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In this video I'm going to show you my #1 music theory "trick" for guitarists.
I predict that 99% of the guitar players watching WON'T do what I say.
It's the best "trick" I know! Please take my advice. (I also call this a "HACK" but TH-cam likes the word "trick" better...LOL)
I encourage you to be part of the 1% that has the courage to do this!
This lesson video may seem like a fake-out... but I am being 100% honest with you. For real, yo!!!!
Here's how I started learning Music Theory - and it will get you on track FAST!
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:40 99% of Guitar Players WON'T take this advice :-(
1:12 What is Music Theory?
2:39 What is the number 1 Music Theory Trick (HACK)?
4:52 Did famous guitar players also do "the trick?"
5:33 Your first assignment - use your EARS :-)
8:03 WHEN YOU DISCOVER it's fun and not boring!
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I think that i have to remove some of the dust that there is on my USB piano ;-) many thanks for your video, inspired me a lot! Cheers from Italy!
1%
This makes perfect sense, Adam. I'm a piano player as well. It's much easier for me to visualise certain things on the piano keyboard than on the guitar fretboard.
When I learn something on piano, I try to replicate it on the guitar and vice versa. That's helped me a lot!
Excellent Gerry!
This is very true Adam, I get on the piano in the morning, and also in the evening before I go to sleep.
I'm glad you shared this. In planting the seed of encouragement to help fellow guitarist explore another perspective of music through the piano/keyboards.
a very good lesson to see how the sharps and flats are so easy to see on the keyboard thanks man!
Once you know the white keys are "C to shining C" that makes a LOT clear!
I started learning piano 8 months ago just because I felt that it can expand and complete the music study. Your video is a welcomed confirmation that I made the right choice :-)
That's great!
Yessir, what you're saying is true! The "flatting the 3rd" to make a minor was early stuff, but proved that some things are way more "obvious" on a keyboard!
Hi Adam. Your's is an extremely powerful suggestion for guitarist who want to break away from habit by understanding "why" things work. Harmony is based on intervals. A fact of life with the guitar (as well as all string instruments) is that you can't play two notes on the same string at the same time. Due to how the strings are tuned, players understand harmony based on shapes. The piano is a completely linear instrument which means the intervals are linear. I started taking piano lessons last year not to become a piano player, but to become a better guitar player. It has helped me "see" intervals on the guitar and has help me break out of relying on a few shapes to find chords all over the fretboard I hope this gives me entry to your 1% group. Thank You for all you do Adam.
Joe!!! Great work and thanks for the comment. Yes, keep going with the keys!
Thank you for this video Adam. I remember back in 2018 or 2019 when on SWA you specifically told me to jump on the piano and start learning voice leading. I finally got a keyboard at the start of this year as I had to for my course and passed my first jazz piano semester! I've carried that knowledge over to the guitar and boy has it been a game changer!
Thank you for your advice and help Adam, keeping music education alive!
Thanks & groove on! 😊
This is great advice and it works I started with playing guitar back in the 60's . And keyboard many years later and it has helped in my music journey . Thanks for this post Adam.
Thanks Nancy!!!
I´m self taught and I started with guitar and piano simultaneously. Guitar was always more fun but I´m always playing the piano. I got so many more possibilities for recording and for writing and arranging. Ear training is always better with an instrument that isn't your main one I think!
the world will be a different place if every school get at least one teacher like you
Sourav - thank you so much 😊
Great advice, Adam! I have been doing this for 40 years. I'm a jazz/smooth jazz player and I wirte a lot of my music on the piano. Appreciate the wisdom!
I'd love to hear your stuff...
Good Idea, I took music theory in college and it was always on keyboard so I do this but I need to do it more often. It really helps.
Thanks Tim and yes keys help you see it!
100%. It all makes sense on piano as is so easy to visualize. 🙌🍻👍
Shane Phillips - thank you so much :-)
You’re my hero. I discovered your ,hack’ a long time ago but just didn’t have the focus to stay on it. Guess I needed your little kick in the rear end! Keep up the good work!
Thanks - I'll give a quick excercise in an upcoming vid, stay tuned.
100% True!!! 10-15 minutes, but every day. This is great advice and it real works!
Thank you so much 😊
Great advice and a reminder Adam. Thanks man
Thank you Colin! :-)
Excellent video, Adam. You are an inspiring teacher!
