A lot of people have been contacting me asking where the tip jug link is. Here is the Venmo one - www.venmo.com/u/GTOinc Thanks so much for helping to support this channel! Lots more to come and we can not do it without you! GT (PayPal and all other links in the description below all videos)
I built a triad-based playing style when I got a job in a really good country rock band back in the early 70's. I really didn't think I had the chops to survive, but just focusing on 3 note chords and solos based on those notes worked. It made a an intimidating job a lot easier and I could fake it until I got better. Throw in some tasty multi string bends and bingo .. everybody liked it. If you want to get better fast, just throw yourself out there where it's either sink or swim!
I have to tell you I love your lesson’s and the investment you’re making in others. Yet when I stopped to take the time to actually listen to your music…wow! How incredibly inspiring and enjoyable to listen to!! Thank you! Wish I was close to Tennessee so I could see you play. Thank you Guthrie!!!
Few years back i taught my 8 year old boy triads from the beginning he's 11 now and he rips all over the neck... he learnt the rest all by himself but once he grasped the triad chord tones there was no stopping him... happy ID from 🇬🇧
Thank you so much! The content lately has come together so well. You are an amazing teacher G.T. we can’t hardly wait to see that Rick Beato video with Uncle Larry #Nashvillelovesyou #615boys much love from the ‘Boro
Cool. The last few years I have really been working on all the modes of the Major scale as well as utilizing any number of strings to create texture in my music. I haven’t really dug into triads as you have explained them. I really like the idea of utilizing inverted triads and I think that is just the ticket to furthering my progression. Hey, I may even start to sound like I know what I’m doing 🤘😎🤘
I have been following you for about a month now. Also, I have only been playing lead guitar nice April. Just by watching your videos has opened my eyes so much. I will definitely be taking an online lesson with you very soon. Hope to meet you on my next trip to Nashville.
Happy 4th of July to you and yours 🙏🏻🤍 It's a little warmer in the Pacific Northwest this weekend. Thankful for working air conditioning Appreciate the music and the lessons, as always. Something to keep working on, for sure Be good to you!
Honestly, this has blown my mind. Being able to work triads and chord tones into and around the pentatonic stuff I've been playing to this point has made all my soloing sound so much better. I felt completely stuck in blocky style until I watched this. Thanks, Guthrie
I live in the PNW, we’ve had an unusually cool spring but the heat wave just hit. gonna be a hot weekend but it’s about time! thanks for the holiday upload and lesson.
G Man I have spent at least 20 hours this week on tis lesson. I stayed home last night, might havew got lucky! Biut the truth is man this has changed my game. Right place.at the right time . Thank you for this . Im there..... Its amazing hiw it all fits together and i finakky see it..
Brilliant. That one lesson could keep you going for most of your guitar life and you still make it musical and in context. Love that wee G to G7/F to C clever stuff.
Yes Happy 4th To You As Well.. We the wife and i, = saw You Last Night ON T.V. = In The Band With "Billy Gibbons". You and the whole band "Sounded Great". and that girl on drums was Fab. She did Really Good.Very Young Too.. . interesting How Billy was talking about Marshalls and Now Magnatones for his Amps.. . Those amps cost a pretty penny too as well. i still have my Marshall half stack from 1977 I think it was. along with all my fender amps from my 1961 Blonde showman with a JBL-d130 and my 1969 Dual Showman with reverb with 2 JBL D- 140's that Chuck Berry played thru back in Aug. 1989 here in Phoenix, Az. also my all original 1966 Fender Princeton Reverb. plus a lot more fender amps with JBL D-Series speakers in them too as well. I really love your guitar playing style and The Way You Are Able To Explain & Show & Teach Us All weather we are playing 1 week or 53 years like myself with years and years of Professional LIVE Gig Experience Under My Belt. "Bless You" For All That You Do For Us. = Right on!!. Stay Safe & Heathy. and Thank you Kindly, =Mike in Phoenix, Az.. . .
