mindblown, that I immediately dug up and watched this from start to finish. After which I proceeded to smack myself in the forehead for being a stubborn impatient idiot back then. After that, I binge-watched both videos AGAIN!
I'm pretty excited to re-learn the fretboard in this manner. I don't have to discard what I've learned before per se, but simply apply this concept to visualize the scale/chord shapes that I am familiar with in a new way.
Thank you so much Jack Gardiner and Tom Quayle!
I've always played this way and can fly over the fretboard, intuitively throw my hands on chords that I've never played etc. Its because i use my ears all the time when playing. Sure I know tons of Yngwie and Satriani licks from muscle memory but its when you understand how these work and you just reapply then in another part of the scale, or a different mode, that it becomes organic and takes you elsewhere.
Music is emotion. Nothing more, so let the music speak. This *IS* the way - its how all jazz players work and most classical musicians too.
You're so right! I'm the same way and I can't imagine a better way to go about it! I don't even have to look at the fretboard because I can hear the next notes/chords in the scale and voice them using any of the notes within the key in its proximity or along the arpeggio or crafted into licks cause I just know them so well and where they fit because of how much time I've spent acquainting myself with how they simply sound.
I had a nightmare when I was a kid and I swear it was you that was in it! You chased me to the end of a cliff - pulled a guitar out of nowhere and started riffing so hard I lost my balance and fell to my doom. It was absolutely you Mr Gardner. Weird!
Been playing guitar for 10 years and been stuck in pentatonic scale for the same amount of time. Lately I started relearning guitar and unconsciously started visualizing intervals without knowing it was an actual thing. I feel great to know I'm heading in the right direction. Great video!
I just came across this video. I've seen many of your post playing. I have played for a long time but lack information like this. It's complicated at first to learn but bits and pieces are starting to connect. I can't thank you enough for this video. You are a good man.
Thank for your sharing golden wisdom with warm and detail explain. i was worried about my lack of english skill, but it just worried for nothing.
i've been losted while practicing only 3 per strings and pentatonic, but now i found the way by your lesson!
I don't know how TH-cam found this for me. It's as if a major puzzle piece was filled in. Your delivery system was perfect for me right now today!!! thanks
Thank you for posting videos like this, I watch things like this on my way to and from work and during my breaks to learn theory because if I'm lucky I only get about 2 hours of actual practice a day at home
Hey dude, random tidbit about your clip. I used to be friends with Brandon Ellis on the internet before he became a famous guitarist. He was always amazing, even when he was 15. He used to show me shred videos/covers etc. he randomly showed me that Scarified video forever ago. Man, 2008-era TH-cam was quite something. Cheers.
Mate this was very very helpful 👍🏻 After 30 years of playing by ear pretty well, I've just realised what I need to learn. I really can't thank you enough mate. Epiphany ain't in it...joy 😊
This is one of my all time most influential lessons. This is well laid out, well taught, but has core knowledge of intervals and 7th chords that is indispensable. I must sound like an advertisement. No, just a guy that was ready for this kind of voicing stuff, and I appreciate the professionalism that went into it. You can teach, Jack. You made a great lesson plan and presented it perfectly for the interval impaired like me.
JACK, I first saw your videos when I was learning and you always lost me half way through every time
after a few years of being a bassist and drilling guitar in my free time and returning to your videos they help me SOOOO MUCH the, your lessons are amazing and so approachable i just needed soem damb chops to manifest the desire to drill things besides rythym and chugs, and you've just helped my chugs sound better with added fills of appregios, (sweeps (badstill haha)) and so many other thing and just thanks
We are owning you money for this. All of us. Stunning content.
I've watched Tom's lesson a few years back and it was life changing.. 🤘
Ilia Tilev Can’t agree more! Me too. 🤘🏻
Can’t believe I’m still discovering great teachers here on TH-cam thought I found them all .. SUBBED!
I appreciate the immediate clarification of it not being about Aaron, and do also agree that he's a legend.