Jim - thank you so much 😊
I realize I’m among professionals here. I Love guitar. Always have. Started teaching my grandkids, and I also take them to the piano for basic understanding of theory. I love your exercise and will encourage my young ones to figure out by ear those scales! Thanks!
Yvonne, I will make some easy vids for non piano players, stand by!
@@adamrafferty you’re the best!!
That's so right ! It's really much more understand music / chord / theory on a piano ! I should have started it before ! :)
Thumbs Up, Shared, and Saved !
This Hack will help me !
As soon as you showed the piano keyboard I could see the Whole Steps and the Half Steps !
And More !
Thanks !
Thanks & groove on! 😊
Right ON! I've been using this 'secret-sauce' hack as my number one as well for I don't know how many years... Any guitar player not doing it, all's I can say is take this advice and get on it! Another thing - I fricking can't believe I just heard Adam Rafferty say "... I have no idea what the hell 'CAGED' system is..." Lol... I've listened to and enjoyed A.R.'s performances for years here on YT, and maybe he doesn't consciously know it - but yes he does know it! I see and hear CAGED all the time in his top notch guitar interpretations of some of my favorite songs. So... just goes to show what a Master Adam is, he just knows it instinctively without ever studying it rote... FANTASTIC!
Aw dude, too kind! Of course I can see that a C chord shape 2 frets up is D, but I never used it as a system for learning. Groove on brutha!
Yeah, I've invested a ton of time learning the CAGED system, only to discover there's nothing there. It's all circular logic.
Great advice. I’m a weird one though: I started life as a trumpet player and didn’t start exploring harmony and theory until I started guitar, so I learned how all of that stuff sat on the fingerboard - and with very little tablature. Even though the trumpet is only a melody instrument having that background really helped me learn the guitar. The only thing that really makes the guitar harder than piano or any other instrument is that there are so many options for playing the same material In different area of the neck.
Absolutely! The critical phrase in your comment is "with very little tablature". Before you started guitar, you understood music and related it to Standard Notation, the language spoken by all musicians for all instruments other than guitar. I was lucky enough to start learning guitar in the standard method, from books and live teachers, before guitar tablature began to appear. I'm just that old. I'm in contact with amateur guitarists of varying levels of expertise every day, and the vast majority started with tablature and have no idea MUSIC they're playing, just the notes. Your approach, and mine are two ways to absorb and understand real music, without the crutch of guitar tablature. Adam's suggestion in this video is a way for tab-dependent guitarists to learn real music without going back to 1960. I've already started exploring piano, and it's a revelation. I'm even introducing these ideas to my students.
John you belong to the .0001% of guitar geeks (usually jazz guys) who learned the neck insode out like me....and by the way, yes the notes on piano are in one location only but once you get into different fingerings, that has it's own set of difficulties. What's hard on the guitar is that you don't have to learn notes. You can in fact make music with shapes, and once people can do this they don't want to leave that comfort zone. Groove on!!!
Thank you, Uncle Adam! This is one of those lectures, like "Almost ALL your heroes transcribed off recordings and you need to too", that will separate "guitar players" from "musicians who play guitar". Bless ya!
YES YES YES!
Hey Adam, I'm on board already. I understand the piano keyboard layout and it's so much better organised than the fretboard. I don't have a piano but I love watching Aimee Nolte's videos. Chords are so much easier to make on the piano plus you have ten fingers that you can use whereas with the guitar you have your fretting hand and your picking hand and so a full 13th chord is possible on the piano but impossible on he guitar. Maybe I should get a piano.
Please get a piano. Aimee's good...I was spolied learning from Dizzy's pianist Mike Longo - but yeah, Aimee explains well. You really have to do it hands on. I suggest the KAWAI ES110. Rock on!
Thank you master for your amazing points of view, incredible hacks for guitar players
LOL Thank you Carlos.
Thanks for the lesson! I have used a little keyboard for years to figure out notes for composition so this makes sense to me.
Great!
Great video Adam! Man we should talk about CAGED, no-one teaches it right - I realised early on that it is essentially an “imaginary guitar capo”
Absolutely. And keys really help when you know - not through memorization, but hands on experience that for example, Eb is the 3rd of C minor. Guitarists are often BETTER at hearing than other musicians (for real) but then the understanding and intellect fall flat. If you spend enough hours one guitar you do eventually get it of course :-) Rock on Shane!!!!