Happy Independence Day, Guthrie!! 🎇 God bless you, bother!! I've been really chewing on the Melodic Minor stuff from the last vid. The spelling of the Am Dm and E7 sound so good. This is the stuff that all the greats do. And your greatness is clearly evident in the way you play and teach this stuff. Thank you so much man!!
I LOVE triads. My playing is so much better now that I've focused on triads. I can now see the scales around the triads more easily and can connect one triad to another via the scales and chord tones around them. I just wish I was taught and understood this so many years ago. Thank you GT for pushing the basics that get us all to a better place in our playing!
You are opening the guitar so much for me in this latest series of videos. I’m finally starting to see how things connect. Great video/lesson! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and awesome talent!!
Triads were an enormous breakthrough for me many years ago for both rhythm playing and lead solo playing as well...it increases your visual knowledge of the fretboard quickly and drastically. Also 1st and 3rd intervals (major and minor) 1st and 6th,..Obviously 1st and 4th and 1st and 5th. Even 1st and the flat 5th is useful. It's funny that most refer to these as "double stops" except the 1 and 5. It then becomes a "power chord"
hey GT ! i'm looking from vienna, austria. not rhe country with kangoroo...the land with Mozart. great stuff !! i wish you a happt 4th juli...have a good time !!!
To anyone that may not fully understand,..What Guthrie is teaching here is probably the single most important element in guitar playing. He is definitely among the top 1% in the business of guitar playing and knowledge.
Thanks a bunch man. I pride myself on knowing where I fit into the food chain around here, but thanks for the kind words. I’m just scratching the surface here, but a good ear has been my strong suit. Thanks again, man!
Happy 4th of July, GT! Yeah, I love the fact that I was born in this country. I'm starting to explore your website and so forth, to get to know you better, from more than these videos. Maybe you're interested in this new campaign I'm starting (gotta get some boba fide musicians behind it, lol). Ok, here it is: Y'know how some ppl just rile (rale?) about the "CAGED system?" Well, it is what it is. As you know, as long as you tune a guitar like it is, those relationships are gonna be there! But peeps just don't unnastan it. Sometimes even in the comments they make, they write about it like 'caged.' I used to think they were just being lazy, not using capital letters to indicate the chords, but I'ma startin' to think that THEY think someone's tryin' to cage 'em up! But it becomes a mental block. But ya can't deny what's there, and still try to learn to play! I mean, even if you ignore it, those relationships are STILL there! And we can't spell it any other way, cuz that's the relationship 'tween the chords. So I'm thinkin' maybe we just need to drop the D off the end (cuz it's just a 'chopped-off C'), and then it's just CAGE. Well, the thing about a cage is, if we think about all the meanings, it's NOT just something that traps you inside! No, sometimes it's a framework to mount things onto. (An instrument cage (electrical instrument), a light cage, switch cage, etc). Or it can be a scaffold to use, to build on, and to reach new places! D'ya see where I'm goin' with this? A paradigm shift for peeps with mental blocks against "being caged up" in a "philosophy" they don't understand, and refuse to try. Cuz (as you know), it's NOT a philosophy, it's just a way of describing the way the specific chords fit together, so that no matter where yer playin' on the fretboard, you can access the next chords, triads, diads. As you know. Anyhow, that's my spiel. 😊 Keep havin' fun and doin' good stuff. And playin' music, of course! Glad to hear you're doing the Collector's Edition. Have a good rest o' the day! 👌 👍 🤪
Thanks for your lessons and examples! I can see it on your fret board and hear it as you're playing, lots of practice ahead for me to do it though 🙂. Really appreciate you sharing 👍. Oh, did you say it was HOT? I'm from Phoenix...everywhere else is cold, LOL! Happy 4th!