In my music journey, I became interested in intervals and it hit me like this. Play a simple melody. Play it again 1 fret up. Chances are none of the notes are the same however the melody is still recognizable. The absolute pitch of the note is not important here (what was a C is a C#) but the melody being recognizable means these different notes are the same relatively to the other notes of the simple melody. New pitch, same job. Intervals is the word to describe the role of a note relatively to the rest of what is being played.
What I try to do is hum melodies by saying the role of the notes at a chosen pitch rather than singing the note itself at its pitch if that makes sense. Try it with happy birthday!
Tom turned me onto intervalic visualization as well, excellent way to free yourself. I like to combine caged (just using the root/octave locations) and overlay intervals on the root. Great lesson and it reminds me I need to get back to some ear training.
It’s bonkers coming back to guitar after studying almost any instrument.
You do a great job explaining what is basically day one of any music theory course, but I forget how little theory guitarists tend to learn. This def isn’t modern (Insert an classical musician), but for guitarists it probably is.
Earned a sub.
three years of learning guitar on youtube and I have NEVER seen this dude! Where there hell have I been! Damn you Marty!
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Wow. Recently discovered you when I was researching the Strandberg.
Just three weeks ago I started counting the notes of the pentatonic licks and runs that I do on auto pilot from muscle memory.
The reason I started counting the intervals was to better understand why some things naturally sound good against the One while other things sound good against the four.
I was trying to get out of the box and start hunting for third because I know already that the third gives a chord it's flavor and mood.
Rick Beatos ear training uses the same sort of player that this toned ear site uses. I know because I bought and enrolled in Rick's course because I too am a fan. Now I will use the toned ear to help me train daily for Rick's tests. Just now I went to the site and ran a quiz. First time ever using it and I answered 64 out of 73 correctly for an 87 percent. That's because I Rick beato is training me to hear intervals.
The way I train in Rick's program is I put the guitar in my hand and listen to the interval question on Rick's site. Then I find the notes on my guitar to help my make sense of what I'm hearing. Next I sing the individual notes that make up the interval on my guitar in order to make a strong internal connection to the tones. Then I answer the interval question. This method has without a doubt improved my improvising and understanding of intervals.
I use the cage system to map the one third and fifth of the cord, that way if I'm up the neck in bar two of a 12 bar blues I know I'm on the one and headed for the four that is right next to that third. The cord map of triads usually puts the third on the next string down from the one and the fifth is usually up above the one.
Thinking in this interval fashion is changing my whole approach to playing guitar.
Sorry for the ramble bro, just trying to make sense of this stuff. Started listening to you music. That's deep stuff. I'm a new fan.
Cheers Mate
Great clip on intervals. Need to watch again to make sure I absorbed all. Mathematical way to recall the sound per note regardless of key. Thanks.
I have Tom's Fretboard visualization course, an amazing course by the way, however, this type of information can not be repeated often enough, so I came here, and watched your entire video, and I've actually learned something that is not covered in Tom's course, which is, to concentrate my efforts on R-3-7 kinda chords (as opposed to R-3-5-7), because the 5 has no extra "meaningful" information to provide, and also to avoid forming chords that contain notes on 6th and 5th strings simultaneously, as they tend to sound "muddy". Thank you very much for the lesson!
I find it fascinating now that I get the concept and adaptability to my playing.
After 10 years of noodeling, this is my first video where i will actually pay attention and try to learn something! Wish me luck hehe, i have watched hundreds of hours of videos, but not learned a thing because everytime i sit down with my guitar, i cant figure out where to start.. learn a new song? Play something i know? Learn scales (ok what scales, what system should i follow, what this what that) so i spend alot of time just thinking and not doing anything.. currently in a band and i should really be practising the songs, but no.. this is the time i will finally progress in guitar playing😂 spending all sunday on this and then will start to practice at least 30 mineveryday for a couple weeks to see if i can keep it going. Weird how hard it is for me and others to actually sit down and practise these things, when we all want to be better.. its like, with frisbeegolf i spent an entire summer practising everyday, getting 10x better than anyone i know, with gaming the same thing, but with guitar? Cant do it😂 mostly i think because there is too much.. to many styles to play, jazz blues rock, punk, indy, metal, prog, all with their own scales, and so i sit down and cant even figure put where to start.. but today! Starting with this video and see where it leads me😊
Same bro
When I started learning piano after 10 years of guitar the harmonic complexity and variation totally blew my mind, it still does!