Great lesson!!!
Glad you liked it!
I used to play piano as a kid, no theory, just repertoire and lots of major scale runs. Then I switched to guitar and forgot about the piano. Lately, I'm slowly getting drawn back. I was playing with the piano the other day noodling pentatonic scales, major scales, triads, inversions, modes....all the stuff I learned from guitar. Lots of aha moments. The piano surely provided me the visuals of all the music theory I learned on the guitar. Now I need to get it tuned and give it some love.
LOVE THIS!
i am not a pianist..I explain to friends when learning guitar how much easier making music is on a piano..besides not to have to keep tuning the darn thing or changing strings😉 imagine six oianos in a row🤭 as a kid i made up up melodies on my grandads piano...didnt know what i was doing tho musically. But i could hear what was right and wrong!!
I am going to be a one percenter from now on 👍🙏
yay, I belong to the 1%! ;-) I have been playing the piano for a couple of years now. It definitely helped me to become a better musician!
YEAH!!!!!
My God. My music teacher told me that years ago. But I never listened, until now. I will make that My new adventure. I know it helps. Thanks Adam.😁
Go for it!
What great advice! Awesome video. I'll have to subscribe now, and then I'm off to my wife's piano...
Thanks & groove on! 😊
ok, here is the 1%! Let's get started! Thank you Adam.
Thank you Martin! 😊
Totally agree. I'm comfortable with theory on the guitar but it's taken decades. I have a tiny keyboard, but getting a larger one soon. One thing that you implied (not sure if you said it) is that this allows you to discover new sounds. A lot of those (e.g. chords with second intervals) are difficult on guitar but easy on keyboard. Since my goal is to be a cocktail jazz person, I've learned a ton from piano players.
YEs those Bill Evans chords are more clearly seen on keys for sure! Thank you!
Hay Adam Im a guitarist. I watched your video on patterns for Bach on the Piano. So helpful. I'm working on your exercise of 1 to 4 to 1 to 5 to 1. I'm learning my Triads as you say. And transferring that to the guitar. This is just soooo helpful so thanks a ton. I seemed to lost the link to that Video. Just wondering if you can provide again. Thanks again man. Topstuff.
Amen. Yesss! Absolutely. Me too. Didn't cost enough to worry about so I just ordered it and now I noodle around on it a few minutes at a time, once or twice a day. I'm already understanding what I'm playing on guitar at a deeper level. Playing better and enjoying my own playing waaaaay more.
I have a keyboard and will start doing this
BTW, you've been posting videos like Michelle and others and they are excellent!!!!
Thanks I’m glad you appreciate those videos enjoy!
Hey Adam, your piano playing is almost as funky as your guitar work!
Malcolm - thank you so much 😊
You know it's funny, I learned piano long before guitar. The flip side is the guitar helped me visualize classic chord progressions because you most always nail the root bass note. With jazz piano, you rarely play the root note and the chord voicing are all inversions, chord substitutions and likely built on fourths. So, for me, guitar helped me visualize in a different way. But, oh yeah, definitely learn piano because it is totally linear on the visual level. Great message!
Thank you Fred Zwicky! :-)
Love it Adam!
Believe it or not, my first instrument was piano, because when I was 10 my mum took this decision.
I studied piano for 2y, and even if I liked it, the interesting thing is that I forgot all the classic songs I learnt reading the music sheet, while I still remember almost every guitar lesson, I wonder if it was a lack of piano passion or a mnemomic approach not working with me?
In general I tend to remember almost everything learnt exploring by ear.
I love your approach and I related a lot with this video.
Will practice more on the MIDI master keyboard :)
Thank you for making the learning process of music always pure joy and never hard work!
P.s. I'm enjoying a lot your "Diatonic Triads Workout", practicing it slowly every week on the guitar :)
Thanks for being amazing!
Great Emilio. I will give some easy piano assigmnets - maybe here on YT and more in depth on SWA. You'll LOVE these for your pop producing.