Hey Guthrie i love your channel and I know it’s hot in Nashville but here in east coast of Canada, Nova Scotia it’s chilly 15 degrees my wife and I are heading to Nashville for the heat in August can’t wait hoping to catch you and uncle Larry
A lot of people have been contacting me asking where the tip jug link is. Here is the Venmo one -
www.venmo.com/u/GTOinc Thanks so
much for helping to support this channel! Lots more to come and we can not do it without you! GT (PayPal and all other links in the description below all videos)
I built a triad-based playing style when I got a job in a really good country rock band back in the early 70's. I really didn't think I had the chops to survive, but just focusing on 3 note chords and solos based on those notes worked. It made a an intimidating job a lot easier and I could fake it until I got better. Throw in some tasty multi string bends and bingo .. everybody liked it. If you want to get better fast, just throw yourself out there where it's either sink or swim!
Great comment
I sure did that a few years ago and the saying was " poop or get off the pot" Amazing what you can do under pressure. No pun intended hah
I have to tell you I love your lesson’s and the investment you’re making in others. Yet when I stopped to take the time to actually listen to your music…wow! How incredibly inspiring and enjoyable to listen to!! Thank you! Wish I was close to Tennessee so I could see you play. Thank you Guthrie!!!
I appreciate that!
Man I wish this stuff was around in the 80's ! my fingers dont work as well now, but I still try to play it like I mean it! Thanks!
Few years back i taught my 8 year old boy triads from the beginning he's 11 now and he rips all over the neck... he learnt the rest all by himself but once he grasped the triad chord tones there was no stopping him... happy ID from 🇬🇧
Man, I wish somebody'd told me early on! Good for you.
ThankQ GT ! Triads and inversions keep ol’ JD from being a dull boy on the guitar !!! Cheers from Thailand !!! Happy and safe 4th !!! 😎🇺🇸🇹🇭🇺🇸⚓️🎸✅☕️😸🤠😎
Triads should be in the operating manual for every guitar sold.
Dude,I really appreciate what your doing,I love your melodic guitar style and you seem like a really cool guy,thankyou man
I appreciate that!
Thank you so much! The content lately has come together so well. You are an amazing teacher G.T. we can’t hardly wait to see that Rick Beato video with Uncle Larry #Nashvillelovesyou #615boys much love from the ‘Boro
Thanks a bunch!
Cool. The last few years I have really been working on all the modes of the Major scale as well as utilizing any number of strings to create texture in my music. I haven’t really dug into triads as you have explained them. I really like the idea of utilizing inverted triads and I think that is just the ticket to furthering my progression. Hey, I may even start to sound like I know what I’m doing 🤘😎🤘
Who knew three notes could sound so beautiful. Thanks for inspiring me to learn more about triads!
You're so welcome!
Real voyage of discovery with this Guthrie. I'm a beginner, and learning fast. Thanks 👊👊🎸🎸
I've been listening to this video over and over while you got me playing my G chord scales and arpeggios. Such valuable time!
I have been following you for about a month now. Also, I have only been playing lead guitar nice April. Just by watching your videos has opened my eyes so much. I will definitely be taking an online lesson with you very soon. Hope to meet you on my next trip to Nashville.
Awesome! Thank you!
Happy 4th of July to you and yours 🙏🏻🤍
It's a little warmer in the Pacific Northwest this weekend. Thankful for working air conditioning
Appreciate the music and the lessons, as always. Something to keep working on, for sure
Be good to you!
Thanks so much for watching!
Greetings and well wishes from Queensland Australia, jedi master Guthrie, awesome lesson thank you sir
Thank you kindly!
Spain in the euro cup semifinals!
Love your stuff!
Happy 4th!
God bless you all!
Thank you!
Probably your best lesson yet. For Triads at least. I always seem to find the perfect lesson to get me motivated again. Thanks and happy 4th
Great to hear!
HAPPY 4TH!!!! BROTHER!!! AND GREAT VIDEO!!! TRIADS ARE GREAT FOOL PROOF LICKS FOR GUITAR SOLOS!!!