My guitar playing also almost instantly improved 🤖👍
Learning bass also taught me the importance of string choice in relation to tone in addition to reharmonisation. bottom line - play more instruments! And try out loopers, samplers and percussion/drums... Oh and definitely sing!
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One of the best videos on You Tube. Should be required watching.
You beaut, this is exactly what I'm working on now but didn't know where to start. Great lesson structure and even better for keeping it simple. Thanks dude
I already know intervals, came here to leave a visual and like because these are the topics every guitarist-musician must know
This is one of the few longer lesson videos that I watched in entirety. Not to mention I’m watching it while at work, lol. Very cool information, and I’m looking forward to getting home later and playing around with it. Thanks, Jack!
never learned the CAGED system from a teacher or YT. I actually fell into the system myself. 3/string is basically brand new though, and I love it. Thanks Jack!
Amazing video, Jack. Thanks for this. Do not underestimate your skills as a teacher - your pacing and demeanour make it easy to follow. (Reminds me of Guthrie Govan’s teaching style)
Thanks so much Geoff! 🙏
Yessss! Preach it brother 😻 interval function shapes ftw 🤟🏻💪🏻
Why don’t more teachers teach this stuff? It blew my mind when I learned the numbers system. Brilliant lesson from a fellow scouser 😃
You have a real knack for explaining this stuff mate. Would love to see more lesson/theory stuff from you! Cheers.
I second that! Jack, you're a most excellent teacher!
Fantastic lesson Jack. Thanks from NZ. 🙏🏼
One of the best lessons I've ever seen. Thank you.
Woah man.. watching this has changed the way I see the fretboard, i'm definitely going to be focusing on those big juicy harmonic notes. Thank you so much for making this video :)
So happy I discovered your channel. Will be watching all of your videos for the next few months. I'm already way better at melodic minor improv thanks to u. Liked and subscribed
Really useful but also tangible concepts to work on here. Great teaching style. Thanks Jack
This is solid gold right here folks
Listen to this man, If you totally have had to teach yourself guitar, which I did and pre...technology (I began in 1999), if you have no resources or humans, this is how you teach yourself, somewhat intuitively, although it is something you're searching for, that you don't know about until you find it. When you only can listen to music, and very manually (tape, cd) and have to find sounds, usually you'll pick out bass, root notes out easily, but then you have to learn your ear, and learn singing voice tones, seperate melody notes, harmonize and find ways to get there. Basically it's deconstructing and understanding what notes are where and why, etc, then constructing them and using them. That's my long way around, but you never forget when you do this. Love your approach, brother.
Subscribed because this is just what I've been looking for as a starting detail oriented guitar player.
food for thought, thanks alot, nice job brother
Currently learning tom quayles fretboard visualization and it is killer!
Great lesson Jack. I actually took a masterclass with Tom Quayle @the IMS in NC USA a few years ago and he is phenomenal. Love your strandberg and I’m getting one this Christmas 🎄.
I know how far I am from being any good in the guitar (and music, in general) by watching this video... Very few times in my life I've felt something to be so alien to me.
Amazing stuff Jack. Monster of a player.
Thanks you for this is a great lesson, finally something that’s not some 5 minute bullshit lick. I’ve had a conversation about this concept with my teacher before but didn’t totally grasp it, this really helps cement the idea. Again thank you!
This was a really good lesson THANK YOU!!!
Clear and concise. I can finally work to brake free from the box shapes. Great vid and subbed thanks jack
Hey, Jack. Just got Tom Quayle's "Visualising the Fretboard" where he talks about this very thing. It would be nice if you had a video with some techniques on how to actually practice intervals. I'm running out of ideas, lol.
Man you're teaching skills is awesome... You're genius 👍🏻
Wow better player as a teenager than I’ll ever be!