Nice Adam! Very good lesson. I am nota piano player but the first instrument I learned formally when I was a kid was an accordeon. Close enough. The kind with a piano keyboard on the right and buttons for chords on the left. And I have one midi keyboard, one synth keyboard and a piano today. My problem was moving that knowledge to the guitar. I am new to the guitar. Started about 1 and a half years ago. So how does one do the B major scale on the guitar? My "hack" was to start from B and but count "C-D-E ..." in my head, visualizing the distances in the C major scale. The same with the minor scales, but counting the A minor scale and visualizing those distances in my head instead. But I still go back to the piano at times, for trying to understand other stuff. It is a linear instrument and helps "see" the relationships.
great video!
Glad you enjoyed it
Missed ya brother! Glad to see you're looking well. I remember you mentioning that theory was easier on a keyboard since it was spread out in front of you. Makes complete sense finding it with your hands, but it's still a little bit like standing at the gate of the graveyard... Good to know you're still out there and doing good. Till next time!
Heya! I don't understand "it's still a little bit like standing at the gate of the graveyard" what do you mean?
@@adamrafferty Theory is a little weird and scary to me. Sorry, I should come with a Norm to English dictionary.
Mission accomplished….count me in as one of the “1%”.
Ironically, this is something I wanted to do for so long. I’m a guitarist that owns a keyboard and was raised by a Mom that is a classically trained pianist. Yet, my passion for the guitar trumped any inclination to explore piano….yet, I realize that familiarity with the keyboard will make me a better musician. Thanks Adam for the advice!
I may make a course for guitar players on basic piano :-) Thank you!
@Adam That's a brilliant idea!
I also took music theory classes back in college and really enjoyed the courses and studying. I often went to the keyboard for reference which helped with guitar and songwriting. 40 plus years later, after a career in business and raising 2 girls, I have that yearning to study music again. Look forward to more “keyboard for guitarists” instructional videos you may offer in the future.
Great idea Adam! I use my piano to "cleanse my ear pallet" when my guitar playing is getting boring. BTW seriously, many of the best drummers (and percussionists) I have ever known where fantastic piano players.
Be well my friend,
John Lind
Gig Harbor, WA
"cleanse my ear pallet" - great way of putting it! I will post some piano drills for non pianists. Groove on!
We have real piano and I have a keyboard in my office that I've never really touched. Looking forward to trying this out. I know you're right, I have been resisting this.
Touch it!
Great guitar 🎸 and music 🎶 learning idea 💡👍👏🙏
Rock on!
Billy Gibbons plays piano, EVH played piano, and something tells me SRV could probably make you think he played the piano if he sat down at the keyboard for a few minutes. Great lesson, Adam. Thanks.
Thanks Adam. Going to do this. But why not learn all the scales direct on the fretboard? (esp single string scales to learn the intervals specific to the fretboard?). I am going to find keyboard and give it a go though.
You can and should learn them on the fretboard, but what happens is this. You learn a major scale SHAPE and the brain does not really need to know the notes, it will do the shape. It's extra work and very hard to make yourself think the notes. However, the keys on teh piano are FIXED. So if you play a G scale for example, you have no choice - it screams F#!!!! when you hit the black key in that scale. And when you spend enough time there, you get much more of a sense of "knowing" than you will on the guitar - theory wise.
Studied some piano when I was younger, so when I picked up guitar the music theory made sense. When I think chords I'm still picturing the piano keys.
You are so lucky to have that background! You're learning guitar on a completely different level than most of us.
Excellent!
David - as long as you start getting a visual on the piano, that's what counts. You can get that relatively quickly, so jump on it. Mastery of keys as an instrument is a whole other thing that need not concern us as guitarists.
Yeah man. Im a 1%er. 2 years after start playing Guitar Ive bought an old casio Keyboard. So Ive done it right I think. I like to say thanks for these confirmation.
Great!
Two questions: I’m relatively new at 59 learning for fun but would like to get as good as I can. One is this a good approach for me? Two is a 61 key keyboard sufficient?
Yes!
I’m a classical guitar player following guitar and music theory lessons at the Geneva conservatory in Switzerland. I sit (almost) every day at the piano because we have to sing and compose pieces. So Adam’s right! For one thing, it’s much easier to visualize the structure of a scale and a chord on a piano than on that darn fretboard! So the piano makes it easier to understand the « grammar » of the piece you are playing.
Thanks for supporting the idea! Groove on!
I started music on piano - I always thought using it as my reference for guitar was like I was running it through a "translator" and slowing me down. But perhaps that's not the case after all!