Thanks!!
I appreciate your shout-out to our vets! Happy 4th!
Same to you!
Honestly, this has blown my mind. Being able to work triads and chord tones into and around the pentatonic stuff I've been playing to this point has made all my soloing sound so much better. I felt completely stuck in blocky style until I watched this.
Thanks, Guthrie
I hope you had a great 4th of July...keep the guitar train rolling.
Thanks, you too!
Well GT..hot as heck down here in Corpus,...happy 4th bro ..tele in my lap...love getting to play with ya ..❤🎉
Thanks man!
Cheers from New Orleans, GT. Your left-hand economy of movement is unreal. Thanks for the insights.
Much appreciated
Thanks Guthrie! Your emphasis on triads really helped me develop my playing.
Great to hear!
I live in the PNW, we’ve had an unusually cool spring but the heat wave just hit. gonna be a hot weekend but it’s about time! thanks for the holiday upload and lesson.
Coldest spring/early summer I’ve seen in eastern Washington.
Stay cool! Thanks man
G Man I have spent at least 20 hours this week on tis lesson. I stayed home last night, might havew got lucky! Biut the truth is man this has changed my game. Right place.at the right time . Thank you for this . Im there..... Its amazing hiw it all fits together and i finakky see it..
Great job by such a great guitarist, Thank you sir!
Thank you kindly!
Great lesson! You're doing a really great job breaking down the fretboard and the chord / scale realtionship.
Thanks so much!
Happy 4th Guthrie! Gonna be grilling in the heat here too. Awesome lesson. Triads are not a fad 😂…love it!
Same to you!
Thanks for all you show us. I hit the tip jug
Glad it helped! And thank you!
Eddie you are a real American hero 🫡
Brilliant. That one lesson could keep you going for most of your guitar life and you still make it musical and in context. Love that wee G to G7/F to C clever stuff.
Thanks so much!
Yes Happy 4th To You As Well.. We the wife and i, = saw You Last Night ON T.V. = In The Band With "Billy Gibbons". You and the whole band "Sounded Great". and that girl on drums was Fab. She did Really Good.Very Young Too.. . interesting How Billy was talking about Marshalls and Now Magnatones for his Amps.. . Those amps cost a pretty penny too as well. i still have my Marshall half stack from 1977 I think it was. along with all my fender amps from my 1961 Blonde showman with a JBL-d130 and my 1969 Dual Showman with reverb with 2 JBL D- 140's that Chuck Berry played thru back in Aug. 1989 here in Phoenix, Az. also my all original 1966 Fender Princeton Reverb. plus a lot more fender amps with JBL D-Series speakers in them too as well. I really love your guitar playing style and The Way You Are Able To Explain & Show & Teach Us All weather we are playing 1 week or 53 years like myself with years and years of Professional LIVE Gig Experience Under My Belt. "Bless You" For All That You Do For Us. = Right on!!. Stay Safe & Heathy. and Thank you Kindly, =Mike in Phoenix, Az.. . .
Happy 4th to one of the G.O.A.Ts! Amazing lesson bud!
Thanks a bunch!
Happy Independence Day, Guthrie!! 🎇 God bless you, bother!! I've been really chewing on the Melodic Minor stuff from the last vid. The spelling of the Am Dm and E7 sound so good. This is the stuff that all the greats do. And your greatness is clearly evident in the way you play and teach this stuff. Thank you so much man!!
Thanks a bunch!
Great picking practice.this man.is so good it's crazy.complete control.
It truly is a blessing to live in the USA. Thank you for the great lesson. Happy Fourth of July!!
Same to you!
Everything you play is so musical.
Thanks a bunch. I’m trying.
I like the hat on top of the speaker, nice touch! Playing and lessons always good. Thanks!
Thank you too!
Happy 4th GT!
Thanks for the 3 finger boogie lesson.
