How Music Actually Works
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Becoming a better guitar player requires time and practice. Becoming a better musician requires a full on mind shift to align you with what is actually happening. How does this all work? Why?
00:00 Thesis
01:00 Introduction
01:47 Truefire
02:39 Lesson
12:29 Wrap Up
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Best explanation I’ve ever heard of why the V7 chord wants to resolve to the I. Thank you!
Thanks Curmudgeon! I don't know why this is not talked about a lot more...when I saw it I was like "hey! do you guys SEE THIS!!!!?!?!?!" WTF!?!?!
Thanks Chris..! Any lesson from you is definitely time well spent..!❤️👍🏼
Gonna go create some tension..! but it’ll be resolved..🙃
Ha! Great stuff, Joe. Let's keep the conversation going in the Studio! Thanks so much for your support!
After 45+ years of fighting against the basics and bludgeoning thru I am absolutely amazed at the strength of that 1/2 step and its implications. Mind blowing and seemingly so simple. Your ability to explain and demonstrate helps beyond measure. The tunneling a finger under the chord shape to reveal the notes? That was one the best things I have ever seen! Bravo
So glad this was helpful! It takes the right context and demonstration sometimes to grasp the seemingly hidden truth of this thing.
@@curiousguitarist Due to my ADD or resistance to menial tasks. I would be a fan of cattle prod guitar ;-) When I get distracted, just a small shock. Back on task.
Hi Chris. I've been watching your channel since Marty shouted you out and I have to say I really appreciate the way you explain and teach. Everytime I watch one of your videos I get a new understanding of the guitar. Just wanna say thanks!
I appreciate that, thank you! I'm happy to know that I'm helping.
I always like your videos before I even watched them because I know they are going to be great already. I haven't been wrong yet. Wonderful, Chris. Thanks
You bet Peter, thanks for being here.
Brilliant Chris!! Just what my brain wanted to hear….
I see what you did there :)
Thanks, Jim! Great to have you here.
Chris, you always teach me something I can use. And even better, you teach me how to choose when I want to use it. Thank you.
Happy to hear that, Kevin. Thanks, AND you're welcome
Another great insight - and the strat is sounding goood!
Cheers, Chris! 🤘and Merry Crimbus!!🎄
Thanks JG! Happy holidays to you too! Thank you for all you do for the Studio!
Resolving tension on the airplane guitar = Awesomeness 👍👍👍happy holidays Chris 🎄
This is my favorite lesson yet.
You have a great teaching voice and delivery. Always love your lessons. Thank you.
Wow, thanks for that, I appreciate it.
Thanks Chris. Well done. Always well-presented and explained.
Thanks Don! I hope you had a great holiday!
Thanks for the retake on meditating on the subject of tension resolve... it's easy to forget the elegance of theory sometimes... music is so very cool!
Can’t argue that! It never stops feeling brand new to me. I love it
Have never thought of tonal resonance as the brains desire to resolve tension. Fascinating insight here is how we resonate with music.
So cool right? Hope all is well old friend!
Always great videos. Thanks Chris. 😎🎸
My pleasure!
I enjoyed the approach you took in this lesson. Never thought someone could spend so much time talking about half-steps!
They're so small, but they're so huge at the same time. I could go on for another hour.
Glad you're here, Max!
Best lessons on the internets.
Has there ever been any studies about the Guidonian hand for singers and it's impact on guitar playing? I never sang in my life so it's not something I understand, but with the centuries of use by singers it must be hard wired into our psyche.
Thanks for your time and knowledge!
My pleasure, Timmy!
Great stuff!! Always a bottom-less treasure chest of information !
O don't know about bottomless, but there's still a few things down in there as of tonight! As always, love having you here, Tone!
Great lesson!
Brilliant. Love it. Thanks 👍
Glad you enjoyed it, Chris!
I really enjoy your teaching. I hope you’re working on a TrueFire course. TF is the best!
We shall see....!
BIG MO always knocks it out the park. Thanks & praises to this man.
Thanks Red!! Hope all is well, happy holidays!
@@curiousguitarist and to you & yours, sir.
@@curiousguitarist thanks for everything, BIG CHRIS! Love to you & your family. Happy holidays my GK.
Hello Chris. Just want to just give you a huge thanks for your videos and your knowledge. As a frustrated guitar player playing drums, my whole life, every time I watch your videos I’m a little less frustrated ha! Thanks again you’re awesome.
You bet! Glad you're here!
Another winner of a lesson.
I am so fortunate to be a student of yours online. 🙏
J.C.
And I am honored to have your trust JC!
Insightful, interesting, helpful and entertaining. Yes,yes,yes and yes!
Glad you enjoyed it, Chaz!
Insightful, yes. Thanks again.
Of course, Pops!
you just mentioning fingernails on a chalkboard gave me goosebumps lol that sound drives me crazy!
Hard to process those chaotic frequencies!! 👨🏫💅🏻
I love how Hans Zimmer uses the major scale in the Man of Steel theme (What Are You Going To Do When You're Not Saving The World). It's very simple yet powerful. Take a listen if you haven't yet. You can literally hear how he outlines the root with the intervals like how you did here.
Great lesson.
Going to listen right now! Thanks, C!