When your guitar playing starts to help understand your piano as well as the other way around, everything will sound sweeter and you'll learn faster.
This video is awesome sir you could not have said words more true, the piano is an important key, rather er, 88, well ....you know what I mean. 🙂 Fantabulous great idea glad somebody said it, cheers!
Late arrival, love it so true.
Thank you Harris! 😊
Grazie!!!!!
Thanks & groove on! :-)
Very interesting not sure it will help my guitar playing but I will be in the 1% as going to try it everyday as you suggest!
John I have seen both your comments. Thansk for watching. There's "guitar" and there's "music." Think of this as a "music" lesson.
Imagine a basketball coach drawing a play on a sheet - as seen from above, so the players can visualize their positions on the court.
Compare that to guys just doing their best running around the court.
Clearly the team with a play in mind will ousmart the guys who are winging it, going "by feel."
This is similar. You are feeding your musical mind by working on this stuff.
As I said, 99% won't do it :-)
Since I have a piano I play it more than guitar. I’m getting worried. Triads, inversions and voice leading, sus chords, 7ths…it’s all so clear on piano. So you should add a disclaimer for that 1%: You might fall in love with it. My guitars are looking angry at me.
I fall into periods where I play more piano. Fear not, you are feeding another very important part of your musical mind and the guitar will seem wider, more open and limitless when you come back.
Thanks Adam. I have a keyboard, but it's packed in storage - not good. I dig it out and be the one percent.
Dig it out ASAP!
Reverse psychology kicking in! Even if all beginner guitarists learned to spell major minor dim augmented triads and then 7th chords on piano they’d 🤯
Thanks Adam I just happen to have a white Yamaha baby grand sitting in my living room that never receives any attention….. all I needed was a little kick in the butt ! Lol
Now go kick the piano's but!!! :-)
Think about the best musicians you know. Just because they don't play piano doesn't mean they've never learned anything in front of one. Thats what I take from this video, thanks Adam!
YES exactly!
Best advice ever!
hey - thank you so much :-)
Dangerous clue. Some time ago I had a similar idea, bought a piano and now I disgracefully betray my guitars with it ... Seriously, that's the whole truth - the piano allows to understand a lot. I am glad that one of my authorities confirms this. By the way: thanks for all the valuable things you do - I appreciate it very much. God bless!
Why the hell didn't I think of that?! I've got a piano that no one plays. This is brilliant! Mark me down as a 1%er. I never really learned to read guitar music mostly learning chords and chord progressions from copying other guitarists. I ripped off your arrangement of Michele by the Beatles. I've gotten pretty good at counterfeiting even some intricate jazz songs but, there's something missing. When I watch you or Emil Ernebro or John Pizzarelli I realize there is a method to the madness. There is structure to it. I'm older than dirt but still want to progress.
Since I played piano years ago I can still read piano music so can't believe I never thought of sitting down with the guitar. You're a hell of a teacher that's why I've dubbed you America's Fingerstyle Guitar Teacher and The 21st Century Woodie Guthrie for your world travels. Thanks for everything. I finally got the boom chick. Ha, ha.
Excellent Walt! There is a methiod to the madness. I will make some basic piano vids for guitar players, stand by.
I think if your main goal is to play guitar things, you should tailor your practice towards the guitar. You can go slow and make sure you get the kinds of voicings and harmonies that you want. At the same time you're learning different ways of using your fingers efficiently in whatever tuning you please. Tommy Emmanuel is probably the best example of this I know. I would probably read chord chemistry over piano, and I have played it but find it difficult to translate anything to the guitar. It just doesn't make sense time-wise when my arrangement and playing by ear intuition is better. If I want to write, I'll have something in my head or I can write it on a computer and then arrange it for guitar. I could see benefits for how to play a given set of notes but the piano is gridlocked unlike the guitar, so something like the harpejji or maybe something like a roli seaboard would be more benefitial.
I disagree 100% - Piano is essential. Don't hide from it.
Everyone not doing it misses out on building MUSICIANSHIP - which is different and more all encompassing than just being good at the instrument, or good on stage.
Of course one has to practice the guitar as well, but what I am talking about here is musical literacy. :-)
Lessons about how to compose classical music or music for guitar
Great advice Adam
Guess what l have
A piano 88 keys worth.
Already started awesome
YEAH!