Same to you!
I LOVE triads. My playing is so much better now that I've focused on triads. I can now see the scales around the triads more easily and can connect one triad to another via the scales and chord tones around them. I just wish I was taught and understood this so many years ago. Thank you GT for pushing the basics that get us all to a better place in our playing!
Great to hear!
You are opening the guitar so much for me in this latest series of videos. I’m finally starting to see how things connect. Great video/lesson! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and awesome talent!!
Glad to hear it!
Happy 4th, GT! You are the Man. 🎸👋
Same to you!
Thank you for the nice 4th of July thoughts.. A lot of people have no idea how lucky we are...
Absolutely!
Happy fourth GT! I love your demonstration of these concepts on Monday nights at the Underground! 🎸
Glad you enjoyed!
Guthrie, I loved the gig you did w/your mates, I wish I was there. Y’all are my favorite players! You, Buk, and Jedd!
Thanks so much!
Is that an Epiphone guitar?
Triads were an enormous breakthrough for me many years ago for both rhythm playing and lead solo playing as well...it increases your visual knowledge of the fretboard quickly and drastically.
Also 1st and 3rd intervals (major and minor)
1st and 6th,..Obviously 1st and 4th and 1st and 5th. Even 1st and the flat 5th is useful.
It's funny that most refer to these as "double stops" except the 1 and 5. It then becomes a "power chord"
Exactly! It really does help immensely.
Excellent! Thank you! Enjoy the 4th...
Thanks, you too!
ive been learning my triads because of you! thanks!
Great to hear!
Guthrie, you rock man!! Old guy here. I'm learning good stuff from you thanks man, Happy 4th of July!
Thanks man!
THAT was a good lesson. Simple the way you put it and musical Thank you.
Glad you liked it!
I just love watching you play! Enough to take a 9 hour drive to Nashville from Iowa to see you play. On my list.
Please do!
Love you man, Happy Independent's day.
Same to you!
Way cool Guthrie! Hope you had a most excellent Independence Day!
Thanks! You too!
Happy 4th brother!
Thank you for all you do!
God bless you!
Thank you!
hey GT ! i'm looking from vienna, austria. not rhe country with kangoroo...the land with Mozart. great stuff !! i wish you a happt 4th juli...have a good time !!!
I need to visit there soon. Land of my ancestors.
New to this channel, via Rick Beato's video of you and Tom. Great lesson, thanks bro.
Happy Independence Day Guthrie! Thank You for all you do!
Same to you!
Great lessen!!! Happy 4th to you and thank you vets!!!
Same to you!
This is gold. I am like most people very busy but just watching your videos and even you just talking about life is refreshing in this crazy world
I appreciate that!
Happy 4th Bro! Thank you again
Same to you!
Happy Fourth, Gut!
Same to you!
Another great lesson Thanks a lot.
Glad you liked it!
You're awesome GT!
Thanks man!
When I lived way up in the Upper Penninsula of Michigan, Larium, Calumet AFB, Houghton...the ONLY day of summer was July 4th.
It was still hot up in Montana but I was down in Nashville and y'all got the real humid heat! 😮
To anyone that may not fully understand,..What Guthrie is teaching here is probably the single most important element in guitar playing.
He is definitely among the top 1% in the business of guitar playing and knowledge.
Thanks a bunch man. I pride myself on knowing where I fit into the food chain around here, but thanks for the kind words. I’m just scratching the surface here, but a good ear has been my strong suit. Thanks again, man!
Per usual, great stuff. Thanks Trapp.
Thanks for listening!
Great stuff Guthrie... trying to get it to become natural to my minor pentatonic brain!!
You can do it!
made me listen to big Bandter watching video
New here but been watching a lot and working stuff out. Really great thanks so much. 👍🏼
You're so welcome!
Thank you.
You're welcome!
Paul from New Zealand here. Love your guitar playing and your stories. I get glimpse of you and your life from the other side of the world. It's cool.