Another great lesson that's all take-home pay whoever you are as a musician. Tension and resolution... Tempo and phrasing play into this too, staying right on the beat or getting there early or late intentionally as another way to create tension then resolve it. But mainly the sound and emotion comes from what we do pitchwise with 3rds and 7ths. Other intervals too but mainly those. Chris uses the classic public speaking method for max short-term impact that you can take straight to your own situation: 1) Intro- Tell 'em what you're gonna tell 'em. 2) Message- Tell 'em. 3) Conclusion- Tell 'em what you told 'em. Overall lesson that I take away: what we do with the 3rd and 7th, whether in lines or chordally in progressions, has the most powerful effect on how music makes you feel and what you want to hear next as it unfolds and "moves forward." I'm open to criticism and correction about that if anyone disagrees or can add something useful. Discussing these things is how we all get better. Peace and Merry Christmas!
Tension and release was an aha moment for me. When I first tried to write simple melodies, I assumed that all notes were supposed to sound good. I quickly discovered how powerful this technique is. Also, secondary dominants produce great melodies such as Hotel California and People of Israel. Great lesson.
Thanks teddy! Love those tunes!
Chris- Holy $#…..!! A giant lightbulb just went on in my head. I’m talking the size of a landing headlight on a Boeing 747 !!! Thanks for this video.
You got it!! Glad you enjoyed this one.
What an excellent primer for developing weapons-grade relative pitch. Top notch.
Thanks Mike! Great to have you on board!
Really good.
Thanks, for that, your ongoing support, and all you do in the Studio.
@@curiousguitarist 🙌🏻
😊Chris.
😋Audrey
thx for the lesson Chris, am i wrong that i heard secondery dominant chords. . intention, release.
You would be absolutely correct! Any dominant chord (including secondarys) contains this exact same function, and as a secondary it FORCES that context into your brain...it makes you believe you are hearing the V chord from "somewhere" and that allows you to hear that next target chord as a resolution...the 7 to 1 and the 4 to 3 of that new chord.
I have perfect pitch but cannot form the neural pathways required to play music. Watching real musicians at work I cannot comprehend how they don't muck things up.
Wow, Ric, I’ve never heard of this before. What happens when you try to play? I’m so curious.
What model Stratocaster is that? I want to buy an American made one but, the seafoam green is hard to find.
This is an old custom shop '57 reissue. I bought it back in 1989.
Very interesting lesson. After you said "sonic dental floss get ready" you played a scale and a few chords. Too fast for me to pick up. Can you tell me what you played? Thanks!
That was an E major chord, the E major scale, a run of diatonic thirds in that key, then an E major pentatonic phrase. This was all done to “erase” the sound of A major in our ears for the next demonstration
@@curiousguitarist When you say a run of diatonic thirds, do you mean F#m, then G#m and A?
@@QBRX I’m referring to Dyads (two notes) played at once. Those were E/G# then F#/A then G#/B.
@@curiousguitarist Thanks so much...sounded great!
What is 21 on that guitar mean
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Tension and resolution have been words employed in the musical lexicon for a at least a couple hundred years! Just saying.
TRUTH!!! Sing it friend!
I had to watch this video 3 times before realizing I have neglected discovering some of the more nuanced wonders of this musical instrument. And it took me back to another video of yours on Guitarchaeology, which is yet another fascinating look and perspective. Tabless free; just be curious. th-cam.com/video/v3NaqbH3eg4/w-d-xo.html
yeah baby!
Thanks for everything you do, Robert!
What do you mean by contextual? Do you mean dissonance or something else
When two notes are in context to eachother. I explain it in detail in the video, does it not come across?
@@curiousguitarist contextual you mean doublestops intervals? You did mention it in the video but it still isn't clear. I'm not if you mean diads , doublestops that are two notes that are dissonance which is contextual?
@@waynegram8907 Watch the part where I play the A and G# against the A and then the E. These are two different "contexts" for the A and G# note. These two notes generate completely different levels of tension in each context.
Does that help?
@@curiousguitarist no it doesn't make sense. I need more examples to understand what contextual means
@@waynegram8907 in context with something else. One note in context to another serves a function, in the case of the G# in context to A, it’s the 7th, a half step apart. But in context with E the G# is the 3rd.
Same note, but as the context shifts so does the function of the note.
I hope that helps!
Will my brain doesn’t seem to understand the concept of playing an instrument, because I’ve wasted such an inordinate amount of time only to have never made any progress
Watching is just the first part. Are you also taking the time to focus and apply the things you're watching?
@@curiousguitarist I don’t understand your response to my comment. In my brain I see what my fingers are supposed to do, yet I can’t get my fingers to do it.
@@markantonelli53 so that just sounds like you need help with core technique then. Scales and arpeggios build that capability best.
Do you practice with a metronome and have you sought out a teacher to advise you on technique?
@@curiousguitarist yes is the answer to both of your questions. However, I don’t see how scales and arpeggios help in making and playing chords
@@markantonelli53 they don’t, sorry I did not understand that chords were the challenge. That said, scales and arpeggios do build core capability to play the instrument in ANY fashion by programming your hands to tackle any shape or configuration
My brain doesn't like hearing all that buzzing
Nor does mine!
Please don’t lose your interest in what you are doing. I miss the old stuff- when you were interested.
Go to 02:59 and tell me how I'm not interested.
I hope you enjoyed this one, there is no better explanation of the V to I resolution for guitarists on the web.
If you find it, link it.
Great stuff, keep it up.
@@Hippiewitchrx thanks Dion!
If the girlfriend and my dog aren't on their way to being best friends after their first meeting, the girl isn't worth keeping.
This all goes back to the call and response patterns of the blues, that the slaves developed long ago!
NO this is not how music works at all!
Interesting.
Is that Surf or Seafoam green?
Seafoam