Man you better be right Rafferty!
Well, I don't think Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Oscar Peterson, Herbie Hancock, and all those guys are wrong...
Had to laugh at your comment about your confusion with the caged system. I felt I was the only one, ha!
You're not missing much. I DO understand the CAGED system. It's a crutch for tab-only guitarists, and not that useful even for them.
It's a shortcut I never learned, and I have found that any shortcut makes the true learning process longer. Anything like "when you see this, just think something else" is bound to screw up sooner or later. :-)
Flamenco mainly player , the keyboard is out , challenge accepted
just when I was thinking of getting a violin 🙂
There's probably a piano app for your phone you can use for this purpose.
I learned music theory in elementary school, on five-line scale, and clefs, keys, circle of fifths, chords, etc. made little sense to me. Not until I picked up a guitar was I able to finally make sense of them. A piano would have been a lot more helpful.
I suggest a hands on keybord rather than an app!
I heard about that first "hack" some years ago, but I live in a small place with room for only a guitar and music stand. I absolutely don't have any space for a piano. Plus, my wife won't allow me to get one 😊 Above all, I don't play keyboards, only guitars. At my tender age of 70, I will not start to learn piano from a teacher. So, you are correct and I'll remain in the 99% who won't do it.... 😢
Oh man, you are missing out. C'mon to the dark side of us 1% folks! LOL!!!!!
I have a small room as well, but I wanna get a keyboard so bad. 😢😢😢
Hey Adam, sorry but... can you condense what happened in the end? I didn't make it watching to the end ;)
1. Sit at the piano every day
2. Your first assignment is the following:
3. Find the note B. It is the white key directly to the right of the 3 black key group.
4. By ear, figure out a B major scale
Once you have done that email me for your next step. 😀
@@adamrafferty hey that's awesome, thanks Adam. I of course watched the video all the way through but it's nice to see it boiled down like that.
Quest accepted, Rafferty. (I do this sometimes.) Not… everyday though.
Why not?
@@adamrafferty Thank you, Sensei! I do now. Thank you, for adding to my learning.
Thanks for trying :)
I tried
Adam: "I'm not a great piano player but I explore ... "
Goes to piano and plays like Herbie friggin Hancock (to my level of understanding).
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yeah, right.
You blow us all away, Adam. 😉
Aw dude, I was just noodling on F blues....THank you!
I watched the video and I was wondering what was the trick... and then I realized than I've been in that 1% in the last five months :)
YEAH!
Actually, Tommy can play piano (not publicly) and originally he was a drummer.
Really? I was backstage with him and asked if he could play piano and he told me no, maybe he was just being modest😀
@@adamrafferty When you ask Tommy if he can 'play' something, he either blows you away or he considers it 'not' playing. He might not be brilliant at it but he can tinkle the keys at least a bit, certainly better than a beginner.
@@13thAMG Wow cool - have you yourself heard him? Weird that he told me he couldn't.
Sorry, don’t need PIANO 🎹 to play guitar 🎸🤷♂️.
99% against 1% 🤪
Adam you are the one ☝️
Mido you do need it, believe me ....we all do.
aha yes I'm one of the 1 percenters.... not a bikie tho.....i have my keyboard. what you say is very logical. everything is clearer on the keyboard.
Get on with it. I predict 99% will get bored before you start. Is it a ploy to get us watching longer?
David, gotta say.... 25 years playing experience and 7 hours edit for a free 9 minute video for you showing a really important concept that can lift your music to new heights. Sorry for wasting your time.
Three and a half minutes of bait, and the big revelation is "sit at the piano"
Thats right. If you think those 3 minutes are wasted, you are not seeing how important this information is. It’s so important that you do this instead of other guitar shortcuts. 9 minutes of your viewing time to get this message but it’s 25 years of my distilled knowledge and 7 hours video edit time to give you the best advice I can. Sorry if you disapprove!
@@adamrafferty You make a fair point. TH-cam is free, and the advice that you are offering is genuinely best practice, and maybe a 7-hour-edited video that takes a full 9 minutes is the best way to educate the masses.
Nicholas if I were to dive into detail, most tune out after a few minutes. The format of YT is infotainment, people mostly don’t want full lectures, at least guitar lessons. If I can get a few people started - to simply think “lemme poke around on piano” then I may have actually put students in a good direction.