I’ve just reached the point in my understanding where I figured out last night to play the same interval scale from any root note (B string is no big deal, just bump it up) and even sing along, so this video makes sense to me. I knew I wanted to start getting more intervalic, skipping strings and such, but I didn’t think of focusing on the 3rd and 7th. I don’t play blues or jazz so I am not sure I always want to do that-unless I’m going for a Nuno sound maybe-but maybe it is more important than I thought, so I will definitely remember this tip.
Coincidentally, last night I also expanded my understanding of Mixolydian. The popularity of Pentatonic scales has long vexed me because I think it sounds boring and prefer to use the whole scale when making melodies. Then I looked at Lydian and Mixolydian and found that they alter the 4th and 7th, the same two notes cut out of Pentatonic...so I wonder if Pentatonic was made popular to make it compatible with those modes (for beginners)...
Thanks for making this video Jack!
Epic lesson and very helpful. This is what I needed 30 years ago when I started playing and you shred by the way. Thank you!
That little part where Paul Gilbert talks about the 2 notes blues describes the problem I am facing since ever... I learn scale patterns and shredded them up and down, but not studying the intervals and their function over the whole key and over the chord been played.
This helps, by the way, understanding the book; "Building the better guitar scale'. Thanks again!
Just blowned away by this approach! Gob bless you man!
Sick video. Actually made intervals very clear.
Thanks for sharing Jack that was really useful information
This is a brilliant lesson, many thanks!
I’m starting to see it...about to dig through your channel for more! New fan here man, great stuff.
18:30 great stuff starts here. Really useful.
Very useful lessons Jack.
So pithy, I could sense the "are my listeners going to understand this" moments and glad you went into it all. Thanks
You seriously helped so many with this video, my man. Thank you!
LOved your lesson..Awesome.. You are a very good musician and have great communication skills. Best regards from Brcelona.
The delivery of your approach is good, bro, it took me a long time to get lost on the fingerboard. hehee... thanks bro. nice to meet me

Learning intervals is great, but what really opened up my fingerboard knowledge (on the bass) are tetrachords. Just by mastering 4 tetrachords (on one string initially, then across two strings), you can easily combine them to construct any flavor scale up and down the FB. Those 4 tetrachords are: major, minor, phrygian and whole-tone.
Any links to good reading about what you're speaking of? Cheers
@@fraserwing8744 Tetra-chords have 3 components, expressed in semitones. An Upper chord, lower chord and a separator interval. So for Major it's 221(2) 221. I learnt about it from 'Fundamentals of Modern Harmony' by Dick Grove. 1977 (217 pages)
Wow!! Thanks so much. This lesson is packed with so much. Extremely helpful. Just made huge strides. Thanks Jack!
Im going to get some more practice and look forward to getting in touch once I’m a bit further.
Just stumbled onto you and watched this whole lesson.
Great stuff Jack! 🙌🏽
Brilliant. I was expecting a rehash of what I've already learned but nope. You launched into CAGED and I thought, aww here we go again. Nope. This was incredibly new and you teach it so well. You seem like a super cool dude too.
🙏🙏THANK YOU!!!! This has really opened my eyes!
So amazing and easily explained, it's no wonder he is a genius, thanks again Jack
Amazing dude. Also love the quality of the video!
Thanks Jack, I've been working on learning my intervals after seeing you and another jazz player recommending it and I'm still at the beginning but I have to say it makes so much more sense now to me than going by any shape system.
Great video Jack, thank you. I really love the way you explain, great voice and pronounciation. So sophisticated! Thank you!
Such excellent explanations and an intuitive way of laying things out. Thank you!
Best explanation of intervals I have come across to date. I got a bit lost with the shell chord section, but I need to absorb the first half of this video and then return to the second half when the osmosis process has terminated. Great to hear it in my native accent too; made me homesick for the Mersey. 😉
Thank you Jack. Your a great teacher and you articulate so well. Cheers!
i have a new appreciation for blues and tryin to play little notes as pos will all the feelin
Priceless content, thank you for sharing
very useful thank you Jack, for your generosity
Just getting into your vids Jack and I'm really loving them.