I want that t shirt !!!!
Greetings from the Upper Peninsula
Great lesson. Sure with I figured this out 20 years ago.
No relief from the heat up here in Montana. 102 here yesterday! Thanks for another great video GT.
Happy 4th of July, GT!
Yeah, I love the fact that I was born in this country.
I'm starting to explore your website and so forth, to get to know you better, from more than these videos.
Maybe you're interested in this new campaign I'm starting (gotta get some boba fide musicians behind it, lol). Ok, here it is:
Y'know how some ppl just rile (rale?) about the "CAGED system?"
Well, it is what it is. As you know, as long as you tune a guitar like it is, those relationships are gonna be there!
But peeps just don't unnastan it. Sometimes even in the comments they make, they write about it like 'caged.'
I used to think they were just being lazy, not using capital letters to indicate the chords, but I'ma startin' to think that THEY think someone's tryin' to cage 'em up!
But it becomes a mental block.
But ya can't deny what's there, and still try to learn to play! I mean, even if you ignore it, those relationships are STILL there!
And we can't spell it any other way, cuz that's the relationship 'tween the chords.
So I'm thinkin' maybe we just need to drop the D off the end (cuz it's just a 'chopped-off C'), and then it's just CAGE.
Well, the thing about a cage is, if we think about all the meanings, it's NOT just something that traps you inside!
No, sometimes it's a framework to mount things onto. (An instrument cage (electrical instrument), a light cage, switch cage, etc).
Or it can be a scaffold to use, to build on, and to reach new places!
D'ya see where I'm goin' with this?
A paradigm shift for peeps with mental blocks against "being caged up" in a "philosophy" they don't understand, and refuse to try. Cuz (as you know), it's NOT a philosophy, it's just a way of describing the way the specific chords fit together, so that no matter where yer playin' on the fretboard, you can access the next chords, triads, diads. As you know.
Anyhow, that's my spiel.
😊
Keep havin' fun and doin' good stuff. And playin' music, of course!
Glad to hear you're doing the Collector's Edition.
Have a good rest o' the day!
👌 👍 🤪
Happy 4th bud!!!
Same to you!
Happy Independence Day, Guthrie. Thanks for your time teaching this lesson!
Thanks for your lessons and examples! I can see it on your fret board and hear it as you're playing, lots of practice ahead for me to do it though 🙂. Really appreciate you sharing 👍. Oh, did you say it was HOT? I'm from Phoenix...everywhere else is cold, LOL! Happy 4th!
Glad it was helpful!
Great Lesson
Thank you!
Thanks GT!
Any time!
Happy 4th GT man you were jammin on Dylan’s channel
Thanks, Guthrie!
My pleasure!
Great Video 🎸
Glad you liked it!
Hey Guthrie i love your channel and I know it’s hot in Nashville but here in east coast of Canada, Nova Scotia it’s chilly 15 degrees my wife and I are heading to Nashville for the heat in August can’t wait hoping to catch you and uncle Larry
Sounds great!
Good lesson. 👍
Glad you liked it!
Aye aye thanks from the auldiscool...
This is awesome mate.
Champ! lovely!
I’d give my left arm to be able to play that “sloppily” for just an hour😂
How would you play without your left arm?....
Pretty sure you need two arms to do that
Maybe give a pinky and you could still manage
Or just practice more 😉
Consider a toe instead. 😂
Great stuff!
Hello to young Tom! He knows who Matt Pike is so he’s pretty rad in my book!
Where to start? Great explanation and motivation. Thx!
Glad you liked it!
I live in the PNW and it's 105 lol.
Perfect : Stay cool man 🙂
Yikes 91 degrees here in Eugene OR today...hotter over the next few days.
Some of us are just weekend local wankers, but you are a student of guitar/music...PRO.
All the stuff we glossed over in the Mel Bay books....Learn the fingerboard, make better music...simple!