Here's what I have to say to the 4 99%ers that gave this video a 'thumbs down'. "You need nourishment in your gut"
YEAH!
RULE #1..DO NOT take GUITAR LESSONS from the KEYBOARD player.
I hacked Music theory a long time ago....
KEYS are just PITCH of the MAJOR scale. All the circle of 5th dose is help SOME people
keep track of the MAJOR scale in 12 different PITCH.
IF you can PLAY in C MAJOR/Amin...you CAN PLAY in ANY KEYS
SIMPLY use the FRETBOARD like a SLIDE RULER..or PRETEND to use a CAPO.
BASIC CHORDS/TRIADS are just EVERY OTHER NOTE ( No matter the SCALE)
There's MORE THAN just the MAJOR , NATURAL minor, Harmonic min, or melodic min.
90% keyboard players WONT Learn MODES withIN the MAJOR scale...Yet to learn MODES from OTHER SCALES.......
MODE TERMS are simply INTERVALS IDENTIFICATION.
The PATTERN or FORMULA is just this.....Mixolydian, maj7 = IONIAN
Ionian, b7 = Lydian
Ionian, #4 = Mixolydian
GET the BASIC down PACK ( I HACKED it...so I know how to do it DIFFERENT ways)
Aeo, maj7 = harmonic min
dor, maj7 = melodic min
phry maj7 = harmonic min b2
mix maj7 = IONIAN
loc maj7 = ion #6
If you KNOW....aeolydian has b6..................dor has maj6
These are just MODES from DIFFERENT scales.
aeo b2.........aeo b5.........aeo #4
dor b2.........dor b5..........dor #4
KEEP it SIMPLE STUPID..
HARMONIC MAJOR is just Ionian b6
The modes within it will simply be this.
ion b6 dor b5 phry b4 lyd b3 mix b2 aeo b1
ion #5 dor #4 phry maj3 lyd #2 mix #1 AEOLYDIAN, maj7
You can call them WEIRD ARSS NAMES..it dosnt ALTER their INTERVALS.
You can use this for the MELODIC min ( dor maj7 or ion b3)
ion b3 dor b2 phy b1 lyd b7 mix b6 aeo b5 loc b4
it's JUST Loc b4...AYE !!!!!
Anyways..........
Aeo................................................dor
harmonic min melodic min
harmonic min b2 melodic min b2
harmonic min b5 melodic min b5
harmonic min #4 melodic min #4
Some people call the Harmonic min #4....Double harmonic min or HUNGARIAN min
Harmonic min b5 is a MODE from......................................HUNGARIAN MAJOR
LETs KEEP it SIMPLE STUPID...
A min D min E7 into A min
A min B7 into E7 into A min.....I double harmonic min that biotch.
A melodic min #4...could be A lyd b3
Some people term it...LydianDiminished or INVERTED Harmonic MAJOR
A min B7 into E Maj7 ( E Harmonic MAJOR)...
so it;s just G# phry b4.....not only G# loc b4
So you can do this....
A min G#7 into C# min/E MAJOR
Use that as a GUIDE......it'll OVER LAP
A min D dim E7
A min D7 E7
A min D dim E dim
if...you NEVER learned C HARMONIC MAJOR scale..
You'd say I was WRONG...play the Ab note instead of the G# note.lmao
it's G mix b2.....or Ab lyd aug #2
The CONS of using the circle of 5th ( it just a GUIDE...not RULES)
when they try to apply it in the key of E harmonic MAJOR or C# Harmonic min
is it...#B note...or flatted C# note. ?????
It's RETARDED....That note can be played where most poeple call the C NOTE.
It'll drive music notation READER....INSANE just to play that SIMPLE NOTE.
Me...I'll make it C aug, dim, maj7...dominant or WHATEVER I damn PLEASE.
Becuase I HACKED it...like this too....
b2......b3........b5........b6.......b7 CHORD DEGREE of a MAJOR scale
are ALL POSSIBLE inserted lyd #6...lyd #2, #6...Lyd #5, #6...Ion #6.
In a nutshell....MAKE WHATEVER CHORDS you damn PLEASE.
but the BASIC of LEARNING how to USE them.
Db maj7 G7 into C
Eb maj7 G7 into C
Gb maj7 G7 into C
Ab maj7 G7 into C
Bb maj7 G7 into C
Those so call N6 chords or chord...
the Bb lyd #6 of A harmonic min b2
You could make it WHATEVER...but most will play it as Bb maj7 or Bb7
Im going to kill 2 birds in ONE STONE
the b2 CHORD after A min...and the b2 CHORD after Eb MAJOR..lmao
A min Bb7 into Eb Maj E7 into A min
or this....
A min Bb7 into Eb min Gb maj7 G7 into C MAJOR...lol
or
A min Bb7 C7 F min Ab maj Db Maj7 Bb dim G7 into C MAJOR
it's the same as A min B7 into E MAJOR.
..........................F min G7 into C MAJOR
KEEP it SIMPLE STUPID
C Harmonic MAJOR = C Maj F min G7 into C Maj
b6 harmonic MAJOR
b3 melodic min
b3, b6 harmonic min
b3, b6, b7 NATURAL minor
or
b3, b6, b7
b3, b6
b3
b2, b3
b2, b3, b6....ect...ect..ect
or this ( mixloian ish modes ) ( ion b7...just play maj7 to get ionish modes)
As I stated....call it Lyd DOMINANT or mix #4...dosnt alter it's INTERVAL
mix
mix b2
mix b6
mix #2
mix #4
mix b2, b6
mix #2, #4......aka HUNGARIAN MAJOR
mix b2 #4......a mode from Melodic min b5
2, 4, b6, 7 CHORD DEGREE are POSSIBLE FULL diminished.
wheather you count from A Harmonic min or C Harmonic MAJOR
or ...................................A Harmonic MAJ or F# harmonic min
or....................................C Harmonic min or Eb harmonic MAJOR
or...................................Gb Harmonic MAJ or Eb harmonic min
They Overlap...I know this...beucase I HACKED it.lol
Amin G#7 into C# min D7 E7 into A min
A min G#7 into C# min D dim E dim F min Db maj7 G7 into C MAJOR...
when I do that....is the C# min...b2 of C MAJOR??? or Db minor????? LMAO
i told you...you can make it WHATEVER You damn please....
A min C dim C# min D maj7 B min E7 into A min..
B dor b2 is borrowed from A melodic min....right ?????? RIGHT
This is the most awesome comment I have ever gotten!!! Thank you!
@@adamrafferty I personally learn different songs..that will have these different borrowed chords...
example...Longer by Dan Fogelberg.
It's in G MAJOR/Emin....There's a Bb major chord in it...
The b3 chord degree of G MAJOR.
G Maj C Maj D sus2 A min
Bb maj A min G Maj C Maj D Maj
During the bridge...it'll shift to Ab MAJOR..
V. IV. I.....Eb maj....Db Ma Ab Maj
or if play Silver wheels by Heart ( just the accoustic intro)
It'll start in D Major/B min..
You'll hear the F MAJOR chord..( b3 of D MAJOR)
Nancy sort of killed 2 birds in one stone too...
Then it'll modulate to E MAJOR/C#min..
The F Major chord..it's b2 of E MAJOR..
She'll play different veriations of lyd #6..or N6 chord
there's different ways....to modulate
if you play A melodic min = F# aeo b5 .......( D mix #4 or lyd dominant)
If you play F# aeo b5 = D mix #2, #4
Hopefully you'll be used to altering that D chord
from min to dim to dominant...ect
I put D maj7...B min E7 into A min or A MAJOR.
So ..you could LEARN to play it as D maj7..too
If you decide to shift to F#min/A MAJOR
A harmonic MAJOR = D lyd b3
Learn how to play PARALLEL MAJ or min
If you play the BRIDGE of TINY DANCER
C MAJOR/A min.....Ab maj Bb Maj....G min
It'll be as if he went to C min...
He'll use the B dim or D dim ..Then play the F Major chord.
if you play Boys are back in town by thin Lizzy...in A MAJOR
He'll play D min7....as a Cadence.
2 out 3 aint bad by meat loaf..A MAJOR/F#min.
He'll play a G Major ( b2 chord of F# min)
also the D as D min or D dim ( 4th DEGREE of A harmonic MAJOR)
Way too much irrelevant talking. Sorry. I'm a 1% but it's too painful waiting for the essential pieces.
Hey! he gives you time stamps for the important bits, Go straight to the core. :-)